My journey on the spiritual path started in 2002 in St. Helens, Oregon.  I was still working as an accountant at the time but I knew that there was more to life than what I was experiencing.  I saw an ad in a local newspaper for an alternative healing techniques class.  That was my first inkling to try something new.  The second signal that my life was about to change came from a co-worker asking me to attend the same class.  Keep in mind she didn’t know I had seen the ad in the newspaper.  The third pointer to attend the exact same class came in the mail by way of a brochure.  The brochure came from Portland Community College and you guessed it, it had the exact same class listed.  I decided that I would attend.  One of the weeks had Reiki as the topic and that same day I got my first attunement along with about 20 other people.  My first teacher’s name was Linda Becker and she did a great job in supplying me with all the information that I needed even after the semester class had ended.  Reiki helped me to move through different areas of my personal development and deal with the family issues that I had imbedded deep within.

About 1 year after finishing the class an opening became available for me to move up within the company where I was employed.  That promotion to assistant plant controller sent me all the way over to Virginia.  That’s when everything sort of fell apart for me.  I got distracted and stressed out by all of the new things that were occurring in my life and before I knew it, I had regressed substantially.  I have never experienced so much emotional pain in my life.  It was truly a difficult 3 year period in my life.  It seemed that nothing was going right and I wondered what was going on.  Work finally drove me over the edge and I didn’t know where to turn.  I knew that I could no longer do accounting without a doubt but I couldn’t figure out what I should be doing instead.  Frustrated doesn’t begin to describe how I was feeling at the time.  Almost everyone that I knew had agreed that I had lost my mind by not wanting to do accounting anymore and wondered why I wouldn’t want to do something that yielded relatively good financial stability.  Walking away from accounting was one of the most difficult things that I have ever done.  You have an undeniable feeling of what needs to be done but you are the only one that can get the job accomplished because almost everyone else has already written you off as insane.  It made it even more difficult to do what I knew had to be done without anyone backing me up.  Ironically, the inner urge to move and leave the madness behind overrode the urge to listen to family and friends.  They believed that I should continue to stick it out and eventually everything would get better.  I decided to listen to my intuition and it showed the way to move to Atlanta.

The one person that listened to what I was going through and feeling was my brother Orland.  He asked me about coming to Atlanta long before I realized that to be the next step in getting back on track.  I initially refused and believed that I could stick it out.  I wanted to know for sure that I was doing the right thing and I prayed myself sick.  Eventually the decision was made and I left within two weeks of telling him that I would move.  I gave a two week notice to the job that I had and I left everything behind.  I came to Atlanta with what I could fit in my car and the other two thirds of stuff were given away to a single parent family of three.    
 

Once in Atlanta, things didn’t get better at all.  I tried to find a church to attend and that even fell apart on me.  I began to see some things about church that never even occurred to me and before I knew it, I wasn’t going there anymore either.  I tried to find work doing accounting and I couldn’t pay someone to hire me.  It used to be that if I could get an interview in person then I was sure to get the job.  I had 5 to10 of those and couldn’t even get one of them.  That was when I finally had it.  I just stopped trying.  I stayed jobless for over a year lost and confused.  I had no idea what to do and where to go.  My relationship with my brother began to become strained and I was at the end of my rope.  I felt cut off from intuition for that whole time and it looked ridiculous leeching off of Orland as seeing how I have an excellent education from Purdue as well.  The family pressure was not reconciled either.  He took many emotional hits trying to shield me from the family vultures.  They couldn’t turn to me for money or help anymore and it really made them mad.  They also lost the grip of controlling me as well.  Not to mention that I cut them off and wouldn’t accept any calls from them.  I came to a realization that they all had their own plans for me and it was getting in the way of what my intuition wanted me to work on.  Without the constant emotional setbacks from family, I’m finally free to do what I have wanted to do all along but was just too afraid to do.  I had begun to accept clients in Oregon but I got afraid and backed off.  It was a decision that has caused me to take an evolution detour for the past five years.  As my intuition began to heal it finally occurred to me that I should be doing Reiki but where could I go.
 

Linda was so far away that I didn’t want to fly back to Oregon.  I knew that it had to be somewhere that I could go in Atlanta so that I could get the attunements and certificates.  After researching more than one practitioner I found Brad Dixon of Wellspring Reiki.  I had an energetic block that I couldn’t seem to figure out on my own but I knew that a session could help.  I sent Brad an e-mail and he e-mailed me back the same day.  I was in his home office the next day getting my first Reiki session in five years.  Shortly after that Orland and I found ourselves getting attunements for Reiki 1 and 2.  At that point I was still afraid to step out and start my own practice but I was brave enough to mention to Brad during the full day of training that I was considering it.  He encouraged me to do it and see what happens.  By the time that my brother and I had returned to his office for our master attunements I made the decision to start a practice.  It was a very big step for me and still is.  The name of the practice came shortly after my master attunements and I will continue to refine myself.
 

I’m glad that I’m finally headed in the right direction.