Getting Rid Of Guilt For Success w/ Lois Hollis | The Entrepreneur Underdog | EP# 115

It Isn’t For Everyone

Lois Hollis was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1943. She earned her RN from St. Joseph Hospital and achieved her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania. For thirty years, she gained experience as a nurse in open-heart surgery, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, and nephrology. However, she spent most of her career in nephrology, the treatment of kidney disorders. She used her talents in research, teaching, and consulting to help establish one of the first kidney hemodialysis units in the United States at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Lois taught hospital staff, physicals, and nurses how to care for hemodialysis patients both in hospital and home. After seven years of an intense working schedule, Lois needed change. She retired to consulting and eventually married. Although she lost three pregnancies, she gave birth to three girls. She states, “God gave me three beautiful girls.” Despite her many accomplishments, her abusive childhood traumas began to outweigh her vivacious lifestyle. She succumbed to guilt-ridden depression, heart and liver disease, 30 years of migraine headaches, and structural deformities. Her physicians told her that she could not live past 50years. After ten years of unsuccessful therapies with traditional medical and psychological professions, she, with great sadness, turned to holistic health. Lois soon discovered that her emotional and physical health intricately weave themselves to produce health or disease. She could not remember her childhood, but soon, she was shocked to learn that her abusive childhood left many scars. She was diagnosed with brain traumas, fractured jaw, broken neck, and congenital heart disease. Since brain traumas cause an increased sensitivity to sunlight, she understood why there was a time she was unable to be in the daylight. Her health improved with holistic remedies and emotional counseling lessen her depression. She no longer thought suicide was her only option but remained despondent. Her poor health still left her with a short life span. Lois innately knew God had plans for her and there was a way for her to have vibrant health. God answered her prayers. She had several spiritual experiences that gave her the energy and wisdom to find more ways to heal. First, she discovered that holistic and chiropractor doctors had different ways of healing. She moved across the country to be with a chiropractor who followed the original palmer method. He realigned her body from her many childhood fractures. She also decided to talk with her emotions instead of about them to therapists. Lois soon learned from her emotions that shame/guilt distorts our biological systems and creates emotional and physical illnesses. Applying the release of shame and guilt from her life, she no longer had lingering depression. Her vitality soared. People noticed. They, too, wanted to do what she was doing. And they did. In fact, Lois was so busy she had to write a book to help others who came to her. She now recognized that shame and guilt were the main offenders of health and wellbeing. Even though Lois’ fresh, unique perspective on guilt and shame opens the doors to wellbeing and success, the public resisted. They showed skepticism, indifference, even contempt when she stated that shame and guilt saturate our culture and is everyone’s problem. None the less, Lois still maintained that we can stop our struggle with the negativity of low self-esteem, anger, anxiety, and so on when we address shame-guilt directly. Today is an exciting time. Everything is questioned, and new concepts are typical. Now is the time to expose shame and guilt. Her “I’m Good” Docu-series will expose the trickery and dangers of shame and guilt to illustrate how changing our shame/guilt system can solve our mental health crisis.