I don’t know anything, and this practice isn’t about me—it’s about you. You may, however, find comfort in having some context for my work and how I found it.

For most of my adult life, I’ve struggled to live in the world. I tried therapy, yoga, and many forms of dissociation and escape, but over time, each one would fail me. I’d find myself back in the dark wood of despair, stuck in a revolving cycle of escape, survival, and sadness. I felt powerless to change my trajectory and didn’t understand what I was supposed to be doing on this planet.

I fell in love with energy medicine during my first real session one night, nine months after I started taking classes at the Academy of Intuition Medicine. I had been upset all week. I couldn’t meditate without imagining scary creatures coming for me. I had been crying for days. I reached out to my favorite teacher, and he arranged a time for a call. I was beside myself. Within five minutes, my tears were gone. My anxiety had lifted. I felt fine. Happy, even. And full of wonder, because how could I be on the phone, far away from this man, on my boat in my marina, and have my mood shift so suddenly, so completely? 

By the time I got off of that call, I knew two things. One, magic is real. And two, I needed to learn how to do what he did. 

When I try to describe what I do for work to some of my more practical friends, they don’t know what I’m talking about. And that makes sense to me. I didn’t know this was a thing until I was already learning how to do it. In school, the first exercise you do is learn how to map out the energy field of a person. You get really grounded, you imagine opening your hand chakras, and you walk around another student, paying attention to the sensation you feel in your hands. I’ve taught this class many times, and it always ends the same way. Each student will start to notice that there is a felt-sense they detect when they reach the boundary of someone’s aura, the electromagnetic field that surrounds each person. They notice qualities like temperature, magnetism, density, frequency, and light.

Learning to sense energy is not unlike learning a new language. If sensing an aura is starting to learn the alphabet, it’s not too far of a leap to see how writing novels could be possible. In school we learned to sense the different qualities of energy, and then practiced with each other to detect the energy of another person. As we progressed, information like temperature, magnetism, and color turned into symbols, emotions, and words. With practice, things started come into sharper and sharper focus. 

Sensitive people, like the ones attracted to my school, have a natural ability to sense energy that they sometimes aren’t even aware of. It manifests as hypersensitivity to the emotions or moods of another, knowing things without any practical reason for it, extreme empathy, feeling other’s pain, physical or emotional, as one’s own. These sensitivities can be referred to with words like clairsentience, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, intuition, and the like. My school taught me that my own experience of the world was unique because I was sensitive. I wasn’t responding to the world in this way because I was broken, my innate experience of it was different than ninety-seven percent of people because of my sensitivities. 

The tools I learned at the Academy enabled me to hone my sensitivity into a new way of perceiving the world, and allowed me to separate all the information I was receiving in a way that made it useful to me.

My personal healing and meditation practice allowed me to unveil my own connection with spirit. My practice of going inwards cultivated a relationship with my own spirit and with Source. Many years and many hours of meditation allowed me to uncover certain truths and dedicate myself to the divine work of helping others connect to the truth within themselves. 

This is the gift that I share with the collective.

My spiritual practice has shown me that true healing comes from being present with yourself and welcoming all aspects of your being—light and dark. When you create a safe space within yourself for the full spectrum of your experience, your relationship with the world begins to shift. I’ve witnessed incredible synchronicities and bizarre chains of events that have led me to experience life as heaven on earth.

I still cry often. I’m still deepening my love for myself. I still listen for the whispers of my heart and let them guide me. I’ve surrendered to this path, and I trust it is constantly placing me exactly where I need to be.