Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health & wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Méliane Paquin-Bureau, Founder of My Blissful Journey, located in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
My Blissful Journey offers affordable healing services that are specially designed to help you recover from physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual illnesses or daily discomforts. The sessions take place virtually, by phone, or simply by proving consent. In my opinion, with today's challenging lifestyles, what people need the most is healing, and I am here to help you with that!
Tell us about yourself
I come from a background of dissociation, addiction, and abuse, so life was quite challenging when it came to showing my true colors. One day, a little voice told me about Reiki. I had one session, and it changed my life! For the first time, I felt bliss, and that feeling never completely went away.
Once I found out that Reiki is accumulative, I thought, boy, I need to offer this to others in recovery like myself because it helped me skip over so many challenges and downsides that come post-addiction.
So today, I serve as a healer—not someone who heals you but someone who can offer little (or big) healing miracles through the grace of life force energy. My passion for healing is huge—it's literally my soul's earth mission.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
My largest accomplishment has to be hearing clients express how good they feel in their skin, how their chronic pain dissolved, or that they had never felt such a deep connection with themselves. This confirms that I'm on the right track, that energy work works like a charm, and that I am able to help people feel better—one person at a time.
What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?
Sometimes, all I want to say is, "please stop doing this. It's not healthy, or just do that. It will help you". Allowing others to be themselves and make their choices, with challenges and all, has to be the most difficult thing for me to do.
I cannot make anyone do anything they don't want to do or don't feel comfortable with. The way I see it is that healing comes from the soul, not from the healer. Live and let live is my favorite motto.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
Follow your heart, your intuition, that little voice inside or that bird outside the window. They speak YOUR truth! Oh, and don't believe that voice that says you're not good enough. That's not your truth—only a challenge to face. Once faced, there will be more, but you grow along with them, and that's a beautiful professional soul journey!
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.myblissfuljourney.ca/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reikimasterinrecovery/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thereikimasterinrecovery/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meliane-paquin-bureau/
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