Author and energy healer Elaine Grohman believes a change is coming in 2012 – but not in an "end of the world" kind of way.
The Farmington Hills resident released
The Angels and Me, a collection of her experiences with divine communication, in 2009 and is now working on a book about energy medicine. On her website, she explains the practice of energy medicine as re-establishing a healthy flow in the body's natural energy, so the body can maintain itself.
"I'm just the jumper cable," explains Grohman, who works with clients in a variety of settings, including a soothing, peaceful room in her own home. She is very clear that any healing comes from within. In order for physical healing to take place, the psyche must be healed first.
"If you can help people love themselves more ... what we begin to understand is when you take care of yourself, you can take care of others," Grohman said. "Things happen, but what's pivotal is how do you respond to these things."
No one, she stresses, should give up control over his or her own body and health to anyone – not even her.
"I don't want people to think of me as another person to abdicate their authority to," she said. "I teach people how to recognize the sensations in their bodies. Our bodies are always trying to tell us something."
Grohman sees herself primarily as an educator, letting others know that what she does is perfectly normal – something anyone can do. She has shared her message with clients and those who attend her angel readings and workshops on energy medicine, but also at Madonna University and the University of Michigan and Wayne State University medical schools. Nurses and nursing students have come to work with her.
"I have had a unique opportunity to be with people in medicine and see the struggles they're encountering," she said. So much of traditional medicine is business-oriented, Grohman added, rather than healing-oriented.
Her work and research in the medical field have informed much of her new book, which is scheduled to come out in 2012 – a time when some prognosticators foresee epic, world-wide calamities, from solar storms to magnetic pole reversal. Grohman said while the gravitational pull will be different on earth because of physical changes, there have always been earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters.
She has worked with a Native American healer who she said has taught her about natural cycles – including the 2012 cycle – and how they affect people.
"There are geological things happening, and there are astronomic things happening," Grohman said. "It's a huge time of awakening and stepping into the power that creation gave us. A lot of the falsehoods are starting to fall away in the financial industry, in medicine, in religion."
She believes the patriarchal systems that have dominated societies and cultures are also on their way out.
"The matriarchal philosophy will save this planet," Grohman said. "Women instinctively know how to nurture and be collaborative."
That is true of Grohman, who has raised two children, Brian and Lainie, with her husband, Rich, an electrical contractor. An artist, she also tends several gardens around their home. And in a quiet room overlooking the garden in front of the house, she does her energy work, walking a path she started on 15 years ago.
Grohman began to explore energy healing after witnessing her aunt's spirit leave her dying body. The experience, two days before her aunt's death, led her to work in hospice, where she met a massage therapist who did energy work. She has since learned that re-connecting people with their own energy does not necessarily lead to a "cure" – although she has seen people with terminal diagnoses survive and thrive.
"I've been at seven deaths," Grohman said. "Healing does not mean cure. It means release of pain, of trauma, of fear, so you can finally start to live."
To learn more about Elaine Grohman, visit
elainegrohman.com.
