Stacey L.L. Couch's Blog

Treasurer Archetype

Treasurer Archetype, Money Archetype, and Financial Archetype

The financial archetype that manages your money, evaluates your self-worth, AND brings clarity about what really matters.

Money matters. Resources are a universal concern for us all. If we’re going to talk about how personality archetypes help us understand ourselves (and human nature) better, we need to understand the archetypal pattern that rules our relationship to money.

Meet the treasurer archetype. The treasurer archetype identi...

Survivor Archetype

All of us benefit from the strength of the survivor archetype that courageously carries us to the other shore. This archetypal pattern is a fundamental part of human nature. As our experience with the survivor increases and we learn how to leverage its gifts, we come further into our authentic selves. Our compassion grows.

Archetypal patterns can’t be changed. And, they can go by different names and descriptions. Our understanding of them increases. There’s always room for rewrites.

When I origi...

ANT Spirit Animal

Cultivating Resources

Ant spirit animal teaches patient cultivation of resources. From sowing the right seeds to picking the right time for harvest, ant symbolism is about working with nature to bring a project to fruition.

Ant is a powerful totem for gardeners and farmers. In Roman myth, ant spirit animal is strongly associated with the goddess of agriculture, Ceres (“Demeter” in Greek myth).

Ants were the earth’s first farmers, developing agriculture 65 million years ago [1]. Leaf cutter ants ...

Empath Archetype

Let’s all help amplify voices, dispel myths, foster acceptance, and celebrate neurodiversity during Neurodiversity Awareness Month and Autism Awareness Month this April.

Being an Empath

There is overlap between people who have the empath archetype and those who are neurodivergent. As to the extent of that overlap, I am uncertain, but my guess is that it’s quite extensive. I say this as a member of both groups, having plenty of experience with being an empath and falling somewhere along the autis...

No Need to Trip: Sober Shamanic Journeys

Going on a Shamanic Journey

Flying out of your body and seeing things that aren’t in the room? Talking with spirit guides and flying on the back of a hawk? To the uninitiated, all this can sound pretty far out.

This and so much more happens on a shamanic journey. A shamanic journey is much like a waking dream. It is a soul flight into the spirit world. During a shamanic journey, a seeker has the opportunity to talk with and receive guidance from spirit guides. They can also experience healings. ...

Is My Cat My Spirit Animal?

Is my cat my spirit animal? Can pets be our spirit animals? Most of the time the answer is “no” and, in other instances, it is “yes”. Pets can serve as our soul companions and familiars, and once they cross into the spirit world they may become spirit animals. Let’s first explore these distinctions and then look at the symbolism of different pets as spirit animals such as cat spirit animal, dog spirit animal, and more.

Spirit animals are our guardian angels. They do not have attachments to this ...

Porcupine Spirit Animal

Intimacy in Porcupine Spirit Animal

Porcupine spirit animal speaks being carefree and careful. They are well defended by a coat of tens of thousands of quills that covers their bodies except for their faces and undersides. This lends to a relatively mellow and carefree life. They don’t have to run or hide from predators. However, this safety comes with a cost to intimacy.

Physical contact between porcupines is a delicate arrangement indeed. Get too snuggly or affectionate with your lover and ris...

Celebrating Wild Gratitude’s 10th Anniversary!

Time to Celebrate! TEN Years of Wild Gratitude!

Big milestones! Ten years ago on November 1st, I officially registered Wild Gratitude LLC as a business, AND ten years ago on November 3rd, my memoir Gracious Wild: A Shamanic Journey with Hawks was published.

Let me catch you up… in that time I’ve:

Built a part-time practice into a full-time business encompassing spirituality, archetypes, and shamanism.Worked with clients in over 30 countries worldwide and 48 states in the USHelped connect 1000...

Use Your Imagination for Shamanic Journeys

When You Use Your Imagination

Society says imagination should be left behind in childhood. We dismiss experiences we can’t explain by saying, “It’s just your imagination”. So, to be taken seriously we talk about brainstorming, practicing creative visualization, visioning, and dreaming up.

According to the Oxford Dictionary imagination is:

the faculty or action of forming new ideas, images or concepts of objects not present to the senses (i.e. seeing something in your mind that doesn’t exist in ...

Healing the Loneliness Epidemic: Small Group Workshops for Social Connection

The Loneliness Epidemic

This year, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the United States Surgeon General, made a public advisory about an “Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation”. He states that “approximately half of U.S. adults reported experiencing measurable levels of loneliness.”

Seen as an urgent, widespread health crisis that “has profound consequences for our individual and collective health and well-being”, this announcement about the epidemic of loneliness made headlines across all major networks. Th...