On August 21, 2023 Dr. Lynn Carey talked with me about her chiropractic journey, self-healing, chronic stress, passion, following one’s highest purpose, divine guidance, interconnection between wellbeing and wisdom, living in alignment, lack of helpfulness of disease labels, inspiration, journaling, recreating trauma and letting go, exploring interests, shadow work and dark night of the soul, the Sedona Method, bliss, Lynn’s grace state, service to others, Lynn’s book My Journey to Grace, etc.
About Lynn
Dr. Lynn Carey earned a doctorate in chiropractic and a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Life University. She owned a practice in Wilmington, Delaware, for eighteen years, and has traveled to Brazil and India. Dr. Carey loves empowering others to create their desired life of health, wealth, and perfect self-expression. Today, she stays busy pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams and homeschooling her teenage son.
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Book: My Journey to Grace – Shattering Mainstream Illusions and Creating My Desired Life: https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/814938-my-journey-to-grace
Audio: Self-Healing And Wellbeing With Dr. Lynn Carey
The raw unedited YouTube transcription of this podcast:
holness and welcome this is Josh dippold
of integratingpresence.com today I’ve
got Dr Lynn Carey with me uh do you mind
if I call you Lynn sure Lynn that’s
great Lynn how’s it going today it’s
I’m doing well
um so what I usually do for folks I
haven’t talked to much is I just throw
it back to them to introduce themselves
who is Dr Lynn Carey and what does she
do
that there had to be more than what I
was being shown
and I believe that
uh mental kind of stress manifested as a
disease called scoliosis which is
curvature of the spine when I was 14.
and I ended up having spinal surgery
because I just followed what the
mainstream medical world said and they
put Harrington rods in my spine
and you know the surgery itself
according to them was a success but
afterwards I had on and off pain and
different symptoms and sicknesses for
the next five years that Jess they
couldn’t help me with so I was in
college just trying to find myself and
someone told me to look into
Chiropractic as a profession not even as
a as a healing tool just as a profession
I’d never heard of it and I read the
pamphlet and it said the power that made
the body heals the body
and it was the first time I heard truth
and I thought why hasn’t anybody told me
this I didn’t even get adjusted I just
went to chiropractic school
like ignorance is bliss you know and um
it changed my life and it wasn’t a quick
fix at all but it just started my
healing journey and it started my
spiritual path
very nice
um I’ve actually only been to a
chiropractor I think a handful of times
years and years ago and I was diagnosed
with what they called scoliosis at the
time like a slight curvature of the
spine not serious enough to be um
scoliosis but I will say my dad has been
in um quite severe pain on and off
probably for 20 years he had broke his
neck in a car accident and so he finds a
lot of relief going to the chiropractor
but I just want to jump in here and say
you know what about people that will use
chiropractor
um
how would you say chiropractory
yes
so use that for and you cut off by the
way say it one more time oh Chiropractic
Chiropractic yeah they use uh
Chiropractic practices I guess as a
temporary relief and they don’t do
anything else really they just go to the
chiropractor and they want them to fix
it all for them too which uh it’s way
healthier modality than I would say go
and get pumped up full of pills and
things like this right uh but how do you
what would you say to this too and and I
I just jumping off into a tangent here
right away but this is uh this is what’s
coming up right now so I thought I’d ask
you about it yeah no that’s I totally
agree with you I had my practice for 18
years and I retired my practice because
I did not get into it to fix people that
was not my journey at all
um getting adjusted for me was a way to
reconnect to my body it opens up the
energy centers I had a lot of Trauma
from the surgery but really I was doing
the inner work and I believe you know
people wanted to come in you know I
think everybody likes a quick fix
that wasn’t my philosophy it was for
wellness and I really saw people had to
do the inner work on themselves that was
a big part for me losing the fear
understanding how my body heals being in
control you know becoming my own best
doctor and that’s what I always preach
to people and that’s why I’m big on even
creating your desired life because I
believe that all areas of life if
they’re not in your highest alignment
they come out as physical symptoms so
for ultimate well-being
you really need to look at relationships
mindset you’re how you spend your day
your finances everything it all you know
health and wellness to me isn’t just
like diet and exercise so much bigger
so let’s let’s dive into that uh if you
want to address this from your own
personal journey and maybe uh give
examples or
um yeah like I guess we can just start
with like what do you feel is like the
biggest thing either and you know in
general of all time or recently you know
that uh that you that you work with
people and see in people that could use
Improvement and then maybe what people
are actually doing quite well with you
know
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following to what you’re supposed to be
doing in here sometimes people think
it’s just a pipe dream but I really
believe we’re here our soul comes in
with a purpose and it’s what inspires
you it doesn’t have to be drastic some
things it’s Big Dreams for people but
sometimes it’s little dreams for people
but a lot of times we write that off we
call you know we’ve been told through
mainstream Society that’s not important
but that is I believe it’s our God
Source our inner God we are God inside
calling us it’s directing us out to
contribute to the collective
Consciousness but that is a life force I
mean the basis of Chiropractic
philosophy is that we recognize that
there is an inner wisdom always running
the body doing what it needs to do I
mean as we sit here all your organs are
functioning right millions and millions
of things going on all day long you
couldn’t consciously control that so we
always say what is the body trying to do
well the life force that life force or
inner wisdom flows ultimately when
you’re happy when you’re following your
inspiration while while you’re following
your purpose when you’re in alignment to
your higher self that’s your immune
system that’s the whole thing so I don’t
think people take it your beat your
happiness as you know as important as it
really is
these are really good points I mean the
body has its own wisdom right we don’t
have to tell the body okay you need to
chew each bite of food like this right
okay you have to put this this leg the
right leg just a little bit up and that
we don’t have to tell a story every time
it just knows how to do it has its own
inbuilt intelligence right and the
proprioception we know where one limb is
just intuitively in innately without
having to think about it or seek an
experts or you know call a friend or
have therapy about it the in the body
doesn’t lie to us either right it’s uh
has it like the Mind well the mind can
go uh it has no shame the mind sometimes
right it will it will tell us all these
things but the body uh won’t lie and it
has its own wisdom
um yeah so this this this purpose this
is a really interesting thing I know for
me
um
when I first started to wake up a little
bit it seemed really important but I had
no idea and I it was kind of freaking
out a little bit by oh I have to find my
purpose I have to know my purpose and I
guess the way it unfolded for me it was
more like it just kind of did it
gradually and if I had to like tell you
exactly what it was I I don’t even know
if I could say it I just kind of know
what I should be doing and what I’m
doing is kind of my purpose here so I
mean if people come I’m sure you
probably hear this too you know what is
my purpose how do I find my purpose uh
what would you say to what do you what
do you how do you guide people through
discovering their purpose or do you have
anything to say in general about it
greater than it has to be I think it
really is your purpose is your happiness
like little things that make you happy
maybe I think it looks different for
everyone it doesn’t have to be
um this Grand thing we want to label
everything as a society I think
and I think we get stuck in labels I
mean even I tell people like don’t get
don’t get caught up in the disease label
because it’s just dis-ease in your body
it’s energy it’s you’re either flowing
your energy or not everything can heal
I don’t buy into the disease labels
anymore because I saw through it
um so even just something as simple as
that we want to always label ourselves
like I had to like call myself a
chiropractor and you know I went through
this guilt that I didn’t want to
practice anymore because I am a
chiropractor I should be holding a
practice you know and I we go through
all these labels so I think it’s just
following your happiness and I think
some we’re just taught not to listen to
ourselves is the problem I think it’s
there sometimes people don’t believe
they can have what they want so they
don’t pay attention to it but I think
one of the simplest things to get back
to yourself to to retrain yourself to
get back to that inner voice is
journaling it’s just a simple way I
think there’s something very healing to
putting pen to paper
and you could start with writing down
ideas that come to you even if they make
no sense just write them down write
things that maybe you think about
throughout the day
um you can do a gratitude list things
that make you happy things that inspired
you maybe even that you took a walk
today and the sun was on your face or
you petted a dog you know little things
because what that does is it reorients
you to things where you get that
inspired happy feeling and then you’re
going to start attracting more of that
right you’re opening yourself up to the
universe to give you more and more and
it’s just a general unfoldment you know
don’t get stuck in it it has to be this
big label it’s about getting back to
your inner Joy your inner happiness and
I think from there your life starts to
unfold
the label thing for me is really
important
um you know what we really kind of call
ourselves and tell ourselves who we are
is kind of what we’ve become so it’s
it’s really important to this kind of
narrative we tell about ourselves and
for me labels can be helpful for a short
time but if we if that’s who we take
ourselves to be we’re limiting ourselves
right labels are very limiting you know
um yes it’s helpful to maybe pick one up
from time to time to kind of try it on
and get the understanding of when it’s
helpful but yeah it it’s at a certain
point though people start taking it on
as an identity and that’s where it gets
to be a trouble to be trouble and they
start leading their story with the label
you know I’m this especially the
diagnosis right and so they they build
this identity around a diagnosis right
and and coming from what’s wrong instead
of you know what is the you know what am
I for not what am I against basically so
instead of fighting it and kind of
giving it even more and more energy we
we
um we say what we’re for and then we put
energy into that
you made me think of a couple of things
that I think uh contribute to this
conversation
people would come into my office and say
oh I had this injury 25 years ago you
know and I’m like well let it go it’s
not even there anymore but you keep
recreating it in your mind like even
what they say happened to the body I’m
like that would have healed a million
years ago but they’re still talking
about it like they have this pain from
that you know it’s because mentally
emotionally they didn’t let it clear
they wrapped their mind around having
like they own that injury you know even
I don’t even identify with having and my
spine if you feel it it feels weird but
I don’t even think about the scolios
like that’s like another lifetime I’m
grateful for that because it set me free
to have true Health freedom but this is
the thing I think because Society sets
us up like you get your degree
you get your job you get married it’s
like okay then what do you do for the
rest of your 40 to 60 years of your life
we are a soul that means to evolve and
change so we get stuck at these
identities and these labels we stop our
soul growth because our mental mind
saying oh we are these things and they
are good for a period of time but then
sometimes it’s time to let it go and try
on something new and experience new
things I think the inner Joy comes from
having interests and exploring those
interests whether they’re your job or
not you know it could overlap it could
not but it’s about allowing yourself
to try new things no matter what age you
are you know I think we buy and even to
the ageism label we can be living
until the end and then we drop the body
and transition and we’re Eternal but we
buy into these A’s like go on a certain
age now and my body’s going to start to
do this and I shouldn’t be doing these
I’m too old to do these things that’s
crap you know so I think that all ties
in together
very good points here
um you know I I wonder though and now I
agree with pretty much all of that
what about severe trauma though I don’t
know if you’ve worked with people with
severe trauma you know in certain cases
to me it doesn’t seem like you know you
should just say oh just let go of that
right because it is a really deep deeply
ingrained and it takes a it’s a
different kind of process than what
we’ve been talking about so far from
what I understand now I’m not really
trained in a lot of trauma and things
like that but I’m definitely very
interested in this and so how it how do
you do you address any of the the trauma
differently people that have severe
trauma I don’t know if you’ve worked
with with patients like that or not and
and how would that differ
I think it’s good to find someone who
can really dive into that area trauma
like what if there’s sexual trauma or
something like that I wouldn’t be an
expert in that but I think they should
try and find a someone who is helps them
move through it but I know even for me I
carried a lot of Darkness for a lot of
years as a child and there was a point
where especially after I had my son I
feel like I went through another Dark
Night of the soul and I just couldn’t
shake the darkness
and so there’s different Avenues
therapy you have to find the right
therapists because I think sometimes
therapy can get you stuck into holding
on to that label too if you want to find
someone who will actually move you
through it
I’ve read a book about someone who
endured horrific trauma her whole life
and one of the things that really helped
her was journaling
she was able to clear a lot and she’s
fully I mean she is one of the most wise
and joyful and and advanced people I
know and you wouldn’t even think that
you could survive a childhood about what
she had so I know it’s possible so you
want to find someone who moves through
it so even when I was going through my
dark mind of the soul I found um the
Sedona Method and it was it’s by Hal
dwaskin and it’s just it I vote of
course I mean it was like a CDs and a
workbook and there’s a book but I think
there’s even YouTube videos now that you
could just check out but you just sit
with the questions like can you allow
yourself to be with this experience
right now or feel this right now yes or
no can you you know just let it go for
just for now yes or no so as you just
like be with the feelings because I
think a lot of us are afraid to go there
because it’s too dark so you can get it
someone to support you through it if you
need that just make sure the person is
going to guide you through it and not
keep you
stuck there I think that’s the
difference we want to allow these dark
feelings
to come up and be okay with it because
it’s part of the experience
part of our Human Experience is to have
all these different emotions they’re
important what happens we get stuck
there instead of moving through them
where we can really feel our Bliss state
this is really good stuff to um the
shadow work
um especially early on was a big a big
deal and it’s really important
especially for people like you say that
have been kind of mired in darkness for
quite some time and uh in my case I
really didn’t even realize it
um the the thing though you said earlier
about
um you know the life purpose being
happiness I that’s it’s it’s hugely
profound you know
the the to me it’s having a little bit
more Buddhist leanings you know it’s
suffer knowing suffering in the end of
suffering or Duca in the end of Duca it
can be stress as a translation for that
word you know knowing stress and then
that’s possible to end stress and once
stress is ended you know I mean it’s
it’s supposedly possible then you know
what’s left it’s it’s kind of like more
of our true nature the true nature of
the heart where it is these boundless
states of kindness and compassion and uh
rejoicing
being happy for other people’s happiness
and this this Equanimity this kind of
grandparently wisdom that’s kind of wise
and even Keel very caring but uh kind of
more hands-off where we were there for
people but we realized we can’t live
their lives for them they have to make
their own decisions right and so I think
there’s this this can’t really be
emphasized enough this notion of
well-being where uh we can look at it as
just an absence of of stress and you
know an absence of ill will you know an
absence of greed these and then what’s
left are these beautiful positive
qualities that shine through uh would
you like to say anything about these
these hard qualities you know that um or
any other hard qualities you would like
that tie in with you know happiness
you know I feel like I entered a I had
an experience in my first couple years
of practice after getting my own doing
my own inner work uh
body work that I was getting done all
the work I was doing on other people and
then I did mission trips to other
countries to adjust people there and I
really started to tap into different
energy frequencies and I and I reached a
very high I call it my Gray State
and it the only way I can describe it
there really is no words I I kind of
really gravitated to roomie and how
thesis poems because I felt like they
were describing this experience I was
having because couldn’t just tell the
average person you know I didn’t know I
didn’t have words but it was like
falling in love but there was no other
person involved you’re just happy you’re
just Blissful you’re blissed out and
even
the problems that you think are problems
in your daily life you start laughing at
because it just looks silly in that
higher frequency and I believe I call
that my Gray State I believe that is our
Natural State I believe that’s what we
can all work towards that is the heart
maybe that’s the heart center right that
is the god source that is our Natural
State and I believe that’s what
everybody’s searching for
you know everybody wants the next
relationship right or the next high or
they think that they’re going to get
this next career or more money and they
because it’s going to give them maybe a
glimpse of the high but it’s not as it’s
not the natural high it’s not
sustainable
it’s really tapping into our own inner
nature and then creating your life from
there
and that takes care of itself that’s
natural alignment that’s where you’re
going to naturally help serve other
people you’re going to naturally do good
in the world you’re not going to do the
you’re not going to even you can’t even
fathom doing anything bad for other
people you know you’re not worried about
somebody else is getting more than you
like it’s
everything balances out in that state it
gives me chills talking about it
I really truly believe that
is where humanity is headed towards we
could call it 5D I really don’t know the
term for it but I know this crap Matrix
that you know mainstream Matrix that
we’ve been taught or we’ve been living
in is humanity is not working it sucks I
didn’t like being in it so I am so
grateful that I found my Gray State and
for the last 20 some years I’ve been
able to create my life from that place
create my desired life because I wanted
you know my outside when I wanted to
feel as free as I do within myself so
that’s been my journey and I’m able able
to find that Gray State no matter what
my outside world looks like two I’ve
noticed I’m become pretty good at it so
I think that’s the Mastery that we’re
here to learn is Create Your Heaven on
Earth I really believe that’s what we’re
here for I love this uh Grace stayed and
the the the the qualities I was talking
about is the Brahma viharas or the
dwelling place of the gods or the Divine
abodes the sublime abidings and it is it
really is we think of where we live and
if we you know metaphorically if we live
from that spot then you know
um and you’re talking about alignment
then it doesn’t really matter so much
what crosses our path as long as we have
the wisdom to know how to see it and
respond to it but as far as the the
heart being the way it is this is these
these states these um these abodes
they’re the the places that I found the
best places to live on Earth in heaven
wherever you know the the here and now
as far as I know
um so you you have a book too do you
want to tell us about tell the listeners
and me about your book
yeah so I wrote my book uh it’s called
my journey to Grace
a subtitle is shattering mainstream
Illusions and creating my desired life I
wrote it when we first locked down four
years ago because I was really upset
about what was happening I know it
wasn’t right and I just saw all this
fear-mongering going on and I thought if
everybody understood Health the way I
understood it this wouldn’t be happening
so I thought maybe it’s time to share my
story I thought I was still figuring out
other aspects of life and I thought
maybe I’d write a book down the road but
I just thought it was really important
to share we need more stories of how we
heal ourselves more empowerment more
inspiration because I think we learn
from each other we learn from other
people’s stories because oh that person
can do it it gives me inspiration that I
can do it and that’s really why I wrote
my story down in a book to share with
others
well that’s really cool and yeah one of
the biggest thing I saw during this was
the state of fear that was going on on
both sides of the issue or I said it was
an issue it doesn’t seem like it should
have been an issue but it turned into
being that you’ve got
you know extreme fear on both sides
let’s just I’ll just say that and to me
that runs down the immune system right
and uh yeah and what a better time to
write a book I guess right during the
during that time period and uh yeah well
beautiful so
um I guess we’ll we’ll start wrapping up
here what um tell people what you have
going on
um like what kind of services you offer
uh tell people where they can buy the
book where to find you online your
website and and then also whatever uh
message you want to leave the listeners
with
yeah so I have a website creating my
desired life.com you can find my book
there you can ask me a question you can
get on my emailing list I do have
um a master class where people it’s like
kind of like a a video course that I put
together if you were have like a consult
with me about creating your desired life
this is this is everything I gave you
everything I have like a little
blueprint and I also have a healthy
habits coaching if you want to really be
mindful and um
create healthy habits in your life
grandma
not a strict way but a Joyful Way I help
people with that and also if you want to
create another stream of income to work
towards Financial Freedom I have a
business mentorship program also
and really just
it’s important to follow your joint that
is part of your immune system so just
don’t take it lightly do whatever you
can to find that state at least start
with a few minutes every day to get into
that joyful State and find what makes
you happy and follow your heart’s
desires and your Inspirations because
it’s it’s really important
well thanks so much Dr Lynn Carey for
joining me today and may you all out
there be blessed with your greatest most
optimal Bliss well-being happiness and
joy bye now
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