Suffering terribly with anxiety and depression, my life became too painful to continue, as I could see no other way out. When I met Monica and she performed Reiki on me, I was sceptical at first but I was so desperate, I was willing to try anything. The improvement in my health immediately after some of the sessions slowly turned me around. The calmness and spirituality I felt was like nothing I remember since I was a carefree child.

Just as important to my recovery was to unlearn all the bad habits that most of us get from early childhood and hold on to for the rest of our lives, not realising that it doesn’t have to be that way. Blaming everyone and everything for making your life miserable is like a bad drug habit. When you slowly start to take back the power over your moods, there is an opportunity to truly change your life for the better. No excuses. Monica led me through these stages of rediscovery back to the person that got lost due to the stresses of life. She gave me the opportunity, after the most terrible time of my life, to enjoy life again. For this I will always be grateful.

Sincerely,

Anthony Arena

About two years ago, Monica Dwyer walked into my hairdressing salon and said something that would change my life forever. In my now 12 year long marriage, I had developed a feeling of anger, resentment and frustration and it was overflowing into my life in every way. I felt so guilty for all of these emotions, and was blaming my husband for creating them. But because of my anger and frustration, I desperately needed to change. So I read every self-help book I could find hoping to find the answer, something to fix me. I would try to do what they suggested, but something would set me off, and I would fail at being a new person. I felt frustration and guilt; my husband would point out that such and such book doesnt seem to be working.
I hated the anger, I hated the guilt, I hated me! I felt my husband was always picking on me; nothing I did was ever good enough, and he never listens to me. I told all this to Monica and her response was kind of hard to hear.
Monica: "What is so important that you have to say?"
Me: "I need him to listen to me, I need him to leave me alone."
Monica: " Why would he listen to you when you don't listen to you? You think nothing you do is good enough, not him!"
Thats about all I heard, how wrong could she be, it was him making me feel this not way, not me!
But that night Monica convinced me to come and have some Reiki. Explaining in words what Reiki did for is hard, but i'll try.

As I layed on the bed, I was feeling guilty, thinking of all the things i should be doing; shopping, cleaning ect. I tried to relax but theses thoughts kept coming. I was worrying so much I was unaware of Monica until something happened; I saw the most beautiful colours of purple and pink. Monica's hands where so warm and i started to feel calm, the purple triangle i saw made me smile and feel happy. But then it disappeared and the thoughts of what I should be doing returned. I want the purple lights to return, I want that "happy" feeling back. I searched my closed eyes...
When it did return something inside me asked me why I didn't love myself enough to give myself this time off? Why don't I deserve to stay with this happy feeling for a while.
I could feel tears in my eyes, but i helf them; I didnt want Monica to see. Something told me I did still love my husband, but I realized that the person I didn't want to listen to was me. I was trying so hard to change me, I had forgotten to love me, for all that I was.
When I sat up Monica told me I was a beautiful person and that I just needed to love myself; then the tears came, but they were tears of relief. I realized I didn't need to be fized, I knew what I wanted was to learn to see myself with the same love and acceptance that I see when I look into my children's eyes.
Reiki helped me to own my own feelings and emotions and has opened my heart back up to me.

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