We whole heartedly recommend that you take time to read this issue cover to cover. It is packed full of practical advice, information about other modalities you might consider incorporating into your practice and self-care tips.



In this issue:

• Whole Person Caring: A New Paradigm for Healing and Wellness
• Creating Sacred Space
• Rwandans Teach the World to Heal
• Intuition: Your Still, Small Voice
• Cutting the Cords of Negative Energy
• Walking Through Cancer and Chemotherapy
• Healing Past Life Trauma

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Instructor Gathering ends August 5, 2016.

Our Wildest Healing Stories

By Jeri Lawson



I have been thinking about a lunch I had at the 2014 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference in Illinois for the last two years.



At the conference, most of the meals were eaten in the largest hotel room filled with wide, round tables. I usually met several new healing friends from all over the country at every meal.



At this particular lunch, I found myself sitting with five other Healing Touch Practitioners I had never met before and my friend Savitri. Savitri has a Healing Touch practice in Fort Madison, IA. There was also a Physical Therapist who used Healing Touch, and several other healing modalities, in her PT practice in Wisconsin. One healer was a nun/hospice nurse from somewhere in the Midwest, and another woman was massage therapist/Healing Touch Practitioner like me. There was also another woman who primarily did healing work for family and friends, and a nurse who used Healing Touch at her hospital.



These women were incredibly interesting. If I lived by any one of them, I'd be having lunch with them as often as I could. After we had finished eating, and were still sitting around the table talking, one of us told an amazing story about a healing she gave a family member. One of those astounding and miraculous healing stories in which she felt her relative's spirit reenter his body during the session.



Then someone else immediately launched into a story about a client she worked with who had been in a coma, and woke up during the healing. From there we ended up going around the table sharing our "Wildest Healing Story".



It was exhilarating. The excitement at the table was building with each story. These are healings that are too phenomenal, too outrageous, to tell anyone but other healers, because they sound crazy, or like you are bragging. We didn't know each other, we didn't know each others clients, but we made sure to honor our client's confidentiality. I felt several of the women had never told their story before.



I found it so validating to hear the other healer's stories, and I was deeply touched by them all. I oddly felt relieved after telling my story, like I had been carrying it around and finally had a place let it go.



I am a big fan of our Healing Touch community. Really big fan. This is just another example of how supportive this community has been for my Healing Touch practice.  



When "miracles" happen in my healing practice, it is both thrilling and humbling at the same time. After a session, I walk around in a state of what I can only describe as gratitude and bliss for hours, sometimes days.



I write a weekly healing blog and I still feel that writing about these wild stories creates unrealistic expectations for clients and beginning healers. I guess it's time I reexamine this belief.



My intention has always been to write about how beneficial, accessible and practical hands-on-healing work can be. I see a time when Healing Touch and energy work become completely integrated in our medical culture. A time when every person going through chemotherapy has Healing Touch available to them. Can the "miraculous" become mainstream?



So, even though I'm not (yet) writing about my wildest healing stories, we know they are out there. Really out there.

The Healing Touch Professional Association recently held a Business Series training for their members on filling your practices. If you are interested in learning more about this recent training, you can:

*    Read a summary on the HTPA blog

*    Listen to the replays



The HTPA would also like to welcome all practitioners, apprentices, and students to join Amelia, the HTPA Executive Director, in an open community call around 'Filling our Healing Touch Practices'. 



This will be an place to ask questions and participate in a discussion about our current business challenges around filling your practice.



HTPA Open Business Discussion

Wednesday August 3, 2016

3pm - 4pm Pacific |  6pm - 7pm Eastern

Phone:  (425) 440-5100    Pin: 546360#

(No registration for this call is required)

HTPA is providing an opportunity for group and chapter pictures at the Worldwide Conference in Charlotte!



Cathy Andersen will be taking photos on the main stage for 30 minutes starting at 6:00pm on Saturday before the banquet dinner. Sign up is required and will be available at the Registration Desk. Schedule your group to have a professional picture taken!



This is a great way to celebrate these beautiful relationships, both framed at home and also included in your professional e-mails, newsletters and websites.

Calling Eastern South Carolina

Healing Touch-ers!



A new HTPA Chapter has started in the South-eastern part of South Carolina and we want to warmly welcome you to be in touch.



Please e-mail our chapter leader C. Akua Wright at theessentialhealthllc@gmail.com to get more information.