Women In Wellness: Tracee Dunblazier of Dunblazier Arts & GoTracee Publishing On The Five Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Help Support People’s Journey Towards Better Wellbeing
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Learn how to pay attention to your money and banking accounts every day. I wish I’d had more experience with money and financial tools starting from my first job at age thirteen. Kids need to start learning about the responsibilities of money and the banking systems available to them as they become adults. Things like simple accounting, banking policies, and credit scores learned from a young age can really change a person’s relationship to money in general.
As a part of my series about women in wellness, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tracee Dunblazier.
Tracee Dunblazier GC-C, is a Los Angeles-based grief counselor, spiritual empath, shaman, and 22-time international award-winning author and publisher (GoTracee Pub). As a multi-sensitive, Tracee’s blend of intuitive information combined with different modalities, has provided the opportunity for thousands to achieve deep healing and cultivate the success and peace they seek in their lives. As President of the Coalition of Visionary Resources, the trade organization for the Mind, Body, Spirit Industry — Tracee manages the COVR Visionary Awards program and educational opportunities for MBS businesses, and her book Transformative Grief: An Ancient Ritual of Healing for Modern Times (Red Feather Mind Body Spirit, 2023) comes out in February.
Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Our readers would love to “get to know you” better. Can you share your “backstory” with us?
I was born psychic and empathic with many paranormal experiences from early childhood. I was multi-spirited (one body, many spirits) and grew up with an altered awareness of the world we live in, different from the experiences of most of my friends. Information I was grateful for on all levels. I learned to accept the truth about people and circumstances so that I could find resolutions that worked. It is this radical acceptance on which I have built my set of wellness philosophies.
As I began to work in the healing industry, it became apparent to me that grief was the through line between all traumas and their healing journeys. Any transition requires transformative grief to make the necessary adjustments that create new beginnings, new circumstances, and new joy.
I have had a thirty-year career in the wellness field, working within mediumship and spiritualism to grief counseling and life-coaching — it has been more fulfilling than anything I could have thought to create for myself. I arrived here by following the path spirit laid out for me.
Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you started your career? What were the main lessons or takeaways from that story?
Oh my, there are so many! The one thing about working with folks in transition or crisis — it is never boring. Recently, while working on a new book about crystals, this story reawakened in my memory, about a young man who struggled to find peace, but first he needed to overcome the entity that had been plaguing him for months! Here’s an excerpt from Your Crystal Allies: The 12 Best Gems & Minerals for Healing Trauma & Navigating Change.
“I didn’t seem to have a reaction to or fear of lower vibrational entities like demons, discarnates, or other dense constructs created by humanity over the millennia. Somehow, I felt inoculated to them; I was unconsciously well versed in dealing with their presence. As a child, I’d had many demon-generated psychic attacks, and naturally developed the tools to repel, absolve, or transform them — all techniques that rendered them powerless in my world.
However, it’s one thing to be chatting with your own critters in waking and sleeping dreams, but another, entirely, to have other-worldly beings speaking to you from across the table, which was happening daily with the client work I was doing. One evening, in particular, a long-time client of mine who was also working as a psychic reader, called on me to take a session with a client with whom she was working. He was haunted, and she was unnerved. She requested permission from both of us, to be present at this young man’s session and he and I agreed.
As I remember, it was a cool fall evening and shortly after 6 p.m. when they arrived. The living room to my small 1930s bungalow was quaint, with an L-shaped set of plush, cushy, salmon-colored couches and a coffee table — not to mention a life-sized stuffed bear I had recently purchase from FAO Schwartz, which took the place of a chair in the corner of the room. My client, happily, sat on the floor (backed up against the bear). Her client was to my left on the smaller-of-the-two couches; we’ll call him Joseph. He was covered in many tattoos that didn’t seem to have any connection or symmetry (which, in itself, told a story), and his spirit was in knots. It was clear that drugs and alcohol were a part of his personal struggle.
He had spent a significant amount of time trying to address his feelings of powerlessness by working in witchcraft and spirit conjuring, which isn’t a necessarily an issue, if you know what you are doing. However, when one grapples with their own hopelessness, they tend to attract entities and spirits that amplify their powerlessness, which is what was going on here. Joseph sat on the couch, catty-cornered to me, and told me of an entity that had been with him for months. He couldn’t sleep or eat, and he was at his wits’ end.
At the time, I had a large Self-Healed Smoky Cathedral Quartz Crystal, sitting on my altar, and another master-healer Self-Healed Clear Quartz in my hand. As we spoke, I could see a large snake-like entity wrapped around him. Joseph was pleading for my compassion and help. All the while, this critter was up to no good, seething and hissing. About twenty minutes in, Joseph started to visibly cry; he got up from his seat and fell to his knees in front of me, placing his weeping face on my lap. The session had gone from strange to stranger: I glanced over at my client, and she was sound-asleep, nuzzled peacefully up to the bear.
As Joseph whimpered and wailed, the entity that accompanied him was saying, “I am going to get inside you. You have no power. Let me in.”
I could hear it plain as day. While my following words addressed the grieving man on his knees, I was responding in my mind simultaneously to the critter directly with a forceful, “NO!”
“Joseph, this entity is manipulating you through your emotion, within your grief you will find your power.”
The entity was hoping to manipulate me through my empathy and pride, by getting Joseph to genuflect in submission and to appear broken.
While my client was still secure in her powernap, this scenario continued for about fifteen minutes. It ended when I told the critter it had no power in this place, and I commanded Joseph to get up off his knees and sit in his space — to take authority over his body and his energy. It must have sounded like I was scolding him, calling him by his full name, as I said it, it was like he woke up from a long sleep, slightly disoriented and looking around the room.
He felt refreshed and a bit confused. I explained to him that the entity had come to show him the meaning of power and authority by requiring him to claim it. I also told him, for now, the entity had departed — but he would surely be watching and waiting for another opportunity to be given influence in Joseph’s life. He was the only one who could access the origin of the attached entity. At this point, my client was sheepishly awake and wondering what happened. We wrapped up the session and said good night. I never heard from Joseph again.”
The take-away for me, was that we always have power in any situation, and sometimes that power is in the psychic realms. We have more force using our minds and communicating telepathically than we do with our bodies in the physical dimension. Any athlete will tell you that their athleticism begins in the mind first, then the body. When you claim this as a part of your belief system, your spirit will show you how to implement it in your life, in any situation, to bring about positive results.
Can you share a story about the biggest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?
Interestingly, I do not believe in mistakes, I believe in process. Everything in life is a process of learning and doing — a series of boundaries to be set with ourselves and others. So, the answer to this question is about setting boundaries, and about navigating personal relationships with clients. As spiritualists, the relationship between us and our clients is a little different than a doctor-patient relationship, certainly more relaxed with no oversite or protocols built into the business. It is something that every healer must navigate for themselves.
People naturally gravitate towards practitioners on a friendly basis, rather than solely professional as you would address a doctor or priest, and yet to some degree, we are both. At the beginning of my career, I had a few clients who decided they wanted to be my “friend” and began including me in social events, and other friendly interactions. What was not clear to me at the time was that these folks didn’t have personal boundaries and were unconsciously looking to have me in their life and space for many other reasons pertaining to the work I do, rather than solely to be my friend. I was everything from a safety net, cheerleader, champion, and platonic date to fake-family. Essentially, many times, doing my work for free.
Today, every one of the clients who declared their offer of friendship, eventually withdrew it at the first sight of a misunderstanding. The work I do requires a different level of connection, which is personal, so the learning curve of cultivating the detachment required was somewhat challenging. For me, navigating a person’s underlying agenda (hidden even from them), is certainly part of my general job description, but finding a way to address it within the healing relationship, in a compassionate and clear way was the key.
In my grief-counseling business, the therapeutic relationship is built in, and often those folks want nothing to do with you once your work has completed. You remind them of one of the most difficult times in their lives. However, working as a psychic, medium, or spiritualist, the lines of energetic and emotional intimacy can be misconstrued if solid boundaries, deep understanding, and clear communication is not in place. This has been the most fulfilling part of my business, to cultivate mastery in understanding the situation at hand and setting the perfect boundaries in a beautiful way.
Let’s jump to our main focus. When it comes to health and wellness, how is the work you are doing helping to make a bigger impact in the world?
All aspects of my business align with supporting people who are navigating change, whether it be self-discovery or grief and loss. My goal has been to break down the shroud of shame surrounding grief and the illusion of weakness that is often misconstrued. Grief is transformative and one of the most powerful tools we have to cause a real shift in consciousness and prosperity for us on all levels. My book Transformative Grief: An Ancient Ritual of Healing for Modern Times, addresses many types of scenarios from everyday frustrations to profound life-changing circumstances that ignite the fires of transition and the cooling rain of grief.
When you do spiritual work, you access your souls blueprint for your life and uncover you true strengths and transition an outdated feelings, beliefs, ideal, and behaviors that do not favor a positive move forward. I work with folks in many ways, including one-on-one sessions, group sessions, webinars, keynote speeches, my podcast “CHAT-Cast”, and of course my many writings including the Demon Slayer’s Handbook Series.
Can you share your top five “lifestyle tweaks” that you believe will help support people’s journey towards better wellbeing? Please give an example or story for each.
- Practice self-honesty: Everyday we learn something new about ourselves — whether it be the true origin of an inner conflict, the acknowledgement of a desire, the recognition of something we could have done differently, or the realization of trauma triggers we carry. Our culture systematically supports our denial or obfuscation of these valuable insights because they are often presented through grief. Culturally, we are taught that grief, sorrow, anxiety, or depression are mental weaknesses, and true strength is not allowing them. This unfortunate belief system could not be further from the truth and prohibits your ability to be honest.
For example: Sheila, after finally getting out of an emotionally abusive relationship, told herself that it wasn’t that bad, they just weren’t a match, and because of this subtle, self-dishonesty, sabotaged every future relationship she sought to engage, by controlling as much as possible. When Sheila finally grieved the realities of her abusive relationship and forgave herself for participation, she naturally made different choices in partners and had a more authentic relationship with them, fostering emotional trust and intimacy. - Food as Medicine: The most valuable thing we can do for ourselves is embrace the idea that the food we put in our body is also medicine. Learning to listen to our body as a guide to diet and nutrition is a powerful skill. Our physical bodies communicate with us about our specific needs all the time. Just as the element of pain communicates when there is an issue, and how to repair or resolve it; our intuitive impressions of the pictures or colors of the foods that would most benefit us, or the information we intuitively come across at a specific point in time, is the best way to serve the nutritional needs of our physique.
Our body communicates information through cravings. For many months in a row, I had been waking up about an hour after falling asleep, hungry, and craving popcorn and other crunchy carbohydrates. As I began to research the nutritional properties and the emotional and spiritual connections to the foods I was craving; I asked my body what it needed and why. Within a few days, I had the insight that I’d been eating mainly protein at night, and it was igniting my energy and metabolism, and prohibiting sleep. Instead, I could have a protein and vegetable meal in midday, and by eating carbohydrates in the afternoon or eve (as the last meal of the day) they would breakdown in my body several hours later and produce tryptophan which is helpful for deeper sleep. (This had been the opposite for most of my life, but now seemed like an appropriate shift in habit.) Since beginning this new food ritual, I have slept through the night, and had more energy in the morning and rest of the day. - Practice mindfulness: Mindfulness is the practice of non-reactive self-awareness. While preforming menial tasks, you allow thoughts and emotions to flow effortlessly without reacting or responding to them, but simply becoming aware of their presence and feeling them. When you recognize what you think and believe, or let your emotions rise to the surface for expression without judgement, you are better able to understand your mental, spiritual, and emotional motivations for the choices you make, clearing the way for powerful self-awareness.
My favorite mindfulness practice is while doing the dishes in the morning or evening. I let my left brain focus on the action of dishwashing, while my right brain brings up images of the day or images that are of value to my current circumstances. These subtle pictures are always accompanied by emotional vibrations that may not be deep enough for a show of grief but are pertinent to understanding what I want and need or how to move forward in a situation. These quiet mindfulness sessions bring about the elusive but precise insights necessary to make sense of my circumstances and innovate my thinking and behavior. You cannot change what you do not understand. - Practice Kindness: Practicing kindness can be anything from offering a smile, kind word, an unexpected gift or note of encouragement, opening the door, and helping in the moment when you see something needs to be done. Kindnesses are the little things we do for the people we know or don’t know that provide compassion, levity, joy, nonjudgement, and mercy.
In the old days, when I had lots of time and inspiration, I loved to offer kindnesses. One morning, on a little day-cation, I’d gone to the family-owned coffee shop of the small town where I was visiting. A man came in for his morning coffee and already seemed to be struggling with his day. I saw him, but he did not see me. I spied his name and company on the patch of his uniform and decided to send flowers to his place of business that afternoon from anonymous. Another coffee shop experience was spending two-hours talking to someone about spirituality.
Today, I spend most of my inspiration in my podcast and article and book writings but seek to be conscientious of these things on a daily basis: thinking about what I say before it comes out of my mouth, showing compassion and patience to people who are rude and angry, or at least smiling and looking someone directly in the eye, to let them know I see them. There are hundreds of ways to show acknowledgement, compassion, and kindness — you never know how life-changing it may be for the person on whom your generous spirit lands. - Living Radical Acceptance: Living Radical Acceptance is the combination of all the dynamics I’ve mentioned above: self-honesty, self-trust, intuition, self-awareness, accepting things as they are, and releasing oneself from criticism. When you give yourself permission to see the truth and accept everything as it is in the moment, you are never more powerful. You now possess the freedom to make choices that can effect real change in your life.
Bill was going along, day-in-and-day-out, overriding his discontent at his job. Each day, pretending that it would get better, all the while his emotions only became more bitter. Finally, after receiving a poor job review from a supervisor with whom he did not agree about most things, he became emotionally inflamed and stormed out of the meeting. Shortly thereafter he received a phone call requesting that he not return.
If Bill had been willing to accept the relationship with the supervisor as it was, or his disgruntled feelings about the job, in general, he could have sought counsel about how to find a common ground or new work all together. This would have allowed for a planned change or a strategized transition in which he could have felt safe and acknowledged. Now, he’d put himself in the position to contend with a forced life-alteration.
If you could start a movement that would bring the most amount of wellness to the most amount of people, what would that be?
I have started a community and membership program called “Living Radical Acceptance” for people who want to find new and innovative paths to self-acceptance and self-awareness. If we can learn to not judge or criticize ourselves, it will ultimately help us to find more acceptance, tolerance, and compassion for others. #livingradicalacceptance
What are your “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started” and why?
This is unique question for me. When I really consider it, I had all the information I needed or would have accepted at any different point of growth, personally or in my business. However, there are great pieces of advice I received over the years and before I began my business. Here are a few of those:
Learn to take care of your body and understand your biorhythms. This turned out to be one of the most important things I could do for myself. Listening to my body and emotional cycles as a younger person, helped me to be a successful businessperson. I have had the same creative process since I was in high school, but at the time I thought I was a procrastinator. I always left projects to the last minute. Now, as a successful author, I understand that all the time I spend contemplating the project is the energy amassing and collating, preparing for the download into the physical world. Now that I have had a lot of experience with my process, I know what I need and can plan and meet deadlines easily.
Understand that other people may not see things as you do. I was born multi-spirited (many souls, one body). Each of the additional souls I carried for more than half my life were Black, Brown, and Asian. Of course, this is how we may differentiate cultural reference today, however, when these discarnate spirits lived over the last 1000 years; they allowed me to see through their eyes, despite my current day whiteness and cultural environment. Somehow, while my mother probably couldn’t conceptualize this, she saw my affinity and genuine connection to all people, and knew it was a unique perspective and not one she’d ever seen, so completely. She pulled me aside one day and told me that it was important I understood other people may not see things as I do. She didn’t tell me that to deter my own beliefs and behaviors in any way, in fact, she didn’t say how our outlooks may differ; she only wanted to prepare me for opposition in beliefs, and racism in general (without actually saying that).
Learn how to pay attention to your money and banking accounts every day. I wish I’d had more experience with money and financial tools starting from my first job at age thirteen. Kids need to start learning about the responsibilities of money and the banking systems available to them as they become adults. Things like simple accounting, banking policies, and credit scores learned from a young age can really change a person’s relationship to money in general.
Learn how to how to manage your credit. When you understand the credit system, you can better navigate your financial landscape, and be financially prepared when something unexpected happens. I once took an accounting course and the teacher asked if there was anyone in the class who had financed the start of their business on credit cards? I was the only one in the class who raised their hand. The teacher then said, “You should never do that, but you can bet this young lady is going to be a success.” It, indeed, changed how I related to money, and my willingness to commit to something and believe in my ability to get it done.
Do not feel obligated to do things as others do. Go at your own pace and be consistent. Everybody has their own rhythm and way of learning, and this must be respected. Spiritually speaking, the patterns we carry are purposeful and help us navigate the world and find our balance in it. I have always struggled doing things as others do, and the more I tried, the more I felt isolated and became frustrated. However, every time I listen to my instinct, and go with the natural flow of learning and accomplishing, things come together smoothly and in perfect timing.
Trust natural timing. I just finished an article that I intended to write three years ago. I sat down and knocked it out in one day. The topic of the article, a haunted restaurant that unfortunately closed in 2020. As fate would have it, nothing could have changed that from happening. However, they have now filed an application to receive cultural and historical preservation landmark status and could really use the advocacy my article feature will promote. Everything happens in right timing. Read the article here: https://traceedunblazier.com/haunted-midnights-in-los-angeles/
Sustainability, veganism, mental health, and environmental changes are big topics at the moment. Which one of these causes is dearest to you, and why?
It is vital that we become aware of all these topics and ways we can contribute to the solutions they offer to our world. In my own life, I recycle and try to consume less, eat less meat, and research environmental changes so that I can speak about them accurately, but mental health education is my life’s work.
I believe that all mental health issues are spiritual health issues first. The more you understand about the multi-dimensional world in which we live, and can learn to navigate your own intuition, recognize spiritual patterns, and transform outdated habits, beliefs, and ideals, the more inclusive the world will become for all of us.
What is the best way for our readers to further follow your work online?
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Twitter: @traceedunblazie
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Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracee-dunblazier-721bb8a/
Thank you for these fantastic insights! We wish you continued success and good health.
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