Healing Homes & Hearts, Rev Amanda Carter, Reiki Master & QHHT Practitioner

04/14/2026

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Shelby just wanted to pop in and remind everyone to purchase their tickets or make their donations for our Raise It For the Rescues event on Friday, April 24 at The State Theater in Springfield!

We have less than 40 tickets remaining, so make sure to purchase your tickets this week before it’s too late!!

If you have any questions, email Madison at wagsinnmadison@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you all there!!

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/raise-it-for-the-rescues

04/13/2026

Let’s stop spending our energy on worry!

Worry has a way of feeling productive – like we’re doing something by turning a problem over and over. But worry doesn’t build anything. It just drains us.

Here’s what I’ve learned: the same energy that fuels worry or anxiety can fuel creation. The same attention that feeds fear can feed love.

You have the same 24 hours whether you spend them anxious or aligned.

Choose aligned.
Build. Believe. Create. Love. Heal.
That’s the practice.
What will you build with your energy today? What is it that you want ? Maybe Calm. Clarity. Beauty. Where we focus matters.

Love,
Mandy

04/09/2026

There is something about spring that bypasses the mind entirely and speaks straight to the body.

The trees know it before we do. The mushrooms push up through the soil without anyone telling them it’s time. The water finds its way over the rocks, louder now, more alive. And something in us responds, whether we understand it or not.

That’s life force energy. Prana. Ki. Chi. Call it what you will, it is the same current that runs through the forest floor and through your chest. It doesn’t take a break in winter, it just goes quiet, gathers itself, waits.

And then spring comes, and it says: now.

This is exactly why I love working with Reiki in every season. We are not separate from nature’s rhythms.

Each season has its own medicine, its own invitation. And spring? Spring says expand. release. begin again.

If you’ve been feeling the pull to tend to your own life force energy, trust that. Your inner knowing is as ancient as the forest.I’d love to support you on that journey. 🌿
Love,
Mandy

04/08/2026

The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.

I’ve been sitting with this one a lot lately.
Because it’s not about pretending things are fine when they aren’t. It’s not about toxic positivity or looking away from pain.

💛Real life is hard.
💛Grief is real.
💛Injustice is real.
💛Struggle is real.

And also… the lens we look through matters big time.

When we’ve been through trauma, loss, or years of surviving, that lens gets shaped by those experiences.

Sometimes it protects us. Sometimes it keeps us small in ways we didn’t choose.

Healing isn’t about choosing to “see the bright side.” It’s about gently, slowly, widening what we’re able to see – until possibility starts to creep back in alongside the hard stuff.

That’s the work. And it’s brave work.

If you’re in the middle of the hard stuff right now, you don’t have to see it differently today. You just have to keep going.

And remember your light.
It’s attached to your breath. Right there, waiting.

Breathe deeply and touch it. It’s luminous. And it’s there for you – always, even on the days you can’t feel it.

May we look through the lens of possibility and light. 🙏

Reiki Hugs and Love,
Mandy

04/05/2026

Easter, known in its ancient roots as Pascha, falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the spring equinox. The moon, the sun, the earth in perfect relationship. Ancient people understood this. Long before calendars and churches, they watched the sky and felt the turning.

Yeshua, whose name many of us know as Jesus, walked in that same ancient knowing. A teacher of radical love. A man who saw the sacred in every living thing.

Whatever your belief about who he was or what his death meant, most hearts agree on this: he stood for love when love was dangerous to stand for.

Today I hold him in that light.
If you are celebrating Easter in a church pew, I honor you. If you are sitting outside watching the earth wake up, I honor you. If this day holds grief or confusion or quiet wonder, I honor you too.

The full moon just passed. The equinox just turned us back toward light. New life is pushing up through cold ground right now, in yards and fields and inside of us.

Whatever you call this day, it celebrates rebirth. The ancient promise that light returns, that life rises, that love cannot be buried.

May you feel that rising in your own heart today.

May whatever has felt dark or heavy in you find its first breath of light.

May you know, on this day of all days, that you are not forgotten by the universe that made you.

Love,
Mandy

04/02/2026

Every Thursday, when I walk through the gate at Wags Inn to do Reiki, my heart gets a little fuller. I adore their mission and the people making it happen.

This is Cocoa. Someone found her at Snyder Park over a year ago. She had been there for at least three days before she got rescued. I often wonder what those three days were like for her, and what she carried away from that abandonment.

For over a year now, Cocoa and I have had our own weekly Reiki practice together. She shares her room at Wags Inn with Journey, a sweet girl she has buddied up with. There is something so beautiful about that. Two souls finding each other in the in-between place, keeping each other company while they wait for what comes next.

And in that shared space, something quietly profound keeps happening.

Cocoa and the rescues at Wags Inn are teaching me how to listen.

Not with my ears exactly. With something deeper. The animals have a way of showing you where the energy needs to go, if you get still enough to receive it. Some can get info to me about their story. Cocoa has been one of my greatest teachers in that.

I have witnessed so many rescue miracles at Wags Inn. Dogs who came in shut down and guarded, slowly remembering that they are safe, worthy of gentleness. That healing is possible. That their very own human is possible!

Thursdays are sacred to me.

There are so many ways to help support them ! WagsInn Dog Lodging & Rescue also offers boarding and doggy daycare, and that support is part of what makes the rescue work possible. Two beautiful things holding each other up.

And if you want to celebrate these animals and the people who show up for them, Wags Inn is holding their annual fundraising event on April 24th at 6pm at the State Theater right here in Springfield. There will be catered food, drinks, an auction, and comedy improv. It is going to be a wonderful night for an even more wonderful cause.

I will leave ticketing information in the comments. These souls deserve to be seen.

Reiki Hugs, please Love Big !
Mandy

04/01/2026

Full Moon in Libra is here, and she is asking us to pause.
Not to push.
Not to produce.
Just to breathe and take an honest look at what is working in our lives and what has quietly stopped serving us.

Libra energy is all about balance, beauty, and right relationship. What have the last six months brought into your daily life?
Which responsibilities have expanded? Which routines have carried you, and which ones have you simply been carrying?

This is potent energy for intention work, clearing work, and healing work. Any practice that helps you come back to your own center is supported right now. At Healing Homes and Hearts, we hold space for exactly this kind of honest, gentle return to self.

How are you working with this Libra Full Moon energy today? Please share in the comments 🙏

Reiki Hugs,
Mandy

03/31/2026

Hi, I’m Mandy Carter, and if we haven’t met yet, welcome , I am so glad you’re here💛

I’m a Reiki Master Teacher, QHHT Practitioner, and Alliance of Divine Love Minister. Yes, right here in Springfield, Ohio, from a beautiful historic healing space we call Betty, located in the South Fountain Historic District.

My work is rooted in one simple truth: you already carry a luminous light within you. Everything I offer, whether it’s a Reiki session or class, a QHHT journey, spiritual counseling, private events or one of our community gatherings, is just a gentle invitation back to that light.

I teach Reiki both privately and in small class groups. I also love to host a free Student Reiki Practice Zoom on the third Tuesday of every month at 8pm EST, open to all lineages.

And throughout the year you’ll find us gathering for drum circles, guided meditations, sound healing events, and seasonal ceremonies that bring this community together in the most beautiful ways.

When I’m not at Betty, you’ll most likely find me making the two hour drive back to Clermont County in Southeast Ohio, where I lived for most of my life. My kids and grand babies are all still there, and that drive is always worth every mile. At home I’m kept very busy by our three cats and dog, and when I can steal some time for myself you’ll find me on my yoga mat, gardening or out hiking in nature.

I also do Reiki weekly with the rescues at Wags Inn Dog Lodging and Rescue. I help them envision and manifest their new homes. Tell them they’re worthy and give them love. Mother Nature and her animals have always been some of my greatest teachers.

If something is calling to you and you’d love to learn more, I’d be so happy to connect.

Schedule a free discovery call with me, let’s have a conversation about where you are and where you’d like to go. No pressure, just two people talking about making life less heavy.

Always in the highest degree of love,

🌹Mandy

📸Elisabeth Ashliegh Photography thank you 🙏

03/28/2026

You live most of your life inside your head. Make it a nice place to be.

That line stopped me this week. Because isn’t that exactly what the Reiki precepts invite us to do?

Just for today, do not anger.
Just for today, do not worry.
Be humble. be Grateful. be True to our way. Be honest. Be compassionate. These instructions ask us to be to watcher of our thoughts.

These are gentle reminders that the inner world we tend to is the life we actually live. The world we share with others.

We spend so much energy arranging the outside. The schedule, the to-do list, the relationships, the plans. And yet the quality of our days lives in here, in the quiet space between our thoughts.

Reiki isn’t just energy work on a table. It’s a practice of returning to yourself. Of softening the inner critic, releasing the grip of worry, and choosing, again and again, to come back to peace. It’s the life force that flows through you, whether acknowledged or not.

Your mind is your home. You deserve to feel at home there.
If you’ve been feeling scattered, heavy, or just a little out of alignment, that’s a sign worth listening to. A Reiki session, a few mindful breaths, even a moment of stillness can begin to shift that inner landscape.

What does your inner world feel like today? I’d love to know. Drop a word or an emoji in the comments.

Wishing you Peace!
Love,
Mandy
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03/26/2026

What is a Witch?

A witch is a woman who remembers.

She remembers that her body is a vessel of wisdom.

That her intuition is not a flaw to be corrected but a gift to be trusted.

That the cycles of the earth live inside her, and that her connection to something greater than herself is not something to be ashamed of.

For centuries, women were hunted, silenced, and condemned for exactly this.
For healing.
For knowing.
For gathering.

For being too bright, too strong, too rooted in their own truth. They called us witches as if it were an insult. As if our power were something dangerous.

It was. Just not to them in the way they imagined. We were dangerous to the systems that needed us small.

Many of us still carry that memory in our bones. Maybe we shrink before we speak. We might second guess the knowing that rises up from somewhere deep. Our souls have not forgotten what happened when we shone too brightly. That silence is not weakness. It is old protection. It served us once.

But we are no longer in those times. It’s time to rise.

We are here now, gathering again. Remembering again. Calling each other back to ourselves. Calling back our divine feminine gifts.

A witch is a woman who chooses to stop apologizing for her light.

Who tends the fire of her intuition.

Who trusts the wisdom of her body and her lineage.

Who knows that her gifts were never the problem.

I am grateful for this knowing. Ian so grateful for each and every one of you that seek the divine that lives in you.

I’m here waiting if you need a hand to connect with her
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