From Nurse to Natural Healer: The Emotional Root of Illness & Four Pillars of Self-Healing | Sarah Dawkins

About this episode

Heather Eck interviews Sarah Dawkins about the emotional roots of illness and the pillars of self-healing.

What if your body isn’t broken — it’s just been waiting for you to listen? In this deeply moving episode of Your Radiant Spirit, host Heather Eck sits down with Sarah Dawkins — Holi stic Health and Healing Coach, Registered Nurse of 20+ years, international speaker, and author of Heal Yourself — to explore the radical idea that the body holds the blueprint for its own healing. Sarah’s journey from a hospital nurse giving out pills to a multi-award-winning holistic health coach is one of the most honest and inspiring stories you’ll hear. It began with a dark night of the soul that lasted three years, a challenge to everything she believed about medicine, and a quiet walk outside where she first looked up at the buds on the trees and realized something had shifted. The Four Pillars of Health & Healing (physical, mental, spiritual, emotional) — and why most people only address one or two Why people-pleasing is actually a trauma response rooted in the inner child’s need for unconditional love How Sarah secretly practiced Reiki on post-surgery patients in the hospital — and what their heart monitors showed Why Sarah believes 99% of all chronic illness has an emotional underpinning…

People in this episode

Host: Heather Eck

Guest: Sarah Dawkins

Topics covered

• holistic health
• self-healing
• emotional wellness
• trauma response
• inner child
• chronic illness

Keywords

• natural healer
• emotional root of illness
• Four Pillars of Health
• Reiki
• chronic illness
• manifestation
• inner child

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Heal Yourself

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