Hi, I’m Heather Rutishauser.

The spiritual path is not one I chose or saw modeled in my family, but rather one that was thrust onto me completely unexpectedly. I was born a girl always rooted in logic, with a deep passion for art. I went to college to receive a degree in digital media & design, and then began working in broadcast news as a videographer.

Then in 2023—5 years after the death of my mom—I began to receive signs that made me question the seemingly random nature of the universe. Synchronistic events began happening that were so orchestrated, even my usually skeptical mind could not deny a divine hand in the order of things. I began following these signs and suddenly a new path—the one my soul was always calling me toward but that I could never predict—opened itself up to me. Click Break Free in the main website navigation to read my published memoir about this transformative period in my life, and allow it to reflect back your own path.

My life has been characterized by deep mental pain and immense loss. Growing up I was constantly outcasted and shadowed with a deep loneliness. I then experienced sexual abuse when I was 17, and my mom passed away a year later—three weeks into my start of college. I spent years drowning in my mind, labeled with depression & anxiety, until at 22 I finally discovered I was neurodivergent (autistic + adhd, although I prefer the term neurodivergent, because I believe these neurotypes are inherently spiritual in nature, and this term lives outside of the Western pathology paradigm). At that time I was navigating my first job after college, and yet my neurodivergent burnout from the corporate space became so debilitating I had no choice but to leave that job, with my entire life suddenly becoming one big question mark.

It was around that time that my spiritual path emerged, and so did a doorway to alchemizing all of this suffering into wisdom, no matter how long or difficult. So I began coaching and guiding others. There are many coaches out there these days, and so I want to clearly state that this was not a logical or financial decision, but rather a deep-rooted calling that I began to uncover. When my spiritual journey began, I started unlocking the keys to alchemizing my suffering, I started seeing the patterns of the universe and learning how to use them to guide my path, and I had seen darkness so difficult that all I wanted to do was share these things so that no one else would have to go to the depth of hell that I had already been.

Since then I’ve had a strong commitment to myself to always do the difficult things to follow my path of highest potential, confront every fear, transmute every shadow, break every karmic chain, and not just for myself, but because I knew in doing so I would be able to return with the medicine for those I am meant to be of service for.

This has led me posting online despite deep-seated visibility wounds to build an 100k+ online community, traveling globally as a solo female traveler solely based on intuition for two years despite crippling anxiety in my past, deep and painful body work to clear my energy field of past trauma, trainings in numerous disciplines such as Vipassana meditation, with a total of 80 hours of meditation in a 10 day period, etc. I am not one to do anything halfway, and I bring that energy to every single thing that I do, which translates to the numerous fields that I work within.

Within my journey I also unlocked my psychic gifts—not by random, but intention, in a framework I now teach to others. I provide readings, and bring this gift into my 1:1 work as well. Currently my available readings are in the form of poetic prophecies, reflecting my deep love for writing and poetry as an art form merged with spiritual guidance. Click Prophecies in the main website navigation to learn more about receiving a reading.

I had thought the darkness in my journey was over, but God was not done with me yet. Near the end of 2024 I began struggling with chronic illness, and by fall of 2025 it became so severe that I had to stop working, move in with others, and at the height of it, I was completely bedbound, unable to sit up or stand for long periods of time, and had one night where my body felt like it was giving up and I believed I was about to die. I begged God (in a non-religious frame) to let me live and give me a path out of this and I would listen.

Within two weeks, I began receiving psychic information on shamanic magic and energy work to begin to heal myself. This not only allowed me to recover from this illness, but it also heightened my psychic gifts a thousand fold and attuned me to further shamanic work, including intuitive energy work, spell work, soul retrieval, entity clearing, etc. I was in awe at how my reality began to shift so rapidly, until I came to learn that in native traditions this is the initiation of a shaman, referred to as being “struck by lightning”—a direct call from the spirit world for a path of service after a severe transformational life event.

Although my name is Heather, I bring you the offerings of my brand under my soul’s name, Athena. It is her who was resurrected, that night I made peace with imminent death. I return from that experience with a deep reverence for the wisdom of that now darkest time in my life, and an even deeper call to use this miracle that was granted me to guide others.

All of this various life experience informs who I am as a practitioner. You can click Mentorship in the main website navigation to apply for one of my few 1:1 mentorship spots, but only if you’re truly ready to radically shift.