Annie  - The Garden Mind Body

On the Figuring Out That it is All Connected: ""I was so skeptical because I was like, how is working with my mind going to change what my body's doing?"

Pain seems to be everywhere.  In our bodies, often we have the aches or headaches that seem to have no real reason for existing other than to feel like misplaced karma.

But what if the aches in the body were due to issues in the mind?  What if you realized that everything in the body is connected to the mind and vice versa.  Through many challenges and illnesses and a lack of progress from typical doctor visits, Annie Kubena has researched and discovered what should be common knowledge, but isn't.  Our thoughts and our bodies live and work together, essentially as one.  Sometimes there messages are delivered by using pain as an esoteric way to inform your mind that your subconscious mind has some issues it needs you to deal with.

Annie discovered this and this has led her to become a holistic mind-body coach.  She is helping others find relief from anxiety, chronic pain, and even the lingering effects of COVID through nervous system regulation, brain rewiring, and tools like somatic parts work and EFT tapping.  Annie Kubena details the ins and outs of her methods, and why tending to our “inner garden” is essential for lasting health.

Listen as Annie explains how you can get the relief you need from the pain that may be slowing you down.

Enjoy!

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Podcast Overview:

00:00 Listening to My Body

04:43 Listening to My Body

08:36 Long COVID's Lingering Body Effects

11:05 "Building Resilience Through Reflection"

15:53 Homeopathy and Nervous System Rewiring

18:32 Understanding People One-on-One

21:08 "Overcoming Functional Freeze Patterns"

26:24 "Vagus Nerve Healing Commitment"

27:08 "Everyone Has Their Baggage"

30:42 "Remote Coaching Works Well"

34:36 Mind-Body Connection and Pain

37:51 Surgical Collaboration Insight

Podcast Transcription:

Annie Kubena [00:00:00]:

And also I always prioritized like work and school over what my body was asking for. So I learned how to like tune in more to what my body is really asking me for, tune in more to like impulses. I was the kind of person that would like sit at my desk for so many hours without moving, without going to the bathroom when I needed to, like anything. I was just like, I would like settle into my work and just focus and push through. And so this was really having to train myself out of that and more into like, what's my body asking me for today?

James [00:00:37]:

You have found Authentic Business Adventures, the business program that brings you the struggle stories and triumphant successes of business owners across the land. Downloadable audio episodes can be found in the podcast link found at drawincustomers.com. We are locally underwritten by the Bank of Sunbury, and today we're welcoming/preparing to learn from Annie Kubena. Of The Garden Mind Body Wellness. So Annie, how is it going today?

Annie Kubena [00:01:01]:

It's going great today. Thanks so much for having me.

James [00:01:03]:

Yeah, thanks for being on the show. Tell us the story. What is The Garden Mind Body Wellness?

Annie Kubena [00:01:08]:

Um, I am a holistic mind-body coach and I help people with anxiety, chronic illness, chronic pain, um, recover or prevent those things too through the power of the nervous system.

James [00:01:21]:

All right. And how do you get in there?

Annie Kubena [00:01:25]:

It's really a passion I have because of my own decades-long health journey.

James [00:01:32]:

Decades?

Annie Kubena [00:01:33]:

Decades long, yeah.

James [00:01:34]:

All right.

Annie Kubena [00:01:35]:

I struggled for a really long time with my health and just being a highly sensitive person in the world.

James [00:01:43]:

Okay. You're talking emotionally, physically, both?

Annie Kubena [00:01:46]:

Both. Yeah. Yeah. I've always been just really sensitive since I was a little kid.

James [00:01:51]:

Okay.

Annie Kubena [00:01:53]:

Yeah, I really struggled with my health for a very long time. I got into a lot of holistic health approaches to help myself, and then I did a 1-year-long nervous system and brain rewiring program.

James [00:02:09]:

Okay.

Annie Kubena [00:02:10]:

Just because I was like really desperate. I was like, I'm doing everything right. Like, why am I— why am I having— I kept having these cycles of like, pushing really hard when I felt well and then crashing and getting really sick. Oh, um, and I think that happens to a lot of people with chronic illness. But I did this nervous system program and realized, wow, like, I've almost never in my life just been like calm and centered on a consistent basis.

James [00:02:37]:

Is that an option?

Annie Kubena [00:02:40]:

It is, yeah. And it's what your body needs to really heal and digest food and absorb nutrients and turn over cells and all different kinds of things. So So I got into this because I'm so passionate about it and I think it's so needed in our world right now. I think people are chronically stressed and really struggling with their health, and I'm hoping that I can get to people before they have these like debilitating crashes like what I was having.

James [00:03:12]:

So now where are you at now, I guess, with your health?

Annie Kubena [00:03:15]:

Are you tip-top or I'm I'm probably realistically like at 80%, but I have all these tools where I'm like, oh, I'm starting to push too hard now. Oh. And I know when to pull back. I'm someone who just, I wanna do everything. I'm so driven and then my body kind of fights against me with that. So I have all these tools now for taking much better care of my nervous system that go really well with all the great food and movement things that I was doing. So I think it, it might take me a while. I was really sick when I was a kid and then I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when I was in college.

Annie Kubena [00:04:00]:

So, but I, I feel so much stronger now because I have this more holistic approach to taking care of myself.

James [00:04:10]:

Okay.

Annie Kubena [00:04:11]:

Yeah.

James [00:04:12]:

Tell me about the, you said nervous system rewiring.

Annie Kubena [00:04:15]:

Yeah.

James [00:04:15]:

I've never heard of that. So tell me what that is.

Annie Kubena [00:04:18]:

Yeah. Well, I think for most of my life I ran on adrenaline. I motivated myself with stress and I really had to change my way of being to one where I could say I can do, I can do life and do everything I want from a more centered, relaxed place.

James [00:04:41]:

Okay.

Annie Kubena [00:04:43]:

And also I always prioritized work and school before, like over what my body was asking for. So I learned how to tune in more to what my body is really asking me for, tune in more to impulses. I was the kind of person that would sit at my desk for so many hours without moving, without going to the bathroom when I needed to, like anything. I was just like, I would settle into my work and just focus and push through. And so this was really, having to train myself out of that and more into like, what's my body asking me for today? How can I prioritize like grounding before I like just dive into my work or dive into the day or taking care of other people or other things? So that was part of it. Another part of it was just training my nervous system not to react to everything. So I had a point in my health where I was like reacting to almost every food I ate.

James [00:05:47]:

Like physically rash type stuff?

Annie Kubena [00:05:49]:

Yeah, just like all different kinds of reactions. Okay. But some, sometimes it would just be a stomachache or a headache. Sometimes it would be a rash, but I was down to like barely being able to eat anything without like feeling sick.

James [00:05:59]:

Oh.

Annie Kubena [00:06:00]:

Because my nervous system was in such a, such an activated state all the time that it can start just tagging a lot of things in your environment as dangerous.

James [00:06:12]:

Oh.

Annie Kubena [00:06:13]:

It's like, oh, you're in a state of fight or flight and you are eating a strawberry. You must be allergic to, you know, the strawberry must be dangerous. And so it just, our nervous systems were never meant to be in that state like all the time. So anyway, part of the program was exposing yourself to things that you're reacting to and like staying really calm, just small amounts at a time. So I started eating like small amounts of the foods I was reacting to. I started, listen, like sounds were something that really bothered me. So I started like exposing myself to louder sounds and then keeping myself calm so that my body could learn that the world is a safe place again and stop reacting to everything.

James [00:07:01]:

All right.

Annie Kubena [00:07:01]:

Yeah.

James [00:07:02]:

And was this a program you went through or is this something you did on your own?

Annie Kubena [00:07:06]:

Yeah, it was a program I went through. It's called Primal Trust. It's a nervous system regulation and brain retraining program. I did a lot of my own stuff too. I learned a lot about somatic parts work, which is, um, it's a therapy style called Internal Family Systems where it's like the movie Inside Out.

James [00:07:26]:

Okay.

Annie Kubena [00:07:27]:

You kind of work with your anxious part or your angry part or— yeah. So you really like learn a lot. Um, through that I really learned a lot about parts that were reacting and why.