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Sacred Boundary Mastery · 16 Sessions · 5 Phases

You knew the answer
was no before they finished asking.
You said yes anyway.

When did you first decide that your needs were less important than someone else's comfort? You may not remember the moment. But your body does. It has been making that same decision ever since.

We were not taught this through explicit instruction. It arrived silently, in the way we learned that being loved meant being easy, that our needs made us too much, that good women do not take up space. Those lessons live somewhere willpower cannot reach. But they can be cleared. And when they are, everything changes.

Next cohort begins September 8, 2025 · Enrollment closes August 25

What Changes

After sixteen sessions, you move through life differently.

You stop explaining yourself. You stop apologizing for taking up space. You stop choosing everyone else first and calling it love. You begin to know what is yours and what was never yours to carry.

01

You finish a conversation feeling like yourself. Not drained, not guilty, not wondering what you gave away.

02

You say no without a three-day rehearsal or a four-paragraph explanation. The word is complete on its own.

03

You feel someone else's pain without absorbing it as your own responsibility to fix.

04

You rest without earning it first. You take up space without apologizing for your presence.

05

You hold your ground with the exact people who have always moved it. Without closing off, without falling.

06

You love fully without losing yourself inside the love. You stay open. You stay whole.

A life that feels like yours.

The Sovereign Edge · Chelsea Rae

The Foundation of All the Work

First: understand where you are.

Before any healing begins, one question must be answered honestly. Where are you living right now? Most women have spent their entire lives moving between two states, never quite realizing there is a third. No work proceeds until you can see this clearly. That is where everything begins.

State One
The Open Wound

You feel everything. Everyone's moods, needs, and discomfort become yours without you choosing it. You say yes before you have finished deciding what you actually want. You leave conversations carrying things that were never yours to hold.

Saying yes before you know what you want
Feeling drained after being with people you love
Taking on other people's emotions as your own
Guilt in any moment you are not actively giving
"Others call you generous. Selfless. Always available. These are compliments that sit on top of a wound."
State Two
The Fortress

The walls went up for a reason. They kept you safe at a time when being open was not safe. But nothing gets through anymore, including love, closeness, and support. This looks like strength from the outside. From the inside, it is a different kind of lonely.

Difficulty trusting people even when they have earned it
Leaving before things get too close
Self-reliance that has become a wall, not a gift
Others call you strong, private, hard to reach
"The Fortress was built for a reason. It served its purpose. But it has outlived its usefulness, and somewhere inside you, you already know that."
State Three · The Destination
The Sovereign Edge

You are in full control of your own mind, body, spirit and field. You hold your ground and your heart open at the same time. You have full agency over who and what you allow into your life. Not because you built walls, but because you know yourself well enough to choose.

Rest without guilt. Presence without performance.
A self that does not shift depending on who you are with
Feeling someone else's pain without absorbing it as yours
Self trust rebuilt. Life that belongs to you.
"You say no without guilt and yes without resentment. You are held by your own field, not defined by anyone else's."
Why It Hasn't Changed

You have tried to change this.
The pattern stayed
because it was never a habit.

As women we have been conditioned to believe that our needs are not important. Not through explicit instruction, but silently, the way you learn the rules of a room before anyone speaks them. You learned to be good. To not make others uncomfortable. To earn your place by making yourself easier to be around.

"These beliefs are embedded so deeply that they fire before you have a chance to consider what actually works for you. The voice that calls you selfish for having needs is not your voice. It was placed there. And it can be removed."

This is why every previous attempt has not held. The books, the therapy, the intention, the scripts. They work on behavior. The pattern is not at the behavioral level. It lives somewhere else entirely. And it can be reached. That is what this work does.

This program was built to create the path forward into a life that is truly yours. Where your needs are at the forefront of every decision, every action, every moment. Where you hold the line with your heart open and trust yourself to know the difference.

What Imprints Sound Like

The voice you think is your own, firing automatically when you consider saying no.

"I am selfish for having needs."
"Rest must be earned."
"My pain is less important than their comfort."
"Anger is unacceptable."
"I am too much."
"Having needs makes me a burden."

None of these are yours. They are Imprints. And they can be cleared.

Chelsea Rae · Shaman Healer & Spiritual Alchemist
Chelsea Rae · Shaman Healer & Spiritual Alchemist
Your Guide

You will not be guided
through this by someone
who read about it.

This work was lived before it was taught. Every piece of it. That is why it reaches the places nothing else has reached. You are not learning a method. You are being walked back to yourself by someone who made that walk herself.

Sixteen years. Every ceremony, every clearing, every part of herself she retrieved before she could offer this to anyone else. The path exists because she walked it in the dark first. You do not have to.

Shaman HealerSpiritual Alchemist 16+ Years Healing & Practice Earning The Light Graduate Medicine Keeper Angel Fire Practitioner 8th Fire Alumni
The Journey

Five phases. Sixteen sessions.
No active boundary work begins until the clearing is done.

That sequencing is why the results hold. The foundation is cleared first. Always. No exceptions. You cannot build something that holds on ground that has not been tended.

Phase 01
The Awakening
Sessions 1–3 · See clearly
Phase 02
The Clearing
Sessions 4–6 · Remove what was installed
Phase 03
The Return
Sessions 7–9 · Reclaim what was lost
Phase 04
Fields of Alchemy
Sessions 10–12 · Build the new system
Phase 05
The Walking Path
Sessions 13–16 · Integrate. Complete. Enter the Circle.
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Women are so dissociated by the time they find this work. The Field State Guide is where we begin to change that. It is free, and it is where every woman who has come to The Sovereign Edge has started.

  • An understanding of the three states every woman moves between, and which one you are living in right now
  • Seven honest questions that will show you exactly where you are, more clearly than you may have let yourself see before
  • Why the pattern has stayed despite everything you have tried, and what that actually means about you
  • A clear, honest picture of the program and whether this is the right next step for you

"I want every woman who comes here to feel seen and held before she decides anything. The guide is where that begins." Chelsea Rae

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Sessions meet live every week so the container stays close, consistent, and held across all sixteen weeks. Enrollment closes August 25, 2025.

Chelsea Rae
Your Guide

She did not learn
this work in a classroom.
She lived it.

Chelsea Rae walked the full length of this path: the Origin Wound, the Collapse, the sixteen years of reclaiming herself piece by piece. The Sovereign Edge is the map she built so that other women don't have to find their way back alone.

The Origin

Chelsea's Origin Wound came at age four, a sexual trauma that arrived before she had words for it, before she had any way to understand what it was taking from her. What followed was a childhood in which her boundaries were constantly overridden. She lost her center, her voice, her internal ground.

The damage moved outward into her life: brutally bullied at school, then as she grew older, into abusive male relationships. She learned to do what so many women learn: to accommodate, to give people what they wanted, to master the art of belonging at the cost of herself. It kept her safe. It cost everything.

When the abuse became severe, her voice shattered. She gave herself away piece by piece until she was no longer herself. Empty. Lost. Nothing left to give. She collapsed.

The Return

She found a shaman. Through sacred ceremony, the pieces Chelsea had lost came back to her, repairing the boundary wound Imprints, helping her reclaim her body, her soul, her mind, her life.

It took sixteen years of healing and practice to become herself again. To learn who she was before the Origin Wound. To learn to listen to her body as a boundary, to say no without guilt, yes without resentment, to hold her ground while remaining open.

"Before you were taught to override your boundaries, your body knew exactly what was safe, what was dangerous, and how to respond. Part of this work is reconnecting with the instinctual self that existed before the override."

The Work

The Sovereign Edge is the map Chelsea did not have. Built from every belief she identified and cleared, every thread she severed, every part of herself she retrieved across sixteen years of her own passage. Designed so that women do not have to do what she did, find their way back alone, in the dark, one painful step at a time.

She knows this terrain because she has lived every inch of it. The wound is not a concept to Chelsea. It is where her own story begins. The Return is not a ceremony she performs. It is what brought her back. That is why it reaches the places nothing else does.

Each cohort is held weekly, live, so that every participant's field receives Chelsea's full attention across all sixteen sessions. Women usually arrive dissociated, disconnected, not quite sure how they got so far from themselves. They leave knowing. The container she builds is held, private, and beautiful. That quality of space is not incidental. It is the work.

Private Work with Chelsea

One-on-one sessions,
private and fully customized.

For women who want to work with Chelsea privately outside the group cohort, or who need a single ceremony rather than the full program. Available by inquiry.

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Training & Practice
  • Shaman Healer
  • Spiritual Alchemist
  • 16+ Years of Healing & Practice
  • Graduate, Earning The Light (2.5-Year Program)
  • Medicine Keeper (2.5-Year Path)
  • Angel Fire Practitioner (2.5-Year Path)
  • Now Teaching Within the Lineage
  • 8th Fire Alumni
  • Trained in Sacred Medicine Rites, Algonquin Lineage
September Cohort

Enrollment for the September cohort closes August 25, 2025.

16 Sessions · 5 Phases · 4 Months

From The Open Wound
to The Sovereign Edge.

This is not a program about communication scripts or setting limits. It is about returning to yourself, the self that existed before you were taught to negotiate her away.

Why This Works When Nothing Else Has

Your body already knows
where the boundary is.
We are reconnecting you to that knowing.

Most boundary work teaches you what to say. This program teaches you how to listen, to your body, to the signals you have been overriding your entire life. The beliefs that keep you stuck were installed before you were old enough to question them. They cannot be argued with. They have to be cleared.

"No negotiating parts of yourself. A life that is fully yours, where your needs are at the forefront of every decision, every action, every moment. That is what this program was built to create."
What You Receive
  • 16 live facilitated sessions with Chelsea Rae
  • The Sovereign Edge Journal, your sacred companion
  • The Three States of The Field framework
  • Imprint Clearing: extracting what was never yours
  • Thread Severance, a live cord-cutting ceremony
  • The Return, a guided soul retrieval journey
  • Fields of Alchemy: five elemental boundary layers
  • The Declaration: boundary language that holds
  • Your personal Sovereignty Constitution
  • The Ceremony of Edges, the closing rite of passage
  • All session recordings for your archive
  • Lifetime access to The Sovereign Soul Circle
Phase 01 · Sessions 1–3
The Awakening
The focus is entirely on seeing clearly. No active boundary work is attempted.
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The first three sessions are not about changing anything. They are about seeing clearly. Where you are right now. How you got here. The exact moment the pattern first took root, when you first learned that your needs mattered less. No interventions. No adjustments. Just honest, careful attention to what has always been true, so that everything that follows can reach the right place.

Session 1: The Sacred Container and the three states of The Field
Session 2: Reading The Field, learning to sense your own energetic body
Session 3: The Origin Wound, tracing the pattern back to where it began
Phase 02 · Sessions 4–6
The Clearing
Remove the Imprints. Sever the Threads. Examine the Secondary Gains.
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This is where the pattern shifts. Not at the surface, but at the source. We find what was placed in you by others long before you had a say in it. We find what you have been carrying that was never yours. And we release it, through ceremony, through shadow work, through the unflinching honest look at why part of you has held on. This phase is not comfortable. It is irreversible. And women consistently name it as the turning point.

Session 4: Identifying what you are carrying that was never yours
Session 5: Thread Severance, the live cord-cutting ceremony
Session 6: The Shadow Inventory, the honest look at what has kept you here
Phase 03 · Sessions 7–9
The Return
Call home the parts of yourself that went underground for safety.
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When what does not belong to you has been cleared, what was always yours comes home. The creativity that learned to hide. The anger that was taught to be unacceptable. The joy that retreated for safety. The Return is the ceremony of inviting those parts of yourself back, now that you are building something safe enough to hold them. For many women, this is the first time they have felt like themselves in years.

Session 7: Calling the Soul Home, the guided Return ceremony
Session 8: The Reclamation, identifying where your power has been leaking
Session 9: The Body as Boundary, reconnecting with what your body has always known
Phase 04 · Sessions 10–12
Fields of Alchemy
Install the five elemental boundary layers. Build the living system.
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Now the new architecture is installed. Five elemental layers that form a living, responsive, intelligent system. Not walls that keep people out, but something that transmutes what does not belong before it reaches your center. You learn what it actually feels like to hold your ground and your heart open at the same time. You practice speaking from that place, clearly and without apology, with the people in your actual life.

Session 10: The five elemental layers and what each one governs
Session 11: Ceremonial installation and daily tending of The Fields
Session 12: The Declaration, speaking from your Field rather than from fear
Phase 05 · Sessions 13–16
The Walking Path
Integrate into life. Write The Constitution. Enter The Sovereign Soul Circle.
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The work now meets real life. The relationships that have always known how to move you. The moments when the ground slips. You learn exactly what to do when that happens. You write your personal Sovereignty Constitution, your declaration of who you are now and what you will no longer negotiate. The program closes with The Ceremony of Edges, your rite of passage, and your entry into The Sovereign Soul Circle. You do not leave alone.

Session 13: What to do when the boundary slips, the four-step return
Session 14: Advanced practices for highly sensitive women
Session 15: The Sovereign Edge as a lifelong living practice
Session 16: The Ceremony of Edges, your Sovereignty Constitution spoken aloud, The Circle opens
The Sovereign Lexicon

Chelsea's original language,
a vocabulary that names what you've felt but couldn't say.

All terminology is original to Chelsea's practice. Not metaphors. Functional tools used consistently across all 16 sessions.

The Field
Your energetic body
The living energy that surrounds, interpenetrates, and extends beyond your physical body. It is what walks into a room before your body does.
The Imprint
Foreign energy in The Field
Beliefs and patterns placed in your Field by others. They feel like yours. That is what makes them so effective and so difficult to identify.
Thread Severance
Cord-cutting ceremony
The ceremonial severing of Threads that have become channels for drain, control, guilt, or obligation. Thread Severance does not erase love. It reclaims energy.
The Return
Soul retrieval
The ceremony of journeying to find and invite home the parts of self that went underground for safety: the creativity, the anger, the joy that retreated.
Fields of Alchemy
The five elemental layers
Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Spirit. Not walls. Transmuters. What does not belong is alchemized at the edge before it reaches your center.
The Medicine of No
Refusal as a healing act
The teaching at the heart of Phase Four: a full, complete, undefended Refusal, spoken from the body, without over-explanation. Not just a boundary. It is medicine.
The Dimmer
Intentional Field porousness
The ability to adjust The Field's porousness like adjusting the lighting in a room. Full Open, Filtered, or Minimum. You choose. The environment does not choose for you.
The Residue
Energetic debris
What the day leaves on your Field. Cleared nightly through the Evening Residue Clearing practice so you do not carry it into the next interaction.
The Constitution
Personal sovereignty declaration
Your written declaration of non-negotiable boundaries, Collapse triggers, daily Field Tending practices, and the commitments you are making to yourself. It lives at The Altar of Sovereignty.
2026–2027 Cohort Schedule

Every Wednesday
5:30 to 7:30pm MST

16 consecutive weeks · September 30, 2026 to January 13, 2027

Session 01
Sept 30, 2026
Session 02
Oct 7, 2026
Session 03
Oct 14, 2026
Session 04
Oct 21, 2026
Session 05
Oct 28, 2026
Session 06
Nov 4, 2026
Session 07
Nov 11, 2026
Session 08
Nov 18, 2026
Session 09
Nov 25, 2026
Session 10
Dec 2, 2026
Session 11
Dec 9, 2026
Session 12
Dec 16, 2026
Session 13
Dec 23, 2026
Session 14
Dec 30, 2026
Session 15
Jan 6, 2027
Session 16 · Final
Jan 13, 2027

All sessions recorded · Available in your private portal within 24 hours

Your Investment

The most sovereign decision
you will make for yourself.

Consider what another year of The Open Wound costs you in energy absorbed, power leaked, and the quiet exhaustion of a life that does not feel entirely yours. Then consider what changes when the Imprints are cleared, the Threads are severed, and The Sovereign Edge is built.

"Most boundary failures happen not because you do not know what you need. It is because you cannot say it. Or you say it wrapped in so much apology and justification that the other person hears permission to negotiate. The Sovereign Edge changes both."
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Before You Decide

Questions, answered honestly.

I've tried boundary work before and nothing has held. Why would this be different?
That experience is the most common starting point for participants in this program. If behavioral tools and communication scripts haven't moved the pattern, it is because the pattern is not at the behavioral level. It is structural. The Imprints are still lodged in The Field. The Threads are still draining. The Origin Wound has never been reached. The Sovereign Edge addresses the layer that prior approaches were not working at. This is why the results hold when others have not.
Is this therapy? Do I need to be in therapy to participate?
This is not therapy and does not replace it. The Sovereign Edge is a shamanic healing and spiritual alchemy program. Many participants are also in therapy and find the two work beautifully in parallel. You do not need to be in therapy to participate, though Chelsea recommends having a support system in place, particularly during The Clearing phase.
What does a session look like? Is this group or individual?
Sessions are live, facilitated, and held in a group via video, meeting every Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:30pm MST across 16 consecutive weeks (September 30, 2026 to January 13, 2027). Each session combines guided ceremony, somatic practice, shared reflection, and direct teaching. Sessions are recorded and available in your private portal within 24 hours. Private one-on-one intensives with Chelsea are available separately. Inquire via the contact page.
What is the refund policy?
Because enrollment is limited and a spot held for you cannot be offered to another participant, we are unable to offer refunds after the cohort begins. If you have concerns about readiness, reach out to Chelsea directly at info@shamanrae.com before you enroll.
What if I miss a session?
All sessions are recorded and available in your private portal. Attending live is strongly encouraged. The group Field is a significant resource in this work, and recordings ensure you do not fall behind. Chelsea also holds optional integration support between phases for participants who need additional holding.
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