Before I had been through the process of Healing From Within, the idea of having an “emotional release” was terrifying. I postponed this facet of the Certified Integrative Healer program until this part of my healing process was ready to emerge. As I began to study and truly embody healing on the emotional level, I was amazed at the positive effect it had on my life.

Unprocessed feelings and emotions get lodged in our bodies and actually create illness, pain and disease. In fact, most physical problems have emotional roots. The Emotional Release with Essential Oils healing session can clear emotional patterns by accessing mental, spiritual, physical and emotional healing.

Growing up I was often told that I was “so sensitive.” I formed the false belief that crying and being sensitive is weak, negative, and not easily accepted or understood. I learned to suppress my emotions and my sensitivities as a young child.

My journey in helping others and myself started with healing on the physical level. As a competitive gymnast, my coaches did not allow crying. I was taught to “suck it up” and push through physical pain. I was in and out of physical therapy, chiropractic care, etc. for various injuries. Naturally, I wanted to help people heal as I had been, which led me to study physical therapy and massage. When I first started massage, I dreaded my clients having an emotional release while receiving a session. I could sense the emotional trauma that people held in their bodies, and although I wanted them to be able to release it, I would silently pray that people would let go of their emotions after they were home. On a few occasions, it felt as if a client’s emotions penetrated me, leaving a physical discomfort somewhere in my body. I felt their weakness and vulnerability. Although I didn’t know it at the time, this sensitivity was a gift that would eventually benefit me as a healer.

As I continued my education in holistic health and healing, I learned how to protect myself with invocations, Reiki and golden light. Once I began my own emotional healing, through Healing From Within, clients started coming to me ready to release their emotions. The deeper I healed myself, the more others started to open up with me, and now I was ready and prepared for it.

Healing on the emotional level can be gentle and subtle yet profound, and can be facilitated with the use of essential oils. Essential oils work with the limbic brain, which is responsible for processing our emotions. The Amygdala is a gland which stores past emotional trauma and can be most easily accessed through the sense of smell. In an Emotional Release with Essential Oils session, recipients are guided through a detailed process as the Certified Integrative Healer anoints them with specific therapeutic grade essential oils in a unique sequence designed to access healing and clearing in all four areas: mental, spiritual, emotional and physical. During this process the client is able to increase their spiritual awareness, identify and feel the emotion, clear the cellular memory stored in the body, and learn to recognize and understand the lesson or pattern associated with the emotion they are working with.

Just as exercise and nutrition are necessary for optimal health, the resolution of our feelings and emotions can help bring about a more balanced and harmonious existence. As we learn to feel, release, and clear our emotions, we begin to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.