What is your body telling you? What colors are you putting out there?
Katie is a licensed professional counselor and medical and emotional intuitive with more than 30 years’ experience as a healer. Strongly influenced by the work of psychologist and founder of analytical psychiatry Carl Jung, who believed the body expresses symptoms from our emotions, Katie promotes holistic health, the wellness of the mind, body and spirit.
Her new book, “Heal from Within: A Guidebook to Intuitive Wellness,” is packed with ancient wisdom and acute awareness about connectedness and how the body works. More profoundly, she explains what our bodies may be saying to us when something is not quite right.
A big believer in finding the root cause of what is making us sick, Katie not only addresses physical symptoms, but explores “everything in our past and present that may be contributing to being unwell, whether that be physically, emotionally and/or spiritually.”
“A lot of times when you are having an issue, the tendency is to just look at one aspect of it,” she says. “It may be physical symptoms and looking at just the physical cause or emotionally, like whether it’s a relationship thing, or whether it’s neurological. What I’ve learned from my own experience as well as working with clients is that there are so many different factors that impact our lives, our happiness and our wellness and they can go back to childhood trauma. But it’s also things like relationships now, nutrition, whether you’re happy in your career or not, spiritual things like how you are being treated and how you are expressing yourself. All these things impact how we feel about ourselves and that translates into how we treat our bodies and how those symptoms are expressed by our body.”
Also, Katie is a watercolor artist. She uses paintings to investigate and communicate what is causing distress and illness in her clients. “In one painting, the guides told me to show blue squiggles in the gut. Blue is about being empathic and sensitive. When I get blue, it’s often from people who are very influenced by others. They almost care too much about what other people think. From a very young child, this individual had a lot of gut symptoms and stomach aches. He discovered he was not being his authentic self and that was causing him pain.”
Katie works with chakras, or energy centers in the body that correspond to specific nerve bundles and internal organs. There are seven major ones. If a painting shows magenta lines in the throat, for example, that draws attention to the fifth chakra, which has to do with expression and may indicate a need to express oneself or speak up, she says. “Orange is often about being courageous. The more you trust your intuition and trust your true self, the more courage you will have to be able to do that.”
Color on top or above the head has to do with the seventh or the Crown Chakra, which she says is about connecting to the “supreme self” and the universal flow of energy. “Yellow in this area may indicate loving support surrounding this individual.”
Katie has recovered from an eating disorder, Lyme disease and depression and wrote “Heal from Within” partly to inspire others that they can also heal from very difficult conditions. In the book, she emphasizes bolstering and protecting our healing energy and “embracing an all-powerful loving force.” She offers ways to do this. Here are three:
- Ground yourself through meditation, being in nature or taking an Epsom salt bath;
- Make a list of negative or fearful thoughts. “If they are out of your body, you can begin to address them and release them.”
- Be aware. “Pay attention to how you feel when you are around certain people and places. Avoid the ones that are draining or negative.”
With a calling to help people connect with their intuition, Katie believes paying attention to our own symptoms and understanding where our pain is coming from in a deeper sense is key to holistic health.
What is your body telling you? What colors are you putting out there?
See how Katie diagnoses her paintings and hear more about holistic healing on the video podcast Zonie Living at StarWorldwideNetworks.com/shows/bonnie-stevens. “Healing from Within: A Guidebook to Intuitive Wellness” is available on Amazon. For more information, visit KatieBeecher.com QCBN
By Bonnie Stevens, QCBN
Bonnie Stevens is a public relations consultant. She can be reached at bonnie.stevens@gmail.com.
Courtesy Photo: Katie Beecher.
