ABOUT KARALLYN

MORE ABOUT ME

“Karallyn is an accomplished healer. I have known her for well over a decade and have witnessed her boundless transformations… from a frightened girl struggling to survive her horrific childhood traumas… to embracing courage and inner strength… and having become the confident woman and exceptional healer that she is today.”

D.W., 2013

I have had the honor of doing healing work with others since 2001. I have been studying energy medicine, spirituality, trauma healing, somatics, Earth-based healing, and all things healing since 1993.

I have always been deeply feeling, sensitive, and aware of the subtle realms of energy and have been connected to the spirit world all my life. My fascination with the world of the unseen began when I was very young when I began seeing spirits and otherworldly beings. I was interested in what secrets the darkness and the unknown realms held from then on. This naturally led me to explore the metaphysical, the paranormal, shadow work, dream work, Shamanism, and other esoteric paths.

I am a highly sensitive person, an empath, a survivor of childhood trauma (more of an overcomer), an INFJ, manifesting generator, Scorpio sun, Scorpio rising, and Capricorn moon.

I lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 25 years and have been living in the beautiful mountains of Asheville, North Carolina with my husband Steve and our three dogs since 2017. Life is good, and I am happier now at 52 than I have ever been in my life.

My Skills as a Healer

I am an empath, and a highly sensitive person, and I am an intuitive, which means that I feel the emotions and energy of others. I have been practicing multiple forms of healing since 2001. All of my abilities, life experience, and studies come into play with my work as a healer and coach. I feel that my innate abilities are at the core of my work, and the skills that I have learned through training and life experience simply augment and support them.

A Little About My Journey

I believe that the most adept healers walking the Earth are those who truly have walked their own healing path and overcome personal trauma. We can all learn so much about healing, to be sure, but to walk the path from utter darkness into the light is a whole other story. When we traverse these back roads ourselves, we become very adept at navigating the darkness, the realms that are unseen and unknown to so many, and as a result, we become wonderful way showers for others.

I don’t want to get too much into my history here, for my past is something that I went through and in no way reflects who I have become, but I do feel that it is important to share with those that I am here to help who may have been through similar traumas. I am a survivor of childhood trauma and what has helped me the most are the very tools that I offer my clients and students.

I grew up in an alcoholic family, a child of every kind of abuse: physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as neglect. There was no real support and there was constant chaos in my childhood, with no safe people to help me feel loved and cared for. From the beginning, I did not feel safe in the world at all and neither of my parents was there for me emotionally in any way. I felt isolated and alone, and I felt somehow deeply broken.

When I was only eight years old, my mother committed suicide. This was the pivotal event that changed the entire course of my life. Not long after, my father remarried an abusive, mean-hearted woman and things somehow went from bad to worse. Years of mental, and emotional abuse followed, filled with manipulation, gaslighting, control, and domination, and my father sat idly doing nothing to defend or protect me. It was horrific on many levels.

Needless to say, all of these events shaped who I became as a young adult. I had little sense of self and was completely traumatized and without any kind of healthy support or guidance. For years I was stumbling around in the darkness of anxiety, depression, hopelessness, self-hatred, and unresolved grief and trauma. I struggled with addiction and chronic and debilitating fear, and I had many failed relationships. It took me decades to come to terms with my mother’s early death and the abuses that I suffered, but I did. I grieved and finally came to a place of acceptance.

It took me a long time to recognize that the things that I went through shaped me in beneficial and not-so-beneficial ways. How would one benefit from a childhood of trauma and pain? Well…my pain is the very thing that led me on a path of self-healing, self-discovery, self-acceptance, and spirituality, and on the path to becoming a healer. I was so desperate to feel better, you see…I was miserable, and so I did a lot of seeking and healing work that led me to eventually trust myself, trust life, trust my intuition, and other gifts.

To paraphrase the great writer Clarissa Pinkola Estes, the greatest healers are those who learned young, out of necessity through just trying to survive, how to put their ear to the ground to listen for what was coming next. This is the heart of intuition - this kind of deep listening. This is how we survive childhood trauma…we become very good at listening and feeling for what is coming next. We develop our sixth sense out of desperation to survive untenable circumstances. This is how some of the best energy healers, intuitive, psychics, and shamanic healers begin, by honing their survival skills in utter chaos and darkness. It’s certainly where mine was born, and for that, I am grateful, as my instincts and intuition have now become my greatest asset and strength.

I am grateful for the opportunity to guide others who have come from similar backgrounds and struggles in reclaiming their power.