Danelle Hallenbeck - Wilderness Guide
As your wilderness guide, it is my passion to help you experience healing change. Become intimate with your authenticity, your true power, and know that you are the creator of your reality, the author of your story, and truly understand and experience “as within, so without”. Let me guide you into the landscapes and elements of nature, navigating the way into the wilderness of your soul. Letting go of what no longer serves you, leading you to a deeper connection with nature and your true authentic self. Reclaim your power, and the parts of you that you have lost along the way.
Write a new story.
I offer myself as a guide to your inner wilderness because of the many challenges I have overcome in my life. My education, trainings, and certifications have all greatly benefited me, but my experiences through life’s challenges have been my the most valuable lessons. There was a day when I couldn’t speak of some of these things. Today I share them, to let you know that you are not alone in your experiences. There is hope, healing, and help through to the other side.
I’ve had to learn to navigate, heal, and overcome through some most challenging experiences. Sexual abuse from a very young age, the untimely death of my closest cousin when we were 20, healing from an abortion, two tough failed marriages, and being the mother of an addict (now in recovery). These challenges brought much with them. Codependency, PTSD, depression, feelings of shame, guilt, anger, low self worth, many bad choices, and the loss of my identity, (who am I?) after placing my worth in external roles and people.
Then on August 8th, 2019 I unexpectedly lost my husband of 20 years, the love of my life. I became a widow at the age of 52. I was stricken into the depths of grief like I have never felt. My life as I knew it was gone.
My grief is sacred. My grief is gratitude.
I still have challenges reconstructing my life after losing my husband, but today I have conquered many. I stand centered, peaceful, stronger, and wiser, with a heart full of love and gratitude. I have a voice. I have healed through many situations, and I am equipped with practices that will keep me on this path of healing, expansion and growth. I have learned that just about everything we experience is grieving a loss, a loved one, a role, parts of ourselves we left behind, things as we once knew them, and so forth. I have learned how to grow through my pain. How to feel it and release it, how to grieve deeply. My grief is sacred, my grief is gratitude.
My life is now to help you grieve your losses. Let me hold your hand as you grieve, and reclaim the pieces you have left behind. Let me help you deepen in your healing, find peace, and step over into the threshold of joy. Together we can turn your grief into gratitude. Gratitude comes when grief is fully expressed and our eyes open to the gifts of what it was.
Spending time in the stillness of nature has allowed me to step into these experiences and find the light in the darkness. To bring with me the lessons, strength and courage, and the many parts of me that I had left behind. Nature is a place where I can truly connect with God/Spirit, and I can hear the whispers of my soul. In nature I receive clarity, visions, healing, and hear the guiding whispers.
Check out our retreats and workshops under the offerings tab. To schedule individual one on one sessions, or individual 1 day, or 2 day healing retreats, contact me to schedule a session.
Much Love,
Danelle, Wilderness Guide
*Please do not let finances stop you from contacting me. If you would like to work with me, please contact me at Danelle@whispersofnature.com. We may have partial scholarships available.
Danelle’s formal education and certifications consist of:
Master’s Degree Human Services with Specialization in Business Administration, Liberty University
BS Degree in Sociology, Iowa State University
Paralegal Certification, Institute for Paralegal Studies
Warrior Goddess Facilitator Training, HeatherAsh Amara
Wilderness First Aid Certification, 2017
Life Coach Certification
Reiki 1&2
Sundor Firewalk Facilitator