This is a Story All About How My Business Got Flip-Turned Upside Down
But also came full circle in the process.
I set out in the year 2022 with the mantra be the best you in 2022, and I can tell you that not only did I talk the talk, but I walked the walk as well.
I proclaimed this mantra and set the intention, and set about on the new year, but the beginning of 2022 didn’t really start the way I expected. My whole family, who had been so fortunate to that point, ended up getting Covid, and if you have gotten sick with this terrible virus, you know all too well what a toll that can take on your life and how long it can take to feel normal again.
I had already decided to take a small step back from my beauty business to be more available to my children, but I hadn’t planned to step away quite as much as I did, but as with everything, there was a bigger plan at play that I had to allow to unfold in its own time.
As part of my beauty education business, I visited a spa to do some research, but this wasn’t your typical massage and facial spa, it was a wellness resort and spa and after the whole Covid ordeal felt exciting, different, and much-needed.
I’m not going to get into the whole experience or disclose the name of this wellness resort and spa because I don’t believe in disparaging others’ businesses, because as a business owner, I know how much time, money, effort, blood, sweat, and tears go into running a business of any size. I also believe in finding the good and the positive in every experience.
So, while overall, I will say that it was an unfortunate experience, there were nuggets of goodness. One of the things I experienced while at this spa was a Reiki session, and what I will say is that finding a practitioner whom you connect with is very important. This practitioner and I did not connect at all. I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience, and not in a good way. I wanted to leave, but I think I was so shocked by the things I was hearing that I couldn’t move or do anything about it. But what I took from the experience was that there was a real benefit to Reiki and energy work in general.
I received an acupuncture treatment as well, and while this isn’t a new modality for me, there was a common thread with both practitioners (reiki and acupuncture) I experienced that wasn’t something that I was familiar with, and that was sound healing and crystal singing bowls in particular.
When I returned home, I felt better and worse…I knew that these types of healings were something I needed, but after the disastrous experience, I was nervous to start looking for a local practitioner. So, as I do because I’m a psychotic researcher, I googled every reiki, energy healer, acupuncturist, and the like in the area. What I ended up finding was a certification class to become a level one Reiki Practitioner. This felt safe and comfortable, I could learn more about this healing modality, learn to work on and heal myself, and in a group setting wouldn’t have to worry about the intensity I had experienced in the wellness resort session.
But, I had family in town, and some other obligations and committing to this training didn’t seem doable, but the universe knew I needed to go to this training and everything fell into place for me to be available to attend.
I was immediately fascinated with everything I was learning and when I received my attunement at the end of the training, I instantly felt better. It was kind of insane the swiftness of the shift I experienced. I was warned that your body could be regulating for up to 21 days and oh did it ever! I spent the better part of 3 weeks feeling like my body was detoxing, changing, and releasing old toxic junk, but I also mentally felt better than I had in years!
An added bonus was that I genuinely connected with the teacher of this training and began working with her in a one on one setting. I learned so many things about myself, the universe, energy, self-care! It was incredible. I started to become the most peaceful, calm, loving, present, authentic version of myself. I started to connect to my true nature, my essence and it felt incredible.
The more I read and learned the more excited I became. I continued to learn about energy healing and went on to receive my level 2 Reiki practitioner certification, I learned how to make chi balls, and most importantly I started to understand how our feeling, emotions, and trauma were energetically being stored in our body and how that was manifesting into physical health symptoms.
The sound healing therapy was also beyond exciting for me, and I started to study it as well, I completed 3 sound training certifications and have two more I’m currently working on. I invested in singing bowls and just thinking about them brings me a sense of calm, it was love at first strike!
I started thinking about all the things that were making me feel better and making my life better and there was one more thing that I kept coming back to…Meditation!
Now when it comes to Meditation and Mindfulness, there are in layman’s terms, 5 levels of association, I was stuck at this point where I had a meditation practice, I’ve had one for years. But I would go through phases pre-pandemic, I was meditating every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, and then I’d fall out of my daily practice. I’d come in and out of practicing daily and then go weeks without practicing before coming back to a daily practice knowing full well that when I had consistent daily practice my life was much better. So getting back into my daily meditation routine really sealed the deal for moving into this new phase of my life.
That’s when the next piece of the puzzle fell into place. I started wanting to know more about meditation, and why it worked. I started looking at mediation training and certifications, and then it happened…
My personal meditation teacher, consciousness coach, and yoga teacher of many many many years offered a meditation and mindfulness training, and having gone through his yoga teacher training in 2009 I knew that this was exactly the right time, the right course, and the right teacher/mentor. I decided to do this training in a one-on-one setting so I could truly get the most out of it; I could ask all my questions, and personalize everything to how I wanted to help others, and as nerve-wracking as it was the first time, I practice teaching to my mentor, so I was getting the best of the best when it came to training and feedback.
I’ve been a little hesitant to share this story with the world. I have written and deleted many posts, stories, reels, and emails announcing this new direction I’ve chosen. But instead of rushing into something like I used to do, I waited until the time felt right, till it felt less scary to show who I am and in a sense not who I’ve become but I’ve come back to who I really am. But at the end of the day if I can help others feel better and live their lives fully, peacefully, and joyfully, then I can change my mindset around being nervous to “show myself,” and I can get excited to share all that I am and maybe help you to feel this way too!
Peace, Love, and Being the Best You
XX,
Jenna
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