Healing

There are probably as many definitions of healing as there are healers. My own ideas have been formed by my training and experience in Healing Touch energy work, the Niasziih healing tradition, the shamanic work I have studied and practiced, intuitive coaching, and my insatiable curiosity about the root causes of physical conditions brought to my awareness by my work as a massage therapist. I have come to know my own “medicine”, which encompasses all of the above and includes my intuition, alertness to signs and symbols, and my natural love of stories and allegory. 

Here’s one: I love to weed my garden after a good rain. Once the soil is soaked, the weeds are usually so willing to release that they practically jump out of the ground and into my hands. But around the edges of whatever area I’m weeding, I often encounter my nemesis: Bermuda grass.

I tug it up until it appears to be all gone, hearing a satisfying “pop-pop-pop” sound as I weed. But wait – what was all that popping? I’m likely to find out in the springtime when, in spite of the hard work that made my garden look so tidy on the surface, I find that I was merely separating the surface grass from its deeper roots. That nefarious root system  continued to spread deep in the soil, only to emerge in my garden again (and again) where I thought I had removed it.

So it is with the beliefs, or “images” that run our lives like that underground root system, programming our bodies – all the way down to our organs and cells – to behave as instructed. How helpful might it be if we could become aware of the instructions our belief-roots are sending? Whether healthy or not, these instructions, like the roots of Bermuda grass, are just as hard to see, stubbornly persistent, and surprisingly deep. 

The roots of your belief system are largely below your conscious awareness, but that doesn’t mean they’re inaccessible. Your body holds great wisdom. It often communicates via pain, discomfort, and illness, which lead us to where those roots are located. After years of getting to know my own roots, it has become my life’s passion to accompany you on your journey to the precise place where your healing is ready to begin.

On this journey, we are likely to encounter doorways that hold the potential to empower you by offering choices you might not have known you had; and the choices you make have the ability to improve your life in ways you cannot anticipate, bringing you greater peace, love, joy, and purpose.

If you ask me “What, exactly, can be healed by this work?” I will answer that when we work with Mystery, anything is possible.