Energy Worker: Interivew with Heidi
It all kind of started when I was 12. But it really didn't take off until about, I would say five years ago I was at a retreat which had a spiritual component to it, and I just threw it out there. Hey guys, I'm a witch. And I just kind of sat back and waited. And everyone was super supportive. And it was the total opposite of what I was expecting. And it was just so encouraging.
That process of I practiced on friends and family for about a year before I actually started a practice with paying clients. But just putting myself out there making a website saying, Yes, I do tarot readings. Yes, I do this thing called Reiki and energy healing. And I talked with spirit sometimes. That was really huge for me, especially growing up in like a Christian household. And I just not feeling that support in that way. When I was growing up. It was huge and just really owning who I am and living and speaking my truth.
But having that Christian upbringing where I felt like I couldn't be open, it made me realize how important it is to have that comfort and security of saying it's okay for me to be this way. It's okay for me to say this and be this and, and like I said, live and speak my truth. And it really helped me learn to step into my power and step into myself. Having that resistance because there's still that resistance in society as a whole. There's always people judging and judging everything you do judging everything you say.
I also really struggle with within the Neo pagan community itself is the idea that there's one right way to do things. Yes, there's one right way to believe something like, especially with the threefold law, I really struggle with that where everyone needs to follow that. No, they don't. Not everyone needs to believe it. And just, it just feels like a lot of the things that people turn to paganism for, like dogma and not wanting to follow strict rules.
Just starting out there were a lot of bumps because I didn't know what direction I wanted to go in. when I very first started out, I was focusing more on Taro and less on Reiki, and I was getting way more Reiki clients.
My guides kept telling me, this is the direction you need to go. But I was really hesitant about it because I hadn't taken on. It was I had to get past the imposter syndrome is what it was.