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Each episode, we step into the sacred space of storytelling, weaving together the voices of healers, thought leaders, and community members who embody the many facets of holistic healing. From spiritual wisdom and metaphysical insights to practical wellness techniques, we highlight the diverse paths that lead us to wholeness.
As we walk through our 13-month journey together, each month will align with a specific theme, offering conversations that inspire, educate, and empower. Whether it’s meditation, energy healing, eco-therapy, or ancestral wisdom, we explore the modalities that bring us closer to balance—individually and collectively.
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Healing Beyond Medicine: The Journey to Bioenergetics
Join us for an enlightening conversation as we explore Cherry Pfau’s journey from traditional nursing to the transformative world of holistic healing. After facing her own cancer diagnosis, Cherry changed her perspective on wellness and began to understand the profound connection between energy and health. In this episode, we dive deep into the concept of bioenergetics, a field that examines how energy flow impacts our overall well-being. Cherry shares her personal experiences and offers practical insights on how we can harness our energy for better health.
Listeners will learn about the limitations of conventional medicine when dealing with chronic ailments, and how a more holistic approach can lead to lasting healing and wellness. Cherry discusses self-discovery, resilience, and techniques that allow anyone to start tuning into their energetic self. With a mission to empower women, Cherry introduces her upcoming course that focuses on maintaining vitality and energy, particularly for those over 45.
This episode is a powerful reminder that we each have the ability to influence our health journey. Discover how to embrace your energy, foster balance, and begin your path toward sustained wellness. If today’s conversation resonates with you, don't hesitate to reach out to Cherry or explore the resources designed to support you on your healing journey. Remember, your energy is your greatest asset—protect it, nurture it, and let it guide you.
Hey guys, so glad you saw the light on. We left it on just for you. Come on in, your cup of tea is still warm, and by tea I mean we've got some incredible stories and insights to share with you. I'm Carmen Marie, your favorite neighborhood shaman, on a mission to heal the world, one inner child at a time. Now get in here and let me introduce you to my friends and co-hosts.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to another episode of the Village Voices, where we bring together seekers, guides and healers to share their wisdom and lived experiences. Today we have a conversation that might just change the way you think about health and healing forever. Our guest, cherry Fow, is a former nurse, cancer survivor and holistic practitioner specializing in bioenergetic healing, a field of study that looks beyond the physical body to understand how energy flow impacts our health. After working for years in conventional medicine, cherry experienced a massive shift in her understanding of wellness when she found herself on the other side of the healthcare system facing a cancer diagnosis. It was through this experience that she began to see the limitations of mainstream medicine and discovered an entirely new way to heal. Cherry's perspective is both unique and deeply personal. Through her own journey of survival and self-discovery, she came to realize that true healing goes beyond the physical body. She now helps others uncover the missing link in their health by working with the body's energy field, something she wishes she had known earlier in her career and healing process. Today, cherry is here to share her story how she transitioned from conventional medicine to holistic healing, what bioenergetics really means and the lessons she's learned along the way. Her approach is grounded, practical and deeply compassionate.
Speaker 1:I know this conversation will be eye-opening for so many of us. If you've ever struggled with fatigue, chronic stress or health challenges that doctors just couldn't explain, this conversation is for you. Cherry's story is one of resilience, transformation and deep wisdom. I have no doubt you'll walk away from this episode with a new perspective on what it really means to heal. So let's dive in. Cherry. Welcome to the Vim Voices. Thanks so much for having me. Cherry, can you share a little bit about yourself and your journey in nursing?
Speaker 2:I started my career in nursing by being a candy striper and some people may know what that is and some don't but in high school I volunteered to work in a hospital. Later, in high school, I actually worked in a hospital. From there I just fell in love with it. I went to nursing school and became a critical care nurse and I did that for 10 years and unfortunately, after 10 years I was totally burned out Totally, and after that I went looking for something where I could have actually talked to patients that could talk back. I went into home health care and that's when I met a friend of mine who turned me on to holistic nursing, which has become my passion in life. I love holistic nursing. It's about the whole person mind, body and spirit and so that sort of took me on a different path. I went away from traditional health care and I studied healing touch for five years and I've just really never stopped learning more holistic techniques and energy healing techniques.
Speaker 1:So, cherry, your background with nursing really started, you said, around high school, the end of high school, going into early college years Through volunteering, yes, yes, I'm curious what interested you then about the nursing field? That's a much longer story. That's what we're here for. We're here for the D Honey.
Speaker 2:My mother named me after a character in a series of books that were about a nurse. I had read those books myself, and they just really stimulated that interest in me, and so that's what got me started.
Speaker 1:It's like, in a way, she almost could see that part of you. Could see that part of you. That's really beautiful. Through your time in nursing, in those early years, what was it that really made you pause and question if there was another way. What were those activating realizations or experiences?
Speaker 2:So I kept seeing more and more people suffering from chronic illness and they just didn't get better. No matter how many pills they took, or doctors they saw, or tests they had, they didn't get better. And it was sad. And that's not how I wanted to practice. I wanted to help people get well. I wanted to focus on wellness.
Speaker 1:So you were really witnessing that it wasn't a solution to the chronic illnesses. Was it difficult not maybe being able to express that in patient advocacy or patient care? What did that feel like to not be able to be?
Speaker 2:cared. Yeah, when I worked in a hospital, there wasn't a lot of conversation about wellness, quite frankly, which is what made me go looking for something else, because that was my passion. I really liked the idea of helping people be well, and that wasn't their passion, their focus was on illness, so from that point we had a different focus.
Speaker 1:I think that's extremely powerful. I'm noticing, even just in this beginning part of your story that you always felt called to the advocacy of the patient, of the person. Yeah, and so that is. What was missing for you was the connection aspect, the genuine support and care, and not just looking at the body as the same as everyone else's, but in a very holistic way. So I find that really cool about your story is that from you know, oftentimes we might want to explore something when we're younger and then it ends up not being at all what we end up doing. In a way, you are now a spiritual nurse. It just sounds like it's always been imprinted as a part of your journey, which is really good In my own spiritual work.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's what I came here for was to help people. Yes, I felt that calling. I did.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's talk about that, the turning point, right? So we go from the first step off to a new path. When you made the decision to see health care from a more holistic point of view, right? What was the turning point in your life where you began to reshape your view of healing?
Speaker 2:So my cancer diagnosis was definitely my turning point. Before that I was living a very high-stressed, busy, involved lifestyle. I pushed myself really hard. I was the typical type A person and when I got that diagnosis it was like and when I got that diagnosis it was like it like stopped me in my tracks, right it just I was like and honestly I thought I was going to die, honestly. And so I swallowed in that for a couple of days and cried a lot and then I said, nope, this is not what we're going to do, right? This is not where we're going.
Speaker 2:And I just decided that I needed to take control. I did go through all the typical medical treatment because, quite honestly, I wasn't sure I had a choice at that time. But I also knew that there were other things I could do to help myself not only survive but to thrive. So I really started doing all the work on myself that I had learned and I also sought out other practitioners as well that did work, that I didn't do and that's really what kept me going through that whole year of treatment. It's also what allowed me to continue to work through that whole year of treatment and that was a big difference because I had something to focus on besides my illness.
Speaker 1:Right. Can we go back to the initial diagnosis? What was that like to be someone who is somewhat of a symbol of the health care system, right of health itself? What did it feel like to receive this news?
Speaker 2:It was devastating. Honestly, you always think this couldn't happen to me, right? I was actually very healthy at the time, but I think the stress played a huge role in that diagnosis. Doctors would disagree with me perhaps, but in my own body, that's what I feel was a factor.
Speaker 1:What were those stressors? What did busy look like to you at that time in your life?
Speaker 2:I was working as a home care manager at the time. I worked very long hours, much more than eight hours a day. It was not a very supportive workplace and I had just moved to North Carolina so I didn't know a lot about the systems here. I felt like I didn't fit in and there was so much antagonism and it was just very negative. That workplace was very negative. I think that really affected me. I was trying to give it my all and make it work.
Speaker 1:So your body was really holding all of that at the time as well. Did you have a relationship with your body then? Were you someone?
Speaker 2:who was aware of that? Yes, because I actually, in the middle of all that, I went and took a course in mindfulness because I was tense and holding all this negative stuff in me. I had done yoga before but I went back to yoga. So, yes, I know all the things right. It's like knowing it's one thing, but putting it into action is a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that's interesting too, because, as leaders and guides and teachers, you said you were doing energy healing and working with others. We neglect ourselves so much and I think that's important to call out, because at risk is everybody right Just because of all the tools and knowledge and know it? It's the application of it, it's the inspiration, the application of it. So you mentioned that you did initially take the more traditional route of working with the cancer, with the diagnosis what was the? At what point did you decide, okay, I'm going to take this other path and go all in and fully trust. And my other question was what was your family environment like and what did they think about your decision to heal holistically as well?
Speaker 2:So I think the big thing for me was after my first round of chemotherapy. I had a major complication and they wanted to do surgery on me and I went no, we're not doing that. I got enough going on because I know things about that. So no, we're not doing that. So I spent a week in the hospital and I took care of myself. I knew how to do healing touch on myself. I knew how to do meditation. I knew various things I tried on myself at that time. I knew various things I tried on myself at that time and eventually I got better and that was great, and this is something that the nurses in the cancer center always found amusing I actually would do healing touch on my bags of chemotherapy. Wow, because it was like I didn't want to see it as poison which technically it is. So I decided I would give it positive energy and love and put that in there instead.
Speaker 1:And so you were activated with this self-healing energy really, and knowing that we have the power to heal ourselves from the inside out, I believe that Should be incredible. Talked about some of these different self-healing techniques that you used and that came up, so let's talk a little bit about holistic healing and bioenergetics. And so, for those unfamiliar, what is bioenergy healing?
Speaker 2:So basically, bioenergetics is the study, detection and correction of energy and living systems. That's a textbook definition. To me, it's about understanding that the body is an energetic system. Energy is what drives our biochemistry, and people don't believe that sometimes, but that's actually quite true. It's scientific knowledge that the energy in our environment and in our bodies drives our biochemistry. So for me, it's about using that knowledge to find the root cause of issues for people, and there are several systems out there to scan the biofield that give you information about where things are distorted or energy's not flowing. Where energy's not flowing, there's always an issue.
Speaker 1:How did you first discover this modality and what made you believe in its effectiveness?
Speaker 2:How did you first discover this modality and what made you believe in its effectiveness. So I was working in an integrated medical clinic and two of our patients came in that they had lived in California previously and they brought their energetic scans to show the physician and she was amazed at how accurate they were to what was physiologically going on with them, and so she and I sat down and talked about it after they left. She said we ought to try this, we ought to look into this. So we did. She purchased a system that reads bioenergy and sent me to the training because she wasn't going to do it. That's how I got started. I started seeing patients in that clinic doing the scans, consulting with them about what the information in the scans showed, and I would share that information with the practitioner so that they could correlate it to their physical symptoms as well. That's incredible.
Speaker 2:Do you have one? So it started out. We did need a machine. Now we don't. Now they have figured out how to use the frequencies in the voice, the phonons in the voice, to measure energy fields.
Speaker 1:That is incredible. Yes, so, yes. So. Is this the technology that you use in your modality, in your tool belt?
Speaker 2:So it's the tool I start with, because it tells me what's really going on in the body. If I did that with my hands, as an energy healer, I would probably not find all that information. I'm probably a fraction of it, quite frankly. So to me it's like the groundwork. It gives me a blueprint of where to work from there.
Speaker 1:It's data, like it's inputs. Does it come across in? How is it read?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so different systems do different things and I actually work with two different systems now, but both of them use a computer algorithm to take the frequency information and line it up with known frequencies and interpret that information. They get a report, basically Wow, and it shows like where the meridians are and it shows it'll talk about the chakras, it shows where the chakras are distorted. So there's a lot of like. The one system shows 155 different things.
Speaker 1:Right, just as if you were to go and get a scan at a doctor. You really are getting a scan. It's your biofield yes. Okay, so how do energy fields and frequencies play a role in overall health? What are some of the common imbalances? How does it manifest in the body, if we can?
Speaker 2:talk about that. So that's a big depends. Honestly, we all have electromagnetic waves in the body, right. When our heart beats we make an electromagnetic wave, which in turn the sound of the heart beating makes a phonon. So that's where I say it underlines our biochemistry. But emotions can play a role as well, because people have a tendency to not express emotions, at least in this culture, and what they do is they store them somewhere in their body and when that happens it's like making the energy consolidate in one place. Then things are happening because the energy's not flowing.
Speaker 2:Again, bioenergetics has to do with our production of ATP, which is what makes our energy our cellular energy. So it's basically quantum physics and it's hard to narrow it down to a few isolated things. But most people have heard of things like the aura, right, like the subtle energy of the aura and all the layers in the aura. Energy is multi-dimensional and we're impacted by the energy in our environment, like gravitational pull and the equatorial fields and the circadian rhythms like the moon phases. Circadian rhythms like the moon phases All that stuff affects the physical body because we are electrical. So typically when people come to me, it's low energy, it's brain fog. They don't have the energy they need to keep up with life. They feel like they're constantly behind. They'll say things like no matter how long I sleep or how many naps I take, I never have enough energy. That's a clue that things aren't flowing in the body.
Speaker 1:What is one misconception about energy work that you wish more people understood?
Speaker 2:When I initially got into energy work a long time ago, it was considered voodoo or woo all those woo words and not scientific. And over the years I've made it my business to try and find the science behind it. And there is a lot of science behind it. Just people don't go looking for it because they form an opinion. But it's becoming much more mainstream, right? No, and I think we've almost turned the corner where people are starting to accept that energy work is another form of healing.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you've created a course to help others reclaim their vitality. What's the core focus of your program?
Speaker 2:I really want women to feel like they have all the resources they need to make energy, maintain their energy and protect their energy, Because energy is under everything they do. Women in the over 45 group have a tendency to start draining their energy. I want to show them how to not do that.
Speaker 1:What kind of transformations do you hope that your students have in this course?
Speaker 2:I want them to feel like they have all the energy they need to live their best life for the rest of their life. I want them to understand that aging isn't a disability.
Speaker 1:How can someone start tuning into their energy today and start making these shifts in a simple way.
Speaker 2:I always tell people just convince themselves that there is energy in their body, right? The simplest thing is teach them to rub their hands together. We've all probably heard this. Rub your hands together, real good, and hold them a little bit apart and then just start to gently pulse them back and forth toward each other and eventually you may start to feel something in between your fingers and your hands. If you can actually like, start to massage it into a shape, you can make it into a ball, if you want to. Once you have that understanding that there's a feel between your two hands, then you can say I can make that, take that energy and I can put it on myself.
Speaker 2:And I always tell people to start simple. Start by putting your hand on your heart, put your thumb in your belly button, put your hand there and just visualize energy moving between them. I like green, so I always imagine a green line of energy moving between the two of them. They can pick the wrong color, it doesn't matter, and it's like that, the old light on the copy machines, that's what I like to visualize. Or they can put their hand on their heart and put their hand on their forehead, because when they put their hand up here. The warmth brings blood flow to their brain, up here, to their frontal lobe, and their focus will improve. So it's just little things like that they can start with, just to experiment.
Speaker 1:Just to see the power of their own hands and their own body.
Speaker 2:I want them to learn they can heal themselves.
Speaker 1:Awesome If someone listening right now with low energy, chronic health issues or burnout what?
Speaker 2:would you say to them If you're one of those women struggling with chronic health issues brain fog, fatigue you're not alone, and I want you to know that you can heal. You just need some support. And that's what I came here to do is support you in that healing journey.
Speaker 1:And where can people connect with you or learn more about your course?
Speaker 2:So if you're looking to connect with me, head over to the Vitality Collective in the Village and go to explore and learn, and there's several things there you can check out. There's an energy assessment quiz that you can take to see if your energy is really low. And if you're ready to get started, you can join my new six-week program that starts March 5th. Tap into your vital energy. Feel like you again.
Speaker 1:Is there a final message that you want to share?
Speaker 2:I think the message I want to share is that you can control your emotional balance and your stress, your physical health, as well as your mental clarity and focus, with energy work.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Thank you. I'm going to close us out, but before we do, I want to thank you for coming and sharing your story with us and for really being an inspiration and an example, something that I don't share with a lot of people. But one of my biggest fears is being sick in the body, because I feel like it's something that I couldn't control for me. Everything else I can get through you give me any block and I will get through it but when it comes to the body and living in life and death, I get scared, I clam up, and the thought of my body almost turning against me is the way I would originally see it. And then I hear your story, and it's just a reminder to me about the power that we have to choose how we live, how we heal, how we grow, and so I just want to thank you for being a reminder to me that I don't need to fear anything.
Speaker 2:You do not need to fear. You really don't.
Speaker 1:If today's conversation resonated with you and you're feeling that pull to explore your own energy and healing, I encourage you to connect with Cherry. You can find her in the Vitality Collective community in the village, where she shares more about her work, her course and how you can begin working with your own energy field to restore balance and vitality. And if you're ready to take the next step, Cheri's Tap Into your Vitality course is now open for enrollment. This is a six-week guided journey designed to help you reduce stress, restore energy and take control of your wellbeing. Plus, if you sign up before March 3rd, you'll receive a free bioenergetic voice scan and integration guide to help you understand where your energy may be blocked. You don't want to miss that.
Speaker 1:All right, Thank you again, Cherry, for sharing such a powerful and enlightening conversation, and thank you to our listeners for tuning in. If you have found value in this episode, please be sure to like, comment, share and engage, and don't forget to subscribe to the Village Voices for more incredible stories and insights from guides like Cherry. Until next time, remember your energy is your greatest asset. Protect it, nurture it and let it guide you to the vibrant life that you deserve. See you next time. Thank you.