Healing Beyond the Therapy Room
A Spiritual Friction Community Space
Healing happens in many ways. Through movement, creativity, nourishment, storytelling, spirituality, and community.
This space highlights guests from Spiritual Friction who are creating thoughtful, healing-centered work in the world.
Every person featured here has shared their story on Spiritual Friction and is helping others through their own unique work.
Meet the Community
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Dr. Carol Talbot is the Architect of Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, a new operating system for human potential, rooted in frequency, coherence, and consciousness, helping you understand the hidden architecture behind your reality.
The recipient of the Forttuna Global Achievements 2025 Visionary of the Year Award and holding a PhD in Quantum Morphogenetic Physics, she bridges advanced science, consciousness studies, and embodied wisdom to activate the next evolution of intelligence. A keynote speaker, best-selling author, mentor, and creator of transformational experiences, Carol is known for catalyzing profound shifts through insight, frequency, and direct experience.
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"Most people try to change their lives by changing what they do. I became fascinated by something else entirely... the masters and so-called superhumans who seemed to operate beyond normal limits, and I asked a different question — if they can do it, can I?
That question became an obsession… and ultimately led to Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, a framework that reveals how your identity, frequency, and coherence are not abstract concepts, but the very architecture shaping your reality. When that signal becomes precise and stable, reality doesn't need to be chased… it begins to organize around you."
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Carol's work helps people understand and upgrade the invisible patterns, frequencies, and conditioning that shape their thoughts, emotions, health, relationships, and results.
Through Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, she helps individuals move beyond traditional mindset work to explore the deeper energetic, emotional, and informational architecture influencing their lives. Clients often gain greater self-awareness, coherence, clarity of purpose, emotional resilience, and a stronger connection to their own intuition and potential.
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Multi-Dimensional Field Scans — insight into the energetic patterns, strengths, and opportunities within your field.
The Entrainment Series — frequency experiences designed to shift you into greater coherence, alignment, and expanded awareness.
Mastery Frequency Mapping & Mentoring — identifying the frequencies associated with specific abilities and states of mastery, and creating your pathway to embody them.
The Signal Upgrade — a practical online experience to strengthen your energetic signal and become a more intentional creator of your experience.
People who work with Carol often report feeling as though they have stepped into their true identity — more aligned, empowered, and connected to themselves.
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Website: https://multi-dimensionalintelligence.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carol.talbot.946
Carol Talbot PhD
Mentoring & Personal Growth · Consciousness & Human Potential · Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
Going beyond the boundaries of who you believe yourself to be.
📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Featured Book
Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
Tina Vitolo, DSW, LCSW
Spiritual Therapists • Practice Growth • Alignment
The world doesn't need another textbook therapist.
📍 Atlanta, Georgia
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Dr. Tina Vitolo is a licensed clinical social worker, rebel educator, and national trainer specializing in the ethical integration of spirituality, values, and complementary and alternative interventions in clinical mental health practice. With nearly twenty years of clinical experience, her work focuses on helping mental health therapists navigate ethics, scope of practice, informed consent, and evidence-based decision-making while honoring clients' and their own spiritual identities.
She is the founder of The Black Sheep Therapist and the Innovative Practitioner Accelerator, where she trains clinicians to develop theoretically grounded, ethically sound clinical frameworks that support client self-determination, transparency, and professional integrity.
She is the author of The Black Sheep Therapist: Integrating Spiritual and Energy-Based Modalities in Your Clinical Practice.
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This journey was deeply personal for me.
I needed a therapist who could hold space for both my spiritual expansion and my very human experience. Instead, I found myself fragmenting my care between multiple practitioners, each holding rigid views about what belonged in the healing process and what didn't. I always hated that divide.
As I built my own career as a psychotherapist, I kept asking the same question: Why can't I bring all of who I am into the therapy room? For years, I was told I couldn't — that spirituality belonged over here, psychotherapy belonged over there, and the two shouldn't mix.
Eventually, I decided, 'Fck that.'
So I did the work. I immersed myself in research, ethics, law, theory, and clinical practice until I figured out how these worlds could be integrated responsibly, ethically, and with sound clinical rationale.
What surprised me most was realizing I wasn't the only one searching for this answer. There were thousands of therapists who felt the same tension between who they were and how they were expected to practice.
That's why I built this community and created my teaching framework — to help therapists integrate the full breadth of who they are into ethical, competent clinical practice and experience the professional freedom that comes with practicing in alignment.
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Tina helps therapists move from fragmentation to integration.
Many clinicians feel like they have to leave parts of themselves at the door in order to be considered credible. They separate science from spirituality, intuition from clinical reasoning, and their authentic identity from their professional role because they've been taught those worlds can't coexist.
Her work helps therapists understand that integration is possible when it is grounded in sound clinical rationale, ethics, theory, and professional competence. The transformation isn't simply learning how to integrate complementary practices — it's developing the confidence to practice in alignment with who they are while remaining ethically and professionally grounded.
Therapists often leave feeling more clear, more competent, and more empowered because they no longer feel forced to choose between authenticity and professionalism.
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The Innovative Practitioner Accelerator® — a mentorship program helping clinicians develop theoretically grounded, ethically sound clinical frameworks.
Professional Training & Continuing Education — live workshops, masterclasses, and speaking engagements for mental health professionals.
Integrative Documentation & Ethics Consultation — scope of practice and consultation for therapists integrating complementary and alternative practices.
Membership Community — for unconventional and integrative mental health professionals.
The Innovative Accelerator Program® has open rolling enrollment
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Website: theblacksheepguide.com
Instagram: @the_blacksheep_therapist
Devorah Hake Brinckerhoff
Soul Portraits
Heal your Heart - Mend your Soul
📍 Portland, OR
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For more than 30 years as an artist I've been exploring the complexity of who we are underneath the stories we've learned to believe about ourselves.
Long before I had words for my own experience, creativity gave me a language for things that felt invisible, confusing, or impossible to explain. Drawing and painting allowed insight and awareness to find their way to the surface in a gentle, non-threatening way and revealed clues about my inner world.
For the last 15 years I've been teaching others how to use simple art techniques to strengthen personal awareness and self-connection. I believe creativity is accessible to all of us and one of the most powerful ways we can move beyond conditioning, fear, and inherited stories.
Every act of creation is an opportunity to witness possibility becoming reality and reaffirm our relationship with the one person we spend our entire lives with: ourselves.
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I discovered this process during one of the darkest chapters of my life when I uncovered a history of early childhood sexual abuse. Sharing this knowledge led to complete family estrangement that left me heartbroken, hyper-vigilant, and in a constant state of critical self-talk. Creativity became both my lifeline and my way forward. It was the number one way I could regulate my nervous system, come back to center, and discover who I was underneath my devastating circumstances.
Soul Portraits allowed me to "tell" my truth without fear because I was the only one who knew what I was expressing. I learned first hand how simple creative exercises led to my ability to self-witness and self-source.
Now I teach that same process to those who are ready to step into their own power, tap into their wisdom, and discover their own answers.
The Soul Portrait process is a guided experience where people use their own materials - letters, photos, journals, documents - to move through the aftershock of trauma (they can also be used for transition, loss, and major life change).
Working with your hands and your own materials accesses something that talking alone often can't reach. It helps move what's stuck and reconnect you with what you already know about yourself underneath everything you've been taught and everything you've been through.
The work is about remembering who you are - not who your family or culture told you to be, but who you actually are. Acknowledging what happened, integrating what it taught you, and releasing what no longer serves your greatest good or fits into the vision you have for your life.
I offer commissions and workshops to individuals, groups, and communities doing transformative work. I'm also in the process of creating an ongoing membership to individuals who want to learn how to use creativity to translate personal experiences that are considered too unacceptable and dangerous to talk about.
I teach people how to turn the invisible sensations commonly associated with trauma like mental looping, intrusive thought, crippling anxiety, etc. into a visible tangible "language" of images that are safe to acknowledge.
Once we begin to acknowledge what we've experienced, we can learn to accept them. In doing so, we open up the ability to genuinely let them go and release their power.
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Soul Portraits return people to their authenticity and their own authority.
Most of us have been conditioned to outsource our well-being - to parents, partners, teachers, friends, etc. This process does the opposite. It puts you back in direct contact with your own answers and places your well—being back into your own hands.When you engage with your own materials, your own hands, your own story, you give powerful non-verbal information to your nervous system that reaffirms your safety and builds self trust.
Because the process works through creativity rather than analysis, it reaches the body - and what has been stored there - in ways that complement and deepen existing therapeutic work.
Growth happens naturally when we recognize that we're always bigger than any experience we've had. And well-being follows as we become aware of our agency and stop living from a story that no longer serves us.
When we have a felt experience of self-trust (possibly for the first time) we exponentially boost our healing and begin to embody personal empowerment.
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Online Course — A digital course that walks you through the same process Devorah used to heal her heart and mend her soul.
Soul Portrait Workshops — Offered virtually and in-person for groups, families, couples, and individuals.
1:1 Creativity Coaching — For those who want support adding a creative practice back into their lives, or deepening the one they already have.
Soul Portrait Commissions — For people who want the benefit of moving stagnant energy but don't feel ready to engage with their own materials directly. Most often chosen by those working through deep grief and loss.
Beta Founding Group (launching soon) — A small group meeting virtually once a week for 6–8 weeks, teaching Devorah's creative methodology for self-expression of the non-verbal and invisible impacts of trauma. Currently taking names for 8 founding members.
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Colin
Kicking Water
Seriously
The Kiss
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Anna Beaumont is a singer, voice teacher, embodiment practitioner, and Allied Health Professional trained in Integrative Body Psychotherapy. Through the transformative power of the voice, she helps people reclaim their confidence, vitality, and authentic self-expression.
Drawing from over thirty years of voice study, psychology, embodiment practices, and lived experience, Anna's work integrates voice, body awareness, energy principles, and inner psychological work. While many people arrive seeking to heal their voice or throat centre, they often discover a deeper journey—one that restores connection, presence, and alignment throughout the whole being.
Her work supports people in finding not only their natural voice, but a more embodied relationship with themselves.
While the voice is often the entry point, the work is ultimately about restoring connection to the whole being—body, heart, mind, and soul.
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For much of my life I believed my voice was something I had to perfect which was what I believed I needed to do with myself also. I was a professional singer and recording artist, and from the outside everything looked successful. But after years of performing, my voice began to fail me. What felt like the loss of my career became the beginning of a much deeper journey.
As I searched for answers, I discovered that the voice is far more than an instrument for singing. It reflects our nervous system, our emotions, our history, and our capacity to be fully ourselves. I immersed myself in years of study in embodiment, psychology, energy work, and voice, and slowly realized that the voice doesn't need to be fixed—it needs to be listened to. As my own voice returned, so did a deeper relationship with myself. Note by note I found my voice again and myself.
That experience inspired me to create The Natural Voice. Today I help people uncover the voice that has always been there beneath fear, tension, performance, and conditioning. Whether someone comes to me because they want to sing, speak with confidence, or simply feel more alive in their own body, the journey is the same: when we free the voice, we begin to free the whole person.
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I believe the voice is one of our greatest untapped resources for healing and transformation. It is deeply connected to the body, the nervous system, our emotions, and our sense of self. When we begin to work with the voice—not to perform, but to listen—we often discover parts of ourselves that have been waiting to be heard.
Many women come to me because they want to sing, find confidence, or express themselves more freely. As the work unfolds, they often discover that what is really limiting their voice isn't a vocal problem at all. It's an old wound, a lifelong belief, grief, fear, shame, or years of making themselves smaller. The voice has an extraordinary way of revealing what words alone often cannot.
I think many of us believe these long-held patterns can never truly heal. Yet I've witnessed, time and again, how the singing voice can gently open doors that have been closed for decades. When we meet the voice with curiosity, compassion, and safety, something begins to soften. People don't simply find a stronger voice—they discover more freedom, vitality, and a deeper relationship with themselves.
Whether someone comes to sing, speak, or simply explore, the transformation is often the same: they realize their natural voice isn't something they need to create—it's something they uncover. And as that voice emerges, so does a more authentic and wholehearted way of living.
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Healing Focus
Creative Arts & Expression • Breathwork & Somatics • Coaching & Personal Growth • Spiritual & Mindfulness Practices
Works With Clients
Both Virtual & In-Person
Services Offered
1:1 Sessions
In-Person Small Groups (4–6 women)
Online Natural Voice Group
Online 30-Minute Connections — a weekly reset for body, breath & voice
Retreats — Mexico, Maui, Costa Rica, Alberta & BC
Upcoming Offerings
30-Minute Connections — Online, 8 weeks A weekly reset for body, breath & voice Tuesdays, 12:00–12:30 PM MDT 🔗 View workshops & events
A weekly online group class is also launching this September — details to come.
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🔗 Book / Contact Anna 🌐 annabeaumont.com 📸 Instagram: @beaumontanna
Anna Beaumont
The Natural Voice - Uncover Your Voice & Discover Your Beauty
Awaken your natural voice & awaken your life
📍 Edmonton, AB Canada
Listen to BE’s music here: (best experience with over the ear headphones)
BE Alink
FLOWWOLF Biotuning
Bio-Tuning Practitioner | Life Coach | Recording Sound Artist & Composer | Inventor of The Alinker | Author of "Inventing BE"
📍 Vancouver, BC, Canada
My name is BE Alink and I am certified as a Bio-Tuning practitioner through the Center for Neuro-Acoustic Research founded by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
When our bodies signal signs of dis ease, it should not be diagnosed as a disease and medicated as the medical system often does. Rather we should go to the source, exploring why your brain and autonomic nervous system are signalling signs of dis ease.
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BE is a Certified BioTuning Practitioner - Life Coach - Recording sound artist / Composer - Creator of ceremonial pieces (drums, flutes, talking sticks, pipes), Paradigm-shifter - Inventor of The Alinker and Author of her memoir ‘Inventing BE’
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Through years of witnessing people use the Alinker walking bike that I invented, I noticed the effects what I could only explain as activation of the brain. Symptoms disappeared, people reversed diagnosis and turned their downward spiral around. I became fascinated by the brain and during my studies into neuroscience I came across brain entrainment, brainwave states and the frequencies that can be built into compositions. I studied with the pioneer Dr. Jeffrey Thompson and got certified to work with his patented system with the NeuroWave table and Lambda software. I built a 7 hour brain entrainment composition and do live and online sessions where people can experience the relaxing effects on their autonomous nervous system. In Vancouver I have my office where I do the BioTune sessions, based on real time HRV testing, and with the Lambda software, you will get your unique frequency where the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system are neutral, the point where you reach homeostasis, the most preferable situation for your ANS. Based on that frequency we create sophisticated music tracks that you listen to every day, retraining your brain and nervous system to be functional again.
I don't cure your 'diseases', but BioTuning will synchronize your hemispheres, so your brain does not need to signal dis ease anymore and your autonomic nervous system can be functional, and your body can restore. All you need to do is come and lay on the table and let me do the work.
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I don't see people as problems to be fixed. I see humans who have learned devastating practices and are conditioned with internalized stories that don't serve our well-being. When the brain is deregulated, you cannot meditate your way out of it, the brain needs to be reset, the hemispheres synchronized, so the sympathetic (fight and flight) and parasympathetic (rest and digest) systems can work in sync again.
I recognize that when people have been under stress for a prolonged time, they are operating on an empty reservoir, have no energy, their brains deregulated, and cannot even think of change. They hold onto and dig in to what is familiar (universal law of conserving energy), even if it does not serve them.
With the BioTuning sessions I am offering the lowest threshold treatment, whereby people just have to show up, lay on the NeuroWave table and let me do my BioTuning work, so they can start restoring, let the music do its work. They can slowly feel their energy build again up and their restorative functions coming back online.
I am there through the whole process - from analyzing what the software shows when we do the initial BioTune process, to integration, and coaching through issues that might come up. I may suggest meditation or breathing techniques and follow up life coaching if so desired.
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1:1 BioTuning sessions
1:1 coaching online
In person group sessions of max 16 people doing the 7 week sessions to go through the whole 7 part journey of my composition
Online zoom sessions, in groups listening to my composition, with integration time
In person events at LOBE 4D spatial studio in Vancouver, and at Sensorium Health Dome in North Vancouver.
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Website: flowwolfbiotuning.com
Instagram: @be_alink
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