Exploring Life & Business with Terri-Ann Russell of Sassy Soul Healing

Today we’d like to introduce you to Terri-Ann Russell.

Hi Terri-Ann, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
Absolutely.
My story began long ago and way longer than before I ever stepped into the healing arts professionally. Like many healers, my path was created through some of the deepest initiations of my life domestic violence, an ill child, loss and grief, and the search for meaning beyond the physical world. I’ve always been intuitive, but I didn’t fully understand the depth of that gift or what it meant, especially as a child. It scared me and grew up with a lot of limiting beleifs and fears around it. The passing of my son, Anthony Joseph opened a doorway, a portal, if you will to the deeply buried parts of myself. It forced me to slow down, to listen, and to reconnect with my soul and my son on a level I had never accessed before.

I was already a Reiki Master Teacher. I trained and was certified after many years in Usui, Karuna, and Lightarian Reiki. I fell in love with something that my soul longed for. My first attunement felt like remembering something ancient within myself. Reiki helped me heal energetically, but it also prepared me for what was to come. From there, I continued to train, practice, and eventually learn everything from hypnotherapy, to Theta healing, to Yoga Nidra. Part of my purpose is to help others return to their own inner light.

As I worked with more clients, I realized their struggles went beyond the physical or energetic. They were carrying stories, patterns, and subconscious imprints that needed to be witnessed and transformed. That’s when I was called to spiritual hypnosis. It felt like the missing link. Through hypnotherapy and Soul Passages work, I found a way to help people access their higher self, their inner guidance, and the deeper layers of their soul’s journey. Witnessing someone meet their own soul with clarity and truth is one of the most sacred experiences I’ve ever been part of.

Over time, these modalities blended into the work I do now. All of my work encompasses in one way or another some sort of spiritual healing, intuitive guidance, grief support, Reiki training, and hypnosis sessions. What started as my own healing transformed into a mission: to hold space for others as they navigate their own awakenings, their losses, their rebirths, and their return to self.

Today, I’m a healer, teacher, spiritual activator, podcast host, and published author but at the core, I’m just someone who believes in the power of the human spirit to rise again. Like a phoenix, we are built to burn, shed, and rise. My work is simply helping people remember that.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Some of my deepest struggles were also my greatest initiations and they reshaped me in ways I never could have imagined. For years, I carried the weight of expectations, the pressure to be strong, and the silent ache of trying to hold a life together while my own inner world was unraveling. I faced heartbreak, identity loss, and the kind of soul-level exhaustion that comes from living disconnected from your own truth.

But the greatest fracture, the one that broke me open completely, was the loss of my son, Anthony Joseph. There’s no manual for navigating that kind of pain. It takes the breath out of your body. It rearranged my entire being. I went through numbness, anger, grief that felt like my heart was ripped from my chest. There were moments where I questioned everything about myself, my purpose, and even my faith. As a mother, that kind of loss becomes a before-and-after moment. A part of me died with him, and another part was slowly, painfully reborn into who I am today.

My healing wasn’t linear.
It came in waves. It came through breaking open, surrendering, listening. It came through the rituals I created to survive each day; it came through breathwork, meditation, journaling, and spiritual practices that became my lifeline for me. Also the ability to connect with my son, now in spirit. I could see, feel, and hear him everywhere. He would come to me in my dreams and to date, I have had 56 dream visits in the last 6 years.

There were days when rising felt impossible. But the feminine within me, the intuitive, the healer, the mother, the wise woman, refused to be extinguished. She kept reaching for the light even when I was surrounded by ash. She continued on. I had my son by my side but in a new and different way, I had to learn a whole new way of living and being who I am now.

The shift happened when I stopped trying to escape my pain and instead chose to meet it.
Grief became my teacher.
Rage became a doorway to truth.
Silence became a sanctuary.
When I allowed myself to be fully human, fully vulnerable, and fully present with everything I felt, something softened. Something sacred opened. I stopped surviving and began transforming.

Slowly, I began to reclaim myself and piece by piece, breath by breath, I would have to learn through this un-layering who my soul was and who she contracted to be while here as Terri-Ann. Reiki reconnected me to life force. Hypnosis reconnected me to my soul. Grief work reconnected me to compassion. And over time, I learned that even in the darkest chapters, there is light. A broken heart can find the light once again.

Today, my work is a reflection of that journey. I guide others the way I once guided myself: gently, spiritually, and with reverence for the beauty that can emerge from even the heaviest of seasons. My healing became my calling. My grief became my medicine. And my rebirth became my mission

We’ve been impressed with Sassy Soul Healing, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Sassy Soul Healing- Came to me through channeled guidance from my higher self. My business and my podcast, Sacred wellness with Terri-Ann Russell reflects the heartbeat of my work. It’s where I get to show up raw, honest, and spiritually grounded to have the conversations most people are afraid to have. My episodes are meant to feel like a sacred circle: intimate, nourishing, and activating and share the experience of life, love and loss finding the balance in our everyday lives.

I specialize in helping women reclaim their power after loss, trauma, or major life transitions. Through Reiki, spiritual hypnosis, soul communication, grief work, and intuitive coaching, I guide them back to their truth, their voice, and their inner wisdom. What I’m most known for is the depth of my work. I don’t just skim the surface, I help people explore the soul-level layers that many avoid, but that are essential for true transformation.

What sets me apart… The way that I blend intuition, spirituality, and healing with lived experience.
I’m not teaching from theory, I’m teaching from the ashes I’ve risen from, from the initiations I’ve walked through.
Losing my son transformed my understanding of life, death, and the soul. Becoming a healer and death doula deepened my understanding of presence, compassion, and the unseen realms. Everything I offer carries that depth, that reverence, and that authenticity.

Another thing that sets me apart is that I don’t believe in “performative spirituality.” I believe in embodied spirituality. This means grounding the mystical into everyday life, helping women navigate awakenings without losing themselves, and guiding them through darkness without bypassing the truth of what they feel.

Brand-wise, I’m most proud of the community and the safe space I’ve created.
Sacred Wellness isn’t a business; it’s a sanctuary. It’s a place where women feel seen, held, validated, and activated. Whether they come to me for Reiki training, a Soul Passages session, a grief workshop, or spiritual coaching, they’re stepping into a space that honors every part of them, mind, body, soul, and spirit.

What I want readers to know is this:
My brand is built on truth, transformation, and deep spiritual connection. It is authentic, transparent and a vulnerable and safe space to share your deepest and intimate self.

My offerings are designed to help you understand who you’ve been, who you are now, and who you’re becoming.

I offer:

Soul Passages Sessions (spiritual hypnosis + higher self communication)

Reiki trainings (attunements, certification, and a 21-day self-care initiation)

Grief and awakening workshops

1:1 healing and intuitive sessions

The Sacred Wellness Podcast, where I share wisdom, tools, and stories from my own journey

Virtual healing summits and women’s circles focused on voice, empowerment, and rebirth

Sacred Wellness is more than a brand—it’s a remembrance. A call back home to yourself. A guided journey into healing, truth, and awakening.

How do you think about happiness?
What makes me happy now is the simplicity of being present. Being fully, deeply, intentionally, emotionally and physically present. After everything I’ve lived through, joy looks different to me. It’s quieter, more sacred, more embodied.

I find happiness in my spiritual work. I love guiding someone through a breakthrough, witnessing a soul reconnect with itself, holding space for healing that feels almost divine. That fills me in a way nothing else ever has, because it’s purpose-driven. It feels like what I came here to do.

Pricing:

• 135.00 Soul Integration and alignment
• 200.00 Hypnotherapy session
• 100.00 Reiki session
• Yoga Nidra and Reiki 135.
• 150.00 Dna activation and restructure

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/TerriAnnRussell
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sassysoulhealing
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sassysoulhealing
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@terri-annrussell9547