From Investment Banking to Energy Healing
I’m Nicola Adkin, founder of Thinking Energetically, a therapy practice offering Energy Healing and Reiki. What I do now is a million miles away from my previous life as an investment banker. Whilst my new career may not be as financially rewarding, that is more than compensated by a better quality of life, and the joy I find every day when helping others improve the quality of their lives. This is the story of my path to Energy Healing; my journey from investment banking to a much more rewarding lifestyle.
While you may not want to change your career, I hope my story helps you understand the power of Energy Healing, and provide insights into the tools you can use to improve your wellbeing.
I started work in the City at 18 and was offered my first job the first day I started looking. My mum always encouraged me to ‘get on the train and get a proper job in a bank, get a mortgage subsidy’, so that was what I did. Apart from two career breaks of two years and one year respectively, the remaining time was spent employed in investment banks or consulting at them. I can say, hand on heart, I worked incredibly hard, but I enjoyed it and made many great memories. The sacrifice in my younger years was real, before flexible working or extended paid maternity leave, but we just got on with it. And, in the main, we were rewarded extremely well for our diligence.
The wheels definitely fell off for the banks from 2008 and onwards. Salaries stagnated and bonuses were cut, making the long hours and demotivating environment horrible to endure.
The older you get, the more you feel you want to claw back time not spent with family and have time to properly enjoy your evenings! When the love for what you do gets less and less and it takes more and more from you to achieve and perform at the level you need to, carrying on becomes really tough, stress and anxiety increase, and health starts to suffer. I slogged it out for as long as I could until the perfect storm made my mind up for me: my dad became very poorly.
Truthfully, my dad has been lurching for around 5 years (he’s 83) and is already 13 years post-heart attack so heart disease, blood pressure and dementia are all ongoing for him. He took a massive nosedive and took to his bed. Mum couldn’t cope and I could not provide any level of meaningful support while still trying to manage my career. So, I took the very hard decision to resign from my job to spend time with them both, and to avoid my own mental health deteriorating further.
I have managed my mental health since being diagnosed with a chemical imbalance at 21. There is depression and anxiety on my dad’s side, and I inherited it without doubt. There have been some very bad times, but I have always come out of them and been positive about the future, and I was blessed with a brilliant GP in Dr Dann (Rivermead Surgery, Chelmsford) who looked after me for many years very well. I cannot thank him enough, especially for seeing me through the post-natal years.
I always wanted to try to help others from my experiences but didn’t know how and wasn’t ready. That has now changed, and I really want to help others using my back story, but also through Energy work and coherence techniques.
One factor, for me, that really changed everything was discovering ‘consciousness’ and how powerful the human mind is when living our daily lives. Having always thought we were dealt a hand in a card game, I started to see and understand that the power of ‘intention’ is absolutely massive – and it is something we all have! Learning how to use it properly is the challenge.
The beauty of diving into the world of ‘energy’ and vibration is we can understand how our reality is formed and how the universe works. I binge-watched a series on GAIA called ‘Initiation’ (Matias de Stefano)) and I can honestly say nothing has ever made more sense to me. My path to Energy Healing was certainly on its way. I now see how we can use our personal energy, how it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and how the only important factor in it all is LOVE. All emotions are degrees of love and the more love we have in our lives and radiate out to others, the more love will come back to us, and this will create opportunities for us to take.
So why Energy Healing? Why, because it has given me a set of tools to use to cope with life and that is priceless. I want to help others who suffer as I did by teaching them these tools and how this has helped me through my own healing journey. When we open our mind to the potential we can be, we open up possibilities. When you suffer with anxiety it shuts down those opportunities and denies your achievement. Given the right tools and a lot of love through your own self-healing, you will gain confidence, reduce mental health concerns and be able to push on towards reaching goals and not being scared to live your own life. We are not those victims; we are the drivers of our own lives.

The heart is very wise and knows the truth. In fact, the heart knows way more than the mind can understand. Using self-healing to learn to love and accept yourself, opens the heart to a brave new world for you to enjoy and thrive. We are here, at this time in history, to heal ourselves and our home, the Earth.
I hope you have enjoyed the story of my path to Energy Healing. If you are struggling during these challenging times, I hope it inspires you to give me or a therapist nearer to you a call so that we can help you rebalance your life.
Please see my website, FB Group and contact me directly at nicadkin@thinkingenergetically.co.uk for more details on Energy Healing/Reiki sessions, and/or coherence and anything energy.
Big love, Nicola Adkin (Tel. 07970 097492)
WEB SITE: https://www.thinkingenergetically.co.uk/
FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/490760682633509