Well, it certainly wasn’t BORN overnight! It was more of an unraveling of 30+ years of living with Type 1 Diabetes, of learning and unlearning, of being wounded and healed, of living an interwoven life partially in the Spiritual World and partially in the Physical World.
You see, a month or two after I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, I had a severe hypoglycemia reaction at the ripe age of 8 years old. My mother was painting my fingernails after a hot bath. I remember staring at the doorknob, suddenly seeing 2, and then 3, and then 5, and then blacking out. Apparently, I hit my head, hard, on the counter, and then fell to the ground (per my mother’s story).
What I remember was something much more serene, and at the same time, scary, wonderous, beautiful, and sad. I remember seeing my 8-year-old Self leave my body, floating through this tunnel that was lined with black, shadowy shapes, reaching out for me with blurred arms; I pulled back from these dark beings as I continued to drift toward this light.
It was serene, in the sense that I was calm, it was quiet, and though it was foreign, it was peaceful. About 2/3 of the way to this light, a beautiful woman, all white, smiled at me; she held my arm, turned me around, protecting me from these black, shadowy beings, and then led me back to my body, floating the whole way. I remember looking back at her, not wanting to go back to my body, but to reach the light at the opposite end of the tunnel; it was just so peaceful the closer I got to the light. She shook her head no, however, just smiling, protecting me, and motioned back to my body, lying on the floor. There was a sadness, but I understood, I was supposed to return. And, so I did, being jolted awake to my mother yelling to my father, “Rich, Rich, get Amy some sugar!”
Tears come to my eyes as I write this, because after that event, things were forever changed, within me, and, within our family dynamic. Not that they were bad, BUT, they were very different. I was different; changed forever.
I believe my first encounter with an angel is what opened my spiritual doors and ability to sense the energy within myself and others more powerfully over the years. It was this event that led me to becoming an energy healer.
After I went to nursing school, and began working with patients 1:1 in the hospital, I started having visions of hands, and the energy that would come from MY hands to help others to heal; not only in my dreams, but in waking life. The visions were so real, that it pulled me to seek alternative answers.
I started seeking schools to go back to. I took Reiki classes, but Reiki doesn’t involve touch, generally speaking, so, I looked further in to what energy healing schools were available, and I was intuitively guided to a school called EarthWalk School of Energy Healing. It was a wonderful in-depth 2-year training in to the World of energy healing, focusing on the 7 primary chakras, working with Accupressure points and Essential oils, homeopathy, Acutonics, etc. It opened up a whole new World on how to use energy to help myself and others to heal.
I also dove in to going to regular sweat lodges and understanding the spiritual ways of The Red Road, which led me to a much deeper understanding of our soul journey, as humans, on this Earth. Because, who, truthfully, as a person living with Type 1 Diabetes, doesn’t ask, at least once in their life, WHY ME? Why did I get this disease? I needed answers! Not just for the Why’s of Type 1 Diabetes, but the Why’s of life, the struggles, and death.
Simultaneously, I discovered my passion of sharing my own T1DM knowledge and wisdom with others living with Type 1 Diabetes, helping others see that they weren’t alone, but that they were understood and supported, and could control their blood sugars along with leading a fulfilled life with Type 1 Diabetes, and thrive.
And this is when the Holistic Type 1 was born, even though I didn’t know it then, in my early 20’s. It actually took 20 more years of weaving in and out of the Physical World of Western Medicine and the Spiritual World of Energy Healing and Transformative Coaching to understand how to fuse the two Worlds together, creating The Holistic Type 1.
And, here I am now, offering you EVERYTHING – Every piece of me, every single little thing I have learned and integrated on a physical level, soul level, mental-emotional level, spiritual level, and all the other levels in-between. I want you to come join me, in any or every way in which you feel called to work with me, so that I can help you walk through barriers that have held you back; to help you flourish in this life with Type 1 Diabetes, and beyond. Come join this all-encompassing community :>
