A podcast exploring the process of awakening healing within throughout the ups and downs of living with Lyme dis-ease and friends. Join us as we witness and share the learnings that quietly rearrange us and the unexpected wisdom found along the way.
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Where are we now?
In this episode, we share honestly about where we each are in our Lyme journeys—and how different those places can look.
Shannon has been out of active illness for years, but writing Healing Awakened Within You brought her face-to-face with patterns, memories, and imprints that she didn’t realize were still living in her body. Dani is still actively navigating Lyme, learning how to meet her body with compassion while continuing to move through pain, uncertainty, grief, and change.
We talk about:
* What healing has looked like for each of us
* The ways the body remembers what we’ve lived through
* Nervous system patterns and the imprint of a long-term illness journey
* The difference between being “out of it” and being fully at peace with the experience
* Learning to meet the body with love rather than criticism or rejection
* Grief, trauma, fear, and the parts of healing that aren’t always beautiful
* Why Healing Awakened Within You isn’t a promise of a “five-step cure”
* How the practices in the book can support you wherever you are in your own journey
There isn’t one place you have to arrive at to call yourself healed. There is only the ongoing practice of meeting yourself where you are—and continuing to move from there.
And tomorrow might be totally different.
If you’re here with us, we’d love to hear where you are in your own journey. This space is being created for community, so please share in the comments if you feel called to.
Subscribe to join us as we make Healing Awakened Within You a place for community and connection during a Lyme journey!
We’d love to hear your story: leave a comment below and share anything you’d like to with us.
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1 Sept 2026
The Book That Kept Teaching Us
We thought writing Healing Awakened Within You would be simple. We had already created and taught an eight-week program we called Emerald Cell (the inspiration for this book!), so how hard could it be to turn it into a book?
As it turns out, the book had other plans.
In this episode, we share how the original Emerald Cell program evolved into Healing Awakened Within You and how the process of writing the book became its own unexpected teacher. Along the way, we found ourselves confronting patterns, roadblocks, and invitations that felt like a mirror to our own healing journeys with Lyme.
We talk about:
* How our original eight-week Emerald Cell program became the foundation for the book
* Why writing the book took us much further than we expected
* The ways the book mirrored our own Lyme journeys
* The moments when we wanted to avoid what was asking to be explored
* Why we see the book as a guide rather than an endpoint
* Our vision for creating a community around the book through this Substack
Healing Awakened Within You was written with the hope that you won’t have to walk this journey alone. The book may be the guide, but the community we’re creating here is where we hope the journey continues.
Thanks for being here with us.
Thanks for being here with us! Subscribe to help us build the Healing Awakened Within You community.
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25 Aug 2026
Two Women, One Emerald Thread
Healing Awakened Within You came from an unexpected connection, facilitated by the web of the internet.
In this episode, we share the story of how we first met—first through an email asking to chat about the energetics of Lyme, then through a series of conversations that led us to the uncanny realization that we had been exploring some of the same territory without knowing it.
Neither of us could have known that our first conversation would eventually lead to a body of work, a program, and ultimately the upcoming book, Healing Awakened Within You: Journey Through the Emerald Cell.
We talk about:
* How we first connected online
* The experience of seeing Lyme as a “part” of self
* The strange validation that comes when someone else sees what you’ve been seeing
* Our connection to the Emerald energy
* How the idea of the Emerald Cell emerged
* Why community is at the heart of this book and this Substack
And perhaps most importantly, we talk about what it means to discover that you aren’t the only one walking this strange and difficult path.
If you’re navigating Lyme, co-infections, mold, or the many layers of chronic illness—and you’re longing for a place where you don’t have to explain everything—this is the community we are beginning to build.
Subscribe to join us in building this community!
We’d love to hear from you. If you’re here because you have your own Lyme story, share a little of it in the comments. We’re glad you’re here.
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4 Aug 2026
Healing Awakened Within You: Our stories
Hello and welcome back to Healing Awakened Within You.
We’re Shannon and Dani and on this Substack and Podcast we are sharing the story behind our new book: Healing Awakened Within You.
This book is a guide to navigating Lyme and chronic dis-ease through a new perspective. We have combined our years of experience as practitioners and as Lyme-havers into this book with the hope of creating a framework to help you navigate the Lyme journey in a new and helpful way.
In our last post, we shared the introduction of the book with you, and today we're going to share the stories that we wrote to introduce ourselves to you in the book.
We each read our story out loud, and discuss the importance of story and being witnessed in it during a Lyme and chronic dis-ease journey.
We wrote this book for you because we understand how hard it is and what it feels like to have no clear path to follow on this journey. When weaving this book together, we felt you in our hearts.
Thank you for being here, and make sure to subscribe and follow along for more!
~ Dani & Shannon
Want to share your thoughts or stories with us? Please leave us a comment below!
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28 Jul 2026
Introducing: Healing Awakened Within You
Welcome. We’re so glad you’re here.
Our names are Dani and Shannon, and we have written a book:
Healing Awakened Within You A Guide to Navigating Lyme & Chronic Dis-ease Through a New Perspective.Journey through the Emerald Cell and Listen to the Wisdom Within
Coming out soon!
As we’ve written this book over the last year, we have held the vision and intention of creating a community where those with Lyme and chronic dis-ease could come together. We hope that this will be that place and we hope that you’ll follow along and help us create it.
We believe that the healing is not something that happens outside of us, but something that awakens within. In this space, we will be sharing more about our upcoming book, the process of Healing Awakened Within You, and what we call the Journey Through the Emerald Cell: a journey to discovering and listening to the wisdom within.
In this introductory post, we are sharing a short video where we read the introduction to the book out loud to you. Sit down with us for 10 minutes and learn about Healing Awakened Within You. We’re so glad you’re here!
In upcoming posts, we will share more about ourselves, this project, and how we will continue to grow this Substack into a community space for those with Lyme and chronic conditions to gather, be witnessed, and awaken healing within together.
For now, we invite you to subscribe and follow along to begin building this healing movement with us.
And if you’d like to take a moment to introduce yourself in the comments section below, we’d love to meet you!
~ Shannon & Dani
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