According to my parents, I was a terrible sleeper—even as a baby. Their observation proved accurate, as I struggled with insomnia for as long as I can remember.
In fact, some of my earliest memories involve lying in my crib, eyes wide open, wondering when this forced “alone time” would be over. As a child, I struggled at sleepovers, as I couldn’t sleep well at friends’ houses—or my own, for that matter. Adding to my anxiety about sleep was the nightly bed-wetting, which only compounded my already strong anxiety about this whole sleep thing.
As a teenager, I would pass out only because I was mostly stoned out of my mind or drunk. But when I was sober, I was anxious and wide awake.
In my young adulthood, I turned to over-the-counter sleep aids like Nyquil, Unisom, and more natural remedies like melatonin, valerian, tryptophan, and magnesium. None of these substances proved helpful or sustainable, so I continued to search for the magic [sleep] pill.
This insomnia issue was really starting to affect me in deeper ways: my relationships were suffering because I could never sleep in the same bed as a partner. I would often leave in the middle of the night after frustratingly lying wide awake next to them for hours, hating them for snoring through their seemingly blissful dreams and REM cycles. Traveling together was out of the question—where could I escape to in the middle of the night in a single hotel room when I was wide awake and stressed out about not sleeping?
It was also affecting my health in many ways: my skin was terrible, my digestion and elimination were all over the place, my adrenals were shot, and I was dehydrated and scatterbrained.
In my 30s, I became an acupuncturist and still struggled with insomnia most of the time. My sleep cycle was a mess: about 2–3 nights per week, I wouldn’t get any sleep at all. The following night, after a completely sleepless night, I would pass out from sheer exhaustion and adrenal fatigue, only to restart the insomnia cycle the next night. I tried various styles of acupuncture, Chinese herbs, Western herbs, Ayurvedic herbs, Amazonian herbs; I delved into meditation, affirmations, prayer, Emotional Freedom Technique, chiropractic care, bodywork, reflexology, essential oils, flower essences, and sought help from various energy healers, psychics, and shamans. NOTHING HELPED.
Eventually and begrudgingly, I turned to incredibly high doses of THC (approximately 50 mg per night) in edible form, and I was addicted to that for the greater part of a decade. It dehydrated the hell out of me and cost me a small fortune to fund the strong doses I needed each night. The effects were like a sledgehammer knocking me over the head until I passed out, but there were still some nights when it wouldn’t work, and I would take a whopping dose of THC and still have insomnia.
I felt like an imposter—being a healer and not being able to heal myself of this critical component to health and well-being.
Then, in my 40s, I discovered Dr. Bradley Nelson’s work: The Emotion Code and Body Code. HALLELUJAH! My prayers were answered. I began with the Emotion Code and started clearing tons of trapped emotions in myself, in general, followed by trapped emotions specifically connected to the insomnia. It seemed like a never-ending flood of trapped emotions that came up and out. And amazingly, as I would clear each emotion, I would become increasingly overcome with exhaustion and felt like I could even fall asleep in mid-session!
I then moved on to Body Code sessions on myself, where I cleared various traumas, toxins, parasites, entities, subconscious negative statements, EMF radiation, and ancestral inheritances. I rebalanced organs and glands, reset my circadian cycle, reconnected breakdowns in communication between various organs and systems in my body, reset acupuncture meridians and chakras, rebooted my nervous system, and even adjusted structural misalignments in my spine, skull, and organs throughout the body.
After each session, I experienced an initial detox period as my body processed all these shifts. But once that passed, my sleep would improve dramatically. After about 12 sessions, I was cured of insomnia. Not only did I no longer suffer from insomnia, but my sleep cycle normalized. I would get tired at healthy hours (between 9–11 pm) and fall asleep quickly and easily without the use of any sleep aids.
During my lifelong quest to heal my sleep issues, I held an unrealistic belief that insomnia was caused by one key thing and if I could just figure out what that was, I would be healed. I learned from the Body Code that a chronic symptom or condition is almost always caused by a blend of imbalances that need to be decoded one by one and the subconscious mind knows exactly where to start and what to focus on.
To say that I’m grateful to have found this miraculous healing system is an understatement. I have healed myself of not only this lifelong insomnia that plagued me but also every other chronic issue I’ve struggled with. This work is truly a gift to humanity, and I feel blessed to be able to help others with it.