
Welcome to Closer to Whole
Hello friends. I’m Kelsey Jean, a certified Reiki Master and Health Coach with a bachelor’s degree in Criminology and Psychology.
Through my personal journey, I have gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom, and I’m here to share my expertise with you. My mission is to help you remember the inner truth of who you are – already whole, already perfect.
My goal is to guide you towards a more meaningful and fulfilling life, getting you unstuck and out of worry. Here, you will learn about the life-changing practice of Reiki and the power of your own mind. I will provide you with inspiration, practical tools, techniques, and recommendations to implement into your day-to-day life to achieve the results you want to experience in your life.
Let’s work together to empower you and help you show up as your true self.
I’m so glad you’re here!
Why I Do What I Do
Speaking of stuck and worried…yeah, that was me. I was in that exact same spot.
I was taking a lot of action but still wasn’t able to shake the feeling of being stuck and drowning in worry.

I wasted SO MUCH TIME looking for answers outside of myself, drowning in a sea of information, and feeling unsure of who to trust. I can’t emphasize enough how helpless and hopeless I was really starting to feel. I say this because, I need you to believe that no matter where you are at, you have the ability to overcome these feelings you’re experiencing.
You CAN live a better life. A life of peace, without the constant mental drama of feeling stuck in a mundane existence of routine with no real meaning. And a life of empowerment, without drowning in all the worries that are available to us at any moment of the day. Worries about the state of the world, our kids, their future, our future, mother nature, and on and on.
No matter what happens in this life, no matter what the future holds for myself, my kids, and the generations to come, I have a depth of wisdom and tools available to me that can never be taken away. I find deep comfort in that. My hope and dream is that you, and every person on this planet, can have that comfort as well.
I've made significant progress in my own life, and now I feel a deeper calling to share my wisdom with others and be a part of shifting the collective consciousness on this planet. I want to create a ripple of peace to all of humanity. I believe that every single person is creating an influence, and when you change, the world changes - one person at a time.
I am your biggest believer. I am dedicated to provide you with unwavering support and encouragement along your journey.
I get that life is busy. Especially if you have young kids like me. I am all about taking action here. I want you to stop consuming and sitting on information. NO MORE WASTED TIME!
Let’s get this done, and let me help you find the beauty waiting for you on the other side.
The Longer Story…
If you're interested in learning more about my path, keep reading. I share this with the hope that you can connect with me on a deeper level and perhaps find inspiration to view moments in your own journey differently.
For most of my life, I felt like something was missing, which resulted in a constant restlessness and emptiness within me. I tried various ways to distract myself from the nagging presence of this feeling, including partying, drinking, watching TV, and other unproductive methods. However, even the productive distractions, like consuming information to solve this feeling, were done from a place of wanting it to go away.
Most of my journey was led by decisions based on my feelings, without a clear end goal or result in mind. I was a "serial trier," trying various things in search of the elusive missing piece.
It started with the awareness that I wanted more for my life. One day, I looked around me and had this realization that there was nobody whose life I wanted. I wasn’t sure what I was working towards any more.
Up until that point, I had done all these things I thought I had to do. I worked hard and got good grades throughout grade school and college. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Criminology and found myself in my first job in the field. Was this all there was to life!?
The question was really that empty, restless feeling coming up again. But much louder, now that I didn’t have school, the goal of a degree, or getting a job, to distract myself with.
This time, instead of just trying to make the feeling go away, I acknowledged it. This left me open to other possibilities and opportunities around me.
From there, an opportunity to travel appeared and I took it. I left my job, packed up my life as I knew it, and started a new chapter of my life.
While away, I was introduced to Vipassana meditation and attended a 10-day course thinking this may be the answer to my problems. It was certainly the start of a much louder inner pull telling me that this was somehow an important part of my path.
Picture taken in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India where I attended my first Vipassana meditation course.
Close up of the sign next to the Bodhi tree. Known as the place of enlightenment or “great awakening” of the Buddha.
Throughout my travel, I drank less, thought more, and learned to live in the discomfort of the unknown. Ultimately, I became so much more aware.
I returned back home to Minnesota after 17 months of traveling. I had worked and traveled through Australia for a year, backpacked through SE Asia for 3 months, spent close to a month in India, and a month in Japan.
Now that I was home, the nagging feeling was back even louder. What is the missing piece!?
With an increased awareness, I was now very interested in tuning into my body, and all things health and wellness.
Still that nagging feeling…
I got very into information chasing again, thinking that maybe this course, this podcast, this webinar, this subscription, and on and on and on, was the answer to my problems.
But none of this was the answer. Despite everything I had done and learned up until this point, I still felt stuck. Stuck by that nagging feeling caused by the thought that there was one answer, one purpose, one missing piece to my life.
And also, that whatever this missing piece was, it was something outside of me. I was constantly giving my own power to heal myself and change my own beliefs to a course, a book, an oil, a protocol, a supplement, anything that sounded promising. Anything but my own inner compass.
Focus on Reiki
While none of the things I tried in my search for the missing piece were “the” answer, I have found many of them to be useful tools in my life, with Reiki being the most rewarding.
After returning home from traveling, I experienced intense anxiety as I tried to reintegrate back into the "real world." I learned about Reiki somewhere during my search for information and sought out a practitioner to help with my anxiety.
During the session I was very relaxed and could feel the energy flowing through me, I felt that things were shifting in my body and had the sense that it was working positively for me in some way. I soon decided that the easiest way to continue receiving this healing was to become certified myself. I found a teacher who I was drawn to, started the courses, and received my Level 1, Level 2, and Reiki Master certifications over a time period from 2015-2016.
In 2017, I became certified through the IIN® Health Coach Training Program and planned to start my own health coaching practice incorporating Reiki. However, my plans were put on hold when I became pregnant with my first child and had a rough pregnancy.
After that, I ended up leaving the job I was at to open a home daycare. Although being a mom and having a daycare did not allow me to practice Reiki as I had wished, I continued to practice Reiki on myself, my family, and the world around me.
Cut to 2020, and Reiki became even more important to me. My partner and I found out we were pregnant with our second child in February, two weeks before lockdown. This is the part where things seemingly started to fall apart and the worry really intensified for me. My expectations of what the future was supposed to look like were now totally unknown. Of course, the future is always unknown but we don’t always feel that in our day-to-day lives.
Over the next couple of years, I really started to face my own mortality. So many fears and worries surfaced for me. I worried before I had kids, but this was another level. It felt unbearable. I started to feel really hopeless and helpless over my future, the future of my kids, and the future of this planet. So much divisiveness surfacing around the world. I was drowning in worry and didn’t see a way out.
During this time, I had momentarily forgotten about all the tools I had available to me, and I stopped listening to my inner wisdom. At some point, I decided I couldn’t go on this way and needed to make a change. This is when Reiki really came to use for me. Instead of feeling helpless over the state of the world and over my kids and all there is to worry about as a parent, I could do something.
Reiki has allowed me to take an action where I otherwise could see no possibility. Of course, I can also manage my mind and thoughts around this, but it is nothing like the power that Reiki has given me.
In a world where nothing is guaranteed, I will never regret the money or time I have spent on this journey back to wholeness. You are your most important investment! Invest in the tools, practices, and wisdom that will be available to you ALWAYS! These can never be taken from you.
Life can be experienced and enjoyed much more fully when we are confident that we can take on any situation that comes our way, that we can handle life. We will show up with so much more light and joy, and also be a comfort for those around us.
Today…
Looking back on my journey, I can see how far I have come and what was truly important. If I had known then what I know now, I could have saved myself years of agony.
But the good news is that you don't have to take the same path. By incorporating the tools and steps I have taken, you can see results in your life much faster than I did. And all without ever leaving home or any circumstance you find yourself in…unless of course you want to.
In a nutshell, here are the steps that manifested my results and can work for you too:
- Build awareness of your feelings and be open to them rather than trying to make them go away.
- Understand that your thoughts create your feelings, not the external situation or circumstance.
- Identify the thoughts that are holding you back.
- Choose and focus on your desired result.
- Take action!
When combined with Reiki, these steps can accelerate your growth and results even faster. For me, it was when I identified that peace and empowerment were what I was truly after that I was able to feel closer to the wholeness that we already are. No longer stuck. No longer drowning in worry.
Learn more and dive deeper into these 5 steps by signing up for my FREE 7-Day Reiki Box Manifestation Challenge.
A Final Note on My Commitment to You
I want to be blunt with you for a moment.
Here’s my promise to you:
I will not sit in pity with you over your circumstances. The goal is to overcome and move through where we’re at, not to dwell on it and feel sorry for ourselves. I will do this because your growth is what you’re here for and what’s important to me.
If you ever feel that I’m not being supportive or empathetic, please remember that I am always coming from a place of love and am here to empower you, not to feel sorry for you. You are worth so much more than that! There is meaning behind every struggle, every feeling, and every challenge. Your calling is for growth. The challenge is merely there to help you grow. Because beyond every growth, there is increased confidence, understanding, awareness, and fulfillment. I want you to see that life is always happening for you, and it’s your choice whether or not you want to believe that and move forward in your life.
This work and reminding people of their own power and peace that lies within them is incredibly important to me. You are incredibly important to me.
Thank you so much for being here and allowing me to be a part of your journey. Let’s continue to grow and thrive together.
To truly living,