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What if your symptoms are not random, but messages your body has been trying to deliver for years? We sit down with Dr Erin Hayford — naturopathic doctor and somatic experiencing practitioner — to explore how the nervous system stores unfinished stress and how tuning into sensation, imagery, and emotion can unlock real change. Instead of chasing every flare-up with a new fix, Erin shows how to listen for the belief or memory beneath the pain so the body can finally stand down from survival mode.

Erin breaks down somatic experiencing in simple terms: ground, scan, describe the sensation precisely, then follow what arises. That shift from labels to felt detail turns down the analytical mind and invites deeper signals to surface. We talk about hip pain that vanished after recognising an old shock, why fight or flight blocks repair, and how recurrence often signals the story is still running even when the symptom was removed. Erin’s own path from Crohn’s disease to symptom-free living adds hard-won depth, showing how nutrition and herbs helped until mind-body work revealed the root.

We also explore her “Sacred Illness” framework and community, a space that treats diagnosis as a doorway to meaning rather than a dead end. It is not anti-medicine; it is a both-and approach that honours treatment while uncovering why the body learned to protect in the first place. Practical takeaways include a future-vision practice: imagine your best life and notice the objections that arise, because those objections often point to what needs care next. By reframing illness as communication, we trade helplessness for agency and build a kinder relationship with the body.

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Dr Erin Hayford

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