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Welcome to Diamond Mind Reiki's Official Blog! I am very excited to share with you information that can help with aligning and healing mind, body and spirit. I hope to offer up support and answers for those seeking to heal in anyway, shape or form.  I am an Usui and Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher, as well as an empath and an intuitive. I am able to connect with spirit as well as have clairvoyance and clairaudience. The beautiful thing about all of these things is that each and everyone of us have these abilities as well. It is just about opening up and allowing yourself to tap into these gifts that we have had since birth but maybe closed them off because they were a bit overwhelming. I want you to know that I am a person too, just like you and have made mistakes and stumbled along my path searching for my true self. You are not alone.

I wasn't always on such a spiritual path. In fact I was quite destructive in my actions even at a young age. Growing up I was referred to lovingly by my parents as "the little storm cloud". If I was in a bad mood it was well known to everyone. I shut down a lot, I would hide, I got overstimulated easily. I felt very much alone and almost trapped.This is before I understood how the energy and emotions of others around us can effect us in a very profound way. Little did I know that it was just my empathic self that was just so sensitive I would take on everyone else's pain and had not learned about proper boundaries (literal and metaphysical).

Growing up as a teenager I was still very sensitive. I felt hurt easily by the things around me. I had "weird" things happening around me and it made me feel even more isolated and alone. I turned to food, drugs and alcohol to help numb what I was feeling around me. I had friends and people were drawn to me but I also tended to attract negative things. I got overwhelmed easily and most people around me felt a sadness even when I was smiling. I always felt like I was searching for something. I was put on anti-depressants when I was in my early twenties but this again just masked everything but did not address the cause.

I found myself in toxic-self destructive patterns as well as a toxic co-dependant relationship. I had extreme mood swings and could never quite feel grounded. When I was in my early thirties my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. I felt drawn to move home to help her during her chemotherapy and quit my job in San Francisco and moved back to San Diego. I think that I was looking for an escape from my current situation and feel that Divine guidance helped me with my decision. Moving home at first I was very overwhelmed with taking care of what I thought was a dying woman. After being home for only a few weeks, my boyfriend of about 6 years decided it call it quits. I was floored. Everything that I had allowed to define me was gone. No job, no boyfriend, no apartment. I had hit and all time low.

I did something right after that, that changed the course of my life. I asked for help. In all of my life I was always afraid of reaching out and asking for help from people. I felt that I would be draining, or worse yet a nuisance if I said I was struggling. But I knew I had to change something. Running away from my problems never made them go away, maybe temporarily but a little while later there they were again waving and blowing kisses. So I went and saw a therapist. If you are struggling there is no shame in asking for help. To have someone listen and give feedback. To dive into your past to be able to let go of things that have held you back. It was through therapy and finally deciding to make some real changes in my life that I found my self worth again. Was it easy? Not at all, but it was absolutely necessary.

So while in therapy I started doing reading at the library (I had no job and little money so I needed a way to pass the time). I started reading about holistic healing and cancer. Most of the people in my family had either died from cancer or were currently dealing with it. One day when taking my mother to her chemotherapy appointment I saw that they offered Reiki, Yoga and other eastern treatments along side the chemotherapy. The following day I was in the library and as I rounded a corner the first book that I saw was "Reiki for Life". I immediately grabbed the book and started reading. And then it clicked. I signed up for a class the very next week. And my life was never the same. I finally found what I had been searching for. I started to understand my own energy in a way I didn't know was possible. I understood other people's energy as well and how our energies effect everything and everyone around us. I finally felt good. Really good.

I hope to inspire, give answers and bring light to anyone that needs it here.

xo e