By: Shawn Mars
Birgitta Visser is a Soul Empowerment Coach and Divine Channel, tuning into higher frequencies and sharing messages from Light Beings and Master Teachers. Through her Light Language Healing practice, she works with light codes intended to support those seeking alignment with their soul’s purpose. Having overcome significant abuse and trauma, Birgitta has emerged out of the darkness into the light of self-love and spiritual awakening, embodying authenticity and truth in both her life and her work. She shares her wisdom and insights, walking alongside others on their own healing journeys toward empowerment and enlightenment.
How did you become a Soul Empowerment Coach?
I’ve learned to walk through fire, so I can guide others safely across. It wasn’t ambition that forged this path; it was trauma, and a bucketload of it. Abuse, loss, bullying, grief, each a thread in the weaving of my awakening. At fourteen, I lost my father. In high school, I was mocked for my tall, skinny frame, the cruelty carving deep wounds I buried beneath a smile. By twenty-five, my stepdad John was gone, and I was drowning in drugs, chasing numbness, wearing the mask of the “happy penguin” everyone expected. The pain didn’t vanish. It mutated into eating disorders, toxic relationships, and a nomadic life of over 60 moves, running from myself while the real prison was within. Hitting rock bottom became my foundation.
One day, exhausted, I stopped as I realized: “You are not broken. You are forgotten.” Healing wasn’t about fixing. I had to remember who I was before the world told me who to be. I dove into meditation, breathwork, shadow work. At The Art of Living in Bangalore, I discovered conscious breathing, where one intentional inhale could begin to soften years of numbness. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it,” Rumi reminded me. I studied many forms of energy healing, EFT, aromatherapy, light language, and vibration work, learning that every e-motion is energy in motion, and we choose which frequencies to amplify. Slowly, like a turtle shedding its shell, I returned to myself.
As St. Germain always says: “You are Love, you are Light, and you are a beautiful God wonder encapsulated in an organic meat suit, gracing your presence through the feat of your experiences on this blue planet called Earth.”
Your pain isn’t your prison; it’s your portal. Every wound was an initiation, not to break you, but to upgrade you. Today, I walk in freedom, not because the darkness is gone, but because I’ve embraced it as sacred fuel. I don’t offer solutions. I offer remembrance. You are enough. You always were. As the darkest nights birth the brightest stars, your soul has been preparing for this rise all along.
You have overcome significant abuse and trauma. What was your strength?
My strength, through years of abuse and trauma, wasn’t always noble or healthy. It was a raw, defiant survival instinct, a refusal to ever bow down to defeat. For years, this manifested as a frantic game of “whack-a-mole” with my emotions, where I starved myself and worked relentless hours to shush the screaming demons I was refusing to heal. My ego was firmly in the driver’s seat while my soul was “bound and gagged,” whilst I was going talk to the hand cause the face ain’t listening…
This precarious balance shattered in 2009 when I hit a devastating rock bottom, culminating in a traumatic event with a manipulative ex that involved the Dutch Crips, a ransom, and a death threat. In the stark aftermath, even a desperate cry for help left me with only a hollow reprieve. It was there, in that profound darkness, that I realized being told by a counsellor I was “strong enough” wasn’t going to cut it. My true, enduring strength was not in silencing the pain, but in finally finding the courage to listen to it, a turning point that led me from the disaster of traditional counselling to the path of Reiki.
As Caroline Myss once said, “You create your own healing or you create your own disease.”
I realized we are energy, and when we block our pain, it festers in the body, mind, and spirit. Healing didn’t come through words like “you’re strong enough.” I needed action, transformation. Reiki, self-love, and accountability became my new tools. I learned to pour love back into myself instead of pouring from an empty cup. My greatest strength? Resilience, not just to survive, but to choose healing again and again, to forgive, to let go, and to remember: “Life is the experiment you get to experience.” And me? I chose to hop out of the “oh why me syndrome”, because you cannot expect to be the Light, if you cannot walk in your Light.
How are you sharing your wisdom and insights, guiding others on their own healing journeys?
My process begins by meeting you exactly where you are, in that exhausting loop of pain and pretense you described. We start not by chasing “positive vibes,” but by courageously turning inward. “People don’t heal by pretending the darkness doesn’t exist,” I often say. “They heal by sitting with it, by acknowledging the wounds instead of dressing them up in denial.” I guide clients through a process of solution-focused reflection, asking powerful questions like, “What is this pain trying to teach you? Where have you given away your power?” This creates a conscious foundation. Then, for those drawn to a deeper, faster shift, I offer Light Language Frequency sessions. This isn’t mystical jargon; it’s a practice intended to work with vibrational frequencies that move beyond the limits of talk-based work. But the real work happens with you. I encourage clients to understand that “you cannot outsource your self-worth,” and that integration is everything. Those who engage most fully are the ones who actively journal, set boundaries, and stop abandoning themselves, treating healing not as a one-time event but as an ongoing practice. As I remind them, “The moment you stop outsourcing your worth is the moment your real life begins, returning home to the love and warmth of the hearth of yourself.”
You have co-authored several motivational works. What can we take away from these books?
These works include “Become Empowered: Echoes of Grace and Strength,” “I’m So Glad You Left Me,” “Divine Rebirth,” and “Miracles are Normal.” Though born from personal pain, love, loss, and transformation, they converge on a few profound themes: the sacred power of perspective, the resilience of the human spirit, and the divine potential within us all. We return again and again to the idea that life is not happening to us, it is happening through us.
Know that you are the creator of your reality, shaping life through your thoughts, emotions, and spiritual alignment.
Our awakening often arises from pain, because life can crack us open like a splat egg, allowing for the festered pain to seep out, in order for us to “kintsukuroi” ourselves through the art of healing.
Even loss can be a blessing in disguise, a necessary unravelling so we can weave ourselves back stronger, wiser, and more whole.
Each challenge, heartbreak, and ending is not a defeat, but an invitation, an echo of grace calling us back to ourselves. A recurring thread is the shift from living in the head, where fear and judgment reside, to living from the heart, where love, intuition, and miracles flow effortlessly.
“When we stop chasing life and start being in it, living in the moment, in the NOW, the universe begins to dance with you.”
These books are not about escaping suffering, but about alchemizing it, awakening to the truth that we are all expressions of the same divine light, temporarily shaped into human form. However you decide to heal, “The most important thing is to honour your own process and tune into what resonates with your spirit.”
What have you enjoyed the most working with women?
One of the most profound joys in working with women has been witnessing their courage to embrace vulnerability as a pathway to healing.
As Brené Brown so beautifully said, “Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome.”
In these sacred spaces, tears are not signs of weakness. They are acts of letting go. It’s a privilege to walk alongside women as they release what no longer serves them, remembering their inner strength and worth. Healing is not about fixing or saving anyone; it’s about creating room for truth, for love, for personal growth. As I’ve often reflected, “We can’t pour from an empty cup. We must first fill our own with love, compassion and care.” In healing what is broken, women rediscover their voice, their I AM power, and the radiant love that was always within. It’s not just renewal. It’s reawakening.
