Welcome to my blog! Christina’s Story
Welcome to Wellspring Energyworks and to my blog!
Wellspring is a resource to help you to live your best life by finding serenity and joy in your living space and in your body.
If you are looking for:
- Tips for clearing clutter around your home
- Ways to streamline your cleaning routines
- Ideas to make your home a restful and restorative oasis
- Tools to harness the unlimited power of your mind and desires to manifest ANYTHING
- Strategies to supercharge your home to manifest BIG changes
- Techniques to guide your body back to its natural state of wellness…
…then grab a cup of coffee (I’m grabbing my mug of tea) and let’s start on your journey!
But first, I’d like to tell you a little about myself and why I am so excited to be on this journey with you.
A love for the woods
My name is Christina Laberge. I am absolutely passionate about helping people to understand how life energy in their bodies is connected to all things. Even more importantly, I love to teach folks how to use these connections to manifest wellness, fulfillment, and joy in life.
Since I was a young girl, I have had an instinctive knack for feeling and modifying the energy of places. I had a collection of “special spots” in the woods behind my house that were my secret places. What I didn’t know then, was that I was sensing ley lines, unseen conduits of energy that lie below the surface of the ground. These were places where the life force of the earth was particularly strong, and I loved to spend time playing there.
A passion for helping others
Most of my life has been centered around music. As a result, I quickly learned that music was a powerful tool for shifting energy. Studying many instruments as well as the voice, I soon settled on my musical calling: directing the music as a conductor. I have studied conducting at a high level (I have a doctorate in Conducting and Sacred Music from USC) My skills have been used to help people through music and worship in churches.
I also pursued my passion for helping people by becoming a Reiki Master and Licensed Massage Therapist. I loved doing this work, but my body was not up to the physical demands of a long career in massage therapy, so I decided to focus my work on the energetic practices. One of my greatest joys has been to teach Reiki to people of all ages and walks of life. It is a skill that anyone can learn and it has changed my life in too many ways to count.
My work in the church has been marked with great joys and sorrows. I made some truly fantastic music with some wonderful folks that have continued to be a blessing to me. But I have also come up against some of the stuff that can be found in many workplaces – politics (internal and national), budget deficits, downsizing and even sexual harassment.
Pilgrimage and renewal
Me and Kelly on the Camino de Santiago, Spain – 2017
After 36 years (yes, I started my professional life in the church as a musician at the tender age of 13!), I became burned out. I was no longer sure that music was the best way for me to continue to share my healing gifts with the world. After years of planning, I went on a fabulous four-month sabbatical with my wife (who happens to be an Episcopal priest) that helped me to recover my connection to my sacred self. We traveled the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain on foot. It was a time of intense connection to the Divine.
I entered holy places, drank from ancient springs, and lived the age-old rhythm of pilgrim journey. I received the clarity that it was time to open a part of my life that I had kept private for so long – my ability to shift the energy of a space and my skill in helping people to change their lives. Combined with my experience as a Reiki Master and as a sacred musician, I have all the tools to teach you how to use the energy of your space to shift the energy of your life.
Clearing my own “stuff”
I started with myself. Beginning a process that continues to this day, I transformed my living space. I allowed myself to dream, to really envision what I wanted from my life. Looking around my home at piles of junk and clutter, I knew instinctively that I needed to lighten my load. As box after box of stuff left my house that did not make sense in the life I was creating, I felt the burnout recede. When each trash bag full of clothes that I hadn’t worn in years left my house for Goodwill, I felt like I could breathe more easily.
In addition, with less “stuff” around, the task of cleaning my home became easier. Fewer knickknacks to dust. Less furniture to work around. Each time I held an item in my hands for consideration, I asked myself important questions:
- Is this item a part of the life I want to be living?
- Does this item give me joy?
- Would someone else find more joy in this than I do?
- If I really need this in the future, can I get a new one? A better one?
I discovered that I was holding onto a ton of stuff that I either felt nothing about or felt negative about! What was up with that??? Did that stuff deserve to live, rent-free, in my home?
One of the most amazing moments came when I was decluttering my family room/creative space. I love to sew, and it was becoming increasingly difficult for me to get to my sewing machine because of all the crap in the way. The wall at the back of the room was lined with bookshelves full of books from my grad school and church jobs. I had not opened most of them in 20 years.
I found it difficult to start, but once I did, I was unstoppable! When I got to the books from the horrible church job where I had been sexually harassed, I literally wept with relief and joy as they went into the box! It felt amazing!
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- Printables
- Guided Meditation
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Clearing clutter leads to weight loss
And here’s another crazy thing: I had been struggling with my weight for some time, especially with the onset of early menopause. After I really committed to the process of decluttering my home, I started to lose weight! At first, I thought it was just because I was schlepping so much of my crap around. But the proof was undeniable – my clothes were getting looser – FAST!
This was a powerful moment for me – when I made the bone-deep connection between three important factors:
- The clutter in my home
- My emotional clutter
- My body’s clutter (excess weight)
This was HUGE!! It all made sense to me. No wonder I had been completely unable to shed weight! I hadn’t released the weight of all the stuff that meant nothing to me (or worse – held negative memories). I had been working with a therapist, and it had felt like my progress had stalled… until I started decluttering my home. All of the old issues that had been so hard to kick to the curb now felt manageable. The healing touch of Reiki helped me to move that process along. I discovered my own powerful voice, free from the old tapes and ghosts of the past.
How does this all work?
Fascinated and hooked, I read everything I could get my hands on about the connection between energy and space. I learned that this concept has been around for a VERY long time in the principles set down in feng shui (pronounced: fuhng-SHWAY). Feng Shui is the ancient art of optimizing space for energy flow. This energy, or “chi” (pronounced: CHEE), is the life force energy that flows through all things. It’s what holds our universe together. A very special form of chi is used in Reiki, to promote well-being.
Here’s the freaky part: Somehow, I knew instinctively, how to apply the principles of feng shui. Most notably, I had been doing it since I was a little girl, playing in my “special spots” in the woods. As soon as I got the clutter out of my house, I naturally gravitated to shifting my furniture and other items to keep this energy flowing through my home.
Furthermore, I discovered was that there were ways to enhance the energy of my home to make changes in my life. After experiencing the welcome relief and (literal!) lightening as I cleared my clutter, I was open to anything. I started experimenting with some of these concepts.
Putting it all to the test
I was ready for a big change in my life. My job was ending, and I was too burned out to go looking for another church job. Consequently, I worried about money – how was I going to replace that income? Trusting in the process, I made adjustments to my home to promote prosperity and health, all the while continuing the process of decluttering throughout my home.
I am a composer and arranger of music for church choirs. (I am published through JW Pepper if you want to check me out.). My royalty checks had been pretty modest, and my latest one was in line with what I had been previously selling, but there was a huge difference. The bulk of my sales had come from an original piece that I had recently put up for sale. Usually, I was selling arrangements of other people’s music, but this was my very own composition.
Hmmm…
I couldn’t resist looking. I checked my current quarter sales to date. To my surprise, I had sold a sizeable quantity of only one piece – my original composition. I was on track for my best quarter of sales ever! Could it be that my little experiment was working? So much has happened since then!
And here we are!
It was time to share what I was learning with you. And here we are! I am totally excited that you are here, and I want to help you to get started on your own journey. It’s your time to direct your life to all the places you have dreamed of. You CAN do this, and you can start RIGHT NOW!
As a part of my welcome to you, I would like to share my 7-Day Kitchen Decluttering Jumpstart Program. You shouldn’t have to spend weeks looking at a spot that feels too tough to conquer (like I did). I want you to build momentum from your very first session and to be able to build upon that with continued success. By sharing with you my tested tips, you can start your process with confidence. I also want to give you access to visualization tools created just for you to help you direct the vision for your life in new and exciting ways.
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Welcome! Let’s do this together!
Clear your Space – Recharge your Self – Direct your Life
Sign up for regular updates from Wellspring Energyworks and get immediate FREE access to our Jumpstart Program, designed for your success! Loaded with lots of fabulous extras: and MORE! Delivered to your inbox RIGHT NOW!
Exclusive 7-Day Kitchen Declutter Jumpstart Program
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