'Friends' Actress Jane Sibbett Reveals Why She Left Acting For Energy Healing
Jane Sibbett has had several roles over the years, but took a big step back from acting and Hollywood.
The now 62-year-old had a historic role on Friends, where she played Ross’ wife Carol and co-parent of son Ben, before she ended up getting married to a woman in the first lesbian wedding on network television!
However, in 2015, she took a new career path as an energy healer, and she’s now opening up about leaving Hollywood behind to focus on something else.
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“It’s fascinating because I’m working on the memoir of this whole situation, and one of my mentors had said, ‘Go back before the gift.’ The gift has been here 10 years now,” she told People. “When I work with the dancing hands, it’s not me. It’s source energy coming through me, and so I just feel nothing but bliss and joy and love when I am in this state.”
After moving to Hawaii in 2015, she started a production company with her then husband and continued to collaborate.
“My husband and I split [when] we were in Hawaii, and I was on my knees because I was really brokenhearted by everything, and part of that was my stuff that I had to deal with,” she said. She then found herself on the path of energy healing.
“He and I had been producing documentaries for healers who don’t call themselves healers, and one in particular, [Abdy Electriciteh]. My work with him suddenly became a part of this organization, because I’m really collaborative, so I wanted everyone to be in on this,” Jane shared. “[This healer] asked me to go from [working on] the documentaries to producing these live events, so it was a perfect synthesis of my belief in the gift of him [and] what he was doing and me coming off of Friends.”
“I’m really a shy person, and so for me to step up into a crowd and introduce him all day long to all these people and have a different story, each and every time, I started to feel the way that source energy or God energy was moving through me,” she continued. “Then somebody said, ‘Hey, you were so good at that. I know somebody else who needs your help,’ and so I went to one person, and then I did the next person, and I did the next.”
Her first experience after diving into the world of energy healing was at one of Abdy’s events.
“He tapped me on my third eye and I went down, I passed out into the state of bliss for about an hour,” she recalled. “There was no thought, there was no fear, there was just — you can’t even say it, but on the other side of it, days later, it was bliss. Some people came up to me afterward and [said], ‘We see this light coming off of your hands,’ because while I was under [the healing trance], my hands started to dance.”
“I woke up the next morning, my hands woke me up,” she said. “They were dancing above my head, and I began to just watch them with fascination, again, no fear, no thought, just watching as each digit was coming online. They were showing me how they could move independently without me.”
“He said, ‘Follow it, watch it, [and] we’ll see what happens,’” she shared about a call a few days later with Abdy.
“I wouldn’t call it Reiki,” Jane added. “[My hands] just started dancing because I was never trained in Reiki, so I wouldn’t even know what that is. I believe in it, I trust it [but] it’s just not what I do. This wasn’t trained. This just came in fully fleshed, immediately.”
“I never wanted it [and] I wasn’t looking for it, I just wanted to go back to being an actor. That was much more fun,” she said about her gift. “I never had aspirations to be a healer. When I was working with the healers, I saw the troubles that they had, and so I’m like, that’s not something to aspire for.”