I consider myself an intuitive healer, with a blend of 20+ years of working with chakra energy under my belt (now a Level 2 Reiki Practitioner) and a long-term love-affair with psychology (now a Certified Health Mindset Coach in respect to Behaviour Change), I know I am meant to shift frequencies wherever I go.

I grew up in a home where hearing + speaking to spirit 'on the other side' was normal. My gift for picking up on energy, observing body language and hearing what you're actually saying, has allowed me to help others bridge gaps in their lives where they didn't see a connection before. Having created spiritual self-care products since 2016 and guided meditations not long after, I felt like something was missing. Even though I've been able to assist others in their self-love and healing journeys through those ventures, I dreamt of expanding my services to be able to provide a wider range of healing to others by what I do best - bridging the gap between energy + psychology.

Now, I help you turn your Misery into Miracles by guiding you to Face Yourself First because it's vital to understand who you are in order to meet who you can become.

It really started YEARS ago as a young girl, seeing spirits in my childhood home and waking up to feeling their presence. My mom had gotten into a car accident at one point, and being a single mother, I would help her out by giving her back massages with my little hands.

But they were truly strong, she'd always said I'd had 'magic hands', as did many others.

When I was 14, she came home with an article clipping from our local Stoney Creek News, "I bet this is why your hands always get so hot!' she said, handing the article over to me.

It was all about Reiki.

And there began my journey of deepening my knowledge of energetics. I swiftly ran to the library to take out some books and do some digging into this 'Reiki' thing.

That was 2004.

You can guarantee when I went to school and wanted to talk about this cool thing I just learned about, I was looked at funny. I remember when I got to high school, an acquaintance in the hallway was complaining about their shoulder injury and I happened to overhear them. So I walked over and said, "maybe this will help", as I put my hands to their injury and felt the heat.

Within moments they said "WTF did you just do, the pain is gone!" and I explained, "it's magic!"

Leave it to a teenager to be inquisitive, but not have total reverence for an incredible modality like Reiki.

I was encouraged, even at that young age, to find a Reiki master and learn about this modality...but the classes were expensive (and I didn't come from money), and I had a hard time trusting a one-day training, when all of the reading I had done up til this point had mentioned that to truly work with energy it is a daily practice and one that you master before taking on any new 'level'.

But I couldn't find anyone that practiced or taught Reiki in this way, it was all very much Westernized in the sense of rushed and capitalized on. So, I sort of gave up on looking for someone.

As I moved through experiences as a teenager and into my early twenties, I still was connected to spirit through signs and synchronicities that my mom had brought me up on looking out for, but my connection with Reiki itself diminished a little.

Then, I experienced a deep trauma in 2015.

This is where the trajectory of my life changed, absolutely.

I became a shell of who I was. Not knowing what was up or down.

Flashbacks were taking over every second of the day, removing me completely from reality and my own conscious contact with my body.

I was so disconnected.

My mind, racing and ruminating non-stop.

My body, numb and truly unaware of it.

My soul, felt like she disappeared.

I wondered what happened to me? And not 'what happened' as in I didn't know what I experienced necessarily...but more...

...where did I go?

The woman who could take a joke. The woman who was unafraid. The woman who took initiative.

Who did things. Who enjoyed things...me. At least, the me that I knew. The me that I was.

Every morning, from the second I woke up, I couldn't wait to go to bed. Then, nearing the end of the evening, I'd push off the very thing I wanted more of in the world - sleep. But I couldn't fall asleep. And even if I did, I couldn't stay asleep. And of course, the alarm would go off for work the next day, and I hit snooze EVERY day, multiple times. I could barely get myself out of bed.

It was a vicious cycle I couldn't get out of, and (looking back now to it all) it just made every other symptom exacerbate itself.

My thoughts were so haunting.

My actions, even scarier at one point.

I was so fearful that others would find out. So fearful of what they might think or say if they did.

Deeply afraid of even my own shadow.

And all of this fear was eating me alive. I was paranoid at work to the point that I started acting out with my attitudes.

It was like someone else completely took over my body and mind.

At this point I was so depressed, and felt like such a burden I figured it would be helpful for everyone if I simply weren't here.

And so I tried, a few times, and was unsuccessful in my attempts.

I'll spare details but the irony of attempting in the bathtub, only to birth a bath & body care line out of it all a few months later says everything about what I was doing, internally, to shift this after my now-fiancé forced me to take different action.

At that time, I had been working out on a fairly consistent basis - but it was for no other reason than my fight or flight had kicked in and I wanted to become as strong as I possibly could so that what I went through couldn't happen again.

This caused the multiple baths per week (lots of epsom salts to help my muscle aches).

And it's what I was doing in the bathtub that really began to shift it all for me...

I went back to what helped shape me so long ago - energetics.

I listened to meditations or walked myself through them (my mom and I used to meditate together when I was in my teens).

I held my hands at my chakra points while in the tub, and invited myself to quiet the mind and focus on repeating the chakra seed sound, or mantra, and my own affirmations.

I started to listen to motivational speakers, like Brandon Burchard (the term now would be thought leader or influencer) and found that when I did, my mind stayed 'in the light' for longer periods of time.

And eventually, the workouts became more for my mental health because I started to recognize how much clearer my thoughts were when I moved my body.

I didn't know it at the time, but the mix of all of this was planting a seed for a growth mindset.

And I didn't know it at the time, but these became the pillars for my life.

These ALSO changed the trajectory of my life.

Movement. Meditation. Mantras + Affirmations. Mindset.

And all with the use of the chakra system to guide me.

They've all become important for how I face hardship, move through challenges, and maintain my mental health. And I want to share that with you. I want you to know...

There is hope.

Energetics & working on my mindset saved my life. It gave me a map of what to do. What steps to take next. What to look out for in order to make changes.

And while it was messy and it took some time for me to learn what worked and what didn't for different scenarios in my life, I feel more relaxed, realigned, and reconnected than ever because of it.

On my journey, I've reacquainted with a Power greater than myself and can say I truly feel that my mind, body and soul have all been bridged together.

And I want that for you too, whether you use the same systems, principles and concepts as I do, or you find your own that works for you.

...nothin' but heart chakra love,

Katelyn