What I Trust About the Body

A practitioner's working faith. I've been thinking about what it means to trust something you can't fully explain. Not believe in — that's a different thing, with different stakes. Belief often asks you to hold a position. Trust is quieter. Trust is what you've seen enough times that you've stopp... Read More

A Five Minute Grounding Practice for the End of a Hard Day

Something simple you can do alone, tonight. Some days end with you still buzzing - the body still a little keyed up, the mind still running, not quite able to locate the transition from the day that was to the evening you'd like to have. This is a short practice for exactly that moment. It doesn'... Read More

What's the Difference Between Energy Healing and Massage, Acupuncture, or Chiropratic?

A useful orientation for people who've tried one thing and are wondering about another. If you've ever looked into complementary care options and felt like you were reading a menu in a language you mostly speak, you're not alone. Massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy healing - they're often ... Read More

Energy Healing for Grief

The body in mourning, and why it needs tending too. Grief is not only a psychological event. This is something medicine has known for a long time and culture has been slower to accept. When someone we love dies, or when we lose something that organized our life - a marriage, an identity, a future... Read More

What Your Nervous System Actually Does on the Table

Parasympathetic shift, vagal tone, and why "doing nothing" is doing a lot. People sometimes apologize after a session. They fell asleep, or they cried, or they didn't feel much and wonder if they failed at relaxing. I want to say, to everyone who has ever done this: there's nothing to apologize f... Read More

Energy Healing for Sleep

When the nervous system has forgotten how to land. Sleep problems rarely arrive alone. They tend to show up alongside something else - a period of high stress, a loss, a body in pain, a mind that won't stop running its loops. The insomnia is often the symptom. What's underneath it is usually a ne... Read More

Do I Have to Believe in This for it to Work?

The honest answer, for the skeptics and the curious. This is one of the questions I get most often, usually asked a little tentatively, as though the person is bracing for me to say yes - that belief is the whole mechanism, that without it there's nothing to receive. I want to set that worry down... Read More

What to do in the 24 Hours after a Session

The work doesn't stop when you leave the table. One of the things I try to say before people walk out the door is this: the session is one hour, but the settling keeps going. The hour on the table is the beginning of something, not the whole thing. What you do - and don't do - in the hours that f... Read More

What is Healing Touch?

The specific modality I practice - its origins, its methods, and what sets it apart. When people ask what I do, I say energy healing, because that's the category most people have at least a rough map for. But the specific practice I'm trained in - the one I do in sessions - is called Healing Touc... Read More

How to Prepare for Your First Session

A short, warm pre-arrival guide — there's less to do than you think. People often ask me how they should prepare for their first session, and the honest answer is not very much, and not in any particular way. You don't need to read up on energy healing. You don't need to figure out what's wrong b... Read More