Healing Services

Wounded Children

Working with wounded children is an important aspect of shadow work. Shadow work is noticing what or who in our outer reality is triggering us (e.g. an irritating co-worker, a partner, politicians, etc.) and using these external forces to bring awareness to inner aspects that are in need of healing and attention. This does not excuse anyone’s harmful behavior, but it does give us more spaciousness to respond appropriately in the moment rather than reacting in habitual ways. Becoming aware of our wounded children (we all have many until we learn to heal and integrate them,) can be a significant step towards experiencing more freedom and empowerment in our lives. Noticing what age we feel when we are in conflict, or perhaps how old the person we are in conflict with is acting, can help to cultivate a sense of compassion for ourselves and others. *Note- Having an emotional response to witnessing injustice or violence in the world is healthy and valid, however it can be helpful to notice when one is reacting, over or under-responding to any situation.

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Soul Retrieval/ Power Retrieval

When one experiences a significant trauma (e.g. abuse, accidents, surgery,) or has needs that are chronically unmet during childhood (lack of attuned caregivers) it is possible that a piece of their essence will fragment from the rest of their consciousness due to overwhelm. When there is soul loss, there is often a somatic feeling of something missing or emptiness, and the psyche is unable to access it due to the degree of fragmentation. Soul loss is a more significant degree of fragmentation than wounded children, which our psyches generally have access to and retain some memory of, and it is somewhat more rare. While this fracturing in the moment was a necessary survival response, these missing aspects of self can prevent us from experiencing the fullness of life and often contain significant gifts as well as vital life force. A trained practitioner can not only track and retrieve these soul pieces, but will also assist the client in their full integration.

Ancestral Healing

In recent years, there has been increasing interest and conversation around the topic of ancestral/ intergenerational healing, and modern epigenetic research is now able to prove what many cultures have known intuitively to be true. When a person experiences a significant trauma, it can be passed down to future generations. This effect can be much like a snowball rolling downhill, gaining in momentum and becoming decontextualized with each generation. Examples of possible ancestral issues include: cycles of physical/ emotional/ mental/ sexual abuse, alcoholism and addiction, scarcity mentality, apathy and inability to feel emotions or sensations, emotions like grief or rage that feel larger than a result of one lifetime, psychosomatic issues, autoimmune disorders and many hereditary illnesses. A skilled practitioner will be able to track an ancestral issue to its origin, and help prevent this energy from being passed onto the client’s descendants. Engaging in ancestral healing work can also be a wonderful way to access the gifts of one’s ancestral line and connect to the beauty, strength and resilience of our resourced ancestors.

Working With Cords

Whenever we are in relationship with another being, we form energetic cords where there is usually an unconscious exchange of energy. These unconscious ways of relating are shaped by the ways we are conditioned to have our needs met by caretakers as children, by gender or other cultural norms. Forming healthy cords/ connections with people is vital to our sense of well-being. However, we may have many cords with people whom we no longer care to be in relationship with, where we are either giving away energy or receiving energy that is not beneficial or toxic. In some cases, these cords may need to be (compassionately) cut, while examining the unconscious motivations for forming them. Commonly, the cords we formed when we were young children with family members or other loved ones may need to be updated if we find ourselves acting out in habitual ways that do not serve, or falling into old patterns when we are around them.

Psychopomp Work

Death is a topic that is greatly feared and largely avoided in modern Western culture. There is much misinformation around the dying process and the stages of transition that occur after physical death. The idea that good people go to heaven and bad people going to hell is largely false, and a gross over-simplification. A good death occurs when the person has lived a full and complete life. While this type of death is somewhat rare in our world today, many are still able to make their transitions without major complications. However, it is also very common for souls or soul fragments to be unable to move forward, attaching to living people or places, which can cause difficulty for the people they are attached to. Some reasons why someone may not be able to move forward are: if the death was sudden or unexpected, if there was violence involved, they were heavily drugged (like in a hospital or overdose,) or cases of suicide. These are all strong indicators that this person will need some support in making their transition. A psychopomp is trained to assist in transitioning the pieces that are stuck, and often have cultivated relationships with spiritual forces whose job it is to tend to the dead.

Spiritual Crises and Integration (Awakening Experiences, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Meditation Retreats)

Any spiritual awakening experience can be profoundly life-altering. While it is wonderful to experience the bliss of such expanded states, it can also be scary and confusing to land back into the lived day-to-day experience of being in a body. Integrating the understandings of experiencing such states can be difficult and incongruous with "ordinary reality." With the gaining popularity of plant medicine ceremonies, intensive meditation retreats and other peak spiritual experiences, the frequency of people experiencing spiritual crises that are not resolved within the framework of the ceremony/ retreat are also on the rise. There are many reasons why one may feel discombobulated and have difficulty returning to their daily lives after an experience like this. It may be that too much material arose from the subconscious too quickly to process and integrate in the given container. Unfortunately, there are many self appointed shamans, gurus, teachers etc. that are predatory or simply don’t have the education or the tools necessary to assist in situations such as this. A skilled practitioner can help harvest the gifts from these experiences, while tracking what is needed for further integration, embodiment and orientation around the new understandings.