TheraChi Healing with Jodi Silverman

If you're a therapist, social worker, coach, nurse, healer, or other helping professional, you probably spend a lot of your day paying attention to everyone else.

Listening.

Attuning.

Noticing what's happening beneath the words.

Holding space for pain, uncertainty, grief, fear, and change.

But how often do you have a practice that asks you to turn that same quality of attention toward yourself?

That's one of the reasons I believe Reiki can be such a meaningful practice for helping professionals.

Not because you need another tool to use with your clients.

But because **you are part of the work.**

Your presence matters.

Your ability to stay grounded matters.

Your capacity to notice what's happening inside you while remaining connected to another person matters.

Reiki gives us a practice for tending to the instrument through which we do this work: ourselves.

In our upcoming **Reiki 1 & 2 training for mental health and helping professionals**, we'll explore Reiki as a personal practice for presence, self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and reconnecting with yourself—not simply as something you learn to "do" to someone else.

And we won't rush through an attunement and send you on your way.

We'll learn and practice together over several weeks, with time for integration, reflection, questions, and actually developing a Reiki practice that fits into your life and your work.

Whether you're completely new to Reiki or you've been attuned before but never really developed a personal practice, you're welcome.

**Before Reiki becomes something you offer, let it become something you practice.**

Registration is open for Reiki 1 & 2 for mental health and helping professionals.

therachihealing.com/reiki-training

“I can do it myself.”

For some of us, that’s more than independence.

It’s how we learned to survive.

We figure it out. We keep going. We become the capable one - the person everyone assumes is fine.

But what happens when we actually need someone?

Tomorrow on **The Spiritually Curious Therapist**, I’m talking with therapist, author, and Connections of Hope founder **Amanda Hill** about hyper-independence, asking for help, faith, hope, the nervous system, and what can happen when we finally allow someone else to show up for us.

**The Other Side of “I Can Do It Myself”: Amanda Hill on Connection & Hope**

🎧 Dropping tomorrow.

You may have heard of Reiki as something you receive.

You lie on a table. Someone places their hands gently on or above you. Maybe you feel relaxed. Maybe you feel warmth or tingling. Maybe you don’t feel much of anything.

But here’s the part of Reiki that I think a lot of people don’t know:

Reiki is also a practice you can learn for yourself.

You don’t need to be a therapist.
You don’t need to want to become a Reiki practitioner.
You don’t need to consider yourself particularly spiritual.
And you definitely don’t need to have some special ability.

Reiki 1 begins with learning simple practices you can return to in your own life using your breath, attention, hands, and the traditional Reiki practices and Precepts as ways of slowing down, listening and reconnecting with yourself.

That’s the part of Reiki I’m most interested in these days.

In a world that gives us a thousand ways to distract ourselves from ourselves, I love having a practice that asks me to come back.

That’s what we’ll be exploring in our upcoming Reiki 1 & 2 training this fall.

Post in comments or DM me for more information. ❤️

There is still time to register!

Join us September 12th for the Women’s Retreat featuring speakers on Hormone Health across a Lifespan.

This retreat is for women across all lifespans who want to learn more about how hormones play a big roll in our everyday lives. Knowledge is power!

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**Just for today, be compassionate to yourself and others.**

The final Reiki Precept might sound like the simplest one.

Be kind.

But from a mental health perspective, compassion can be much more challenging than that.

Because notice what often happens when we're struggling.

We're anxious — and then we criticize ourselves for being anxious.

We're angry — and then we feel ashamed of our anger.

We make a mistake — and immediately start telling ourselves what we should have done differently.

We're exhausted — and wonder why everyone else seems to be handling life better than we are.

The original experience is hard enough.

And then we add another layer by turning against ourselves for having it.

This is where compassion becomes a practice.

Not pretending everything is okay.

Not excusing behavior that causes harm.

Not forcing ourselves to feel loving or positive.

But learning to stay in relationship with ourselves when things are difficult.

Can I notice the part of me that is scared without judging it?

Can I listen to the part that is angry?

Can I recognize that the part pushing me to work harder may actually be trying to protect me?

Can I offer myself the same curiosity I so readily offer someone else?

And perhaps that's what allows compassion for others to deepen too.

The more we learn to meet our own humanity with curiosity instead of judgment, the more room we may have for theirs.

**Just for today, be compassionate to yourself and others.**

Maybe it begins with something very simple:

*Can I stay on my own side today?*

💛 **Did You Miss It?**

I've been using the word *love* in my work for a long time, but I don't know that I've always had a good way to define what I mean by it.

My conversation with Dr. Colleen Quinn gave me another way to think about it.

She describes love as an action—one that includes caring for ourselves, honoring our own boundaries, and allowing other people to have their own path rather than trying to control or change them.

That led us into a much bigger conversation about grief, trauma, breathwork, surrender, near-death experiences, the nervous system, and Colleen's belief that psychology is ultimately a study of the soul.

We don't necessarily conceptualize every piece of this in exactly the same way, which is part of what I enjoyed about the conversation. There's plenty here to be curious about.

If you missed it, 🎧 **Letting Love Lead: Dr. Colleen Quinn on Psychology, the Soul & Awakening** is available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Let me know what you take away from this one.

My guest this week almost died twice. Both times changed her life completely.

Dr. Colleen Quinn Colleen Quinn is a psychologist who works with trauma, breathwork, and internal family systems. But it was her own near death experiences that changed how she understands pain, grief, and what it means to actually be here.

One story she told me has stayed with me all week. Swipe through to hear it.

New episode is live now. Link in bio. ❤️

My guest this week said something that stopped me mid-sentence.

We never learn from a comfortable place. We only learn from an uncomfortable place.

It sounds simple, but sit with it for a second. So much of what we’re chasing in healing work is comfort. We want the hard feeling to go away. We want the discomfort to stop.

But Colleen Quinn point was that the discomfort is often exactly what’s asking us to grow. She calls it a love squeeze instead of pain, and once she said it that way, I couldn’t unhear it.

This episode is full of moments like this. We talk about her two near death experiences, the story she carried about her brother’s death for three years, and what actually shifted it.

New episode is live now. Link in bio. 🎙️

**Just for today, do your work honestly.**

This Reiki Precept is often translated in different ways — work diligently, work honestly, be true to your way and your being.

But through a mental health lens, the word that really interests me is **honestly.**

Because how often are we working, living, or relating in ways that aren't actually aligned with who we are?

We say yes when we mean no.

We keep pushing when we're exhausted.

We try to be the person everyone else needs us to be.

We measure our worth by how much we accomplish.

We become so good at meeting expectations that we stop asking whether those expectations still fit us.

And for helping professionals, this can be especially complicated.

Caring for others can become so intertwined with who we are that it can be difficult to notice when helping has shifted into overfunctioning, rescuing, proving, or abandoning ourselves.

So perhaps **“Just for today, do your work honestly”** isn't simply about working hard or doing a good job.

Maybe it's also an invitation to ask:

*Is the way I'm showing up aligned with who I actually am?*

*Am I doing this because it matters to me, or because I'm afraid of disappointing someone?*

*Where am I working too hard to prove that I'm enough?*

*What would change if I didn't have to earn my worth through what I do?*

This is where a Reiki Precept can become a practice of authenticity.

Not another demand to do more.

An invitation to become more honest about **how and why we are doing it.**

**Just for today, where might you practice being a little more honest with yourself?**