Brenda (00:00:01) - Hi, Amy. Thank you for joining me.
Amy (00:00:05) - Hi, friend. It's good to see you today.
Brenda (00:00:07) - Oh, it's so nice to see you. I am so excited for this conversation. Not only because you're going to share all the wisdom about bio decoding, but just because I want to connect with you. So thank you for being here.
Amy (00:00:22) - I am just thrilled. I have literally been looking forward to this and every time I think of it, I get this huge smile. I'm just I'm grateful. Grateful to be here.
Brenda (00:00:31) - I am too. And, you know, um, we've had more than one shared experience together. But one of the most pivotal experiences I think about was when we were roommates in Kal Amigos Guest Ranch, and we had that suite and we would wake up and we would have smoothies with flowers in them, and it just felt so divine.
Amy (00:00:56) - Everything about that was magical. And, um. Yeah, that's another thing. As I was thinking about catching up with you, I was thinking about those moments.
Amy (00:01:07) - It was so beautiful. There was such heart connection and shared ideas and experience. It was just. It was just a really just beautiful moment in time that will be treasured.
Brenda (00:01:21) - Um, absolutely. So for our listeners who don't know you, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and the work that you do in the world?
Amy (00:01:28) - Yeah, I'm Amy McKeever. I founded Violet Crown Wellness. That's my business here. It's named for, um, the. There's a beautiful Twilight phenomenon here in Austin, where the city looks like it's surrounded by a violet crown. And, um, I'm from Austin, Texas. And then also in, um, in the energetic body, there is a violet crown. That is part of my practices that have been heavily influenced, influenced by yoga for the last 23 years. Um, breath. Um, I am Reiki attuned. I have a master's in health education, so I was thinking about it recently. I was talking I have three children, so um, I was actually talking to them.
Amy (00:02:15) - I was like, well, you know, your mom's an innovator in health. And it was like they were like, what? What do you mean? And I was reflecting on my career and really for the past 20 plus years, it's been on the forefront of what is possible. We started in when I was in corporate America. We establish a nurse administered hotline, and everyone told us we could not do telemedicine back in, you know, the early 2000 and and look at where we are today with that. Um, and then, um, you know, a holistic health coach, I was certified in that and Reiki attuned around the same time. So that was like 2010, 2012. And now, I mean, how beautiful is it that everyone has part of their conversation that food is medicine and that breath is beautiful and, um, that we can, um, combine the idea that medical attention is important, as is energetics. Um, as in as our thoughts and, um, feelings and emotions.
Amy (00:03:31) - It's all connected. So, um, it's just been a very beautiful progression into what I do now, which is a combination of things, um, but, uh, largely focused right now on bio decoding, which is. Biological decoding. So we're looking at the body and the function of the body. We're looking at the person what makes them up and also understanding what part of the body is affected and what potential conflicts can exist in in that particular part. And um, all of that comes together in a way that people can, um, have a more rapid resolution to things that aren't feeling well in their bodies. So I just call them symptoms, but it could be anxiety and depression. It could be, um, hip pain. It could be, uh, back pain. It could be gastrointestinal. It's like everybody everybody has some kind of expression of what's going on in their life that their, their body is working to communicate. So I help people understand that and, um, resolve the symptoms in a, in a way that feels like magic.
Brenda (00:04:50) - Yeah. That's amazing. And, you know, so I just have completed a certification as a somatic coach. And this is kind of like a sister or a cousin of bio decoding. It's not the same as, but they're definitely related in the sense that there's a belief that if we don't release the stored emotionality in the body and heal the child parts inside of us that are seeking to have a need met that we end up with, like you say, the symptoms or the expression of different things. So, for example, my voice is hoarse today and I was doing some inner work and I was like, what is this? I'm not sick. What is happening with my voice? And I found a little child part. She's about three. She cut her own bangs, and she had been told that she had to pay her dues. And so this little three year old inside me has been hustling for her worth for 47 years. And I found her this week as part of my hoarseness. And so now that I found her, it can begin to resolve.
Amy (00:06:06) - Yeah. It's so powerful. It's so powerful. I mean, and it's such a common sense. Um, in some ways, right. We have a brain that is operating our body and organs and digestion and everything that goes on. Right? We know that that's the physical component. And we also have this emotional experience in life. Um. And those two things. How are they not connected? Right? Of course they're connected. Of course. So yeah, when I love that, I love the example you just gave. How sweet is it to to to have that compassionate view of yourself and then and seek to resolve it. And yeah, I imagine that the body is going to resolve the symptom along with that work that you did that's so profound.
Brenda (00:06:59) - Um, and it's, it's reminding me of a session that you held for me, a bio decoding session. So before we get into to that, can you explain what the process is like? If somebody was like, what is bio decoding? How would you how would you describe it?
Amy (00:07:19) - Oh, I'm glad you asked that.
Amy (00:07:21) - I've tried to make the answer shorter. I think the most simple thing to think about is like our body does not speak in words. It speaks in sensations and feelings and symptoms. And so what bio decoding seeks to do is, um, it seeks to take all of that into account and find, um, a programming event so much like you just shared a programming event is often, I would so tempted to say always in childhood. Um, and the program of event sets the program. And then we have a triggering event later on in life that triggers the program in the body, produces a symptom. So in bio decoding, what we're seeking is to find the programming event. Trauma repair was what I call using the body's language with the senses, um, visuals, imagination, right brain, and carry that repair forward in a way that can promote healing in the body. And as the cells integrate it, um, the symptom can resolve.
Brenda (00:08:31) - Um, I love that explanation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brenda (00:08:33) - So when I think of biohacking. I think of you because you taught me so many little subtle bio hacks. Like, for example, I remember being on the beach in Boca Raton, Florida, and you had these little glass capsules of saline that were designed to help us with energy. And so I'm wondering, how did you find bio decoding? Was it through your search of. Health, because I know that you're kind of a seeker of of health.
Amy (00:09:09) - Yeah. Yeah. Um, I love that question. Yes, it it is that. Well, but it's it's deeper than that to bio decoding found me. Um, is the real answer. Uh, I had PTSD and did a lot of work to, uh, move through that. And then meanwhile, I began working in a medical clinic, uh, with the neurosurgeon, and I was listening to these people's stories. Because we do a very like there was a this is a really in-depth conversation. And in my experience of trauma, I recognize that in others.
Amy (00:09:50) - And I wanted to find a way. I remember I sat down and I wrote a goal that I find a way to assist people in resolving, um, resolving what they seek to resolve, which in this case is often symptoms of pain. Um, and also my knowing and like just, um, observation of witnessing really of their life and their trauma. And, um, I just accidentally bumped into it. I first was introduced to biological decoding from another group, and then I thought I was registering for it, and I ended up with bio decoding, and it couldn't have been a better fit. Brenda. It couldn't have been a better fit. Oh my gosh. Because what bio decoding does is it takes the ancient wisdom of Germanic new medicine, which is this. Um, my way of describing is like a map to the human body, like what potential conflicts exist and where, and it marries it with other techniques like hypnosis or, um, NLP, a neuro linguistic processing. Um, and the, the thing that I do that is, is, is unique to me is I combine it with my understanding of the body through yoga and breath and, um, I have intuition and, and the energetics.
Amy (00:11:20) - And so bio decoding is so beautiful because you can marry all those things with that, um, understanding and work through to, to assist people and that that was my goal.
Brenda (00:11:37) - Um, I love that, you know, uh, PTSD was kind of my jumping off place to I needed to find a way to heal it. And talk therapy was like it, it was helping, but it wasn't actually moving the needle. And so it felt like. I mean, it felt good to talk, but the changes were not coming. The changes were not coming in my behavior. And it wasn't even that I wasn't willing. It was that there was a nervous system cap that kept me from feeling safe enough to actually make the changes I wanted to make. And so that's kind of how I found Reiki. And then one thing led to another, and then I found breathwork and breathwork and somatic coaching have been my way of of leaving behind the mindset work because it's that work has a cap. You can't you can't muscle through a program like you're saying.
Brenda (00:12:39) - And so I love that. Not only did you find it accidentally, but you literally registered for the wrong thing and then found it.
Amy (00:12:45) - Yeah, which was perfect. It was a perfect fit. I, I I'm in love, you know, it's it's my calling this the the way I'm working with people right now. But what you said is so important to like, talk therapy is helpful and it's important, but it's only addressing one part. So we, our body, mind and spirit or body, brain and psyche or however you want to, um, categorized. But it's, it's it's not just the mind. And so talk therapy while sometimes we do need that mind work um, it's also to, I think to really impact someone and have a big change, like you were saying is. Inclusion of the breath, inclusion of the body, inclusion of the spirit or the psyche? The emotions. Um, and and that's what these additional modalities do. That's how they that's how they help move the needle.
Amy (00:13:45) - I think further faster we just go further, faster. That's it.
Brenda (00:13:49) - That's it. You just go further faster. And, you know, to your point, there is an absolute place and need for talk therapy. I think it's valuable. And so I don't want to leave anyone with the impression that I'm not pro therapy because I am absolutely pro therapy.
Amy (00:14:04) - I didn't get I didn't get that. Yeah I, I saw that you like. Yeah. Yeah. I think you left a really good impression. It's all part of it's all part of the package.
Brenda (00:14:14) - Right. It's all, it's all a way to heal. So you talked about your journey through PTSD. What was life like when you were experiencing symptoms of trauma? I mean, I know that you had an awareness that there had been a trauma, but how did it show up first? Oh no, not at first.
Amy (00:14:35) - Mhm.
Brenda (00:14:36) - Oh, tell.
Amy (00:14:36) - Us, because I, um, I did not know that trauma was possible in the way that I experienced it, meaning I wasn't in a car accident, I wasn't a soldier.
Amy (00:14:48) - Um, I was experiencing a really hard thing and um, but what was going on, which is why it's such a great question and I'm happy to answer it. Um, my body kind of. Went into hyperdrive. I couldn't stop blocking. I had gastrointestinal issues so bad that I ended up bleeding out. Um, I, um. Even talking about it now. Like I hear, I feel a higher, um, heart rate. Um, uh, I couldn't sleep and I couldn't eat. And so the physical manifestation of it was really so bad. And this went on for a few months, but I didn't I didn't know what it was like. I just knew that I was experiencing something really hard. And finally someone said, Amy, I. That may be trauma. You need to go and find a therapist. And I did find someone that did eMDR and my gosh, I'll never forget it. Brenda. She was like. We're going to we're going to get you eating and sleeping, okay? And I was like you, thank you.
Amy (00:16:03) - Because, um, the, the physical nature of it was intense.
Brenda (00:16:10) - Yeah. Thank you for sharing that, Amy. And, you know, to your point, I use a definition of trauma that is too much, too fast in a way that exceeds the nervous systems capacity to cope. And so, you know, that, you know, one of the things that I hear is that there's this hierarchy of trauma like this is capital T trauma, this is lowercase t trauma. I say trauma is trauma is trauma. The body does not care what the cause of the trauma was. It only cares that there has been a trauma.
Amy (00:16:45) - Right. And, you know, um, I love I love that it's, um. So, so that's why I say I didn't know I had it, because in my, um, view at understanding at the time is that I hadn't been through an event that was bad enough for that, but now I know bad.
Brenda (00:17:07) - Enough in quotes, right?
Amy (00:17:09) - Right, right.
Amy (00:17:10) - Bad enough in quotes yet, um, and now, years later, you know, we know that, like you said, it's it's like, what is what is the body's reaction? I mean, I, I my period stopped. I haven't had it since um, I was only 42, so, um, so yeah. Yeah, that was the, that was, that was one of the big moments where I had to find something that worked. And, um, you know, I've had many moments since then, and biotech coding plays a role in that too, for me with, uh, resolution of, um, some health issues.
Brenda (00:17:46) - Well, you raise an interesting point here when you say that bio decoding still works for you. One of the things that I've noticed in my own work is that I continue to have content arise, meaning I'm still working through things and using my skills and my tools to continue to evolve. Do you find that to be true for yourself?
Amy (00:18:08) - Totally. Totally.
Amy (00:18:10) - Um, just gosh, this past, um, this past period of time, I love I love calling it an initiation. Brenda. It's like this most recent initiation. Um. It. It created an opportunity for a depression for me, which is, um, kind of was also surprising. And the, the thing in, in bio decoding. Right. The, the way bio decoding has a different lens on a lot of things. And I just think it goes really well with all the other modalities that we mentioned. One of the things I learned in bio decoding is after a BioShock six months later, um, a depression can emerge. So when I work with people and they mentioned depression, I asked them what happened six months prior. And there's usually something that happens six months prior. Um, and, you know, so so that's what it was for me. It was so funny because when I learned that I went back six months and I was like, boom, there it is. I, you know, I in a sense, I lost my home and had to move.
Amy (00:19:26) - And I live in a lovely home and I'm just fine. But it was it was also a real challenging time with, um, you know, some, some major surprises in, in the home that I moved into. So, yeah, there's always content, um. Um, coming up and. Go ahead. That's why I like what what what you do with breathwork? What? I'm not familiar with the the particular kind of somatic coaching we. I would love to know more, but with bio decoding too, it's like there's a hygiene to it so we don't have to wait. Right. And this is, this is, this is what I really want people to hear. Um. I have had the opportunity to beautiful opportunity to work with some people who are in their 20s. And, um, I feel like, oh my goodness, they're resolving things that they could have carried till they were 50, you know, and, um, and so I feel like sometimes people will wait till it gets pretty bad before they reach out to help for, uh, for help, uh, to to someone who does even, even, uh, different kinds of therapy, um, like me with bio decoding, like you with a somatic therapies.
Amy (00:20:47) - And it doesn't need to be bad. It can be like your body is speaking to you. And so what if we take a moment to listen and maybe find someone that can guide so that we can, uh, resolve this as we go rather than waiting until there's a major health issue?
Brenda (00:21:08) - Oh, 100%, 100%. So, you know, I find the more work I do, the more sensitive I get, which means the less tolerant I am of feeling bad. And so when I feel something that's a crunch, whether it's a physical symptom or an emotional pain, I deal with it immediately. And I'm not. I'm not waiting. And that's really different from how I used to live. How I used to live was I will stuff down, ignore, tolerate any symptom until I'm physically incapable of ignoring it.
Amy (00:21:45) - Right? Right. And that's what I believe that, you know, we were kind of taught society and just keep going. Push through. You got this go grip.
Brenda (00:21:57) - I think we're still teaching that to society.
Brenda (00:22:00) - I just came back from a conference with choir directors, which is also adding to my throat thing that's happening right now, but my roommate was literally vomiting, like throwing up violently. She would, you know, rinse out her mouth, wash her face, feel better a little bit, and then go back to the conference because she had, quote, work to do.
Amy (00:22:25) - Wow.
Brenda (00:22:26) - And I had so much compassion for her. Because I, I, I've been there. I've lived that life where you just like you gotta go, you gotta go. No one, no one is around to fill in the gap. If I don't do this, it's not going to get done. Yeah. And we put ourselves in real jeopardy when we're ignoring physical symptoms.
Amy (00:22:48) - Right? Right. Yeah. Gosh. Poor thing. Yeah, I know better now.
Brenda (00:22:55) - I hope she's better.
Amy (00:22:55) - Now, too. Yeah.
Brenda (00:22:58) - Yeah, yeah. So when you first started working with people in bio decoding. I know that you have experienced and watched them really transform, and I've watched you get even more confident in your skills.
Brenda (00:23:14) - And you even held a session for me and I loved it. Yeah, yeah. Um, what what is something that you could share with us? Maybe a case study or a story about somebody there before and after? What was life like before bio decoding? What was life like after?
Amy (00:23:32) - Oh, I love this. Um, yeah. I have been studying and working with this particular modality now for close to three years. Um, and. I have so many wonderful examples that it just like to me. That's why I'm so grateful for this conversation, Brenda. Because I'm like, people have got to know about this. And one example, um, just recently, um, was this is less related to a physical symptom, but it's related to anxiety and depression. And, um, I've been working with a young person with this and. Like what I hear most often, or what I see with my own eyes after a bio decoding session. Um, is there's like a sense that, like, this person is lighter, they're just lighter.
Amy (00:24:28) - And, um, in this particular case, I was I was speaking with a mom and she said, Amy, I, I just have to tell you, he's just noticeably lighter. And, um, the, the, the thing that I think he said to her was. It just doesn't feel as bad as it used to. Mhm. And so when I think about that um. That is a huge win. Like just to feel lighter and happier and more capable and, you know, we'll keep going. Another example is I worked with a woman who had a hysterectomy, and she had a pain, and she had a pain ever since she had her hysterectomy. Afterwards she said, Amy, it's gone. It's 100% gone. It's no longer there. And another woman with hip pain. And we did a session and she had already done so many interventions. And I'm in the chair. I'm sitting across from her and I checked her at the beginning. It was a level six hip pain and at the end she said.
Amy (00:25:45) - It's zero. And she had this big smile on her face and I was like. Say it again. Say it one more time. She was out of pain now, since then, because, you know, our live provides content. Um, it's probably I believe last I checked, it was at a two, but that's that's still a very big difference from a 6 to 2. She wasn't she wasn't able to, like, really enjoy her life. Right. So these are three. And I mean, I could keep going if you want me to. There's a woman that had acne and had been on medication and done everything, and we had three sessions, and, um, she was still taking acne medication and she ran out and, um, and then she was like, maybe the acne is gone. She's like, I don't need that medication anymore. So it's freedom, Brenda. And it's it's joy and it's a feeling of, um, a lightness and and it's it's really happening, you know what I mean? Like, I, I'm just in love with it.
Brenda (00:26:53) - Um, and for people who don't understand what we're saying when we say lightness is one of the things that people talk about when they're coming in with depression, anxiety, physical pain is a sense of heaviness. So when we're when you hear Amy saying lightness, she's referencing the absence of that heavy feeling.
Amy (00:27:14) - Yes. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah. And I can see it in them like it. It's just it's beautiful and and and and they don't always even notice the way I noticed. Um, but it's, it's, it's a visual representation of what you just described.
Brenda (00:27:35) - Yeah. So how can people find you?
Amy (00:27:39) - Yeah. Um, I am at Violet Crown Wellness. Com, and I'm on Instagram as Violet, Crown Wellness and Facebook. You can also find me a makeover. And, um, I would just be delighted. I have on my website the I guess we haven't really talked about what a session feels like, but it is. There's this dropping in connection to breath, connection to inner knowing and all that is that starts in the beginning.
Amy (00:28:10) - And I have that meditation that I often, often start with. It's on my website and it's complimentary. I hope everybody uses it every day if they want, and I will put that.
Brenda (00:28:20) - Link in the show notes. Amy's prepared a special link for us, so go check it out. It's in the show notes.
Amy (00:28:27) - Yeah. Cool. And um, yeah. And so I, I think. Really what a lot of people want to know is like, how can this help me? And so I've also offered a free like a discovery call, a time that we can connect, and they can get to know a little bit more about what it is and what are the possibilities for them. And so those are the the best ways to find me. And I am just delighted to to hear from people and, um, just cannot wait to see this. Like, I, you know, we were talking about innovator in health. I think in a few years this is just going to be really common.
Amy (00:29:09) - But in the meantime, I am delighted to to be someone that is providing this for people in their health journeys.
Brenda (00:29:18) - Um, I love that. So before we go, I would love to know, is there one thing you either did or did not do that has led to your yes filled life?
Amy (00:29:33) - Oh. The one thing that I did or did not do that led to my yes field life. I have said yes to curiosity. And it is a really profound. Yes. Because what it has led to is meeting people like you. Discovering. Exploring. Um, not. Taking an answer that didn't sit well with me and instead saying yes to curiosity, I I there's got to be another way. Yeah.
Brenda (00:30:18) - I love that. And to your point, the reason we met was because you followed a curiosity. It did not make sense time wise. It did not make sense financially for us to have met in Florida. And yet we met. It didn't make sense for me either. Who what teacher takes a week off of school like that doesn't happen.
Amy (00:30:40) - I don't know what. I don't know.
Brenda (00:30:41) - What came over me, but it was kind of the same thing.
Amy (00:30:44) - Right? Right. It's like it's just a practice of saying yes and I and anticipating a little bit of this question, I was also thinking about what do I want to carry forward in the future? Um, and what I want to carry forward in the future is like saying, yes, enjoy. Um, you know, saying yes in.
Brenda (00:31:06) - Love. Yeah. So I just something I've been thinking about a lot in the last like three weeks is our ability to say no. To the things that don't align with us is equally as important as the willingness to say yes.
Amy (00:31:23) - Yeah.
Brenda (00:31:23) - Have you found that to be true for you too?
Amy (00:31:27) - Oh gosh, 100%. And I'm still learning. Brenda. There's so much to learn. Um, you know, a lot of, you know, there's all these buzzwords lately. Um. And they're good. One of them is boundaries. And, um, I what I there's a book that I have that's, um, that I can't wait to read because I believe that this aligned.
Amy (00:31:52) - No, is just as important because it creates space for a joyous. Yes.
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Brenda (00:31:58) - 100%. Yeah. And I found in myself that if I'm not saying no to things that are not aligned for me, I don't have capacity for the things I actually am being called forward to do.
Amy (00:32:12) - Yeah. Yes. Totally. Yeah. I don't have words because I'm. I am processing that because I have really experienced that. It's just you articulated that so well just in the last month even I have said yes to some things that felt like, okay, that should be good. And then I'm like, oh no, ma'am, because it is taking me away from the thing that is like this profound, um, I will call it a sacral. Yes. Like, um, this this gut. Yes. This is absolutely. Yes. And so, um, it's it's discernment. Discernment.
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Brenda (00:32:55) - And following the gut.
(00:32:57) - Yeah, yeah.
Brenda (00:32:59) - Amy, thank you so much for being a guest on your.
Brenda (00:33:01) - Yes. Field life.
Amy (00:33:03) - Oh. I'm delighted. Brenda, this has been wonderful.
