The Energy Healing Podcast with Dr. Katharina Johnson

Have you ever tried to open your heart, and something inside you just said no? There's a good reason for that, and it isn't what most people think. 🎁 Free guided heart meditation: get my free course Awakening Your Heart's Power at myhealing.guide Maybe it feels like a wall has been built around your heart over the years. Or you've been hurt, and a part of you believes that opening up is exactly what got you hurt in the first place. In this episode, I share what I see again and again in my work as a medical doctor, medical intuitive and energy healer: why your heart closed in the first place, and why that was actually wise. You'll learn what happens in your nervous system when opening up doesn't feel safe, the one simple sentence that helps your protection soften, and why trying harder can keep your heart closed. We also look at what to do when tears, old grief or numbness come up, and at the end I guide you through a gentle heart-opening practice, at the pace of safety. 🎧 Episode Highlights 00:47 – "Something in me just says no": when your heart won't open 03:03 – Why the heart closes, and why that was wise 07:14 – What your nervous system does when you don't feel safe 10:54 – Why trying harder works against you 14:17 – When opening your heart brings up tears or old pain 18:19 – What if you feel nothing at all? 19:19 – Guided practice: opening your heart at the pace of safety Mentioned in this episode: #53: How to Protect Your Energy – Without Closing Your Heart This episode is about the energetic side of the heart and is not medical advice. If you have chest pain, please see a doctor. 👉 Go deeper with my free course Awakening Your Heart's Power, including a guided heart meditation and our free SoulFamily community: myhealing.guide

Your body hears every word you say to it, and it’s responding right now. Most of us were never taught that the way we speak to our bodies can support our healing or quietly hold it back. In this episode, you’ll discover what science reveals about what happens inside you when you start speaking to your body differently. You’ll hear why one small shift in awareness changed people’s bodies in a Harvard study, even though they did nothing else differently. You’ll learn the one feeling that moves your body into its natural healing mode, and why some words reach your cells while others never register at all. Then you’ll be guided through a heart-based practice where you speak to your body and listen for its answer.   🎧 Episode Highlights 00:37 – What if you could actually talk to your body? 02:32 – Why most people feel cut off from their bodies 04:41 – Trillions of cells: your body as an intelligent system 08:21 – The placebo and nocebo effects 09:05 – The Harvard hotel room attendants study 10:48 – How self-compassion changes your nervous system 17:23 – Why the energy behind your words matters most 19:02 – Guided heart-based practice to talk to your body   👉 Open your heart and start healing with my free course Awakening Your Heart’s Power at myhealing.guide

When there is unresolved conflict in a relationship, talking about it does not always create the shift you are hoping for. You may understand what happened. You may have tried to communicate, forgive, or move on. And still, something in you reacts the moment you think about that person. In this episode, I share a powerful energetic approach to relationship healing that many of my students have used with surprisingly quick and meaningful results. This practice can be used with someone who is still in your life, someone you are estranged from, or even someone who has passed away. 🎧 Episode Highlights 0:36 – When a relationship causes stress or is completely estranged 3:27 – Everything is energy: why conflicts are never just about words 5:26 – Why you can't solve a conflict on the level that created it 7:24 – The place in your heart that has never been broken 8:37 – Clearing your trigger with white light 12:19 – Sending love to the soul, not the personality 16:11 – Why you don't have to reconcile or forgive everything 17:15 – Healing a conflict with someone who has passed, or one you caused Even the most painful relationship can be met from a place of love, and that shift begins with you. 👉 Get your free course "Awakening Your Heart's Power" at myhealing.guide

What happens when Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long COVID leave you exhausted - and nothing seems to bring your energy back? In this deeply personal episode, I share my own experience with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long COVID, and my recovery journey, including the unexpected insights that ultimately changed the way I approached healing. As a medical doctor and medical intuitive, I explored many different approaches. But some of the most important shifts came from places I did not expect. In this episode, I share what I learned through my own experience, what finally began to change, and how that journey transformed the way I understand healing today 🎧 Episode Highlights (1:24) Why I'm sharing this personal health story (1:55) My Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnosis and the months I spent in bed (3:28) Getting Long COVID and losing my ability to exercise (4:03) My experience with post-exertional malaise (PEM) (5:10) What I learned about mitochondria and energy production (6:16) The stress I hadn't realized I was carrying (9:05) The heart-centered meditation that changed something for me (11:36) How seeing myself as “broken” affected my recovery journey (15:09) Riding my bike again and other physical breakthroughs (18:35) Where I am today — fully recovered I also invite you to join me for my upcoming free Live Healing Event, where you can experience this work for yourself and discover what may become possible when you connect more deeply with your own healing capacity.   Join the free Live Healing Event here: https://drkatharina.com/live-healing-event/ This episode shares my personal experience and is not medical advice or a claim that the same approach will work for everyone.

Have you ever been feeling perfectly fine, and then you spend time with someone and suddenly feel completely different - anxious, drained, or heavy - and you don't even know where it came from? If you're sensitive to other people's energy, you've probably learned to think "I absorb energy" or "I need to protect myself better." But what's actually happening is a little different. In this episode you'll discover what's really happening on an energetic level when you feel someone else's emotion, how to tell whether a feeling actually belongs to you, and a guided technique to create a strong energetic boundary while keeping your heart wide open. Most importantly, you will learn two energetic practices that will keep your energetic boundaries strong without having to close down. 🎧 Episode Highlights 5:25 — The tuning fork analogy: what's really happening when you feel someone else's energy 6:54 — Why you can only resonate with an emotion if it echoes something unresolved in you 8:00 — The energy awareness practice: how to tell if a feeling is truly yours 10:21 — Why an open heart is ultimately the strongest protection of all 13:49 — A guided practice: a strong energetic boundary while keeping your heart open 23:28 — A simpler technique for beginners: stepping into a protective colour Your sensitivity was never the problem. Learning to direct it is the gift. 👉 Free heart activation course: myhealing.guide

Have you ever rushed to forgive someone, or forced yourself to feel positive, before you'd even let yourself feel what was really there? That's spiritual bypassing, and it can look spiritually mature from the outside, while the real emotion just gets pushed further down. In this episode you'll discover why spiritually inclined and highly sensitive people are especially prone to this pattern, why pushing an emotion away doesn't make it disappear, and how working with the energy of the heart lets you truly feel and release what's there, without becoming overwhelmed by it. 🎧 Episode Highlights 1:13 — What spiritual bypassing actually is 3:43 — Real-life examples: when avoidance gets called "acceptance" 5:28 — Why pushing emotions down doesn't make them disappear 9:02 — What Dr. Katharina's own spiritual teacher taught her about feeling emotions 11:00 — A personal story: feeling someone's anger like a punch in the stomach 13:55 — Why the heart, not suppression, is the real solution Feeling your emotions doesn't make you less spiritual. It makes you human. 👉 Free course: https://drkatharina.com/soulfamily-sign-up/

Have you ever done so much work on yourself and still ended up back in the exact same place? In this episode, you'll discover why real change isn't about releasing more, or even about willpower. It's about a fundamental shift in identity. You'll learn why the same action can create completely different outcomes depending on the identity behind it, and why your true identity, the one that has never been broken, is the key to lasting healing.   🎧 Episode Highlights 01:08 — Have you ever done so much healing work and still ended up back in the same place? 04:02 — "I'm not good enough" - the identity carried by 95% of people 05:10 — The fish-in-water analogy for how identity quietly shapes everything 09:39 — Same action, two different outcomes - rejection versus self-love 14:23 — Why your true identity is love 18:00 — The heart as the doorway to the part of you that has never been broken There is a place inside you that has always been whole. This episode shows you how to come home to it. 👉 Free course: https://drkatharina.com/soulfamily-sign-up/

Have you ever told yourself "I forgive them" - and then the same resentment from the past came right back the moment you heard their name? You're not doing anything wrong. Letting go is usually taught as a mental decision. But energetically, it goes much deeper than that. In this episode you will discover why old resentment and pain can stay stuck in your body and energy field long after your mind has decided to "let go," the real difference between intellectual forgiveness and true energetic forgiveness, and why working with the heart succeeds where willpower alone cannot. 🎧 Episode Highlights 02:13 — Why forgiveness feels so hard, even when you truly want to let go 07:38 — The real difference between intellectual and energetic forgiveness 09:43 — Why pretending you've forgiven can push the wound further away 11:47 — Why acceptance, not forced positivity, is the true first step 14:40 — Why forgiving yourself matters just as much as forgiving others 20:39 — What happens once the wounded part is finally healed Once that wounded part is healed, forgiveness doesn't have to be forced anymore. It simply happens. 👉 Go deeper in Energy Mastery - waitlist opening soon - https://drkatharina.com/energy-mastery/  

Have you ever felt that a more alive, more authentic version of you keeps almost coming forward - and then something pulls back? It is not a lack of confidence. It is not procrastination. It is something older and quieter than that. Something that lives right in the centre of your chest and says: not yet. It is not safe. In this episode you will discover what the fear of being seen actually is, where it really comes from, and why the advice everyone gives you - just put yourself out there! - often makes things worse. You will also hear a personal story of hiding energy healing work from medical colleagues for years, the story of Maya, a deeply sensitive woman whose gifts were clear but whose body said not yet - and the one thing that actually creates the inner safety to let the real you come forward. 🎧 Episode Highlights 00:34 — That version of you that keeps almost coming forward - and then stops 03:00 — How hiding looks from the outside - and why it is so exhausting 04:37 — Where the fear of being seen really comes from 05:46 — Why it is often not about judgment - it is about feeling energetically consumed 06:07 — Maya's story: a sensitive woman with a gift who could not let herself be seen 09:06 — My own story: hiding my healing work from my medical colleagues 15:11 — The science of the heart and why it is the actual doorway to safety 20:49 — How an open heart creates an energetic buffer and connects you to your purpose 👉 There is a place within your heart that has never been broken. Let me show you how to find it again: Join my free course at https://myhealing.guide

 💜 What if depression isn't just a chemical imbalance - but a heart that has quietly closed to protect itself?In over 20 years of medical intuitive work, I have noticed one thing in almost every person struggling with depression: the heart chakra is offline. And here is the beautiful part - it can be opened again. In this episode I share what I have seen in countless readings, why the heart is the largest energetic centre in your body, and how heart activation can lift depression at its root. Plus the inspiring story of one client who carried depression since his teens and overcame it completely. 🎧 Episode Highlights 02:03 — The 5 layers of healing and how depression lives in each 06:15 — Why the heart chakra is always offline in depression 08:55 — How emotional wounds gradually build armour around the heart 11:28 — A client story: Thomas, who overcame depression he had carried since his teens 13:06 — What heart activation really is (and why it isn't toxic positivity) 17:49 — Why nature is one of the most powerful supports for the heart 👉 There is a place within your heart that has never been broken. Let me show you how to find it again: Join my free course at https://myhealing.guide