Sandra's Book Club: Blog Tour: HEAL YOURSELF by Sandie Gascon

Heal Yourself

by Sandie Gascon

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GENRE: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing

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BLURB:

The body wants to return to balance. It just needs the tools to do so. Heal Yourself ~ Body ~ Mind ~ Spirit ~ helps you discover the messages your body is sending, and it also shares the tools to aid your body in healing itself.

"Part One: Body" covers Sandie's whole-body approach to healing: rebuilding and rebalancing the body, removing stress, and addressing the root causes of chronic illness. All key systems in the body are covered, including functional laboratory test analysis to determine what support your body needs, and the forms of supplements that are right for you. Because everything in our body is connected, we must also focus on our mind and spirit in order to heal. When we change our negative thoughts, beliefs, and responses to ones that serve us, we remove a huge burden of stress from the body.

"Part Two: Mind" dives deep into all areas of personal growth, from empowering language to the Laws of Attraction, building healthy relationships to wealth consciousness, and so much more.

"Part Three: Spirit" is focused on meditations to help further your spiritual journey. Through meditation, you learn to become the observer of the body. From here suffering becomes optional, allowing you to shift to a vibration of peace where the body, mind and spirit can heal.

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Excerpt One:

One of the most common questions I receive is, “What is the root cause of my illness?” Everyone wants to blame something: Lyme, candida, mold, root canals, antibiotics, medication, and so on. I have found the answer to be that there is never a single root cause of illness. We all start out with a reserve. I think of these reserves as our bodies’ “bank accounts.” Genetics and the health of our mother will determine how much of a reserve a person has in the beginning of their life. Through pregnancy and after birth, any stress we encounter makes withdrawals from the bank account. Stress includes emotional stress, physical stress, and chemical stress. Emotional stress is pretty straightforward. Physical stress will include things like injury and exercise. Chemical stress includes toxins, metals, and pathogens. Our world is a stressful place.

The majority of people eat a Standard American Diet (SAD). Kids grow up lacking nutrients. Moms are nutrient deficient, which creates more genetic mutations being expressed from the womb and beyond. If a mom’s detoxification pathways, in particular methylation, are not functioning optimally, it will mean less detoxification capability for the baby. Formula fed babies start out with a propensity for leaky gut. Moms are now getting vaccinated while pregnant, and babies currently being born have the most vaccines in history.

Withdrawal after withdrawal is happening from our bodies’ bank account, which quickly becomes depleted. Once the person hits zero balance and goes into debt, symptoms start occurring. The further in debt they get, the more symptoms appear, and eventually, disease is inevitable. It is no wonder we are seeing illness in increasingly younger individuals, and the rate of all diseases continues to climb. The amount of stress we face is outrageous.

By the time you start showing symptoms, the last event is what most people correlate with their symptoms and illness. In reality, it is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. If it were not that case of food poisoning, for instance, then it would have been the next stressor.

That is why I don’t focus on pathogens or metals in the beginning, and I do not recommend strict diets. Both of these end up stressing the body further. We need to stop making the withdrawals, or at least reduce them, and start making deposits. Deposits are supplements, herbs, and foods that fuel us.

Deposits include fueling our souls with passion, purpose, joy, and love. Stopping the withdrawals is done by removing chemicals in our environment, reducing emotional stress through mindset work, eating clean, whole foods, and in time, removing metals and pathogens. Rebuild and rebalance, repair detoxification pathways, and remove stress; these 4 Rs are critical to replenishing our bodies’ bank account.

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Guest Post

I always love sharing my healing journey. Many people just see the healthy, strong mom, author, equestrian and successful health coach, and they feel I can’t relate to what they are going through. The truth is, I spent most of my life suffering from chronic illness. As I went through it there was a lot of suffering. Now I see it as exactly where I needed to be. I had things to learn and grow from and the illness was what I needed to fuel that growth. When I share my journey, it helps others realize that there is hope. If I can heal, they can too.

I had my first migraine when I was seven years old, and they persisted and got worse as I got older. At thirteen I started to suffer from insomnia and began having manic depressive periods. I was diagnosed with bipolar depression at nineteen and went on Effexor as it was helping my mother who had the same diagnosis. The Effexor reduced the intensity and frequency of the migraines, but it turned me into a zombie. At the time, that was a better option than the raging maniac. I thought this was normal. In my family everyone suffered from mental health issues, so I didn’t know anything else existed. In 2009 I was diagnosed with lupus one year after severe food poisoning that caused my symptoms to spiral downwards. Just before the diagnosis I met a woman who had lupus for many years and warned me about trying medication. This resonated with me as I had been trying unsuccessfully to get off Effexor.

Online I found a website where the woman had healed from lupus eating raw vegan. I thought this was the answer and tried many times unsuccessfully to stay on this diet. I was unable to for long periods due to the intense cravings and being consumed with food all the time. The following year the Effexor which was keeping my migraines at bay stopped working and I ended up having to stop work as a massage therapist as I was not having success healing lupus naturally. The migraines, joint pain, and fatigue were crushing my ability to function. I ended up moving home with my parents.

I went into a deep depression for a year before I was able to pull myself out and get determined to heal. In time I shifted away from trying different diets and instead turned to the science behind healing. I found amino acid therapy and was able to get off Effexor and balance my brain. From there I started to focus on detoxification and gut healing. I was able to get rid of the autoimmune response. I made a lot of progress then took many steps back. Due to using trial and error trying to clear my skin I developed IC (Interstitial Cystitis) and severe SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) that landed me in the hospital many times.

It was then I realized I needed to stop guessing and start testing. I took the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition course and began to upgrade to more up to date courses on the newer tests available. I began to test myself. I had so much knowledge but needed to see exactly what was going on in my body. It wasn’t long before I was free of SIBO and IC. I reached a level of health I could never have imagined. I was able to have a healthy baby boy which had always been my goal in healing.

I founded Motivated 2 Heal and started to help people all over the world heal from chronic illnesses. Over the past 5 years I have run thousands of tests, upgraded my knowledge with many new courses (including nutrigenomics), incorporated mindset training and spiritual growth into my coaching and developed a completely holistic healing program that has a great success rate helping others heal naturally. I wrote and published Heal Yourself ~ Body ~ Mind ~ Spirit~ which is already helping thousands of people world-wide. This year I am planning to launch a Health Coaching Academy to teach people who are passionate about helping others heal exactly how to analyze tests and design protocols. I am so excited for 2022!

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Sandie Gascon is a Health Coach who has helped guide hundreds of people from over twenty-five countries on their healing journey. After suffering severe side effects from medications during her twenty-year battle with chronic migraines, when she was diagnosed with Lupus she committed herself to healing naturally. Through her experiences, she developed a whole body, mind, and spirit approach that addresses the person in a truly holistic manner. She takes the guess work out of the equation by running functional lab work to see what the body needs. She healed herself of migraines, depression, lupus, interstitial cystitis, and cystic acne. Her purpose is to help educate others on the importance of shifting focus to rebuilding and rebalancing the body and removing internal and external stress so the body can heal itself.

Sandie lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband Eric and son Kaiden. She has a passion for riding horses and spends much of her free time at the barn with her horses Bee and Vala. She loves playing with Kaiden, spending time with family and friends and hiking with her dogs.

Sandie is available for speaking engagements, workshops, and personal coaching. Find out more at www.motivated2heal.com

Connect with Sandie Gascon

WEBSITE https://sandiegasconauthor.com/

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/motivated2heal

INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sandie.gascon/

TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@sandie.gascon

YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/c/motivated2heal

GOODREADS https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58794190-heal-yourself?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=h9EKQWgF3l&rank=1

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