We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kelly Rae Kerwin a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Kelly Rae, appreciate you joining us today. Is there a heartwarming story from your career that you look back on?

I am an unconventional trauma care, love specialist and exorcist. I work with people in some of their darkest hours. I am no stranger to dark energies, attachments and demons. I am transitioning to more a teacher and preceptor role.

Kelly Rae, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Kelly Rae Kerwin and I am a mixed race spiritual healer and advisor.
A Reiki Master Teacher, Psychic Medium, Shamanic Practitioner, Past Life Regression Therapist, Animal Healer & Communicator, Ceremonialist and Sound healer. Ex Birth Worker. Full time mom and musician.

I blend all of the many teachings, trainings and schoolings that I have done over the past 15 years to bring balance, understanding and help to make sense of this crazy thing we call life.
I work with my clients to co-create spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well being.

I have a special gift for working with those who are in very dark places.

I’m an expert on the journey through grief, trauma support, unexplained happenings, the odd and the peculiar. This is my specialty. Nothing is off limits. Nothing is weird.

Without the dark there is no light. Without the light, there is no dark.
They coexist. There is no other way.

What I Do:

I am a healer, guide and advisor to help people become their own guru. My goal is to give people tools and methods so they are able to trust their intuition, trust their body and become the best version of themselves so that they can heal and then go be a positive and healing force in their family, community and on our planet.

I am beginning to train more healers now and it has become really a joy to watch long healers find their way.

I got into this work as I was leaving the birth business. I am incredibly empathic and really struggling to hold my own energy during the births I was attending, I would begin experiencing my clients contractions really intensely and I needed to figure out how to protect myself.

I was really struggling with anxiety and depression, I was grieving heavily after my father passed away in 2015 and I was at the end of my rope. I had tried everything under the sun to help me, medication and talk therapy and energy work was what really began helping me make a turn in my healing process.

I didn’t have any aspirations to become an energy worker, I was becoming a midwife and I was looking for tools to help me manage my anxiety and grief. Before I knew it, I had a thriving business where I blended all of my trainings, Reiki, shamanic energy protocols, craniosacral, and my intuitive abilities that were really coming back online for me.

I am an expert at handling darker energies and because of this I am able to help many people who have also been on a long journey to find freedom from mental, physical and spiritual illnesses.
I am very proud of my work, although many don’t understand it. I have trained under Shamans from Mexico, Peru and here. I have trained under curenderas and medicine people all over the Americas.
I have trained with witches and midwives, studied high magic and hypnosis to bring the ultimate understanding to people’s lives.

I do one on one healing sessions, past life regression therapy, abdominal massage, card and energy readings and I train healers in a variety of skillsets all based in Reiki and Shamanism.

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

In 2020, my in-person business was thriving. The world shut down and I set up a tent in my backyard and started seeing people for all kinds of ailments. I offered herbal remedies, energy work, massage and spiritual guidance. Because the funeral homes were closed down, I began doing outside end of life ceremonies and before I knew it, I had more work than I could handle. I began doing home and space clearings at a very high rate and really began working with some very dark energies in some spaces.

My defining moment was during a house clearing where I was attacked physically, psychically and spiritually and I almost died. During the house clearing, I experienced dizziness, nausea, labored breathing which turned into being burned from the inside out. At one point, it felt like a ball of lava was inside my chest.
At one point, I had memories of really awful things begin flooding my mind. Really awful times of addiction and abuse.

I had to go through a series of exorcisms from all different types of healers to remove the energy.

Finally, I worked with a Mayan shaman who was able to remove it completely. It was a long road back to full health.
I lost 30 pounds in 3 weeks. The energy was trying to kill me by any means possible.

It is said, to become a shaman, that you must be hit by lightning or be so dismembered to be reborn into something new. It’s called the shaman’s sickness which is a near death experience.

This was a near death experience and I am so lucky to have found a shaman who was able to help me.
Because I was dying. And it was happening quickly.

I learned so much from that experience and time. Without that experience, I would not be able to do the work that I do now. I would not have the capacity to hold space the way that I do for the people who come to see me.
Most who come to see me are very troubled.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

The most important thing for me is to stay completely open to all ideas and to never get attached to any one method, one God or deity, theory or idea when it comes to spiritual healing. Any time I have ever felt or thought that there is only one way of doing things, Spirit/the universe/ God has shown me how ridiculous that is.

When I was in that house, calling in the Christian and Abrahamic dieties, Jesus, Mary, Archangel Michael, I could not break free from the attack.
As soon as I called in the Hindu Gods is when the energy began to shift and I was able to begin moving the dark energy out. With Shiva, Kali Ma and Durga.

That was a huge lesson for me. Do not get attached to anything and stay open to all of creation.

Contact Info:

• Website: Twincitiesreiki.com
• Instagram: @kelly.rae.kerwin
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kraekerwin
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@KellyRaeKerwin
• Other: https://kelly-kerwin.mykajabi.com/

Image Credits
The photographers are Andrew Dorothy, Ashley Rick, Nick Linde and Ana Ko