With Jamie Schlier

Jamie’s story stayed with me long after we ended our conversation.

She’s a licensed acupuncturist . In our time together, she opened up about her own healing journey, one that involved grief, reclamation, and an extraordinary return to self.

Jamie lost her mother to suicide when she was just nine months old. That loss shaped her in ways that were hard to name for much of her life. It wasn’t just grief — it was an inherited silence, a weight she carried before she could even speak.

What moved me most was the way Jamie talked about facing the fear of becoming her mother — and how she’s had to make peace with that shadow over time. She shared a moment I’ll never forget: looking at her mother’s old jewelry box, the one she holds close, and realizing that she can now put her own jewelry in it — and still remain herself.

That’s what healing looks like.

Not erasing the past, but creating something new.

Not suppressing her experience, but choosing to carry it with love.

Jamie’s journey has brought her back to the parts of herself that were once shut down — her inner child, her divine feminine, the softness she once feared would make her fragile. What she’s found instead is strength. Not the kind that pushes through, but the kind that opens up.

She’s a walking testimony to what happens when we do the hard, sacred work of returning to the child within.

To see someone hold their story with such grace is a gift.

To witness them reclaim their identity without losing the thread of where they came from — that’s powerful. That’s Jamie.

Thank you for being here.

– T