5 MISTAKES EMERGING HEALERS MAKE
Human Healing,
You have always known you are a transformer, a magician, an alchemist, a healer, but you may at times wonder how you are meant to best express your healing wish to the world.
You have so much to share. Don’t be afraid to begin one thing and then let it evolve into something else. If you are multi-talented or simply feel like you have more than one gift to share, embrace it!
Allow your work to evolve along with you. Remember titles and labels can trap us into having to do one thing. At the same time, you have to decide. You have to begin somewhere...
For when you’re ready to begin, read these five mistakes I’ve witnessed emerging healers make (or have made myself!), so that you can catch yourself when they inevitably come up for you.
Projections of their own stuff onto their clients.
Yes, there is no difference between healing and being healed. However, this doesn’t mean your clients are experiencing or processing things the same way you have. Even if they are going through something that you have gone through, they are integrating it in their own way.
2. Comparison to other healers and discrediting
other practices/practitioners.
Try to keep an open mind when it comes to holding space for someone to be their own healer. Something that may seem ridiculous to you may truly be helping someone else. If the healer/practice/practitioner is causing harm to a client who is asking your opinion, then it is ok to share how you feel, but try to stay in a place of compassion.
3. Attachment, or thinking they are
the only ones who can help their client.
The Ego wants acknowledgement, authority, and obedience. Always remember that people only heal when they are ready to and that healing comes from within. Trust your client’s unique path and wisdom.
4. Getting too caught up in image, or not
being themselves and doing their own work.
We live in an increasingly superficial society that is more focused on form and image than depth and substance. Try to not get caught up in needing to look a certain way, wear a certain thing, or speak a certain way in order to shine your healing light into the world. You are enough as you are.
5. Creating unbalanced energy exchanges.
Focus on creating win/win/wins. If you have worked really hard and invested so much in mastering your craft, why should you give it away for free? Witches, priestesses, and healers used to be able to live off of the room and board their clients would give them, but today we live in a world of taxes and rent and need money. If you give your work/time away for free or if you overcharge (charging what someone with ten years of experience would right at the start of your offering ), you are setting yourself up to get your butt kicked by the universe.
Emerging One, I promise you that at some point you will fail, feel ashamed, or even want to give up. But try to tune into the energy of water and let yourself flow. The witch wound, fear of failure, and fear of causing harm (also the witch wound) can prevent us from having the courage to shine.
But is the safety worth remaining in your shell forever? Doesn’t curiosity ever strike? And when you explore, when you follow that curiosity, isn’t it worth it?
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Apprentice of Original Essence
9 Sept – 9 Dec 2025
Apprentice of Original Essence™ is an Advanced Apprenticeship Program with Deborah that offers a combination of 1:1 and intimate group work.
This Program is designed for folks who feel their Original Essence wants to be expressed through a healing/creative offering and would like to cultivate their gifts with the guidance of Deborah’s approachable depth of wisdom.
Deborah’s background of 20+ years of emerging as one of the most world renowned trusted healers, as well as her innate intuitive gifts of seeing, will be wielded to help refine one’s unique offering and dispel any sense of imposter syndrome. You will know you are offering something only you can offer.
Much healing will be done together on this journey that will create a spiral of healing in the world. Deborah cannot teach you how to see like she sees or heal like she heals, but she can draw out your own visioning and your own healing to help you bring it to light in the highest good for all involved.
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