Ongoing Transformation Requires Both Internal Fortitude and External Nourishment

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Spring is here and while we would normally be posting about an article about Tax Planning or “Spring Cleaning” your Finances we decided to shift focus a little this month. April is National Stress Awareness Month. There is so much noise from the constant news cycle add to that the turbulence in the markets. Stress is a huge factor in all of our lives.  Therefore, we thought this would be a great time to invite Mary Morrison, MBA, MAc Founder and CEO of  How We Heal to write a guest blog. 

 

Spring in the Northern Hemisphere marks a powerful rebalancing—a time when the Earth shifts from stillness to motion, from inward to outward, inviting us to do the same.

 Spring energy is so potent. Imagine a seed deep in the ground, in the darkness, in a compressed space and with no help from the sun, in order to reach its fullest potential, it must draw on its own resources, its own energy to break through to the compacted surroundings up to the earth’s surface.

 It must find fortitude to do it—or die.

(Psst, this is why wintering well is so essential to your wellbeing and you being restored enough to spring…)

 And when the seed clears the soil’s surface—into the openness toward the largest source of yang energy, the sun—then growth doesn’t start there.

 The sun isn’t the beginning, it’s support.

 Ongoing transformation requires both internal fortitude and external nourishment.

 Whew. That’s a lot of energy.

 Humans go through this type of energy conversion, too.

But unlike the seed, we often try to rise without resting. Without deep rootedness.

Without learning from what came before.

 We override symptoms, push through pain, medicate discomfort, and pathologize the very clues that could set us free.

 I can’t help thinking about the enormous amount of stress, disease, and chronic issues that so many live with—wherever you are on your healing path—how much wisdom is being missed?

What could be converted into agency, clarity, peace?

 What if your symptoms aren’t a sign something’s wrong—but a call to reconnect with what’s right?

 In 15 years of clinical practice, seven years of studying and teaching qigong, and now in guiding powerful transformational conversations, there’s no exception to this: the symptoms you have—labeled by Western medicine—are missed opportunities for agency.

⚡ You’re not broken.
⚡ You’re communicating.
⚡ There’s wisdom in the pressure.

Let’s be real: what’s happening might be inconvenient.
But that doesn’t make it meaningless.

Even something like high blood pressure… if your body is tired, and you don’t have the energy to rise, but life demands you rise anyway—your system creates pressure.

That pressure might look like tension, irritability, breathlessness, fatigue, sleeplessness, or withdrawal.

That’s not failure.

That’s your system trying to right itself.

And when you start to listen—not to the diagnosis, but to the sensation—you begin to reclaim your power.

This is not about figuring out your feelings or fixing your flaws.

This is not about bypassing the body to get to a goal.

This is a practice of metabolizing what’s hard and making meaning from what’s real.

Of staying with the fire, the flood, the fatigue long enough to hear what it’s saying.

And knowing what to do with that information. With the inflammation.

You don’t need a new protocol.

You need a new relationship with yourself, and connections to others rooted in well-being.

 

Thank you, Mary, for sharing your knowledge and insights with us!

 

About Mary

Mary Morrison, MBA, MAc.

Transformative Practices & Conversation

Founder | CEO, How We Heal

Health and Wellbeing Programs

I cut through the noise so you stop spinning, overthinking, and wasting time on decoding stress symptoms as a problem to solve when they’re actually trying to guide you.

Your symptoms—whether in your body, business, or relationships—aren’t problems to fix; they’re the exact pathway forward. This shift brings resolution

Internal work for external impact.

I teach no-BS, time-tested tools from 2,000+ years of medicine and 20+ years of my own experience. You don’t have time for fluff. You need results. Let’s get to work.

 

*The content is developed from sources believed to be providing accurate information. The information in this material is not intended as tax or legal advice. It may not be used for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Please consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding your individual situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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