Today we’d like to introduce you to R.g. Shore
R.g., we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
The spiritual story is not a linear one in my experience. It doesn’t move from point A to point B, but spirals – and often spirals inward. The Universe often works in seasons, bringing events and circumstances in and out of our lives, reminding us of the things we can continue growing in and reflecting on.
While I am the Award-winning author of the Spiritual Memoir: The Ocean Inside Me, Winner of the Prestigious Gold Nautilus Award in Memoir and Personal Journey, also a Spiritual Counselor and Meditation Teacher, and founder of Northwest Wisdom, a nonprofit organization for healing and embodied spirituality, I am first and foremost a Person of Color and a formerly incarcerated person. I am also a husband and partner, artist, musician, writer, hiker and outdoor enthusiast. We wear many hats, I suppose.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The spiritual journey, the healing journey, is never a smooth road. True healing requires us to go into the wound. It requires that we sit with the hurt that we need to sit with and address the pain that we need to address. I call it pain work, there’s no way around it. Often I tell people, you can’t Reiki your way out of the healing, you can’t crystal your way out of it, or meditate your way out of it, you can’t preach your way out of it, or pray your way out of it — the only way to healing is through.
My book, The Ocean Inside Me, talks a lot about the struggle, the wounded journey of being a person of color in the PNW, being incarcerated, being a felon, addressing the wound and going into the hurt, being adopted, and working through my own hurt and abandonment wounds. But, in my experience, when we sit with the dark, when we sit with the wound, we learn to transform it into light, in a way that allows us to help heal others around us.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
As talked about already, I am the award-winning author of my Spiritual Memoir: The Ocean Inside Me, a Spiritual Memoir on Healing Racial Trauma. In this current chapter, I am working hard at promoting my book, interviews, booking podcasts and speaking engagements, working with clients, and trying to be a good partner and husband to my gorgeous partner, and best Friend. I founded Northwest Wisdom, a nonprofit, in order to help create a Healing Space for others, a space safe enough that people can come as they are, no matter the wound, learn to sit with themselves, and learn the techniques that I teach that can truly help transform the wound, and get people to a place where they can really move on with their lives and live out their life’s purpose in new and full ways.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Be gentle with yourself. Be compassionate towards yourself. Get to know yourself. Go Inward and allow what is to be.
Pricing:
- I meet with clients 1-1 and the pricing for 1-1 Spiritual Counseling is $125 an hour, but I work with clients on a sliding scale.
- My book is available online on Amazon, and other bookstores for $16.95
- My Master course on Healing Trauma is available through the website and is priced at $19.99
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.northwestwisdom.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/northwest_wisdom/
- Facebook: Book a Free Consult here: https://www.northwestwisdom.org/book-a-session
- Twitter: Get The Ocean Inside Me here: https://a.co/d/f3J7sAl
- Other: https://www.udemy.com/course/healing-trauma-through-visual-meditation/?ranMID=39197&ranEAID=%2FjZHTpnCvx8&ranSiteID=_jZHTpnCvx8-kXSUoe4OLbvpCS10HAYDJA&LSNPUBID=%2FjZHTpnCvx8&utm_source=aff-campaign&utm_medium=udemyads&couponCode=OF83024F
