The Healer Within
A Program For Women Brave Enough To Take Their Health, Their Healing & Their Life Back Into Their Own Hands
Where We've Gotten Confused About Healing
We live in expert-driven times where how we take care of ourselves is based on the “expert” opinion of another person. Where we’re so detached from our own bodies and their messages that we need somebody else outside of us to interpret them, and tell us what we need. This might look like all the internet searches you do to try and figure out what’s happening in your body…Or it might look like going from specialist to specialist trying endless, invasive procedures to “fix” what’s wrong with you.
This leaves us disempowered and disconnected from ourselves and the wisdom contained within our bodies. We become reliant upon outside sources to be able to take care of ourselves and to know what we need. And we pathologize the messages our bodies are trying to send us; making it the goal to “shut them up” as quickly as possible.
We do this because we don’t know any other way. We don’t know how to care for ourselves in a skilled and satisfying manner. We don’t know how to co-create healing with our health practitioners. And we definitely don't know how to claim the inner strength and sovereignty of being a woman who knows herself and what she needs beyond what she has been told and sold.
But There Is Another Way
And it's built right into you
Beyond diets, prescriptions and expert advice lives within you the capacity to intuitively know what you need to heal and be well. As a mammal, self-care is wired into you and needs only your attention, your self-trust and a little support.
This built-in know how is the basis of understanding what to eat, when to rest and how to move. All of this serves as the very foundation of the confidence you need to make health choices and to address health issues from a place of empowerment.
So while there is an innate healing wisdom within you, for a lot of us that knowing has been lost. That's why I created The Healer Within: To remind you of what is already there, but has been forgotten or scared away.
Which is why, in our time together, we focus on simple, accessible and timeless concepts and practices that put you in the position of remembering what your body already knows how to do so that when you finish the program you'll:
- Know how to be in your body in a life-affirming way
- Know how to interpret the messages your body is sending you
- Know how to feel empowered in making decisions based on what you need and not what others think you should do
The Specifics Of The Healer Within Program
We gather live virtually, from January to June, on the 4th Thursday of each month from 6:30-8pm EST. After each gathering, you will receive an audio recording and other resources to support your continued exploration over the next month to help you make the teachings and the techniques your own.
Each session covers a foundational area to support you in becoming your own Healer Within and includes topics like:
- Mindfulness
- Nervous System Regulation
- Symptoms as Messengers
- Energy Healing
- The Breath as Medicine
- Healing Rituals
- The Power of the Mind
- What the Body Actually Needs
- Intuition
- And More...
Finally, supporting & inspiring each session is a carefully chosen archetype to help you make lasting shifts in how you care for yourself. For instance, we bring in The Hermit to teach how to use silence and solitude in healing & The Mother to remind us what it means to truly nourish ourselves.
Best of all, this is not another information dump. Your ability to tap into you and what you need most in life must be an embodied experience. Which is why we practice and experiment with different techniques and perspectives to give you a chance to see what works best for you. An exploration that includes going from what is physical and practical to what is magical and mystical.
This Program Is For You If...
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You know in your bones that the marketing fads (scares) telling you what it means to be healthy are not working for you, but you don't know what else to do
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You are ready to work with healthcare practitioners as a co-creator of your health & well-being
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You are ready to see the aches, pains and illnesses of your body as vital information
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You want to be brave enough to get to the root of what is not working in your life & why so you can discover the true healing and growth that is possible for you
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You are ready to get off the hamster wheel of knowing that something needs to change, but not being able to make that shift alone
Why I Created The Healer Within
Your Guide & Fellow Traveler
Susan McNamara
Thirty-five years ago my own journey into The Healer Within began. It came in the form of a simple, but profound knowing: "There has got to be more to Life than how I am living, what I am being told, and what I have come to believe." All these decades later, I am here saying to you, "There is."
What I have to offer you is my personal experience, the trainings I have undertaken, the way I live my life, my commitment to service and the ongoing learnings I continue to do.
Specifically, I am a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Professional-Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner and Journeydance Guide. I am trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Somatics and Energy Medicine. I hold a Masters in Counseling Psychology and am trained and educated at the doctoral level in Clinical Psychology. For almost twenty years, I taught the college course Relaxation Techniques at Westfield State University.
I continue to learn in the areas of shamanism, somatics, food as medicine, creating medicinals from the land, as well as exploring timeless Universal healing practices and principles.
I wrote the book, Trusting Your Body: The Embodied Journey of Claiming Sacred Responsibility for Your Health & Well-Being and write the weekly blog Medicine4ThePeople.
Go to https://rememberingwhatmattersmost.com for more information.
"Believe it or not, the largest contribution you will ever make to your Life and to the Lives of those around you, is how well you know and care for yourself."
FAQ
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Who is this for?
This supportive healing community is for those women ready to embrace a more life-affirming, healthy, value-driven, connected way of living and relating. It is for those who are open to the possibility that the body is intelligent, symptoms and difficulties in Life are messengers, everything is connected and our lives have meaning. It is for those sensing there is another way to live and be healthy, and for those who have tried a lot of approaches without getting the results they wanted.
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Are you suggesting that I don't use doctors or other health care professionals?
Absolutely not. We all need outside health support. The focus of The Healer Within is to help you become more connected to the intelligence and healing capacities that reside within you as the basis of your life and your health. From there you are in a better position make health decisions in an empowered way; with you as co-creator with whoever you choose to work with.
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How will I access the program?
This community is based online. In order to join you will create a free Thinkific account and then login to access our calls and any of the content. Once you register for the membership, you will have instant access.
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What do I do if I need technical assistance?
Please contact Thinkific support at https://support.thinkific.com/ for technical questions and Susan directly for content questions. Susan's email address is [email protected]
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What if I can't make a monthly class?
All recordings of the live sessions will be available to you for the duration of your membership. All content is downloadable for you to take with you when the course is over.
Early Bird Pricing
Sign up now and get last year's early bird rate. Offer good until November 20th.
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Register Here
$185.00
Not ready to join just yet?
But you'd like support around how to better care for yourself?
Visit www.rememberingwhatmattersmost.com for audio resources, written materials, workshops and more.