About Me
Welcome! I'm Stephanie Chaisson, writer, spiritual teacher, and creator of The Mindful Balance Toolkit. What began as a resource for healing and resilience has evolved into an exploration of intuition, embodiment, personal sovereignty, and self-belonging. Here you'll find reflections, tools, and insights to help you trust yourself more deeply and create a life that feels authentically your own.
My Journey
Originally from Maine and currently rooted in the high desert of New Mexico, I am a writer, spiritual teacher, oracle, mother, and lifelong student of what it means to live authentically.
My work lives at the intersection of healing, spirituality, intuition, embodiment, and personal sovereignty. I am fascinated by the ways we lose ourselves, find ourselves, and remember who we are beneath conditioning and expectation. Through writing, spiritual practice, and lived experience, I explore what helps us cultivate self-trust, reclaim inner authority, and create lives that feel aligned and meaningful.
My path has not been linear. I’ve navigated chronic illness, life transitions, loss, trauma recovery, spiritual awakening, motherhood, and the ongoing process of rebuilding a life that reflects my values and desires rather than my fears. These experiences inform my perspective, but they do not define it. Today, I am more interested in living than fixing, creating than proving, and belonging to myself than seeking permission
from others.
The Mindful Balance Toolkit is an extension of this journey. Here you’ll find stories, reflections, spiritual
insights, and practical tools drawn from years of study and personal exploration. This space is rooted in
curiosity about what helps us become more fully ourselves.
When I’m not writing or teaching, you’ll likely find me channeling spirit, on hiking trails, exploring new
places, reading more books than I can finish at once, spending time with my son, talking to my cats like
they understand my every word, or noticing the quiet magic in ordinary moments.
My spiritual path has unfolded through intuition, channeling, clairvoyant insight, and a long relationship
with the unseen dimensions of experience. I receive guidance through symbols, dreams, energetic
impressions, and inner knowing. My work bridges the mystical and the practical, supporting people as they
explore intuition, transformation, and self-trust while staying grounded in their own discernment.
Many people arrive here seeking a deeper understanding of themselves. What I offer is not a set of answers,
but a mirror, a perspective, and an invitation to trust the wisdom already within them.
I believe healing matters. I also believe we are here to do more than heal. We are here to create, connect,
experience joy and pleasure, trust our inner knowing, and fully inhabit our lives. My hope is that something
you find here helps you remember what you already know within yourself.
If you'd like to know me beyond this biography, I invite you to read my writing. My blog is where my life,
perspective, and spiritual journey unfold in real time. Through stories, reflections, and lived experience,
you’ll meet the questions I’m asking, the truths I’m exploring, and the ways I continue becoming who I am.
In many ways, my writing is the most complete introduction I can offer. It reveals what I believe, how I
think, how I listen, how I move through the world, and how I meet life as it unfolds.
On My Bookshelf
“Want to get to know me better? There’s something tender about what we choose to bring into our homes and lives. What’s in my cabinets says a lot about me. These are things I use, love and recommend. My go-to’s and wonderfully weird obsessions. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for supporting the work that I do.”