Hi, I’m Deborah. Happy to connect with you!

First you should know I am all about shortcuts. Shortcuts to healing, shortcuts to happiness, shortcuts to gaining knowledge and wisdom. 

Science has so much to offer us about these shortcuts, but unfortunately it can take years (on average 14 years!) before what scientists learn about healing best practices gets transferred to the public to become implemented to improve our lives. 

Fortunately I am a bit of a science geek, so I love researching, discovering and then implementing proven successful healing techniques so I can help people feel better and get better as quickly as possible. 

My own healing journey includes battling chronic lyme disease, immunodeficiency, major surgeries, diabetes, breast cancer, and more, so I get lots of practice testing what works and what doesn’t.

I am still a work in progress …but it gives me joy to be able to share what I have learned so far to help family, friends, and now clients take leaps that propel them successfully on their own healing journey. 

Hi, I’m Deborah. Happy to connect with you!

First you should know I am all about shortcuts. Shortcuts to healing, shortcuts to happiness, shortcuts to gaining knowledge and wisdom. 

Science has so much to offer us about these shortcuts, but unfortunately it can take years (on average 14 years!) before what scientists learn about healing best practices gets transferred to the public to become implemented to improve our lives. 

Fortunately I am a bit of a science geek, so I love researching, discovering and then implementing proven successful healing techniques so I can help people feel better and get better as quickly as possible. 

My own healing journey includes battling chronic lyme disease, immunodeficiency, major surgeries, diabetes, breast cancer, and more, so I get lots of practice testing what works and what doesn’t.

I am still a work in progress …but it gives me joy to be able to share what I have learned so far to help family, friends, and now clients take leaps that propel them successfully on their own healing journey. 

Embracing illness & challenges

Though it never seems possible when we are in the midst of overwhelming pain, illness, conflicts or life challenges, it is the most beautiful experience to witness people come to the profound understanding that our biggest challenges can lead to our biggest breakthroughs. And then we find that on the other side is living life with more meaning, purpose, and more moments of peace and joy.

Whether you’re hurting from a painful life challenge, you’re feeling hopeless about your health challenges, or you’re wondering if life will ever give you a break…

my mission is empowering and helping fellow journeyers on their healing path, from the lows of pain and frustration from life’s challenges to the highs of inner peace and joy.

I get it.

Maybe you’re thinking, “well yes being happy sounds good, but you haven’t faced what I’m going through. I’ve tried being positive and it doesn’t work.” True, I haven’t faced the same life challenges you have faced.

But I’ve hit rock bottom. I’ve suffered. I have thought there is nothing more for me, that I will never be happy.

From devastating childhood traumas to heartbreaking adulthood tragedies…

From picking up the pieces after a house fire that destroyed my home and business to working through the struggles as a divorced working single mom to two toddlers…

From debilitating pain to major surgeries, anxiety, chronic illness and cancer, I too have had my share of pain, hardships, and overwhelming obstacles.

But from them I learned that our biggest challenges can lead us to our biggest breakthroughs.

And that every life challenge, every tragedy, every illness can be transformed into blessings leading us to serenity and joy.

But from them I learned that our biggest challenges can lead us to our biggest breakthroughs.

And that every life challenge, every tragedy, every illness can be transformed into blessings leading us to serenity and joy.

Tornadoes I've witnessed

Rounds of golf I've played

Hole-in-ones I've scored... whatever.

Times I've laughed at myself

Reiki changed my life

I had been struggling for two years with chronic lyme disease when I was introduced to this beautiful healing therapy. My first exposure to Reiki gave me such a strong herx – a physical reaction in lyme disease treatment that tells you that a medication or treatment is working to kill the bacteria – that I had no choice but to become a believer. 
 
Reiki relieves pain, balances us emotionally, strengthens our immune systems, and promotes restorative sleep. It has been one of my most effective tools to heal the effects of being a chronic lyme disease and breast cancer survivor. I truly don’t know where I would be without it.
 
Once I discovered the power of Reiki, I could not get enough of it.
 
I studied with Billie Topa Tate of MSI Healing and in 2010 became a Certified Usui Reiki Master Teacher.
 
Then I studied with William Lee Rand of the International Center for Reiki Training and became a Certified Karuna Reiki Master Teacher.
 
And then I studied with Richard Rivard of The Reiki Threshold and became a Certified Sekhem-Seichim Reiki Master Teacher.
 
I blend the energies of all three reiki systems to create a unique healing experience that Restores the body, Balances the mind and Inspires the spirit, thus the name RBI Healing.

Everything is energy, including our thoughts, words, feelings, bodies and souls, and learning how to understand and affect our energetic world is the shortcut to healing, inner peace and happiness.

Intuitive Empath = Healing Advantage

I was born an Empath, someone who has the ability to absorb and feel the emotional energy of those around them. Since I was a young girl, I not only knew what people were feeling, I actually felt the same feelings they were feeling. 

It took me years – decades truthfully – to be able to work with this ability so that other people’s negative feelings didn’t create problems for my 0wn emotional and physical health, Being an empath can be a blessing as long as one learns how to manage it.

Over the years, as an adult, I found that the more Reiki I provided, the more my intuitive psychic abilities developed. I trained with gifted psychic medium Lisa Nitzkin and developed my intuitive abilities, primarily claircognizance and clairsentience, and to a lesser extent clairvoyance and clairaudience. I then studied with Brigit Esselmont and became a Biddy Tarot Certified Reader.

When doing Reiki or Emotional Wellness Coaching, these intuitive abilities enhance my healing effectiveness. After all, if I can feel what you are feeling, it is much easier to help you heal.

When doing Reiki, I can feel the energy in your body and know intuitively where to direct Reiki. I love hearing, “how did you know my [insert body part here] was hurting, I didn’t even tell you??” And my answer is always, “I didn’t know, your body told me!”

I also use these skills when doing Intuitive Tarot Readings. First, I help you tap in to your own intuition to get answers to your deepest questions and second, I can help you connect with your deceased loved ones and use tarot cards to communicate their messages to you. Sweet!

My life’s work

I had thought my working life was finished. I had been enjoying 12 years of retirement after serving as the Deputy Director of a substance abuse prevention and treatment agency. But the tremendous growth I experienced from my own healing and spiritual journey through so many serious illnesses and life challenges – combined with the urging of special earth angels in my life – compelled me to jump out of retirement and establish RBI Healing, LLC to help others progress on their healing path.

As an Intuitive Empath Reiki Master Teacher and Emotional Wellness Coach, my calling is to use:

  • my training and certifications,
  • my decades of experience overcoming illnesses, traumas & tragedies,
  • my knowledge of Mind Body Science modalities,
  • and my spiritual gifts

to help fellow journeyers get out of pain and struggle and on the road to peace and happiness. I feel so honored to participate in the healing journey of everyone I connect with. Namaste.

 

How I feed my spirit…

  • Nothing lifts my spirits more than the giggles of children. I am a wife, mother, Gaga (as my grandson named me) to three beautiful grandchildren (Gabriel, Kingston and Sofia), sister, aunt and trusted friend.
  • Since I was a little girl, I’ve loved thunderstorms and continue to be in awe of them as a storm chaser. It’s not about the tornado, but the spectacular gigantic storm cloud structure that moves me.
  • I was born with an insatiable thirst for knowledge that can keep me glued to a book or distract me on Google for hours that seem like minutes. Learning anything related to the science of energy healing, life meaning, soul purpose, and past life regression gives me thrill chills – yes I know, I’m weird. 
  • Having worked 15 years as a not-for-profit administrator I believe in the responsibility to and rewards of supporting causes. I get more back then I give by serving as a volunteer Reiki provider to the patients of the Cancer Wellness Center and giving donations to causes dear to my heart including Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and our local Animal Shelter.

 

How I feed my spirit…

  • Nothing lifts my spirits more than the giggles of children. I am a wife, mother, Gaga (as my grandson named me) to three beautiful grandchildren (Gabriel, Kingston and Sofia), sister, aunt and trusted friend.
  • Since I was a little girl, I’ve loved thunderstorms and continue to be in awe of them as a storm chaser. It’s not about the tornado, but the spectacular gigantic storm cloud structure that moves me.
  • I was born with an insatiable thirst for knowledge that can keep me glued to a book or distract me on Google for hours that seem like minutes. Learning anything related to the science of energy healing, life meaning, soul purpose, and past life regression gives me thrill chills – yes I know, I’m weird. 
  • Having worked 15 years as a not-for-profit administrator I believe in the responsibility to and rewards of supporting causes. I get more back then I give by serving as a volunteer Reiki provider to the patients of the Cancer Wellness Center and giving donations to causes dear to my heart including Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and our local Animal Shelter.

 

Official Bio

Deborah A. Farmer is the founder of RBI Healing: Restoring bodies, Balancing minds, Inspiring spirits. She is an Intuitive Empath, Reiki Master Teacher, and Breakthrough Transformation Coach.

Deborah earned her MBA in 1996 from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher in Usui, Karuna and SSR Reiki disciplines.

She has given Reiki Energy Healing both in-person and remotely to many dozens of happy clients, helping trigger their body’s innate healing mechanisms. Through her Emotional Wellness Coaching, she uses the science of psychoneuroimmunology combined with energy therapies and her Signature Five Step Breakthrough to Serenity & Joy framework to help fellow journeyers breakthrough the pain and frustration of life’s challenges and unlock the secrets to inner peace and joy.

When not healing, coaching, or researching, Deborah enjoys a full life as wife, mother, sister, friend and being Gaga to her three small grandchildren in suburban Chicago, Illinois.

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