Case Study: Mona

Effects of abuse on energetic configuration

I offer these case studies in order to align you to the healing possibilities that open up when we understand consciousness to be the prima materia. Mostly, I am describing what happens as my imagination interacts with ‘the field.’ In an in-person treatment, this is what guides my hands to apply resonant attention, allowance, and light touch to the client’s fully-clothed body; online, I am just applying attention and allowance and ask the person to place their hands on different locations on the body. Everything I describe is profoundly different than allopathic medical treatment and even most bodywork.

I’ve been working with a client I’ll call Mona, 43, for some time. Adopted by an unstable couple, her life has been turbulent. She’s battled addiction, domestic abuse, and homelessness, but she also managed to become a therapist and holds down a job at the VA.

In our last session, Mona started, per usual, with a stream of agitated requests, theories, and asides, including consternation about her parents, on whose land she recently parked her trailer. She lives there with two dogs.