EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE & OTHER OFFERINGS
🌀 EQ: Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to understand, relate to, and work with your emotions. When you get curious about how you feel and why, you begin to discover the kind of emotional person you are—and how to care for that part of yourself.
By naming what’s happening inside, you create space to shift it. Through simple tools and meaningful insights, you can strengthen your relationship with yourself and show up more fully with others.
Because emotions are energy—and so much of the healing we seek is emotional at its core—integrating emotional intelligence with energy work felt like a natural path. Becoming a certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner allows me to support healing on every level. Together, Reiki and emotional intelligence create a powerful foundation for working with the full spectrum of what arises in the healing process.
Emotional intelligence is not a fixed trait—it’s something we can grow.
So consider this an invitation:
What might you discover if you paid closer attention to your emotional world?
Start by listening within.
Emotional awareness is a skill—and a gift.
Schedule a session to explore yours with care and clarity.
🤝 What is a Certified Peer Specialist?
A Certified Peer Specialist offers support to individuals navigating mental health and/or substance use challenges—through connection, shared experience, and trust.
What makes a Peer Specialist unique is their lived experience. Having walked their own journey with mental health and/or substance use, they complete formal training and certification in peer support practices.
They blend empathy, recovery insight, and evidence-based skills to walk alongside others—centered in hope, respect, and nonjudgment.
Adapted from Wisconsin Peer Specialists
I first learned about peer support when I applied for a job on a warm line. At the time, I didn’t even know what a warm line was—essentially, it’s a non-crisis helpline offering emotional support. One of the job requirements was to become a Certified Peer Specialist within six months of being hired. I was open and curious, stepping into what felt like a whole new world.
To my surprise, I quickly discovered how deeply peer support and energy work align. The training was transformative. It expanded my awareness and built on a foundation I had already established through Reiki and other healing practices.
The guiding principles of peer support mirror those found in energy work:
- Person-centered
- Strengths-based
- Trauma-informed
- Walk alongside the peer
- Goal setting
- Each person is the expert in their own lived experience
- Self-determined
- Non-judgmental
The added dimension that Reiki and energy work bring includes:
- Body-directed awareness
- Emotional healing
- Well-being on the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels
- Nurturing a feeling of safety within the body
I feel very fortunate to offer a blend of Reiki and peer support in sessions at Lux Eterna Healing. These two paths complement each other beautifully, supporting healing that honors both inner wisdom and energetic balance.
You don’t have to do this alone.
Let’s walk this path together, peer to peer, heart to heart.
Reach out when you're ready.
💭 Mental Health Nugget
These short videos offer gentle insights and reflections on mental health, awareness, and healing. Let yourself be curious and vulnerable as you explore—there’s no right way to feel, only your way.
🌱 Foundations of Mental Health
Grounding reflections on how we understand ourselves and what it means to be well.
• What is Mental Health?
A soft look at the fullness of being human—thoughts, emotions, and all that lives between.
• Why the Stigma?
Exploring the roots of silence, shame, and how we begin to dismantle fear with truth.
• Normal
What does “normal” even mean? Let’s question the boxes and listen for what’s real instead.
• Asking for Help
A nudge toward vulnerability—because receiving support can be the most courageous act of all.
🌧️ Navigating Emotional Weight
Reflections on the shadows we carry—and the light that sometimes follows.
• Doom & Gloom
When everything feels heavy, this is an invitation to name it without judgment.
• Resentment
Honoring the part of you that feels unseen, and learning how to listen without staying stuck.
• Rejection
For the ache of not being chosen—may this remind you that your worth is never up for debate.
• Abandonment
A tender touch for the part of you that was left behind—and is still learning to trust.
• Jealousy
A quiet look at comparison and longing—what is your heart really asking for?
🛠️ Unraveling Patterns
A compassionate look at the habits we fall into when trying to protect ourselves—and how we might loosen their grip.
• Fixing
When everything inside you wants to “make it better,” this is a pause to soften the urge and sit with what is.
• Pressure
A breath for the weight of expectations—yours, theirs, the world’s. You don’t have to carry it all.
• Coping Skills
Noticing the tools you reach for—and whether they’re still serving the person you are becoming.
• Assumptions
A moment to gently question the stories we tell ourselves about others—and ourselves.
• Anticipation
Holding the tension of the not-yet and the what-if, with a little more tenderness each time.
🌬️ Meeting Anxiety & the Unknown
When your heart races or the future feels foggy, these soft offerings invite you to breathe into the moment and trust what can’t yet be seen.
• Anxiety
A space to come back to your body—one breath, one heartbeat, one present moment at a time.
• The Unknown
A gentle companion to the mystery—offering presence where answers haven’t yet arrived.
• Challenges
Not everything that hurts is a sign of failure. This is for the part of you learning as you go.
• Endings
A soft landing for all the ways things close, change, or fall away—and the grief that walks with them.
• Beginnings
The quiet, uncertain hope at the edge of something new. You don’t need to feel ready to begin.
💗 Self-Compassion & Lived Truth
Honest glimpses into the healing journey—the body, the stories we carry, and the courage it takes to stay open.
• Lived Experiences
A quiet honoring of all you’ve walked through—and the wisdom your journey holds.
• Body Image
Softening the gaze you turn toward your body. It has carried you through more than words can say.
• Openness
For the part of you still willing to feel, risk, and receive—this is your strength, not your weakness.
Feeling the stir to go deeper?
Let’s hold space for what’s rising.
Schedule a session and reconnect with yourself—gently, at your own pace.
🌟 Empowerment Workshop Series (Currently Paused)
The Empowerment Workshop Series invites curiosity and openness around meaningful themes—designed to gently shift your lens and spark inner growth. These hour-long workshops offer reflections and practical tools to support your personal and spiritual empowerment.
Together, we explore patterns, nurture new perspectives, and reconnect with the wisdom already within you.
Workshop topics have included journaling, emotions, forgiveness, limiting beliefs, enoughness, and more.
The Empowerment Workshops are currently on pause. Stay tuned for their return!
You are not broken—you are becoming.
Join a space designed to awaken insight, courage, and voice.
Step into your next chapter, one empowered breath at a time.
🐚 Nudges Toward Curiosity
These short, heart-centered videos offer gentle reflections inspired by themes from my Fall in Love with the Whispers of Your Heart series. Each “nudge” invites you to pause, soften inward, and explore the emotional and spiritual landscapes that shape your experience.
From compassion to control, grief to growth, each theme is a doorway back to presence—and a reminder that your inner whispers are always speaking.
💖 Opening to the Heart
These nudges speak to the soft and tender spaces within—where connection, presence, and heart-centered living reside. They invite you to explore how you give and receive love, how you listen to yourself, and how you stay open to what moves you.
• Compassion
We often extend compassion to others with ease, but turn it inward with hesitation. This nudge invites you to soften the voice within and meet yourself with the same grace you offer those you love.
• Vulnerability
This reflection honors the courage it takes to be seen—especially when you're unsure how you’ll be received. Vulnerability is not weakness, but a radical act of trust in yourself.
• Gratitude
Gratitude isn't about pretending things are perfect. It's about choosing to see what’s beautiful, even in the midst of the hard. A quiet invitation into appreciation.
• Listening
True listening asks us to slow down and notice what’s beneath the surface. This nudge explores what it means to truly hear—your intuition, your emotions, your inner knowing.
• Feelings
Feelings aren’t something to fix. They are energy moving through, asking to be acknowledged. This video explores the wisdom in simply letting them exist.
• Love
Love can be bold or barely a whisper. This reflection explores the many ways love expresses itself—and how you might allow more of it in.
• Hope
Hope isn’t blind optimism—it’s a steady flicker of possibility in the dark. A nudge to connect with what’s still possible, even when the path isn’t clear.
• Passion
What lights you up may not be loud or grand. This nudge explores the quiet, steady flame of passion that points you back to what matters.
• Spirit
Spirit isn’t always something “out there.” It can be the breath, the breeze, or the stillness within. A personal whisper about staying connected to what’s sacred.
🔥 Navigating Inner Terrain
These reflections explore the textures of discomfort—emotions that can feel heavy, sharp, or buried. They offer space to feel, shift, and release—turning resistance into relationship, and challenge into choice.
• Anger
Anger isn’t bad—it’s a signal. A boundary. A burning truth that something matters. This video explores what anger might be protecting underneath the surface.
• Sadness
Sadness is a sacred emotion, one that carries memory, love, and longing. This nudge invites you to let it move through, rather than lock it away.
• Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a gift we offer ourselves—an act of release, not agreement. This video reflects on the healing power of letting go, gently.
• Pain
Pain often asks us to listen deeper. Instead of resisting it, this nudge explores what happens when we meet pain with presence.
• Resentment
Resentment holds information—it speaks to our unmet needs, unspoken truths, or boundaries crossed. A quiet invitation to notice without blame.
• Control
The urge to control is rooted in fear. This reflection gently opens the door to trust, allowing space for surrender without losing your grounding.
• Overwhelm
When everything feels like too much, this nudge is an exhale—a reminder to return to one breath, one moment, one step at a time.
• Expectations
Unspoken expectations can shape our reality without our consent. This nudge invites awareness, clarity, and the grace of adjustment.
• Spirit
This second reflection on Spirit touches into stillness, mystery, and the quiet comfort of knowing you’re not alone.
🌱 Becoming and Belonging
Here, you’re invited to explore transformation—how you relate to your unfolding self. These nudges touch on empowerment, wholeness, and the strength it takes to honor your truth while growing into the person you’re becoming.
• Courage
Courage isn’t loud. Sometimes it’s just quietly choosing yourself again. This nudge honors the strength found in everyday bravery.
• Growth
Growth isn’t always graceful. Here’s a nudge to trust the messiness, the unfolding, and the spaces between who you were and who you’re becoming.
• Integrity
Integrity is staying true to your values—even when no one else is watching. This reflection calls you back to alignment with your inner compass.
• Change
Change can be jarring or liberating—or both. This nudge invites you to welcome change as a teacher, not a threat.
• Abandonment
Whether experienced from others or ourselves, abandonment leaves a mark. This video offers a path back to self-connection and care.
• Self-worth
Your worth isn’t earned—it’s remembered. This gentle reminder reconnects you with your inherent value, without proving or performing.
• Grief
Grief isn’t only about loss—it’s about love. This reflection holds space for the quiet ache of what’s no longer here, and reminds you that grieving is a form of remembering.
• Healing
Healing doesn’t happen all at once. It spirals, pauses, and shifts. This nudge honors the slow, sacred unfolding of your journey.
• Pressure
Pressure can come from others, from society, or from within—and it often disguises itself as urgency or “shoulds.” This nudge invites you to notice where pressure shows up in your body and ask: is this mine to carry?
Control
Spirit
Let wonder guide you.
These little sparks are just the beginning.
If something’s calling, follow it—schedule a time to explore more deeply.