Ray of Hope Craniosacral

Meet Holly Seamone

My name is Holly, I am a home-schooling mom of my daughter, I also have a son who lives close by and a stepdaughter who lives abroad.  I live in Wetaskiwin with my partner, daughter and two cats. I feel best when I am out in nature or talking about the bodies ability to heal with anyone who will listen! 

I have been a registered social worker since 2007 and I love my social work career. I have worked with vulnerable families, children, and individuals for 17 years and consider it a great honour to support people in their hardest times. I am also a Usui Reiki Master and have held space for healing in this capacity since 2010. 

In all of my roles, being of service to help others on their journey has been the utmost privilege. Whether it be via healing sessions, my various roles as a registered social worker, or sharing space; to be of service to others, is the most sacred thing to my soul, and it fills me with the utmost honour and joy. I hold in deep reverence my connection to the human body, spirit and the unseen forces that guide me. 

A Ray Of Hope

In 2015, I left my fulltime job, with hopes to build my home-based healing business. At a time in life that was, in my eyes meant to be exciting and full of energy, my body had other plans. I started to experience significant health symptoms. Chronic fatigue, tremendous muscle fatigue, hair loss, constant throat pain and restriction, daily migraines, all with a deep sadness. Some days I could not brush my own hair or teeth, I could no longer pick up my little girl and life felt dark. I feared what my future would look like with this trajectory.

Chronic illness was a lonely road. It has been isolating, with many friends and family not really understanding the severity of the symptoms as it is difficult to explain. It is like mental health, in that, I appeared and looked healthy on the outside, but on the inside my body was desperately needing support. I think unless you have experienced chronic illness, it is hard to fully understand the scope of impact chronic illness can have on every area of one’s life.  

Over the years, I have seen different western medical practitioners, naturopathic doctors, neurologists, endocrinologists, and sought many different healing practitioners and modalities. All somewhat useful, some not, many practitioners not able to pinpoint the root cause of the symptoms that overwhelmed my system. 

In 2020, I found interoception, the practice of tuning in and listening to the body. This is when things began to shift as I learned more and more about the body, how the body stores trauma and what the body most desires; to be felt, seen, and witnessed as it is, without any agenda. This led to my completion of my yin yoga certification in May of 2021. I then started somatic experiencing therapy, and knew my nervous system was still in need of some extra support. In January of 2022, I found network spinal analysis, a specific type of chiropractic care, which led me to BSCT. I started my BCST training in October of 2022 and completed my training in May of 2024. 

I am happy to report, most of my symptoms have eased as of today. I can feel joy and pleasure in my body again and I am excited for my journey ahead. I still have moments of symptoms but now I tune in, listen, and slow down as opposed to trying to fix, or get rid of the symptoms. 

I have realized all those times I sought out other resources, the years of searching, trying different healing modalities, vitamins, herbs, different practices, (and so much money) I was doing them all with the intent to change my body, to get rid of my symptoms, because, really, who wants to be sick! However, I was not really listening to my body. What my body most needed was to be seen and held exactly as it was. My body was desperately trying to get my attention and I was hell bent on doing all the things to get rid of the symptoms while never truly tuning in and listening to my body. 

You are not broken

BCST offered my body the chance to enter a state of self-regulation, a place of rest where I could connect deeply to myself and the innate wisdom of my body. BCST changed my life and with every session, my body softened and opened as I was no longer trying to force anything to happen. I started simply being. I started allowing. I started listening. I began a new relationship with my body and the health of my body. BCST offered me a felt-sense experience of the health in my body; to come to know health and to know health was always present in my body, it has never left me and is waits patiently for me to return to its wisdom. 

BCST is a holistic way to view and support the body. In all my years of symptoms, no one ever asked me what was working well in my body, what felt good or healthy in my body. No one offered the concept of health; it was all about what was not working, obtaining a diagnosis and how to get rid of the symptoms. 

In a world focused on symptomology, pain, and illness, I find it refreshing to focus on health, to trust the sensations of health in the body more than the pain in the body. These concepts challenge and break down the current ideologies and frameworks that our society is built on. Can we turn towards our health? Can we acknowledge the pain in our body and also discover the health too? May we not dismiss our pain and our suffering but also, begin to know health as an innate part of the body. It was not until I was offered the opportunity to come into relationship with the health of my body did my symptoms start to ease. 

It is my deepest honour and intention to offer individuals the same opportunity to come to know their body in a new way, to come to know the wisdom and health of their own unique system. Perhaps, finding a bit of comfort to recognize, all is not lost, you are not broken, your body is not your enemy, and you too can find some ease, comfort, and healing from the things that cause you pain. 

It has never left me.