We were lucky to catch up with Brianna Ladapo recently and have shared our conversation below.

Brianna, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

I grew up in a deeply religious, fundamentalist family who believed the intuitive gifts I possessed to be of satanic origin. As I struggled to adapt to a world in which I felt completely alien, my desire for self preservation and acceptance led me to actively suppress my gifts. The results was a great deal of suffering, including chronic migraines that constantly put me in the hospital, severe physical illness that nearly killed me, persistent, dark visions of tragedies I could not prevent, and countless sexual traumas and abuses that seemed to define every relationship in my formative years. This lead to a deep distrust and fear of others, incredible self doubt and loathing, and ultimately, a very dark depression.

Finally, a pilgrimage to Egypt and an encounter with a divinely gifted healer reawakened my gifts, and I learned how to transmute energy, thus truly freeing myself from my own trauma as well as the pervasive trauma in my ancestral line.
Thanks to lessons and skills I learned from this healer, I have now created a life I passionately love, invulnerable to the external programming, fear, and shame that are constantly weaponized to influence humanity.

Though it may appear as though our world has never been darker or housed more suffering, humanity is experiencing an unprecedented awakening—and each of us has chosen to participate. We are witnessing the convergence of human understanding and divine expression that will ultimately lead to the ascension of humankind and the creation of a new world that works for everyone. But in order to create this beautiful new world, we must have the courage and clarity to leave the old one behind.

My mission is now to help as many others as possible do just that by freeing themselves from trauma, stress, and suffering, reclaiming their sovereign souls, discovering their life’s true purpose, and finding the courage to pursue it fearlessly. I believe there is no more important endeavor then healing the trauma in your lineage and stepping into who you really, truly are at a soul level, because after all—that’s exactly who the world needs you to be. This is the mission of my book, my practice, and the nonprofit organizations I work with.

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

I am an energetic healer, coach, naturopath, author, and speaker, and was born with strong intuitive gifts. As a highly sensitive child, I was always very aware of how others were feeling, and I could read their thoughts and moods as easily as I could my own. I could quite literally see the energy of other humans as colorful, swirling auras, which immediately informed me of their disposition and intentions. I knew things about people simply by looking at them, and often baffled my parents with my ability to discern someone’s family life, level of happiness at work, or history of abuse just by being in their presence. Whenever I thought about a thing or place or person, all of my senses would collaborate to create a profound experience of that thing in my mind, and I would simultaneously smell or taste or feel it as strongly as if it was right there in front of me.

As long as I can remember, I have received communications from beings beyond this realm. Even as a young child, angels regularly spoke to me, relaying messages of comfort, hope, and safety, and I came to rely on these messages to navigate my Earth journey. Since I was born, I have also received constant communications in the form of visions. At first, I thought I was merely having dreams like everyone else, but I soon realized that my dreams were actually premonitions, as they kept coming true.

Though I repressed and ignored these gifts for many years as a result of my deeply religious upbringing, they came roaring back with unprecedented power and accuracy after I worked with a divinely gifted healer named Christopher Maher. The lessons I learned and the skills I gained working with him immediately started creating miracles in my daily life. In the days after our work concluded, I noticed myself experiencing emotions with the passion, intensity, and depth I did as a little girl, before I shut my feelings down to protect myself. It felt like a thick layer of armor had dissolved, allowing more and more of my true nature to shine through. I was no longer afraid to feel things, and more importantly, I was no longer afraid to let others see how I felt.

The fear-based paralysis I used to experience on a daily basis about every little thing from my actions, to my interactions, to what might happen, simply disappeared. I had frequent, amazing interactions with strangers who went out of their way to be respectful, thoughtful, and deferential toward me rather than cruel and predatory (as had previously been my experience). I noticed that I was suddenly able to communicate with extreme clarity and grace under any circumstances, and was unshaken by the negative behavior of others.

Physically, I started experiencing drastically increased flexibility, agility, strength, and endurance, and I noticed that my hair and nails started growing incredibly fast. Everyone I knew was asking me what I had done to my skin, as getting rid of all that stress took years off my face. Cuts and bruises began healing in record time, and I was working out twice as hard and recovering in half the time. My relationship with the divine felt clearer and more magical than ever. My visions became even more frequent, more detailed, and more beautiful—and started occurring as often in my waking state as my sleeping state.

Everything about my life changed for the better after I learned how to transmute trauma and remove its hold on my soul, and now I dedicate my life to helping others find the same peace, power, and freedom.

So how do you rid yourself permanently of fear, shame, judgment, and pain? How do you access your true purpose and find the courage to pursue it fearlessly? How do you heal your lineage and free future generations from the trappings of inherited trauma?

Healing yourself—and your lineage—starts with shedding behavioral patterns and limiting beliefs that no longer serve you or the collective consciousness.  We all inherit the beliefs and stress patterns of our parents and grandparents, but as our level of consciousness rises, we realize that, though they did the best they could at the time, their methods of parenting and living were not necessarily constructive for us or for humanity. It is our duty to recognize that destructive patterns of behavior like domestic violence, addictions, unhealthy eating habits, and sedentary lifestyles are no longer acceptable, and that the dark energies associated with such behavior cannot survive as we collectively raise our vibration.

In my current practice, I offer energetic counseling and healing, health coaching, life coaching, and channeling, but my specialty is transmuting personal and intergenerational trauma, as that is often the most impactful way to create dramatic, permanent change in one’s life. Everything is energy, and while energy cannot be destroyed, it can be changed. Transmutation is an energetic healing practice that transforms low-functioning vibrations, energy, and behaviors that don’t serve you into high-functioning vibrations, energy, and behaviors that do serve you.

There is no greater calling or more profound achievement than healing your life and lineage. If you are willing to do the work, a beautiful, magical existence that you love is not just possible—it’s your birthright.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

In the endless debate of nature v. nurture, prevailing schools of thought have long asserted that people simply are who they are, and that trauma in our ancestry and upbringing has little to do with the choices we make as adults. Even when past trauma is acknowledged as a possible part of the equation, it’s often only personal trauma that is considered.

However, the truth—which I learned the hard way— is that we are all profoundly affected by our ancestry. When a person experiences trauma, it alters how their body reads their DNA, thus changing the way their genes function. Those epigenetic idiosyncrasies are then passed down to each subsequent generation. In other words, the trauma experienced by our parents and their parents and their parents gets passed down to us, thereby burdening us with stress and pain that we are destined to either resolve, or repeat and pass along to our own children—along with all of the additional trauma we have accumulated in our lifetimes. This means that every bit of pain and suffering from violence, abuse, neglect, enslavement, and persecution is carried forward into every new generation until someone in that lineage has the strength, courage, and wherewithal to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma.

This powerful realization fundamentally changed the way I view my parents and upbringing. In my limited perspective as a child, I believed that they were abusive and unkind because they did not love me. Now, I realize that their unhappiness had nothing to do with me, and in fact long predated me. They inherited their pain from their parents, just like their parents did from theirs. What I perceived as cruel, uncaring behavior was simply them functioning as best they could within the confines of their inherited stress levels.

We are comfortable with the idea of inheriting physical deficiencies from our parents, like sickle cell anemia or alopecia, but most of us don’t realize that we also inherit their emotional deficiencies, like a tendency toward violent behavior or susceptibility to sexual abuse. These predispositions dictate the way you respond to certain stimuli, so even when you think you are acting of your own free will, your epigenetics are dictating the way you relate to the world around you. Until you do the work necessary to interrupt those stress patterns, you are at their mercy, destined to play out the life you inherited.

Most people today are walking wounded, living in a perpetual state of trauma response, and I want everyone to know that it doesn’t have to be that way; you have options at your disposal, and you CAN heal and permanently end that cycle of suffering.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When I got pregnant with my first child, I became extremely ill. My migraines were worse than ever, my hormone levels were wildly out of control, I was in so much pain I could barely stand. Despite seeing several specialists, I was not getting any better. No one could figure out what was causing my illness . . . and how could they? The underlying problem—unbeknownst even to me—was that the enormous burden of my emotional and sexual traumas were manifesting as physical illness, insisting on being recognized and dealt with.

Having grown up in a family who believed solely in western medicine, this had not occurred to me, and I thought little of seeing doctor after doctor, all of whom prescribed medication to treat my symptoms, and then more medication to treat the side effects of those medications. It got to the point where I was so drugged and detached from myself that I could barely remember who or where I was, and life was proceeding without me. Even when the medications gave me enough pain relief to be mildly present, my short-term memory was so affected by the drugs that I could barely recall anything anyway. I remained so seriously ill that I could hardly get out of bed for 18 months, was hospitalized repeatedly, and came dangerously close to death more than once.

To make matters worse, I had grown so depressed that my visions had turned dark, and I was regularly having premonitions of tragedies I could not prevent. It was as if my misery had opened a metaphysical trapdoor into hell, and I was suddenly seeing plane crashes, serial murders, and mass casualty events before they happened. Since I felt I couldn’t share these visions with anyone and I couldn’t prevent any of the horrors I was seeing, I became even more deeply depressed. Soon, I was merely a shadow of myself and grew deeply despondent. For the first time in my life, I struggled with my will to live, finding it only in my husband and our infant son.

As each well-meaning, but ultimately disengaged doctor chased my every new symptom and side effect with pharmaceuticals, I felt worse and worse and lost more and more of myself. One night, while trying fruitlessly to sleep in an uncomfortable hospital bed after being admitted yet again, I had a vision: I saw the earth as a large globe, spinning in space. Within that globe, I saw newer modalities of health, including large hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, and surgical suites populate in grey over the United States, Australia, and much of Europe. Then, I saw traditional healing modalities, like wild-grown produce, clean, sparkling water sources, sunlight, herbs, and joyful communities filled with laughter and dancing populate in gold over much of Africa, Central and South America. Slowly, the entities in grey dropped into the space below the earth and vibrated with dark, oppressive energy. The entities in gold rose to the space above the earth and vibrated with light, joyful energy. The implication was clear: I needed to choose which vibration I resonated with and wanted to be part of.

In that moment, I finally realized that western medicine was not healing me, and was never going to. If I truly wanted to reclaim my health, I had to take full responsibility for it, and commit to dealing with the underlying cause of my illness—my lingering trauma. I immediately fired all of my doctors, got off all medications, and walked away from all of it. Finally understanding that western medicine was not the answer for me, I got myself a naturopathic and holistic health education, got re-acquainted with my own body, did a thorough detox to remove residual drugs and other toxins from my body, removed chemicals from my diet and beauty routine, started eating primarily organic whole foods, resumed regular exercise with an emphasis on weight training, started meditating daily, and spent as much time in nature as possible.

It was slow going at first, but within a matter of weeks, I went from chronically ill and bedridden to being able to take walks, be social, and participate in life again, and within a matter of months, my energy, stamina, and spirit had largely returned, and I was finally starting to feel like myself. I continued on that healing path—ultimately working with an incredible healer who taught me to transmute my trauma—and today, I feel better than I EVER have: I sleep well, I have incredible energy and near-limitless spiritual strength, I am physically stronger and healthier than I was in my twenties. Whereas I once couldn’t even get out of bed most of the time, I now juggle a thriving client practice, a busy writing, speaking, and travel schedule, a nonprofit foundation, and being a wife and mother.

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