Self-Healing Insights: Why Being Hard on Yourself Could Be Blocking Your Healing: How to Create Real Change (Anna | Ep. 288)

In this insightful episode of Heal Yourself, Change Your Life®, Brandy Gillmore shares key insights from a live session with Anna, a loving new mother who has been experiencing severe autoimmune pain. Anna had been feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and extremely hard on herself. As the session unfolds, Brandy highlights a powerful and often surprising insight: when someone is hard on themselves, the mind may not feel safe to heal all the way—even when there is a strong conscious desire to get better. For Anna, being unwell had become linked to rest, care, and compassion for herself, while healing had become linked to pressure, criticism, and the expectation to push herself even harder. Brandy explains how the mind can create mixed, counterintuitive emotional patterns that don't match what a person consciously wants. This episode offers compassionate, eye-opening insights into how being hard on yourself or pushing through pain can quietly keep the body stuck—and how real healing begins when the mind learns that safety, self-kindness, support, and well-being are allowed. As always, if you'd like to listen to the full live self-healing session where Brandy works directly with the volunteer—or if you'd like a deeper understanding of mind-body healing—you'll find the links below in the resources. And if this episode touched your heart or opened your mind, please take a moment to hit the share button and share it with someone you love. → Continue Your Self-Healing Journey Listen to the Full Volunteer Self-Healing Session Click here to access today's self-healing session as Brandy Gillmore works directly with Anna Free Mind-Body Healing Training If you'd like a deeper understanding of mind-body healing and how self-healing works: Click here to join the FREE training. Brandy Gillmore's Mind-Body Healing: Scientific Research If you'd like scientific research on mind-body healing, you can view Brandy Gillmore's work published in a Medical Journal. Personal Empowerment and Self-Healing Courses If you're ready to heal yourself and change your life: Click here to explore our GIFT Mind-Body Healing™ and the GIFT Method™ Courses and GIFT Workshops. Connect With Brandy Follow Brandy on Facebook Follow Brandy on Instagram Questions? Discover more at https://brandygillmore.com or email [email protected]   Important Note: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a replacement for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please continue to consult your doctor or qualified healthcare provider as recommended. Click here to view our full disclaimer- https://brandygillmore.com/terms/. © Brandy Gillmore / Human Potential Revolution, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This podcast and all related content are provided solely for personal, noncommercial use. No portion may be copied, recorded, transcribed, closely paraphrased, adapted, repackaged, distributed, taught, or used to create or support any course, coaching program, training, certification, product, service, or derivative content without prior written permission. This content may not be uploaded to, entered into, stored in, used by, or incorporated into any artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, voice-cloning, digital-replica, data-training, or related system. By accessing, listening to, viewing, downloading, or otherwise using this content, you agree to our Intellectual Property and Content Use Terms. If you do not agree, do not access or use the content. Full Terms: https://brandygillmore.com/content-terms  Permissions: [email protected]