About | Journey with Paloma

Welcome: I’m

Paloma

Around 2019, I experienced a deep depression that made it impossible to ignore how disconnected, unfulfilled, and out of alignment I felt. I left a physically abusive relationship and began the personal development path in search of purpose and meaning.

In the years that followed, I began a deep process of questioning how I was living and what I actually believed. In 2022, I stepped away from my corporate career and moved away from my hometown to devote myself more fully to inner exploration and healing.

I went deep into my own patterns, fears, wounds, and behaviors. I studied. I meditated. I went on retreats. I explored spiritual traditions and healing modalities. And yet, year after year, I found myself circling some of the same patterns in completely different forms.

Eventually, I became less interested in finding the right practice, system, teacher, or answer, and more interested in something underneath all of them:

How do we learn to know ourselves?

How do we distinguish fear from intuition?
How do we recognize when we’re outsourcing our authority?
How do we remain present when life doesn’t go our way?
How do we practice self-love without turning it into another ideal we have to live up to?
How do we become more comfortable being exactly where we are?

Journey With Paloma began as a resource hub where I offered tarot, Reiki, and Akashic Records readings. At the time, my intention was to help people find clarity and feel more empowered in navigating life’s challenges.

Over time, my understanding of that work changed.

I became less interested in providing answers and more interested in developing the awareness that allows us to recognize our own answers.

I’ve explored many spiritual modalities along the way, including Reiki, tarot, Akashic Records, shamanic journeying, Hindu spiritual practices, Kriya Yoga, mindfulness, meditation, devotional practice, shadow work, retreats, workshops, and therapeutic modalities.

I don’t believe you need to adopt any particular spiritual system to have a meaningful inner life. These practices and traditions can be profound tools, but ultimately, the results of what happens through them are the guiding principles.

Do they make us more present?
More discerning?
More self-trusting?
More capable of giving and receiving love?
More at ease with ourselves and with the life actually in front of us?

For me, this is a more meaningful measure of spiritual growth than how much we know, how many hours we can sit in meditation, or even how many extraordinary experiences we’ve had.

I continue my meditation training through Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship, while remaining curious about the many ways human beings have explored consciousness, meaning, and the nature of self.

Through Journey With Paloma, I share what I’m learning along the way. I highlight the practices, the questions, the mistakes, the moments of clarity, and the very ordinary challenges of trying to live what we say we believe.

If you are on a similar path, I invite you to journey with me.