What is a Healer?
The path of returning to wholeness and holding space for others to do the same. A healer is not someone who fixes others. A healer is someone who commits to their own healing so fully, so honestly, and so humbly that their very presence becomes an invitation for others to do the same.
A Healer Is:
• Growth-oriented and evolution-focused
• Emotionally responsible and self-reflective
• Willing to offer what they most needed
• A model of integration rather than perfection
• A mirror that reflects others back to themselves with compassion
• A space-holder, not a savior
• A co-regulator, not a controller
Healing is never about rescuing. It’s about embodying a truth, and a deep sense of presence that helps others remember who they already are and assists them with accessing their innate wisdom.
The Stages of Becoming a Healer
The Initiatory Spiral of Service Through Self-Transformation
1. The Wounded Seeker
This is the beginning. You are cracked open by life, by loss, by trauma, or by longing. You begin to search for meaning, peace, and understanding. You want to heal yourself. You are the one in need of what you’ll one day offer. Wounding awakens the call.
2. Self-Healer in Practice
You begin to study, practice, sit with yourself, and integrate. You try things. You return to yourself. You unravel old stories. You’re still in process, but you begin to feel the medicine forming inside you. You learn to give to yourself what you were once desperate to receive from others.
3. Relational Healer
Your healing begins to overflow. You unconsciously or consciously start offering to others what helped you. You’re not “done,” but your energy holds something safe, stabilizing, and magnetic. Your wounds, now tended, become bridges. What you once lacked, you now carry. You become a living example of what’s possible.
4. Embodied Space-Holder
From deep integration, you enter into the sacred space of non-attachment and neutrality. You no longer need others to heal for your worth to be validated. You hold space not to fix, but to reflect truth with clarity and love. You recognize timing, consent, sovereignty, and complexity. You become a home for yourself and that becomes a doorway for others.
5. Co-Regulator & Activator
Now, your presence creates ripples. Not because of what you do, but because of who you are. Your field becomes regulating, your voice becomes a tuning fork, your existence becomes a permission slip. Your healing is no longer personal, it becomes collective, relational, and a catalyst that awakens others.
6. Continual Becoming
There is no finish line. Healers are always becoming. Life continues to initiate, humble, stretch, and deepen you. The wound that once led you onto your path now becomes the compass that guides you into greater levels of service and awareness. You realize: I am both student and steward. I am both healing and healer.
Always.
Please enjoy the following shamanic journey designed for healers to engage deeper sovereignty. Allow it to support you as you continue to offer yourself in service to others…