9 – When It’s the Healer’s Turn to Heal: Illness, Rest, and the Sacred Power of Surrender
When It’s the Healer’s Turn to Heal: Illness, Rest, and the Sacred Power of Surrender
If you’ve ever pushed through illness because others needed you more, this episode is for you. Inge shares her raw and vulnerable reflections from bed with bacterial pneumonia, offering a sacred permission slip: to be held, to rest, to unravel, and to remember that your healing is holy too. Even when you’re the one others lean on. Especially then.
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Today’s Block
Refusing rest and resisting your own need to be healed.
Listen If…
🔹 You feel guilty about getting sick
🔹 You’re holding everyone else together
🔹 You’ve forgotten how to be tender with yourself
Three Takeaways
1️⃣ Rest is not optional—it’s sacred
2️⃣ Illness strips away ego and reveals truth
3️⃣ You don’t have to be “on” to belong in healing work
Today’s Key Action
Let yourself be seen in your need. Ask for what you actually require, not what you think is acceptable.
Going Deeper
Episode 9 – When you’re the one who needs healing…
Why Healers Must Learn to Rest
Most healers don’t know how to be sick. We’re trained—by culture, clients, and caregiving—to push through, show up, and stay “strong.” But what happens when our own body finally demands to be heard?
The Cost of Not Slowing Down
Many intuitive, service-hearted women resist illness because it feels like failure. Inge shares how, as a mother and a practitioner, she used to power through colds and burnout for fear of letting others down. But over time, this only raised her stress baseline and numbed her connection to her own needs.
There’s a quiet, necessary wisdom in letting yourself fall apart. Sometimes rest doesn’t look like spa days and tea rituals—it looks like stripping beds at 2am, coughing until you cry, and realizing you’re still worthy of care.
Illness as Sacred Initiation
Being sick isn’t separate from the healing path—it’s part of it. Illness slows you down enough to feel the grief you’ve been storing, to notice the breath you’ve been taking for granted, and to realize how deeply you are needed not for what you do, but simply for who you are.
In those tender, stripped-bare moments—when you surrender to your body’s needs—you also soften toward others. You remember what it means to need, and to be needed, with zero performance. That kind of remembering deepens your capacity to hold space in the future.
You Still Belong
Healing professionals can internalize a silent belief: If I’m not well, I shouldn’t be doing this work. But this is a lie. The most grounded healers aren’t the ones who never fall—they’re the ones who learn to listen, even when they’re in bed, even when they’re breathless.
You still belong in the circle, even when you’re not standing.
Where we go this episode
00:00 The Journey of Illness
04:52 The Healing Process
08:56 The Role of Caregivers
12:40 Lessons from Vulnerability
15:28 Awareness and Grief
16:52 Healing in Parallel
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What resonated most from today’s episode?
1. “I used to refuse to be sick. Now I know better.”
2. “You can’t negotiate with a need.”
3. “There’s sacredness in being stripped down to your breath.”
4. “Even when you’re not the one holding, you’re still worthy.”
5. “Your healing is not separate from your work—it is your work.”
The time to do it all on our own is over.
This journey isn’t meant to be walked alone.
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