Allison Brunner

09/18/2025

This story started out on an entirely different topic before this one grabbed the reigns. I didn’t think I’d ever share it publicly, and it took all of the courage and emotional energy in my well to tell it. I had to hold myself in exquisite self-care during the two weeks that I wrote it and hope that in doing so it helps someone else. I’m relieved to finally publish and want to extend a special thanks to the three men in my writer’s group who encouraged me to loosen my grip and trust what unfolds. This is an account of what happened when the “one who got away” came back into my life ten years later. What began as a dream-come-true reunion turned into something far more complicated: a love story blurred by projection, addiction, and the illusions I clung to. In this personal essay, I share the journey of falling for a man’s potential instead of the person in front of me — and what it took to finally face the truth, release the fantasy, and return to myself.

What happens when the “one who got away” comes back ten years later? I thought it was fate — but it turned into a story of illusion, codependence, and finall...

09/04/2025

Talking Trees is a series of healing transmissions and story-meditations guided by nature’s voice and spirit allies. Through vivid storytelling, Earth’s wisdom becomes counsel for your heart—helping you slow down, feel what’s true, and remember that you’re never alone.

Each episode is an invitation into presence: part story, part meditation, and part conversation with the living world.

Welcome to Talking Trees: Stories That Remind You You're Never Alone.In this episode, The Party by the Lake, you’re invited to sit beside the water, notice t...

09/01/2025

I’m sharing the story of how I found the nerve to write again after years of burnout, jaw pain, and self-doubt. Writing has always been my lifeline, but I had to learn how to return to it differently—with presence, sensitivity, and healing instead of pressure. If you’ve ever walked away from your creativity, or wondered if your voice still matters, I think you’ll find something here.

Finding My Nerve to Write Again is my story of leaving behind a career as a writer, burning out as a therapist, and slowly rediscovering my voice after years of silence.

In this essay, I share how physical pain in my jaw and body revealed deeper truths I couldn’t ignore, how vows I made shaped my path in ways I didn’t realize, and how stillness, nature, and Spirit have been teaching me a gentler way to live and create.

This piece is for anyone who has:
• set aside their creative voice and wonders if it still matters,
• carried the weight of others’ pain and longed to feel lighter,
• or needed courage to begin again after burnout or loss.

It’s about writing—but it’s also about healing, presence, and remembering that sensitivity is a gift, not a flaw.

If these words resonate, I’d love for you to stay connected. Subscribe to my YouTube channel until I rewrite my web site to reflect the new path I’m taking.

The Awkward Mystic: Falling Down, Getting up, and Waking upStory 1 - Finding My Nerve to Write AgainI’m sharing the story of how I found the nerve to write a...

04/24/2025

A client recently shared these words with me, and I was deeply humbled. I don’t see myself that way—but I do believe Kuan Yin works through me. And in that session, my client didn’t just feel my presence… they felt Hers.

Kuan Yin entered my life in my late 20s during a time of deep despair, long before I called myself a healer. I was lost, tormented, estranged from the faith of my upbringing, and starving for compassion. One day at Borders bookstore, I searched for anything I could find on compassion—and that’s when I discovered Her.

That moment planted a seed of hope that grew roots in the darkest soil of my being. Over time, I began praying with her name, using prayer beads on the bus, whispering to her at work when I could barely make it through the day. Then in 2012, when I stood at a crossroads—a moment that could’ve ended in self-destruction—she appeared. Not in form, but in presence. She showed me how to hold myself, how to love what hurt, how to choose healing.

I’ve been working with her ever since. With Kuan Yin. With Mother Mary. With Divine Mother. With the Earth herself. With Jesus. With the rivers, the creeks, the great mountains, and the lineages I’ve been trained in.

In every session I offer—whether one-on-one or in circle—these loving presences create a space that is deeply nourishing, soft, and transformative.

If you’re longing to feel that kind of compassion again—or maybe for the first time—
you’re welcome to reach out for a session or join The Hearth, my monthly group healing circle. The next one is Monday, May 5 at 6pm ET. Use code WELCOME for $50 off your first circle.

alisonbrunner.com

You are not alone.
And your pain is not too much.
You are worthy of the deepest love.

04/12/2025

Here's a bonus episode of my podcast and a very, very special offering. I'm offering two donation-based group healing sessions at The Hearth. Go to my web site, AllisonBrunner.com, and reach out to me on the Contact page and let me know if you can fully commit to attending on either Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30pm EST or on Saturday, April 26 at 10:30am. Sessions will mostly likely go for 75 minutes. They're limited to 8 attendees.

This is a reading of what's going on in the collective right now, some guidance, and a very special offering. Join one of two donation-based group healing se...

01/30/2025

I was going to share with you today how to communicate with the natural world. I recorded a long video I meant to edit and post. However, when watching it later, I realized I was chewing gum the whole time! (Gross.) AND, I also realized that no one gets on Instagram to watch 5-minute how-to videos. I’m such a Gemini! So I’m going to turn this whole thing into an instructional video and post it on my web site in the near future. I have so many new services and so much new content that will be showing up there once I return to Pennsylvania. Sign up for my newsletter at AllisonBrunner.com if you want to hear about those new offerings next month. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll share the message I did get today from Mama Atlantic. :) It may surprise you.

01/20/2025

If you need support navigating grief, change, identifying what in your life isn’t working and how to let it go, or a personal death/rebirth cycle, reach out for a shamanic healing session. Find me at AllisonBrunner.com or DM me.

10/25/2024

Look for another event in November!

10/09/2024

The media wants to manipulate your emotions. Rebel: access inner peace. Your emotions create realities.

09/30/2024

Join Tarotpy practitioner Paige McHugh and me for a 90-minute group healing session at Solace Farms Day Retreat in bedazzling Chester Springs, PA. Paige has a substantive following online and at Solace Farms. After holding her own feet to the fire, humbly and heroically surrendering to the sometimes grueling and oftentimes rewarding alchemical process of personal growth and transformation for decades, she serves the community with her energy forecasts, astrology readings, and spiritual insights. I’m always in awe of the enthusiastic testimonials people share after sessions with her. ��Self investment: $60
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09/29/2024

Join me in beautiful Chester Springs, PA, at this bedazzling time of year for in-person sessions at Solace Farms Day Retreat. And here is my guest blog announcing their new Circle of Support!

Learn how to find and trust the "real deal" Spiritual guides and Healers. (Spoiler alert, they are at Solace Farms.)