Restorative Healing Haven LLC

Restorative Healing Haven LLC ♿ Disability Advocate + Speaker
🎨 NCIDQ Designer
🌿 Accessibility Education
✨ Reiki Master Teacher
🧠 POTS, hEDS, MCAS, Autistic, CPTSD, MDD

09/12/2026

Anger has been a very real part of CPTSD healing for me.

Not because healing isn’t working.

Because I can finally understand what happened to me and recognize how wrong some of it was.

There’s anger about the abuse itself. Anger about what I tolerated while I was surviving. And anger when something happening now touches one of those old wounds.

Understanding that I’m autistic has also helped me better understand the intensity of what I feel.

I’m not trying to heal until I’m no longer angry.

I’m learning how to feel anger safely without letting it decide what I do next.

Healing doesn’t require me to be at peace with being abused.

09/11/2026

I don’t want your Reiki appointment to become another thing you have to be well enough to attend.

Stay in bed if you need to. Wear your pajamas. Bring the heating pad, compression, pillows, mobility aids, or whatever else supports your body.

There is no commute and no energy spent getting yourself home afterward.

Distance Reiki lets the session come to you.

✨ I currently have distance Reiki openings. Booking is available through the link in my bio.

I have three FREE virtual workshops coming up this fall. 💜These workshops bring together a lot of the work I care about:...
09/11/2026

I have three FREE virtual workshops coming up this fall. 💜

These workshops bring together a lot of the work I care about: disability, chronic illness, accessibility, energy medicine, and understanding the systems and histories that shape disabled life.

✨ October 2 | Energy Medicine for Chronic Illness & Disability
An accessible introduction to energy medicine and how practices like Reiki can be adapted for chronically ill and disabled bodies.

♿ November 6 | Disability History: How We Got Here
A look at disability history, how ideas about disability have changed over time, and why that history still matters today.

♿ December 4 | Ableism & Accessibility: Who Did We Expect to Be Here?
A conversation about ableism, accessibility, and what our spaces and systems reveal about whose bodies we expected to accommodate.

All three workshops are:
💜 FREE
💻 Virtual
🕐 1–2 PM ET

Come to one that interests you or join me for all three.

🎟️ Free registration links are in my bio.

09/11/2026

I didn’t leave my marriage and then realize it was abusive.

I had to understand that it was abuse before I could leave.

I researched covert narcissistic abuse while I was still married because what I was experiencing didn’t match the picture of abuse I had in my head.

My autistic brain needed information. Patterns. Language. I needed to understand what was happening before I could trust myself enough to name it.

Once I could name it, I got into therapy while I was still in the marriage.

Eventually, I was able to leave.

Sometimes having language for your experience changes everything.

If you've never experienced Distance Reiki before, you might understandably be wondering:What am I actually doing for an...
09/11/2026

If you've never experienced Distance Reiki before, you might understandably be wondering:

What am I actually doing for an hour?

Here's what a session with me looks like.

We start together on Zoom.

We check in about how you're doing that day, what's been coming up for you, and anything you'd like me to know before we begin.

Then you get comfortable.

And "comfortable" means whatever YOUR body needs.

You can lie in bed or on the couch.

You can elevate your legs if you're managing POTS or dysautonomia.

You can use pillows and positioning supports if your joints need them.

You can use your heating pad.

You can move.

You can stim.

You can change positions halfway through.

You don't have to create a picture-perfect healing environment before I can work with you.

Once you're settled, your camera goes off.

That gives you privacy to actually receive without having to think about what you look like or whether you're "doing Reiki right."

From my own space, I settle into my Reiki practice and facilitate the session from a distance.

You don't need to meditate.

You don't need to concentrate.

And you don't have to feel anything dramatic for the session to be worthwhile.

People can experience Reiki differently. You might notice warmth, tingling, heaviness, emotion, imagery, relaxation, or something much quieter.

There's no experience you have to produce for me.

When the Reiki portion is complete, we reconnect on Zoom and talk about anything you noticed before wrapping up.

And then?

You don't have to drive home.

You ARE home.

For someone living with chronic illness, pain, fatigue, POTS, EDS, disability, or simply limited capacity, that can be one of the most valuable parts of receiving Reiki virtually.

60 minutes. Completely virtual. Four appointments available each week.

Link in bio to book. ✨

09/10/2026

What if needing help wasn’t considered the opposite of contributing?

Community reciprocity is one of my favorite concepts I’ve encountered so far while learning about Indigenous disability history.

You contribute the gifts and abilities you have. Your community supports you where you need support.

Nobody has to prove their value by doing everything independently.

That feels especially powerful in a culture that so often measures disabled people by how little help we need.

Yesterday I went to breakfast at Chalkboard Kitchen in South Haven with some friends, and I ran into an accessibility pr...
09/09/2026

Yesterday I went to breakfast at Chalkboard Kitchen in South Haven with some friends, and I ran into an accessibility problem before I even made it inside.

Google Maps listed the restaurant as accessible, so I arrived with my wheelchair. But when I opened the front door, I was met with stairs.

There was no sign directing me toward an accessible entrance. No indication that a ramp existed. Nothing telling me where I was supposed to go.

After trying to figure it out, I took my wheelchair back to my car and switched to my cane so I could get inside.

When my friends arrived, we happened to run into the owner and learned that there is an accessible entrance around the side of the building, through the stock room.

But I couldn't use an entrance I didn't know existed.

This is why accessibility is about more than technically having a ramp.

Wayfinding is accessibility.

Once we found the accessible entrance, I noticed several things that could make it substantially more usable: clear signage at the main entrance directing people to it, clearing the pathway, repairing the transition at the doorway, and ideally adding an automatic or powered door opener because the door is heavy.

There were positives too. Accessible parking was nearby, there was an accessible restroom, circulation inside was fairly wide, and the staff were friendly and helpful.

I'm sharing these reviews because accessibility isn't about expecting every space to be perfect. It's about identifying barriers that disabled people actually encounter and showing businesses where relatively practical changes could make a real difference.

And as both a wheelchair user and an NCIDQ-certified interior designer, this is exactly the intersection I want to keep talking about.

09/09/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of an appointment is everything it takes just to get there.

Getting dressed. Packing what you might need. Transportation. Navigating an unfamiliar building. Managing symptoms away from home. And somehow still having enough energy to get yourself home afterward.

Distance Reiki removes that part.

You can receive from the space where your body is already supported—your bed, couch, recliner, wheelchair, wherever you’re comfortable that day.

We still check in together before your session. You still receive dedicated Reiki time. And we reconnect afterward for integration.

The difference?

You don’t have to spend a huge portion of your energy just accessing the session. 💜

✨ Distance Reiki sessions are available now.

Book through the link in my bio or tap Book Now right here on my Instagram page.

09/08/2026

I don’t talk about my trauma very often. I’ve talked about having CPTSD, but not much about what caused it or what living with it looks like now.

One of the realities of my healing is that I don’t get a clean break from someone I identify as my abuser. We share a child.

That means communication. Mediation. Parenting decisions. Sometimes court.

So I want to start talking about this part of CPTSD recovery too: what healing looks like when no-contact simply isn’t an option.

This is the beginning of a series I’ve been nervous to share, but I think I’m ready.

09/08/2026

What if accessibility wasn’t something we added after the fact?

Reading A Disability History of the United States keeps bringing me back to this: human bodies change.

We age. We get sick. We get injured. We become disabled.

Accessibility makes more sense when disability isn’t treated as an exception to being human.

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