21 December 2007
17 December 2007
For the Medicated Many who look for alternative ways to heal
I received the following message in an email. I believe, thanks to the power of the internet and my account on facebook that has links to my several blogs, this woman found my site. Yay!
Anyway, I share it with you, in the event you are looking for alternative ways to tackle your need for an antidepressant. As an energy worker, I struggle with my need for medication in order to be sane vs. the desire to want to find other ways to deal. I do know that me on meds is much more fun to be around than me NOT on meds. But, having experienced some major, positive effects from other energy workers for other personal issues, I can't negate the possibility. Just not ready to go there myself.
Here's the info:
TRANSFORMING DEPRESSION -
HOW TO COME OUT OF SHOCK AND INTO YOUR LIFE
AN ENERGY HEALING WORKSHOP WITH JULIE MOTZ,
AUTHOR OF HANDS OF LIFE
Are you depressed?
Does life seem like an overwhelming burden - too painful or too terrifying to bear?
Do you wake up feeling that you don't want to move - or, worse still, that you don't want to live?
Depression is an early survival mechanism. We learn it in the womb to
keep us quiet and motionless when our mother is anxious or distressed.
It is reinforced in infancy when our cries fail to summon her and again
in childhood when we are taught that our anger is "bad" and our needs
and desires inconvenient or unwelcome.
In later life it can be triggered whenever we have an impulse to grow,
expand or be excited - especially when this impulse is blocked or we
imagine that it might be. Small losses become devastating defeats
because they evoke the body's memories of early helplessness and
hopelessness .
The challenge is to go back into our early lives, experience the
reasons for our frozen state and teach our nervous system new
responses. When this is done our natural energy and vitality return and
we can experience all the excitement and forward movement our
depression has held prisoner.
In this workshop you will learn how to speak to your nervous system in
its own language and bring it out of its old defensive patterns. You'll
become conscious of the early, hidden anxiety your body has been trying
to combat and relieve it of that burden. You will be able to live in
the present at last and enjoy all the creativity, enthusiasm and
exuberance that has been trapped and waiting for you to make it safe to
come out and play.
When: February 22-24 Friday 6:30-8:30 PM; Saturday & Sunday 10-5:30
PM. Please plan to leave lunch hours and Saturday dinner time free
for possible additional workshop activities.
Where: "The Sanctuary" @ 2700 CR 510 (between Durango & Bayfield,
Colorado)
Cost: $250 (early registration by January 12 - $225)
How: write check to Julie Motz,
send it to
Julie Motz
351 Olema Road
Fairfax, CA94930
Email with Questions
JULIE MOTZ, MFA, MPH is an internationally known healer, teacher and
author. She began her work on depression with heart transplant patients
with whom she did healing work during their surgeries. She has lectured
at Columbia, Dartmouth and Stanford Medical Schools and been featured
in the New York Times Magazine, Psychology Today, Prevention and the
Utne Reader. Her work has been shown on "Dateline," "Extra!", CNN, the
ABC NIghtly News and French, Canadian and Australian National
Television. Her book, Hands of Life, has been published in five
languages.
Click to read excerpts from Hands of Life
