The Healing Barn

07/08/2025

Feeling stuck?
A 30-minute Soul Alignment Session can bring clarity, calm, and realignment — fast.
Tarot is your compass. Human Design is your map. Together, we'll pinpoint your assets and help you lean into them for powerful shifts.
One session. One chart. One powerful conversation to help you let go.

Scott

🔮 Book your Soul Alignment Session here:https://thehealingbarn.as.me/SoulAlignment

05/08/2025

A Soul Alignment Session isn’t about guessing the future.

It’s about tuning into your energy and discovering your innate assets. With Tarot as your compass and Human Design as your map, we uncover patterns, possibilities, and how to lean into your strengths to live a more aligned life.
If you're feeling stuck, foggy, or pulled in two directions — this might be for you.

Scott

💬 See what’s involved: https://www.healingbarn.co.nz/tarot-human-design-reading

03/08/2025

You’re foggy.
Your head feels tight.
Your eyes ache, but you’ve done nothing unusual.
This isn’t about screens or sleep.
It’s the toll of overthinking.
Of always needing to be two steps ahead.
Of never switching off.
If you carry pain here, you’ve probably been carrying more than most people realise.
You plan everything. You solve everything. You see everything—except your own exhaustion.
Melissa knows this pressure well. Her mind ran on overdrive for years, juggling roles, responsibilities, and emotions.
For Scott was the mental fog that never lifted—until I realised I didn’t have to hold it all alone.
The pain in your head might not need another pill.
It might need permission to pause.
We’re here when you’re ready to put it all down.

Supporting Your Healing Journey At The Healing Barn, Scott and Melissa Holdem offer holistic wellbeing services to empower you to heal your mind, body, and soul. Break free from repeating patterns and mental health struggles, including depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship challenges. Experi

31/07/2025

You know that feeling when everything looks fine from the outside...

but something still feels off inside? That’s often your soul asking for attention.
A Soul Alignment Session blends Tarot (your compass) and Human Design (your map) to help decode those inner nudges. We illuminate your unique assets and guide you on how to lean into them to bring you back to your center.
It's not about fixing you. It's about revealing what’s already within.

A Soul Alignment Session blends Tarot (your compass) and Human Design (your map) to help decode those inner nudges. We illuminate your unique assets and guide you on how to lean into them to bring you back to your centre.

🌿 Explore what a session looks like: https://www.healingbarn.co.nz/tarot-human-design-reading

30/07/2025

That pressure in your chest?
It’s not just stress.
It’s anger, frustration, and resentment you’ve been told to swallow.

But it doesn’t disappear. It builds.
And one day, it explodes.

We’re talking about it tonight (Thursday, 7pm).
Real talk. No judgment. Just tools that help.

What’s it costing you to keep it all inside?

Message me if you’re keen.

29/07/2025

This isn’t about psychic predictions; it's about rediscovering your true north.

Tarot is your compass, and Human Design is your map. These tools don't just tell you about yourself – they show you your inherent assets and how to lean into them to live a more aligned life.
In a 30-minute Soul Alignment Session, we help you remember who you are and what you're here for. You’ll leave lighter. Clearer. More you.

Curious how it feels to finally navigate your life with clarity?
👉 Learn more here: https://www.healingbarn.co.nz/tarot-human-design-reading

27/07/2025

You clench your jaw at night.
Your neck aches by mid-afternoon.
There’s a pressure you can’t quite name—but it’s always there.

Pain in this area often comes from everything we’ve swallowed.

The things you wanted to say but didn’t.
The truth you held back to keep the peace.
The times you put everyone else’s comfort above your own.

For years, Melissa carried this tension in her jaw.
Not just from grinding her teeth—but from years of holding in how she really felt.
Mine showed up every time I left things unsaid—when I didn’t speak my truth because I didn’t want to rock the boat.

This kind of pain is not just physical.
It’s the cost of silencing yourself.

Healing starts when your voice returns—first in whispers. Then, in truth.
Not just from grinding her teeth, but from years of holding in how she really felt.

When Pain Speaks — We Listen Still Searching for Relief from Chronic Pain? You’ve been living with it for so long. The constant ache, the nagging stiffness, the persistent pain that just won’t quit. Maybe it’s a fibromyalgia flare, a compressed spine, relentless migraines, or knee problems t...

25/07/2025

Some things don’t change. And that’s the clarity I needed.

I got a phone call this morning from someone I haven’t spoken to in over a decade. A part of me hoped maybe things would be different. Maybe they’d grown, softened, reflected. But it became clear, very quickly, that nothing had changed.

Still the same demands. Still the same self-centred energy. Still the same lack of awareness about the damage left behind.

I pulled a few cards to ground myself, and the message was crystal clear.

🔹 The Emperor — I've done the work. I’ve built strength, wisdom, and boundaries. But part of me still longs for something that never was.
🔹 Ten of Swords — This is done. That old chapter, those patterns… I don’t need to keep picking them back up.
🔹 Seven of Swords — Take the lessons. Leave the rest. You don’t have to carry it all forward. And you don’t owe anyone your peace.

Sometimes the closure is in realising you don’t have to go back to prove you’ve grown.

You can walk forward quietly, carrying only what strengthens you.

Scott

22/07/2025

Your chest feels heavy.
You struggle to take a deep breath.

Sometimes it feels like grief.
Sometimes like anxiety.
Sometimes like everything all at once.

Pain in this part of the body often comes from emotions that got stuck.
Loss that was never cried out.
Words that were never spoken.
The love you gave out without getting it back.

Melissa’s chest felt like a weight she couldn’t shift—years of heartbreak and holding it together for the family.
Mine showed up as tightness through my ribs. Always bracing. Always trying to hold it all in.

Sometimes, like everything, all at once.. ache that doesn’t show on an X-ray but hurts all the same.

When the heart doesn’t feel safe, the body closes around it.
But when it’s held with care and truth?
It can open again.
We’ve both felt that kind of pain—the ache that doesn’t show on an X-ray but hurts all the same.

When Pain Speaks — We Listen Still Searching for Relief from Chronic Pain? You’ve been living with it for so long. The constant ache, the nagging stiffness, the persistent pain that just won’t quit. Maybe it’s a fibromyalgia flare, a compressed spine, relentless migraines, or knee problems t...

21/07/2025

This morning didn’t go as planned.

Our girl Maggie was calving, and things just weren’t progressing right. The calf was too big for her pelvis, and we had to call the vet out. A c-section was the only way.

Thankfully, the calf — a big, healthy boy — made it safely into the world. But Maggie wasn’t herself after surgery. She went to the corner of the pen, hiding her head in the hay, hiding from the world, and just... shut off.

It’s hard to see an animal you care for like that — withdrawn, overwhelmed, and checked out.

I couldn’t just leave her like that, so I did an Emotion Code session with her. Some big ones came up: Confusion, Lack of Control over circumstances, Helplessness, Defensiveness, Depression — all emotions I’d expect after a traumatic, invasive experience like that.

A couple of minutes after the release, Maggie turned around, faced the gate, wandered over to sniff her calf and gave him a few licks, then walked around the pen a bit — just more present in herself. It was such a shift.

She’s not out of the woods yet — the first 72 hours post-op are the riskiest — but I’m so grateful I’ve got these tools now to support not just physical recovery, but emotional too.

It’s humbling to witness how much emotion animals carry in their bodies, and how responsive they are when given the right support.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on Maggie and her boy, but tonight, I’m just glad I could help her feel a little more like herself again.

Melissa

17/07/2025

It’s that tight band around your middle.
Your stomach clenches. Your back aches.
You’re not even sure why anymore.

Maybe you’ve lived most of your life trying to “do the right thing.”
To stay strong. To be enough. To not be a burden.

But that pressure builds.
And when you’ve got nowhere to put it?
It lands in your gut.

Pain in this part of the body is often wrapped in self-worth.
Trying harder. Doing more. Never quite feeling like it’s safe to rest.

For me, this was the place I held all my inner battles—when I felt out of control but kept it together on the outside.
For Melissa, it was that sick feeling in her stomach that came when she ignored her instincts too many times.

You don’t need to push through anymore.
There’s power in slowing down and asking, “What am I still carrying that isn’t mine?”

We can help you unravel it.