Sometimes the most powerful healing doesn’t come from doing. It comes from simply being seen for who you are. No advice. No fixing. Just presence. Just love.
In this reflection, I want to share how one moment of sacred witnessing changed everything for me.
Sometimes the most powerful healing doesn’t come from fixing or doing.
It comes from being seen.
No advice. No solutions.
Just someone holding space and saying, “I see you.”
The Healing Power of Being Seen for Who You Are
I remember the first time someone did that for me—truly saw behind the mask I wore.
It undid me.
In the best way.
It was my partner who saw past the walls I’d built.
Walls of self-protection that had quietly become a prison.
She took the time to notice—when many others hadn’t—that behind the wall of indifference, there was someone else entirely.
Someone sensitive.
Emotional.
Soft-hearted.
Wounded.
Finally seen as someone who had learned to wrap a deep well of emotion in a layer of cool detachment… because it felt safer that way.
She didn’t try to fix me.
She just witnessed me.
And through that witnessing, I began to see myself differently.
She helped me realise that my emotional sensitivity wasn’t a weakness.
It was my power.
My depth.
My essence.
While she wasn’t a healer or a therapist, she knew – intuitively – that an open heart is more powerful than a closed one. And that moment, along with my Reiki training, helped me finally lower the walls.
To soften.
To come home to who I really was.
And now, this is part of what I offer in my own work.
Not just Reiki.
And not just guidance.
But sacred witnessing.
Creating a space where your soul can breathe.
Where you can be truly seen, truly held, and completely unapologetic in your being.
In my work now, I hold space for people to feel what I felt – being seen for who you are, with no masks, no judgement – just truth and love.
Your Turn:
So, when was the last time you truly let yourself be seen?
And what would it feel like to be held with no expectations, no fixing, no judgement—just love?
With love,
Debi x
