She Lost Her Son—Then Suzanne Andora Barron, Healer and Teacher, Turned to Jin Shin Jyutsu to Reclaim Joy

Tune in to episode 224 of Joy Found Here as Suzanne Andora Barron shares how losing her son led her to the ancient healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu. Learn how grief, anxiety, and the power of breath and touch opened a path to resilience—and to finding joy even in life’s hardest places.

In this episode, I’m joined by Suzanne Andora Barron, a healer and teacher who helps people reconnect with their inner strength through yoga, breathwork, meditation, and the Japanese healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu. After losing her nine-year-old son Christopher to leukemia, she turned to ancient practices to move through grief and transform anxiety into resilience. Suzanne created Feel, Heal, and Align, a membership rooted in her course Process What You Feel to Heal, which empowers people to release stuck emotions and restore balance. She also teaches yoga for stress management at a community college, leads a free weekly meditation with global reach, and founded the Christopher Barron Live Life Foundation, which inspires underserved children through comic strip storytelling.

Throughout this episode, Suzanne speaks openly about living with anxiety and how her son’s illness and passing reshaped her path. She shares simple tools—like keeping a gratitude journal or doing “one fun thing a day” with her kids—that kept her grounded during crisis. Suzanne introduces listeners to Jin Shin Jyutsu, showing how holding a thumb can calm worry or how each finger connects to an emotion, practices she now teaches to both students and adults. She also highlights her offerings—from her healing course and membership to her free Monday meditations—reminding us that the power to heal is already within each of us.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• A friendship born online (6:40)
• Turning 60 and finding strength (7:50)
• Living with anxiety (11:40)
• Gratitude and one fun thing a day (13:40)
• The 9/11 near miss (16:40)
• Discovering Jin Shin Jyutsu (19:40)
• Teaching students simple healing tools (22:00)
• Processing emotions to heal (36:00)
• The feel, heal, and align membership (41:00)
• Joy on the other side of grief (44:50)

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