My healing journey began more than a decade ago, mostly out of curiosity.
I was introduced to Reiki and wanted to understand what it was and how it worked. That curiosity led me down a rabbit hole of learning and exploration—Reiki, hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), chakra studies, energy work, personal growth, and other approaches to healing and transformation.
At first, I wasn't necessarily convinced by all of it. I was curious. I wanted to learn, experience, and decide for myself.
The more I studied, though, the more I began noticing something fascinating: teachings that appeared very different on the surface were often describing similar ideas in different languages or offering different paths toward the same destination.
One area that particularly fascinated me was the chakra system. I began learning to see the chakras not simply as an abstract spiritual concept, but as a framework connected to our everyday lives—our relationships, emotions, sense of safety, confidence, communication, intuition, and the ways we move through the world. I spent two years studying the chakra system more deeply, and it became another piece of a much larger picture that was beginning to form.
Over the years, learning became experience. I encountered things that challenged what I thought I knew and gradually changed the way I understood energy, healing, and our connection to ourselves and the world around us.
Then, during one of the most difficult and overwhelming periods of my life, my path crossed with a shaman.
The work she shared with me had a profound impact, and—as tends to happen when something sparks my curiosity—I wanted to understand more. That experience led me to explore shamanism and eventually to a formal shamanic apprenticeship, which I completed over the course of three years.
Looking back, I don't see Reiki, chakra work, hypnotherapy, NLP, shamanism, or the other things I've explored as separate roads. Each gave me another perspective, another tool, and another way of understanding something I had been exploring all along: how we heal, how we change, and how we reconnect with ourselves.
Teal Wings Rising grew from that journey.
I don't believe that I have all the answers, and I don't believe anyone else holds all of yours.
What I can offer is what I have learned, the tools I have gathered, and a space where you can explore your own healing, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and discover what helps you move forward.
Where healing takes flight, and you rise.