The Loneliness of Corporate Work

And how we all just want to be seen and heard

Illustration by Fernand Espedro

On day one of my three-year shamanic practitioner program, our instructor Julie stood in the middle of the circle, in a large open air room, at the YMCA in Estes Park.

“This will be a lonely journey,” she started. “As a healer, you’ll walk this journey alone. You’ll go through training, but no one will ever know what th…