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FREE: The Healer’s Masterclas Series
Masterclass Series for Healers, coaches, therapists, and empaths to train in spiritual and energetic awareness and tools. Training for healers and those going through spiritual awakening.
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Join me for this powerful discussion in my Healer’s Masterclass Series. This is a 4 part video series and live webinar. Sign up to receive the 4 part series in your inbox and an invitation to join the live webinar Masterclass: Let the Healer Rise
CLASS#1:: You Are a Unique Healer Masterclass, Embrace Your Authentic Mastery
No matter how many modalities you have studied, no matter what you call yourself in your work, or even if you can’t figure out what to call yourself in your work, you have a unique healing signature that is all your own.
Discover the mistakes that so many make on the healer’s path and how to avoid them.
Find out what is in the way of discovering and embracing your authentic mastery.
Leave with a clearer knowledge of who you are, the work that you do, and why you are needed.
CLASS #2:: Safety and Protection in Healing and Spiritual Works Masterclass
This is one of the most important things that you will need to learn about in your healing,coaching or spiritual work.
What are the core principles that you need to know in order to remain safe in healing and spiritual work?
We will be covering:
What energetic and spiritual protection is and why we need it.
Why people get burned out, overwhelmed, confused and drained in both work and even just living life.
The ways that we leave ourselves vulnerable to energies that will harm us.
The truth about what is occurring on the energetic and spiritual realms and the misconceptions a lot of spiritual people have in doing this work.
How to remain energetically and spiritually protected and safe in healing, channeling and other spiritual work.
Understanding these concepts will give us access to more energy, vitality, certainty and precision. Allowing us to serve our clients and ourselves in a more profound way.
There is no fear here. Just awareness. And tools.
CLASS #3:: Heal The Healer Archetypes Masterclass: The Key to Authentic Mastery
Archetypes give us windows into our own soul’s path, our wounds, battles and our gifts. Those called toward any path of healing must understand these powerful influences on our lives and heal the aspects that are keeping us from being fully activated and successful.
Join Katherine Bird for a discussion on some of the primary healer Archetypes, ways to discover which ones you are working with and the processes of healing and integrating these energies.
Understanding these energies gives us access to living in authentic mastery.
CLASS #4:: Healing the Wounded Healer Masterclass: Owning Your Purpose, Confidence and Value
The Wounded Healer Archetype must be understood and fully integrated in order to do powerful healing work.
In this free master class, I will be breaking down the Wounded Healer, the shadows and the light.
You will discover how integrating this aspect of self can open the doors to understanding more about your purpose in life and how your healing work is to be expressed.
You will learn ways that the Wounded Healer sabotages us and also how to leverage all aspects of your life into a thriving career.
You will receive important inner shifts to step into new levels of confidence and power.
Even if you see yourself as a Wounded Healer, you are still important and vital. We need you to own your skills, your value and claim your confidence.
Spirituality and Entrepreneurship Must Be Intertwined
Spirituality must be intertwined with business and entrepreneurship. These aspects of self can’t remain separate. As you evolve and grow you will only be more drawn to a higher alignment with your spiritual self.
Your spiritual life will hold you as you grow. It will help you to make decisions based on trust, intuition and higher understanding instead of fear, scarcity or trauma. The decisions you make now will affect the way that your life emerges in the future. Ones rooted in self-awareness, service and connection are sustainable and will grow with you. Ones that are held back by lower desires and habits will be harder to break free of without destroying what you have already built.
You want your impact in the world to be one of integrity, service and full creative expression.
Entrepreneurs are their work. Business is connected to how one is living and growing. You can’t separate yourself from your mission. By engaging in spiritual and energetic practices and then integrating them fully in a heart-centered and aligned way, you can emerge as a thought leader that people want to follow, collaborate with and support.
More importantly, what they are following will lead them to a place of more self-love, fulfillment, joy and service to the world instead of the influencing forces that are only giving them a desire to be an illusion.
What you create and comes through you will be more true and not just another business, but a contribution to the world.
In this time of upheaval, great shift and change, as old ways are dying and new ones emerge we are being called to higher levels of self-awareness and awareness of our connection to Spirit and energy. Our old fears, beliefs, projections and wounds are not going to serve a new world being built from our very thoughts and feelings.
We have seen what disconnected decision making has created. Maybe you have even seen it in your life as you’ve had to move away from choices, relationships and businesses that you have invested your life force into.
We can’t afford to keep looking at the world from the perspective of, “How much more money can I make?” or really, “How can I try to make myself feel safe by building something even if I do not fully believe in it?”
We can’t keep ignoring the call of our soul because it will leave us dissatisfied in the end. And, maybe everything will have to crumble in order to hear that call fully.
In order to elevate more people, to have a greater impact we must be willing to commit to our own self-growth, worth and development.
You don’t need a new marketing strategy, you need a fully aligned, integrated mastery that emerges when one is willing to step into their full power, expression and service.
It is about healing, opening, cultivating more energy and awareness and coming from that place.
Being aligned in this way allows greater intuitive information to come in and empathic skills to emerge without being taken out by other’s energy and emotions. It brings ease, flow and a level of certainty to path and process that does not happen otherwise.
I am interested in how we can fully activate and then integrate our new spiritual and energetic awareness so that it is of the highest service to what is being created.
If this is resonating with you, let’s chat about my one on one program called INTEGRATE, Spiritual and Energetic Development for Leaders and Change Makers.
Healer’s Process Course
3 month online emmersive experience
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Healer’s Process Retreat
Attend the in-person Retreat for the Healer’s Process and PRACTICE the exercises and concepts that will support your work in the world.
Solidify your I AM.. your authentic healership and gifts.
Share with others and receive powerful reflections on your work.
Receive guidance and support on your life, business and creations.
Move past the blocks keeping you from being fully expressed.
Work through the ‘Healer’s Process’ to bring healing, openness, guidance and clarity to your life and work.
Develop your energetic mastery and the tools you most need to focus on to bring stability along with expansion of your gifts.
Leave feeling grounded, seen, inspired and empowered.
The Healer’s Process Course
3 Month Intensive Course for Healers, Coaches, Therapists and all those called to the path. This program is for those that are looking for tools to work on themselves and for sharing with the world.
You will discover who you are as a healer, learn new ways to work on yourself and others.
Gain more power, confidence and clarity.
Multiple training and practice videos to support your journey.
How to understand yourself, your unique gifts and move past the stickiest blocks to your greatness.
How to build your field, have better boundaries and work with energy in an intelligent way.
How to stop taking on energy from others and be willing to do deeper, more Shamanic, energetically intensive work without fear.
Cleansing and purification, what it is, why it is important and what you most need to know.
How to create a safe and sacred container for your work.
How to integrate healing into your life, business or coaching practice.
How to use certain systems in healing to get the best results. This is everything around the modalities and trainings that you wish that you had been taught but that really is not being touched on in most trainings.
This is the information that you have been waiting for.
See the link for more info.
What Does It Mean To Be Healed?
I am going to break down some considerations of what it means to be healed and some questions and practices that you can engage with right away to support your own path to understanding what it means to be healed.
Have you ever sat in the painful inquiry, “How can I have done so much work and still not be healed?!”
Have you had clients who struggle with the fact that they are still dealing with certain issues even after what feels like ‘forever’ processing them?
Have you ever doubted yourself, your tools or your own commitment to your work because of your own or other’s inability to move past a certain point?
I think that this is almost a more complicated topic in my work because most of the people that I serve are in some way a healer or coach or one focused on healing for many years for themselves and their clients.
Often anything less than complete reduction in all symptoms and a total and complete shift to a fully whole and functioning life in every aspect is seen as some sort of failure.
I see that people discount or even forget how much progress that they have made. There is little celebration of small victories.
The focus is primarily on what is not working, what is still the sticking point or the pain and the transformations, realizations and expansion are forgotten.
It is easy to focus on what is not working. It takes more effort to focus on what is working, what has progressed. Yet, this is where the full reprogramming occurs. This is the doorway in which we travel to full transformation.
This is a function of our brain and it’s wiring to focus on negativity because it is both an ancient orientation to stay safe and also a learned aspect of our being.
For example, if we can focus on danger and negativity, we will be more likely to get into shelter at dark avoiding predators. If we are able to focus fully on pain in our bodies, we will tend to treat it instead of letting it get infected.
And, as we grow we are taught that we must pay attention to what is wrong, the wrong answers on the test are marked in red and cause pain, shame and change. The right ones, we rarely think about again. In fact, a lot of people get shamed for getting things right when others struggle.
So, like I said, it takes a lot of conscious effort to recognize our progress and what we have done and take into account our process might be one that simply has some twists and turns as we learn, train and move through our emotions, energies and physical limitations.
Again, the question can be asked, “What does it mean to be healed?”
Honestly, this must be answered for each one of us as we go along and it will shift and change with the tides of your life.
Healed = Wholeness
You have probably heard that plenty of times.
If you want to see a cool video on healing, here is one from Chinese Medical Qi Gong Practitioners reducing a tumor in a patient. When I was shown this video, it was explained to me that they are chanting basically, “Already Done” and they are focused and imagining not that the patient is healing or the tumor is lessening but that it is “Already Done”. Full, complete, integrated and whole.
It is important for us as we go through our process to have this attitude. To see and imagine ourselves on a consistent basis as already whole, healed, complete and “Already Done.”
What might change if this was your mantra and meditation?
See if this practice helps:
Think of an issue that you have been dealing with.
First drop into your body. Feel yourself connected and receiving form the Earth and from Above.
Take some calming and deep breaths.
If this issue, pain, situation was completely healed, how would you feel?
What would you be doing?
Let the first things that come to you come out. Write them down. Imagine yourself feeling that way. Imagine yourself doing those things.
And, then… go do that. What will help you feel that way right now?
What can you do?
Before you start arguing with me about this one, just do the exercise.
And then.. you might argue.. “but, I have this pain, this issue so I can’t do the thing that I want”.
OK, maybe. Maybe your issue is that you broke your foot so you can’t go scuba diving like you want. But, maybe you can go to the seashore, you can go do something that will help sea life in some way, you can go float about in a bay.
You might be in really bad shape right now and all you can do is put on a recording of whales, lay in the bathtub and imagine to the very best of your ability that you are truly swimming about.
This will change your outlook. It will engage your muscles even through the power of imagination. The magical thing about us is that our brains don’t know the difference in what we are doing and what we are imagining. The imagination is a primary key into our healing.
All of the sudden more peace is found, more joy, more connection.
The body and soul start to heal themselves through this power of play and imagination instead of the ‘work’ that so many of us have become accustomed to as the path to healing.
Maybe you are depressed. If you consider, if you weren’t what would you be doing…and that might be making art. You might then come up with a lot of reasons why you can’t make art. Shift that to find some small way to engage with art. It might be just coloring, or building a beautiful altar or area in your home. It might be using materials from nature to make a mandala.
Because, what is healed? It is finding our way under the emotional, energetic issues that are holding us and manifesting in our bodies. It is finding a place of peace, joy and presence despite our issues, pain or struggles. It is moving forward, step by step acknowledging the profound shifts that we have already gone through, celebrating the small victories and leaning into the uncomfortable places.
I believe it is when we are able to be devoted to our practices, our intuition, our boundaries and our gifts. Because, you can go to one of those Medical Qi Gong Doctors, have them reduce your tumor, but if you are not making life changes, processing old emotions, coming into higher alignment with your truths and virtues, the healing has not really happened and disease will slowly come back.
We will all have pain, illness and struggle. Often, it is how we engage with these struggles that makes all the difference. They are our teachers. They ask us to show up brighter, more devoted, more caring and more compassionate to ourselves and others.
We are all healing, but we are also already whole. Be with your wholeness and allow it to inspire your actions.
If you are interested in this discussion of what is healing and how can we be of the highest service in healing, I hope you will join me for The Healer’s Masterclass Series starting Sept 12th. Sign Up For Free
FREE: The Healer’s Masterclas Series
Masterclass Series for Healers, coaches, therapists and empaths to train in spiritual and energetic awareness and tools. Training for healers and those going through spiritual awakening.
Starts Sept 12th, Sign up and receive all these classes in your inbox. Masterclass Series for: Healers, Coaches, Therapists, Body Workers, Reiki Masters, Channels, Shamans and Empaths. For anyone on the path who wants to understand themselves and their work. JOIN NOW
Join me for this powerful discussion in my Healer’s Masterclass Series. This is a 4 part video series and live webinar. Sign up to receive the 4 part series in your inbox and an invitation to join the live webinar Masterclass: What is the Healer’s Process on September 18th.
CLASS#1:: You Are a Unique Healer Masterclass, Embrace Your Authentic Mastery
No matter how many modalities you have studied, no matter what you call yourself in your work or even if you can’t figure out what to call yourself in your work, you have a unique healing signature which is all your own.
Discover the mistakes that so many make on the healer’s path and how to avoid them.
Find out what is in the way of discovering and embracing your authentic mastery.
Leave with a clearer knowing of who you are, the work that you do and why you are needed.
CLASS #2:: Safety and Protection in Healing and Spiritual Works Masterclass
This is one of the most important things that you will need to learn about in your healing,coaching or spiritual work.
What are the core principles that you need to know in order to remain safe in healing and spiritual work?
We will be covering:
What energetic and spiritual protection is and why we need it.
Why people get burned out, overwhelmed, confused and drained in both work and even just living life.
The ways that we leave ourselves vulnerable to energies that will harm us.
The truth about what is occurring on the energetic and spiritual realms and the misconceptions a lot of spiritual people have in doing this work.
How to remain energetically and spiritually protected and safe in healing, channeling and other spiritual work.
Understanding these concepts will give us access to more energy, vitality, certainty and precision. Allowing us to serve our clients and ourselves in a more profound way.
There is no fear here. Just awareness. And tools.
CLASS #3:: Heal The Healer Archetypes Masterclass: The Key to Authentic Mastery
Archetypes give us windows into our own soul’s path, our wounds, battles and our gifts. Those called toward any path of healing must understand these powerful influences on our lives and heal the aspects that are keeping us from being fully activated and successful.
Join Katherine Bird for a discussion on some of the primary healer Archetypes, ways to discover which ones you are working with and the processes of healing and integrating these energies.
Understanding these energies gives us access to living in authentic mastery.
CLASS #4:: Healing the Wounded Healer Masterclass: Owning Your Purpose, Confidence and Value
The Wounded Healer Archetype must be understood and fully integrated in order to do powerful healing work.
In this free master class I will be breaking down the Wounded Healer, the shadows and the light.
You will discover how integrating this aspect of self can open the doors to understanding more about your purpose in life and how your healing work is to be expressed.
You will learn ways that the Wounded Healer sabotage us and also how to leverage all aspects of your life into a thriving career.
You will receive important inner shifts to step into new levels of confidence and power.
Even if you see yourself as a Wounded Healer, you are still important and vital. We need you to own your skills, your value and claim your confidence.
Shamanic Shapeshifter in Healing, Coaching and Life
As Shamanic people (even if you present as an energy healer or coach this might be you), we sometimes forget that we are the Shamanic Shapeshifter and that we will show up in a completely new and different way for people. We can sometimes find ourselves getting stuck in a certain way of being and not allow the pure inspired energy to move through us allowing ourselves to be the Shamanic shapeshifter. This can be because we are in our ego or our comfort zone, thinking that we will show up in a certain way all of the time. For me, this might be as the warrior or sage and it might throw me off when the innocent or the nurturing mother comes through. These Archetypes are frequencies that often need to be expressed in sessions, given voice to because they are familiar to everyone and help people gain access to parts of themselves they have not yet explored or healed. People will need to receive from specific energies and Archetypes in order to understand that medicine.
Shutting down new energies or Archetypes can greatly reduce our effectiveness. It might look like being so invested in a particular being or animal spirit to be present that we forget to hold space for what most needs to arrive. For some, it is relying too heavily on galactic frequency when someone really needs an Earth-based energy, for others it is not allowing the soothing nurturing flow of water to come through, which might be simply being present with someone for a time with little happening instead of pushing fire through the system to burn away what is not serving. If you pull this out of the Shamanic shapeshifter realm and into the realm of coaching and energy healing you might see that this could mean relying on a particular methodology or way of being in session when authentic moment to moment expression, following the gut feeling or allowing words you have never spoken before to come through you is what is most needed for this person’s healing or transformation.
Jaguar Medicine Vs. Horse Medicine
For some people, you will bring the jaguar. But, for others, they will simply be unable to receive and relate to that frequency. You must become the horse or the doe. You must walk calmly and lightly into their field in order for them to relax and receive the medicine.
The Edge Walkers Need Shamanic Shapeshifters
For many that I describe as those that “serve the edge walkers”, this is even more important to remember. The edge walkers are those that are on the edge of awakening. They actually might not make significant personal, spiritual evolution in this lifetime. They are the vulnerable ones still operating in the old paradigm, in smallness, addictions, and discomfort. They are feeling a press forward, but they really have little idea what they are potentially opening to. They could go either way. Many of the people I support and serve are designed to help these edge walkers. This is such a vital and important role as we want to assist as many as possible to become self-actualized and closer to freedom and their true spiritual nature. We are tipping the scales and every person counts. Being overly spiritual and above the heads of these people does not serve them. It can shut them down. Utilizing too strong of an energetic current can shift things a little too quickly causing a push back and a shut down of their system. When we get used to presenting in a certain way and a new client or situation comes into our field, we might reject the frequency that is being called for us to express at that time.
This path is one of constant exploration, radical presence and sometimes discomfort. It often has a little voice in the head which is asking, “What the heck are you doing now?”. This is natural and that voice needs to be reminded.. no, we are safe, this is right. No problem here. I know this isn’t how it perhaps usually looks or feels and that is ok. This is why it is vital to get really comfortable with this for yourself in as many ways as possible, exploring your own practice, guides and energetics, getting used to the new as well as building solid foundational relationships with the familiar.
Remind yourself, “I am the Shamanic Shapeshifter and I allow what is needed to move through me.”
Because when you move from doing this for yourself to doing it for others you will be surprised, and the doubt this can bring up can shut down the flow that is needed at that moment. It only takes a breaths worth of doubt to spiral something away. These energetics can be elusive and the instructions that we are getting are subtle and momentarily inspired. These are the arts of regulation, exploration, and presence that the Shamanic healer must master in order to be of the highest service in every moment. Be the shapeshifter and remember that while your guides and access points will remain, there will be newness and the need to flow for the ones that you serve.
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“You’re Not the Boss of Me!” How to Trust Your Own Instincts on Your Spiritual Path
Awakening and healing are a lot like having a baby. Everyone wants to tell you exactly how to do it, yet you really have to listen to yourself, take what others say with some skepticism and spaciousness and allow the emerging being within you do its thing, have its experience and guide you. It might be fast, slow, painful, orgasmic or somehow all of the above and definitely messy, but it is yours. A helping hand, a few guiding words of encouragement, some valuable techniques can be extremely helpful. Occasionally you will need a radical intervention. Sometimes those interventions are too soon, unnecessary or poorly executed.
There is no one way to do this. To awaken, to heal is a path all your own. It often requires more patience, love compassion and space than we have ever given to anything before.
Do not let others dictate your path of awakening and healing.
Many times I have had teachers and mentors who so enthusiastically evangelized their method, process or system above all others as the right, best, fastest way to heal or grow that I have seen myself in my desire to be the best (I know, so much ego), to get it right, to master it, show up, commit, fully understand the methodology, the tradition or system to my eventual detriment.
Parts of the teachings and concepts have been valuable tools or information, yet in my persistent passionate participation, I have often found myself in pain, exhaustion, injury, disillusionment, and suffering. Occasionally veering wildly off course or finding myself heavily invested in something that I really just want to get out of at all costs.
I know a lot of this speaks to one of my life lessons not to push so hard, slow down, trust and listen to myself and my guides and stand for myself no matter what. This also requires me to confront my shadow of wanting to be seen and appreciated in my proficiency and study.
I have always liked to experience things fully. I have operated full force under the banner of ‘go hard or go home’, I suppose drawing for my fairly hardcore Texas upbringing in a highly competitive sports home. I have always pushed myself to my limits and often overdone life to my detriment. In my 20’s this looked like putting myself in danger with drugs, alcohol, and sex while working so hard as an actor, taking on roles in which my physical body was risked doing stunts and fight scenes and doing ‘research’ which actually put my life in danger. Some of these jobs left me with lifelong injuries and pain.
Once I started on my own path of healing and awakening, it often meant overdoing it in other’s modalities and practices, pushing my spiritual and physical limits in other ways. It is not that I didn’t get a lot out of these experiences and teachings, but in some cases, I simply exhausted my body and created energetic deviations in my system in pursuit of mastery at other’s teachings.
In one workshop weekend learning a meditation and mantra practice, I met a woman who was exhibiting the most profound channeling I had ever witnessed. This was early on for me and it was so touching and exciting to see someone so elegantly express what was still so chaotically expressing through me. She gave me some of the best advice that I have, at times, forgotten:
“Sure, take classes and learn from others, but do not let them train out of you what you already are.”
The longer I guide the less I desire to speak in absolutes, to create the conditions in which someone does not feel the freedom to be completely authentic and personally led and instead relying on others to know themselves and their own healing gifts.
I find myself feeling often more angered by the psychics, astrologers, and other seers and readers who tell people things they then hold onto so tightly that they can see no other way of being, who present information in a way that does not empower or leave room for personal exploration and growth.
I ask myself the question of how do I teach specific practices and systems and channel through messages while doing so in a way that actually encourages people to tap into their own inner knowing, guidance, and awareness. Because I know things, I bring things through and I am fucking certain about a lot of things (in the most humble way possible of course).
I also find myself desiring and actually allowing myself to have the simple pleasures that make life worth living instead of pushing myself to the limit to prove to others that their system, technique or lineage really works.
I just don’t have the time or the energy to do that shit anymore. I will still study hard, give of myself and push myself toward growth, but I also hope to bathe myself in a deeper spring of compassion, ease and simplicity than ever before, to allow my unfolding and the unfolding of those I support to happen with a level of grace, radical self-preserving presence and inner guidance that I see is so often missing in many paths.
As healers and lightworkers, I believe we have a responsibility to share what we know, to develop and study systems that work and support people. This has been my focus and commitment for many years. Yet, I also see that these structures and systems must have room to breathe and grow for each one utilizing them. The people that I work with have their own special skills, frequencies and lifetimes of training and personal development that simply needs to be activated and allowed to emerge.
In the end, I believe what we do with our lives should feel good. It should feel supportive, nurturing and dare I say… kind. There might be uncomfortable times of training, deep dives into the shadow, the very real experience of dealing with our sabotaging nature in relation to discipline and devotion, but the overall path that I want to choose is one of expansive presence to my own self and my own expression of magic. This is what I am devoted to bringing out in others.
9 ways that you can follow your instincts on your spiritual path
- Listen to your body. Not all bodies are meant to do the same things at the same rate of development. I have met people who have blown out knees from a Yoga teacher standing on their legs and so many with other pulled muscles, torn tendons and injured joints from being pushed too far too fast or made to hold physical postures for extended periods of time.
- Feel into your past and your energy. Especially in terms of adrenal fatigue. It is real and those that come from high stress or trauma can be showing up with seriously depleted systems that need more rest and nurturing than some teachers suggest. Rest is vital for this path.
- Drop the comparison game. So many of us are in comparison and competition in everything that we do. It is how we were taught to be as children. Especially when we compare ourselves to those that have been on the path for a long time we risk hurting ourselves in some way.
- Trust your gut. If something feels wrong, stop. If you have come from an abusive past, acknowledge that you gut instinct might not always show up for you, in which case, even more self-inquiry and space might be needed for you to feel what is right for you.
- Be willing to ask questions and speak up for yourself. If you are studying with someone that does not allow this, or puts you down, shames you or does this to others this is a huge red flag.
- Be willing to be alone. The best way to get a good feel on if something is right is sometimes to take some space from it. Be willing to slow down, be alone and listen deeply for your own internal guidance.
- If someone is claiming to have the only way, the only path step back… there are many ways to the top of the mountain.
- Remember that you are a sovereign being. You hold the keys to your path. Your teachers, guides and mentors should be ones who open handedly allow for that.
- You got this. You are whole. You are capable. You are a gift to the world. Shine your unique light and you will allow others to shine theirs. In this, we all heal.
If this resonates with you, join me for my next free Masterclass: Join me for The Healers Masterclass.