My Story, Your Journey
I didn't arrive here in a straight line, and honestly, I'm not sure the best healers ever do.
When I was at college, I was seeing a counsellor. Life had dealt me a lot of loss in a very short space of time. Grief that was mine, and grief that wasn't but still found me anyway as I was watching the people I loved carry the unbearable. And so the counselling helped. It helped enough that I enrolled to study it properly - Counselling & Psychology at Chester University was the plan, until life had other ideas.
I had 2 brutal years at college which led to a gap year working in retail. That evolved to banking at the end of the year (whoever dreams of banking?) because the sensible hat on my head was saying it paid better than getting into student debt. And so in I went. I started to study counselling in the evenings at the dame college, I was determined to get there another way, until the college pulled the course before I could complete it and then it remained a gap I hoped I'd revisit one day.
I stayed in banking much longer than I had planned to, then I eventually took voluntary redundancy, went travelling, came back with clarity and a pull towards caring work to get some real hands on experience, making a difference across multiple care homes and with every intention of finally completing that degree. Needless to say - it didn't pan out! That's when banking offered a lifeline back, and I took it.
But something else was creeping its way into my life at the same time, I just wasn't aware of it.
In 2018, our cat Moo had distance Reiki, and you 100% cannot make a cat lie. We were somewhat flabbergasted, watching it work on an animal who had no concept of placebo. And it remained on my peripheral until the October of 2019 when Reiki came in for me on a far deeper level and I simply couldn't ignore it.
I launched my practice in 2021 after completing my Second Degree, and I haven't looked back since, because I understand now that I was never meant for the clinical approach to healing. The degree that kept slipping away and the careers redirecting me, I know that these weren't failures, they were the long way round to exactly where I was always supposed to be. Full of life lessons, and bursting at the seams with wisdom.
This is my home.
And if you've found your way here after your own long way round - the appointments that didn't scratch the itch, the prescriptions that helped but didn't heal, and the years of carrying the weight of emotions that conventional routes can't touch - then maybe you already know what I took a long time to learn.
The thing that finds you is the thing that was always meant to.
I'm so glad you're here.