About Anna

I started in biology. Moved to animal husbandry. I'm 24, still finishing my degree. I like paint under my nails, swimming in lakes under moonlight, and animals who don't pretend to be anything they're not. Always the kind of person who truns things over in her hands to see how they actually work.

My instinct when something fails has always been to reach in - broken soil, kids left behind, elders made invisible, animals with no one to speak for them. That instinct eventually walked me straight into energy healing. I watched Effexora take its first steps mostly from the background - supporting, observing, occasionally nudging. For a long time I was happy behind the scenes. Partly because I meant it - I liked building things without a spotlight. But partly because I had this firm belief that I wasn't legit until "Reiki Master" could sit in front of my name.

Spirituality, for me, is just paying attention: noticing how my dogs calm down when I breathe slower - that's biology, and it's also something more. How a rose quartz in my pocket settles my own nerves, and I'm not going to pretend I fully understand why, but I also won't pretend the data isn't there in my own body. I keep my feet on the ground even when my heart wanders.

I'm still not a Reiki Master. And every attunement in Effexora's work was a breadcrumb I laid for the version of myself that needed it first. I'm not transcended, not recovered - I'm someone who's still in it, not past it. I don't flinch at rage I know what it feels like to carry something you can't name yet or what shame does to a body. I don't step away from those things in other people - they're usually the most honest thing in the room.

What I want to grow here is a community with real range - people who want to talk about how body and spirit actually interact, who aren't afraid of the messy answers, and who believe that every sentient heart deserves a seat at the table.

Come as you are.