Today we’d like to introduce you to Cathy Lafitte.
Hi Cathy, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers.
It’s an honor to be here, thank you. I would like to begin by sharing what got me into healing professionally. I’ve experienced myself awakening spiritually about 20 years ago and shortly after that II found myself beginning my professional healing journey. I started out as an LMT (Licensed Massage Therapist) while simultaneously incorporating energy healing as an Angel Reiki practitioner which developed over the past 17 years into the transformational Soul healing work I do today. How I even got into massage therapy and energy healing was a miracle to me. I never thought about doing it growing up in fact, I never even thought about it until two weeks before I enrolled.
I was struggling with my own back pain for a long time and needed relief. At that time in my life, I was not thinking in terms of alternative healing. My understanding about healing is when something hurts, go to the doctor’s office. So, I did. She did a brief assessment and determined I had tension in my back and gave me a prescription for Naproxen which is a muscle relaxer, I did not like the feeling of the drug, and it didn’t eliminate the pain so, I stopped taking it and found another path to try and help me. I knew someone had to physically touch me to help rub out the pain. Long story short, I ended up doing twelve sessions of physical therapy because my insurance would cover it which still left me feeling in pain.
I finally ended up going to see a massage therapist. This wasn’t covered by insurance, but this was the route I knew I needed to go. I’m glad I invested in myself and went for the massage. My massage therapist was not a typical one I would later come to understand. She had a gift of hands-on healing, not only did she help alleviate my pain, but she also listened to the needs I was struggling with that I had that the other people did not seem to grasp that I went to previously and focused on it. I immediately felt better! After a few sessions in, during my massage session I had an epiphany! I found my calling! I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life! I wanted to help people feel like she made me feel for the rest of my life, which was loved, and cared for.
I knew I had the power to love and care about my clients when perhaps other practitioners didn’t. I genuinely wanted to help them get out of their pain. I always had a natural God-given talent as a nurturing listener and counselor. So, I immediately enrolled in Massage school and found myself also starting my journey in the field of energy healing and later deep diving in to how I could help counsel/guide others.
I now have a heart based private practice focused on an alternative approach to mental health care that has an emphasis on emotional well-being by learning how to discern our spiritual connection to that part of self that loving guides us to live our best life and teaches how identify when we get these messages.
I mix Consciousness Coaching blended with Hypnotherapy and energy healing to achieve life alter changes for my clients that help bring relief and peace to their life.
Through continuous learning by various educational mediums, trainings, certifications in past life regression (QHHT) and a clinical hypnotherapy, and to receiving what are endearingly called “downloads” from my Higher-Self and my spiritual team and through countless amount of asking questions and receiving answers and doing my own healing work to help me heal past wound/ traumas to raise my vibrations assists me greatly to teach me what I know now.
The biggest part of my story is my spiritual journey. Through realizing that I needed help with my personal pain not just physically but also emotionally, I drew in the most incredible people, literature, videos, and synchronicities into my life.
Because I desired to stop my pain, in all areas of my life, I was put on the path to self-heal. Healer, heal thy self is very real! I could not do the work I do now if I had not done my own work along the way. I practice what I preach and teach. I truly desired at the depth of my soul to be free of pain in all areas of life and share what I know and learned with others.
As I evolved in my massage practice, I knew I needed to go deeper. Soul deep. To free myself and others from pain I knew I had to focus on the mind; the thoughts that cause painful emotions and if left unchecked affect the body by compromising its immunity, causing disease, and illnesses, fatigue, pain, accidents, and overall breakdown of vitality. So, I became a Hypnotherapist to change and alter the belief systems that hold us back from flourishing. But I also became more than just a Hypnotherapist, I became a guide that does therapy that affects the Spirit, not just the mind and body.
In my spiritual journey, I eventually discovered I was a Healer, A hands-on healer, a Spiritual healer, and a teacher. I affect change through being love and giving love. But of course, I do have some tricks up my sleeve to bring peace to the mind and relief to the body if you are open to receiving it.
We all have free will. Even when it comes to healing and to suffering. You can choose to suffer (suffering is in the mind of the beholder, it is a mindset, a perception) or not to suffer (see the glass half full mentality) and you can choose to heal and thrive. Either way is valuable in learning. My role I have chosen is to help heal, thrive, and awakening the light within.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
My spiritual journey has many times been difficult. The difficulty was I didn’t have anyone around me that was having a spiritual awakening. I had an uncle who lived in California who once told me when I came to visit when I was 13, that his friend had a message for me. He said that the Earth spoke through him, and they had a message for me that I was special, but I was not know how at that time. He never told me and years later, just said “keep writing”, and then he passed away before I could know.
He was the only one I knew even was into anything remotely metaphysical or psychic. He was gone before my awakening so he could not mentor me. I felt lonely. I was also struggling prior to my awakening with depression and self-harming behavior. On the night of my full-fledged awakening, I begged and pleaded to God that there must be more to this life than just this, meaning the pain and suffering I was experiencing mentally. I felt imprisoned in my sense of powerlessness then, a calming hand was placed on my heart and all the depression went away! I knew at that moment as my tears stopped and there was a sense of peace and possibility; there was more!
The second difficulty I experienced was realizing that I needed to take responsibility for my “stuff” my ego in the early years especially was not comfortable with having to face those shadow pieces I kept in the dark or buried for so long. I went through many moments of feelings of insecurity, persecution complex, inferiority complex, not feeling good enough, despair, guilt, shame, resentment, jealousy, not feeling worthy of love, sense of being powerless over my own life and certain people in my life. Feeling hopeless, fearful, you name it, I had it! Many tears, outbursts of anger, and sorrow began to shift into feelings of being on cloud nine and feeling what I call “High on Spirit” over time.
It seemed like selected family members thought I was weird for the beliefs that I adopted, and I felt like they didn’t find value in the way I began to think, feel, and believe because it was outside of the main teaching of my upbringing and religious teachings, so I didn’t feel often supported. I had a Christian-based background and what I was exposing myself to was far more expansive and inclusive, as opposed to exclusive. Awakening Spiritually can get pretty far out there! lol
I also went through many relationships which are part of growing spiritually. When we first develop relationships based on a non-awakened state of mind as we awaken to many truths and the people around us do not, it often creates friction. Because now you are of two different vibrations no longer vibrating at the same frequency. This creates a feeling that you needed to move on from each other. I had to do this several times. I had many changes occur and I found my circles getting smaller and smaller, I no longer wished to have superficial interactions with people. I only wanted to talk about growing spiritually. I found myself not wanting to connect to others as much because of how I viewed life. I didn’t want to be part of the drama anymore. I crave more peace.
Before my awakening so many times I thought of suicide, after my awakening no longer did I think that way. I felt I could grow and better myself, facing the triggers I have carried for lifetimes that want to be processed and have closure finally became my goal. They can be very intense but also very freeing when put to rest! I look back now on how challenging this journey has been for me and I think back on it with the most joy in my heart for all of it!
It’s not done yet, but for sure I have developed the tools and support system to help me face I believe, anything.
We’ve been impressed with Conscious Awakening Energy Healing Services, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My business focuses on raising conscious awareness and empowering my clients to know they have the power to make long-lasting life changes in how they think, feel, and respond in the world.
I developed a powerful process called “Emotional Recognition Therapy” (ERT) This is a powerful new way to manage the spirit mind, thoughts, and emotions bringing a sense of control and peace of mind.
This is not being taught anywhere else. This process quickly changes the limiting beliefs that traditional therapies do not have currently. Hypnotherapy alone speeds up years of what traditional mental healthcare can do in just a few sessions saving time and money. Combining the two together is a game changer!
The results are highly successful because I incorporate how to use my energy body through experiential techniques I teach. Many people are so sensitive energetically that they don’t even realize just how much other people’s energy is affecting them, especially Empaths like myself. This is crucial teaching that is necessary to the healing process for many that other traditional methods don’t incorporate.
Another special aspect that sets my business apart from others is I incorporate the spiritual part of a person and their intuition as it plays a big part in healing. It is the Soul that needs healing, not the mind or the body. The mind is the program that our Soul communicates through, and the body is a vehicle, the tool, to manifest what the spirit is telling the mind to create.
I’m a clinical hypnotherapist, as well as an energy healer, spiritual healer, and hands-on healer so I use many different techniques to challenge, change, and install new programming that the mind can use for creating constructively.
All healing is energy healing driven. I offer Emotional Recognition Therapy (ERT), Hypnotherapy, Crystal Light Therapy, Energy Healing Massage Therapy, and Cranial work for re-balancing the brain functions electrically, great for TBIs. (traumatic brain injury).
All therapies are for the purpose of helping my clients put the past to rest, learn how their Higher-Self and Spiritual team communicated with them, and create positively so they can shine their light!
Are there any important lessons you’ve learned that you can share with us?
The most important thing along my journey is not to listen to the darkness and believe its lies. That is where the pain and sadness come from.
To know that only love is real. To know that love truly does set us free, and anything that tries to tell us otherwise keeps us in bondage and causes pain. To love thyself is the key to experiencing the deepest love.
The kind of love we can extend genuinely to others without expecting anything in return.
Pricing:
- Coaching/Hypnotherapy/Massage sessions go for. 90 minutes $150
- One-hour session (massage and energy healing only) $120
- Crystal Light Therapy (includes mini foot massage) 45 minutes $60
Contact Info:
- Website: www.consciousawakeningservices.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conscious_awakening_services/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/consciousawakeningservices/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPO6yEI-kXd11PU8ay3RHA
