Hi, I’m Eléna (“uh-LAY-nuh”)
- Energy Healer
- Meditation Coach
- Nature Lover
- World Citizen (5 countries and counting!)
I came in excessively sensitive (who knew that was going to be so helpful?!), and am what my brilliant friend Claire calls a ‘Social Introvert.’ I enjoy being around people, and the rest of the time I’m content with my own company.
I create safe spaces for people to heal,
to walk into their shadows and reforge their gifts.
Inside these moments I feel like a cross between
‘gentle guardian warrior’ and ‘lamp-lighting black smythe.’
(Somehow, there are no stock photos for that. :))
I’ve spent most of my life working on my shadows, my demons, my dragons.
And, most of that time, I thought I needed to eradicate them, release them into the ethers
to never be seen from again…
We all know how well that works. LOL.
The, “OMG! This again! I thought I was done with this!” endless cycle, was an important clue.
(It also helped to realize that that cycle was more of an upward spiral.)
That and several beloved philosophies suggested simply “being with” whatever arises,
and while that was usually shared in the context of, “and then it will go,”
I began to see clearly that it didn’t.
Like ever.
Reduce, yes.
Get much more tolerable, yes. (Shew!)
Eventually moldable into something else, YES.
But go away? Big fat, NO.
Bummer.
What does happen, if we do our work and get safe enough, is
we can reform these shadows back into tools that we’re happy to use.
My hyper-sensitivity to emotional energy,
that I grabbed in a moment of panic
to help me navigate an environment oversaturated with painful emotions?
I don’t have to use that to only sense pain.
Once I was able to feel safe enough to stop using that for defense,
I realized it’s a super power for sensing all emotions… painful and pleasurable.
Ahhhhhhhhh…
Now, I use it in life and in sessions to help me orient not only towards
what’s going all kinds of ‘wrong,‘
but also to
what’s going all kinds of ‘right.‘
It’s much easier to sense the whole picture when I’m focusing on the whole thing
versus just the painful parts. (right?!)
Magic.
I like to think of this as
learning to fly with the dragons
(vs battling them).
I used to fight.
These days,
I prefer to fly.
I’m now able to work with even bigger, stronger and ‘scarier’ dragons,
because I’m better at sensing the other sides of them as well.
And all of this brings a deep, deep compassion,
because I see past the pain and suffering and into the beauty underneath.
And everything,
My Love,
Everything,
has
Beauty underneath.
Since 2007, I’ve helped hundreds of spiritual people do this work.
It’s not easy.
You need to be willing to feel.
Even if you’re scared you can’t.
You don’t need to re-live anything.
And no talking is necessary.
You don’t need to understand anything.
You just need to feel like now is the right moment
to start.
And the process is not instant.
It takes time.
You will need time to integrate your new knowings, your new gifts.
To put down your old knee jerk habits and open into the new ones.
And dedication.
You will need to practice these new knowings, these new gifts.
Micro-practices help anchor these in.
I don’t have a magic want.
But you do.
Inside of you, you have a forge, a place we can melt down the old and reform the new.
A place to turn the lead into gold.
A place to blossom the beauty that is already here.
A place to hold the wounded parts with love and compassion. To feel deeply.
A safe place to allow them to express their wisdom, so that they can relax
and let go of their old, tense shape…
and form new shapes, perform new rolls, take up new tasks
as the beautiful, winged creatures they are meant to be.
As you unwind your need for them to be in those defensive, aggressive shapes,
you’re free to form them into whatever gifts
best serve you now.
Such a joy.
Welcome, Beautiful Soul,
Welcome.
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