Elevating Consciousness Through Sacred Soul Alchemy – An Interview with Melissa Minnich

Do you believe we’re experiencing a collective awakening in the midst of all this chaos?

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Melissa Minnich as she shares how our world is going through a breakdown before we can experience a breakthrough – a “crumbling” as she calls it. From political unrest and food system failures to the deep scars left by COVID-19, Melissa provides her unique perspective on how these tumultuous times are catalyzing a shift towards community-building and collective transformation. Her own personal story is one of resilience and profound metamorphosis. She opens up about her journey through severe childhood trauma, sexual assault, and a bipolar diagnosis, leading to a spiritual awakening in 2009 that changed her life. You’re going to be incredibly inspired by Melissa and her work as a Sacred Soul Alchemist. Let’s dive in to this conversation!

In the midst of all that we’re experiencing in the world right now, what do you sense is unfolding on our planet right now?

Melissa Minnich: I believe it’s a multilayered thing, and I’ll start with what I call “the crumbling.” We’re seeing a lot of war, dissonance in our politics, and issues with food systems—things that are coming up to be revealed, to show us what’s really going on in the world. One of the things we teach is that it’s always darkest before the dawn, right? So, the crumbling happens before every breakthrough; there’s always a breakdown first. You have to break down old beliefs, ideas, and habits to break through to a new existence.

Right now, we’re in that darkness where things are being exposed. We’re starting to see the underbelly that’s been hidden—the interconnected pieces of it all. It used to be six degrees of separation, but now it’s more like three. Even though violence has decreased over the millennia, it feels like there’s more because we have greater access to information. A lot of people are waking up during this time.

In my belief system, and from what I’ve tapped into along with others who work with the earth’s grids, Akashics, and Galactics, we’re seeing a billion people waking up over a five-year period, and we’re already in that time.

Now, what does that mean? It means a billion people are experiencing their dark night of the soul—their own lives going through the darkness before the dawn, which is waking them up. Part of this began with COVID. Many people realized they couldn’t continue living the way they were. They stayed home, reassessed their lives, and saw the world differently. We even saw mother Gaia start to heal herself within just a few months because people were staying home.

With this collective dark night of the soul, we’re seeing the darkest of the dark. I work with human trafficking and sexual genital mutilation as part of my contribution, so I’ve witnessed this darkness firsthand. And while it seems like things are really bad, with wars and upheaval, it’s part of the shake-up before the dawn. We’re on the verge of a breakthrough, but in order to get there, everything that’s been hidden needs to come to the surface.

What I see happening in the next few years is a breakdown of our political and food systems, as well as how the world operates on a global scale. I believe there’s going to be a core shakeup in everything, and while we thought COVID was bad, I think there’s more to come.

We’re also in the midst of shifting timelines. We just had the eclipse on September 17th, which brought us into a portal, and through this eclipse season, something significant is happening. Mother Gaia, as a consciousness—planet Earth, for those who may not be familiar with that term—has shifted into a new dimension. She’s calling us to come along for the ride, but because she’s shifting while the world hasn’t yet, we’re going to see a lot of upheaval.

Once this process has started, there’s no stopping it. I also believe we’ll see more people passing away, as some souls aren’t ready to make the shift, or they feel it’s not their time. At the same time, we’ll see a resurgence of people creating more community—lots and lots of community. That’s the pulse I’m feeling about what’s happening right now.

I want to hear more about your story. Did you grow up with spirituality or faith as part of your background, and how did that awakening take place in your life? 

Melissa Minnich: So, you would think, with a father as a minister, I grew up with spirituality in my life. But my experience of my father as a minister, who also raped women and abused me and my mother in front of me as a child, made me run as far away from religion as possible. Religion and spirituality aren’t the same thing in that aspect. For me, I threw out everything, including the good with the bad. As a young child, I used to see UFOs and experience body escapism.

So, now I recognize that when I have gaps in memory, it’s because I left my body. My soul was like, “I’m just gonna go do this other thing,” because I didn’t want to be around. I never really wanted to be here. I felt like I volunteered to come do this again, and I’d think, “What was I doing?”

I scored a 10 out of 10 on the ACE score, the Adverse Childhood Experiences test, by the age of 10. That’s a psychological test given to children under 18. For every “yes” a child answers, their risk for things like disease, anxiety, or drug use exponentially increases. By the time I finished high school, I had been sexually assaulted, raped, gone without food, and more. When I got to college, even though I was a high achiever (my protection mechanism), I had an eating disorder, self-mutilated, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I also had many physical issues, which I now know were due to the mental trauma I experienced.

By the time I graduated college, I had been married, divorced, and had a kid—all before finishing school. Still, I graduated top of my class from The Ohio State University. Then, within a year of graduating, 9/11 happened. I had a great job out of college because I was such a high achiever, even with all my trauma. My husband in college used to find me hiding in closets, with bite marks up and down my arm. Then 9/11 hit, and I lost my corporate job.

At that point, I was in another relationship and had my child with me. I did what any young, traumatized 22-year-old would do: I became an international drug trafficker. It started as me wanting to connect with people in the party scene. I made great connections, but over the next few years, it took over my life. I ended up leaving my home in Columbus, Ohio, where I went to Ohio State, leaving behind my child and everything at age 27 to save my life.

Eventually, many people in our drug ring went to prison, including those from all over the world. I didn’t, but I got my lessons another way. I think everyone got exactly what they needed. I left and started healing my life. That’s when I realized I had been protected. I would get intuitive hits about things happening and would shift things to make them happen.

I remember being pregnant and my car being literally picked up and moved during a pileup. I thought, “How did that happen?” I knew things, felt things, but buried them deep. I told myself that if something’s picking up my car and moving it, it must be an angel, and angels are part of that God thing I didn’t want to deal with because of my father.

After five years of living a “normal” life, I had a job and did all the “right” things society expected. Then, one day, everything fell apart: another partner left me, I got fired, and I was evicted—all within six months. At that point, I was done. I had my “coming to Jesus” moment. I dropped to my knees and said, “Okay, I’m here. What do you want from me? I stopped doing drugs, stopped dealing, got a job, and did everything society tells me to do. Yet here I am, homeless and living in my car.”

That was the moment the universe opened the door for me. I asked for help, and it came. That was in 2009. Since then, everything has changed. Before that, I’d read The Celestine Prophecy and felt a connection, but there was always a disconnect between me and spirituality. Now, there’s no more disconnect.

Wow, that is an intense life experience!

Melissa Minnich: One of the things that I asked recently, because they’re always going through more things, was my higher self and my soul. I was like, really? Did we have to do it all in this life? I was like, really?

They’re like, no. It was all meant to happen in this life so you could do the work you’re meant to do, clear the final karma from lifetimes of stuff, heal the trauma in this time, and learn how to use it. All those things were meant to be in this life to allow for the work you’re meant to do. And now I get it.

Even though that was a question I only asked a couple of months ago, I was like, I get it. Because there’s a part of me where I’m just in surrender and devotion now. Like, my word is surrender and devotion. I work really deeply now with Yeshua. I met Yeshua and Miriam, right? So, in the Christian language, Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Which, if you had said those words to me 10 years ago, I would have run.

Yeshua was in my field for years trying to get to me. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we’re good, we’re good, you know. But it was this experience of allowing and asking, like, why so much in this life? But it’s because I believe I’m supposed to reach people that aren’t seeking what I was. You know, they’re not already seekers.

I’ve spoken at detention centers. I’ve worked with women and children that have been trafficked. I’ve gone into prisons. I’m going to places where people can look at me, my tattoos, the way I look and walk, and they’re like, okay, we’re going to listen to her and her story because I feel some authenticity. I cuss, whatever. And I believe you can be spiritual and do all those things.

So, I believe I’m bringing spirituality to people like me, who would have been turned off from it if it was put under another guise. We’re in a paradigm shift right now, too. There are new people looking and seeking, but they want to see it in a different way. They want to know the authenticity of it. They want to see someone who’s like, yeah, this is who I am. I go to Burning Man, and I run around naked, and that’s okay, you know? 

What unfolded for you in the last decade, and how did that shift you to wanting to leverage your life toward devotion and service? 

Melissa Minnich: So, in 2009, when I started my work, it was all about healing trauma. It was about diving deep into my somatic system, my body, and my subconscious brain. I focused on healing the trauma and helping people with that piece of it. Even though I was getting messages and intuitions and had guides coming in, I was really resistant to what types of guides those were.

My mother told me a story from the time I can remember, when I was really little. She said I wasn’t allowed to get pregnant by your father, but I wasn’t allowed to use protection. Then she had a vision one day. Archangel Gabriel handed her a little furry baby, and she thought, oh my God, I’m pregnant. My father left her on the side of a road, naked and almost dead, when she was pregnant with me because I wasn’t supposed to be here.

This idea of my mother speaking in tongues and being a very religious person, even to this day, played a significant role in my life. I saw the Archangels as part of this religious thing. As those angels started to come through, I had to look at what the archetype was. Right? Carl Jung and some other spirits explore the archetypes and the meanings behind these pieces. Through science, we learned that in a meditative state, our light system produces wings in our ocular system when we’re inside. So, this idea of where those wings come from emerged.

After working on the trauma and having these intuitions, I realized I had to start to understand more. I didn’t want to deny my mom this idea of the Archangel, but I had to find a way to understand what that means.

It was actually through Oracle and Tarot that I started seeing information, realizing that it didn’t matter your religion or belief systems. These are entities or archetypes. If you don’t want to believe in galactics and entities or that there are other dimensions out there, you could say they’re archetypes. Those archetypes exist for all of us to tap into collectively, to learn and experience something. I started studying the energy of what the archetype of Metatron, the archetype of Gabriel, or the archetype of Michael is, instead of just viewing them as angels.

That same experience came through with the energies of gods and goddesses. In 2017, Mother Mary came knocking on my door. I kept getting a deep connection with Mother Mary, and, of course, I wasn’t Catholic. I thought Mother Mary was just a holy Catholic figure. I was good with the whole Jesus paradigm and all of that. I received an Oracle deck in the mail from a client, and it was about Mother Mary. I kept getting messages that she was trying to come through and work with me. So, I started using the cards and feeling that energy.

On my 40th birthday in 2017, I was in Bali, at Tanah Lot. I had also been called to India that year by Kali, who is also an archetype, a goddess. I started studying the Vedic archetypes, the Vedic goddesses, and the gods. I began understanding them not as gods and goddesses but as archetypes, and then I started harnessing that energy.

That led me into Yeshua, Miriam, and Mother Mary. I began to see that these are all energetic entities. I circled back and looked at my studies with the Essenes and the Egyptians, exploring stories across space and time. They all tell the same tales, like the birth and the virgin births. Initially, I thought they were just copying each other and making up stories, but then I realized it was the energy of these stories returning time and time again to teach us, hoping we’d finally get it.

In 2017, I had a visceral shift in my life on my 40th birthday. I said it would always be before 40 and after 40. I was at Tanah Lot in the Indian Ocean, and I was handed an energetic staff. I wondered what to do with this staff. I decided to hold it and bring it back into my life. At that moment, I started receiving more downloads and channeling more. I had to work with people to understand what this meant.

For years, I questioned whether I believed it. Is it real? Is this really happening? Is it me, or is it my ego? I worked with clients for seven years, taking pages of notes. Each time, I would write down information I received, and months later, they would confirm the exact same things from their lives. Just a couple of days ago, I had a retreat in Austin. A woman wanted to work on some things, and I said, okay, I’m just going to tell you what I’m getting. I asked her if she had ever worked in Akashic records. She said she had. Then I asked if she had ever lived as a nun. I knew that sounded crazy, but she said, nope, I haven’t. I was like, okay, here we go!

This was the beginning of my powerful initiation into understanding that work in 2017. The rest of it came in Egypt in 2021.

Talk to me about those initiations in Egypt in 2021. What was it like?

Melissa Minnich: So 2021 was connected to what started in 2017. The 2017 experience, which I write about in my book coming out in March 2025, was one where I was in such a state of bliss, awe, rapture, and reverence about my experience and my life. I sustained that feeling for so long that, as I sat on top of this rock in Tanah Lot, I literally looked out at the temple in the ocean. I saw the sun setting and everything around me. It felt like playing a video game, and I viscerally saw and felt the world shift.

That was the day when the staff was handed to me. At that moment, all I knew was that the feeling I had within me was different than any other feeling I’d ever experienced before, and I cried. I literally sat there and cried for five hours. People probably thought something was wrong with me, but I was crying tears of joy, not sadness. I was overwhelmed with a feeling of love and bliss.

I equate it to, and I obviously don’t know what they felt like, but to the great poets of all time, like Rumi and Emerson. They talk about that moment when they had a connection with unity consciousness, living in this blissful experience of love and vibration. I had a moment of that in 2015, but it lasted only a minute. This feeling lasted for hours, and I was like, oh, this is what it’s about. We got to go here; this is everything.

There was no medicine in that moment? 

Melissa Minnich: Oh, no, no, no, no. To be clear, I talk about this very clearly. I’m a proponent of medicine. I don’t take any for myself; I don’t need it. When I quit doing drugs, I quit it, you know? I’ve never needed to use medicine in that aspect because the vibration I experienced in my twenties doing ecstasy, ketamine, and psilocybin gave me a vibration that I now hold. I can take people through shamanic journeys and have them experience medicine. But for me, this was a completely sober experience. I don’t even drink; I don’t need alcohol—nothing.

So, fast forward. I’m living in a different experience. I know I’ve jumped timelines and am in a different arena in my life. Things started shifting to the point, David, where, in 2017, I had just left my wife about two years prior. I was only dating women and had done so for many, many years. I had really short hair, was super A-type, and had very masculine energy. That shift in that timeline changed everything. They made me get a new passport because my biometrics changed so much that I shifted internally. Everything about me changed—physically, mentally, emotionally. I had been doing quite a bit of work by that time, but it was a complete shift.

I was in this experience for the next five years, shifting into a new reality for myself. Of course, we had COVID. For me, unlike most people, COVID was an amazing time to travel. I went to Peru, I went to Egypt, I went all over, right? I had a blast, and nobody else was there. So I got to have these incredible experiences because I was willing to take risks that others weren’t willing to take.

I arrived in Egypt in 2021. I was attending someone else’s retreat for 10 days but spent a month there. In the first part of the retreat, they took us to Luxor and these beautiful temples. We had private access to different areas usually locked up, with beautiful hieroglyphs still in color. I got to have a private viewing with Sekhmet, the statue of Sekhmet, which is a 2,000-year-old black statue. I stood there, put my hand on the statue, and the other one on my heart.

When I did, I had an energetic experience. I saw the staff I had been carrying around since 2017. She took it; it was her staff, and she set it inside my body. I felt an energy surge as the bottom of it went into my root chakra and the top, which was diamond-shaped, set into my pineal gland. It started glowing indigo blue, and I was like, “Oh.” She said, “You will be teaching the initiation of the scepter.” I got chills even now talking about it because I was like, “No, no, no, no, no.”

I didn’t know what that meant, and I wasn’t doing any of that stuff. I was very resistant to some of these pieces. If I had listened to my ego, I probably wouldn’t have been all out there like this. I was resistant, thinking, “No, no, no.” But at that moment, I started receiving more information and messages. I ended up doing transmissions from Egypt, but that was just the beginning. I had this initiation with the scepter, which she gifted me.

On the same day, I was with a group of 12 women at the beginning of my trip to Egypt. Two men, temple guardians in robes, came up to me and said, “Follow me.” I mean, yes, whatever, right? Okay, so I followed them. They took me into a sanctuary and locked the door. I could see a lattice metal gate on it, and I was inside while the other girls were outside saying, “Wait, we want to go in.” The guardians said, “No, no, this is only for her.”

I stood there, not knowing what they were doing or saying, but they were performing ceremonies on me. They were saying these words, and I just stood there feeling energy pour into my system. I was like, okay, something’s happening here. This is going to change me forever; I know this.

At the end of the retreat, before we left, we got to go to the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid. Now it’s Giza, with 14 million people a year, but due to COVID, it was just us, the 12 of us. After crawling through, I felt a deep need to lay in the sarcophagus. I thought, no, they’re never going to let me do this. Nobody lays in the sarcophagus! How many people throughout all time have ever laid in it?

At that time, I didn’t know anything about the sarcophagus being an ascension chamber. I hadn’t studied Egyptian stuff; I didn’t know enough about it. It was my first trip to Egypt, and I wasn’t working with any of the entities of Egypt. I had just started working with Mother Mary and had no idea that she had a connection to Egypt—none of it, right? I was being led this whole time.

Sure enough, the guard walked over and said, “You can lay down in it.” I went and laid in the sarcophagus. I could feel the energy rushing through my system. In that moment, I was transported, and I could see myself as an Egyptian in other lifetimes. I saw myself as a priestess and having these experiences. When I got up from the sarcophagus, I was like, “Oh.” I thought, hmm, all right. I knew I was going to have to share about these things, but I didn’t know where it was leading me

It was my first step. I had no idea where it was leading me, but it led me down a rabbit hole of incredible experiences.

One of the things you’ve alluded to throughout our entire conversation is the integration of science and ancient wisdom, bringing those things together. Why is that so important to you? Why should it matter to us?

Melissa Minnich: I love this question because I think it’s the time we’re in. We’ve heard of this ancient wisdom. The heart is where everything lies; open up, I am light. The shamanic journey goes into the indigenous worlds, yet these experiences are very subjective. It’s what I experienced within myself, and I can’t really prove it to anyone. I can say I’ve had these massive, incredible experiences, but am I just cuckoo and making it up? Or is there something to go with that?

As a scientist, I’m actually getting a PhD in the science of consciousness right now. I’ve studied quantum physics and neuroscience. What I know to be true from our studies on the brain, energy fields of the body, and DNA is that all these things we’ve been told throughout history can actually be seen through science.

Why that’s important now is that we live in a world of naysayers. Many people want proof. Faith is gone for a lot of people due to experiences with religions or how things have shown up. People want tangible proof. They want to put their finger on it and say, “Show me.” If I can show you a brainwave, for example, I can explain that intuition has been mapped in the brain. It starts in a specific brainwave state, and right when it drops in, it turns into a gamma wave.

You start in an alpha state, and then the gamma state appears when that insight drops in. I can say, look, it shows up in your system in a way.

With light, we’ve heard throughout history the saying, “I am light, you are light.” What does that really mean? Well, your cells produce UV light. You have light receptors in your pineal gland that produce light, and you have light receptors in your DNA. You literally are light.

So we can discuss the spiritual aspect of light, but we can also understand that science is only proving what we’ve all been saying for all time. If I can show you and harness these concepts together, I can explain why the medicine of the future isn’t the pill you take, but rather frequency and sound. It’s all connected, and I can provide the science behind it. That’s why it’s important right now.

Talk to us about Burning Man. Why do you go? What’s that experience like? 

Melissa Minnich: I love that you’re asking this question because many people think Burning Man is some big drug-and-sex fest, and they don’t really understand the ethos behind it. Burning Man is an experience where 75,000 to 80,000 people spend almost a year preparing to build a city that lasts for one week. Then, they tear it down completely and leave no trace.

The experience you see on the playa, out in the middle of the desert in Black Rock City, involves people literally spending millions of dollars and hundreds of hours creating buildings. You come to a place where there is no money; only your gifts are exchanged. It’s a vibration of receptivity and giving. You come to give, and in that giving, you receive so much. The vibration comes through. It’s literally a portal, another dimension, another space in time. You step into something where instant manifestation exists, and I believe it’s how the world is supposed to work.

Let me give you an example. We have a 7-year-old in our camp who looks at her mom and says, “I want a donut.” Now, imagine we’re in the middle of a desert. Although there’s this incredible city with art cars costing a million dollars that have music, it’s still a desert. Thirty seconds later, a woman with a cart comes by and has donuts. She asks, “You guys want some donuts?” You might say, “I’m cold or hot, and I’d really like somewhere to relax and enjoy some time.”

Thirty seconds later, we’re riding our bikes and pass this beautiful orange and pink dome. It has plush spots to lay down, and the people inside are welcoming us. They have things in their hands, and it’s foil. They peel back the foil, revealing brand new chamois that are frozen. They lay it on top of you and say, “Come on, welcome, welcome, please, come in.”

But the playa is also a mirror. You come to have mirrored back to you the things that need healing, the things that are not where you’re going next. For me, I’ve been deeply working on my experience of the divine masculine because I’m a super masculine woman. I’m single and just went through a separation from my partner, my partner of 20 years. I realized I had a deep attachment to him and had to work on that.

The mirror for me was really wanting to call in platonic male energy to feel held and loved—energy that wasn’t sexual. I got to experience my partner, my recent ex, being there. I wanted to give him space, but all the other men in the camp showed up in divine masculine ways.

I had someone wash my feet in a story reminiscent of Mary Magdalene washing Jesus’ feet. It was an experience of devotion. I came into the camp to be in devotion and wash feet. What happened was one of the men in my camp washed my feet, and it made me cry. It wasn’t something I asked him to do; it was an act of service. Then someone else came over and just held me while we talked.

Finally, I asked one of the guys, “I just want to say I’m so appreciative and grateful. This was gifted to me from one of the guys in the camp through a beautiful ceremony.” I was crying at sunrise and said how grateful I was.

He said, “Melissa, the way you show up in the world and your devotion to all of us— we can’t help but be in devotion to you, and that’s how it should be.” This experience of Burning Man is about healing and learning.

Every magical thing you could imagine happens there. It’s a deep portal into understanding a different vibration and experience, and you come out of it forever changed. There is nothing like it on planet Earth. I’ve been to 57 countries and every kind of festival you can name. I really feel like I’ve experienced most of the sacred sides, but this is about the community of people and the vibration that shifts.

What is possible for us if we let go and be in selfless service? Everyone was in selfless service, and every single person’s needs were fulfilled. Being in service was beautiful.

As we’re recording this, you’re wrapping up the Fifth Annual Quantum Miracles Docuseries. For individuals who don’t know what this is, you won’t be able to take part in it live after this show. 

Melissa Minnich: The Quantum Miracles Docuseries started as a hit of intuition in December of 2019. I needed to bring something new. I needed to use my connections to introduce a new voice to the world about alternative ways of healing. This includes the science happening around spirituality, uniqueness, and akashic records. All of these things seem woo-woo, and I wanted to bring them together so people could understand them differently.

The intuition that came through at that time was unexpected. When we launched in May of 2020, the world shut down. Some of the conversations revolved around the pandemic. Others focused on people being shut down on YouTube and similar issues. I provided a platform for people, saying to take everything with a grain of salt. You don’t have to believe what we’re saying; I just want you to open your mind to something new, to a new experience.

It was wildly successful, so I decided to keep doing it. The key is we have doctors, scientists, New York Times bestselling authors, thought leaders, spiritual leaders, bio-optimization hackers—so many cool people. The common thread among them is they explore the intersection of how science is proving this world isn’t just woo-woo. We aim to raise consciousness together.

It’s called unveiling and bridging worlds. We’re unveiling and bridging these two worlds so you can heal, transform, and ascend. Healing is always the key to the first side of the coin. It allows you to transform like a butterfly in metamorphosis, and then you can ascend. When you do, you’re able to help others.

In five years, we’ve had almost 200 amazing leaders join us. It’s experiential, so it’s not just interviews and talk. They walk you through processes, and you learn things. It’s a lot of fun!

Talk to us about the Sacred Soul Alchemy Mystery School. Who is this for, and what will they experience if they dive into learning with you?

Melissa Minnich: The Sacred Soul Alchemy Mystery School is an invitation for those walking what I call the path of the initiate. An initiate is anyone beginning to understand that they want more out of life. They want to live in a higher state of consciousness, fulfill their soul’s purpose, and heal what holds them back. There are many personal development methods available, but the uniqueness of our mystery school lies in channeling wisdom from the Essenes, Egypt, and the Vedas. I also incorporate my scientific studies in quantum physics and neuroscience, focusing on how the brain works.

In our school, you will work through ceremonies and rituals while learning processes. You will have step-by-step methods to heal, determine if you’re living your purpose, step into your highest destiny, and break through the glass ceilings holding you back. You can learn how to channel, practice telepathy, and explore remote viewing. These experiences will open up your system and allow for a new, more profound experience of life.

We focus on the idea that when white light enters your body, it fractures into the colors of your chakras. Our goal in this lifetime is to align those chakras so you can become white light again. You become a central channel for the wisdom of whatever you call it—God, the field, consciousness, or source. We teach processes that are embodied, somatic, and energetic to help you tap back into the field and return to the white light. 

What is the program like? What is the container in terms of weeks, months, or years? 

Melissa Minnich: Our first-level program, which everyone starts in if they’re not already in our school, is a three-month container. You dive in through an online portal where you learn practices. We also have weekly ceremonies, connections, and trainings. You’ll break through and learn how to heal the things holding you back while really stepping into that experience.

What’s different about our mystery school is that once you take that course, you’re in for life. We offer that level of the course twice a year. In between those sessions, we have ceremonies and rituals, so you stay connected and continue learning. You get three months of intensive work to really learn and shift things. This is followed by three months of integration, where you practice the rituals and ceremonies and are part of the community. After that, you have another three months of intensive work, coming back and learning at a different level since you just completed it once.

If you decide, we have a second level that lasts nine months, making it a one-year program altogether if you choose to continue. The second level is for those who are ready to become light leaders or healers. It’s for people who want to take this work into the world and learn how to open their channels for deeper connection and healing.

You can’t take the second nine months without the first three months because the initial three months focus on grounding, healing your issues, clarifying your purpose, and building confidence. You learn to be seen and gain clarity. If you decide to continue, the second nine months is for those who want to ascend. You will learn deep practices to work out in the world and use processes with clients, friends, and family if that’s what you wish to do.

If someone is interested in the Sacred Soul Alchemy Mystery School, what’s the best place for them to reach out to you and connect?

Melissa Minnich: Melissaminnich.com is the best place to find out about the Mystery School. You can also follow us on Instagram, which is our biggest social media channel. If you send a message or comment on any of our posts, you’ll automatically receive something in your DMs about the school or about us. We also have a three-day live event coming up, and you’ll get information about that. Those are the two best ways to connect with me and find out more about the Mystery School.

Melissa, thank you for sharing your story with such depth, passion, intimacy, and vulnerability. I really appreciate it. I feel connected to you now after hearing that story. I’m one of your cheerleaders from a distance, saying, “Thank you so much for the ways you’re making a huge impact in our world.” I really appreciate it. So, thank you so much. 

Melissa Minnich: Thank you for what you’re doing and for the gift of this magazine that you have put out into the world. I really think it’s powerful, and I’m so grateful for what you’re doing.