Liz Long | Welcome to Freedomville | Sacred Sundays

And in terms of the modalities that have supported you on your journey, which ones have worked? Which ones haven't worked? Which ones do you really think are, you know, the best to work with? Like, what has been your experience?

Well, I'm happy to share the things that, that worked for, for me, and I, and I do, uh, write about some of those in, in my book, Navigating Shitstorms.

What I really encourage for people to do though is to, to listen to how they f- how it feels when they think about doing one of the modalities, and to just try it out because everybody's different and everybody's-

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... dealing with different issues, and so some of the things that worked for me are not gonna work for other people, and things that I found challenging might be the great answer for, for other people.

So I think it's keeping an open mind and-

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... continuing to try different things until you begin to feel better.

I really struggled with therapy for years and years.

I couldn't find a therapist that, uh, that I really resonated with and that seemed to be helpful.

You know, that, that, that was a problem for me.

I mean, I've done everything from psychedelics and hypnotherapy, somatic work.

I've done a lot of cognitive therapy with psychotherapists.

I did do a lot of that.

I mean, I, I ended up checking myself into a place for, for two months, and they were, they were really generous in, uh, in everything they provided.

Had music therapy.

We had nature therapy.

We had sound therapy, nutrition therapy, all of, all of those things.

And one of the beautiful things about the time that we're living in, and particularly where we are in the west coast of Canada, there is so much to choose from, and some beautiful practitioners that are doing cutting edge and, and new modalities to help people heal.

So-

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I encourage people...

I mean, I share, you know, tidbits of, of what certain things are like, but you really have to feel your way through it.

And I think you pointed to something really important, which is regardless of the modality, being able to check in with ourselves, does this feel aligned? Does this feel like what my body needs, what my, what my essence needs? And I think that's where we actually lose ourselves the most, is we're putting all of our authority outside and-