September 2023. That's when everything changed.
I had been getting sicker and sicker. For years it wasn't vague tiredness. I was genuinely, seriously ill. Crohn's disease. Autoimmune thyroid disease. Depression since high school. Adult acne I couldn't shake. Allergies that never let up. I was on medications for all of it — medications that world-renowned specialists had told me I would need for the rest of my life.
I'd spent thousands on doctors. MDVIP concierge care. GI specialists. Injections, hospital infusions every eight weeks. Multiple surgeries, and a 90% chance I'd need more. Tests, referrals, dead ends. One doctor finally told me, "There are some things science doesn't know." Another recommended the Mayo Clinic. My eyes were nearly swollen shut without the help of oral steroids.
I wasn't living. I was managing.
During a Reiki session, something became clear that I'd been circling for months: I had to gut my diet completely. Not forever - just for a month. Fruits, vegetables, protein, water. No processed food. No chemicals. No diet soda I'd been drinking since I was a teenager. I followed the Medical Medium's liver detox approach, loosely. My plan was almost spite-driven: I was going to prove to the doctors that my diet wasn't the problem, that I could do everything "right" and still be sick.
I wasn't. After a month of detoxing from caffeine and chemicals (and it was a rough month), something shifted. My brain cleared. And in that clarity, I made the next decision: I was going to stop the first medication. The one I knew in my gut was causing most of my issues. When I started feeling better instead of worse, there was no going back.
The universe had other plans — and I was finally ready.
Not even one month after I stopped that first medication (and continued my clean diet) the company I'd worked for let me go with a six-month severance. Fifteen years in supply chain at PepsiCo. Six years building corporate cannabis operations. Twenty-plus years in high-pressure corporate environments: while sick, while managing, while white-knuckling through.
And suddenly I had time and permission to do the one thing I'd been putting off: fully heal myself.
I leaned back into Reiki, which I'd first discovered in 2020 after watching a documentary and Googling "energy healer near me." I signed up for Reiki 1 training, just for myself, just to understand more. At that class, I realized I had to have a table. Not to practice professionally. Just for my family and friends, because I loved it so much.
Shortly after that table entered my house, Spinal Flow found me. The algorithm sent it. I watched the explanation of the practice — that the body heals itself, that the nervous system is the key, that we don't need to be fixed from the outside — and I thought: I just did that. I just proved that.
I don't think I ever would have made the leap to hands-on healing if Reiki hadn't already quietly woven itself through my life. But it had. And I was ready.
I invested in my certification. I got my table. And I started helping other people do what I had done.
I didn't just learn this work. I lived it.
In the time since that September decision, I've been able to stop taking:
→ Medications I was prescribed for Crohn's disease
(and my colonoscopies have stayed clean)
→ My thyroid medication — Synthroid
(my thyroid has regulated itself)
→ Antidepressants I'd been prescribed since high school
(I do NOT recommend others stop taking anti-depressants without doctor supervision. In my case, it had to be replaced with many alternative practices before my body was ready.)
→ A long-term prescription for adult acne
(my skin has never been better)
My allergies have improved. I am a healthy human being. I am not sharing this to make a medical claim. I am sharing this because if you have tried everything and been told there's nothing more that can be done. I want you to know that I sat in that exact chair, and I am not in it anymore.
I tell every client the same thing: I don't heal you. Your body heals you. I just help create the conditions for that to happen.
Spinal Flow and Reiki are complementary practices. These personal results are not a guarantee of outcomes for any client.
Today, I practice a mile from my house and I smile everyday when I go to work.
High Vibes Healing Center is based in Ellicott City, Maryland. I'm a certified Spinal Flow Practitioner and Reiki Master, and I see clients from across Howard County, the Baltimore area, and as far away as Pennsylvania.
In the last 18 months, I've delivered over 550 Spinal Flow sessions and worked with clients navigating chronic pain, anxiety, depression, mold exposure, stage 4 cancer, post-injury recovery, and more. My youngest clients have been teenagers. My oldest was 93.
After 20 plus years in corporate environments spanning GE Capital, PepsiCo, and the cannabis industry, I finally have a purpose I've never had before. And it is the best feeling in the world.
I'm not looking to fill a calendar. I'm looking to fill two tables with people who are ready to do something different.
If that's you, I'd love to talk.
Most people who come in ask about the animals on the walls. They were painted by my mother, who is a genuinely talented artist, and someone I am very close to. Having her work in my space feels right. They set the tone in a way I never could have planned. They are a big part of the vibe.