Meet Heathir

The word “healer” can seem so loaded. I like to say that I am a witness, guide, and facilitator to the unspoken things within the body. My ability to feel the subtle allows me to act as a connection point for my client and their inner world, reconnecting what had been muffled or severed, and giving them the opportunity to reclaim their connection to self

As a child, I lived in the forest with no running water or electricity. I had the perfect environment to become highly attuned to the subtle world. I would often find comfort from the energy of trees and rocks on the property. I would sense things from the people near and far.

Once, as a toddler, I was pulling on my ear. My mother assumed it was an ear infection until I told her I could hear my sister crying. My sister lived with her mom miles away. Our dad, curious, drove to the neighbor’s house to call my sister, and there she was crying.

Another time, as I played with my toys, I suddenly told my mother that my brother and father were in trouble. I remember feeling dread radiate within me and hearing their yells of fear and anguish inside my head. They returned home later that afternoon, covered in stings with a story of being attacked by a swarm of bees.

All of this was treated as totally normal, and so I had no idea that other people didn’t experience this. I was like a highly sensitive radio, tuned to the channel of emotion and pain. I felt things pulse and zing through my body as if they were my own. I unconsciously collected a lot of heavy emotions, unconsciously storing them away in my body like a detective compiling evidence. This storage lead to random aches and pains, stomach issues, anxiety attacks, and hives that would come and go.

I would begin to solve the mystery, decades later as I trained in craniosacral therapy. (what lead me to this class is much a longer story.) At the training, I was able to bring awareness into my body in a way I had never had before. Feeling what my body was holding. Some of it mine, most of it not. We would stay with it until it began to shift and finally release. Throughout years of training in this and other healing modalities, bundles of stored emotions were freed from my cells. Clearing it out was the first part, and learning to control how much I absorbed was the most important step.

Understanding my tendency to absorb others’ pain and emotions, I no longer assumed everything was mine. I learned clearing practices, some elaborate, and some as simple as an intention. I learned how to control the volume of my awareness. Turning it up when I sit with a client, then clearing and turning it back down or even off.

This was all so liberating. No longer bombarded by the unpredictable arrival of the subtle world, I could now be intentional and use my gift to help others, who, like me, may be highly sensitive, overwhelmed by the weight of all they carry, and completely unaware that they have another choice. Today, I hold space for helping others to understand what they are holding and gently reminding them of their own power to release or transform that which is heavy.

What I Do?

Each session is unique and will contain the modalities that your inner wisdom is calling for. I always honor the state of the nervous system so that the body and mind feel safe enough to do the healing work.

When I sit in a session, I listen with every part of my being. . I intentionally immerse myself in the messages the body wants to share. All of the stories held in their body, from the big traumas to the unkind words, all desperately wanting to be witnessed. Together, we witness it so that it can finally release, no longer silently holding it in the cells, no longer carrying the baggage of others in the bones.

Sometimes the healing process looks gentle, tension unwinding with ease beneath my soft touch, a tear rolling down their cheek, bathing in stillness by the pink glow of my salt lamp.

Other times their body needs to move, shoulders trembling, back arching, loud guttural sobbing that sometimes turns to laughing. Their belly trembling as bound up energy flows out of their abdomen like a geyser, freeing the damned up emotions.

Always listening to the needs of the nervous system, following the inner wisdom, and often ending with a sigh of relief, and a wave of a peaceful, floating feeling.

Training & Certifications

Many of the experiences that I have learned from and the certifications that I hold have been been pivotal on my own healing journey.

Media

• ShoutOut LA – June 2022
• Bold Journey Interview
• Spirit Baby Radio – Intuitive Motherhood
• Heart Of Herbs School Podcast -Soul Spark Awakening

The Empath Playground Podcast