Professionals Tamborine Mountain 
While Frances Munro only opened Divine Essence Therapies in March of 2019, she’s been practicing her work in the Tamborine area for over 18 years now. Find out what has made her so successful for so long, and how you might be able to benefit.
by Kyle Hitchmough
How did you get started in this field? What drew your interest in it?
A lot of people who start in healing work, start with their own personal journey, and mine was no different. My seeking for a better course in life first started along kinesiology, reiki, that kind of stuff, and I just fell in love with the work. I progressed from there, built up all these different modalities over the years. I love the learning and the growth that comes with it. It started from a personal place, I wanted to change my world, and grew from that.
How would you describe what you do for someone unfamiliar with your work?
The easiest way is to help people find ease with life and find their way home to themselves. Often, we get quite separated from who we are, with all the influences of life, family patterns, people around us, we stop believing in the self and start to get fragmented with events, traumas, all kind of things. It’s about finding your way home, and that’s the easiest way to describe what I do. I’m basically a way-finder, helping people navigate those things that are in the way, the stuff that’s causing them problems in their life and making it difficult for them to have happiness, peace, and get involved and enjoy their life.
You offer quite a few services or ‘modalities’ here—can you explain a few of them for us? What is “EFT”?
That’s Emotional Freedom Technique, also called tapping. It’s basically a series of tapping points that we do that helps to release phobias, fears, stresses, negative thought processes in the body, and it basically reestablishes a more positive mindset and releases all of that stress. Say you have anxiety, you can tap through these points on the body and the body starts to regulate, shift and change, and all of that stress reduces, and you can clear it quite quickly.
Can you explain “the bars” and what you do with them?
The bars is basically a series of points on the head and a couple down on the feet as well, and these b
asically are all aspects that help integrate systems, beliefs and things that have been a little bit out of whack. Things like money, communication, time and space, healing, structure, hopes and dreams, awareness, control, creativity… These points help balance and activate those aspects and bring them back into alignment, it’s a very gentle process. About an hour laying down, holding those points for a little bit of time. It’s a little bit like the reiki, but with more specifics in mind.
You also note that you work closely with art in different ways. How is this?
Art is a therapy in itself. I encourage different variations of that. I hold little workshops just for fun of doing art, encouraging people to come out of themselves and to break down those barriers of ‘something should look a certain way or be a certain thing,’, whereas when we really let our creative spirit come alive, we actually discover sometimes we want this big expression to happen on a page. It’s helping people get free to be able to express the real truth that they want to say from within.
The mountain is often considered as a hub for spirituality. Why do you think this is?
The mountain itself is a spiritual place. If you look back into the energetic history, it was quite sacred. Sacred areas attract sacred experiences. So, there’s a following of that energy. Obviously when you’re working with the earth, you find that there’s a resonance with places that allow that. I think that’s what the mountain offers.
As well as your services, you also sell retail goods such as candles. Can you describe what else you offer?
I actually make all of the candles. They’re all holistic and made in a way to enhance people’s lives. Otherwise, there’s things like incense, cushions, pillows, little bits of jewellery, and other little things I find that are of interest.
Are you a local to the Tamborine area? What’s your opinion on the community?
Oh, absolutely. I’ve been here for about 18 years. I love it here, what can I say? If you are part of the community and you spend time in and work with the community, you find this to be a wonderful, connective place to be in. I think the more you put in the more you get back. I’ve been blessed to say that I have a lot of good relationships with a lot of people up here, and I find that the community offers enough. You know, if you need to go further you can, but you don’t have to.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
I think it’s a real calling in me. I feel really privileged to witness what I witness day to day with people, and to see them from point A to point B, through the journey, what changes and what happens with people. I’m really humbled by that, and I think it’s the feeling that you’ve been part of somebody’s unique journey that I really love.
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