Keeping the Wonderment In Healing: Embracing My Child Self with Walle Adams-Gerdts
What if one of the most powerful healing tools isn't another technique—but your ability to stay curious?
In the Season 2 premiere of The Energy Healing Podcast, host Leila Briggs sits down with one of Healing Touch's most beloved teachers and mentors, Walle Adams-Gerdts. Known for her joyful spirit, adventurous heart, and unwavering commitment to healing, Walle shares the winding path that led her from business to nurse, from hospital pioneer to Healing Touch instructor, and from serious adulthood back to the wonderment of her authentic self.
Through stories of unexpected career changes, intuitive guidance, mentorship, nature connection, and sacred places, Walle reveals how healing isn't just about techniques—it's about remembering who we are beneath the responsibilities, expectations, and identities we accumulate throughout life.
Together, Leila and Walle explore how curiosity, playfulness, nature, and wonder can become powerful forms of self-care and spiritual connection. They discuss the importance of mentorship, the evolution of Healing Touch within healthcare, and why staying connected to your inner child may be one of the most profound healing practices available.
This is a heartfelt conversation about purpose, trust, adventure, and the healing power of never losing your sense of wonder.
What You'll Hear In This Episode
- How Healing Touch first found Walle
- The surprising path that led her into nursing
- What it took to bring Healing Touch into a hospital setting
- Why mentorship is essential for healers
- How Healing Touch helped her reconnect with her authentic self
- Wonderment as a self-care practice
- The healing power of nature and sacred places
- Active meditation and spiritual connection
- Why children continue to be some of her greatest teachers
- How curiosity keeps healing alive throughout a lifetime
⏱ Episode Chapters & Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to Season 2 & meeting Walle Adams-Gerdts
01:45 – From business owner to nurse: following an unexpected calling
02:30 – Discovering Healing Touch through a bookstore encounter
03:30 – Meeting Nancy Lester and beginning the Healing Touch journey
04:30 – The intuitive download that changed Walle's career path
05:15 – Bringing Healing Touch into a children's hospital
06:30 – Working with intuitive children and creating lasting impact
07:00 – Life transitions, moving to the beach, and finding Maine
08:30 – Childhood wonder, nature connection, and staying grounded
10:00 – Healing Touch as a catalyst for personal evolution
11:00 – Planting seeds and supporting future healers
11:45 – Mentorship, community, and lifelong Healing Touch relationships
12:30 – The early challenges of introducing energy healing into healthcare
13:15 – Dream it. Think it. Speak it. Do it.
14:00 – Why mentorship matters
15:15 – Returning to the authentic self
17:00 – The power of intention and becoming a nurse
19:15 – Reconnecting with wonder through Healing Touch
21:00 – Earth medicine, shamanic studies, and nature connection
22:00 – What Healing Touch looks like in Walle's life today
23:45 – Healing Touch with her granddaughter
24:30 – Finding joy through children and service
25:45 – Nature, movement, and active meditation
26:15 – Scuba diving and discovering stillness
27:00 – Following wonder around the world
28:00 – The gift of curiosity and wonderment
30:20 – Introducing Huacas: sacred places of connection
32:30 – Why sacred places matter
33:30 – Final reflections and gratitude
About Our Guest: Walle Adams-Gerdts, RN, HTCP/I, QM
Walle Adams-Gerdts is a registered nurse, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Instructor, Qualified Mentor, and one of the most respected educators within the Healing Touch community.
After discovering Healing Touch while working with pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant patients at Nemours Children's Hospital, Walle became instrumental in bringing Healing Touch into a hospital setting and helping establish a thriving Healing Touch community in Delaware. She later served as Healing Touch Practitioner at Nemours and has mentored countless students and practitioners.
Today, Walle teaches Healing Touch, maintains a private practice, serves as Lead Mentor for the Healing Touch Program, and continues to inspire others through her passion for nature, adventure, wonderment, and lifelong learning.
About Your Host: Leila Briggs
Leila Briggs 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, heart-centered conversations about energy healing and lived spiritual practice.
Born highly intuitive, Leila's path led her early on to explore how subtle energy communicates, heals, and expresses itself in daily life. Her work is rooted in creating safe, ethical, and supportive spaces—both for individuals navigating their own healing and for families raising intuitive children.
Leila is currently studying to become a Healing Touch Mentor and offers intuitive sessions and healings by appointment. She has been featured on A Mother's Intuition, a podcast devoted to intuitive children, and consults with paranormal investigation groups across the U.S., always emphasizing discernment, grounding, and responsibility.
Alongside her mother, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner Instructor Patricia Briggs, Leila co-owns TriLia LLC, a business dedicated to supporting intuitive families through education, resources, and community.
About the Podcast
The Energy Healing Podcast is where science meets the heart—sharing real stories, expert insights, and practical tools to help you explore Healing Touch and energy medicine in everyday life.
If you're seeking healing, learning to heal, or simply curious about energy, you're in the right place.
Disclaimer
The information contained in this video is provided only as general information and for educational purposes. It does not offer medical advice and is not intended to be a substitute or replacement for qualified medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please take responsibility for your own health.
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