33. Amy B. Scher • Lyme disease • This is How I Save My Life (When No One Else Can) – Jackie Shea Healing Out Loud with Jackie Shea

Amy B. Scher, author of "This is how I Save my Life" and expert in mind-body-spirit healing

Amy B. Scher, "This Is How I Save My Life"

After seven years of boundless symptoms, innumerable diagnoses, and all the treatments you can imagine, the root of Amy's trouble was discovered: Lyme disease. Amy B. Scher (http://amybscher.com) had gotten accustomed to a life in-between wellness and illness, rarely fully in either world. When traveling to India for an experimental stem cell treatment was suggested to her, she knew she had to go—not necessarily because she knew it would work, but because she had to try one more (last) thing. The healing Amy experienced in India looked different than she imagined it would(it involved eating chocolate cake and macaroni and cheese), but, indeed, healing did come. Amy's stem cell treatment in India is the framework for her new book, "This is How I Save My Life," ( http://amy-b-scher.mykajabi.com/p/this-is-how-i-save-my-life ) but the book is about so much more—how to take responsibility for our own healing when nothing else is working. In this episode, we dive in to all of the different things you can do to help yourself—all you can do to save your life when no one else can.

Weekly Challenge:

Amy asks, "how much of your time and energy is spent trying to control?" I know I waste my precious energy in this way far too often. Amy urges us to practice letting go when we want to fight our current circumstances by repeating the mantra, "let go let go let go let go let go let go." In her book, "This is How I Save My Life," and in this episode, Amy explains why and how she did this in the chaos of India—and how it helped her heal. You guys, her book inspired me so much that I was walking around saying this mantra for a week straight. It helped me so much—I'm thrilled it's the weekly challenge! Get on it and follow me @sheajackie on IG for  weekly challenge updates!

Show Sponsor:

Talk about making things easier on yourself! SaneBox helps you manage your email in a way that makes you more productive and less stressed during the work day (actually, all of the time!) It's the little things that can make a huge difference :)



Go here to get your free trial (no CC entry needed) and your discount after the trial ends: www.sanebox.com/jackieshea

Discussed in this Episode:



Amy's symptoms

Getting in touch with your vulnerability

Some of Amy's treatments

The spirit of being open to new treatments

The important distinction between obsessiveness with new treatments vs. openness to them

Worrying about your caretaker's feelings and why it's futile

How frustrating it is to treat late stage Lyme

intuition

The confusing in-between of healthy and sick

The discomfort of healing in India

stem cell treatment in India

Letting go

Why it's important to eat cake

Why saying "no" is important (and hard!)

Why saying "yes" is important

How is illness working for you?

Practicing radical self-care

Imperfection

Deleting to-do lists

How to Save Your Life (when no one else can)

Exploring your emotions, thoughts, and beliefs

Layers of surrender

How Amy works with all of her humanness today



Resources Mentioned:



How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can

Healthy Enough to Feel Like a Lunatic



How to Support this Podcast:



Subscribe/rate/review on iTunes

Follow me on IG @sheajackie (my fave platform!)

Follow me at www.jackieshea.com for more

Join the Healing Out Loud Facebook group 



 



Happy Listening!