Shamanism, Psychology and the Need for Change (WitchVox)

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In my career as a licensed professional counselor, I have heard thousands of people’s problems. As those folks told me the nature of those problems, I have heard tens of thousands of stories that involve hundreds of thousands of people. In the course of listening to these stories, I have witnessed the shedding of millions of tears. But if I had to distill all of these problems, stories, people, and tears down to a common theme, a single universal thought shines clear:

“Fix me. I’m hurting.”

I am also a shamanic practitioner, a certified hypnotherapist, a Reiki master, the author of two books, and am skilled in many other healing modalities, yet when clients come to see me for any of these things, even at the book signings, I hear the same statement:

“Fix me. I’m hurting”

I’m not alone in this. Practitioners and medical professionals worldwide hear the same thing over and over again every day. But only those who are too busy to really care, or the charlatans out to make a quick buck would ever tell you they can do the fixing. Only the deeply ego-involved or the extremely foolish would ever claim that they are the force behind their client’s changes. If they did, they would be lying.
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