You Can Do It! (Oh Yes, You Can!)

As a family medicine physician, I have written thousands of prescriptions for medications and treatments. In this book, however, I am writing to inspire and encourage your health and wholeness in different ways. Call it a prescription of self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-care practices. These medicines have the ability to promote your own growth, strength, and healing. In this world, it is our human condition to have forgotten who we really are and to struggle along in the perceived darkness of our day-to-day lives. We have accustomed ourselves to feeling separate from our version of God and separate from each other. Both of these perceptions are painful even in the best of circumstances. In the physical sense, we are separate from each other. Everyone’s story and struggle is different. No one has stood in someone else’s shoes. We may have shared stories, but each of us has our own unique perceptions, experiences, emotions, and reactions. And it’s the unique emotional impressions that we register and accrue that impact our behavior, our health, and our whole lives. As a physician, I have come to recognize that addressing these emotional impressions is vital to successful health and the promotion of healing. Often, your body is trying to tell you that something is beneath your symptoms that needs attention. While traditional medicine and treatments can be effective, they can overlook an important underlying contribution to the problem, illness, or disease. Maybe some changes need to be made at the root level. This may include a release of stored emotional impressions that have grown roots in our lives. Just like a weed in the soil, if you just treat the surface symptoms of an illness (cut off the top of the weed) and neglect the root contributions (the root), the issues will likely recur in a different time or form. In other words, the weed regrows. We need to address the biography beneath the biology. — David Simon MD, Free to Love, Free to Heal It’s the release of these emotional impressions that brings relief, a new perspective, and a new way to grow and flourish. In this book, I will lead you to find your way through life’s maze of struggle and suffering to a place where you can feel happier and healthier. Renewed self-awareness is possible. You will find this is part one. Healing through self-compassion is possible. You will find this in part one. Renewed self-awareness is possible. You will find this is part one. Healing through self-compassion is possible. You will find this in part two. A self-care practice that creates a better life is possible. You will find this in part three. Everything is possible for one who believes. — Jesus, Mark 9:23 (New International Version) You become what you believe. • Why not believe that life doesn’t have to be so hard? • Why not believe that you are not lost or alone? • Why not believe that you are not separated from God/ Source? • Why not believe that you are not defined by the way the world defines you? • Why not believe that you can change and improve your mind, emotions, and body? • Why not believe that you can create a new way of thinking, feeling, and living that is enjoyable, peaceful, and healthy? This sounds like a win-win situation to me. This is possible. You can do it! It matters not who you are, who you have been, where you are from, what you have, or what you have not done. All players are equal—no judgement here. You can start wherever you are. If you’re standing in the mud of life, I’ll stand there with you. Then I’ll offer you some guidance and tools to take steps forward onto the bank where you can start to walk more easily in a direction of strength and contentment. (We’ll wash some of that mud off too!) I’m not going to say it’s without personal effort. I am saying, however, that it’s worth the effort and persistence it takes to get to a new place—a happier, healthier, and better feeling place. There is no right or wrong, and there is no time clock. You can choose to release and change what you want and when you want. How you do it might be different than what you might think. You only need a desire to feel better, a willingness to receive, and a belief that it is possible. If you can only partially commit to this, I will be the rest of it with you. —I have a desire, a will, and a passion to help you feel better and to live better. —I believe that it is possible. —I know that it’s possible. I have found the way out of the mud of life’s pain and struggles, and I’ve come here to the maze and the mud to find you and help you to find your way out too. This book is written as a gentle virtual journey through your life’s maze and to the clearing and freedom of a happier, healthier you. This adventure is weaved with love and compassion, inspiring quotes and pearls of wisdom, heartfelt music, and strength for each day. It’s a collaboration of love... that has come for You.