11/03/2026
You might need to grab a cup of tea for this one, it’s a long read 😊
I thought I’d share with you what it can sometimes feel like for me as a practitioner when an energetic release happens in someones body during a session.
My main and most important role during a session is simply to hold you in the space. By holding space for you, this allows whatever needs to move through your body to do so with safety.
During a session I may feel a sudden rush of emotions rise up through me, like a wave. The feelings vary. At times it’s sadness or grief, and at other times it can be joy, freedom, or unconditional love.
When I first started experiencing this, it felt quite overwhelming as it can be incredibly intense at times and I had to learn how to work with it.
Now I breathe through the feelings and allow them to pass through me. When it happens, it can arrive quite suddenly and feel very strong at first, almost like a rush that rises up within my body. Often there is a release for me as well sometimes tears, sometimes a deep breath, sometimes a giggle its just a wave of emotional sensation that rises and then settles again.
Those tears or feelings aren’t mine in the way people might assume. I’m not taking on someone else’s emotions or carrying them. What happens is that the feeling moves through me so they can finally be released.
In the beginning, before I understood what was actually happening, I remember questioning myself and trying to hold those feelings down because I didn’t want the person on the table to notice what was going on with me. Learning to slow my breathing and stay present changed everything.
Breath is a big part of how I stay grounded in those moments. The emotion rises, releases, and then it’s gone. It doesn’t stay with me.
Very often the person on the table is completely unaware that anything has happened, but something in their body has shifted and let go.
Part of my gift in this work is being able to feel the emotion, witness it, acknowledge it, thank it quietly, and allow it to move.
Either way, the emotions don’t stay with me. They don’t belong to me. They simply move through so they can be acknowledged and released.
The emotions can relate to something in this lifetime. Other times it can feel older than that.
I’m also sometimes shown moments connected to the person’s life that I can share with them afterwards. That can help them see themselves through a different lens and recognise something about themselves they hadn’t seen before.
Moments like these can be incredibly powerful.
For me, experiences like this are truly a gift. Not everyone gets to see, feel, or experience these things while doing their work, I know this now and I feel incredibly grateful that I do.
I also find it quite ironic and a little humorous as if the powers that be are messing with me because for someone who didn’t like to share or even feel my own emotions and became very good at numbing them. I’m certainly feeling them now.
So the fact that clairsentience (clear feeling) and claircognizance (clear knowing) have become two of my strongest gifts makes perfect sense in its own weird way. Also explains why I didn’t like feeling all the feels when I didnt know how to safely manage what was mine and what was others, it was a lot.
These two gifts show up the most in my work. They allow me to feel and recognise what may be happening beneath the surface for someone, even when it hasn’t yet been spoken.
They help me sense what is moving within a person like the emotions, the shifts, the things that aren’t always visible on the outside.
Something I hear quite often from clients when I share that I felt a strong emotion during their session is an apology. They’ll say things like “I’m sorry you had to feel that,” or “I hope that doesn’t stay with you.”
And I want to say this, that’s exactly what my space and my offerings are here for.
You’re not bringing “bad energy” into the room. You’re bringing your human experience. The sadness, the grief, the weight you’ve been carrying.
My role is simply to hold the space so those things can finally move.
Think of it a little like carrying a heavy backpack for a long time. Sometimes we just need someone to help lift a little of that weight for a moment so the body can feel relief from it.
That’s what this work is for. That’s what my space is for. And it’s something I genuinely love being part of.
Through training, inner work, and learning how to hold clear boundaries, I now experience this side of my work very differently.
Now it feels like something special even a little magical.
I genuinely love what I do. I get to witness the full range of human experience like the grief, the joy, the love, the freedom all the while holding space while it moves.
And when something shifts, that’s often why people leave a session with a sensation of feeling lighter, calmer, or with a sense of clarity they didn’t have before.
Their system has simply released something it was ready to let go of.