Body Healing Practices I’m Using Right Now

In my last body healing post, I shared something I hadn’t fully said out loud before: that my body has been the wound underneath all the others. I’d spent years compartmentalizing it, treating food, weight, and visibility like separate issues from my purpose, abundance, or love. But the truth is, this isn’t just one piece of the puzzle. It’s the foundational piece.

That post marked the beginning of a new chapter for me, one where I stop hiding, stop performing, and stop separating my body from my spiritual and emotional life. This is where the real work begins.

What I’m sharing today is not a “what worked for me” recap or a formula for healing. These are real-time body healing practices I’m using to reconnect with myself: energetic, mental, and physical rituals that are helping me rebuild trust, soften judgment, and return to my body with love, not control.

These practices aren’t routines to follow. They’re invitations.

Tools I’m using to listen to my body instead of monitor her.

Ways I’m shifting from rejection to reconnection.

Moments of presence that remind me, my body is not the problem.

She’s my home.

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Rewiring the Shadows

One of the tools I’ve been working with in this season of healing is something called the Gene Keys, a system that explores your soul’s energetic blueprint through themes of shadow, gift, and higher purpose. It’s deeply personal and intuitive, and I find that it doesn’t give you anything new—it gives language to what your soul already knows.

For me, the Gene Keys have helped illuminate two major shadow patterns I’ve been healing in my body: separation from self and judgment. These themes have shown up in different ways throughout my life, but lately I’ve been watching them play out in how I’ve related to my physical body, and how I’m learning to come back home.

Separation from Self (Gene Key 7.6)

One of the most important insights I’ve uncovered recently is how often I’ve lived outside of my body, even while doing deep spiritual and emotional work.

According to my Gene Keys profile, one of my core energetic themes is the shadow of division, which for me has shown up as a lifelong pattern of separation from self. This is the shadow of my Radiance Key, and for years it played out as me living mostly in my mind and spirit. Or, sometimes, dividing myself into categories: worthy me vs. unworthy me, fat me vs. thin me, soulful me vs. physical me.

I could access intuition. I could feel deeply. But my heart and body were often left out of the equation.

About ten years ago, I did very intentional work to reconnect with my heart space. That process taught me how to feel my emotions, expose my vulnerabilities, honor my needs, and allow myself to receive love, not just give it. It was a major turning point in how I showed up for myself and in my relationships. It opened the doorway to call in Kevin, my incredible husband.

Now, it feels like I’ve reached the next phase of that journey: integrating my body.

The same shadow is still here, but it’s expressing itself in a new way. This time, it’s not about being closed off to love. It’s about being closed off to value, to abundance, and to embodiment. My healing now involves making space for those energies to live in my physical body, not just in my thoughts or intentions.

Judgment as a Core Wound (Gene Key 18.1)

Another powerful insight from my Gene Keys chart is my Core Wound: Gene Key 18.1, which carries the shadow of judgment. And because mine is a 1st line, that energy turns inward. It shows up as intense self-judgment, most often directed at my body and myself.

This was eye-opening.

Even after years of inner work, I realized how much criticism and control I still held toward my body, sometimes without even noticing. I’d learned to extend grace and presence to my mind and spirit, but my body has still felt like something I needed to fix or avoid, even during my body neutrality phase.

Judgment was the undercurrent behind so many choices:

What to eat.

What to wear.

When to show up.

When to hide.

Naming this pattern has helped me shift.

Instead of defaulting to judgment, I’m now learning to meet my body with openness, presence, curiosity, and compassion. These are the very energetic foundations behind the body healing practices I’m focused on right now, and they’re helping me build a different kind of relationship with myself.

I Don’t Think You Need to Study Your Chart…

But It Can Absolutely Help

One thing I believe deeply, and something that will be at the heart of Portal to Self, the offering I’m creating, is that your soul already knows your blueprint. Your energetic chart doesn’t give you new information. It gives you language and clarity around what your body and spirit already know to be true.

So no, you don’t have to study your chart to heal. But for me, and for so many others, it’s been incredibly helpful.l because it offers validation, direction, and a sense of remembering who I’ve always been.

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Body Healing Practices I’m Using Now

This season is not about checking boxes or chasing results. It’s about consistency, awareness, and learning how to stay in relationship with my body. Here are some of the practices that are helping me do that:

Energetic Support

• Speaking daily mantras like: I am safe in my body. I am worthy as I am. I am not separate. I am whole.

• Taking Alexis Smart’s Unblocked flower remedy, which supports subconscious clearing and emotional rewiring.

• Using a custom ritual spritz crafted by my dear friend Stephanie, creator of Halo. Each blend is more than aromatherapy, it’s a channeled creation, woven through muscle testing, crystal alchemy, and a thoughtful fusion of botanicals & essential oils. This spray was designed specifically for my body’s healing journey.

• Actively working with my Gene Keys chart to bring awareness to my energetic patterns and support their integration.

• Continuing my To Be Magnetic work, especially the Shadow and Inner Child modules, to support subconscious unblocking and energetic shifts to step into my full worth and value. (use my coupon code SK for 15% off the Pathway membership).

• Pulling from a personal mantra deck I’ve been building over the past several months. It's an an intuitively channeled card deck with over 150 mantras across all areas of life: body, money, love, career, and healing. I don’t pull from it every day, but when I do, the messages are always divine. This morning, as I was working on this post, I pulled a card that said: “I return to my body with love, not judgment. It is safe to be here now.” It couldn’t have been more aligned.

Mental Rewiring

• Intentionally choosing new thoughts every morning to guide my energy and outlook.

• Interrupting old narratives of control and perfectionism—and replacing them with softness and acceptance.

• Practicing neutrality around food: I’m no longer assigning morality to what I eat. I’m not overthinking every choice. I’m asking my body what it needs, and trusting the answer. If it wants something sweet, I allow that. If it wants protein, I honor that.This has helped me move from food fear into food flexibility, grace and freedom.

• Staying curious instead of critical, especially around how I feel in my body, what I eat, and how I emotionally respond.

Physical Practices

• Crafting my own salt scrubs with intentional essential oil combinations.

• Putting lotion on my body as an intentional ritual and not rushed self-care.

• Not covering up immediately after showering. Letting myself see my body and be with it, instead of avoiding it or hiding from it.

• Walking around my apartment nude in the mornings as a way of normalizing comfort in my own skin.

• Dipping my toes (metaphorically) in castor oil wraps.

• Stretching in a soft and intuitive manner, focusing on where my body takes me.

• Writing daily affirmations in my manifestation journal

• Reading my embodiment mantra aloud to myself each day as a grounding practice of self-remembrance and a reminder of my commitment to this process.

Creating a Sacred Space

One of the practices that’s grounding me most right now is my altar. I stand there to read affirmations aloud, spritz my sacred spray, write in my manifestation journal, and pull cards for guidance. It’s a space I recently rebuilt—something I hadn’t had since my Asheville days. Having it again in our Knoxville home feels like reclaiming a part of myself and weaving her back into my present healing.

A New Practice I’m Considering: The Gentle Food Journal

Now that I’ve become more grounded and neutral around food, the food noise has finally started to quiet.

I’m no longer hearing that mental chatter about what I should or shouldn’t eat. Instead, I’m focused deciding what i'm in the mood to eat, and how I feel, before, during, and after meals. This awareness has me thinking about starting a new kind of food journal.

This wouldn’t be a tracking tool or a restriction device because it’s not about discipline anymore, but about body-spirit connection.

I want to explore:

• Which foods support my energy?

• Which foods make me feel off or disconnected?

• How do I feel when I overeat or when I eat without presence?

• What patterns show up around certain emotional states?

This journal is about bringing my body, mind, and energy into the same conversation, and documenting what I learn with curiosity, not critique.

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Final Thoughts

This healing isn’t linear.

It’s not perfect.

But it’s powerful.

If you’re on your own journey of reconnecting with your body, whether that’s through energy work, intuitive eating, nervous system regulation, or simply learning to listen, I hope this reminds you that you’re not alone.

And if you're feeling drawn to explore your own energetic blueprint, Portal to Self is something I’m actively building behind the scenes. It will be a space for gentle, intentional reconnection to your soul, your energy, and your body.

Until then, I’ll keep sharing what’s working in real time. Because healing isn’t something I’ve mastered.

It’s something I’m committed to.

My Daily Embodiment Mantra

I shared this in my previous post Healing Body Image, Diet Culture, and the Shadow of Control, and I’ve been reading it out loud every day as part of my healing work. It keeps me anchored in what I’m choosing now:

I am returning home to my body.

She is not a project to fix.

She is not here to be managed.

She is not here to be measured, or shamed.

She is sacred.

She is trustworthy.

She is mine.

I am safe in my body, even when I am exposed.

I am safe to be comfortable in my nakedness.

I am safe to be seen in my body.

I am safe to be feminine, sensual and beautiful.

My worth is not dependent on my size.

I do not shrink to be seen.

I do not shrink to play small.

I do not prove to be valued.

I am whole as I am.

I am here to light the way for myself and for others.

This is my sacred work.

A Gentle Invitation

If any part of this post spoke to something you’re working through with your relationship with your body, your food, your energy, I’d love to know. Feel free to share in the comments. What’s one small way you’re reconnecting with your body right now?

And if you're craving deeper support for this kind of healing, Portal to Self is something I’m actively building behind the scenes. It will be a sacred space for women (and men who are interested) to explore their energy, reclaim their self-trust, and reconnect with their bodies in a safe, intuitive way.

If you’d like to be the first to know when it launches, you can join the waitlist below.

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