The Backstory
My name is Emily, named after Emily Dickinson. I'm the Owner and Chief of Tribe at Bliss Health and Healing Center. This business venture is an sacred vision I experienced in a dream. I've been working to manifest this vivid dream every since I awoke in December 2012.
I was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved to Cleveland with my Mom and brother when my Dad took a job as a Chemical Engineer. I was two years old. I grew up on a dirt road in Geauga County and spent most of my childhood barefoot in the woods, going on family vacations in a pickup truck with a cap and makeshift bunk beds in the back, reading stories and poetry, and day dreaming in school.
On my Dad's advice, I went to Pennsylvania State University and graduated with a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering and minor in English. I worked in Baltimore and Chicago, conducting environmental assessments and moving into technical writing and project management, before returning to Cleveland to start and raise a family.
I bought a house in Shaker Heights and worked as a liaison between Information Services and Marketing for a manufacturing company. In four short years, I had two beautiful children, my teachers I like to say. Two shorter years later, my Mom passed away from complications in a second go-around with breast cancer. During her illness, I walked through all the corridors of conventional medicine and the realms of alternative and holistic care available to us. In the end, she was a medical mystery that no one could cure. But the experience shifted my perspective on health - our relationship with our physical body. I found my passion in the world of healing, not crisis care; prevention, not pills. There are opportunities to create healing not often presented in standard Western medicine. My passion is knowledge, to give people knowledge and opportunity to experience health in all their energy systems - physical, mental and spiritual.
The year after my Mom passed away, I quit a lucrative job at a national financial services firm that treated employees and contractors well and went to medical massage school. My intention was to test my passion. I wanted to be a naturopathic doctor, but that required relocating to Portland, Oregon. Better to test this new career before uprooting a family. The intensive program was grueling and only 6 of the 22 students completed the course. I loved it. Every day and every page. It was like remembering, not learning. I graduated top of the class in anatomy and physiology and opened a private practice in the third floor of my house. I started working on the Running Club runners at Cleveland Running. I continued learning, fulfilling all the classes and requirements to become a Reiki Master, finishing under William Lee Rand (Founder of the International Center for Reiki Training) and took courses in Miami, Florida to become a Kinesio Tape Practitioner (the cool pink, blue or black tape you see on Olympic athletes). I also took a Donna Eden Energy Medicine class at Ursuline College with Sister Ann Winters. The following year I started working as the massage therapist for a boutique gym in Beachwood, gaining knowledge in sports and exercise massage. A year later, I opened Bliss Health and Healing Center. My next goal is to open a second location in Lakewood. And become the go-to massage therapist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Then to travel the world visiting sacred sites and hiking sacred roads. Would you like to join me? I'll be leading groups!
Bliss is my hope for every being. My joy is working to create a dynamic community of healers, helpers, therapists, teachers and instructors. I have Five Core Values that I use to explain how I choose practitioners to create this sacred, living healing space. Intuition plays a part. So does trial and error. When you come to Bliss, you are invited to explore healing modalities and gain knowledge about your body, your relationships and your energy systems that combine to form the unique You that is living your story. You are invited to reflect, to linger and let yourself grow boundlessly.
If the whys and hows given here do not answer your curiosities, contact me. We can go out for gin and tonics and talk about why people do what they do and why people stay in jobs that pay well and leave them feeling empty, betting they can barter for freedom years later. (Hint: it rhymes with 'ear'.) First drink is on me. First question is yours to ask.
May you find the Peace you seek. That is also seeking you.
With loving kindness,
-Emily Bliss
mailto:ChiefofTribe@BlissHHC.com
My name is Emily, named after Emily Dickinson. I'm the Owner and Chief of Tribe at Bliss Health and Healing Center. This business venture is an sacred vision I experienced in a dream. I've been working to manifest this vivid dream every since I awoke in December 2012.
I was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved to Cleveland with my Mom and brother when my Dad took a job as a Chemical Engineer. I was two years old. I grew up on a dirt road in Geauga County and spent most of my childhood barefoot in the woods, going on family vacations in a pickup truck with a cap and makeshift bunk beds in the back, reading stories and poetry, and day dreaming in school.
On my Dad's advice, I went to Pennsylvania State University and graduated with a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering and minor in English. I worked in Baltimore and Chicago, conducting environmental assessments and moving into technical writing and project management, before returning to Cleveland to start and raise a family.
I bought a house in Shaker Heights and worked as a liaison between Information Services and Marketing for a manufacturing company. In four short years, I had two beautiful children, my teachers I like to say. Two shorter years later, my Mom passed away from complications in a second go-around with breast cancer. During her illness, I walked through all the corridors of conventional medicine and the realms of alternative and holistic care available to us. In the end, she was a medical mystery that no one could cure. But the experience shifted my perspective on health - our relationship with our physical body. I found my passion in the world of healing, not crisis care; prevention, not pills. There are opportunities to create healing not often presented in standard Western medicine. My passion is knowledge, to give people knowledge and opportunity to experience health in all their energy systems - physical, mental and spiritual.
The year after my Mom passed away, I quit a lucrative job at a national financial services firm that treated employees and contractors well and went to medical massage school. My intention was to test my passion. I wanted to be a naturopathic doctor, but that required relocating to Portland, Oregon. Better to test this new career before uprooting a family. The intensive program was grueling and only 6 of the 22 students completed the course. I loved it. Every day and every page. It was like remembering, not learning. I graduated top of the class in anatomy and physiology and opened a private practice in the third floor of my house. I started working on the Running Club runners at Cleveland Running. I continued learning, fulfilling all the classes and requirements to become a Reiki Master, finishing under William Lee Rand (Founder of the International Center for Reiki Training) and took courses in Miami, Florida to become a Kinesio Tape Practitioner (the cool pink, blue or black tape you see on Olympic athletes). I also took a Donna Eden Energy Medicine class at Ursuline College with Sister Ann Winters. The following year I started working as the massage therapist for a boutique gym in Beachwood, gaining knowledge in sports and exercise massage. A year later, I opened Bliss Health and Healing Center. My next goal is to open a second location in Lakewood. And become the go-to massage therapist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Then to travel the world visiting sacred sites and hiking sacred roads. Would you like to join me? I'll be leading groups!
Bliss is my hope for every being. My joy is working to create a dynamic community of healers, helpers, therapists, teachers and instructors. I have Five Core Values that I use to explain how I choose practitioners to create this sacred, living healing space. Intuition plays a part. So does trial and error. When you come to Bliss, you are invited to explore healing modalities and gain knowledge about your body, your relationships and your energy systems that combine to form the unique You that is living your story. You are invited to reflect, to linger and let yourself grow boundlessly.
If the whys and hows given here do not answer your curiosities, contact me. We can go out for gin and tonics and talk about why people do what they do and why people stay in jobs that pay well and leave them feeling empty, betting they can barter for freedom years later. (Hint: it rhymes with 'ear'.) First drink is on me. First question is yours to ask.
May you find the Peace you seek. That is also seeking you.
With loving kindness,
-Emily Bliss
mailto:ChiefofTribe@BlissHHC.com