What if feeling better starts with doing less, not more? 💛

In this episode of The Healing Artist, I'm joined by Dr. Melanie Icard, affectionately known as Dr. Mel, for a fascinating conversation about holistic health, chronic stress, metabolic health, self-worth, and what it really means to take care of ourselves.

Dr. Mel's journey into medicine began long before medical school. After losing her mother to breast cancer at just 11 years old, she grew up carrying a fear that she, too, would die young. Years later, becoming a mother herself inspired her to explore what she could do to support her own health and create a different future for her son.

That journey took her from conventional medicine into naturopathic medicine and a more comprehensive approach to health and healing.

Today, Dr. Mel combines her medical background with holistic practices to help people explore their health, understand their bodies, and make changes that support their well-being. Her work focuses on metabolic health, blood sugar and glucose patterns, cardiovascular health, nutrition, inflammation, gut health, and nervous system regulation.

One of my favorite threads in this conversation is the reminder that we can become so accustomed to taking care of everyone else that we forget we deserve care, too. Sometimes the next step in our healing isn't doing more. It's learning to slow down, listen, and let ourselves receive.

Meet Dr. Mel

Dr. Melanie Icard, known as Dr. Mel, is a naturopathic doctor with a background in conventional medicine. Her work focuses on holistic health, metabolic wellness, and helping people take a more active role in their health journey.

Learn more about her work, explore her educational resources, or book a call:

🌐 Website: https://drmelanieicard.com
📧 Email: Drmel@drmelanieicard.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmelholistic/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drmelholistic

Ready to explore your own healing journey?

Visit https://fredahealing.com to learn more about my energy healing sessions, Return to Self-Love community, meditations, and other offerings.

And if this conversation resonated with you, please share it with a friend who needs the reminder that they deserve to feel supported, too.

Thank you for being here, beautiful human. Keep following what lights you up, hold it all lightly, and remember that healing doesn't have to mean doing more.

With love,
Freda 💛

Please note: This episode is for educational and informational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized medical advice. Always consult your qualified healthcare professional before changing medications or treatment plans.

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What if the next level of your life doesn’t require you to DO more—but to feel safe enough to receive more?

In this episode of The Healing Artist, I’m joined by liberation strategist, author, and holistic healer Veronica Kelly for a beautiful, expansive conversation about self-love, emotional freedom, nervous system safety, inherited patterns, energy, and reclaiming our power.

Veronica shares the deeply personal story of how she went from a professional artist and performer to discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) after realizing that subconscious beliefs were influencing the relationships she kept creating.

We talk about what happens when we uncover the beliefs underneath our patterns, why healing can sometimes feel like an expansion followed by a contraction, and why creating safety in the nervous system is such an important part of becoming the person we’re ready to be.

Veronica also shares a simple EFT practice you can use when you’re overwhelmed, frightened, or feeling like life is working against you:

“Everything is working out for me. Even if I can’t see it right now. I am safe.”

And yes, we actually do it together.

We talk about the power of naming what you’re feeling, allowing yourself to have needs, slowing down enough to hear your own truth, protecting your attention, and choosing what you want to feed your energy.

This conversation is ultimately about liberation—freeing ourselves from the beliefs, patterns, expectations, and inherited stories that no longer serve us so we can come home to ourselves.

If you're navigating a big transition, questioning old patterns, working on self-love, or simply wondering what might be possible when you stop fighting yourself, I think you're going to get a lot out of this conversation.

Come listen, breathe, tap, and remember:

You are allowed to come back to yourself.

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What happens when the version of you that got you here is no longer the version of you that can take you where you're going?

In this episode of The Healing Artist, I'm talking about ego death, spiritual awakening, death and rebirth, and the strange, uncomfortable process of letting go of who I thought I was.

I've been watching myself cling to the old versions of me—the tortured childhood, the starving artist, the rage, the constant striving, the need to accomplish the next thing—and realizing that even my healing journey had become another place where I was always trying to climb the next mountain.

So what happens when I stop?

What happens when I stop proving, stop striving, stop chasing the next milestone, and simply ask myself: What do I want right now? What do I need right now?

During a solo camping trip, I had a series of experiences with a bunny, a dead bunny, white lilies, a river full of tadpoles and frogs, and eventually one very chonky tadpole that landed in my hand. And suddenly I understood:

I have been trying to pretend to be the frog.

But what if I could just be the tadpole?

What if becoming is the whole point?

This episode is about sitting in the void, releasing old identities, trusting the process of spiritual transformation, learning to receive, and remembering that I don't have to become some future version of myself to be enough right now.

I also share some very strange and beautiful experiences around manifestation, receiving unexpected gifts, and learning to trust that life can unfold in ways I never could have planned.

Maybe you don't need to have it all figured out.

Maybe you're not behind.

Maybe you're not supposed to be the frog yet.

Maybe you get to be the tadpole.

If you'd like to work with me, come visit me at https://fredahealing.com. You can learn more about Return to Self-Love, my morning meditation community, as well as my private healing sessions.

And I'd love to know: Have you ever experienced an ego death or a season of death and rebirth in your own life?

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