Why Many Healing Modalities Plateau — and How Energetic Healing Bridges the Gap
- Candice
- Jan 6
- 5 min read
There are endless healing modalities. Talk therapies, cognitive therapies, counselling, somatic coaching, life coaching, feminine embodiment, meditation, reiki, yoga, mindfulness, and endless more. I believe there is no one-size-fits-all, no perfect approach, or modality that is perfect. There is no one modality that is the right fit for every person all the time. Each play their own role in the vast realm of healing — but many people find they often stop short of lasting change. Discover why I believe integrating energetic healing with nervous system and somatic work can unlock the next layer of transformation for many people who are feeling stuck on their healing journey.
You’ve done the work.
You’ve read the books, journaled through every full moon, talked things through in therapy, breathed through the anxiety, stretched, meditated, and maybe even tried a few reiki sessions.
Things help — but only for a while.You feel better… until you don’t.
That doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means you’ve reached the edge of what that particular tool can do.
Below, let’s explore why so many healing approaches plateau — and how energetic healing fills the missing layer that allows deeper, lasting change.
1. The Limits of Cognitive Healing (Mind-Based Approaches)
Talk therapy, CBT, thinking and mindset-based coaching, and other cognitive tools are powerful for awareness. They help us name patterns, reframe stories, and make sense of what’s happening.
But insight doesn’t automatically equal integration and significant change. You can understand your trauma and still be living with the present day impacts like feeling disconnected from yourself, unsafe in your body, and constantly triggered.
You can know your triggers and still find yourself looping back into them.
Cognitive work happens mostly in the mind, but trauma, emotion, and energetic imprinting live deeper — in the nervous system and the energy field. When you stop at mental understanding, your body and energy system often remain stuck in their old settings.
2. The Limits of Behavioural Approaches
Behavioural strategies (habit change, exposure therapy, goal setting) focus on doing differently.
But when your internal wiring — your energetic and nervous system patterns — hasn’t shifted, new behaviours feel like pushing against gravity. You can white-knuckle, force, and will your way into new habits temporarily, but without addressing the deeper roots, they rarely stick. And that leaves many people feeling worse - confused, feeling broken, helpless, lost, and out of control.
3. The Limits of Somatic-Only Healing
Somatic and body-based therapies changed the game — finally recognizing the body as central to healing.
But even somatic work (like somatic therapy, somatic coaching, embodiment practices, and nervous system regulation skills) can plateau. The body releases tension and trauma, but if the energetic distortion that created the pattern remains, your system will often recreate the same contraction later.
Energy informs matter. If we don’t clear the energy field, the body continues to mirror the old code.
4. The Limits of Mindfulness, Yoga, and Breathwork Alone
Mindfulness, yoga, and breathwork bring presence, regulation, and peace. They’re beautiful tools for maintenance, but they’re not always designed for deep repair.
They soothe the system but don’t necessarily rewire it. Breathwork might open portals; yoga might bring grounding — but unless that energetic opening is held, cleared, and integrated, the system can close right back up.
These practices can be valuable pieces, but many people find they’re not the whole picture.
5. The Limits of “Relaxation-Only” Energy Healing
Traditional energy healing or Reiki sessions can feel blissful — soft, peaceful, and balancing. But often, they’re passive: energy flows to you, rather than with you.
Without including the nervous system, emotional body, and somatic integration, those shifts may not anchor. The field clears, but the patterns re-enter because the body hasn’t caught up.
That’s why I practice integrative energy healing — where the field, body, and psyche are all addressed together. It’s not just energy work; it’s energetic therapy.
6. How Energetic Healing Brings It All Together
Energetic healing works at the level where patterns are created. This is the space that holds the instructions for your body, mind, and emotions.
When we work here, we can:
clear stored emotional residue and ancestral imprints
re-align the field to safety, coherence, and vitality
regulate and support the nervous system so it can hold new energy
bring your inner guidance system — intuition, body wisdom, heart — back online
This is why many people experience energy healing as a quantum leap rather than a gradual crawl. The system reorganizes itself, and everything downstream begins to shift.
7. The Integration Piece (Why Somatic + Energy = Real Change)
Lasting transformation happens when energy clears, the nervous system stabilizes, and the body integrates the new pattern.That’s why my work blends:
Energy field clearing and harmonizing
Nervous system regulation and somatic awareness
Trauma-informed guidance and intuitive mentorship
It’s the bridge between science and spirit — between nervous system repair and energetic realignment. Because both are true: healing is energetic and embodied.
8. If You’re Feeling Stuck, You’re Not Broken
Your system already knows how to heal. Energetic healing simply reminds it how.
When you include the field, the body, and the mind, the old loops dissolve — not because you’re trying harder, but because you’ve changed your frequency.
✧ Ready to experience it?
Trauma-Informed Energy Healing, Spiritual & Soul Healing, and Somatic/Body-Based Healing with Candice at Solterra Healing Temple
*virtually located in vancouver, bc, canada and serving clients online remotely across canada, the U.S., and worldwide.
If you’re feeling drawn to explore what’s possible beyond the healing modalities you've explored — to reconnect with your inner wisdom, clear energetic blocks, and return to the deeper truth of who you are — I’d love to support you.
The work we do together isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about reconnecting to the wholeness that’s always been within you. Together, we work gently and precisely to bring your system back into balance, harmony, and alignment.
You might arrive feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, confused, or stuck in old patterns. But beneath all of that is your natural state of clarity, peace, wholeness, health, and vitality — waiting to re-emerge once the layers of protection begin to soften.
✧ Feeling the call?
If you’re curious about how this work could support your healing, I invite you to start with a Portal Session — a single session experience designed to help you feel what’s possible.
Or, if you’re ready for a deeper transformation, explore my 1:1 Transformation Journeys — immersive 3- or 6-month online containers for women who are ready to step into sustained energetic, emotional, and spiritual alignment. These containers are holistic, expansive, and combine mind-body-spirit modalities to step into your next chapter of healing and alignment.
Interested in 1:1 energetic recalibration? Book a portal session.
Desiring individual support to take you deeper? My deep-dive somatic & energetic healing containers are perfect for the women ready for their their next layer of healing.
