Miriam Helle, Switzerland
“My client, Johannes is an artist and works temporarily as a teacher. When he was standing in front of a class he always had this enormous fear of failure and of not knowing enough. His face often … Read the rest
“My client, Johannes is an artist and works temporarily as a teacher. When he was standing in front of a class he always had this enormous fear of failure and of not knowing enough. His face often … Read the rest
When Karina asked me to share a story of a client’s experience with fear, I suddenly went blank. I jogged my memory and could not recall a single experience of a client moving through fear. I immediately … Read the rest
A challenging client, Raina, had an alcoholic and angry father. She was conceived by rape. She told me about childhood memories of threatening and violent scenes. After her parents divorced, Raina never saw her father … Read the rest
Mary was in a terrible pain, because of the cancer in her abdomen. She was walking around in pain and sound, waiting for the telephone to ring. She had been waiting for a while for the … Read the rest
Last summer Candy was in extreme pain. Her doctor said that the pain was from kidney stones, and she would need an operation because the stones were too big to pass on their own. Because of the … Read the rest
Illness is the body’s way of trying to be heard in a loud way — or, at least, an opportunity to communicate and listen to your cells. When I first met Karina, I could barely walk. A … Read the rest
My dearest friend, Julia, had been attempting to get pregnant for four years. She’d tried almost everything: drugs, two operations (including in-vitro fertilisation), all to no avail. One day in the autumn she called me long distance … Read the rest
“I was invited to attend my sister-in-law’s second labour, as she wanted me to help her use sound during the birthing process. Fab braced
herself on my brother, Graham, and squeezed his and my arms with each … Read the rest
By the time that I arrived at R’s birth she had been in labour for what had felt like a lifetime to her. She was exhausted and was lost as to what to do from here. The … Read the rest
Amanda was a renowned professional singer and musician who played the flute like magic and had an angelic singing voice. I called her the Pied Piper as her youthful energy, enthusiasm and laughter — fused with … Read the rest