PEER SUPPORT & OTHER OFFERINGS
What is a Certified Peer Specialist?
A Certified Peer Specialist offers peer support to people receiving services related to mental health and/or substance use challenges.
A Certified Peer Specialist is a person who has their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges and has completed formal training and certification in the peer specialist model of mental health and substance use-oriented peer support. They use their unique set of lived experiences and recovery, in combination with comprehensive skills-training, including continuing education, to support people with similar lived experience. Certified Peer Specialists actively center peer support principles and skills in their work.
(Cited from Wisconsin Peer Specialists https://www.wicps.org/certified-peer-specialist/)
I first learned about peer support when I applied for a job for a warm line. Until that time, I didn't even know what a warm line was, which is essentially a helpline. Part of the job requirements included becoming a Certified Peer Specialist within six months of getting hired. I was open and curious as this was a whole new world to me. Or so I thought.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn just how aligned peer support and energy work are. The training was transformative, expanding my awareness and building on a foundation already established with my previous training.
The guiding principles of peer support align with Reiki and energy work:
- Person-centered
- Strengths-based
- Trauma informed
- Walk alongside with the peer
- Goal setting
- Each person is the expert in their own lived experience
- Self-determined
- Non-judgmental
The added dimension of Reiki and energy work include:
- Body-directed
- 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.
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Mental Health Minute
These short videos offer thought-provoking insights and questions related to mental health and mental health awareness. Get curious and be vulnerable with yourself while you explore the ideas shared in these clips.
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I’m a lover of nature, living life fully, making conscious choices, finding humor, and creating my life accordingly. Although I wear many hats, they are all interconnected: Reiki Master, Intuitive Energy & Crystal Healer, Author, Composer, and Pianist. Every aspect of my life has emerged from listening to the nuggets and acting on the nudges to claim and live in my enoughness. It’s been messy. It’s been fruitful. It’s been scary. It’s been exhilarating. It’s been humbling. It’s been expansive. It’s been challenging. It’s been more fulfilling than I could have imagined. I have been the Soul Practitioner at Lux Eterna Healing, LLC since 2011.
I invite you to feel alive and inspired again; to dust off all that has deadened your spark.
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Empowerment Workshop Series
The Empowerment Workshop Series has been created to invite curiosity and openness to various topics with the intention of shifting your lens. The hour-long workshops offer insights and usable nuggets to support you on your path of personal-spiritual growth and empowerment. Gently notice patterns held within you, open to new perspectives, and explore the gems held within you.
Themes of exploration include journaling, feelings, forgiveness, limiting beliefs, enoughness and so much more!
The workshops are currently being offered at Aromatic Blessings Collective Wellness in Burlington, WI. If you have a request or an idea for other locations, please send me an email (Ann@LuxEternaHealing.com).
Upcoming Workshops
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Nudges Toward Curiosity
These brief videos share my personal nuggets regarding the various themes included in my "Fall in Love with the Whispers of Your Heart" series.
Nudges Toward Curiosity:
Spirit
Nudges Toward Curiosity: Change
Nudges Toward Curiosity: Integrity
Nudges Toward Curiosity:
Pressure