Today we’d like to introduce you to Holly Bassett
Hi Holly, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I was part of a doomsday cult for 23 years. I joined with my husband when I was 28 and my kids were 4 & 3 months. My husband and I raised our kids in this cult. This cult was a break off from the Mormon church that my husband and I grew up in. In this cult we were living in constant fear of dying. Every time there was a blood moon or a blue moon, it was a sign that the end of the world was going to happen. Signs in the stars and anything political happening was also a sign that the end of the world was upon us. We were isolated from our families and taught that your family are those that do the will of God. We lived the law of consecration, so all of our money was turned into the leader and then we would do a monthly budget for our needs. He would pray over our budget and decide if it was a righteous budget or not. Then we would get back whatever he felt was what we needed. There was constant guilt and shame and we were never good enough. Every time the end of the world didn’t happen there was just a new sign that would be brought up and a new focus for the end of the world.
After so many years of living in fight or flight mode my body started to scream out to me. I was having severe, chronic back pain. I developed a goiter on my thyroid. I felt awful all the time. We didn’t believe in seeing doctors because that was not having faith. I started to look for options for myself to help with the back pain. I started doing yoga and then I started meditating every morning. It was through this daily ritual that I finally started to actually feel my body and started to tune into my body. I started to see that my body was holding a lot of trauma. I knew that I needed to get out of the cult but I was terrified and I felt that my husband would not be willing to listen to me. (It took me 4 years to get the courage to walk away)
My daughter & son had already left so it was just me and my husband in the cult. My daughter is my hero. She is the one who helped me to wake up and realize that I was in a cult. She never gave up on me and was relentless with giving me stuff to read and listen to. She would ask me questions to get me thinking and was just always there and never let me stop questioning things.
The day I walked away from the cult my back pain stopped. I knew that it was all emotional trauma my body had been carrying. This is when I started to learn how to release the trapped emotions that were in my body. Then I took a reiki class and realized that I had been practicing reiki without even realizing it. I have continued my journey of healing by helping others heal through reiki energy work. I am now a reiki master practitioner and I have also become certified in Sound Healing. Sound healing has become a huge passion of mine. It is so rewarding to see the difference the vibrations and frequencies of sound can effect people in their process of releasing emotional baggage and healing their bodies. I do sound baths regularly with a partner that I met through the sound healing training.
I was able to get my husband out of the cult and together we have built OurChaoticZen into a business of helping and healing others. He is just starting his training in breathwork and will now be an active part of the business.
If anyone would have told me that this is what my life would look like today, I would never have believed them. I am truly living my dream. I have become the person I was meant to be with the help of my daughter and husband. Their belief in me has given me the strength to put my life back together and in the process I am able to help so many other people heal. I truly believe every day that I am capable of receiving all that I desire!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Definitely not! There has been a lot of unraveling to do in my thinking and my beliefs about myself. When you are constantly told that you are not good enough you start to believe that. My husband, my kids, my close friends and loved ones have helped me to believe in myself again. I’ve done a ton of healing work on myself which is not easy or pleasant, but you have to do the hard work when it comes to healing.
I think my biggest struggle has been finding myself again and believing that I could actually do this work. There are still times when I doubt myself, but reiki is such a beautiful and powerful healing modality that it works even if I don’t have confidence in myself. Before I was in the cult, music was a huge part of my life and I really lost that part of myself. In finding the sound healing I have been able to find my voice again and have found that part of myself through music and sound.
I totally struggle with the marketing side of my business but I have found the right people to help me with that. Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help with the things that you are not good at.
We’ve been impressed with OurChaoticZen, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I work with clients to find trapped emotions in their bodies and when they trapped them. We work on a process of helping them shift their mindset about the emotion that has been trapped. And then through reiki I help them release the trapped emotions. I use sound frequencies & vibrations, drumming, etc to work with the client to release those things in their body that no longer serve them. Many clients have been able to have less pain, less anxiety, less depression in their lives through this work. I say that I am an intuitive healer, but really I am not the healer, the client is. If they are willing to do the work and believe in the power of reiki they can find healing.
I also facilitate sound bath meditations and healing circles by using different instruments that work to bring up emotions and feelings for people. Once the client is aware of the emotion, it no longer has control over them.
I am most proud of knowing that I am a part of people’s healing journey.
What matters most to you? Why?
Helping people heal from trauma. I specialize in religious trauma and sexual abuse trauma because that is what I know. It is very rewarding to help a client through some of the most difficult times in their lives. Every time a do reiki energy work on someone I am healed even more.
My husband is my rock and he is the reason I work so hard. He believes in me and has seen the benefits of this work in his own life. Together we are rebuilding a life that was, for lack of a better word, taken from us.
It’s never too late in life to start new!
Pricing:
- Reiki / Emotional Balancing Session – $100
- Sound Bath – $35-50 per person
- Corporate Sound Bath – $300
- Corporate Sound Bath – 50 + people $500
Contact Info:
- Website: https://OurChaoticZen.com
- Instagram: @ourchaoticzen
- Facebook: @ourchaoticzen
