A Community Healer Without a Community
How can we more fully support each other to fulfill our deepest callings?
Last week, my hours were cut in half at the job I’ve been working for the last 14 years as my primary source of income. I knew this change could come. It felt jarring and disorienting nonetheless.
I touched old fears of scarcity and uncertainty, welcomed the raw sounds of my anger to connect my belly, heart, and throat, felt waves of shame related to providing, shed tears honoring the loss, and went to sleep feeling a little clearer and more hopeful, though still a bit anxious.
“I can figure things out.”
The next morning, I woke feeling quite tender. Something deeper was being touched, and I opened into a powerful flow of sorrow that emerged from my ancestral nervous system, accompanied by these words:
“I am a community healer without a community.”
Heavy sobs accompanied the words and pulled me into a layer of grief stretching centuries back through my DNA to the Christianization and colonization of my Finnic relations – violently unearthed from their animistic ways of knowing and being.
I had been here before, but this layer felt closer to the core.
As I cried, my body-knowing opened inward and back through my heart, showing me how the archetypal role of seer/guide/storyteller/healer that some of my people embodied had been forcefully suppressed and exiled.
This once integrated role needed to split, contort, and conform to survive in a traumatized cultural relational field where it was dangerous to see and know in ways that revered the sacredness of Earth and Body above someone else’s idea of salvation.
In the following centuries, aspects of that role would emerge in assimilated expressions through vocations like pastors, counselors, nurses, and artists.
I grieve for what was lost.
I’m grateful for the resilience that continues.
When we get intimate with ourselves and listen to the voice of our body’s wisdom, a moment of personal grief or sorrow may open us to powerful, timeless truths embedded in bone marrow, singing through our cells.
“What if my hours were cut as an invitation to embrace my calling fully?”
For years, I poured my heart and soul gifts into performing music, theater, and connecting community in the most authentic ways I knew how. I was rarely paid much for my professional-level work and community contributions. I had a day job and was willing to offer my gifts from my depths because to do otherwise would have been to ignore Life’s calling.
The latest chapter of my life has been the most transformative seven years of growth, self-healing, training, maturity, and evolution.
My ancestors have been calling me home.
Not to become them - to be fully me.
In my being, I allow the vitality of their ways and truths to be honored, amplified, and alchemized with all that followed into something new and beautiful. I’ve been walking a crossover spiral path of reclamation, remembrance, and integration of what was lost.
I am an adept guide in core inner work, self-healing, relational growth, and embodied living.
I am a highly attuned, skillful facilitator of group processes of presence, relational healing, and conscious communication.
I am a soulful healing artist longing to serve my community. I see the sacred threads of our gifts and help us weave them together. I hear the soulful notes of our inspirations and help us harmonize them into songs for the collective good.
I get to be in a conscious, healing partnership daily with my exquisite wife, experiencing secure love and an expansive readiness to serve. We’re called to create, share, help, and give much more!
My sense of community is spread across the globe and often feels hard to touch. But rather than contract in the face of the unknown, I want to expand my reach to be global!
I would love and appreciate your support during this period of transition and expansion.
In devotion to Life and Love,
Adam
Ways to support or work with me:
Book an individual, couples, or group session with me or with me and Miriam in Basel or online.
Sign up for my email lists at adamsippola.com and heartofpresence.org (my collaboration with my wife Miriam).
Invite me (or us) to work with and guide your group or organization (especially arts organizations like choirs, orchestras, theatres, and dance troupes). I’ll help you develop a more authentic, truthful, compassionate culture and consciousness for creativity and innovation to thrive. Your organization will contribute to the relational health and social wellness of the broader community and bring more authenticity, inspiration, heart, and vitality to your performances.
Follow me on social media, interact with and share my content (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube).
Hire me to perform in a concert or theatrical production.
Invite us to offer our new training in your community – Heart of Touch: A Relational Presence Touch Training.
