Exploring Trauma, Energy Healing, and the Body: An Interview with Nicolas Mérand, Author of Cleanse Your Traumas With Energy Healing

At Best Ever You, we enjoy introducing our readers to authors, thought leaders, and practitioners who encourage us to explore new perspectives on health, wellness, and personal growth. Today, we're pleased to feature Nicolas Mérand, author of Cleanse Your Traumas With Energy Healing.

In his work, Nicolas explores the connection between trauma, the body, unconscious memory, and energy healing. Drawing from psychoanalytic insight, magnetism, dowsing, and symbolic exploration, he invites readers to consider how past experiences may continue to influence emotions, behaviors, and overall well-being. Rather than viewing symptoms simply as problems to solve, Nicolas encourages a compassionate approach that seeks to understand the deeper messages they may hold.

In this interview, Nicolas shares his perspective on trauma, energetic imprints, body awareness, and how curiosity, self-reflection, and discernment can support healing and personal transformation.

What first led you to explore the connection between trauma, the body, and energy, and how did your personal or professional journey shape this work?

My exploration began with my own personal journey. I gradually understood that some experiences do not simply disappear because time passes. They can remain active inside us, sometimes silently, through tension, anxiety, fatigue, repeated patterns, or a feeling that something in our life is not fully flowing.

My background led me to explore psychoanalysis, symbolic language, the body, magnetism and dowsing. Over time, I became interested in the possibility that trauma is not only a story we remember, but also an imprint that the body and the energy system may continue to carry.

This work was shaped by a simple question: what if some symptoms or blockages are not random, but messages from a deeper layer of ourselves asking to be seen, understood and released?

You describe trauma as something that can remain active rather than something that is simply “in the past.” Can you explain what you mean by that in a way that is easy for someone new to this concept to understand?

For me, trauma is not only what happened. It is also what remains active inside the person after what happened.

An event may be over externally, but internally the body may still react as if the danger, shock, grief or fear were still present. A person may know intellectually that the past is over, but their nervous system, emotions or body may continue to carry the imprint.

A simple image would be a stone thrown into water. Even after the stone has disappeared beneath the surface, the waves continue. In the same way, trauma can continue to create waves in the body, emotions and life choices until it is gradually acknowledged and integrated.

What are “energetic leaks,” and how might they show up in a person’s everyday life?

I use the expression “energetic leaks” to describe places where a person’s vitality seems to be unconsciously drained. This can happen when someone remains emotionally attached to an old wound, a toxic relationship, a family pattern, guilt, fear, or a past situation that has never been fully processed.

In everyday life, this may show up as tiredness that rest does not fully repair, difficulty making decisions, repeating the same emotional scenarios, feeling overly responsible for others, or having the impression that one’s energy is constantly being pulled away.

Of course, fatigue or anxiety can have many medical, psychological or lifestyle causes, and these should always be taken seriously. But from an energetic perspective, we can also ask: where is my life force going? What part of me is still connected to something that no longer nourishes me?

Many people experience symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, or insomnia. How might someone begin to explore whether there could be a deeper or unresolved layer connected to those experiences?

The first step is to approach the symptom with curiosity rather than fear or self-judgment. Instead of saying, “What is wrong with me?”, we can ask, “What is my body trying to express?” or “When did I first feel this kind of tension, fear or exhaustion?”

It can also be helpful to notice patterns. Does the symptom appear around certain people, dates, places, memories or decisions? Does it become stronger when the person feels trapped, guilty, unsafe or unheard?

This kind of exploration does not replace medical or psychological care. If someone is experiencing serious or persistent symptoms, they should seek appropriate professional support. But alongside that, listening to the symbolic and emotional meaning of the symptom can sometimes open a new path of understanding.

Your method combines magnetism and dowsing. Can you explain how these practices work and how they help identify or rebalance these imprints?

Magnetism, as I practice it, is a way of working with the body and the subtle perception of energy. It involves presence, intention, listening and the possibility of helping the person reconnect with a more balanced inner state.

Dowsing is used as a tool of questioning and orientation. It does not replace discernment, medical advice or psychological work. For me, it is more like a symbolic and intuitive compass. It helps explore where attention may be needed: a memory, a family pattern, a fear, an emotional knot, or what I call an imprint.

The goal is not to impose a belief on someone. The goal is to open a dialogue with the body and the unconscious, and to support a movement of awareness, release and rebalancing.

How do you approach this work in a way that invites curiosity and exploration rather than requiring belief?

I believe this is very important. I do not ask people to believe. I invite them to observe.

The question is not: “Do you believe in energy?” The question is: “What do you feel? What changes? What becomes lighter, clearer or more conscious?”

I try to keep the approach grounded, respectful and exploratory. People can take what resonates and leave what does not. Healing should never become a new dogma or a new pressure. It should create more freedom, not less.

For me, the most important thing is not belief. It is whether the person feels more connected to themselves, more aware of their patterns, and more able to move forward.

There is growing interest in the idea that the body holds memory. How does your work align with or differ from more traditional approaches to trauma and healing?

Many traditional approaches to trauma now recognize that trauma is not only cognitive. It can involve the nervous system, the body, sensations, emotional responses and survival patterns.

My work aligns with this idea. Where it differs is that I also include a symbolic and energetic dimension. I am interested in the way personal history, family history, unconscious meaning and energetic imprints may interact.

Psychoanalysis helps us understand the story and the unconscious meaning. Body-based approaches help us listen to sensations and regulation. Energy healing, in my view, can add another layer: it invites us to explore what remains active beyond words, in the field of vitality, intuition and symbolic resonance.

For someone who is new to energy-based healing, what is a simple or accessible way they can begin to tune into their body and emotional patterns?

A very simple exercise is to pause once a day, place one hand on the heart or the abdomen, breathe slowly, and ask: “What am I feeling right now?”

Not “What should I feel?” but simply: “What is present?”

Then notice the body. Is there tension, heaviness, warmth, pressure, emptiness, agitation? If that sensation had a message, what might it be saying?

This small practice can help a person move from mental analysis to embodied listening. It is gentle, accessible and does not require any belief system.

How can people thoughtfully explore alternative or integrative healing practices while still feeling grounded and informed?

I think the key is discernment. Alternative or integrative practices can be very meaningful, but they should not encourage people to reject medical care, psychological support or critical thinking. A grounded approach respects both intuition and responsibility.

People should ask: Does this practice make me feel freer, clearer and more connected to myself? Does the practitioner respect my boundaries? Am I encouraged to stay autonomous, or am I being asked to depend on someone else’s authority?

A healthy healing path should support dignity, autonomy and clarity. It should never create fear, dependency or confusion.

If there is one insight or perspective you would want someone to take away from your work, what would it be?

The main insight is this: a symptom, a blockage or a repeating pattern may not only be a problem to eliminate. It may also be a message to understand.

Sometimes the body speaks when the conscious mind has no words. Sometimes our life patterns reveal wounds that are asking to be healed.

If we can listen with kindness rather than judgment, we may discover that what seemed like a weakness was actually a doorway back to ourselves.

We hope you enjoyed this conversation with Nicolas Mérand and gained valuable insights into his work exploring trauma, the body, unconscious memory, and energy healing. Whether you're new to these concepts or have been exploring integrative approaches for years, Nicolas offers a thoughtful invitation to listen more closely to the messages carried within our experiences, emotions, and bodies.

To learn more about Nicolas Mérand and his book, Cleanse Your Traumas With Energy Healing, visit his websites and explore his work further.

At Best Ever You, we believe that growth begins with awareness, compassion, and a willingness to remain open to new perspectives. By listening to ourselves with curiosity rather than judgment, we create opportunities for greater understanding, healing, and connection.

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For More Information:

Nicolas Mérand is a French author and practitioner exploring the connection between trauma, the body, unconscious memory and energy healing. His work brings together psychoanalytic insight, magnetism, dowsing and symbolic exploration to help people approach unresolved emotional imprints with curiosity, awareness and compassion. His book Cleanse Your Traumas With Energy Healing invites readers to consider trauma not only as a psychological event, but also as something that may remain active in the body, emotions and life patterns until it is acknowledged and transformed.

Book: Cleanse Your Traumas With Energy Healinghttps://www.amazon.fr/CLEANSE-YOUR-TRAUMAS-ENERGY-HEALING/dp/2958487318

Publisher / association website:https://www.telephane.org/en

English website:https://www.psy-caluire.fr/en