Free Enneagram Class with my teacher, Katherine Fauvre in April!
Hello All!As many of you know from working with me, I am a student of the Enneagram, and I encourage my clients to learn the Enneagram as well as a way to get to know the hidden motivations of their Enneagram TriType. It's a system that I find useful in shamanic work precisely because it looks at motivations rather then behaviors and as such fits into sussing out shadow work and projections that come up in personal work with clients.I've had the great pleasure of working with one of the world's leading Enneagram experts, Katherine Chernik Fauvre, for several years now. I had been taking a writing workshop course, with my coaching colleague, Jenna Avery years ago. The writing course was around creating characters based on Enneagram types, and the teacher mentioned TriType and Katherine's name. I immediately had to look up TriType and I discovered even more to the Enneagram than I had thought.Over the past seven years or so I've worked with and taken classes directly from Katherine on the Enneagram, TriType, the Instincts, and more. She has so much knowledge and insight into human behavior and personality. I have encouraged many friends and colleagues to have a session with her. Now, she's teaching at the Shift Network. If you are interested in expanding your knowledge of the Enneagram, or even if you're just a beginner, this is a great opportunity!Katherine is offering a FREE class April 23rd, but it will be recorded if you miss it. If you'd like to register, just click here. You'll learn about TriType, how you might have mistyped yourself, and more. According to Katherine, her class topics will include:
- Discover advanced Enneagram typing tools that capture the nuances that motivate behavior, creating deeper coherence between you and your life
- Watch a typing pioneer utilize powerful Enneagram typing tools during a real-time demonstration
- Explore Katherine’s Tritype typing system that integrates the intelligence of the head, heart, and gut
- Learn why more than half of all who self-type using the Enneagram may be mistyped
- Add micro-expressions, body language, and talk style to your typing toolbox to reveal deeper layers of different type
I hope you take advantage of this opportunity! Click here to register.More to come soon--we are still recovering from our move.much love to you all,Elaine
Elaine to appear on the Shift Network's Evolved Empath Summit, March 9-13th
Hi Everyone,
I'm delighted to announce that I will be one of the speakers at the Shift Network's Evolved Empath Summit, which takes place from March 9-13th. I will be speaking about how shamanic work can help Empaths heal their themselves and their relationships. I'm super excited about this interview, and about being a part of the Shift Network for the very first time. I hope you'll sign up (for free!) and listen in to these interviews, a few of which I have listed below.
RSVP here for the Evolved Empath Summit — at no charge: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/ees20a21059/a21059
Here’s a sample of what our transformational speakers will be sharing with you…
- Let go of the burden of being an empath and embrace it as a great strength and gift — even as your superpower — with Anita Moorjani.
- Strengthen your energetic boundaries in all areas of your life by building a strong sense of self in your energetic body with Wendy De Rosa.
- Michael R. Smith, MD, will help you reframe your experience as an empath as a powerful way to replenish your soul and rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit… so you can be of service to others.
- From Judith Orloff, MD, you’ll receive self-care practices, perspectives, and meditations to support empaths and sensitive people in offering compassion without shouldering the suffering of others.
- With Dr. Shariff Abdullah, you’ll explore ways to perceive events differently, enabling you to work with intense situations, rather than be engulfed by them — and empowering you to become a masterful, joyful creator of your life.
- Express the full light of your soul, as Dr. Christine Page illuminates the path of intuitive healing to help yourself and others become whole.
- Jean Haner will guide you in visualizations and provide practices you can do every day to increase your awareness, consciously move your energy, and transform the way you feel and react.
- Julie Bjelland will shed light on how highly sensitive people (HSPs) can properly balance their nervous system… increasing their sense of wellbeing and allowing their many gifts to emerge and be shared with the world.
- Discover how to heal empathically transmitted illness and pain at the root level with Dave Markowitz.
- If you’ve felt criticized or dismissed for the intensity of your emotions, Tree Franklyn will show you how to listen to your heart’s calling to serve and find the courage to express your message in the world.
And many more…
I will be speaking about Empaths and Relationships, and how shamanic work can help us improve our lives, lead to self-healing, which in turn ripples outward to our relationships. For those of you who have worked with me before, you know how powerful shamanic work can be in transforming our lives. I'm honored to be included with these other Empath leaders in helping other Empaths find their way in the world. Don't hesitate to contact me with questions, and I look forward to seeing you at the summit!
RSVP here for the Evolved Empath Summit — at no charge: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/ees20a21059/a21059
The Empath and Being a Light Worker—Falling into the Judgment Trap
Hello Everyone! The weather has been just gorgeous here in Portland with the trees showing off their fall colors, and the rain scheduled to stay away through the end of the month. With school in full swing I've been able to get in a groove with my schedule. Just recently I began a new series of essays based on my client work, and on questions that have come up in my practice. I wanted to share little tidbits of them with you on the blog today. I hope you enjoy, and of course I always appreciate the feedback as these will go into a bigger book.
Falling into the Judgment Trap
The most common error many people who begin conscious personal work do, not just Empaths, is to buy into the idea that they are here to be Light Workers and help heal the world. This is a very good way to get yourself into lots of trouble with judgment. What is Light? What is Dark? Who decides?
The truth of the matter is is that it is all allowed. Spirit doesn’t judge what we choose to do with our lives and our time here. We are creating all of it, the beautiful dream and the nightmare. If we become focused on the beautiful dream, we start excluding and making bad and wrong things that don’t line up with that dream. We try to cast them out, when in fact they exist.
We do this with the external world, and with the internal world. When we do this with the internal world we create a very big Shadow. We become invested in disowning what we’ve deemed bad, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It very much is, and because we’ve disowned our Shadow, it has great power in our lives to hurt ourselves and the people around us.
First and foremost, try to give up judgment. Instead focus on discernment. Decide what is good for you or not good for you, but don’t judge the other person as good or bad. We are all here on journey, doing our own thing. Walk away and don’t interact with situations and people that you don’t want to, but try not to view them as horrible human beings despite the actions they've taken. They have their own business to attend to, as do you.
When we give up judgment we are set free in a way that makes it easier to see others and ourselves clearly. We can forgive ourselves for our foibles, change what we want to change, and have a great time with what we like about ourselves.
If you want to be a healer or a shaman, the first place to start is healing your own life, getting to know your shadow and your projections, taking a good laugh at yourself, and getting to work.
The Light Worker Trap—Every Failed Relationship is in Need of Deep Healing
Another common pitfall that comes up is that Empaths feel wrongness when a relationship comes to an end. A relationship, especially between healers, should always have a loving, connected outcome. This is patently false, as can be seen just looking at the state of the world, and looking at the drama that commonly comes between healers and shaman. Shaman are people. We all have our stuff to work on and our own journey. If we do that work, naturally some relationships will fall away. People don’t match anymore. This is all allowed. However, if you’re caught in the Light Worker Trap, you may believe that such close relationships cannot come to an end—they must be fixed, or one or the other is a bad person.
This is nonsense. In my own personal life I have had several friendships disintegrate right as I was struck psychic. These relationships were critical to my sense of support and well being, but the truth was the people I was connected to weren’t capable of reciprocating the support I needed. One person wasn’t interested in a life with a psychic, and the other person wasn’t really willing to do the personal work required. Neither person misses me at all, and I don’t miss them. I don’t hate them or think they are bad people—we just no longer matched for the life I was entering. I don't send them love or good wishes, either. I've moved on, and so have they.
A few years ago one of my mentors did a destiny retrieval for me because I was caught up in a lifestyle that I didn’t really care for any longer, but couldn’t get out of. I was making myself sick as a way to escape from it. The requirement for this destiny retrieval to truly be installed was that I had to be willing to give up everything in my life that didn’t serve me, and I had to mean it.
Interestingly enough, several relationships went by the wayside, some in surprising and dramatic fashion, others quietly and almost without notice. My life changed dramatically for the better. But I had to let go and make room for what was best for me. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that if you’re a healer you have to maintain a good relationship with everyone. You don’t. Make room for what is best for you, and see what Spirit brings in next.
Coyote Portal in August; Can an Empath Learn to not Take Life so Seriously?
Hello Everyone!
I hope you are enjoying your summer! Thank you to everyone who recently signed up for my email list after listening to the Integrated Empath Summit. I appreciate your interest in my work! I will be returning in a few days from summer break, and I'm looking forward to getting back to my practie.
I've been excited over the past year to host my shaman mentor, Marv Harwood, and his wife, Shanon for the Raven portal last year, the Buffalo Portal this past March, and now the Coyote Portal this coming August. Raven taught us how to access Timelessness to heal our regrets and worries, Buffalo taught us how to stand strong in the face of opposition, and now Coyote teaches us how to not take life so seriously.
Shanon described the Coyote Portal as one long weekend party. Given that my husband and I just celebrated our 50th birthdays, we thought that holding the Coyote Portal next would be appropriate to keep the celebrating going.
Now that I've been to two Portals, you'd think that it would be easy to describe and advertise for these workshops, but they are so experiential that I am still finding it a challenge! I know that saying, "Come, and find out for yourself," isn't very helpful, but it actually does apply, you will build your own personal relationship with the animal emissary.
For many of us Empaths, we tend to take what happens to us very personally, and that in turn leads to us being serious and sometimes being melancholy. Learning how to not take life so seriously becomes a life skill and a life line. We Empaths can identify with being sad because we tend to focus on what is lacking in our lives. On the one hand this is helpful because we know exactly what we want to fix and what we would like to create. On the other hand, being in that emotional state much of the time can be hard on our systems, which in turn robs us of our vitality.
Imagine learning simple tools that involve both body movements and music that would allow you to shift out of that state and into a new state at will whenever you needed an extra boost. This is what these Portals workshops offer--tangible tools that shift us immediately and experientially into the mythic and out of the emotional. Imagine being able to shift into the sweetness of life, the fun of life, and maybe experience some mischievousness as well. Coyote is ready and willing, as your ally, to offer you this skill.
The wonderful aspect about these Portals workshops is that there are no pre-requisities, they can be taken in any order, and they stand alone. In contrast, many series need to be taken in order, and a medicine wheel needs to be completed or else we can get "stuck" in one direction. The tools you learn in the Portals workshop are yours for life, to use and deepen as you wish.
If you have been interested in shamanic training, but are hesitant to commit to a program, this is an excellent way to see if this work is right for you. If you are an experienced shaman and interested in learning from a new tradition, Marv and Shanon are two of the few who were given permission by the elders to teach in the Blackfoot Tradition. They have been teaching and in practice for decades; you will be in good hands.
Here are a few words from Marv and Shanon:
Throughout the ages, Shaman have walked many paths - all leading to "Portals".
Portals are Shamanic gateways to worlds beyond our consciousness;
worlds where true healing exists and miracles happen.
Come walk the animistic and the energetic paths in tandem to amass the
knowledge and skills to create an Amopistaan - your personal animistic mesa.
This in-depth series of 9 seminars (portals) is an on-going program of theory & practical hands-on work.
The portals are designed to facilitate the successful assimilation of information and skills presented.
As the student gains and demonstrates proficiency they will be given rites of passage at each level.
Come and play with the fun-loving, mischievous trickster known as Coyote and get to know a surprising new
side of him. See what this adaptable, family oriented shape-shifter has to offer to you and your life!
The "Portals" Series is open to everyone. No pre-requisites are required for any of the individual seminars.
You may attend them in any order, at any of our teaching locations. Welcome to the journey!
Please do not hesitate to contact me for more information. I am happy to chat on the phone to answer questions about the workshop.
WORKSHOP DATES: August 23-25th, $399
Friday Registration 4:30-5pm, Friday Class 5pm-9pm
Saturday 9am-8pm
Sunday 9am-5pm
at the Multnomah Arts Center in Multnomah Village, Portland, Oregon.
Empath Summit Season Three with Karyn Kulenovic starts June 8th!
Hello Everyone,
I'm so excited to be a part of the Empath Summit Season Three this year! From June 8th through June 23rd you can listen to 18 Empath professionals who have used their sensitivity and gifts to build lives and businesses that they love For FREE! My interview airs June 21st. I talk about the workshop series with animal archetypes that I host here in Portland, and how each archetype gives us tools that can give us assistance in various aspects of our lives. I hope you will join us! Please click here to sign up.
Standing Strong During Adversity--Buffalo Portal in March!
Hello Everyone! It's been a very busy winter of client work. I am so honored to be able to work with Empaths who are committed to living happy lives free of Drama, especially those Empaths who have been set up by family circumstances to take up the Victim Role so easily. Seeing these clients stand strong in themselves and step out of Victim is tough practice, but very rewarding.
For those of us looking for extra shamanic tools to stay strong and overcome obstacles, the Buffalo Portal workshop is coming up in less than a month! My mentor, Marv Harwood, and his wife Shanon, are coming from Canada the weekend of March 22nd to introduce us to the animistic ally, Buffalo. I'm very excited for this particular workshop--given everything going on in my own personal life at the moment, shamanic tools for standing firm despite opposition would come in handy!
Many of you have asked me about further training, and whether shamanic training would be right for you. These Portal workshops, which can be taken in any order, and have no prerequisites are a gentle way to discover whether shamanic work is right for you. It's hard to describe what these trainings are like because they are experiential. You will build your own personal relationship with Buffalo, and you will carry home with you practical tools you can use in your own life. This is a small group class, and we have a few spots left. If you are in Portland, come join us and discover for yourself.
Here are the logistics below:
WORKSHOP DATES
March 22-24, 2019
$399
Friday Registration: 4-5 PM / Friday Class: 5-9 PM
Saturday: 9 AM – 8 PM
Sunday: 9 AM – 5 PM
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 20th, 2019
TO REGISTER Send email to: coachelaine@clearreflectioncoaching.com
PRE-REQUISITE: None
LOCATION:
Multnomah Arts Center
Classroom #10
7688 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97219
PORTAL #8 ~
Buffalo is the 8th portal on the outer Circle of Life – and the gateway to the deep and most complex portal ~ The Centre.
Buffalonot only teaches us to face the adverse situations of life, but alsointroduces us to some of the most ancient symbology known to man. Comeand find out why Buffalo is the perfect emissary to show you how toboth face adversity and to prepare for the greatest mystery of all – your journey into the Centre.
The world of Buffalo asks ~
1. How easily do you make and follow through on crucial
decisions in the face of opposition or difficulty?
2. Do you make it a practice to protect those in your community,
who, for whatever reason, cannot protect or defend themselves?
3. How well do you face the storms of life head on?
4. Do you have what it takes to move into the Centre?
ABOUT KIMMAPII
Marv & Shanon Harwood have been immersed in Shamanic Studies formore than 25 years. Today they share their combined knowledge throughthree streams of Shamanism: The Animistic, The Energetic and TheDestinistic.
FOR MORE INFO
www.kimmapii.com
Buffalo Portal Workshop March 22nd-24th!
Happy New Year! It's a bit shocking to be in the second week of 2019, but that means it's time for me to start organizing the next Portal Workshop taught by Marv and Shanon Harwood of Kimmapii School of Shamanism. If you've ever wondered if shamanic training was for you, I highly recommend these Portals classes as a way to immerse yourself in a thorough but gentle way in the realm of the Sacred or the Mythic. Last August Marv and Shanon introduced our group to the animal emissary, Raven, who teaches us how to access Timelessness.
The wonderful thing about working with Raven is that we can bring our regrets and our anxieties (stuck in the past, or stuck in the future) to Raven and deal with those there. I was pleasantly surprised to see how my regrets and worries shifted and changed, and even disappeared. We were also given tools and a practice to continue working with Raven as often as we needed.
Our next emissary is Buffalo, who teaches us how to overcome adversity. Buffalo shows us how to face life's storms, how to stick to our decisions despite opposition, and how to protect those in our circle unable to protect themselves. The Portal classes can be taken in any order. I would love to have you join us--this is a small class setting to keep the atmosphere comfortable. Please contact me if you'd like more details.
Here are the logistics below:
WORKSHOP DATES
March 22-24, 2019
$399
Friday Registration: 4-5 PM / Friday Class: 5-9 PM
Saturday: 9 AM – 8 PM
Sunday: 9 AM – 5 PM
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 28, 2019
TO REGISTER Send email to: coachelaine@clearreflectioncoaching.com
PRE-REQUISITE: None
LOCATION:
Multnomah Arts Center
Classroom #10
7688 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97219
PORTAL #8 ~
Buffalo is the 8th portal on the outer Circle of Life - and the gateway to the deep and most complex portal ~ The Centre.
Buffalo not only teaches us to face the adverse situations of life, but also introduces us to some of the most ancient symbology known to man. Come and find out why Buffalo is the perfect emissary to show you how to both face adversity and to prepare for the greatest mystery of all - your journey into the Centre.
The world of Buffalo asks ~
1. How easily do you make and follow through on crucial
decisions in the face of opposition or difficulty?
2. Do you make it a practice to protect those in your community,
who, for whatever reason, cannot protect or defend themselves?
3. How well do you face the storms of life head on?
4. Do you have what it takes to move into the Centre?
ABOUT KIMMAPII
Marv & Shanon Harwood have been immersed in Shamanic Studies for more than 25 years. Today they share their combined knowledge through three streams of Shamanism: The Animistic, The Energetic and The Destinistic.
FOR MORE INFO
www.kimmapii.com
Portals Workshop, Raven, next month!
Hello Everyone,I hope you are having a wonderful summer! I have been busy this summer with travel and summer camps, but it's almost time for me to return to my practice in the next few weeks. As many of you know, I began taking energy work clients again this past January. (Hurray! I had taken almost five years off!) It's been a pleasure working with Empaths again, both new clients and returning clients. This past March I also had the chance to reconnect in person with my shaman mentor Marv Harwood, and his wife Shanon for their Archetype Workshop. I had such a great time, I decided to bring them to Portland for a shaman workshop this summer, August 24-26th. (See details below)Their background is in the Blackfoot tradition (north American plains) They were mentored and taught by two of the elders of the tribe, and given the mission to spread their knowledge and experience. I first met Marv at my first Four Winds workshop almost 15 years ago. Since then he's mentored me in my own personal journey, and served as a "back up tracker" for some of my stickier client questions. He and Shanon are incredibly knowledgeable and gifted. You can visit their website hereHere's an opportunity to learn from Marv and Shanon from within their tradition with a Portals workshop that requires no prerequisites! If you have an interest in shamanic work and how it can help you with your own personal journey, I hope you will join us this August. I am very excited to have the opportunity to learn more myself, and not have to travel! If you have questions don't hesitate to email me, and please spread the word. To see the flyer, click here. Here is a description of the workshop from Marv and Shanon:
Throughout the ages, Shaman have walked many paths – all leading to “Portals”.Portals are Shamanic gateways to worlds beyond our consciousness;worlds where true healing exists and miracles happen.Come walk the animistic and the energetic paths in tandem to amass theknowledge and skills to create an Amopistaan – your personal animistic mesa.This in-depth series of 9 seminars (portals) is an on-going program of theory & practical hands-on work.The portals are designed to facilitate the successful assimilation of information and skills presented.As the student gains and demonstrates proficiency they will be given rites of passage at each level.Intelligent, articulate, teacher, bridge to the other side – these are all terms thatdescribe the mystery and the majesty of Raven.Come meet Raven and let his black wings and bright eyes carry you from this worldinto the world of timelessness where he’ll coach and guide you to find that stillness within.The “Portals” Series is open to everyone. No pre-requisites are required for any of the individual seminars.You may attend them in any order, at any of our teaching locations. Welcome to the journey!
WORKSHOP DATESAugust 24 – 26, 2018$399Friday Registration: 4-5 PM / Friday Class: 5-9 PMSaturday: 9 AM – 8 PMSunday: 9 AM – 5 PMREGISTRATION DEADLINE: August 10th, 2018TO REGISTERSend email to: coachelaine at clearreflectioncoaching.com PRE-REQUISITENoneLOCATIONMultnomah Arts CenterClassroom #107688 SW Capitol HwyPortland, OR 97219
My interview with Karyn Kulenovic is Live for the next 72 hours
Hello Everyone,My interview with Karyn Kulenovic is available starting today for the next 72 hours! I hope you enjoy. Just click here to sign up and listen. In case you miss my interview this weekend, the series will replay for free at the end of the Summit.The interviews for the Integrated Empath Master Class are all free, but you can purchase the series to keep. If you do I will earn a small commission, which I gratefully appreciate!Enjoy!Elaine
Elaine's Privacy Policy, and the 2nd Empath Summit Masterclass Begins Today!
Hello Everyone,Just a reminder that The Integrated Empath Summit hosted by Karyn Kulenovic starts today, June 1st! Each interview will be live for 72 hours, so even if you didn't have a chance to listen today, there is still time over the weekend. My interview goes live on Saturday the 9th. Karyn interviewed me about Shamanic Energy Work and how it can change the lives of Empaths, especially around trauma. I hope you will tune in, especially if you have had questions about Shamanic Work and whether it would be a good fit for you. The Summit runs through June 18th, and it is FREE! My interview airs on Saturday the 9th. To sign up please click HERE. (This is a referral link, which means that if you click on it and then purchase the whole series to keep forever, I will earn a small commission, which I greatly appreciate.)As many of you know, the EU has passed a law that recently went into effect requiring those of us that have EU subscribers and clients to post a privacy policy describing what is done with your personal data. You can view my policy by clicking here. At any time you may also unsubscribe from my list by clicking the unsubscribe link in the emails I send you, or by emailing me directly.Thanks so much everyone, and I hope you enjoy the Empath Summit,much love,Elaine
Elaine is taking energy work clients in 2018
Hello Everyone,I'm happy to announce after a very long hiatus, I will be taking energy work clients starting in mid-January. Please see energy healings page, and if you are interested, please contact me. Wishing you all a very happy holiday season!Elaine
Elaine appears as featured author on Jenna Avery's Called to Write Blog
Hello Everyone,It's been a while since my last blog post. My life has undergone some upheaval in a good way in the past year, but it has left me little time to focus on writing, except to my email support clients. However, I had a wonderful opportunity to participate in Jenna Avery's Author Insights this past month. Jenna has been featuring authors who have made it all the way to the finish line and published their work. Back in 2012 I had the pleasure of joining one of Jenna's Writing Circles, which helped me complete my books. If you are an aspiring writer, you may enjoy my article about dealing bad reviews for my book series. You can see the article here. With my life calming down once again, I hope to return to writing my next book on Empaths and relationships, and to posting more here this summer.much love,Elaine
How Does the Shaman View Chronic Health Issues?
Hello Everyone and Happy New Year!I had a question a few days ago regarding health and what my perspective as a shaman was. Mary asked, "These days with our polluted industrialized unnatural ways of living, it seems that many new illnesses have come forth such as autism, MS, chemical sensitivities, gene mutations, cancer, etc. Thus, these physical things are deemed causes of illness. Most alternative doctors are focused mostly on detoxing and strengthening the physical body. But what happens if people continue to be ill and dysfunctional despite doing all the right things? Some say that all (physical) illness starts "in the mind", and that ultimately, the way to heal is with healing the mind (emotions), and/or spiritual. How does the shaman see chronic physical health problems? Do you feel that we can separate the causes of illness? Emotional, spiritual, mental, physical, or is everything truly connected? We have all heard stories about people who did not even do anything different on the physical level, yet something in their body healed on it's own....(a miracle happened, which some say, if a shift in perception). What is your perspective?"This is a great question. One thing that I think our western view of medicine has not caught up to yet is this idea of the mind-body connection, as if the mind was separate from the body and visaversa. The way I see the body, there is no mind-body connection because there is no separation. Our physical bodies are encased in our emotional/mental body, which is encased in our mythic/soul body, with in turn is encased in the energetic body, (and some healers can see several layers in that body as well.) An injury at one level effects everything else. The energetic body isn't just an outer shell--it goes through all the bodies, and the soul body goes through the mental/emotional body and physical body. In other words while it might be helpful to think of these bodies as nested shells, they really aren't.If you have an injury at one level, it will at some point show through at the other levels. If you have a cancer that starts at the energetic or the mythic level from soul loss, you may be able to surgically remove it at the physical level, but if it is not treated at the mythic level, it can recur. If you come into your body with an injury from a previous lifetime or from a family imprint, it could be set up at the mental/emotional level as mental illness or a physical problem. Their is no one-size fits all to these health issues. Each person is different! And of course, if you eat terrible food and breathe in polluted air, that is going to hurt your physical body and perhaps start hurting you at the mental/emotional as well. If you endure a terrible tragedy on the emotional level, this can cause a deep imprint at the mythic level. It simply all depends.Of course, we must take responsibility for our health and our healing, and yet we need to be realistic and gentle with ourselves as well. I've had several clients come to me and tell me they've created their cancer or other chronic illness. Our system is simply too complicated to assume that. Yes, there are cases in which a person can shift at the mythic and energetic levels and their physical problem goes away completely. That is wonderful, and that is real. However, with many chronic health problems, telling ourselves we've done it to ourselves isn't always helpful.My take on health is to look at how I am doing at the physical, emotional/mental, mythic, and energetic levels, and treat myself well. Am I eating right? Am I getting the exercise my body likes? Am I limiting my exposure to environmental toxins? Am I hanging out with people that make me happy and inspired rather than irritate me and drain me? Am I limiting my intake of bad collective news that I can do nothing about? Am I able to be at the mythic/sacred level without anything in the way? (If not then I go to my shaman for some work) Am I up to date on keeping my living space clear energetically? Am I unentangled in my relationships? All of these will affect our health, and deserve attention.On top of this I am an Empath so I need to be extra careful about taking on the vibration of friends and family that I am very close to when I am worried about them or when they are ill. Some of you have heard about how I developed gall stones when my father did, and how those miraculously disappeared after he had surgery. Most Empaths tend to process emotional overwhelm on the physical level--we can help ourselves out by putting that extra emotional energy into a sandpainting. We can create better boundaries with our loved ones by building altars around the relationship. Empaths can also tune into the collective and make themselves chronically ill as well. We have a few more challenges than non-Empaths to deal with!So, yes, health is complicated. Mary, if you are suffering from chronic issues, and you are an Empath, you want to make sure that energetically you are fully "in" your physical body. Many Empaths aren't. For that you will need to go to a shaman or another energy healer that can help you get all the way in. Sometimes this happens because of a hard birth experience. When we aren't fully in our bodies, other vibrations can start taking up partial residence. Those will need to be evicted so to speak. Again, a shaman can help you with that. I'm going to assume that you are taking care of your physical issues by seeing good doctors that you trust, and that you are taking good care of your emotional health by making sure your relationships are healthy and supportive. If not, find those trusted health professionals and also a good therapist! Eat the best food you can afford, treat yourself as kindly as possible. Look at yourself from these different levels of reality and get the best medicine that you can afford. I hope that makes a difference in your health and happiness!much love,Elaine
New Book, Wisdom Rising, by Jim Peterson now available
Hello Everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that my good friend and colleague, Jim Peterson, has recently published his first book of inspiration writing and poems collected over the past ten years. I had the honor of helping Jim walk through the publishing process, and I can attest to the beauty and comfort of this book. It's the type of writing that I keep on the bedside table to read just before bed. I wanted to pass this news along to you. You can find his book, Wisdom Rising, on Amazon.
My books are once again available for sale in pdf form through my website. Also, as some of you have noticed, I had taken a break over the past few months. I am now returning to writing, answering comments on my blog, and email support.
Thank you as always for your support!
much love,
Elaine
Empath as Archetype Collected Volumes Now Available
Hello Everyone,
My Empath as Archetype series is now available as a collected edition. You can still buy all the books singly, but if you were waiting for the all the books to be available in one volume (and at a lower overall price) it's here! If you have already bought all my books, you do not need this one. Here is the link: Emapath as Archetype
If you have read my books, and they had a positive effect on your life, please consider writing a review for me. It really helps!
thanks so much everyone! New books are coming!
much love,
Elaine
Archetype Workshop coming to Portland on March 1st
Hello Everyone,
I'm happy to announce that my former teachers from Alberta will be in Portland on March 1st to present a workshop on Archetypes and how to work directly with them. Please visit the link below for more information. This is a great opportunity to learn more about archetypes whether you are a beginner to shamanic work or already a practicing shaman.
http://www.archetypeworkshop.com/
much love,
Elaine
Elaine's First Mythic Fiction Book Now On Sale
Hello Everyone,
I'm very excited to announce that my first work of fiction is up for sale on Amazon in paperback and Kindle, and on my website in pdf form. This short story is written for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People. The Girl and Her Being is the first in a series of mythic stories for Empaths that I am calling the Empath on Journey Series. This short story is a story about how the Empath can fall in love, be in relationship to her intuitive guidance, and how that guidance is necessary in navigating romantic relationships and friendships. Future stories will also delve into what it is like to do shamanic work While I have had great feedback on my non-fiction books, I wanted to put companion books out there that were a little lighter. I hope you enjoy!
You can find the book on Amazon here
much love,
Elaine
Fan-Hero Family Book now Available on Amazon
Hello Everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that my latest book, The Empath and the Fan-Hero Family System, is now available on Amazon as a Kindle book and in softcover. For those of you that have already purchased the Her0-Fan Family System book on my website, this book has been revised and expanded to include an extra essay, however most of the content is the same. If you haven't read this book yet, please wait to purchase until I have completed The Empath and Shadow Work, which should be completed in the next few weeks or so. Thank you all so much for your interest in my work!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Empath-Fan-Hero-Family-System/dp/1491030658
much love,
Elaine
New Softcover and Kindle Book coming soon!
Hi Everyone,
It's been a while since I've last posted on my blog--since last fall after publishing my three small books to Amazon, my family had an opportunity to move. We decided to go for it, and as a consequence, all my time and energy has gone toward that. Finally after a good eight months, I am getting back to a more regular routine. Many of you have asked me when the last two books on my website will be published to Amazon, since I had planned to release them at the end of 2012. I'm happy to say that I am almost there. The Hero-Fan family system book will be ready to go by the end of the month, and the Empath and Shadow Work/Pedestal book should be ready by the end of the summer. If you have already bought these through my website, the content of the softcover and kindle books is mainly the same, with a few additions.
In the meantime I am once again ready to take a few email support clients only. If you are interested in working with a shaman, visit my homepage for the contact information of three really good ones that work on me and my family.
Even though this is 2013, many people have written to me as they struggle with deep generational imprints and personal work. Keep at it, there's no time like now to dig these unhappy patterns out for good!
sending lots of encouragement,
Elaine
EBooks Now Available in SoftCover on Amazon
Hi Everyone,
I'm excited to announce that my first three eBooks, The Empath and the Archetypal Drama Triangle, The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work, and Motivations of the Empath are now availble on Amazon in soft cover as well as the Kindle versions. If you wanted a book form of my writing in your hands, now you can. Thank you everyone for all your kind comments. These books have minor changes to the books sold on my website, so if you already puchased website copies you do not need these paperback versions.
more coming soon!
much love,
Elaine