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

Katherine, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Being a business owner can be really hard sometimes. It’s rewarding, but most business owners we’ve spoken sometimes think about what it would have been like to have had a regular job instead. Have you ever wondered that yourself? Maybe you can talk to us about a time when you felt this way?

I absolutely love being a business owner! I think it’s normal to think about having a “normal job” when finances ebb and flow in our small businesses. Especially with the state of the economy & prices of literally everything almost quadrupling in the last few years. This being said, I know how mind numbing and soul sucking it feels to be in a 9-5 job…at least that’s how I feel in them compared to running a small business. A lot of people can feel safety & security in having a 9-5 job and that’s wonderful. I’m just the person that feels trapped like I’m on a hamster wheel when working for someone else. It’s all about what makes you happy individually. Everyone is different and there’s so much beauty in that.

For me personally, working for myself is so much more in depth and time consuming than a 9-5, but also so much more rewarding. I don’t like being told what to do. Haha. I love having the freedom to do what I want, when I want. It’s amazing to me that I get the opportunity to get paid for helping others and that’s truly the most rewarding thing that nourishes my soul.

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

I got into the self help, healing & spiritual communities full time officially in 2020. I was getting out of my last domestic violence situation that almost took my life multiple times and unfortunately I was no stranger to those types of relationships. I finally hit rock bottom you could say and needed a complete overhaul on my life. I dove head first into my own healing journey and although I’ve always been working on healing, this was a full commitment. I had been bedridden for the better part of a decade and honestly had nothing left to lose…and everything to gain.

When I started diving into quantum energy healing, meditation, hypnosis, NLP, subliminals, Breathwork & everything I could get my hands on, I did it full time like it was my job. I had previously taught myself how to produce and mix music and brought those skills into the studio to start creating digital products. I incorporated all the knowledge I could find regarding healing frequencies and would mix them into the tracks I was creating.

I dedicated a full year to healing myself from the inside out before I felt comfortable starting to take clients especially when it came to energy work. I knew I was really great at doing it but the gifts I was born with used to scare me as a child. It was time to embrace my gifts and be of service to the collective. I’ve dedicated my life to constantly healing, learning, growing & being of service to help others.

The products and services I offer are always evolving but currently I have a few subscription services available for my light code meditation videos & my Breathwork sessions which are also incorporated into the meditation videos. I also offer some of these for free on YouTube.

I’m currently serving the community of Kansas City by offering Breath, Sound & Energy Healing group sessions in a private salt water pool each first Saturday of the month in Grain Valley. (Spaces are limited.)

I offer limited access to 1:1 sessions and can customize packages for anyone looking for deeply transformational experiences in any areas of life.

I’m currently planning out more group programs and offers as well and those will be launched as soon as the curriculum is ready so stay tuned!

The problems I solve are quite vast and vary from client to client. Some of my clients have come to me unable to function in life or even drive due to severe anxiety & after one session that was completely alleviated & they got their life back.

I’ve had business owners come to me worried they’d have to shut down their business because their clients dwindled down to nothing out of nowhere it seemed. After one session I identified their energetic blocks and as soon as I cleared them, they had a fully booked schedule again and a long wait list.

I’ve helped mend strained or broken relationships with friends, family or significant others. I’ve helped people alleviate physical pains that turned out to be stuck trauma & emotions that needed to be released.
I’ve helped clear money blocks to allow the flow of abundance to come back into people’s lives.

I help coach people through life and their spiritual journeys and it’s such a pleasure to hold space for each and every beautiful soul that comes to me for help. For many years I became very versed in removing entities and doing exorcisms for people that couldn’t find a priest to help them. I have pivoted away from focusing on that as it does take a lot of energy to do those sorts of healing sessions and I want to shift into teaching people how to heal themselves.

I love assisting others with shifting their mindset and working through core traumatic events that have turned into the energetic blocks standing in the way of what they desire.

I love sharing how Breathwork helped transform my entire existence especially with helping me get off of all my medications, especially for adhd & anxiety. Even just enjoying my light codes can bring people to a wonderful sense of wellbeing & calm. I just love helping others and watching people grow & flourish. There are so many stories of people I’ve had the pleasure in helping and I look forward to many more going forward.

Even though my business name is Holy Shift Healing, I don’t base my services on any religious teachings. I personally had a lot of religious trauma to work through and I still am to this day. I welcome anyone that I ready, willing & able to do the work they need to live a better life and become the very best versions of themselves that they can be.

I also have a private group on Facebook especially for those who are ready to take their next steps forward and want to heal, learn, grow & thrive together. We’d be happy to welcome you to our sacred space.

I just want everyone to remember that it’s never too late to change the reality they’re living in. We’re all one choice away from a drastically different life. No matter what you have been through, you always have the choice to live a better life. You just have to find the courage to say yes to yourself and remember that you deserve it.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

I actually decided to pivot my business at the beginning of the year. I had become an internationally certified Breathwork facilitator through the IBF last year but quickly realized that I could not properly breathe through my nose. It was hindering my ability to do my job that I had trained for. I was still only focusing on 1:1 energy healing sessions until the new year because I had to have a surgery to fix my nose from a previous DV injury.

Fast forward to January of this year and I was finally feeling healed enough to start facilitating Breathwork sessions. It was kind of scary diving into a full year’s commitment of only focusing on one thing and that was completely new for me to be facilitating. I think we can all resonate with battling imposter syndrome as we strive to be the best at what we do.

I signed up for a years long business coaching program and we’re told to focus on just one main thing and master that before adding more things to our plate. I’m half way through the coaching program and just diving deeper into how to properly educate my audience on what I actually do. I talk a lot about trauma & narcissistic abuse because it’s what I experienced for so long. But I noticed a lot of pages that talk about it don’t bring solutions to the problems. We need to better equip people with the tools and materials needed to help them on their healing journeys…and at various stages of those journeys as well.

That being said, I feel like I’m constantly pivoting and tweaking what I’m doing until I get it just right. It’s ok to make “mistakes” or put out content and see what lands and what doesn’t…it’s how we learn and grow. This year has been quite the learning experience and I’m so very grateful for it all.

Everything I’m doing is a nonstop work in progress, just as I am in this human experience. I thrive on the feedback from my clients so I may always learn, grow & pivot what I’m offering to help solve whatever problems they have.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

Absolutely. I actually deleted all my social media pages from my previous artist name (Karma Jade) and my clothing lines. My previous career I was a fashion designer, master seamstress & internationally published alternative model. Don’t ever be afraid to burn it all down when you need a fresh start. If what you’re doing is no longer aligned with your soul, just pivot and honor what is.

As for building my following on social media, the best advice I can give everyone is to be authentically yourself. Think about what you’re good at, what the world needs, how you can solve a problem & what you’d love to do regardless if you got paid for it or not. Meet yourself in the middle and find where those passions meet.

For me personally, I started creating digital art as a therapeutic outlet and I started posting it without any expectations or hopes that it would blow up to something big. I did it for me. I talked about my healing journey…the good, the bad & the ugly. I think people really relate to us when we’re open & honest because there’s so many influencers that curate the perfect image of what life should look like through the lense of social media.

Just be you & stay consistent! You’ll get there; I believe in you!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Www.holyshifthealing.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holyshifthealing
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Iamkatherinemarie
• Twitter: @HolyShiftHealing
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@holyshifthealing
• Other: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@holyshifthealing

Image Credits

Chris Hackett of You Can’t Hackett Productions LLC