How Energy Healing Helps Release Trapped Emotions Without Reliving Past Trauma
For most of my life, I thought healing required doing something.
š£ļøTalking about it.
š¬Analyzing it.
š¤Understanding why it happened.
šFiguring out when and how it affected me.
šGoing back into the memory, turning it over from every angle, and trying to create a different relationship with it.
And to be clear, I’ve experienced tremendous value from those practices.āļøI literally use them as key tools as a coach.
They’ve helped me understand myself, recognize patterns, change beliefs, and make very different choices in my life.
I was used to feeling the change in my well-being as a direct result of intensive inner work. The phrase āno pain, no gainā felt like the truth.
But then I experienced James’ energy work.āØ
And one of the biggest differences surprised the hell out of me:
šI didn’t have to do anything.
šI didn’t have to retell the whole trauma story.
šI didn’t have to explain why I was hurt.
šI didn’t have to understand where something came from.
šI didn’t even need to speak.
šI could simply… receive.
As a result, I didn’t realize how exhausting healing had been for me.
I can analyze the š© out of just about anything. š
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Give me a problem and I’ll look for the pattern.
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Give me an emotion and I’ll try to understand where it came from.
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Give me a painful wound and I’ll search for wisdom.
That ability and skill set have served me incredibly well. But sometimes, all that doing meant that healing itself became a full-time job.
I’ve had experiences in my life that I’ve talked about and analyzed countless times. I’ve understood them intellectually. I’ve recognized how they shaped me and how to reframe them and set boundaries.
And yet, I could still feel something lingering there.
Especially when it came to my family and all the toxic, traumatic years of my upbringing that shaped all the anxieties and fears in my adult life.
You see, I did intensive “work” in therapy, retreats, plant medicine and so much more. But I would STILL get triggered and taken down for extended periods of time when there was a flare-up with my family. I’m talking days, if not weeks, of rumination.
I understood WHY that was happening, but HOW to get out of that funk always felt like (very important) hard WORK.
That’s what made my experiences with James’ energy work so different.
Consistent energy work cleared out the decades (if not lifetimes) of trapped emotions that were ripe to take over my sense of well-being when I was triggered.
So while the energy work didn’t end all my triggers, it made the timeline for recovery feel like warp speed.
I’m no longer bed rotting in the fetal position for days after my family does something hurtful, licking my wounds and crying for my inner child.
Now I give myself the space I need to feel it, then release it within a few hours, at most. What once wiped me out is now a passing moment.
Instead of going back into the story and telling it all to my therapist again…
šI could just sit, or even lie there.
šClose my eyes, if I wanted.
šBreathe.
šReceive.
šAnd let my body do whatever it needed.
Sometimes I can’t tell what had shifted until a couple of days afterward. Sometimes I immediately feel a tingling sensation or a softening in an area of my body that was tight before.
There wasn’t some huge intellectual revelation. I didn’t finally find the perfect words to explain my past. I just don’t feel the same way anymore.
I am lighter. I can observe the situation without getting taken down by it. And I can’t point to any “hard work” I was doing to experience that shift. It was a direct result of simply receiving energy work.
And THAT fascinated me!
What if healing doesn’t always require as much effort as you think? What if you could just ask for help and get it without having to relive anything?
My experience with James’ energy work has shown me that’s possible.
That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped doing all the other things that support me. I still reflect. I still talk. I still journal. I still learn about myself. But I no longer believe there’s one (super hard-to-open) doorway into healing.šŖ
And sometimes, after enough time thinking about something…I don’t need to think harder. I need something different.
Maybe you do too! š
If there’s something in your life that still feels stuck…
šAn emotion you can’t quite shake.
šA pattern you understand but keep repeating.
šA memory you’ve talked about a hundred times that somehow still has a charge.
šOr even just that inexplicable feeling of āsomething is off, but I don’t know what it isā…
You don’t have to have the answer before asking for support.
This is the work James does with humans and horses through his energy sessions.
You don’t have to arrive with the perfect story.
You don’t have to know exactly what needs to shift.
And you don’t have to perform your healing.
You get to put your feet up and receive.
If that feels like the kind of support you’ve been craving, schedule an energy session with James and experience it for yourself.
ā Book an Energy Session with James
Because maybe the next layer of your healing isn’t something you need to figure out.
Maybe it’s something you’re ready to let go.
Why not try and see? āØ
P.S.
A first-time client who had never done any type of energy work before shared this about her experience with James:
“I’ve spent a lot of time talking about things that didn’t really help me. I don’t want to revisit my entire family’s history. I just want to move forward, and this work does that perfectly!ā
And then a few days later:
“I can’t explain what’s happening, but I’m so much lighter, and my mind isn’t racing like it was before. I can’t wait to do more!”
