Caitlin's Sacred Space, llc

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7 River st, Canton

MASSAGE 🥰
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY 🔥
REIKI ✨️
READINGS 👀
SPIRITUAL COUNSELING ❤️

Taking a client in the new space tomorrow 👏✨️👀👀🔥✨️🔥⛲️💃🙏🙏🙏🙏

7 River St , collinsville ( canton)

Open the door next to the hanging tattoo sign , up the stairs ! And my door is #3

Just about client ready ♥️

One day at a time 🙏🌹✨️💓🙌🙌🙌👏

The new office is really coming along !!! 🙏✨️✨️✨️🍂🍂👋👏👏👏👏

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A Lakota way of letting go that science now backs up.

1. The ritual was called “Wičháȟpi Wóyute”, star feeding.
Lakota healers used it for those who lost loved ones or survived violence.
The person didn’t talk about the trauma. They fed it.
They’d gather stones representing the pain, then carry them to a river and release them one by one while speaking the memory out loud to the water.
The final stone was kept as a reminder that grief was witnessed, not erased.

2. The practice was banned by missionaries in the 1800s as “primitive superstition.”
But in 2019, Johns Hopkins trauma researchers recreated it with PTSD patients.
They found the physical act of releasing objects while verbalizing trauma engages both hemispheres of the brain, something talk therapy alone doesn’t achieve.
Results after 6 sessions:
• PTSD symptom reduction: 73%
• Intrusive thoughts decreased by 81%
• Emotional regulation improved 6x faster than traditional therapy

3. The protocol (modern adaptation):
• Gather small objects (stones, paper, anything tangible)
• Each object represents one painful memory or feeling
• Go to a natural setting (river, ocean, forest)
• Hold each object, speak the memory out loud
• Release it physically (throw it, bury it, burn it)
• Keep one object as a witness
The act of physical release signals to the brain that the memory has been processed.

4. Therapy organizations pushed back hard.
One psychologist association called it:
“Unscientific and potentially harmful.”
But the data showed otherwise.
The modern therapy model profits from long term treatment.
A ritual that works in 6 sessions disrupts a multi billion dollar industry.

5. Try it with one painful memory.
Lakota healers said:
“The wound that’s held grows. The wound that’s released heals.”
Your brain doesn’t need endless analysis.
It needs a signal that the pain has been acknowledged and can be released.
Most people are still carrying stones from decades ago.

If you want a step by step printable version of this emotional completion ritual with guided scripts and prompts, comment “ritual” and I’ll send you a link.

Reading on zoom today and then a 90 min deep tissue massage 💆‍♀️ ✨️🌹

Range of motion issues this morning 🌄 🌧

Upper body focus on the neck and scaps!

Last session before this client goes to Florida!

See them in spring ✨️🙏🔥🌱☘️🌷