Creating a Happier, Healthier YOU: 3 Steps to Finally Break Free from the Pain and Frustration of Suffering With Chronic Illness

By Dr. Michelle Gamble

More than six out of ten Americans suffer from one or more chronic illnesses: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease, mental and mood disorders, digestive imbalances, and more. Betrayed and confused by disease-focused conventional and alternative health systems, they feel doomed to simply survive with less than optimal functioning

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author Academy Elite
• Release date: Sep 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781640858954

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Creating a Happier, Healthier YOU!

3 Steps to FINALLY Break FREE from the Frustration and Pain of Suffering with Chronic Illness

Dr. Michelle Gamble, DN

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all of my students, clients, and mentees. Over the years you have blessed me with the honor and privilege of being your teacher and doctor. You have courageously chosen to be vulnerable in my presence, sharing with me the beauty of your bodies, minds, hearts, and souls. As we journeyed together through the hills and valleys of your trials and tribulations, I was given the wonderful opportunity to learn more about the awesome nature of God’s infinite power, presence, and wisdom.

I thank you for allowing God to use you and your stories to enrich my understanding and enhance my skills in becoming a better guide and healer. I look forward to continuing to grow in awareness and ability as we move forward in our respective healing journeys. Know that I am because we are. Thank you.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

I encourage you to consider this book as a workbook. To truly benefit from this book, you will need to engage with the content and complete the assessments and activities suggested. Additionally, I understand that you may feel the urge to jump ahead and skip over the Introduction and Part I to get to the three steps. I caution you against that particular approach. To understand the underlying concepts that are key to the design of this healing program I am sharing, you need to be familiar with the content in those areas. The order of the steps is also intentional. Subsequently, I encourage you to move through the book in the order presented. I invite you to enroll in the FREE 21 Day Online Course that accompanies this book. Visit http://bit.ly/sankofa21days for more details.

Please note that I am not a medical doctor. The information in this book is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and not intended as medical advice. This book is designed to be a sharing of knowledge and information from my research and experience. I encourage you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.

This book is provided for informational purposes only and no guarantees, promises, representations or warranties of any kind regarding specific or general benefits, have been or will be made by me, Dr. Michelle Gamble, my publisher, affiliates or their officers, principals, representatives, agents or employees. I, Dr. Michelle Gamble, am not responsible for and shall have no liability for any success or failure, acts, and omissions, the appropriateness of your decisions, or the use of or reliance on this information. Remember, you are the captain of your ship. Take charge of your health. Please consult your medical physician about the advisability of continuing on this program if you have been experiencing health difficulties.

Foreword

Chronic illness has become an epidemic in our world today. As a natural health care provider for over 30 years, I have assisted thousands of individuals in transforming their lives and finally breaking free from the pain and frustration of suffering with chronic illness. Over the years, I have noticed the number of individuals who have one or more chronic illnesses has increased at an alarming rate, especially over the past few decades.

Many of my patients, especially women, tend to be caregivers for clients, children or elders. They feel worn out, yet fail to realize the degree to which taking care of everyone else negatively affects their own health. These are the people that Dr. Michelle Gamble refers to as Atlas caregivers.

As advocates of natural health, they do not like to use medications and prefer to take care of their health issues themselves. Many are distrustful of doctors and pharmaceutical companies. These individuals have been dealing with chronic illness for years and are frustrated with conventional medicine. They have done a lot of research on their own but still struggle with incomplete healing - getting a little better yet still not feeling quite whole.

Perhaps you, like these dedicated and determined individuals, are looking for a better way. Perhaps you too are tired of trying supplement after supplement, confused as a result of following 50 million experts and trying to wade through the overwhelm of too much conflicting information, and are yearning to discover the key to vitality in your particular case.

My approach in serving the needs of my patients has led me to a deep appreciation of the need to address the emotional, spiritual, and mental components to chronic illness in order to guide them to wellness.

In Creating a Happier, Healthier You, Dr. Gamble reveals this vital key to healing that has been buried over the course of the past century due to the dominant culture of pharmaceutical drugs that promise a magical pill for every ill. By focusing on disease, rather than balance, our current medical system has lost touch with the importance of addressing for the whole being - body, mind, heart, and soul - and has thus radically underestimated the innate power of each individual to transform and restore his or her own health.

Dr. Gamble takes a holistic approach to healing. She focuses on how to build the body, mind, heart, and soul, rather than fixating on fighting a particular disease.

As her mentor, I have seen Dr. Michelle Gamble guide many people on their personal healing journeys, so they could finally break free from the pain and frustration of suffering with a chronic illness. She has done this by integrating the ancient wisdom of traditional cultures with the scientific research of modern functional medicine.

By teaching her students to listen more deeply to the signs and messages revealed in their symptoms, she guides them to a deeper understanding and appreciation of what lies at the root of their pain or disease, and what needs to be done to restore vitality and vibrant health. Her approach achieves results, even for those who have spent countless years and many thousands of dollars on unsuccessful interventions.

In Creating a Happier, Healthier You, her latest book, she opens the door to all she has learned over her 17 years of clinical experience and 25 years as a professional educator, to provide a holistic approach to exploring the real root causes of illness – the ones that have been misunderstood or ignored by both the medical and alternative health communities.

Dr. Michelle Gamble boldly proclaims three simple, yet controversial truths that empower us all: You are your own divine physician. No one can heal you but you. Holistic healing must address the wounds of the body, mind, heart, and soul.

I invite you to join her on the journey to Create a Happier, Healthier You.

Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, MS, DC, CCN, DACBN

Founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology

Author of the best-seller Unstoppable Health

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

PART I: Paradigm Shift

One: Why People Don’t Heal

Two: How You Can Defy the Statistics

Call to Action: Case Review

PART II: Assessing Root Causes of The Dis-ease

Three: Assessing the Body

Four: Assessing the Mind

Five: Assessing the Heart

Six: Assessing the Soul

Call to Action: Revitalize You

PART III: Building a New YOU

Seven: Uplifting the Spirit

Eight: Strengthening the Mind

Nine: Soothing the Heart

Ten: Nourishing the Body

Call to Action: Heartsong

PART IV: Clearing Away Toxins and Saboteurs

Eleven: Resolving Identity Crises

Twelve: Releasing Mental Gremlins

Thirteen: Exorcising Emotional Demons

Fourteen: Cleansing Physical Toxins

Call to Action: Seasonal Cleanse

PART V: Where Do You Go From Here?

Fifteen: Pulling Everything Together

Call to Action: CHAMP

Appendix 1A: Discovery Questionaire

Appendix 1B: Physical Assessment

Appendix 1C: Chem Strip Analysis

Appendix 1D: Blood Chemistry Results

Appendix 1E: Health Monitoring Record

Appendix 1F: Readiness Assessment

Appendix 1G: Saliva pH Test

Appendix 1H: Emotional Mapping Assessment

Appendix 2A: Enneagram Commitments

Appendix 2B: Meditation Tools

Appendix 3A: Conflict for 9 Enneagram Types

Appendix 3B: Physical Cleanse Protocol

Appendix 3C: Physical Cleanse Recipes

Appendix 3D: Physical Cleanse Schedule

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Resourcces

Call to Action: Invite Dr. Gamble to Speak

Introduction

You are my last hope. I do not know what else to do, where else to go said the young mother through a veil of tears as she sat in front of me wringing her hands in desperation. I quietly got up to get some tissues and placed the box on the table before her. Ann continued to share with me the story of her young daughter who was suffering from chronic digestive disorders. She had gone to countless medical doctors and viewed numerous videos, webinars and other online trainings via Dr. Google in an effort to find relief for her little girl. Then, she started talking about the turmoil in her own personal life ranging from fears about job security, a rocky intimate relationship, and her own health challenges. After about 15 minutes of monologue, she stopped to catch her breath, looked at me and apologized for rambling. I assured her that there was nothing to apologize for. Indeed, sharing her story was an essential first step in the healing process.

For over 15 years, I have worked with men and women just like Ann. Their names change, but the story is generally the same. You may find this hard to believe, but I myself have a story that is similar to Ann’s. With my Doctoral degree in Naturology, the study of nature’s cures, as well as advanced training in Functional Endocrinology and Blood Chemistry, I have become very adept at helping people, young and old, from all walks of life, to feel better. During the first 5 years of being an alternative natural health care provider, I found myself doing the same as my conventional, drug pushing medical counterparts: recommending a pill for every ill. The only difference was that the pills I promoted were natural herbs and supplements.

Around 2007, I had a particularly challenging case with an elder gentleman. Over the years, he had become a dream client in terms of compliance. Anything I asked Henry to take or eat, he did, with no resistance nor hesitation. His chronic conditions of diabetes, hypertension, and blood clotting improved, but after a while, he seemed to hit a glass ceiling with my program. One day as I reflected on his case, I recalled him telling me of the death of his marriage several years before. I pulled out his file and realized that his seemingly unending lists of chronic symptoms started around or shortly after that event. Studies such as the ACE study¹ help us to understand the tremendous impact trauma, all forms of intense depleting personal experiences, mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual, have on the overall well being of a person. Indeed, more recent research point to the correlation between chronic illness and unresolved trauma that has an ongoing reverberating disease-promoting effect on an individual. In this book, you will learn how to assess the degree to which seemingly unrelated life experiences have had and may even continue to have a detrimental impact on your health. My clinical experiences have taught me not to underestimate the value of the lifestyle component of the diet and lifestyle approach commonly touted by many health proponents. Unfortunately, like the earlier version of me, most do little more than scratch the surface in this critical area.

As I pondered Henry’s situation more deeply, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that his story was not the anomaly, and I myself had experienced the glass ceiling with my own chronic digestive health concerns. Thanks to Henry, I started to place a lot more emphasis on developing a truly holistic healing approach to health. Although I had always acknowledged the importance of mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing in working with my clients, I usually shied away from actually DOING anything to addresses the imbalances in those areas. Wilbert, my husband at the time, warned me not to go into those forbidden territories because I was not a pastor, therapists, nor mental health counselor. Although my credentials have not changed, I realize that a doctor in the true original meaning of the word is just an educator, one who leads out of the individual that which is already there. I resolved at that moment to commit myself to learn ways to support my students in healing all aspects of their being and not merely managing their physical symptoms.

In the many years that followed, I have delved deep into my studies of various spiritual traditions from around the world to develop a system called HeartSong to help people address emotional/spiritual areas of dis-ease. I became certified as HeartMath coach/mentor/provider to learn how to teach people how to use the strategies and biofeedback tools developed by the HeartMath Institute² to bring themselves into coherence and thus enabling the individual the ability to physical/mental/emotional imbalances. More recently, I completed my training in Strategic Interventions with the Robbins-Madanes program. Under the tutelage of Tony Robbins and Cloe Madanes, I learned how to address the six basic needs of all people in order to make the critical shifts in mindset to bring about the essential behavior changes that are necessary for the journey to heal from chronic illness.

As a non-medical, Holistic Healing Doctor, I focus on helping people to embrace all aspects of healing: body, mind, heart, and spirit. I emphasize the therapeutic relationship between incorporating all forms of therapy, both conventional and what we term alternative. I help people like Ann and Henry, who are unconsciously sacrificing their