04/03/2026
I have been doing tarot and energy work since I was about 14.
By the time I was doing it professionally, I'd gotten good at something most readers aren't comfortable with — following the reading wherever it actually went, not just where the client thought they were going. Someone would come in asking about their relationship or career, and the cards would pull up everything beneath the surface related to it. Old wounds. Patterns they'd buried. The real source of the problem they'd come in with. I'd lay it out. Sometimes they'd resist at first, and I'd keep going until the weight of everything I was seeing made resistance impossible. Sometimes they'd hear it and just nod — they already knew. Sometimes they'd leave convinced I was wrong, and come back years later to tell me it had happened exactly the way I said it would.
The readings were accurate. That wasn't the problem.
The problem was what happened after. I was cracking things open — real things, old things — and I had nothing to hand people once they were open. No way to help them actually move what I'd just brought to the surface. They'd leave with clarity they didn't have before, and I'd watch them come back months later, still dealing with the same thing, sometimes worse, because now they could see it and still couldn't shift it.
I put it out to the universe that I needed something to help with the problems I was uncovering. I reached out to someone I trusted, and they pointed me to their teacher, who became my first teacher.
I came in with EMDR on my radar. It seemed like the obvious tool for what I was dealing with — clients carrying old trauma that kept resurfacing. My teacher steered me away from it, and multiple experts in the field have since said the same thing: depending on how traumatic the experience of being revisited is, it can make things harder for the client, not easier. There were gentler and more efficient tools that could help with those issues without that potential risk. I signed up for her program, and as I went through the curriculum, I kept noticing that many of the things I was doing intuitively were quite similar to what I was learning in school. The way I'd drop into trance work with certain clients when I felt guided to do so. The way I'd work with someone's identity when I could see it was the thing in the way. I hadn't had names for any of it. The training gave me the names, the structure, and the precision to do deliberately what I'd been doing by feel for years.
And then I had to go through the process myself.
Right in the middle of the curriculum, I started avoiding the modules. Finding other things to do that suddenly felt more important. Freezing at the thought of sitting down and doing the work. And underneath it all, my inner critic was having a field day. "See, look at you. You're not going to finish this either." "You always do this." "You never finish anything you start, and you wasted so much money." "Your mother was right — you should just get a real job."
My entire life, I had dealt with procrastination and a block around finishing what I started. I can't tell you how many things I began because they were going to further me in life, and never saw them through. Things that mattered. Things I wanted. And there I was, doing it again, mid-curriculum on the exact training I'd gone looking for.
After weeks of stewing in it, I reached out to my teacher and asked her directly — "Hey, does this stuff really work? I mean, does this really work for real?" She looked me dead in the eye and said, of course it does. What do you want to work on?
In one session, she used a technique that changes the way you perceive yourself — your identity. In 45 minutes, I went from someone who "never finished anything they started" to an entrepreneurial renaissance man who crushes his goals and finishes what he sets out to do. Not only did I finish that 500-hour program in less than 2 months, but I've also since earned 11 certifications.
My own experience, and the transformation I've witnessed with the clients I've worked with over the years, has taught me one thing: awareness and understanding of the problem you have and why you do it doesn't change the fact that you're still doing it. That's only part of the problem. That's why you can go to therapy and work on yourself for years and still feel like you aren't getting anywhere.
The people who come to me have been actively working on themselves for a long time and are ready to create change that lasts. As it turns out, the problem I went looking for a solution to — not having anything to help people move what I was bringing to the surface — was the exact problem my clients needed help with, too. So I built a process to help them achieve that—the R.E.B.I.R.T.H. Process.
