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Shine a Light on Your Healing Possibilities

Your Story. Your Science. Your Health Transformation.

You are more than medical notes.

Your body has been speaking your story all along.
But who has been listening?

Tell Linda your story

Your story needs to be heard

Our modern world often looks at health as a diagnosis, a symptom, or a laboratory result.

But you are more than medical notes. You are the person who has lived a unique story, one that can shed light on the root reasons you may have suffered all this time.

Your body has been speaking your story all along. But who has been listening?

Like the rings inside a tree trunk revealing years of drought and years of rain, your body carries a record of what you have lived through, even when you didn't know it was recording it.

Your body has been speaking, telling the story of what happened.

That story needs to be heard to be understood.

Linda is here to listen.

Why Lightshine Health exists

I began Lightshine Health to help others shine a light on healing possibilities that may be missed when we look only at symptoms, diagnoses, and laboratory results.

The goal of Lightshine Health is to hear your story, understand how you want things to be different, and go on a journey together to help make that transformation a reality.

How do you want things to be different?

Tell Linda your story

Your Story. Your Science.
Your Health Transformation.

Your Story

Your story will not look like mine.

Your body has its own history. Your experiences, health history, nutrition, environment, relationships, stress, sleep, medications, movement, losses, joys, and the way you have lived are all pieces of a much larger picture.

Some pieces may seem insignificant until we begin putting them together.

That is why I don't want to begin by reducing you to a symptom, diagnosis, or laboratory result.

I want to hear your story.

Together, we can begin looking for patterns, asking questions, and making connections that may have been missed when the individual pieces of your health were considered separately.

Your story gives us a place to begin.

Your Science

Your story may reveal where we need to become curious.

Science gives us another way to investigate.

Together, we can explore the many influences that may be affecting your health: your history, nutrition, sleep, stress, environment, lifestyle, symptoms, medications, relationships, and other factors that have shaped the environment in which your body has been living.

When appropriate, laboratory testing can provide additional information and help illuminate patterns that deserve a closer look.

But a laboratory result is never the whole person.

The science helps us understand your story. It doesn't replace it.

Your Health Transformation

Transformation isn't about becoming someone else.

For me, it began by rediscovering who I was, understanding my own value, learning to listen to my body, and creating an entirely different way to live.

Your transformation will be your own.

My role isn't to hand you someone else's formula for health. It is to walk alongside you as you better understand your story and your science, uncover patterns, make meaningful connections, and make informed choices about how you want to live going forward.

How do you want things to be different?
Together, we begin there.

Begin your health story

Once, I was the person reaching for hope

Once, I was the person reaching for hope when so little hope was to be found.

At eighteen, I found myself staring over the edge of a cliff called death. I realized no doctor could save me.

That is when I turned to God, having only a hope that He might be real.

I reached for hope that things could be different.

I survived a miraculous medical rescue, only to find myself inside the turmoil of a darkness I didn't expect, asking:

Why had I lived at all?

I soon realized that for things to be different, I had to understand how I had been living.

I had lost connection with who I was, how I saw myself, and how I understood my own value.

I had been living out of alignment with who I really was.

As I began to understand the roots of that disconnection, I experienced a personal transformation that began rebuilding my life, and my body, from the inside out.

What I eventually discovered was that getting well meant far more than recovering from disease.

I needed an entirely different way to live.

That journey shaped the next fifty years of my life, as a nurse, a mother, a lifelong student of health, and eventually a whole health coach.

And ultimately, it led me here.

To listen to your story.

Meet Linda

When My Body Spoke. One woman's transformational healing journey that invites your own. Nine keys to tip the balance toward healing and wholeness. Linda Hodgens, BSN, founder, Lightshine Health.

When My Body Spoke

One Woman's Transformational Healing Journey That Invites Your Own

My own journey eventually became the story behind When My Body Spoke.

It is the story of nearly losing my life, searching for why I had lived, finding my voice, and discovering that moving toward wholeness would require far more than leaving disease behind.

I had to learn to listen to the story my own body had been telling.

When My Body Spoke is my story.

But perhaps it will invite you to listen differently to yours.

9 Keys to Tip the Balance Toward Healing and Wholeness

  • A Memoir
  • A Map
  • A Return to You
Linda Hodgens, smiling, holding a Pomeranian puppy against her cheek
Linda Hodgens, BSN Founder, Lightshine Health Whole Health Coach Author, When My Body Spoke

Meet Linda

For nearly fifty years, I have been asking questions about health and healing.

My journey has taken me through nursing, motherhood, whole health education, nutrition, functional medicine, genetics, gut health, and a lifelong study of the remarkable connections between the way we live and the way our bodies respond.

But after all those years of learning, I keep returning to something remarkably simple:

Before I look at your labs, I want to hear your story.

Because you are more than your symptoms.

You are more than your diagnosis.

You are more than your laboratory results.

You are a whole person with a story worth understanding.

Let's begin

Maybe your body has been speaking for a long time.

Maybe you have been searching for answers.

Or maybe you simply know:

I want things to be different.

You don't need to have all the answers before we begin.

You have your story.

And that is where I want to start.

Linda is here to listen.

Tell Linda your story

This goes to Linda, and only to Linda.