How a Chaplain Found Her Life’s Purpose Through Healing Touch
What happens when healing arrives not early—but exactly on time?
In Episode 2 of The Energy Healing Podcast, host Leila Briggs sits down with Jean Pruett, a retired hospital chaplain, psychotherapist, and Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Instructor, to explore a life shaped by service, intuition, and sacred moments of healing.
Jean shares how a devastating year of illness within her family quietly prepared her for discovering Healing Touch decades later and how a single conference session confirmed what her soul already knew: this was her life’s calling.
From bringing Healing Touch into major hospital systems, to teaching healthcare professionals, to witnessing one of the most peaceful end-of-life transitions imaginable, Jean’s stories illuminate how energy healing can support patients, families, and caregivers in profoundly human ways.
Together, Leila and Jean explore Healing Touch as a way of life - one rooted in trust, compassion, and the body’s innate wisdom to heal. This episode is a deeply moving conversation about divine timing, complementary care, intuition, and what it truly means to serve healing in the world.
Episode Chapters & Timestamps
00:00 – Opening reflection: “Teaching the body to behave, not be destroyed”
00:40 – Introduction: Meet Jean Pruett
01:20 – A year of illness that changed everything
02:30 – Discovering Healing Touch through chaplaincy
03:40 – “Where has this been all my life?”
05:00 – Divine timing and not being ready—until you are
06:40 – Bringing Healing Touch into hospital systems
08:30 – Treating staff first: how healing spreads organically
10:10 – A sacred end-of-life experience in the hospital
13:20 – Holding space during transition and peace at death
15:20 – Healing Touch as complementary care
16:30 – Supporting a daughter through an aggressive brain tumor
19:20 – Tumor shrinkage, intuition, and medical mystery
21:40 – Community healing and resilience
23:00 – Healing as a way of life
24:20 – Teaching healers to trust and allow
26:00 – Advice for new and seasoned healers
27:30 – Closing reflections and gratitude
What You’ll Hear in This Episode
- How Healing Touch found Jean later in life—and why that mattered
- Bringing energy healing into hospitals and healthcare systems
- The power of Healing Touch in hospice and end-of-life care
- Supporting loved ones through illness with complementary healing
- Trusting intuition and honoring divine timing
- Why healing isn’t about “fighting” the body—but teaching it to heal
- What it means to live healing as a lifelong practice
About Our Guest: Jean Pruett
Jean Pruett is a retired Chaplain, Pastoral Psychotherapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner/Instructor, and Qualified Mentor. She integrated Healing Touch into her psychotherapy practice and hospital chaplaincy work, witnessing profound results in patient care, staff support, and end-of-life settings.
Jean lives with her husband, Jim, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she enjoys retirement while continuing to teach and practice Healing Touch. She is the proud mother of two children and grandmother to four grandchildren. In her spare time, she enjoys knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, and reading.
About Your Host: Leila Briggs
Leila Briggs, HTCP, is the host of The Energy Healing Podcast: Exploring Stories, Practices & Science, presented by the Healing Touch Program. A Healing Touch Certified Practitioner since 2015, Leila brings a lifetime of intuitive experience into grounded, ethical, heart-centered conversations about energy healing, healing spaces, and lived spiritual practice.
Her work focuses on creating safe, supportive environments for individuals and families—especially those raising intuitive children. Leila is currently studying to become a Healing Touch Mentor and offers intuitive sessions by appointment.
About the Podcast
The Energy Healing Podcast, presented by the Healing Touch Program, is where science meets the heart - sharing real stories, expert insights, and practical tools to explore Healing Touch and energy medicine in everyday life.
⚠️ Disclaimer: The information contained in this video is provided for general and educational purposes only. It does not offer medical advice and is not intended to substitute for professional medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. Please take responsibility for your own health decisions.
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