About Jessica Gammell-Bennett
Founder of Evolution Energetics
Family Life Coach and Educator
Reiki Master Teacher
Memberships
Family Life Coaching Association
International Association of Reiki Professionals
Insured by Healing Touch Professional Association
Jessica Gammell-Bennett's Credentials
Served as a Victim-Witness Specialist with the U.S. Attorney’s Office (US Dept. of Justice). Worked with federal prosecutors to prepare traumatized victims of violent crime to testify in federal court.
Served as a high school English teacher with at-risk populations. Also served as AVID coordinator. AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a program that supports students in the academic middle by offering study skills training, tutoring, and working with families to apply for college and secure scholarship funds. Many students were the first in their families to go to college.
Jess began studying Reiki in 2012. She went on to become a Reiki Master and studied six energy healing modalities, becaming a master of four: Usui Reiki, Holy Fire Reiki, Holy Fire/Karuna Reiki & Archangelic Light.
She's taught Meditation, Reiki, Archangelic Light, and served as an Energy Medicine Therapist through Real World Reiki (her original practice).
She has served as a Wellness Writer for assorted holistic health, wellness, and parenting sites.
Jess trained in the Reconnect for Resilience Program with the Resources for Resilience™ organization to become a Resilience Practitioner. Reconnect for Resilience is a trauma-informed, resiliency-focused program that offers practical strategies that individuals, families, communities, and organizations can use to promote balance and well-being. Participants learn about trauma, the brain, and the human nervous system as well as the connections between a history of trauma and environmental triggers.
Jess became a Family Life Coach by completing the Family Life Coaching and Education certification through NC State University.
She is currently pursuing an MSW through the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with the plan to obtain the LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) credential and open an integrative wellness practice.
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Jess's Journey:
From Failure to Thrive to Helping Others' Heal
At twenty years old, and at the peak of health, I would begin a fifteen-year battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, during which I would contract meningitis, lose half of my hair, the sight in my left eye, and my thyroid function. There were times that I wanted to quit, wanted to leave, just knew I couldn't take it anymore. But a voice whispered, “You are not done. Keep fighting.” So I hung on. When my physical body broke down, I learned that beauty does not come from the outside, but rather from a knowing deep within us that we are whole. When I lost my sight, forced to lay with eye patches for weeks on end, I was forced to go within. To notice the constant chatter “You are not good enough, you are not lovable, you are broken.” And it was then, that an epic battle with my ego commenced.
It was here, in the trough, between despair and hope, darkness and grace, that I found my spiritual partner. In John, I have one of my greatest mirrors. He is the one who shows me the wounds that still need tending. The battles that aren't quite over. The darkness that still needs to be integrated into the light. And through him, I began to see how beautiful I am. How whole. How perfect, just as I am. In his adoring eyes, I see my divinity. I would go on to learn Reiki and heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And the pendulum would swing. Towards health. Towards wholeness. Towards love. Towards light.
And then, after being told I wouldn't be able to have children, I welcomed my baby boy, Garrett. And my heart would break open. And all of my remaining clutter, my crap, my constant need to be perfect, would be magnified. I would be humbled, brought to my knees, I would scream and rage at my helplessness, my desire to control, my inability still, after all this time, to be present. And then, finally, I would surrender.
“Show me,” I implored of my son, “… show me how to be. How to live. How to love. Show me where I'm broken so that I may finally be whole.” And show me he did.
In Garrett's presence, I have found the present moment, I have learned the art of surrendering to what life is trying to teach me. I have been humbled. I have found grace. I have thrived.
In March of 2020, Just as the world was shutting down from COVID, I began to "download" new healing symbols. I knew from over a decade of studying energy healing that it was a new healing system. I spent the next year working with clients to understand the new system and what it was here to do.
Four months into working with the new system, I became pregnant with my second child at the age of forty-two. I was the healthiest I'd been in over twenty years. I was able to run a couple of miles a day throughout my pregnancy and carried Connell to full term.
He received all of the healing energy I had channeled for my clients throughout my pregnancy, and as a newborn, he was incredibly alert, he laughed out loud and ‘talked’ all of the time. He is full of joy and has brought immense peace and joy to our family. Parenting him has been effortless and fun. I have no doubt that the miracle of this child is a result of Evolution Energetics. Once again, I am humbled. This time by this sweet soul and our good fortune.
After all of the struggles, all of the healing, all of the soul searching, I have arrived at a place of profound peace. I am not done. Not by a longshot. I still have so much to learn. But I do have some perspective.