Soulfully Nourishing
Christabeth Ingold
 
Akashic Records Readings & Mentoring
Death Priestessing
Astrology readings
Energy medicine
Integrative holistic Bodywork & Hawaiian Lomilomi massage
life coaching 
cosmic mother & personal oracle
 
Hello Beautiful Soul! 
 
IT'S BIRTHDAY TIME! 
 
15 Years of Soulfully Nourishing to be exact!! 
 
Time to celebrate!! WOOT!
 
I can't believe another year has passed. I've been reflecting a lot about what has unfolded since day one….but it didn't just start on day one of Soulfully Nourishing's birth. 
 
It started with my birth…as I believe we all come with some sort of mission(s) in heart. 
 
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Ever since I was a kid I was the counselor for my friends--the one people would come to when something was going on and they needed some help or to talk it through. 
 
I would tend to injured animals out in nature and bury them in our yard. I was the tender and holder of things.
 
Intertwining with my early story, my grandfather, a man I loved and beyond adored, died from cancer when I was 7. He was a big part of my life, and was my best friend. Although 7 years are short, that was his impact on me. 
 
I may have been the counselor for others. His spirit continued to be my counselor. I would write to him in my diary, write him letters, and often would lay at my bedroom window at night and talk to him in the stars. 
 
Among many things, he was an artist--and nights when we had beautiful sunsets, my mom would say he must have been painting that for us. 
 
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In my early teen years I started reading books about Wicca, practiced candle magic, and of course played with the Ouija board (I mean…wasn't that a right of passage?).😬
 
It was all about the movie THE CRAFT after all lol…but this next example is a little disturbing (truly--it's awful--you've been warned)…
 
Although I have no desire to touch a board today, in 7th my friend and I were able to accurately receive the initials of 3 people that had killed her mom--YES it's incredibly tragic and disturbing--and when 3 killers were caught months later, we couldn't believe the initials matched their names! 
 
I felt her mom was present and was the one telling us. I mean, wtf do you do with that info? 
 
I think I started tapping more into my sensitive and psychic self at this young age.  
 
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I started seeing an amazing and loving therapist, Linda, through my teen years and she was such a huge part of my early healing. Between having her as a therapist, and loving art and writing, these pieces inspired me to want to become an art therapist when I was in 9th grade. 
 
As high school went on, it became about going to art school--but I ended up back at art therapy by the time I went to Lesley University when I was 20. 
 
I got my B.S. in Art Therapy, and went onto Lesley's expressive therapy grad program. 
 
Here's where the tide changed…
 
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While in grad school (early-ish 20's) a very close relationship of mine SUPER triggered DEEP stuff that totally spun me into the most wild anxiety. It was really scary to feel. I thought I was completely losing it…feeling everything around me so intensely, sensing very specific wounds and traumas people were carrying, and not even being able to watch certain shows that I had no problem watching before (everything had to be light hearted and funny). 
 
I went from loving my expressive therapy training to not being able to be at my internship with people holding trauma and really intense things they were moving through. 
 
This is when it all changed:
 
I was only 2 days into my internship--but it was one I also had in undergrad and LOVED so much I literally pleaded with the school to let me go back in my grad program. 
 
On that second day as I was sitting in the art room with our clients, and it hit me SO clearly WITHOUT a question that I need to leave grad school. It was like one of those moments of such a deep knowing from Higher Self kind of that also left me excited, expanded vs contracted, and I could feel the FREEDOM in this lightening bolt of a moment. I had no clue what's next--AND this IS so much of the right decision that I had to follow it! 
 
I spoke with my school supervisor that week, and was done with school the following week. 
 
Done and done.
 
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The first thing I did was check out a massage school program because I love massage…only to quickly realize on the tour I actaully love getting massages and didn't want to give them 😂😂….well that came full circle itself in it's own way ha! 
 
Anxiety became a dear friend that let me know
I'M TOO OPEN. I'M A SPONGE. I NEED BOUNDARIES. 
 
No wonder I could feel everything and everyone's stuff. Anxiety actually initially was saying to me that I can't live my life how I have been--playing neutral to not rock the boat, staying silent, putting everyone else first, having no needs. Instead of being my truest self, I was using all my energy to show up in certain situations (not all) to be who I thought the world wanted me to be. 
 
Talk about being colonized. I mean, yes, this was so very unrealized/unconsciously taught behavior…that I seeped in. There was also a specific ancestral piece here for me.
 
Anxiety was deeply uncomfortable, yet the awakener I needed. 
 
It was big energy in body with no where to go.
 
This energy is connected to Uranus--lightening striking and light bulb moments. Uranus was like wake the fuck up. It did its job--and ALSO through all of this there were many choices I made throughout the rest of my 20's to support my healing. To sit with anxiety and all parts of myself. To face and engage BECAUSE I knew in my bones healing was possible. 
 
I WANTED to befriend my whole self. 
Claim me back. 
Open me to ME.
Fiercely take a stand in love.
 
With the love of another brilliant holistic therapist I chose specifically to help me through this time, Andrea, the lights within got turned back on. The wide open sponginess of my energy field rebalanced and squeezed out. My voice, my boundaries, and my self love rooted and started taking a stand. 
 
Although I sometimes wonder who I would be if I completed grad school and became a therapist, I just as quickly am grateful for the cosmic 2x4 that fast tracked me on this wild, FREEING healing journey. 
 
I can't even begin to tell you the ancestral work I've done…for real though. 
 
And….after 15 years of the birth of Soulfully Nourishing, I continue to grow and learn SO much. I also feel like I've graduated to an even more masterful level of healer and space holder in the best of ways. 
 
My next evolution is Death Priestessing--something with so many facets and winding roads that I'm just discovering my own path…that was also a past life path…that's also connected to my Irish ancestry path.
 
And, ultimately my hearts recognizes it's the most honoring path I can embody. My heart recognizes the Soul training I've done.
 
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Thank you. 
 
There are many of you here who have been around for years. 
 
There are some of you that are newer to me. 
 
I'm grateful for all of you and all of this ride. I'm also grateful for the teacher anxiety became, and helped me SEE my TRUTHS. 
 
That are amazing people out there that can help us all realize out truth, potential, and betterment. We're all here to walk each other home, after all;)
 
That anxiety electrically put my wiring more online and in line with me as HEALER (yes, of course YOU'RE the one doing the healing--I'm simply your navigator).
 
Let's celebrate together!! 
 
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THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
I LOVE YOU.
xx Christabeth
 
 
 
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