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

Alright, Mandy thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

One of my biggest risks would have to be getting the courage to escape a cult community in 2018 with 2 small children.
But because of that risk it led me to my truest purpose in life today. Which is guiding countless in their own healing journey. We all have stories of pain as well as victory ones. Escaping this specific controlling community was the biggest step and risk I took to begin my authentic journey back to my roots. Today my story has helped so many. And the ancestral healing I facilitate is very sacred work. When someone is drawn to me I know that their ancestors have been calling them for sometime. Connecting with these ancestors can bring so much healing such as braking patterns and cycles that have continued in their linger for generations.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

I became an ancestral healer in my holistic practice after deep intense shadow work and healing. After leaving a toxic environment I’m 2018 that was not helping me in any way.
I began to heal from years of trauma and pain. Which of course wasn’t easy. But it led me to realize that our bodies have the medicine to guide us. When we are dealing with emotional distress, our bodies feel it too and send signals to alert us. Those alerts can be depression, anxiety, fear, even physical illness or symptoms. I was drenched in all these for years. Even dealing with chronic migraines for so many years. I met a holistic therapist that guided me and helped me find healing inside my body. Emotionally too. The migraines became almost non existent. It was shocking how much the emotional is truly connected to the physical. Even doctors have agreed to this. One doctor named Dr. Gabor Mate speaks on this.
Through years of my own healing, after moving away on my own with 2 small children. I quickly learned that I held the power inside me all along. There was no outside source that could truly direct me. I began trusting and listening to my own intuition. It guided me to begin my own practice of helping so many find their own healing spiritually. As an ancestral healer and holistic spiritual teacher I help you find the connections between the physical pain and emotional. Linking these bring an enlightenment to so many truths. And these truths can lead you to breaking generational cycles and patterns.
Establishing a connection with the power of our ancestors that lived before us because they can reveal so many experiences they also suffered that passed down to us. This can be the answer to understanding our own habits and patterns we so desperately try to change or break. Today I also host retreats and through these retreats so many have experienced more freedom in their bodies and minds and breakthroughs. My next one is this May 3-5th in Texas! Near Palo Duro Canyon! Where I was born and raised. The land there is so special and is very healing. If you are a woman that would love to gather with other women seeking to spiritually heal this could be of interest! Check out my website for details.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

After years of healing and finally trusting myself without depending on outside sources to direct me or lead me. I felt the calling to leave Texas. My home state. I felt a call to Sedona Arizona. Where my practice felt more understood and welcomed. For someone who was taught and told that if you leave the doctrine of the cult community I was in for almost 20 yrs that I would be cursed, leaving and no longer believing that doctrine was a massive win for me. So trusting that I was going to be okay was something I had to trust in. Takes a lot of guts. I am so proud of myself. I did it. And I made it. And for all those that told me I wouldn’t make it. That I would be cursed. I would tell you, I am the happiest and most successful now. And I do not regret walking away from that toxic environment. It was a hard choice. But it made me who I am today.

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

This ties into the resilience question. Having to unlearn who I truly am without dependence on a cult community that completely shunned me after I finally stood up to them. When I walked away and began my new life without them. I didn’t even know what my favorite music or movies were. Everything had been tied to them and their doctrine. Being able to learn this for myself was beautiful and scary. Today I know exactly who I am and I stand proud in that. I am so grateful I help so many now, host retreats and receive so many testimonials on how much my ancestral healing work has changed them. It feels so beautiful to be living in my purpose after years of suffering. I’m a butterfly now that seeks to bring love and healing to those I meet.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.divinemandyoracle.com
• Instagram: @divinemandyoracle
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1YjQYpJjKo/?mibextid=wwXIfr
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@mandyspeaksup?si=72SLUK_S_-5_ffMS
• Other: TikTok: @mandyspeaksup
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