Berni Xiong, The Shin Kicking Life Spark

Berni Xiong is The Shin Kicking Life Spark. She is a Reiki Master, and author of several books including The Year of the Brave Bear, and its paperback companion The Way of the Brave Bear: An Intuitive Guide for Speaking up, Standing Out and Changing Your World. She is a contributing writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul and HuffPost.

Hear Berni's story of growing up Catholic, getting married at 16 and having her son, to becoming burned out at work and finding Reiki as a way to do Self Care. Today she "believes that my mission and my purpose in this lifetime, in this world, is to make a positive difference in the world, make a positive impact in the world" and that belief is a driving force for her decisions that she makes about her career and her life.

http://www.bernixiong.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous

 

EPISODE QUOTABLES:

What I've learned being Catholic for so long and then now being more open to other modalities, spirituality and of energy healing, I think it that all groomed me to be the person I am today and the belief systems I have today. ~ Berni Xiong

I'm constantly trying to improve and transform and learning how to letting go of all the guilt. ~ Berni Xiong

It is my purpose and my mission to be someone of healing people, being loving, being compassionate and making a positive difference. ~ Berni Xiong

My faith is stronger than it's ever been before in terms of believing and something powerful and loving and beautiful and that my purpose and mission in this world is to be someone who contributes to that positivity and that positive contribution. ~ Berni Xiong

When I write that is the greatest form of creative expression. ~ Berni Xiong

Reiki is not magic, there's nothing strange about it. It's basically our bodies are full of energy and sometimes energy is trapped in a way in your body, where it's either overactive or it's under active and so you're just giving attention to those spots and you're allowing them to feel balance. ~ Berni Xiong

I wholeheartedly believe anybody who's listening, if they're feeling like spirits and angel guides are not visiting them, I guarantee you give yourself the space and the time and become more still and become less focused on forcing the message to come and just telling yourself I'm open to receiving the message you will hear or feel or sense something in some way shape or form. ~ Berni Xiong