My journey of working with people as practitioner ‘professionally’ began at the unripened age of 21.
This was when I first started offering private guidance and energy healing sessions. I was already offering healings to most of my friends for free and at some point, people started asking to pay. At age 22, I offered astrology chart readings and energy work. I did not set out to offer these but instead received so many requests that I eventually obliged. I felt much too young to be offering healing or guidance and preferred a path of study, exploration, and hermitage.
At 23, I decided to no longer offer sessions as I set out to live my life entirely offline, working on organic farms, digging deeper roots into my spiritual practice and healing journey. At 25, not dissimilar to when I was 21, there was an obvious call back into working with people. This time, I resisted much more stubbornly. I watched everything in my life crumble before I finally got it. It became obvious that this was a choiceless choice. It became obvious that this was not just a gift but a calling.
I began by, again, offering human design x astrology, and energy work sessions. The day I opened up for sessions, I was booked out for 3 months. When I transitioned into longer-term 1:1 work, I always received the exact amount of clients I could create space for without marketing that they were available. As I’m writing this many years later, I still do almost no marketing and continue to be sent divine appointment clients at the exact right time. It’s things like this that affirm for me that I'm in the right place.
In all honesty, I still sometimes feel too young to be a practitioner and mentor. My sense is I will feel this way until I am very old. I still prefer a path of study and hermitage. There is a part of me who longs for a time when you were not allowed to be a teacher or a healer until you were an elder. There is a part of me who dreams of a life of complete solitude, free of social media, and emancipated from the trappings of a modern-day spiritual business. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve wanted to quit all of this.
And I can also tell you – the calling always wins.
In hindsight, I can see how I’ve devoted my entire life to this calling. I can see how this was destined.
I do not take being chosen as a mentor or practitioner lightly. It is a true honor to have ended up in this position. To all my clients past, present, and future – thank you. You are my sacred mirrors. It is safe to say that I receive as much as you do.