Today we’d like to introduce you to Janet Raftis.
So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
My healing journey began as a way to overcome my own pain and to move beyond the many limiting beliefs that were holding me back from expressing who I AM.
After being raped in high school, I dropped into years of despair in which I felt completely lost and cut off from myself. I turned to alcohol and drugs in an attempt to not feel and to maintain a sense of disassociation from my body.
I never felt good enough, worthy enough, anything enough…
Relationships were challenging for me – I had no sense of boundaries or self. Saying no was hard for me to do, I had no idea how to navigate life’s ups and downs. I was constantly just barely eking out a living. I was making progress with my personal healing practice, but I was still stuck.
I felt better, but I was still treading water.
Finally, I took Jennifer Pastiloff’s Manifestation Yoga workshop. This is a workshop about breaking through your fears so that you may move into living a life you love.
In the couple of hours, I was there, I felt truly inspired. I left feeling invigorated and uplifted. I wanted what she had. For the first time – maybe ever – I actually felt like I could have it.
But then I returned to my life. I walked back into the restaurant where I was still working even though I had become a practicing Reiki Master years before. I felt the same frustration at not being able to buy my son an extra pair of shoes. I was still worried that something would happen to the cat or the dog or the kid and I wouldn’t be able pay for it.
I still felt bad that I had been holding onto dreams that always seemed out of my reach. The old despair was still there. I had felt it lift for a few hours while in the cocoon of the workshop, but then my real life smacked me in the face. Just like it always did.
For a moment, I had believed that it could change. For a moment, I had believed in myself. And then… POOF!
I was back doing the exact same thing, I had been doing for years.
And then 3 days after the workshop, I was scrolling through my email. I had checked out The Institute for Integrative Nutrition the preceding spring but didn’t have the money for it. Now they were offering half off tuition. I still felt like I couldn’t do it.
Lack of money was always the excuse. It seemed there was never enough. I was always chasing everything I wanted. Frustrated, I got up and walked into the bathroom. As I washed my hands, I looked down at the peeling temporary tattoo that I had placed on my wrist with so much anticipation and excitement just three days earlier while in that workshop. It was peeling and crumbly, but I could still make out the words:
What are you manifesting? And in that moment I got it. If I didn’t change, I would only continue to manifest more of the same.
I signed up for the course just minutes later. And then the next phase of my life truly began.
Today, I am not a health coach and that is perfectly right. I actually see now that I didn’t take that course to go into nutrition; I took it to go into life. It was the jumpstart I needed.
This is when I embraced my work as a healer and when I stepped fully into my power to help others do the same.
Everything changed for the better. From that point on, my healing practice deepened dramatically as well. I was more aligned and connected than ever before. Because I trusted in and believed in myself and as a result of my personal work, I was able to understand and give so much more.
I have finally moved through the FEAR and into MY POWER. I have released patterns and worked through the trauma. I understand boundaries and I am able to communicate my needs and desires to others. I feel healthy, vibrant and alive. I am joyous, even when life is difficult.
I’ve become a master of my own energy field and how to support empaths and highly sensitive people so that they can access their gifts and intuition in a way that feels safe and supported. Every year, I support hundreds of people in their healing and intuitive development process.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
As a highly sensitive empath, I’ve had to learn how to care for my energy field in a way that allows me to feel strong and empowered to help others. Until I mastered this, I felt tired, exhausted, overwhelmed much of the time. I also had a weak immune system as a result of being consistently depleted. I’ve taken what used to feel like a curse and turned it into one of the greatest blessings of my life.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Janet Raftis – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
I’m an energy healer, psychic medium and intuitive development teacher. I support others in their healing journey and teach intuitive and highly sensitive people how to work with energy in a way that feels empowering.
As a healer, I specialize in being able to see how trauma and childhood experiences have embedded themselves in the body and energy field that are showing up as symptoms, illness, undesired patterns or difficulty in changing limiting beliefs. I’m able to help the person understand and begin the process of releasing them and healing.
My gifts as a psychic allow me to see what people usually can’t see for themselves so that they may begin a deeper healing process.
I am also an activator for others, helping them to understand, tap into and develop their intuitive gifts. I facilitate workshops and retreats domestically and internationally that support people’s healing and spiritual awakening.
So, what’s next? Any big plans?
I offer a group healing meditation every Sunday that is accessible to anyone. It’s delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 8:00 and gives all who join it access to a beautiful healing meditation that provides energetic clearing, balancing and the opportunity for intuitive and spiritual growth. My goal is to continue to growing this so that people who might otherwise not have access to healing or feel able to maintain a meditation practice can receive both.
I’m developing more retreats and would love to support even more people in understanding how to access the guidance that is within them and always available to them.
I love sharing and teaching! I am excited to find even more ways to do this!
Contact Info:
- Address: 814 Juniper St. NE
Suite 302
Atlanta, GA 30308 - Website: www.janetraftis.com
- Phone: 404-274-3035
- Email: janet@janetraftis.com
- Instagram: @JanetRaftis
- Facebook: Janet Raftis – Energy Healer and Intuitive Development Coach
- Twitter: @JanetRaftis
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