About Karallyn

A Little About My Journey

I believe that the most adept healers walking the Earth are those who truly have walked their own healing path and overcome personal trauma. We can all learn so much about healing, to be sure, but to walk the path from utter darkness into the light is a whole other story. When we traverse these back roads ourselves, we become very adept at navigating the darkness, the realms that are unseen and unknown to so many, and as a result, we become wonderful way showers for others.

I don’t want to get too much into my history here, for my past is something that I went through and in no way reflects who I have become, but I do feel that it is important to share with those that I am here to help who may have been through similar traumas. I am a survivor of childhood trauma and what has helped me the most are the very tools that I offer my clients and students.

I grew up in an alcoholic family, a child of every kind of abuse: physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as neglect. There was no real support and there was constant chaos in my childhood, with no safe people to help me feel loved and cared for. From the beginning, I did not feel safe in the world at all and neither of my parents was there for me emotionally in any way. I felt isolated and alone, and I felt somehow deeply broken.

When I was only eight years old, my mother died by suicide. This was the pivotal event that changed the entire course of my life. Not long after, my father remarried an abusive, mentally ill woman, and things somehow went from bad to worse. Years of mental and emotional abuse followed, filled with manipulation, gaslighting, control, and domination, and my father sat idly doing nothing to defend or protect me. It was horrific on many levels.

All of these events shaped who I became as a young adult. I had little sense of self and was completely traumatized and without any kind of healthy support or guidance. For years, I was stumbling around in the darkness of anxiety, depression, hopelessness, self-hatred, unresolved grief, and trauma. I struggled for decades with addiction, chronic and debilitating fear, and toxic relationships.

While I had been on a healing journey for many years, pivotal change took place at my midlife transition in the form of a breakdown and with it, a collapse of all of the magical thinking and spiritual bypassing that I had done for so long to survive all that I lived through as a child. With my initiation into the menopausal years, so much of what I once held to be true simply collapsed, and I was left to confront all of the untended grief and trauma that I had unknowingly buried for so long. I didn’t understand what was happening to me at the time, but now, a few years later, I see what a potent time of transformation and rebirth it was for me, as it can be for all women. Now, firmly on the other side, I feel more grounded, confident, and more myself than I have ever been.

I would be honored to have the opportunity to support you in your path of healing and empowerment.

“Karallyn is an accomplished healer. I have known her for well over a decade and have witnessed her boundless transformations… from a frightened girl struggling to survive her horrific childhood traumas… to embracing courage and inner strength… and having become the confident woman and exceptional healer that she is today.”

D.W., 2013