Meet Chelsea Didier

Today we’d like to introduce you to Chelsea Didier.

As long back as she can remember, the arts (dancing, painting, acting, singing, writing) and unraveling into the nurturing leafy arms of the creek next to her childhood home were Chelsea’s greatest teachers and allies. As the home of the heart is self-expression and the home of the body is nature, Chelsea has always felt deeply connected to the Earth, the ethereal, the ancient, and the magick. Since she was very young, or perhaps forever, she has been casting self-published spells in the woods, talking to plants and creatures of all sizes, seen and unseen; all the while studying and listening to the stars above the beach. By the age of eight, Chelsea had already won her first major art contest, was selected to be a member of a semi-professional dance company and was auditioning for her third musical. The arts taught Chelsea about resiliency, subtlety, passion, connection, and joy; about the importance and impact of feeling, opening, listening, sharing and trusting.

Raised in Southern California as the only child of two CEO’s, Chelsea was pushed to excel and from an early age knew the value of hard work, discipline, and dedication. This perceived “work ethic” and general way of being, propelled Chelsea into circumstances, and relationships (spiritual curriculum) that induced her to hide, shut down, become angry, resentful, shameful, and eventually, completely hate herself. Her soul-driven, steady and consistent practice and implementation of authentic, multi-dimensional self-expression was her only gateway back to her heart. As life continued pouring Chelsea in and out of different deeply traumatic yet refining chapters and relationships, she eventually found her artistic home at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her BFA in acting. As she completed her BFA, she also created a dance theatre company that went on to produce powerful artistic work in conjunction with the American Repertory Theatre.

In an interesting plot twist, after moving to LA to focus and pursue acting professionally, Chelsea found herself in recording studios all over the world, quickly creating a substantial voice over career. As she navigated her early twenties, break ups, family discord, internal discomforts, pains, closures- limiting beliefs and stale stories began to swell in her body and mind. On the outside, everything looked great, as if she had it all. The dream job, the financial “success”, the friends, the car, the clothes, the man. But internally, she was crippled with anxiety and fear at every choice and conversation. There were times she heavily leaned into substances, working out and other numbing mechanisms. A constant stream of shame and insecurity ran down her spine, controlling her every move.

Eventually, she hit a bottom and decided she didn’t want to live. This happened many times, over the course of several years. The numbing had reached its peak. Then a miracle happened. In an attempt to free her from her self made prison, she decided to force herself to take a 5rhythyms class one chilly Tuesday evening. She did not recognize it at the time but this was her first step onto the path of remembrance. This simple choice would forever shift the trajectory of her life. It was in that class that she felt her heart crack open for the first time since the creek and the beach. This was the moment she realized how dark her world had become and felt the breeze of remembrance of what could be, of who she truly was, way down in there. It took much pain and dis-ease for Chelsea to arrive at the realization that in order to overcome or remember she would have to rise above this confusion and pain and dig in. Have the courage to sit down, be with and see, feel, hear, and learn to hold herself. Chelsea went on from that single authentic movement class to diving headfirst into paradigm-shifting therapy.

Any aligned personal development workshop, ceremony, book, modality, healing, training that would ignite thaw, that would inspire grace, and that would soothe her aching soul took her life’s priority. It was as if her soul knew what it needed to do and began to disintegrate all that had not served in order to create anew. It did feel and appear as if a part of her actually did die, and what was left was simply ready to choose light. It felt like no other option existed other than to accept the unknown, accept help, learn to receive and step unflinchingly into the truth, the depth of who she really is, doing whatever necessary to holistically and wholeheartedly live. To truly feel what it means to be purposefully alive. Through this process teachers and modalities that would later become her greatest allies, were found, anchored, and put to good use. Through the assistance of several dedicated mentors and guides, Chelsea devoted herself to herself, relearning, remembering, reclaiming, integrating and awakening into the woman she is today. She had to burn anything that was not presently authentic to remember her natural state. Everything and nothing. Holding. So. Much. Space. And here we are now, grateful, and more ready than ever for the next step. The next connection. The next layer. The next death. The next birth.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
My road of life has been, as I’m sure many beautiful roads have been, riddled with closures, delays, debris, and potholes. I wouldn’t change the route for anything in the world. The journey itself has indeed been the gift. The sweet gift of knowing, owning and becoming myself has led to the embodiment of my truth. Without the trauma, the confusion, the loneliness, the shame, the gut-wrenching despair at times, I would never have stepped so courageously forward to meet my life’s curriculum, my many initiations. These initiations have been my guideposts and anchor systems as I continue to grow and expand into the leader and guide I am ever becoming. They have created an integrity dojo for me, one that does not allow me to fall victim to circumstance, asking me to take consistent personal responsibility.

It has helped me understand how to more purely listen and persevere to hold more space and support more souls than I ever thought possible. I have come to accept that there will always be pain in life, the suffering is optional. The more I stay in stories that limit and create “shoulds”, the more I struggle. Every instance I take the time to look within and stay there, surrender and accept whatever arises, miracles happen. The more I lean into acceptance in every aspect of my life the more I heal and bring healing wherever I go. The more I actively accept my true Self every day, the more I activate and radiate love. When pain tugs at my shirt sleeve, I push don’t her away and shame her. I sit down, pour her some tea and listen intently for the miracle. There is always a miracle. This whole thing is a miracle. I am so grateful.

We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
Chelsea Didier loves human beings. As an intuitive guide, embodiment specialist and medicine woman, Chelsea supports creators, healers, entrepreneurs, and businesses fully step into authentic soul alignment. She is a result-oriented mentor, empowering her clients and their entities to harness their next level of energetic efficiency, clarity, awareness, balance, and integrity in connection to self, business and in relationship. Chelsea seeks to remind, embody and anchor into herself, her clients and the universe the frequencies of beauty, truth, and power. She believes that our ability to see/feel/taste our inherent beauty, truth and power lies in our individual and collective allowance to accept ourselves exactly as we are, to mindfully slow down, drop into our hearts, clear the masks, the stale stories, consciously reparent and co-create heaven on earth from a place of pure source connection and aligned creative flow.

Rooted in ancient wisdom and supported by plant allies, Chelsea’s guidance and tools come with a no BS approach, holding you in an epic basin of heart space. She provides clients direct access to uprooting and dismantling the source layers of trauma, programming, as well as religious, ancestral and cultural conditioning stored deep in our DNA. She seeks to offer a fresh connection point to Source, to the true Self, establishing healthy mental habits and the ability to FEEL like home. The embodiment of one’s truth in its most refined available form. Technically and with great respect, Chelsea is a certified Reiki Master Teacher, EFT practitioner, meditation guide, ceremony facilitator, breathwork facilitator, somatic healer, and co-creator of Inner Alchemy shamanic sound journey meditation. She has wholeheartedly participated, assisted, and facilitated in wide-ranging 5 Rhythms/ecstatic dance therapeutic movement classes/workshops/ retreats for over a decade.

Recent passion projects have included designing healing in business programs, designing new paradigm HR models, authentic relating through movement/embodiment workshops, sacred ceremony creation/facilitation and continuing to find new layers of beauty, truth, and power in her one-on-one energetic attunements/activations focusing on awakening, empowerment and deepening.

What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
Being a multi-faceted entrepreneur and/or artist is definitely not for the faint of heart. I also believe that most of those who select this path see it as their only true North. Life for us is big, exciting, riveting, dynamic, juicy and plentiful. We like to have our cake and eat it too. I love to do all the things with all of the people all of the time. Well, most of the time. It’s honestly rare to feel I am expressing myself in all of my multidimensional splendor. I want to create a program, I want to build an app, create a sustainable eco-village, take my sister out to lunch, listen, really listen, be present, be patient, work with this person, become that person. It’s taken a lot of energy to understand how to use this aspect of my system efficiently. I’m proud of grounding my multi-dimensionality into my professional life. It feels so authentic I could scream with glee. This last year I was blessed to work with a client who is a successful business owner. He came to me wanting to clear his energy and realign to his truth, as his personal and professional worlds were beginning to crumble.

After several months of weekly paradigm-shifting trauma release work, he sat me down and placed an expansive invitation on the table. He asked me if I would come into his business, and work with his employees, his people, his baby of a company. He was noting that if he was shifting and up-leveling his energetic frequency with such authority, then the business would surely respond in kind. Perhaps the business could use the same support to better equip the newer frequencies we had been downloading for months with lasting strength. This looked like me coming into the office for two days a week, meeting with two to three people a day, for about four months. I would meet with everyone from the main sales rep to the stock room janitor. This not only gave me a lay of the land but allowed me to quickly feel into the depth of the exact roots of the wounds that were suffocating the business. From there, we could invite different conversations with new people, execute new plans from a more refined, clear heart space and bring the business back into a grounded presence that it had not seen in over a decade. This required a different skillset from me entirely. Holding space for an entity, a business, the patriarchy (in all reality) to unravel, remember and redefine itself requires a much more sturdy, solidified, yet extremely flexible energetic container.

In terms of refining my skill set as a space holder, business strategist and community builder, this opportunity and success of supporting a one on one client to then supporting his business have been one of my most prolific accomplishments to date. From here, we have transitioned yet again into co-facilitating ceremonial spaces. I love witnessing the organic nature of evolution through a conscious partnership. I am proud of the great fortitude, capacity, patience, compassion, empathy, and faith I/we have had to harness to navigate the twists and turns of each portion of our ever-evolving partnership. I am so grateful for the growth and the continued receiving of the lessons, blessings, and beautiful companions along the way.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.chelseadidier.com
• Phone: 8054528012
• Email: [email protected]

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