From Burnout To Balance
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We talk to the lovely Erin Kirby who is an empath, long-distance Reiki expert and creator of the transformational 1:1 coaching programme, Release and Reignite. She has been seeing energy since her childhood but chose to hide it, and in 2015, after working as a paralegal for a decade, the Universe led her back to her metaphysical abilities leading her to study Reiki and other energy modalities. Today, Erin helps holistic practitioners who feel that their empathic abilities interfere with their work. She helps them to integrate these abilities with their passion and purpose and draw on these as a superpower, allowing her clients to feel empowered and transmute energy to avoid burnout.
FROM BURNOUT TO BALANCE
Erin tells us how her move to Virginia with her paralegal work felt like she had come home. The Universe led her to a metaphysical store called Sacred Circle, where she found her people who helped reawaken her spiritual path. Through working with the people there, she discovered her natural ability for mediumship. She found in the group, that she could be her authentic self, learned that she was an empath and how this manifested for her – and that she wasn’t alone.
Erin’s own spiritual journey started to build momentum, as she began to explore crystal healings, Reiki and readings. This embracing of her inner-self led her to change her career and opened her up to receiving a series of 150 messages for a high-profile medium who she had only seen on TV. She eventually passed these on to the medium in person, and they became friends.
Erin shares a dramatic spiritual experience she had one evening. On her way to a Reiki treatment, she received a call from her sister telling her of the passing of Nelson Mandela. A huge admirer of Mandela, Erin was shaken. As she left the train and began walking down the street, she noticed that, as she passed them, the streetlights began to turn off, as did lights in the buildings and the Christmas lights! She arrived at Sacred Circle in shock and was told that she herself was making that happen: the energy from her emotions was causing a ‘brown out’ as she describes it, not quite a black out! She was at first daunted but also, as she had processed it, awestruck that our energy can have such a dramatic effect.
Erin tells us about her powerful relationship with crystals, and how she began to notice how they reacted to her energy, as well as her effect on electrical devices. She realised she was burning out working as a medium, since she was receiving so many messages. Erin decided to go into Reiki and Aura Therapy, and her 8-year journey led her to create Release and Reignite for therapists who are burning out, inspired by her own experience of burnout as a medium. Erin found that other empaths were feeling overwhelmed and being overtaken by the emotions or pain of their clients. Her programme encompasses everything Erin herself uses for self-care.
Erin talks about how she uses crystals and shares her favourite crystals to work with, which include Blue Tiger’s Eye (or Hawks Eye) and Labradorite. She finds Labradorite is great for new beginnings, and shares with us her process of infusing the Reiki treatments she offers with the energy of crystals. She also works intuitively with oils and tapping scripts and describes how this way of working came to her as a download. We discuss how working individually rather than following a methodology is almost like a gift from God, because you are tapping into your own unique wisdom as well as the energy of the client. Erin suggests Tiger’s Eye, Dragon’s Eye, Labradorite, clear quartz and selenite as great crystals to work with if you are an empath. Selenite in particular is wonderful to clear energy with as well as spaces, and as it is a self-clearing crystal it will clear the negative energy if it gets overloaded. Citrine also is powerful in raising energetic vibration. She reminds us that there is no low vibration crystal, and talks about our own unique soul vibrations, and how they manifest in the world.
We round this off with a chat about EFT Tapping a this really changed things for Erin after she took part in a tapping summit. She was feeling frustrated and erratic, and she decided to tap twice a day and found it to be life changing. She combines her tapping with affirmations and believes that it’s a wonderful way of releasing trapped energy. She also does this through moving her body and getting in contact with Nature. We discuss self-care and how important it is to find what works for you. As holistic practitioners we forget to love ourselves – but Erin reminds us we are our own responsibility too. If your cup is empty you can’t give to others! Erin asks: who heals the healer? Another healer! Erin believes we need to work together combining our skills and unique gifts to heal one another and shower ourselves in love.
To find out more and connect with Erin you can visit her LinkedIn profile.