ABOUT
When I brought my first baby home, I had no idea what I had gotten myself into. Once past the initial phase of complete shock and overwhelm, I slowly realized that everything I perceived about the world to be true just suddenly wasn’t. Nothing fit anymore, and not just my clothes. Everything in my life changed when my baby came. Birth is truly a portal, and the things that weren’t actually different I viewed through a different lens that I still can’t quite explain but am trying to understand (hello, matrescence). I persisted, I tolerated, until reiki found me, and I just couldn’t resist anymore.
Productivity and urgency culture became not only unreliable but also just bizarre. Reiki helped me find a different way to live. Fast forward a little bit and another baby later, and the Pregnancy Portal is something I created that I feel so passionate about and at the same time, it didn’t feel like I had a choice in putting it out there, it just needed to exist. To reach other moms who may also flounder in shock, confusion, and sometimes, despair, amidst the moments of incomprehensible preciousness that make up being a mom.
I come from a more logical background, with a master’s degree and additional graduate level training in School Psychology, and a concentration in Neuropsychology & Mindfulness. Reiki still eludes me sometimes in its lack of logic to be perfectly honest. I could point to you to the many research articles in medical journals proving its efficacy, but you can just use google to find those. Instead, I can say that with reiki, I’ve been able to gently and efficiently unlearn everything that no longer serves me.
Reiki is a complementary healing modality in which the practitioner works with energy, the subtle but powerful energy that exists all around us, also known as universal life force energy. This energy is harnessed to balance the mind, body, and spirit, promoting clarity, releasing stress, and alleviating pain.
Reiki helps us gently unlearn what we have accepted as true about ourselves and our world even when it no longer supports us. This is what healing is. Reiki de-conditions us from our beliefs related to how we should think, feel, and act in order to be safe and valued, and instead helps us access truth, altering our perception and enhancing our intuition.
Please consider my offerings for yourself, in pregnancy or postpartum. And remember, postpartum is forever. Please also consider my offerings as a gift for a mom friend. Here, postpartum is for all moms, no matter how your baby came to you – including adoption, surrogacy, and sometimes, in loss or trauma.
I offer a discounted rate for moms of children with special needs. After working with children with special needs for over a decade, I know these moms are a highly underserved group of women deserving of care and attention. My other training and certifications include Usui Reiki Master, 200 hour certified yoga instructor, IIN certified health coach, IIN Emotional Eating certification, and Strong Mind and Resilient Nervous System certification.
