Today we’d like to introduce you to Natalie Zacharias.

Hi Natalie, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?

I was working in the corporate world for six years and felt a strong intuitive nudge that it was time for a dramatic change. After a beautifully deep spiritual experience I felt strongly that it was time to forge a different path that wove spirituality and psychology together. I started looking for graduate programs that resonated with this viewpoint. I realized holding space for transformation came naturally to me but I didn’t feel called to follow the traditional path of psychology. Once my next step became clear, I quit my job, packed my bags, and moved to San Francisco where I was accepted into the Integral Counseling program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Little did I know that by moving to San Francisco I would be introduced to a beautiful community of people who were exploring their healing paths too. I was introduced to sacred plant medicine ceremonies, indigenous elders, alternative healing modalities, and so much more. I was studying for my degree while also attending a spirit school outside of the classroom. I went through so many initiations and started to remember who I was and why I was here. I have been reclaiming ancestral ways of healing and tending to the earth. I’m learned the power of ceremony and the multidimensionality of the reality we are experiencing. I started to feel more empowered to step into my medicine and share my heart and voice with the world. One thing I learned through the years is the importance of working on my healing because that informed the depth I’m able to hold with those who show up for support with their own transformation.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?

It hasn’t been a smooth road. I’ve had to face a lot of challenges and integrate a lot of wounds that were triggered through the years. I transformed from being a people pleaser to learning how to have boundaries and meet my needs first as the best way to show up for others. I’ve faced really intense spiritual initiations that completely shook up my life and made me face some really tough realities. I’ve had to bravely stand in my truth when the world was telling me what I believed was not true. I’ve had friendships end because there was no longer resonance. I’ve faced heartbreak in so many ways. I’ve gone into the depths of grief and held space for others to do the same. I have faced many fears and at times have felt all alone. It was in choosing to go through the pain and coming out the other side I felt more clarity on where to go next and who I want to have around me as my community. Through it all, I’ve felt like the phoenix rising from the ashes again and again. I’ve lived that saying “when one door closes, many others open” again and again. I’ve learned how to show up for myself when I get anxious about the unknown. I’ve learned on a very deep level that I am the creator of my own reality and I’m not a victim of anything that I experience.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?

I’m a guide for radical transformation and deep healing with people who are ready for liberation. This can be through the energy healing modality that I’m a certified practitioner for called The Emotion Code or through my 1-on-1 Transformational Coaching sessions that I provide virtually. I also support community through an online collaboration I’m currently co-facilitating with my friend Liv Wheeler called Cosmic Mother Culture or through our upcoming 5-month Daughters of the Milky Way: Priestess Training that we are co-facilitating both online starting in August and in person at La Lunita Jungle Retreat Center in Mexico this December. I love helping the beautiful souls I work with realize the magic that exists within their souls and release anything that holds them back from expressing their authentic heart with the world. I’m also really good at helping people navigate conflict. When I’m working with a group and conflict comes up, I’m the person who gets called upon to hold space for transforming the conflict and helping to harmonize the energies and personalities.

What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?

The most important lesson I’ve learned along my journey is the joy of bravely following your heart and living authentically. I could have been very successful in the ways that our society measures success if I continued working in the corporate setting but I would have been very unhappy. It has been scary to follow my heart and stop trying to live my life according to what society says is the “right” way to live but I’ve never been happier. There is so much joy in living a path that allows for you to share your heart and to experience the impact that has on people. I save all the messages people have sent me over the years of how the work that we’ve done together changed their lives in beautiful ways. It inspires me to keep going and to continue to step into the unknown because the potential of what I’m sharing with others is beyond anything I could imagine. One thing I know for sure about this life, I’m meant to change millions of lives. I feel the most important way I can achieve that goals is to continue to live authentically, to continue to devote time and energy to my own healing, and to trust in the guidance I receive from Spirit/God/Goddess/Creator of all that is.

Pricing:

• Emotion Code Sessions $57-80 (sliding Scale)
• 1-on-1 Transformational sessions $110-130 (sliding scale)
• Daughters of the Milky Way: Priestess Training $5,555

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.heal.me/tendingyourspirit
• Instagram: www.instagram/tendingyourspirit
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvuUQa4DhyAad9t04ri1z3w
• Other: https://www.tendingyourspirit.com