Today we’d like to introduce you to Meridith Lana.
Meridith, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I have always been a healer, clairaudient, intuit and energy worker. These traits have always been with me, I pushed them down for many years, although they didn’t truly shine until my darkest moments.
I grew up in a small rural town in Upstate New York. I married my high school sweetheart at the young age of 20 and had my first son at 21 years of age. By the time I was 31, I had two more amazing boys. I absolutely loved being a mother, this came naturally to me. My boys have always been my life’s breath, my whole world.
I was raised with the motto, “keep family together at all costs.” Because of this, I had a misidentification of what a family looked like. I was constantly told that I had the perfect blessed life. I had a wonderful home and healthy children that I was fortunate enough to stay home with. From the outside looking in, I did. I remember my parents coming out to “fix” my marriage at least three or four times over the years when I had decided I had had enough. Each time they came to support me but encouraged me to stay and keep working on the marriage. My interpretation of what I was hearing was that my family was more worthy than me and I had to keep on giving more of myself to fix this. I was making everyone around me more worthy than I was. Living by this motto had a lasting impact on my tumultuous marriage. Over time it became clear what I thought was the American dream was a nightmare.
I allowed myself to disappear and become a doormat, enduring so much abuse from my ex-husband throughout our entire marriage. I eventually no longer realized I was being mistreated. The abuse had gone on for so many years that I became co-dependent and addicted to the fight to keep my family together at all costs.
I found myself making excuses for his infidelities, temper and harmful words and blaming myself for his behavior. I continually tried to be smarter, thinner, and more organized to make him happy. My ego thought if I loved him enough for both of us, he would see he was lovable and would love me back. What I now realize is that it was my ego thinking I was so powerful. When I dropped into my heart center through my spiritual awakening, I realized I am powerless. The only thoughts, feelings or actions I can control are my own.
So I left. When I went through my divorce, it was like moving through scorched earth. As a single mother I felt more alone and more lost than I ever had. Everything monetarily was taken from me, with no alimony and no child support, I found myself on welfare. I was blindsided by my husbands’ business dealings which landed him in Federal prison. My house was taken by a quit claim deed that I never signed and since I had no money, I couldn’t fight it. My car was gone, and I was slated to be homeless. I was then served by the IRS asking for over 1.5 million dollars my husband owed to them. I was told I needed a tax attorney to walk me through an innocent spouse plea as I had no idea he embezzled from me, his clients and the IRS. I became a squatter in my own home. I began working seven days a week, day and night to feed my children, all the while I was in school on scholarship studying spiritual psychology.
I had a choice to make – either crawl under a rock and give up or allow the pain to move through me and make the decision to rise. I found the power inside myself that was asleep for so many years. It was then I began my journey into spiritual awakening. I began my journey with two important questions: “Why is this happening to me?” and “Why did you need to take everything monetarily from me?” As I moved through this awakening, I began to see this was all happening FOR ME. The lesson I needed to see was that I already had everything I needed inside of me. With this new awareness, I began to manifest the most wonderful life filled with truth and abundance. All my limiting beliefs, judgments, projections, and self-doubt began to fade away. The old me now feels like a distant memory.
We’ve been impressed with Soul Centered Healing, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
As the Founder of Soul Centered Healing, I have helped hundreds of people enhance their lives by providing the tools to help them connect with their authentic selves by reframing their thoughts and channeling their energy into a healthy release. During this time also bringing their unresolved issues to completion and shifting into a higher consciousness. As a holistic healer, I created my own blend of techniques that intuitively allow me to assist my clients in experiencing deep and lasting changes in their lives. Every session is tailored to fit the individual needs of each client. Those who have committed to working with me have experienced huge shifts in a short time span. This includes learning to work on the behavioral, mental, emotional, existential, and authentic self-levels. This process results in clients experiencing enhanced levels of success, fulfillment, and peace. Empowering clients to live in the now. As a highly intuitive empath, I am attuned to energy, vibration and the needs of others.
I work with my clients, helping them with a variety of issues including but not limited to anxiety, abundance, life purpose, addiction, stress management, depression, chronic pain, and parenting challenges. While my practice is tailored to each client, I utilize my blended approach to holistic healing and wellness through my expertise in spiritual psychology, breathwork, reiki, mindfulness and yoga to provide confidential individual, group, couples and family counseling. My clients are all referrals consisting of Fortune 500 CEOs, professional athletes, celebrities, business owners, young adults and the everyday human.
Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
I believe everything in life is spiritual. Spirituality to me is another word for Love. Love is everyone’s religion and connects us all. I named my practice Soul-Centered Healing because our heart center is our soul center. It is where our authentic self resides. In my practice, I support humans in shifting into their highest and best selves by raising their consciousness to succeed in the flow of life.
Through constant surrendering to the universe, I have had many blessings on this road. It was like my karma quilt was wrapping around me. In my experience with working with different clients, I feel that you can only bring humans to a place of healing if you yourself have experienced your own healing journey as I have. If you have not done the work, then where is the expectation that the person whom you are working with can heal themselves? I also feel that cognitively we can understand where the trauma is coming from or why it is here but what most people need support with is understanding that it is now trapped cellularly inside of their body. Dis-ease in the body can become disease if you do not know how to work with it or how to release it.
I believe I can see each person and my gift of seeing them makes them feel very comfortable opening up to me. I hold space for them and give them the tools to heal themselves. I have had to trust in the universe to have my back and it has not failed me yet. I manifested this beautiful abundant life and I believe we are not our stories. We use our stories as a crutch to keep us stuck! Fear can keep us stagnant. I am always telling my clients that there are no failures in life, just new opportunities for different experiences. I shifted my focus to helping others as I couldn’t find someone who was able to support me on my healing journey with all the different traumas I had experienced through my marriage and before. I came up with my own set of skills to heal myself. With this skill set, I have grown a very successful spiritual counseling practice on zoom and in my office from word of mouth alone.
Spiritual Slumbering by Meridith Lana
Where would I be right now spiritually slumbering through life, pasting a smile on my face every day entering into the human space feeling blessed to have the material life although my heart was in such strife…
How can I do differently as all eyes are constantly watching me, amazing mother-daughter wife this is what they see when they look at me. This is not me; this is who I portray to be, every day on the daily.
I am just a beautiful soul having a human experience with all the cloudiness in my lens. I was not able to see all I took personally had nothing at all to do with me. Fat, lazy, disorganized stretch marks, not smart, chase me around barking like a dog, telling me my ass is dimpled like a big fat hog, pushing me down the stairs still wasn’t enough for me to see all this I bought into and believed was happening to me because I was never enough you see. Secrets, secrets all around holding them in for dear life created dis-ease inside of me, and with that, I still took it all personally what was wrong with me! I knew how to work in this dysfunctional space, my ego kept me trapped thinking I was safe. I could do this dance all day long, it was modeled for me like a childhood song…
Where was the turning point for me? When God came in and took everything, brought me to my knees. Yes, there is much more I heard him say as I lay broken, naked and raw on the floor. You get to rebuild and manifest in a clean and clear space, this is when the smile will be genuinely set upon your face. Welfare was the next stop for me. I closed my eyes and pretended to be at the DMV. This could not be my new real-world reality… except it was.
I held three jobs working night and day while in school and rearing my boys, hip hip hooray! This is when I began to see that the universe did this all FOR me. All that was really taken was my monetary means and the abundance and awareness that was given was worth more than I could have ever dreamed. Wealth is not just measured by monetary means; the consciousness of your experiences is the true wealth you see.
I met my magic mirror along my healing journey. My own passionate self-forgiveness spoke to me and supported my new reality. My magic mirror helped me see everything I was looking for on the outside was the gift right here inside of me. I created a safe and sacred nest for my kids to grow and now as a free bird, I am fully in the flow. Taking time to move through feelings as they arise knowing whatever comes forward is always on time, treating myself with loving kindness is my guide. Knowing time is fleeting I take it all in stride, my journey is forever unfolding on this amazing ride…
Contact Info:
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Kateryna Mykytiuk
