We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jessica Caimi a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jessica, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about how you went about setting up your own practice and if you have any advice for professionals who might be considering starting their own?

I’ve found that, for me, the foundation of building a practice as a healer has been a willingness to do my own work, persistence in developing my skill set, and fully owning that I am, in fact, running a business. I think a lot of people who are spiritually minded kind of scoff at selling things but want to be of service and be sustained with their work. But if you want to get your work out to those that need it, you have to be willing to put yourself and your skill set out there and let go of the way it’s perceived by those who probably aren’t your client base anyway.

When I first began practicing energy healing, I hadn’t done a lot of my own inner work. While I had natural intuitive abilities, I had resisted doing deeper healing. I can say now, after being on the receiving end of years of somatic psycho-therapy and intuitive energy work that, along with proper training, being willing to sift through your own layers of trauma with compassion is what will be the greatest support for those you help.

Even after decades of doing the work, I still have new layers that emerge for understanding and every time I’m able to hold space for these shifts within myself, I become a little more skilled at helping others. This is the advice I’d give to new healers…..be willing to go deep within yourself and know that if you want your intuitive abilities to strengthen, you’ll have to let go of judgments or pre-conceived notions about yourself and anyone you work with, too.

Also, remember to have some FUN. Healing does not always have to be heavy, it can also happen in ways that feel good and you need the balance of pleasure and joy in order to be with the pain.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m an intuitive healer and visual artist. I offer sessions that incorporate somatic inquiry (attunement to the body), psychic channeling, and sub-conscious healing.

I’d say that what sets me apart as an intuitive is compassion and approachability. Some people hear the word “psychic” and want to run away because they think of scam artists with crystal balls or people who think they’re above the human experience in some way. In reality, we all have natural psychic abilities as humans, most people just aren’t aware of them. While intuitive gifts have come more naturally for me, the only thing that really makes me different is that I’ve put in the time and effort to nurture and understand them as one would any other art form. Honestly that’s been equal measure because of a desire to help others and for my own ability to understand WTF is going on sometimes.

I also place a big emphasis on helping clients find safety within their own bodies. As someone who spent a lot of time in a constricted state because of past trauma, I know how difficult it can be to relax and allow someone to hold space for you, especially when there’s an intuitive aspect involved, so helping clients access a felt sense of safety is a big priority for me. People, especially those with an intensive trauma history, are often scared that something horrible will come up about them in sessions, but that’s just shame talking. In this type of work you’re held in unconditional love, not in judgment.

When working with clients, I go wherever I’m guided which can range anywhere from channeling messages from deceased loved ones to working with the underlying belief systems that were formed in childhood in order to shift energy. We also get into past lives, ancestral healing, and other fun, more “woo-woo” things. I used to have baggage around that word but I’ve learned to let it go….to me it just means something we don’t yet understand and if folks want to balk at that then that’s their choice. I believe life gets a lot more interesting when we acknowledge all the subtle energy at play in our everyday lives and I think it’s pretty cool we get to experience it.

What I’m most proud of in my work is the results I help people achieve. I get messages every day after working with clients about the powerful shifts they feel after sessions and the positive changes they’re witnessing in their lives. I’ve helped people through chronic illness, major life transitions, and in birthing amazing creative projects. It always feels so good to know I played a role in supporting them.

I’m a visual artist, too, which is what I originally went to school for, so the evolution of my own creative projects means a lot to me. I find it really inspiring to work with other creatives and help them get through blocks they’re experiencing.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

When I was in my twenties, I hadn’t yet come to terms with how psychically open I was. I knew I would often see images in my mind and have a felt sense of energy, but didn’t know what it meant. I wound up going through a period when some major stressors came up for processing and my energetic boundaries blew open.

I began being pulled into other lifetimes, experiencing other people’s trauma as if it was my own, and felt no sense of ground in the current reality. It lasted for a couple weeks and it took me years to make sense of what had happened. Through the process though, I began to understand my psychic abilities more clearly and have a better idea of how mindful I have to be to stay grounded when I’m under stress. It also helped me have a much better understanding of what others may be going through when processing trauma and the impact of collective energy.

I still have to be very aware of energetic boundaries so I don’t take on what’s not mine or get pulled into drama that doesn’t really concern me. It’s a fine line any highly sensitive/intuitive person walks.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I would say a lesson I had to unlearn was that in order to help someone I needed to take on their pain or suffer along with them. As empathic children growing up we can unconsciously try to “fix” or “help” our caregivers by taking on their suffering and then we continue it in our adult relationships. This never helps either person and is something highly sensitive people really need to be mindful of.

Doing this overtime caused me to develop chronic illness that required a lot of healing and I often witness this tendency in my clients as well. The good news is that once you are aware of the tendency you can begin to learn where your energy ends and someone else begins. You can also cut the energetic cords between you and others and reclaim your own vitality.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jessica-caimi.com
• Instagram: @jessicacaimi
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552704687759

Image Credits

Brea Youngblood