08/04/2026
What Do You Do?
For a while now, I’ve found myself challenged by a question that seems so simple.
“What do you do?”
People are referring to my business, IndiGo – Life Force Energy Healing.
You would think the answer would come easily. Yet it has become one of the hardest questions for me to answer—not because I don’t know, but because my work has evolved as I have evolved.
What I do isn’t simply an energy modality. It’s the way I accompany people through transformation.
When I began, I was a Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner. That in itself is beautiful, powerful work, and I connected deeply with that medicine. But over the years, the medicine has evolved.
As I have continued to unfold, my path has expanded through my own healing, remembering, and the privilege of guiding clients through their own journeys. Every experience has deepened my understanding. My work continues to evolve because I continue to evolve.
So often we think - learn a skill and do that forever which is sometimes how it works. But this isn’t a destination. It isn’t “one and done.” It is a living practice.
So when someone recently introduced me as a Reiki Master, part of me cringed—not because Reiki isn’t valuable or important. It absolutely is.
But it describes only one tool in my toolkit. One language of this multidimensional work. One aspect of the medicine.
It’s a bit like defining a musician by scales and chords.
Scales and chords are the vocabulary.
The music is the art.
Reiki is a vocabulary—a beautiful, meaningful one—but it isn’t the entirety of my work with clients.
Most people don’t come to me because they want Reiki. They may think that’s why they’re coming, but beneath the surface they’re grieving, anxious, searching, standing at a threshold in life, longing to understand themselves, or simply sensing that something inside them wants to change.
Energy work is one of the ways I help them enter that experience.
Months later, what people usually remember isn’t: PattiAnn used Reiki.
They remember: I felt safe, I saw myself differently, something shifted or I remembered something I’d forgotten about myself.
That’s the song.
The modalities are the chords.
Over time, my work has become less like playing a single instrument and more like conducting an orchestra.
Sometimes meditation is what is needed.
Sometimes silence.
Sometimes energy work.
Sometimes sound and frequency.
Sometimes a single question that awakens a person’s own curiosity.
Sometimes someone simply needs to be deeply witnessed.
More often than not, it’s a combination.
I listen for what this particular person needs in this particular moment, and then I draw from everything I have learned to create the conditions where something within them can emerge.
I don’t rush people. Transformation unfolds in its own time.
Some people need more time than others. Every journey is different.
What I have noticed is that there is often a quiet moment when someone finally gives themselves permission to become curious instead of fearful—to turn toward themselves instead of away.
That moment cannot be forced. It can only be invited.
My work is to create the conditions where that invitation feels safe enough to accept.
When we listen to music, every person hears the same song differently. Each person connects through the lens of their own life.
Yet somehow, everyone is moved.
I believe healing is very much the same. Perhaps, through the experience, people recognize something within themselves they had forgotten was there.
I don’t want to tell people what they should experience. I want to create a space where they can discover their own knowing.
So if someone asks me what I do, perhaps this is the closest answer I can give:
I help people navigate life’s transitions through multidimensional energy medicine, meditation, soul-centered guidance, and deep presence.
I create a safe, grounded, coherent, and compassionate space where people can remember who they are beneath fear, grief, old patterns, and life’s transitions. As they gently release what no longer serves them, they begin to come home to themselves.
Perhaps that’s what I do.
But more than that…It’s who I’ve become.
