Energy Strands
Energy Strands
What are they, and why do they matter?
Recently I visited a local friend of mine as a client for a healing session. Yes, sometimes healers need healing too...
At the end of the session she asked me to pull a card. I was drawn to a Denise Linn deck. I already have some of her decks and love them deeply - the art work and her messages are all just gorgeous...
The healer paused as if she remembered something and left the room saying she'd be right back...
She came back with a book and told me that she had recently been doing some clearing out had been getting rid of books, and this particular book had literally jumped out at her. She didn't get rid of this one because somehow she knew she needed to gift it to someone but didn't know who.
That's when she handed me Energy Strands by Denise Linn.
A beautiful unexpected, synchronistic event... A book finds its way to a woman who doesn't yet know she needs it, through a woman who didn't know who she was keeping it for, in a moment created by a card pull neither of them planned. That is not coincidence. That is energy strands at work — the invisible threads of connection that weave between us, guiding things into place long before our conscious minds have caught up.
So what are energy strands?
In her book, Denise Linn draws on native shamanic traditions that have known for thousands of years what modern science is only beginning to understand — that we are not separate from one another. We are connected. Woven together by invisible cords, threads, filaments and strands of energy that flow between us and everything we have ever encountered.
Everything is energy. Every person you have ever loved. Every place you have ever lived. Every object that has passed through your hands. Every relationship, every conversation, every wound and every joy — all of it leaves an energetic imprint. A strand.
Some of those strands are life-giving. They connect you to people and places that make you feel alive, happy and whole.
But some strands drain you. They pull at your energy in ways you might feel but struggle to name. A relationship you know isn't right but can't seem to leave. A family dynamic that exhausts you every single time. An ex-partner you haven't spoken to in years but still feel, somehow, connected to. A workplace that leaves you hollow by Wednesday. A pattern that keeps repeating no matter how hard you try to change it.
These are not personality flaws. They are not weaknesses. They are energy strands that have never been consciously examined — and in many cases, never been released.
How these strands might affect your daily life
It's in the the relationship you can't leave that diminishes you— not because you don't know it isn't right, but because the energetic cord between you is older and stronger than your logical brain.
You feel guilty every time you put yourself first, because a strand connecting you to an early experience of love taught you that love means sacrifice.
You take on everyone else's emotions and exhaustion as your own, because you have an energetic sensitivity that was never explained or protected, leaving you absorbing strands from every room you walk into.
You find it difficult to move forward in life — career, relationships — not because you lack ambition or courage, but because an unseen strand is still anchored to something in the past, gently but persistently pulling you back.
Houses retain energy — the arguments, the grief, the joy that happened within their walls. Objects retain energy — the hands that have held them, the emotions they absorbed. People retain energy — the strands of everyone you have ever loved or feared or lost.
Most of us are walking through life trailing these strands behind us without ever knowing they are there.
Why releasing energy strands matters
Understanding energy strands is one thing. Releasing them is another entirely.
And here is what I have come to know through my own healing journey and through the work I do with women — you cannot truly release what you haven't given permission to release.
A strand connecting you to an old relationship, an inherited pattern, a moment in childhood that wrote a rule you've been living by ever since — it exists because something in you has been sustaining it. A belief. A story. A part of you that formed the connection in the first place and has been keeping it alive because, on some level, it still feels necessary.
That part of you will not release the strand simply because you consciously decide it's time. It needs something deeper than a decision. It needs to understand that the thing it has been protecting you from is no longer a threat. That you are safe now in a way you weren't then.
Without that permission — without that deeper agreement — the release is temporary. The strand, or something very like it, comes back. Because some part of you called it home.
This is why in my sessions I work with the belief and the story underneath the strand — not just the energetic connection itself. Because the strand is sustained by the story. And when the story is finally seen, understood and released at the root — with the full permission of the part of you that formed it — the energy connected to it releases too.
I have witnessed this in session after session. A woman who has been energetically connected to a relationship that ended years ago — still feeling the pull, still unable to move fully forward — not because she lacks willpower or hasn't tried hard enough, but because somewhere underneath, a part of her was still holding the strand alive. Still needing it. Still not quite ready to let go of what it represented.
When we work with that part, with complete respect for what the connection meant and what it was protecting — and when the permission finally comes from the deepest level, not just the mind but the body, the nervous system, the energy itself only then can we release them.
I help women with the limiting beliefs, the stories and the energetic patterns holding a woman to what is no longer hers to carry. And in releasing those — in going to the root of what has been sustaining the connection — I believe we are releasing the strands themselves.
Because the strand and the story are two expressions of the same thing.
Free the story — with permission, at the root — and the strand loses what was keeping it alive.
This is the work I do and why women come to me for lasting change 💛
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