About Remedy Woman
My story
I am Susan and I live in the Yukon. I want to help you connect with the land, and yourself, and heal your physiology because doing these things will help you rejuvenate and feel better.
Let me tell you about me.
First, I know that shifting intergenerational trauma heals us in the present (https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/17/the-big-idea-can-you-inherit-memories-from-your-ancestors?CMP=share_btn_url).
I also know that connecting with nature heals and restores our spirit, and provides guidance to us for how to move forward.
These 2 ideas underpin how I work with you: to help you tap into and heal what you carry in your body from your ancestors to free you up so you feel better, and to find ways your body thinks you can best move forward from here, to live a healthier, more positively aligned life.
My own family heritage includes British public school, ministers and teachers on my dad’s side, and proud American settlers on my maternal side. I started out on a family-celebrated track, doing a Masters in History and then Art History, and competing at a high level in rowing.
But even though I “succeeded”, I became so exhausted and permeable to the shadow side of achievement that I had to take a different direction… As a descendent of white colonizers I carry their dna and I literally could feel the pain and distortions of my ancestors in my body.
Also, outer circumstances faced me with these issues too. In the Yukon right now, we are learning about the genocidal legacy of residential schools. Forcing First Nations children to assimilate, trying to stamp out their culture and replace it with British style education caused terrible harm to the First Nations culture and people. I am an educator, and working in a school, I can see the effect it still has on students, and am so glad it is on the curriculum so we are learning why. I was trained in the old-school British mentality to try to dominate academically and in the workplace. I have realized the flaws of that system, because it causes us to be self-centred, which is not only destroying us as a society but also as a species, due to our effect on the environment.
In addition, I have needed to clear my dad’s veteran PTSD from his ww2 experience as a pilot (a toxic mixture of pride and pain ramped up by association with that Imperial British flavour).
As an heir of this distorting tradition, I was so relieved and happy when in my mid 30s I started to connect with my body, to learn that it knew how to be healthy and say “yes” to things it thinks are good, as well as “no” to things that were not right (including that this year my body made it clear it could no longer eat refined sugar/carbs and I have now lost 22lb and feel so much better). I am learning to let my ancestors’ suffering go, which has also allowed me to reclaim what was good about their legacy.
Realizing that:
Our Remedies are All Around Us – in Nature and synchronicities that happen each day
and that my Yukon Oracle Cards could chart my own Journey of Personal Renewal
So I made the Yukon Oracle cards with photographs of nature around where I live. I remembered that in my own culture, Western culture, Nature used to be seen as more than a backdrop to our lives. My people felt that nature speaks in symbols that can help guide us, before losing that awareness with the rise of industrialism.
I now experience symbolism and synchronicities like facing and healing my British heritage in the Yukon, as well as learning tools to heal myself and take forward what was good about my heritage (a strong love for beauty, art, Nature, literature). My Yukon Oracle Cards direct you to the healing processes I found helped me at each step of my journey.
My Yukon Oracle Cards draw a line through my life – from my childhood to the Art History I loved while living in London England in the 1990s – to my Yukon life.
If you know your stories and sources of your trauma but you are still stuck, I can help you retrieve your sense of wholeness and clarity. Through considering your past, your relation to the land, your physiological state and your intuition with the Yukon Oracle cards, I can help you find some answers!!
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Accreditation, Education & Experience:
Bachelor of Education candidate (to be completed spring 2025)
Reiki Master
Compassion Key Master
Accredited Practitioner, “The Journey” Brandon Bays
Practitioner, Past Life Regressions
Certified Foot Reflexologist
Astrology: Birth Charts analysis
Certified Practitioner, Australian Bush Flower Essences
Somatic Experiencing: Completed SmartBody SmartMind™ 2021 www.irenelyon.com
MA History of Art
4 years working at South Bank Centre, London UK
7 years working in Environmental and Holistic Mental Health non-profits in Yukon
5 years Instructor (sessional & part time) Yukon College: Women’s & Gender Studies, Indigenous Women’s History, Women and Social Justice 2011-2015
5 years High School Educational Assistant