Its never too late to have a happy childhood!

In the last blog I was talking about the physical aspects of detox. There is more information about how it works on the website www.vitaldetox.com. Other therapies that we provide are yoga, massage, acupuncture, reflexology, abdominal massage, hot stone therapy, beauty therapies and much more.

Emotional Detox

As we all know, our bodies do not work independently from the loony that lives in our head (our minds), our bodies reflect and hold feelings and emotions that we experience. Also, if we're trying our best to change our eating habits or our lives, we can sometimes find, suddenly, as if from no-where, we're compulsively doing the thing that we're trying not to do. This is very often because part of us is actively sabotaging.

In the work that I do as a Journey Therapist (I trained with Brandon Bays 10 years ago) I have come to see more and more that the people we used to be and the experiences we had when we were younger, still exist inside us. Its like having an unhappy teenager living inside us and, just when we think we're getting everything on track, the rebellious teen makes us drink too much, sleep with the postman, shout at our neighbour or eat our own body weight in ice-cream. Its our younger selves that need help - not us.

Usually our grown-up selves have worked it out, realised its not our parents/husbands/brothers fault and that actually we're ok. Our younger selves, however, might still be in pain from an abuse, a death, a rejection or a shock and are still needing help and support. What I do in my work on the retreat, is give the younger self everything it needs to get over what happened and to become an integrated part of the whole rather than the 'enemy' within. If there is a part of you that is in pain, it needs, just like a child, more love and acceptance not less. We so often beat ourselves up when we do things that are against our  best intentions - this only makes that part of ourselves feel more rejected and pissed off and the whole thing perpetuates. ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD! I promise - its actually really simple and easy and most people I work with let go of a major issue in an hour! I know it sounds too good to be true but its not, its really good and really true!

I think that a lot of talking therapy just gets us to understand rationally what happened to us but doesn't always enable us to let it go. By doing a Journey process, the event or events that caused our pain can be released from the body where its being held in the cells. This is mainly done through forgiveness - very simple and incredibly effective. It's like three years therapy in an hour!

By removing the emotional pain and blocks that are causing our destructive behaviours we can live the way we want to without constantly struggling with ourselves. For this reason, The Journey sessions are an essential part of detox and enable clients to leave The Retreat feeling lighter and happier on all levels - not just physically. For more information about The Journey go to www.VitalDetox.com.