Back to honor your true story Podcast. I’m Antonia Nelson. And we’ve been talking about how, how it is when we need challenges in our life. You know, there’s a fork in the road or something comes up and you know, how it shows up what it looks like, what it feels like, how we need it, or how we don’t need it. And you know, what is our response to it? So today, our guest is someone who is has been through a lot of those things. And she’s going to share with us her life and some of her true stories. Her name is Katie style. Welcome, Katie.
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Yeah. It’s wonderful to have you. Katie has a master’s degree in clinical social work. She has experience in various settings including case management, counseling, supervision, organization, management, and macro level practice. Her work history led her to seek alternative ways to heal burnout and sleep deprivation. And after reading all those things that you were you’ve been working on, I’m like, Man, I need a day up. I know that getting a master’s degree in anything is a big deal and it takes a lot of work. And a lot of discipline to stick with it. And and you have done that. And so I would love to hear about your story. And whatever you’d like to share about, you know, the challenges that that came up in your life that you were you had to look at

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Yeah, there’s definitely so many hours in a day that you can fit so many things and I I started wanting to go for my master’s degree to be a counselor at that time, I had worked in foster care and with homeless populations, and I felt that it would want to continue that journey. And I noticed through the process of getting a master’s degree I was working, I was doing an internship and I was going to school. And so at the end of it, I didn’t realize how many times I just in order to do something I would stay up an hour or two or I would go wake up early to get things accomplished. And so that took a toll on my body and I was looking into medications and as a social worker, you often look at research medications that your client is taking just to make sure that their behaviors are on track or if there’s any alerts that you need to be aware of. And so I was doing research on sleep medications. I was doing all sorts of research on what I could do like with like take melatonin or things like that and that just didn’t work out for me. And so I ended up speaking with a mentor that was my supervisor for my clinical social work internship. And she actually suggested sound healing. And I just did a couple sessions. And I just noticed the immediate improvement. I noticed that I used to have I guess it would be called anxiety but it was kind of racing thoughts where I just would think about multiple things in my brain. What I needed to do that day, different, just like it wasn’t like a calm thinking it was more about rapid, rapid, circular thinking, as being a thought was always like what what am I going to do next? What’s the next step? And so I noticed what the sound healing it very much calmed. That rapid thinking and I was able to just experience life in a calm way. And I noticed that the rapid thought process that I had kind of just shut off. And then I was able to just observe life and just calmly moved towards my next step. And I ended up just liking energy healing a lot. I wasn’t familiar with that concept. I know in school I talked to a lot of Native American furnace, First Nation people within my experiences and I learned a lot about energy healing, but I still not sure what it meant just because at that time, I was very much an advocate for mental health and just self care and that process, but actually going through another modality of healing really opened up my eyes to other energy healing, so I practice shamanism, or I went to a shaman to receive healing and I also tried Reiki but I ended up just loving it so much that I wanted to train him or Reiki so that’s how I started and then So

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