What is a Healing Catalyst? w Denise LaBarre HD

Who are you? - My name is Denise LaBarre, I wrote the book Issues in Your Tissues: Heal Body and Emotion from the Inside Out; and I have a hands-on healing practice in Makawao, Maui. My work offers a unique combination of massage therapy, counseling, and intuitive practices to reconnect mind, body and emotion for deep and lasting healing. When did you get started doing this? - I started listening to bodies as a very young child. By the time I was 7, I was regularly massaging my mom because I could intuitively hear her body calling for help. We found I could also understand what other bodies were communicating with tension and other symptoms; I kept listening, and learning, and connecting the dots. I have a degree in linguistics, and I speak several languages so it’s natural for me to use my gifts with touch and language to help people. What is a Healing Catalyst? - I’m a Healing Catalyst. In chemistry, a catalyst causes a reaction but isn’t strictly part of it. Likewise, I don’t DO the healing - that’s up to your body and the divine – I make connections that allow the energy to flow again. Really, you’re a healing catalyst, too, and ultimately you’re the healer. Sometimes you just need someone to show you the way. Who can you help? - I can help anyone with a body and the willingness to explore the emotional energy in it. I especially work with intuitives and sensitives. You could say I’m the Healer’s Healer. What do you do? - I work with physical problems that have an emotional component and emotional issues that have become physical. When the standard pills and treatments don’t work, it’s time to look at the emotional energy that probably underlies a physical problem. In the body it’s all connected. How? - Breathing is key. We tend to live in our heads, breathing shallowly to keep the energy and awareness out of the body. I get my readers and my clients to breathe from the belly. This bypasses the mind’s defenses, and takes us to where deep healing can happen. Tell us about your book. - I wrote the book because my clients kept asking for something they could take home and practice with as well as share it with others. The book distills 40 years of healing insights from thousands of bodies. It shows you how to go inside your body with your breath to make healing connections for yourself. Cartoons, exercises and stories massage open your willingness to start your healing journey - or deepen the one you’re already on. What does a Session look like? - Sessions are great. 90 minutes long. It helps if you’ve read some of my book before you come for a session, but it’s not strictly necessary. I ask a few questions then I listen to your body with my hands; it tells me where the emotional energy is stuck, and off we go. Emotions that got buried when you were 5 will look and feel very different now that you’re an adult and can shine some love and understanding on them. As you allow your stuck fear or sadness to move through