LIKE MAGIC

INTRODUCTION Miracles happen every day. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you. – Jon Bon Jovi This is what I know for sure: No matter what your present circumstances may be, you can transform your life to reflect the highest expression of who you are. Even if you think your life is perfect, there is an even more perfect version of your life for you to access. I am living proof that your reality can change. Ten years ago, I was wobbling on the brink of death. Today, I’m living my best life. And it just keeps getting better. I also know it is no accident that you have picked up this book and are thumbing through its pages. Part of you is curious. Another part of you is longing for more joy, more love, and more abundance. You yearn to experience a soul-driven life. We are a lot alike, and I am here to cheer you on. You are the reason I have written this book. LIKE MAGIC: How Space Clearing Transformed My Life, is a memoir of self-discovery. It is the story of how I broke free from circumstances that were going to kill me, then resumed my journey to awaken my authenticity and reconnect to my soul. My journey to reclaim my inner truth, my sovereignty, has been long and arduous, and it is not over yet. I have ventured down numerous spiritual paths and have received teaching from a variety of schools of metaphysical and esoteric learning. That is why I like to describe myself as a spiritual cross-trainer. My spiritual cross-training began in my twenties, not long after I gave birth to my daughter. In recent years, I have heard it said by other energy workers that their abilities emerged with motherhood. And like those intuitive women, during my first few years as a mother I began to experience my inner awareness and mediumship abilities. In my case, opening my psychic awareness happened on a whim. A friend invited me to join her in enrolling in an evening continuing education class entitled, Experience Your ESP. The teacher was an Irish psychic healer, and by the end of the year, I was seeing and interacting with the spirit world. I might have become a professional psychic medium at that time. But circumstances put a halt to me taking that direction. When my daughter was barely three, I became a single mother. With this responsibility, a long hiatus of disconnection from my spiritual journey began. I needed to support my child and myself. We needed to eat, have a home, have health insurance. My seeking for my personal magic was put on the back burner. Although I remained highly sensitive to my surroundings and other people, I was required by my life-situation to function in the mundane world. At least that’s the way I perceived it then. So, I began a deep and long immersion into living the expected American lifestyle. Most of the people I knew were following this path. Although I was aware that I was sacrificing my truth, I could see no way out. After my daughter entered college, I married again. Over the course of thirteen years, I found myself entrapped in an abusive marriage. Happiness had long been forgotten. I was experiencing, what is often referred to as, the dark night of the soul. Even within this darkness and despair, I understood that if I didn’t take some action I would surely die. I wavered on that precipice between life and death for quite a while before something inside me impelled me to take a leap of faith. With eyes wide open, I leaped into unknown territory. Once there, I realized I now had the freedom to pick up where I’d left off so many years ago. And that’s exactly what I did. To live as my authentic self had always been my goal. I’d just lost track of who I was for a very long while. After leaving behind my identity as a battered woman, I was ready to continue seeking for my personal truth. Teachers began to appear, as did the experiences needed to get me moving toward reclaiming my authenticity. I began delving into Wicca, various versions of shamanism, Chinese spiritual medicine, dowsing, multi-sensory awareness, energy medicine, and Reiki. But when I discovered Space Clearing, I found that I had an innate ability for transforming the energy of spaces. Space Clearing was my super power. I was creating magical outcomes for myself and others. Space Clearing is what I do. I work with the invisible realms of energy and Spirit. It gives me joy and reminds me every day that I am passionately reclaiming my birth right. (Note: I use the word Spirit, but it is interchangeable with God, Allah, Creator, Universe, etc., whatever word is true for you.) Some of you may not know what Space Clearing is. I didn’t when it first was brought to my attention. I tell my clients that Space Clearing is the act of releasing the accumulated energetic clutter – the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that are blocking your ability to shine. Then, as the energetic balance returns within you and your home, a renewed sense of clarity and peace can be embodied. New opportunities and relationships begin to show up unexpectedly. A Space Clearing can even offer an aha moment about your life’s purpose and how to pursue it. It can provide you with the opportunity to create a future that is so much more expansive than the one you are headed for right now. That is what it did for me.