When I heard that Michel, a former Therapeutic Touch student of mine, was diagnosed with a variety of complex cancers on August 23rd and had been given 3 - 6 months to live, I resolved to do all I could to provide her with comfort and support to the end of her life and the idea of a Healing Team was born. I reached out to my Therapeutic Touch … [Read more...]
This Wonderfully Grounded Lightness of Being!
July 18, 2017 by
After years of searching, Natalie shares the breakthrough experience she has had with coaching. “Thank you, Julia, for helping me peel away untold layers of stuff and baggage and never giving up on me when I teetered on the edge of giving up on myself. The blame and difficult memories alive for so long have faded. They are miraculously being … [Read more...]
Heidi’s Story of Transcendence and Healing and the Role of a Healing Team
June 15, 2017 by
In 2011, I learned that I had a brain tumour. I was facing brain surgery and I was terrified! I began seeing a psychotherapist who also offered me Therapeutic Touch® (TT) sessions. I was well aware of the serious risks and possible post-op complications with my surgery and prepared for the worst. I also worked hard at managing my fears by … [Read more...]
Empowering Healers as Leaders and Leaders as Healers
April 28, 2017 by
Project lead for the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’s inaugural CARE 150, Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week, May 1 – 7, 2017, Kaizen Leadership Institute’s founder, Julia von Flotow, is walking her talk when it comes to healers being leaders. Julia believes in “leading the change you want to see in the world”…. change that can make a … [Read more...]
Helping Those Grieving a Loss
February 28, 2017 by
Understanding grief as the experience of loss is an important step in healing. Understanding healing as a process of moving into right relationship, towards wholeness, balance and harmony allows us to reframe the experience of loss and slow, perhaps even arrest the continual loss of energy, so common in the experience. Often, when a friend or … [Read more...]
How to Heal Yourself and Help Others When a Loved One Dies
February 24, 2017 by
When someone you love is dying…. This can be time of great sorrow and anguish or a time filled with peace, harmony and good will. Dying is both simple and complex – a process that often engages not only the one who is dying, but members of their family, caregivers, healthcare and hospice support team. It takes energy to die…to let go and … [Read more...]
How to Face Suffering with Compassionate Intent
February 17, 2017 by
Therapeutic Touch® is widely recognized as a gift that eases pain and suffering, so common at end of life. To understand and appreciate Therapeutic Touch as a helpful means of easing the experience of those dying, it is important perhaps to reflect on the end of life experience from the perspective of the dying; the context and the dynamic of … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch Healing – A Personal Experience
December 2, 2016 by
My mother-in-law, a visual artist of some renown, who is legally blind due to macular degeneration, was run over by a vehicle the last Friday in August, a few years back. It was a freak accident. After careful examination of her pants cut from her by the hospital staff and much thoughtful discussion, we reconstructed what had happened - we … [Read more...]
Healing Wounds One Layer at a Time
February 18, 2016 by
Illnesses, loss of loved ones, career missteps and relationship failures, accidents, traumas or past abuse are part of the human conditions we are all subject to. Whether minor or serious these setbacks can leave their mark. They are part of our history and life story. What matters is not the thing itself but how we relate to it…how we see it … [Read more...]
Spirit Called Awake
October 30, 2015 by
As dictionary.com defines it, Spirit is “the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul”. To “inspirit” means “to animate with fresh courage, to encourage, urge on or stir up, as to action.” Inspiration has a similar meaning “stimulation or arousal of the mind or feelings to … [Read more...]
