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What Actually Happens in a 6-Month Healing Intensive

  • 6 days ago
  • 5 min read

The Stages of Healing


If you've done years of therapy or personal development and something still won't move — the anxiety, the money blocks, the relationship pattern that keeps repeating — this is for you.


I've been working with a number of women this summer in my one-to-one, 3–6 month Healing Intensive, and I want to walk you through what that work actually looks like, stage by stage.


The work inside the Intensive is a synergy of the four modalities I've trained in over the past 30 years, combined with all the skills I've gathered to help you transform the biggest and most painful blocks you face.


This work helps women go beyond years of talk therapy and personal development, to excavate a lifetime's worth of both personal wounds and the deeper generational layers beneath them.


Can we clear your entire life in six months? It depends on how heavy your burden of trauma is, and how much previous work you've already done.


Realistically, our healing journey continues over our lifetime, with ever-refined layers of transformation leading us from our core wounds to our core gifts.


Here is how my work with you unfolds.



The first three months


Most women who come to me in the first three months are in a state of crisis — feeling intense emotion around rifts in their family, deep ongoing patterns that haven't resolved, or bound trauma energy still living in their body that talking alone cannot release.


In those first three months, we skim off the loudest, most painful layers.


This brings huge relief, deeper clarity about what's been keeping them stuck, and a fascination with the healing skills I weave together and guide them through.


Many women also tell me it revives a sense of hope within them — hope that the burdens they carry and struggle with can lighten.



The next three months


In the next three months, that sense of relief and empowerment continues as we more efficiently meet many more difficult moments from their history, and clear even more layers of blockage and entanglement in their family system.


By this point, you start to really recognize and feel confident in the skills you're learning — sometimes confident enough to move through certain things on your own at home, practicing the skills you have learned without my accompaniment.


If there's a long backlog of shock trauma, developmental trauma, or a very heavily burdened family system, we may continue working beyond six months, one memory, one moment, one family entanglement at a time, at whatever pace feels right.



Beyond six months


After six months of deep healing work, some women choose to take one step even deeper, into Life Purpose Alignment work for another three months.


This means our work shifts from clearing emotional blocks and wounds from your body, nervous system, and auric field, to teaching you how to directly align with your life purpose — in a dimension of your energy field even deeper than your aura.



Why the DEEPENING Journey Matters


For women who've already done three to six months of work with me, I'm holding their life history and three or more generations of their family story.


My women's DEEPENING journey continues that work: we meet once a month for a personal healing session, to ensure that whatever triggers and challenges arise each month have a space to be held with sacred attention, and to be transformed.


You also gather once a month online for two hours with your cohort of women undertaking the six-month DEEPENING journey for family constellations work.


This unfolds even deeper work than we can do one-to-one. The work is amplified in the group.


The next cohort of the women's six-month DEEPENING journey runs October 2026 through February 2027.


Here are the details.



Going Deeper Still


Some women I work with go even further.


They've taken courses with me to learn the seven levels of their aura, revealing which aspects of their life are unfolding on each level, as well as life purpose alignment work — going underneath the aura to the layer that holds our direct alignment with our life purpose.


These are skills I bring from my four years of training as an energy healer at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing — the foundation of my understanding and my ability to read the psychodynamics of your energy field.


I guide and empower these women to do more self-healing work themselves.

For example, here is what unfolded in a recent session with a client I have been working with for many years. She sees me for a personal monthly session of 1.5 hours, with a one-year commitment to this support.


I guided her to drop into her Core Star, the light of her own soul, and let it well up throughout her entire body, into every cell.



I then guided her to let that light overflow into the first level of her aura, to charge it.



From there, we worked specifically with two of her chakras to do energy clearing — what's called energy hygiene work.


Because she's familiar with and has studied the psychodynamics of her chakras herself, she was able to read what particular issues from her life and relationships were being held there, with my feedback and validation.


After all that work, she simply got to relax on the massage table and receive an energy healing for the last half hour.



Bringing It All Together


Whether it's the first three months of an intensive, skimming off the loudest layers of crisis — or years later, working with the seven levels of the aura and life purpose alignment — the work moves in stages.


Relief, then clarity, then skill, then depth.


Not all your pain is yours to carry alone, and not all of it needs to be relived at full volume to be released.


I work with women who've done the talking — years of it, sometimes — and are ready to go beneath it.


Women who have tried therapy, done the work, and something still won't move — the anxiety, the money blocks, the relationships that repeat, the same knot that goes back further than them.


And women who've done enough of their own work to see the pattern clearly in their family, and who are done letting it pass through them to their children.


That's the work. Excavating it, clearing it, and returning what's left in its place — peace, grace, and the flow of the gifts your lineage was always meant to hand you.



Start Your Own Healing Intensive


Maybe you're the woman who has tried therapy, done the work, and something still won't move.


Or maybe you're the woman who can see the pattern clearly in your family, and you're done letting it pass through you to your children.


Either way, this is where it gets rewoven.


Book a free 30-minute call to see if the Healing Intensive is the right next step for you. I have 2 spots opening in my schedule in September.


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