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Rachel Mann PhD
- Jul 9, 2019
- 5 min
Feeling Overwhelmed by What is Going on in the World? Read on for Hope!
Do you feel pain of the world and even how it seems to intersect with the wounds you have carried? Are you feeling weighed down by events on the world stage? Do you want to know how to live in this world of chaos and turmoil without getting dragged down into despair and hopelessness, fear and insecurity? Do you want to know what it means to heal yourself, heal the world? How transforming your wounds and forging a powerful connection between body, heart and mind can ripple out
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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 healed or resolved is still active in some way? Or some aspect of it resurfaces? Maybe because some outer event seems to reactivate it? I have heard this lament from friends, clients and students over many years: “I thought I had resolved this! Why do I have to do it again? I’m so tired of this!” I have been in the same boat myself. Starin
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Jun 29, 2017
- 3 min
Heal Fully, Live Powerfully
Despite these desires, do you continue to feel stuck or that there is something missing or yet to be done in your life? Is there a lot of conflict in your life? Is your energy always low for reasons you can’t identify and that doctors can’t diagnose? Do you not know quite how to get to your dream job, your true calling, or relationships that are sustaining, nurturing and loving? Have you tried many things up until now–therapy, self-help and spiritual exploration and study, v
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Dec 31, 2016
- 2 min
The Call to Teaching Ceremony
On a beautiful Fall day in 2010, I took a walk with my dogs down the road on pathway through still green fields and forests. I had been invited by two people whom I did not know, Larry and Charlsie Baer to come teach about the mesa tradition at their home in Broadway, VA. The call to teaching shamanic ways had been in my heart for a number of years, but I had resisted due to self-doubt and fear. I knew it was a huge responsibility to teach my spiritually seeking brothers a
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Dec 30, 2016
- 4 min
Healing Inner Violence
As our country has been thrown into division and conflict in the wake of November’s election, I am moved to write about the importance of healing our deepest wounds as a path towards transforming fear, anger and hatred into cooperation and peace. As a shamanic healer, spiritual teacher and anthropologist, I have studied the effects of trauma on individuals, communities and humanity as a whole and the pathways for its transformation. Unhealed pain from violence and betrayal in
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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 clinical psychology, psychotherapy, medicine, and science. This desire has grown out of my personal journey as I sought healing from chronic anxiety, depression and symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder through a combination of western talk therapies and various energy healing modalities, most notably what is known as shamanism. In addition,
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Aug 6, 2015
- 14 min
Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, Part 1: Keeping an
This is the first blog in a series called Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions in which I seek to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream clinical psychology, psychotherapy, medicine, and science. In this first blog, I provide a brief overview of what shamanic energy medicine is and how it can be applied. One day many months ago, I was cleaning my house and listen
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Rachel Mann PhD
- Aug 6, 2015
- 14 min
Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, Part 2: The Science
In my blog entitled “Dreaming Violence into Peace, Part 1″, I shared that I had recently had a series of violent dreams which seemed to presage the beheading of the American journalist, James Foley in August, 2014. That series is a call to all of us to understand how deeply we are impacted by violence and to dream together a new vision of peace–even if our immediate lives lack direct conflict. This blog is also relevant to Dreaming Violence into Peace, but extends the topic
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