FREEDOM FROM FIBROMYALGIA
A MIND BODY SPIRIT APPROACH
Tier One: Freedom From Fibromyalgia - Powerful Strategies for Healing
Tier Two: Releasing Emotion from the Body - Fear, Anger, Overwhelm and Depression
Tier Three: Taking Care of You - Forgiveness, Self Image, and the Positive Intention of Pain
Tier Four: Flowering from Within - Self Blessing
Do you suffer from chronic pain?
Do you have physical pain from an injury or illness that hasn’t responded to other treatment?
We offer training in modalities that are remarkably successful in easing pain, both physical and emotional, dissolving anxiety and stress, releasing fears and negative or limiting beliefs of any kind.
These tools for change:
8-WEEK SESSION
CALL (608) 444-8456 FOR DATES IN 2005Instructors:
Nancy Selfridge, M.D., author of Freedom from Fybromyalgia
Rue Anne Hass, M.A., principal of Intuitive Mentoring LtdLocation:
6225 University Avenue, Madison, WICost:
$400 per session, plus $15 for materialsContact:
Rue Anne Hass, M.A.
rue@intuitivementoring.com
(608) 444-8456
Tapping into Your Own Creative Healing Power
When you complete the class you will:
About Nancy:
I have been practicing family medicine for about 20 years. I suffered from fibromyalgia for over 20 years and always believed that there was a way to get free of the debilitating pain of this disorder. About 5 years ago, I was introduced to the mind-body work of Dr. John Sarno. I developed a protocol for applying his principles to my own pain, and I have been free of symptoms ever since. I co-authored a book, FREEDOM FROM FIBROMYALGIA, with a patient who also got "cured," detailing the methods we used to accomplish this. These tools, coupled with the techniques that we teach in this class, show great promise in helping people with the chronic pain that so often fails to respond to traditional medical treatment.About Rue:
I have been in private practice for 17 years as a counselor and intuitive mentor, using what I think of as "profoundly lighthearted strategies for unsticking stuck stuff." My background includes university teaching, seven years as a staff member of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland (an international non-denominational spiritual community and educational foundation), being a wife and a mother of two young women now in their twenties, and extensive training in psycho-spiritual philosophy and therapies. My teaching style is open, welcoming, safe, grounded, intuitive and flexible.
“I am most pleased to wholeheartedly endorse the proposed presentation by Rue Hass and Nancy Selfridge, M.D. Together they have forged a unique collaboration to bring complementary mind-body interventions to their workshops for people with the Fibromyalgia syndrome. As a rheumatologist I see many patients with the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. I have found that mind-body interventions are often quite useful in alleviating symptoms in this difficult to treat syndrome.”
Daniel Muller, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of MedicineKIND COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS
"The Freedom from Fibromyalgia Class has opened a door for me to a path that leads to a life with health, centered around my true nature and dreams. The methods we learned are practical and even magical in their effectiveness."
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"Several years ago, I was working as an attorney when I experienced an acute case of mononucleosis. In the ensuing months, I did not recover and eventually was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and fybromyalgia. I gradually realized it is tricky to heal from these conditions. In my own reading and research I learned that the healing process is not well understood.
I was referred to Dr. Selfridge this year. It was she who gave me a coherent explanation for the underlying, mind-and-body, systemic basis of my illness.
Then, this summer, I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the Freedom From Fibromyalgia class she and Rue Hass developed. This class is utterly different from any healing methods I read about or had tried before. Nancy and Rue as a team bring information that is based in science, but also is an interplay between science and the new ways we are starting to work with energy for healing.
Nancy teaches the medical science, which is impressively grounded in her knowledge as a medical doctor and the latest research. Nancy also teaches functioning of the body and the psyche so that the listener really grasps her vision of the way these illnesses work. Her approach is congruent with the actual experiences of class participants, who, some for many years, have experienced the symptoms of fatigue and pain. She provides the scientific, rational support for the proposition that we really can heal ourselves. She is extremely knowledgeable. Her style is accessible and lively. She is nonjudgmental and supportive. Because she herself has healed from fibromyalgia, she is an inspiration.
Rue brings in the actual experiences we need in order to shift and allow the body to heal. She leads guided visualizations. She teaches the Emotional Freedom Technique, which is one of the "magical," energy elements of the classes. I have experienced EFT as an amazing shortcut to healing. Really amazing. Quick and elegant. The more you learn to do it, the better it gets, like dancing or jazz or any improvisational creative activity. I am eager to continue to learn it and practice it. Rue also models and embodies the emotional states that result from the EFT healing. She is nonjudgmental and emotionally supportive. She is extremely knowledgeable. Her style is accessible and engaging.
The thing I appreciate most is that we are being taught to do this ourselves, so the body can accomplish the healing. We are not being "fixed by the experts." This is the most marvelous example I have experienced of the combination of modern medicine supporting and being supported by a new "energy" technique for healing. My personal belief is that this is part of the medicine of the future. I believe these techniques would help bring "Freedom From" the pain of many chronic illnesses.
Nancy and Rue are articulate, prepared, knowledgeable, funny--in short, delightful and skilled teachers. Their message is interesting and important. I unequivocally endorse them as presenters."
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"EFT is a comforting, simple, rewarding technique for relaxing and calming down. I got a different, clearer perspective on my emotions. Rather than being in the chaos of them, caught and bottled up, which always made me run away from them in the past, my emotions became diffused, and I could look at this particular traumatic incident with curiosity and more compassion for myself and the others involved. I could explore what was going on inside, and I felt safe to know my feelings without being controlled by them. I left the class feeling slowed down inside, peaceful, present and alive."
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Profoundly lighthearted strategies for unsticking stuck stuff
Rue Anne Hass, M.A. • rue@intuitivementoring.com
6225 University Ave • Madison, WI 53705
