As for me personally, I was just trying to do my best.  I had to keep it all together and continue to raise my five children with love, compassion and strength.  They were seeing what I was seeing in their daddy and they were concerned.  As time marched on I felt stretched very thin with everything that I was trying to juggle; my husband’s post-traumatic stress, keeping the kids and myself grounded, the running of the household, after school activities, how to pay the bills.

Then I received a phone call from a new friend and she invited me to a women’s wellness weekend.  I thought to myself, ‘you know Dee, maybe you could use a little down time in order to return home more refreshed'.  It was a weekend event.  Now, doing something like this was WAY out of my norm.  But I felt like I just had to do it for my and my family's well-being. 

I grabbed the opportunity but went in blind.  I had no idea what a women’s wellness weekend was.  In my minds eye I was going to a place of pampering; massage, manicure, pedicure…that sort of thing.

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Well, let me tell you, it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be and absolutely EVERYTHING I needed!!

It was everything I needed to re-center my energy, clear my path and re-energize my spirit.  It is there that I learned about Reiki and meditation, about understanding who I was, not for anyone else, but for me alone. 

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I walked away knowing exactly how to help my husband through his post-traumatic stress and I got to work.  Soon after returning, I found a holistic teacher and over the course of six months emerged with the gift of this wonderful healing art as I was attuned to Reiki Master.  It was then that true healing began in our home, for my husband, for my children and for myself.