A Journey of Illness and Awakening

 

In a profound episode of “Living from the Inside Out”, host Lesley Pazdzioch welcomes author and healing arts practitioner Andrew Cort, author of Create Yourself a New from Above Down, to explore healing, transformation, and the deep spiritual journey that shapes our existence. To share his remarkable journey of healing, spiritual growth, and personal transformation. Through candid reflection and hard-won wisdom, Andrew offers a deeply spiritual lens on the complexities of healing, faith, and the soul’s journey.

Releasing Obstacles to Healing

Andrew Cort’s work centers around helping people release internal blocks that prevent healing. Rather than positioning himself as the healer, Andrew facilitates his clients’ innate healing by guiding them into deep states of relaxation and vibrational balance. His 90-minute sessions include energy work, cranial balancing, and theta brainwave guidance to help clients access their higher selves and confront the limiting beliefs and fears that hinder healing.

“Ask yourself: ‘What beliefs keep me stuck? What am I afraid would happen if I achieved my goals?” Andrew explains. “When you consciously acknowledge these beliefs without judgment, you allow them to dissolve and make space for new, empowering patterns.”

Releasing the Barriers to Healing

At the heart of Andrew’s work is helping individuals identify the beliefs and fears that keep them stuck:

“What am I afraid would happen if I got what I wanted?”

“What beliefs are holding me back?”

Acknowledging and forgiving oneself for these hidden barriers allows his patients to release what is no longer serving them to begin creating space for true transformation. Only then can the use of affirmations, gratitude practices, and visualizations take root and begin to shift the individual’s emotional state, moving toward the life they truly desire.

A Universal Spiritual Truth

Drawing from mythologies, sacred texts, and spiritual traditions worldwide, Lesley shared with Andrew how she sees all genuine spiritual paths as leading up the same mountain toward union with the Divine. The diverse religions of the world are not in conflict but rather offer unique cultural expressions of one great truth: we are divine beings undergoing soul growth. Andrew explains:

“I no longer ask which religion is right. I ask people about their stories, their songs, and their traditions. Every genuine faith carries a spark of the divine.”

Inner Work: Living from the Inside Out

Both Andrew and Lesley resonate with the idea that true healing begins within. The process involves listening to the body’s wisdom, identifying limiting patterns, and gently shifting one’s internal state. Even when manifestation feels distant or slow, it is essential to meet oneself with grace and patience.

“The frustration we feel isn’t proof we’re failing. It’s part of the process. Every moment is a new opportunity to create something different.”

Andrew offers a simple but powerful visualization technique: personifying negative self-talk as a ridiculous clown, allowing humor to deflate its power. Through self-compassion, humor, and daily intentionality, he demonstrates how we can each embody spiritual healing and experience tangible transformation.

The Journey Through Pain and Illness

Andrew’s healing journey is as significant as his professional practice. Diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis and severe psoriasis at just 23, he faced debilitating physical challenges that limited his work, strained his finances, and deeply affected his personal life. After conventional medicine offered few solutions, he sought alternative healing and experienced significant relief through chiropractic care.

Inspired, Andrew pursued chiropractic school and practiced for a decade before his health again declined. This setback led him to law school, where he briefly practiced law before eventually finding his true calling in the healing arts and spiritual studies.

A Spiritual Perspective on Healing

Andrew’s evolving spiritual understanding offers a unique framework for healing and transformation. Drawing from various religious and spiritual traditions, he views the journey of the soul as one of self-initiation and awakening.

“Every major tradition, whether it’s the Hebrews’ exodus, Demeter’s descent, Christ’s return, or Muhammad’s ascent—points to an inner passage from material struggle to spiritual awareness,” Andrew shares.

Instead of seeing religious differences as conflicting, Andrew embraces them as diverse expressions of a singular truth. “The only one who’s wrong is the person who says everyone else is wrong,” he reflects.

Inner Work and Conscious Creation

Andrew emphasizes the importance of inner work in shifting one’s external reality. By addressing core limiting beliefs, trauma, and emotional wounds, individuals can change their vibrational frequency and, in turn, attract healthier experiences.

“Your reality reflects your vibration. When you shift your inner state, your life shifts as well”. “Every moment offers a chance to create something new.”

Even after decades of illness and hardship, Andrew now experiences vibrant health at age 74, crediting spiritual healing, emotional integration, and a profound connection to his higher self.

Trauma, Safety, and Spiritual Growth

Andrew and Lesley explore how past experiences, especially those rooted in trauma or emotional deprivation, can make envisioning a joyful future feel impossible. When our early life has lacked safety, unconditional love, or true belonging, the nervous system becomes guarded. Even as self-love grows, feelings of unworthiness and insecurity can remain. Shifting from survival to thriving requires not only mindset work but also spiritual healing.

Andrew’s Personal Journey of Illness and Awakening

At just 23, Andrew faced severe psoriatic arthritis and debilitating psoriasis. Disillusioned by conventional medicine, he turned to alternative healing, which halted the disease’s rapid progression. This led him to chiropractic school and a decade of practice before physical limitations required him to change paths again.

Andrew later earned a law degree but found the adversarial nature of law unfulfilling. He eventually transitioned into teaching and, after retirement, returned to his passion for the healing arts, now having decades of spiritual exploration. His lifelong studies have included multiple religious traditions and philosophies, all pointing toward a unified truth: that the journey of the soul transcends any single path.

The Challenges of Manifestation and Growth

While manifestation techniques like visualization and gratitude journals are powerful, Andrew acknowledges they require a prior shift in consciousness. Many people struggle to embody the feeling of their desired future, particularly when past traumas have blocked their emotional connection.

“If you can’t feel it, start with what you can see or imagine. Be gentle with yourself and use humor when confronting self-criticism,” Andrew advises. “Healing is not about perfection; it’s about acceptance and gentle persistence.”

A Shared Vision of Soul Growth

Throughout the conversation, both Lesley and Andrew reflect on their shared belief that life’s challenges serve the purpose of soul growth rather than punishment or random misfortune.

“Your soul chose these lessons for your growth,” Lesley affirms. “It’s not about blame but about how you responded and who you became.”

Andrew agrees: “I came to understand that our vibrations attract our experiences. The more I changed my inner state, the more my external world aligned.”

The Work of “Create Yourself a New from Above Down”

Andrew’s book, Create Yourself a New from Above Down, serves as a comprehensive guide to his healing philosophy. The book is divided into four parts:

Mindset Shift: Recognizing oneself as a perfect, divine being intimately connected to all of creation.

Clearing Negativity: Releasing limiting beliefs and emotional blocks.

Rewiring the Mind and Heart: Using affirmations, visualization, gratitude, creativity, faith, and prayer.

Manifestation: Creating abundance, health, love, and purpose from a renewed inner state.

Andrew’s Book: Create Yourself a New from Above Down

Andrew’s book is a step-by-step guide to this inner work, divided into four key sections:

1. Shifting Identity: Seeing oneself as a perfect, divine being rather than broken.
2. Clearing Negativity: Releasing limiting beliefs and mental clutter.
3. Rewiring the Mind: Using affirmations, gratitude, faith, and creativity to build new patterns.
4. Manifesting Abundance: Aligning health, love, and purpose with your spiritual truth.

Andrew emphasizes that he is not a healer; he is someone who helps individuals access the healing power already within them. His approach begins by deeply relaxing the body, clearing physical tension, and balancing energy flow. From cranial work to muscle balancing, his 90-minute sessions guide patients into a theta brainwave state, where they can connect with their higher self to release limiting beliefs and open pathways for true healing.

Final Words of Encouragement

Andrew’s story is a reminder that our greatest healing often comes after our greatest struggles. Spiritual growth is not about perfection but about continuous alignment with our divine nature. As Lesley beautifully shares in this episode, even when life feels difficult, we are never broken. We are on a sacred journey, living from the inside out. Andrew’s wisdom offers a gentle reminder that healing and transformation are always possible, no matter how difficult the path has been.

“You are not broken. You are a perfect being having your intended experiences,” he shares. “Be kind to yourself, forgive your perceived flaws, and trust in the unfolding of your soul’s unique journey.”

May this blog inspire you to embrace your healing from the inside out, knowing that divine love and inner wisdom are always available to guide your path.

In grace and gratitude,

~Lesley Pazdzioch