Why the Mystical is Essential to Trauma Healing
In my early 20s, I got myself into therapy. Talk therapy, that is. I had a lot to say and process. It was extremely helpful to have a...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
A Solstice Ceremony to Catalyze a New Vision for Your Life
All around the world for millennia, human beings have understood the power of the Solstices to magnetize highest visions and elevate...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
Shake Your Fist at the Heavens in the Midst of Dark Times and then Make a Heart at Your Heart
Yep, this planet is can be a hard, hard place to live. Sometimes when I am feeling weighed down by personal challenges and/or by the many...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
Mother Earth Loves You: Awaken the Connection
I know it sounds corny and even like a platitude to say Mother Earth loves you. Lots of people say it everywhere, all the time. It can...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Mar 1, 2021
- 4 min
The Way We Think about Healing What Ails Us is Dead Wrong
Yep, that's what I think. I suspect that many of you have been in some kind of talk therapy--maybe even on and off for years. I've heard...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Jun 12, 2020
- 4 min
Healing the Wounds of the Ancestors with Shamanic Energy Medicine
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the violence brought against peaceful protestors in the US in 2020, African Americans and...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Jan 28, 2019
- 5 min
Why Am I Doing this Again??! Some Insight into the Spiral of Healing
Have you done a lot of therapy and personal growth work—perhaps years or even decades—and one day, you realize that what you thought was...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Sep 9, 2017
- 6 min
No Time Like Now to Heal
Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia. The...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Oct 7, 2015
- 7 min
Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma: Rings of Consciousness
In this third blog of the series on Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, I go more deeply...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Aug 6, 2015
- 2 min
Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions: Introduction
I have a mission to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream...
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Aug 6, 2015
- 13 min
Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma: Keeping an Open Mind
One day, I was cleaning my house and listening to a radio program on the problem of post-partum depression in women. The researcher...
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