Author: Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

Anat Shlagman is a Traditional Naturopath and founder of Traditionally Empowered Healing LLC (Trad Em). With a practice established in 2012, Anat developed a unique session to relax the autonomic nervous system, creating the right environment for the body to heal itself. Her work dives deep into the root causes of physical, emotional, and mental conditions. Her unique session, Trad Em®, is combined of Castor oil packs on abdomen and chest, Reflexology, Lymphatic massage on areas covered with castor oil and embedded in Trance Mediumship Healing Energy and is designed to bring the autonomic nervous system to its parasympathetic state (peace response). Following her belief that, when body reaches this very deep state of relaxation it can start healing itself, this session shows great benefits to those who suffer from digestive issues, depression, anxiety, any type of feet pain/issues, joints issues, autoimmune issues and any other condition that cannot be resolved by the medical establishment. When realizing that castor oil packs have an amazing impact when applied on the abdomen and complimented with herbal infused oils, Anat has developed a longer session (Special Condition Session), successfully targeting more conditions, as frozen shoulder, arthritis, depression, autoimmune, digestive, soft tissue injuries, pain, sciatic issues, nerve injuries and more. While each case is individual and each person responds to the session differently, improvements have shown with many patients after the first session. Anat’s sessions delve deep into the root cause of any condition – may it be physical, emotional or mental. A profound change is being manifested through the session and is clearly felt by the person on the table. This change generates the beginning of whole healing. In 2023, Anat started implementing in her sessions Trance Mediumship Healing, as she is continuously learning from Chris Ratter, Psychic Surgeon. This type of Energy Healing created a very unique combination of Energy guided touch which tremendously enhanced her sessions. Born in Romania, Anat’s family has moved to Israel when she was 5. In 1990 Anat graduated high school and joined the Israeli mandatory military service for 2 year. She has achieved her BA in Health Services Management in 1997 and her MBA in Business Management in 2002, both from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva Israel. Moving to Michigan in 2004, Anat quit her 6-year job as a project manager in Ramat-Gan municipality, overseeing the computers’ hardware and software in the municipality public schools, becoming a full-time mom and wife. In 2005, Anat has become a Reiki master and a holistic practitioner, employing energy healing among her family and friends. In 2014 she graduated as a Traditional Naturopath from the Naturopathic School of the Healing Arts in Ann Arbor, completing a 3-year Diploma Program. Adopting the Traditional Naturopathy approach, Anat and her family went through many lifestyle changes seeking a healthier way of living. This included eating real foods rather than processed, utilizing ways to relax mind and body, introducing herbs as food and medicine and much more. These changes brought Anat’s family to a whole new level of health, including weight loss, increased energy levels and clarity of the mind. Experiencing these amazing shifts, Anat became passionate in helping families and individuals go through changes, which sometimes regarded impossible, to support higher levels of health. In 2014, Anat conducted a 6-month research, with a group of 7 women, showing that improving digestive issues will improve many other conditions in the body, as skin conditions, depression, aches and more. These women have gone through a major transformation. While stabilizing their eating habits, these women’s digestion system has improved, and many other changes occurred – Inflammation decreased, weight lost, relaxation occurred, cravings lessened, aches disappeared, and many more. In 2016, Anat took Lindera – Herbalist Jim Mcdonald’s Herbal intensive – enriching her understanding of herbs, and their assistance with healing our body. In 2017, Anat accomplished 800 hours of massage and advanced medical massage training at Flint School of Therapeutic massage, achieving her license to touch. Since then, Anat kept developing her sessions, and in 2023 she started learning with Chris Ratter, Psychic Surgeon , deepening her understanding of Spirit Energy healing. As a mother of three, Anat realized that in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle it is more productive being Relaxed rather than being Perfect. Therefore, she designed her sessions, her workshops and her herbal remedies to fit each person’s individual situation, working to Encourage minor (almost invisible) changes in one’s life, which have been showing an amazing long-lasting healing effect with many.

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The Unspoken Side Effects of Relaxing Your Nervous System

September 4, 2026 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

Relaxing your nervous system is one of the most beneficial ways to help your body heal. By doing so, your body shifts from being stuck in a passive survival mode to being proactive in detecting and correcting what’s needed. This process requires a grand investment of your time and efforts but is very effective.

Yet, while this investment shows great healing benefits, you might find yourself occasionally shifting back into your old habits, without understanding why you cannot commit to your healing journey. And then, you will most likely decide that it is more convenient to keep your familiar ways, rather than attempting to make a change.

Why would this be happening? Could there be some unspoken side effects to the process of relaxing your nervous system? Could these side effects cause a great disservice to your healing journey when they are not addressed properly, preventing you from healing? Is there anything you can do about it?

Let’s take a look at some examples of the spoken effects and their unspoken side ones and see if there is anything you can do to address them:

Spoken Effect: Healing from long-standing conditions
As we mentioned above, when your nervous system relaxes, your body has the means to detect and correct what’s needed. Then, healing will become part of your life, and any long-standing condition will begin to slowly disappear.

Unspoken Side Effect: Benefits of possessing a condition
Healing should be the most desired action for everyone who suffers from any condition. However, you may be among those who secured themselves with some benefits of possessing a condition – attention from your family and friends, having your condition as a topic of conversation to talk about, accepting priorities in lines in airports or supermarkets, or reimbursements/payments benefits, etc…
When you are not fully aware that there is a need to shift your mindset to one of a healthy person along with the need to become independent regardless to your conditions, you may be very disappointed once the benefits you enjoyed disappear. This might pull you back into your old habits, finding no interest in healing.

What can you do?
Take a moment to look within and ask yourself how your condition benefits you. Take another moment to look within and ask yourself how would healing benefit you. Then, ask yourself if you are willing to renounce your condition in order to gain your health. Honesty is a must in this process. Especially being honest to yourself.

Spoken Effect: New perception of the truth
Once your nervous system relaxes, you begin to see the world with “new glasses”. You may find that the truth is not necessary what you were telling yourself all these years. The truth might include painful realizations about your life, your family, or your friends, which will eventually help you understand that changes in your life are necessary.

Unspoken Side Effect: Fear of facing the truth
Making changes is inconvenient when you live in some type of perceived balance, which feels comfortable and familiar. Therefore, when you open up and discover facts that you are not ready yet to process, you may feel overwhelmed and inclined to go back to your old habits, where you feel safer.

What can you do?
As mentioned before, honesty is the key. When you allow yourself to be sincere, you will be open to accept the fact that the choices you made in your life brought your body to a place of dis-ease. From here, instead of scolding yourself in disbelief, you might consider choosing to forgive and love yourself unconditionally. Doing so will provide you a space to contain and process all your new realizations.

Spoken Effect: Weight Loss
When Nervous system is in survival mode, your body will be holding on everything, as there is no certainty in regard to what it needs. Therefore, there is no way you can lose any weight.
Once your nervous system relaxes, your body will get the message that “war is over” and will start to release what is not serving any longer. Then, your digestive system will function more efficiently, and your weight will probably go down.

Unspoken Side Effect: Body flooded with memories
As you go through life, your cells retain memories of every event that happened and has not been processed. When these events accumulate, your body will need to cover them so you will not be overwhelmed. Covering is done by pilling up mass, aka, gaining weight. Once you begin to lose weight, all these stored memories will set loose and pop up in your mind without any advanced notice. If you are not aware of this pattern, you may be caught in past traumas and fall into emotional eating, gaining back all your lost weight.

What can you do?
Let’s establish one basic forgotten fact – your body is your buddy, your roommate, as you both reside together in the same building. That’s why your body will never turn against you! Your body simply uses everything you provide to keep you alive. Many times, it will need to compromise as you may not provide all it needs. So, when memories arise, it is because your body cannot hold them any longer, not because your body is on a quest to prove you wrong. Take the time to look into each memory and mentally state: “I accept you into my life as you are part of me”. Then move on. The memory will not bother you anymore, as all it needed was to be acknowledged.

Spoken Effect: Increased awareness of your body
When relaxing your nervous system comes from routine activities like nourishment, castor oil packs and touch, you will discover that your awareness of your body increases, meaning that you will be able to notice subtle changes in your body and tend them before they become a problem.

Unspoken Side Effect: New sensations of pain
With that said, pains and discomforts might appear in areas that you did not notice them before. These are not new sensations, as these pains were there before, but this is a new awareness – now you know they are there! However, you may think that these sensations were caused because of the new changes you made and then choose to go back to your old habits.

What can you do?
First and foremost – breathe!!!! Before jumping to any conclusions – take a deep breath in and a slow breath out. Now, pay attention to the area that hurts – did something happen there in the past? It can be a physical or emotional or mental issue. Take the time to ponder with tenderness and no judgement. Keep your new routine and see if there is any correlation between your pain and what you ate, what you thought or the environment you were in.

Embarking on a healing journey that involves relaxation of your nervous system, will always bring wider effects than anything you would expect. This should not loosen your commitment. On the contrary – once you embrace all that comes your way, you will find that your healing is much deeper and meaningful. Your connection with your own body will strengthen, up to the point that you will want to maintain your new healthy lifestyle. In order to do so, I would like to share few general points that helped me on my ongoing journey hoping they can assist you as well:

🪄Surround yourself with people who walked this path, as they will understand what you are going through and will encourage you by their life example to continue. Remember that you do not need to be like them – you just need to absorb the inspiration from their actions.

🪄Appreciate your uniqueness and do not fear to create your individual path. Educate yourself and learn from other’s experiences. Remember not to limit yourself to their examples – turn this knowledge into something that serves your own needs. Be creative! Shine in your own way!

🪄Learn from your mistakes, as they are an awesome tool to understand what is working for you. Remember to leave your self-scolding aside and concentrate on the new revelations coming to light from your actions.

🪄When things get rough – take a moment to check in. Be honest with yourself while you scan the arising issues which stand in your way to healing. Remember to take a moment to breathe, and if needed – repeat!

If you feel in a bind – seek help before you decide on quitting. There are many professionals out there that can teach you how to deal with these issues – psychologists, hypnotists and even myself. Do not let your past dictate your future. Relax your nervous system and allow all the effects and side effects to come to surface and face each one of them with the confidence that they are here to move you forward on your healing journey.

Blog, Castor oil, Commitment to self, Healing Environment, Nervous systen, Nourishment, Parasympathetic, Reset, Self Heal, Self Love

What If Healing Is Your Birthright?

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

What if healing is your birthright—not a privilege reserved for the chosen few, but an inherent capacity which is an integral part of your own being? What if from the moment you are born, your body, mind, and spirit are designed to repair, adapt, and return to balance? What if your genes already hold everything needed for healing—so it isn’t something given from the outside, but something that already exists within you, simply waiting to be supported and allowed?

Would you be willing to support your body and allow your healing to unfold?

Maybe you would and maybe you won’t.

Probably the thought of it might create a dilemma in your head, as many people grow up believing that healing comes only from outside sources—experts, medications, or circumstances aligning perfectly. These sources can play a meaningful role in the healing process, but because they’re so deeply embedded in our culture, it can be difficult to see that they just facilitate the healing—while the true source of it resides within you.

As I mentioned before in my article The Art of Healing Yourself, you are the only one who can provide the environment for your body, mind and spirit to heal. All the knowledge already exists in your genes, but it doesn’t always have the right environment to be activated. Once you provide this environment, you will be transforming from dependency on outer sources to partnership with your own body.

Working in partnership with your own body is not always comfortable or quick, and it will require you to slow down and face patterns, beliefs, or emotions that you have long avoided. Healing will begin when you open yourself to accepting uncomfortable feelings without judgment. And then you will also start to shift…

A shift is a gift, which some may be hesitant to accept, due to the common belief that healing means returning to who you were before the pain or illness, stating sentences as “I wish to be back to my own self”.

But true healing is an act of transformation!! True healing comes when you utilize your energy to integrate and accept your past experiences instead of burning it out on dismissing them. Conserving this valuable energy will supply you with vitality to making small, consistent choices which will set you on your healing path. Some of the choices may include:

How you nourish your body

How you speak to yourself

How you manage stress

Who you allow into your environment

Accepting healing as your birthright while mindfully making small sustainable changes will enable you to own your shifting, even when your family or friends are slow to accommodate your “new you”.

With that said, the process of healing may take longer than you hoped. This doesn’t mean that you are wrong or that you need to go back into your old habits. It only means that time has come to exercise your trust:

Trust that your body is not working against you, even when it feels like it is.

Trust that your mind can learn new patterns, regardless of your chronical age.

Trust that no matter how far you feel from wholeness, this path is available for everyone who seeks it.

Learning to trust, when no one around can demonstrate it, is one of the most fundamental steps towards healing. When you trust, you stop zigzagging with your actions and start focusing on healing, because zigzagging brings confusion into your body preventing the healing process to begin.

How can you sustain trust and stay on track with your decisions? Only by bringing your nervous system to a deep relaxed state and assuring your body that “war is over!”.

Your nervous system is the lenses through which you perceive the world, thus, the busier you are surviving, the less able you are to trust unpopular ideas, especially when these ideas are not entertained by your closest friends and family. Would a daily application of a castor oil pack on your abdomen help? No doubt!! Would a daily consumption of chicken soup/bone broth/root vegetable soup make a change? Of course!! These are not magic pills, but long-lasting restorative tools on your healing journey.

Embracing healing as your birthright may require jumping through meaningful challenging hurdles. This may require a significant time and energy investment. Yet, this investment will open up the opportunity to clear your lenses and discover that healing is not something you have to earn or explain or apologies for. Healing is simply something that you allow.

And this all you need to do!!

Allow…

Then your birthright of healing will manifest to its fullest!!!!

Elementary my friend!

But if it doesn’t feel elementary to you and you need my help – don’t hesitate to reach out. We can work together to fine-tune the best way for you to allow your birthright to shine.

Blog, Castor oil, Commitment to self, Healing Environment, Nervous systen, Nourishment, Parasympathetic

Waiting for Surgery and Wondering What Else You Can Do Besides Worrying?

March 13, 2026May 5, 2026 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

A surgery, or any invasive procedure, large or small, places stress on the body. Often, in the days leading up to a scheduled operation, you may be left waiting while your thoughts fill up with worries and “what-ifs,” yet with little you actively do. This mental tension can intensity the overall stress of the experience, which in turn will lock your nervous system into a survival mode.

Assuming that your nervous system was not too relaxed before you scheduled your surgery and now locked in a survival mode, you may perceive any situation that you are facing as a threat or a personal attack, which cannot be beneficial to the upcoming procedure. What if, instead, you choose to settle your nervous system into a deep relaxed state, which will allow your energy to be directed towards healing and preparation rather than towards worries and desperation?

You might be wondering how you can relax your nervous system now, in a time that everything is uncertain in your own body, not to mention in the whole world? Or possibly wondering if it would be even possible to do it?

I am very much certain that you can do it, but before we begin, I want to ask you to take a moment to make a conscious decision that your mission is to work together with your own body to prepare it for this surgery (or any other upcoming event in your life, including living). If you have a partner in your life or someone close who plans to be with you through this upcoming procedure, you may consider inviting them to do this with you, as their nervous system might need some relaxation as well.

There are countless of ways to relax your nervous system. I will share here few ideas that could be productive as you prepare for a surgery. You are welcome to explore them and add your own to this list. With that said, keep in mind that choosing just one idea and following through with it will be far more beneficial than staring at the entire list and telling yourself there’s too much to handle and you can’t possibly get it done…

Nourishment
Nourishment means supplying your cells with the materials they need in order to function in their most efficient way. When you do so, your body learns to trust that there is no need to stress about food supply and thus your nervous system relaxes. Many real foods can nourish your cells, however, if this is not your practice, you may get discouraged to make changes through out such a sensitive time.

But what if you add only one thing to your meals, without changing a thing? What if you begin one of your meals (or 2 or all of your meals) with a cup of chicken soup / bone broth?

There are so many reasons to eat this soup daily, regardless to any circumstances. Beginning with its fats which nourish your nervous system and calming down your fight-or-flight response. Continuing with its gelatin which calms digestive disorders; and its collagen which protects your joints, ligaments, & skin; and its minerals; and its nourishing properties for basically everything you could ever imagine!!

You are welcome to use my recipe or make your own.

Make it a point to do all you can to nourish your body.

Castor Oil Packs
Castor oil, a very thick oil derived from the castor bean (Ricinus communis) seed, has been praised for many benefits. Among them: Decreasing inflammation, Increasing circulation of blood and lymph thus enhancing the immune system, Improving elimination of toxic substances, Promoting tissue healing, Decreasing pain, Lubricating ligaments, Improving digestion, Easing many conditions including uterine fibroid, non-malignant ovarian cysts, endometriosis, headaches, migraines, constipation, intestinal disorders, gallbladder/liver conditions, and probably many more.

All of these are awesome and extremely important for preparation to a surgery. But the most beneficial quality of the castor pack is relaxing your nervous system when applied on your belly. As messy as you may find it, your nervous system will very much thank you!!

You are welcome to use my instructions or do the packs any way that works for you.

Make it a point to create a daily anchor for your nervous system to relax, regardless to any events occurring that day.

Rest
According to Harvard university, sleep enhances memory, immune system, focus, improves mood and provides vitality for us to be productive. But when you prepare for a surgery, your mind might be filled with worries and concerns which may prevent you from getting a good night sleep. Here are few suggestions to help you calm down your racing mind:

* Drinking a cup of Lemon balm tea (Melissa officinalis) can be wonderful before bed. Prepare another cup next to your bed in case you wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep.

* Taking one deep, long breath can change your mind-set for that moment. Be mindful to expand your belly as you inhale and let it soften as you exhale. Taking just a few breaths like this can be truly life changing.

* Listening to a short, guided meditation – easily can be found on YouTube or any meditation app, can help your mind shift. One that I do daily, and shared here before, is Sitting in the power, led by Chris Ratter, Psychic Surgeon:

Make it a point to do everything in your power so you can sleep and restore.

Spend Time Outdoors
Take the time to be outside. If you are able to walk – find a nice trail to walk daily. If walking is hard – sit on your porch or find a nice bench in your area to spend 30 minutes sitting there. Dress for the weather and just breath. This will help you reset your nervous system and will have a great effect on your sleep as well.

Make it a point to enjoy your time outdoors.

Take on fewer commitments
Even when you believe that something you are committing to do will take only a few minutes and will not be a burden on you, consider not to make this engagement. Use the time to do only things that serve you. This might not be an easy task for you to do. If so, fill up your calendar with commitments to your own health and healing journey (hopefully including some of the above suggestions), leaving no room for any other distractions. It will make it much easier to say NO when your calendar is full.

Make a point to preserve your energy to yourself only and not spread it out carelessly.

Pray
Whether from your heart or from your prayer book, a prayer will give you the confidence that you are never alone, and that you are always protected. Make it a point to trust that everything you experience is happening for your highest good and will turn out better than you can ever imagine.

Your body deserves your full attention and attendance, regardless to any scheduled procedures or surgeries. Make it a point that, when you prepare for something that is beyond your usual routine, you will give your body the best possible opportunity to provide you with the best possible outcome. Keeping in mind that doing just one thing will always be more than doing nothing or just sitting and worrying! Your body will thank you! And you will feel it!! May everything turn out better than you ever expected!

If you ever need my help, don’t hesitate to reach out—we can work together to fine-tune the best path forward for your unique situation.

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Trance Development and Healing Sessions with Chris Ratter in Michigan

March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

We are excited to announce that Chris Ratter, Psychic Surgeon & Trance Healer from Edinburgh, Scotland will be back in Michigan for a Trance Development & Healing 2-day Workshop and Private Healing Sessions in April 11-15, 2026. Chris’s visits in 2024 and 2025 have been a phenomenal success with wonderful feedback about improved health, relieved digestive issues, exceptionally well healing of broken bones, relieved emotional issues, fertility and more.

We are very excited to plan for
April 11-15, 2026!!

Chris is a gifted healer and trance medium, traveling the world sharing his gift. His workshops are open to all those who are interested in learning mediumship and healing – all levels. His private sessions are open to everyone who struggles with a health issue and seeking healing.

Workshop will take place at
Hampton Inn Commerce/Novi – just off M5, near the Commerce Costco.
The Private sessions will take place at Traditionally Empowered Healing office in Franklin, MI.

All details and RSVP in the link below:

Trance Development and Healing Sessions with Chris Ratter in Michigan

Looking forward to seeing you all!!!!

Anat

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What If You Were a Healer?

December 17, 2025 Anat Shlagman Traditional Naturopath

Thinking about the word “healer”, we might find ourselves living in a misconception, backed up by the Oxford dictionary definition, that a healer is “a person who seeks to cure diseases or heal injuries by means other than conventional medical treatment”. This definition implies that the body is an object that requires a healer to engaged in the mission of actively healing it. Is that so? Does your body have no abilities other than waiting for someone to heal it?

What if your body already knows how to heal itself but lacks the proper environment to do it? What if a healer was the one who creates the environment for your body to heal, while trusting your body’s wisdom to do the work, without actively engaging in healing it? What if you could create that environment for your body? What if you were a healer?

When you accept yourself as a healer, you have one mission only – to nurture the environment for your body to heal itself. You do not need to actively heal your body. All you need to do is to create the environment so your body can reach the wisdom which is embedded in its genes to heal itself.

What would that environment be? Each body is different, thus each one of us will have individual needs. In order to understand your unique needs, best would be to open a line of communication between you and your body.

Pain or discomfort are the most common communications you would receive from your body, signaling you to pay attention to your actions, since something you do is not making your body comfortable. When you tend to the pain by checking what went wrong, your body will know that you are available to listen.

What could go wrong that might bring pain to your body?
Everything you can possibly imagine, in every aspect that you can possibly perceive – physically, emotionally or mentally.

Here are some examples to explore, feel free to venture into any other idea that will pop into your mind:

Starting with the Physical possibilities – can your body thrive with what you supply, or just survive?
1. Nourishment & hydration – what’s on your plate and in your cup?
2. Resting – How deep is your sleep?
3. Movement & touch – Are you tending your body with physical activity and physical touch?

Continue with the Emotional possibilities- can your body thrive with the way you feel, or just survive?
1. Love – Are you in a loving and caring environment – at home, at work, in life?
2. Anxiety/fear/stress – Are your demons controlling you?
3. Social – Do you feel surrounded by like-minded friends or feel lonely with no one to engage in a deep meaningful conversation?

Following with the Mental possibilities – can your body thrive with your perceptions or just survive?
1. Values – Can you protect your values or need to compromise them when conflicted?
2. Space – Are you giving yourself priority space on your to-do list?
3. Believes – Are the believes you hold created by society’s expectations or authentically generated according to your values?

Taking the time to ask yourself if your body thrives or survives is the first step as a healer to understand which environment your body needs in order to heal. Answering honestly without judgment will allow your body to open up and reveal it needs.

But what if you, probably like 99% of the people in the world, find that you have too many issues to address in order to be able to create your healing environment? This might be a bit discouraging, prompting you to face two opposing options:

Making the decision to ignore it all and continue your life as before without any changes.
Making the decision to start a slow process of change. This can be done by writing down a list of your issues, then choosing one issue from your list to address.

The freedom to make choices carries the heavy toll of owning the consequences of your actions: whatever you choose – you are the one who has to live with it. Yet, when your decision is made after you take the time to listen to your body, you might find it more motivating to choose to start a slow process of change, rather than ignoring it all.

Once you made the decision to start a slow process of change, you become a healer. Always remember that your exclusive role as a healer is to create the right environment for your own body to heal itself. You do not need to heal your body, nor your family/neighbors/friends’ bodies! Only focusing on the environment that your own body needs.

Will that be fast? Probably not. Will that be easy? Definitely not. This is a journey. Each one of us is a healer! Each one of us can create the environment for our own body to heal. And by doing so, each one of us can set the example for our families, neighbors and friends to follow our lead, tending to their own personal environments for their bodies to heal.

If you are not sure how to begin your journey, I invite you to come in for a session to reconnect with your own body, understand the environment that your body needs and realign your healing plans.

This holiday season, I am holding the prayers for each one of us to open ourselves to listen to our own body and spread light into the world from our own healing environments.

Wishing you all heart-filling holidays and a healing new year ahead!