Posts by Lais

Lais is a writer, intuitive healer, and space-clearing expert. Through her Quantum Energy Healing Program, she facilitates deep transformation by clearing ancestral wounds, past-life imprints, and energetic blocks. Download her free digital journal to invite in more alignment into your life here. She also hosts The Alchemy of Light and Shadow Podcast & Happy Home Space Clearing Podcast. Learn more about her work here, or sign up to the Space Clearing Academy Waitlist here.

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When the Body Freezes: On Love and Grief in Midlife

By Lais Stephan

“I was constantly seeking a balance between mourning what’s already been lost, making space for the time and moments we still had left, and making sense of this complicated process that felt like my heart was split between two contrasting realities: hope and heartbreak.” ~Liz Newman

There is a quiet heaviness that begins to settle into many of us in midlife.

It doesn’t announce itself with drama. It slips in through unanswered emails from an aging parent, through half-slept nights spent wondering how we will ever afford live-in care, or whether that one fall they had was the beginning …

When You Outgrow Where You Live but Can’t Yet Leave

By Lais Stephan

“Living in the moment is learning how to live between the big moments. It is learning how to make the most of the in-betweens and having the audacity to make those moments just as exciting.” ~Morgan Harper Nichols

There’s a peculiar grief that doesn’t often get named. It lives in the moments when you’re neither here nor there. When you’re packing in your mind but still waking up to the same kitchen.

When your soul says go, but your bank account or relationship or circumstance says not yet.

It’s the grief of the in-between, an ache I’ve been swimming in …

Dancing with Darkness: How to Reclaim Your Whole Self

By Lais Stephan

“Shadow work is the way to illumination. When we become aware of all that is buried within us, that which is lurking beneath the surface no longer has power over us.” ~Aletheia Luna

For years, I believed healing was about transcending pain. I took the courses, read the books, learned every energy-healing technique I could find, and became a healer myself.

And for a while, I felt better. I had breakthroughs. My anxiety lessened.

My depressive episodes became fewer. But they never fully disappeared. Even after all the inner work, there were still days when I felt unbearably low. …