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I found my first Tarot deck back in 2006. A chaotic little shop in a random back alley of a small coastal town, the place was full of magic and unexplained things. They sold everything from Hello Kitty trinkets to cuckoo clocks to clothing and can-openers.

The back half of the store felt like a trip down memory lane, with all my childhood joys on display. There were many exciting discoveries in the middle section, and I just didn’t have enough time to see everything. Every time I pull cards for a past-present-future reading, I wonder if that little shop had my whole life on display, and I missed it because I was in a hurry.

I received my first professional card reading that same day, just down the road in a calm, beautiful spot with a view of the ocean. As many times as I visited that town, and as hard as I searched, I never found that little shop again. That odd detail has always made the experience feel a little more magical.

That long-ago day changed my life. As an empath who didn’t know how to set healthy energetic and emotional boundaries, I’d become exhausted and run-down. I often felt hopeless and overwhelmed, unsure how to get my life back on track.

Working with Spirit, with energy, and the ancient archetypes and lessons of my first Tarot Deck helped me heal. It opened my mind and my heart to my own abilities and gave me insights about my life path.

With practice, my confidence grew in my ability to read the cards– to read peoples’ energies and emotions, seeing the patterns in their life paths and their life choices. Clients consistently told me that the insights and suggestions I offered had real positive impact on their lives.

In 2008 I opened my first official store front. Tarot has always been a bridge into the unknown for me. An opening into something more. Over the years my abilities have improved and I’ve come to accept that what I do is special. By request, I soon offered a mix of individual card readings and small workshops for empaths both in my office, and in other healing centers.

Supporting my clients’ well-being means I am often asked to clean and rebalance the energy in their bodies, in their lives, and in spaces where they live, work, or travel. Over the years I’ve done energy work for couples, for pets, for new homes, family vacations, vehicles, office spaces, stores, booths, apartment spaces, healing centers, land and homes scarred by wild fires, and even a she-shed in someone’s back yard. I’ve energetically supported my clients through surgeries, job interviews, weddings ceremonies, births, deaths, and everything in between. It is an honor and a gift that my clients trust me to support them through their greatest and most challenging moments.

One of my favorite clients commissioned me to read, clear, rebalance and recharge the energy of her bustling health and healing center. Three times a year, she’d schedule an empty afternoon off for all of her practitioners and admin. I’d pack up my tools, drive to her big building in the city, and work with the energy there. Though exhausting, it was something I always looked forward to.

During the worst of COVID, I learned that I don’t always have to be physically in a space or with a person to give a solid reading or support them energetically. Spirit isn’t limited by our human understanding of time and space, after all.

I’ve been visited by ghosts and spirits since I was a small child, but I never talked about it until that day at the beach. I’ve always known things I had no business knowing. I would see truths in people, and read their energy before I had words to explain what was happening or why I knew what I did. It was honestly a relief to discover that a language already existed for energy work and ghost work and seeing beyond the veil.

Eventually, I accepted a friend’s offer to undergo Reiki One training and initiation. When I shared my concerns about my inability to memorize the specific hand-placements for different reiki healings, my teacher laughed. She said that with my experience and skill as an energy healer, the Reiki One certification was more of a formality.

While the visions I received of Reiki Energy and its source were fascinating, I have always been careful to receive a client’s permission before I give a reading or do energy work on them, and the healing energy that runs through my hands is strong. Reiki is another great tool in my healer’s kit.

A few years ago, I also worked through a state-run training and certification program to become trauma-informed. There is always more to learn in my quest to be a caring, compassionate and respectful listener, healer, and bridge.

A client reading can offer hope, insight, comfort. It often leads me to suggest small personalized ceremonies that help my clients heal past and present wounds, and realistic next-steps that move them toward their goals. Best-self living, I call it. Isn’t that what we all want? To live our best lives now? To discover our best selves, and have the courage to embrace good changes in our real lives. To know, and heal, and grow in good and sustainable ways.

I have a lot more than one deck of cards now. And most of my readings happen via phone or email. My prices have changed. The world has changed, and so has my place in it. Over the last 20 years, I went from being an Empathic Listener to a Life Coach to an Energy Healer, a Happiness Coach, a Clairvoyant, an Oracle… All words for the same work, the same offerings. My calling hasn’t changed. Once a bridge to Spirit, always a bridge to Spirit, I guess.

As much as I continue to offer honest insights and healing support (via Tarot and a variety of other tools) all these years later, the truth is that we are each responsible for our own choices. Once you take responsibility for your own healing and choose to change– do the work and stick with it– anything is possible. And I love that I get to be part of your support team!

Blessings on Your Journey, Friend.