I want to be clear: I am not a mental health professional, and Reiki is not a replacement for therapy, medication, or medical care. This is simply my experience and part of my healing story. But today, I can say that my medications are minimal, I sleep through the night, and the panic attacks that once ruled my days are rare. Reiki played a role in that transformation.

Two years ago this week, I sold everything I owned.

Not in a cute, downsizing, starting-a-van-life way.

In a “burn it all down because I can’t carry the weight of this life any longer” kind of way.