Becoming: The Journey of Healing
My Becoming
How did I become a professional healer?
My path to energetic medicine and energetic healing began long before I was conscious of the path itself. As a child, I felt a connection with Spirit and nature - long before I knew what to do with it - or what it meant. Making vision boards before I knew what a vision board was, cutting and pasting, and cultivating what felt intuitive. My connection with, and curiosity of, Spirit blossomed into a calling to complete yoga life coaching and yoga teacher training - after completing my first business degree. From there, the curiosity became a conscious awareness practice of cultivating my connection to Spirit, to energy work, and to the profession of healing.
Life Coaching to Yoga, Yoga to Reiki, Reiki to BodyTalk, BodyTalk to Chinese Medicine - and a decade of working with clients and students in these fields (and continuing my own growth) - I [finally!] embraced the path Source was guiding me toward as a professional healer.
“Allow me to be a channel for Divine Creativity. [Spirit ] work through me for the highest and greatest good.”
This was my mantra. I would repeat this faithfully throughout my journey to - and in - energetic medicine. When I look back, I recognize I did not know the power of this mantra. While I was planning a career path in the corporate world, after completing my MBA, I now recognize, through my spiritual learning, this is what happens when you are on a spiritual path - you don’t always know the outcome or the end result of your journey, nor can you control it.
The Becoming
What does it mean to become a healer/to heal?
Being a professional healer is about guiding clients and students to rediscover their innate healing ability, rather than actually *healing* anyone. I see myself as a facilitator or a guide, a professional “holder of sacred healing space”.
Often, people forget their inner Wisdom and inner Knowing. They lose connection with it - yet they know more possibility and potential is available for them. It doesn’t exist outside of them, but rather inside of them!
I have always had a gift of seeing for someone what they cannot yet see for themselves, or if they can see it, encouraging it and supporting them to remove any energetic blocks or mental filters that keep them from fully realizing their True Nature and their power within.
I approach healing work - as a teacher and practitioner - with the Knowing that Spirit is working through me for a client’s or student’s greatest and highest good. The best way for me to do this is by releasing any attachment to what I believe the outcome should be and allowing Innate Wisdom to lead the session or teach through me.
Healing does not mean a life without challenges, obstacles, or even pain and suffering, but it is possible to see these experiences from a different perspective and restore one’s inner connection so that they are in alignment with the path Source has for them.
Your Becoming
How do you heal yourself and support others in their healing?
For those of us drawn to this work, we have probably been doing it in some capacity since we were born. It likely is part of the path in our Soul’s blueprint. Everyone has special gifts, everyone has unique abilities, and for some, these are in the healing arts. If you have had them since childhood, you may have swept them under the rug, not knowing what to make of them, or assumed everyone had the unique superpower you have - and this isn’t necessarily true. We all have our own special gifts - support and practice will allow you to cultivate into them.
The ability to heal others starts with the ability to heal yourself. AKA: the ability to support someone in remembering and connecting to their Innate Wisdom, begins with a deep commitment to doing this for yourself - first. I went from not knowing how to understand or talk about my healing abilities, to guiding others to heal themselves, and I worked with many healers, coaches, and mentors along the way. Your potential for healing is limitless - the key is to learn and know how to tap into, support, and lean into these abilities effectively.
Unless there is a dire reason for some information, guidance, or support to come through to you quickly, there is respect from the spirit realm in that nothing will be forced upon you (in terms of your spiritual and consciousness development) without your willingness - at some level - to receive it. If you aren’t ready, or you don’t feel ready, or if there isn’t a reason for it to be developed - that energetic boundary is respected. If you are curious and want to move deeper in your evolution, trust that the universe is never going to give up on you.
In my recent podcast appearance on Mystical Attraction, with Lisa Conto, I share actionable and tangible tips to cultivate your gifts and develop your healing skills so that you can start sharing them now!
Find the full episode on my YouTube channel!
Are you open to spiritual guidance?
Book a zero pressure free call and we’ll chat about exactly how I can help you on your journey.
After studying for more than ten years with globally-recognized mentors and teachers, in the fields of: Yoga, Reiki, BodyTalk, Energy Healing, Chinese Medicine, Consciousness-based Living, Life & Business Coaching; combined with a decade of serving community and private practice clients, Erica brings to you the best practices to guide you inward and upward in your life.
Her curated method, Invite Your Light™, is infused into all of her work with clients, whether working together 1:1 or in groups. curated method, Invite Your Light™, is infused into all of her work with clients, whether working together 1:1 or in groups.
