The Path That Brought Me Here
My healing journey began when I was nineteen. But in truth, it started long before that.
Most of my life up until then, and for many years after, was spent living in survival mode.
At just two years old I experienced sexual assault by my caregiver. Growing up, I was ridiculed and made to feel invisible by my mother's boyfriend. By seventeen, desperate to escape, I married — only to find myself in another cycle of abuse. My husband broke my back and threatened my life. And in the middle of all of that pain, my father, my protector, was murdered while defending his neighborhood.
For years I asked myself: why me?
I didn't have an answer for a long time. What I had instead was a choice — to keep surviving, or to actually start healing. I chose healing. And then I chose it again. And again. For the next 25 years.
That journey took me through therapy, energy healing, breathwork, advanced consciousness work, and some of the most profound personal experiences of my life. Slowly, something shifted. The weight I had been carrying began to move. And what I found underneath it, underneath all of it, was something I hadn't expected.
Wholeness. Clarity. A deep and unshakeable sense of peace.
Not because my past changed. Because my relationship to it did.
THE TURN
I didn't set out to become a breathwork facilitator. I set out to heal.
But somewhere along the way I realized that everything I had been through — every painful chapter, every hard year, every moment I wasn't sure I would make it — had given me something I could not have learned any other way.
I know what it feels like to carry something that feels too heavy to put down. I know what it feels like to have tried everything and still feel stuck. I know what it feels like to sit in a room full of people and feel completely alone inside your own body.
And I know what it feels like when something finally shifts.
That is what I create space for in every Sacred Liberation Breathwork Journey. A genuine, held, loving space where your body gets to do what it has always known how to do — release, reset, and remember that you are okay.
I have now guided hundreds of people through this experience. I never get tired of watching what happens in that room.
🌞 TRAINING AND BACKGROUND
I am a Wisconsin-based breathwork facilitator, energy healing practitioner, and transformation guide with over 25 years of personal healing experience and more than a decade of formal professional training.
My certifications and training include:
Breathwork facilitation
Reiki (Level 2)
Pranic Healing (Level 1)
Life Force Energy Activation
Intuitive Rebirth Practitioner
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Past Life Regression
Advanced internal alchemy and consciousness work (currently Level 3)
Monroe Institute advanced programs including Explorations 27 and Starlines
I have studied alongside Dr. Joe Dispenza, Tony Robbins, Gregg Braden, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and Mike Dooley, and I bring the full depth of that training into every space I hold.
I am also the founder of Sunshine Community Fitness Center, a chain of nine locations across small-town Wisconsin — because helping people feel better in their bodies has always been at the center of everything I do.
🌺 WHO THIS IS FOR / PERSONAL CLOSE
You are not broken. You are not too far gone. You are not beyond healing.
I know that because I used to believe all of those things about myself. For a long time. And I found my way through anyway.
Not because I had it all figured out. Not because I was stronger than anyone else. Just because at some point I got tired of carrying it and I said yes to something different.
That is all this takes. Just that one yes.
Here is what I see happen over and over in that room. Someone walks in quiet, guarded, not sure why they came or if this is even for them. Two hours later they are lying there with tears running down their face and this look of absolute relief. Like something they forgot was even possible just came back online inside them.
I have watched people release grief they had been carrying for thirty years. I have watched someone forgive a person they swore they never could. I have watched people walk out of that room and describe feeling more like themselves than they have in years.
That is not magic. That is what happens when your body finally gets the space and the safety to do what it has always known how to do.
Maybe you landed here because something in you is hurting. Maybe you are just curious. Or maybe you have had this quiet feeling for a while now that something needs to change and you are not sure what to do with it yet.
Whatever it is, I am glad you found your way here. And I would love to be in that room with you.
With so much love, Alissa Sunshine