Remembering Who You Are and Healing Through the 6R Ascension™ Process – An Interview with Reena Pathak

Reena is the creator of the 6R Ascension™ Process and a passionate advocate for healing beyond symptoms and transformation beyond awareness. Drawing from her personal journey of grief, spiritual awakening, and conscious growth, she combines intuitive insight, spiritual/energy healing, Ancestral healing, Inner Child healing, Regression therapy, and Qi Gong to support meaningful and lasting change. Through her work, Reena helps individuals reconnect with who they truly are and step into lives of greater clarity, purpose, and alignment.

Reena Pathak, Creator of the 6R Ascension™ Process

What inspired you to create the 6R Ascension™ Process, and what makes it different from other approaches to healing?

The 6R Ascension™ Process was never something I sat down and decided to create. In many ways, it grew with me, through my own healing, my losses, the questions I carried, and the privilege of holding space for others along the way.

Some of my earliest memories of healing are connected to my mother. As a child, I remember placing my hands on people under her gentle guidance. I didn’t understand it deeply then, and I certainly didn’t know where life would take me, but those moments stayed with me. Losing my brother later opened a much deeper search for meaning and consciousness. Then, when I lost my mother during the pandemic, that journey deepened again. Grief taught me that healing isn't always about finding answers. Sometimes, it begins with having a safe space to feel, understand and simply be.

Over time, I began noticing threads beneath the very different stories people brought to me, old emotional wounds, beliefs, family patterns, disconnection from self, or parts of themselves they had learned to hide.

That understanding became the 6R Ascension™ Process, Recognise, Release, Restore, Reconnect, Rebuild and Radiate.

What makes it different for me is that it isn't about fixing someone. I believe we already carry so much wisdom within us. Sometimes we simply need compassion, support and the right space to find our way back to it.

You often say healing goes beyond symptoms. What does that look like in practice when someone begins working with you?

For me, healing often begins before we use any particular technique. It begins with a very simple but meaningful moment, “I’m ready.” Ready to understand, to be supported, or perhaps just to acknowledge that something no longer feels right.

When someone comes to me, I don’t begin with an assumption about what they need or where their journey should take them. I listen. I connect intuitively, and together we gently explore what may be sitting beneath what they are experiencing.

Sometimes that takes us towards an old emotional wound, grief that was never fully expressed, a belief they’ve carried for years, a repeating family pattern, or a deeper spiritual question. At other times, what someone needs most is simply a safe space to speak and feel heard without judgement.

That is what going beyond symptoms means to me. We’re not just asking, “How do I make this feeling go away?” We’re gently asking, “What might this be showing me?”

I don’t see healing as something I do to another person. I walk beside them while they reconnect with the strength, understanding and wisdom that is already within them. Very often, that is where meaningful change begins.

Your work blends therapeutic methods with intuitive guidance. How did learning to trust your clairvoyant abilities change the way you help people heal?

Learning to trust my intuitive and clairvoyant abilities was a journey in itself. I questioned them for a long time. During Past Life Regression sessions, I would sometimes receive an image, a feeling or a piece of information that seemed to come from nowhere. My first instinct was often to doubt it.

What slowly changed that was my clients. They would recognise or validate things I couldn’t have known. Over time, those moments taught me to trust what I was receiving, while also remaining humble about it.

Today, intuition is simply part of how I hold a session. I listen to the person in front of me, but I also pay attention to what I sense intuitively. Sometimes something comes through that opens a door to a deeper conversation or helps us notice a pattern from another perspective.

But I never want my intuition to become more important than the person’s own inner knowing. I share what comes through gently, without presenting it as an absolute truth. If it resonates, we can explore it. If it doesn’t, we let it go.

For me, intuition isn’t about knowing everything. It’s about listening more deeply, while always leaving the person free to trust what feels true for them.

You believe awareness alone is not enough for lasting transformation. Where do you see people getting stuck after they've gained insight?

Awareness is such an important beginning. There can be real relief in finally understanding why we respond the way we do. But I’ve also seen how frustrating it can feel when you understand a pattern completely and still find yourself repeating it.

I know this personally. For me, one of those patterns was around receiving. I could recognise it, talk about it and understand where it came from, yet I still found it difficult to receive support or even a simple compliment. Knowing was important, but something deeper still needed my attention.

That’s often where we get stuck. We expect understanding something to automatically change how we feel or respond. But old emotional patterns can be deeply familiar, and in difficult or triggering moments, we can easily return to them.

This is why the 6R Ascension™ Process doesn’t stop at Recognise. We move through Release, Restore, Reconnect and Rebuild, so that awareness can gradually become something we actually live.

For me, transformation isn’t about never being triggered again. It’s that beautiful moment when you notice the old pattern, and realise you now have the awareness, compassion and choice to respond differently.

Your approach brings together emotional, energetic, ancestral, and spiritual healing. Why is it important to address these layers together instead of separately?

I don’t think we experience life in separate compartments, so for me it doesn’t make sense to approach healing that way either.

Something we are feeling emotionally may affect how we feel physically or energetically. A belief we carry about ourselves may have roots in an earlier experience or a family pattern. Sometimes what we are searching for isn’t about the past at all, it’s a deeper sense of connection, meaning or purpose.

That doesn’t mean I assume every difficulty has a spiritual or ancestral cause. I think it’s important to remain open and curious rather than deciding someone’s story for them.

When I work with someone, I meet the person in front of me, not a symptom or a modality. I listen, connect intuitively and allow the session to unfold around what feels most relevant for them.

For me, bringing these different layers together simply means honouring the whole person. We are complex, beautiful human beings, and healing can be too. Sometimes when we stop trying to separate everything, we begin to understand ourselves with much more compassion.

For someone who feels disconnected from themselves but doesn't know where to begin, what is the first shift you encourage them to make?

The first thing I would say is, you don’t need to know where to begin.

When we feel disconnected from ourselves, there can be a temptation to immediately look for answers or wonder what has gone wrong. I gently encourage people to begin somewhere much simpler, with curiosity rather than judgement.

Life asks so much of us. We adapt, take on responsibilities, meet expectations, care for others and sometimes simply do what we need to do to keep going. Somewhere amongst all of that, our own voice can become quieter. I don’t believe that means we’ve lost ourselves.

Instead of asking, “What’s wrong with me?” try asking, “What part of me is asking to be seen, heard or understood right now?”

That small shift can change the way we meet ourselves.

You don’t need all the answers, and you don’t need to make a big change. Begin by noticing what you feel, what you need, and what no longer feels true for you.

I believe the way back to ourselves often begins quietly, with a little honesty, a little compassion, and the willingness to listen.

Grief has been a significant part of your own journey. How has that experience changed the way you guide others through loss and major life transitions?

Grief has taught me some of the deepest lessons of my life. Losing my brother, my father and later my mother changed me in different ways. It also taught me that there is no right way to grieve, no timetable, and certainly no point at which someone should be expected to be “over it.”

My brother’s passing began a search for meaning that eventually led me towards Past Life Regression and a deeper exploration of consciousness. Losing my mother during the pandemic took me deeper still into my own healing and spiritual journey.

But perhaps the most important thing grief has taught me is not to rush someone’s pain.

When I sit with someone who is grieving or moving through a major life change, I don’t try to make it better or find meaning before they are ready. Sometimes people are searching for answers. Sometimes they need hope. Sometimes they simply need someone who can sit beside them without asking them to be anywhere other than where they are.

I don’t believe healing means leaving those we love behind. We learn, slowly and in our own way, to carry the love differently, while finding our way back to life, and to ourselves.

You often describe healing as remembering who you truly are rather than becoming someone new. What does that idea mean to you personally?

For me, this is at the heart of healing.

Life leaves its mark on all of us. We take on responsibilities, expectations, fears and beliefs about who we should be. We experience love, loss, disappointment and change. Sometimes, without even realising it, we become so used to adapting that we lose touch with what actually feels true for us.

My own journey has taught me that healing isn’t about becoming a “better” version of myself. It has been much more about gently letting go of what I no longer need to carry and reconnecting with the parts of myself that were always there.

Even some of the most painful experiences of my life have brought me closer to that understanding. They have shown me strength I didn’t know I had, deepened my compassion and helped me understand what truly matters to me.

That is what I hope to offer through my work too. Not a path towards becoming someone else, but a safe space to come back to yourself.

Because perhaps healing isn’t about finding a new you at all. Perhaps it’s about remembering the person who was there all along.

If you could leave readers with one perspective that could change how they approach healing, what would it be?

If I could leave someone with one thought, it would be this, healing doesn’t ask you to become someone else. It asks you to meet yourself with a little more compassion.

Life touches all of us in different ways. Love, loss, relationships, childhood experiences, responsibilities and disappointments can leave their mark. Sometimes we adapt simply to keep going, and somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with parts of ourselves.

Healing, for me, is not a race back to some perfect version of who we were. It has its own rhythm. There are times when we are ready to look deeply, times when we need to let go, and times when the most healing thing we can do is simply rest.

So wherever you are, begin there. Be gentle with yourself. If you need support, allow yourself to receive it. Whether that comes through professional help, someone you trust, spiritual support or simply a safe space to be heard, you don’t have to have all the answers alone.

Sometimes transformation begins very quietly, with one small choice to turn towards yourself, rather than away.

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