We were lucky to catch up with Amy Hellman recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Amy, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
My purpose is a constantly evolving work-in-progress. There was not one definitive moment in which I acknowledged, “and now, I am on the right track.” Rather, a series of events over time led me to peel away the veils of denial, limited perspective, and obligations that drew me away from identifying and understanding who I am, how I operate, and what I would like to focus on in my personal and professional life.
Essentially, my “purpose” made itself clearer to me as I realized and began to take intentional action around limiting the experiences that were toxic, abusive, unsafe, or contrary to how I best communicate with others.
For me, the theme of my entire life has been communication. Having had a speech impediment from a young age and felt the very real implications of not being understood, communication became not only a necessity, but something that I recognized that value of having be direct, open, honest, and kind from a very early age.
this awareness informed my educational choices, my relationship choices, both personally and professionally, as well as mydecisions to change course suddenly and unexpectedly.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
For several decades, I have focused my practice as an educator, coach, healer, and spiritual counselor to create a neutral and safe space for my students and clients to be themselves. My role in our sessions, classes, workshops, and seminars is always to be a witness to who they are in the present moment, and to hold fast to the potential I see very clearly is available for them. I maintain a trust that every person is capable, and allowed to embody their authentic selves as a birth right, and along the way, we as individuals get turned around, confused, distracted, and the result is the development of inefficient ways to embody safely. My role in every session and class I facilitate is to give the student/client permission to feel safe embodying. Safe enough to illuminate for themselves- sometimes through my aide, sometimes on their own- where their route to authentic safe embodiment is facing a challenge, and to build, create, and practice methods to train the nervous to trust that its own embodiment can be done safely.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
1. Communication: physical, emotional, intellectual, linguistic, spiritual: the ability to listen for understanding always above all else is paramount in success and fulfillment of any kind creates connection. 2. Honesty and responsibility toward one self, others, and one’s community that you are an important part of this existence, and everything you have done and experienced matters and has brought you to where you are right now.
3. Staying curious and inquisitive. Always trust there is more to know about every situation, and stay in a beginner’s mindset about everything you experience. This not only opens you up for new possibilities where previously you may have thought you were locked into a behavior that was quite limiting, but it also creates windows of compassion, kindness, connection and understanding where before was only resistance.
Tell us what your ideal client would be like?
My ideal client is a person who is or has been undergoing a massive life transition. These life transitions can manifest physically in the form of somaticized stress, disease or illness, emotionally, relationally or otherwise. When these massive life shifts occur, it invites an opportunity for a deep existential redefining of Self. The result: a lot of obsolete definitions of self fall away.
I love working with individuals during this time right before, during, and after the departure from the old, the unburdening of the past, the stepping out into the unbounded space of possibility, before they reach the new shore of their identity, and when they reach it, I love supporting them in stepping into an embodiment that is not just guaranteeing their survival but making physical space for their fulfillment and thriving
Contact Info:
- Website:www.mannahealing.com
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