Today, we’d like to introduce you to Rachel Green. Rachel was introduced to us by the brilliant and talented Saskia Stäuble.
Hi Rachel, we’re so thrilled to have you sharing your story with us today. Maybe we can kick things off by having you introduce yourself to our readers? We’d love to have you go into your story and how you got to where you are today.
I spent most of my 20s & early 30s doubting my magical gifts…
FILLED WITH UNCERTAINTY AND LACK OF SELF-ASSURANCE
I was going through life searching to be fulfilled by the external world and still feeling so alone and empty. I was surrounded by people who said they loved me or admired me, but I didn’t believe them.
I’d constantly over give in work, relationships, and friendships with it not being reciprocated to the point I felt used and drained. This pattern just kept repeating no matter what company, state, partnership, or environment I was in. A life of being unseen, misunderstood, and unheard.
I was disconnected from my body abusing alcohol, drugs, and sexual experiences to make me feel something. I thought that’s how life was to be enjoyed and lived. Again, the feeling of loneliness never went away. I was surrounded by people from all over the world in this party lifestyle with money, drugs, and sex. Never feeling like I was ENOUGH – not pretty enough, skinny enough, sexy enough, girly enough, and the list went on. I felt my body was never mine, especially with sex. This was amplified when I started experiencing sexual trauma around 15 years old in varying degrees, such as assaults, rapes, and abuse, taking place over 15 years until days before my 31st birthday.
I didn’t love and respect myself and that was reflected to me most in my experiences with men. They consisted of cycling between one-night stands, situationships, friends with benefits, the “other” woman, and cheated on when in committed relationships. My longest term committed relationship (approximately 5 years) was toxic from the beginning and led to me experiencing domestic violence with abuse physically, emotionally, psychologically, financially, and sexually. That’s what I thought I deserved. My connections with women weren’t much better… typically very shallow as I never truly trusted women based off backstabbing experiences and feeling used by them.
I craved outside validation. Based on fear, I didn’t trust my intuition and inner guidance to listen and stand in my power with following through in my truest desires. I was always under someone else’s control and told what to do with my life, so I would want to run away from it. There were even moments where I felt suicide would be the answer. Then maybe people in my life would actually love me. Then I would be free from this dark deep hole I couldn’t seem to get out of. Again, stuck in feeling alone and empty.
Every job, relationship, and friendship were only temporarily covering up my wounds that were deeply rooted in ancestral, generational, childhood and sexual trauma along with the shame and guilt that came with it all.
On the morning of November 26, 2018, I was on the receiving end of another physically abusive incident by my partner at the time in our Las Vegas apartment. I was covered in bruises and alcohol-filled tears (yes, actually alcohol as my partner poured his drink into my eyes). The sheriffs were called by my family in California because he wouldn’t let me leave. After they documented my body and the incident, they waited for me to pack up my life there into my car and head back to California.
That 1st week back in California was the most essential week for when my healing journey started. I had the space for my body to heal from the physical pain. I was also aligned with an angel who directed me to services for women experiencing domestic violence. I met with the organization and started group therapy mid-December with individual therapy and sound healing to follow in January. From what I learned in these spaces, I knew I needed to change, and I took aligned action.
Since then, I have been committed to my growth and healing through experiencing therapy, coaching, group programs, retreats, workshops, trainings, various healing modalities, and life experiences. My life has transformed from feeling empty, alone, unheard, unseen, disconnected from my body, power and voice – to being deeply in love with myself, connecting to my womb and nature, expressing my voice in a range of outlets, feeling empowered to take aligned action on my desires, experiencing healthier relationships, and being surrounded by intentional supportive women.
How was SHINE Empowerment & Healing born?
In December 2022, I decided to continue with taking aligned action by closing out the last chapter of my corporate career in the HIV/AIDS field and transition to entrepreneurship. The whispers grew louder and louder after a cumulation of 6 weeks exploring Europe and myself that Fall-Winter. I knew I needed to take the leap and bet on myself. It was time. I never felt more empowered in a life decision. Senses of security, confidence, and alignment overcame me even in the face of uncertainty. Yes… my good ol’ friend FEAR came to say hi, but I turned to my support and focused on my WHY. I embraced this moment and was ready to completely surrender to what the universe had in store for me!
I finally birthed SHINE Empowerment & Healing in January 2023 from a vision that came to me in Spring 2019 during a meditation. This vision came to light from all the deep healing and trauma work that I went through over the past years and continue.
When working with coaches and healers, I noticed that women who look like me and what I have been through were missing in this industry. I didn’t see many coaches that were also working with energetics in a holistic approach. They were referring out to healers and vice-versa. This leads to clients having to repeating their traumatic experiences and challenges, which can be damaging. I went through this and desired to hold spaces for women where this didn’t have to happen.
I received certification in and continue my training in the healing modalities that have most impacted my journey – Usui Holy Fire III Reiki, Sound Healing with crystal alchemized sound bowls, Transmutation Meditation/ Hypnosis, and Womb Healing. I also use them in my daily practice along with connecting to nature’s elements to support myself.
Looking back at my childhood, there have been many whispers throughout my life that guided me to becoming a Somatic Womb Healing Guide & Women’s Coach. I’ve answered the call to connect, empower, and heal with women who are ready and willing to receive.
My journey has led me to recognize the importance of reclaiming my power, embracing my authentic self, and finding freedom from limiting beliefs and past traumas. Since 2018, I’ve received guidance and support in various areas such as healing sexual trauma through womb & yoni healing, setting healthy boundaries, building confidence, and achieving financial stability.
Through my personal and professional experiences combined, like solo traveling the world to my 6-year healing journey to my work in the HIV/AIDS field and so on, I’ve become an expert in guiding others towards healing, self-discovery, and personal growth.
Please tell us more about your brand, SHINE Empowerment & Healing
My studio space is currently located at Loft 7 – a creative space in Venice, CA. I help women rediscover and reclaim their body, power & voice through somatic womb healing in private sessions in monthly containers (virtual or in person), monthly Sacred Sexuality women’s circles, collaborative workshops, group retreats, and customized luxury 1-on-1 VIP healing retreats. I guide other women because I know what it feels like to be lost, alone and disconnected from our power while living a life overworked, undervalued and sexualized in the masculine-driven world. Women hold so much power in our wombs — We create life. Birth creative ideas and beauty. Cycle through death, rebirth & life monthly. It’s time for us to reclaim our power together! Balancing our divine feminine & masculine energy within. My intention is to hold women through sacred portals as they shed the layers of limiting beliefs, old programs, & conditioning while connecting back to themselves, their wombs, Mother Earth. Together we will create balance & harmony in their lives by embracing the darkness and shining their light. My purpose is to serve as many women as possible in this lifetime who are ready and willing to experience freedom & abundance. As women heal in community and stand anchored in our power, we lead generations to heal with our children and the collective shifting. Birthing a legacy. I take all of my wisdom — from my ancestral, generational, childhood, sexual & stored trauma along with my education and experiences as a woman of color whose solo traveled this world and connected to Mother Nature — and share it with not only the Los Angeles community but with the world. MY MISSION Supporting women all over the world through our evolution and journey with our divine feminine power while shifting our children’s futures and humanity as a collective by guiding and leading from our womb wisdom. Through the following pillars: HOLISTIC CONNECTION I approach my coaching with building a holistic mind-heart-womb-soul connection and creativity by exploring various healing modalities, practices, rituals, and tools. I believe there’s no “one-size-fits-all” blueprint to healing. Each woman and season is unique. In my containers, I hold space for us to authentically connect and co-create a framework with intention based on what is currently present. INTENTIONAL CREATION As we co-create with intention, we are agreeing and committing to show up, be present and communicate with love, transparency and vulnerability releasing judgment. This creates a space of safety while building trust, deepening the healing experience, and bringing clarity & purpose for a transformative outcome. HEALING JUSTICE Holistic wellness is not a luxury; it is our birthright. Coming from a lineage of those oppressed, it’s important that we not only focus on our healing as individuals, but to recognize we have a greater impact healing in community. We must allow our healing journeys to ripple out from self to family, friends, community, workspaces, systems, and the overall collective. As we recognize, honor and heal these lineages, systems, and intergenerational trauma, we shift and restore tenderness, grace, love, joy, and liberation to our legacies. Within the SHINE community, we reclaim our inherited wisdom and power. I am most proud of as a brand is SHINE’s “special sauce” (an energetic doula) – the technique I’ve cultivated from knowledge of traditions and trainings in my world travels along with ancestral guidance and self wisdom. I guide clients through to not only receive an energetic healing with womb massage, but actually physically birthing blockages, traumas, and energy ready to be released no longer serving them out to be composted. Clearing physical health issues, emotional blockages, mental resistance and making space for an intentional activation of divine love within.
So, as we mentioned to our audience earlier, you were introduced to us by Saskia Stäuble and we really admire them and what they’ve built. For folks who might not be as familiar, can you tell them a bit about your experience with Saskia.
I first connected with Saskia – Dust of Soul – on Instagram through a community event back in January that we both provided our services at. We were able to meet on the event day, but I wasn’t able to experience their Soul Song Channeling Session due to offering my services at the same time. I heard feedback of how amazing their sessions were from mutual clients. I then left on my journey around the world a few days later. We stayed connected through Instagram during my journey.
I returned back to Los Angeles in July and it aligned to finally receive a magical session from Dust of Soul at Mystic Journey Bookstore. I selected their tier 3 option. I loved the space that the session was held on the patio outside. It was so serene. I decided to lay down to receive the chakra clearing with Michael beautifully playing the piano and Saskia guiding me through the chakras. I experienced visions of colors during this portion.
With the very first note that Saskia sang, my throat chakra expanded. I could actually feel my soul singing through her! I felt empowered, elevated, and seen with the words and melody that were channeled. This experience was divinely timed with the messages that came through. I just decided to stay in Venice instead of leaving the country again to ground and root my self and my business then imagery of me as a tree and my natural deep wisdom came through in my soul’s song.
Michael didn’t know anything about my journey and we never met before. After when we all shared our experiences in what was felt and seen, they all connected and intertwined beautifully. I felt so held and safe while in Michael and Saskia’s divine masculine and feminine energies. They balance so wonderfully to where I felt the messages and guidance that came through were whole and complete for me to further sit with the song in the future to allow my specific downloads to come through.
After the session, I felt clear energetically and uplifted to express my wisdom and creativity. While I listen to my Soul Song since my session, my heart opens wider, my soul dances, and I reactivate the sensations I felt when I first received my channeled song. I’ve listened to in nature, at different points in the day, before sleeping and during meditation to connect with the universe and my specific flow. This song has been an instrumental tool for me as I step deeper into my next chapter of my journey.
With the support of Dust of Soul since my Soul Song channeling experience:
-I shared my poetry in front of an audience for the first time at an open mic night.
-I created weekly events to bring community and women together.
-I tapped in to my community to co-create with other women on podcasts, workshops and retreats.
-I am more confident in sharing my wisdom and standing in my power than ever before.
Website: www.shinewithrachel.com
Instagram: @shine.with.rachel
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