Michael Easter

So I just did something totally different and it basically started my healing journey.

I started guiding.

And then I met people and I talked with experts and I read books and I, I mean, there's so much more to it, but I...

I basically realized I was very good at disassociating anything that came from my childhood.

My parents fought a lot.

And I love my parents.

It's never a bash session on them.

I don't really believe in that because I know that my parents did the best that they could with the skills and the tools that they had.

But I read three of Dr. Gabor Mate's books.

And it was life-changing for me.

I was like, oh, wow, this is what trauma can do.

And he's the one that says, you know, 80% of... Gave the statistics, 80% of autoimmune diseases exist in women.

When we operate against ourselves, you know, autoimmune is like just the body fighting the body.

The body not distinguishing self from self.

Like, it's like, oh, this is foreign, but it's you.

Well, like...

Isn't that kind of what we do when we force ourselves to live in a stressful environment?

It's like our body's saying, no, we want to say no, but we override it and we fight ourselves.

And so is that possible that we manifest that deep down into our body, our cellular level, where it's like some parts of us are saying yes, some parts are saying no.

And so all of a sudden there's a fight.