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I often say the most important thing we can do for the people we love is to begin healing ourselves.
Have you ever found yourself trying to fix someone you love, worrying about their choices, or losing touch with yourself while trying to keep a relationship together? If you’ve struggled with codependency, people-pleasing, or the challenge of letting go of what you cannot control, this conversation is for you.
In this episode of Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life, I’m joined by my dear friend, spirit sister, and personal healer, Ann Bruinsma. Ann is a holistic Qigong energy healer who helps people explore energy, intuition, and their connection with themselves.
We talk about Ann’s journey from a family rooted in conventional medicine and a career in the analytical world into Qigong, energy healing, and trusting her intuition. We explore what it means to follow a spiritual path when the people closest to us may not understand it, and how learning to trust ourselves can help us stop looking outside ourselves for permission or affirmation.
But underneath our conversation about energy healing and intuition is a principle that sits at the heart of Recover Your Soul: our own healing is our responsibility, not someone else’s.
When we love someone who is struggling, it can be so easy to become consumed by their choices, emotions, or behavior. We may try harder, explain more, rescue, worry, or believe that if we can just find the right way to help, they will change. This is especially familiar to those of us healing from codependency and people-pleasing.
Ann and I explore what can happen when we begin turning that energy back toward ourselves. As we recognize old childhood patterns, learn to listen to our inner knowing, and reconnect with who we are, we may begin to show up differently in our relationships. We can love deeply without making someone else’s journey our responsibility.
We also talk about Qigong, life force energy, and the ways spiritual practices can invite us to become more curious about our own healing. You don’t have to share every belief about energy work to find something meaningful in this conversation. My invitation is to stay open, notice what resonates, and allow yourself to explore what supports your own path.
In This Episode, We Explore
- Ann’s journey from conventional medicine and corporate life into Qigong and energy healing
- What Qigong is and how it works with breath, movement, and life force energy
- How to trust your intuition when you don’t receive clear images or instant answers
- Following your spiritual path even when others don’t understand or affirm your choices
- How childhood patterns can lead to people-pleasing, self-doubt, and losing yourself in relationships
- Healing codependency by releasing the need to fix, rescue, or change others
- Why focusing on your own healing can change the way you show up with the people you love
- Letting go of control while remaining connected to compassion and love
- Following what brings you joy, curiosity, and a sense of aliveness
A Recover Your Soul Reminder
You can love someone without taking responsibility for their choices. You can care deeply without abandoning yourself. And you can begin to change your relationships by changing the way you show up—not by controlling another person’s healing, but by becoming more aware, grounded, and connected to yourself.
This is part of the Recover Your Soul journey: recognizing the patterns that keep us stuck, releasing what is not ours to control, and finding our way home to ourselves with more compassion and awareness.
You don’t have to figure it all out today. Sometimes the next step is simply to listen to what is calling you and follow it with curiosity.
Connect with Ann Bruinsma
Ann offers individual energy healing sessions, Qigong movement classes, group healing, and guided meditations.
Website: https://www.liveyourlight.care/
You can also find Ann’s guided meditations on Insight Timer.
Thank you for being here and for being part of this journey with me. We’re learning, growing, and finding our way back to ourselves together.
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