Your SOVRAN SELF IS The Solution

In a traditional mental health relationship, as well as in most "spiritual" approaches, the client is viewed as a person with a problem to solve or a disorder to manage. Challenges are often categorized diagnostically, with the goal of reducing symptoms and helping the client function better in their environment, regardless of the dysfunction there.

Here at Live Sovran, the client is seen as a whole being—a soul on a journey of individuation. Their challenges are expressions of the psyche's attempts to bring unconscious material to resolution, and provide the perfect portals into deeper work. Fundamentally, the "problem" is that the client believes these expressions to be problems to be solved, fixed, overcome or depressed, instead of unerring guidance toward one's inner truth, unresolved ancestral or karmic patterns, or archetypal energies calling for integration.

This difference is not minor, especially for those seeking to live Higher, more Authentically, and with profound Freedom. In fact, this difference is THE difference that makes most all of the difference.

In a typical mental health relationship, the goal is symptom reduction, improved coping, and the restoration of functionality. Success is measured by observable improvements in behavior, emotional regulation, and interpersonal relationships.

In various "spiritual" approaches, it is often unclear what exactly the "intervention" is doing. Understanding, often an important factor in transformation, is rarely sufficient, and often leaves the client wondering how to apply the new information, or what's wrong with them when the promised transformation is not experienced. Many spiritual approaches promote particular ways of being as "the right way" and others as "the wrong way," leaving clients trying to manage their way through the chaotic human experience. This is doomed to fail.

At Live Sovran, the goal is awakening to the Sovran Self (Authentic/True/Cosmic Self) as one transforms by releasing themselves from what they are not and integrating all that the already are. This necessitates embracing the shadow, reconnecting with the sacred, and aligning with one’s deeper purpose. It is less about returning to a "baseline" of functionality and more about stepping into sovereignty, creativity, and self-actualization. Healing is seen as a spiral process of becoming whole and reclaiming one's full humanity and divinity. Eventually one embraces life as an ongoing mysterious and joyous journey of becoming who and what they already are.

In traditional mental health approaches, methods are structured, evidence-based, and often cognitive-behavioral in nature. Techniques included talk therapy, psychoeducation, and skill-building within a therapeutic relationship focused on client goals and treatment plans.

Here at Live Sovran, the methodologies are eclectic and experiential, drawing from Jungian analysis, contemplative practices, and shamanic journeys. Rather than working within a fixed framework, we teach you a set of orienting perspectives that allows for your responses to life circumstances to be adaptive, as the psyche reveals what is most needed in the moment.

We draw from various established bodies of work, such as:

• Perceptual & Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding how the human body/mind perceives, processes and responds to stimuli

• Shadow Work: Deep exploration of unconscious material, archetypes, and repressed aspects of the self.

• Symbolic Exploration: Working with The Imaginal (dreams, myths, synchronicities, and symbols) as guides for healing and integration.

• Mystical Practices: Incorporating mindfulness, and contemplation to cultivate inner stillness, self-command, and awareness.

• Body-Centered Techniques: Engaging somatic wisdom to process trauma and reconnect to embodied presence.

Results vary depending on individual goals and commitment, current circumstances, and previous experience with personal transformation.

Many clients experience positive shifts quickly (in a few weeks) as you learn and then apply (through guided practice) very simple techniques. An experience of being more in control of yourself through challenging life situations does not need a significant amount of time, but does require committed practice.

More significant transformations may take several months, as you learn and practice the techniques to release yourself from the deeply ingrained effects of the unresolved past (trauma and the habits of conditioning). Consistency and openness to the process are key to achieving meaningful, lasting change. This is not about "getting over," "getting through," or "getting by." It's about becoming a liberated expression of a YOU who already exists - the Whole, Perfect and Complete Sovran Self.

The core perspectives and techniques that make up the Sovran Operating System can take you very far into transforming your life out of stuckness, limitation, debilitating relationships and habits ... and into being a version of yourself that feels utterly natural, yet a 'you' who you never imagined you could be.

Achieving this is simple - simply practice what we teach you, with ever increasing consistency. But it's not easy. This is why having the comradeship and support of others committed to their own journeys makes ALL the difference.