Healer of the Year - Contender

Debra | The Empaths Odyssey

Public Name: Debra | The Empaths Odyssey
Location: London , Uk

Public Name: Debra | The Empaths Odyssey
Website / Social: https://www.millionminutesilence.com/
About The Contestant: Debra Twilight Copes is a sonic artist, musician, certified sound healing practitioner, master energy healer, and a contributing author to an international bestselling anthology. Through original soundscapes, voice and creative expression, her work explores holistic wellbeing, connection and the restorative potential of gathering in circle.

Her healing journey deepened through caring for her mother, navigating grief and reconnecting with her intuitive gifts. Practising energy healing since 2021 and studying sound healing since 2022, she brings together her musical background, intuitive awareness and healing practices.

Drawing on her experience as a vocalist and percussionist, Debra works with intuitive vocal harmonies, layered soundscapes and instruments including drums, flute and harp. Her approach is deeply sensory and responsive, allowing each healing experience to unfold according to its intention.

She has facilitated remote energy healing sessions, including group experiences with recordings participants could revisit, as well as intimate in-person sound and energy healing experiences.

Writing under the name Debra Twilight Copes, she contributed 'My Million Minute Silence:The Day I Stood Still' to the internationally bestselling anthology 'The Moment We Rise' Sharing this deeply personal chapter marked an important step in bringing her healing journey into the public eye.
Skills: Certified Sound Healing Practitioner – Vocal Sound Healing, Looping & Soundscape Creation

Master Energy Healer – Geolove Energy Healing

Mindfulness Meditation Guide – Creative Attunement, Circle & Sacred Ceremony Facilitation

Voice Artist, Songwriter & Musician
What makes you the healer of the year?: My journey into healing began after losing my mother. Sound, energy healing and faith helped me navigate grief, personal challenges and a profound change in how I understood myself.

I spent several years intentionally stepping away from the world to focus on self-healing, forgiving and embracing my gifts.

Today, I bring together energy healing, intuitive awareness and a lifelong connection with creative expression. Alongside traditional sound healing instruments, my voice has a special place in my practice. Long before I recognised it as healing, I was using vocal expression to process emotions and find strength through difficult times. I now draw on that same connection to create intuitive harmonies, vocal layers and soundscapes, with the hope of helping others discover their own capacity to move through difficult emotions.

My meditative voice recordings have also been used as sound bites on a global radio station for the past two years, allowing this part of my work to reach listeners internationally.

Much of my hands-on healing work has been private, but the heartfelt responses I've received have encouraged me to continue. I want people to feel safe enough to find stillness, release emotion and reconnect with themselves.

Contributing my story, My Million Minute Silence, to the internationally bestselling anthology The Moment We Rise was my first step into sharing my personal journey publicly. I shared it because someone, somewhere, might need to hear it as they begin recognising their own spiritual calling.

Entering these awards is another part of that promise: to stop hiding the journey while it's unfolding. As I prepare to share my work through The Voice of Debra, I hope that answering my own calling encourages others to trust theirs.

I believe what I've learned was never meant to stop with me.

My journey into healing began after losing my mother. Sound, energy healing and faith helped me navigate grief, personal challenges and a profound change in how I understood myself.

I spent several years stepping away from the world to focus on healing, forgiveness and reconnecting with gifts I was only beginning to understand. I discovered that healing wasn't simply about becoming someone new, but recognising what had been within me all along.

My voice has always been part of my life through singing, music and creative projects. But grief changed my relationship with it. I needed to feel safe using my voice again, and my wellbeing had to come before performance. Today, I bring that connection into my healing practice through intuitive harmonies, vocal layering, soundscapes and energy healing.

I also chose to share recordings of my meditative speaking voice rather than commercial voice work. For the past two years, these have been used as sound bites on a global radio station.

My energy healing practice has grown quietly through remote sessions, continued study and personal healing. The deeper I went, the more I understood the responsibility of holding space for others, beginning with my own self-awareness and growth.

Having spent over 20 years working in a high-pressure emergency-response environment, I understand how easily the need to keep going can take priority over our own wellbeing. It's one reason I care so deeply about making sound and energy healing, reflection and integration more accessible, particularly for people navigating demanding roles and responsibilities. I believe we should have opportunities to reconnect with ourselves before reaching a point of overwhelm, not only afterwards.

Sharing My Million Minute Silence in the internationally bestselling anthology The Moment We Rise was my first step into telling my story publicly. Not because I had all the answers, but because I remembered what it felt like to be searching for them.

I've learned that healing and service can grow together. I don't have to complete my own journey before sharing what it has taught me.

Entering these awards is another step in The Empath's Odyssey, as I call my journey. By allowing myself to be seen while it is still unfolding, I hope to inspire others to honour their own beginnings.

I believe what I've learned, and what I have yet to create, was never meant to stop with me.