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When there are no words, something else appears.

ByKim Hermanson


When there are no words, something else appears.

When I work with clients, I don’t engage with their thinking because what they think is likely keeping them stuck.

Instead, I shift my clients to a place of higher wisdom where there are no words.

In that place of higher wisdom, they have access to deep knowing and the language of metaphor. 

Metaphor allows my clients to experience mystical states, meet their spirit guides and power animals, and connect with their true gift and essence.

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