Energy of Illness

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The Energy of Illness

Every illness carries an energy — and often a story of beliefs and habits that took root long before the body spoke. Look up a condition below to explore the precursors Christel senses beneath it, and the choices that invite healing.

These reflections explore the emotional and energetic themes Christel senses around each condition, drawn from her books Sacred Choices and Diary of a Medical Intuitive. They are offered as a companion to medical care and an invitation to inner inquiry — never a diagnosis, and never a substitute for the guidance of your doctors.

Breast Cancer

In my work as a medical intuitive, the breast carries the energy of nourishment — how we mother others, and whether we ever turn…Read more

In my work as a medical intuitive, the breast carries the energy of nourishment — how we mother others, and whether we ever turn that same tenderness toward ourselves. Again and again I have sensed, beneath this diagnosis, a long habit of giving until empty: holding everyone together--the family, the office, the group of neighbors- all while quietly setting one’s own needs aside.

This is never about blame. It is an invitation, the kind I write about in Sacred Choices — to notice the beliefs, a way of thinking, and habits that ask us to disappear, and to begin nourishing the self with the same devotion we so freely give everyone else. Explore these reflections alongside the care of your medical team, never in place of it.

Secrets Kill

Secrets kill. Every reading I have done on a woman with breast cancer revealed a long kept secret that festered in the breast: an abortion, hating their mother, having an affair... The secret festers and grows and becomes a precursor for illness because in time, the secret grows larger with terrible displeasure, judgement, even hatred toward oneself. It must be purged--confess to a friend, a priest, to God. It cannot remain quiet in the darkness of your soul.

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is the body turning its defenses against its own joints, and energetically I often feel that same turning-inward of harshness: a sharp…Read more

Rheumatoid arthritis is the body turning its defenses against its own joints, and energetically I often feel that same turning-inward of harshness: a sharp inner critic, a habit of self-judgment, a resentment held so long that it has begun to calcify.

Sacred Choices rests on a simple truth — that our beliefs and habits shape us, and that we always have a choice. The invitation here is toward self-compassion: to loosen the grip of having to be right, to be perfect, to be hard on yourself, and to let warmth return to the places that have stiffened. Let this sit alongside the guidance of your doctors, not instead of it.

Rigidity and black-and-white thinking contribute to the world of arthritis. If you can begin to lessen the grip of your inner critic, and learn to play a bit, BEFORE all your work and duties have been completed, you will have begin the unwinding and healing.

--Christel Nani, RN, Medical Intuitive.