July/August 2023 Alchemical Voice

Alchemical Voice - L2M - Issue 21
SHAMANISM SAVED
MY LIFE
Stacey-Ann Postma
It might sound a bit dramatic, but it’s also completely
true. Let me set the scene. It’s late 2019 and while I
have lightly started down my spiritual path, trying to
surrender to universal guidance, getting the parking
spaces and the green lights, I have a big problem.
Someone who I believed was a mentor and a friend
has been bullying me through stonewalling at work for
months. I’m beside myself, the anxiety is almost too
much to bear, I can’t face going into the office and
when I do I am hiding in a different department to
avoid seeing her. And now they want to make her my
boss.
My life coach suggested a remote session with a
Zimbabwean Shamanic healer who is also a horse
whisperer. I'm immediately intrigued as a horse rider
myself, and I book a session in January 2020. I have no
idea what to expect beforehand and I’m admittedly a
bit skeptical and nervous. During our two hours
together, I go from crying to laughing to doing both at
the same time. It takes her ages to cut all the ties
attached to me. She tells me things about myself that
nobody else could know, and her way of explaining
what she is seeing gives a shape to my feelings that I
couldn’t have come to on my own. I leave the session
quite literally dehydrated from spilling so many tears,
exhausted from the emotional experience, but feeling
quite different. Lighter. That night I sleep well for the
first time in months, without needing to take sleep
aids. The next morning, I wake up feeling like a
different person. More myself than I've been in a long
time.
I'm finally in a place where I feel I can take aligned
actions to find a new workplace where what I bring to
the table, my natural gifts and talents, would be
valued. I notice that I have been saying for a long time,
“If this happens, I am leaving’ and then 'this' would
happen but I didn’t leave.
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