Take the Leap.
You are worth it. The world needs your light to shine. 💛
You are worth it. The world needs your light to shine. 💛
Warm Greetings, I am Rachel Chase, an Earth-loving consciousness explorer.
I am here to help you create freely, be authentically you, and do the work you are meant to do in the world. To make those leaps in human potential, it takes the support of someone who's gone the distance to heal herself and transcend trauma to create a life of purpose, passion, and fulfillment; and who knows how to help you do the same.
I have been there, and I know how to help others who are ready to take the leap too.
Together, we create a journey for you to gain the insight, tools, and the wisdom you need to access and express your true greatness.
Here's some of my healing journey...
Trauma
Historical hurt travels through family lines.
I am a trauma-survivor. I also grew up in a cult environment until age 12. For the following 15 years after that, the results of those early childhood and pre-adolescent years played out in my relationships with myself and others in pretty dysfunctional ways.
I had no tools to process the harm and heal in a healthy manner, and I didn’t know how to ask for help. From ages 16-27 I lived a self-destructive lifestyle, running from my demons, desperately searching for a way out of the confused anger and anxiety that I stored inside. These emotions were always mixed with an inner plea to find joy and happiness.
During my childhood, the cult experience created an energy in my family and the whole group we were in, of emotional insecurity, mental instability, and spiritual abuse. Many years later, I was abused physically, emotionally, and sexually by men that I trusted.
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Resilience
We have it within us, each and every one.
One strength I had from all the years of unrest in childhood - was resiliency. This is the paradox of experiencing childhood trauma. We learn young how to be tough. Luckily, I did have an ability to have compassion for the world through it all, was loved by family and friends, and had my art to use to express my emotions and somewhat process what had happened to me.
I seemed to always bounce back, but I kept the pain I felt very private so no one could know. Inside, deep down, I knew I was meant for a better life, and a better way of living. I knew I wasn’t going to have to keep living in dangerous situations my whole life. But how?
Back then, the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual distress was killing me.
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Rock-bottom
It can either save you or keep you sunk,
depending on the choice you make in that moment. I chose life.
In 2002, at 27, I desperately needed to find and use therapeutic tools during a time when my body expressed a clear ultimatum; to change or die suffering. Change was the only option I was being given if I wanted to create that life of joy and happiness rather than try to get others to make me happy, or wait for someone to save me, or continue escaping with alcohol and drugs.
I am a survivor of physical abuse as well as sexual abuse. I have learned how to overcome the trauma and use my energy to create beauty. That is why I keep showing up everyday for my own and others well being. I know first hand how difficult it can be to live with the trauma of abuse. A big part of my ongoing self-healing journey has been finding my way out of that hurt.
For so long, I did not know how to ask for help. I muscled through life, forcing a happy face and pretending I was okay.
*********************************
Vulnerability
I realized I had to do the work myself.
After sitting with amazing teachers, I went deep into energy healing, using reiki to gain a clearer understanding of myself, life, and what true power means. It reconnected me with Source energy. And I turned to yoga and meditation. All the assistance I was resisting for so long started coming to me. Saying yes to well being meant letting go of the struggle, the fight, the need to be tough. It meant allowing my vulnerability to speak so I could find my true voice of compassion.
Creating art has been a big part of my self-healing since I was very young. Dance, drawing, writing, painting, theater, music, and creating artistic videos all have helped me to make sense out of the past, the present, and the future. Getting my degree in fine arts was the biggest leap for me at a time when I needed to stand in my truth and go for my dreams so I could show myself that I was worth it.
I needed to figure out how love myself again.
In my early twenties, I began learning about philosophies like Tibetan Buddhism, yogic philosophy, Chinese medicine, reiki, and quantum physics. This curiosity and thirst for knowledge was the catalyst that gave me an intellectual understanding of what self-healing could look like.
To help me regulate my emotions and reset my mind, I began using yoga for more than just exercise. In addition to changes in diet and curbing substance use, I started meditation. I opened the connection with the unnameable source of life again, call it spirit, god, goddess, the divine.
*********************************
Support
I received the help I was asking the Universe for.
I gained wisdom and insight from many teachers, healers, and therapists of various kinds - as well as my closest friend and family members, especially my loving mother who never gave up on me even as she was going through her own intense healing process.
Especially pivotal in my support system early on were my acupuncturist, my art professor, and my first reiki teacher. They coached me back to stable ground. During those early years of committing fully to my self-healing journey, present in my life were my dance students, art-world comrades, and friends that I worked with at the bar. I was a bartender for 16 years. I started teaching dance at age 13.
In 2005, yoga and meditation became my touchstones, albeit sporadic at first. And in 2007, bhakti yoga reawakened my devotional heart. Through these practices, I experienced profound spiritual and transpersonal shifts. I began to find myself again.
*********************************
Thriving
Keep going, It's worth it. Your life depends on it.
After being buried under immense trauma, I started to reorient to my true-north. I started teaching art in 2008, which gave me great courage to move into teaching more and transitioning out of working in toxic environments.
In 2009, I married the love of my life. Then after a few more years, my network of support grew to incorporate my yoga teacher trainers, mentors in the healing arts, and collaborators who validated the work I was meant to do by co-creating healing arts events, classes, and workshops together.
By 2010 I began to thrive after a long journey of suffering. I completed my kundalini yoga teacher training and reiki master training; and progressed into my next level of growth.
Through my spiritual and self-development practices, in addition to receiving coaching, mentoring, and counseling, I woke up to the true knowing that I could use my mind to heal my body and emotions, and that I had within me the ability to change in ways I never dreamed possible.
In the years of teaching many forms of art, and subsequently teaching yoga and mindfulness, I have cultivated a strong inner foundation to grow the garden of my life.
It is a work in progress. And I enjoy it.
I have now created a life of purpose, meaning, and strength out of extremely challenging experiences. The healing took a long time for me and was, for much of the time, very painful.
*********************************
Healing through Love
Although it can be, healing does not have to be so painful and painstaking. With the support of other caring, kind, and healthy people, we can do it in a more harmonious way.
I am here to help you do just that, to resolve the wounds of time with love and honor.
My Work
During the past 10 years as a full-time teacher, facilitator, mentor and coach, I have strengthened and refined my skills and strength. From 2012-2020, in Orlando, Florida, I generated a following of clients and students, and helped grow several yoga and healing arts centers. It just keeps expanding. I have found that I am here to support individuals on their healing journey, and help other healing arts entrepreneurs rise to the challenge as well.
I mentor other yoga teachers, have been teaching reiki courses since 2012, facilitating sound healing for large groups, co-creating support groups, and facilitating therapeutic workshops, seminars, and retreats; as well as getting on-the-job training as a trauma-informed holistic mental health therapist as part of my graduate studies and practice.
In 2019, I trained in Quantum Healing Hypnosis and become certified in the Beyond Quantum Healing (BQH) method and QHHT method. I practice and now facilitate BQH sessions, and have found it to be a very powerful and deep process for soul-connection and self-discovery that brings all my skills together in one modality.
The final milestone of my education as a therapist was receiving my clinical mental health masters degree. During that training I gained thousands of hours experience in the counseling office with clients. It was time to take the work to the next level and apply my counseling skills. Since 2020 I've been serving hundreds of clients as their therapist, guide, and mentor.
Arts education has been there all along as my core joy and natural ability. I continue to create work, and use art in my women’s retreats and may use it in coaching if the client wants that experience. I am an artist and that translates into all that I do to cultivate creative empowerment in the lives of others which has a ripple effect that benefits everyone.
I LOVE what I do! And people who work with me get positive results.
If you do decide to work with me, we will work collaboratively to design a unique experience or self-healing journey for you! I deeply value and utilize the experience and wisdom I have gained in the fields of visual and performing arts, education, yoga, mindfulness, arts and wellness program creation, mental health counseling, hypnosis, somatic healing, and trauma resiliency.
When you are ready to shift into the next phase of growth for you, we will use some or all of these tools in your process of empowered self development. This heart based work is for anyone ready to take that leap in the growth journey to experience the flow, strength, wisdom and peace you have been looking for.
LEAP!
I am here to help you create freely, be authentically you, and do the work you are meant to do in the world. To make those leaps in human potential, it takes the support of someone who's gone the distance to heal herself and transcend trauma to create a life of purpose, passion, and fulfillment; and who knows how to help you do the same.
I have been there, and I know how to help others who are ready to take the leap too.
Together, we create a journey for you to gain the insight, tools, and the wisdom you need to access and express your true greatness.
Here's some of my healing journey...
Trauma
Historical hurt travels through family lines.
I am a trauma-survivor. I also grew up in a cult environment until age 12. For the following 15 years after that, the results of those early childhood and pre-adolescent years played out in my relationships with myself and others in pretty dysfunctional ways.
I had no tools to process the harm and heal in a healthy manner, and I didn’t know how to ask for help. From ages 16-27 I lived a self-destructive lifestyle, running from my demons, desperately searching for a way out of the confused anger and anxiety that I stored inside. These emotions were always mixed with an inner plea to find joy and happiness.
During my childhood, the cult experience created an energy in my family and the whole group we were in, of emotional insecurity, mental instability, and spiritual abuse. Many years later, I was abused physically, emotionally, and sexually by men that I trusted.
*********************************
Resilience
We have it within us, each and every one.
One strength I had from all the years of unrest in childhood - was resiliency. This is the paradox of experiencing childhood trauma. We learn young how to be tough. Luckily, I did have an ability to have compassion for the world through it all, was loved by family and friends, and had my art to use to express my emotions and somewhat process what had happened to me.
I seemed to always bounce back, but I kept the pain I felt very private so no one could know. Inside, deep down, I knew I was meant for a better life, and a better way of living. I knew I wasn’t going to have to keep living in dangerous situations my whole life. But how?
Back then, the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual distress was killing me.
*********************************
Rock-bottom
It can either save you or keep you sunk,
depending on the choice you make in that moment. I chose life.
In 2002, at 27, I desperately needed to find and use therapeutic tools during a time when my body expressed a clear ultimatum; to change or die suffering. Change was the only option I was being given if I wanted to create that life of joy and happiness rather than try to get others to make me happy, or wait for someone to save me, or continue escaping with alcohol and drugs.
I am a survivor of physical abuse as well as sexual abuse. I have learned how to overcome the trauma and use my energy to create beauty. That is why I keep showing up everyday for my own and others well being. I know first hand how difficult it can be to live with the trauma of abuse. A big part of my ongoing self-healing journey has been finding my way out of that hurt.
For so long, I did not know how to ask for help. I muscled through life, forcing a happy face and pretending I was okay.
*********************************
Vulnerability
I realized I had to do the work myself.
After sitting with amazing teachers, I went deep into energy healing, using reiki to gain a clearer understanding of myself, life, and what true power means. It reconnected me with Source energy. And I turned to yoga and meditation. All the assistance I was resisting for so long started coming to me. Saying yes to well being meant letting go of the struggle, the fight, the need to be tough. It meant allowing my vulnerability to speak so I could find my true voice of compassion.
Creating art has been a big part of my self-healing since I was very young. Dance, drawing, writing, painting, theater, music, and creating artistic videos all have helped me to make sense out of the past, the present, and the future. Getting my degree in fine arts was the biggest leap for me at a time when I needed to stand in my truth and go for my dreams so I could show myself that I was worth it.
I needed to figure out how love myself again.
In my early twenties, I began learning about philosophies like Tibetan Buddhism, yogic philosophy, Chinese medicine, reiki, and quantum physics. This curiosity and thirst for knowledge was the catalyst that gave me an intellectual understanding of what self-healing could look like.
To help me regulate my emotions and reset my mind, I began using yoga for more than just exercise. In addition to changes in diet and curbing substance use, I started meditation. I opened the connection with the unnameable source of life again, call it spirit, god, goddess, the divine.
*********************************
Support
I received the help I was asking the Universe for.
I gained wisdom and insight from many teachers, healers, and therapists of various kinds - as well as my closest friend and family members, especially my loving mother who never gave up on me even as she was going through her own intense healing process.
Especially pivotal in my support system early on were my acupuncturist, my art professor, and my first reiki teacher. They coached me back to stable ground. During those early years of committing fully to my self-healing journey, present in my life were my dance students, art-world comrades, and friends that I worked with at the bar. I was a bartender for 16 years. I started teaching dance at age 13.
In 2005, yoga and meditation became my touchstones, albeit sporadic at first. And in 2007, bhakti yoga reawakened my devotional heart. Through these practices, I experienced profound spiritual and transpersonal shifts. I began to find myself again.
*********************************
Thriving
Keep going, It's worth it. Your life depends on it.
After being buried under immense trauma, I started to reorient to my true-north. I started teaching art in 2008, which gave me great courage to move into teaching more and transitioning out of working in toxic environments.
In 2009, I married the love of my life. Then after a few more years, my network of support grew to incorporate my yoga teacher trainers, mentors in the healing arts, and collaborators who validated the work I was meant to do by co-creating healing arts events, classes, and workshops together.
By 2010 I began to thrive after a long journey of suffering. I completed my kundalini yoga teacher training and reiki master training; and progressed into my next level of growth.
Through my spiritual and self-development practices, in addition to receiving coaching, mentoring, and counseling, I woke up to the true knowing that I could use my mind to heal my body and emotions, and that I had within me the ability to change in ways I never dreamed possible.
In the years of teaching many forms of art, and subsequently teaching yoga and mindfulness, I have cultivated a strong inner foundation to grow the garden of my life.
It is a work in progress. And I enjoy it.
I have now created a life of purpose, meaning, and strength out of extremely challenging experiences. The healing took a long time for me and was, for much of the time, very painful.
*********************************
Healing through Love
Although it can be, healing does not have to be so painful and painstaking. With the support of other caring, kind, and healthy people, we can do it in a more harmonious way.
I am here to help you do just that, to resolve the wounds of time with love and honor.
My Work
During the past 10 years as a full-time teacher, facilitator, mentor and coach, I have strengthened and refined my skills and strength. From 2012-2020, in Orlando, Florida, I generated a following of clients and students, and helped grow several yoga and healing arts centers. It just keeps expanding. I have found that I am here to support individuals on their healing journey, and help other healing arts entrepreneurs rise to the challenge as well.
I mentor other yoga teachers, have been teaching reiki courses since 2012, facilitating sound healing for large groups, co-creating support groups, and facilitating therapeutic workshops, seminars, and retreats; as well as getting on-the-job training as a trauma-informed holistic mental health therapist as part of my graduate studies and practice.
In 2019, I trained in Quantum Healing Hypnosis and become certified in the Beyond Quantum Healing (BQH) method and QHHT method. I practice and now facilitate BQH sessions, and have found it to be a very powerful and deep process for soul-connection and self-discovery that brings all my skills together in one modality.
The final milestone of my education as a therapist was receiving my clinical mental health masters degree. During that training I gained thousands of hours experience in the counseling office with clients. It was time to take the work to the next level and apply my counseling skills. Since 2020 I've been serving hundreds of clients as their therapist, guide, and mentor.
Arts education has been there all along as my core joy and natural ability. I continue to create work, and use art in my women’s retreats and may use it in coaching if the client wants that experience. I am an artist and that translates into all that I do to cultivate creative empowerment in the lives of others which has a ripple effect that benefits everyone.
I LOVE what I do! And people who work with me get positive results.
If you do decide to work with me, we will work collaboratively to design a unique experience or self-healing journey for you! I deeply value and utilize the experience and wisdom I have gained in the fields of visual and performing arts, education, yoga, mindfulness, arts and wellness program creation, mental health counseling, hypnosis, somatic healing, and trauma resiliency.
When you are ready to shift into the next phase of growth for you, we will use some or all of these tools in your process of empowered self development. This heart based work is for anyone ready to take that leap in the growth journey to experience the flow, strength, wisdom and peace you have been looking for.
LEAP!
MysticMag interview for more of my story.
Breaking Free: Rachel Chase on Healing from Cult Trauma and Reclaiming Personal Power
Breaking Free: Rachel Chase on Healing from Cult Trauma and Reclaiming Personal Power
Rachel Chase, BFA, MA
Mindfulness-Based Life Coach,
Holistic Mental Health and Spiritual Counselor* Yoga and Meditation Teacher. Reiki Master Teacher, Quantum Healing / Past Life Regression Practitioner. Arts & Wellness Educator. Rachel is an ordained Universal Life minister and officiant. She practices energy healing and counseling as a spiritual / transpersonal development method. Her spiritual orientation is transdenominational, and whole-heartedly inclusive. . |
Rachel holds a BFA in studio art and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
She is a Certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Mindfulness Life Coach, and Certified BQH Practitioner (Quantum Healing Hypnosis). She has been hosting workshops, trainings, and women's circles in many forms since 2006. *Healing, coaching, and counseling sessions with Rachel Chase are not intended to assess, diagnose, treat, or cure mental health disorders, intervene in crisis situations, or treat physical illness. If you are in severe distress, call the National Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 or 911. for emergencies. Rachel@RachelChase.com © COPYRIGHT 2025 Rachel Chase LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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