Meet Gina M. Castagna
Did you know that the average home has over 300,000 possessions? Imagine what it would look like if everything was sprawled out on your living room floor. I’m here to tell you: It’s very overwhelming.
I was someone who held onto everything. I grew up during a time when kids typically only received things for holidays and birthdays. I was grateful for what I had, even when it was often a damaged hand-me-down. That amazing feeling of getting something “new,” even if it was only new to me, filled a void in my life - a void that was left empty from being the youngest of three children. I held onto everything. My “stuff” became my identity - an identity that I would seek to find for many years to come.
I began cleaning houses in 2011. After attaining degrees and working in the fields of Criminal Justice and Sociology, this was very new to me. Cleaning gave me purpose. I began helping people who genuinely wanted to improve their lives. While thoroughly enjoying what I was doing and the relationships with clients I had created, something always felt as though it was missing.
Having been faced with several life-changing illnesses, I soon realized that Western medicine was keeping me sick. I began using practices like Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Essential Oils, and Feng Shui, becoming certified in 2024. My life finally began to shift in a positive direction. My health and my happiness became a priority, as well as my awareness that a simple life is a joyful life.
I went on a spiritual journey of self-healing. I removed the physical obstacles that caused chaos, instability, and disharmony (both physically and emotionally) that were masked as clutter. I discovered the correlation between the item itself and the emotion behind it, allowing me to let go of what was not important, and understanding what is. I learned that the self is an amazing creation, and that healing does not come from medications and collections of tchotchkes.
I’ve always been an intuitive being, and it’s time I use that gift in my practice to help people through their own self-healing journeys. There is no better purpose in life than to give others the ability to make small changes in their environments that create grand changes in life. And that is my identity.