Hello!

Thank you for stopping by! If you have been a customer or client of mine from the beginning, you may notice that I'm in the midst of making some changes. If you're brand new here, I'm so glad you made it! My small business, SteelLace, started as handmade gemstone chakra jewelry which was then balanced with reiki energy, and now it has evolved. Originally, I was working for a small handmade jewelry company from 2018-2020…then the pandemic hit and I was furloughed. Since I was simultaneously finishing my reiki certification, I had the idea to blend the two passions together: help people receive a bit of reiki while making beautiful and unique gemstone jewelry. It was well received, but I've experienced such a tremendous amount of growth since then it's only natural that my business would reflect that.

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Now, SteelLace is the name of my handmade PRODUCTS. Your Healing Room is the name of this SPACE. A space with you and your healing needs in mind. I hope to provide you with not only quality, handmade products, but also with knowledge that you can take with you on your awakening and healing journey. It's become insanely clear to me that the difficulties I've endured in my life served a double purpose, and I'm here now to help. To help provide information, insight, clarity, support, and encouragement. All of this for one ultimate purpose: to awaken and heal ourselves. Ok, really that's more like two purposes, but they are so closely intertwined, that by achieving one we also achieve the other.

When we break free from the confines of what we perceive to be our realities, heal our heartbreaks, traumas, disappointments, and eventually reclaim our power...everything shifts. I want to help you with this shift.

Some background on myself: I started my awakening and healing journey in 2019 after receiving my first reiki session. Everything changed for me after that. It made such a significant impact on my anxiety, that I wanted to learn more. I became reiki level III certified by late summer of the next year, 2020 (sidenote: If you decide to become reiki certified, I do not recommend moving that quickly through the levels! I will go into more detail in a future blog post, but trust me, don't rush it.). As I started my healing through reiki, I realized that healing has to start at the root. If you don't reach the root, you are always just treating the symptoms. And with wanting to learn about root causes of mental health disorders (for my case, anxiety specifically) I went back to school to get my degree in basic psychology. When people see the line of work I do, they may not realize it, but I'm actually a very evidence-based person. As much as I knew reiki was helping my clients and me, I had to understand the mind-body connection. After studying psychology and understanding the effect the mind has on the body, and really, the body has on the mind, I decided to incorporate herbs into my daily life.

I never do anything halfway and if I'm adding something into my daily life, I'm going to learn as much as possible about it, so I started studying herbalism. I feel like herbs (on top of nutrition...also more on that later) were the missing piece of the puzzle for me. I love being able to create an herbal tea based on what I feel I need in the moment. It changed my relationship with how I view nature, I see medicinal plants everywhere now. There is a plant, herb, or fungi for everything!
 

In the midst of learning all of this and working on my mental health, my physical health also needed my attention. I was in constant pain and couldn't find out a reason, until last year (2024). It took about 8 years, but I was finally diagnosed with endometriosis. This is where my relationship with nutrition started to change. Doctors still believe that endometriosis is a menstrual disorder, but it's not. There are finally more studies coming out that provide a deeper look into its cause. But one theory is that endometriosis is an inflammatory disorder and food, stress, and sleep have the biggest impact. Actually, inflammation is seen as a root cause for a lot of diseases and mental health disorders.

 But! Let me not trail off because I could talk about the effects of inflammation and nutrition on mental health all day.  So, to sum it all up: reiki, psychology, herbalism, and nutrition are the base blocks of the healing work I provide. In all transparency, let me also state for the record that psilocybin has also helped me break through and make strides in my healing journey. I'll share about that as well, but currently I'm no longer working with clients in that area. 

I will be putting together posts on all of these topics and the products I make will also be in this focus. I have not yet decided if I will be accepting new reiki clients, but I'll make that decision down the line. In the meantime, I can provide excellent recommendations for those seeking sessions. Thank you so much for reading this far and I genuinely look forward to being there for you on your healing journey!