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Episode #83 Caroline Vu's Artistic Healing Journey: Transitioning from Health Coach to Reiki-Infused Painter – Embracing Resilience, Creativity, and Holistic Practices for Breast Cancer Recovery
What happens when a career in the mortgage industry takes an unexpected turn due to a life-altering diagnosis? On this episode of Ready Set Reiki, we welcome Caroline Vu, a talented painter from Los Angeles whose incredible journey from health coach to artist was ignited by her battle with stage 2 breast cancer. Listen as Caroline shares her story of resilience and creativity, revealing how she discovered her passion for painting during her recovery. Infused with Reiki, her art channels positivity and healing, encouraging personal transformation and emotional exploration. Learn how a cranial sacral massage introduced her to energy work and helped her process grief in profound ways.
Through Caroline's empowering narrative, we explore the significance of authenticity and vulnerability in the creative process, and how art can be a powerful tool for healing. Discover the role of visualization and imagery in maintaining a victorious mindset, and the impact of affirmations, meditation, and community support during her battle with stage four breast cancer. Caroline also highlights her current offerings, including customized Reiki-infused paintings, and recommends the influential book "Power Versus Force" by David R. Hawkins. Tune in to uncover how combining art with holistic practices can lead to profound empowerment and healing.
Caroline Vu is a Los Angeles-based painter, who uses acrylic & oil paint to make her art. Caroline creates pictures that can be tools, combining art and energy. She infuses some of her artwork with Reiki through affirmations and visualization to channel positivity and healing. Her paintings are made to encourage viewers to explore the subconscious, embrace personal transformation, and maintain their focus on their goals and dreams. Blending the visual, spiritual, and scientific, her art offers a portal for empowerment.
While not all of her creations involve Reiki, her work reflects on the beauty and struggles of life. She is a stage 4 breast cancer survivor of 10 years.
With paintings, she uses images to connect to our human states as a way of healing. Using our emotions and acknowledging them is a powerful way to heal and navigate through life. Even though emotions can be temporary, she believes it’s important to validate them as inform us. Through her artwork, she paints the emotions, the good and the bad, to evoke feelings of joy, bliss, fear, anger, and sadness. Her mission is to inspire, empower, and help guide others through art.
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This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts, as we two are traveling, support each other and learning on this Reiki journey as well. With that said, I'm your first guide, tracy Seawright, I'm your second guide, kim Cardiel-Earley, and joining us on our journey today is Caroline Vu. Now she is a Los Angeles based painter who uses acrylic and oil paint to make her art. She creates pictures that can be used as tools, combining art and energy through affirmations and visualization. She infuses some of her artwork with Reiki to channel positivity and healing. Her paintings are made to encourage viewers to explore the subconscious, embrace personal transformation and maintain their focus on their goals and dreams. Blending the visual, spiritual, scientific, her art offers a portal for empowerment. While not all her creations involve Reiki, her work reflects on the beauty and struggles of life.
Speaker 2:She is a stage 4 breast cancer survivor of 10 years. With paintings, she uses images to connect to our human state as a way of healing, using our emotions and acknowledging them as they are powerful ways to heal and navigate through life. Even though emotions can be temporary, she believes it's important to validate them as inform us Through her artwork she paints. The emotions can be temporary. She believes it's important to validate them as inform us. Through her artwork she paints the emotions, the good, the bad, to invoke feelings of joy, bliss, fear, anger and sadness, and her mission is to inspire, empower and help guide others through art. Caroline, welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 4:Hi Tracy, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. So let's begin our journey. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4:Well, I grew up in Southern California, my parents emigrated from Vietnam in 1975, had a pretty normal childhood and after graduating from college I got into the mortgage industry as an escrow officer. I did that for several years and then I wanted to explore my passion at the time it was baking so I started a cupcake business doing cupcakes, cookies, cakes for weddings and birthdays and that was a lot of fun. I got to be creative cakes for weddings and birthdays and that was a lot of fun. I got to be creative and that was a great learning experience. But then, shortly after, I started noticing some my changes in my body, how I was digesting food and I got more health conscious, and so I was just, you know, taking in as much information and I got certified as a health coach. Taking in as much information, and I got certified as a health coach and, ironically, shortly after I finished that, I got diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. So that was 10 years ago, and since then I've definitely learned a lot more.
Speaker 4:And while I was healing, I wanted to be intentional about my time and I wanted to incorporate joy into my life. So art is something that I've always wanted to include, but I'm like oh, later, you know. And so I thought I'll just start taking a class. And after a couple of classes I just completely fell in love and I'm just like I can't believe I'm discovering this um this late in life. And I, I, just I. I was so addicted and amazed at how, how happy it made me, how much joy it brought to me, and so since then I've been taking a class per semester. It's nice to have the community, the camaraderie, the structure, and and then I've incorporated some tools while I healed from cancer and I've incorporated that into my art. So part of what I offer are ready-made paintings, they're abstractions, they're portraits, but I also offer customized portraits that you can include Reiki, if you wish or not.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. What a beautiful thing you've discovered on your journey.
Speaker 4:How lovely yeah it was, it was. It's been an interesting 10 years.
Speaker 2:Sure, and I'm sure you never imagined when you got into the business of working with mortgages that you know you were going to end up doing this.
Speaker 4:No clue. I had no. There was no connection whatsoever. I think the last art class that I had taken was I was like 14. So Wonderful.
Speaker 2:So when did Reiki come into your life? Did you find Reiki or did Reiki find you?
Speaker 4:I would say you know, I'm putting Reiki under energy work, and my first experience with energy work I guess it found me because at the time when I was in my sweets business, I was making chocolate truffles they were actually cannabis truffles that I was bartering with a masseuse, so I would give her cannabis truffles and she would give me a massage. So I thought it was a really nice exchange. And one day she said you, you know, I'm offering cranial, sacral massage, would you like to try it? And I was like sure, at the time I had just lost a friend. He was young and he died. It was just out of the blue all of a sudden. So it was really shocking.
Speaker 4:And you know, before she had called, I was going through this grief that I hadn't experienced before. It was. It was I felt unanchored and just kind of floating and, and you know, at times I felt numb, but then other times I would just burst into tears at random places, like you know I'm. I'm headed into the supermarket and I just start crying. So I have to stay in the car and cry and I didn't know how to process these feelings.
Speaker 4:So I went into a session with her. I laid down on her bed, face up, and she cradled my head in her hands. Um, and then I thought, okay, well, I'm, I'm, I'm here for this specific reason. I should focus and think about my friend Joey, who I had lost, and I closed my eyes and just a minute in I started thinking about him and I became really emotional and I started crying and tears were just falling down the side of my face because I was laying down and I grieved, I mourned for his loss and then, you know, after that one session, I no longer had that kind of spacey sort of grieving where I just wondered about life lost it was. I felt like I processed it and then now that when I think about him it's more of like missing him and thinking about fond memories, and so that was just a really powerful experience that I had.
Speaker 2:Oh, beautiful. Well, thank you, thank you for sharing that with us. Sounds like it was a beautiful experience, and to be able to reflect so lovingly on that friend that you lost, so lovingly on that friend that you lost. So you were out creating art.
Speaker 4:What is a common misconception about your work? Well, one is that a lot of people don't even know about Reiki. I don't find it's common knowledge at all. I feel like it's kind of how other things evolved, like chiropractic became more mainstream, mainstream acupuncture was kind of next, or vice versa. Um, but besides reiki not being like common knowledge, now, I think the biggest misconception is the power behind energy work and things that we don't see.
Speaker 4:Um, the best example that I can give you um is, uh, an experiment that I read about and I think it was called the international peace project, and what they had done was they conducted an experiment and they trained uh, many people, hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 4:I forget what it was to do transcendental meditation. Um, they instructed these people to meditate at certain times of the day and on certain days, so they started recording the amount of terrorist attacks, crime, the crime rate, the er visits and the traffic accidents, and when they took note of those numbers during the days and times that people meditated, it was significantly lower. It was so consistent that they even came across a formula for it to determine how many people you needed to do meditation in order to affect everyone else, and it was the square root of 1%. So in a population of 1 million, the square root of 1% is 100. So you just need 100 people to change their internal environment to affect everyone else around them, and I think that's incredible to have numbers involved to apply to something that's so intangible that you can't see, to something that we can understand with hard numbers.
Speaker 2:Right, right, and it's just amazing, you know, to me, you know, I grew up, my mother was an artist and I always had the arts around and when creating that painting, you always have or not always you're inspired by something and to have that intention in. But take it to the next step, where you're bringing in the energy with that intention whether it's a blessing, positivity, highest good into that painting. So how beautiful that is that you're doing this work or offering that work for, whether it's a loved one or a loved one who has passed in memory of that. So it's a wonderful thing that you're offering.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 2:So what has been the biggest challenge, or rather struggle, you've had facing in your own healing journey?
Speaker 4:The biggest struggle was, you know, staying with the belief that I would be okay. When I first started, when I first got my diagnosis, I thought, okay, this is going to be hard, it's going to be rough for a couple years, but I'm going to be fine, I'm not going to die from cancer. And I made up my mind and I'd gone to see a lot of doctors conventional, you know, natural and I was getting a lot of conflicting advice. It was really confusing. But what I did notice was that the one thing that they agreed on was mindset. That mindset was really important. So that really stuck with me and I looked up as much content as I could supporting that as to the reasons why.
Speaker 4:But day to day, to stay with that mindset, it's challenging, it's not easy. It's a simple concept but it's not easy. And so part of what I did was use visualization. I found an image of a woman holding her arms up in victory and you could see her from the back and she's just flooded in sunlight. And that was really meaningful to me because I'm like I could be that woman.
Speaker 4:I could be the woman who got through this and is now okay and feeling this sense of victory and bliss, and so it's really the challenge of holding the belief but using imagery to stay with that, and that's why I offer the art that I do is that, you know, I do open works that are open for interpretation, but it's also works that are focused and geared towards what the person is looking for. If they're looking to grieve and mourn paths and process somebody's passing, or if they're looking to accomplish a goal that they find maybe feels a little bit impossible, these are not just artwork, but it's something to look at, to remind you of like. No, this is what I'm focused on. This is a possibility, and to connect to that outcome.
Speaker 2:Right, and what a beautiful image that you were able to see with that victory, because that has become you. You did it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I really think that was key. I mean, I went through treatment, but I think putting everything together and that was also a difficult thing was to decide what do I do? Do I do conventional treatment, which terrified me, or do I do this thing that I had limited experience and knowledge about and the more I learned about it, it just made sense to put the two together.
Speaker 2:Put the two together Beautiful, beautiful. So what is something you wish your younger self knew about your current profession?
Speaker 4:You know this is all still fairly new to me and I'm learning all the time. But I think the most important thing is to put out work that speaks to me and that you know my work isn't for everybody. Nobody's art should be for everybody. It's great if you connect to a lot of people, but if you do, if you create work that comes from like the real you, just what makes you happy. You're going to find people to connect with it, whether it's music or art or architecture.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful. So when it's time for you to get that energetic tune up, or when you're even seeking, perhaps, a teacher, what qualities do you look for in an energy healer or worker?
Speaker 4:I would say vibe is the most important in a nutshell, and that means their cadence, how quickly they're speaking their voice, but also their their sense of compassion, patience, and right up there is listening, listening to what my needs are so that it's not superseded by what they think I need right off the bat. I think those are really important.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. So you've been on this journey, you're learning, you're growing. What advice would you give someone who's just entering this profession?
Speaker 4:I think, just to be real, just to put out artwork that you are proud to show, that speaks to you, and not to do it to cater to anybody's likes or needs, speaks to you and not to do it to cater to anybody's likes or needs, and that that I think you'll, you'll create the best work. That's not always easy to do, because we want to please people, we want to have people, you know, appreciate our art, but so it's. It's a pretty vulnerable practice to you know, it's it's coming from, like your soul to put out the work and if somebody doesn't like it, it kind of it, kind of well, it kind of hurts my feelings. So, um, but I think it's, it's important to stay true to what speaks to you, um, as unconventional, and the more unconventional the better, because it's like, um, that we're all different and that's coming from who you are.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. Do what you love, and it will grow.
Speaker 4:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2:So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 4:One of my favorites is one from David R Hawkins. It's called Power Versus Force and I remember somebody gifting it to me and I read it as quickly as I could. I found it so fascinating and I'm going to try to summarize it, but it's it's, it's kind of this, it's, it's metaphysical, so it's not an easy concept to capture. But he came up with a system, I believe it's called the levels of consciousness and it goes from a system of zero to a thousand and it it includes the human emotions going from low to high. So a few examples are shame and guilt are at the low end, and you go up to anger and you go up to desire and you go up to love.
Speaker 4:But each one he explains why each one is higher than the next. For example, what was it? Uh, shame is the lowest because it's um, it's about how you feel about yourself as a person, and guilt is how you feel about the actions that you did. Um and anger is low, but it's also above those because in a sense, it's this energy to make a change, and the book is really incredible. I would encourage anybody who's interested in spirituality and psychology to dive into that, because there's so much that you could apply to looking at religion, science, even artwork, so that's definitely one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. Thank you for that recommendation. So are you interested? And I go on your website. Let us know what services you offer.
Speaker 4:Right now I'm focusing on the paintings and I am still offering Reiki paintings if you want something customized, whether you want something customized without Reiki with. I also do have works that already are completed and some of them are on the website, but you can also find more of my current works on Instagram and then it takes a bit of time before I kind of get it onto the website, but they're on both platforms. And also, if you want to gift somebody else who has an anniversary or birthday coming up, I also do offer gift cards.
Speaker 2:That's what I was just going to say. There's such a beautiful selection, I just couldn't make up my mind. You know where do I pick, and if you can't give someone the gift card, so what a wonderful option. So not too many websites do offer that, so thank you for that. So where can we find you?
Speaker 4:My website is carolinevucom and you can find more information about the Reiki paintings um how they work. If it's for you, there's an FAQ page and I encourage anybody that's curious. Just feel free and have a conversation with me and see if it's the right thing for you or not.
Speaker 2:Right, right. So painted Reiki paintings of loved ones celebrating life, commissioned all those good things. So this ends our part of our journey together and I'm going to pass you over to my co guide, kim, who has three social media questions for you.
Speaker 3:So, kim, Hi Caroline, how are you?
Speaker 4:I'm good how are you?
Speaker 3:Loved reading all your stuff, loved listening to you. I just love how Reiki really takes people on so many different journeys, you know, and the fact that it's like Reiki brought to where you are now and even though you're not necessarily practicing it, it's still part of your practice, because it's just a part of you, so like even just incorporating all into your heart, is just amazing. And you, you know, and all of us spiritual people, I feel like, are really artistic as well, like in one way or another, like music or painting or creating, you know. So I just that makes sense.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love all of that. So there were really good questions that came in through social media. Um, the first one that the first user sent in was how can using affirmations help me navigate life when I have such limited energy?
Speaker 4:I totally get that. I suffer from chronic fatigue after doing four years of chemotherapy and what I found was coming up with a routine that incorporated affirmations was it was essential for me, and I happened to find audio tracks from a woman named Belarus Knapperstek and I use one called A Meditation to Fight Cancer. I played it every day during my morning routine and what I found was, with repetition, you start to memorize those things, they start to become part of your subconscious and it becomes a part of you, so that it becomes less of an effort to remember those things. It also there was a huge cathartic experience that I had with the tracks too. There was a huge cathartic experience that I had with the tracks too.
Speaker 4:Um, she said a few things that just it, it just struck a nerve and it validated my emotions and I remember feeling overwhelmed with sadness for what I was going through and I was grieving for myself. And in the instructions she uh tells you to cry if you can. And I remember even driving. You're not supposed to use it while driving. I did, um, but I remember driving and listening to it and I I wanted to cry, so I pulled over into a parking lot and I just, I just sobbed and her and I found going through the track again and with that same affirmation that came up, it didn't have the same effect anymore and I knew that I was healing, I was processing that statement and that emotion and so I totally understand dealing with limited energy.
Speaker 4:I deal with it every single day and it's not an exaggeration Like how I look now. I look normal and maybe healthy and energetic, but I have to prepare before and I have to rest after and it's the daily practice of pacing, so I totally get that after and it's the daily practice of pacing, so I totally get that. I also offer services for health coaching, mainly because I still struggle with this and I've learned over the years the best way to deal with something that's very, very limiting that's awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I always say you can't, you can't fake it till you make it with spirituality, but you can say the affirmations until you feel that frequency and that vibration right, exactly, exactly so you? So you were a breast cancer stage for you at stage four. Is that what you?
Speaker 4:it started at stage two and then it was it. It was aggressive, it grew within a year to stage four. I mean, there were times where it was breast cancer. I could feel it like from one day to the next I'm like, yeah, it's bigger today and all the while I was trying to stay calm, I was like it'll be fine. Sometimes, you know, and it was hard, I was trying a lot of holistic things Sometimes, you know, one explanation was that it might grow bigger before it shrinks and I really had to work on my mindset and be like things will work out. I'm still healing.
Speaker 3:That was a daily, daily practice, for sure yeah, the one thing that you said that stuck out was how they every single doctor I, when you said they all had conflicting things, and I'm like, yeah, and then you said, the one thing they said, though, was the mindset, and it's so, so true, you know.
Speaker 3:So, the mindset, the affirmations and everything you said resonated, cause I've, you know, when we've all been through those things where it's like, it's so hard, like you know everything's going to be okay and you're telling yourself that, but that fear, you know. So, other than those things like I mean obviously, like so this is the next question that kind of got into it, but let me ask it the way the person asked it. But how did you? Yeah, because I was like, wait, because I'm gonna, I'm gonna ask it the way I want to ask it. All, right, so how did your spiritual practice and your spiritual tools, like the ones that we were just talking about that's why I was getting off on a tangent navigate you toward becoming a survivor of stage four breast cancer? So you know, like I was saying that you know, what else did you use, like in your spiritual practice?
Speaker 4:oh, what else did I use? Um, I used many things, but meditation was a big part in dealing with the anxiety of, like, making the decision what which way am I going to go? Am I going to go with the oncologist's advice? Am I going to go with the herbalist's acupuncturist? I was seeing so many people. But meditation for sure, which is so difficult but so simple.
Speaker 4:And you know, I did journaling and I did turn to a book called Radical Remission and I want to say the author is Dr Kelly A Turner, and what she did was she looked at all the people that healed from cancer, whether they had conventional medicine or purely holistic methods or a hybrid.
Speaker 4:She found that there were nine common threads that kept coming up and I use that as my structure of making sure that I hit all those things. And but, yeah, part of it the big part of it was, I think the fourth one was like taking control of her health, and that's really the main thing that I did was to figure out like, okay, I'm exploring more. Meditation, visualization, affirmations, all those things, journaling, turning to people for support, asking, learning to ask for help, some of the things that we might find difficult to do, like asking for help. Um, because it was part of those nine categories, I found like, okay, this is something that I need to focus on, but really like turning turning to others for help and guidance, because there's so many things to think about when you're going through a cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love all of that Cause I think it's so important. Um, those nine points that you make, like that, I just I'm fascinated because I truly believe that people like you know, even with stage four breast cancer, like with the mindset and all of that, and I and it's so hard to say that to somebody who's in that moment Right Cause it's like, oh, just think positive. It's like, okay, yeah, right, you know, but you're proof, like you are absolute proof that you you didn't just give your power away, you didn't just leave it up to the doctors, you took it, you know, and the whole like spiritual approach to it is just, I mean, that's what resonates for me, so I resonates for me, so I just love that.
Speaker 4:You're like living proof of that like a real testimony. You know so and I do want to. I do want to say that you know a lot of it was wanting something, obviously wanting to live. Um, focusing on that and focusing on the feeling that I get from like, oh okay, I've overcome this, I beat this. But also, as counterintuitive as it sounds, you know, I understood that I had to also let go of what I wanted and let things be and just go work towards my goal of going to my appointments, doing my self care. But that part of detaching that's really difficult to tell somebody who's newly diagnosed or going through some big thing. It's like I'm going to tell them that you have to accept what may happen. That is not what you want, you know. So that is something for the individual to accept, that that's something that they could do and explore. It's very, very personal.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's why I like that there's people like you that have gone through it who are willing to talk about it, because there may be, like so many people, who have gone through that miracle or witnessed that miracle and can testify but aren't willing to talk about it. You know what I mean. So just you like recovering out loud and sharing those experiences and people can hear it, I really feel, gives that hope that people need also, you know, when they're in those moments.
Speaker 2:I've had so much cancer in my family.
Speaker 3:So you, if I could have, yeah, and you know, and it's, and it's, I see it energetically. You know what, what's going on. So it's like, you know, I tried, tried, but you can't. You can speak to your blue in the face and try to. You know, give them all these tools and like, hey, here's these nine steps, but unless they are willing to, you know, do that and do you know, like you said, explore that.
Speaker 3:So just I love that people like you are here talking about it, you know, and saying, yes, it's absolutely possible. It's not easy, you know, and that's the honest, the honest. You know it's not easy.
Speaker 4:They're not nobody's saying that it's easy, but we're saying it's possible, you know it's not easy, and to watch to go through it is one thing, and then to witness somebody else going through it, and then we have to understand that it's their own experience, it's what they're open to, what they're willing to do. And you know, honestly, I had a difficult time with with friends and family who, when I opted not to do chemotherapy and I was definitely afraid of doing it I just thought, well, if I do it it's just going to weaken my immune system and then that's when I'm going to die. And it really know. Going through treatment was like the hardest decision because I was terrified, but I really found my calm, finding the tracks, and it was one one that Beller, with Naprostek, has for a chemotherapy that really calmed me. I used it before I started treatment and during, like during the infusion, like I would play, I would play it on my phone while the drip was going on, so that that was like that was key, bridging the two together that's awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, one more question. So what is one technique with imagery that I could bring into my everyday practice to help, like, with healing? And oh, there's a few but, if I'm gonna.
Speaker 4:If I'm gonna choose one, um well, it has to be personal to you. It has to elicit an emotion that makes you like want to cry out of joy or even cry out of sadness, to like get the emotion out of you. That's part of the healing, but it has to the feeling is. The key is to make that real. And when you can tap into that which is, again, it's not easy to do, but when you do it on a daily basis and you work that muscle, it's just like going to the gym. You don't work out once, you do it over and over and you get stronger with it, and the more repetition there is, the easier it could be. I have multiple things that I do, that's been done over the years almost on a daily basis, that I've it's. I've become stronger at doing it because it's repetitive. So I would say repetition and emotion, adding emotion to the visualization.
Speaker 3:Okay, perfect Now. Is there anything that you would like to add that we missed? That maybe will be helpful to the listeners be helpful to the listeners.
Speaker 4:Uh, not really, I just I just wanted to. You know, honestly, I was really nervous coming on. I'm not used to being seen or heard, I'm just the artist who's kind of hiding and painting, um, but you know it, it came to like if my experience could help somebody else, then that's what I'm here for and I'm I'm glad to do it. Um, but if anybody wants to reach out and discuss my experience, their experience, uh, if they want to reach out to get artwork, um, I'm, I'm definitely open to that. Right now I'm working on more abstraction.
Speaker 4:So, um, actually, this one or sorry, it's reversed, this one is taken from a photo of a friend's cafe and it was just a gorgeous shot that she took and I abstracted it, and that's what I'm focusing on now.
Speaker 4:And then actually, this one here is a two-piece which is kind of hard to see, but what I did was, you know, the movie my Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn. It was a scene at the races and it Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn, yeah, it was a scene, it was a scene at the races and it was just joyous and beautiful and and I love that scene and every kind of everybody breaks out into song, but there's a scene where this man and woman are just kind of holding their drink and enjoying life, and I love that moment, and so what I did was I I took a shot and I played with the colors and I abstracted that, and then it's, it's a, it's now a diptych, a two-piece painting. So I do offer reiki paintings focused and customized for the person, but it's also more of like things that can inspire, inspire you and have more of an open meaning and interpretation, and it and it can change because it's an abstraction.
Speaker 3:There's less form and it's more up to the viewer to interpret Love that I love that. Well, that is the end of our journey together and I'm going to pass it back to Tracy. Thank you so much, Caroline.
Speaker 4:Thanks, kim, it was great talking to you.
Speaker 2:You too. Thanks, kim, and thank you, caroline, for taking the time out of your very busy schedule to join us on this journey.
Speaker 4:Thanks, Tracy, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. So, caroline, you are Los Angeles based. You have your website right and also YouTube correct.
Speaker 4:Yes, I have a YouTube channel. Caroline Vu Art.
Speaker 2:All right, wonderful, so you can check her out there. All right, my wonderful listeners. Thank you so much for joining us. If you would like your question featured on the show, reach out at wwwreadysetreikicom and social media. Perhaps your question will be featured on the show. Also, today's episode was brought to you by Feathers Sister Wellness for Yoga and Reiki, offering a variety of yoga classes, reiki classes and Reiki trainings. My name's Traci Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki. Thank you.