Who Am I?

My name is Deborah  Christensen

I grew up in a world where emotions were swallowed, where truth was dangerous, and where safety meant disappearing. My childhood was marked by abuse — inside my family and inside the religion I was raised in. In my early 30s, after my own children were harmed, the weight of everything I had survived collapsed inwards. I experienced suicidal depression, was in intensive care for four days, and later learned there was a name for what I had lived through: Religious Trauma Syndrome.

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I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, unable to feel emotion beyond the surface of my skin. For the first 30 years of my life, I lived without access to my own heart. Feeling nothing became the way I stayed alive.
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And still… something inside me kept whispering: There is more.
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So I rebuilt.

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I left the religion that shaped my childhood.
I left a marriage that no longer held life.
I raised four children on my own.
I put myself through university — six years, part-time — completing a Bachelor of Science, Psychology major.
I reclaimed my identity from the ruins.

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And then something extraordinary happened. One night, I was visited by my deceased Nana in a dream. She told me clearly:
“If you write your story, I will organise the editing and publishing.”
I woke with a knowing so strong I could not ignore it. I wrote the memoir — under a pseudonym — and in 2014 it was released into the world.
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It went on to win:

• Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal — Most Inspirational Memoir
• Beverly Hills International Book Awards — Runner Up
• Ranked in the Top 100 Most Reviewed Self-Published Books on Amazon for the entire year

That book became the bridge between who I had been and who I was becoming.

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Over the past three decades, I’ve dedicated my life to understanding healing — not just academically, but somatically, spiritually, and personally. I’ve trained, studied, and worked across countless modalities, including:
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• Clinical Trauma Hypnotherapy (360+ hours, internationally registered in 35+
  countries)
• Reiki I & II Certifications
• Massage Therapy
• Certificate in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
• Certificate in Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Motivational Interviewing
• Diploma in Alcohol and Other Drug Work
• Diploma in Correctional Management
• Cert IV in Aged Care Work
• Over 30 specialised certificates in trauma, addiction, nervous system
  regulation, and therapeutic practice

I have spent decades counselling, supporting, and walking alongside women and men who carry quiet, invisible pain — but deeply resonate with women who give deeply but rarely receive, women who are tired of being strong, women who long to
come home to themselves.
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And while my professional training gave me knowledge, it was my life that gave me
wisdom.
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The healing of my own children, the slow return of my emotions, the rebuilding of my body through somatic work, women’s circles, breathwork, Reiki, nature, nervous system practices, and hypnotherapy — this is what taught me how people actually
heal.
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Art found me in my 50s.
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Poetry arrived like a second language — free-form, intuitive, and often as haiku.

Nature became my medicine: mountains, birds, trees, oceans, dogs, cats — the quiet companions who taught me how to feel again.
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A Course in Miracles taught me the radical power of love and forgiveness — not as lofty concepts, but as daily practices that free us from fear, judgment, and the heaviness we carry. Learning to extend forgiveness to myself, and then naturally to
others, shifted the way I relate to the world. It softened my edges, opened my heart, and showed me that love is not something we earn — it’s something we return to.
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Around the same time, I discovered the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. His teachings arrived in my life about four years ago and helped me understand transformation from a scientific and energetic perspective. Through meditation, I learned how to
surrender into the “void” — the space beyond thought, beyond identity, beyond limitation — the field where all creation begins. The place we all come from. The source of all that is, was, and ever will be.
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His work helped me turn inward and transform my life from the inside out. I began to catch the “worst-case scenario” thoughts and the inner critical voice that had once run on autopilot. Instead of believing them, I learned to pause, recognize them, and
consciously choose a different path — a path grounded in love, forgiveness, possibility, and presence.

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Together, these teachings have shaped the foundation of how I live, how I guide, and how I support others: by helping them remember their own power, their own wisdom, and their own unbreakable connection to the Divine within.
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And now, at 60, in my sixth decade — a powerful threshold year — everything has come together.

I am a 6/2 Manifesting Generator in Human Design — the Role Model who guides through lived experience and embodied truth, and the Hermit whose deepest gifts are created in stillness. My entire life has prepared me to lead from authenticity,
compassion, embodiment, and hard-earned wisdom.
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That is why I created Soulscape — within it a sanctuary for women who have walked through fire, a circle for healers and helpers who hold so much for others, and for those longing for a place where they can finally rest, melt, be seen, and return to
themselves gently.
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Soulscape is not a business.
It is a calling.
A culmination.
A homecoming — for me, and for those who feel drawn to walk this path with me.
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Everything that once broke me has now become the ground from which I help others
rise.
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And it has all been worth it.