Marketa Sexton is a Healer and Energy Worker in Okaloosa County who focuses on holistic healing, spiritual growth and breaking generational patterns. She utilizes energy work to help her clients uncover problems and their root causes, align chakras and empower people to heal relationships, release emotional blocks and live in alignment with their soul's purpose. 

How does energy healing work? 

Energy healing is based on the understanding that the body is more than muscles, bones, organs and blood. It also has an energetic system, often referred to as the chakra system, where life experiences are stored. By reading this energy, we can uncover information that may not be detectable through conventional means, revealing the deeper root of emotional, physical or spiritual challenges. 

When life feels overwhelming, we are often told to “just relax,” shift our mindset or practice self-care. Yet, despite our best mental efforts, many of us still wake up with a persistent feeling of a depletion, anxiety or emotional fatigue. Willpower doesn’t bring lasting relief because true inner balance isn’t a cognitive exercise—it is a physiological and energetic reality.

Where does the information in the energetic system come from? 

Every difficult experience leaves an energetic imprint. Whether the experience is grief, rejection, fear, abuse or emotional trauma, the energy does not simply disappear, it becomes stored within the body’s energy field until it is acknowledged and released.

What happens to unresolved energetic imprints?

They may eventually appear as anxiety, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, unhealthy relationships or repeating life patterns. Rather than seeing these issues as isolated problems, we can recognize that they are symptoms of a much deeper energetic imbalance. 

The same applies to physical health. I believe that when emotional trauma remains trapped within the body’s energy field, it can contribute to chronic pain, back problems, arthritis, infertility, fatigue, anxiety, stress and other health challenges. Energy healing seeks to identify and release energetic blockages, allowing the body’s natural healing processes to function more effectively. 

Are energetic blockages always from personal trauma? 

We must also consider ancestral patterns because people’s limiting beliefs, emotional wounds and behavioral patterns can be passed from generation to generation until someone consciously breaks the cycle.

Deciding not to repeat family behaviors is not enough if the energetic imprint remains. Those deeply rooted patterns must first be recognized and energetically released before lasting transformation can occur.

Who needs energy healing?

Anyone who is struggling with physical pain, anxiety, emotional stress, recurring relationship challenges, or a sense of feeling stuck in life may find that their energy field holds valuable answers. Every life experience leaves a signature within the body’s energy, which can provide important insights into the true source of an imbalance.

Why should everyone be aware of their energetic system? 

The human body has an extraordinary ability to heal. Sometimes, however, the missing piece is not found on the surface but within the unseen energy that shapes every experience. Energy healing aims to unlock that hidden information, release what no longer serves and restore balance so healing can begin from the inside out.

Marketa Sexton is an Energy Healer, Reiki Master, Certified Angel Guide, Yoga and Pilates instructor and has a B.S. in Sports and Exercise Science. For more information, visit MarketaTheHealer.com, email Marketa@Marketa TheHealer.com or call 850-400-4532.