Hey, y’all!
I have not been blogging as regularly as I should have. I am glad to come back to you guys. I don’t beat myself up too much, however, because everything is all about Divine Timing. There is a reason this post needed a little bit of room, though. I am so very glad I saved my next entry for this young client. For those of you reading this, it will be right on time.
As many of you know, today starts the beginning of National Mental Health Month. I am posting this blog because I want to insert myself and my gift into the conversation about mental health using metaphysics, and namely my intuitive tarot readings. I am offering this blog post from a client who has suffered some pretty severe mental health issues. She is a woman in her early twenties. There were some pretty key ways I was able to help her that have improved her quality of life significantly and I want to share them with you in her own words.
Take a look below.
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It’s not always clear why we’re drawn to the people that we’re drawn to- sometimes, we’re drawn to a person’s knowing smile. Other times, it’s the eyes or the laugh that draw us in initially, but once in, we realize the true power of what it means to meet someone by chance and have them, somehow, change our lives for the better. For me, that agent of change was Val.
Now…let’s back up a bit before I get too ahead of myself. I stumbled across Val’s Facebook page about a year ago. And while I don’t remember what I was looking for specifically at the time, what I DO remember was the level of pain and sadness that I felt. Since high school, I’ve suffered from both social anxiety disorder and depression. Dealing with two competing disorders hasn’t been easy. If I wasn’t suffering from bouts of sadness, lethargy, and hopelessness courtesy of depression, then I was suffering from racing thoughts, anxiety attacks, and general uneasiness around strangers, courtesy of social anxiety. And around the time that I had found Val, I was suffering from crippling depression.
I had felt this level of sadness before- but this time around, I felt stuck. I wasn’t motivated to do anything because all I wanted to do was sleep. This lack of motivation and extreme sense of fatigue presented a bit of a problem since I was deep into my second semester of my Junior year of college and couldn’t afford to slack off. I was already working with a therapist, but somehow it still didn’t feel like enough. So, when I came across Val’s Facebook page, I clicked on the link to her website and read a few of the testimonials left by her customers. And then, a bit impulsively, signed up for a general reading.
I had worked with tarot card readers before Val, so I knew what I was getting into for the most part. But what has set Val apart from all of the tarot card readers that I have worked with in the past is how accurate Val is. From the very first reading that I had with Val, I was blown away by how much she picked up about me even though she had never met me before and I had not told her anything about me or my situation prior to our reading. And ever since that first reading, Val has surprised me again and again with both her insights and her accuracy. But what has sealed the deal for me about Val is the fact that, with her gift, she has been able to aid me in something that I have never been able to do before: she has helped me to heal from the depression and anxiety that once crippled me.
With the help of Val, I made the scary (albeit necessary) jump into taking charge of my mental health. One of the key ways she has helped me do this is through guiding me through the medication aspect of it. For years, I had been afraid to consider taking pharmaceutical drugs as an option for my mental health care plan. I was hesitant about the side effects of taking such powerful, mind altering drugs- remembering all too clearly the commercials commonly associated with antidepressants on television that warned of the possibility of anxiety, agitation and, much worse, suicidal ideation. Suicide was the last thing that I wanted to consider- so I chose to avoid antidepressants for years, opting for herbal based remedies whenever possible.
But after nearly 8 months of depression, the herbal remedies that I had once called upon for relief failing to provide me with any comfort, and suffering an anxiety attack at a friend’s party, I knew that it was time to consider what I had once deemed as out of the question.
As I sat in my room that evening, staring at the prescription for antidepressants, I found myself torn. Since the initial diagnosis of depression and social anxiety disorder, I have fought tooth and nail to heal- doing more for my disorders than maybe was medically necessary to do and spending more money on treatment options than one could fathom. And even though I had done so much and fought so hard, having to turn to antidepressants, in all honesty, felt like a loss for me; I felt like I was “giving up” in a way. Not knowing what to do, I turned to the person that I had come to know and trust: Val.
Needless to say, Val read my life the night of our reading together. She knew, before I mentioned anything about the current state of my mental health, what I was considering doing. I was in complete shock. She went on to tell me that taking medication would be one of the best, if not the best, things for me as far as finding the healing that I had fought so hard for. She even informed me of what medication would possibly make me sick and for how long. The key point that she drove home was this: putting myself first would ultimately lead to a better outcome and a better life for myself. It was time to take control of my mental and emotional health for myself because a more fruitful life awaited me on the other side of the turmoil. So, armed with the new knowledge that I had, I woke up the next morning, looked at the prescription, drove to the pharmacy, and took my first steps towards healing.
It has been a few months since that last reading with Val- and I’ve had a few readings with her since- but my life has changed quite a bit since then. I am no longer feeling as if I am falling into the deep, dark pit of despair. Instead, that feeling of despair is now replaced with a feeling of hopefulness for the future. I now make it a priority to take care of myself first and foremost. I sleep when I’m tired, I say “no” when I feel that I’m taking on too many responsibilities at once, and I try to stay honest with myself in what I really need and want from others (as well as myself). Val has been an incredibly important part of my healer tribe (as I like to refer to the team of women that I keep around me for support as well as continued emotional and spiritual growth)- she’s kept me honest with myself, informed about the things that lie ahead of me, and has been truthful (even when that truth was hard to hear at times).
Val is doing important work here that cannot be understated. If you come to Val, she’ll help you to get to where you need and want to be. Just know that that process means that you might be walking through the storm at times because if change were easy, everyone would do it. But know that you will come out the other side of that storm a better version of yourself than when you went into it. Especially if Val is the one guiding the way through it.
So, thank you Val. For everything.
Many thanks to this client! Her story is so important and heartwarming. I am beyond the moon that I was able to help. To everyone reading this: it’s important you get all of the assistance you need if you are suffering. Don’t be afraid to mix traditional with non-traditional methods such as mine to get the comprehensive relief you need. By doing a reading on her, I was able to effectively identify which medicine would work best for her without knowing which ones were which. She, therefore, did not have to deal with any long term side effects, medicinal latency or withdrawal symptoms. There can be some adverse effects on the body to swapping antidepressants one right after the other. These drugs are very powerful. It’s best to try to get it right the first time if you can. You body will thank you for it! If I can help you, please feel free to go to my website at www.valrichinfinity.com/readings and book your reading with me today. Like this young client, I look forward to helping you get well!
From Now Until Infinity,
