Spirit-Tended Healing
What is Spirit-tended healing?
Spirit-tended healing is working with wise, compassionate, benevolent spirits to bring you healing and balance on the level of spirit. A session together can take different forms, according to the guidance we receive. Sometimes I am guiding you in connecting directly with your helper spirits, and at other times the indication is for me to call on my spirits for more focused areas of healing.
When I am acting as the facilitator for you to connect directly, the Spirit Tended Healing process involves my creating a protective ritual container, guidance and structure for you to dive into the liminal realms with intention. There, you receive the guidance and resourcing of loving, compassionate spirit beings— including your wise and well ancestors—who are often the ones who tend to the healing work you need. The vehicles that take us there together are prayer, intention, oracular wisdom, embodied journeys, imagination, creativity and dreams.
For the times in our journey together in which focused facilitated healing is called for, we are looking at places of imbalance, stuckness, and challenge you face on the levels of spirit, emotion, mind and body. These often originate in the ancestral realm and in the realm of the unseen, and often come about because of events that occurred long ago. In many cases related to trauma, these imbalances can create challenges for us— including the “fracturing” of our souls, the presence of other than self energies in our energetic fields, binds to our energy, harmful thought forms, and other such situations that can directly impact our day to day lives.
With the guidance of wise and powerful spirit support, tracking to the origin of the imbalance can lead us to discover ancestral, early life, and even past life events that were left untended. This work often involves some aspects of ancestral healing as well as what is commonly known as energy clearing, soul retrieval and compassionate relocation of spirit presences, including the unraveling of energy binds and patterns.
The powerful healing of this work is also the reclamation of your gifts of intuition, imagination and dreaming and your right to be in relationship with your ancestors. It gives you direct and embodied resourcing that is expansive and nourishing. At the same time, it provides an extra layer of protection and clarity to your personal space that is intentional and grounded.
What to expect in a session?
Healing is a layered and mysterious process. This modality is spirit led and therefore can offer up unexpected and surprising directions. At times a session can be me facilitating your direct connection with healing and helping spirits, and at other times I am more directly involved in focused healing if that is what is called for. Mostly, it is a mixture of both.
I respect the pacing and rhythms that come naturally to each person and hold the prayer for the session to meet your healing intentions in a way that is ready to be met (by you and by me) and can be gently integrated.
While allowing for generous integration time between sessions, in some cases doing a series of sessions is most beneficial. This can aid in the process of integration, and/or the healing occuring on one layer can reveal additional layers underneath that come to the surface and need support.
This work can be very deep and therefore can require some time and support to assimilate. As I am not a licensed therapist, it is not for folks who are experiencing active trauma or unstable mental health. Please schedule a free 20-minute chat with me before booking to see if it’s the right fit for you at this time.
Imagination, dreaming mind, and ancestor mind are linked together. When we swim in their liminal field and listen, they give rise to metaphors that carry deep wisdom, meaning and story which in turn connect us to our ancestors, and transmit their knowledge with integrity and intensity.
—Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
This work is something to consider if—
- You feel stuck or unable to connect to your vision.
- You experience persistent negative / interfering thoughts or emotions
- You experience lack of clarity
- You have difficulty connecting to yourself or others
- You have the sense you have lost yourself or your power
- You have a challenging time maintaining boundaries and feeling safe
- There are harmful ancestral patterns that you are aware of.
How do I know I’m not making it all up?
This work is super practical and accessible, though it may not sound that way. Perhaps you— like most folks—question your ability to perceive what is not physically visible to your eyes. Or maybe you doubt your perceptions and think you are “making it all up”—creating experience with your imagination. I get it, I have been there too, and you are SO not alone.
Empire in all its forms has long denied these goddess-given faculties of perception, and thrown them to the side as being unworthy of our serious consideration. This in turn separates us from our true voice and innate creativity. Most importantly, it separates us not only from our ancestors— and thus our stories— but from the unseen spirit realms, the natural world and all other beings we share our lives with.
Emelie Cajsdotter, who speaks and teaches about interspecies communication and what she calls empathic interbeing, speaks to this beautifully when saying that when we open for the possibility of connecting with ancestors, we also open for the possibility of being in relationship with nature spirits. She says the way to connect is similar, whether with ancestors or with nature spirits or any spirits for that matter. In traditional cultures they go hand in hand, and when we cut ourselves out from the web, being in relationship with the natural and great unseen world is part of what we are missing out on.
For me, this has been my experience as well. This is a journey of reclamation that continues to be deeply impactful and empowering. All of my creativity is born from this place. And as I open to guidance from Spirit, my ancestors and the more than humans, I open more deeply to the world around me. I begin to remember and to feel connected, to sense my true essence. I start to wake up to a sense of being ok just as I am. This is what others who have experienced this work with me tell me as well. If this resonates for you, I am so glad. I would love to share this experience together. If you feel so called, please reach out.