Everyday Medicine Woman

Quotes

"Susan Lipshutz's work allows one to bridge our every day world with the world of spirit. She is a gifted and extraordinary healer."
Alberto Villaldo, Ph.D.
Author, The Four Winds and The Island of the Sun. Director, The Four Winds Society.

"Susan's understanding of the human spirit and its various soul illnesses is profound, and her ability to remedy such psychic woundings while still taking into consideration the incessant demands of living in these times is quite a gift.

Through her guided meditation skills and shamanic rituals, Susan teaches one how to achieve balance, heal old wounds, and tap into their soul purpose. She is a wonderful speaker and offers a dynamic presentation and brings light and laughter to all who hear her."
Sonia Choquette
Author, The Pscyhic Pathway and Your Heart's Desire and True Balance.

"Susan Lipshutz's work tracks to the root of the problem with many of my patients. It's like pushing a fast forward button to healing."
David Edelberg M.D.
Medical Director, Whole Health Chicago

"Susan Lipshutz brings a strong healing background and powerful understanding of indigenous traditions to her writing. She is a thoughtful voice for a more compassionate and connected way of interacting with the world."
Jim Slama
President, Sustain, Conscious Choice

"Armed with a unique combination of fierce intellect, finely tuned intuition and an ever-present sense of humor, Susan is a true healer - and teacher - of the urban, modern woman. She is able to SEE on a variety of levels (energetic, emotional, cultural, etc.) with a complex understanding of the often clashing realm, and its power to address physical pain and, just as importantly, the fear that often mercilessly accompanies it. Drawing from both ancient wisdom and her own critical insights, she is especially attuned to recognizing and drawing from the quiet strengths and expansive powers of the long-neglected Feminine, from within ourselves and in the world."
Paula Kamen
Author, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution, (Broadway Books, 2002)

"Susan Lipshutz is an exquisite hybrid of conventional psychotherapist and indigenous-trained shamaness. For years, Susan has studied with brilliant indigenous teacher/healers from around the world. She gracefully and effectively brings these ancient wisdom-teachings to the modern world, whose inhabitants are in desperate need of healing our connection to this beautiful planet that we call home.

In my medical practice I have observed a dramatic change in the way people need to process their experiences and emotions, particularly as it pertains to healing physical or emotional imbalance and disease.

Talk therapy has helped my clients, but there is a growing awareness that including spiritual development is essential in not only healing disease in body/mind/spirit but in attaining our full potential as human beings.

Susan has helped many of my patients and friends shift lifelong patterns that are problematic in a matter of a session or two with her extraordinary talents. She is able to "see" where the client is energetically and is therefore able to assist them in going directly to the root of the problem. Susan performs simple but powerful ceremonies with the client which shifts their relationship to the situation and therefore facilitates lasting change.

I have the utmost respect for Susan and the valuable service that she provides to our community. She has great integrity and vision, is wise, compassionate, gentle, dynamic, caring, supportive, humorous, loving and straightforward. She truly is an everyday medicine woman."
Claudette Baker, Lic. Ac.
Dipl. Ac. & Chinese Herbology, (NCCAOM)
Director, Glenview Healing Arts Center
President Emeritus, American Association of Oriental Medicine
President Emeritus, Illinois State Acupuncture Association

"Susan Lipshutz combines the encouraging guidance of a therapist with the wisdom and spiritual traditions of shamanic healers. Her dedication to healing the mind and spirit on those of the path of self discovery and inner awareness is recognized by her clients, our customers and the community."
Gail Seminara Mandel
Coowner, Transitions Bookplace

"Susan's vision and insight brings her clients to their deepest space called core - where through her light, understanding and acceptance, the transformational work is done; peace is restored. This I know first-hand as throughout the years many of Susan's clients have shared with me their healing journey. Her work is a jewel - great dharma, great service."
Dawn Silver, DN
Coowner, Healing Earth Books and Gifts
Author, Jewel of the Lotus: Tibetan Gemstone Oracle

"Susan's meditation tapes help guide me through a personalized meditation that I would not otherwise accomplish on my own. My search for answers during meditation sessions are definitely enhanced with the benefit of these wonderful, life-enriched tapes."
Diane Psyshos
Busy Mom and Manager of a One Million Dollar Business

"Today I live the life I could only dream of before I met Susan."
Audry
Senior Manager of U.S. Marketing, Accenture

"By working with Susan I have found my spiritual family, healed past wounds, found my passions, and most importantly have embraced selflove."
Carol
Advocate Health Care, Worksite Wellness and Health Promotion Manager,
NIA Instructor

"Susan in truly a gifted healer. A compassionate, intuitive Wise Woman."
Marie
Lic. Acupuncturist

"Susan's compassion and understanding of our daily struggle and fears are the foundation for these exquisite tapes. Susan's voice is like magic. I pop in her tape and immediately my shoulders relax, my breathing slows down and I feel a deep sense of relaxation throughout my body. These tapes help me greet my day with a sense of peace, purpose and inspiration. Not only is her voice like spun gold but she has blended her words and music together to produce the best inspiration tapes I have ever heard."
Jeanine
Author

"I feel privileged, honored and very fortunate to have met and be working with Susan Lipshutz. Although she holds the role of "teacher/mentor" within our Medicine Circle, she treats us always as equals in a supporting and loving way.

"I have had many soul retrievals and shamanic healings in my lifetime, but the sacred, authentic power of Susan's abilities far exceed those of others I've worked with. She is wise, witty, compassionate, humble, warm, knowledgeable, intuitive, authentic and intelligent. She is a carrier of beauty, both within and without. I have come to love and respect her deeply in the two years that I've known her."
Denise
Writer, Artist

"I began my journey with the sisters in my circle with Susan almost two years ago. Since I entered the room that first day, I knew I had miraculously found my way to something magical. Attending my monthly woman's circle was THE most important commitment I have ever made. I do it to honor myself, to honor my sisters and to honor the sacred feminine. The time we spend together is healing and transformational. Susan and my sisters hold me in a sacred web of protection. I am and will be forever grateful to Susan for bringing this amazing work to our community. She is a visionary teacher and friend - leading the way by her courageous example, by living and breathing this work. She has challenged me to look deep into my heart and to think in new, exciting contexts. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to work with Susan and my sisters and continue to be inspired by the wisdom, humor and grace in which they operate in the world. I am so blessed to stand in circle with them on this splendid journey through physical, emotional, mental and spiritual transformation."
Lisa
Graduate Student

"Susan has a gentle, wise and "very human" way in her teaching style. She has been such an inspiring role model with her honesty and courage about her work, that I have started my own Women's Medicine Circle! All women can benefit from teachers and leaders like Susan! She graciously shares the depth of her own journey into the heart and spirit of what it is to hold the Divine Feminine energy so solidly in these changing times. Susan has stepped forward in this lifetime and is "showing up" to support all of us! I thank God for her strength and beauty, her continuous encouragement, her healing, her humor and love. What a joy for me to have met Susan and my Sisters in the Medicine Circles. I am honoring all of life more than ever now!"
Linda
Book Store Owner, Insight Out

"During the past dozen years, beginning with intensive individual therapy with Susan, I have realized extraordinary transformation in my life. More recently, through participation in a medicine circle and apprenticeship with Susan, I have been initiated into nature-based spiritual practices and cross-cultural shamanic traditions, enabling me to access an ancient self, a soul-essence, which I realize now I have been seeking all my life.

To her work, Susan brings a rare combination of impeccable integrity, creativity and vision. Susan is a very clear and highly disciplined professional in the best sense of a western clinical healer, who has dedicated her life, with beauty and love, to reclaiming and serving indigenous, earth-honoring traditions. The integration of her gifts offers individuals and groups the opportunity to balance the joy inherent to personal discovery and connection with spirit, with our responsibility to engage in a path of service to the community and to mother earth."
Aaron
Development Consultant