Today we’d like to introduce you to Vanessa Nordstrom.
Vanessa, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I grew up with a holistic lifestyle learning about and appreciating Mother Earth, Connecting with her and protecting her. I understood the keys to healthy living from my parents, who were Mom, brought up Christian Science and Dad became a buddhist after Vietnam. My Dad also taught us Native America Spirituality, We drank Aloe Vera juice, among many other things and used the different herbs to feel better. Exercise and movement was key in our house, We did family hikes on Sundays with Cousins, Aunts and uncles since I was born. I was always intuitive since my youngest memories. I understood the body can always heal itself with time and intension. Then it all shifted when my Dad was diagnosed with Lung and brain cancer from exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. My Junior year of high school my Dad became delusional one day and suffered a number of flu symptoms. We brought him into the VA and within hours he was diagnosed with Lung and brain cancer and was given 2 weeks. A young rookie doctor screamed “2 weeks” that is all he has, to my Mom over the phone at midnight and unraveled our world. Thankfully our lifestyle proved the doctors wrong, at least for a while. My Dad actually made it 18 months to see my graduate from high school and my younger sister graduate from junior high. Then 5 days later on Father’s Day, June 18, 1995 it all ended like a dark cloud that engulfed my family whole. Side note, as we prepare for the Fire Horse energy coming in tomorrow 2/17/26, we are purging, organizing and Feng Shuing our home and I came across all the letters I wrote my Dad each Christmas since he died for the first 5 years 95-99. I vowed to make his legacy live on as one who lived fully, lived a healthy life and fought (with the late great Senator Paul Wellstone of MN) to get 11 cancers associated with Agent Orange approved by the government, so that other veterans could file claims and get 100% disability. I vowed to start college and study environmental policy so I could help us all combat the chemicals, pesticides and toxins that would inherently emblazoned our lives 30 years later. I also vowed to my Dad in these letters that I would do something that helps others and changes the world. After a mismatched career in corporate sales and running a holistic homeless agency for 2 years during the pandemic, I finally figured out what It was I am here to do. I started F.Y.T. Health & Wellness, which stands for Find your Tribe health & wellness. A company built to help each person willing to do their work to find their Tribe and feel supported doing the big work to help their body, mind and soul let go and move forward. The business has evolved from the original statement which was more focused on health coaching. It is now a powerful pursuit to help people transform and grow through release and balance. As an Emotion, Body and Belief code practitioner, A Reiki master, A Spinal Flow practitioner, and working with frequencies, I have become a full on intuitive energy healer that leverages which tools the person or animals (Even lands) subconscious calls for in each and every session. I have created easy to understand education modules, teaching people that we are all energy and how to work with energy to balance our health and wellbeing. I help people learn and understand the pie of healing is more than physical. It entails the other 75% made up of Mental, Emotional and Spiritual. There is so much to learn that shifts you away from the belief systems created over the last 100 years. That is another part of my role, is educating people whith new forms of thought that return us to the ancient ways of our ancestors. I am so grateful for this work and love that it can be done from a distance for Emotion, Code, Body and Belief code, as well Reiki energy healing. Spinal flow and HUB Frequencies are in person, but to be able to work with people all over the world is my goal. If I had known about all these tools when I was younger, I firmly believe I could have helped my Dad’s body reverse the cancer that consumed him. I take heart in working with people that have cancer now to find the deep emotional themes of what fed the cancer in the first place and I help the body release and let that go. The secret in my recipe is to remind the body to rebalance, along with many lifestyle changes. The inputs we are receiving daily were never intended to hit the human body, but now that we are here. We have to have a game plan to help the body release these in puts and remove barriers, traumas and grief, among other things so that it can stay in the flow and continue working in homeostasis as it should. I look forward to an ever evolving business that continued to grow in my bandwidth as well what the energy calls for humanity, animals and the land. A wellness center is in the future. More to come.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Nothing is smooth in the life of an entrepreneur, but then you add an Energy healer on top of it? That’s a rocky road I have navigated well, all things considered. I am thankful for the journey I have had, while I did not become a working scientist, I have always been a scientist and an alchemist that has tuned into my guides and navigating the paths as best I could. I am thankful for corporate career that I started off my first 18 years in. This gave the rocks and boulders to cut my teeth on, the tools to learn to run a business and the bandwidth to preserver. I built an amazing nest egg being in corporate, but sacrificed it all to find my soul and rekindle my fire for what I am truly here to do. The few years I ran the homeless agency taught me even more about humanity and its inner workings and I am forever grateful for that knowledge and experience. The largest obstacle in the beginning was really getting to know who I was after corporate again. To realigned with my sovereign self and stand in my own alignment. Until I did that, it was a lot of barriers trying to educate people on what is energy and how to leverage it for your health and wellness. It has been a journey I could have never written. It has tested my being, my confidence, my marriage and built my family into the strongest we have ever been. Yes, I pushed us through the fire, but we are finally coming out on the other side of stronger together than we have ever been. We now understand the value of Happy Money in and happy money out. We understand that abundance goes far beyond the money we bring in, we know we have to figure out how to pay our bills, but if you do not have the value of good health, love, strength, compassion and adventure in there, are you even living? I am discovering the value of my time, boundaries, and being selective with who I work with. The person that is willing to do the work, is who I am willing to navigate their path with. This took some learning and releasing for me to get there, but now I feel more solid than ever building my business on these strong pillars. The energy is shifting tremendously, many people are starting to figure out that they need to do the inside work to have lasting success on the outside. I work with the law of attraction and set these specific intentions to draw the people I am meant to work with. It’s working. You can never ever stop learning and growing. Once you do, it unravels. I look forward to immense growth in the coming years. I know that there is more than me just do one on one’s with people. It is about educating others to truly understand their innate worth, their ability to do their own innate healing and creating tools that help people grab that title. They are their strongest authority. They hold the reins to their power and life. That is the most awesome gift watching people bloom into who they are meant to be and what they are meant to do here. It’ golden and it’s a huge part of my Dad’s legacy. In the intro, I did not mention that our whole childhood my Dad struggled with PTSD, OCD and paranoia after the Vietnam war. He was the most loving and caring father, but did not have a long fuse, he did not learn how to manage his nervous system, accept that he practiced Buddhism. I often wondered how someone who was a buddhist still struggled with their demons. I now know and that for me is the sweet spot in my business, helping people see that releasing the trauma, grief, inner child pain, disconnections and trapped emotions is what is truly needed for the body rebalance and the buddhist chants, help maintain what is gained. This is a support like daily meditation, yoga, grounding, etc. We have to remove the deep stuff and use the supports to help stay balanced against all the inputs.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Find Your Tribe Health & Wellness?
An ever evolving intuitive energy healing practice. Run solely by me. I have deep aspirations of moving this into a complete wellness space, but for now I am helping others navigate their soul journey by releasing trapped emotions, barriers, grief, traumas and more so that they can stand in their alignment and return to their sovereignty. Living in their own truth and becoming their authentic self. I use the tools of Emotion, Body and Belief code (Dr. Braley Nelson) to help people release the above either in person or via distance. I am a Usui Holy fire Reiki master and leverage the healing power of energy as needed with each individual person, animal or land space. The power of frequencies is so 100x stronger than the chemical derivatives (Dr. Bruce Lipton), so I leverage frequency tools to support the body, as well as help it release what is out of sync. I teach people how to leverage many of these tools in their own life to help support themselves and their families. I run this business out of my home in Eden Prairie, MN, but many sessions are done remote from all over. This work is directly connecting with the person, animal or spaces subconscious. We are getting the direct answers for their universal truth. Not only do we get to the core root causes of the Barriers, imbalances, diseases, disconnection and more, we are also getting intel on what the body needs for support to heal and move forward. This is transformative work that shifts perspectives, energy flow, connections and so much more. A person who used to respond with anger as their first response, may now respond with an entirely new emotion if they work on that area. It is an effective, efficient and non-invasive set of modalities fully there to support the recipient. I am excited to be on this journey with people and animals that want to do the work.
Can you talk to us a bit about the role of luck?
It’s all a path of learning and growing. I had a very windy career path over the last 26 years. As an Environmental policy degree, I wanted to go in and change policies to protect the people. When I graduated from college, I discovered jobs were limited in that space and I ended up in Corporate food (CPG). I learned the deep inner world of food and now that is a huge database I hold in the health space that many do not have. As the road bent and curved, I had influx years of abundance and then I had major ebbs where abundance stagnated. As I began to learn more and more about energy, astrology and the alchemy that lies within, I am now understanding that I have the power to control the flow of abundance, more than I ever thought. Funny how after 30 years of learning, experiencing and growing, I have come to discover that all the policies in the world won’t actually protect us. It is the knowledge within that will protect us and that is the most coveted learning I have ever made.
Coming from a corporate background, I tried all the traditional business tools to reach clients and educate them. What I found over time was that I had to attune to my own innate energy, love myself and stand in my own alignment and authority to attract the people, animals and places I am meant to work with. I also had to completely relearn the balance of money. “Happy Money” in and “Happy money” out, is to be grateful for all the money coming in and to also be grateful for all the money going out to pay my bills so I have the necessities of living and comforts I seek. Negative energy attached to wealth and abundance looses its energy flow. Once I started to learn to work with the universal laws, the energy began to shift. So I learned it’s not luck, good bad or indifferent, it is how you harness the energy and work with it. Do you control and force things or do you allow things to flow and align? With previous traumas, grief, ancestral patterns and more, I use to force, push and want to control everything. Since doing the release work,I allow things to guide and flow. I now have abandoned the traditional paths of marketing, and leverage social media to story tell or teach. The mindset shifts the entire balance. I am always learning and growing, but so thankful that word of mouth has started to spread like wildfire. This year in year of the fire horse, I am manifesting that to the fullest.
Pricing:
- $130/ hour/session people
- $70/session for animals
Contact Info:
- Website: https://fythealthwellness.coach
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fyt.healthwellness
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086469332653
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessanordstrom13
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@f.y.t.healthwellness5875
- Other: https://linktr.ee/fythealthwellness
