Stories by Dr. Susan Rangitsch

Small Acts Of Kindness

by Sr. Susan Rangitsch

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Who Says Unicorns Aren't Real?

by Dr. Susan Rangitsch

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       "My experience of Susan is as a very down to earth, honest, ethical woman with more intuition than anyone I have yet to come in contact.  Through Life Coaching with Susan I have learned amazing things about myself and about being true to my Spirit.  And through  couples counseling with Susan I have learned how to better interact,  communicate and emotionally love my partner.  I learned "all in" and it has made "all the difference" in my ability to be committed to a loving, compassionate relationship with someone else and MYSELF!   Counseling and Coaching with Susan is definitely a new and unique experience for me and so refreshing from my past counseling and couching experiences.  (Not to berate those past experiences in any way.)   I feel her commitment and it has impacted me deeply, and has assisted me greatly in my emotional and Spiritual growth."

 Namaste,  Shawn E.   Missoula, MT

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       "What an awesome experience it has been. We got your name 5 years ago for someone else and never realized it would be for us. It had gotten so bad that I had given up on life itself. If anyone even tried to cheer me up, I could always find, and point out, everything negative. The way I saw it, there was no way out of what this world had piled up on me. I even had myself convinced that everyone would be better off if I was not here any more.  I came to you to find a way to deal with my problems and you helped me fixed them. Jody thought she was there for support and wound up being healed herself. I loved the way you used all the good things from every religion without pushing any particular one. Your voice and demeanor helped to put us at ease, and the homework assignments were what we needed to keep from going back to our routine once we got home. All in all you have helped us to be stronger in our marriage, family, and "Blessing" everyone around us. Thank you very much..........."

Brian and Jody,  Missoula, MT

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       "Being with Susan is a rare gift. Sometimes the grit of life rubs into places we've forgotten how to reach. Our muscles cramp to contain the pain and infection.  Using thoughtful questions and exercises, together we dig through both the darkness and light of our internal wiring.  False truths are examined and put into perspective. Eternal truths take their rightful place and the locked muscles and tendons start to aid the greater whole."

Robert, Catskills, N Y

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       "As I think back on all my life has given me, I can’t help but want to 
thank you for your graciousness, guidance and friendship. All the 
years your patience and voice was like a light in the wilderness just 
up ahead and shinning bright. My road still has many turns, hills and 
valleys but I can see myself there, taking my time and enjoying the 
ride."

Jenn A,  Nashville, TN

Couples Counseling & Personal Retreat Tributes

Opening my Anorexic Heart

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Women's Harvest Celebration Tributes

       "Harvest for me was the catalyst for my feet to begin to come unbound. I was born again properly:  with singing and dance and celebration, with loving women tending to me, with water and hands anointing me.  The clay pot that bound them was shattered and my feet in freedom are slowly but surely putting down roots, questing for healthy growth.  The color came strongly again to my paintings, the lines are more true to what I know, I began to believe in my visions as an artist that I’ve shied away from.  That is why I keep coming back."

Margarete of the Sun,  N Y

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       "When I returned home I had difficulty describing the experience to anyone because it was beyond words. One thing I could say is that I had changed.  A piece of me had been set free by you, the women of the community and by the sacred land.

One of the many amazing things about the Harvest is how quickly you helped us become a loving and trusting community.  This community became a place of joy, sorrow, and deep listening.  It allowed me to heal in a way that I was incapable of on my own.

Susan, you are one of the most incredible people I have met!  You are able to read a group and each individual in the group and discern what is needed – who needs to be pushed, who needs to be lifted up, where the demons lie.  I know I am in a new place because you and the beautiful women of the harvest gutted some of the ruined parts out of my soul.  I will always be grateful and in awe".

 Peace and blessings.  Ruth, Chicago, IL

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       "You must decide that you are ready to wake up.  Susan will guide you very close to the mirror.  With thought-full intuitive promptings, your true reflection will rise in stark relief to your sleepy self.  She will call your name; will you answer?

Susan is Crystal Digger, Explorer, Mentor, Shaman, Vision Quest Guide, Teacher, Therapist and Friend. She will love you dearly in your wretchedness and she will fiercely challenge your emerging Big Self to grow even bigger.  Your life will never be the same if you decide to 'keep the appointment' and 'show up'.

Susan's depth of knowledge rests on a foundation of educational achievement exceeded only by her own personal experience with the Dark Night of the Soul.  Her successful navigation of that journey informs her work with clients, and gives it a vitality and
authenticity rarely experienced.

Over the last 14 years, I have worked with and know Susan in all the capacities I have

enumerated.  No one, and nothing else, has had a larger impact on my life or my emotional health and well being.  I hold her in the highest regard".

KB Jones
Vashon Island, WA

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       Once again, you – the Circle – “materialized.”  You were with me and held me and let me know I’m not alone. I did not even realize this was what I needed. My work life has been so chaotic, so ruthlessly and continuously demanding, legally and emotionally, that I have felt “in another world,” out of control, and isolated.  Despite good friends and much help from others, I have not trusted myself and have not wanted even to think about this holiday season, much less what it really means. YOU have changed that. ....

Today, when I thought I must be seriously depressed, I decided to use an old “exercise” that always works for me – get quiet and give myself 5 or 10 minutes to just be in (wallow in) whatever it is I’m feeling -- as fully and as intensely as possible. Today was a little different, though. For some reason, I wanted to (and did) drum for a while first. When I finished drumming and put Paula’s beautiful drum down in front of me, I just let the silence surround me.

WOW!!! It happened again!!! What I had experienced one Easter 18 or more years ago (& wrote that Circle about it then), happened again.  Suddenly, I was in the Circle again. Not “inside” as in the middle or center, but rather with everyone – all of us sitting together in  one large circle. (The women who have physically been part of the Circle will understand, I know. Those I’m also writing who have never physically been there but have spiritually, I hope will one day be physically present with us, too.)

Thank you! You calmed me. You held me. You embraced me. You made me know – again – I was/am connected. I saw each and every one of you who has been there with me – your smiles, your tears. What a beautiful sight! How grateful and humble I am. Thank you! Thank you for all you have given these many years, not only to me but to all  of us and more. And thank you for again giving me the strength and connectedness I had not even realized I had lost.

I love you all and pray that somehow, especially at this sacred time, our spirit and love together may somehow be able to add some measure of peace to anyone in need and to this violence-weary world.

You are my hope and my inspiration, and I hope each of you finds the love that you have given me.

Sally,  Raleigh, NC

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Women Long for a Timeless Sisterhood
to Heal Their Souls

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Kiki's Harvest Story

by Christine Park City, Utah

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Vision Quest Tributes

The Story of My Vision Quest

by Elaine C

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Vision Quest

by Peter B , NJ

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Vision Quest Journal 2006

by Maggie Y

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Radical Aliveness Tributes

       I walk down to the ocean, magnetically pulled to a collection of rocks sunbathing in the softness of the ocean. I think of my child, she loves rocks. She loves how they feel so soft. It makes me smile. I go close, I draw closer, with anticipation, invited by the simple beauty of the ocean. Home, my roots, are over there. If I could just just walk on water, I could keep walking, nothing could stop me. But I stop at the pebbles, the edge. My child will smile when I give one to her.

I reach the edge of the ocean, and my pebbles are crabs, washed up to the shore, not rocks at all. The biggest crab glistens in the warm and forgiving sun. look at me, I’m beautiful, I am a part of you, bow to me, don’t cry, it’s not sad, it just IS.
My mind wakes up and I turn him over, to see if he would maybe walk back to the ocean and make the journey for me. But my eyes rest on an empty shell. I look around and there are so many of them. I bring them close together and take a picture....is that so? I’m finished here and I turn away. I leave my sorrow at the edge of the ocean, I can come back to it later.

Is the circle of life a perfect illusion? Or is it the circus of life and I am a trapeze artist? I know I can fly, I can, but will I? Faith, love, me, us, him.....what am I asking? Will I fly? Well of course....I AM.

Some by-passers stop, they see it, too. They look, poke at it with their shoes. Crabs, scattered on the ground. they look at each other and wonder...then shrug...is that so?

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Aging Gracefully (well trying)

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