The Balanced Nest Podcast · Episode 7
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I originally wanted to be a coroner. Genuinely. Not in a completely morbid way — well, maybe a little — but mostly because I have always been more interested in the deeper story than the surface presentation. I wanted to know what was actually happening underneath. I just thought for a while that meant pathology reports. Turns out it meant energy work.
This episode is the origin story. How I got here, what I actually do, why I work the way I work, and what I believe about healing that makes some people nod and makes other people want to argue with me.
The Part That Sent Me in a Different Direction
When I found out you have to go through full medical school and years of residency with live sick patients before you ever get near a pathology lab — that was a hard no from me. And looking back, that reaction tells you something important about who I am. I wasn’t interested in fixing the surface problem. I was interested in what created it. I wanted to understand the story the body was telling, not just quiet it down.
What I’ve come to understand about Western medicine is that most people arrive there reluctantly. They want someone to fix them. They want the pill or the procedure that makes it stop. They’re not necessarily there to understand what created the condition or to change anything fundamental about how they’re living. I understand that — pain is real and sometimes you just need it to stop. But that’s not where I felt called.
What I wanted was to work with people who were actually ready. Who had tried the other things and knew something was still missing. Who were knocking on a different kind of door.
How I Actually Got Here
I was in outside sales when I found this work. Which is probably the furthest thing from energy healing you can imagine. And I kept feeling this pull toward something I couldn’t name yet.
I found John and Anna Chitty, who teach biodynamic craniosacral therapy. I was researching different bodywork modalities and their work kept standing out because it seemed deeper — more energetic. And because I was in sales, I just cold-called him. Hi, I’m Anna Marie, I’m in outside sales, can I come to your class?
He said yes. And I was a little stunned that I didn’t need any background to get in. Once I was there I understood why — because you go through all of it yourself while you’re learning it. You don’t just study it. You practice it and you experience it. And that phone call changed everything. My girls were one and three. We had just moved into a new house. It was absolute chaos. I started a training program anyway because something in me knew it was the path I needed to go down.
From there I kept going. Emotion Code, Human Design, Nonviolent Communication, Reiki — though Reiki and I have a complicated relationship, it’s just not my jam. And what I found working through all of these modalities is that they’re all pointing at the same thing from different angles. The body holds what the mind can’t process. Energy gets stuck, and until you actually move it — not just understand it intellectually, not just talk about it — it stays stuck.
Why I Think Talk Therapy Has a Ceiling
This is going to ruffle some feathers and I’m okay with that. Talk therapy, in my experience, helps people understand their patterns. And understanding is genuinely valuable. But understanding something and releasing the energy around it are two completely different things.
You can have perfect insight into why you do something and still be completely unable to stop doing it. Because the insights live in your head. The patterns live in your body. And your brain doesn’t control your entire existence. Until you move the stuck energy — actually move it, not just analyze it — the patterns stay.
That’s where the work I do comes in.
How I Actually Work
I don’t have one method. I work intuitively, which means I read what your system needs in the moment and pull from whatever is going to serve it best.
Sometimes that’s biodynamic craniosacral therapy — working with the body’s own rhythms to create deep settling in the nervous system. Sometimes it’s Emotion Code, identifying and releasing specific trapped emotions stored energetically in the body. And sometimes it’s a method I’ve developed myself over the years that I’m calling Energetic Pendulation Therapy — walking you through different parts of your body like it’s a museum, describing what you see and feel on each side, and letting the body find its own equilibrium through that pendulation.
I also mix somatics into everything because the body is always in the room and it’s always telling us something.
What all of these have in common is the same underlying philosophy. I’m not directing your healing. I’m not analyzing what’s wrong with you. I’m creating the conditions for your own system to do what it already knows how to do — which is heal. It can heal when it has enough space and safety to do so.
What I really do is hold space for your soul to take a breath. To have its own time to sort out its own issues. That distinction matters enormously to me.
How This Led to the Parenting Work
When I became a mom, all of my own stored stuff came rushing to the surface. Which is what happens in parenthood — it’s the world’s most effective trigger. And I realized that the most powerful thing I could do for my kids was do my own work. And the most powerful thing I could do for other families was help parents understand themselves and their kids well enough to break the patterns instead of passing them on.
That’s the mission. That’s what the Balanced Nest is. And that’s why I’m here.
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