As a child, I was always very quiet in school and had no confidence to speak out in class. I felt I had nothing to say and that my opinion didn’t count. I experienced Reiki at the age of fifteen. Thinking that nothing happened, something profound starts to open up within me. I start to have this growing self-confidence, I start being me and soon after, I grew in popularity and I begin to speak out in class. By the time I went to university, from this quiet child, I am elected as year representative and I speak in lectures in front of 200 students and advise lecturers on how to improve their lecturing styles for the students. 

 

After I graduated, I find myself in relationships and in a career, where I do not have a voice. I am losing myself. I suffer from recurring tonsillitis because I’m constantly run down, working all hours and I literally lost my voice. I rediscover Reiki, where I become a healer, but I’m keeping it a secret, because people around me are not accepting it, and I feel ashamed. 

 

I go on a journey to find myself again, using Reiki, and I discover hypnotherapy. I see the power of it and how it is life-transforming in breaking habits and changing behaviour, so I train as a hypnotherapist. I start to work on myself and find my voice again. I start public speaking again in my career. Then, in covid, I do something really brave. I put myself out there and offer to talk about Reiki openly and offer group sessions in the company I was working for at the time, VolkerWessels - a multi-national construction and civil engineering contractor. I think perhaps 5 people may sign up for the class and I am amazed that 70 people are on the Teams call, not even having tried Reiki. They trust me. I do the class and in the chat box, people are telling me that they could see colours, they felt warmth, some saw power animals and someone felt they were levitating. I am buzzing. I was having this transformation, this shift. I have a truth that I can share with people and people listen to what I have to say about mental health, well-being and a subject I was once ashamed of, Reiki. This is my buzz, my passion - public speaking about something I feel so passionate about. 

 

And, now I go into companies, like Allianz, The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and Association of Apprentices, to speak at Reiki webinars, Mindfulness lunch-and-learns, conferences and 121 sessions - including hypnotherapy for people, who struggle with public speaking taking them from anxious to inspirational public speakers. And, this is what I would tell my 6-year old self - that there is nothing to be afraid of and to believe in yourself. 

 

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