{"id":13293,"date":"2017-01-01T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=13957"},"modified":"2016-12-22T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:27:59","slug":"interview-with-psychic-brittany-quagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/01\/01\/interview-with-psychic-brittany-quagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Psychic Brittany Quagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Interview with Psychic Brittany Quagan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Elfin empath goes from panic attacks to helping others heal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\">\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13958\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Brittany-917x1024.jpg\" alt=\"brittany\" width=\"644\" height=\"719\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\">\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Brittany Quagan knows the exact moment her whole life changed. She was 22 and working for a <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">corporate insurance company. One day, while having a melt<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">down in her cubical, a woman she would later learn was a psychic medium and who has since become her friend, told her she the problem was not anxiety.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan argued her therapist would say otherwise, but the woman told her, \u201cYou are feeling the energy from everyone around you.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As strange as it sounded, Quagan knew it was true. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> because when I was a little kid I always believed there was more.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I refused to believe that I was just a normal person. I absolutely refused to believe it.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">There were so many things that I knew and so many things that I saw.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She described a video shot by her father when she was only 18 months old. On it, she tells him, \u201cI have an excruciating headache, Daddy. I think I\u2019m pregnant.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The crazy thing was,\u201d Quagan said, \u201cmy mom was pregnant with my baby brother, but she didn\u2019t know it yet.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Growing up, there were dreams that came true and information she \u201cjust knew. It was a feeling. It was a sense.\u201d Often it freaked out her mother.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It was interesting because everything was linked to my mom; there was this ridiculous link between the two of us: my mom and me. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">When I was <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">five or six years old, I told my mom she needed to divorce my dad. \u2018He\u2019s not for your greatest and highest good. You and dad should not be together.\u2019 She looked at me like I had 15 heads.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Some time later, her mother did divorce her father.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As a teenager, Quagan was diagnosed with anxiety and depression, and labeled a hypochondriac. She remembered thinking, \u201cI\u2019m way too sound of mind to be so much of a basket case.\u201d It was like two wolves fighting, she said, one saying, \u201cThis is not happening,\u201d and the other saying, \u201cYou\u2019re crazy.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I always had this sense that there was nothing wrong with me, just that there was something going on that I couldn\u2019t explain, that no one could explain. \u2026 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The doctor gave me<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> medication,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and it was great with numbing everything that was going on around me, but I still felt all the things that were giving me anxiety in the first place.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In her late teens, she added alcohol to the mix to cope with the anxiety, explaining, \u201cIt was <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">the only way to actually dull what was going on with me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I was just a world of fun when people knew me way back then.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Only it wasn\u2019t fun. It was, she said, \u201cone of the darker cycles of my life.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Panic attacks were a daily occurrence, and coupled with depression, there were times she was unable to leave the house.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">After graduating college, she began working for a <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">corporate insurance company. There came a day Quagan recalled telling the Universe, \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I need a teacher \u2026 to guide me and help me to heal.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Things began to happen. Fast. Two days later she got a new job. Two months after that, a mentor stopped at her cubicle to say she\u2019d been noticing Quagan\u2019s panic attacks and explained what was really going on. When Quagan sensed death, the woman could tell there was the spirit of a dead person behind her. When Quagan found herself upset, this woman could tell it was exactly how the person in the adjacent cubicle was feeling.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">My entire life changed from that day on,\u201d Quagan said. \u201cShe took me under her wing; she taught me about guides and things like that, told me what books to read, gave me meditations. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I started talking to her about energy, how others&#8217; energy can effect us, and about how being empathic \u2013 and feeling what others feel, literally \u2013 could cause anxiety, and I started to research it further. Next thing I knew, I got a Reiki session done. I felt so good afterwards. All the static that surrounded my head and my stomach was alleviated.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan began to read extensively.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I read about Reiki, body energy, empaths, building intuition, even connecting to Spirit energy. \u2026 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Reading about paganism and wicca and those very nature-based spiritual practices and religions was the gateway for me to learning about energy and that it\u2019s such a thing, which led me to read \u2018The Secret.\u2019\u201d she said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The more I read, the more I studied, the more everything made sense.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She learned not to absorb the energies of others around her and to combat her anxiety with intention and visualization. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The anxiety I had was linked to what I felt from everyone else, just an abundance of energy. If someone next to me had a headache, I&#8217;d have a headache without them telling me they had one. If they were heartbroken or depressed, I&#8217;d be heartbroken or depressed for no reason. I was a sponge for everyone&#8217;s stuff. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Once I learned that piece, that&#8217;s when I was able to take that awareness and apply it to whenever anxiety or panic started to creep in, and before I knew it \u2026 I hadn\u2019t had an anxiety attack in two months.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan said, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cI stayed on top of my own ass to make sure I didn\u2019t fall back into the pits of negative thinking. You\u2019re rewiring your entire brain to accept a new reality. \u2026 I had to remind myself, \u2018This is someone else\u2019s\u2019 and \u2018You\u2019re not dying. Someone else is dying and they\u2019re talking to you. You\u2019re grounded and protected.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The control she applied to that energy set the tone for taking control of the rest of her life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">From there, the intuition just came,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She took a Reiki class and went on to become a certified Reiki master. She took classes, including an eight-month course on medical intuition. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">That\u2019s all about understanding energy and why we have physical symptoms and ailments, and how that\u2019s all linked to mental, emotional and spiritual energy within our body and mind,\u201d Quagan said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Without quitting her insurance job, she began offering Reiki sessions and intuitive readings. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It all happened very quickly,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I was doing a lot of teaching, a lot of life coaching. My sessions turned into these intuitive counseling sessions. As I was going along on my journey, I was learning a ton in classes and through my own self-learning and my own personal growth about energy, about chakras, about relationships \u2026 about everything. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It really just turned into this smorgasbord of knowledge that I was able to teach people from my own perspective and experience, and people were really growing and transforming and finding peace and finding empowerment.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Along with her personal growth came business growth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">was 26 when she quit her full-time job, walking away from a steady paycheck, health insurance and job security<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It was as scary as it was empowering. She said it was also a beneficial and transformative time. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I left my boyfriend of four years as we were renovating a house; I left my job; I cut all of my hair off \u2013 it was down to my butt \u2013 I got a pixie cut. I got rid of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">anything that wasn\u2019t good for me. &#8230; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">People thought that I was batshit crazy.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She has had no regrets.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I will never be more thankful for those risky decisions I needed to make to find myself,\u201d Quagan said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She outgrew the room she had been using in the back of her mother\u2019s hair salon<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and opened Journeys School for the Soul in Windsor, Connecticut in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">July 2015<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> She <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">continued coaching clients who found their way to her, mostly by word of mouth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Anxiety is my specialty,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople who have experienced it make the best teachers and healers; it\u2019s not something you can read out of a book.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I coach people what I have experienced myself, things that have worked for me \u2026 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">whether it\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> simple anxiety and stress techniques or overcoming drug addiction and alcohol abuse, abuse in relationships, or simply trying to understand why certain relationships have come into your life and how to heal from them. Even just finding your own level of empowerment and letting go of those fears we all have, especially being judged by others.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Her own daily struggles drew her to embrace holistic and wellness practices.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">That\u2019s where I found my peace, and that\u2019s where I found my healing and my calling. This was my path. This is what I felt connected to \u2013 to help people find their clarity and their peace,\u201d Quagan said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She sees herself more as a life coach than a therapist, approaching situations with a fresh perspective <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">and offering practical techniques for dealing with issues in the heat of the moment as well as methods of deep healing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I get down to the raw and the nitty gritty. I won\u2019t ask how something makes you feel. I want to talk about why you feel that way,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cThere is no judgment. It\u2019s about you becoming the best version of yourself that you can be.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan believes the body contains energy that is comprised of mental, emotional and spiritual belief systems that are linked to physical well-being. By addressing those beliefs through coaching and awareness, she said, \u201cyou can heal physical ailments wholly.\u201d She assures clients that healing is \u201cwithin reach. No one is a lost cause and no one is stuck where they are.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">With only a few clients <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">at first<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, Quagan had some free time and began writing. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The first in a fiction series was released in August 2016 \u2013 \u201cRen: Awakened.\u201d It\u2019s about Ren Nagel, 17, who was committed to a psych ward because she saw things no one else did. She breaks out and learns who she is, then must control a power she never knew she had and organize a coalition of people she never knew existed \u2013 to remind humanity why fighting the darkness is a big part of being human.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The second book, \u201cRen: Reposed,\u201d is due out in March.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan said of the series, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like my autobiography, but on fiction steroids. There are a lot of parallels to the world today and all the darkness that we face, collectively and individually, and how it\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">affecting the world around us.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She is writing the third book in between clients.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The series is helping a lot of our empaths find comfort and find clarity,\u201d she said. \u201cIt opened them up to a whole new reality.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Recently, Quagan moved to a new space, this time in Simsbury, Connecticut, with a new name \u2013 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Journeys Holistic Wellness and Anxiety Relief Center. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She has <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">three energy healers who are available by appointment, and two licensed counselors. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Some can accept insurance<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She is working toward a master\u2019s degree in <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">clinical psychology<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">so she can become a licensed professional counselor and be able <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">accept insurance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Transitioning to a new space followed a transition in the focus of the work she was doing. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Before it was a lot of \u2018What\u2019s going to happen in my future?\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s this?\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019 \u2026 I like to focus more on the now and the lead up to the future.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She teaches clients to develop their own intuition. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Everyone has some degree intuition, \u201csome level of being an empathy,\u201d she said, explaining, \u201cIf you\u2019ve felt awkward tension before, then you\u2019ve felt energy. We all have the ability to gage the energy of another individual\u201d and know if you are feeling something versus syphoning it or absorbing it from another source. Like any other muscle, intuition can be toned and strengthened. Everyone can benefit from using it in both personal and professional lives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">An exercise Quagan is fond of assigning to her clients requires a regular deck of cards. After calling each card as red or black, flip it over. Do this again and again and again. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The point is not to be correct. The point is to understand how your receive the information. You could be feeling it or hearing it or seeing the color of the card in your mind. Or maybe you just know. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I do that to get you in the mindset of being aware of what you\u2019re seeing and feeling when you\u2019re holding the cards. One of the biggest struggles is that little need to be correct. That screws you every time. When we need to be correct, we do not listen to our intuition and we do not listen to our guides. Stop trying to be right and just tell me what you\u2019re feeling. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s the craziest things \u2013 tell me. It means something. \u2026 It\u2019s the things that sound the craziest that are the most accurate.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In addition to <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">intuition classes, and life and wellness coaching,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> Quagan <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">teaches a wide range of development and healing classes, Reiki certification and a new intuitive healer certification. She also offers one-on-one mentoring.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She makes herself available to clients day and night, in person, by phone and with Skype.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I get the occasional 2 a.m. phone call,\u201d she said, explaining,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It\u2019s my life and my lifestyle, so the more people I can help the better.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">While most clients are from central Connecticut, she has others on the West Coast and as far away as England, Ireland and India. Most find her by word of mouth. Some find her through her blog or the column she writes for The Door Opener, \u201cMessages, Magic,<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Madness and M<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">ore<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">:<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Windom and Insight from a Present Day Fairy.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan is looking forward to research results that will be published by Yale University. Late in 2015, she participated in a study comparing schizophrenics to psychics. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Some people who see things and think they\u2019re being attacked. I see dead people and I\u2019m cool with it. I\u2019m hearing voices. This was an extensive study that I\u2019m excited for them to publish it. The results [will indicate] there is a very fine line between the two of us,\u201d making misdiagnosis easy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Quagan offered three signs that could help identify whether or not you are an empath.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Do you go from feeling energized or happy or even complacent or indifferent and feel your mood change, or do you feel drained? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Do you find that any physical symptoms you\u2019re experiencing are the same as those people around you are feeling?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Do you have digestive issues? (A lot of energy is absorbed by the solar plexus. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Anxiety comes from a buildup of absorbed energy physically, mentally and emotionally.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It\u2019s interesting because when you\u2019re aware that energy is a very real and prominent thing in all of our lives, you really start to realize how much you are affected by others around you, by the entire world coming alive, even season or the moon \u2013 all of these things affect us. So many of us are influenced by our external environment and allow it to influence our entire lives \u2026 without realizing it.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Some days, Quagan said, she wakes up and finds she has thoughts, emotions or experiences that are out of character.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It takes me an hour to remember I\u2019m a psychic, an empath,\u201d she said. \u201cThen I listen to my guides [say<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00000a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">], \u2018It\u2019s not you.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Some empaths and energy sensitives don\u2019t realize they are being affected.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It\u2019s almost as if you are so busy being other people, you lose yourself, she said, later explaining, \u201cIt\u2019s down to our perception and our ability to control the energy around us.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">She set boundaries and limits so she could go to the mall or the movies and not be \u201con call.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I find that just like with anything, there\u2019s spiritual politics; there\u2019s opposing viewpoints with spirituality.\u201d Some think you can\u2019t turn it on and off, but she disagrees, saying she\u2019s worked with her guides to develop a system to turn it on and off.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Being an empath can be managed. While it\u2019s a gift, there is some choice involved. You can set boundaries, you can stop the information if you desire, she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">While Quagan learned to step away from it, she said others don\u2019t and are sometimes labeled bipolar. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Energy can shape our entire reality, including the boundaries we put up between ourselves and the spirit world, and between us and other people,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Reach Journeys Holistic Wellness and Anxiety Relief Center online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyssoulschool.com\" target=\"_blank\">journeyssoulschool.com<\/a> or on Facebook at Journeys: Holistic Wellness &amp; Anxiety Relief Center. Call 860-580-9736 or message @journeyssoulschool.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"it-IT\"><strong><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>A version of this article first appeared in Valley LIFE. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Psychic Brittany Quagan Elfin empath goes from panic attacks to helping others heal. Brittany Quagan knows the exact moment her whole life changed. She was 22 and working for a corporate insurance company. One day, while having a meltdown in her cubical, a woman she would later learn was a psychic medium and who has since become her friend, told her she the problem was not anxiety. Quagan argued her therapist would say otherwise, but the woman told her, \u201cYou are feeling the energy from everyone around you.\u201d As strange as it sounded, Quagan knew it was true. \u201cIt\u2019s because when I was a little kid I always believed there was more. I refused to believe that I was just a normal person. I absolutely refused to believe it. There were so many things that I knew and so many things that I saw.\u201d She described a video shot by her father when she was only 18 months old. On it, she tells him, \u201cI have an excruciating headache, Daddy. I think I\u2019m pregnant.\u201d \u201cThe crazy thing was,\u201d Quagan said, \u201cmy mom was pregnant with my baby brother, but she didn\u2019t know it yet.\u201d Growing up, there were dreams that came true and information she \u201cjust knew. It was a feeling. It was a sense.\u201d Often it freaked out her mother. \u201cIt was interesting because everything was linked to my mom; there was this ridiculous link between the two of us: my mom and me. When I was five or six years old, I told my mom she needed to divorce my dad. \u2018He\u2019s not for your greatest and highest good. You and dad should not be together.\u2019 She looked at me like I had 15 heads.\u201d Some time later, her mother did divorce her father. As a teenager, Quagan was diagnosed with anxiety and depression, and labeled a hypochondriac. She remembered thinking, \u201cI\u2019m way too sound of mind to be so much of a basket case.\u201d It was like two wolves fighting, she said, one saying, \u201cThis is not happening,\u201d and the other saying, \u201cYou\u2019re crazy.\u201d \u201cI always had this sense that there was nothing wrong with me, just that there was something going on that I couldn\u2019t explain, that no one could explain. \u2026 The doctor gave me medication, and it was great with numbing everything that was going on around me, but I still felt all the things that were giving me anxiety in the first place.\u201d In her late teens, she added alcohol to the mix to cope with the anxiety, explaining, \u201cIt was the only way to actually dull what was going on with me. I was just a world of fun when people knew me way back then.\u201d Only it wasn\u2019t fun. It was, she said, \u201cone of the darker cycles of my life.\u201d Panic attacks were a daily occurrence, and coupled with depression, there were times she was unable to leave the house. After graduating college, she began working for a corporate insurance company. There came a day Quagan recalled telling the Universe, \u201cI need a teacher \u2026 to guide me and help me to heal.\u201d Things began to happen. Fast. Two days later she got a new job. Two months after that, a mentor stopped at her cubicle to say she\u2019d been noticing Quagan\u2019s panic attacks and explained what was really going on. When Quagan sensed death, the woman could tell there was the spirit of a dead person behind her. When Quagan found herself upset, this woman could tell it was exactly how the person in the adjacent cubicle was feeling. \u201cMy entire life changed from that day on,\u201d Quagan said. \u201cShe took me under her wing; she taught me about guides and things like that, told me what books to read, gave me meditations. \u201cI started talking to her about energy, how others&#8217; energy can effect us, and about how being empathic \u2013 and feeling what others feel, literally \u2013 could cause anxiety, and I started to research it further. Next thing I knew, I got a Reiki session done. I felt so good afterwards. All the static that surrounded my head and my stomach was alleviated.\u201d Quagan began to read extensively. \u201cI read about Reiki, body energy, empaths, building intuition, even connecting to Spirit energy. \u2026 Reading about paganism and wicca and those very nature-based spiritual practices and religions was the gateway for me to learning about energy and that it\u2019s such a thing, which led me to read \u2018The Secret.\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cThe more I read, the more I studied, the more everything made sense.\u201d She learned not to absorb the energies of others around her and to combat her anxiety with intention and visualization. \u201cThe anxiety I had was linked to what I felt from everyone else, just an abundance of energy. If someone next to me had a headache, I&#8217;d have a headache without them telling me they had one. If they were heartbroken or depressed, I&#8217;d be heartbroken or depressed for no reason. I was a sponge for everyone&#8217;s stuff. \u201cOnce I learned that piece, that&#8217;s when I was able to take that awareness and apply it to whenever anxiety or panic started to creep in, and before I knew it \u2026 I hadn\u2019t had an anxiety attack in two months.\u201d Quagan said, \u201cI stayed on top of my own ass to make sure I didn\u2019t fall back into the pits of negative thinking. You\u2019re rewiring your entire brain to accept a new reality. \u2026 I had to remind myself, \u2018This is someone else\u2019s\u2019 and \u2018You\u2019re not dying. Someone else is dying and they\u2019re talking to you. You\u2019re grounded and protected.\u2019\u201d The control she applied to that energy set the tone for taking control of the rest of her life. \u201cFrom there, the intuition just came,\u201d she said. She took a Reiki class and went on to become a certified Reiki master. She took classes, including an eight-month course on medical intuition. \u201cThat\u2019s all about understanding energy and why we have physical symptoms and ailments, and how that\u2019s all linked to mental, emotional and spiritual energy within our body and mind,\u201d Quagan said. Without quitting her insurance job, she began offering Reiki sessions and intuitive readings. \u201cIt all happened very quickly,\u201d she said. \u201cI was doing a lot of teaching, a lot of life coaching. My sessions turned into these intuitive counseling sessions. As I was going along on my journey, I was learning a ton in classes and through my own self-learning and my own personal growth about energy, about chakras, about relationships \u2026 about everything. \u201cIt really just turned into this smorgasbord of knowledge that I was able to teach people from my own perspective and experience, and people were really growing and transforming and finding peace and finding empowerment.\u201d Along with her personal growth came business growth. She was 26 when she quit her full-time job, walking away from a steady paycheck, health insurance and job security. It was as scary as it was empowering. She said it was also a beneficial and transformative time. \u201cI left my boyfriend of four years as we were renovating a house; I left my job; I cut all of my hair off \u2013 it was down to my butt \u2013 I got a pixie cut. I got rid of anything that wasn\u2019t good for me. &#8230; People thought that I was batshit crazy.\u201d She has had no regrets. \u201cI will never be more thankful for those risky decisions I needed to make to find myself,\u201d Quagan said. She outgrew the room she had been using in the back of her mother\u2019s hair salon and opened Journeys School for the Soul in Windsor, Connecticut in July 2015. She continued coaching clients who found their way to her, mostly by word of mouth. \u201cAnxiety is my specialty,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople who have experienced it make the best teachers and healers; it\u2019s not something you can read out of a book. \u201cI coach people what I have experienced myself, things that have worked for me \u2026 whether it\u2019s simple anxiety and stress techniques or overcoming drug addiction and alcohol abuse, abuse in relationships, or simply trying to understand why certain relationships have come into your life and how to heal from them. Even just finding your own level of empowerment and letting go of those fears we all have, especially being judged by others.\u201d Her own daily struggles drew her to embrace holistic and wellness practices. \u201cThat\u2019s where I found my peace, and that\u2019s where I found my healing and my calling. This was my path. This is what I felt connected to \u2013 to help people find their clarity and their peace,\u201d Quagan said. She sees herself more as a life coach than a therapist, approaching situations with a fresh perspective and offering practical techniques for dealing with issues in the heat of the moment as well as methods of deep healing. \u201cI get down to the raw and the nitty gritty. I won\u2019t ask how something makes you feel. I want to talk about why you feel that way,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no judgment. It\u2019s about you becoming the best version of yourself that you can be.\u201d Quagan believes the body contains energy that is comprised of mental, emotional and spiritual belief systems that are linked to physical well-being. By addressing those beliefs through coaching and awareness, she said, \u201cyou can heal physical ailments wholly.\u201d She assures clients that healing is \u201cwithin reach. No one is a lost cause and no one is stuck where they are.\u201d With only a few clients at first, Quagan had some free time and began writing. The first in a fiction series was released in August 2016 \u2013 \u201cRen: Awakened.\u201d It\u2019s about Ren Nagel, 17, who was committed to a psych ward because she saw things no one else did. She breaks out and learns who she is, then must control a power she never knew she had and organize a coalition of people she never knew existed \u2013 to remind humanity why fighting the darkness is a big part of being human. The second book, \u201cRen: Reposed,\u201d is due out in March. Quagan said of the series, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like my autobiography, but on fiction steroids. There are a lot of parallels to the world today and all the darkness that we face, collectively and individually, and how it\u2019s affecting the world around us.\u201d She is writing the third book in between clients. \u201cThe series is helping a lot of our empaths find comfort and find clarity,\u201d she said. \u201cIt opened them up to a whole new reality.\u201d Recently, Quagan moved to a new space, this time in Simsbury, Connecticut, with a new name \u2013 Journeys Holistic Wellness and Anxiety Relief Center. She has three energy healers who are available by appointment, and two licensed counselors. Some can accept insurance. She is working toward a master\u2019s degree in clinical psychology so she can become a licensed professional counselor and be able to accept insurance. Transitioning to a new space followed a transition in the focus of the work she was doing. \u201cBefore it was a lot of \u2018What\u2019s going to happen in my future?\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s this?\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019 \u2026 I like to focus more on the now and the lead up to the future.\u201d She teaches clients to develop their own intuition. Everyone has some degree intuition, \u201csome level of being an empathy,\u201d she said, explaining, \u201cIf you\u2019ve felt awkward tension before, then you\u2019ve felt energy. We all have the ability to gage the energy of another individual\u201d and know if you are feeling something versus syphoning it or absorbing it from another source. Like any other muscle, intuition can be toned and strengthened. Everyone can benefit from using it in both personal and professional lives. An exercise Quagan is fond of assigning to her clients requires a regular deck of cards. 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