Coronavirus: Mansfield Medium Offers Spiritual Support In Crisis

MANSFIELD, MA — As soon as Lauren Bortolami Robbins started to regain her own strength she said one of her first thoughts was to try to help others find the strength to persevere through the anxiety, depression and fear of the new coronavirus health crisis.

Robbins is a certified and award-winning medium who owns The Spiritual Path with Lauren Bortolami in Mansfield. When her business closed its doors, along thousands of others deemed "nonessential" across the state, last month, she turned her focus to her online audio and video offerings of self-healing, hope and positivity. Then she started to feel ill, and had to put some of her work on hold as she placed herself in quarantine away from her husband, a Mansfield firefighter, out of precaution.

While she said her illness filled her with the same worries about mortality and isolation that many have experienced during the six weeks since the state's shutdown of the economy, and ensuing stay-at-home order, she said she emerged from her setback with a renewed commitment to lift the spirits of others.

"As soon as I started to get rid of my symptoms I wanted to help other people by getting up more content," Robbins told Patch. "It gave me a time to self-reflect on how to get people spiritually well. That's what I do, and that's what my husband does as a firefighter, we want to help protect people."

While her husband does that on the front lines, Robbins said she hopes to do it through words of encouragement.

"You don't have to be religious to be spiritual," she said. "People need to get spiritually well. A lot of people are stressed out. A lot of people are depressed. They really feel it. You have people getting suicidal during this (health crisis)."

Robbins is offering her audio sessions that involve angels and God for as low as a $1 donation, and a non-denominational, remote version of Reiki healing by request geared to soothe the mind, body and spirit. Reiki is defined as a healing technique based on the principle that the therapist can channel energy into the patient by means of touch, to activate the natural healing processes of the patient's body and restorephysical and emotional well-being.

Her website states that Reiki is not meant to substitute for medical or mental health treatment.

"This is my way of helping the general public and giving back to the communities in our state that we know and love," she said.

To learn more about Robbins, or to request a healing session, go here.

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