Holistic Healer Spotlight: How to Stay Strong in Trying Times

Marina Ormes

22 Apr 2025 — 3 min read

Whether you are a professional healing practitioner or do your best to show up for others, being a healer often means staying one step ahead in your healing journey.

Some days, it feels like we are being bombarded with news. Processing it all, let alone staying centered so you can support others, requires healthy boundaries, awareness, and close attention to your needs. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about your needs and how to stay strong so you can be there for others.

Healthy Boundaries

Take care of yourself! It's important to recognize when you need a break from the news or can't take in any more information. It will all still be there in an hour, tomorrow, or next week.

In the same way, if you work with clients or support others, notice where you may take on feelings that belong to someone else. Take breaks and shake it off. Often, moving or connecting with nature can help you ground and remember your own thoughts and feelings, including what you care about and why.

Energy Hygiene

If you are a sensitive person, you may take on other people's fears or worries. This is especially true when the places where we try to get accurate information, like the news or social media, try to grab our attention by standing out, often by manipulating our emotions.

Cultivate practices for yourself that help you leave behind what is not yours. Have an affirmation you use that helps you, for example, "I am sending what is not mine into the earth. I deserve to feel safe and grounded." Another idea is to connect with your senses or feel your feet on the ground.

Slow Down

Sometimes the world we live in is going so fast that it can make us feel out of control, or constantly in fight or flight. Not only is that not sustainable, but it isn't healthy and doesn't create conditions for growth and thriving.

It is an act of reclaiming the self to go at a natural and right pace for you. Feel into your body and your body's needs. How fast does it want to think or move? Where do you need more time to digest and process, so you can make healthy and powerful decisions?

Work with Intention

Intention is a good way to affirm what you want without needing to be controlling, attached, or have something proven to you. If you find yourself experiencing fear or worry, reminding yourself of your positive intentions can help you remember that creating the things you want can take time.

What are your positive intentions for your life? For the world around you? What kind of world do you want to live in? Stating this as an intention is a way of supporting your beliefs that not only are positive outcomes possible, but, for all you know, the way things are right now is exactly how we get there. Even (and maybe especially) when it doesn't feel like it.

Hold Space

You may be familiar with the term "holding space." It may be tricky to define, but holding space is a way of aligning with positive outcomes. You can hold space for healing, for yourself or someone else, during times of stress or difficulty. You can also hold space for shifts in consciousness when you support someone who doesn't yet see a way through their current challenges.

One of the worst and best things about life is that things can change in unexpected ways. This means that disappointments happen, and that sometimes we don't get what we want. But on the flip side, happy surprises are also possible. By holding space we enliven the truth that things can and do shift in positive ways.