Which do you trust first: your intuition or your doubts?

You look in the mirror and you see them. Your grandmother's eyes. Your grandfather's nose. Features that come from a line of people stretching back further than any record. I see my dad's face all the time. And I wonder what he knew that never got shared. But when you reach for what those features came with, there is silence. The language stumbles on your tongue. The prayers were never taught. The ceremonies are stories at best, and most of the stories are gone too. You know you come from somewhere. You just do not know how to get back. Maybe your family assimilated hard. Somebody two or three generations back decided that survival meant leaving the old ways behind. They stopped speaking the language. They stopped practicing. They chose safety, and you inherited the silence. Maybe you are mixed, and you never felt like enough of anything. Suspended between worlds with no clear place to land. Maybe your family kept the surface things. The food. The holidays. But the deep practices, the medicine ways, the knowing that gave it all meaning? Gone quiet. Hear me on this. The silence in your family is not the end of your lineage. It is a pause in it. And you are the one who feels the pause. That is not an accident. That is a call. Does this land for anyone here? You don't have to tell the whole story. Just tell me what country or tradition your features come from. Mine traditions are from Mexico and further south. My grandfather used to say we were from the Inca people. How he knew or what he knew I'll never know.

For those of you just starting with the Sacred Healing Journey - and for those of you who are ready to review and start fresh - these are the main points to take away from Day 1. - Your sensitivity was never the problem — lack of training was. For thousands of years, people with this instinct, this knowing, weren't seen as broken. They were taken aside and trained. That's what we're doing here in the Rainbow Path - training you for the work. - This is training, not therapy. The Sacred Healing Journey is a 14-day training in awareness, energetic boundaries, and spiritual discipline — not a replacement for professional mental health or medical support. Super important distinction. This is spiritual training that will help you to take the steps - small and large that will get you to the next level on your healing journey. - You're not becoming someone new — you're remembering who you already are. The work is about falling in love with yourself again and releasing the healer already inside you. The healer already inside of you is waiting patiently. No need to judge yourself up about any of the work that is here for you to do now. Everything happens in its time. - Your connection to divine spirit has never been broken. No matter the doubt or fear, that connection is sacred, holy, and unbreakable — and so are you. - Day one is about naming and claiming your healing gift. It's not a final declaration of who you'll become as a healer — just the first honest step: maybe this gift is real. All that's needed is to sit with this and acknowledge who you are and where you are on this path.

How many times have you started and then stopped calling yourself a healer?

Looking back at Day One of the Sacred Healing Journey always reminds me what it really takes to walk a path of healing—not just healing yourself, but eventually bringing your own healing gifts, your own medicine, into the world. That lesson came alive for me during the first part of my trip here in Mexico. (Part two begins tonight.) Even after decades of doing this work, studying with incredible teachers, and teaching professionally for years, I made a decision before I arrived. I wasn't going to show up as the teacher. I was going to show up as the beginner. I gave myself permission to be curious again. To ask questions. To not have all the answers. To simply experience what was in front of me. The truth is, you can only do that when you're in a space that feels safe. And that's exactly what I want The Rainbow Path to be. Not another place where you have to prove yourself. Not another place where you have to pretend you already know what you're doing. Not another place where you're afraid you'll ask the "wrong" question. I want it to be a place where you can exhale. A place where you can explore your healing without judgment. A place where you can ask for what you need. A place where you can make mistakes, discover new parts of yourself, and realize that every step—even the uncertain ones—is part of becoming who you were meant to be. That's why Day One of the Sacred Healing Journey isn't about learning techniques. It's about giving yourself permission to name and claim the healer that already lives within you. I know that isn't always easy. I've lived through the years of self-doubt. The fear. The constant wondering if any of this would ever work out. I spent far too much time questioning myself instead of trusting what Spirit was quietly showing me. Looking back, I realize the biggest problem wasn't that I lacked ability. It was that I couldn't clearly see what was possible on the other side of my fear. My vision was too clouded by doubt. Something else happened during this trip that touched me deeply.