What is your soul’s purpose?
“One of the main ones is to decondition myself from what I’ve been told through my culture, my family, the world, the patriarchy. To unravel all of that to arrive at the essence of who I really am. And while I’m doing that, have a really good fucking time! If I’m celebrating — if I bring joy and celebration as a frequency, I really am connected to the divine because, for me, the divine IS joy and celebration. So my life’s purpose is to have a really good time - and do it with a lot of beauty, color, and celebration.”
What do modalities like breathwork and sound offer that speech therapy doesn’t?
“Speech therapy is how I was trained 24 years ago. The worldwide research shows that trauma lives in our body and is stored in our cells. You can’t talk yourself out of a traumatic experience unless you’re engaging the body memory and releasing from there.
The reason why talk therapy is often not as successful is because when you’ve been through trauma, you have a lot of guarding and protection and the conscious mind doesn’t allow you to move past it. But when you’re in the breath, in the body, in plant medicine or other modalities - that’s gone. Breath is a very powerful modality because half the time people don’t know what they’re releasing.”
Why is silence so radical to most people?
“We are conditioned for our survival to avoid pain. You touch a fire, it’s gonna burn you, you pull your hand out. It’s your natural response. What silence does, is it puts you face to face with everything you’ve been trying to avoid by distracting yourself. There was this experiment where they gave people a choice of mild electrocution or complete silence
for 15 minutes. Nearly half the subjects chose mild electrocution — that’s how much people are running from being with themselves. Every time we have an emotional state that is uncomfortable, what we want to do is distract - check out. So I think that’s why silence is challenging.”
Any tips for working with and holding space for trauma survivors?
“There are many trauma informed trainings for practitioners and it’s mostly very fundamental things that people don’t think about enough. First and foremost: consent - because the whole thing about being a trauma survivor is that you’ve had your boundaries violated and you don’t know how to speak up for your boundaries — you’re learning.
There’s something very empowering about someone saying “Does this feel okay for you?” or “May I touch you on your shoulder?”. Really giving your client a lot more agency. The more you understand about the basics of trauma, the better you can hold space. I believe that 99 % of the world’s population has trauma. So when you learn about it, you also help heal yourself and the stronger you become as a vessel, as a light healer, as a Cosmic Sound Healer.
So take responsibility to educate yourself on trauma. I think it would be a more holistic approach than just rigidly giving someone sound frequency.”
