"It’s my mission to educate, inspire, and empower those who’ve experienced trauma to reclaim their inner power and shift old, unwanted patterns in their lives once and for all."
It often takes going through the tough stuff—the dark at night of the soul—to fundamentally change who we are and how we view the world. Some call this the shadow, the wounds most people run from or repress which—one faced—can bring us the most power and make us the best candidates to assist others going through their processes of transformation, once these wounds are healed and integrated.
I could go on and on about how I have a Bachelor's in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapies, my Certificate for Holistic Nutritional Counseling, or how I’ve studied with 15+ shamanic healers, some of which who are still living in un-industrialized, indigenous communities. I could tell you about my fieldwork assisting substance abusers with mental illnesses at psychiatric facilities—all of which are actual parts of my resume. Yet the real training qualifying me to empower those who have suffered from trauma is my unique set of challenging life experiences that have shaped who I am today. Oh…and a TON of soul retrieval!
I know what it's like to feel dead inside, like an empty shell, missing huge pieces of my soul, because I've been through trauma. I grew up as a very sensitive and empathic child in a very rigid—let’s not talk about our feelings and pretend everything's okay even when it’s not—fundamentalist Christian home. For 4 years, I was repeatedly sexually abused by a neighbor, something that went to court but wasn’t, at the time, adequately addressed on an emotional level or even ever talked about again. In my family, honest-talk was stifled and swept under the rug. As a result, I suffered from digestive disorders, systemic allergies, and illness, all of which I later realized had to do with how I was stuffing my feelings down and disassociating from what had happened to me in the past.
I grew up chasing the fantasy of a happily ever after relationship—one that would sweep me off my feet and protect me from the trauma of my past, present, and future—and, as a result, I ended up marrying a complete sociopath who presented as one who could live up to my fantasies of escape. Soon after we were married, my husband abruptly emptied my bank account and disappeared. It wasn’t until then that I started to see the pattern of trauma, loss of personal power in my life, and where it had all left me.
Based on a seemingly random suggestion from a colleague, I took a professional dominatrix gig in a Manhattan commercial dungeon to stay financially afloat. Immediately I saw similarities in the cycles my clients in the dungeon—just like my creative art therapies’ clients—were processing past trauma in weekly sessions.
They all seemed to be stuck in stories where they lost their POWER.
They’d talk about the experiences that’d left them damaged. They’d draw images of their pain and act it out with me in psychodrama sessions, but something always left them blocked from fully regaining their power. They knew exactly what was missing but had no means of reclaiming and utilizing their lost power. As I grew apart from my work in the dungeon, it led to the powerful healing modality of soul retrieval—which has forever changed my life.
I healed myself through soul retrieval from the traumas that’d previously enslaved me. I regained my power, joy, and the essence of who I was before the trauma changed me. For the first time in my life, I began to feel alive, vibrant, and embodied!
I began integrating soul retrieval into my holistic healing practice with clients and saw their lives change both powerfully and rapidly.
Soul retrieval is, in my eyes as a therapist and shamanic practitioner, the most direct avenue to transformative healing because it addresses deeply rooted issues and returns vitality more quickly & directly than any other method of therapy or healing I've practiced. Soul retrieval has played a central role in my healing and is the greatest tool in my arsenal.
It’s my mission to educate, inspire, and empower those who’ve been touched by all forms of trauma to reclaim their energy, life-light, and shift old, unwanted patterns out, once-and-for-all, using ancient shamanic tools.
Learn more about my personal journey in my Memoir: Playing Karma: A Former Church Girl’s True Journey from Bondage to Empowerment and learn more about Soul Retrieval in my Be Wholey You Book Bundle: How to Bounce Back from Any Challenging Life Experience with Soul Retrieval
