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Brenda Gaddy

Notary

Owner, A Time for you, llc

Greenville, SC

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Degree Master's degree in functional nutrition (in progress) Cert Notary

Her Story

About Brenda

I help people with trauma, pain, and depression through various healing modalities. As an end-of-life doula, I provide non-medical support - I can help relieve families, help with planning their end of life, and I'm a notary so I can do advanced directives. I can help them with planning their end-of-life service, do rituals, and things like that. I offer Reiki and shamanic healing for different kinds of traumas in life, past life regressions, and work with people going through divorce or childhood trauma, PTSD, and things like that. I focus on opening the chakras and raising your energy field because we're all energy and Earth is energetic. I like raising people's frequency. A Reiki master really helped me when I was going through a bad divorce and I thought I had lupus - I was laying around with no hope, and that Reiki master got me on my healing journey. That made me want to learn the modalities and have the Reiki attunements and the knowledge and the power to help other people. It helped me on my healing journey, so now I pass it forward to other people.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Brenda

01What do you attribute your success to?

I attribute my success to people saying that I helped make a difference in their life, and that I can help someone one day at a time, one moment at a time in their life. I can make a difference in someone's life, in their future, in their goals, and motivate them and help them on their healing journey. I help educate people on what's out there and how food and nutrition, energy, and positive thoughts can help. That's what keeps me going - knowing I'm making that impact.

02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

To have faith and perseverance. Don't let roadblocks deter you. It's hard at times, but everything in life is hard. Stay on course, and have faith, and perseverance, and you can do it. You can do it. Put your mind to it. It's mind over matter.

03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

The biggest challenge is that people without means can't afford alternative medicine because it's not provided by insurance. That's sad - I want everything to be affordable. I like the concept of St. Jude's, where people could go to a facility and have different treatments at no cost. I'm interested in nonprofit one day. That's my goal - for someone to be able to have access to nutrition, dietitian, chiropractic, acupuncture, meditation, massage therapy, sound therapy, any kind of modalities where they don't have to get on medication to heal themselves. Because our mind-body can heal itself from the inside out. It would be nice for everyone to get the same treatment, be treated equally in America. Even my ex-husband's insulin is $400 a month on Medicare - that's outrageous when you're on a limited income. You go to another country and you don't pay this much for pharmaceuticals. Why do we pay that much?

04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?

I value not taking anything for granted and having gratitude for what I have, and not worrying about what I don't have. I love just walking the earth, being in nature, by water, sitting outside in meditation and just breathing fresh air and enjoying life. I believe in making healing affordable and accessible to all people. I want to give all women hope and to be validated for our accomplishments. Things are not easy, but it's worth it - it's worth the effort we put in.

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