Spirit Release Therapy, or SRT, is a spiritual and energetic practice used to identify and address energetic or spiritual influences believed to be affecting a person, animal, home, land, or other space.

If you've spent any amount of time in spiritual spaces, you've probably heard all three. Sometimes in the same conversation. And when you're new to energetic practices, it can start sounding like you're supposed to wake up every morning, ground yourself, cleanse yourself, protect yourself, cleanse your house, reinforce your wards, smoke out half the neighborhood, and somehow still get everyone where they need to be by 8 a.m. It doesn't need to be that complicated.

If you're sensitive to the energy of people and places, practice energy work, work closely with others, or simply find yourself feeling drained after certain interactions, you may have heard someone tell you that you need to "protect your energy."