Help Macy Launch a Healing Movement

Hi friends, family, and kind-hearted souls,

After years of hard work, deep healing, and devotion to service, I’ve graduated with my Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy! Instead of a party or gifts, I’m asking for something a little different: support in launching the next chapter of my purpose, to bring more healing into the world.

For the last 10 years, I’ve poured my heart into learning, teaching, and offering healing practices. I’ve taught yoga, studied intuitive medicine, and most recently committed to a dual path of graduate school and an apprenticeship in psychospiritual somatic coaching. At the same time, I volunteered as a therapist in training and supported myself by babysitting, doing everything I could to stay afloat while serving others.

However, like many of us, life happened. Financial hardship and debt followed. Despite doing my best, the cost of this path, emotionally, energetically, and financially, has been immense.

Now, I’m asking for your support to help relieve the burden of debt and make space for the next phase of my work:

✨ Continuing my education in spirit medicine

✨ Expanding my business, The Embodied Soul Institute

✨ Offering affordable, accessible healing to more people in need

Why this matters:

My passion for healing began a decade ago, when my own unresolved trauma surfaced. At the time, I couldn't afford continued therapy, and my symptoms included dissociation, which made it challenging to seek and sustain the help I needed. Given the nature of my trauma, I also did not feel worthy of receiving support, but through the grace of kind-hearted people, mentors, teachers, and healing practices, I found my way. Though I managed to do as much inner work as I knew how on my own, it was the encouragement from my Master's program to dive deep, and the healing that happened in connection with trusted others through my apprenticeship and life, that resulted in sustained and integrated healing. I’ve since committed my life to making sure others don’t have to walk that path alone.

Today, I work as a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at a nonprofit that offers sliding scale therapy and accepts a variety of insurances to provide services to a variety of clients, including those with a low income. This fuels my passion, but it also means I make 50% of what licensed therapists earn, all while working toward the 3,000 hours needed to get licensed.

Your donations would directly support:

✨ Paying down student and personal debt

✨ Reducing stress so I can continue offering low-cost therapy

✨ Creating online programs, courses, and group offerings

✨ Launching a podcast to share stories, knowledge, and connection

✨ Publishing the memoir I’ve been writing to help others feel seen and supported

✨ Building the foundation for a healing business that blends mind, body, and spirit

My dream is to create spaces, both online and in-person, where people feel safe enough to heal and remember who they truly are. A space where connection, love, and authenticity lead the way.

If you believe in a world that heals together, grows together, and thrives together, please consider donating. No amount is too small, and every single contribution is received with deepest gratitude.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Let’s build something beautiful together.

With love,

Macy

Founder of The Embodied Soul Institute