Informative Articles

Taming Our Triggers

Last week my older son brought up the fact that I don't yell and scream at him like I did when he was younger. I explained that my screaming and yelling was the way that my nervous system reacted when my trauma was triggered. It was an attempt to regain control. His response? “It's...

Rediscovering Our Passion. Living Our Purpose.

When he was little, my husband loved to read and learn about history. He read encyclopedias and re-enacted famous battles with his tinker toys. His mother was an art professor, so he decided that when he grew up, he’d be a history professor. But his older sister went to law school, and his dad...

Empowerment and Boundaries

Empowerment and Boundaries with Evolution Energetics by Jessica Gammell-Bennett   A few weeks ago, my former student texted me with a new dream. This time the dream was about her mother. In the dream, she was in her 30s (still a few years away for her). Her children were older, and she had managed...

Healing for the Healers

I'm collaborating with professors and practitioners in the Wilmington community to design a self-care course for social work students at UNCW. When we sent a needs assessment to students, the data highlighted Issues with boundaries, healing childhood trauma, and navigating relationships. We are sending people into the field without the tools to heal their...

More Joy, Flow, and Peace

At the root of our emotions is energy, and energy has a frequency. We can think of this as vibrational frequency. Every moment of every day, we are broadcasting our frequency out into the world, and we are picking up on others’ frequency. We’ve all heard someone say “they give off good vibes” or...

Raise Your Vibration

At the root of our emotions is energy, and energy has a frequency. We can think of this as vibrational frequency. Every moment of every day, we are broadcasting our frequency out into the world, and we are picking up on others’ frequency. We’ve all heard someone say “they give off good vibes” or...

Reclaiming Our Authentic Selves

In childhood, the most important relationship that we have is with our caregivers. When we are young, we depend on this relationship for our survival. This process is called attachment. It is through the process of attachment that we begin to learn about boundaries, trust, autonomy, taking action, and who we are in the...

Shifting the Paradigm

Shifting the Paradigm towards integrative wellness. Many clients and students who come to energy healing do so because they are looking for a holistic way to manage their physical health after a diagnosis. I had a client last spring who came to me because she had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. She had...

The Foundations of Energy Healing

We are energetic beings. Everything within and around our body carries an electrical charge. From the tiny structures in our cells known as atoms to our tissues, organs, and the human energy field known as the aura that surrounds our body, it all vibrates and produces an electrical frequency. As we go through life...

Healing with Our Higher Self

One of my former students texted me just after Thanksgiving. She’d had a recurring dream in which her grandma (who passed some years ago) kept telling her that she had an important message for her, but first, she must drink her coffee. She said the coffee was very important. When she was little, she...