Dr. Deborah King received a doctorate in law from the University of California along with a PhD in Healing Science from the New Mexico Theological Seminary. And it is her personal mission to help midwife humanity through its birth into a deeper, and more heightened spiritual consciousness. Dr. King has an extraordinary gift of insight and healing that she tirelessly shares with thousands of people across the country. In this groundbreaking work she helps them come to terms with the real, and often hidden, issues behind their addictions, physical ailments, depression and obesity. In her new book, Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You, Dr. King reveals the transformational power that lies within the simple truth and how hiding from that truth manifests as our physical and spiritual challenges in life. As a leading health & wellness expert, she is a popular guest on CNN and Fox News, a national keynote speaker, and a “healer to the stars.” Her fascinating and innovative work is guaranteed to change the way you nurture your emotional well-being.

Kathryn: Dr. King, thank you so much for taking time today for our interview. And the first thing I want to say is that I’ve read your book, Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You, and I am truly impressed with your work. I absolutely love the beautiful way in which it is written; your honesty and integrity is utterly breathtaking. So, to begin, please share with me some of your personal journey that lead to your writing, Truth Heals.

Dr. King: Well, at the point I stopped to write, Truth Heals I was just finishing a tour of the United States where I had put on about fifty workshops and events across the country. I was working with people in public settings, and I was literally meeting with thousands and thousands of people. At that time it dawned on me that I could reach a lot more people by writing a book. I had already written a memoir many years before. I had all of my notes from my clients, celebrity and otherwise, along with all my notes from teaching all these many years. So, I just needed to stop and put it all together.

Kathryn: And the main thrust of your book is that anything, any suppressed truth or trauma we experience, will eventually manifest itself as pain or illness in the body.

Dr. King: Yes, it does. It does for everyone. And I have not seen any exceptions. It is just a matter of time. For some people, it might take a week or a year to manifest, and for others, it might be thirty years. But ultimately, it will raise its ugly head.

Kathryn: Now, in the book you write about having gone through a very painful and traumatic childhood that lead to addictions in adulthood, and finally to an occurrence of cancer in your twenties. So, all of this lead to the writing of book…

Dr. King: Oh, yes, of course. All of that is background.

Kathryn: Could you share a little more background for our readers today?

Dr. King: Sure. When I was in my twenties, I was an attorney, and I thought I had a happy life. I knew I was challenged by illness; I had been since I was in my teens. It seemed as though if it was not one thing, it was another that I was dealing with. I suffered from a lot of depression, I had an eating disorder, and I band-aided the whole thing, as so many people do, with substance abuse. I was addicted to both prescription medication and alcohol. I exhibited a lot of acting out and a lot of wild behavior. Yet, even so, I was thinking that life was just dandy!

Kathryn: So, you were still functioning well?

Dr. King: Oh, yes, I was highly functional. What brought it all to a grinding halt was the cancer diagnosis when I was twenty-five. At that point, I thought that maybe there was something wrong with my life and that perhaps I should pause. You know, this is the great message for so many people, Kathryn. It takes a serious illness to make them stop and look at themselves. So, I went to see western practitioners and was told that surgery was necessary. Remember, this was twenty-five years ago so, the surgery was pretty invasive and therefore, I was really reluctant. As a result, that is when I dipped my toe in the world of complimentary medicine. Before that time, I had never visited the realm of alternative healing. Because I was so skeptical I started out very conservatively. After I’d tried about two or three different modalities, I ended up on the table of a woman who described herself as an energy healer. Under her care I had a very transformative experience, and a spontaneous remission of the cancer. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed.

Kathryn: I know I would be!

Dr. King: Yea, I was… I was really intrigued.

Kathryn: When you say “spontaneous remission”, was this something that occurred in a matter of weeks or months?

Dr. King: Well, you know, I’d had blood tests and x-rays, and I had them redone in less than a week, and the cancer was gone.

Kathryn: Wow… that is remarkable!

Dr. King: See, I could feel something happening in my body, and I said to myself, “what is this?” So, I was intrigued and I decided that I would study this to figure this one out. I started attending schools in different parts of the United States. I ultimately spend many, many years actually, working with different healers, sages and shamans. At the same time, I was maintaining my law practice. I lead a dual existence where I would take a week off, every month, to go somewhere to study with wise men and women, around the world.

Kathryn: Doctor, do you have a name that you give to your brand of healing today? Or is it an incorporation of all the things you’ve studied around the world?

Dr. King: You know, I haven’t really given it a name. It is different things that I’ve found around the world, but also, it combines some things that I have been given, in the last couple of years, that I am anxious to pass on to others. And that’s just how it works. At first, you are the student at the feet of the Master, and the next thing you know, you’re passing it on to someone else.

Kathryn: I read in an interview with you that you speak to the soul of your client while you basically wrap them up in a blanket of unconditional love. In this way, you give them the opportunity to go to the next level, if they so choose.

Dr King: Yes, if they’re ready, that’s how it works.

Kathryn: That reminds me of a quote from Marianne Williamson. She said, “Healing is a return to love.” So, is that where the healing comes from, that unconditional love?

Dr. King: No, no I wouldn’t exactly say that. First of all, let me kind of backup and rephrase that. First, I’m not speaking to them as much as I’m listening. I’m actually hearing at a level where I can hear their souls speak. I’ll see their life sort of summarized with all the high and low points.

Kathryn: Do you see this in picture, images…

Dr. King: Yes, often that’s true, but sometimes I hear it. And lots of times, I just know it. I used to work with people individually, and then I found, about three or four years ago, that I could affect transformations better if I worked in groups. In public it happens much quicker. I don’t really know why.

Kathryn: So, do you think you pull on the energies of the collective group to affect the healings?

Dr. King: No, no I don’t do that. I’ve just found the work goes quicker in a group. But no, I am not using the group energy. I do listen deeply to know what needs to be done. Then, if it’s meant to be and the timing is right, change can be affected right then and there. This is not just on the energy level, but on the physical level so, we have cellular change. Yet, when you heard me talking about people moving to another level spiritually, that is a very different thing that goes on. Lots of times I work with people who are ready to move up spiritually. That’s a different animal. They might be ill and in need of healing, yet often, that is just not the case.

Kathryn: While I was doing my research to prepare for our interview, I came across this quote of yours that I fell in love with: You said, “Our grace comes from our imperfections.”

Dr. King: Oh, yea, that’s so true. And another thing I often say is what people are most afraid of other people knowing, what they think of as their greatest weakness, is actually their greatest strength. And that becomes the truth from which you hide. But it’s not the truth you’re hiding from everybody else, but rather the one you don’t acknowledge yourself that causes the most problems. Typically when I work with an audience, a volunteer will come up to the stage and tell me they don’t know why they are having so many problems with their skin. Well, I’ll know immediately what the problem really is. My job is to help them drop into that truth. Whether it is the marriage they’re in or the resolved relationship with a parent, invariably they will admit they always knew it was the real problem, but they didn’t want to acknowledge it. Because we really do know our deepest truths even if they are too painful to confront. I help people to do that. The heart of my work is simply to help people become more conscious. When we’re more conscious of ourselves, we become more conscious of everyone else.

Kathryn: So, I want to make sure I understand this. Do you believe that absolutely every single physical ailment stems from a suppressed emotion?

Dr. King: Let me answer that this way: I have not yet found one that wasn’t. We are first and foremost spiritual beings who are here having a physical experience. And the way we experience it is emotionally. Modern physics tells us there is an energetic field around everything, including our body. So, when we feel anger, fear or grief, if we don’t process it out completely, it stays in our field or our body. But surely, it doesn’t go away. And that’s what causes all our physical problems.

Kathryn: So, we really need to learn to listen to our bodies and that small voice within. And that reminds me of another of your quotes that I loved. You said, “Intuition is a skill, not just a gift for a special few.”

Dr. King: That’s true and I tell people all the time that this isn’t magic. It is a gift we all possess that has simply been lost over time. Thousands of years ago everyone had heightened intuitive abilities, but for us, they have been culturally suppressed. The first thing we tell our children when they are two or three years old is, “No, no there really isn’t someone there in the shadows” or “No, you didn’t see Grandpa. Grandpa’s dead.” Consequently, by the time they’re seven years old, we’ve pretty well quashed their intuition. And with the people I’ve worked with, everyone in the audience has one or more of these abilities. They might know whose calling on the phone before they pick it up, or they might know what a friend or relative is experiencing thousands of miles away. So, the point is, we all have some of these abilities and I can teach people how to develop their hidden gifts.

Kathryn: Can you give us one way of developing our intuition?

Dr. King: The most important thing to do is to honor it. When we dishonor it, it ceases working for us. It says, “Oh, you don’t want to know that. Okay, I won’t bother to tell you next time.” And so, what I mean by honoring your intuition is to listen and follow. If your intuition says, “Don’t go up that driveway, there’s something up there,” then don’t question it, don’t second guess it, just don’t go up the driveway. Because that is the deepest part of you sending you important messages and it needs to be honored. Due to the fact that we are not taught to honor it as children, it takes a lot more effort to get it working later in life. It’s like a muscle. If you cease to use it, it atrophies.

Kathryn: So, you’re saying that the more we honor our intuition, the more often it will lead us. It will blossom.

Dr. King: Yes, exactly, it will blossom just like a flower. And it’s different for different people. Some might feel it in their solar plexus, you know, in their gut – that is the most common way. Yet, other people might see something, or simply know something. But for most of us the easiest one to develop is that feeling in your gut.

Kathryn: You’ve been quoted as saying that the secret to life is to serve and give back. Do you feel the healing work you do now is your service and the way you were intended to give back?

Dr. King: It definitely is. I think this is a fact that’s fairly commonly known among other people who are giving back. We are all meant to be of service.

Kathryn: What lasting impression would you like to leave on the world?

Dr. King: What I do is help people find that there really is a way for them to be happy right now – with just what they have and the way things are – right now. It’s just a question of getting in touch with parts of themselves that they’ve denied. Once they accept their own truth, whatever it may be, they’ve found their greatest strength. It will be the springboard from which they can go absolutely anywhere they desire.