As someone from Aotearoa who’s moving to Byron Bay.delighted to see you’ve discovered sound baths and the possibilities of alternative healing methods.
I’m deeply hippy woo woo as some might call it and I’m also meds free,after a lifetime of trauma and bullshit psych diagnosis. I’ve found far more beneficial efficacy in spiritual treatments like Miri Miri, meditational breath work,and other somatic modalities than any pill.
I’m also very grateful to have a CI so I can experience sound as therapy now.
This all interests me enormously Jess - I live with chronic pain from an autoimmune condition and spinal injury and have been experimenting with the Breathworks program, mindfulness meditation and Buddhist meditation. For 13 years I had very strong opioid pain relief patches which were the best pain relief I’ve ever had without being impaired cognitively. This is now ‘out of fashion’ because of ‘Opioid Scare’ reaching UK so on a forced tapered withdrawal with nothing other than Oramorph or Paracetemol on offer! So hence my exploration again of other ways of accepting and living with severe pain. I look forward to reading what you find out about this going forward as it really speaks to me.
I’m so sorry that you have been so attacked, trolled and stalked - very scary stuff. I’m so glad that you have found something that brings you peace and relief from the cortisol loop:-)
I have noticed a change in your ‘energy’ (best way that I can describe it) over the past 6+ months and was aware from the photos how joyful you felt in Australia and NZ. Go well ❤️
Everything we need is already within us and I love that you have this knowing with such conviction. Substances or needing them to achieve wholeness and healing is off the path that you spoke about.
Also when you describe this unknown, I see that it is unlimited and unwavering. And I'm glad we cannot define it, we just know that it's there.
I'm currently facing an experience that might bring me to very difficult times and resurfacing trauma.. but I have more confidence now that I know how to access this part of me that is always there when I slow down and acknowledge it.
I have thought about you and getting in touch, for my own help, because there are some things that I feel are avalanching, especially trauma from abuse.. both in childhood and recently. But I do feel so overwhelmed like I don't know where to start. Sound baths sounds like a possible solution to that.
Thank you for posting and sharing your past fears and current victories! I want to recommend some authors that address this spiritual path but also grounded in logic and is a truth that withstands depth after depth of awareness and enquiry. "Heartminded" by Sarah Blondin (the audio book is beautiful) and I also love work by Eckhart Tolle.
Thank you again for your pioneering and taking so much care for those on the path with you.
I love this for you Jess. As a vibrational practitioner of over 15 years, I have seen both subtle and profound shifts in my clients and it never stops being something I feel grateful I'm able to facilitate. Much love on your journey 🧡
Spot on. I cannot tell you how much this resonated with me. I don't even know where to start. I completely understand being in a two way mirrored glass torture chamber and not being able to speak about it. As you know I was in a severe coercive controlling perpetratorship (a word coined by my late friend Dr. Andrew Cicchetti) and then that perpetrator repeated the same patterns and worse with our child. I turned to family court to protect our child and the true horrific nightmare of profit over and inspite of children ensued and years of collusion, corruption, and institutional betrayal. I cannot even explain the mental torture of having to watch your child be abused and told if you say anything it will become worse and you can lose them. I also was forced into early menopause from the years of toxic stress. What has kept me going is obviously the love for my child but beyond that was my spirituality and love of learning (became an integrative somatic trauma practitioner). I have been a practicing spiritual being since my teens and I lost it for a while during the perpetratorship. About 10 years ago I was introduced to sound baths and absolutely loved the theta state they would bring me too and the processing and releasing that I could do in a short 45 minutes. I have one large crystal bowl but I can't imagine having an entire set. I go to sound baths as often as I can, but usually listen with headphones to my favorites. 🫂❤️🙏🏼
It’s for all the reasons you highlight that I embarked on the journey of bodywork nearly 6 years ago. I didn’t have to voice my trauma. So much of it I had blocked out anyway, then much more that was past life/ancestral….. It opened doors to healing I never knew existed.
Loved ones that I was crazy for listening to my body and letting it lead the way over the noise of everyone else. It’s only now I can see that did look crazy, going against medical advice. Yet doing so has taken me further than is medically believed possible. Only for me to discover, there is no medical interest in recovery. Or healing. You are expected to stay that way (in my case, disabled by chronic illness) and you are not permitted to get up and do anything about it.
It’s been (in part) my own fears of repercussion in writing my books that I’m still only one down in publishing, yet I’ve written a new title, hook and outline for the 5th! And global publishers, hay house, have expressed interest in the 3rd!
Finally becoming more comfortable with my 2nd book that is going to trigger the 💩 out of people. But I can’t sit here pretending I got this far with only love and light and the known way of drugs and medical treatments (my body said no to taking them then I uncovered the evidence in research multiple times over stating them to be ineffective anyway). Time to own what I’m here to teach others in the same way I see you are.
Massively appreciate you sharing that “the sudden success, money and huge changes in my life that came with my books blowing up had such a negative impact on my life, that I spent most of 2020-2023 in utter turmoil”. We normally only see the glamorised version, not the lived experience.
I’m being called to unearth more and more what happened to me at work in the run up
To finding myself disable by an illness I’d kept quiet about for 20 years. But I’ve been legally silenced with an NDA. The fact we have legal systems that support bullying in the work place and in the media is harrowing and yet, here we are.
Surprised to hear this? ...yes! But I'm glad it works for you. As a musician who finds all sorts of joys from sound, I'm skeptical as to what I may get from this ...but again, I'm glad this works 'for you' :)
I admire you even more now Jess for your courage to be open and vulnerable regarding your recent experiences. So glad to hear that sound bathing has been so tremendously therapeutic. Yay! Woo woo!! Love it 😊
Love the idea of sound baths for healing. Sorry to hear what you have been through in recent years, that is not fair and shouldn’t have happened.
I read a book at the start of my healing recovery called Good Vibes Good Life by Vex King and the idea around vibrations really stood out for me. I feel I’m living my life with way more intention now and the vibes I put out into the work are the ones channeling back to me. Meditation is a theme throughout the book which is another place of internal healing and reflection for me.
Everything you have talked about makes so much sense and I’m glad you have found a place of calm and exploration and are sharing it with us.
I'm so glad you allowed yourself to open to other ways of healing. Like you, I stumbled upon sound baths (after a friend invited me). I've also had very detailed dreams (?)/visions during sound baths that spoke to me on a symbolic level in a way I had not before experienced.
Re waiting til you are 70. I'm 78 and the bastards are still not dead. So I'm doing a tell all now.
Your life is mine, but yours is on steroids as are your achievements.
Thank you for your courage to speak as a victim, survivor, thrive, INSPIRER. Innovator.
Not everyone gets there, and when we do, it's not by giving in.
Be strong, be gentle be safe.
Fascinating to see the impact of sound therapy. xxx
As someone from Aotearoa who’s moving to Byron Bay.delighted to see you’ve discovered sound baths and the possibilities of alternative healing methods.
I’m deeply hippy woo woo as some might call it and I’m also meds free,after a lifetime of trauma and bullshit psych diagnosis. I’ve found far more beneficial efficacy in spiritual treatments like Miri Miri, meditational breath work,and other somatic modalities than any pill.
I’m also very grateful to have a CI so I can experience sound as therapy now.
Look forward to your continuing journey.
This all interests me enormously Jess - I live with chronic pain from an autoimmune condition and spinal injury and have been experimenting with the Breathworks program, mindfulness meditation and Buddhist meditation. For 13 years I had very strong opioid pain relief patches which were the best pain relief I’ve ever had without being impaired cognitively. This is now ‘out of fashion’ because of ‘Opioid Scare’ reaching UK so on a forced tapered withdrawal with nothing other than Oramorph or Paracetemol on offer! So hence my exploration again of other ways of accepting and living with severe pain. I look forward to reading what you find out about this going forward as it really speaks to me.
I’m so sorry that you have been so attacked, trolled and stalked - very scary stuff. I’m so glad that you have found something that brings you peace and relief from the cortisol loop:-)
I have noticed a change in your ‘energy’ (best way that I can describe it) over the past 6+ months and was aware from the photos how joyful you felt in Australia and NZ. Go well ❤️
Everything we need is already within us and I love that you have this knowing with such conviction. Substances or needing them to achieve wholeness and healing is off the path that you spoke about.
Also when you describe this unknown, I see that it is unlimited and unwavering. And I'm glad we cannot define it, we just know that it's there.
I'm currently facing an experience that might bring me to very difficult times and resurfacing trauma.. but I have more confidence now that I know how to access this part of me that is always there when I slow down and acknowledge it.
I have thought about you and getting in touch, for my own help, because there are some things that I feel are avalanching, especially trauma from abuse.. both in childhood and recently. But I do feel so overwhelmed like I don't know where to start. Sound baths sounds like a possible solution to that.
Thank you for posting and sharing your past fears and current victories! I want to recommend some authors that address this spiritual path but also grounded in logic and is a truth that withstands depth after depth of awareness and enquiry. "Heartminded" by Sarah Blondin (the audio book is beautiful) and I also love work by Eckhart Tolle.
Thank you again for your pioneering and taking so much care for those on the path with you.
YES Jess!!! I too like you sceptic academic was guided for sound healing as I healed my toothache with my own vibrations !
I trained as sound healer with voice
Spirit told me years ago “sound will be the next medicine” we re already here
Returning to the old ancient
People like you and me weavers of spirit and science are here to weave the two paradigms so solidly for what s to come
Such needed work!!!!! Keep weaving and free falling into the mystery ! Look forward to read where this journey leads you .
I love this for you Jess. As a vibrational practitioner of over 15 years, I have seen both subtle and profound shifts in my clients and it never stops being something I feel grateful I'm able to facilitate. Much love on your journey 🧡
Spot on. I cannot tell you how much this resonated with me. I don't even know where to start. I completely understand being in a two way mirrored glass torture chamber and not being able to speak about it. As you know I was in a severe coercive controlling perpetratorship (a word coined by my late friend Dr. Andrew Cicchetti) and then that perpetrator repeated the same patterns and worse with our child. I turned to family court to protect our child and the true horrific nightmare of profit over and inspite of children ensued and years of collusion, corruption, and institutional betrayal. I cannot even explain the mental torture of having to watch your child be abused and told if you say anything it will become worse and you can lose them. I also was forced into early menopause from the years of toxic stress. What has kept me going is obviously the love for my child but beyond that was my spirituality and love of learning (became an integrative somatic trauma practitioner). I have been a practicing spiritual being since my teens and I lost it for a while during the perpetratorship. About 10 years ago I was introduced to sound baths and absolutely loved the theta state they would bring me too and the processing and releasing that I could do in a short 45 minutes. I have one large crystal bowl but I can't imagine having an entire set. I go to sound baths as often as I can, but usually listen with headphones to my favorites. 🫂❤️🙏🏼
It’s for all the reasons you highlight that I embarked on the journey of bodywork nearly 6 years ago. I didn’t have to voice my trauma. So much of it I had blocked out anyway, then much more that was past life/ancestral….. It opened doors to healing I never knew existed.
Loved ones that I was crazy for listening to my body and letting it lead the way over the noise of everyone else. It’s only now I can see that did look crazy, going against medical advice. Yet doing so has taken me further than is medically believed possible. Only for me to discover, there is no medical interest in recovery. Or healing. You are expected to stay that way (in my case, disabled by chronic illness) and you are not permitted to get up and do anything about it.
It’s been (in part) my own fears of repercussion in writing my books that I’m still only one down in publishing, yet I’ve written a new title, hook and outline for the 5th! And global publishers, hay house, have expressed interest in the 3rd!
Finally becoming more comfortable with my 2nd book that is going to trigger the 💩 out of people. But I can’t sit here pretending I got this far with only love and light and the known way of drugs and medical treatments (my body said no to taking them then I uncovered the evidence in research multiple times over stating them to be ineffective anyway). Time to own what I’m here to teach others in the same way I see you are.
Massively appreciate you sharing that “the sudden success, money and huge changes in my life that came with my books blowing up had such a negative impact on my life, that I spent most of 2020-2023 in utter turmoil”. We normally only see the glamorised version, not the lived experience.
I’m being called to unearth more and more what happened to me at work in the run up
To finding myself disable by an illness I’d kept quiet about for 20 years. But I’ve been legally silenced with an NDA. The fact we have legal systems that support bullying in the work place and in the media is harrowing and yet, here we are.
Surprised to hear this? ...yes! But I'm glad it works for you. As a musician who finds all sorts of joys from sound, I'm skeptical as to what I may get from this ...but again, I'm glad this works 'for you' :)
So sorry for everything you’ve been through. I love all of this and can’t wait to learn more from you 🫶
I admire you even more now Jess for your courage to be open and vulnerable regarding your recent experiences. So glad to hear that sound bathing has been so tremendously therapeutic. Yay! Woo woo!! Love it 😊
Love the idea of sound baths for healing. Sorry to hear what you have been through in recent years, that is not fair and shouldn’t have happened.
I read a book at the start of my healing recovery called Good Vibes Good Life by Vex King and the idea around vibrations really stood out for me. I feel I’m living my life with way more intention now and the vibes I put out into the work are the ones channeling back to me. Meditation is a theme throughout the book which is another place of internal healing and reflection for me.
Everything you have talked about makes so much sense and I’m glad you have found a place of calm and exploration and are sharing it with us.
I'm so glad you allowed yourself to open to other ways of healing. Like you, I stumbled upon sound baths (after a friend invited me). I've also had very detailed dreams (?)/visions during sound baths that spoke to me on a symbolic level in a way I had not before experienced.