- Chloe Kemp
- Jun 30
- 9 min read
Updated: Jul 1
The letter below is a great example of “reading the signs” — I received this email about my book and my work, from a reader while I was in the middle of my recent cancer saga. I had been wondering how much I should share publicly about my cancer journey.
Dear Chloe,
What lingered with me wasn't the accounts of visions, dreams, or spiritual experiences themselves, but the sense that those experiences were being used to explore a much larger question about healing.
So much writing in the spiritual space focuses on extraordinary phenomena. Your work seems far more interested in what those experiences can teach us about transformation, resilience, and the search for meaning after suffering. The impression I came away with is that WISDOM KEEPER exists because you saw something missing in conversations about healing. Not simply a lack of information, but a lack of personal honesty about what it actually takes to navigate trauma, illness, uncertainty, and profound inner change.
What stood out to me is that the story appears less concerned with convincing readers to adopt a particular belief system and more with encouraging them to trust their own capacity for growth and self-discovery. That feels significant because many people are searching for healing, but far fewer encounter stories that openly acknowledge how complex, difficult, and deeply personal that journey can be.
I was also struck by the way your experiences seem connected to a broader desire to help others uncover their own path rather than simply follow yours. There is a generosity in that approach that feels rare.
I'm curious: when you first decided to share such a deeply personal account of your spiritual awakening and healing journey, what did you hope readers would take away from it, and has that hope changed in any way as the book has reached people from different backgrounds and experiences?
Thank you for the courage and openness behind what you've created. The conviction behind this book was difficult to ignore because it felt rooted in lived experience rather than abstract spiritual theory, and I found myself reflecting on the relationship between healing and self-discovery long after reading it.
I believe everyone has healing abilities. Most of you who follow my work know that I like to teach by example. If I am struggling with something, I want to be transparent and teach you how to deal with your own challenges.
For me, when a problem arises, my first step is to journal about the lessons behind it. Recently receiving a cancer diagnosis was a huge surprise to me. When the doctor saw the bump on my face, she didn’t seem too concerned. She asked me to come back in a week so she could remove it. After the excision, she commented that she did not think it was cancerous, although I was surprised she called it a “non-malignant tumor.” But again, she didn’t seem concerned, so I wasn’t either.
That feeling of relief didn’t last long. The pathology report came back with a big surprise— a cancerous tumor. Because it had ”Clear Margins,” my doctor decided we only needed to watch it.
Initially, I thought the pathology report meant I was out of the woods. A conversation with my internist was eye-opening. He is a holistic medical doctor. He explained, "A cancer diagnosis will follow you the rest of your life. You will have to frequently double-check things to see if they have potential complications with cancer.” For example, I have used PRP many times — he said now that is too risky because there could be some cancer cells in the blood that would then be transferred to another part of my body.
After the diagnosis, I journaled to help me process it, and also to see what lessons the cancer was bringing me. I was surprised when something from my childhood popped up — it had not entered my mind for decades. Buried deep in forgotten memories was something I had never told anyone. From the time I was very young, my childhood was filled with words that held so much shame for me.
The cancer appeared on my face near my lip — the lips that have remained silent for over 70 years, about the horrible messages I received from my father. From as early as I can remember, my Dad would say to me things that a healthy parent would never say to a child — "You are worthless, You will never amount to anything, No one will ever love you.” These words played on repeat throughout my childhood.
Thank goodness I came into this lifetime with wisdom far beyond what we typically think a three-year-old can possess. I didn’t believe him and intuitively knew that was not how a parent should be talking to a child. But I also felt shame, embarrassment, and hurt that my own father was saying this to me. He continued saying this throughout my life. I thought since I did not believe it was true, that it had not affected me.
Now, 70 years later, Spirit is telling me, “It is time. You need to process and release how your father used to talk to you.” I felt panic rising up. I had never told anyone. At that moment, it felt impossible to speak those words out loud.
Clearly, what my dad did and said were projections of his own broken, unhealed self. I feel so blessed that I knew, even at the young age of three, that something was inherently wrong, and it was not my fault. I was affected by so many unhealthy things my dad did, including threatening my life with a weapon. This was not just a difficult childhood. It was sheer survival to stay alive. It would have broken most people. The statistics on childhood trauma at that level are stark — addiction, mental illness, early death — those are the most common outcomes. I survived. I did the work. I became a Wisdom Keeper.
The fact that I survived, healed, and now help heal others belongs to the collective human experience of surviving the unsurvivable and choosing to rise anyway. I share this with you to remind you that healing isn't linear, that Spirit is patient and perfectly timed, that trauma lives in the body until the body is ready, and that a three-year-old girl who is repeatedly told by her father that she has no value can grow into a Wisdom Keeper who helps others find their way through the dark.
Our bodies and intuition are great messengers. My body continued to knock.
When something catches your attention, give yourself time to think about it.
Could it be bringing you an important message?
Before my first follow-up visit in Mid-May with the dermatologist, I spent some time doing healing work to release any cancer energy that might still be in my body. Two days before the appointment, a new bump appeared on my lip. Before I had a chance to show her the new bump, she told me she had reconsidered and now wanted me to do an ultrasound to make sure the cancer had not spread to my lymph nodes, to meet with an oncology surgeon, and to start radiotherapy. None of those sounded like good options to me, so I said I would be willing to have Mohs surgery.
My first priority was to make sure the cancer had not spread to my neck. The night before the ultrasound, I had an amazing sound-immersion remote healing session with one of my favorite healers, River Guergeurian. SUCCESS!! The ultrasound showed no cancer.
Next was focusing on removing any remaining cancer from my body. Two days later, I had a remote session with Eduardo Morales, the beloved shamanic curandero I have been working with since 2018. I continued with my own healing work.
The Mohs surgery only required one layer to be removed, and it was CANCER-FREE! This time, I had no lingering feelings that there might still be more cancer. Finally, I could relax and move forward. After a few days, I realized I no longer felt a need to say out loud the exact words my dad used to say to me. Wow! A release doesn’t always require a dramatic ending. Sometimes the work completes itself almost wordlessly. The key is to process and complete the lesson and allow your problem to “miraculously” disappear.
Before I had a chance to celebrate being “cancer-free,” I received a new Spirit message. I had noticed my knee felt a little painful the week before the surgery. Now I realized there was a lot of pain and swelling. I think my adrenaline had carried me through the surgery, and now Spirit felt I was ready to receive this message. I ended up going to an orthopedic walk-in clinic. They ruled out a fracture, but there is still a chance I tore my Meniscus and may need surgery.
What I find extraordinary is that throughout everything that happened during these challenging four months — Zoe’s hip problems and surgery, the original cancerous tumor, later needing to do cancer treatment, and now the knee — I felt an important underlying message was “Slow Down” and eliminate as many “have-tos” as possible. Each Spirit message was nudging me to ”slow down," each one a little harder to ignore than the last. Spirit's requiring me to significantly slow down physically to heal my knee is no coincidence. The knee isn't a separate incident; it's the same knock, just louder, arriving right when I assumed all the lessons had already been learned and the chapter closed.
When the nurse was taking my information at the orthopedic clinic, I started crying — I was trying to explain to her why I waited a week to deal with my knee. When I said I had been dealing with cancer, my voice cracked, and tears rolled down my face. I was feeling like, “Are you kidding? I just finished cancer and reconstructive surgery a few days ago, ….. and now this?”
It felt like my first moment to fully grieve and feel my emotions about the whirlwind two-week intense rush to have the ultrasound of my neck to make sure cancer was not in my lymph nodes, to the rush of setting up the doctor appointments, finding flights and lodging, making the trip, and having the surgery. My body held it together for the logistics, and the first crack came in a walk-in orthopedic clinic, saying out loud to a stranger, "I have been dealing with cancer."
Spirit is constantly sending us messages; it is our job to recognize, understand, and
process the lessons beyond whatever physical, emotional, or mental help we need.
I hope you learn to recognize the moments when your own body or your emotions are trying to get your attention, even when it doesn't announce itself clearly, even when it shows up in a stranger's waiting room instead of where you expected.
For now, I am still resting, elevating, and icing my knee, limiting my walking and use of stairs, and still not completely certain of all the lessons my knee is bringing me. Faith, trust, and surrender, three main themes you find throughout my WISDOM KEEPER book, are continuing to carry me through these challenging times.
Life can be messy and undignified. Embrace all of it!
I share all of this openly because I know I'm not the only one whose body has had to shout before being heard, or whose oldest wounds wait patiently for the moment we're finally ready to face them. If any part of my journey feels familiar to you — the ups and downs, the body's persistence, the slow work of learning to listen — please know you don't have to walk that path alone. I would love to help you find your way through it.
I sincerely believe you can tap into these same abilities if you are willing to do the work. It is real, and it is possible.
Tools to Help You Read Your Own Signs:
A few practical things that helped me through each stage of this recent challenging journey.
When something feels off, or a buried memory surfaces:
Meditate. Ask for clarity, and be open to receive — Spirit messages can show up anywhere: a song, a book, a random person, a random thought.
Journal. Speak to Spirit directly through your writing, and let it unfold naturally. Sit with what comes up rather than rushing to figure it all out.
Increase your spiritual practice — sacred music, candles, incense, meditation, dance, whatever helps you find your joy.
Check in with yourself: do you need help physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually? If something feels seriously wrong with your body, seek medical care — don't wait.
When it's time to fully feel your emotions and release old wounds:
Create a small ceremony for yourself. Write down what you're ready to release, light a candle, breathe deeply and read it aloud: "I release and let go of all the pain this has caused me. I appreciate the lessons it brought. I no longer need it." Then burn it safely and let it go.
Forgive — not to condone what happened, but to free yourself from carrying it.
Avoid fake positivity. All your feelings are allowed, even the dark ones — you don't need to suppress or rush them, just feel them.
Give yourself permission to ask for exactly what you need. I called a trusted friend and told her I had some bad news I needed to process. I communicated that in that moment, I needed to not be the strong woman, the healer, the wisdom keeper; I need to just be a woman who was feeling shocked and a little scared about my cancer diagnosis. This allowed me to fully feel everything and release the darker feelings. Then I put my healer hat back on and got busy.
If you're overwhelmed, talk to someone — a friend, family member, therapist, or healer. Sometimes journaling isn't enough; you may need to say it out loud to another person.
Your emotions may not show up when the big thing happens. Sometimes they wait until you feel safe enough, or depleted enough, or a kind stranger asks you a simple question.
Please let me know how I can help — I offer intuitive shamanic energy healing, mediumship sessions, and life coaching. Soon, I will be releasing my new Anchoring online course and the Wisdom Keeper Circle, a monthly membership community for souls committed to doing the deep work.
Peace & Blessings,
Chloe
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