We were lucky to catch up with Yvonne Rosegarden recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Yvonne, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Faith and Knowing. I believe in the One Infinite Creator. I know the One Infinite Creator lives in me, which allows me to believe everything is always working out for me…even when it may not appear that it does.
In 2022, I lost all 3 of my beloved family members I shared a home with: my partner, my mother-in-love, and my fur baby. Each succumbed to illnesses/conditions that escalated rapidly. Suddenly everything in my life changed. I felt completely alone, even with family and friends checking in on me and showing me love. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know how I was going to go on. Feeling completely consumed with grief, I didn’t have to capacity to be a love healer. I felt empty inside. My future dreams dissolved into past thoughts. Without my companion and business partner I was at a loss personally and financially, and didn’t know how to move forward. All I knew to do was to pray for the initiative to keep going, and the One Infinite Creator answered by showing me how blessed I am to have a community of people who love me and really stood firm for me.
My family and friends held me steady throughout all of my personal turbulence and soul-searching until I was ready to share love healing with the People again and re-open my practice to my very patient and understanding clients during this journey. Once I was ready to hold sessions again–an entire year later–my clients returned!
Faith is the resilience that allows me to Know everything will be alright. I learned about resilience from the womenfolk in my family, my grandmothers, my aunties, all trailblazers in their own rights, who have achieved great successes in the face of adversity.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I am a love healer and spiritual counselor whose passion and mission is to coach people to a better feeling state of being in body, mind and spirit. I do this by utilizing my powerful spiritual toolbox containing love energy, plant allies, affirmations, meditation, rituals, limpias and ceremony, in addition to my RedMelanin line of wearable remedies/athleisurewear for the entire family, which you can find here yvonnerosegarden.myshopify.com
What exactly is a love healer? My definition of a love healer is one who offers and shares “medicine of the heart,” non-judgmental, loving, confidential, caring-care, with lightness and a sense of fun that considers and respects the divinity inherent in each individual. I work with people one-to-one, and once we have completed an initial consultation, I design a custom treatment, a “Soul Prescription” that is unique for each person. People who book sessions with with me seek positive transformation in their lives, and I partner with them to help raise their vibration and attract/achieve their vision of a Beautiful Life.
My passion has always been about service, expanded over the years from creating and offering community cultural/ educational projects; the “Reunion of Families–Building Your Family Cultural Tree”; the very successful Mindful Community Project that has served people of all ages internationally, in the United States, Bermuda, South and Central America since 2006, including the MY POWER GIRL POWER! conferences held at the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College in Atlanta. I combined my love of positively impacting people through projects with my wisdom, skill and experiences as an indigenous folk healer (influenced and taught by Saponi, Chickasaw, Creole, Curanderismo, and Tico/Costa Rican family, maestra and shaman).
During the pandemic I started a pop-up, the “I AM PEACE” Station…a public social remedy to address the feelings of isolation, fear and disconnection we were dealing with. I popped up on the Atlanta Beltline, MARTA Stations and regularly posted up at the Stonecrest Fresh Farmer’s Market DeKalb County. I invited people to share a cup of tea, positive affirmations and a real hug! All one had to do was say, “I AM PEACE” to check in for an amazing exchange of wonderful energy and high vibrations! It was amazing how responsive visitors were—pausing for a moment to experience and share a peaceful moment with a stranger is so powerful!
Fast forward 3 years and now I am opening a permanent space for the “I AM PEACE” Station at 210 Peters Street SW in the Historic Castleberry Hill neighborhood, March 2024! I am thrilled to help raise the vibration in such a key location for residents as well as for visitors coming to downtown to the Georgia World Congress Center, the Mercedes Benz Stadium, State Farm Arena, Centennial Olympic Park and all the wonderful places nearby.
A quick check-in to the “I AM PEACE” Station is such a powerful antidote to the many mini and micro stressors we face daily! When traffic congestion throughout the city causes feelings of anxiety and anger, when your work/life is out of balance, when you encounter rude and annoying situations, poor or non-existent customer service, come check in to the “I AM PEACE” Station for some hot ginger tea (FIRE!), positive, affirmative conversation about YOU, deep breathing exercises and a fantastic hug or greeting of your choice: handshake, namskar, or hand over heart! This transformative experience happens in moments—as you leave to reenter the world outside, your new high vibrational point will have you cruising through the rest of your day!
Atlanta’s newest high-vibe “I AM PEACE” Station is something you must experience for your heightened well-being! Opening March 2024! Purchase tickets here yvonnerosegarden.square.site
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
In the business of healing, curiosity is a key component to success. Curiosity allows one to acquire information, processes relevant to one’s scope of practice. Curiosity allows for the lifelong expansion of knowledge!
Flexibility is a wonderful super power. If you can flow with/through change, you can succeed. Rigidity stunts growth and keeps you stuck in the same place. If one is rigid in thoughts and deeds, it does not allow for personal and financial growth.
A sense of self-forgiveness is key. To be able to forgive yourself for perceived failures and shortcomings is powerful. Learn from mistakes, add this new knowledge to your toolbox, and move forward without taking a baggage of shame along with you.
How can folks who want to work with you connect?
I love to work with folks who are interested in living their own beautiful lives, folks who are really interested in the expansion of all-good experiences! Do you want to create more love, peace, prosperity, well-being in your life? I would love to partner with you to realize these desires—I have fun, enriching and effective methods to share! Book a session at yvonne.rosegarden.square.site. For additional information, you can reach me at 770.589.8208.
Contact Info:
- Website: yvonnerosegarden.square.site
- Instagram: @iam.peacestation
- Facebook: Yvonne Rosegarden
- Linkedin: Yvonne Rosegarden
- Other: retail store: yvonnerosegarden.myshopify.com
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