Post by munaykiwasha on Jun 29, 2015 11:38:29 GMT -8
Hi there! I'm Tasha, Travis's wife, and I have finally found the time to share my story. For many years I struggled with emotional highs and lows, back pain, and anxiety, but I am happy to say that these things no longer effect my life in the ways that they used to. I did a lot of personal work around this before going to Peru, but my experiences in Peru changed my life for the better.
Before going to Peru, I had intense back pain that seemed to be worse when I was just sitting and relaxing, when I would pay attention to my body it would scream at me. I tried chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, and bowen work, and while all of them helped for a day or two, the problem persisted and effected my day to day life. I would find myself crying about just about everything, and felt emotions so strongly that they would keep me from doing the things I loved to do. Often, when invited to go do awesome things with my friends, which I really wanted to do, I would just fall apart and not go out due to the anxiety I felt at the idea of interacting with others.
Travis and I decided to go to Peru to work with plant medicines and find healing within ourselves. In my first Ayahuasca ceremony I found deep healing around something that had effected a lot of my life. When I was 12 my family moved from Seattle to South Carolina. I had made one friend there, and about three months later he died from doing something he thought would be fun. As a 12 year old child I had no idea how to handle this, and my parents, who had never lost anyone close, just told me to stop crying and make new friends. But it just isn't that simple. I had repressed my grief and by doing that I never worked through my feelings around his death. Ayahuasca gave me a chance to speak to him and his family and make peace with his death. This was very liberating for me and allowed me to let go of a lot of negative feelings I was holding onto.
San Pedro taught me a lot about my back pain, and how I tend to take on pain from other people. He also taught me ways to hold my power and help others while not taking on their pain. Ayahuacsa taught me about how our emotions effect our bodies, and holding feelings like regret and anger effect our bodies in negative ways, while holding emotions such as love and gratitude effect our bodies in positive ways. This completely changed my relationship to my body, and I now live a pain free life.
I continue to learn and grow from my use of plant medicines and feel extremely blessed to have them in my life. These are just a few examples of my personal experiences, and there is a lot more that I have to share with you all. I look forward to getting to know you and sharing more with you all. Please reach out if any of these things are things that you struggle with, as I would love to chat more about things that may be beneficial to you! <3
Before going to Peru, I had intense back pain that seemed to be worse when I was just sitting and relaxing, when I would pay attention to my body it would scream at me. I tried chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, and bowen work, and while all of them helped for a day or two, the problem persisted and effected my day to day life. I would find myself crying about just about everything, and felt emotions so strongly that they would keep me from doing the things I loved to do. Often, when invited to go do awesome things with my friends, which I really wanted to do, I would just fall apart and not go out due to the anxiety I felt at the idea of interacting with others.
Travis and I decided to go to Peru to work with plant medicines and find healing within ourselves. In my first Ayahuasca ceremony I found deep healing around something that had effected a lot of my life. When I was 12 my family moved from Seattle to South Carolina. I had made one friend there, and about three months later he died from doing something he thought would be fun. As a 12 year old child I had no idea how to handle this, and my parents, who had never lost anyone close, just told me to stop crying and make new friends. But it just isn't that simple. I had repressed my grief and by doing that I never worked through my feelings around his death. Ayahuasca gave me a chance to speak to him and his family and make peace with his death. This was very liberating for me and allowed me to let go of a lot of negative feelings I was holding onto.
San Pedro taught me a lot about my back pain, and how I tend to take on pain from other people. He also taught me ways to hold my power and help others while not taking on their pain. Ayahuacsa taught me about how our emotions effect our bodies, and holding feelings like regret and anger effect our bodies in negative ways, while holding emotions such as love and gratitude effect our bodies in positive ways. This completely changed my relationship to my body, and I now live a pain free life.
I continue to learn and grow from my use of plant medicines and feel extremely blessed to have them in my life. These are just a few examples of my personal experiences, and there is a lot more that I have to share with you all. I look forward to getting to know you and sharing more with you all. Please reach out if any of these things are things that you struggle with, as I would love to chat more about things that may be beneficial to you! <3