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From the Cover: Debi Barr on The Sacred Rebel, How Following the Pulse of Energy Transformed My Life and Purpose

08 Sep, 2025 761
From the Cover: Debi Barr on The Sacred Rebel, How Following the Pulse of Energy Transformed My Life and Purpose

For much of my life, I lived by someone else’s rules. I grew up in Northern Ireland, in a strict Christian household where obedience was everything. I learned early that being the “good girl” kept me safe, and that questioning wasn’t welcomed.

Then, at 14, my world was ripped apart. My father died suddenly, and the shock cracked my foundation wide open. I remember the silence in our house afterwards - not just the absence of his voice, but the unspoken rule that grief wasn’t to be shown. Everything in me felt like it had been switched off. My energy collapsed.

On the outside, I carried on. I got the grades, held things together, and became the reliable one. But inside, I felt numb - like a ghost drifting through a life that didn’t feel like mine. I was moving, breathing, existing - but the pulse of life had gone flat.

In my thirties, I stumbled into Reiki. At the time, I didn’t even know what it really was. I just knew I needed something. I walked into that first class exhausted and empty, and walked out feeling a spark of energy I hadn’t felt in years. It was subtle, but profound: warmth in my chest, a softening in my body, a sense of connection I couldn’t explain. For the first time in a long time, I felt alive.

That moment became a turning point.

I followed the energy. Step by step, I learned to listen to it, to work with it, to trust it. Reiki became my anchor. Then came meditation, shamanism, the Akashic Records, Human Design. Each one offered another lens through which to understand the invisible currents that shape our lives.

I realised that energy wasn’t just about “healing.” It was everything. It was the difference between a business that feels like a constant hustle and one that flows with magnetism. It was the difference between living on autopilot and living on purpose. It was the difference between shrinking into silence and standing in unapologetic sovereignty.

That became my mission: to help others feel, understand, and align with their own energy.

Over the years I’ve trained hundreds of Reiki students, guided people through life-changing mentoring programmes, written books, created communities, and held countless sacred conversations. Each time, the thread is the same: people realise they are not powerless. Their energy is their choice, their responsibility, their freedom.

And yet, even as my work grew, I still found myself circling back to something deeply personal: creativity.

My partner gifted me art classes one year, encouraging me to reconnect with something I hadn’t touched since childhood. My dad had been an oil painter, and sitting in front of the easel again unlocked a wave of memory and emotion. As the brush moved, I realised painting wasn’t just art - it was energy in motion. Every stroke carried memory, feeling, vibration. It reconnected me not just to him, but to myself.

Art, for me, isn’t separate from my work with Reiki, the Akashic Records, or Human Design. It’s another expression of energy - colour, form, story. Just as our thoughts, emotions, and choices paint the canvas of our lives.

That’s the pulse I follow now.

I call my framework The Sacred Spiral™. It’s the journey I’ve walked myself, and the one I guide others through:

Unravel the conditioning and stories that keep you small.

Nourish body, mind, and spirit with practices that restore vitality.

Invite intuition and soul enquiry, listening for your own truth.

Quantum awareness - learning how reality itself responds to energy.

Understand yourself and your purpose in this lifetime.

Evolve into a freer, more unapologetic version of yourself and embody your energy.

It’s not linear. It spirals, just as life does. Each time you circle back, you go deeper.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: don’t wait.

For years, I waited. Waited for permission. Waited for the “right” time. Waited until I thought it was safe. I told myself I’d do it later. But later doesn’t always come.

My father’s death taught me that. We don’t know how much time we’ve got. And the longer we wait, the more our soul shrinks.

So my message is simple: follow the pulse of energy in your life. It will always guide you. To joy, to purpose, to freedom.

For me, it looks like mentoring clients through deep transformation, writing books that stir souls, and painting canvases that tell stories of resilience and sovereignty. For you, it might look different. But whatever form it takes - please, don’t wait.

Because the moment you stop waiting, you start living. And that’s when you truly become free.