The Higher Self Method® From Trauma to Truth: A Real Conversation with Brandy Nielson

I'm so glad to be here and to talk about something that means the world to me: the Higher Self Method®. This isn't just a process I created—it's something that literally brought me back to life. It's how I got out of survival mode and into a life I actually love.

So what is the Higher Self Method? How did it come to be?

The Higher Self Method is a spiritually grounded, neuroscience-supported process that helps people reprogram the limiting beliefs, emotional loops, and trauma imprints that have been quietly running their lives. It reconnects you with your nervous system, your intuition, and your truth.

But before I ever created a method, I lived through the kind of storm that breaks a person down. I was in a toxic marriage. I had three babies. No money. No idea how to escape. I knew all the spiritual tools. I was already trained in Reiki and 20 years of healing modalities. I had a deep connection with the unseen world. But I couldn't access it. Not then. Not when I was frozen in fear.

When I finally left, I thought I’d feel free. But instead, I felt more broken than ever.

You see, trauma doesn’t leave your body just because you leave the room it happened in. My nervous system was still locked in fight-or-flight. I was still second-guessing everything. I was waiting for something to go wrong, constantly bracing, totally disconnected from joy.

And that’s what led me to study the science of belief, neuroplasticity, subconscious reprogramming, and trauma-informed coaching. Because I didn’t want to just cope. I wanted to clear it. I wanted to feel peace in my body. I wanted to trust myself again. I wanted to remember who I was before the world told me I had to earn love.

That’s how the Higher Self Method was born.

It’s not a one-size-fits-all script. It’s a process that meets people exactly where they are. And it’s built on five key pieces:

1. Identifying the root belief. We go into the subconscious and locate the exact moment that a limiting belief was formed—usually in childhood, sometimes inherited. Not intellectually, but somatically.

2. Letting the body speak. This isn’t talk therapy. We use the body’s cues, nervous system shifts, imagery, breath, and deep listening. We access the subconscious through the back door—through safety, through sensation.

3. Releasing the emotional charge. Whether it’s shame, grief, or fear, the energy gets integrated. Not by reliving trauma—by processing it at the level where it lives. The nervous system calms. The loop ends.

4. Reprogramming the belief. We install a new truth—something the body, mind, and spirit can all agree on. This part is essential. Because the old story doesn’t just get removed—it gets rewritten.

5. Integration. This is what makes it last. This is the part where identity catches up. It’s where you stop being the belief and start being the one who is free.

So many people are living inside loops they didn’t choose: "I’m not safe," "I'm not enough," "I’ll always be alone."

I was too.

Until I used this process. And when I did, something clicked. I could finally access all the healing tools I already had. I could feel calm. I could hear my intuition. I could speak without shrinking. I could show up without proving. I could love without performing.

And that’s when everything changed—not just for me, but for the women and men I started guiding through it.

What I love about this work is that it doesn’t bypass. It’s raw. It’s real. But it’s also gentle. You don’t have to collapse to move through it. You just have to be willing to listen. And to let your Higher Self lead.

Sometimes when I describe what it’s like after a session, people ask: "You mean you don't feel anything about it anymore?" And I say, "Not in the way you're thinking."

When you've processed the grief, the fear, the shame... it's not that the story disappears. It's that it stops running your life. It moves to the past—where it belongs. Not the present. Not the future. Just the past.

So yes, I can talk about my divorce without shaking. I can remember the darkest nights and not collapse into them. That’s freedom. That’s integration.

And I’ll say this: The single most powerful thing I've done to get the life I have today? It wasn’t just healing. It was learning to love myself. For real. Not the fluffy kind. The kind that means you speak your truth. That you stop trying to earn your right to exist. That you stop making yourself small so other people won’t feel uncomfortable.

That’s what I teach now. That’s what I lead. That’s what the Higher Self Method is here to do.

It’s not about fixing you. It’s about freeing you.

Because when you remember who you are—you stop waiting. You start creating. From truth. From peace. From power.

That’s the life you deserve. And it’s closer than you think.

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