Nika Dearing is a highly acclaimed energy healer, holistic life coach and spiritual advisor who connects, or acts as a bridge between, people, businesses, and new ideas.  She is the founder of the increasingly popular online holistic living resource, Essence Holistic.  Using her eclectic techniques and insights, she has assisted numerous people on their path to wellness and self-discovery.

Nika began her own path as a young girl with a deep love of nature and an uncanny ability to see the future and talk to spirits.  Through her own need to understand her “gifts”, she has spent a lifetime studying metaphysical arts, natural healing, religions and shamanism.  Shortly after a genealogical finding revealed a strong lineage to both Celtic and Native American Shamanism, she experienced an awakening in spirit. It was shortly thereafter that Nika began to receive rigorous teachings from the spirit realm.  She describes her training and teachings during this time as nothing less than a preparation for battle; brutal, exhausting, and something she would not wish on her worst enemy. 

 Although her spirituality played a very strong role in her life, she remained grounded and went on to college to study International Business with an interest in Environmental Law.  Nika spent several years working in the corporate world before making the life changing decision to go to Culinary School.  She owned a private catering business specializing in organic and sustainable cuisine until she moved to the Houston area and became pregnant with her second child.  Repeated health concerns for both her and her family led her to make the decision to become a full time mother and serious advocate for healthy living.  She has studied nutritional medicine, herbalism, sports training and fitness, green living and more to provide an ideal and healthful environment for her family.  As she learned, she shared her knowledge with friends, colleagues and other family members to assist them in their own journey toward wellness.  Soon, she was receiving emails and requests from strangers requesting information and consultation.  This overwhelming response led her to receive her certification as a Holistic Life Coach and become an activist for holistic living.

 Nika is a dedicated wife and mother, member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, eternal student and emphatic lover of life.