What I Didn’t Know My Nervous System Was Saying—Until I Walked Away from the Queen Mary
I didn’t know I was unraveling until I walked away from the work I was once known for.
For years, I held the title of resident psychic medium aboard the famously haunted Queen Mary. I led paranormal investigations, channeled spirit messages, and held space for stories that never got to be told. From the outside, it seemed like a dream—unconventional, exciting, deeply meaningful.
But inside?
My nervous system was quietly screaming for help.
What most people didn’t see was the slow erosion of my own energy. The nights I couldn’t sleep. The days I felt disoriented and heavy. The strange, unshakable sense that something was attached to me—not just from the spirit world, but from the unprocessed parts of myself I was too busy to face.
Leaving the Queen Mary wasn’t just a career pivot.
It was a reckoning.
It was the beginning of a healing journey that would reshape my relationship with my body, my energy, and my sense of safety. That journey eventually led me to Reiki and sound healing, among other holistic modalities—not as buzzwords, but as essential practices that helped me slowly come back to myself.
Let’s Talk Briefly About Our Nervous System
The nervous system isn’t just a biological system—it’s the foundation of how we feel safe in the world.
When it’s overwhelmed, it can’t tell the difference between a life-or-death emergency and the emotional weight of grief, burnout, trauma, or constant overstimulation. You don’t have to be in crisis to have a dysregulated system. You just have to be human in today’s world.
That’s why modalities like Reiki and sound healing are more than “wellness trends.” They’re ways of helping the body remember how to rest. How to regulate. How to heal.
So What Is Reiki?
If you’re not familiar yet with Reiki, it is an energy healing practice that originated in Japan through the teachings of Dr. Mikao Usui. It’s based on the idea that “life force energy” (what some call prana or chi) flows through all of us—and when that energy becomes blocked or stagnant, we feel it. Physically. Emotionally. Spiritually.
In a Reiki session, nothing is forced. The practitioner simply becomes a channel, offering energy where it’s needed most. Clients often describe a sense of peace, warmth, or emotional release. Interestingly enough some feel nothing at all in the moment—only to realize later that something subtle and meaningful has shifted.
In the simplest of ideas, Reiki doesn’t promise to fix you—it invites you back to the part of you that knows how to heal.
Why Sound Healing Works So Deeply
As you know, sound is vibration—and so are we. This understanding has been around for thousands of years, rooted in ancient wisdom. And now, modern science has confirmed it at a quantum level. For me, that connection between ancient knowing and scientific validation changed everything—it gave me a beautiful new perspective on what true healing really means.
When you’re immersed in sound—through crystal singing bowls, chimes, or intentional tones—your brain begins to shift out of high-alert beta waves into the slower, more restorative alpha and theta states. These are the same states associated with meditation, deep relaxation, and subconscious healing.
Sound baths help regulate the nervous system, calm the mind, and bring your energy back into harmony. Most people don’t realize how much they’re holding until they feel it begin to melt away.
How Hypnotherapy Helps
Along my path, I also discovered the profound power of hypnotherapy—and it quickly became a missing piece I didn’t know I needed.
Hypnotherapy works by gently guiding the mind into a relaxed, focused state where the subconscious becomes more accessible. And it’s often the subconscious—not our logical mind—that holds the old beliefs, fears, and emotional imprints keeping us stuck in survival patterns.
Through this work, I realized that healing the nervous system isn’t just about calming the body—it’s also about updating the inner narratives that were shaped by past pain. Hypnotherapy allowed me (and now my clients) to access those deeper layers of healing with more compassion, clarity, and sustainable change.
It’s not about mind control—it’s about giving your own soul more room to breathe.
That’s why I chose to integrate hypnotherapy into my Rise & Thrive program alongside Reiki, sound healing, and meditation. Because real healing, I believe, happens when we work with both the body and the subconscious mind in partnership.
This Work Wasn’t a Luxury—It’s Was My Lifeline
Hypnosis, Reiki and sound healing didn’t just help me rest—they helped me remember who I am. They gave me the space to process what I hadn’t had time to feel. They helped me soften back into my body after years of living not only in between worlds, but in my head.
Now, I share this work with others, not because it’s trendy, but because I’ve lived its impact. That lived experience became the foundation for Rise & Thrive—my 7-week chakra-based journey that weaves together hypnotherapy, energy work through visualizations and breath, guided meditation, nervous system support, and soul-rooted reflection.
It was born from my own healing path, and created for anyone ready to move beyond survival and reconnect with the deeper truth of who they are.
It’s not about fixing who you are.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been.
I also offer gentle one-on-one sessions in Phoenix and twice-monthly free virtual sound baths + guided meditations as a gift back to the collective. Because I know what it’s like to lose yourself—and find your way back, one breath at a time.
Your body knows….your nervous system remembers…and your soul is always leading you home.
If you’re curious about how Reiki, sound, or Rise & Thrive might support your journey, I’d love to chat. Book a free discovery call or simply come to a sound bath and feel it for yourself. No pressure. Just presence.
With so much love,
Erika