My Story

Dear Reader,

Intuition pulled me into the light, out of the dark night of the soul.

Intuition saved me from a life of unhappiness by resolving a crisis and several challenges in my life. It served me well at crossroads where I was confused and had to make hard choices. 

Intuition guided me toward answers that yielded treasure far greater than I had imagined possible. Then and now, intuition helps me to feel whole and complete. It enables me to live with meaning and purpose. 

Intuition teaches me how to “Align with the Divine” – that is, live a more peaceful and joyful existence in harmony with my soul’s unique purpose. Intuition reveals to me the gifts I am meant to share. 

In 1996, I was a new grad, practicing as an occupational therapist (OT). Occupational therapy was the most holistic profession in healthcare that I knew of at the time because it looks at and treats the whole person – the body, mind, and spirit.

Within my first year of practice, I became aware that for me to be able to provide therapy to people, they needed to be already significantly limited in their functional ability. 

I longed to find out if there was a way to help prevent people from becoming so sick, but I began to see that if I stayed in mainstream healthcare, I would not be part of the solution. 

I felt that stress was a major contributor working against health and healing, and I was debilitated by the fast-paced setting and managed-care insurance guidelines that precluded providing more than 50 percent of what I had learned in school – 

The beautiful OT scope of practice I had imagined was, in practice, primarily a fantasy. 

I was just getting started out and already feeling the negative effects of stress and impending burnout. 

Something didn’t feel right. 

But I had been training for this for many years. Wasn’t this what I was supposed to do? 

Intuition and inner knowing began pulling me away from my safe, secure, and socially acceptable full-time job with benefits; listening to it, I moved toward a new, yet-undiscovered path. 

Even though it was scary, and I didn’t know exactly where I was going, I knew I wanted to be on the other side of healthcare (or literally, “sick care”).

In less than two years after graduating as an OT, I embarked on a path of listening more fully to my intuition and what was calling me. 

What if I had ignored my intuition? 

I would have continued to experience tremendous anxiety, depression, and frustration for not following my heart. 

I would have felt I was part of the problem versus the solution. 

What if I had stayed stuck because I didn’t know how to create another way?

Same answer. 

How did I learn what to do? 

I kept listening to my intuition. 

Here’s what my intuition told me: 

I am drawn to learning about more ways to help with health and healing than are found in mainstream healthcare. 

Following that initial pull, I heard about – and paid attention to – something called energy healing. In 1998, I began a two-year program studying medical qigong energy healing at the first holistic health and wellness center in St. Paul Minnesota. 

I soon began working at the front desk of the center and moonlighting at a restaurant to make ends meet – this is where I met my chef husband! It’s amazing how the universe works. 

I have now worked in the healthcare field for more than twenty years as an occupational therapist (OT) and integrative medicine practitioner. I have also provided guidance and care as a mystic, intuitive healer, massage therapist, reflexologist, energy healer, healthcare education instructor, and writer. 

My intuition has guided me on an unconventional career path toward holistic, complementary, and integrative health, wellness, and prevention care. 

Over the years, I’ve met regularly and practiced with an intuition teacher and four other people. They were the ones who initially gave me the confidence to apply intuition to my personal life and to professionally help others. 

I began teaching intuitive development classes in 2006, and I have taught thousands of people how to connect to, listen to, and trust their intuition. 

In 2020, I wrote the book Intuitive Development: How to Trust You Inner Knowing for Guidance with Relationships, Health, and Spirituality, which is also a companion book to the Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing Class. 

Listening to my intuition led me to teach others to learn how to connect with and trust their intuition to assist them to be healthier and happier in all aspects of their lives. 

I would like to show you how you can do the same.

I would like to help you connect with that deep knowing within you: your inner wisdom.

The world needs your gifts. 

Warmly,
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L

Intuitive Development is the journey to the heart. Love is the answer.

The More you develop your intuition, the more loving you will be. 

As you live close to your heart – with more love, wisdom, courage, and confidence, the easier it is for you to be intuitive. 

The more in tune you are with your intuition, the better you will feel. 

You will more confidently make good decisions. You will experience better health or a sense of wellness, joy, peace, contentment, and connection to your own greatness while feeling more alive. 

The more alive you feel, the more satisfying your relationships with yourself and others will be. The more satisfied you are, the more positive contributions you will offer to the world, in turn evoking a stronger personal sense of meaning and purpose. 

Many blessings and much love to you, 

Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L