Coming Home to Ourselves with Denise Elysa – Details, episodes & analysis

BC Government has passed a new policy that dramatically restricts access to virtual group medical care, imposing 20-person caps that make many virtual clinics across BC financially and clinically non-viable – effectively forcing them to shut down and cutting off what is, for many patients, their only access to safe, effective, and informed life-saving medical care.

Denise Elysa is joined by Dr. Ric Arseneau and Dr. Jane McKay, Internal Medicine Specialists and Co-Directors of the BC Centre for Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia (BC-CLMF), to discuss what this means for their 6000+ patients, the clinicians who treat them, and the healthcare system as a whole.

We explore:

Why virtual group medical care is essential, not optional

How complex chronic disease patients are routinely dismissed, misdiagnosed, or psychiatrized

The devastating equity impacts for rural patients, low-income + those who are bed/house-bound

Why cutting this care will increase ER visits, ambulances, disability, and healthcare costs

New data shows this clinic saves the BC healthcare system money

Ethical implications including patients considering MAiD due to loss of care

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00:00 Introduction to the BC Center for Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia

00:50 Why This Conversation Matters: Patients’ Lives Are at Risk

02:42 What Is the BC Centre for Long COVID, ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia?

06:27 Why Most Patients Are Misdiagnosed or Psychiatrized for Years

08:33 Why Group Medical Care Works Better Than Traditional Appointments

12:01 Core Group: Teaching Patients How to Self-Manage Lifelong Illness

14:33 Why “Pacing” Fails Without Addressing Real-Life Barriers

16:46 New BC Policy Change: Capping Virtual Group Medical Visits

17:29 “This Is Blatant Discrimination”: Disability & Virtual Care Access

19:49 Why Cutting Virtual Care Hurts Women, Disabled & Low-Income Patients

21:56 MAiD, Poverty & the Ethics of Removing Essential Care

23:12 The Impact of Policy Changes on Patients

25:03 Why Bed-Bound Patients Cannot Access In-Person Care

26:57 Independent Report: This Clinic Saves the BC Health System Money

28:48 How the Clinic Frees Up ERs, GPs & Specialists

31:09 Why GPs Are Not Equipped to Manage These Conditions Alone

32:59 Being Fired by Doctors: A Common Patient Experience

36:10 Media Soundbites vs Reality: How Nuance Gets Lost

37:32 Why Groups Are Necessary for Sustainable Care

39:20 How Group Visits Reduce Unnecessary Tests & Specialist Referrals

40:49 Fast Access to Care Saves Lives

44:56 Why “Fiscal Responsibility” Is Misinformation

49:09 Real Outcomes: Symptom Improvement, Remission & Return to Work

54:25 Why One-Year Care Models Fail Chronic Illness Patients

57:28 What Will Happen If This Policy Goes Through

01:03:08 Why This Policy Threatens Chronic Pain Clinics Across BC

01:05:52 Why Greedy-Doctor Narratives Make No Sense

01:10:18 Chronic Stress Makes These Illnesses Worse

01:13:10 Why Smaller Group Caps Mean No Care at All

01:14:50 Training the Next Generation of Long COVID Doctors

01:20:53 Fear-Based Policy and the Impact on the Sickest Patients

01:25:13 Patient-Led Advocacy & Lifeline BC

01:31:39 Patient Safety Risks Without Coordinated Care

01:35:22 Psychiatric Labels as a “Passport to Poor Care”

01:41:27 What Patient-Centered, Informed Consent Really Looks Like

01:45:45 Integrating Medical, Somatic & Holistic Care

01:49:24 “Lazy, Crazy, Faking It”: Breaking Harmful Myths

01:53:36 If It’s Not Psychological, What Is It?

01:58:27 Why These Are Not Diagnoses of Exclusion

02:00:18 One Media Misconception Doctors Want Corrected

02:01:58 What Every MLA Needs to Understand About These Patients

02:09:50 Final Message to the Ministry of Health: Put Patients First

02:20:30 Closing

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In this Winter Solstice solo episode, Denise invites youinto the quiet magic of your inner winter — the season of slowing down, resting, and listening beneath the surface of your life. She shares a personal story of technology glitches, power outages, and plans unraveling, and how these moments can become unexpected portals into spaciousness rather than spirals of panic and control.

From there, we explore:• Honouring your nervous system’s natural rhythms in winter

• The difference between pushing through vs. responding to life as an invitation

• The “void” as a potent cocoon space rather than a sign that something is wrong

• How tiny 1% shifts in how you meet yourself can change your entire trajectory

• Reclaiming your inner magic by embracing all of your seasons – not just your “spring and summer” self

Denise also offers a gentle card reading and a guidedself-inquiry process to help you reflect on:• What you’re ready to release before spring

• What seeds of desire are quietly asking to be planted

• Which parts of you are longing to come home and be held, rather than judged or abandoned

This episode is a soft invitation to step out of productivity-as-worth, sink into the deeper rest your body might be craving,and remember that so much is happening beneath the surface… even when it looks like nothing is moving at all.

Chapters 

00:00 Embracing the Winter Solstice

09:48 The Invitation to Rest and Reflect

13:00 Understanding the Cycles of Nature

17:47 Winter Solstice Card Reading

18:42 Reclaiming Your Inner Magic

28:23 Navigating the Void of Inner Winter

35:00 Self-Inquiry for Growth and Clarity

45:10 Outro

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[ Winter Solstice, self-reflection, inner wintering, slowingdown, self-inquiry, embracing stillness, personal growth, reclaiming magic, navigating discomfort, curiosity ]

In this episode we discuss how attuning to our own cyclical nature as well as nature's cycles happening around us shifts our lives. We discuss the Spring Equinox energies, planting seeds of intention in our lives and how old self-limiting beliefs and societal conditioning can block our manifestations or our progress, what it feels like when we receive intuitive hits and how fear can get in the way, and the importance of integration for embodiment. We also discuss how to use the power of the Spring Equinox to manifest, and more. I offer an oracle card reading for the Spring Equinox and a guided journaling practice with smaller practices spread out in between.

*Update! Since recording this episode I got the back end of my website sorted and am excited to share that a Spring Equinox Ceremony IS AVAILABLE NOW! https://deniseelysa.com/product/spring-equinox-ceremony-2025/

Centering Practice: 16:55

Spring Equinox Energy Discussion: 19:24

Oracle Card Reading: 26:41

Guided Reflective and/or Journaling Practice: 48:41

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What are we ready to let go of as a collective and as individuals as we step into 2025 and what are we ready to step further into? Starting off the New Year softly, gently, peacefully.
Join us for New Years Day practices and Card Readings for intuitive guidance on what we are leaving behind in 2024 and what to know about what we are stepping more fully into for 2025.
Connecting with passionate, heart-centered, soul-led practices and allowing that joy to guide your path forward for 2025. Recalibrate to your own inner-winter and align with your cyclical nature and the shifting of the seasons. Attuning to winters invitations to turn inwards and connect with your own inner wisdom and the light that lives inside of you and guides your path forward.
Card reading time stamp: 21:49
Meditation time stamp: 45:53

Tuning in and deepening our process of coming home to ourselves can help us identify what our needs are in any given moment, and from there, offer those needs back to ourselves. In this episode I dive deeper, sharing bits of my own personal experience within our cyclic nature, and how I'm holding myself through the tender and raw rebirthing process that I am in.

Join us for today's discussion around caring for ourselves energetically, physically and mentally within our own cycles of rebirth and transformation that each of us are continually cycling through, as well as throughout the upcoming holiday season - as an able-bodied person or as a person living with illnesses, energy limiting conditions, or varying support needs.

As always, practices for yourself are weaved throughout this episode, but the main practice can be found at timestamp 44:05 if you'd like to return to it.

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Join us for this episode where I share a bit of my personal experience of allowing creativity and Spirit to flow through me and then discuss the topic that was asking to come through this week. Using an example that most of us can relate to - the act of eating - and ongoing practices throughout this episode we explore how present we are in our own bodies and lives, and how this impacts our relationships, how it weaves the sacred intricately through every part of our lives and how it supports us in leaving behind following the crowd and instead finding the path that feels most aligned and authentic to us.

While smaller practices are woven throughout this entire episode, the main practice time stamp is at 26:00 for those of you looking to jump ahead or return to it.

As always I thank you so much for being here, for listening and supporting this passion project of mine. If it feels aligned for you, a review of my channel, follows and shares go a long way to supporting my efforts here and helping this work gain a wider reach. Thank you!

This episode touches on navigating change, our bodies cues and messages, disability, complex chronic disease, ableism and belonging.

Every episode includes one or more practices, this episodes is a bit of a meditation to support us in honoring all parts of ourselves and viewing ourselves through the compassionate lens of another.
If you'd like to jump ahead (or return to) the practice portion of this podcast, it is at timestamp 43:20
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Sensing into a timeline where we resource from within ourselves and lessen the amount of time and energy seeking externally.

We need tools and access to Spirit from within our bodies, wherever we may be. It is within showing up and living our beautiful, messy, human lives that the greatest work is.

This is my first attempt at a podcast and I'm not very techy, so feel free to follow me through my ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ or ⁠YouTube⁠ where I show up more consistently. All of this and more can be found through my website ⁠⁠www.deniseelysa.com⁠⁠

If you like what you hear and would like more please like, share, comment or subscribe to let me know you'd like me to make a practice of continuing to show up here in this way. I am looking forward to seeing where this new path leads! Thank you so much for being here.

Are you stuck in the idea that to connect with the sacred you have to be sitting on a mat, in circle, seeing a shaman or healer, or be in ceremony? Or have you integrated the sacred into your everyday life?

A short chat about weaving the sacred into your day-to-day in accessible ways, followed by a short meditative prayer for connection, guidance and support.

If you like what you hear and would like more please like, share, comment or subscribe to let me know you'd like me to make a practice of continuing to show up here in this way. I am looking forward to seeing where this new path leads! Thank you so much for being here. This is my first attempt at a podcast and I'm not very techy, so feel free to follow me through my ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ or ⁠YouTube⁠ where I show up more consistently. All of this and more can be found through my website ⁠www.deniseelysa.com⁠