118. Healing Chronic Pain through Hypnosis, Embodiment, and Integration with Dr. Alana
In this episode of It’s Karmic,
There comes a point on the healing journey when you’ve done everything “right”. You’ve changed your diet, cleared your energy, done the affirmations, taken all the supplements, meditated, journaled, maybe even begged the universe for relief and still… the pain lingers.
Maybe it's chronic illness. Maybe it’s burnout. Maybe it’s migraines, autoimmune flare-ups, gut issues, or that gnawing fatigue that never seems to go away no matter how much you rest.
If that sounds familiar, this episode of It’s Karmic is for you.
In this deeply honest and nourishing episode of The It’s Karmic Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Alana, naturopathic doctor, hypnotherapist, and medicine woman. We explore the real, emotional, and spiritual roots of chronic pain and burnout.
Through her own lived experience with debilitating migraines, high-functioning burnout, and the pressure to “do everything right,” Dr. Alana reveals a truth many of us know but struggle to admit: sometimes, healing isn’t about doing more. It’s about listening deeper. It’s about remembering the self you exiled just to keep going.
Together, Dr. Alana and I explore:
The mind-body connection and how chronic pain often originates from unresolved emotional experiences stored in the nervous system.
How hypnotherapy bypasses the analytical, overthinking brain and reaches the subconscious root of pain, allowing space for softness, compassion, and real integration.
Why burnout is not a failure, but a messenger and how your symptoms are your soul’s language asking you to come home.
The nervous system’s role in healing and why regulation, not spiritual bypassing or pushing through, is the foundation for sustainable transformation.
The spiritual root of physical symptoms, and how we often abandon ourselves emotionally before our bodies begin to cry out for attention.
Dr. Alana shares her own breakdown-to-breakthrough story and how she moved from trying to “fix” her body through protocols, supplements, and discipline, to truly healing through surrender, emotional release, and deep rest.
This episode is for the woman who feels like she’s done everything right and still feels unwell. It’s for the cycle breaker, the spiritual seeker, the high-functioning achiever who’s secretly exhausted. It’s for anyone navigating chronic illness, pain, or burnout who suspects there’s something deeper beneath the surface… something the body is trying to say.
You’ll especially resonate if:
You’ve struggled with chronic pain, migraines, gut issues, or burnout that no protocol seems to fix.
You’re curious about hypnosis, the subconscious mind, and how trauma lives in the body.
You’re on a spiritual or healing journey and want to understand how to integrate the work somatically, not just mentally.
You’re ready to stop overriding your body’s messages and start listening.
This episode is a balm for anyone who’s been doing all the “right” things and still not feeling better.
It’s for the high-achievers, the healers, the ones who’ve pushed themselves for too long and are finally ready to let go of the pressure and listen to what their bodies have been trying to say all along
This is your permission slip to soften, to feel, and to remember: your body isn’t the problem, it’s the guide.
🎧 Tune in to learn how hypnotherapy, nervous system healing, and emotional integration can become the missing link in your healing journey.
Who is Dr. Alana?
Dr. Alana is an Intuitive Hypnotherapist and the founder of Embodied Soul Hypnotherapy, a soul-centered practice that supports those living with chronic pain in reconnecting to their inner wisdom, releasing inherited patterns, and returning to the truth of who they are.
Once a driven and successful naturopathic doctor, Dr. Alana spent years silently battling debilitating migraines that consumed much of her life. Her physical suffering became a spiritual wake-up call—an invitation to question everything she had built and to begin listening, deeply.
Her healing unfolded not through force, but through surrender. Along the way, she found herself guided by a rich tapestry of tools: intuitive hypnotherapy, somatic and nervous system healing, and expanded states of consciousness—including a profound relationship with plant spirit medicine. Through these modalities she met forgotten parts of herself and began to untangle the beliefs and traumas that had rooted themselves in her body. This deep connection to plant spirits remains a vital part of her path, and she now holds ceremonial space for those who feel called to walk that brave path of soul excavation and healing with the support of these benevolent allies.
Today, Dr. Alana blends science and spirit to support individuals on their healing journey—especially those navigating chronic pain, invisible illness, or emotional and spiritual disconnection. Her work helps clients meet their pain with curiosity and compassion, transforming it into a portal for deep self-remembrance.
She works one-on-one with individuals utilizing coaching and hypnotherapy, however, is expanding her reach and accessibility with the launch of her mini-course The Pain Rescue, and her deep-dive course The Pain Portal, which will be launching soon.
Dr. Alana’s message is simple, powerful, and needed: pain is not a dead end. It is a doorway. And through it, we remember who we are.
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