We've spent the last three episodes exploring energy from the inside of our cells — mitochondria, oxygen delivery, chronic illness, aging, and the physical processes that help our bodies produce and use energy.
But there's another side of the conversation.
What about the energy we carry through our emotions, relationships, beliefs, experiences, and the ways we've learned to adapt to life?
What happens when those different parts of ourselves are no longer working together?
In the final episode of The Energy Beneath It All, Tansy brings the entire four-part series together by moving beyond cellular energy production and into the emotional, mental, spiritual, and energetic patterns that shape our experiences.
Throughout the series, we've explored mitochondria, oxygen delivery, chronic illness, aging, cellular repair, and the physical systems that help our bodies produce energy. But those cells don't exist in isolation. They exist within a human being with a lifetime of experiences, relationships, emotional responses, beliefs, and adaptations.
In this solo conversation, Tansy explores the concept of energetic coherence — what it means when the different parts of ourselves are working together rather than constantly compensating for one another.
Drawing from her background in physical therapy, functional nutrition, and energy healing, she explains how the body adapts to stress and injury, and how similar patterns of compensation can provide a useful framework for understanding our emotional and energetic experiences.
The conversation then moves through the chakra system, exploring how each energy center can offer a different lens for understanding the ways we experience safety, creativity, personal power, love, communication, intuition, and spiritual connection.
Tansy also examines what happens when energy feels stagnant, when we become disconnected from our authentic expression, or when the patterns that once helped us navigate life are no longer supporting the person we're becoming.
From emotional boundaries and self-trust to movement, decision-making, and the energy of enough, this episode invites listeners to consider how their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences influence one another.
Rather than searching for one more missing piece, the conversation encourages greater awareness of the patterns already present and how bringing those different parts of ourselves into a more connected relationship may support whole-person well-being.
Because understanding the energy beneath it all means looking not only at how our cells produce energy, but also at how we experience and express that energy throughout our lives.
Episodes in “The Energy Beneath It All” Series
Episode 1- Ep. #195: When Your Labs Look Normal But You’re Still Sick with Dr. Pamela Cipriano
Episode 2- Ep. #196: Tired Of Being Tired? Oxygen, Mitochondria & Chronic Illness with Brad Pitzele
Episode 3- Ep. #197: What If Aging Is Really an Energy Problem? with Dr. Bill Rawls
Episode 4- Ep. #198: Beyond Cellular Health: Chakras, Stuck Energy & the Patterns That Shape Us
About the Series
A 4-Part Series on Cellular Health, Mitochondria & the Energetic Body
What does it really mean to have energy?
Throughout this four-part series, The Energy Fix explores that question from multiple perspectives, bringing together cellular health, chronic illness, oxygen delivery, mitochondrial function, emotional experiences, and the energetic body.
Each episode builds on the previous conversation, creating a more complete picture of how we produce, use, experience, and relate to energy.
Part 1 — Dr. Pamela Cipriano
When Your Labs Look Normal But You're Still Sick
We began by examining complex chronic illness, functional and conventional lab testing, Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, mold exposure, gut health, and why symptoms deserve attention even when routine tests don't provide clear answers.
Part 2 — Brad Pitzele
Oxygen, Mitochondria & the Energy Crisis of Chronic Illness
We continued by exploring oxygen delivery, microcirculation, cellular energy production, chronic fatigue, and Brad's personal experience with exercise with oxygen therapy (EWOT) and red light therapy.
Part 3 — Dr. Bill Rawls
What If Aging Is Really an Energy Problem?
We moved deeper into the cellular level, examining mitochondria, aging, chronic stress, autophagy, nutrition, environmental exposures, and adaptogenic herbs.
Part 4 — Tansy Rodgers
Beyond Cellular Health — Chakras, Stuck Energy & the Patterns That Shape Us
In this final episode, Tansy brings the conversation beyond physical energy production to explore energetic coherence, the chakra system, emotional patterns, adaptation, compensation, personal power, and whole-person healing.
Together, these four conversations invite us to look at energy from a broader perspective.
Not simply as something our cells produce, but also as something we experience through our thoughts, emotions, relationships, movement, and the ways we engage with life.
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What We Cover
In this episode, we talk about:
Why cellular health is only one part of the whole-person conversation
What energetic coherence means and why it matters
How our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences interact
Why cells exist within the context of an entire human life
The relationship between adaptation and compensation
How physical therapy provides a useful framework for understanding patterns
Why emotional and relational experiences deserve attention in healing
How the chakra system can support self-awareness
The root chakra and our relationship with safety, stability, and belonging
The sacral chakra and its connection to creativity, pleasure, and emotional movement
The solar plexus chakra and our sense of personal power and agency
The heart chakra and the balance between giving and receiving
The throat chakra and the importance of authentic expression
The third eye chakra and our relationship with perception and intuition
The crown chakra and spiritual connection
Why spiritual awareness needs to be integrated with everyday human experience
How energetic compensation may influence our decisions and relationships
Emotional drainage and the importance of boundaries
Stagnation and the feeling of being energetically stuck
Why physical movement can influence emotional experiences
The relationship between self-awareness and meaningful change
What it means to experience greater coherence within ourselves
Why healing isn't always about finding another missing piece
The energy of enough and recognizing what we already know
Key Takeaways
Energetic coherence is a framework for understanding how different aspects of ourselves can work together.
Our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences are interconnected parts of whole-person well-being.
Cells function within the context of a complex human body, environment, and personal history.
Adaptation helps us respond to challenges, but some patterns may continue long after they are useful.
Compensation can be a helpful metaphor for understanding emotional and energetic patterns.
Self-awareness allows us to recognize how our experiences influence our responses.
The chakra system offers a framework for exploring different aspects of our lives.
The root chakra relates symbolically to safety, stability, and belonging.
The sacral chakra is associated with creativity, pleasure, and emotional movement.
The solar plexus chakra invites reflection on agency, personal power, and self-trust.
The heart chakra encourages awareness of how we give, receive, and connect.
The throat chakra highlights authentic communication and expression.
The third eye and crown chakras offer perspectives on intuition, perception, and spirituality.
Spiritual insights can become more meaningful when integrated into everyday life.
Emotional exhaustion can be connected to how we navigate relationships, responsibilities, and boundaries.
Movement can influence our emotional experiences and help us reconnect with our bodies.
Energetic stagnation can serve as a metaphor for feeling disconnected, restricted, or unable to move forward.
Whole-person healing involves understanding relationships between different aspects of health rather than treating everything as isolated.
Sometimes meaningful change begins by recognizing and integrating what we already know.
Favorite Quotes & Sound Bites
A few moments you’ll want to remember:
"Energetic coherence involves different parts of ourselves."
"Cells are not living in isolation."
"Healing is so much more complex."
"What has this person had to adapt to?"
"The root chakra is about stability and belonging."
"Creativity is our ability to respond to life."
"Being capable is not the same as feeling empowered."
"What am I having difficulty processing in my life?"
"Sometimes the heart doesn't need to open more."
"Expression is different from just talking."
"The third eye is associated with perception and insight."
"We are spiritual beings living in a human body."
"Sometimes the loudest thing in the room is compensation."
"We don't always need to push harder to create change."
"Movement can change how we experience ourselves."
"Healing isn't about finding one more missing piece."
Chapters
02:53 – The Human Experience Beyond Cellular Health
05:52 – Connecting Physical and Energetic Health
09:10 – Adaptation, Compensation & Healing
12:02 – Emotional and Relational Patterns
14:53 – Understanding the Chakra System
18:01 – Root Chakra: Safety, Stability & Belonging
21:13 – Sacral Chakra: Creativity and Emotional Flow
23:55 – Solar Plexus: Personal Power & Self-Trust
27:06 – Heart Chakra: Giving and Receiving Love
29:51 – Throat Chakra: Communication & Expression
50:10 – Third Eye and Crown Chakras
52:32 – Spirituality and the Human Experience
54:49 – Energetic Compensation and Decision-Making
56:39 – Emotional Drainage and Boundaries
01:00:06 – Stuck Energy and Stagnation
01:03:33 – Movement as a Catalyst for Change
01:09:39 – Creating Energetic Coherence
01:19:13 – Integrating Physical and Energetic Healing
01:31:00 – The Energy of Enough and Whole-Person Healing
Why This Episode Matters
Because understanding our health involves more than knowing how our cells function.
We can eat well, exercise, get enough sleep, and support our mitochondria, yet still find ourselves navigating emotional exhaustion, recurring relationship patterns, difficulty making decisions, or a persistent feeling of being stuck.
And while these experiences don't necessarily mean there is an energetic imbalance causing a physical health problem, they are still important parts of our overall well-being.
Sometimes the way we've learned to adapt to life becomes so familiar that we stop recognizing it as adaptation.
We may have learned to:
Take care of everyone else's needs before acknowledging our own
Stay quiet to avoid conflict or disappointing someone
Keep moving because slowing down feels uncomfortable
Question our decisions even when we know what matters to us
Hold back our creativity, emotions, or authentic expression
Confuse being capable with feeling genuinely empowered
Carry responsibilities that leave us emotionally exhausted
Look for more information or another solution instead of applying what we already understand
These patterns can become part of how we experience ourselves and move through the world.
This episode matters because it introduces a different question.
What have I learned to compensate for, and is that pattern still supporting me?
In physical therapy, compensation is something we see when the body changes how it moves to accommodate pain, weakness, or limitation. But adaptation isn't limited to movement. As a framework for self-reflection, we can also explore how our emotional and relational experiences influence the ways we respond, communicate, establish boundaries, and make decisions.
The chakra system offers another perspective for examining these patterns, helping us reflect on different aspects of our human experience. And energetic coherence invites us to consider what happens when those different aspects begin working together with greater awareness.
This isn't about forcing everything into balance or expecting ourselves to feel aligned every moment. It's about understanding ourselves more completely. Recognizing what we've adapted to. Noticing where we may be holding back. And exploring what becomes possible when we allow our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences to become part of the same conversation!
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Where in your life might you be compensating instead of allowing yourself to move forward in a way that feels more authentic?
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Transcript
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When I talk about energetic coherence, I'm talking about the different parts of ourselves being more connected, organized, and able to work together. Think about an orchestra, right? Every instrument has its own role and they're not all playing the same notes. But when you're listening to it, it sounds like it all goes together. When they are responding and listening to each other.
They create this cohesive sound that sounds so beautiful to your ears. That's how I think about our energetic ecosystem, right? Our thoughts, our emotions, our physical experiences, choices, and energetic centers don't have to be doing the same thing at the same time, but they can communicate and support one another rather than constantly working against each other.
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Welcome back to the Energy Fix, a podcast dedicated to help you balance your energetic body by diving deep into the sweet world of all things health and spirituality. My name's Tansy, and I'm an intuitive Crystal Reiki energy healer, energetic nutrition and holistic health practitioner, and a crystal jewelry designer. It's time to talk all things energy. Let's dive in.
I want start today's episode with a question. What if we've spent the last three episodes looking at what's happening inside of our cells? And now it's time to look at the human being that those cells actually belong to. Because think about everything that we've covered throughout the series. We've talked about mitochondria, oxygen delivery, inflammation, nutrition, cellular repair.
Chronic illness, environmental toxins, and so many of the things that influence whether our cells have the resources they they need to truly function. And yes, all of that matters so much. In fact, I would argue that understanding those things is incredibly important, especially if you're someone who's been struggling with your health and trying to understand why you feel the way that you do. But
In the work that I do, here is what I always keep coming back to. Those cells aren't living in isolation. They're living inside of a person. They're living inside of you. You are a person that has history and emotions and beliefs and relationships, responsibilities, and fears and desires and hopes and experiences that have shaped.
The way that you move throughout this entire world. And from the perspective of my energetic work, that person, you, also has an energetic system. And I believe that that energetic system is interacting with all of these other experiences. So what happens when we widen the lens? What happens when we look just a little bit deeper? What happens when we stop looking exclusively?
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Inclusively at how the body produces energy and start exploring how the human being experiences, expresses, and holds and directs and relates all of this stuff to energy. What happens? Could some of the patterns that we're experiencing energetically be connected to the ways that we've learned to adapt physically, mentally, and emotionally?
That's what I want to explore today. Welcome back to the Energy Fix. I'm your host, Tansy Rogers, and this is the fourth and final episode of our special series called The Energy Beneath It All. I've intentionally saved this conversation for last because I wanted us to establish the physiological foundation first.
I wanted you to understand the physical side of cellular energy before we opened up to this much bigger conversation about the energetic human being. And I also wanted to be very clear about something from the beginning. I'm not suggesting that your emotions have created your illness.
Or that an unblocked chakra is responsible for a medical diagnosis, or that you can think your way into perfect health. That's not exactly what I believe at all times. And it's not how I practice necessarily, but I do believe that our emotions and our chakras and our thoughts all have very deep connections energetically.
To what shows up on the surface. So even though maybe an illness or something that you're experiencing may have happened acutely, may have happened from an accident or a genetic concern that you might be challenged with, there are other factors that play a role.
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In maybe these everyday experiences that we experience. I believe healing is so much more complex. What I do believe is that we can miss important information when we look at one part of a person without truly considering the relationships between all the other parts. And some of the most interesting things that I've learned about those relationships.
Actually, it began way long before I even became a Reiki practitioner or started working with chakras and subtle energy. They began when I worked in physical therapy. For those of you who are newer to my work, my background spans a number of different areas. I'm a physical therapist assistant, a functional nutritional therapy practitioner, a holistic health coach, a
Crystal Reiki practitioner and a crystal and chakra healer. I've also spent many, many years working in movement and fitness in the physical body and have done years, 20 plus years of personal training and specific body movement. And while those may sound like very different specialties, I've never really experienced them as separate.
Each one has taught me something about the same human being that I am looking at with my two eyes. When I was working more heavily in physical therapy, one of the concepts that I encountered constantly was compensation. You could have somebody come in with low back pain, for example, and naturally that's what they wanted us to address. Their back hurt, that's where their attention was. Obviously.
That is the issue. That's the thing that's interfering with their life, right? But when you started to assess, when I started to assess and see how they actually moved, sometimes the lower back wasn't actually the only issue. Maybe their hips weren't providing the stability that they needed. Maybe their thoracic spine wasn't moving very well. Perhaps they had limited ankle mobility that was really affecting how they walked or they squatted and
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Their back was just working so much harder. Now, that doesn't mean that every case of low back pain comes from the hips. And it certainly doesn't mean that there is always one hidden cause that explains everything. But what it did teach me was something extremely valuable. And that was to pay attention, to look at the bigger picture, to see what was truly going on.
The area working the hardest isn't always the area where the original difficulty began. Sometimes what we're looking at is actually something called adaptation. So if we're looking at things from a physical therapy perspective or from a physical health perspective, a muscle tightens to help create stability. One joint moves more because another isn't moving enough.
Someone changes how they walk to start avoiding this painful area. Those are all examples of adaptation. And they can be incredibly useful, especially in the short term. I mean, think about spraining your ankle, for example. You're probably going to change how you walk for a little while. Your body starts to find another strategy because you're trying to protect an area that just got injured.
But if that strategy continues long after it's needed, other areas may actually start to have difficulties. You may start to have aches and pains in other areas and wonder, scratch your head, like, why is that happening? So that's why in movement work, we don't just ask, where does it hurt? We look at the entire system in functioning. We look at the entire ecosystem. Now
Here's where things become really interesting for me. And I'm not I don't know that everybody, every person that is in this work that I'm in looks at things this way, but I am an analytical brain. And so I just want to put that out there because I'm always I'm part of my innate being is just scanning and analyzing and looking. And so that's where this becomes really interesting for me.
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The longer I worked with people, the more I realized that what I was seeing physically wasn't always the whole story. I could work with somebody on strength, mobility, posture, or balance, looking at their movement mechanics, and those things could absolutely help. But I was also seeing people who were carrying tremendous amounts of stress.
And people that were going through grief or that were afraid of falling again after an injury. They had maybe some trauma related to what happened. I dealt and worked with people who were dealing with relationships that were absolutely exhausting them or who had spent years pushing through discomfort because they didn't feel like they had any other choice. Those experiences mattered.
To how they participated in their care. Someone who was frightened of movement might guard even harder after a tissue had been healed. And someone who hadn't slept because they were caring for a loved one might start to actually struggle with recovery. Someone living under relentless amounts of stress.
might have a much harder time actually finding the capacity to be consistent with their exercises. And that's why you may hear me talk in a lot of these podcast interviews or a lot of these videos or the content that I put out. I am never really saying just push, push, push, because I know that sometimes people don't have the capacity to do that because they are addressing
So many other things in their life. Looking back, I see how there were very real physiological and behavioral reasons for some of those things. And sometimes there were emotional and relational experiences that couldn't be separated from the person standing in front of me. I didn't always have the language to describe the energetic component of what I was noticing back then.
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I just knew what I felt. I knew what was coming through me when I was working with somebody, and I knew what I was noticing. I knew that I was looking at more than just muscles and joints. And over time, that became one of the biggest reasons I felt pulled towards working with people in a more integrative way. I want to emphasize.
I want to emphasize that I have tremendous respect for physical therapy and what it taught me. And I still use it now in the work that I do. That foundation continues to influence practically everything I do, including my energy healing sessions. It wasn't that I stopped believing in physical therapy. I began recognizing that the physical lens, while incredibly valuable,
Wasn't always enough to understand the whole experience of the person that I was working with. And as I explored nutrition and Reiki and other energy healing modalities, the chakra system and intuitive work and other aspects of holistic health, I started to really notice similar patterns expressing in different ways. The physical body might be compensating through movement, the emotional person might be compensating.
By suppressing their grief or their anger, the person might be compensating through constant planning or analysis. You know, there's so many things, but from my energetic perspective, I might recognize areas that start to feel overactive, constricted, depleted, disconnected from the rest of the system. Different expressions, but a very
Very similar question underneath all of them. And that question is, what has this person had to adapt to? What might be working harder as a result of this adaptation? That question has become a really important part of how I approach healing now. And it's also what connects today's episode back to everything that we've learned in the past three episodes of this series.
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Now, before we really get into the energetics and what I want to approach today, I want to just briefly revisit where we've been so that you kind of know. And I will link these down below. So make sure you jump on down and find each of these videos because I think that you're going to see such a beautiful transition into the topic and bring it to where we're at now. All right. So in part one, I spoke.
With Dr. Pamela. Dr. Pamela Capriniano, she talked about complex chronic illness and some of the reasons that people can feel absolutely terrible, even when standard testing hasn't provided a satisfying explanation. We explored things like health history and nutrition and B12, mold and mycotoxins, tick-borne illnesses, functional medicine, and really that importance of.
advocating for yourself when you just know that something is not right. And one of the things that I wanted you to take away from that conversation was that a person's health story doesn't always fit neatly into a test result or a little box or a protocol.
It doesn't mean that laboratory laboratory testing is meaningless at all. I think it's very important, but it does mean that results have to be interpreted with the context of other symptoms and history and examination and really the bigger clinical picture. So then in part two, my guest was Brad Pitzel, and he joined me to really explore mitochondria.
Oxygen delivery, mycocirculation, light based approaches, and some of the ways that people are trying to support cellular energy. We also talked about health, sovereignty, hope, and identity. And I think that those last three things are particularly relevant to today's conversation because there's a difference between understanding a health condition and allowing that condition to become the
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Only story that you tell about yourself. You can recognize the reality of a diagnosis without reducing yourself entirely to the identity of that. And that's important to note. Now, in part three, I had Dr. Bill Rawls on. He brought us into an even deeper exploration of cellular health, mitochondria, autophagy.
Chronic illnesses, environmental stressors, nutrition, sleep, herbs, recovery. We talked about a ton of things. We also talked about how cellular function depends on so much more than simply providing fuel. Cells have to respond to their environment. They have to communicate, adapt, repair, coordinate with other symptoms. And that conversation really sets up.
For what we're going to be diving into and discussing today. If the conditions surrounding a cell matter so much, then what actually do we need to know about the conditions surrounding the entire person? We're not just talking about the oxygen that they're breathing or the nutrients that they're eating or the foods that they're taking in. We're talking about their daily life.
What about living in a relationship where you constantly feel like you're walking on eggshells? What about years of pushing down grief because you didn't have time? You didn't have time to fall apart. What about having an incredibly creative side that you've ignored for decades because everything else and everyone else always seemed to come first?
What about if you're the person who intellectually understands your boundaries but keeps abandoning yourself because disappointing someone else feels unbearable and too much to handle? Or what if you are someone who has spent so much time caring for other people that you no longer really recognize what it feels like to receive support yourself? Those experiences aren't all the same and they
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Don't all create the same physiological consequences, but they're part of the environment that that person is navigating. And I think that we have to make room for that environment when we're talking about health and healing. So let's look at this physiologically for a moment. Your mitochondria are
Constantly responding to what's happening within and around the cell. They produce ATP. And ATP is actually the energy currency used for countless cellular processes. But they're also involved in signaling. They're involved in signaling and metabolism and responding to changing conditions within the body. What happens in the body influences their activity. The availability of nutrients.
Oxygen and the other things that we are putting into our body matter so much. Physical activity matters. Sleep and recovery of the body matters. Illness and inflammation and other physiological stressors really, really matter. And we also know that psychological stress can produce genuine physiological changes.
So when you perceive a threat or experience significant emotional stress, your body can respond through the autonomic nervous system and hormonal stress pathways. That can affect your heart rate and your muscle tension. It can affect your digestive response and your sleep and so many other functions that your body does each and every day. Long standing stress can
Also, influence immune and inflammatory processes. It can affect and vary our very depth of our biology. The biology is so much more complicated than simply saying that stress raises cortisol and cortisol causes inflammation. The interesting part is that the brain and the body.
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Aren't waiting for us to consciously decide whether something is stressful or not. We can have a very, very real physiological response to anticipation, uncertainty, conflict, or fear. We can have it to the depth and the core of our physical being. I mean, think about the difference between sitting down to dinner with someone that you genuinely enjoy.
And then sitting down across from someone with whom you've been having such a really difficult time with, a difficult relationship. It's the same meal, perhaps, very similar food, but potentially a very different experience within your body. A different experience because of what that relationship or that stress or tension in that relationship is.
Your attention may be different. Your muscle tension may be different. Your appetite may be different. You may be anticipating criticism or preparing for an argument. You may be tensing up and just wondering when the shoe is gonna drop. That doesn't mean that your digestion has completely shut off or shut down every time that you're upset, but it illustrates something that's important here. It illustrates that the environment isn't just what's
Physically presenting around us is also how we're experiencing and responding to that environment. So here's where I want to really start to widen the conversation energetically and get into this part of the work because in my work, I view the energetic body as another dimension of the human experience. I work with chakras and subtle energy.
Intuitive awareness and the sense of flow or restriction that people may experience deep within themselves. This is my energetic and spiritual framework. It's not the same thing as measuring blood flow or electrical signaling in a laboratory, but it gives me a different set of questions to start to explore. And this is why I find it all so valuable.
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Emotionally, energetically, physically, and in your nervous system so you can move through life with more clarity and less internal noise. People book these when they're feeling stuck, overloaded, anxious, emotionally heavy, or like their energy isn't fully theirs anymore. And we work with that. We work with what's present, clear what's been lingering, and help you come back to center in a way that feels grounded and real.
If you want to book a session or you want to simply know more, you can head on over to tansyrogers.com or jump down into the show notes and click the link that will take you directly to those services. And if you're not sure which session is the right fit, send me a message. I'll help you choose. I'll help to guide you in the right direction. All right, let's jump back into this episode. But yeah, so it gives me different ex
It gives me different questions to dive into. Like, where does this person feel connected to themselves? Where do they feel withdrawn? Where do they seem to be working incredibly hard to maintain control? And where is there room for some emotional expression or creativity, connection, or rest? It also helps me to look at what.
Parts of themselves that they have learned to ignore in order to just get through life. And I think that that last part right there is one of the most important parts here to highlight, because it is especially important. Sometimes people become so good at adapting that they stop recognizing the adaptation. They've been operating that way for so long that it just feels normal.
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It feels like who they are, like it's their identity. They don't recognize that they're constantly bracing for the next problem or that they've stopped expressing their needs or expressing from their depths of their heart desires, that they've built their entire sense of identity around being the person that everybody else depends on. They've stopped seeing those adaptations. And from an energetic perspective, those repeated patterns are things that.
I'm interested in exploring. I love looking at that. I can look at a chakra and I can see something so deep and so knowing. I can't necessarily look at a chakra and diagnose a medical condition, but because our the because our ways of relating to ourselves and
The world around us can become so deeply familiar, it starts to create a story. Sometimes we need another doorway into recognizing these stories and these adaptations that we fell into. So I want to just take a little bit of time now talking about the chakra system. So just in case you're not quite sure what that is, I'm gonna dive just a little bit deep into this.
So that it connects a few of the dots for you, and you can see how each of the chakras might influence your story or some of your adaptations. Now, when people hear the word chakras, I think that they sometimes imagine seven little spinning wheels lined up inside of the body with each one assigned a different organ or a specific.
Problem. And if something is wrong, the assumption becomes that one of those wheels just needs to be open or balanced. And that can be true to a certain perspective. We need to stay balanced. We need to have that energy flowing. But I've also seen that that's a very limited way of understanding the chakra system.
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In the traditions and contemporary healing approaches that work with the chakras, they start to provide a framework for exploring different dimensions of experience. So things like safety or emotions or relationships, personal agency and communication, perception or spiritual connections, and there's so much more. And that's just naming a few. But the way that I work with them is relationally.
I don't think of seven independent compartments. I think about an interconnected energetic system, an ecosystem, if you will, in which different areas can influence, complement, or compensate for another one. So let me give you some examples of what I mean. So we're going to start at the root chakra. The root chakra is often associated with grounding and survival.
Stability and belonging, financial security, it is the root of who we are. It's our sense of having a place in the world. And when I explore root energy, I'm not simply asking someone if they feel relaxed or if they feel safe. I'm asking about their relationship with that stability. Do they feel that life
Is something that they have to participate in, or something that they constantly have to prepare themselves against? Or do they feel supported by their environment? Can they tolerate uncertainty without immediately feeling compelled to step into trying to control everything around them?
Think about someone who has spent years and years navigating very unpredictable circumstances. Maybe their finances were unstable growing up or going down. Maybe relationships weren't dependable. Maybe they've experienced significant loss or disruption. They may have learned that careful planning and constant vigilance are how they keep themselves from actually not feeling like they're going to lose it all.
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And continuing to move forward in functioning. Those skills may have helped them tremendously. I think back to my own life, you know, the past like six or seven years, this, everything I just said, was so much my story. I mean, I felt like I was grasping at everything I possibly could to just maintain that control because.
Everything else around me felt like it was out of control and it didn't feel safe. And I was constantly bracing my body. For me, those skills became tremendously helpful. It is what helped me stay out of the depths of depression or anxiety or completely losing it. But, you know, I think back to that time and I think, how would that have looked?
If things were more stable, right? So imagine that that person now is in a more stable period of life and they're still mentally preparing for every possible problem. Energetically, I might look at that and say, let's explore whether their root themes of safety and trust are connected to heightened activity in their upper chakras, particularly the third eye. Their mind may be
Maybe doing an enormous amount of work trying to create the stability they don't yet experience internally, like just searching for it. Now, that doesn't mean that a root chakra imbalance cause their anxiety. I don't, I don't want to express that. It just simply means that in my energetic framework, the relationship between safety, grounding, and mental overactivity.
Maybe worth exploring. This is a perfect example of energetic compensation. Now, that's the root. And a lot of people I've seen, a lot of people I've worked with really struggle with root chakra safety and that foundation, especially when the outside world starts to get a little wonky, especially how it's been, right? And so that is often one for people to explore.
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But now I want to move into the sacral chakra. So the sacral chakra, this is the center that I associate with emotional movement, creativity, intuition, pleasure, connection, intimacy, receptivity. And I think that there's a lot of misunderstanding around this one because people hear creativity and immediately think painting, writing, or making music.
Those can absolutely be expressions of creativity. Absolutely. But creativity is also our ability to respond to life, explore possibilities, play, engage with things around us, engage with things that make us feel alive. What creates passion in you? That is also part of creativity. It's not just producing something, because really the producing part.
Is the other side of it. That is the putting out into the world. And I would even say that that could be related to solar plexus or throat chakra energy. The creativity isn't just about the producing, it's about the receptivity of the ideas coming in and allowing ourselves to experience something. What happens to that part of a person when life becomes nothing but obligation?
When every available moment is filled with responsibilities. And when that person feels guilty enjoying themselves unless everything on their to-do list has been completed. I mean, let's be serious. When does that list ever actually end? I don't know, mine doesn't end. I don't know if yours ends. If yours does, please share your secret with us because.
I don't think that list ever actually ends. And so what happens is that some people then become incredibly efficient at managing their lives while feeling completely disconnected from enjoyment and joy. Completely disconnected from their ideas of passion. They can get things done, they can take care of everybody else, they can organize, plan, and produce.
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But receiving pleasure, moving with emotion, or allowing something spontaneous into their day feels incredibly unfamiliar. And honestly, it feels almost like this physical, this visceral discomfort, like something just doesn't feel right. And you need to stretch it out, like it just doesn't feel good because you're not used to it. Energetically, I might look at it and explore.
Whether those constrictions around those sacral themes are really coming from a lack of safety, like is it connected into their root chakra, or is it just isolated to their sacral area? I might also look at the relationship between between the sacral and the solar plexus because a person may have a very
Active sense of responsibility and control while having much less access to ease and creativity and emotional movement in general, the receiving side.
The question isn't necessarily how to make them more productive. It's more like like I might be curious what happens when they allow themselves to just enjoy something without having to justify it.
Which I think is such a great word here. Justify. Because if we're constantly justifying something, that can easily close down that sacral chakra and make it feel like things are that much harder. Wheel, yeah. All right. Now I mentioned the solar plexus, and that's where we're going to be heading here to next. The solar pre plexus brings us into our personal power, our
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Agency, our self-trust, and our boundaries, our choices, and especially how we're acting out in the world. A distinction that I really want you to think about with the solar plexus is that being highly capable is not always the same as feeling personally empowered. I want to say that again.
Being highly capable of doing something is not always the same thing as feeling personally empowered to do it. Okay? Someone can accomplish extraordinary things. They can look successful on the outside. They can have everything. They can push and hustle and do all of the things while inside privately.
They're feeling like they have no choice but to just keep accomplishing, to push, to go, to mask, to do what they need to do to maintain the outside of appearance. They may be managing a business, raising children, supporting family members, volunteering, having hands in their school functions and
somehow keeping 15 other plates spinning in the air simultaneously all at the same time. And from the outside, they look like a powerhouse. But when you ask what they actually want, when you ask what their solar plexus, what their inner calling is actually wanting.
They may have difficulty answering that. Or maybe they know exactly what they want, but they don't feel like they have permission to actually pursue it. That is a very interesting energetic pattern because what looks powerful, what looks like powerful solar plexus energy, might actually sometimes be a kind of overfunctioning. And rather than acting from self-trust, the person is acting from obligation.
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fear of disappointing others or the belief that their value depends on how much they can handle. This is where I sometimes think about digestion energetically as well. When I'm working on people, it is not uncommon because I I get, I read their energy in multiple ways. And one of the ways that I read it is the way that I feel in my body. I experience certain energies
physiologically through me. And digestion is one of those. So when I'm working on somebody's solar plexus, I can instantly tell if their digestion is a little wonky or something is off. And when I say digestion, I'm talking maybe physically, but also mentally, emotionally, and energetically, right? Digestion of life. I notice immediately when I start just burping a little bit, like I can feel it in my
own body, like I can feel that needing to come out.
You know, yes. I think that I think that the solar plexus can be so incredibly expressive about that kind of energy. Because metaphorically, the solar plexus invites in that question: what am I having difficulty processing or integrating in my life? Which is exactly what I had just talked about with the digestion of life.
And the emotions and the mental part of it. Like, what am I having difficulty actually integrating? What responsibilities have I taken on that aren't actually mine, that I'm refusing to let go of? And what decisions am I avoiding to make? Where have I confused control with personal power? Ooh, yeah.
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Those questions they come up often when I'm working with people, but they can reveal some really beautiful patterns that aren't necessarily obvious when we only look at how busy someone is. Just because somebody is busy doesn't mean that their solar plexus is imbalanced. It's really the other things that are going on. All right, so let's move into the heart shocker.
The heart chakra is particularly interesting to me, particularly interesting because so much of the conversation around it focuses on opening the heart. Open your heart, give more love, be more compassionate. But I want to challenge that just a little bit. What if someone's heart doesn't need to open more? Hmm. What if?
You're a people pleaser. And you've spent years being incredibly open to everybody else's experiences while having very little capacity to receive care yourself.
What if you're that person that everyone calls when something else goes wrong because they know that you're going to take care of it? What if you're the person that listens and supports and accommodates and understands and you make space? And somewhere along the way, you've decided that your own needs are just less important because there is so much more to focus on. From the outside, that can look like
Kindness and generosity and being the most sweet, amazing person. But internally, there might be exhaustion and resentment, loneliness, isolation, an underlying belief that being needed is the safest way to remain connected. And being needed.
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Is the only reason that you're worthy or that people like you.
In my energetic work, I don't automatically assume that this person needs more heart opening energy. I really look at the deeper picture and see where that energy is reflecting. Does it need reflecting out? Does it need reflecting in? What needs to happen? I may look at the heart chakra and see that I want to explore the relationship between the heart energy, root stability, solar plexus boundaries.
Throat expression. I look at things like: do they feel secure enough in their relationships to stop overgiving? Do they trust that they can say no and still be loved? Do they believe that their needs matter as much as everybody else's?
Sometimes the heart doesn't need to become more open. Sometimes it needs to learn that receiving and protecting its own capacity are also beautiful expressions of love. Yeah. And I think that that is such a different conversation when you step back and peel away the layers and look at it more deeply.
Now, in my work, I see the heart chakra so often connected into the throat chakra. And that's where we're going to go next. I want to talk about the throat chakra. Very often, the throat chakra is associated with communication, truth, and expression. It can also be those creative pursuits being expressed out into the world. But there's a big difference between talking a lot and actually expressing yourself. It's so
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Interesting because there are many clients that I've worked with where they are the biggest chitter chatters. Like they talk, they have no problems, they're extroverts, like they have no problem using their voice, but are genuinely surprised when I tell them that their throat chakra is imbalanced and that we need to work on throat expression. They'll say to me, but I have no problems.
Speaking, I have no problem saying what I want to say until we go into the depths. And that's where the light bulb goes off and the aha's come around. So I want to give you an example. Have you ever known someone who can explain absolutely everything that they're doing, provide 12 reasons for every decision that they've decided to make?
Defend every boundary that they've attempted to set. They communicate constantly. They have no problem with that. But when it comes to speaking from a place of self-trust and heart vulnerability, there's a little bit of a problem. It closes down. They fear that expression.
They fear the vulnerability, so they clam up inside the throat chakra and the heart channel. They clam up and they just say what they think everybody else needs to say or needs to hear. Excuse me, yeah, what everybody, they say what everybody else thinks that they want them to say, what they want to hear. Or maybe are they trying to convince everybody around them?
That they're allowed to make a decision. Are they allowed to say what they need to say? Are they allowed to express themselves openly and honestly and not fear that their safety is going to be compromised, that their heart vulnerability is going to be compromised, that their empowerment, that their self-confidence is going to be compromised. And this is where I see.
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Such a beautiful, interesting relationship between the solar plexus and the throat themes. If someone doesn't feel secure in their own authority, they may overexplain, justify, defend, search for different levels of approval. Their expression is doing the work that their self-trust hasn't fully taken on yet. I see other people also going in the opposite direction.
They keep their thoughts to themselves and they swallow down their anger and they avoid conversations and they agree to things that they don't want to do because it doesn't feel safe. And over time, these individuals may start to lose touch with what they actually wanted to say in the first place. From an energetic perspective, I'm interested in both expressions.
Not simply whether someone talks, but whether their expression is connected to what they genuinely know, feel, and choose. And so if you've been around here at this podcast and on my in my work world for a little bit, I may have talked about this before, but if you didn't know, this podcast specifically was part of my healing.
Of my throat chakra connected to my heart chakra, connected to my solar plexus. It was part of my own healing. It was part of what needed to come out in the way that I needed to express and I needed to connect with others to feel that expression loosening up. And boy, what a joy it has been. I love.
Doing this show. And part of that, part of that is because I stepped out of that comfort zone and I allowed myself to start to heal through that energy patterning that was so blocked for so long. I knew I would love doing this work. I just wasn't allowing myself to actually see it or be in it. All right. So let's talk a little bit about the third eye.
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And the crown chakras yet. The third eye is associated with perception and insight and intuition, imagination, recognizing patterns, connecting into your inner knowing. And the crown is often associated with meaning and spirituality, connection to something that is so much greater than ourselves. These can be such beautiful areas of exploration.
But I also think that it's possible to become so focused on understanding and analyzing or seeking spiritual meaning that we start to lose contact with the experience we're actually having. Listen, I have been in this spiritual world for a very long time. I've also been in the very 3D human world.
Doing very human work for a very long time. And one of the things that I noticed as I started to get more into my spiritual side and the energetics and get more into some of the channeling work and all of that stuff that comes through is that the more that I did that without
Purposefully and consciously connecting my physical body in at the same time caused me to stay more up in my head, more anxious, more disconnected, struggling more with my human experience and my human body. It is really important that we always bring ourselves back and ground ourselves. And we are.
Spiritual beings living in a human body. We are meant to experience this human experience, this human life. So making sure we have the balance here is really important. Somebody can be incredibly intuitive and still have difficulty making a decision because they're not connected into their body. They may recognize patterns in
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Everybody else around them, but struggle to recognize their own needs, their own patterns, their own body cueing. They may spend hours analyzing what they're upset over instead of just allowing themselves to experience the emotions. They may constantly seek guidance through spiritual practices and mentors because.
They've learned that trusting their own choices feels so uncomfortable and so unreliable. And listen, I love spiritual exploration. I love intuition. I love working with energy, but spiritual connection doesn't replace the need to participate in your actual life. Sometimes we can become so focused on what something means that we never
Ask what we're going to do about it. And from an energetic perspective, this is where the relationship between the upper and the lower chakras becomes vitally important. You could be receiving all kinds of insights through your third eye or exploring these incredibly deep spiritual connections and revelations and expansions through your crown.
But can you bring that awareness into your choices each and every day? Can you take action through your solar plexus? Can you express it through your throat? Can you remain emotionally present through your heart and your sacral? Can you even stay grounded in your everyday life through the root chakra? For me,
This is what makes the chakra system so cool. It's not about getting seven individual centers to perform perfectly. It's about how the whole system relates to itself. That in and of itself is the key here, which leads us in to one of my favorite, favorite concepts. Now,
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Remember what I said earlier about physical therapy. Sometimes the area working the hardest is compensating for something else, right? I believe that can be such a useful way to explore energetic patterns as well. Now, I want to distinguish this very, very clearly. When I describe energetic compensation, I'm talking about a pattern.
I've come to recognize and work with through my energetic practice. I'm not suggesting that there is a medical test that confirms one chakra is compensating for another. But as a framework for asking better questions, I find it incredibly valuable. So let's imagine someone who's constantly anxious about making decisions. They research everything, they compare everything.
Every possibility, they replay conversations over and over in their heads and they ask multiple people for advice. They may come into an energy healing session feeling mentally exhausted and convinced that they need to quiet their mind. But that may only be part of what they need. What if the mental activity isn't the entire issue here? What if underneath it,
Is a profound lack of confidence in their own judgment. They don't trust themselves to choose. Maybe they spent years being criticized for their decisions, and they've learned that getting something wrong carried significant consequences in their life. Now their mind is trying to prevent that experience from ever happening again. And now we got a big old jumbled ball.
From an energetic perspective, I might see those third eye and solar plexus themes as connected. The mind is working overtime to compensate for a lack of trust in personal agency. So rather than asking just the question like, how do we quiet the mind? I might also look at this and ask: what would help this person rebuild trust in their ability to choose?
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If we only focus on quieting our thoughts, we could miss what those thoughts have been trying to accomplish and communicate to us over and over again. Here's another example. Imagine somebody who constantly feels emotionally drained. They believe that they absorb everything around them. They might identify as an empath or a highly sensitive person. They're
They're really tuned into everybody else's moods, everybody else's problems, everybody else's needs. And they describe themselves as someone who has an incredibly open heart chakra. But let's explore that a little further. Do they have permission to say no? Can they recognize when someone else's emotional experiences isn't theirs to manage?
Do they feel responsible for keeping the peace? Could the issue be less about a heart that's too open and more about how heart energy is relating to root security and solar plexus boundaries?
What happens when we stop interpreting every experience of depletion as a need for more protection and actually begin looking at how someone is participating in their relationships in their lives? It's a very different doorway to healing. And I think one that doesn't get enough attention. There's a person who has a lot of emotional frustration or irritation. Maybe their anger keeps surfacing and they're trying.
everything that they can to get rid of it. But what if that irritation is connected to a boundary they've been crossing against themselves for months and months and months?
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Every time they say yes to something that they don't want, a little more frustration builds. Every time they dismiss what they need, they feel a little bit more resentful. The anger, it may be the loudest thing in the room, but perhaps the deeper pattern involved is actually their difficulty expressing a need or making a different choice. Right? Of course.
Persistent irritability can have physical and psychological contributors to, of course, things like lack of sleep or pain, medication effects, illness, hormonal changes, many other factors. That's the point of this whole person thinking. We don't choose an energetic interpretation and ignore everything else, but we remain curious about all the relevant pieces.
Sometimes the loudest thing in the room in the system is simply the thing working the hardest to compensate. I want you to remember that the next time you're trying to figure out why something keeps showing up in your life over and over again. What's the pattern? Why is it being so loud? A quick break because I want to share something I make that's meant to support you in real life, not just look cute on your wrist.
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When you're heading into a hard conversation or when you need a reminder to come back to yourself more solid, more grounded, more authentic. I'm not here to tell you that jewelry fixes everything, but I am here to tell you that having a steady physical cue can change your day, especially if you're sensitive, easily overstimulated, or your brain likes to sprint way ahead of you.
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If you want to browse what's available or see what is newly released, head on over to BEUCrystals.com. I'll link it down in the show notes so that you can easily shop and check out what is available. And as always, if you have any questions or you want to do any custom work, you can easily reach out to me right there. Okay, let's jump back into this episode.
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Sometimes our instinct is to really just chase, chase what is noticeable. Chase the things that you can see, right?
Sometimes the chasing, the things that do or are the loudest in the room, sometimes they do need direct care. I would never want somebody to ignore persistent pain or a new symptom because they think it must have an emotional meaning. I just want to express that other times, understanding the broader pattern helps us decide what kind of support might be useful. You can address what's loud while
Also asking at the very same time what's been quietly working in the background. One of those background patterns is what I often describe as energetic stagnation. So let's talk about stagnation. Because I think this word gets used a lot in energy healing without actually exploring what it means. Sometimes people talk about stagnant energy as though it's something like.
Like it's something very mysterious and it's just accumulated inside of you or something negative that you picked up from another person. And while that can be true to a certain degree, some energetic traditions actually include beliefs about absorbing or exchanging subtle energy that that that's not the only way, though, right? That's not the only way that this congestion can come in.
For me, stagnation can also describe, along with the stuff that I just talked about, it can also describe an experience of reduced movement, flexibility, compromises, a lack of expression, possibly within a person's energetic life and just feeling like that is translating and moving over into how it's showing up energetically.
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That can look very different from person to person. You might have plenty of physical stamina and still feel so energetically stuck. You could be exercising regularly, sleeping pretty darn well, eating really healthy food and getting throughout your day without much difficulty, but creatively you've just gone flat. Like you don't feel very creative anymore. You could have trouble making decisions or finding it difficult to connect emotionally with your partner or.
You feel as though you're simply repeating the same patterns, even though part of you knows something needs to change. That's an experience of stagnation. I think that maybe many people just don't really recognize. And so when I work with someone energetically, I'm interested in exploring where that experience might be showing up. So a few things that I look at, like, number one,
How are they receiving? Are they having difficulty receiving? Number two, is there something that they're afraid to express and get off of their heart? Number three, is there any emotion that they've been trying to avoid? Is there anything like that they just keep shoving down below the surface? Number four,
They feeling connected to joy, curiosity, maybe their own passions and desires? Are they feeling connected or completely disconnected? Number five, have they become so accustomed to fulfilling responsibilities for other people or their to-do lists that they've stopped exploring what generally matters to themselves?
I don't view every one of these experiences as evidence of a literal energetic blockage, but they can often offer really useful starting points for working with energy.
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Not everything that appears constricted is necessarily something that needs to be opened immediately. That's really important to emphasize here. Just because there is stagnation somewhere, it doesn't mean that it's ready to open.
What we experience as restriction may also be serving as a protective purpose. Think about somebody who has experienced significant grief. Maybe they've lost someone that they've loved and shortly afterwards they had to go back to work, they had to take care of their family and deal with a bunch of financial responsibilities and just simply just keep functioning throughout their day.
There may not have been much space to experience everything that they were feeling. And so they focused on what needed to be done and they stayed organized and they managed. But maybe months or years later, they began noticing that they feel emotionally disconnected, like they can't cry. Even though they know that they're sad, they can't seem to cry. They find themselves becoming emotional over something that is so relatively minor. Grief doesn't follow a
Predictable pattern. And crying doesn't necessarily mean that that is the only way that is trying to come out. In a situation like this, I might wonder whether there are experiences that haven't really had much room for expression. Energetically,
I could explore that through heart and sacral themes, perhaps through grounding movement, or gentle awareness of what the person is ready to experience. I would not approach that person as though they had a defective heart chakra that needs to be forced open. That could actually be doing more harm than good. It would really miss something that's important, and that's that maybe their way of holding.
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Holding themselves together help them survive an incredibly difficult period. The question is whether that strategy is still serving them or not. Whether there is room now for something different or something new, is it ready to be released and to be let go of? And if it's not, that's okay. And if it is, then that's where you can take it a step deeper.
I think that energy healing and trauma-informed approaches can share a really useful pre principle here. I think it's important if you are the practitioner, but also if you're doing the work yourselves, to remember, you know, like in the whole concept of trauma-informed practices, to remember, we don't always need to push harder to create change.
We don't always need to push harder to create change. Sometimes we need enough support, choice, and awareness that a difficult experience just becomes possible.
Just to become possible.
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I know that within an energy healing session, I can still respect someone's capacity, avoid forcing emotional release, and allow them to participate in what feels comfortable. And sometimes what feels comfortable for that person is really big emotions and really big tears and really big expression. And sometimes what feels comfortable is allowing themselves to go to sleep.
And just be.
Now, I also think that stagnation can happen through repetition. So consider the person who repeatedly avoids difficult conversations. Like, what if you're that person that continuously avoids these different these difficult conversations? At first, avoiding the conflict probably gives you some relief, right? Like it feels good just to let it go. You don't have to worry about upsetting anybody else. You can keep the peace.
But eventually it starts to eat at you. And you start feeling disconnected from the people around you because you're not expressing what they genuinely think or need.
Now there's frustration, maybe even some resentment, maybe even a feeling of being invisible. The pattern has become familiar, even though it's no longer giving you the result that you want. So from an energetic perspective, I might explore the relationship between the throat, heart, and solar plexus. So think expression, connection, and personal authority.
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Not saying that one chakra caused the situation, but because those energetic themes can help us understand where you might want to create some movement, where you need to create some movement. And that movement doesn't have to be dramatic or confrontation, right? Like it doesn't have be dramatic confrontation in that situation. It just might begin with admitting to yourself what you actually feel.
It might mean saying to yourself, hey, I need to think about that before I commit. Maybe it means you saying it to yourself or saying that to the person. Maybe it means you writing a letter, right? Sometimes just a little bit of movement changes the entire direction of the pattern. One thing I want to touch on before bringing all of this together is the importance of movement.
Because this is where my physical therapy and energy healing backgrounds really intersect so beautifully. We've talked throughout this series about how physical activity supports circulation, mitochondrial function, and cellular health, but movement can also change how we experience ourselves emotionally and energetically. Think about what happens when you've had a frustrating day and you put on your favorite song or you go for a walk, maybe you stretch or even dance around your kitchen.
Your circumstances have changed significantly, but something else shifts. Your attention changes, your body starts to move differently. Sometimes an emotion that felt stuck begins to feel a little bit less overwhelming. From my energetic perspective, movement can help us explore flow.
And that doesn't mean that you have to have intense exercise. Sometimes it's just gentle stretching, shaking out your arms, walking outside, or simply allowing your body to move however feels comfortable for you. This is especially interesting when we consider how often we try to think our way through emotional experiences. We analyze our feelings and explain them and rationalize them and sometimes.
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Sometimes we even convince ourselves that we shouldn't be feeling them at all. But understanding an emotion and actually allowing ourselves to experience it, to experience it are just two completely different things. I used this example before. Take people pleasing, for example. All right, we're gonna come back to that. Someone may know that they struggle with boundaries.
But every time they're asked to do something that they don't want to do, they still say yes. Energetically, I might explore the relationship between the heart, which wants connection to the throat, which relates to expression, and then the solar plexus, which represents personal authority, and then the root chakra, which relates to safety. It's not necessarily one chakra that's out of balance.
It's the relationship between them and the patterns that have developed over time. And this is why I love, love, love asking the question of what is this asking me to feel, understand, express, or even move differently?
What is this asking me and how I feel, move, express, or understand things differently. Sometimes we don't need to get rid of an emotion. We need to recognize what is connected to and consider whether a different response is possible. And that brings me to something that I believe is incredibly important in energetic healing.
And one that I have to have to talk about because it's also part of what I talk about when it comes to crystal work. And that is coherence. When I talk about energetic coherence, I'm talking about the different parts of ourselves being more connected, organized, and able to work together. Think about an orchestra, right? Every instrument has its own role, and they're not all playing the same notes.
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But when you're listening to it, it sounds like it all goes together. When they are responding and listening to each other, they create this cohesive sound that sounds so beautiful to your ears. That's how I think about our energetic ecosystem, right? Our thoughts, our emotions, our physical experiences, choices, and energetic centers don't have to be doing the same thing at the same time.
But they can communicate and support one another rather than constantly working against each other. So here's a simple example. You feel overwhelmed because you've taken on too many responsibilities. You recognize that frustration, you acknowledge that you need more support, and you communicate what you can realistically handle. That's a more coherent response. Now,
Compare that with feeling overwhelmed, telling yourself that you shouldn't feel that way, agreeing to even more responsibilities, and then becoming resentful because nobody recognizes how exhausted you are. And you're just standing there just wondering, why can't anybody see me? There's a disconnect between what you're feeling, what you're thinking, what you're expressing, and what you're actually doing.
That's the kind of energetic coherence that I'm interested in exploring more. Coherence doesn't mean being positive all the time or having seven perfectly balanced chakras. Sometimes it means just acknowledging the anger, allowing the grief to flow, setting a boundary, or accepting that something in your life needs to change. It's about adaptability and having more choices in how we respond.
Now, there's an important distinction between this energetic interpretation and what we know scientifically. We know that the body relies on electrical signaling, communication between cells, and coordination among physiological symptoms and systems. We also know that ongoing psychological stress can affect hormonal activity.
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Immune function, sleep, and other processes involved in health. But those measurable physiological processes don't automatically prove that chakras or Reiki operate through the same mechanisms, right? I don't think that we have to force one to prove the other. For me, the energetic framework offers another way to explore our experiences, while physiological
Things help us understand what's happening within the physical body. And this brings us right back to mitochondria and everything that we've covered throughout this entire series. Our cells respond to their environment. They need appropriate resources and they continually adapt to changing demands. But the larger human environment matters too.
Think about somebody living with ongoing relationship stress. Maybe they're sleeping poorly or skipping meals or feeling emotionally exhausted and struggling to find time for movement or recovery at all. We could address nutrition and exercise and sleep individually. And yeah, sure, those interventions will definitely help. But if we never acknowledge what's happening in their life, we're missing an important
And that's right again, like I've said many times, that's where I believe this whole person healing becomes so darn valuable. It's not that their emotional patterns cause their cellular problems. It's not that. Physical illness can also influence emotional well-being, and these relationships can move in both directions.
It's recognizing that physical, mental, emotional, relational, energetic experiences in this life are all part of the same person. So, where does energy healing really fit into this? For me, practices like Reiki or chakra work, crystal healing, maybe using some tuning forks and some sound, meditation, visualization, definitely somatic, some somatic awareness.
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This stuff offers different ways to reconnect with ourselves and explore patterns that we may not have consciously recognized. When someone comes to me for a crystal Reiki and intuitive energy healing session, I'm not simply looking at individual chakras. I am exploring how the energetic system seems to be functioning as a whole, including areas that may feel overactive or depletive or.
Constricted or compensating in some way. Sometimes a session creates an opportunity for someone to receive care when they're accustomed to constantly giving care to other people. Sometimes an emotion comes into awareness. And sometimes there's a sense of relaxation or an intuitive insight that helps them recognize a familiar pattern.
Pattern that they've been holding on to and fearful of letting go. Simply having the opportunity to be present with themselves is so meaningful. So incredibly meaningful. These kinds of sessions, this kind of work can offer meaningful ways of exploring our inner experience and supporting our overall healing journey.
And since we're talking about energy healing, you know, you know, if you've been around here, I have to bring in crystals into this conversation because they are my gym. I love them. And it is a large part of the work that I do. So if we're looking at crystals, there are three crystals that I love exploring everything that we've discussed here, right? And so I'm just gonna run through those three.
So that you know and maybe want to bring them into a practice if it feels like it's resonant for you. So the first one is blue kayanite. Blue Kayanite is one that I often associate with alignment and energetic flow. I like using it to explore how the different chakras are communicating and where energy may feel constricted. I also really like using it for opening up my own intuition.
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And helping me to take that intuition and translate it into a verbal expression and helping me to put things out into the world. Now, the second one that I would choose is Malachite, which is traditionally associated with transformation and emotional patterning. It's a really great stone for the physical body, too. It is great stone for helping with physical healing and with.
potentially assisting with blood flow and energy, increased energy. It's a beautiful stone for reflecting on what we may be holding on to or repeatedly experiencing. So I love malachite for that reason, but then also for the physiological side, especially if we're talking about cellular health and mitochondria activity. And so the third one I would choose here is charite.
And sharite, which I associate with transformation, perspective, and navigating fear, is such a great stone to help just give you that little boost when you need the perspective change. And fear is something right there on the tip of your tongue, right? I like working with it when exploring how you might see a familiar situation differently when you're trying to really shift and change.
Some of those perspectives and look at things from a greater picture, especially if you know that you're deep into a transformation process. So think of these three as a simple energetic process. So, like blue kyanite, it helps follow the flow. Malachite helps the body, but also helps you define the pattern of what's going on. And share it helps to change the perspective.
Now, you don't need crystals to explore any of this. They're simply tools that can really help to support intention and awareness within an energetic practice. And I think that they're an especially incredible tool to help shift the vibration. Goes right back to that whole coherence. You are aligning with the energy of the crystal energy. Now, before we wrap this up, before we wrap this entire series up, I want to leave you with a brief exercise.
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Now, if you're driving or you're doing something that requires your attention, just listen and come back to this later. But otherwise, take a moment and just get comfortable. If you're not sitting down, have a seat. If you want to lay down, lay down. But get comfortable in whatever that means for you. Notice your feet against the floor. Allow your breathing to just naturally settle in.
And also, if you need a moment to get yourself situated, please pause this and then come right back when you're ready. All right. But once you get yourself situated and you're in that state of relaxation, I want you to ask yourself just one question.
Where does my energy feel like it's working the hardest right now?
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Maybe tune into your body or tune into what came to the surface of your mind right away.
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Where does my energy feel like it's working the hardest right now?
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Maybe it's constant thinking, managing everyone else's needs, staying in control, or pushing through when you're exhausted. Just notice what comes to mind.
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Now ask yourself, what might this part of me be trying to compensate for?
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What might this part of me be trying to compensate for?
If you're constantly planning, maybe you're searching for certainty. If you're always taking care of others, maybe receiving support has become really unfamiliar.
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Now notice where there's a physical sensation, emotion, or energetic theme that's connected to that experience. And finally, I want you to ask yourself, what would create a little bit more coherence here?
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What would create a little bit more coherence or alignment or balanced connection here?
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Maybe it's expressing something that you've been holding back, or setting a boundary, or asking for support, whatever comes to mind.
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You don't have to figure everything out right now. Just consider one small way that you could begin responding differently.
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And when you feel ready, you can come out of that. If you had your eyes closed, you can open your eyes. Maybe take a moment, pause this and jot down a few things that came to mind so that you have it fresh of mind to work with.
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All of this leads so perfectly into something that I've been exploring throughout this entire month, and that's the energy of enough. Healing doesn't require adding another supplement or a protocol or practitioner or a device or a spiritual practice, not always. Sometimes we already have information that we haven't fully integrated. Maybe we know that we're overcommitted, but we keep saying yes.
Or that we recognize something is draining us, or we understand the importance of recovery, but we continuously fill every available moment.
I'm not suggesting that we stop seeking answers, especially when we're dealing with unresolved health concerns. Additional medical care testing or support may be exactly what's needing. But I do think that there's value in asking whether we're looking for more information when what we really need is help integrating what we've already learned. And to me, that's part of the energy of enough.
not settling, not giving up on growth, but recognizing that sometimes the next step isn't adding something new. It's actually acknowledging and expressing and reorganizing or changing our relationship with something that's already present.
I think that's the perfect way to bring the energy beneath it all to a close. Over these four episodes, we've explored complex chronic illnesses with Dr. Pam, cellular energy and oxygen delivery with Brad, and mitochondrial health recovery and cellular stress with Dr. Bill. And today, we've widened the lens even more.
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To include the energetic human being. Because we are all so much more than individual cells, organs, symptoms, or even chakras. We're whole people constantly adapting to our physical environment, emotional experiences, our relationships, our thoughts, and the way that we move through this life. And for me, healing isn't about choosing between science and spirituality. It's about recognizing that different approaches.
Can help us understand different dimensions of the same person. Because the physical body matters. Cellular health matters. Nutrition, movement, and recovery, they all matter. And our emotional, mental, relational, and energetic experiences, they matter too. So as we close this series, I want you to remember something.
Sometimes the loudest thing in the system isn't where the story began. It may simply be the part that's been working the hardest to compensate. And sometimes healing isn't about finding one more missing piece. It's about recognizing how the pieces we already have relate to one another. That's what whole person healing means to me. And that, my friends, is the energy beneath it all.
My hope is that you walk away with a greater understanding of your cellular health, but also a deeper curiosity about your own energetic patterns and how all these layers of your experience come together. And until next time, keep spreading that beautiful energy you were born to share.
