Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to JP Martin. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

JP , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

I think I have always been an adventurer at heart. After studying journalism in Belgium, I chose to remain a freelance journalist, which was already a risk in itself. I wanted the freedom to explore different forms of media, including television, which I did — I hosted shows — even though that path came with very little security.

But the biggest risk of my life came later. After spending more than 20 years in Brussels, I did something that still amazes me when I think about it now: I left Belgium, my home country, because I felt deeply called to the United States. I had already been to Los Angeles for press junkets with actors and had been sent there by studios, so I knew the city a little. But in 2011, I truly took a leap into the unknown and moved to Los Angeles for good, on my own.

That was almost 15 years ago, and to this day, I still wonder how I found the courage to do it. Adapting to a new city — and to a different culture — was very difficult at first. Very early on, I became the Hollywood correspondent for a major weekly entertainment magazine in French-speaking Belgium, so I did have work. But even with that professional anchor, building a life in the U.S. was deeply challenging.

Looking back now, I honestly feel that it was meant to be. There is no other way for me to explain it. I had to be here. My path, my karma, was here. And I am so grateful I took that risk, because it changed me completely. I met so many helpful people along the way, and I grew here in ways I could never have imagined.

Beyond journalism, Los Angeles also opened another part of me. I started my own business and began to explore and express my spiritual side more fully, including my ability to heal with my hands. I learned Reiki, and for the past two years I have also been practicing past-life regression using Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique.

So to me, everything happened for a reason. I truly believe that, because I felt called — almost compelled — to move to the United States. I also think I listened to someone who once told me that Southern California would be my place. And even today, my mother and sister in Belgium still tell me, “We could never do what you did.”

So yes, this was without question the greatest risk I have ever taken in my life. And maybe what is most striking is that I was not even fully aware, at the time, of how huge that leap really was. It all happened in a very organic, intuitive way — and that is still how I move through life. In the end, taking that risk did not just bring me to a new country. It brought me closer to who I really am.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My work in healing and past-life regression developed in a very organic and intuitive way. Around 2017, I began experiencing intense heat in my hands, and at first I did not understand what was happening. At the same time, I found myself naturally drawn to helping people with physical and emotional pain. One of my first significant experiences was with a young woman who had a cyst in her stomach area. During our sessions, I placed my hands on her, they became very hot, and she could feel strong energy moving. That was the moment I realized something real was happening through me.

I had already been interested for years in spirituality, meditation, Buddhism, psychics, reincarnation, and the unseen side of life. After those first healing experiences, I studied Reiki in Laguna Beach to give structure to what was already happening naturally. Reiki gave me a framework, but I still work in a highly intuitive way. My sessions usually begin with 20 to 30 minutes of conversation, during which I often receive very clear messages for the client. Then, during the hands-on session, I work as a channel for universal energy to help clear, realign, and rebalance the person’s energy. Clients often tell me they feel energy moving through their body, see colors, feel lighter, calmer, or more aligned afterward. Some have also experienced relief from physical discomfort, including back pain and arthritis flare-ups.

Alongside energy healing, I have always been deeply interested in past lives. That interest began in childhood, when my father told me he had recurring vivid dreams of dying in a coal mine and was convinced they came from a previous life. Later, while I was still living in Belgium and beginning to host television shows, I was struggling with severe stage fright. I went to a past-life regression practitioner, and during that session I saw myself as a young slave, around 25 years old, with curly black hair. I first saw myself in an arena, with a crowd shouting and being entertained. Then I was taken back to a cell, and later returned to the arena, where a lion attacked me in the liver. For me, that session revealed the deep root of my fear of speaking and expressing myself publicly. It showed me that when we understand the origin of a problem, healing can begin.

A few years ago, I decided to study Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, the method founded by Dolores Cannon, so I could help others in the same way. In a QHHT session with me, we begin with a long conversation, usually around two hours, during which the client tells me about their life in depth: childhood, family dynamics, relationships, major events, recurring patterns, fears, blocks, and health issues. Before the session, the client also prepares questions that we later submit to the subconscious. After that comes the hypnosis and the past-life exploration itself.

This work is not for entertainment. The purpose is to go to the root of what is affecting the person now: emotional blocks, repeated patterns, difficult relationships, fears, health issues, or problems they cannot explain. One example was a client who saw himself as a monk in 14th-century Italy. In that life, he lived with very little money and was completely at peace with celibacy and solitude. In his current life, he was struggling with money and with finding a partner. The session helped show how those old energies were still influencing his present life.

What I offer through both Reiki and past-life regression is insight, healing, and clarity. Reiki helps people release, rebalance, and feel better energetically, and sometimes physically. QHHT helps them understand the deeper roots of what they are living through now. What sets me apart is that my work comes from direct experience, intuition, and a practice that developed naturally before it became formal training. I am most proud of being able to help people in a deeply personal way and of creating a space where they can feel safe, understood, and guided toward healing.

If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?

Yes, I would choose the same path again.

When I look back at who I was as a teenager, journalism was clearly my first vocation. I had created a real newspaper! So in many ways, that path began very early for me.

I have never seen journalism, especially in Europe, as a profession you choose to become rich. It is something you do because you love it, because you are curious, and because you feel called to it. I have worked very hard in this field, and I still do, but what I have loved most over the years, especially as an entertainment journalist, is meeting people and trying to find the human being behind the public figure. More and more, I realize that this is what has always mattered most to me.

That is also why I have often been drawn to deeper questions in interviews — questions about identity, meaning, life experience, and what people truly carry inside. Looking back now, I can see that I was already approaching journalism in a way that was very connected to the healing work I do today. I was always trying to go beneath the surface.

So to me, journalism and my healing work are not separate at all. Journalism taught me how to listen, how to connect, how to make people feel seen, and how to understand the deeper layers of a person. In many ways, it prepared me for what came later with Reiki and past-life regression.

Because I believe in karma and past lives, I also believe that certain paths are chosen for a reason. So yes, I would absolutely do it all again. I feel that both journalism and healing are part of who I am meant to do and become in this lifetime. Maybe one came first so it could prepare me for the other. Today, I feel that I am exactly where I am supposed to be.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

Other than training and formal knowledge, I believe the most important things in my field are presence, authenticity, and intuition.

I say this jokingly, but I have been told that my French accent can be an asset. Still, beyond that, what really makes the difference is the energy people feel when they meet me in person. In my work, that human connection is essential. People need to feel that you are authentic, that you are fully present, and that they can trust you.

I think that is one of my real strengths. When clients sit with me, they can feel that I am genuine and that I am truly there for them. They feel that I am guiding them with sincerity and helping them receive the messages, clarity, or direction they need. A lot of my work is based on intuition, which is by definition not something forced — it is something very natural.

I also believe that, spiritually, we all already carry a deep inner knowledge within us. The challenge is that, in everyday life, we often lose access to it because we are so busy with practical concerns and the material world. For me, being spiritual and intuitive allows me to reconnect more easily with that knowledge.

Personal referrals are important in my work. Social media can help, of course, but very often people come to me because they have met me in person, or because someone who experienced my energy and my work recommended me to them.

So beyond training, I would say that success in my field depends on authenticity, kindness, empathy, intuition, trust, and the energy you bring into the room.

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