Endurance isn’t built in comfort - it’s forged in the moments that test your faith, your purpose, and your capacity to keep going. Every practitioner reaches a point where the path feels too heavy, the silence too loud, or the world too harsh. That’s where endurance becomes sacred.
In this episode, Tam shares a story of guidance and reflection that reveals what it truly means to build endurance as a medicine person. She unpacks how endurance protects the softness within us, the compassion, mercy, and gentleness that allow us to keep walking this path without hardening to it.
If you’re ready to develop the strength to keep doing your work without burning out or losing heart, mentoring is where we build that foundation together. Start your weekly mentoring journey here.
What if the reason your message isn’t landing isn’t the method — but the language? As practitioners, our words shape how people experience healing. When we limit our vocabulary to a single worldview, we also limit who we can reach.
In this episode, Tam explores how to adjust your language across belief systems without losing authenticity. She unpacks how understanding the roots of different spiritual and philosophical traditions allows you to find shared meaning — so your teachings translate no matter who’s sitting across from you.
If you’re ready to strengthen your communication, expand your reach, and refine how you connect with clients and students, mentoring is where we do that work. START MENTORING WITH ME
Most people think shadow work is about uncovering the dark parts of ourselves and making peace with them — but for practitioners, it’s much more than that. True shadow integration is how we build the endurance to keep showing up, even when the world mirrors its own shadow back to us.
In this episode, Tam explores how the shadow takes shape, why integration is essential for resilience, and how avoiding the darker layers of the human experience can weaken a healer’s foundation. This isn’t about chasing light or suppressing darkness — it’s about learning to hold both without losing yourself in either.
If you’re ready to strengthen your own resilience and develop the adaptability every practitioner needs, mentoring is where we do that work together. Get started with Weekly or Fortnightly Mentoring Plan.
Severity and mercy may sound like opposites, but for healers, guides, and medicine people they’re two of the most important tools we’ll ever learn to balance. Severity is clarity, discipline, and the willingness to call out what needs to be named. Mercy is compassion, patience, and the ability to hold space with understanding. When we know how to lean into both — and when to shift between them — we build adaptability, resilience, and endurance.
In this episode, I explore what it really means to work with the two pillars of severity and mercy, how they show up in ancient teachings, and how they can shape your practice today. You’ll learn why leaning only on “softness” leaves you unsteady, why real compassion sometimes looks like tough love, and how balancing the two pillars protects your energy while serving your clients more deeply.
If you’re ready to strengthen these skills in your own practice and learn how to apply them with confidence, this is exactly what I help practitioners with inside my mentoring plans. You can find out more and sign up through my website.
It’s easy to compare your gifts or practice to others and end up doubting yourself. In this episode, we explore how comparison pulls you away from authenticity, and how tools like self-study and reflection can bring you back to your own voice. Learn how to turn comparison into a doorway for self-discovery instead of self-sabotage.
About Tam Dillon
Tam Dillon is a mentor, teacher, and intuitive practitioner dedicated to supporting healing practitioners, space-holders, and naturally gifted individuals in refining their craft and building sustainable practices. Drawing on decades of lived experience, Tam blends practical guidance with deep spiritual insight to help others navigate their own self-work, professional challenges, and spiritual callings. Through mentoring, tarot readings, courses, and resources, Tam helps practitioners strengthen their skills, protect their energy, and step into their work with clarity and confidence.
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If this episode resonates and you’d like to explore how I can support you in your own practice, you can book a free clarity call here: https://tidycal.com/tamdillon/compatibility-call
✨ Feeling the call isn’t always clear — sometimes it shakes everything up before it settles into purpose.
Feeling a deep spiritual call can be exciting, confusing, and even overwhelming. Do you have to become a practitioner? Are you meant to do something bigger, or simply live differently?
In this episode, we explore the experience of being called — why it often comes with disruption, and how to discern what’s really being asked of you right now without rushing into answers.
About Tam Dillon 🌈
Tam Dillon is a mentor, teacher, and intuitive practitioner dedicated to supporting healing practitioners, space-holders, and naturally gifted individuals in refining their craft and building sustainable practices. Drawing on decades of lived experience, Tam blends practical guidance with deep spiritual insight to help others navigate their own self-work, professional challenges, and spiritual callings. Through mentoring, tarot readings, courses, and resources, Tam helps practitioners strengthen their skills, protect their energy, and step into their work with clarity and confidence.
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If this episode resonates and you’d like support in exploring your own calling, my mentoring is designed to help gifted people ground their path with clarity and confidence. Learn more here
Burnout and fatigue are common in active service, yet many practitioners feel guilty for needing rest. In this episode, we look at why exhaustion shows up, how guilt feeds the cycle, and how rest can be reframed as a natural part of sustainable practice. Learn simple ways to honor your rhythm without shame so you can keep showing up fully in your work.
About Tam Dillon
Tam Dillon is a mentor, teacher, and intuitive practitioner dedicated to supporting healing practitioners, space-holders, and naturally gifted individuals in refining their craft and building sustainable practices. Drawing on decades of lived experience, Tam blends practical guidance with deep spiritual insight to help others navigate their own self-work, professional challenges, and spiritual callings. Through mentoring, tarot readings, courses, and resources, Tam helps practitioners strengthen their skills, protect their energy, and step into their work with clarity and confidence.
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If this episode resonates and you’d like to explore how I can support you in your own practice, you can book a free clarity call here: https://tidycal.com/tamdillon/compatibility-call
Spiritual gifts don’t always feel like blessings — sometimes they feel heavy, confusing, or even overwhelming. In this episode, we explore why sensitivity, intuition, and visions can feel like burdens, and how to shift that perspective. Learn how to relate to your gifts in a way that brings clarity and balance, instead of carrying them as weight.About Tam Dillon
Tam Dillon is a mentor, teacher, and intuitive practitioner dedicated to supporting healing practitioners, space-holders, and naturally gifted individuals in refining their craft and building sustainable practices. Drawing on decades of lived experience, Tam blends practical guidance with deep spiritual insight to help others navigate their own self-work, professional challenges, and spiritual callings. Through mentoring, tarot readings, courses, and resources, Tam helps practitioners strengthen their skills, protect their energy, and step into their work with clarity and confidence.
Work with Me
If this episode resonates and you’d like to explore how I can support you in your own practice, you can book a free clarity call here: https://tidycal.com/tamdillon/compatibility-call
Periods of change can leave practitioners questioning their path — no clients, shifting modalities, or a sudden loss of direction. In this episode, we explore how resilience and adaptability become essential tools for navigating these seasons. Learn how to reframe instability, release victim-thinking, and see change as a necessary part of growth so your work stays alive and evolving.
About Tam Dillon
Tam Dillon is a mentor, teacher, and intuitive practitioner dedicated to supporting healing practitioners, space-holders, and naturally gifted individuals in refining their craft and building sustainable practices. Drawing on decades of lived experience, Tam blends practical guidance with deep spiritual insight to help others navigate their own self-work, professional challenges, and spiritual callings. Through mentoring, tarot readings, courses, and resources, Tam helps practitioners strengthen their skills, protect their energy, and step into their work with clarity and confidence.
Work with MeIf this episode resonates and you’d like to explore how I can support you in your own practice, you can book a free clarity call here: https://tidycal.com/tamdillon/compatibility-call
Caring for your clients is essential — but when caring turns into carrying, you risk stepping into patterns like codependence and enabling. In this episode, we’ll look at how these dynamics can quietly undermine both your wellbeing and your client’s growth, and why the practice of non-attachment is one of the most loving boundaries you can hold as a practitioner.
I’ll share how non-attachment allows you to stay compassionate without taking on responsibility for someone else’s healing, and how it keeps your work clean, ethical, and sustainable. You’ll also learn simple ways to start applying this practice in your sessions.
Mentioned in this episode: Essential Terminology for Practitioners — my reference guide for understanding the skills, session dynamics, and industry language that shape our work.
Unconditional positive regard is one of the most challenging skills to truly master — yet it’s also one of the most essential for meaningful healing and transformation. In this episode, I break down what it really means to hold space for someone with full acceptance, no judgment, and no conditions, even when their views or choices differ from your own.
Drawing from Carl Rogers’ core competencies, as well as my own experience refining this skill, we’ll explore why unconditional positive regard is so powerful, how to recognise when it’s missing, and practical ways to start cultivating it in your own work.
Mentioned in this episode: Core Competencies for Practitioners — my course on developing the key skills every practitioner needs to hold space effectively and sustainably.
As practitioners, the words we use can either build trust and clarity — or create confusion and distance without us even realizing it. In this episode, I share my own experience of working without certain key vocabulary in my early days, and how finally learning the right terms transformed how I worked.
We’ll explore why having the language for your skills, the dynamics that happen in sessions, and the common terms used in our industry matters so much — not just for you, but for your clients. You’ll learn how the right words can help you refine your practice, set better boundaries, and communicate more effectively with people from all walks of life.
Mentioned in this episode: Essential Terminology A Reference Book For Practitioners — my reference guide for core competencies, session dynamics, and industry terms, designed to help you work with more confidence and clarity.
What happens when you’re called to this work but no one ever showed you how to hold it?
In this episode, I explore what it means to walk the path of a healer, guide, or space holder without the elders, structure, or ritual that would have once shaped and supported us. We talk about the cost of carrying roles we were never initiated into, the quiet grief of navigating without guidance, and the pressure to hold more than any one person should.
I also offer a Yogic lens on tapas—the discipline of steady, self-led practice—and how it can support us in rebuilding rhythm when there’s no framework to lean on. When no one names us, no one guides us, and no one holds us accountable, tapas becomes the fire we tend to stay close to what’s real.
This is an honest reflection on the path we’re walking now—without performance, without permission, and without pretending it’s easy.
If you're walking the path of a healer, teacher, or guide—especially without formal initiation, mentorship, or lineage—this question matters: Why do you want to help others?
In this episode, I explore the deeper motivations behind our desire to hold space and offer support. Not to shame or question the impulse to serve, but to get honest about what's really driving it. Because without elders to check our readiness or shape our path, we have to learn how to do that for ourselves.
This is a conversation about calling, compensation, emotional entanglement, and the quiet responsibility of knowing you’re here to serve—but needing to do it from a place of clarity, not performance.
We start with the question that sits beneath all the others: for what purpose are you doing this work?1
In this episode, we’re breaking down the misconception that structure limits flow. For healing practitioners, structure isn’t about rigidity—it’s about creating safety, clarity, and sustainability in your work. Without a clear framework, even the most gifted space holders can end up overwhelmed, inconsistent, or energetically depleted. We’ll explore why structure is essential for intuitive work, how it supports client safety and your own wellbeing, and what core elements should be in place for any practitioner offering space to others. Whether you're just starting out or refining your existing practice, this conversation offers grounded insight into why structure is a vital part of doing this work well.
Many practitioners focus on tools, techniques, and certifications, but overlook the foundational competencies that make healing work truly effective and ethical. In this episode, we unpack what core competencies actually are, why they matter, and how neglecting them can quietly undermine both your clients and your practice. From boundaries and communication to emotional regulation and self-awareness, we’ll explore the less glamorous but essential skills that hold space safely. Whether you’re new to the work or well into your practice, this conversation is a reminder that strong foundations aren’t optional - they’re what make real service possible.
In this episode, we're unpacking a difficult but necessary conversation: when does niche marketing in the healing space become a form of quiet exclusion? As we move through Pride Month and approach Juneteenth, this episode invites practitioners to examine how unconscious bias can shape who they serve - and who they unintentionally shut out. We’ll explore how spiritual preferences can turn into prejudice, why ethical practice means being able to hold space for anyone seeking healing, and what it really means to be inclusive in your work.
This one isn’t about shame - it’s about honesty, accountability and doing better.
In this episode, I speak openly about the shift in my work and why I’m now focusing exclusively on mentoring practitioners - those called to hold space for others, but who often neglect the depth of work required within themselves. We explore the saturation of the healing industry with individuals who have not done the work, and how this affects the quality and integrity of spiritual and healing spaces. I reflect on the difference between genuine practitioners and those who saw a market opportunity and I speak directly to those who know they were born for this path but need the right support to walk it well. This episode is an invitation to pause, to reassess, and to begin again with clarity, groundedness and a renewed sense of purpose.
Tarot isn't just a tool for insight- it's a path of self-development. In this episode, I explore how to work with the cards beyond traditional readings, using individual archetypes, court personalities, and card lessons to deepen self-awareness and personal growth. Whether you're just beginning your Tarot journey or have been reading for years, this approach invites you to engage with the cards as mirrors and mentors.
The Art of Tarot guidebook - designed to support this kind of reflective practice - releases this weekend. Find out how it can become part of your personal development path.
In this episode, we explore the Lovers card as a powerful turning point on the journey of self-development. Far beyond romance, the Lovers represents the sacred act of choosing who you are - your values, your beliefs, and the path you’re willing to walk. We look at how this conscious definition of self lays the groundwork for deeper alignment, supported by the Chariot’s disciplined action and the quiet resilience of Strength. This is where self-awareness moves from theory into practice - and where the real journey begins.
