Indviduation Sessions
The existential crisis dwelling in your psyche and body is the end of a version of you.
Your new beginning won’t come immediately, but heavy doses of anxiety probably will.
That’s what individuation sessions are for – to provide you with the mental, emotional, social, and physical support you need to cross this threshold between the life you've lived,
and the one you're about to create.
"I'm feeling called to a new path
that I can't yet envision..."
A long chapter in your life is coming to a close, and you are faced with choices about what to create from here.
Meanwhile, the world outside continues to shape-shift into something unrecognizable - and you don't love what you see. In fact, you are disillusioned by it.
Remember this: disillusionment is a map, showing you a new path that both lights you up and guides you into uncharted ways to help birth a more dignified world for the collective.
Individuation Sessions will help you get clear about this new path that's calling you.
These sessions are for you if...
You have experienced physical symptoms and psychological stress related to the demands of your work and culture.
You do not feel aligned with the norms of the culture you were brought up within, and you feel you are here to help shift it rather than to comply with it.
You have a strong desire to help birth a healthier and more dignified world for the Collective.
You are interested in an alternative lifestyle that focuses on reducing ecological harm, regenerating the biodiversity of the planet, building economic sovereignty for communities, and honoring the natural needs of your body.
Phase 1 - What am I walking towards?
Month 1 - What am I walking away from? What fears are showing up for me? What enthusiasm? (2 sessions)
Phase 1: The Shadow Self
Phase 2: Disillusionment as a moral compass and life map.
Phase 3: Reckoning with Cultural Imprints
Phase 4: Facing the fears that tether you back.
Phase 5: Consulting your Energy Signature
Phase 6: Individuating for Collective Dignity
Phase 2 - Disillusionment as a Map
What's disillusioning you is also showing you where your creative energy wants to go.
Phase 3 - Individuation
How is my relationship to power, money, the planet, my body, and my community impacting my psycho-emotional health and physical wellness? How can I elevate these relationships? (10 session)
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How can I be part of collective solution in a way that invigorates me instead of drains me? (3 sessions)
Phase 3 - Collective Cause
How does my own originality free me and the collective?
Working with Amanda...
Amanda Blain is a former Peace Corps volunteer, Clinical Mind-Body Therapist, Trauma Specialist, and NGO Program Coordinator currently working in Guatemala.
From 2012-2013, she met with U.S. lawmakers at state and national levels, hoping to impact preventative health care policy as a Lead Advocate for the Cancer Action Network. She joined the U.S. Peace Corps after meetings in Washington D.C. left her disillusioned by cultural norms that prioritized profit over impact.
While serving in the Peace Corps, Amanda trained with two
award-winning United Nations Consultants and collaborated with the Venda tribe of Limpopo, South Africa, to launch projects in youth leadership, literacy, and food sovereignty.
Amanda has lived and learned from families who grew up under political apartheid in South Africa and in the Middle East.
Here, she was inspired by generations who embody unshakeable resilience, adaptability, and faith in the face of systemic oppression.
In her childhood, Amanda endured multiple adverse events as the daughter of a teen mom. Overcoming trauma and stress-related chronic illness has been a survival necessity for her, which led to her now 17 years of professional experience and studies in Mind-Body Science and Advanced Trauma Support Skills including Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program.
From 2016-2020, Amanda led a media project in which she interviewed military veterans about the psychological aftermath of service to promote healing and understanding about the human aspect of war.
Today, she resides on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, where she supports indigenous-led educational NGOs and works remotely to provide therapeutic support to people from all over the world. Most of her clients report breakthroughs with trauma, stress-related chronic illness, and relationship rupture - even after decades of unsuccessful standardized treatment.
