The Healing Crisis
Energy healing and shamanic healing work are a different beast to the kind of healing everyone is familiar with and even if you are, we all carry so much conditioning around ‘healing’ that to approach a session still takes a conscious shift in perspective on what a healing session actually is.
Traditional medicine works allopathically through suppression – In pain? Take an aspirin. Inflammation? Here’s something to cool it down. It takes the edge off the thing. And there’s a place for that sometimes. Even in the work that I offer. Sometimes when an issue is acute or your life is all over the place, it’s about managing the situation and that’s enough. Restoring enough ease and comfort so your nervous system can relax and your body can regain a foothold on what’s out of alignment.
But most of the healing work that comes through me is going deeper than that to clear the underlying pattern. The point is you don’t want it to come back. You certainly don’t want to be regularly suppressing what are actually just symptoms of an underlying imbalance on a continual basis so that you’re driving the problem deeper into your system. The next time it comes back, its bite could be much worse. So one way or another, whatever’s in there has to clear.
That clearing process, no matter how small or dramatic, is what’s known as a ‘healing crisis’. It could be some inflammation that activates on a gum after treatment as an underlying infection is brought to the surface and finally cleaned up for good. It could be an old niggle that comes back that you’d forgotten about that actually is a whole pattern unwinding. It could be a flood of tears that somehow hits you in the supermarket the following day. It could be the truth you needed to speak that just comes out.
On rare occasions, it could be something stronger the body needs to go through, and goes for it when it finally feels safe enough and has the chance. This is all normal. My healing work is inherently non-linear and sometimes symptoms shift or intensify temporarily as part of the process. This doesn't mean something is going wrong, but it does mean it's worth leaving your calendar free from high-pressure appointments for the rest of the day, and staying in contact with your medical practitioner if you have an existing condition. Things are usually processed within a day or two, but of course the healing will continue to permeate and have ripple effects through your system for as long as it needs to.
The reason it’s safe is because I’ve done the spiritual work to anchor it. The intention that we mutually set is important, and it’s always for your own highest benefit and for the highest good of all beings. There’s protection in that. The space is cleared, your guides are present. And the energies I’m working with are clean and very familiar to me. There’s no force applied, no agenda to heal or fix. Just a container for the work to do its thing.
So these sessions are for people who are ready to do some internal work and have a bit of space in their day, not just looking for a ‘quick fix’. You don’t have to feel prepared or be entirely comfortable with it, that’s fine. Maybe a part of you even senses this could actually shift things – ‘what if it works?’ can sometimes be scarier than ‘what if it doesn’t’. And if that's not where you are, I’ll be here when you’re ready.
