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Rewrite Your Healing Story

December 9, 2025 by Dr. Gil Winkelman

When Healing Stalls, the Psyche — and the Energy Body — Are Often Speaking

What if the obstacle to healing isn’t your body, but an unconscious story and energetic pattern asking to be brought into awareness?

We are not only biochemical systems. We are psychological, relational, and energetic beings. Our nervous system, beliefs, emotional memory, and energy field are constantly shaping how the body experiences stress, safety, and repair.

Symptoms rarely arise in isolation. They develop within a larger field influenced by lived experience and the ways the body has learned to adapt. Energy follows attention, belief, and experience. This is the deeper meaning behind the phrase biography becomes biology.

A diagnosis may describe what is happening, but it often doesn’t explain why the system remains stuck. Beneath many chronic symptoms are unconscious beliefs, protective identities, shadow material, and habitual energetic postures — intelligent responses to life, not personal failure.

This workshop aims to heal. Not fix but as a process of psychological and energetic re-patterning.

Small Shifts That Create Real Change

This work isn’t about dramatic breakthroughs or “fixing” yourself.
It focuses on subtle, precise shifts that gradually reorganize the system:

• Less contraction when something feels off
• A felt sense of softening instead of bracing
• More space around symptoms — less urgency, less fear
• Clearer awareness of where energy feels stuck or overactivated
• Greater coherence between mind, body, and inner life
• Recognizing symptoms as information, not dysfunction

These shifts signal that the nervous system and energy field are beginning to settle and reorganize.

What You’ll Explore

• How psyche, nervous system, and energy interact to shape health
• The unconscious stories and identities influencing bodily and energetic response
• The
shadow — not as pathology, but as disowned vitality held in the body
• How micro-shifts in attention, attitude, and felt sense change energetic flow
• Why chronic symptoms often reflect stuck patterns of protection and meaning
• Simple practices that support regulation, integration, and coherence

This is not about “raising your vibration.”
It is about restoring relationship — with your body, your psyche, and your life energy.

Who This Is For

This workshop is for people who:

• Feel defined or limited by a diagnosis
• Sense their symptoms reflect deeper psychological or energetic patterns
• Are drawn to depth work or subtle energy healing
• Want a grounded, non-dogmatic approach to mind–body–energy integration

You are not broken.
Your system has been responding intelligently to your life.

This work helps you listen more clearly — and respond with awareness, compassion, and coherence.

Workshop details

In-person + Online
Duration: 2–3 hours • Small group (max 20)

Early interest list

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We’ll only contact you about this workshop. Spots are limited.

Schedule & Pricing

Dates: March 14, 2026 at Yoga Under the Palms

Early-bird pricing and guaranteed spots for interest-list members.

FAQ

Is it therapy? No — this is a workshop for exploration and practical change. Clinical care remains available for those who need it.
Can I attend online? Yes — the experience will be interactive for both in-person and online participants.

About Dr. Gil

Dr. Gil is a naturopathic physician with over twenty years of clinical experience helping people understand the connection between their life experiences and their health. With a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, his work bridges medical insight with psychological and emotional understanding.

He is the author of a book on yoga and has spent years studying archetypes, Jungian psychology, and how meaning and belief influence the body. In his workshops and retreats, Dr. Gil helps people slow down, listen differently to their symptoms, and explore how long-standing patterns—often formed unconsciously—can shape the healing process.

Rather than focusing on quick fixes, his approach emphasizes awareness, safety, and practical tools that support lasting change. Participants are invited to move out of struggle with their bodies and into a more trusting, collaborative relationship with themselves.

Why Folates Make My Anxiety Worse

July 1, 2024 by Dr. Gil Winkelman

Learn Why You May Be Taking the Wrong Vitamins

The problem isn’t the form of folate. The truth is that supplementing with folate isn’t good for everyone. I often get asked questions about this.  Should I take methylated folate? Or folinic acid? Does it matter? What if I have MTHFR?

Wonder no more! I am offering my over 20 years of experience treating mental health cases in a new e-course! The focus is on methylation, anxiety, depression, and epigenetics. In this short course, we explore why folate is not helpful for everyone and the reasons for this.

Hi, I’m Dr. Gil Winkelman, naturopathic doctor and psychotherapist. With over 20 years of healthcare experience, I have helped thousands of people with mental health issues including anxiety, depression, and OCD improve their lives and feel better without pharmaceuticals. I am trained in the Walsh Protocol, neurofeedback, and trauma modalities and learned the best ways to help people feel better without drugs.

Unfortunately, the role of nutrients to improve health is confusing. All too often I have received messages from people wondering why their vitamins make them feel worse. Why does this happen? Because there is a lot of oversimplified misinformation floating around that needs to be corrected. Everyone is different. And SNP tests do not always have the answers to people’s issues. This course aims to unwind some of the confusion. 

In this course you will learn:

  • Folate’s role in the methylation cycle
  • What an overmethylator and undermethylator means in terms of mental health
  • Why folate isn’t needed by everyone
  • Why MTHFR isn’t the best test for methylation status
  • How to Lower Homocysteine without Folate
  • How much Folate you need
  • What to do if Folate bothers your system.

There is also a more extensive course that you purchase here. In it you will learn about the methylation cycle, epigenetics, other causes of anxiety, tests that are useful, and the role of vitamins. This course is an abbreviated version of the the first two modules of that course.

 

 

Nutrients for Anxiety Relief

January 3, 2024 by Dr. Gil Winkelman

Learn the Subtleties of Using Nutrients to Treat Anxiety

(Note: If you already paid for this course, click on the introduction link below to start it.)

Don’t let your anxiety hold you back from living your best life anymore!

You know that you can achieve more but you’re afraid to move forward? Learn the Secrets to Reduce Anxiety Naturally with my new course

Nutrients for Anxiety Relief

The Nutrients for Anxiety Relief is a step-by-step self-paced program where you will be walked through how methylation and epigenetics affect your mood. Simply put, you will understand what your cells need to function better.

Module 1:Methylation and the Methylation Cycle

Get cycle-smart! Knowing the methylation cycle is the fastest way to understand what vitamins are needed and why. If you’ve been struggling with folate, you’ll learn other ways to affect the methylation cycle directly. You’ll also learn a little about why genetic tests don’t always give you accurate information about your cycle.

Without understanding the methylation cycle, you can’t possible know what vitamins to take to help you feel better.

Module 2: What is Epigenetics?

You may have heard the term epigenetics, but what does it really mean? This module explains what epigenetics is and its relationship to methylation. Through this we go through the details of how being an over or undermethylator is more than just knowing what is happening in your methylation cycle. We’ll also discuss how epigenetics is affected and what vitamins can adjust it. Understanding epigenetics is vital

Module 3: Understanding Anxiety and Depression

With the foundation about epigenetics and the methylation cycle, we will explore other causes of mood disorders. For example, did you know that low zinc can change your methylation status? Or that high copper can lead to post-partum depression. We will discuss physical, situational, emotional, and spiritual causes of mood disturbances to gain a better sense of what type of treatment to seek. This module shares other causes of mood issues that have little or nothing to do with methylation.

Module 4: The Role of Testing

Did you know that many lab ranges are wrong? Or what tests might be useful to diagnose mood disorders. We’ll cover what labs to run and the proper ranges for those labs. Also, I’ll cover labs that may be useful, (or not), but tend to not be covered by insurance and may not be as helpful.This module may be the most valuable in the package.

Module 5: The Vitamins

Finally, we’ll look at some of the vitamins and minerals used to treat mood disorders and why they may be helpful. We’ll go through when they are needed, the risks associated with high doses, and why you may be reacting poorly to them.Knowing what the vitamins do and don’t do is helpful for determining why you might be having a negative response to the supplement.

 

Why Folates Create Anxiety!

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