Rise to Radiance Program

Your Innate Radiance lives and breathes within You.

To us, the spiritual cause of illness can appear incredibly complicated. One may be grieving for the life before illness, yet they may have lost sight of a future without it. Chronic symptoms, exhausting pain, debilitation, hopelessness, and helplessness are just some of the difficult experiences of suffering from a lingering illness. These are aspects of life that most healthy people take for granted, and are many factors of chronic illness that aren’t discovered until one lives it. 

The spiritual root cause of chronic illness is usually due to several spiritual issues that can be shifted through shamanic healing. In the Spirit World, illness presents as an energetic fingerprint with its own frequency, separate from one’s Light. The helping spirits don’t see spirits of illness as “bad” or “good,” but they do see the spirit of illness as an incoherence or some sort of a conflict. Sometimes the helping spirits even view illness as an opportunity. When I was at Nursing Home Level of Care, I would have been hard-pressed to view my illness as an opportunity, but looking back now I have had the honor of working with many people who have struggled with illness and have found their innate radiance. My view of illness has merged with the views of my helping spirits. The spirit of illness can be a tough-love teacher, one that can serve as a life-changing catalyst.

In shamanism, everything is perceived as being alive and having consciousness. We acknowledge that everything has a spirit - including our house, the trees, the land, the birds, and animals. Even the aspects of the weather are spirits. And, our relationships with other beings are also spirits. When I approach chronic illness with someone, we address the relationship formed with the spirit of the illness. When we address the underlying spiritual causes of the illness as well as the grasp the illness has on us, the relationship between us and the illness weakens. In addition, when we begin feeding our innate radiance rather than the spirit of illness, we further disempower this spirit.

While in-session, I use advanced shamanic healing ceremonies as shown to me by my helping spirits. The helping spirits show me how to best support the shifts one’s spirit needs in order to energetically “lift” themselves out of the vibration of illness over time. Over the course of working with me, clients receive a restoration of their inner power and welcome wholeness back into their being as I perform healing ceremonies focused on empowering their essence with the particular soul therapy I provide. I also work on severing the ties one has to the spirit of their illness with other healing ceremonies. In addition, I assist people in forming relationship with their helping spirits to give them an extra boost of etheric support. During this process, I also encourage people to find their own natural rhythm. Often the onset of illness can be brought about by the capitalistic, fast, plastic pace of our culture. Our spiritual burn-out can often be “the last straw” when someone succumbs to illness. When we begin listening to our bodies and follow our natural rhythm, we can allow the healing performed in-session a better chance to integrate.

Because my own path included a long and severe illness, I created exercises and guided meditations for participants of my Rise to Radiance Program. This addresses mindset in how participants relate to the spirit of their illness. When people are ill for a long time, they lose sight of what it feels like to be well and whole. They forget who they are without illness overshadowing their life. My focus is on helping them see and ignite their innate radiance that still lives and breaths within them. Over the years, I have realized that one of my special gifts that the helping spirits have given me is being able to shine a light on the parts of people that need to be fed in order to disentangle their energy from illness. It’s all about feeding that innate radiance!

As one’s soul awakens to the hidden potential held within the shadow of being ill, people naturally recalibrate and a shift ensues. The illness no longer has such a hold over them. Because the spiritual root cause of one person’s illness may differ greatly from another, there is not a real linear sequence of steps taken to regain health, but there are some milestones.

When people begin working with me, we begin by signing a Commitment to Self. The first step to wellness of any kind is making an honest commitment to the health of ourselves on every level. It’s not just what foods we put into our bodies, but who we allow into our arena and what messages (on tv or social media) we allow in to our energy body and psyche. We also begin looking at how we can feed our Light. It’s a very specific form of self-care.

The other big milestone to hit in healing from chronic illness is to begin getting curious about who we are without the illness. This is crucial, especially if we’ve been sick for a long time. When we begin delineating between who we are and what the illness is, we can help ourselves feed our Light rather than the energy of the illness.

Another key step is in really grieving the life one had before illness. This takes a tremendous amount of courage, and I typically suggest people do this with as much support as they can, including my support too. I believe that not being able to grieve can keep us stuck. We don’t have that space held for us in our culture, but without deep grief work we cannot come to a place of acceptance - even if it is a radical one. We can only bring ourselves to a state of dreaming up a new life when we grieve the old one and accept things as they are in the present. If we are full of grief and anger for what has been dealt to us, we cannot make enough room in ourselves for the new life awaiting us on the other side illness.

As we begin shifting out of grief, we need to tenderly pay attention to the story we tell ourselves. It is necessary to feel the impact of being completely overcome with the illness and all the devastation that comes with it in terms of turbulence in our family life, career, financial obligations, and even our friends. We may have even stopped trusting our own bodies because it doesn’t feel like a safe place to inhabit, especially if the symptoms are unpredictable. When we can rewrite our story with ourselves as the Hero, we begin rooting for ourselves again. We begin to really have compassion for our experience. We might be able to see how the conflict in our story has brought out some qualities in ourselves we may have otherwise never have discovered. We might be able to glean some precious pearls in our experience that we get to string together and wear with honor. We might even begin seeing ourselves looking back at this time in our lives as something we have overcome, where we have closure. When we have our victory.

As humans, we often marvel at butterlies. They are fragile but incredibly strong. The monarch, for instance, travels 2,000 miles every third generation to the same place in Mexico in order to breed, lay eggs, and die. Somehow, the third generation of monarchs have innate, hardwired instructions to fly 50 miles per day in order to get to their final destination. They carry this coding within them from the time they hatch from eggs, and even through the intense metamorphosis they endure to self-realize. The Mexican holiday Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) also occurs when the monarchs appear. According to traditional belief, the monarchs are the souls of Ancestors who are returning to Earth for their annual visit. Butterflies are metaphors for the mirculous death and rebirthing process that so often occurs during our most challenging times of navigating illness.

While the chrysalis is formed, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues. The contents of the pupa become a “caterpillar soup” of sorts. Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues, there begins a rapid cell division required to form the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, genitals, and all the other features of an adult butterfly. If you have experienced a loss of identity through navigating chronic illness and pain, you may be in the pupa stage. This is when are changing so much we cannot recognize ourselves. We feel like pure mush. But this is actually a quite sacred place to inhabit. This is where the alchemy occurs, as unfamilair and uncomfortable as it may feel.

It is in the sacred stage of the pupa that we must find our living and breathing innate radiance. This innate radiance has so much power! The problem is that we often give away our power to what’s happening externally rather than what we can access within us. It is here that the work begins in shifting one’s relationship with the spirit of the illness and becoming who we are meant to be.

If you are struggling with chronic illness and pain, you can begin changing your relationship to your illness by simply starting to reframe what is occuring:

• Can you see yourself going through your own metamorphosis?

• What if there is a portal within the chaos of illness that is leading you to another way of being?

• What if you’re the Hero of your story?

• What if you emerge from your chrysalis with a new set of wings, a unique wisdom, and a fresh perspective on life as you envision your innate, radiant Self carrying you through that portal of your inner power?

Chronic illness can be a lonely, isolating road. You aren’t able to do the things you used to. You may not feel seen or heard by family, friends, or medical professionals. For anyone going through the challenges that illness brings, you deserve to be understood where you are, as you are. You deserve to have space held for your experience. One of the things I said to myself when I was at my lowest point was: "If I make it through this, I'm paying it forward.”

By taking part in the Rise to Radiance Program, you will be given the tools to dream up a life without having the spirit of illness overshadow it. The Program consists of nine foundational modules:

You will:

• Participate in 18 sessions in the span of nine months. This includes nine 90-minute Zoom sessions once per month and nine 45-minute alternating Zoom sessions once per month (each of these scheduled every two weeks).

• Address the nature and relationship that you have developed with the spirit of your illness.

• Receive healing sessions that lift your energy out of the vibration of illness.

• Learn tried and true techniques that develop and maintain the frequency of health and balance, which is your birthright.

• Enjoy guided meditations that feed your innate radiance rather than the spirit of your illness.

• Learn how to perform shamanic journeys to access the power and support of your own spirit team as your home practice.

• Create simple ceremonies to hold strong intention for your healing goals.

• Receive loads of mind/body support to help access your inner wisdom and light.

• Engage in assigments and exercises that focus on what keeps you energetically stuck in the relationship with your illness.

People may not have a choice in being ill and in pain. However, they can choose how to be in relationship with it. With mindset approaches as well as the specific soul therapy I perform, accessing innate radiant wellness is totally possible! People who work with me begin to see visions of themselves on the other side of illness without feeling like it's an intangible dream. Step by step, they begin to alchemize their life from fantasy to non-fiction.

Are you ready to disidentify with the spirit of your illness?