For years, I’d been unable to move beyond certain limitations. I had the awareness to see that things weren’t quite right – how I was showing up in the world (or not), difficult behaviours I kept playing out, extremely negative beliefs about myself – but I didn’t have the knowledge or understanding of how to step out of the old and into the new.

In 2018, I discovered Reiki through a friend (and also found an excellent psychologist shortly after).

Through regular Reiki sessions, I experienced profound shifts in my body, mind and energy. These periods of deep introspection, in the presence of an experienced practitioner, allowed incredible insight, huge realisations, opening up and ultimately release from old programming and ways of being that no longer served me. I released stored present and past-life trauma and experienced massive energetic shifts.

It’s hard to really put into words what began to occur, but I think it could best be described as a veil being lifted. I became less problematic in my relationships, I learnt to be softer with myself. Through what I now realise was mentoring from my Reiki Master, I became more attuned to my intuition, my body and my energy. My boundaries with myself and others strengthened and I started to respond immediately to that niggly feeling you get when something doesn’t feel right. My life and my relationships transformed.