My Journey
Kelly
My journey was profoundly far from linear. For over 20 years working in the corporate world, I poured my heart and soul into my professional success, believing it to be the ultimate measure of achievement. This single-minded dedication eventually led me down a path of burnout (twice), sacrificing my mental and physical well-being.
Over the course of those two decades, my body began to take the hits for the abuse I was putting my nervous system under while living in fight or flight. At first, my body sent me signs that were like nudges, with neck and trap tension, and headaches. Then my body began poking me, hard, resulting in migraines where I lost my vision, a myriad of GI issues, injuries that would not heal, insomnia, exhaustion, and crippling anxiety. I had been to all the doctors, been put through all the test, taken all the medications and yes, I was managing through the day but certainly I was not getting healthier.
Finally, my body went for the full take down, I began fainting and was diagnosed with POTS, with a treatment of heart failure medication and more tests. And that was the turning point for me. Taking prescription medications, including one for heart failure, was not the road I wanted to continue down if I could help it.
I knew at my core, that I could reverse what was happening, I just needed to figure out how.
I started with a functional doctor, who explained to me I was in severe adrenal fatigue from living in fight or flight for so many years. That I had tapped out my cortisol and other hormones, which was causing numerous other symptoms, including the POTS. At the same time, I made the decision to walk away from my executive role and focus on how to heal my damaged nervous system and body.
I've long been an avid follower of naturopathic, homeopathic, and alternative healing approaches, I then dedicated myself to learning about energy (chi, prana, qi, life force, innate healing intelligence), the power of the body to heal, and human consciousness. I was voracious, devouring anything I could get my hands on. I began to add in meditation, movement, energy work. I also started trying numerous healing modalities, confident that I could get my own life force to flow through my body again and restore myself fully to health. And they worked. All of them. 9 months later, I was 100% medication free and had reversed the long list of medical conditions that plagued my life for years.
That was when I began learning how to facilitate healing in others. I have studied with renowned teachers across the world, honing my healing techniques. And during this process, I had this feeling of familiarity, of something known. It was then that memories from my childhood flooded in of my Mom giving me and teaching me energy healing. It has been a true coming home.
I am a certified Spinal Flow practitioner, and am trained in multiple energy healing modalities done both in person or remotely. I firmly believe, and have seen, that healing does not need to be painful and that it can happen for absolutely anyone. You simply need to harness your own body's life force energy to do what it wants to do - return you to optimal health and balance.