Hello my name is Roberta

I’m a synaesthete, (my senses overlap,) so colour has always felt like a very base language to me. Intense breathwork in the sessions - taking in the colours I felt I needed - seemed a really wonderful form of self-medication.

I’d never really come across the idea of Energy Healing before, prior to speaking to Terri and starting the work there. For different reasons over time I’ve tried a variety of different approaches – talking therapies, then, for different health problems, acupuncture,and briefly some hypnotherapy.

Each felt useful in different ways,and resonated with me. The notion of ‘chi’ and energy flow within my body – and the problems caused when it stagnated- that I took from acupuncture felt right to me on a really basic level.

With the hypnotherapy, I really liked the stepping inside one’s body, connecting and listening to it. It felt so utterly like going in the right direction, for me – treating mind and body as one and the same.

At that point, in the hypno' we did a lot of focus on colour breathwork, and worked loosely within the chakras. Both of those just felt very right and natural to me. I found the experience interesting to the point of fascinating, and incredibly useful - I think both for discovering a relaxed place within myselfI hadn’t previously entirely known existed – and also, within that, it felt as though I’d unlocked a door back inside my imagination in visual terms.

All of a sudden, in a meditative mind set, I could engage more fully with my imagination (perhaps this is my third eye I’m talking about?) – and not only use it, but step, visually inside the world of it.  In terms of vividness, and so forth, this felt incredibly therapeutic to me, and very cathartic – using my imagination to almost create a medicine for my body and soul.

Anyway. Whilst that beginning felt like an opening in just the right direction, I didn’t feel like I was making concrete enough moves with the hypno, so I left off with it.

A few months later, my physical health still really poor, sleeping very badly, and just at a point of being…worn out, I was looking for something to help. I knew I wanted something that treated my mind and body as so connected as to be inseparable – that I could have easily gone to see another Western specialist, perhaps been given another name to add to a list for a different physical condition – but that, at the end, I still wouldn’t be tackling what I wasn’t addressing that was causing all the disharmony and confusion in my system.

I had Terri’s name suggested to me whilst I was looking for reiki. As I’ve said, the idea of Energy Healing was pretty much new to me. It’s still a bit of a point of oddness to me to have come across an approach which felt so absolutely like what I had been looking for – quite by accident. Though, I suppose, on a more basic level, one only can find certain things when they’re ready for them – and that probably has everything to do with the flow of energy, and working with, or not against it? I digress.

I found from the first session in Energy healing, my impression of the approach was a really positive one, and of Terri’s practise.  I found it comforting, and well, relieving, how Terri seems to read so well from the body and energy fields – so she seemed able to recognise experiences, traumas, and memories from my past without always needing to be told them – or always aware she was doing it!  This, to me, felt like a really intuitive point of understanding from which to progress.

The combination of speaking through issues within sessions combined with the tablework was really beneficial  for me – talking out blocks, and then the chance to physically let go of some things through the healing and deep breathwork, and cleanse and calm myself. I know on some occasions after sessions I literally felt, relaxed as though my chakras had opened up more, all lovely and rainbow-like, and, I guess, I had been cleaned out?

That was a lot of my experience of the Healing overall – a process of beginning to open out rather than closingoff.

I found Terri suggesting different approaches, schools of thought, and ideas – such as the notion of angels – if she thought I’d find them relevant – useful in the same vein. Being able to take something from sessions, and expand it into my life, read up on it, and further open out that way. It was also immensely satisfying to discover so many schools of thought which seemed concerned with peacefulness, and which resonated so neatly with me.

I found, as our work continued, and, I think, as I engaged with it more fully, I seemed to get somehow better back in touch with me myself. I think through acknowledging my inner child's  needs, and allowing her to be more present. Through the use of breath work to ground me, and through getting so entirely back in touch with my feelings around colour. I’m a synaesthete, (my senses overlap,) so colour has always felt like a very base language to me.  Intense breathwork in the sessions - taking in the colours it felt like Ineeded - seemed a really wonderful form of self-medication.

Over time, I noticed my intuition seemed to become better-honed, and my dreams clearer – perhaps through cleaning out some cosmic fog/mucus that had been muddying and blurring things?

The other – much needed – outcome from the sessions seemed to be that I was very tangibly finally shedding some old toxic energy I had been dragging around with me. All of a sudden, I seemed to be slowly moving forward again – and as I opened back out, all manner of realisations connected to this seemed to kick in. As if I had literally made space for them, and allowed them, by letting go of some old things I’d been clinging to, and consequently brimming full of.

As I think is probably clear, I found the work incredibly useful – and also such a pleasant and wonderful sort of approach. It’s something I hope later to perhaps do some more of, and it’s opened me more to the idea that I’d perhaps eventually like to train in some areas connected to it.

Of all the therapies and work on myself I’ve ever done, I don’t think I could recommend the Energy Healing anymore highly. It simply felt so positive, seemed to go so deep, and felt so right.