In 2020, after a 25 year career in sales, I realised that I was tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep would solve, or even a holiday, but deeply, deeply tired. After pushing ahead in my career, bringing up two children, looking after a home, socialising, keeping fit and all the other things that come with modern life! I felt that life was too fast and too full and definitely too stressful for me.

So I decided to find something that helped. Something that calmed and soothed and slowed things down. I tried lots of therapies that certainly helped in some ways. And then I found Reiki. Reiki had a profound effect on me and I felt that it woke me up to a calmer, more considered and simpler way of life. It quietened the noise and made me remember who I was.

Since then, I have been on a journey with Reiki that hasn’t always been smooth but what I have been very sure of is that, when times are tough for me and I’m feeling anxious or that I can’t cope or I’m losing my way that there is a way back to calmness. A reset button that I can press whenever I like.

This is just my story and Reiki is lots of different things to different people and Reiki finds the way to be the right thing for you. (Please see my ‘What is Reiki’ page if you would like a bit more information). Now, in 2024 after these years of training with the Ookushana Healing School in Leeds, I feel a very strong calling to share Reiki with others. I feel that the rest of my life should be about helping people to heal themselves and to share love and kindness. This might sound a little woo woo to you. In the past it would have sounded woo woo to me! But sometimes you just have to allow yourself a bit of self love.