Hi! Thank you for coming to my page to learn more about me. I am Andrea and I am excited to be part of your own healing journey.  For most of my life, I moved through the world as a high achiever—pushing, striving, and carrying more than my share. If there was an award to achieve or a gold start to attain, I wanted it. The stress, anxiety, and physical toll of constantly “doing it all” were familiar companions long before the Covid pandemic. But when the world shut down, everything that I had managed to outrun or push aside became unavoidable. The disruption to home life, work, and routines made it impossible to ignore what no longer served me.

By 2022, the pressure I had been carrying for years finally hit its breaking point. A sudden divorce and a failed surgery to repair unexplained hearing loss left me feeling broken. I had checked every box, done everything “right,” and from the outside it looked like I had it all. Yet inside I was falling into pieces—grappling with mounting anxiety, invisible health issues traditional medicine couldn’t explain, and a deep intuition that there had to be more to healing than what I’d been taught.

On a whim, I tried Reiki for the first time in early 2023. The session was deeply relaxing, and I remember leaving with the distinct feeling that some kind of magic had just transpired. With each session, the invisible load I had been carrying felt a little lighter, and navigating daily life became a bit easier. My body already knew how to repair itself—Reiki simply created the conditions and support for that healing to surface. It also opened the door for me to reconnect with myself and listen to a voice I had long pushed aside.

After a few sessions, I asked my practitioner to train me so I could understand what she was doing and continue the practice on myself at home. Two years later, I completed my training to provide Reiki to others. When I think about why I chose this path, my core motivation is simple: to be helpful in someone else’s healing journey. Reiki finds each of us in its own unique way, and I truly believe it can only do good.

Reiki, for me, is peace. In a world that constantly asks more of us—texts waiting for replies, school emails to read, house tasks long overdue, work projects pulling at our attention—Reiki is the one space where everything quiets. It’s the time where I can close out the noise and simply be present. In that stillness, I receive insightful cues from my higher self and my “team” that help me live a more authentic, calm, and confident life. When I work with others, those insights often mirror or affirm something already stirring within them.

What I love most about Reiki is that there is no single “right” way. At first, this frustrated me—I wanted my gold star. Over time, it has become deeply liberating. In any given moment we all need something different, and Reiki is intelligent enough to go exactly where it’s needed. I don’t always understand it in the moment, but again and again it reveals its meaning with time.

I now dabble in a few different modalities – namely Tarot, Oracle and Sound.  Sometimes these find their way into my sessions (with permission).

Thank you again for finding my page.  I’m happy to answer any questions you have – just direct them to andrea.thelightenedsoul@gmail.com.