An Interview with Healer & Author
 Deborah King

Master Healer, Deborah King J.D., Ph.D. is a woman who believes-and lives the adage that, “the truth will set you free.” A successful real estate attorney and hotel developer, Deborah was plagued by longstanding health problems that worsened over the years. After she experienced a remarkable physical healing from a healer, she jumped ship and left the reality of the corporate workplace for the less tangible world of healers, sages and shamans. Deborah has studied with a variety of healers from different religious and cultural traditions, from ancient Egyptian to ardent Christian to new age school of thought, ultimately earning a Ph.D. in Healing Science. Today she shares her healing gift and the lessons she has learned on her journey. She conducts Deborah King Healing Events across the country and around the world, where rich and poor alike come for help, all at no charge. Her healing seminars and healing workshops are standing room only, where she takes you behind the scenes of her healing work, showing how it is accomplished, and inspiring attendees to learn to heal themselves, and later, others. She lives with her husband and horses in the mountains overlooking Los Angeles, Calif.

Why did you write Truth Heals?

DK: I wrote the book because of my illnesses I had growing up and for anyone who wants to live a better and healthier life. We all have things in our past that have hurt us and sometimes we think we have put these things behind us, but they resurface and cause us pain. I wish I could take each person by the hand and lead them through their past and toward a happier life. Since I can’t do that I wrote this book so people will have the courage to find the answers in their own lives. 

What illnesses did you recover from and how did that happen?

DK: As a child, I suffered from illnesses that became more pronounced and varied as I developed. From my teens into my twenties I experienced eating disorders and turned to promiscuity to pacify me into adulthood. I abused and became addicted to alcohol, and then fell into an agonizing spiral of manic-depression. All the while, I conquered and obtained professional and social “success” in the eyes of those around me. I became a corporate lawyer and lived an intricate tangle of inner deceit—lying to myself about the pain of sexual abuse and neglect I experienced as a child. 

Eventually, I was diagnosed with uterine cancer and faced medical treatment that was barbaric, if it was to be even remotely effective. I actually stumbled onto an energy healer through a massage therapist and ultimately experienced recovery that was so forceful and so far-reaching that I never looked back. I had never even heard of energy healing before then, but from that point on I began healing in so many ways and on so many levels.

In Truth Heals—Dismantling the Lies that Make Us Sick, you address the Chakra system and its relationship with personal truth. What does truth have to do with health and well-being?

DK: I believe truth heals because I have seen it work in my own life. Underneath all the addictions and compulsions, beneath the cancer and the chronic conditions, the truth of my painful childhood was causing blocks in the energy centers in my body. It was only by accepting the truth of what happened to me and moving through it that I was finally able to heal not just my spirit but my physical body.

Truth and the human energy system share a relationship which is not only unequivocally enmeshed, but also incredibly powerful in its impact on the human body. When we hide away the emotions of painful, or difficult experiences, we actually push them deep within our internal energy structure. And our energy systems, which seek equilibrium, become distorted in an effort to adjust to the intrusion. It’s these distortions and imbalances in the energy system that make the body vulnerable to illness and disease. In essence, the truth that lays hidden within us ultimately demands to come out and begins to erupt, taking its toll on our physical, mental, and emotional health.

When and how did you discover that you were a healer … or was it more deliberately learned?

DK: In the beginning I certainly didn’t see myself as a healer! After all, I had a busy career as a lawyer and hotel developer and wasn’t planning a career change. But when I experienced such a powerful healing and began to study with various teachers, I started to realize that I have deep intuitive gifts. The more I studied, the more fine-tuned my skills became. It wasn’t until I was teaching at a healing school that I had a real sense of the direction my practice would take. I was working with a woman with brain cancer and I could tell that I was moving things not just in her energy field but in her body. That powerful experience changed my life, and my path, and made me convinced I had to devote my life to helping others.

Did you have any heroes you looked up to growing up?

DK: I loved St. Teresa of Avilla from Spain. As a young girl she became gravely ill and after praying to Saint Joseph she was cured. She had to overcome many adversities and was committed to the visions she received. Her book, Interior Castle is still as viable today as it was over a 1000 years ago.

In today’s world Oprah comes to mind. I admire her forthrightness, candor and her willingness to step up for what she believes in—whether or not it’s a popular viewpoint.


Tell us, what exactly actually goes on in a healing?

DK: When I work with an individual, I receive information on a variety of levels. I can see, feel and hear things that most people cannot. I listen very deeply to what the individual’s soul and body tell me and share this information with them as I gently remove blockages. Often, an individual is poised at the threshold of a step up to the next spiritual level, and I can assist them to that next level. Throughout the healing, the individual is bathed in a field of unconditional love that soothes and cures many an ill.


What do you think readers will take away from Truth Heals?

DK: I’m hopeful readers will not only encounter the obvious precept—that our bodies store the pain of past experiences which is later expressed as illness and disease—and begin to heal, but that they will also access forgiveness, for themselves as well as others. That doesn’t mean emotions and pain should be disregarded or dismissed; quite the contrary, they are very real, very valid. Rather, we can take a step towards soothing our wounds by opening our hearts to love ourselves, regardless of our experiences, or injuries, or even our transgressions. Our grace comes from our imperfections and the astounding elegance that is our fallibility—this is the beauty that is embodied by all living creatures. It is our nature as adaptable, thinking, feeling human beings to pursue survival in any way we know, and there is no right or wrong way to do it. Whether it’s through the suppression of painful emotions or by burying damaging experiences deep within, our intention to live well and thrive is there. I hope that Truth Heals presents readers with the idea we are truly one community seeking the same thing: good health, vibrancy, and quality of life.


How do you see yourself in the big picture of what’s happening in the mind/body/spirit realm today?

DK: I see myself as existing and functioning as part of a fluid whole, like a drop of water of which many comprise a stream. And the energy that makes that stream flow is intention. There is a generosity of spirit that I sense of late, a mood that is shared by those both within the realm of healing and those outside of it which has enabled a connection that is soothing and productive. The newly comfortable symbiosis of “alternative medicine” and conventional health care is undeniable, and I think soon it will be more than a co-existence, there will be a constructive, highly-effective overlap of these two domains that will change our lives. I feel as if I’m standing at the foot of a powerful social, cultural, and medical mingling of healing that, in my lifetime, will lead to advancements in curative and preventative health care the likes of which we have not seen in generations. That I get to stand even at the foot of that marvelous peak is magnificent. I also see myself as the midwife for spiritual progression for many of those who seek me out.


Where do you see our world five years from now?

DK: I am very hopeful that as we become more aware that we will be able to address all our problems, not just health but everything from politics to world concerns. The young people of today are on the fast track of awareness and creation of a new world. Consciousness is the key to everything.


What one message would you like to impart to our readers?

DK: There is no reason to be ill, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. Coming to terms with our own personal truth can turn our lives around and it is important to remember that we are in this together.

Truth Heals – Dismantling the Lies that Make Us Sick (Influence Press, Sept 2006) www.truthheals.com