We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful SpiritBird Holton. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with SpiritBird below.

Hi SpiritBird , thanks for joining us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

During my childhood, I had encounters with the spirit realms, psychic gifts, and prophetic dreams, but I struggled to understand their meaning. I felt lost and confused without a clear cultural context of what was happening.

All of these experiences I was having in the 3D (of the spirit realm) was way too much to handle.

This feeling like a black cloud moved in, leaving me with a throbbing question – ‘am I crazy?’

I remember the moment when it all started.

I was in second grade, lying in bed on a Sunday night.

This incredible sense of overwhelm came over me when I thought about the week ahead and getting up for school the next morning.

I didn’t want to go to school and I would have to do that the next day… and the day after… and years to follow before I would ever get out.

It felt like eternity having to go day-in and day-out, doing something I didn’t want to do.

Eventually this feeling simmered and didn’t really rise or come back around until years later.

When I became a teenager, I started to experience love, comparison, judgment and all of the traditional things… and also…

I saw spirits at the edges of woods at dawn and dusk and sometimes in the house or different places I would go.

I heard voices in my head when I was in school.

All of this was so challenging to navigate, I felt smothered by it.

I remember when I was a kid, I had this sense that magic was real… like I can actually feel spirit in my body and in my hands and that feeling was undeniable.

But, then when I got to be a teenager, it continued…

“I am aware this is highly unusual… Am I psychotic?”

“No… I know I am really experiencing this.”

Back-and-forth on a daily basis with this mind-banter.

Right along with all of this, I was experiencing a lot of the traits that go along with empathy…

I had a ‘big antenna’ as my therapist would say.

And, I didn’t realize how much I was absorbing from the world around me.

So much pain and grief… feeling environmental devastation, the abuses that happen in the world and overall unfairness.

I had a lot of emotions running through my system and didn’t have a framework to understand or the emotional maturity to process…

So it festered into this wound and I went further and further down into a deep dark pit.

I thought ‘what’s the point’ on a regular basis.

Spirituality felt like despair and something needed to change.

Instead of enjoying the magic… of well, magic… I was experiencing nothing but overwhelm, frustration, and pain.

Seeing spirits, hearing voices, and absorbing the energy of the world.

I had the intellect of someone 10-years older but lacked the emotional capacity to process the things that someone 10-years older would.

Shutting out my gifts or checking into a mental health program seemed like the only option.

Until this happened…

One night changed the entire trajectory of my life, during a rare cousin sleepover at my aunt and uncle’s house.

They were very worldly people with treasures all through-out their house… I didn’t want the night to end with so many exciting things to look into.

But, what was on the other side was even better.

The morning after the sleepover, we all sat around the table sipping miso for breakfast, made by my aunt and uncle.

And somehow my cousins and I had gotten onto the subject of dreams, everybody taking turns sharing what they remember from their dreams the night before.

When it got to my turn and I was sharing, my aunt and uncle stopped dead in their tracks… staring at me… and then each other.

Gobsmacked with the power my dream held and the meaning behind it… encouraging me to write it down.

And that was the last I thought of it.

Unbeknownst to me, my uncle contacted my mother because he was so excited about discovering my dreamwork and set her up with a dream dictionary, voice recorder and dream journal.

When the holiday came around, I unwrapped these very tools… perhaps the most sacred, meaningful gift I’ve ever received.

I started to use them and that’s when my dream practice started.

So, from middle school all through high school, I recorded almost every dream that I could remember… and still have those books today.

Because of that experience they’ve always been an important part of my life.

As I got older, I began to learn it’s also a part of my unique spiritual gifts and accessing my gifts on a conscious level changed the game. Through an ongoing personal healing journey, I connected to my higher calling and learned how to bring my gifts forward.

I went from my only hope being a mental health program to creating a thriving life and business.

I now help other spiritually gifted people learn how to grow their gifts and create a thriving spiritual business that aligns with them and truly helps others, having multiple 6-figure income and time freedom to do the things I enjoy, like building space for retreats, contributing to non profits, speaking, traveling, and visiting with friends and family.

SpiritBird , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Holton Healing Arts help people master their spiritual gifts and learn how to bring them into for through a business, community work, or leadership programs. Unlike many other spiritual programs that teach everyone to do the same thing, we help individuals access their own unique way of working to bring about the most healing and transformation.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

Back in the day, I founded an all natural body care and cosmetics company with my best friend and beekeeping was an important part of sourcing our ingredients.

I actually had a lot of fun tending to the bees and working with my bestie, but I realized part way through that it wasn’t going to take off the way I desired…

Entrepreneurial time, freedom and money was… let’s say… sparse because I wasn’t aligned with the work I was doing, nor was this something I deeply cared about.

I thought that if I focused hard enough on the results I wanted… time freedom, financial abundance, impact that it wouldn’t matter how I got there. In reality I kept blocking myself because it just wasn’t my true passion. I let the company go far longer than I should have because it was working well enough. It was hard to let go of something that was working. When I finally admitted to myself what I really wanted to do and gave myself the belief that people wanted it, I was able to make the leap.

So, we closed the company at the end of 2019 and I went on to open Holton Healing Arts 6-months later. Within a year and a half we hits six-figures. I learned so much from my first venture, but I am so glad I had the courage to pursue what I really wanted to do.

Can you share one of your favorite marketing or sales stories?

a lot of folks that are still stuck in the 3D marketing world will say you can’t do business with only energetics- heck I say that too sometimes! But the truth is, you CAN. I do it all the time and I watch my students do it over an over again as well.

I’m a multidimensional being, what can I say. And I finally healed the part of me that was constantly trying to get away from the 3D reality.
But I love navigating the invisible realms- it’s one of my geniuses.
So when people come to me and tell me the wild ways they asked the universe for something and then found me, I’m not surprised.
Like when one of my students in Texas said she asked for a sign about Shaman School while she was driving and then she pulled behind a car with my initials on an Alaska plate! (Alaska was where I was living at the time)
When you give yourself permission to use your gifts (and know how to use them) things like this are not uncommon.
This is a primary way that I not only keep my business going, but have fun doing it while also giving my students amazing experiences.
We get to play in our gifts together.
But I also like to have structure in my business to keep me supported.
It is my attachment to the 3D world, but it is also how I am a bridge.
So even though I support the structure, the data, all the 3D things to have a successful business please know that if you are clear, confident, and trust yourself you don’t have to play that game.
Like when one of my clients had a session with me and the same day had 4 clients reach out to her seemingly out of the blue (magic shit) and then one of them turned into a high paying client who she is going to help so much (structure).
Here’s the thing though. I see a lot of spiritual people trying to bypass the 3D, and you don’t get to do that until you’ve healed your distaste or distrust for it.
Likewise many people stay stuck in the 3D structure because it feels safe and known… and then they miss out on all of the fun, magic, and joyful ways we get to interact with the world and create something new.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://holtonhealingarts.com/shaman-school/
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