In 2019, I learned to meditate and the lens in which I saw my life began to

I realized I wasn't living. I was surviving. Of course, raising young children can bring about that sentiment, i.e., surviving not thriving, but this was different. I started to look back at all the places I had traveled, the people I met, the memories I had created, and thought, was I really present in that moment? Was I actually living? The answer was unequivocally no. 

Something had to change; and it did. In 2020, the world stopped and we were all forced into stillness. During this time, I got curious about who I was and what was my purpose. I examined everything from my career choice, which was as a business litigator, to my deepest wounds of feeling unseen and unheard by my family. I was unraveling, in the best possible way. 

As life picked up again, I knew my perspective had changed.  I wanted something different for my life.    

In 2021, I discovered a wellness studio just a town over. My husband had just hiked Mt. Rainier, and I thought he could use the infrared and red light therapy as part of his recovery. So, I bought him and I a treatment.

When I stepped into the studio, I felt at home. I had arrived at a place that I had been many times before. It was here that I 'discovered' reiki. I say 'discovered' because it is said that being called to energetics is a remembering from past lives.

I spent most of 2021 in a state of rediscovery, journaling and processing how I got here. 

In 2022, I actively worked towards my passions and desires. I reconnected with a part of myself that I had forgotten in my adult years, my spiritual self. I learned more about energetics, intuition, and astrology, and received my Reiki I & II attunement (and later the master level attunement). 

Through this work, I started to retrieve parts of my soul. I said out loud that I can read energy. I accepted that I'm an intuitive, and have always been one.

At the end of 2022, I decided it was time to honor myself by moving towards my gifts. Today, that's what I'm doing.  

change.