"When I first started going to Kelly it was by no means the beginning of my self-healing journey. Like most people I have been treating my unhappiness, anxiety, guilt, and shame since I first recognized them as a teenager. After 25 years of self-medication, official medication, drug treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, self-help, meditation apps/CD’s, and basically any other kind of official therapy or treatment I could pay for, well my life was actually in pretty good order. I was successful with a wife, two kids and a thriving business…albeit unhappy with ever increasing stress, anxiety, and feelings of emptiness. When March of 2020 came and went it took with it my marriage and business, and by April I was with my kids half the time in a townhouse a few miles from our old home. I spent most of the month of April withering and resigned to the fate my narrator always assured me I would one day face: dying unhappy alone. In a hail marry effort (one of several hundred in my life) I signed up for an online course to learn animation, signed up with a health and wellness coach to improve my diet and exercise, and finally signed up for a one-month course with an old friend Kelly from cruise ships that could help me with mediation and calming down. It was honestly the last of my list because I get way more excited about learning software and working out VS sitting still for hours. I have always pursued mediation over and over and over and over and over and always dropped it off after 2 weeks max. I thought that maybe with accountability to an old friend I would actually finish a whole month of it. After our first meeting it was evident to me that Kelly was not in fact “Kelly from cruise ships” at all, she had become so much more, an incredibly grounded soul and with a mind that had so much to teach. In the very first session I could tell it was going to be different because immediately she made it clear that we were discovering and learning ways that would work for me in different situations, and that it was not about just sitting still all the time. When we first did kundalini it about blew my mind. I had no idea that you could achieve the effects of stillness sessions but through breathing and motion. The ability to simply do and achieve those results changed how I thought and approached meditation and opened my mind and heart up to the coming weeks with Kelly. By the 3rd week and over 6 different breathing and grounding techniques later I signed up for a second month with Kelly. Part of it was to learn more and thank goodness I did because once she taught me Wim Hoff breathing my entire life changed for the better. It was more than that though, for the first time in my life not only had I been regularly meditating for a month (huge win!) but I was actually enjoying doing it and it didn’t feel like a chore. I wanted so badly to convert that feeling into a habit and I knew that with Kelly holding me accountable I could keep going until this became a habit and lifestyle. When I say Kelly holds me accountable, I am not just being nice, because be careful what you wish for. Kelly has an unbelievable BS detector, its scary good. So, when I was trying to bail out on finishing the online course in animation just because I was ready to move onto to some new shiny thing, Kelly wasn’t haven’t it. She called me on my BS and wouldn’t let me quit on myself, and thankfully I believed in her when she believed in me and I finished the course, turning a longtime “high school diploma only” into “some trade school”. It took me 22 years and 5+ attempts at different schools to accomplish that and I honestly believe I would not have been able to without Kelly there to help me get over the finish line. Through the struggle of divorce, Kelly has been my voice of reason and calm that has gotten me through many emotional storms that in my previous life would have ended in damage, but instead were resolved through breathing, awareness, and intentions. I have watched an already good relationship with my children blossom into and even greater one with more emotional stability and calmness that is even starting to benefit my kids on their own. After 3 months of sessions and over a dozen different techniques, exercises, and strategies, I can resoundingly say that Kelly is an incredible mentor, human, artist, and soul. Her intelligence and and thoughtfulness have helped me though so much in so little time, but the habits have been formed, my intentions and awareness are growing every day, and my life with continue to improve because of the time and wisdom shared with me by Kelly Reed"