Modern western psychology dismisses indigenous wisdom and has largely misunderstood trauma, dissociation, and the soul–until very recently.
And only if you really have been a mental health trauma practitioner for a while AND have gone through your own Self-Actualization process do YOU even start to remember.
At age 5, I remembered. And because what I knew wasn’t safe to know or validated–I creatively developed OCD to keep mySelf safe.
Knowing, I would retrieve what was lost–later.
And I did.
Several years ago, I conducted my own soul fragment retrieval. Using natural elements, the strength of my own inner knowing, a full surrender, and coded with a shamanic unique phrase to call back that five-year-old soul fragment that was lost due to trauma to re-integrate.
It was at that point in my Modern Medicine Woman initiation that I knew what I was here to do.
So, I got weird-er. But not really. It just felt more authentic to fully step into work that has been an ongoing study–over multiple lifetimes and within cultural lineages of origin
And knowing that within me exists the colonizer AND colonized–more deep work. Because if you stop at doing your own work and do not do not finish the work of your ancestors–you fall short.
We often get it twisted. Trying to make the external world better–without going within.
This process was more than just a lot of schooling and training on root-cause modalities. It was also a lot of unraveling of internalized shadows. Racism and every other -ism that exists within the collective consciousness.
So I went inside while also training externally. “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” -Hermes Trismegistus.
Each new modality that I took on was just a remembering.
Integrative Medicine reminded me that yes, we can treat every health condition with nature.
Psychedelic Healing showed me various bardos, past lives, and parts of myself fragmented off–that I was to fully accept to retrieve. And then using IFS with mySelf–develop cross-communication channels between the parts of mySelf that hold Self back.
Somatic Trauma Modalities have reminded me how the soul/life force dissociates when traumatized. And with skilled work (and co-regulation from another skilled practitioner)–RE-associates. This work is primal. Natural. And also how we heal trauma.
Reiki Master Energy work guides me back to the past (and to the future) to rebalance my energetic body to remake myself in the here and now as Whole. It shows me where the imbalance started and where to travel to retrieve anything lost along the way.
Shamanic Journeys allow me to step into multidimensional realms to confirm the next steps in this plane of existence for my highest healing.
And it is through my own work (and decades of evidence-based training) that I guide my clients into stepping into being their own Self-Shamans.
Like most skilled integrative mental health trauma practitioners–my work has taken on a whole different level since the pandemic began.
When clients are ready–I do facilitate soul and soul fragment retrievals through somatic trauma work, energy work, and guided shamanic journeys. (This is all-natural and within their/our higher level of consciousness and bodies.)
There are no words to describe what I have witnessed as far as healing.
All of my modalities are not *mine*. They belong to all healed ancestors and living evidence-based root-cause master teachers embodied in form.
It is a deep value of mine that I teach everything I am doing to my clients–so there are no barriers to healing. Each modality I use with them is taught to them to use on themselves.
My clients walk away knowing how to heal themselves with their Inner Healer, Somatic Self, and Self Energy guiding their next steps on the healing path.
Wholeness is for real. Sometimes we do have to journey far and wide to retrieve soul fragments of ourselves lost due to trauma–and I am here to tell you that the trip is so worth it.
There is nothing more urgent than to heal. If everyone stepped into their own healing–peace on Earth naturally would happen.
Eventually, you do heal. And I don’t mean being “perfect” when I say “heal.” I mean, eventually, you step into Wholeness that already exists.
Doing trauma work and soul retrievals just have the side effect of less suffering, being able to stay embodied through anything, and fully living in the present moment. AKA the feeling of Full ALIVENESS.
You have choices. And healing is one of them.
I love walking folks Home and teaching them to be their own Self-Shamans.
-Shannon, “The Integrative Counselor”
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