"I've never worked with a shaman before Stephanie and had no idea what to expect. But I've been wanting to tackle some big, scary, emotion-filled roadblocks in my life and finally get to the roots of them. I'm familiar with traditional psychology and have never been impressed by their timelines (seems like you can be in therapy for years and make very little progress), so I was curious to try something different, but was skeptical too. Open minded, but skeptical. In our first session, Stephanie had me dive right into one of the gnarly stories that has been weighing me down. It was hard. Emotionally strenuous. But - in one hour, I RESOLVED that particular issue of feeling responsible for a burden that was not mine. She helped me let it go. And honestly, I thought it might sneak back in. Like maybe that weight on my heart was just taking a vacation and would come back refreshed and ready to torture me again. It didn't. It hasn't. That's amazing. In the past several months, I've become more aware of other painful burdens weighing me down that I've been shoving to the side, trying to ignore, but they act like a slow leak on my energy. One by one, we're tackling them. Working up to the biggest, scariest ones. It's not easy work. Stephanie pushes me to where I need to go, kindly, and with a tremendous amount of emotional support. And the breakthroughs I've been having are worth all of that hard work; I have more peace now, fewer energy drains caused by other people. Now I'm telling my friends 'hey, maybe you should see a shaman about that.'"