Hi, I'm artemisia shine.
Somatic Therapist, Curandera, Liberation Warrior, Chingona.
(she, her or they, them)
From one WILD HEART to another:
Freedom Dispatch is my monthly note about what I’m tending, learning, making, questioning, and getting into—and whatever else feels worth passing between us. A little something for staying connected—to your body, your aliveness, each other, and the wider world. You might find people and projects I want you to know about, a poem that won’t leave me alone, something delicious to make, and news and offerings from Wild Heart Healing Arts.
A little inspiration. A little connection. More freedom. Less conformity.
There is gold in refining your sensitivity, intuition and power.
Somatic Therapy
Re-occupy your body from a place of grounded calm. Reduce disassociation, hypervigilance and stress-system activation. Feel at home in your body. Magnify your sense of aliveness.
Mindfulness Practices
Strengthen or develop “witness consciousness.” Reduce reactivity + increase ability to respond with awareness, presence & choice. Make friends with the whole range of your experience.
Liberation Work
Love yourself into reality. Be who you are and know what you are capable of. Wrest yourself from traditional or institutional models of authority to source or define your power. Become less opressible or controllable.
Mentorship & Intuitive Healing
Catalyze tremendous transformation, healing & growth. Receive loving support. Act as a powerful agent of your destiny. Empower + contain your energy. Bring your intuition, creativity & magic out of the closet.
I'm on fire to work with...
(I've spent thousands of hours working with incredible people like you...)
Become Friends with Yourself.
You are enthusiastically ready (or let’s be real, on the verge of ready) to:
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Explore the depths of your inner terrain to reclaim and heal the parts of you that are disowned and disembodied
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Decrease pain, increase hope, down regulate your nervous system and find more moments of grounded calm
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Move beyond identifying with your trauma, hurts and fears and feel yourself as magical, strong, connected, purposeful and alive
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Cultivate a healthier, more kindhearted relationship with yourself
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Gain greater clarity and insight into what consciously & unconsciously drives you
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Learn to interpret and compassionately communicate your feelings & needs
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Balance your giving with your receiving and nourish healthful boundaries
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Build a powerful ally-ship with your body wisdom and establish a foundation of self-trust
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Express your creativity, cultivate your intuition and harness your sensitivity for the greater good
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Wrest yourself from traditional or institutional models of authority to source or define your power
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Dispossess the prison of shame, calibrate your internal compass and abide your inner authority
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Sense who you are, what you are doing, and what you want are all in agreement
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Recognize your connection with yourself, others and find true belonging
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Own the courage to speak with power, honesty & integrity; live your life as an unapologetic expression of your values.
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Embody your unique expression, up-level your engagement with the world and profoundly contribute to life
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Finally stop asking “Am I ok?” and know for FUCKING CERTAIN: Yes. YES YOU ARE.
Word on the Street
What happens here tends to travel.
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“artemisia’s presence, love and support is truly a gift that she brings to each session.
My relationship with myself has changed in the time I’ve worked with her; I am better resourced to tap into my own power and intuition and understand my needs.
I’ve worked with many different counselors and therapists. What artemisia brings that is so special is a gentle, powerful and loving way of holding space, along with an ability to ask high-quality questions. artemisia has the ability to understand complex feelings and intuitively create a session with lasting impact.”
~ Ashley Anderson
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“artemisia is the most gifted counselor I have ever worked with. She is able to take me places in a single session that have taken weeks with other therapists, and reliably facilitates deep insight and lasting change in my life. From relationships, self-esteem, life direction, depression, there’s never been anything that has come up that artemisia hasn’t been able to help me work with. She’s talented, creative, deeply loving, honest, and dynamic — she can move between treating me like a loving mother and calling my bulls**t fiercely and clearly. She’s changed my life! I’d recommend her to anyone.”
~ Porter Eichenlaub
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“artemisia is an artist in her craft. From the moment we began our journey I felt immense tenderness, support and understanding from her. In her gentle way, she gave me permission to surrender to the process, allowing me to truly open my heart and see myself clearly.
Peeling away the layers one at a time, she encouraged vulnerability and honesty from me in a way I had not experienced in a long time. The connection I felt to my most authentic self was so palpable, I now feel like I have a tangible place inside myself to live from as I walk my path, and a place to return to if I lose my way.
Her insight into my process was genuine and inspired, coming from a place of deep listening. In her presence, I was able to uncover truths that I had been neglecting, allowing me to move forward with my life in a more aware, informed and awakened state.
This experience for me was PRICELESS!”
~ Morgan Cassidy
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“Finding words to relate my experience with artemisia is like trying to describe a dream or an intense psychedelic experience. It’s almost beyond words. She was able to look inside me, into the dark corners of my heart and shine some light in areas that I’d been overlooking. I felt them, I knew of their presence but for one reason or another I had my blinders up.
At the time I was feeling sort of hung up in my spiritual practice. It’s like I was ready for the next step, but wasn’t sure what that was. In the end what we uncovered was that I was simply trying too hard. Studying and watching the clock when what I really needed was to let go, to trust in my heart, my intuitions and the wisdom that I’ve acquired in this life and in lives past.
Her insight and her ability to transcribe that insight is truly graceful, heartfelt and inspiring.
My Sankalpa or intention: “I see only beauty in my surroundings and it is my quiet strength which nourishes me and holds up the universe.”
Much Love!”
~ Matthew Bernet
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I ran into artemisia at a concert a week before I even knew who she was. I saw her at a distance dancing to the music, and I immediately sensed that she seemed free and at ease. A week later, she popped up on a Google search when I was looking up healers in my area, so I decided to give her a shot. It’s now been five years since I started working with artemisia.
What I appreciate most about artemisia is that she too has walked the path. That sense of freedom and ease I witnessed at the concert wasn’t always available to her. She had to do the hard inner work to be able to access that freedom and ease, and she continues to do the hard work every day. She doesn’t ask me to do anything she hasn’t done herself, and she truly embodies what she teaches. She’s wise, caring, intelligent, playful, and as she would say, “hella human.”
I once asked her about the common theme in the work she does with her clients, and she said it was to help them get free. And that’s exactly what she’s done for me. Today I am more present, more in choice, and more aligned with what matters to me. With artemisia I feel seen, I feel heard, and I feel truly cared for.
artemisia has been one of the most important and impactful people to come into my life. I am incredibly grateful (and lucky) to have had her on my team all these years.
~ Robert Zacks, Enterprise Account Executive
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“It was a cloudy morning as I strolled in to meet artemisia for my heart-opening session. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but as is usually the case when I see artemisia, I had no problem being confused, lost, and vulnerable.
I was greeted with a warm, genuine smile, and was asked to make myself comfortable as she quickly prepared some tea. If there were other times in my life when I felt so understood, so accepted, so “seen” for what I know is in me, I cannot, at the time of this writing, recall, and there seems to be something fulfilling about having been acknowledged in such a way.
We finished my session with me lying down, tears welling, with my emotions laid bare. artemisia patted my heart as she asked me what would help me to find comfort and nourishment.
I told her a salmon dinner and yoga in the sun, then we said goodbye, I walked out to my bike, and rode off to buy some salmon as the last clouds drifted south, leaving a beautiful blue sky and a bright, sun-shiny day.”
~ Jonathon Kuhn
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“After counseling with artemisia, I feel I have found my truth again, my voice. I’m able to stand up for myself and have better resources in me to ask for what I need. artemisia has helped me see I am valuable and I am worth my own love.
The BEST thing about working with artemisia is the feeling that she is actually seeing you, in whatever form you are in in the moment. I’ve never felt so held, so seen, and so loved by someone as I have with her. If you are wanting a space to heal and to grow, work with artemisia.”
~ Adam Bustamante, Partner, Operations at Oscito
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“artemisia is a patient guide. Like the captain of a ship, she steered me home to my heart. Then, with her intuitive eye, she reminded me of that golden ocean place that I knew as a child. It was a tremendous reconnection with the beauty of my soul that I didn’t recognize.”
~ Laurie Birdsong, Massage Therapist & Yoga Teacher
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