Name: Lift Your Spirit
Item: Lift Your Spirit
Author: Helen Grinder

How long have you been doing what you do, and how did you become a Healing Facilitator?

To answer this question, it’s probably best that I share with you a defining moment, and resulting “compelling story”, that brought me to where I am today – facilitating healing by giving women the tools they need to heal themselves.

That defining moment in my life happened in 2006.

I was a high school teacher and I had a nervous breakdown. I ended up with clinical depression. I was put on antidepressant medication – which I didn’t take because I didn’t like the idea of taking chemicals into my body.

Let me back up. You see, years earlier, the idea of Reiki had been put in my mind when a friend of mine was terminally ill with cancer. I used to go see her every single day after work until she finally relented and went into Hospice. While in Hospice, the last time I was to see her, she asked me to rub her back. I didn’t realize how skeletal she was. In rubbing her back, I accidentally hurt her.

I just knew there was something better that I could have done for her. Had I used Reiki at that time, it could have helped. Though I didn’t know what Reiki was back then, the Universe was sending me a message. If you don’t pay attention, the Universe will whack you on the head a bit. I eventually listened.

So in order to heal myself from my clinical depression, I started complementary therapy. I trained in Reiki and Indian head massage. I became a Reiki Master Teacher in 2010.

I then developed the skills in Reiki while working as a volunteer therapist at the Hospice. This opened me up to my own spirituality and spiritual development. Since then, I’ve collected other healing modalities such as meditation, mindfulness, Inner Child and Ancestral Healing. I became a Reiki addict – and I’m quite evangelical. I want everyone to experience Reiki and I love training new Reiki Warriors. I have put all my experiences into a wellbeing course that brings 7 key tools to Well being combined with specially recorded meditations.

For the last 25 years, my husband and I have been renovating a 12th century monastery in France. There we offer women-only retreat where I provide the space for them to heal whatever needs to be healed. By removing them from their everyday pressures, they can have quality time with themselves. The people who really need that are the ones who tend to never take care of themselves. The very people who will benefit the most from coming are the very people who are afraid to be “selfish” and look after themselves. I’m on a mission to wake these women up to “put their oxygen mask on first” and find themselves.

I cleaned up my past and started teaching Reiki and helping women learn how they can do the same: I watched them become healers in their own right too! I have since made a commitment to dedicate the rest of my professional life to helping other women find that hidden gem that’s been covered over many lifetimes of shit, get comfortable putting themselves first, and become the person that they truly are.

Since then, I’ve worked with many private clients, spoken in front of countless groups: I lived my dream of seeing my beloved monastery renovations completed and attracting a stream of women who come to my retreats and take that beautiful energy with them to change the world; and I have created The Lift Your Spirit, Heal Your World™, a series of Reiki, healing, and well-being practices that every woman needs to apply to be the person she came here to be.

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