How My Journey Began

I grew up on a tiny organic farm in rural Mississippi where farm-to-table was not an upscale dining trend but a matter of survival. Life was hard but it was full of simple beauty and bolstered by deep faith.

Emerging from my rough and tumble childhood with a drive to make a difference, I gravitated toward a career in healthcare (Oncology). I began to study alternative medicine, including reiki, healing hands, acupuncture, and other natural pain management solutions. Soon I began to notice how simple but powerful changes—positive attitudes, energy, and the healing power of food—directly impacted my patients’ outcomes.

In 2019 I opened The Lotus Soul Cafe, a plant-based wellness cafe that held delicious food, but also a space for the soul to rest and heal. The physical cafe needed to permanently close it’s doors during the pandemic, however it’s purpose and essence continued to live on in ways I could have never imagined. I opened an energy medicine practice in Davidson, NC called The Lotus Soul to continue to serve the public in however God guided me. Through the use of many healing modalities: Sound, Touch, Earth and Spiritual Energy, and Prayer (never underestimate the power of prayer) I continue to help facilitate the healing of core wounds, trauma, fear, and blocks through a process of loving surrender. Teaching my clients how to RISE from the mud, BLOOM out of the darkness, and RADIATE their light into the world. This process continues over and over throughout our lifetime. It is within this process that we uncover the deep peace, purpose, and understanding that we so long for as humans in this very “plugged-in” world of chaos and separation.

My own process of surrender and healing has lead me through childhood abuse, alcoholism, rape, miscarriage, abandonment, abortion, traumatic births, divorce, business loss, job loss, home loss, and loss of faith. There were many, many dark times in my life where I wasn’t sure that I would ever see the light again. I thought that I would be stuck in the mud forever. Somehow, amid each mess, there was always a miracle (I didn’t always recognize it at the time) awaiting me. Time and time again, I would be stuck in the mud with seemingly no way out, until suddenly one appeared. Finally, at the beautiful age of 40, I started to awaken and see the miracles within the mess, the triumphs within the trials. It was as if a veil was lifting and I was finally now able to see and understand the path of the lotus flower. I was able to appreciate the muddy chrysalis, the powerful push towards the light, and a magnificiant power of radiating “beautiful” that followed.

Coming into my creative spiritual gifts of healing alchemy also expanded my sacred creative gifts in the areas of writing, painting, speaking, and teaching. It seemed that I was being directed to “live out loud” and in that authenticity be a lighthouse for God’s love, promise, and grace. Telling folks about my journey, my mess to miracle (and now message), has become my highest purpose. That beautiful and important purpose has found unexpected avenues to shine, such as being invited tell my story in a book along side some really famous people, ha! That was pretty mind blowing…. I also felt an intense calling to publish my cafe’s menu inside of a healing cookbook. That process stirred some emotions that were hard to heal, as the loss of my cafe was a big one. But, once again, I knew the purpose was greater than the pain. The healing cookbook was it’s own lotus flower pushing it’s way through the mud to RISE, to BLOOM, and to RADIATE like the beacon of love that it represents.

Here we are together, my sweet friends, with so much more life to live. I am thrilled that you are here with me and I with you in this delicate time of filtering through with is real and scared versus what is programmed and tangled. I think you know what I mean, and if you don’t yet, your time will come, soon.

I pray my journey, my words, my food, my art, the very essence of my light uplifts you and reminds you that you too are so incredibly loved. You are worthy. You are amazingly talented. You are seen. You are heard. You are appreciated. You have so much more life left to live my sweet friend, so much more.

Put on your favorite pair of stretchy pants, pour some hot tea, and let’s get to surrendering what no longer serves you. I am holding your hand and an immense amount of space and gratitude for your journey ahead.

Lotus Love,

Heather