After 10 years of acupuncture training and schooling, 1000’s of dollars spent, hours of time, building a practice, and treating people, I walked away from it all  and here’s why…

GOD

Let’s back up a bit.

Because I wasn’t raised in the church I was in my 20’s before I found Jesus and became baptized.  From there, I fell in love with Jesus, began frequenting church and felt peace and love like never before.  I became fascinated with this spiritual connection, but in time found myself slipping further and further from the word.

But why?

I asked many questions in those days and my pastor, christian friends, and others could not seem to provide the answers.  I was immature, uninformed, and had no real basis of understanding in Christianity.  I believed all churches were Christian and found myself attending various “spiritual” churches.

These churches often embraced all religions and I was going down a long path that would steer me further and further from Christianity and Jesus.

I was also simultanesouly becoming enthralled with the study of how the body heals itself.  My desire for holistic medicine was born.

Through my own health struggles around sports injuries and digestive issues, I steered more in the direction of natural health and healing, but further from Christianity.

This wasn’t a necessary split, but one that developed nonetheless.

I found myself succumbing to the “new thought” movement only I wasn’t aware.  I still felt I was on a path to God.

Over the years, I studied more and more spirituality and healing.  I studied energy work, yoga, chakras, ancient philosophies, crystals, herbology, tarot, astrology and obtained a Masters Degree in Acupuncture.

I came to believe I had a gift and I was on the truest path to God and healing.  I honestly believed in the good I was doing to help myself and others.

I had no idea I was dabbling in dark arts or witchcraft.  Many of these spiritual practices are not marketed in this way and I believe most people I know and encountered in these studies had the best of intentions to help others as well.

For 20+ years, I chased the false promises of this spiritual connection.  I actively became more and more submerged only to be disappointed time and again.  I couldn’t help the feeling of digging in deeper and deeper without any concept of how to turn back.

I was becoming lost, having serious ups and downs, struggling with finances, relationships, and even purpose.  I knew I wanted to help people, so I continued to rely on these practices in hopes that true connection and life would be born from them.

The years were flying by and I was exhausted.  I found myself completely defeated and one fateful evening it all came crashing down for me.  I knew I was living a facade only it was really challenging to understsand how and why.

This confusion is the norm for the “spiritual” path.  Its deception is incredibly blinding.  It feeds the mind with half-truths and principals.  The problem being the most important and only necessary component was missing – Jesus!

Jesus lifted my vail shortly after my realization and the very next day I was throwing away crystals, books, texts, documents.  I retired my book.  I changed my physical surroundings.  I bought a new Bible.  I started immersing myself in the word and teachings, in video and conversation.  I found a church and in one powerful choice, recommitted and dedicated my life to Christ.

It took great courage to walk away from various streams of income and my acupuncture practice, but God was with me each and every step of the way.

Now with my experience and wisdom through God, I can indeed help others in a very real way and with a very clean conscious.

Healing, health, and wellness is very much still my passion and love and now I am anew in Christ.