*Celestial Aspirations*

Welcome to my website!

About my website:

I was “officially diagnosed” with severe depression and anxiety some years ago, although I was well-aware that I was severely depressed at the age of 20 (apparently it’s not true until a doctor figures it out). I became suicidal at the age of 20 and had been going downhill ever since. I have been to many different psychotherapists over the years, none of which helped me in any meaningful way. Meanwhile, my seriousness about killing myself continued to grow. This was originally going to be the story of how I healed myself from 21 years of suicidal depression. However, since I began the diary section of this blog, I have decided to discontinue the story on my blog and to continue my story offline in the hopes of publishing it as a book some day, provided that I get my happy ending – if I don’t get my happy ending, there’s no story to tell!

Reiki

Reiki has emerged as a main proponent in my life, because it is the means by which I am accomplishing all of my emotional healing. I recommend it to anyone who, like me, has tried different methods for emotional healing, including years of psychotherapy, with no results, and some other less effective energy healing modalities. I have become certified in reiki levels 1 and 2 and as a reiki master.

About me:

My name is Lucia. I was born in Canada in 1968 and I went to school and grew up in the U.S. I graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada with a double major honors degree in German and Scandinavian languages and historical linguistics in 1992.

In addition to Canada and the U.S., I have lived in Sweden, Finland and, unofficially, Algeria. I have traveled around Europe and feel quite at home in Europe. I spent the last ten years of my life living in Finland earning a living as a translator, translating Finnish and Swedish into English. Currently I am in a major life transition and I don’t yet know what the outcome of this transition will be.

I consider myself a citizen of the world. Due to the sort of life I have led, I have basically lost the sense of “home” that most people have and the sense of being “from” somewhere and having a country. I don’t know where I’m from, simply put, because I have been “from” many places in my life, which, for one reason or another, I haven’t ever felt fully socially accepted in or part of. I’m just a citizen of the world and home is where the heart is.