Sandra Hillawi

Podcast – Healing with L❤️ve and Star Therapy

A lovely chat with Althea Finch of Pain Freedom as a guest on her podcast all about healing with love, EMO Energy in Motion, the early days of my personal and professional journey with energy healing, including:

How I changed from IT career to healing and training,
How learning EMO Energy in Motion and emotional transformation was a life changing for me in 2002
How EMO helped me heal my relationship with my Father
How I fell in love…with myself then finally attracted the right partner

plus lots of healing stories, wisdom leading to
How Star Memories and Star Therapy can help us find the energy we need for today.

Who is Sandra Hillawi?

Sandra Hillawi is a transformational practitioner, author of The Love Clinic, Master Energy Trainer currently practising Star Therapy and Star Matrix.

Through her current work she helps people reconnect to powerful moments from their own lives, restoring emotional strength, clarity and a sense of self, especially during times of overwhelm, loss or transition.

Her approach is gentle, grounded and deeply personal, guiding people back to the truth of who they are and helping them move forward with greater calm and confidence.

Contact Sandra

Book a free Exploratory Star Therapy Session with Sandra (WhatsApp Me or Email)

10% off next course of either Star Matrix Master or EMO Energy in Motion Master (Offer valid through April 2026 for viewers of the podcast)

When Conflict Becomes a Doorway to Wisdom

She came with a familiar pain.

An ongoing tension with her son, two very different beings, like chalk and cheese, struggling to meet each other in harmony. She wanted to know how to respond differently… how to find peace within the friction.

So we began, as we do in Star Therapy, by looking not at the problem but at the light.

The first Star Memory appeared.
Her son was 12. There had been an accident. They were on the way to the hospital.

And yet… it was a beautiful day.
Blue sky. Sunlight filtering through the forest. A sense of stillness and oneness surrounding them.

In that moment, two truths existed at once:
Her son’s vulnerability… and the vast, peaceful wholeness holding them both.

She felt the tenderness of wanting to protect him, to lift him out of pain while simultaneously being held inside something much greater.

A poignant, powerful paradox.

A Different Way Through Overwhelm

There are moments in life where everything feels like too much.

Not because we are weak but because we are carrying a lot.

In those moments, trying to think our way forward doesn’t always work.
Positive thinking can feel out of reach.
Even simple tasks can feel heavy.

What I’ve found, both personally and through my work, is that sometimes the way forward is not to push harder but to reconnect.

To reconnect to something real.

Star Therapy

In Star Therapy, I guide people to access what I call a Star Memory, a moment from their own life where they felt strong, loved, clear or deeply themselves.

These moments are not imagined.
They are lived experiences, often forgotten or pushed aside.

But they still carry energy.

And when we reconnect to them intentionally, something begins to shift.

A sense of calm may return.
A feeling of strength.
A quiet knowing of “I can take the next step.”

This work can support people who are:

feeling overwhelmed or burned out
moving through grief, emotional pain or anxiety
struggling with self-doubt or loss of direction
feeling disconnected from themselves

It is not about fixing who you are.

It is about reconnecting to the truth of who you have already been and bringing that forward into your life now.

If this resonates, I am currently offering Exploratory Star Therapy Sessions, a 60-minute 1:1 space to experience this for yourself. (Exploratory rate: £85–£125 – you choose what feels aligned for you, I will send you a payment link)

You’re welcome to WhatsApp me or Email me to find out more.

With care, Sandra Hillawi

Unlocking Strength Through Star Memories

Today I found myself floundering in the overwhelm of all that I am carrying right now, at breaking point, tearful at the smallest obstacles I would normally breeze through.

So I did something to help myself shift.

Find a Star Memory That Can Help Now

I placed my hands on my heart and asked for a positive star memory; one that held energy that could support me today.

What came was a flashback to over 30 years ago. I had just broken up with a boyfriend, lost my job, and moved south to stay with my parents for a while.

My father was working for himself at the time, and he asked me to work with him. He paid me a basic wage, and we worked together like this until I found my feet again and transitioned into my next path in natural healing.

I didn’t fully realise it then.

But today, in my own struggle to survive and provide for loved ones facing ill health, I became deeply aware of something:

my father’s strength and responsibility.

He was the provider.
He worked for years to support our family, five of us, carrying that responsibility as best he could, through whatever challenges he may have faced, until we all left home and he retired.

And then, in my moment of need all those years ago, he supported me again.

The Bunch of Lilacs, by Tissot

I still have a painting he made for me as a 25th birthday gift, 37 years ago. It’s a copy of The Bunch of Lilacs by Tissot, painted from a postcard.

Today, I placed my hand on it.

Every brushstroke said: My father was here.

I stood there for a while, in quiet connection, thanking him for his years of strength, responsibility, and support.

And I realised …

Remembering Love: A Mother’s Journey

She came to me exhausted.

A new mother, carrying the weight of a traumatic birth…
no time to recover…
a baby in discomfort, crying often…
and the quiet shock that motherhood didn’t feel the way she had imagined.

There was anxiety. Comparison. Overwhelm.

So we didn’t start with solutions.

We started with something simple …
self-compassion.

Just a few minutes of turning toward her own heart…
offering herself some of the care she had been missing.

And I watched her begin to settle.

From there, instead of trying to fix the problem,
I asked her to find a memory …
a moment that held something good.

At first, nothing felt “right enough.”
She judged what came.

But when she allowed it… a memory surfaced.

She was seven years old…..