Amy's Healing Story

I’m Amy B. Scher and I believe in lots of things, but most of all, that we all deserve to be happy and free. And while it may not always be easy to get there, it is totally possible.

After years of suffering from chronic illness (chronic Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, nerve damage, endometriosis, anxiety, and just about every condition under the sun!), I discovered answers to the important question: Why do some people heal from emotional and physical issues, while others don’t?

While many of us go to great lengths for our physical health, we often ignore how much our emotional wellbeing affects us. This is often the missing piece for permanent and complete healing — one that I wished I’d recognized and addressed much much earlier in my own journey.

Since healing completely when doctors had given up all hope, I now write books to help others do the same. Our beliefs, trauma, stuck emotions, patterns, and relationship with stress determine our wellbeing; and we need to make sure we get all that good stuff in order to be in full healing mode. In my work, I have a light-hearted approach to dealing with the heavy stuff (I make my students laugh at least as much as they cry). I’ve been called all kinds of super fun things, from “accidental guru” and “the Muhammed Ali of energy work” to an “emotional enema.” But I’m really just a person who finally figured out my own stuff and got to help other people do the same.

I spend my time teaching and writing. I also play, travel, and sometimes do absolutely nothing but relax! My own version of being healed means living in a healthy body while also sometimes losing complete Zen-like perspective, bingeing on gluten, and temporarily forgetting all the important life lessons I’ve learned. During my healing journey, as I let go of unhealthy patterns like self-criticism and perfectionism, I came to the important realization that being human is so much healthier than being perfect.

My own adventures in healing led me on a path to discover the foundation of healing. In my own life, after utilizing the best medicine, optimizing my nutrition, and detoxing myself within an inch of my life (ha!), I came to a place where I knew addressing my emotional healing was going to be the key to finally being and staying, well.

I was frustrated with traditional talk therapy as a way to work with emotions and felt stuck that talking about things didn’t seem to clear them from my body or make me feel any better. It led me in search of answers to a very important question — Why do some people heal from emotional or physical issues, while others don’t? Out of my frustration, a solution was born. Learning about and working with my energy system gave me access to finally heal to the core … and now I’m here to teach what I know. Through my own experience, I created a way to release old emotional baggage or energy from the body. No more coping. Just healing.

Although I’ve been called a host of super endearing things (expert in mind-body-spirit healing, an accidental guru, a modern-day wizard, and the Muhammed Ali of energy work – how fun are those?!) … I am really just someone who managed to figure my stuff out when no one else could. And now, after lots of training and healing, I get to help other people do the same through my books.

I have a supportive and often humorous (a little laughter goes a long way) no-nonsense, ‘let’s deal with your stuff’ approach. I’m also freakishly intuitive, which I definitely credit to how I do what I do with great success. I work from the point of view that unprocessed emotions, limiting beliefs and subconscious blocks can keep us from being the healthy, happy people we were meant to be. Pain and suffering, emotional and physical, are also positives though and it’s important to embrace that too – they help lead us to awesome places we might have never found otherwise. And, they are just as much part of our healing as anything else.

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you–all of the expectations, all of the beliefs, and becoming who you are.”  ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Professor of Medicine at UCSF

By the time most people come to terms with the need to address their emotional health, they’ve usually done it all like I had: seen great doctors, optimized their nutrition, learned about addressing bacteria, viruses, parasites, and more … and that is all really important. But, it’s not always enough. That’s where I come in: to help you address emotional healing — the possible missing piece.

I believe while the healing process isn’t always quick (but it totally can be so expect miracles!), the journey can be a flowing adventure full of discovering how you got to where you are – and how to get to somewhere better. I don’t like dwelling on my emotions, and I operate under the assumption you think it sucks too. I’m all about helping you find ways to stop dwelling and start moving on. When you do, your body will relax and be in full healing mode and miracles can unfold.

I use a powerful, but super gentle approach to work with the layers that might be keeping you stuck. My approach allows us to identify them (even if they’re subconscious), release them from your energy system, and help you move on with your life. My goal is to guide you to self-healing (yep, you can do it!). It’ll be work, but I promise we’ll also have some fun along the way.

Self-healing will not interfere with any of the good stuff you’re already doing with your doctors, natural healers, and other practitioners. It’s a compliment that often supports all of that even further.

I’m proud to have my healing approach endorsed by physicians nationwide as part of a holistic healing approach.

I was once where you are so I totally get ya’. After Western medicine just wasn’t the “fix” I needed, I went to many alternative practitioners – those who wanted me to think myself well (as if I hadn’t already tried that for free), repeat affirmations that I didn’t believe, and just sit quietly and meditate. Then I discovered practitioners who worked in the energy field, which I was fascinated with – but I couldn’t relate to a single one of them. As a very grounded-in-reality person, many were just too ‘woo woo’ for me and I couldn’t integrate their therapy protocols into my very real-life, life.

My approach is the culmination of many years of figuring out what really works – and what doesn’t. I learned on my own healing adventure, there is much more to deep and complete healing than symptom relief. I look at what’s going on with the energy system, how unprocessed emotions might be affecting that, and help you become rebalanced. I have a knack for seeing things from a different angles so we can change whatever is not working for you. I will always put you in charge of your own healing, but you can count on me to be there every step of the way.

A majority of the success I have with students comes not only from the techniques, but also helping them figure out what to clear – emotional events, patterns, beliefs, and other blockages that prevent healing. There are so many wonderful and effective techniques out there, but knowing what to apply those techniques to is crucial in seeing positive results. I consider myself a seriously talented detective when it comes to figuring out what keeps people stuck – and that’s all because I had lots and lots of practice untangling my own issues first.

I have attended various professional training programs including EFT, Eden Energy Medicine, and more. In addition to healing myself completely after all hope was lost, I have worked with thousands of clients to help them to release emotional energy and instigate their body’s own natural healing response.

I am proud to be a legally Ordained Minister of Holistic Healing (non-denominational).

My work is endorsed by doctors nationwide as part of a holistic healing approach.