Emily A. Francis - Healing Ourselves Whole: An Interactive Guide to Release Pain and Trauma by Utilizing the Wisdom of the Body

Read this excellent healing manual and begin the process of becoming whole and complete.

Dr. Bernie Siegel

Healing Ourselves Whole

An Interactive Guide to Release Pain and Trauma by Utilizing the Wisdom of the Body

Emily A. Francis

Emily Franciss book says it all. I had to learn as a surgeon about the power of the mind and how the body believes what the mind conceives. The truth is that we heal ourselves. When people have an unexpected recovery, doctors call it a spontaneous remission, but as Emily reveals it is not spontaneous but self-induced. We all have the potential to achieve that with correct coaching and our showing up for practice. Read this excellent healing manual and begin the process of becoming whole and complete.

Bernie Siegel, MD, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

In Healing Ourselves Whole, Emily Francis connects the dots between thoughts and feelingsparticularly the most deep-seated onesand the bodys physical response. This heartfelt book is a must-read for anyone struggling to free themselves from years of negative emotions so that happiness, joy, and health can become a daily truth. Emily holds your hand like a trusted friend throughout the process, encouraging you to journal, meditate, and go deep into yourself to release the emotional chains once and for all and to achieve healing on its deepest level.

Dr. Debbie Palmer, author of Mindful Beauty

Placing the tools and strategies for self-healing directly in readers hands, Emily offers clear, experiential wisdom honed from years of personal work and study. As a yoga therapist, I often look for resources that will empower my clients and I will be recommending this, my favorite of all her books! This universally applicable volume of healing protocols will take any who use it into optimal wellbeing.

Jennie Lee, author of Spark Change, True Yoga, and Breathing Love

This book will take you beyond the symptoms into the root cause of physical and emotional imbalances. It is a perfect blend of Eastern and Western ideas spun into tangible steps so that readers can feel held, supported, and empowered by the process. This book is ideal for professionals and individuals looking to tap into the wisdom of their own bodies. It serves as an incredible resource for healing and feeling whole again.

Sherianna Boyle, author of Emotional Detox for Anxiety

Much like the jocular sage of Tibetan Buddhism, Emily disguises profound wisdom in a light-hearted tour of her own experiences as a bodyworker and healer. Yet, this is a book for the ages and, perhaps, for the sages too. In it are all the tools of the greatest healers: the wisdom of cause and effect, the magic of therapeutic metaphor, the curative intent of the most powerful shaman. Emily brings to conscious expression the causes and the cure and carries us along with her. Hers is an exquisitely sensitive prescription for a process of helping and healing that eventuates in a whole, happy and self-determined human being.

Steve Bierman, MD, author of HEALINGBeyond Pills & Potions

In her inspiring book, Emily Francis shares the culmination of her lifes work thus far so we can become liberated through her unique tracking system. Under her powerful guidance, you will become fluent in the language of your body so you can deeply know who you joyfully and healthfully are. Thank you, Emily Francis, for this gift.

Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, author of The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals

To all who choose to live our lives on purpose.

May we all find the courage, inner strength, and peace of mind to live boldly.

And to my new home on the island of Malta. Through the process of writing this book, I embraced the opportunity to leave the yard.

Finally, and most importantly, I dedicate all the work I ever do to my beautiful children and incredible husband. It always comes down to you.

Thank you to Steve Harris, my literary agent, for widening the skys limits with opportunity.

To Camilla Michael, my editor, for making this book the most enjoyable experience and for the incredible support and expertise she gave to this work.

To everyone at HCI, my sincere thanks and gratitude for making this book a beautiful reality.

Im not a doctor or a counselor. Im not a psychologist or a psychotherapist. I am a bodyworker. When I use the term body work in my personal practice, I define it as an all-encompassing clinical approach to helping the body remember how to heal from within through hands-on applications such as massage therapy, neuromuscular therapy, and lymphatic drainage as well as energy practice.

Very few vocations in the world allow people to place their hands directly on someone to help heal, recover, release, and balance them. Body work to me is a sacred practice in which people entrust themselves to me during the time we have scheduled together. To receive body work, people must allow themselves to be quite vulnerable because, during a massage, they are basically undressed and draped accordingly. I, in turn, have the responsibility to create a safe space, enforce proper boundaries, and have a loving touch with no intention other than helping people to release and balance themselves. I do not take any sort of responsibility for someone elses healing; it is their own, and I honor that and support them through whatever they are facing. People do not come to me for a simple massage to relax. That is not what I do. I am both clinical and energetic in nature, and my approach comes with a specialized set of skills for people who are facing the aftermath of various traumas, most notably during or following cancer treatment.

I have developed a unique perspective on how our bodies store and release effects of traumas, pains, and shames. The body speaks to me, and I have learned how to understand its language. I cant fully explain it, but something happens when I put my hands on other people. Information is downloaded into me. I can almost hear and feel what their bodies are telling me.

The body is full of so much magic and wisdom, yet we have spent decades ignoring it in pursuit of other avenues by which to recover and heal. This book offers the truths that I have come to understand through my years of hands-on work and intuitive gifts. The other part of my knowledge of healing has come from a messy, sometimes debilitating amount of personal work to help myself heal from severe anxiety and panic. For a long time, I struggled to regain control over my health and happiness. When I say struggled, I mean I went all the way down with it. This was not a little blip in the story of my life. And just a few years later, I had to use what I learned about the various aspects of body healing and apply it to my child, who has functioning recovery, and the removal of her diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. People hear our story and think its not possible, but I say to myself, to my children, and to you: No one has any right to tell you what can and cannot be done in the name of healing. All things are possible, and miracles do happen. Its a matter of gathering information from far and wide, committing ourselves to a life well healed, and keeping a strong faith that the only limits are the ones we accept.