How Intuitive Emotional Healing was Born

(written by Claire Garner, our resident Intuitive Emotional Healing Guide)

 

Let me tell you a little story.

 

In 2020 my life changed dramatically, I think just about everyone’s did. Once everything closed down in March, I found myself coming up against fears I didn’t know I had, beliefs I’d held my whole life that seemed to be unraveling, and old emotional wounds that were surfacing to be healed. During this time, as I spoke about these things with trusted friends, I found that, to my dismay, my friendships (which I had thought were the strongest around) started to disintegrate… I experienced the heartbreaking winnowing that we all go through to some degree when we start to transform from the inside out. So over the period of that year, all of my close people, (except for my parents) fell away…

 

In December of that year, I had been living with my little sister (another one of my close people), my brother-in-law, and my two little nephews for over two years. In the months leading up to this time, my sister and I found ourselves in one of the hardest chapters of our relationship (which we have since done a ton of healing around), and needed to separate… So I moved out… Not even a week later, I was making lunch, wondering why I hadn't heard from my love in 24 hours. We'd been seeing each other for a month and a half and he had become such a rock in my life. We had just had the sweetest visit the day before, and I was feeling so comforted by his loving presence in the midst of this fallout with my sister... then, his text came in... He couldn't be with me anymore, he was choosing someone else...

 

I was blindsided, panicked, and totally crushed.

 

Almost overnight, I found myself living completely alone (housesitting for four months), in the middle of a pandemic, in a house that wasn’t mine, with a shattered heart, and with pretty much no one I could call.

 

My parents were incredible and checked on me often… they would listen to my heart break and love me, but there was deeper processing and healing that was needed. I knew I had to do something or I was going to get stuck in this downward spiral of isolation and grief. 

 

Back in the summer of 2013 I had found Louise Hay’s book, Mirror Work. Since that time I had dabbled on and off in this style of healing, but the affirmations had never felt really resonant to me. I had also, as an external processor,  started a practice I call Voice Recording where I would talk into the voice recorder on my phone in lieu of an actual human who could listen to me. So now, in the wake of this separating with my sister and this broken heart, I decided that it was Go Time. These tools (that I had used half-heartedly, mixed into heavily relying on friends and family to keep me afloat) were my only life line. It was sink or swim time, and I was not about to sink.

 

So I spent time everyday talking to myself in my voice recorder, looking for where I was needing more love, and listening to those recordings back like I would listen to a dear friend. Every time I felt like I was going to lose it I would run over to the mirror in the entryway, make eye contact with myself, and offer myself love as I cried. I felt a little silly in the beginning of this, but then after a little while I noticed that I felt a growing love and appreciation for myself… I noticed that I felt relief after a big cry instead of a low-level hum of depression all the time… I noticed I felt happier in the in-between, and more resilient more of the time. I felt more love for me. I was changing… I could hear my higher guidance more, and I was listening to it! 

 

I knew I was onto something.

 

Fast forward to February of 2021, my whole life changed. I went to a gathering at a new friend’s house, and met my now love, Jess Bell. As I fell in love with Jess, I found that the work I had done to love myself actually prepared me to let myself love and be loved by her. As I shared little pieces of the work I had done with Jess, she reflected to me how deep it goes, how different it feels, how needed it is. She encouraged me to offer it in a real way to others… In October of that year, after months of watching the continued change in me, and now Jess as a result of this work (and months of urging from Jess) as well as a couple sessions with some incredible psychics and intuitive guides who all echoed the same thing (“Your healing is in your word” “It looks like all the energy is around Claire shifting into trauma healing work” “She has more than she thinks she does. She doesn’t have to wait until it’s perfect, she just needs to get started!”), Claire FINALLY accepted the invitation and began offering her Intuitive Emotional Healing framework. 

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It was time to bring this work to the world.