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The Knowing Place Blog offers reflections on healing, growth, and the human experience. Here, Heidi shares insights from her lived experience as well as decades of work in grief, trauma, and integrative wellness. Join Heidi in exploring how compassion, curiosity, and self-awareness help us navigate life’s thresholds with greater peace and purpose.

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What is Sound Healing?

Sound healing is the art of using vibration and frequency to restore harmony within the body, mind, and spirit. Each tone and rhythm interacts with the nervous system, brain waves, and energy field to gently guide the body into a state of coherence and deep relaxation.

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Death as a Sacred Threshold: Reflections on Accompanying the Dying

Dying carries the same holiness as birth. There is a moment when a person begins to turn toward another place, and if we are paying attention, we feel it. They open the door with small sentences, “I’m not sure I’ll be here in the spring,” or “I think I’m dying.” Children tell us through shifts in their play, their questions, or a sudden, surprising wisdom.
What I’ve learned is that the greatest gift we can offer is to meet them there, at that threshold, without turning away. Death is a solitary journey, but it happens in the presence of others. And in those moments, presence becomes its own kind of love.

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What is Reiki?

Growing research in integrative health demonstrates that Reiki supports the body’s natural healing mechanisms by reducing stress, easing pain, and promoting nervous system regulation. Clinical studies consistently show benefits in mood, sleep, and overall well-being, affirming Reiki as a gentle, evidence-supported complement to physical and emotional care.

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What We Bring to the Table: Seasons of Love, Food, Stories, and Sometimes, A Side of Silence.

Love doesn’t always come to the table wearing ease. Sometimes, alongside the favorite recipes and familiar laughter. Something quieter arrives too, the weight of unspoken things. The stories that still ache when they resurface. The silences we’ve learned to pass around as gently as the serving bowl. Winter Invites us inward. The key isn’t in forgetting what’s happened. It’s in softening enough to let healing in.

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When the Veil Thins: Reflections on Presence, Meaning, and Enduring Bonds

In grief work, we recognize that Love doesn’t end; it changes form. When the Veil Thins explores how moments of connection with those who have died can bring comfort and meaning, even when they defy explanation. It’s a reflection on witnessing these experiences with openness, so healing can unfold gently, in its own time.

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