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Dr. Serena Sterling

I help people with physical and emotional pain feel better fast.

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16/05/2024

I’m coming back on here to make a few announcements 📣

After leaving Portland and Seattle, my dog Alchemy and I moved to Park City, Utah, where we enjoy hiking 🥾, skiing⛷️, and living in the mountains🏔️

I’m excited to share some new resources I’ve been working on, including my revised book and online course. These are designed to help you heal at a deeper level.

My book Pain: A Love Story, which became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller, has a new cover and title. It also includes journal prompts and exercises in every chapter so that readers can achieve similar results to the clients I served.

It’s available in all formats, including audiobook, which has my voice this time, so if you listen to the new book, you’ll hear me🎧!

Some of the concepts I cover include the following:

-Inner Child Wounds
-Emotional Regulation, Affect Regulation, and Dysregulation
-Tips for how to regulate your nervous system
-Internalized Messages
-Muscle Testing/Applied Kinesiology
-Repetition Compulsion
-Expression And Repression
-Emotional Reality
-Somatic reactions to people
-A tool for knowing exactly what you’re thinking
-And much more

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My Oline Course Is Now Available 💻

The course helps you discover how to uncover the stories and reactions you’ve buried and how to express what you need to say in a positive manner to the person or people from whom you’ve been holding back.

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I’m no longer seeing people for 1:1 sessions. Between the book and the online course, I’m confident you have tools to alleviate physical and emotional pain.

If you’re interested in working with someone like me, I have an incredible network of doctors and therapists and would be happy to offer you a referral. Feel free to send me a message 📧 at serena@drserenasterling.com

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13/10/2022

(circa 2002) Despite this cover, I am not a healer. I'm a conduit for healing to happen but I don't hold all the power in helping someone get better.

Healing happens when the conditions are right and when the therapeutic container feels safe.

I've learned a lot of advanced mind-body stress reduction techniques that allow me to find the interferences or blocks getting in the way of healing but it's not like I have a magic wand.

When working with someone, I explain this. The ability to heal really is within the individual's power. Sometimes it does take help but we all need help with something. We can't all be experts in everything.

It works the same way in reverse too. If someone decides there's nothing that can help, then they're not going to feel relief. The mind and intention really are that powerful.

11/09/2022

September 11, 2001...Everyone knows where they were on this day.

How did it change your life? Or did it?

Sometimes you have to go through a challenging experience to learn more about yourself. 🏥 😥

I can't forget 9/11 because I was there in NYC, stuck in the subway at Wall Street station, just blocks from the WTC 🏙 as the first tower collapsed.

Covered in ash, as I walked North, I watched the 2nd tower collapse at freefall speed.

In the days that followed, as I learned about the Pentagon and flight 93. I started asking questions.

-Why did WTC7 collapse in the same fashion but wasn't hit by a plane?

-Why did so many firefighters die in the towers?
No steel building had ever fallen apart from a fire 🔥 before so as they rushed in to save people, they weren't worried about that. 🧐

-Why is there no footage of the plane hitting the Pentagon yet it has 80 security cameras but only two were working that day?

The questions are endless. I didn't believe everything I heard or read in the news.

Within a few weeks, I became so tired I finally saw an MD who diagnosed me with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and then told me in the same way he might order his lunch, "There's no cure. Learn to cope."

I was polite back then. But I also didn't believe him and searched for a doctor who could help me and I found one. I had been fatigued for so many months and this doctor got me better in 3 weeks by identifying and releasing all the stored emotions from 9/11 and even before that.

Before I left NYC to study psychology in San Francisco and help others the way I had been helped, I saw the MD with no bedside manners and had some choice words for him 🤬

As a result of 9/11, I learned to not believe everything I hear and read and to ask questions not everyone wants to ask or answer. I learned not to take 'No' for an answer and to keep searching. 🕵🏻‍♀️🔍

What did you learn from your experience on 9/11? Tell me in the comments ⤵️

09/09/2022

I'm so stoked to be a Bestselling author in the categories of new age and spirituality, energy healing, and personal transformation on Amazon and be listed as a bestseller on Barnes & Noble also.
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For this week only, you can grab your Kindle or Nook copy for only $0.99

Scroll through the slides for info on what you can find and how you can benefit from my book📖

The holidays are right around the corner; this makes a great gift too! 🎁

Links in bio to grab your copy.

19/08/2022

You may not realize you're doing some of these things so take note of the following: 📝

1. When you say something like "My pain prevents me from running," you're owning and becoming the issue. When you create distance and say "The pain prevents me from running" you have more objectivity. It lives outside of you not in you.

2. Using the symptom as a way to get out of doing something you want to. This is a secondary gain, a benefit you derive from the symptom that allows you an out. It might feel easier to put the blame on the pain rather than face backlash. However, it causes you to see the payoff of having the symptom.

3. Don't take 'No' for an answer from doctors. Doctors don't like saying they don't know. If you don't feel ok but your MD tells you all tests are negative and they can't detect anything amiss, trust your body and keep searching for someone who can help you feel better.

4. There's a barrage of coaches, practitioners, and doctors out there these days who will tell you how to heal yourself based off their experience and personal history. If you feel ashamed or like you're not getting something because your doctor or coach tells you with certainty that your symptom is due to emotions or nutrition or something else, ask yourself if it feels like they're really listening to you.

5. Become cognizant of the words you use to describe things you feel unable to do. Our bodies and minds listen to everything we say and when we say things like 'Can't' it registers and then that is what shows up.

Over time, the more we behave and speak a certain way, the more they become habitual. Start paying attention to what you're saying and doing that doesn't align with what you want so you're aware of what you want to change.

11/08/2022

This is how you connect the dots with how you feel physically and emotionally and life events and relationships. ⠪

Ask yourself these questions: ✅

-Do you have good communication in your relationship?
-Are you being honest with yourself re: getting your needs met?
-What happens when you don't get your needs met?
-Do you feel you're being seen and heard?
-If things could be different in your relationship, what would they be and how would you feel?

The relationship can be with a friend, colleague, family member, in-law etc. It doesn't have to be romantic.

Essentially, when you don't speak up about your needs and desires, you suppress those feelings. You may tell yourself things like:

-"I need to compromise."
-"If I say something it might end the relationship."
-"This is as good as it can get."
-"I should learn to be happy with what I have."
-"People will see me as a bad person."

Assessing your relationship takes courage. Many people settle for less than what they truly desire because they're afraid of being alone. They'll tolerate all kinds of subtle and overt abuse, inadequacies, and dissatisfaction.

The trouble is, that settling doesn't resolve itself on its own. Identifying the issue and speaking up breaks the spell.

Here are some physical and emotional symptoms of settling:

-Physical pain that is not the result of an injury
-Overthinking especially in the form of worrying and anxiety
-Inability to move forward with life
-Feeling stuck
-Sadness (especially when this isn't common)

We've all settled at one time or another, haven't we? 🙋‍♀️ Maybe it didn't even involve a person but a school or job instead.

I certainly have and I explore this topic in depth in my book, Pain: A Love Story. Pick up a copy to learn more. Link in bio.

I'd love to know from you. Have you settled? Did you notice the effects in your mind or body? Please share in the comments or send me a DM. ⤵️ 📧

Address

8888 Sterling Peak Performance

84098

Website

https://www.drserenasterling.com/

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