About Me
Hello! Thanks for stopping by and getting to know me a little better. I am a lover of all things spiritual and self-healing! I have animals (dogs, horses, and a ferret) and an 11 year old son that I homeschool so we can go on vacation and explore the world! I am in recovery and offer both my education and lived experience to my clients and peers. My passions are art, traveling, nature, astrology, numerology, and metaphysics.
My History with Addictions
I have struggled with addiction and mental health most of my life. I had suicidal thoughts, abused substances for years trying to deal with the trauma and mental health that debilitated me on a daily basis. Then after at least deciding I wanted to live and no longer using substances in my 20’s, I dealt with the lasting depression and anxiety along with sprinkled co-dependence and toxic relationship patterns for another 8 years into my sobriety. Despite that struggle, I knew I wanted to help others with their addiction and develop a more effective program for substance abuse in my career. So, I went to school (seemed like for forever) and earned a master’s degree in addiction counseling.
Later in My Recovery
Throughout my sobriety and years of earning my Master’s, I never seemed to be fully happy with where I was. I always felt uneasy, looking out for the next trigger and trying to stay afloat in life. I also never felt like I was doing “good enough”. My perfectionism and need to plan every detail of my life made me feel safe in recovery but robbed me of the happiness and freedom of just existing in this life and loving every minute. So, my mental health was “stabilizing”, and I was sober, but I was still surviving and not thriving.
Becoming A Healer
Then I found energy/quantum healing and metaphysics and my entire world was changed. I no longer felt like an “addict” in recovery. I became a calm mom, a more balanced mom, and a person who flows with life and lives a life that’s aligned with what I love and feels good to me. I attribute that to metaphysical healing and learning about spiritual growth.
I became an energy healer because I want others to experience that as well and now use energy healing in my coaching and therapy for those wanting to thrive in life and heal from substance use and mental health. Energy healing is a multitude of practices and techniques including bioenergetic resonance frequencies, reiki, emotional release techniques, clearing Chinese meridians, and using sound and vibration for healing and releasing emotions, trauma, and old patterns.
Becoming A Therapist, Speaker/Trainer, and Coach
While working as a substance use therapist in recovery, I discovered there are many things we therapists in recovery are not prepared for or get proper support with in this journey of being a wounded healer. So I decided to support my fellow peers with coaching and programs that support them in navigating being in recovery while they are helping others heal in recovery as well. As a person in recovery, I recognized how the treatment programs and system, as it is now, does not meet the client’s needs.
So I embarked on the mission of training and teaching treatment programs how to better serve clients through both improving clinician wellness and incorporating harm reduction and spiritual health and wellness in their treatment programs for clients. As a speaker and trainer, I have the opportunity to motivate others into taking action and making change in the world. And that feels amazing!
About Holistic Recovery Services
Holistic Recovery Services aims to help people who are struggling with addiction and mental wellness, using metaphysical healing techniques with traditional therapy perspectives. The approach is holistic where the mind, body, spirit, and heart are healed together, giving the most potent medicine to the wholeness of the person, from where they are now and supporting where they want to go.
The Therapy Services Included
Services include therapy services for North Dakota residents (soon to be expanding to other states). Therapy services offered at this time are evaluations for the purpose of DUI and court, outpatient treatment services, maintenance and recovery maintenance services, DUI seminars, individual and group therapy for both adults and adolescents, and family services aimed at supporting the healing of the entire family with the complexities of relational wounds and hurts that happen during addictions.
Services For Agencies and Trainings
Speaker, trainings, and coaching services are available as well to therapists in recovery, agencies and treatment programs, and wellness events and conferences that help support the mission of recovery and healing!
My service are for you if
You’ve tried different things (eg: medication, normal therapy, books, self-help, diets) for recovery and feel it’s not enough
You are wanting next level healing for yourself, breaking free from the patterns of addictions
You are ready to awaken to your purpose and mission on this planet and for the betterment of humanity and addiction has been a barrier for you
You are excited about metaphysical healing for your journey and are committed to breaking free from the old paradigm of living
How Holistic Recovery Services gives back
Our mission is to help those that are suffering. This is especially true for those that cannot afford access to high quality services to receive the help that will make a different in their lives. Everyone should be able to access quality alternative healing options. To do this, I donate 5% of revenue from coaching programs to sponsoring an individual to receive the same high-quality program at a reduced or free cost. This equates to about 2 people per year receiving completely free services or 4 people receiving 50% sponsorship!