By Stephanie Bucklin
There comes a moment in healing when we realize we are no longer the person who first stepped onto this path. We aren’t just healing anymore—we are healed. This realization arrived for me with profound clarity as I made the decision to close my domestic violence case, signaling the end of a chapter that once defined so much of my life.
In that same moment, I felt an unshakable call to give back. I reached out to the agency that once supported me, not as a client but as someone ready to support others. Through my healing, I’ve come to understand how overwhelmed and backlogged these organizations are, leaving many survivors feeling alone. I know that feeling intimately. And I know now that no one should have to heal in isolation.
Healing My Younger Self
After spending time in Delta, Colorado, cocooned in solitude and deep self-reflection, I found an invaluable source of healing through weekly crisis counseling. We have been exploring my Internal Family System, a therapeutic approach that guided me to meet and nurture the younger versions of myself who were still carrying wounds.
“If we can appreciate and have compassion for our parts, even for the ones we’ve considered to be enemies, we can do the same for people who resemble them. On the other hand, if we hate or disdain our parts, we’ll do the same with anyone who reminds us of them.”
–Richard c schwartz, phd,
nO bAD pARTS: HEALING TRAUMA & RESTORING WHOLENESS WITH THE INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS MODEL
Recently, I met my eight-year-old self. She was deeply concerned about her “weirdness”—her psychic abilities—and desperately sought safety and love. I recognized her fears as my own, carried through time, shaping so many of my beliefs and choices. I have written extensively about my perception of love’s absence in the world. And I now see that my lifelong quest to become love has been an attempt to understand it at the deepest level possible.
With each session, each layer uncovered, I felt myself opening in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Healing creates space. And in that newfound space, transformation takes root.
Energy Work & Spiritual Activations
One of the most profound shifts occurred when I joined The Healing Coven, a collective that sends healing energy to the world each full moon. This sacred space led me to a deep meditative experience, where I immersed myself in Reiki energy for an hour, feeling the flow of universal life force energy guiding my transformation.
Then came another unexpected opening—a powerful guided meditation by Eluna Noelle, an activation from the Arcturian Council. This journey led me through a chakra-clearing process, visualizing a Phoenix igniting and burning away the energetic blocks preventing my full awakening. The Phoenix rose again and again, moving through each chakra, transmuting old wounds into radiant new energy. At the end of the experience, I was gifted etheric antennas, like those of a fairy—an extension of my intuitive connection.
I have felt the effects of this activation for days. My energy is shifting. My awareness is expanding. It is as if I am stepping into a higher vibrational reality, one that I always sensed was possible but never quite knew how to access.
Love as the Final Portal
Perhaps the greatest surprise in this journey has been the arrival of love. Just days ago, on the day before Valentine’s Day, I met someone who instantly felt like home. We had our first date on Valentine’s Day, second date the next day, and we are already talking about the future together. After years of healing, of untangling trauma and rewriting my story, I entered this connection not from a place of woundedness, but from wholeness.
It is remarkable how love lands differently when we are no longer carrying the weight of our past. I feel joyful, present, and aligned—not grasping for love as a missing piece, but embracing it as a natural extension of the peace I have already found within.
Freedom & the Path Ahead
This is what true freedom feels like. Not just freedom from past pain, but freedom to be—fully, unapologetically, expansively. It is an inner peace that I have sought my entire life, a vibrational alignment to my highest self.
And now, as I walk this path, I do so not only as a healer but as someone who has become the embodiment of healing itself. My work, my purpose, and my presence are shifting in ways I am still discovering. A dear friend in The Healing Coven recently told me, “You are on the path to becoming one of the most powerful healers humanity has ever seen.”
I feel that truth resonating in my bones.
And for the first time, I am ready to fully step into it.
I am grateful. I am free. And I am here now.
If you are on your own healing journey, know this: You are not alone. Keep going. Your freedom is waiting for you too. 
Namaste,
~S
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