My story
My name is Wendy and I’m a Reiki Practitioner and Teacher.
I’ve been practicing Reiki since May 2017 alongside my main job as a hospital midwife. My midwifery career ended late 2018 after working at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham for 29 years. Prior to this I worked in various areas at the same hospital as a nurse, starting my career aged 18 in 1983.
In mid 2014, I started to develop symptoms that have continued on to the present day. Pain and fatigue……the pain was widespread and often severe and I felt so exhausted and debilitated that after 4 years of struggling, I had to give up my job as a midwife in September 2018. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in November 2017 and after finishing work, rather than improve the ongoing pain and other symptoms got worse. It is fairly certain that this must have been stress related as I had never been out of work and thereafter followed a period of intense uncertainty whilst I traversed an awful period of time for the better part of a year where my future seemed quite bleak with worsening pain, fatigue and financial struggles. The last decade has been massively hard, facing physical, mental, emotional and financial strife and burdens. I can look back with certainty though and know the struggles have been buffered by the multiple benefits that I’ve enjoyed by utilising the Reiki System of Healing, either from learning skills and techniques or by sharing Reiki as a giver or receiver.
Coming out the other side, I am now adjusting to a completely new way of life, one that I’ve dreamed of having for a long time! I love helping others and along the way, I get to be the person I always wanted to be. Reiki is helping me to fulfil my dreams and I’m hoping to meet and help lots of other wonderful human beings along the way.
I’ve called my Reiki venture “Reiki Journeys with Wendy” because that’s exactly what it’s been, a wonderful journey! Throughout the last few years as I’ve trained and moved through the different Reiki levels, changes have occured within me that have helped me to develop mentally and spiritually. Utilising this wonderful system of healing has helped me to reach inside and get to know myself in ways that have meant there is always a clear route for access to calm balance and joy. Always knowing that everything will always be “ok”.
This is the reason why I want to share my knowledge and expertise with you!