The First Step to Healing is Holding up a Mirror

Spiritual healer and energy work specialist Cindy Canek uses her gifts as a clairvoyant and medium to help people become more enlightened, empowered versions of themselves. 

“Being clairvoyant is basically being able to see—being able to see through time and space and even the unseen,” Canek says.

She was a very intuitive child. At home with her mom, her predictions would come true. At family gatherings, she would bring people to tears. When these observational talents would take hold of her, she wasn’t sure how to control them or what to do with them. Some people thought she was weird.

Her mom bought a house from a lady who noticed something special about Cindy, a certain something she also possessed. “Your daughter has a gift,” the lady told Cindy’s mother. She was clairvoyant, like herself.

When an artist finally decides to call himself an artist, the artist becomes an artist in his community. The same was true for Cindy when she found the words to describe her talents. But for Cindy, her circumstances delayed her arrival at purpose.

“I got married young. I had my children. I was living that white picket fence life [and] I thought that was my life—like, this is amazing, this is what, you know, everybody wants,” she says.

During this time, her talents were left dormant, unutilized and seldom explored.

When her husband left, and they were eventually divorced, everything changed: family flow, environment, routine. It was sudden and tumultuous. Her vision was wiped clean. Her powers returned. She used them to uncover and overcome her own traumas and refocus her perspective from a place of gratitude and love.

“It was so painful to carry that energy of pain and victimhood. I couldn’t stand it. My body couldn’t stand it,” Canek says. “So, I chose radical forgiveness. And even though I didn’t know what that looked like or how to make that happen, I figured it out. I surrendered and I discovered so much inner peace and so much love.”

That personal history with pain informs her work as a spiritual healer today. In her practice, she holds up an emotional mirror for her clients to both confront past trauma and discover possible versions of a more empowered future.

How can we live in our power if we are constantly made small by our past? What if we don’t know the exact source of the pain making us small?

“I have severe cases—like rape, incest, severe things—that people have lived through, primarily in childhood. That is affecting their ability to be free,” she says.

For Cindy, the work is surgical. For three hours, she moves energy in and out of her clients’ bodies through hypnosis. She taps into their mindset and explores elements holding them back from fulfillment. She not only listens to what has caused them pain, but how they talk about the pain.

The medicine is found within, for her. Whereas psychiatric and psychological therapy often leads to mental diagnosis and pharmaceutical treatment, Canek’s method rewires the mentality by looking inward for the answers. Many times, the answers are hiding behind years of pain, and they just need to be rediscovered.

“That’s my niche: helping people activate the healer within, the warrior within, their manifester within,” she says. “People are hurting, and they keep on finding [ways] to escape. And I think that there’s no escape. That inner peace starts within. Life’s going to keep on shifting outside of you, and you have to learn how to pivot.”

From Canek’s view, once you find that inner peace within, you will resonate at a different vibration externally. You will attract new people into your life. You will make less time for those who bring you down. You will find the confidence and the proper steps to reach your professional goals.

No matter how much trauma you’ve endured, disregarding how confident you feel today, we all drive through tunnels of energetic pollution. At work, at home, with partners, with ourselves. Naming that pollution we’ve let in before and figuring out why we let it into our souls will empower us to close the windows and turn on our favorite song when we must drive through those tunnels again.

Holding up a mirror to someone’s past is not always easy. But, for Canek, showing someone who they are is necessary for healing emotional wounds and stepping into the future more intentionally.

“This work is so important,” Canek says. “One person shifting the reality shifts the whole family.”