Caroline Carey
Medicine Woman / Soul Doula
Caroline Carey is a pioneer, soul worker, animist and shamanic practitioner with 30+ years of embodied teachings to share. She has a deep understanding of the souls journey, has studied the paths of creativity and spiritual growth and has come to understand why the majority of todays problems are rooted in the loss of soul and the creative spark. She enquires into what is ‘missing’ for people and where they might feel disempowered. Caroline has designed models of work, including the ‘The Polarity Of Purpose’ process and ‘The Wheel Of Souls Return,’ maps that weave together soul and emotional intelligence, with archetypes, tools and resources. These maps and pathways empower people to find what is lost and reclaim their potential. Caroline holds workshops, seminars and online courses, constellation processes, and offers the wisdom of animism, a reconnection to soul, transformational dance and creativity. Carolines work as a group facilitator and 1:1 counsellor is trauma informed.
Whats it all about?
My Work
My Journey
Born in 1960, I grew up in Birmingham and then the rural landscapes of Worcestershire, with a love for the wild, poetry and to dance, passionate about creativity, mystery and myth. For years I struggled with not feeling good enough and there being something wrong with me, (my mothers words) unable to learn as others did and finding myself without qualifications and pregnant at 16. A succession of dysfunctional relationships ensued, with violence, addictions and poverty. I understood that my core-wound had manifested as dark and difficult experiences to do with sexuality, isolation, soul-loss and deprivation. But its assets lay in my diverse nature, my dance, my poetry and my creative writing. I developed a conscious connection to the world of soul and my ability to see, to sense and to connect with my soul-guides. Mothering my six, now adult, children gave me the art of play, creativity, story-telling and opened up the deep surrender and unconditional love that motherhood can bestow.
I have met with people from all walks of life. I understand how trauma manifests itself in the body. I work with challenging stories, meeting the dark and more scary places of the psyche where I support my clients to find new perspectives on the conditions that haunt them. I am insistent that we should all find the Sovereign light that is our birth-right.
Unafraid to explore the dark of our histories, I often reach the parts others prefer not to travel to, shining a light on what is hidden and retrieving presence, guiding my clients towards a life rich in creativity and purpose. Awarded the Sole Trader of the year award said it all really, the soul has held my fascination and passion since I was very young when I used to consistently ask the question ‘why am I here and what is mine to do?’ I still enquire into that question, which now informs what I know. I have developed the body of work known as Middle Earth Medicine and offer workshops and trainings for others as well as being a published writer. My core-wound and my spiritual assets have journeyed this path side by side. I became the edge walker, living in a world of polarity. Being a grandmother of ten, has deepened and matured my skills to a sensitive wisdom with lots of humour.
I am trauma informed, for the in-depth explorations where we meet with grief, addressing our fears, creating from our anger and frustrations. I celebrate with you on each success, as we each show up to who we are meant to be.
You can join me on my courses, apprentice circles and in one to one sessions. Contact me soon, I’m looking forward to working with you..
Known as
A published writer of seven books, a speaker and Soul Retrieval guide fascilitating workshops and gatherings, having created The Wheel Of Souls Return and The Polarity Of Purpose.
Since 1986, I have been working in Uk and Ireland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Germany, Norway, France, Spain, Estonia, Czech Republic, Iceland and continue to reach out to share and be in service where needed.
A Soul Doula to those birthing, living and dying, inviting the soul to find its way into the world and beyond.
Shared By Others
Caroline is an elder within the arena of conscious embodiment, an experienced soul-seeker, creativity mentor and professional counsellor. She has an unsurpassed ability to listen in depth to the stories and emotions of the heart, assisting the soul-purpose in each individual that desires to be acknowledged. A guide and facilitator for those willing to address their fears, inhibitions and any lack of self esteem; so they might understand the gift that is hidden within their core-wound.
‘Caroline has a beautiful blend of wisdom and humour, as she shares her life experience through teachings of the heart’
Caroline is an earth angel of the best kind.
Her offerings are timeless and resonate deeply. I am eternally grateful for any divine feminine Grandmother wisdom as I journey through my autumn years and discover who I really am!
Caroline is:
A soul doula
A healer
A writer and poet
A dancer and mover
A spiritual life coach
A catalyst for change
A mother and a grandmother
A leader and facilitator
Carolines story
Caroline’s is a story of surviving and thriving against the odds, of finding resilience through trauma recovery. In sharing her journey, a reclamation of an innocence once lost, she offers the reader hope and inspiration, guiding them to follow the whispers of spirit and the path of their soul. Ayla-Willow
Wow! Since I received ‘Ms’Guided Angel ~ Revisited’ yesterday morning, I truly have not put it down! I have received the absolute blessing of healing from reading your story. My heart wings are flung open and I’m dancing. Gods time is the right time. Susan Smith
Caroline Offers
- One to one mentoring, online or in person
- Soul-Work (shamanic) healing
- Doula for birth, life & death
- A membership and training program
- Webinars and online gatherings
- Published Books
- Group workshops which include
- Heart based emotional intelligence
- Physical embodiment
- Meditations in movement, dance and outdoor activity
- Hands-on creativity
- Creative writing
- Group processes
- Soul work trainings
- Unique embodiment skills, guiding people into authentic and powerful presentations. (With film maker, Ben Cole)
What others have said
Caroline Carey is a shamanic healer and teacher, who has dived deeply into the rich dark roots of the shamanic path and danced within its primal landscapes. I am very pleased that she has chosen to share her skills in accessing the ecstatic abandonment that shamanism brings for healing and transformation: you are in good hands.
As an ethereal crone and movement ‘passionata’ Caroline supports students to journey deep inside their own psyches and far away into the larger spiritual realms, whilst calling this consciousness back into the expressive moving body. I have never seen anyone navigate chaos with as much grace, courage and tenacity as this woman, her broad feet rooted deeply in the earth whilst her heart seemingly stretches beyond any star visible to you or I. She is capable of bridging the extreme gaps between the territory of the soul and the world of flesh and bones; of transiting the gateways between birth and death, this world and the next.
Caroline is a an artful teacher working with flourishing creativity and discipline. Ben brings a lot of heart, openness and presence with his teachings. With their combined experience, wisdom and skills, they hold excellent workshops with integrity. I loved working with the archetypes, the embodiment of the healing transformation through dance, and being at Cae Mabon, which is full of magic. Thank you.
In relationship
Ben Cole & Caroline are married and live in Uk. They met sitting next to each other on a plane heading for Colombia. Now they run workshops and gatherings together as well as separately, including dance, movement, creativity, shamanic medicine skills and film work studying Middle-earth and the ancestral and historical lineage of our European landscapes. Together Ben and Caroline hold ‘rites of passage’ and various gatherings. They have created films & documentaries together including the project ‘Talking Addiction.’ Traveling to Africa, Iceland and Europe they have explored many shamanic, medicine dances and rituals.
Their workshops ‘Captivate-Communicate-Create’ and ‘In-Sight’ are unique offerings, guiding people into embodied, authentic and powerful presentations needed for online work, film and marketing ones purpose ethically.
Caroline and Ben live in Hastings, East Sussex, UK, with their two dogs, Boudica and Freya.