I didn’t understand Reiki until my life fell apart
Twenty years ago, when I sat in my first Reiki 1 class, I was just a teenager. My biggest worries then were painfully heavy periods and the heartbreak of my first serious breakup. I was devastated and, if I’m honest, unwilling to take responsibility for the toxic patterns I brought into that relationship: jealousy, distrust, picking fights. I truly believed Reiki might somehow save the relationship. It didn’t. But it did something far more important. It lit something in me th
