i've always been intuitive. from around 14, i could sense things before i had language for them. i felt everything deeply and picked up on energy easily, but i didn't know yet how to hold that without it overwhelming me.

by my late teens i was struggling hard with my mental health. panic attacks most days, depression, anxiety, thoughts that wouldn't let up. at the same time, i was navigating autoimmune illness, pcos and endometriosis, still am. living in a body that could turn on you without warning forced me to actually understand stress, emotion and energy, not as concepts, but as things happening in my body in real time.

when i was 17, my mum took me into a crystal shop. what started as curiosity became something deeper fast. i remember holding certain stones and feeling steadier. not fixed. steadier. when you're living with daily panic attacks, that's not nothing.

i started buying what i was drawn to, but guessing is exhausting when you're already struggling. some crystals helped. some didn't. that's when it shifted, i stopped collecting and started working with them properly, placing them around my home, wearing them daily, building small rituals, not for how they looked, but for actual nervous system regulation and grounding.

it was the daily, intentional part that changed things. my panic attacks reduced. my anxiety became something i could actually manage. the depression lifted, slowly. i stopped feeling powerless in my own body and started understanding it instead.

as this deepened, people started asking. friends first, then friends of friends, then strangers.

what i noticed was most people weren't struggling because crystals don't work. they were struggling because they were choosing them randomly, off a meaning they'd read online, or a trend, or what someone told them they should own. energy doesn't move in tidy categories like that. what supports anxiety isn't what supports heartbreak. what supports growth isn't what supports rest.

what i didn't understand until much later was that my intuition and the way my brain works were never two separate things.

i have dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia. nobody picked up on any of it until after i'd left school, so for years i just thought i was the one who couldn't keep up. turns out dyspraxic brains take the scenic route processing things, slower, non-linear, and that scenic route is exactly what lets me see how things connect when there's no obvious reason they should.

my intuition ran alongside that the whole time, long before i had a word for either one.

that combination, a brain built to find the pattern, and intuition that reads what's there before anything's been said, is where every reading i write comes from. i founded my sacred soul in 2021, and since then i've guided hundreds of women through exactly this. i later became a certified crystal healer, with distinction, but the real foundation was always the years before that, not the certificate.

before this business, i built something else, a following of over 105,000 people, sharing my outfits and my spiritual journey side by side. i hit that number and knew straight away it wasn't the life i actually wanted. so i quit, walked away from something public and built, because it had stopped being right.

i'm doing that again now. crystals are where this all began, and where a lot of my own healing genuinely happened, that part's not going anywhere from my story. but i've grown past the shop itself, so i'm closing it for good. not because it failed. because i've evolved, and the work has too. what stays exactly the same is the thing underneath all of it, reading energy accurately and helping people actually shift what they're carrying.

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