Golden Deer, stories for transformation, healing and blessing

The stories we tell ourselves influence
health and healing.

New stories can create new realities; bring
about change, transformation, and restoration.

Through creation and the Imagination we access
the Divine within.

Our minds, bodies and spirits communicate
through metaphor.

Ancient and traditional forms of spiritual healing can
compliment contemporary medical treatment and
diagnosis. For more information, read How Do Stories
Heal?

Joan Marie Mickelson, holistic practitioner living in
Minneapolis, Minnesota offers shamanic instruction,
sessions for healing and divination, writes stories for
healing and blessing and creates amuletic semi-
precious stone jewelry.

Holistic healing sessions

Joan Marie works with the spiritual aspect of illness
through restoration of depleted power and energy,
recovery of depleted or lost soul essence, and removal
of blockages. She does this through access to the
Imagination, the invisible underlying reality, with help
from her compassionate spiritual guides. Joan Marie
will access the parallel, imaginal or hidden reality and
guide you in a visualization of the story she receives.
She may also incorporate energetic modalities,
Healing Touch, Esoteric Healing and Craniosacral into
the Holistic Healing Sessions .

Private instruction in integrated shamanic and
holistic healing

In ancient days, the shamans were storytellers.
Folktales recount adventures of shamans who
journeyed through spiritual realms on quests for
healing. By using their imaginations shamans entered
non-ordinary reality in their spiritual bodies. With the
help of their spiritual guides, they rode the deer, flew
with the eagle, or followed the bear. Shamans brought
back stories that communicated health and healing for
members of the community. For more information
read

Joan Marie offers one-on-one mentoring in traditional
shamanic techniques and holistic healing practices.
You will discover your own spiritual landscape, explore
the process of change and write your own healing
stories. Joan Marie completed (2006) Sandra
Ingerman’s two-year Shamanic Teacher Training
Course and offers the following choices in curriculum:

Basic journey techniques

Soul retrieval and remembering

Classical shamanic healing techniques

Holistic Self-healing

Sandra Ingerman’s Medicine for the Earth
and Healing with Spiritual Light

Personalized Stories of Transformation, Blessing
and Healing

You may commission a personalized healing or
blessing story from Joan Marie. She will write it
addressing your specific circumstances, needs and
goals. These stories reflect the spiritual universe,
accessed through intuitive journey and meditation
techniques. The stories convey optimistic, positive
metaphors and affirmative messages that speak
directly to your personal inner landscape.

Throughout these pages there are links to stories Joan
Marie has written that convey spiritual ways of knowing
and perceiving the world. The pictures have been
painted by Joan Marie using egg tempera medium.

Contact Joan Marie Mickelson

The holistic healing methods presented in this
website should not be considered an exclusive
method of confronting psychological and/or medical
problems. It should be viewed as an adjunct to
orthodox medical or psychological treatments.