How alternative healing and a new perspective lead Adania Reyes to an impactful career on people’s lives 018

“Don’t limit yourself to what you can do because you never know who you will impact positively. Always remember that you impact people, and there’s always someone looking at you, and you can change someone’s life by being who you are, loving yourself, and being compassionate and kind.”

Adania Reyes is originally from Mexico, but she lives in Canada. She is a model, actress, singer, English teacher, and she runs a photography business.

In our conversation, she told us about how she grew up in Mexico in a family with a lot of sexual and physical abuse. She grew up with a lot of anger and hurt, which led her to be slightly out of control when she was a teenager until she got to high school and entered a local drama club, where she discovered acting and loved it.  

She got to travel around the country with her drama club but never thought she was good. Adania remembers how she didn’t believe in herself until she won a national award for best actress.

Adania told us how, after that, her family wanted her to be a teacher, so she applied to teach school but discovered that it wasn’t for her and left within a month. She then went back to acting with a professional company. She applied to the acting university, where she was for a semester until she got a job offer in China from a stranger from Facebook to be a performer and a cook. She followed her heart and went without telling anybody and stayed there for almost a year. However, after that year, she came back to find out she couldn’t go back to acting university and felt shocked and devastated.

Adania then went to food science university to carry on but couldn’t finish the program due to her mother developing cancer and her poor mental health. That’s when her family decided she needed a doctor. She was taken to a mental hospital. She had borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder. She would hurt herself, she tried committing suicide, and she was just tired of life. She remembers thinking: “either you want to live, or you don’t.” That’s when she decided to get out of there and get a teaching job, but she stopped after a while to take care of herself and her mom. 

She tells us how if she didn’t focusing on herself, she wouldn’t have had the ability to know herself and move on. Later, her grandma encouraged her to study cosmetology, and she did. After that, she studied massage therapy, and she liked it. Adania started working at a Spa, where she met many people who were into alternative health, and they gave her the therapy she needed.

In this episode, Adania told us how the changes in her life took years, but the moment when she didn’t judge herself was when she got the confidence and love that she needed by accepting herself. She also told us that if you appreciate things and change your mindset, things can be beautiful, things can be good, and things can change. 

Adania realized that her objective in life wasn’t having a career or being successful in her business but was to have an impactful career on people’s lives. When she changed her perspective of how she wanted things, her life started to change, and now she just feels happy with what she has now.

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