I’m sure we’ve all heard the phrase, “you cannot pour from an empty cup.”

This response flowed from me the other day as I was chatting with a dear friend and client about my Oppression Healing Program:

“I know that I can’t pour from an empty cup, but I also get to choose how I fill my cup.”

Through my Oppression Healing Program, I offer my services free of charge to historically oppressed people (Black and Brown folx). I started this program as Reparations to Black folx in response to the murder of George Floyd, but then as I dove further into the decolonizing/re-indigenizing work of Healers like Dr. Rosales Meza, Marika Clymer, and Marilu Shinn, I realized that offering my healing pro-bono to Black and Brown folx is necessary to honor the Indigenous people who gave me Reiki, as well as an important contribution to this wellness space, which is predominantly owned by and marketed towards white folx.

That doesn’t mean I won’t heal white folx. On the contrary, I think everyone needs to experience this type of healing, which is why I’m making particular strides to ensure that healing is always available to BIPOC.

Serving BIPOC folx in this way fills my cup. Many people hear “free of charge” and are so programmed by our capitalist society to value money above all else that they only see my pro-bono work as emptying myself of a resource (time). This work may not provide me with the energy of money, but it fills me with the energy of peace to know that I’m helping contribute to the collective ascension in a way that not many are. It is an Energy Exchange of the highest form.

I’m not pouring from an empty cup, I just choose to fill my cup with many types of energies.

That said, if you are white and you believe in what I’m doing, there are many ways that you can support this work. Buy a friend a session and help them heal. Or sponsor a session for a stranger—it’s way more rewarding than buying the person behind you in line a cup of coffee!

But the most important way to support my anti-racism work is by doing your own anti-racism, decolonizing, re-indigenizing healing work. Book a session. Start on your healing path. Witness how much growth and expansion you can achieve by healing yourself. Reach out. I got you.