Why I do what I do. Interview of Trella Davis by Terri Wade

What is your story -- why is it that you do what you do? How did it come to be?
I am an intuitive healer, do spiritually infused coaching and a life strategist. I help folks believe better so they can do better. And now I am taking these tools to learn spiritual weight loss and I am my own lab rat. My story - the punch line is I had a spiritual 2x4 to the head which knocked me to my knees. From a kid, I had been a religious shopper - studied about different beliefs systems through stories, books, religious texts, and when I was a teen had tried a few different churches (BTW, you can't just get a yelp review to decide this stuff) so I had kind of become agnostic sprinkled with a Protestant Christian focus. I have an MBA, worked at some tech startups and fortune 500s so I had a whole past life in this life. Fast forward a few decades and I had a life or death situation with my daughter when she was born and after finally getting to specialists from two countries with all the expertise, equipment and more, the problem was still a struggle and not getting better: I couldn’t take care of it, engineer it or force a solution. I knew this was not going to be a rational solution. I couldn’t make it better, I had to learn to RECEIVE an answer. SO, I went to a psychic school and literally had 6 psychics all lined up sitting in front of me while I was holding my baby. They had their eyes shut but the expressions on their faces were clear: they were all watching the same movie. I didn't THE Answer, but I did get inspired. I decided- if they could do this, hell I sure could too. That put me on a path of no return into reading energy, energy healing and working with spirit in conventional and deeply unconventional ways. I am certified in many healing modalities but I have curated and developed my own intimate knowledge, know-how, techniques, and tools. Jesus said, "whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these". The capacity for working with energy and accessing spirit - the secret is it's factory-installed – it is just one of those buttons in the cockpit we never realized what it does if you push it and for many, they don't even realize the button is there or that they have permission to fully engage it.

So How do you do what you do?
Frankly, I have to get into astrophysics and sub-atomic levels for a moment to answer and I’ll quote NASA, You know how our universe is roughly 68% is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the universe. So, I don't like the term dark - I use unseen. I am just looking there - you know all that empty space between the electrons and the nucleus of an atom is not in fact "empty”. That “empty” space, that's where I am looking.

Who do you work with? What drives you?
I have worked with folks all across the board and from all across the world, from war vets, to go-getter execs, to couples to illnesses both tangible and non-tangible, but what I like to work with, or drawn to have to work with is the "deep personal why" and "deep personal ownership". What drives me mostly has been part me trying to save myself and part me doing my piece to save the world. I have a mission to form an army of women or those who have over-given themselves and now need a new way forward in which they are in service in a way that is not only safe but serves them. What I mean but over giving is the moms or care-takers or healers or others who place themselves last on the list or worse not even on the list for caring for themselves, their bodies and their time.

How does one tap into the magic of healing, what results do people get?
Well any time to go direct to your higher power so to speak, it is an act of ownership, agency as much as it is an act of humility as you are asking for answers, for help or for change. To heal is in fact to change. The energy or beliefs that got you to this point need to evolve or be replaced. There is something to learn in that process, something that you need to ground and believe. Like for instance we remember the ALS ice bucket challenge from a few years ago - what people may not know is that ALS like many diseases has a "type" of person - and it tends to be very independent men (which I found this out from a researcher and was chatting with I then took a moment to look at the energy and saw Oh, they are learning about helplessness. What it means to depend on others. Situations can and do happen for the lessons. If you are complete with the lesson as you have learned fully to know a particular feeling, emotion, etc. and accept it and own it, then you can be complete with it. By working the energy side of something you can start to work through that with more awareness or start to create completion. For me learning to receive from others and have trust, have been challenges that have and continue to teach me mountains of information.

What guidance do you have for our audience on healing, being an entrepreneur, living in purpose?
Well, when you are struggling with moving forward you maybe be struggling with permission or the right to choose for yourself. To decide always has implications and being able to trust yourself is being able to “Trust IN Yourself” – meaning you have what you need in you to become the change, to create what you are wanting to do or be. I find that the desire to be something is usually coupled with the capability to get there. It's all the little actions sometimes that are the hardest. Where you just have to keep showing up even when inspiration or passion isn't there. The American painter Chuck Close said, “Inspiration Is for Amateurs—The Rest of Us Just Show Up and Get to Work". So, when you are depressed or un-inspired you have to remove yourself from the negotiation of it of those thoughts and feelings. They can be powerful to overwhelming but here’s the thing: they may not even be yours. The dream/desire/hope/goal is yours, but the thoughts and feelings that keep you from it quite literally may not be yours at all. Those voices trying to talk you into thinking or feeling you aren’t good enough or you don’t deserve what you are, etc. can just be a game of invalidation. When invalidation happens, the solution is to fight back and/or ignore; a solution is to just keep showing up and owning the step you’re on completely. I like many, I teach what I know and I teach what I am still learning - let's do a little taste now. For example, my showing up even when I don't believe means tapping into hope with love.