Integrating our Work as Healers into Mainstream Endeavors with Carol Woodliff - The Practical Shaman

Carol Woodliff is a shaman and author. Her award-winning book From Scared to Sacred is a memoir and a reflection on bringing the sacred into everyday moments. Her current writing project is about healing the heart of business. She has worked as a manager in some of the nation's most prestigious corporate law firms and as a marketing and business development person in the engineering field. Carol is also a book doula. She mentors authors as they move from concept to the birth of a completed manuscript. You can find more about Carol at CarolWoodliff.com. Topic Questions with ideas of where me might go (More than 30 minutes here) What are the challenges healers and spiritual people face in trying to bring their medicine with them into the world.  We often separate our medicine time from "normal life" divorcing shaman work or healing work from everyday life, Day Jobs etc. and feel disconnected. o "This isn't who I am" o Fear of being judged as woo-woo  Not having a clear sense of boundaries. o Feeling like we have to heal everything. Taking on other people's work for them What helps that?  Setting clear intentions or visions for how you want to walk in the world  You don't have to proclaim it to do it.  Knowing that every interaction can be healing or depleting  Your mission each day can be small.  Knowing that we do our work when we show up  Bring your blessings with you. Example: I bless each proposal I send out for an engineering firm I work with. I have a higher win rate than many of my peers. Is this because I am a great writer? I am. But could it also be the secret sauce of having a shaman envision the connection as a loving win for all? (We could do more storytelling of how we have shifted things by presence and using tools rather than a "how to") How do you bring your medicine when you work in jobs you have worked Renee? A lot of sensitive people get depleted out in the world. How do you keep from spreading yourself too thin?  Prayers or space opening  Having grounding and clearing practices  Rituals for coming home and disconnection  Compassion for being human  Mentors and Friends to brain storm and debrief with.