Kezia Champlin (she, her)
Soul Alignment Coach and Holistic Spirituality Guide
I have a memory of myself as an inquisitive and compassionate 5-year-old, hovering outside the jungle clinic in the village where I lived as the nurse inside stitched up a hunting dog that had been injured on the day’s hunt. While I stood there, the peccary that one of my neighbors kept as a pet trotted over, nudging me to scratch it. The wild pig was as big as I was and somewhat unpredictable. It intimidated me, but I petted it while reflecting, with a child’s deep and knowing gravity, that caring about people meant caring for their animals too. And I believed in that moment that, like the nurse, I, too, would grow up to be an adult who cared for people in the many ways that people need care. That understanding of myself and my way of being in the world has never fundamentally changed, though the specifics of how I live out my calling have undergone many cycles of transformation.
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For over a decade I’ve led small groups, mentored children and youth, provided emotional and spiritual care to women of all ages, and collaborated with leadership teams in nonprofit organizations, marginalized neighborhoods, and faith communities to bring open communication, deep relationship, transformation, and healing. Along the way, I’ve completed a variety of trainings and certifications in different therapeutic modalities in order to deepen my own healing and resource me as a care-provider and healing companion.
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A Bit of My Story
I was raised in the far right wing of conservative evangelical Christianity. My extended family on both sides are sincere practitioners of their faith, and many of them are in vocational ministry. To this day, I have multiple family member overseas in active Christian work. I grew up fully committed to the Christian faith, attended a private religious university, earned my masters degree from a conservative seminary, and was integrally involved in a local church, often putting in more weekly volunteer hours for my church than I put in at my job. No part of my life or heart that was unaffected by my deep devotion and love for my faith.
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In 2014, a season of depression and the resurfacing of childhood sexual abuse and trauma led me to seek counseling. This was the beginning of an ongoing journey toward inner healing and wholeness that continues to the present. While I’m grateful to currently be in place of stability, integration, and increasing health on every level, the road has been anything but easy.
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For me (and for most others from a religious background), the path to healing has been heart-breaking and filled with confusion, disillusionment, loss, grief, and rejection, as my family and faith community were unable to understand and support my need for mental healthcare, my questions and divergent perspective on social and spiritual issues, and my establishment of boundaries.
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The past nine years have also been filled with learning, more journaling and inner processing than you would care to know, multiple therapy modalities, tears, laughter, integration, moving from survival mode and hypervigilance to being at home in my body, therapeutic certifications, psychic development, and the slow forging of new friendships and a fuller way of being in the world. Today, I’m still whole-heartedly committed to living a life of faith and love. I am no longer Christian, but my relationship with Spirit continues to guide me, and I practice a nourishing spirituality woven together from many wisdom traditions.
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It is my honor to offer holistic trauma-informed soul-care, coaching, and guidance to those seeking to form and/or reclaim a spirituality that matches their unique self and that seamlessly integrates and supports their holistic well-being.
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I am an old-souled lover of books, journals, quiet walks, close friends, and contemplative silence. I grew up in the jungles of Suriname, South America and have since lived in Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Michigan (with brief stints in some other beautiful and wonderful places). I'm a patchwork of paradoxes, and I am passionate about kindness, healing at the individual and collective levels, deep relationships, words, and herb gardens.
Trainings include:
Level 1 Narrative Modality Training for the Engagement of Trauma and Abuse: 2018, The Allender Center, Seattle, WA.
Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma: 2020, The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Storrs, CT
Principles of Collective Trauma Healing: 2021, The Academy of Inner Science
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Immersion Course: Integrating IFS across Clinical Applications: 2021, PESI & The IFS Institute
Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki I & II: 2021, certified practitioner w/ The Midwest Center for the Advancement of Reiki
Tarot Reading, studied under Charise Jacobs, psychic medium and professional reader and trainer at The Boston Tea Room in Ferndale, MI