Candice Van Dertholen did not arrive at her work in energy healing by reading about it. She lived through it.
In this episode of Fine is a 4-Letter Word, host Lori Saitz sits down with energy practitioner Candice Van Dertholen for an unflinching conversation about single parenthood at 22, a Texas maximum Security prison career she stumbled into out of financial desperation, an abusive Marriage that escalated into a violent car ride with her children in the backseat, and the night she nearly took her own life — waking up in a hospital bed furious that she was still alive.
From Joyce Meyer’s Battlefield of the Mind on a hospital nightstand to affirmations she wrote thousands of times before she even knew what affirmations were, Candice traces the slow, unglamorous, piece-by-piece rebuilding that took two years before she felt like herself again. She also shares the complicated Grief of finding out both ex-husbands had died within the same year, and why disenfranchised grief rarely gets the space it deserves.
Now a practitioner who holds space for others in those same pivotal moments, Candice talks about why self-sabotage is almost always a story, why Money in alignment multiplies, and what happens when we finally stop running from the relationship with ourselves.
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Guest Bio:
Candice Van Dertholen is an energy practitioner whose path to healing work was forged through personal experience. A single mother of three from a young age, she has navigated poverty, domestic abuse, correctional work, burnout, and near-fatal crisis to arrive at a practice centered on helping others break the self-sabotaging patterns that keep them from the next version of themselves. She works with clients in pivotal transition moments and offers pay-it-forward sessions for those who cannot afford standard rates. She found her work in energy healing through a yoga studio in Virginia, where she met her first practitioner after years of seeking the missing piece in her healing journey. She and her husband are military Family who have relocated multiple times across the US.
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Candice also offers pay-it-forward sessions for those who need support but are working with limited means.
About the Show:
Fine Is a 4-Letter Word is the show for leaders who are tired of pretending everything is okay. Host Lori Saitz brings on guests who get honest about what it really takes to lead with empathy, vulnerability, gratitude, and courage. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss an episode, and if this conversation hit home, leave a review. It helps more leaders find the show.
