What happens when a skeptic sits down with an energy healer—and instead of trying to prove or disprove the practice, they start asking what might be underneath it?

Alexis Piotrowski is an energy healing practitioner whose work focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves, their bodies, their awareness, and the world around them. In this conversation, Nathan expresses his skepticism but also asks his own questions surrounding energy work: What exactly is the “energy”? How do you know what's happening? Where does intuition end and projection begin? And what separates a responsible practitioner from someone who simply adopts the label of healer?

Alexis's answers lead somewhere more complicated than a simple argument for or against energy healing. She also argues that people can learn to notice patterns in their own bodies and behavior—and that this awareness can become a powerful part of changing those patterns.

The conversation eventually moves into entrepreneurship and the pressure to turn a calling into a full-time business. Alexis and Nathan discuss the privilege that comes with having money and resources to experiment, and the strange cultural expectation that a “real” entrepreneur should only do one thing. Alexis makes the case for what she calls a multidimensional hustle—building something meaningful while allowing yourself to have other jobs, identities, and sources of income.

This conversation is ultimately about a question much larger than any particular modality: How much more agency might we have over our lives if we learned to pay closer attention to ourselves? That goes for our spiritual and emotional selves, as well as our financial and professional selves.

Alexis Piotrowski is an energy healing practitioner whose work focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves, their awareness, and their environment. She works with people navigating physical, emotional, and major life transitions, and describes her approach as grounded and accessible even when the subject matter can feel mystical or “far out there.”

Alexis is also a certified massage therapist and previously worked in high-stress hospitality environments. Her path into energy work developed through meditation, Kundalini yoga, psychedelic experiences, massage work, and a growing awareness of what she describes as energetic patterns in the body.

Her goal is not to make clients dependent on her, but to help them develop greater awareness and agency in their own lives.

Connect with Alexis:

Website: Thousand Hand Healing
Instagram: @alexisenergyhealing
YouTube: @alexisenergyhealing

Publication note: Health-related outcomes discussed in the episode are Alexis's descriptions of her clients' experiences and her interpretation of her work; they should not be presented as established medical claims.