Reiki for Emotional Healing: Weathering the Storms of Life
I know that my aesthetic can look very “love and lighty,” pastel, and cutesy at times. As much as I love the softness and serenity of how it showcases some of my work - the gentleness of Reiki healing and the beauty of divination with tarot - that is only one side of the story. The truth is, I’ve felt a lot of darkness in my life and weathered many storms, like all of us do. Being a healer and a witch has meant learning how to hold the duality of darkness and light at the same time, and balancing that for my clients, too.
Life Isn’t Always Light
Life is not always light, loving, warm, and cozy. Sometimes it’s dark, loud, confusing, and chaotic. Even as a healer, I still have days that are darker and stormier because I’m only human. I became a healer because I wanted to help people navigate the inevitable storms of life with compassion and strength. To stand with you during your scariest moments and give you tools to heal, even from things we didn’t break.
Just like in Inside Out 2, we learn that experiencing life can mean feeling multiple emotions at once: joy and loneliness, relief and guilt, excitement and overwhelm. But when your hands are already full with everyday stress and responsibilities, it can be difficult to hold space for multiple things at once and to distinguish what doesn’t serve you anymore. This is where Reiki for emotional healing can support you, or where a tarot reading can help sort through the mind clutter.
Every Emotion is Sacred
Spirituality and healing aren’t only about softness and peace; sometimes it’s about screaming back at the universe when the storm roars on and shaking your fist at the sky when the thunder rattles the windows. (There’s a reason lightning cracks in the Tower card in tarot, and why some witches use storm water and the electrifying energy of storms in their workings.)
Every emotion you feel is sacred and a direct message. But if, as children, we were taught that some emotions were “bad,” or never given space to express them, we often grow into adults who suppress, reject, or numb.
When emotions don’t move through us, they don’t disappear, they get trapped in the body. For me, that buildup eventually manifested as autoimmune illness, specifically POTS, after years of debilitating anxiety and depression. In college, I didn’t yet know how to regulate myself, release stress in healthy ways, or honor my feelings. I unconsciously tucked them away because they felt too hard to face. But those unprocessed emotions stayed swirling in me until my body couldn’t hold them anymore - the perfect storm.
Healing Through the Storm of Autoimmune Illness
If there were ever a story to describe a “Tower moment” - in tarot, this is the card of sudden upheaval and destruction - it would definitely be this one. Being diagnosed with POTS during my freshman year of college, hundreds of miles away from family, was beyond distressing. In a way, it felt like carrying a storm inside me: lightning strikes of anxiety attacks, thunderclaps of flare-ups, and relentless waves of sadness that never seemed to let up.
But the diagnosis also forced me to face the ways I wasn’t caring for myself mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. In hindsight, it was the beginning of my spiritual awakening. POTS taught me the importance of not abandoning myself, even when it felt like my own body was turning against me. I began to listen to my body’s language: the lightning strikes weren’t punishments, but distress signals. They were calls I had unknowingly ignored for years as a deep feeling clairsentient and highly senstivie person (HSP), until my body had no choice but to sound the alarm louder and louder and make it impossible to ignore. My perspective had to shift in order for me to interpret it.
At the time, I didn’t understand why I had developed POTS - and because it’s a rare disorder, doctors didn’t have answers either. (“My friend Emily, a P.A., once told me that during school POTS actually was mentioned once, in one complete sentence: “We don’t know what causes POTS.” Then onto the next disorder.) Eventually, though, books like The Body Keeps the Score found me, and the dots began to connect. Years later, Reiki entered my life, becoming the beacon for my own emotional healing. My journey, as always, unfolded in divine timing.
Being Led Back to Love and Forgiveness
Healing, I’ve learned, isn’t about making sense of everything in the moment. It’s about processing, accepting, and allowing emotions to move through us. You can’t push everything down because eventually it will all come bubbling to the surface, often as illness. And you can’t “love and light” everything away. That form of spiritual bypassing can avoid pain and excuse wrongdoing - the true expression and embodiment of love is powerful and pierces through deceit.
Every emotion is powerful in its own way: rage and anger teach us boundaries, calm teaches us how to center ourselves, and love teaches us forgiveness. I still believe love is the answer to everything, despite what I’ve been through. Unconditional love is the answer to all. It was necessary as part of my healing journey to forgive myself for lack of knowledge, my doctors for lack of understanding, and my body for responding in a language I didn’t yet speak.
Seeing the Beauty in Duality
Spirituality means holding both the light and the dark. There’s a way to hold both love and boundaries. To be soft and strong. To feel your emotions without letting them consume you. Even thunderstorms don’t last forever, but their chaotic, disruptive nature shifts energy in meaningful ways. And the lightning, though startling, can also shatter illusions, illuminating truth and sparking hope.
My journey has taught me that duality is part of being human. That storms come and go, but they always pass. And that healing isn’t about bypassing the storm or the emotions - it’s about acknowledging them, standing with them, and letting them roll through.
Wherever you’re at in life - in the sunshine, in the drizzle, or in the middle of a thunderstorm - I’m here to hold space with you. If you’re ready to explore Reiki for emotional healing or tarot to find clarity, you can book a session with me here.
