A topic near and dear to me after 30 years of studying and practicing Clinical Reflexology. It is the study of body reflexes and how they affect the mind, body, and spirit of those lucky enough to receive treatments.

In the beginning, I started out knowing little to zero about alternative healing. Through love and luck, I had a grandmother that introduced the idea of natural healing to my awareness through her own search for an answer to her painful condition. As luck would have it, I remembered the story of her first introduction to the healing powers of reflexology when I was experiencing foot pain of my own.

My grandmother from my memory was magical! She had an electric body that would stop clocks. She was kind and practical, fun, and hardworking always leaving me lifted from spending time in her presence.

In my early thirties I had something of a healing crisis. My ability to move was jeopardized because of foot pain, emotional stagnation, and a list a mile long of other symptoms. I thought, “I sure don’t want to be the last person to know if I’m losing my mind!”  So, I made an appointment with a therapist to see if indeed I was going crazy. As it turned out, no I was not going crazy, I just needed some guidance toward energy medicine which turned out to be another step in me finding my calling in natural therapies.

At one of our scheduled visits the therapist asked me “Where do you see yourself when all this is over?”  I started laughing (not in the jolly way) and thought are you freaking kidding me?

But I said, “I don’t know because right now I can’t see past the pain in my feet! All I can think about is having a Reflexologist get deep into my feet releasing this pain.”

I lived in an area where that was an unconventional option, so I had no idea where to start looking locally. Traveling to the nearest city was ridiculously hard with five kids not knowing people who knew a Reflexologist, let alone used one. I wanted help but it was overwhelming!

My therapist said, “Why don’t you be the Reflexologist for our area?” I thought about it and said “I don’t know. Why don’t I!”  Part of my path showed up that day.