Health coach Sandie Gascon joins me today to chat about her new health and wellness book, Heal Yourself: Body, Mind, Spirit.
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Bio:
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.
Welcome, Sandie. Please tell us about your current release.
The body wants to return to balance. It just needs the tools to do so. Heal Yourself: Mind ~ Body ~ 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.
What inspired you to write this book?
I wrote this book to reach as many people as possible. As a practitioner I can only work with so many people one on one. I have great success with my program. By putting it into a book it becomes an option so many more people can afford.
Excerpt from Heal Yourself:
The Body Bank Account
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.
Along the process, as people go through my program and start making those deposits and start reducing withdrawals, they start to feel better. Once they get above zero balance and their symptoms go away, often people try to go back to normal lives. People start to feel good and start exercising or go back to work and quickly feel unwell again. Not only must you get out of debt, you must also take the time to build up a large reserve. Once your reserve is built up over time, only then will the body be able to handle more withdrawals (as long as deposits continue to be made on a regular basis).
What exciting project are you working on next?
Currently I am creating a course to teach people not only how to heal themselves naturally but how to heal others as well. It will be a holistic academy where individuals with a passion to help others will learn how to interpret the tests I go over in my book and design custom protocols for their clients. It will also teach them how to build and scale their business.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
For the longest time, even after publishing my book, I still did not consider myself a writer. It wasn’t until recently when I sat down to write scripts for videos that I realized how easily writing comes to me when it involves a topic I am passionate about. During the entire writing process, I never experienced writer’s block. I could sit down and type for hours. Stop at anytime and come back the next day and just continue on from where I left off. Now I feel I can do that any time.
Do you write full-time? If so, what’s your work day like? If not, what do you do other than write and how do you find time to write?
I do not write full time. When I wrote Heal Yourself, I wrote for one to three hours every day. I am a mom and love to spend as much time as I can with my son Kaiden. Professionally I am a health coach. I work with people all over the world helping them heal their bodies naturally.
What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
I am terrible at spelling and grammar. I must have slept through that in high school. When I type I only type with nine fingers and find it hard to find the punctuation keys.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I remember wanting to be a writer. I have a vivid memory of sitting at our kitchen table trying to write a book. I must have been six or eight years old. The table was tile with wood around it. I would get so frustrated that I couldn’t think of a story to write. I went on to wanting to become a doctor to help cure the world of migraines. In University I still dreamed of being a writer. I had many ideas for fiction novels (still do) but whenever I sat down to write I could not. The words wouldn’t come. The plot was there. In my spare time I read so many books on how to write. Though they didn’t help then I remembered many tips when I was writing Heal Yourself. I didn’t end up becoming a doctor, but I did get to the root causes of my migraines and have helped many people heal from theirs too. My journey healing myself gave me the tools to write the book I knew was always inside me.
Anything additional you want to share with the readers?
Whether you are trying to write a book or heal from an illness, “I have found the ultimate attraction point to be when you are happy where you are, setting goals for the future, in acceptance if they do not happen and in faith that everything works out exactly as it should.” Sandie Gascon Heal Yourself
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Thanks for hosting!
Thank you for sharing the excerpt.
Thank you for sharing my book
This sounds like a wonderful book.
Thanks for the great excerpt. The book looks very interesting.