Josslyn’s Story

“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.  What we need is to love without getting tired.  Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”       Mother Teresa

Josslyn’s Story- the long version……

I am what many call, a wounded healer.  My soul choose to come into this body and heal many different issues from many different lives that have already been worked on, but not completely healed. ]Therefore, my soul set up many ‘healing opportunities’ in this life, kind of one after the other and all running in together.   As a wounded healer when I heal myself, I take that opportunity to learn, turn around and teach others.   I was born with natural gifts but didn’t know how to use them; Reiki taught me how to use them to help myself and others heal. Now I teach others how to heal themselves and work with their intuitive gifts. This is my soul path and what I love.

My healing opportunities have come from all levels of myself; physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.  I suffered from trauma as a child, sexual abuse, mental and emotional  childhood abuse and invisible chronic illness as well.  I also suffered from a severe depression on and off since I was a child and on into adulthood.  I was a very sensitive child, anxious, often sick and hated crowds or big events.  (check out the “Clairsentient” Page)  Even the idea of going to a birthday party with friends would make me so anxious I’d often feel too sick to go.  I never felt like I fit in anywhere but tried very hard to fit in, only to constantly fail at it, at least in my own mind.   I often felt like an alien, even in my own family.  I had no idea I was an emotional and a physical empath; which means I pick up people’s emotions and physical body ailments and FEEL them all.  Now, I’m able to help other empaths and highly sensitive people learn how to live a better life with their gifts intact and functioning to help them heal and learn.  In fact my Reiki classes through the years have become empath survival classes as well and intuitive training.  I have also been through the gamut with grief and now help others through intense and complicated grieving.

When the traditional medical route didn’t work for my sensitive body, I found alternative medicine.  First I tried Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs, energy work, then hypnotherapy and on from there have tried everything I could possibly find and afford; homeopathy, reflexology, shamanic healing, energy healing, chiropractic, kinesiology, Bio-Feedback, EFT, Energy Psychology, and more. I spent much time doing Past Life Regression with a psychic hypnotherapist with much success and an added education in intuition visioning.  And soon after decided to learn more about hypnotherapy myself.  I went to school for two years to learn how to heal myself at the same time to maybe be able to help others as well with the power of the mind.   When I learned Reiki I found out I could do everything with Reiki and ThetaHealing that I was doing with hypnotherapy and more; and long distance too; so I switched to doing more Reiki and less hypnotherapy.  Through my healing journey I was learning to heal the depression not only as a physical illness but also a spiritual one as well.  That, I figured out, was the part that Western Medicine was missing; a whole body, mind, emotion, spirit healing.   But I wanted to heal to the source of the illness and sometimes that is in another place or time.

Through this life I’ve lived many lifetimes.  I have survived abuse, depression, chronic illness, the loss of both parents and in 2017 a car crash that took the life of my husband and oldest child, Robby.  My youngest child and I were left with wounds we’ll be healing years ongoing.  I survived caring for abusive people and grieving them when they passed.  Through everything I strive to be in the moment.  Being in the emotion, not ignoring it or denying it is a whole new process Reiki has taught me and it’s my path through the trauma to healing.  In my work, I’m able to take all the trauma, all the pain and turn it into healing possibilities for myself and others.  I am able to ‘move’ a great deal of old trauma energy fast and easily to help others.  I’m able to mentor and support people through grief, abuse, illness, ancestor healing, inner child work, you name it, I’ve experienced it.  Most of all, Reiki and IEH (Intuitive Energy Healing) have taught me how to create and hold a strong channel to Source and how to channel the information and healing energy the person needs exactly in the moment they are with me.  Whatever my client is ready to heal, I’m ready with my Reiki Source to help them through it.  I can help you heal whatever your soul is ready for.

Finding MY Spirituality

Through this search I found spirituality, My God, a God of Love and Light that made sense to me.  Through this search I found better physical health through my medicine, natural medicine, that works for me.  And through this search I found ENERGY! A mentor taught me to FEEL the energy with my hands.  For the first time ever in my life there was a MAGICAL INVISIBLE WORLD right here on earth.  I was astounded and thoroughly excited.  It opened up my mind to a whole new way of being, living and believing.  Divine Energy being the glue that holds all these things together.  Energy, being the energy of ALL THAT IS, being all-pervasive in our lives, our earth, our universe.  I had to know more.  I had to learn everything I could about it.  That search led me to REIKI!

Reiki

I fell in love with Reiki during my very first class and the love affair continues to this day.  During my search for a “cure” to depression I had many days when I felt quite useless.  I knew this was not how I was supposed to spend this life but I wasn’t clear on HOW I was supposed to spend it.  So I prayed.  I prayed a lot.  I had never prayed in my life prior, not being raised with any spiritual beliefs.   But, I had recently found my Creator so I prayed to my Source to give me a gift so I could help others.  I prayed this same prayer for years during the time of healing myself and raising my kids.  One day, my guides told me to take a Reiki class.   I didn’t even know it then, but my prayers were answered on that day.  I was shown my gift in this life.  I right away was able to run a whole lot of energy.  The “sensitivities” that I’d had all my life that had felt so much like a curse, suddenly turned into beautiful intuitive gifts during healing sessions.  (Clairsentient Page) Friends and clients I was working on soon started feeling better and reporting back that the information I’d gotten for them during healing sessions was accurate and “right on” as they would say.  I was amazed and astounded but mainly I was extremely grateful!  I had finally found a place where I fit in.  Through Reiki I knew myself for the first time.  It changed my life completely!

Our Big Journey

A Life has many journeys within it.  When my kids were still not in school yet, my husbands parents both passed away.  Robert’s mom had been in a vegetative state for almost nine years from a heart issue.  The stress of this had taken its toll on his father and he went to the light soon after his wife.  There was a time of major grieving and transition for the family.  Soon after we needed a big change.  We had talked for years about moving out of the L.A. suburbs but wouldn’t leave as long as his parents were alive and needed us close.  But someday we knew we would find our own place.  The traffic, crowds, smog and overactivity of the L.A., Orange County lifestyle was too much for me.  It wasn’t good for my health and seeing already our kids being as sensitive as their mom, it wouldn’t be good for them either.

Robert came up with the idea of traveling the country in a trailer to search the whole country for a new place to live.  After much crazy debating, we decided not to live by fear and went for it.  We rented out our house, bought a truck and trailer, packed up the family and traveled for 14 months looking for our perfect place to live.  The biggest lesson we learned on this trip with two young kids, a wife/mom with depression, a dog, two cats and a really big trailer in tow was one of trust and faith.  When we allowed God to direct our trip and just rolled with the flow, everything went great and was quite magical.  When we tried to control the trip, everything would fall apart.  We quickly learned that we were not in charge and just allowed the trip to unfold on its own.  (go to our website about the trip with photos)  That is how we found one of the most beautiful places on earth, the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington State.

Sequim, WA, Lavender Capital of Our Country

On the big trip around the country we found and moved to Sequim, WA.  (More on home page about Sequim) Sequim is about 2.5 hours west of Seattle and 1 hour east of Forks, where the Vampires life.  It is in a banana belt or sun belt where the Olympic Mountain range to our south gets all the rain and we get more sun.  It’s the beach meats the mountains and is incredibly beautiful.  If you like hiking, biking, boating, fishing, crabbing or other outdoor sports, you’ll love Sequim.  It is a rural area and there is not much activity for city slickers here; just lots of extremely beautiful nature.  Eventually my Divine Guidance told me to make a website, and write it and design it myself.  I’m low tech, but my Reiki Guides helped me, actually they did most of it.  And, here it is.  For all to read if they find it.  Totally organic, totally me, totally flawed and beautiful too!!

My Whole World Changes Yet Again…

In July of 2017 our family was on vacation in Sedona traveling to Robert’s family reunion in Colorado when, during a Colorado downpour, a reckless driver weaving in and out of traffic at an excessive speed hydroplaned, crossed over to our side and hit our car head on.  My husband who was driving died instantly.  My son Robby (age 16 3/4) died soon after in the ER.  I was flown to the trauma hospital in Denver and was not expected to live or maybe be braindead.  My family was starting to make arrangements.  My youngest child was in the hospital for two weeks and is very private so you will hear rarely about them.  I survived with much spiritual help from my Reiki team on the other side.  My medical team at the hospital did their best with this highly sensitive empathic psychic weirdo.  I received Reiki in the hospital as often as I was allowed by some hospital staff who were attuned to Reiki but said they are not asked for it very often.  Mostly because people probably don’t know it’s available, I think.  My best friend moved into the hospital with me to be my advocate and I swear I might not be alive if it wasn’t for her.  It was a huge soul gift she gave, her taking care of me.  She fought for me, did Reiki on me daily, communicated with family and friends for me, posted on social media  and SO much more.  She continued to take care of me after the crash and then when I started teaching again she was by my side in that as well.  Reiki has brought the most amazing people into my life and continues to do so.

I lived. I continue to diligently heal due to my injuries and lifelong chronic illness; it’s tricky but it’s my life, my path.    But, after about a year of being energetically cocooned by my spirit team, I was unwrapped and miraculously able to run Reiki again and do all my spiritual work; and then some.  There is way too much to be said about the years after of healing and growing and will continue my whole life.  Life continues to challenge me in other big ways and I’m able to go with the flow better and take it as it comes better.  I’m a better person thanks to Reiki and the struggles I’ve lived through and faced head on.  I’ve learned more about myself and the world.  I would never choose what happened to me and my family, but I’ve survived and I’m working on healing towards thriving.

The Right Fit

If you’ve read this long story this far there is certainly a reason.  Thank you for reading my thoughts and  words and hopefully you felt a connection to my story.  If you feel I am the healer or reader you’d like to work with and are ready for your own healing journey, then give me a call and lets talk.  I like to get to know people and see if it’s a good fit on both sides.  I continue the process of healing myself but have gotten to a point in life where I can help others too.  I’m now able to see the depression as a HUGE GIFT from GOD.  It got me back on my path, a path I never would have even thought of myself.  For that I am eternally grateful.  Divine always has a plan for us.  All we have to do is TRUST and LISTEN!  I learned how, now I can help you with that too.

If what you’ve read resonates with you, then email us or give us a call and let’s set up an appointment.

Love and Light to you,

I look forward to working with many of you,

Josslyn

360-460-7829 or info@rainshadowreiki.com

“Not all of us can do great things.  But, we can do small things with great love.”

Mother Teresa