Welcome to this month’s Holistic Practitioner Interview with Rachel Horton White, Hypnotist!
- WHO are you?
I am a mother of two energetic young children and wife to a talented musician and carpenter. I grew up in Portland, Maine, but did not always live here (in fact all I wanted to do was get out of Maine as a teenager)! When I was a junior at Wellesley College, I studied abroad in Dakar, Senegal. Based on the kindness, generosity and compassion I learned from the Senegalese, this experience changed my life and created a deep desire within me to help make the world a better place in some way. After teaching English in Guadalajara, Mexico after college, I went into non-profit management as a career, and got a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia. I worked for social services agencies for about 10 or so years. I got married, had my first child, and then my second child. Then I started to feel very burnt out of my helping profession, and got back in touch with my spiritual/intuitive roots (with much encouragement)!
- WHAT is your profession/holistic healing method?
I am a hypnotherapist, intuitive reader (Akashic Records and Tarot), life coach and mindfulness teacher. I do this all through Soulful Work Intuitive Consulting, a business I created in 2016. My primary goal is to help people who are suffering in some way, feeling stuck in their lives and seeking happiness and peace, to learn to trust their intuition, let go of negative, subconscious patterns in their lives and uncover what their soul purpose is. No small feat! Essentially, I am helping them identify and listen more closely to the needs and desires of their Higher self (their soul, rooted in the creative and feeling right brain), and to stop being guided by the fears/doubts/worries of the negative Ego self (rooted in the logical and rational left brain). I do this for a greater purpose, really. This is to help people awaken to their true, spiritual selves as part of our massive shift in consciousness to help heal our planet and all beings!
- WHEN did you decide that you wanted to help people in this way?
In 2015, shortly after the birth of my daughter, I was becoming increasingly more frustrated in my job. I was exhausted at the end of each day, with little energy left to be present for my children. I was grinding my teeth at night due to stress. After complaining regularly to our babysitter, she suggested I hire a life coach. So I did. And my coach told me to start doing two things: meditate again and start talking to something higher than myself. Once I started doing this, my world started blossoming. I began doing Tarot readings for friends, and then started asking people to pay me for this (something I never thought possible). I had always had psychic experiences throughout my life, such as premonitory dreams and feelings and deceased people giving me messages for others in my dreams, but I always just thought it was some “weird” part of me to kept on the side, mostly hidden from others. Once I started meditating and talking to something (I started with angels), I began experiencing what is known as a spiritual awakening. After interviewing my grandfather for my podcast, The Courageous Path, about his experience in the CIA and a tell-all book he wrote, Deadly Deceits, I began uncovering truth and disclosure about the reality of who we are as humans and the social conditioning that has clouded our perceptions in deep ways.
I also began understanding more about the power of thoughts and emotions, and our ability to co-create our lives. It all was quite magical, and I realized that there was a whole new way of being that could free people from so much of their discontent. It was spiritual information that could literally transform lives, but it was sadly viewed by many as “out there” stuff inaccessible to the average person. I wanted to change this, so I focus on bringing this spiritual wisdom into the “real” world, with practical tools and everyday words, to help people use this magic in their own lives.
- WHERE does a session occur?
I do individual guidance coaching sessions, hypnotherapy, past life regression, intuitive readings currently at 222 St. John Street in Portland, Maine. I offer groups and workshops at Sage Wellness Therapeutic Bodywork, also in Portland. I also do online courses virtually and write articles for a few online, worldwide publications. I also offer classes at yoga and wellness centers, in schools and even some workplaces (where I focus mostly just on mindfulness). I also facilitate groups that meet regularly, including the Soulful Work Community, a monthly membership program that meets around various themes, a group for women starting spiritual businesses where I offer business start-up and marketing guidance, a mindfulness coaching group, and classes teaching people how to do intuitive readings (such as Akashic Records) for others. I do a lot of things!
- HOW does your healing modality help people?
I believe that what I do helps people unlock the inner wisdom and tools they already have within them for uncovering who they really are (powerful, spiritual beings). My goal is to help people see what they may not be aware of as patterns of thoughts, beliefs or behaviors that are holding them back from expanding into the experiencing the freedom and joy that they deserve. I have heard from clients that this work is life-changing, and I would like to think that it is! I believe, however, in working with people for a short amount of time (3-4 months) when doing intensive, individual work. This is important since it gives people the chance to apply what they have learned on their own, which is how transformation of the self really can occur.
When I meet with people individually, which is the most powerful way to do this soul work, we work on three levels: the subconscious, conscious and super-conscious. We do this work with life coaching, though targeted writing tools and reflections (such as goodbye letters to beliefs created by parents and to the Inner Critic “Ego self”), guided imagery and visualization to connect with the protective Ego and inner child and with hypnotherapy to let go of deep-seated blocks (often that originate in childhood) and to re-program the subconscious with positive thoughts and associations. I also like to do intuitive readings, in the Akashic Records specifically, to help people learn about why they are here in this life, what lessons they can learn, why they incarnated with certain people and what past lives might help explain certain challenges in their current life. I also might do past life regression to help people release a negative pattern carried from when they lived in a different body and place!
Essentially, I am supporting them on evolving in their soul, like the hero’s journey (or the Major Arcana of the Tarot). I use a framework I created as a guide for helping people 1) create a vision/vibration of what they seek in their lives, 2) identify and let go of the “stories” of the protective Ego, 3) learn to trust and listen to their intuition (and to higher guidance), and 4) move past fear to take inspired action that will create the change they seek in their lives.
I received training from a variety of places, but mainly as a Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner from the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts based in Tempe, Arizona as a hypnotherapist, mindfulness facilitator and intuitive “angel” guide. I also learned how to read the Akashic Records from Linda Howe and Patty Collinsworth. On my own, I learned from my former coach, Lael Jepson, and some other local healers and intuitives.
I often say to people that the most important habit they can begin is to start quieting their minds (aka, meditate) every day, even for just 5 minutes. This begins to train our brains to let go of negative thoughts that are based in the Ego, and that are telling us why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do or be something. Just by creating this new habit, automatically we connect with our deeper, universal consciousness and open our intuition!
- WHY do you do what you do?
I want to help people free themselves from the unnecessary mental suffering that so many of us are experiencing, just as I did in my own life. I also want to teach people the truth about who we really are as humans, with abilities to use our own thoughts to create what we want in our lives, and to begin to hear and see the loving guidance of the Spirit realm. We were not taught any of this in traditional public schools or in most households, in fact this information was likely hidden from us by mainstream power structures (controlling the media, government and basically every institution), since if we knew how powerful we were, we would not be so easy to control. Thankfully, more and more people are awakening to this truth, to learning about our origins in the stars, and we are learning to more consciously heal ourselves and our planet. I feel that I am here to help heal and teach, and that I, just like many people sharing light and truth, have important missions. It is really to help save humanity! It sounds kind of strange to say that, but this is what fuels me. I love what I do and I feel blessed to be able to support people in some way in their lives.
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Rachel can be found on:
Website: http://www.soulfulworkconsulting.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/restoringthesoulineverydaylife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulfulworkconsulting
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thecourageouspath
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Karen Creamer
