From Skeptic to Believer and How One Healing Session Changed Everything
- Brainz Magazine
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Faye, an Integrative Wellness Practitioner at Faye Inspired Healing, empowers clients through energy healing, grief support, and transformational coaching, fostering balance, clarity, and renewal. She creates a sacred space for healing and growth and shares her healing energies as a radio host on News for the Soul Radio.
What if one unexpected moment could shift everything you thought you knew about healing? Faye Lao shares her powerful transformation from skeptic to believer after a single energy healing session changed her life. Her story reveals how unprocessed grief, ancient wisdom, and modern insight can converge to awaken the body’s true capacity to heal.
Where science meets the soul: A journey into healing
Energy healing is often met with curiosity, skepticism, or both. But what happens when personal experience challenges everything you thought you knew? Faye Lao, an Integrative Wellness Practitioner, shares her journey from skepticism to belief after a single healing session transformed her. In this compelling article, she explores how unprocessed grief can manifest in the body, how ancient practices like acupuncture and energy medicine offer powerful pathways to relief, and how science is beginning to catch up with the energies of healing. Discover how a moment of openness can spark a lifetime of transformation and how healing may come from the places you least expect.
What if the pain you carry isn’t just emotional – but energetic?
In the world of healing and transformation, we often encounter stories that begin with doubt. Mine certainly did. While I had embraced acupuncture for years, energy healing was foreign to me. I had no vocabulary for it, no context, and certainly no opinion – until one experience changed everything.
When the body cries, but the soul is silent
After the stillbirth of my first child, my health deteriorated. I was physically depleted and emotionally numb, unaware of the grief lodged deep in my body. My husband and I quietly resumed our work routine, brushing past the pain. There was no time to grieve – just a silent ache beneath the surface.
An ancient practice meets a modern crisis
A perceptive friend visited me and was discreetly shocked by how drained I looked. He gently suggested Acupuncture with Dr. Chen, his longtime doctor. Though I feared the needles, I followed his advice. That visit sparked a 34-year friendship with Dr. Chen, a highly skilled Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor who helped me reconnect with my body’s healing intelligence. His treatments were nearly painless but profoundly effective. As my health improved, however, the unknown heaviness in my heart remained.
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A health crisis becomes a spiritual wake-up call
Almost a year later, my body spiraled out of control with overwork and forgetting to care for myself. I was hit with a severe combination of asthma, pneumonia, and bronchitis. I was too weak to move, blue in the face, and barely able to breathe. When my husband returned home that night, he wanted to rush me to the emergency room. I flatly refused. Instead, I called Dr. Chen.
The midnight healing that changed everything
Though it was nearly 10 PM, Dr. Chen opened his clinic. After just 40 minutes of acupuncture, the color returned to my face and my breathing improved by at least 50%. Over the next few days, I returned for more acupuncture treatments, and by the end of the week, I felt like I just had a lingering cold. No drugs. No hospitalization. Just the natural power of chi, my life force, reactivated through highly skilled energetic intervention and sleep.
When the energy of grief finds a voice
Years later, I read Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup. Her insight struck me deeply: the lungs are the organs of grief. My lung crisis wasn’t random, it was the voice of sorrow, long suppressed, manifesting physically. I began to understand how my unacknowledged grief had weighed down my energy system and my body. This experience sparked a lifelong study into a new awareness of the mind-body-spirit-emotions connection and was only the first step toward a new kind of healing I never knew I needed.
A flyer, a feeling, and a free healing
Nearly 15 years later, after an emotionally traumatic event that left me depleted and sleepless for months, a timely flyer arrived in my mailbox. The Southern California Psychic Institute was offering free energy healing sessions during their Tuesday night open house. With nothing to lose, I drove 30 miles and walked into their office looking for something I did not expect.
The session was simple. I sat in a chair while a healer named Joel gently moved his hands through the space around me. No touch. No tests. No medication. Just energy… Fifteen minutes later, he said, "Ok, you're healed." I thanked him, and left for home.
I walked out of the building feeling mysteriously “lighter” and energized. The weight on my shoulders and chest had lifted, and I was oddly worry-free. That night, I slept well for the first time in weeks, and the next morning, I awoke feeling contented, peaceful, and even amused by how heavy my problems had felt just a day earlier. Something profound had shifted in a way I could not explain.
The shift from curiosity to consciousness
I wasn’t confused or skeptical, just deeply curious. What had just happened? How could such a gentle experience change my entire outlook overnight?
Within a week, I enrolled in their beginner meditation class. That was the first step in an unexpected journey of self-healing, self-regulation, and clairvoyance. Over time, I learned to work with my own energies, grounding my body, clearing my aura and chakras, and strengthening my awareness of subtle energies that enabled me to practice self-healing and learn how to heal others.
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Acupuncture and energy healing: A deeper awakening
Acupuncture has long supported my body’s healing, and energy healing took me deeper into helping me release emotional heaviness, physical pain, and create spiritual alignment. Together, these modalities offer powerful support towards integrated healing.
Science says hello to spirit
Always eager to learn about the intersection of the mystical with the practical, I’ve studied psychology, metaphysics, health, and ancient wisdoms alongside my business and leadership education. Visionary teachers like Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. David Hawkins, Gregg Braden, and Dr. Wayne Dyer helped me bridge the gap between logic and spiritual truth.
Dr. Bruce Lipton’s work in epigenetics confirmed that our beliefs shape our biology. Gregg Braden shows how heart coherence and emotional energy influence the reality we create. Dr. Hawkins mapped the frequencies of the states of consciousness that drive human behavior. And Dr. Northrup speaks powerfully about how emotions manifest in the body, especially how grief is often held in the lungs, a truth I came to understand through my own experience.
Their teachings affirmed what I had already felt in my body: energetic shifts can instantly recalibrate our emotional and spiritual state, leading to my physical healing. Energy healing works in ways that science is only just beginning to confirm through emerging research and imaging technology.
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From healed to healer
That first healing session was the spark that started it all. Today, I am an Integrative Wellness Practitioner and Grief Educator. I help clients shift from emotional depletion to vibrational alignment using the very tools that supported my own healing – energy work, meditation, hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and grief release techniques. I support people burdened by stress, grief, anxiety, burnout, or spiritual disconnection, and help them find their own energetic spaces and restore their authentic, empowered selves.
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What I learned and what you can, too
You don’t have to believe in energy healing for it to work. I invite you to be open to the possibility that relief can come in unexpected ways. Healing is deeply personal, and its starting point is often universal: your mind, body, and soul informing you that something needs to change.
"You are not broken. You are becoming."
If you're skeptical, I understand. So was I. But one session turned that skepticism into sacred curiosity, and that curiosity became my calling. Let it be yours, too. Be inspired!
If this article resonates with you, let’s connect. Whether you have questions, seek guidance, or are ready to explore energy healing for yourself, I’m here to support your journey. Feel free to reach out and connect with me on Facebook, LinkedIn, and visit my website for more info!
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Faye Lao, Energy Practitioner and Grief Educator
Faye, a lifelong student of spirituality and energy healing, found her calling in spiritual healing after overcoming profound personal losses and traumas. Guided by mystical experiences with master teachers through years of intuitive training, Faye now blends her intuitive healing and mediumship gifts to create healing havens in support of those in grief and pain. Through Faye Inspired Healing, she offers transformative coaching, grief healing, and energy healing to help clients find clarity, peace, renewal, and joy.
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