I’ve always been sensitive for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a family with parents who were WWII survivors that suffered from severe mental illness and I've lived through life-threatening traumas, car accidents, falls, and adverse childhood experiences. It feels like a miracle that I’m standing here before you with an inner smile.
Earth angels show up regularly to accompany me on my life journey. Pain has guided me and inspired me, as a teacher - it has uplifted me to awaken my whole life. Sometimes it seems like pain's lessons are coming on faster and harder for many these days.
In dealing with my own pain, I leaned into my interest in alternative and complementary approaches to healing. I became a Creative Arts Therapist (MA) and licensed Psychotherapist, which requires continued investment in my own therapeutic process and education.
Self-understanding increased with Soto zen meditation, mindfulness, awareness-based practices, and personal development. On a physical level I explored alternative bodywork treatments with emphasis placed on deep tissue massage, fascia work and osteopathy to release issues in my tissues.
I felt better in my body, but I longed to sense an energy connection with my soul.
Finding my path into the energy arts didn't happen the easy way. It took being accidentally locked in a cemetery while visiting my mother’s gravesite on a Sunday evening with the sun setting and nobody in sight. I needed to jump down from a thick brick wall to get myself out - but I fell and ended up in intense physical pain. The ongoing pain is what led me to Qigong in 2016, three years later, to finally heal.
Qigong energy arts practice increased my connection to flow state, released injured or scar tissue of the fascia and lit me up with an inner smile. I felt happier and healthier from the inside out and in 2020 I became certified in Satori Qigong: The Flow Form. I learned that I really enjoy working with other energy arts enthusiasts, sensitive women who want to learn how to self-heal, specifically how to release all sorts of pain, from physical to emotionally charged memories, and more.
By this point chronic pain was but a rare whisper.