Conversations with Hannah Williamson

Today we’d like to introduce you to Hannah Williamson.

Hi Hannah, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start, maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers.

My health journey began with the birth of my first son in 2013, when I realized I had to grow up quickly and be responsible for the life and well-being of someone other than myself! It’s funny how having kids will confront you with all the ways you’ve been neglecting, or neglected, yourself.

At first, it was only the beginning of awareness that the environment around my child might not be completely safe. The products I was given at his baby shower by well-meaning friends and family were now something that could (and did) hurt his little body. I began searching for healthy, natural alternatives to baby care and personal care products, which led to the birth of my second business, More Than Coconuts, in 2014. I began educating myself and researching ingredients; what they were, how they affect our bodies, and why using nature-grown remedies is so much better for us than lab-manufactured chemicals.

I was disappointed with the “green” options I was given at health food stores, the supposedly “natural” brands and products being two to three times more expensive, and still containing ingredients that aren’t fully safe. I decided to just start making my own salves, herbal mixes, lip balms, and scrubs, which turned into an amazing opportunity to expose myself to an element of the “holistic” world through vendor events and craft fairs. I networked with other business owners and met people with much more experience in their healing journeys.

The second phase of my healing began with the birth of my second child, a daughter, in 2016. I’d been having sporadic gallbladder attacks since the second trimester of her pregnancy, although I had no idea what they were at the time. Excruciatingly painful, and lasting anywhere between 15-45 minutes, I was rendered completely helpless in agony on the floor or bed when they would come on.

I assumed this was some pregnancy-related symptom, but when they only got worse after she was born, I went to the doctor to find out what was going on. I was sent home and told to take extra strength Pepto-Bismol and let them know if the pain came back. I was unimpressed, to put it mildly, by the way I was dismissed from the office, so I decided to check out a local nutritionist’s clinic that had helped my mom heal in miraculous ways after no medical doctor could solve her issues. I scheduled my initial appointment for the Tuesday after Father’s Day, 2016.

That Friday, I’d had a particularly bad episode while driving home, and I pulled over into a neighborhood to wait it out with the kids in the backseat. We made it home eventually, but the nauseating feeling in my stomach never fully went away like it usually did. I woke up the next morning with bright orange pee, and my abdomen was so bloated and puffy I knew something was not right.

I drove myself to Urgent Care to get checked out, which turned into getting admitted to the hospital for emergency gallbladder removal under life-threatening circumstances. I had two surgeries in two days to remove all the stones, along with the organ I’d been hoping to save – all with a 3-month-old baby whom I was still struggling to breastfeed. I decided to keep my nutrition consult and move forward with seeing what I could do to improve my health – because healthy people don’t just end up in the ER needing an organ removed.

Over the next 2 years, I learned about diet, nutrition, and food, and why what we put INTO our bodies is so important! I took supplements, cut out foods and drinks I loved but were making me sick, and watched myself heal. I had to confront a lifetime of sugar addiction, emotional eating, and my toxic relationship with food.

BUT! I no longer had frequent, recurring infections or itchy skin issues, and my depression was disappearing at a rate I’d never experienced before, even pre-kids. When my son was 5 years old, we started him on a nutrition program as well, hoping to find the root cause of various skin and behavioral issues he was suffering from. Healing his gut with good nutrition solved about 80% of his challenges, but I could still tell a big piece was missing.

I decided to find a good play therapist who could work with him and me and help us connect more with each other. This lady was sweet, feisty, and full of pure magic! She introduced me to the Emotion Code, a way to similarly test his body just like we were for nutritional needs, only this time we were finding trapped emotional energy and stored trauma energy. My boy was a different kid in two weeks, and I felt I could finally reach him again.

I knew that THIS was what I wanted to do with my life, and I was incredibly blessed to study under a mentor with over 10 years of experience. I traveled every month to Florida to become certified as a Nutrition Response Testing Practitioner, completing the Professional Levels and Advanced Clinical courses in just over a year. At the same time, I studied online to get my certification for the Emotion and Body Code systems, and became a Level II Usui Reiki practitioner. I saw patients in the same clinic that I healed in for almost two years before starting my own business, Eight Sages Wellness, in March 2020.

Life is full of challenges, but following my dream of helping people find true health and discover their unseen potential keeps me going every day! I’m grateful for every life I get to touch, and I’m excited to take this career to places we can only imagine!

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?

One of my favorite lines of a song says, “No great adventurer has a paved path to Rome.”

This road began for me when I started choosing myself. For the first time in my life, I was following something that was for ME, something I loved because it felt right. I grew up in Loveland, and I still live here to this day. It’s incredibly tricky and messy to evolve as a human in the same town you were born in!

I chose this path knowing that whoever wasn’t meant to come with me would have to fall away. I knew nothing great attained is without sacrifice. I could no longer lie to myself about how I felt, or what I wanted. This was no longer what my parents or my family, my husband, my church, or my friends wanted for or from me – and that was terrifying. I had to choose me, or them. I ended up losing everything to follow this road, starting with my marriage.

We parted ways gracefully, and I am incredibly grateful for that. Co-parenting two kids with an ex-husband was never something I envisioned for myself, but honestly, it’s worked out so much for the best. I lost my family support system when I lost my marriage, as I’m estranged from most of my biological relatives. When I lost my marriage, I lost my church family and most of my remaining support system, as they could no longer agree with or condone the choices and decisions I was making by remaining true to who I was.

I soon lost my entire belief system – realizing I didn’t believe in nationalistic Christianity anymore, or the Christian God as I was taught since birth. My entire reality had been deconstructed, and I was on my own for the first time in my life, divorced with two kids, and supported by a baby career with Big Ideas. Six months after I moved out on my own, I suffered a traumatic brain injury that destroyed my ability to function normally, and I lost the capability of doing anything other than sitting at home having what felt like psychotic delusions.

I tried to fake being “normal” enough to not lose my kids, but I lost my business, my savings, and almost my housing. I was suicidally depressed for months and lost the remainder of what turned out to be fair-weather friends. I felt betrayed horribly by people I loved and thought who loved me. I was still grieving the loss of so much of my foundation in life, and then it felt like I’d lost myself.

All great stories have an “and then!” – and thankfully now that it’s 2024, I’ve stuck it out long enough to build my “and then!” Four months after my brain injury, when I struggled to remain alive every day, I “happened” to reconnect with an old friend, and a month later was dating my now husband, who entered my life right when I needed a sign. Our path has been nothing but challenges as well, but it’s now the challenge we choose together, and it remains a tangible sign every day that this road is worth it.

Not worth it because finding someone else magically makes all your problems go away, but because someone else is there to reflect to you and remind you what makes life worth living. We had a baby together in March of 2023, completing our family of six! The baby is just about to turn one year old – and let me tell you, there is nothing like parenting from the beginning all over again to remind you how to live in the moment and fight for what’s worth it. This road will never be smooth, but I’ve seen too many signs and landmarks of hope to ever want it any other way.

I can honestly say if I didn’t know this kind of healing work, I wouldn’t be here today. Having access to high-quality nutrition, cutting-edge quantum technology, and talented, intuitive healers, is what has enabled my body and my brain to recover the capabilities it has today. I’m nowhere near finished healing, but these modalities I’ve used have brought me back from the dead, and that’s something you never forget.

Having my own business where I can set my schedule, work from anywhere I need to, connect with people all over the world, and live out my purpose and passion, is something not many people get to experience – and I intend to leave this path slightly more paved for any other newer adventurers out there!

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?

I use a technique called muscle testing, or Applied Kinesiology, to ask questions of the subconscious brain about the body, and what its current stressors, or imbalances, are. Our bodies have positive, or strong, muscle responses towards substances, objects, people, statements, and ideas that are good, true, or beneficial for us. Similarly, we see a weak muscle response when confronted with a negative, false, or damaging influence. By communicating with our innate intelligence, we can begin to understand how healthy our environments, diets, and habits are, and how to adjust as needed to give the body what it needs.

Of course, I’m completely virtual, so I’m not physically finding a locked or unlocked muscle from most of my clients anymore like I used to do in the clinic. Instead, I use a pendulum to dowse “yes” or “no” responses from my clients. Most people wonder how we can connect even from a distance, and I like to compare it to a long-distance phone call. When we know how to tap into, or dial, the recipient, an energetic current is created specifically for whoever is “in” on the call. Nature uses these principles as well, and by directing specific, focused attention on another’s field, we can “tap” into their current state of being.

During a typical session, a client will bring a health challenge or goal, and we muscle test against extensive charts to identify the exact trauma energies, toxins, or limiting beliefs that are blocking natural, healthy energy flow to the client’s goal or desire. This energy is released, and we install positive “programming”, or beliefs and frequencies, to take its place. I see people for Lyme disease, weight loss, brain fog, parasite cleansing, sleep issues, hormone imbalances, attention disorders, pregnancy and postpartum support, and anxiety and depression. I see just as many people for financial goals, relationship issues, communication blocks, traumatic events, grief and loss, and “just feeling stuck”. I’ve had the honor of working with people starting from before birth, to adults into their seventies – and I see pets and rescue animals like cats, dogs, and horses, too!

I am certified in several different modalities, but I specialize in uniquely combining them all so I can give my clients whatever they most need at the moment. Whether you’re dealing with emotional or physical pain, we can directly ask your body what it needs, and in what priority. I facilitate healing for my clients by releasing what ISN’T theirs, so they can have a clearer, stronger vision of who they are.

Sometimes a session includes nutritional support and a supplement program, other times it’s simply identifying and releasing old, trapped emotions – validating the invisible burden you know you’ve been carrying for so long, and holding space for emotional release. Some sessions are a mix of the two, and sometimes I refer to other practitioners who I feel would have a better angle to work from depending on the challenge. I love networking with other healers and coaches and believe we can create a world founded on collaboration and community, not competition.

I believe that asking the right questions will lead us to the most helpful answers, and I’ve loved asking questions my whole life. My love of questions is what got me kicked out of church, in fact, but I’m leaning into it as a gift to help myself and my clients open up new perspectives. I also believe in the long game, not in quick fixes. It’s easy to look at these incredible healing arts and expect magic and miracles – and yes, I do see those happen regularly!

But the real magic is in long-term, sustained change that lasts beyond the next fad and craze. If we aren’t willing to do the work, day in and day out, one or two sessions to clear some old, stagnant energy is not going to fix all our problems and give us the lasting peace we’re looking for. We also have to be willing to let healing take time – because our bodies did not get into this mess overnight! By setting unrealistic expectations of ourselves and our bodies, and by using band-aids to cover up deeper issues, we set ourselves up for failure and disappointment.

In a culture that teaches us to numb our pain with food, alcohol, soda, nicotine, drugs (pharmaceutical and otherwise), social media, television, entertainment, work, and online shopping, I believe that gently turning toward our pain with compassion and honesty is the only way to heal.

This unique blend of Emotion and Body Code, subconscious belief and pattern reprogramming, frequency installation, and nutritional support when needed, provide a path for anyone – regardless of their experience with energy healing or traditional or non-traditional therapies. There’s no need to rehash all your old wounds, your childhood, or the things you’re not proud of, there are simply emotions and messages that the body is ready to get rid of.

People looking for relief and healing and wanting to remain private about their lives can do so, and anything released is acknowledged with gratitude for shaping us into the person we are today and are continuing to become.

What matters most to you? Why?

Leaving a legacy of love. It sounds corny, or grandiose, but it’s really simple. We live in a sick, hurting world. Everyone’s in pain, everyone’s looking for answers, and everyone’s having babies while still healing from the trauma they went through as babies. There’s so much plastic in our oceans, that it’s becoming part of the ecosystem. It’s part of our internal ecosystem. I’m part of a generation of humans obsessed with the world ending.

Because it is. It has to. The world as we know it has to end so we can honestly look at our pain and begin to heal. I believe only love is strong enough to carry us through this, and keep us together. I hate the way I see our older generations dying. I hate that they’re sick, that they don’t remember who they are or who their families are, and I know this isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. I don’t want to age like I saw my grandparents age. I want to be fit and healthy, and raise shenanigans until it’s time for me to end this adventure and begin the next.

Love is the only thing strong enough to bind us beyond time. Well, love and trauma! So, if I can heal my generational trauma, raise my kids to believe this, and show love in any of the multitude of ways I can wherever I can, especially to myself, I will have done what matters.

Pricing:

• Quantum Realignment Session $111
• Kid’s Session $75
• Pet’s Session $75

Contact Info:

• Website: www.8SagesWellness.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/8sageswellness
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/8sageswellness