Candace Silvers of The Silvers Healing Academy: The Medical Field Has Replaced True Healing With A Sick-Care System

The current state of the mental health system is a conversation that echoes in the halls of policy-making, the corners of social advocacy, and within the private struggles of individuals and families. As we continue to witness an unprecedented need for robust mental health support, the shortcomings of the existing system become more glaring. It is within this backdrop that we seek the insight of those who are at the forefront of behavioral health. In this interview series, we are talking to behavioral health leaders, policymakers, mental health practitioners, advocates, and reformers to share their perspectives on healing our broken mental health system. As a part of this interview series, we had the pleasure of interviewing Candace Silvers. Candace is a world-renowned Human Behavioral Expert and Supernatural Healer sought-out by clients the world over. Candace offers full-service business coaching for Fortune 500 corporations, as well as lifestyle coaching for individuals and companies looking for the next level of success. A pioneer in energy healing, Candace created The Silvers Healing Academy to train students worldwide — currently in 51 Countries on 6 Continents — including countless doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series. Before we start, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your background and your childhood backstory?

I learned about the importance of Human Behavior and understanding nuances as a very little girl to save my own life. I was born to a privileged family, in an idyllic society, and yet I didn’t fit in. Molested at the age of 11, in the early 1970’s- in those days if you were molested, you were the problem. I learned (in order to save my own mental health) to understand the difference between real and reel.

‘Real’ — being the truth most people saw.

‘Reel’ — being my projection, my truth — given my circumstances, but with no community agreement.

The society you live in will teach you the truths ‘of the/your time.’ For instance- If you were Marilyn Monroe during the Marilyn Monroe era, you were successful. If you were Twiggy during the Marilyn Monroe era, you weren’t.

My father was a very famous movie star who was Jewish. My mother was a top model and was Presbyterian. Growing up in Beverly Hills, I wasn’t accepted because my mother wasn’t a Jew, but everyone wanted me at their home because my father was so famous.

In the sixth grade, we lived in Florida where my grandparents lived. It was wild because I didn’t fit in there either because my father was Jewish. In the late ’60s, that meant you had horns on your head.

But yet again, everyone wanted me at their home because my father was so famous. I was the crack in the wall paper ‘of truth’ everywhere I went. Was it real in Beverly Hills and untrue in Orlando? Or was it real in Orlando and untrue in Beverly Hills?

I learned that where you lived gave you your ‘truth.’ And I began to notice the lie in ‘everyone’s’ truths.’ All I saw was separation, depending on where you were raised. And coupled with being molested, I fought to fit in my whole life.

I began to understand the nuances of a young, impressionable mind and how it learns about itself through its surroundings.

I believe I’ve spent the rest of my life looking to see where others had fallen into the same context, even though their content may be vastly different.

My job for almost the last 40 years has been as a Human Behavioral specialist and Energy Healer- To help others develop the tools, principles and awareness, through analogies and parables that allow them to see the power of the individual, before it entered the culture that then deemed its ‘truth’.

Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?

“If you touch a wall and it’s moving, keep pushing.”

We all know we cannot penetrate the wall in front of us, but we can begin to see that we can alter the way we see the wall, therefore, allowing it to transform.

Think of… the castle door, impenetrable until we learn, it is really ‘a bridge’ out beyond the mote of our mind, into the countryside, where a new kind of freedom can prevail. Once the bridge comes down, a new entrance can occur. We can begin to learn- Beyond what we currently know to be true lies everything else.

Think of someone in the 15th Century trying to convince someone of how an elevator works. Our culture trains us to believe that if you can’t smell it, taste it, touch it, hear it or see it, it doesn’t exist.

As a youngster I was able to put my hands on hurt people and they got better. I had somehow walked right through ‘the wall’ that everyone else saw firmly in place.

Let’s now shift to the main part of our discussion. It is often said that “the mental health system in America is broken”. What does that statement mean to you? From your perspective what is “broken” today?

I believe at this point we’ve all become aware that we don’t have a healthcare system anymore. We’ve moved into a sick-care system. It’s not even in our conscious healthcare anymore to ‘teach’ the patient how to get healthy. Our process is simply to give them the next SSRI, pill or surgery to cover the pain/illness or discomfort of the mind. The art of listening, care, concern and discovery has gone by the wayside; that, coupled with the intellectual training of our psychiatrists and psychologists.

I don’t believe anyone is wrong. I believe we’re out-of-order and it’s time for a new order of things to occur. I also think it had to get this bad before people would become willing to look beyond the doorway of their mind.

What about any bright spots? Do you think there are any elements that we get right in today’s world that we wouldn’t want to reverse unintentionally?

Of course, doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers are bright spots. However, in my opinion, the way we’re training them is out-of-order. Before we had doctors, we had healers. I would love to see healers — powerful energy workers — begin to show up again standing next to doctors and nurses, side by side.

Not so many years ago, we began to include midwives again to the birthing of a child- An old art form brought back into the fold. It’s time to bring back powerful healers. I love our discovery of medicine- it’s just not the whole picture.

I’m not sure I would call us ‘wrong.’ We’re just headed in the wrong direction. We’re still looking for the truth within the walls of what we already know, instead of breaking down those walls and becoming willing to explore beyond what is currently available.

We also need our heroes, for instance- a Joe Rogan in the middle of a pandemic. He patterns for us how powerful a true leader can be when standing, no matter what, to help us create a new way of being.

Fantastic. Here is the main question of our interview. In your opinion, what are the 5 most impactful things that could help heal the broken mental health system? These could be on any level including training, workforce, policy, culture, equity etc.

#1. Training doctors and healthcare workers in the art of “Human Behavior.”

Every culture has behaviors. Very few of us understand the basics that live before and beyond what each culture has presented to us as ‘true.’ For instance, one important tool we can begin to develop is the ability to ‘hear’ what the patient is meaning. For example, implementing courses on being able to understand someone’s subtext.

#2. Teaching our healthcare workers about the power of energy medicine.

I’ve been training doctors and nurses — as well as students from all walks of life around the world — for many years in my 6-Week Training, The Silvers Healing Academy. When doctors have the ability to truly heal another at the extension of their own hand, faith and connection appears.

The benefit to those with mental illness becomes exponential. When the unbelievable becomes believable, it creates a faith that is undeniable.

#3. Workshops where doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists can begin to learn to become visceral as opposed to using their intellects in any and all circumstances.

These classes help build and hone their intuition to become more aware as opposed to using their intellects to understand. It becomes a crutch and extremely harmful when a healthcare worker ‘feels’ bad for the patient. This can create an empathy which can set in motion enabling, the opposite of teaching the patient to grow strong and emotionally healthy.

#4. Courses to establish “Our Core.”

At our core is a powerful connection, which precedes and predates our culture, upbringing, and individuality. Think of a two-week old baby before it finds out it is a boy or a girl, has a mother and father. This baby — at its core — is full of power. These courses are taught to help the practitioner separate out the ‘learned or adopted personality’ from the core ‘me.’ Each one of us can connect to this power if guided and shown how. From here, there will be a whole new sight available for mental health practitioners.

#5. Teaching courses on “The Bridge.”

The bridge is the connector between another time, in your past (like a bookmark) and a current experience. The bridge — between now and another time/space in our history — is only reachable through our present (time) with the emotional/visceral (past) experience as our guide.

When healthcare workers are trained in this field and can master the “bridge,” those of us who are hurt and hurting (including our healthcare practitioners) can begin to thrive. This is so important to learn about because it doesn’t have anything to do with our intellects. Our intellects can’t find or understand “the bridge” because the bridge is not a derivative of the intellect. It’s a pre-labeled experience that works to create that understanding. When our healthcare practitioners become more aware, so can their patients.

If all of the items on your list were magically implemented tomorrow what change might we see in the world? What are the signs (big and small) that would show us that the system is being healed?

With healers implemented alongside doctors and nurses, ‘Faith’ could begin to replace fear and doubt. Patients would begin to have direct, visceral experiences of what the mind (a moment earlier) experienced as a wall, now starting to come down.

Opportunities would rise up, and the individual’s newfound willingness would show up causing a seismic shift. I’ve watched it happen throughout my 40-year career and it’s exciting.

What is a project you or others are working on today that gives you hope? How can our readers learn more about this work?

I’ve been teaching a Human Behavioral Class twice-a-week for almost 40 years. I’ve had the privilege of training countless doctors, nurses, lawyers, C-Level Executives, mothers, fathers, homeowners and people from all walks of life. It has been my joy and life’s work to teach people how to see and hold the space for another to come out of the dark closet of their mind, with their histories tethering them to the only little bit of hope and safety they have left.

Once someone feels safe enough to come out and play, the sky is the limit.

The following is a video of a woman in a full-blown panic attack, learning to re-pattern and come out of the panic in present time. No need to take an SSRI or sedate her, which is the norm in psychiatry today:

In your view, how do social factors like poverty, education, and culture affect mental health care and its effectiveness?

We are all born with a personality (i.e. personal reality); this can become the springboard to the desire to go beyond.

No one can deny that it isn’t better to be born in a world where money, education, and a loving nuclear family are provided. However, since this has never been the norm on a global scale, I believe our time is better spent looking to see how we can go back to the art of service, where the more we put in, the more we get out.

Right now we seem to be stuck in labels of good and bad, right and wrong, creating a whirlpool of emotion about the problem. This can really do us no good in the long run, as it simply creates more debate about the problem.

Once we have a direction, a path, and can see a horizon… those truly interested in the art of service, to help heal our current cultural gaps, can begin to head that way.

There are so many beautiful ways to send a message, for instance, through public service announcements, using our social media for good instead of to rip each of us apart. Demonstrating the joy of service whether from teacher to student, doctor to patient, one animal to another- it’s clear when we’re in the act of service, we are actually the ones receiving the most. This is a powerful message. No matter where you were born or how you were raised- This act is evident to us all.

In light of the growing mental health crisis among young people, what innovative approaches or interventions have proven most successful for children and adolescents?

There are way too many to speak of here, but a simple one that can be practiced right now Giving parents a successful alternative to the old adage: “Do as I say, not as I do.”

We as adults know we didn’t become what our parents asked us to become. We instead took on aspects of the behavior they modeled for us based on their own internal lives. For instance, if your parents had anger issues, it was patterned as a way of being, whether we liked it or not.

As we begin to pattern for our children the importance of reading, social time with family, and quiet time, the child will follow. Instead of telling our children how to behave, we as adults get to begin to become aware of our own out-of-orders. And begin to set in motion, a healthier example by shifting our own habits.

In the 1970s, if your child was having emotional problems, you sent them to therapy. Today, the parent will accompany the child to therapy because we now understand it’s a family dynamic. The evidence is that the child will become what the parent is, not do what the parent instructs them to do.

What we unfortunately pattern for our children today is the parent’s deep desire to be taken away from the stress of their day, for instance through social media, to a fantasy that occupies their mind.

To any parent reading this- Go to the park and observe each parent with a child on the swing set. 96% of the parents will be on their phone while they’re swinging their child, therefore teaching the child, ‘the phone is more important than them.’

We are very blessed that some very prominent names in Business, VC funding, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the US with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch, and why? He or she might just see this if we tag them. :-)

I’m deeply interested in partnering with a hospital or group of doctors who would be willing to use their imaging technology to study the effects of energy medicine while I’m administering a healing session. This way, we could confirm the medical effects that are occurring in the moment- as the client’s health, neurology, and cellular activity begin to shift. At the very least, imagine having evidence of a Petri dish of cancer cells altering as the healing is occurring. It’s time.

I would love to have lunch with Joe Rogan. I hear him speaking often about the mind, the brain, and the tools our culture is now using (such as DMT or medicinal mushrooms) to treat PTSD and mental illness. He speaks with so many brilliant pioneers discussing innovative new technologies. He has created a platform full of opportunity for those interested in looking beyond what our current culture has deemed to be true. I’d love to have a conversation with him to learn and to share the power of energy medicine.

How can our readers further follow your work online?

Readers can learn more about my work at CandaceSilvers.com, where you’ll find details on upcoming classes, trainings, and healing sessions, which are available both in-person and on Zoom. I’m also active on social media: @Candace_Silvers on Instagram and “Candace Silvers” on Facebook.

I invite everyone to join one of our complimentary, monthly Global Zoom Healing Events, where you can experience The Silvers Healing Modality firsthand. These events are open to individuals worldwide and all ailments can be addressed — such as chronic pain, cancer, or digestive issues. If you’re curious about learning this modality yourself, you can book a Complimentary Consultation with me to explore the possibilities.

Thank you for your interest in my work. I’d love for you to experience the profound transformations happening every day through this modality!