If you ask any child in elementary school what they want to be when they grow up, I doubt one of them would say “energy work”. This is not something I knew existed until I was introduced to it as a solution for my own sick child's health struggles.
My daughter had been sick since she was a tiny baby. She had chronic eczema that covered her whole body. She also had complicated digestive issues, a myriad of allergies (some deadly) and other immune related problems. After it became clear that we were not going to find answers in the standard medical world, we turned to alternative health practitioners. We visited naturopaths and homeopaths, had her hooked up to biofeedback machines and taught my tiny little girl to take a handful supplements each day. I consumed every bit of information about gut health, the microbiome, epigenetics and appropriate supplementation and treatments. I exhausted every possible resource to help my child. We traveled to see experts and spent upwards of $30 000 in our attempt to find relief for her.
Her health continued to deteriorate and I felt defeated and broken. Several doctors told us to prepare for a lifetime of immune disorders. This was when someone introduced us to a chiropractor who did energy work. We were very skeptical, but also very desperate. There was nothing to loose. Imagine my surprise (and delight) when woo-woo energy work ended up being the thing that finally changed her health and future.
My mind was blown. Before our experience with energy work no-one knew what to do with my daughter's health challenges. I was immediately intrigued and set out to learn this magical skill that saved my daughter.
And that is how I found my way to the weird side of health and healing.
Since I started doing energy work, I have seen incredible results in the lives of my clients and my own family. Every day I am more and more convinced that energy work addresses something in health, healing and also emotional work that we have neglected for far too long. As Caroline Myss says, we have a bio-spiritual ecology and healing starts where we cannot see it, in realms we barely understand.
Energy healing (or manipulating energy to enable healing) is a science or technology that we are only starting to be able to explore and barely able to understand. Yet I believe it is this very technology that will help people with confounding health problems, like my daughter, to finally be able to live a healthy, thriving life.