Zoe Wood is a Breathwork Guide, Reiki Healer and Emotional Healing Guide, helping people to remember who they are and connect to their power and truth. Using these healing techniques, she works with groups and individuals, as they release their trauma, and mental and emotional blocks.

In this week’s new episode Zoe shares the healing power of friendship, and the impact that it’s had on her life. Two years ago, the month of February took on a new meaning for her. Zoe’s brother was fifteen months older than her, and her best friend. He was the one that she could call in moments of crisis in the early hours of the morning, the one who would listen and laugh with her until she fell asleep again.

In this week’s new episode Zoe recounts the day after he died as she was numbly walking through the city of Barcelona, knowing that she shouldn’t be alone, but in too much shock and fog to figure out who to call. She said a silent prayer for guidance, “I don’t know who to be with or what to do. Please send me what I need.” Moments later she quite literally walked into Jacqueline who she met only a few weeks before. Jacqueline’s friendship and unconditional love over the next months and beyond taught her the healing power of sisterhood, and the sacred space that we hold for one another.

Zoe’s words are truly beautiful and profound, and her reflections will remind you of the power of allowing others to gift us the safety of unconditional love and space. It will remind you to take a moment and hit pause from the busyness of our lives, and return to our breath. This practice, in many ways, has been the focus of what Zoe does now. Today, she works with those who are seeking to look within themselves, and for whom a life of passion, purpose, and creativity is a prerequisite to feeling at home in the world. She uses the same techniques that she shares with her clients in her own life. retreating into a quiet place to breathe, to come back to her heart from her busy brain again and again. Many people she works with have, though their family or culturally, absorbed truths that were never their own, and come to the work when they are ready to shed patterns of thinking and behavior which no longer fit their soul.

Sometimes though, all it takes to heal is friendship, and as Zoe shares in this week’s episode those precious few friends who you only need to think about to feel yourself filling up with love for them, and gratitude just for the fact that they exist.

“Our friendship brought down walls I had built up inside me - walls that said it wasn’t safe to let other people help or to receive love. Her acceptance was alchemy, in that moment my sadness lifted, and I was given full permission to just be.”

— Zoe Wood

Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM

Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632

To connect with Zoe and learn more visit www.zoewoodhealing.com and you can also follow her on Instagram @zoe_wood_healing and Facebook @zoewoodhealing Zoe’s offerings currently include a monthly Online Breath work Group, and one-to-one mentoring program, Reclaim- a three month journey of emotional healing and spiritual empowerment.

Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, click here.