The Wounded Healer: Unity’s Story

<h2>Episode at a glance</h2><ul><li><a href="https://arthritis.theenthusiasticlife.com/2021/10/11/the-wounded-healer-unitys-story/" target="_blank">Full transcript and additional notes available at the Arthritis Life website here.</a></li><li>1:00 - 7:30 Unity’s shares her diagnosis story at 15 months old and details her young childhood experiences growing up with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)</li><li>7:30 - 15:00: How Unity became more active in her care management as an adolescent and explored alternate ways of managing JIA including nutrition, reiki, shamanism, and meditation.</li><li>15:00 - 23:00  The importance of meditation and managing stress in Unity’s JIA journey, including a discussion of some of Unity’s favorite books.</li><li>23:00 - 30:00 Unity explains what it means to be a “wounded healer” and what “healing” means to her. She also explains her Seasons of Self Energy Report framework.</li><li>30:00 - 37:00  Unity explains the importance of addressing mindset and mindfulness while living with a health condition.</li><li>37:00 - 40:00 Unity explains the inspiration behind S.O.S. Energy Report: A Survivor's Guide to Self-Healing Breakthroughs</li><li>40:00 - 43:00 Unity shares about her experience becoming a mother and now parenting two teenagers while managing her JIA.</li><li>43:00 - Unity & Cheryl discuss the many cost benefit analyses they do as patients, and when it’s worth it to do an activity even when it causes pain</li></ul><h2>Speaker Bios:</h2><p>Unity Schmit: Born into a near-death experience, and diagnosed with chronic childhood illness, in the form of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), Unity awakened to seek self-healing growth and the powerful meaning behind her unusual life start. On her path, she sought to understand how to bring pain to purpose, and how to follow her inner calling to experience her dreams, even though she was told they were unattainable. </p><p>By studying self-healing, energy work, reiki, psychology, world religions and shamanism, Unity reached her dreams, a