Sovereign Healing

My first days of life were spent receiving treatment for jaundice, separated from my mother beneath phototherapy lights. Childhood brought frequent illness and digestive disharmony, and by thirteen I had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder. My teenage years became a succession of medications and treatments intended to restore balance, yet I experienced anything but balance within myself.

As I grew older, I came to understand that the medical treatments I received, the diet I had been raised on and other aspects of the conventional lifestyle I inherited had not created health within my body. I also watched a beloved family member struggle with autoimmune disease and decline through years of chronic illness and treatment. I desperately wanted another way for them and for myself.

I only knew there had to be more.

That search eventually led me to a 1,000-hour Holistic Health Practitioner and massage therapy program during a difficult period of my early adult life. Those eleven months completely changed the trajectory of my life and became the foundation for more than two decades of studying, practicing and living holistic health.

Around this same period, I was introduced to Chinese herbal medicine and Qi Gong meditation through a teacher from a White Tiger Kung Fu lineage, opening my awareness to Qi and the energetic dimensions of healing.

Then my own body redirected my path again.

After several years of practicing massage therapy, debilitating sciatica forced me to stop working. Friends encouraged me to try acupuncture, and after several weeks of consistent treatment, the pain that had taken me out of work was gone. Experiencing firsthand how acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine could address concerns far beyond pain left me fascinated by the breadth of this medicine.

I wanted to understand how it worked.

That curiosity led me to complete a four-year Master of Science program in Traditional Oriental Medicine and become a Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist. My education deepened my understanding of acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, physiology and the interconnected patterns of the human body while also giving me a foundation in Western biomedical sciences and integrative care.

But some of my greatest teachers have been my own body, relationships, struggles and the seasons of life that required me to actually practice what I had spent years learning.

I have navigated health challenges, emotional pain, addiction, relationship struggles, financial hardship and profound periods of change. Through these experiences, I became the student of my own body, learning to recognize its signals, question what was no longer supporting me and care for myself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

My meditation practice became an especially important part of that transformation.

What began as a practice of cultivating Qi, stillness and awareness eventually opened me to something I never anticipated: a profound return to Jesus.

During one of my Qi Gong and chakra healing meditation sessions, I experienced Jesus come to me and kiss the top of my head. My entire body flooded with an overwhelming feeling of love unlike anything I had ever experienced.

Within that love, I was shown places in my life where I was “missing the mark.” I saw more clearly how I had been treating my body, the ways I had been using alcohol to cope and my relationship with my husband. I was given a glimpse of him beyond our everyday struggles, saw the beauty of his soul and felt called to pour more love into him.

That experience changed me.

I put down alcohol and began caring for my body with greater reverence. My relationship with Jesus deepened, and what had begun as a practice of cultivating Qi became an inner path through which I learned to become still, listen, discern and recognize the parts of myself and my life asking to be transformed.

Life still brought tremendous challenges. Financial hardship uprooted our lives and placed enormous strain on our marriage, eventually leading to a separation that lasted nearly three years. During that time, I continued the inner work, examining my wounds, patterns, choices and the way I wanted to live and love.

Eventually, by the grace of God and with Jesus working through our hearts, my husband and I found our way back to one another, allowing love and forgiveness to renew our marriage from within.

These experiences transformed the way I understood healing.

Healing rarely happens in only one dimension of our lives.

Our bodies affect our minds, and our minds affect our bodies. The foods we eat, the quality of our sleep, the way we breathe, move and use our energy all shape our wellbeing. So do our habits, relationships, environment, thoughts and emotional patterns. Our connection with nature can help bring us back into rhythm with ourselves and the world around us.

Our spiritual lives carry weight, too. The way we pray, what we ask for and our willingness to seek and receive guidance, healing and protection can profoundly shape the way we move through life. For me, cultivating a relationship with God and learning to turn to Him with intention has become an essential part of caring for the whole being.

Healing may ask us to look beyond the symptom in front of us and consider how we are nourishing ourselves, whether we need more rest or movement or whether something in the way we are living needs to change. It may lead us to examine a habit, relationship, job, environment or belief that is no longer serving us, or recognize when it is time to seek help. And in other moments, healing may simply begin by becoming quiet enough to hear what we have been trying not to hear.

This is why I am so passionate about teaching Sovereign Healing.

I believe knowledge becomes most powerful when it helps us become more capable of caring for ourselves. My purpose is to share what I have learned so you can better understand your own body, recognize its patterns and become an active participant in your wellbeing.

I want to teach you how to read the language of your body, understand patterns of disharmony, strengthen the connection between body and mind, work more consciously with nature, cultivate your own Qi and recognize how your physical health can intertwine with your thoughts, emotions, habits, relationships, environment and spiritual life.

Most of all, I want you to feel empowered to become a conscious caretaker of the sacred vessel you have been given.

Everything I create and teach grows from something I have personally studied, practiced, cultivated or found meaningful through my own healing and evolution. I share what has helped me because I believe wisdom is meant to be passed forward. As I continue to learn, heal and evolve, so will the work I offer through Sovereign Healing.

Over the years, I have come to see this as part of my calling. I believe God can use even the difficult chapters of our lives for a greater purpose, and I feel called to use what my own challenges have taught me in service to others who may be walking through challenges of their own.

I am a lifelong student as much as I am a teacher. I bring more than two decades of holistic health education, clinical experience, personal practice and lived experience to what I share, while continuing to learn from my own life every day.

My calling is to teach, empower and pass forward what I learn, giving you tools you can carry into your own life and make your own.

Sovereign Healing is a way of life I continue to practice, embody and deepen as I heal, grow and evolve. And as I learn along the way, I will continue to pass that wisdom forward.