Mariette Snyman

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Living with an autoimmune disease and chronic pain: what I’ve learnt

Angel medium Belinda Bras-Nel explains how a life-long autoimmune condition, only recently diagnosed, has impacted her physically and psychologically and affected her work and relationships. Viewing these challenges in a spiritual light, she sees herself as being “pregnant with the earth, ” contributing to a general shift in consciousness.

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In ep. 160 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear and Helpful, angel whisperer, animal communicator and yoga teacher Belinda Bras-Nel touches on

  • difficulties she experienced as a child, including not being able to exercise due to muscle pains

  • the interaction between the mystery disease and Belinda’s immune system in recent decades

  • how living with chronic pain has affected her close relationships and her work

  • her inability to lose weight, despite regular exercise and a healthy eating plan

  • how her autoimmune condition has escalated during the past 12 months

  • finding relief by using natural medicines

  • how Belinda got more clarity on her condition from a functional medicine practitioner

  • committing to her well-being by clearing old emotional pain and adjusting her eating plan

  • letting pain be her teacher, while knowing that her experience has a higher purpose

  • detaching from the outcome of her health journey 

  • wake-up calls motivating all of us to return to living in harmony with nature

  • Belinda’s sacred pilgrimage to Ireland

  • her tips for individuals experiencing gut problems.

    In this episode, Belinda mentions the MTHFR gene mutation and Newgrange in Ireland.

    Scroll down to learn more about Belinda’s work.

Belinda tells stories from a recent pilgrimage to Ireland, aimed at reconnecting with nature and lifetimes past; another journey coming up next year.

Are you pushing yourself too hard? Belinda explains why the world needs your feminine energy.

Functional medicine health coach Anita Hamilton-Williams explains how to address an autoimmune disease using nutrition, lifestyle and behaviour changes.

Here’s Belinda’s deeply moving account of the challenges she faced on her path from engineering (and acute depression) to being an angel whisperer.

Belinda with tour guide Luke Watson on her 2024 sacred pilgrimage to Ireland

Belinda discusses our 8 common fears connected to death and how to make peace with the concept of dying.

Listen to Belinda’s honest account of how she experienced her mom’s death, and of our deep need to be mothered.

Belinda offers down-to-earth habits which will charge your aura and open up joy.

Belinda encourages us to experience life with reverence, not as a struggle. With pics of the new wolf cubs, Odin II and Olga!

Read the article where Belinda talks about having angels as colleagues, wolves, and a family of nerds.

Contact details

Belinda Bras-Nel is an angel whisperer, animal communicator, author, yoga practitioner and regression therapist from Vanderbijlpark. She offers messages from the angels and guides (in person and remotely), healing sessions (in person and remotely), connection with loved ones who have passed over (in person and remotely), connecting with animals (in person and remotely) as well as spiritual life coaching, regression therapy, workshops, spiritual retreats and yoga.

Website http://www.belindabrasnel.co.za/ - here you’ll also find her books, meditation CDs and angel cards.

Email angelmessages@telkomsa.net  

Facebook Belinda Bras-Nel and also Walking With Angels

Instagram belinda.brasnel

TikTok angellady8888

Find Belinda’s weekly angel message on her YouTube channel: Angel Messages by Belinda Bras-Nel

Whatsapp or Telegram: 082 929 8938 - send Belinda a Whatsapp to subscribe to her Thursday evening online gatherings.

The free podcast series Calm, Clear & Helpful is available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Player FM and Iono.fm.

Original music by Mart-Marie Snyman

Thumbnail image: Unsplash.

Photographs of Belinda Bras-Nel: supplied.