As a Shamanic healer who practices meditation and energy healing, Denise Damijo describes herself as a ‘seer’ and ‘activator’ who can see things about people that they don’t even know about themselves, including their natural gifts and ancestral bloodlines. Her journey with Shamanism – the belief in unseen gods and ancestral spirits – began when she was still a child.

Damijo was raised in a Christian household but began to have spiritual visions as she was growing up. Most of the visions she saw and heard didn’t fit in with the Christian beliefs she was being taught, which paved the way for her journey with Shamanism. While she still believes in God, Damijo does not uphold the idea that any one religion is right and believes in the existence of other gods and spirits such as Isis and Ganesh.

Now a parent to five children, Damijo is raising her children without religion.