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Have you ever had an amazing energy healing or deep massage, only to wake up the next day feeling worse than before?  Maybe your pain initially disappeared, but then suddenly came back stronger.

If this has happened to you, don’t panic—it’s a normal part of the healing process! This reaction, often called a healing crisis or detox response, happens because your body is releasing toxins faster than it can eliminate them. But the good news? There are ways to ease the process and support your body while it heals.

Let’s break it down. 

1. Toxins Are Being Released Faster Than Your Body Can Eliminate

When you receive energy healing or a deep tissue massage, it stimulates cellular detoxification. This means stored toxins, metabolic waste, and emotional blockages get released into the bloodstream. If your body isn’t eliminating them fast enough, they can temporarily cause:

• Muscle aches
• Fatigue
• Headaches
• Inflammation

What to Do:

✅ Drink plenty of water with lemon to support detoxification.
✅ Eat fiber-rich foods (chia seeds, greens, flaxseeds) to help flush toxins out.
✅ Take a binder like zeolite or activated charcoal to prevent toxin reabsorption.

2. Your Immune System is Activated 

Energy work can stimulate the immune system, triggering an inflammatory response—especially if you have chronic infections, yeast overgrowth (candida), or gut imbalances. Your body is working hard to heal, but in the process, it may feel worse before it feels better.

What to Do:

✅ Reduce inflammation with omega-3s, turmeric, and magnesium. 
✅ Get plenty of rest to let your body recover.
✅ Drink herbal teas (like ginger or stinging nettle) to calm inflammation.

3. Toxins Stored in Fat Cells Are Being Released 

Did you know that toxins love to hide in fat cells? When you receive energy healing or massage, it can mobilize these toxins into circulation, temporarily making you feel worse.

Common symptoms include:

• Joint pain
• Brain fog
• Fatigue
• Skin breakouts

What to Do:

✅ Sweat it out! Try a sauna, hot bath, or exercise to help move toxins out.
✅ Dry brushing stimulates the lymphatic system for better detox.
✅ Take activated charcoal or zeolite to absorb and remove toxins safely.

4. Dehydration & Electrolyte Imbalance 

When your body releases toxins, it can flush out essential minerals like magnesium, potassium, and sodium. This can leave you feeling:

• Lightheaded or dizzy
• Sore and crampy
• More fatigued than usual

What to Do:

✅ Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Drink coconut water or electrolyte-rich drinks.
✅ Add Himalayan salt to your water for natural minerals.
✅ Eat mineral-rich foods like bananas, avocados, and leafy greens.

5. Emotional Detox & Energy Shifts 

Energy healing doesn’t just detox the body—it also releases stored emotional trauma. Old wounds, suppressed emotions, and stress patterns may rise to the surface, making you feel:

• More emotional (sad, anxious, angry)
• Overwhelmed or restless
• Energetically drained

What to Do:

✅ Practice deep breathing & meditation to calm your nervous system.
✅ Journal your emotions—writing can help release emotional energy.
✅ Move your body gently with yoga or stretching to process stored emotions.

Final Thoughts: Detox Pain is Temporary! 

If you feel worse after a healing session, don’t panic—it’s just your body clearing out old energy, toxins, and emotions. Think of it like a storm before the calm—a sign that your body is healing, not hurting.

• Listen to your body—rest when needed.
• Support your detox pathways with hydration, nutrition, and movement.
• Be patient—healing takes time, but it’s always worth it.

✨ The pain is temporary, but the healing is life-changing! ✨

Have you ever experienced a healing crisis? What helped you get through it? Comment below!

Do you ever find yourself asking this question—whether about your health, relationships, finances, or just life in general?

At the end of January, my wife Keri and I had our fourth basement flood in four years. None of them were our fault. One came from a rainstorm that clogged an outside drain, and three were caused by two separate washing machines—both less than three years old.

Each time, the flood destroyed our newly finished basement floors. And just when we thought it couldn't get worse, last summer, after the third flood, our home insurance dropped us—right in the middle of fire season. We were left scrambling, facing the possibility of losing our home entirely.

Luckily, we found high-risk insurance, but the cost was almost double what we were paying before. And here’s the kicker: because it’s a high-risk policy, we can’t even make a claim for three years if we want to get back to good standing. Seriously, what’s the point of insurance if you can’t actually use it? It feels like it only exists to protect the bank's investment, not ours.

So now, this most recent flood is coming entirely out of our own pocket. And to make matters worse, we discovered that the laminate flooring we had installed—on the recommendation of a contractor—was trapping moisture and growing mold underneath it. That meant tearing it all out, treating the concrete with anti-mold solutions like white vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and Concrobium, and starting over.

At this point, I couldn’t help but ask…

Why Is This Happening to Me?

The only answer I keep coming back to is: to build character.

And the more I reflect on it, the more it makes sense.

I see this being true for most of the hard things we go through—whether it’s a health crisis, financial hardship, political turmoil, or a painful relationship. Complaining about the problem rarely changes anything. But dealing with it, learning from it, and taking action does.

That doesn’t mean it’s easy. In fact, building character is one of the hardest things we can do because it requires:

1. Facing Discomfort

Growth only happens when we step outside our comfort zone. But let’s be honest—no one enjoys being uncomfortable. Confronting our weaknesses and making tough choices is hard, and many people resist it.

2. Practicing Self-Discipline

Good character isn’t just about what we intend to do—it’s about what we actually do. Staying true to values like honesty, patience, and perseverance requires daily effort and self-control, even when it’s inconvenient.

3. Overcoming Setbacks

Life doesn’t go as planned. Setbacks—like four basement floods in four years—can either break us or teach us resilience. Learning to bounce back and keep going is what builds emotional strength.

4. Taking Responsibility

It’s easy to blame circumstances or other people, but real character comes from owning our actions and choices. That level of self-honesty is tough but necessary for true growth.

5. Committing to Lifelong Growth

Character-building isn’t something you “finish.” It’s ongoing. There’s always room for improvement, and the journey never truly ends.

6. Resisting Short-Term Gratification

In today’s world of quick fixes and instant gratification, doing the right thing instead of the easy thing can feel like an uphill battle. But integrity is built through small, consistent choices.

7. Staying Humble and Open

To grow, we have to be willing to learn, listen, and admit that we don’t have all the answers. Letting go of pride and embracing lifelong learning is tough—but it’s where the real transformation happens.

Even though building character is hard, it’s worth it. It leads to self-respect, stronger relationships, and a more meaningful life.

So instead of asking, “Why is this happening to me?”, maybe the real question should be: 

"What is this trying to teach me?"

What about you? What challenges have shaped your character the most? Let me know in the comments.

Samantha had always been the strong one. The one who juggled work, family, and friendships effortlessly. But at 47, something felt off.

It started with fatigue—not the usual end-of-day tiredness, but an exhaustion so deep it felt like her body was running on empty. Climbing stairs left her breathless, and simple tasks felt overwhelming.

Then came the brain fog. Samantha, once sharp and quick-witted, found herself forgetting appointments, struggling to focus, and losing words mid-sentence.

One night, after a stressful day, a sudden tightness in her chest stopped her in her tracks. It wasn’t sharp, just a deep pressure that refused to go away. She brushed it off as stress—until her left arm tingled, and dizziness set in.

Her husband, seeing the panic in her eyes, rushed her to the ER.

The Diagnosis That Changed Everything

"Your cholesterol is high, and your blood pressure is through the roof," the doctor said. "Samantha, you’re having the warning signs of heart disease."

Heart disease? That was for older people, smokers, or unhealthy eaters—not her.

But the truth was undeniable. Years of stress, late nights, skipping workouts, and emotional suppression had caught up with her.

She felt fear creeping in. Would she have a heart attack? Would she see her kids grow up?

Then came the guilt. Had she ignored the signs? Was she responsible for this?

And the depression—a heavy cloud of sadness, making her feel like a prisoner in her own body.

The Emotional Toll of Heart Disease

Samantha wasn’t just battling a physical condition—her emotions and mind were unraveling.

• Fear & Anxiety: Every heartbeat felt like a ticking time bomb. Any chest discomfort made her panic.
• Brain Fog & Mental Fatigue: Even on good days, she felt mentally drained, struggling to process information.
• Isolation & Depression: She withdrew from social events, feeling like a burden rather than the vibrant woman she once was.
• Frustration & Anger: She felt betrayed by her own body—how could it fail her when she had so much life left to live?

Her doctor suggested lifestyle changes, stress management, and a heart-healthy diet, but Samantha knew she needed more than just medicine.

Choosing to Heal—Mind & Heart

One evening, after a particularly tough day, she sat in front of a mirror and whispered, "I don’t want to live in fear anymore."

That was the moment she decided to fight back.

• She started morning walks, feeling her heart grow stronger with every step.
• She practiced deep breathing and meditation, calming her anxious mind.
• She embraced heart-healthy foods, nourishing her body from the inside out.
• She journaled her emotions, releasing the guilt and frustration she had buried.
• She reconnected with friends and family, choosing love over isolation.

As weeks passed, her energy returned, her thoughts became clearer, and for the first time in a long time—she felt like herself again.

At her next checkup, her doctor smiled. "Your numbers are improving, Samantha. Keep going."

And she did. Not just for her heart, but for her mind, her emotions, and the life she still had ahead of her.

The Takeaway: Healing Is More Than Physical

Heart disease isn’t just about clogged arteries—it’s about mental and emotional well-being too. Samantha learned that healing starts from within, and the heart and mind must heal together.

"Your heart doesn’t just beat—it feels, thinks, and carries your life. Treat it with love."

Have you ever experienced emotional struggles linked to heart health or other health problems? Let’s talk!

Comment below or email us directly here.  

Why you need good energy flow in your body to be healthy.

Good energy flow in your body is essential for health because energy underpins the functioning of every system in your body. Disruptions or blockages in this flow can lead to physical ailments, mental stress, emotional imbalance, and spiritual disconnection.

Here's why maintaining good energy flow is vital:

1. Supports Physical Function

• Cellular Health: Energy fuels your cells to perform vital functions like repair, regeneration, and detoxification.
• Organ Efficiency: Free-flowing energy ensures your organs receive the necessary vitality to function optimally.
• Healing and Immunity: Proper energy flow strengthens your immune system and accelerates your body’s natural healing processes.

2. Enhances Mental Clarity

• Focus and Concentration: Smooth energy flow to your brain enhances cognitive abilities like memory, focus, and decision-making.
• Stress Reduction: Proper energy flow calms your mind, reducing stress and preventing overactivity.
• Mental Resilience: Balanced energy supports your ability to handle mental challenges and recover from setbacks.

3. Balances Emotions

• Emotional Processing: Good energy flow allows your emotions to move freely, preventing the buildup of unresolved feelings.
• Emotional Stability: A balanced energy system fosters emotional equilibrium, reducing mood swings and promoting joy.
• Inner Peace: Harmonized energy creates a sense of calm and emotional resilience.

4. Boosts Spiritual Health

• Self-Connection: A smooth energy flow strengthens the connection to your inner self and higher purpose.
• Awareness: Balanced energy facilitates spiritual growth and heightened intuition.
• Fulfillment: Free-flowing energy helps you align with your values, bringing a sense of purpose and contentment.

5. Prevents Disease

• Energy Stagnation: Blockages in energy flow can lead to stress, which is linked to chronic conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes.
• Holistic Health: Energy imbalances often manifest as physical symptoms; maintaining flow can address issues at their root.

6. Promotes Longevity and Vitality

• Aging Gracefully: Good energy flow slows cellular aging by reducing oxidative stress and enhancing repair mechanisms.
• Sustained Energy: A balanced energy system prevents fatigue and supports sustained vitality throughout life.

How Energy Flow Gets Blocked

• Stress and Trauma: Prolonged stress or unresolved emotional trauma disrupts energy pathways.
• Poor Lifestyle Choices: Lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, and insufficient sleep can stagnate energy flow.
• Environmental Factors: Exposure to toxins, electromagnetic pollution, or a negative environment can impact energy.

Practices to Maintain Good Energy Flow

• Mindfulness and Meditation: Cultivate mental and emotional balance.
• Physical Activity: Engage in yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, or other practices that harmonize energy flow.
• Energy Healing: Use modalities like Reiki or acupuncture to clear blockages.  Click here for Distance Healing Sessions
• Breathwork: Practice deep breathing to energize the body and release tension.
• Healthy Lifestyle: Eat nutritious foods, stay hydrated, and ensure adequate rest.
• Grounding Practices: Connect with nature to stabilize and recharge your energy.

Would you like specific techniques or exercises to improve your energy flow?

Do you experience any of these symptoms: incontinence (loss of bladder control/leakage), bowel incontinence (loss of bowel control/leakage), lower back pain, pain with intercourse, premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction. 

These are all symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction.   

Your pelvic floor muscles are part of your core muscles.  Which also include abdominal muscles, back muscles, and diaphragm (the muscle that controls breathing). Together, these muscles attach to your pelvis and spine, creating stability throughout your body's center.

Each of these muscles has influences over specific organs, glands, and body parts.

In my practice I see a lot of people with pelvic floor dysfunction.  This video describes it perfectly.

The pelvic floor muscles support the bladder, uterus, bowel, hips, and pelvis. They prevent incontinence of bladder and bowel, prolapse and are also important in sexual function.

There are two different types of Pelvic floor dysfunction.

• Hypotonic
• Hypertonic

Hypotonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

This is when the pelvic floor muscles are weakened by pregnancy, childbirth, prostate cancer treatment, obesity, seen more in people 50yrs and older and the straining of chronic constipation.  

This can lead to problems related to your hips, pelvis, bladder, bowel, low back, sacrum, coccyx, tailbone, or sexual function.

This is referred to as Hypotonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction.  A condition where the pelvic floor muscles are lengthened at rest, demonstrate poor motor power and/or are inadequate to respond to voluntary contraction) and/or are too weak.

Hypotonic Pelvic Floor Symptoms Include:

• Urinary incontinence
• Bowel incontinence
• Orgasm dysfunction
• Vaginal laxity
• Pelvic organ prolapse: bladder, rectum, intestines, uterus
• Sexual dysfunction: erectile dysfunction

You can also have problems with your pelvic floor muscles if they are working too hard, or overactive.

Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Hypertonic pelvic floor is a condition that typically affects people aged 20-49 yrs. old.  It’s where the muscles in your lower pelvis are in a spasm or state of constant contraction. This can be temporary or constant. When your pelvic floor muscles are in this state, they can’t relax and coordinate the control of certain bodily functions. This causes pain (either constant or with certain activities), problems with urination and bowel movements as well as sexual dysfunction and painful intercourse.

These symptoms can greatly impact quality of life.

Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Symptoms

• Bladder pain
• Pain while urinating
• Frequent urination
• Difficulty starting or maintaining a urinary stream
• Difficulty starting a bowel movement
• Feeling like you’re unable to empty completely
• Pain during or after bowel movement
• Pain with passing gas
• Constipation
• Unexplained lower back pain
• Unexplained sacral, coccyx and or tailbone pain
• Pain during or after sex.
• Inability to achieve orgasm.
• Erectile dysfunction or pain with erection or ejaculation.
• Premature ejaculation
• Chronic prostatitis

However, there are solutions.  There are pelvic floor exercises designed to improve muscle strength if you have hypotonic (weak pelvic floor muscles) or hypertonic (tight pelvic floor muscles).

Hypotonic Pelvic Floor Exercises

For Women 

For Men 

Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Exercises

For Women 

For Men

Let me know if you found this info helpful in the comments.

If you are interested in learning more about Core Muscle Strengthening contact me at [email protected] for Core Muscle Strengthening video workshop.  

Would you like to have a strong robust heart, immune system, and brain?

If so, exercise is a FREE way to help you achieve your goals.

Research shows people that have a regular exercise routine have the following:

• Reduced inflammation in the body.
• Lower blood pressure.
• Decreased risk of developing diabetes.
• Maintain healthy weight.
• Reduced stress and anxiety.
• Suffer less heart attacks and life threating cardiac events.
• Improved memory and thinking because exercise increase area of brain responsible for these processes.
• Reduced age-related bone and muscle loss that help prevent injuries.
• Improved immune response.
• Decrease in 13 types of metabolic cancers.

These are only some of the benefits of exercises.  There are so many more. 

With all the positive benefits of exercise there is one body system that ties all of it together and makes it possible for you to exercise.  It is your skeletal muscle. 

Your skeletal muscle is the largest organ in your body. Skeletal muscles are primarily characterized by their mechanical activity required for posture, movement, and breathing, which depends on muscle fiber contractions. However, skeletal muscle is not just a component in your muscular skeletal system but a secretory organ that produces chemical messengers that communicate with other organs like adipose tissue, liver, pancreas, bones, and brain. Some of these chemical messengers even have anti-cancer effects.  However, all these benefits are depended on muscle contraction. 

How Much Exercise Do You Need to Get?

It depends on your current state of health.  If you’ve been living a sedentary life, I would suggest working with a personal trainer for a few months to help build you a good exercise routine. 

Some recommendations I do have are:

To prevent, slow down and even reverse sarcopenia (age related muscle loss, strength, and mobility) – do 30-40mins of full body resistance training 2-3 days per week.

Exercise and Cancer

People that exercise at least 30mins per day have a decreased risk in 13 different types of metabolic cancers. 

Based on research people that exercise after a cancer diagnosis shows a decrease in three types of cancer: breast, prostate, and colon.   This can be walking, cardiovascular exercise and or resistance training.

Exercise and Brain Health

One study found that engaging in a habit of regular exercise of moderate intensity over six months to a year was associated with an increase in the volume of brain regions related to improved memory and thinking. 

Exercise and Heart Health

A number of studies have also shown that people who exercise regularly are less likely to suffer a sudden heart attack or other life-threatening cardiac event.

Let me know in the comments, do you have an exercise routine?  If so, what does it look like?

How are you feeling?

Do you experience low energy, lack of focus and brain fog?

My question to you is how do you want to feel?

Do you want to feel energized and focused? 

Write in comments how you want to feel?

A simple trick to upgrade how you feel is to align yourself with it. 

To do so, close your eyes, take 3 deep belly breaths, and say to yourself, “I align myself with the highest form of energy and focus so it can flow through me with ease and grace.”

Notice how it makes you feel and share your experience in the comments. 

This info is for you if you suffer any of the following symptoms:

• High Blood Pressure
• Fear or Anxiety
• Excess Stress
• Weak Lungs
• Heart Problems
• Shallow Breathing 

In the spring of 2024 I found out that I had high blood pressure.  I was very surprised because I thin, eat a good diet, take supplements are suppose to help regulate blood pressure and exercise everyday.  

In my search to find out what I could do the find out lower my blood pressure I found a Breathing Exercise that has been scientifically proven to lower blood pressure immediately and over the long term when done regularly.  

I share this Breathing Exercise in the video below.

If you would like to learn more about regulating your stress response and feeling more confident and emotionally resiliant click here before Aug 24. 

Many People I speak to believe you have to be born with the gift of intuition.  

This is not true.  Anyone can development their intuition by activating, connecting and trusting it.

The fastest way to develop your intuition is by working with a mentor and practicing on others.

This is exactly what Keri Fulmore and I did to help us fine tune our intuitive skills.  

In the video below I discuss how I do Medical Intuitive Readings, common blocks that can happen when doing a medical intuitive reading and how to overcome them.  

If you would like to join Keri and I for a 4hr mentoring workshop: Journey Within - Click Here.  

4 Tips to Speed Up Your Healing

• Connect with God every day.
• Live from compassion.
• Have full access to your mind, heart and body. 
• Daily Gratitude practice.

Click here to learn more about what I do.

Click here to join the FREE Group Healing with Keri and I on

May 29th.