Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jean Atman. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Jean thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

I grew up in an extremely abusive and toxic environment in which I developed many limiting beliefs about how life worked. I ended up carrying those belief systems with me into adulthood and found that I continued to draw in narcissistic relationships, struggle, and spent most of my life in survival mode. When I finally reached a breaking point and hit rock bottom from a narcissistic relationship, I had no choice but to make a radical change. I was a single mom of 2 and was stripped from anything that felt supportive of our existence. I gave everything of myself for others and had nothing left. My friends commented that I appeared to be a shell of what I once was. I was living within the limitations I had been taught and soon realized that my beliefs about how life worked were holding me in limitation and keeping me stuck. I had to change.

I took a deep dive into everything that was not working in my life. I learned to translate the past pain, limiting beliefs, triggers, and my defeatist inner dialogue, and finally began understanding how to heal.

Since I have always gravitated towards helping professions, I already worked with people in their healing journey. As my own personal work continued to deepen, my abilities in my professional one also continued to evolve and grow with me. Now, I can happily say that I change people’s lives in very deep and profound ways. I see how they are in their own way, where they are blocked, and how to cross the threshold into a better way of being. I teach not only how to survive, but how to thrive.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My work is different than most as I not only help people heal through past trauma, but I teach and empower them also to heal themselves. They begin to see why they are stuck and how to free themselves from the looping thoughts, triggered emotions, and their current challenges.

Clients come to me with financial struggles, feeling defeated in life, surrounded by toxic relationships, feeling unloved, not heard or understood, and feeling unable to move out of these negative experiences. I help them to bring awareness to the unconscious patterns running their lives and shift them so that they can stop living in survival mode and instead begin living in their potential.

Since everything is made of energy, energy healing is a big part of my work. I am known as a master of depth perception and can see where old traumas are stagnant in the energetic system and how those blocks are now causing challenges in daily life. Once those blocks are freed, people notice a significant shift in how life works around them. Just think if you kept every piece of clothing you have worn since birth. Think about the congestion that would cause in your closet. If you never clear your energy, it is like carrying every memory, thought, and emotion since birth. No wonder people feel so weighted down!

This is why energy clearing is a vital piece of releasing what no longer fits. People begin to see how powerful they are at creating their worlds when they can see exactly where they are actually stuck. They learn to stop focusing on all the external moving parts that feel overwhelming and instead focus inward, where real change can be made.

They not only have me to do the heavy lifting of deep energetic clearing work that is keeping them stuck, but they get a front-row seat to how it works so they can apply that process to anything in the future that might surface later. Because I am an open channel, I can easily see deep within the layers of what keeps people stuck. When they gain that information about where it began, it is much easier to heal and clear it permanently.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

As I mentioned, I grew up in daily abuse and toxicity. I grew to believe that I needed to ensure everyone around me was fine so that I could stay safe. I developed people-pleasing, over-giving, and over-achieving behavior patterns. This eventually led me to extreme burnout and two years of chronic fatigue. I was always overworking on my business and attempting to help as many people as I could – especially the ones who grew up in trauma. I knew life could be a better place for them and was mission-driven to help as many as I could. I grew increasingly tired but continued to push until I could no longer get off my couch.

The experience of debilitating fatigue entered into my life because I was not listening to the cues being sent to me. I did not know how to properly rest and was always riding on adrenaline. I would do anything I could for everybody I could. This was no way to live, as I was… exhausted.

I visited many doctors over those two years and tried everything I could to heal. Nothing worked. It wasn’t until I realized that I could not heal using the same behaviors that brought me into chronic fatigue did I start to turn the corner. I had to stop visiting all the doctors, trying all the gadgets that promised healing, taking all the supplements that guaranteed more energy, reading all the materials I could find on healing fatigue, etc., etc., etc.

Instead, I did what I learned to do before as I healed deep-level wounds. I went in. I began looking at the stored trauma in my body, the behaviors of overdoing and noticed how receiving was not on my radar until I could not move. I applied the same methods I did previously when healing through toxic relationships. I had moved through the old patterns of over-giving to others but was still applying those behaviors to my business. I was not receiving in any capacity close to what I was giving. Once I realized this pattern, I have come to a whole new level of self-care and understanding. I have been learning to receive from others, from the universe, and, most importantly, from myself. It has been the most beautiful unfoldment, and life has taken on an entirely new form.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

I see many practitioners that have the desire to help others. This field tends to draw in people-pleasers and over-givers. When we have an inner wound that is still active, we tend to gravitate toward others with similar ones. Part of this stems from an understanding of what another person is going through, and part of it is attempting to heal something within us. If we do not heal our own wounds, we act from that wound as opposed to a healed version of it.

If you are in a healing profession, it is VITAL to do your own inner work. I see many people who spend no time working on themselves, and I see it as a missed opportunity to help themselves as well as be able to show up in more profound ways for others they are attempting to serve.

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