Sara Pálsdóttir, a lawyer and hypnotist, says being a victim takes power away from people. Sara, who is the latest guest on Sölva Tryggvason’s podcast, suffered for years from alcoholism, an eating disorder and severe pain throughout her body. She says everything changed when she decided to stop being a victim.
“I just thought I was the victim of an illness.” That I was an alcoholic, with an eating disorder and chronic pain and couldn’t do anything. When you’re stuck in the victim role, you lose all “power” and are like a leaf in the wind that can’t do anything. When I stopped believing that I was a victim of the disease and that I had a say in my health, everything started to change. But then I also had to start taking responsibility and doing everything in my power to change things. No one does this for one person,” Sara says.
She also says that many people have a very unhealthy relationship with their bodies and that the root of many people’s problems is some kind of mentality.
“Sometimes it’s not easy to tell which is the chicken and which is the egg when it comes to thoughts and bodily functions. But the connection between them is very strong. We are not just one body. We are a soul in a body, and if we have an extremely unhealthy relationship with our body, it is inevitable that we will experience heaviness, pain, or other physical symptoms. With this negative relationship with the body, we create a lot of discomfort in the body, and there is stress and tension in the system just because of this unhealthy relationship.
Although people go to the gym and try to get a six pack and round buttocks, there may still be a complete disconnect with the body and physical well-being may not improve at all. . I believe that by starting to work on body hatred and the negative relationship with our body, we can begin to correct the symptoms. When physical symptoms begin to improve, it becomes easier to develop an even better relationship with the body and recovery begins to come quickly.”
was at the bottom
Sara was at the bottom of her self-loathing; addiction and anxiety when she found freedom and started from the bottom.
“I had a good education and outwardly everything looked good. We like to attach our identity to what we do, and that was certainly my case. While I was passing my exams, having an education and that i looked good on paper, i could be drunk every day in complete denial.. i was able to learn even after drinking a lot, so i was able to make it work for a very long time before i had to give up. The shame and pride was so great that I would have almost died rather than admit how I really felt. Eventually it got to the point where I just drank in bed until I died. passed out. I was completely bedridden from alcoholism when I finally did something about it. I didn’t come out of the house except to meet the land dealer!”
Detox the first step
Sara says detox was only the first step to true recovery.
“I remember even when I walked into Vog for treatment I was still filled with thoughts of other people’s opinions. I left my bag outside in the car so I could run back and I was so scared to see someone I knew. So even though I was literally dying of alcoholism, I was actually more concerned that no one could see me for who I really was. These programs were really strong for me Then I was also very sick from my eating disorder and I got very sick from it It took me a long time to get sober and then after that I had to deal with a disorder food and I had treatment at Hvíta Bandinu,” Sara explains and continues.
“There, my life had started to change, but there was still a lot of work to do, which was to fix what had actually made me addicted to alcohol and the self-loathing that had caused the eating disorder. .” I still had a broken self-image, massively negative self-talk, and a lot of anxiety. I had convinced myself that all I had to do was stop drinking and everything would be fine. But drinking was just an escape from self-hatred and what lay beneath it and it got nowhere. So quitting drinking was just the first step.”
Had to torture himself to meditate
In Sarah’s case, the real recovery came when she started meditating and practicing hypnosis.
“At first I had to torture myself to meditate, even though it was only 5 minutes a day and my mind was completely out of control. But gradually a wonderful journey of recovery began and slowly a real freedom started coming to me. All the negative energy that had been trapped inside of me started to be released and I came all the way to study everything about the subconscious mind and I then studied hypnosis and learned about healing. I know a lot of people get defensive when you talk about energy, but science has shown that everything is energy. Our body is made up of units of energy, the thoughts are energy and emotions are energy. We need to start approaching these things from that direction as well,” says Sara, who says approaching people through the subconscious can fix the roots of a lot of things. .
“The subconscious mind is like the most powerful computer there is. The subconscious mind stores all the memories, things that have been in the body through trauma and more. That’s why it’s possible to get ‘huge results in improving mental and physical well-being by working on the subconscious.’
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Life has turned around
Sarah’s life has completely changed after recovering from anxiety, addiction and self-loathing.
“Throughout my recovery journey, I had a vision that I was meant to help others who were struggling with the same things I had struggled with. Since then, I have been pursuing that vision. I have seen to Through my work over the past few years that many people are struggling with great difficulty and stuck in shame like me. I am now free from shame so I can talk about all the things that used to bother me without thinking about it. I I’ve never had such a reaction as when I speak publicly about my toughest times and what I felt were the biggest skeletons in the closet. At first I thought I could continue working as a lawyer because i was running my own practice and was doing well i did for a while but now hypnosis and classes and lectures have become my main job as i feel like the law has no more my heart and that it is useless to continue there. If you feel the goal so strongly, you should pursue it, because no one is better than you at exactly what you are meant to do.”
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