About C.J. Llewelyn, M.Ed. &
The Healing Solution Mission

Hi! I’m C.J. Llewelyn.

And for as long as I can remember, I have been an earnestly curious observer of the human condition. As a child, I possessed an odd combination of seeing energetic things that no one else in my family noticed, along with an overly developed sense that people are motivated by the strangest things.

As a young adult, after realizing law was not for me, I chose journalism and from Buffalo, NY, to the Washington, DC area, to a foray in Portland, Maine, I covered the events of people’s lives. Some were brilliant, others tragic. Often, I left situations feeling like I had an unsolicited front-row seat to people’s traumas and pain, and these experiences of documenting human pain had a profound effect on my later work.

Like most women of my generation, I followed the conditioned path:  marriage, home, and family. For years, I focused on motherhood, still the best and hardest of all jobs.

Eventually, I began to feel unsettled, and it was then that the light bulb smacked me over the head. I got my Master’s in family counseling and began working with women. Taking a seat across from another person’s tragedy was no longer gratuitous. I could hold safe-space for them. There was a healing arc.

As my client roster grew and my hours in witness to another’s pain increased, I had my most important a-ha… supporting the healing of a human being on the psychological level is what opens us to being able to connect spiritually.

The psychological IS the spiritual!

Now, after more than 20 years in private practice as a licensed therapist, utilizing Internal Family Systems therapy and EMDR to support hundreds of clients struggling with trauma and addiction, my curiosity is as engaged as ever!

My groundbreaking book, Chakras and The Vagus Nerve, from Llewellyn Publishing, is a must-read primer for anyone who wants to discover how to tap into the healing combination of the subtle energy centers and the nervous system.

We are living through both challenging and exciting times. We are just beginning to fully understand the body-mind-spirit connection as not “connected” at all but rather different expressions of a whole-human experience. We are discovering that “the psychological is the spiritual,” and the physiology of the nervous system, particularly the role of the Vagus nerve, is the essential starting point for all human healing and spiritual connection.

Namaste