From the Mainstream into the Light of Energy Therapy: Discovering Rapid Eye Technology

Seventeen years ago this fall, I discovered Energy Therapy through a client I had at the time. He came for an appointment and told me he was going away for a weekend for "Rapid Eye something". The more he talked about it, the more strongly I felt urged that this was something new that I needed to learn more about. Shortly after that, I found Rapid Eye Technology, and felt immediately the confirmation that this resource was something I had been looking for, for some time.

Why would I, a conventionally trained Marriage and Family Therapist, feel prompted and drawn to expand beyond the mainstream model of therapy? What was missing in the forward-thinking, newer mainstream approach I was using? Why was I frankly bored and burned out from working in that approach, and why had I lost the joy and passion for my work, that I felt when I began my training?

And most importantly, what was it that my clients even then, were more deeply hungering for? And how could I help them fulfill their deepest Desires ?

Searching for the answers to these questions, resolving and healing the aridity of Soul I felt professionally then, were what prompted me to cross the thresh-hold of my own Heroine's Journey into Energy Therapy.

When I did, I knew I was on the path home.

I wrote this article shortly after I had been credentialed as a Master Practitioner of Rapid Eye Technology. I still feel today, the same excitement, enthusiasm and passion for Rapid Eye and Energy Therapy, that I felt then. I love what I do, because I feel so passionately that deep healing, transformation and Soul growth are such fundamental birthrights and purposes for this life, and that is exactly what Energy Therapy opens for clients. This is exactly what the Soul hunger is that women crave, now more than ever:

To thrive and flourish, and live with soul-satisfying joy and love everyday. To fulfill our greatest potential. and DO the work we promised we would do in this life, that our hearts hunger for, and our Souls won't let us forget. Becoming the Heroines we are born to be.

Getting to the point of living your life this way, is the Heroine's Journey. Energy Therapy is a really crucial piece of the "how" that I was guided to, to facilitate it. Learning how to facilitate this level and degree of healing, growth and transformation was a Soul hunger I could not ignore, shut down or forget. It drove me for years. I was obsessed in my search, until I found and mastered the Energy Therapy resources that I now use.

And it all began with discovering Rapid Eye Technology. So you could say that this article is my origin story. I feel so much gratitude every day that I am called and privileged to be part of this.

Enjoy!

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Covid-19 and Unhealed Trauma: How to Feel Safer, More in Control and Protected During This (or Any Other) Crisis

Covid-19 brought a blanket of fear and often anxiety for people all over the world, and you may still be feeling it. You may feel unsafe, out of control, and don’t know how to protect yourself or your family. You may feel worried about your employment, your investments and 401K retirement savings. Conflicting information seems common and definitive answers seem elusive. You may be checking social media more than usual, finding yourself on hyper-alert, feeling as if you are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

And worst of all, you may have an underlying feeling that this experience of the covid-19 pandemic feels all too familiar. You may feel like you’ve been taken back to another place and time, reliving another crisis. If this is so for you, then you are likely experiencing unresolved trauma from your past being triggered by the covid-19 pandemic. Why? Because traumatic emotions and memories are stored in layers according to themes on your neural pathways. If you find yourself remembering intrusive, painful memories and feelings from the past, adding to your stress and fear during the covid-19 pandemic, this is why.

In this post, I will share with you how the stress and fears brought on by covid-19 may be affecting your emotional well-being, your relationships and relationship losses, how it may be affecting you if you live alone, and research-backed, practical, easy Energy Psychology and other Self-care practices you can use right away to help yourself and your family feel safer, more protected and more in control.

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The Healing That Changed Everything

During the season of Winter, 2014 I began having a series of dreams. These dreams were repetitive, vivid, and felt urgent and very real. They had themes of a child being lost and found and hiding a big secret. They were unlike any I have ever had before or since, in that they seemed to begin from within my womb-space, and the openings continued during meditation.

When I think back over the last few years, about what really made a difference in my own life, in fulfilling my own Soul hunger for more love, joy, fulfillment and freedom, and moving forward with the highest-level transformational and spiritually healing work I am passionate about doing, the dreams I had that winter were clearly the turning point. They opened the door to healing the one thing in my own life, that got me moving after being stopped by fear.

This was the healing of my adoption trauma and Mother Wound.

Healing this one thing changed everything for me. . . and taught me three things on a deeper level than I had known before, through my own personal lived experience:

  1. The importance, necessity and transformative power of finding and healing core wounds. These are the wounds underlying the center of the challenges and primary patterns that keep us living with less than the optimal joy, fulfillment, love and passion we sense we are meant for, but somehow don’t quite realize in our lives. These are the wounds that hold us back and also block us from having our highest-level impact and leaving the unique legacy we are each born to give the world.

    The Mother Wound is among these wounds. It is a significant component of the Patriarchy Core Wound™. Healing our Mother Wound is often the way we begin the journey of healing and gaining freedom from the Patriarchy Core Wound™.

  2. The crucial central need to find the story, no matter how hidden or how deep, underlying our core wounds, because it is in the story of the wounding or trauma ~ the real story that resonates in our bodies ~ that the required healing path and process is unveiled.

    I had known about this issue from my early childhood before the dreams, and even done other personal work with it, and benefited in the past .But I had not found the real story of my adoption; and by the time I had the dreams, all my family members who did know, had passed on. With their passing, some might say it became impossible to learn the real story. My Soul and my body knew otherwise, and the real story of my adoption and how the Mother Wound became imprinted in my life, was unveiled to me, and with it, the pathway and power to heal it.

  3. No matter how deep, or how hidden the wound or trauma, if you find the story, invisible roots and origin, and where it is anchored in the spirit-mind-body, lasting, profound, comprehensive healing is possible. Healing like this is the deepest, most comprehensive and life-changing healing of all, and always includes spiritual healing, which is a return to your True Self.

I have been guiding and facilitating deep healing work for other women for over 30 years, including healing their core wounds, and rarely share my own experiences of the healing journey. This story of how I was healed from the earliest childhood, past-life and generational trauma at the heart of my Mother Wound from adoption, is such a clear illustration of the power and impact of healing core wounds, that I felt to share it with you.

This story shows what is possible – for every woman. And when we find, heal and release the core wounds, including the Mother Wound, deep inside us, our lives change forever.

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The Deep Healing Magic of Shadow Season

Mystery schools have always taught that renewal and rebirth come after a deep inner change, a deep healing, a transformation of heart and mind and of the recipient’s inner world ~ a remembrance and return to the Self. This deeper healing is the essence of the Inner Work of the Heroine’s Journey. Scorpio more than any other sign helps us take this deep dive, staying focused on the journey through to the completion. To do this Inner Work, we cross into the Otherworld, what James Hillman, the founder of archetypal psychology and the Sufi’s call the Imaginal World intermingling with this world of form, where we can access the primordial stuff of myth and magic, the energy of the process of creation. This is the place of deep healing and transformation.

Shadow Season is the gift of time in the annual cycle of the Wheel of the Year, to support us to engage in this deeper work of Inner Healing, renewal and rebirth. And sometimes, we are pulled into the mist of the Otherworld for this very purpose, whether we consciously choose to do so or not…

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Lisa's Lasting Peace After the Tragic, Traumatic Death of Her Son

Remember Lisa? She healed from years of personal trauma, and was instrumental in the healing of 14 generations of her family line. Her remarkable Heroine’s Story is the first one on the Inspiring Client Stories page.

I recently heard from Lisa, We worked together again about a year ago, after the tragic accidental death of her son. She feels at peace, “ok” as she states it. Like she is on vacation, in fact.

She shared a metaphor about multiple lives that her son shared with her since his death. Her relationship with her son has continued, in a new form with new routines. Lisa is not stuck in the grief and trauma of his loss, she is moving forward joyfully with her life, her marriage and her highest level work in the world.

From a devastating traumatic loss just over a year and a half ago, how did Lisa find lasting peace? .

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Hope and Healing for Women Divorcing Gay Men: My Story

This is a personal story that I have kept privately to myself for over 30 years. This was the beginning of my own feminist awakening and Heroine’s Journey.

For nearly 10 years I was married to a man who was gay.

He has passed now, and I feel that I am ready to share this story of my experience in our marriage, the impact it had on me, and the research that I did in graduate school about women going through this experience. Just as it was then, my desire in sharing this story now, is to support other women to find healing for one of the deepest, most personal heartaches, rejections and traumas they may ever experience.

If this is your situation, I hope you find encouragement and hope from this post. If you know other women married and/or divorced from gay men, please share this post with them. Even today, women going through this life experience are among the least understood and least supported groups of women I know of,

It is time they find the help, hope, support and healing they need. It is time, that women divorced from gay men, experience the love and desire in marriage that I and many others, have found on the other side.

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The Hidden Way Unhealed Childhood Trauma May Be Blocking You from Fully Thriving in Life & Your First Steps to Healing

Adverse Childhood Experiences and unhealed childhood trauma can have a lasting effect for years to come; well into your adult life. Unhealed childhood trauma is a hidden cause of major illnesses, mental health challenges, relationship challenges, divorce, and even your ability to fulfill your full potential professionally, and earn the income you Desire and education commands.

Learn about the ACE’s studies, and this strong body of research revealing childhood trauma’s smoking gun.

And most importantly, learn the first two steps you need to take right now, to begin your journey of healing childhood trauma.

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Invoking the Goddess: Midsummer Magic and Transformation

Midsummer is here! Do you LOVE this season as much as I do? Did you know that Midsummer is one of the oldest seasonal celebrations, going back thousands of years? And do you know the ancient origins of this season, what the meaning and symbolism is, and how it is such a potent vehicle for connection with the Goddess and transformation?

Learn more, including contemporary ways we STILL connect with Midsummer, even today, and how you can do so too.

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"Help! I' ve Just ________!" Energy Therapy Immediate Self-care for Shock & Traumatic Experiences

When stress and painful experiences happen, or the experiences of day to day living become overwhelming and depleting, we can go into the stress response. While this is intended to help you get through the immediate situation, stress and traumatic experiences are very hard emotionally, mentally and physically. The best resources I know of, by far, to help us get through the stress, discharge the emotions and return to a state of balance and peace, come from Energy Therapy. Bar none.

In fact, over one million people around the world have discovered the effectiveness of Energy Therapy for releasing the stress response. 1 Here are 3 easy to use Energy Therapy Immediate Self-care Resources for stress and painful, upsetting or traumatic experiences.

They will help you release the shock, discharge the painful emotions, and reclaim your power so you can take whatever next steps you need for yourself and your loved ones.

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Creating a Healing Temple: Spiritual & Energetic Self-care when Undergoing Medical Care

Your body has tremendous power for healing and renewal. I can attest to this personally. This post is a short protocol I developed to create a healing temple for myself, when I underwent surgery and follow up treatments a few years ago. I still use this process anytime I have a medical appointment.

Learn how you can create a Healing Temple for yourself anytime, by following these simple steps.

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