I was once visited in a dream state by a group of masters from several different lineages. They showed me something that has never left me. Every action we take keeps us locked into a certain perspective. The more we repeat the same thing, the more solid that reality becomes. So, if we want something in our life to change, we have to look honestly at what we're doing that keeps things exactly as they are.

I had my first child at 23 and I had it all planned out. We'd been married for two years (meeting my criteria of being married for at least two before having kids ), my husband was about to turn 30 (meeting his criteria of having kids before then), and I was finishing my master's degree while seven months pregnant (meeting my criteria to finish the degree before having kids.) I had a job, a house, and I'd read every book on that shelf about how to have a baby. I followed all the rules. It was going to be perfect!

If you've found yourself Googling "energy healing" lately, you're not alone. Search interest in the term just hit an all-time high. So did searches for "how to be spiritual." Something is shifting, and millions of people are turning to their search bar to make sense of it.

If you've hit August feeling more depleted than you did in June, you're not imagining it. This is one of the most common things I hear this time of year, especially from people who try to juggle family, fun, and the career they are thriving in. They come into August running on fumes even though summer is supposed to be the "easy" season.

Here's what's actually happening.

I want to get on my soapbox for a minute.

We are living in a time when we need energy healers more than ever. We need people who are attuned to the subtleties of the non-physical realm, people willing to work with the unseen to create real, meaningful change. Mindfulness, meditation, and yoga have become mainstream…and that's wonderful! But there's still a quiet hiding happening among people who are intuitive (or who are longing to become more intuitive).

There's still a stigma.

Programs are exactly what they sound like, our personal codes of automatic behavior. Think of the literal definition: “To provide a computer or machine with coded instructions for the automatic performance of a particular task.” We are not so different. We like to think we're fully conscious, fully present, and make every choice on purpose. But most of the time, we are running on code. A code that was written a long time ago and forgot to update.

Your mind is brilliant at moving on. It files things away, rationalizes them, tells you "that's in the past now". Your experiences quickly get tucked away in your subconscious and you move on. But you haven’t really moved on…your body keeps a record of what was not processed. It doesn't forget, it stores.

Why the missing piece in your manifestation practice might not be your mindset, it might be your body's sense of safety.

You slept eight hours, ate well, and took your vitamins. And yet…you're exhausted. That bone-deep kind of tired no amount of rest seems to fix. If that sounds familiar, your body isn't lying to you. Physical fatigue has physical causes. But energetic fatigue? That lives in a different layer. It lives in the stories you carry, the emotions you suppress, the connections you keep, and the inner dialogue that runs on a loop.

Here are five of the most common (and most overlooked) energy drains I see show up again and again in my clients:

Chakras are energy vortices in the physical body. There are many different systems you can study in regard to viewing these energy systems.

Here is a simplified way of investigating these centers in order to identify blocks and tune into your energy field. 

Think about the last time you laughed…really laughed. Or the last time you did something that made you feel completely, effortlessly alive. Did your body feel different? Lighter, maybe? Like something released? That wasn't just your mood shifting. That was your energy field responding.

You've told the truth, you've released resistance, and you've begun embodying the person you're becoming. Now, it's time to do the thing all that inner work has been preparing you for — Act!

Shift your thoughts, behaviors, and energy — intentionally.

You've told the truth about where you are. You've accepted it without flinching. Now it's time to move.

Not in a frantic, white-knuckle, "I have to make this happen" kind of way. In a deliberate, energized, I am already becoming this kind of way. That's what alignment is. It's the bridge between where you are and where you're going, and you build it one intentional step at a time.

Let me tell you something I've watched trip people up for years: they confuse acceptance with giving up. They think if they accept where they are, they’re locking it in. I understand why it feels that way. But, after two decades of sitting with people in their stuck places, I can tell you that belief is backwards.

After two decades of working with energy, consciousness, and manifestation, I can tell you this with absolute certainty:

You cannot manifest from denial. You cannot quantum leap from a story. You cannot create clearly from distortion.

If you’re an entrepreneur today, “busy” isn’t the right word.

You’re managing clients, content, algorithms, emails, payments, platforms, and expectations—often all before noon. Your phone never really turns off. Your mind rarely rests. And somewhere along the way, rest became something you promised yourself you’d get to “later”.

Energy healing has become a broad term. It’s used to describe everything from deeply grounded, ethical work to practices that feel overwhelming or even unsafe. If you’ve ever felt curious but cautious — you’re not alone.

This article is here to help bring clarity to a confusing topic. Through this blog, I hope to help you learn how to feel into what ethical energy healing actually looks like — and how to recognize when something isn’t aligned.

As we grow emotionally, spiritually, and energetically, our relationships naturally change. This doesn’t mean something is broken. It means something is alive and evolving.

When you shift how you think about relationships, everything softens.

We all make assumptions. Sometimes it’s simply efficient to do so.

But what about the assumptions we don’t even realize we’re making, especially around what we think we want?

There’s a misconception that you have to be “special” to connect with your spirit guides but the truth is much simpler and much kinder:

Everyone has guides. And everyone can learn to communicate with them.

You don’t need to see auras, hear voices, or meditate flawlessly. You only need a willingness to listen in a new way.