BEFRIENDING THE SOUL
Dreamwell, Ink is a honey flow of writing for fellow dreamers, women of words, medicine makers, spirit aficionados, lovers of soma, HSP’s + empaths, sisters of witch, soul-led thinkers, jungian junkies, meditators, wild creaturas calling ourselves home, and anyone curious in adventures with the eternal Self….
WHO AM I?
Hi! I’m Cadie Selah and I’m so glad you are here.
I am an alchemical healer-coach… licensed acupuncturist, shamanic practitioner, and women’s soul guide. I am a maker, a cook, a poet, a dreamer, and dancer. I currently reside in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with my beloved partner.
I am devoted to the journey of remembering. A return to a more yin-led and animist way of life that supports all life on Earth. I am a space holder and mentor for women making the descent to the inner work (what I call integrative soulwork*).
My primary focus is on building bridges in women’s medicine to cover all aspects of our beingness. I am an apprentice to cross-cultural wisdom and contemporary insights into embodied transformation, life dream & dream life development, and the sacred act of becoming “real human beings”.
My journey began with a question: What is this “love” thing everyone is talkin’ about, huh? I want to know more about love.
Self-love, love for the world, love with one other, making contact with soul, and an embodied mystical attitude towards life are key themes that guide my heart.
*INTEGRATIVE SOULWORK:: An inverted paradigm from status quo, we journey into our inner landscapes + build our transformational skill set, so that we can effectively be in relationship with what we encounter along the way.
TO DREAM WELL IS TO LIVE WELL
The spiritual and living symbol of the well is a portal that sources our vital life force energy into the Earth and nourishes us with the life giving Water, the spiritual and soulful nutrients we all need to feel truly satiated in this “one wild and precious life.”
When we have so many distractions, when we are immersed in a culture focused on productivity, task, money, efficiency, self-doubt, work and taking, this space is a tether to the sacred, to an ancient and future lifeway that has roots in slow, mystical, body-as-temple.
To remind us of the fertile richness of our internal world, of the darkness where we find what we truly desire, and the Great Mother Goddess traditions that hold us in a fine mesh cradle of love - singing our souls home, dancing our dreams out into the world.
When we tap into the oracular flow, into the honey voice tinged with the blood, sweat and tears it takes to truly access our deepest selves, our highest selves and potential, we create our lives from the inside out, WE LEAD WITH OUR SOUL, and we remember our true nature.
Grateful for this substack community. If this resonates, please say hi and let me know what you are up to.
If you are curious about courses, community, or working with me one-on-one, you can always visit my website!
Dreamwell, Ink. is a wing of Hawk & Rose Mystery School - a life dream and dream life incubator for women remembering how to access and LIVE the feminine frequency - an embodied, sensual-somatic, ritually guided, intuitive, eros-led and creative vibration- that is also integrative.
Some CV action…
University of Florida - Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science (2001-2005)
University of Washington - Master’s Program in International Forestry (incomplete 206-2007)
Master’s of Science in Oriental Medicine from National University of Natural medicine (2009-2013)
Sundust Oracle Institute - Certified Shamanic Practitioner (2008-2011, current)
Tantric Rose Mystery School - Kundalini Dance Facilitator (2019)
Somatics & Trauma informed trainings with Acupuncturists without Borders and Tara Approach
Flower Essence Practitioner Training with Sara Crow (2016)
Women’s health & OBGYN Chinese Medicine trainings and continuing education
Somatic Writing with the Ancestors with Tanya Rubenstein (2023)
Embodied Boundaries with Damien Bohler
Mentorship & Leadership Program - Sundust Oracle Institute (2012, 2015, 2023-2024, 2024-2025)
Alchemy Learning Center - Alchemical Acupuncture Studies with Leta Herman & Jay Elroy, (2025)
The Immortal College - Battlemagick & Red Work ((2024-present)
Some weird and fun facts about me:
I’m a Gemini sun, Libra moon, and Cancer rising. My Chiron is conjunct my sun and mars!
I’m a 1 / 3 MG.
My favorite places to visit are by the ocean.
I’ve been sailing through the Columbia River Bar.
I solo traveled through Australia and New Zealand when I was 20. I found my path when on Lago Atitlan, Guatemala when I was 24.
Some of my ancestors are Lakota, German, English, Scottish, Slovenian, Russian and Polish!
Ive been gluten free for 15 years!
I take cream in my coffee and I prefer a stove-top percolator, but I also really love tea, especially gong fu style puerh.
My favorite novel is Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
My favorite novel in my 20’s was: Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
My favorite book as a teenager: Virus Hunters of the CDC
My favorite book as a child was: Because A Little Bug Went K-Choo
