Healing Isn’t a Quick Fix: How Energy Healing Actually Works
- Hannah Macintyre
- Dec 26, 2025
- 3 min read
Mediumship Matters Podcast — Season 1, Episode 5
Healing is often spoken about in simplistic or unrealistic ways — as though one treatment, one intention, or one mindset shift should be enough to “fix” everything.
In this episode of Mediumship Matters, I explore what healing really is, how energy healing works in practice, and why sustainable healing is a gradual, cumulative process rather than a dramatic breakthrough. Using everyday metaphors and lived experience, this episode explains why healing requires honesty, consistency, and personal responsibility — not avoidance or spiritual bypassing.
This episode is especially helpful if you’ve ever felt disappointed by healing work, unsure whether it’s “working”, or pressured to let things go before you’re ready.
Healing Is About Creating Space, Not Ignoring Pain
One of the central ideas in this episode is that healing begins by creating space.
When our emotional or energetic system is already full — overwhelmed, exhausted, or suppressed — there is no room for positive energy to land. Simply telling yourself to “think positively” doesn’t create healing. It often adds pressure and self-judgement.
Healing starts when we allow ourselves to acknowledge what’s already there.
Why Healing Takes Time
Healing is not linear, and it is never instant.
In this episode, I explain healing as a cumulative process — each session, intention, or moment of self-awareness adds a little more capacity, resilience, and clarity. Over time, this changes how we respond to life, rather than removing life’s challenges altogether.
Healing doesn’t stop difficult things from happening. It changes how much inner resource you have to meet them.
The Pint Glass Metaphor
To explain healing simply, I use the metaphor of a pint glass.
When the glass is full of unresolved emotion, exhaustion, or self-neglect, there’s nowhere for healing energy to go. The first stage of healing is not about adding more — it’s about gently releasing what no longer serves you, even if only a small amount at a time.
Even creating a tiny bit of space can make a meaningful difference.
Why There Is No “Let It Go” Shortcut
A theme I return to often is the danger of spiritual bypassing.
Telling yourself to “let it go” without understanding, processing, or revisiting experiences doesn’t heal them — it suppresses them. Healing often involves revisiting the same emotional territory multiple times, each time with less charge and more understanding.
Healing moves in circles, not straight lines.
Everyone Has the Capacity to Heal
In this episode, I share my belief that everyone has the capacity to work with healing energy.
Healing energy is intelligent and loving. It knows what needs attention first, whether that’s emotional, mental, or physical. Sometimes healing brings memories, feelings, or insights to the surface — not to punish us, but to be integrated.
Trusting the process matters more than controlling it.
Healing Supports Change, Not Avoidance
One of the most practical outcomes of healing is that it often leads to different choices.
As healing work continues, people may feel drawn to rest more, change habits, seek support, or set boundaries. Healing doesn’t do the work for us — it gives us the energy to do it ourselves.
That’s where real transformation happens.
About This Episode
In this episode of Mediumship Matters, I explore:
What healing really is (and isn’t)
Why healing is cumulative rather than instant
The pint glass metaphor for emotional capacity
Why “letting go” can be unhelpful
Healing as a circular, revisiting process
How healing energy supports self-awareness
Why responsibility and compassion matter in healing
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If You’re On a Healing Journey
If this episode resonates, you may also find value in Can Spiritual Development Be Learned Safely? or What Are the Benefits of Spiritual Development Courses? for further grounding and context.
You’re also welcome to explore The Gateway, my online school for structured spiritual development, or Spirit Social, where conversations about healing and growth are held thoughtfully and without pressure.
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