Meet Your Story Keeper

Hi!

I'm Rei.

I've loved books for as long as I can remember.

Long before I became a Self-Love Coach...

Before I became a Reiki Master...

Before Love at the Threshold, retreats, workshops, and sacred circles...
 

I was an English Literature major.
 

Some of my favorite memories from college weren't just the books themselves. They were what happened because of them.
 

I would spend all night immersed in a novel, unable to put it down, captivated by the characters, the questions, and the ideas. Then I'd spend the next day in class talking about it for hours.
 

I loved discovering what other people noticed.
 

A sentence that barely registered for me might have completely transformed someone else.
 

A character I dismissed might have reminded someone of their father, their younger self, or a season of grief they had never fully processed.
 

Those conversations taught me something that has stayed with me ever since:

We don't all read the same book.

We each read ourselves through the book.
 

At the time, I didn't have language for why those conversations mattered so much to me.
 

Looking back now, I realize I wasn't just studying literature.
 

I was learning how stories help us understand ourselves.
 

Life eventually took me down a different path.
 

I became a lawyer.
 

Then I left that career to follow a calling that led me into coaching, Reiki, personal transformation, and creating spaces where people could come home to themselves.
 

Over the years, I've facilitated hundreds of conversations about healing, self-love, transitions, grief, identity, and what it means to truly live.
 

And somewhere along the way, I realized something beautiful.
 

The thing I loved most in college had never actually left me.

It had simply evolved.
 

Today, when I gather people together, we're still exploring stories.
 

Only now, we're asking different questions.
 

Instead of asking, "What did the author mean?"
 

We ask...

"What is this inviting you to notice about yourself?"

"Where does this show up in your own life?"

"What wants your attention?"

"What becomes possible if you believe this?"
 

The conversation moves beyond literary analysis.
 

It becomes a doorway into deeper self-awareness.
 

Because here's what I believe...

Books can absolutely change our lives.
 

But not because we finish them.
 

They change us when we slow down long enough to let them speak to us.
 

When we allow a single paragraph to stay with us for days.

When we hear another person's perspective and suddenly understand our own life differently.

When wisdom moves from the page into the way we live.
 

That's why I created The Well-Read Soul.
 

Not as another book club.
 

But as a place to gather with thoughtful, curious people who want to read a little slower, reflect a little deeper, and discover who they're becoming along the way.
 

Because I believe some of life's most meaningful transformations don't happen while we're reading the book.
 

They happen in the conversations that follow.
 

Because a well-read life isn't measured by the number of books we've finished.
 

It's measured by how deeply we've allowed them to change us.