At the end of 2020, my relationship with my common-law partner was about to end. Two days later, my father came home from a hospital appointment with news that he had a blockage in his bile duct and a small tumor on his pancreas. I was already feeling the burnout and overwhelmed from the pandemic, having two kids at home, and running a business entirely on my own. Everything in my life was unraveling and collapsing.
I realized I had no control over any of it. What I could control was my own inner state, how I wanted to respond or show up, and the source of my life force energy. I needed to wake my inner Medicine Woman.
I began to ask different questions, I began to initiate a new path, and looked to Shamanic wisdom to help me align with the story I wanted to create out of a situation that I wasn’t happy being in.
It was scary, hard, and exhausting and everything I thought I was ‘supposed’ to be just wasn’t working. I couldn’t operate from the same place anymore. I couldn’t resist what was happening.
I wanted to embody the medicine woman inside me and allow her to have space and authority. The medicine woman within me is calm, strong, composed, and empowered. I felt her so deeply and knew she was the one I needed to heal and handle everything that was happening.
A few months into my self-healing, my partner approached me and asked, “What do you need to feel supported?” I almost fell off my seat! This is the moment I knew my medicine woman had shown up and I was making a shift and impact. This is when I knew there was a formula to self-mastery using Shamanic philosophies that could help others.
Today, my relationship with my partner has never been stronger. He amplifies and lifts me up, honouring who I am and celebrating all that I do. He continues to ask what supports me and follows through — something he had never done before. What changed, was me, not him. How I showed up and responded and the energy I carried. It all supported the shifts we needed as a couple and as a family.
Seven months after my father’s diagnosis, he passed away. I spent a lot of time tending to this transition, the grief, and the sorrow of losing my most trusted advisor — my dear beloved dad. Yet from this story, I also witnessed a beautiful new kind of love and gift. My father, through his act of transition, had given me an anchor to serve from. A love like no other. A story that could heal the world. Tending to my grief garden during his descent, his final moments, and after his passing helped hold my world together. I realized that the journey to becoming would also require tending to our grievances, our losses, and the things we leave behind.
I stand before you a woman who will never be the same and a woman who understands fully her worth, who has no regrets, and who no longer fears the thresholds of life.
This woman is not the same person she once was because she has radical trust in her medicine and walks embodied as a medicine woman. She is fearless, provocative, radiant, courageous, calm, a trailblazer, and so much more.
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This is your unveiling.
An opportunity for you to fully come alive. Your inner Medicine Woman is calling for you to draw her out.
Out of this journey, you will have your medicine story that leads you onto a new path of self-love, empowerment, and your soul’s liberation.
