My passion in life is to help make people, and animals, feel better; to feel better about themselves and to feel better about their relationships, choices and connections.
That sounds very simplistic doesn't it? But I know that I have something to offer people and animals who want to feel better!
I'm a Reiki Therapist. Reiki promotes healing, compassion and well-being. Reiki calms the mind and a calm mind offers the potential for physical and emotional healing. Reiki allows us to feel better. Reiki offers us a place of support, a place of harmony and of balance, from which to rebuild.
I spent many years being a shadow of my true self, I did things that I thought were expected of me and I did things that I thought would make people happy, but it never really occurred to me that I should perhaps look to what might make me happy.
I know what it's like to experience low self esteem.
I know what it's like to have an eating disorder.
I know what it's like to rely on food and alcohol to make me feel brave and confident.
I know what it's like to never feel good enough.
I know what it's like to not know my own mind and what I want, or do not want
I know what it's like to always put others first because I felt that my feelings and choices didn't count.
Turns out that non of those things really belonged to me. I'd just kind of picked them up along the way over the years and decided to hang on to them for some reason and, you know what, they had made me feel just awful about myself.
Would you like to feel better? Book an appointment using the ‘Book Now’ button at the top of the page or head on over to my website at www.jksunshine.com and check through the other pages there too and if you'd still like to make changes then get in touch and we can make a start!
It took a year or so of pretty much constant niggly ill health, redundancy and a relationship breakdown to bring me to a point where I realised that I couldn't continue like that any more.
I found Reiki initially as a client. It was 2012, I was having a second flare up of Shingles and orthodox medicine was not helping me with the emotional or the physical distress that I was experiencing.
I was recommended by a friend to try Reiki. I knew very little about it but I was so poorly that I made an appointment to see Reiki Master Sue Gessey. The session with Sue made an immediate impact upon my physical condition and I also noticed that I was feeling so much better on an emotional, and on a day-to-day, level. I hadn't realised how low I had been feeling until I started to feel better!
Once the Reiki energy started to flow and to clear the path for me to think more clearly, I was able to take decisive and significant steps which allowed me subsequently to create a new and fulfilling life path.
After a number of treatments I knew that I wanted to learn more and so I underwent Reiki Master training with the fabulous Sue Gessey in the Usui Shiki Ryoho lineage and I became a Reiki Therapist in 2013.
In April 2016 I travelled to the USA to continue my Reiki journey, this time in the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage, and I undertook Shinpiden Level III Teacher/Master training under the guidance of Frans Stiene of The International House of Reiki (IHR). The IHR teaches a non-modernised, form of Reiki from the original Japanese perspective and it's this System of Reiki that I now practise and teach.
I have always had great love and respect for animals and I have studied specific Animal Reiki training with Kathleen Prasad of SARA (the Shelter Animal Reiki Association) and also of Animal Reiki Source and I am a qualified SARA Reiki Practitioner. I have also trained in Animal Communication. I am a supporter of Brighthaven Center for Animal Rescue, Hospice and Holistic Education in the USA and also of Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary in the UK. I volunteer for a number of my local animal rescue centres working mainly with rescue foster dogs and cats in their new homes. I love to work with hospice and palliative care animals and I feel very strongly that every animal has a right to a peaceful, loving, pain free life (and death) in their own home or shelter wherever possible. I have strong links with other local Holistic Animal Practitioners and I love to share Best Practice and to work in an integrated way with other Practitioners to offer animals, and their guardians, the maximum support possible. I dedicate my daily meditations to the sentient beings of the world and, in particular, to those beings caught up in intensive farming and ‘sporting’ environments. I have a soft spot for elderly Staffordshire Bull Terriers and I live with my partner, Ade, and our four beautiful kitties.
I'm a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists and The Holistic Healers' Association.
I am so blessed to be able to share my journey with so many wonderfully engaging Holistic Practitioners and I'd particularly like to express my gratitude to the beautiful people mentioned below who have encouraged me and who continue to inspire me, with huge generosity of spirit, just for the pure joy and love of practising their art :
Frans Stiene - www.ihreiki.com
Kathleen Prasad - www.shelteranimalreikiassociation.org
Kathleen Prasad - www.animalreikisource.com
Caroline Thomas - www.emotionalhealing4animals.co.uk
Sue Gessey - www.suegessey.co.uk
July Berrin - www.thetemplecat.uno
Anna Antoszkiewicz - www.pettalk-online.com
Jill Cooper - www.reikiwithjill.com
Angie Davies - Earth Fire Reiki
If anything that you've seen here resonates with you and you'd like to feel better please connect and we can get started!
With love
Jan x
