Becoming a Healing Touch Practitioner: Why Knowing Your Own Energy Changes Everything

One of the most important parts of becoming a Healing Touch practitioner has nothing to do with techniques. It begins with learning your own energy, understanding your own story, and developing the awareness to recognize what belongs to you—and what belongs to someone else.

In this episode of The Energy Healing Podcast, Leila Briggs welcomes Healing Touch practitioner Patricia Briggs for a deeply personal conversation about the self-healing journey that transformed her practice. Patricia shares how studying the chakras became much more than an educational project. Over years of meditation, visualization, reflection, and Healing Touch practice, she discovered how the chakra system functions as an interconnected whole, how energetic patterns reveal themselves over time, and why knowing your own energy is essential before working with clients.

Together they explore why Healing Touch provides the vocabulary many people have been searching for to describe their energetic experiences, how self-awareness creates stronger practitioner boundaries, and why personal healing never truly ends. Patricia also shares how she integrates tools such as meditation, visualization, pendulums, and intuitive practices into her own continuing self-care while remaining grounded in the ethical foundation and scope of practice taught through Healing Touch.

Whether you're curious about becoming a Healing Touch practitioner, beginning your own self-healing journey, or looking to deepen your existing practice, this conversation offers practical wisdom for developing discernment, building confidence, and creating a lifelong relationship with your own energy.

The Energy Healing Podcast is the show for people exploring energy healing, Healing Touch, holistic healing, and the growing role of Healing Touch in personal transformation and professional practice. Hosted by Leila Briggs, each episode helps listeners discover, experience, and learn Healing Touch through practitioner stories, education, research, real-world experiences, and conversations that bridge healing, science, spirituality, and professional practice.

What You'll Hear In This Episode

Why learning your own energy is the foundation of becoming a Healing Touch practitioner
How Healing Touch gives practitioners the vocabulary to understand energetic experiences
Understanding the chakra system as an interconnected whole instead of isolated centers
Why self-healing is an ongoing lifelong practice rather than a destination
Developing healthy energetic boundaries with clients
Learning to distinguish your own energy from someone else's
Using meditation, visualization, and reflective practices for practitioner growth
How intuitive tools such as tarot and pendulums can support self-discovery
Why Healing Touch ethics and scope of practice create a safe foundation for spiritual exploration
Patricia's advice for practitioners who want to deepen their relationship with their own energy

⏰ Episode Chapters & Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome & Why Learning Your Own Energy Matters

00:56 – How Healing Touch Introduced Patricia to the Language of Energy

05:35 – Knowing Your Own Energy and Creating Healthy Boundaries

11:45 – Why Patricia Began Studying the Chakras for Self-Healing

16:26 – Understanding the Chakra System as an Interconnected Whole

17:40 – Patricia's Personal Healing Story and the Throat Chakra Breakthrough

23:13 – Meditation, Visualization & Healing Touch Techniques for Self-Care

27:52 – Using Tarot, Pendulums, and Intuition to Deepen Self-Healing

36:10 – Reading the Entire Chakra System Instead of Individual Chakras

39:23 – Practical Advice for Becoming a Healing Touch Practitioner

43:47 – Chakras as Doorways to Spiritual Growth and Intuition

47:47 – Why Healing Touch Provides the Foundation for Lifelong Practitioner Development

51:23 – Finding Your Story Through Self-Healing

53:22 – Closing Thoughts

About Our Guest: Patricia Briggs

Patricia Briggs is a Healing Touch practitioner, nurse, educator, and longtime student of energy healing whose work focuses on practitioner self-awareness, chakra development, and lifelong personal healing. Drawing on decades of nursing experience alongside years of Healing Touch practice, Patricia helps students and practitioners better understand their own energy, develop healthy energetic boundaries, and integrate ethical, grounded approaches to healing into both personal and professional practice.

About Your Host: Leila Briggs

Leila Briggs is the host of The Energy Healing Podcast, 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.

The Energy Healing Podcast explores the world of Healing Touch through practitioner stories, education, research, and real-life experiences. Whether you're discovering energy healing for the first time, exploring your own healing journey, or considering becoming a practitioner, each episode offers practical insight and thoughtful conversations designed to help you discover, experience, and learn Healing Touch.

Disclaimer

The information shared in this episode is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for professional medical diagnosis, treatment, or care. Always consult your qualified healthcare provider regarding medical concerns and take responsibility for your own health and well-being.

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