The Rested Warrior
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Come
Sit
Learn
Heal
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In order to truly understand how to heal, we must recognize our ability to be our own healer, we must remember our connection, we must release those stories which are not ours, and we must reach deep within to hear the wisdom we were born with.
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Wisdom lives all around us, every day, all the time. Wisdom also lives within us, in deep corners, those darker places in us which wait for us to illuminate them. When we do this-illuminate- we open to possibility and we begin to understand the things we hold for others that weigh down the journey.
We can then give these things back or compost them or dissolve them, leaving space within to fill with newness and knowing and healing so we may move forward seeing things clearly and knowing when old patterns try to sneak back in.
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Recovering wholeness and wellness is a process. When we realize we have support in places we can always access-within and all around- the fear begins to dissolve and we see and feel things differently.
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I am here for you, I have tools for you, and I offer guidance for you so you can rest your warrior and begin your journey forward.
Meet Shelly Vasquez
I am mestiza.
Assimilated.
Re-discovered.
Re-membered.
Re-connected.
I spent my childhood learning from grandmothers, from the crocodile, from the ants and lizards and snakes. I watched, I listened, I learned from all those little teachers. But I was ashamed. I was told I was odd and different and awkward if I shared anything I learned. So I hid those parts of me away. They kept sneaking back in to my dreams and I kept ignoring them until one day I understood.
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We have, most of us, forgotten how to honor our unique gifts, how to connect and listen, how to learn from our ancestors and our wisdom keepers.
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I am here for you.
I will hold the space sacred and fill it with love and support so you are safe to journey to those parts of you who hide and wait to be helped out of the darkness, to be transformed, to re-member and re-connect.
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I am formally trained, by Marissa Peer, in hypnotherapy and transformational healing. I have training in somatic touch and cognitive behavioral counseling. These may enter our session, however, our session will be unique and guided by the reason you are coming.
I listen, you rest, we work together with all that is here for us always.
My life work is to illuminate the path to your greatest potential, to reconnect you to your Wisdom Self so you can release the weight of the past.
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My true title is this:
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I am you. I am the dirt in your garden; the air you breathe.
I am oceans and rivers, I am trees and insects, I am the stuff stars are made of.
I am my ancestors.
I am you.
And, here in this true title, is where we connect the dots-me to you, you to me.
And, in this place I learn and from this place I teach and in this place you learn and in this place you teach.
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So let us begin!
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Working with Shelly is like working with an angel. Her depth of caring and ability to see right through the nonsense helped me to not only understand the bigger picture of my purpose but also to understand what I need to let go of to feel whole again. Her visions were right on and delivered so sweetly. I don't exactly know how it happened but I felt so different, in a great way, after. She's amazing!
~Sarah P.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I was trying my best to work through some yuck and someone recommended Shelly.
Crazy stuff, people. I don't know what she eats for breakfast but I want it. She listened, broke it down ever-so-gently and I realized another way to go about my maddening process. It has been challenging but in a kind of exciting way....
Since the sessions, the yuck is shifting and I'm entering a new chapter of my life pretty thrilled where I once would've been scared sh*tless. So, yeah, I'd recommend this work for sure. For me, it's been hard but Shelly has helped so much.
~Patton L.
Very intense for me. In a good way. Since the session I am sleeping better and much more aware of how my body reacts and how to regulate. Most importantly, I went to Shelly for some ancestral work. I felt like I was missing a connection and Shelly was able to help me to see what I could do to deepen my own understanding of the connection I never really lost.
I'm a fan.
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~Elena L.