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Hello World. This is Miliss popping up to tell you a bit about me and how I came to have this Heal & Grow 365 Practice. I am straight talking and do not hold back, so let's get started!

I am a mom to a fabulous son named Bradley. I am married to my crazy supportive, and wonderful husband John. I also own a telecommunications and fiber optic infrastructure company. The juggling act ensues. I spent a lot of time out of alignment and unbalanced. I was stressed and pressed. I was a working mom who was divorced and always met myself coming and going. It was hard; that’s the honest story. I was not my best self. Oh, I held it together and did my job and did all the things with and for my son! There was work and mom duties and all while trying to be a good friend and a good daughter. The comparison game that I played on the regular was strong. I wanted to make sure I was as good as my friends and as successful as my sister. It was very much like being a hamster on a wheel. My son is my favorite person in the world. He is my reason - as in my reason to get up, my reason to push on, my reason to smile. He is a shining star in my little universe, and I know that he and I were chosen to go through this life together!! We have taught each other so much. He is my success story!! However, there were times that shook me and left me feeling whipped. Life throws you punches, and I have received my fair share. Two that really hit me and left a lasting stain were my divorce and the death of my sister. Both brought up lots of feelings and pain from as far back as childhood. I stuffed it all, put on a smile and carried on. I finally found “the one” and got married. Hi John! Bradley kept moving along and doing well. Everything was great, right? Honest answer: No! All the baggage was there, and it got heavy and hard to handle. My anxiety skyrocketed. A friend recommended acupuncture, and I was like hmmm. I decided to give it a try and see how it could help me. It was amazing. Not amazing as in, everything is great after one session, No, I ended up doing monthly acupuncture for a couple of years, but that wasn’t all. It led me to meditation. This opened the whole concept of mindfulness. Then I became aware of energy scans and Reiki.

As time went on and I worked with some terrific practitioners, and I noticed something. I was working through my feelings and the pain of life events from my past began to lessen. I was healing and feeling more balanced. This allowed me to really dive deeper into meditation and mindfulness. This became a tool to help me grow and maintain this new calm and peaceful inner balance. Life is never all sunshine and rainbows. However, I have found that as I grounded myself and worked on my baggage, life has become something that I genuinely enjoy and appreciate. Things that used to turn me upside down and induce crazy anxiety, no longer have that control over me. I can call up some techniques and handle life’s speed bumps. How did this happen?? Hard work, facing my sh@t, sitting with it and processing it. That is the only way to find your true alignment and feel balanced in your true purpose. Is therapy an option? Yes. Are medications and option? Yes. Are these the stand alone, end all, be all, cure all? No. There is a time and a place for therapy and medication. I’ve been there. Did it provide the complete transformation to inner peace and balance? Nope. I found that I made so much progress working through my “stuff” using these other self-care techniques. I learned so much about me and how I fit into the big picture. I decided to invest my time (and money) on training to become a Reiki practitioner and a master teacher. I also studied and became certified as a meditation and mindfulness teacher. One of my favorite meditations is Yoga Nidra, so took a specialized training class. The courses, trainings and programs elevated my sense of alignment and balance. They helped create the grounded balanced badass that I am!! I have been so excited and pumped about this that I decided to go out on a limb and create a way to help spread my brand of badassery!! I was stuck in fear for a little while then I had a birth chart reading with an amazing, straight talking, no BS lady. After that session, I immediately began to put together my information and create a website. Then fear did a little knock knock on my inner door along with Miss What If. What if I can’t make a decent website or figure out social media? Suppose people think I am some alternative healing witchy woman? What if nobody cares about this stuff? What if my friends laugh at me behind my back? I reached into my sassy self-care repertoire, and I did some work. My conclusion was that I feel called to share this, so I will share it. I was going to try to keep my Miliss life and my Heal and Grow life separate but realized that defeats the purpose of being aligned, balanced, authentic and at peace! I am the integration of all of it! Heal and Grow will be my platform to offer you a way to give yourself the care you deserve. There are many techniques that I offer and that I can teach you. I am here for you and I am all in. Just a fair warning that you will get an honest authentic experience. I learned to accept the truest version of myself and would love to help you find that in yourself. It is not all roses and cool Zen sound baths. It is a workout plan for your emotional and mental health, but the reward is life changing if you are willing to dig in!

How can I help you??