I have always been sensitive since childhood and for many years I believed that the solution was to try to become what I thought the world wanted me to be with a traditional path. I focused on school and ended up completing a bachelors degree in science followed by going to medical school. As the training continued it became clear that something felt like it was missing from my life and it wasn’t quite the path for me, which meant accepting the hard truth that getting my MD degree was unlikely to happen. I was trying to understand why I had spent so many years in school and training hospitals just to realize that it wasn’t the way forward… I was soul searching, wrestling with anger, frustration, resentment, feeling stuck and directionless.

Then a friend invited me to attend a session she had scheduled for a family member to see an energy healer. I went with cautious curiosity and had no idea what to expect as I had never met anyone who did that work before. After introducing myself briefly as an unexpected guest and asking if I could observe, I settled into a chair in the corner hoping to do my best impression of a fly on the wall. Without saying a word the healer stood up and I suddenly began sensing five energies circling in the center of the room. One flew over to me quickly in greeting and I nearly fell out of my chair because I was not prepared for it at all and practically in shock. The energy felt safe and loving, but I had no idea how to verbalize what I had just witnessed so unexpectedly. She noticed and simply said “oh, those are the angels… it’s ok!” My logical mind knew it was out of its depth and what I thought I knew about the world and how it worked didn’t make sense any more. What was clear is that I needed to explore a bit deeper to try to understand what had just happened and perhaps find some healing along the way for myself. That was the beginning of my formal learning about energy healing and my life began to change.