My Approach | Aimee Traeden

We are the dreamweavers and the mapmakers of our lives.

Spiritual Growth is a Daily Journey, Not a Destination.

The work I offer is not a quick fix, a single session, or a spiritual shortcut.
It is a layered, sacred unfolding that asks for presence, devotion, and time.

I approach spiritual growth the same way I approach ritual, healing, teaching, and community: With reverence, rhythm, and relationship. (okay and sometimes completely irreverent)

Each person I work with is walking their own path, shaped by their unique experiences, wounds, gifts, and ancestral threads.
My role is not to fix you or carry your healing for you.
It is to walk beside you, to guide, reflect, and support the deeper remembering already stirring within you.

Through dreaming, rites of passage, ancestral connection, seiðr, grief work, voicework, and energetic tending, we work to gently untangle the binding threads of what is ready to be transmuted and transformed.

When offering readings, I approach the work as a clear, hollow channel.
I come with a neutral heart and mind, without agenda, without assumption.
I listen deeply to spirit, to the unseen, to the soul’s own language.
My role is not to predict or command, but to reflect what is already speaking through, to, and around you.

In community ritual and gatherings, I hold the energetic field with strong attention and care. I intend to keep the energies in a group sovereign, clearing density, tending boundaries, ensuring that participants remain rooted in themselves, not tangled in each other’s processes.

When I teach seiðr, sound work, or ancestral pathways, I teach from direct relationship with the spirits and traditions that have shaped me.
My work is rooted in Unverifiable Personal Gnosis (UPG), not academic reenactment, or trying to recreate history, but my own living relationships.
I honor the mythologies, but I move beyond recitation into blood, bone, breath and living memory.

I am always learning.
I do not claim to know everything.
This is the way I have been given to walk;
one way, not the only way.

I often compare this work, whether ritual, teaching, or healing, to climbing the tallest mountain.
You don’t reach the summit in a single day.
You don’t get stronger without training and learning to pace yourself!

Spiritual growth works the same way: slow, steady, practice, devotion, rooted.
Each layer we tend opens new space.
Each descent leads to a deeper rise.

This work is personalized to honor where you are on your path.
Whether you are new to energy work or a long-time practitioner,
we meet where you are and walk from there: with clarity, care, and trust.

And throughout it all, I will remind you:
You are not broken. There is nothing to "fix," you are becoming.
There is no race.
There is no finish line.
Only a return to your wholeness; layer by layer, root by root, breath by breath.

My Philosophy

I am not your caretaker.

I am not here to "fix" you.
I am not your rescuer.
I will not carry your path for you.

But I will walk beside you,

If you are ready to walk it for yourself.

The work I offer is not for everyone.
If you wish to walk beside me, I ask that you come ready to engage with the work fully, ready to advocate for your own well-being, to stand in your center, and to take responsibility for the shifts and changes you seek.

Our journey together is rarely a straight line.
I hold the gift of seeing in the dark with my heart;
which means I will meet you not only in your light, but in the places where fear, shame, grief, anxiety, and the old hidden stories live.
Working with me often involves shining a steady light into the depths of your darkness and walking with what emerges.

Shadow work is not a side note, it is a vital part of the path we will walk.

Healing is layered, like the strokes of a painting built up over time.
We are shaped not only by this lifetime, but by the many lives we have traversed.
Some patterns may lift swiftly; others may require devotion, patience, and deep tending over many sessions.
I do not work by speed or for performance. I work by honoring the slow, sacred process of integration, allowing what was carried for lifetimes to be unwound with care.

I do not offer instant miracles.
If you are seeking quick salvation, I may not be the right guide for you.

I walk with those who understand that true healing requires commitment, patience, and a willingness to meet themselves fully, in all honesty, masks off.

You must be willing to recognize yourself as a sovereign being.
While I may act as an intermediary with the spirit world, the work of integration, the honoring of guidance, the shifting of perception, the tending of your soil, remains yours.

I cannot predict what will arise through this work.
Each person responds differently.
I ask only that you be willing to trust the process and to care for your own mind, heart, and body before, during, and after our work together.

This work is not appropriate for those in active psychological crisis or for individuals experiencing unstable mental health conditions. If you are in crisis, I offer you my compassion, and I urge you to seek support through skilled therapists and trauma practitioners. I am not a doctor, a therapist, or a crisis counselor.

While I can be part of your wider support system, it is essential to have therapeutic care if needed.

All clients must be resilient and able to tend to their psychological, emotional, and physical needs with integrity.

This is soul work.
It asks everything.
And it gives everything back, on the soul’s own timing.

Intentional Sound

When we work together in ritual, whether one-on-one or community, you can expect sound to be part of the sacred field we create.

Sound is a living current, a bridge between worlds, and it forms one of the deepest roots of my shamanic practice.

I use sound as a carrier wave of intention:
to alter states of consciousness, to call in spirit allies, to shift and move energy, and to restore parts that have been retrieved and fill in holes.
It is part of the weaving of soul and spirit, guided by the ancients.

Many years ago, I spent five years apprenticing with a shamanic sound healer, learning how to combine sound + intention + spirit + an open heart to create true, embodied shifts.
But I do not use sound in the traditional or dogmatic ways you may know, such as structured sound baths or rigid techniques.

I listen.
I catch the sound/song that is needed in the moment.
I sing with the spirits, not for performance, but as a bridge between the seen and unseen.

Sound has been used by spirit walkers across cultures for thousands of years to heal, to grieve, to remember, to call the soul home.

Almost every creation story begins with the first sound.

I believe each soul carries a song uniquely their own.
Each being resonates at a different frequency, a different thread of the great woven life.
We are not here to fit into one sound or one method.
We are here to remember our original song.

Because of this, I do not subscribe to dogmatic ways of using sound as a healing tool. What soothes one soul may feel dissonant to another.
I trust the spirits, and I trust the living song that arises in each session.

You may experience in our work together:

Drumming to guide your brainwaves into a theta state, opening the doorway between worlds.
Singing to call in the well, loving, benevolent spirits.
Crystal bowls to ground, clear, fill, and anchor energy.
Bells and chimes to support the integration of shifts.
And the spontaneous songs that rise as I connect to your guides, your ancestors, your soul.

Sound is not an add-on.
It is one of the oldest medicines.
It is part of the remembering.