Transformational
Arts and Healing
Sweigh Emily Spilkin, MFA, CHT
Helping individuals with chronic illness to regain health, hope, and vitality
Do you feel like chronic illness has taken over your life? Do you feel lost, confused, and like you no longer have a place in the world? Are you sick of being sick?
You are not alone. Chronic physical illness is a major rite of passage. When you are in its throes, everything else seems to disappear; it’s all you can do to make it through your day. You can feel lost, stuck, and estranged from the rest of the world. The unknown becomes a tangible presence in your life.
Especially if you have an "invisible illness," such as multiple chemical sensitivities, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue, you can feel terrified, isolated, and like no one else understands.
And worst of all, you might blame yourself, because you don’t know who else to blame.
I can help you drop the blame and take your healing into your own hands.
Are you ready to feel good, regardless of your symptoms?
Through body-centered psychotherapy, transformational energy healing, and workshops and classes I help you reconnect with your sense of self, make meaning of your “passage,” and re-learn how to feel good.
Together we can explore and unwind:
- Your feelings of overwhelm
- Your loss of sense of self
- Your illness related fears and isolation
- Your sense of invisibility and desire for support
- The ways in which you may be stuck in self-limiting patterns
- Your longing to get your life back, and the fear you might feel around even letting yourself long!
You are more than just your illness
While it’s important to identify the illness (naming it is the first step in healing), it is also essential not to over-identify with it!
I believe that, although living with illness presents an incredible challenge, it also offers new opportunities to evolve, and heal. I help you find and embrace those opportunities. In addition to supporting you in making meaning, I help you to identify and release limiting beliefs and patterns from your mind, your body, and your energy field, so that you can free up your vitality, and reconnect with who you really are.
Still Not Sure?
Maybe you feeling doubtul, and wonder: How can therapy and energy work help resolve my physical symptoms? I understand your doubt. I am not claiming that therapy or energy work is a cure-all, I have, however, witnessed the powerful role that emotional, psychological, and spiritual work plays in healing. I've helped many of my clients to tap into the present moment, find and explore the mind/body connection, regulate their nervous systems, and learn to shift the limiting beliefs beneath their symptoms to find lasting symptom relief. In addition, I've helped my clients learn how to befriend their own experience rather than fight against it, a process which, by definition, helps to relieve their suffering.
Or perhaps you are thinking: I’d like the support, but I barely have the energy to make it through the day, let alone go to therapy or take a class.
Many of my clients have this feeling before they come to see me. Most find, however, that the therapy, energy work, and classes actually give them the energy they need to engage with their lives.
So how can I help?
Ultimately, I believe my job is to help you become empowered to be your own healer. I work with both the pain of your suffering, and the truth of your greater health.
Because of my own experience healing from a several-year, debilitating, chronic illness, I have an intimate, first-hand understanding of the the psychological, spiritual, emotional, and energetic dynamics of illness, and consider illness my greatest teacher. I combine this first-hand knowledge with my professional trainings in Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing (ongoing), Qigong (Chi Kung) Healing, and Nervous System Energy work. Each of these trainings have taught me how to help you befriend yourself, connect to the present moment, and allow your body's innate intellegence and healing capacity to aid you in getting better. In additon, I bring to the table my own presence, compassion, and wisdom cultivated from years of personal immersion in a transpersonal perspective and inner spiritual work.
I offer a variety of options to choose from including individual body-centered psychotherapy session (in Colorado in-person or via phone), energy healing sessions (local and distance), creative arts based classes, energy healing classes, and tele-seminars.
Risk Free
I believe it is essential that both of us feel like the therapeutic relationship is a good fit. For individuals who are interested in private sessions, I offer a free, thirty minute consultation, so that I can get a sense of your objectives and you can get a sense of who I am and how I work.
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