Guest Feature...

Dr Sally Graddon is an ex-unhappy doctor turned joyful Empowerment and Self-Discovery Coach and Shamanic Practitioner! After spending 20+ years working towards achieving her goals, she had a profound realization that it wasn’t the life she wanted to lead. She walked away from medicine and embarked on a long journey of self-discovery and healing, reclaiming her power.

Question #1: What’s the importance of spirituality in medicine?

Medicine is vitally important and saves lives, but without spirituality, medicine isn’t whole - it’s been split.  Spirituality provides balance. We are spiritual beings, not just a series of chemical reactions, and all too often that is ignored by modern western medicine. We are capable of healing ourselves in ways we don’t yet understand and it’s short-sighted to overlook that. It can walk alongside science and both can benefit.

Question #2: How did shamanism become part of your path?

I left medicine 12 years ago and lost my identity at the same time. After I had my second daughter, I realized that I’d simply replace my identity of ‘doctor’ with ‘mother’ and had no idea who I really was. I went on a long(!) journey of learning to love myself, self-discovery and self-forgiveness. I became a life coach and later heard someone speaking about Shamanism. It was a remembering - I knew what she said to be true and it touched my soul. She became my mentor and I embarked upon a Shamanic Apprenticeship with her. Shamanism is a part of who I am at my very core, and, as a result, my everyday life and work.

Question #3: How do you teach the application of shamanism to helpers and healers at your retreats?

I offer my clients choices - I teach them tools, practices and rituals and invite them to explore, practice and deepen their relationship with each. I encourage them to pick and choose the ones that call to them and support them most. From techniques to protect and clear their own energy, grounding practices that keep them centered and present, to releasing blocks, old stories and emotions that are holding them back and calling parts of themselves home that may have been lost since childhood so that they can be whole and feel safe to be their True Self. I also share rituals such as powerful Fire Ceremonies, and show them how journeying can help them to drop beneath the surface noise of their brain and access their subconscious.

Question #4: What’s your favorite spiritual or shamanic tool to use in your own life?

So many!! Journeying (which I think I forgot to talk about lol!) to find the answers to questions and things I am unable to see. My everyday practice of ‘Sage, sit, breathe’, which brings me in to the present moment and helps me to prepare for my day. Journalling. And simply being in nature and letting her medicine heal my Soul.

Question #5: Share a personal story from you or one of your Clients where it became clear that more spirituality was needed.

Changing your life isn’t about getting more qualifications or polishing your CV, it’s about remembering who you are - stripping away the masks and layers of stories and crap that you have built up around you (or had put there by others), to reveal the REAL YOU underneath. To set him/her free to shine their light into the world.

Contact info:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.sallygraddon.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/drsallygraddon/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MedicineforYourSoul/

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