How Highly Sensitive People can Conquer Overwhelm and Depletion and Leverage their Special Gifts

As a Therapeutic Touch teacher and coach, I’ve met a host of highly sensitive people. Deeply empathic and highly intuitive, they tell me they find themselves easily overwhelmed and/or depleted by others and the world around them. Often highly creative, introspective and reflective, many are drawn to the healing arts where their special empathic and … [Read more...]

Heidi’s Story of Transcendence and Healing and the Role of a Healing Team

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

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...]

How to Face Suffering with Compassionate Intent

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...]

TT for Tokyo – Japan Welcomes Therapeutic TouchTM

Mariko Tsunoda, Executive of a long-term care facility, Naomi Ide and Etsuko Makita, Physiotherapists at the same facility, and Mayumi Kobayashi, Supervisor of a Rehabilitation Centre and First Response Operation took the 12 hour flight from Tokyo to Toronto to take Therapeutic Touch Level 1 and Level 2 with Julia von Flotow, TTRT, April 8 – 10, … [Read more...]

You Don’t Stop at Your Skin!

In Therapeutic Touch™, the healing field is the subtle, non-physical energy field, generated by the healee, that is palpable beyond the body’s physical periphery – that is beyond the skin. The Therapeutic Touch practitioner, through practice, learns to guide the natural, orderly flow of energy coming out of the palms of her hands so as to … [Read more...]

Therapeutic Touch – A Complement to Modern Medicine

Therapeutic Touch™ (TT) is an energy field modality first developed in 1972, as a modern healing method by Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN and her colleague, Dora Kunz.  Therapeutic Touch is a consciously directed process of energy exchange during which practitioners use their hands as a focus for facilitating healing.  The intervention is administered … [Read more...]

Life at the Speed of Light

Every living system has an electromagnetic force field that emits light or biophotons. According to Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp, Theoretical Physicist at the International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany “There is evidence that biophotons originate from an almost fully coherent field.” Photo on right: two algae (Acetabularia) emitting … [Read more...]

Benefits of Therapeutic Touch™ for Healthcare Professionals

Florence Nightingale knew the body to have its own innate intelligence and that the systems of the body are interrelated, functioning separately while at the same time, as a whole. She said “Nature alone cures, all we need do is create an environment for nature to do its work”.  Therapeutic Touch assists the process of natural restoration, using a … [Read more...]