By: Ethan Lee

Birgitta Visser is a Soul Empowerment Coach and Divine Channel who tunes into higher frequencies and shares messages from what she describes as Light Beings and Master Teachers. Through her Light Language Healing practice, she works with light codes as part of her approach to supporting those seeking alignment with their soul’s purpose. Having overcome significant abuse and trauma, Birgitta has emerged out of the darkness into the light of self-love and spiritual awakening, embodying authenticity and truth in both her life and her work. She shares her wisdom and insights, guiding others on their own journeys toward empowerment and enlightenment.

Birgitta is the co-author of several motivational works, including “Become Empowered: Echoes of Grace and Strength,” “I’m So Glad You Left Me,” “Divine Rebirth,” and “Miracles are Normal.” Each of these books serves as a beacon of hope and empowerment, encouraging readers to embrace their own journeys of transformation. She also penned “BE-com-ing Authentically Me,” (currently being re-edited), a deeply personal reflection on her own path from darkness to light, showing her resilience and growth. Her most recent work, “Child of the Sun: Enroute to Enlightenment in India,” takes readers on a journey at the Art of Living Center with various meditation practices set against the rich backdrop of India.

Q. What led you to become a Soul Empowerment Coach?

Birgitta Visser: People often ask me what led me to this work. They see the title ‘Soul Empowerment Coach’ and imagine my life as a carefully mapped out course. The truth is far less pristine. I didn’t find my calling on a mountaintop; I mined it from the deepest, darkest shit of my own personal hell. I signed up for this life and these experiences, so I had to wade through the thick of it all since childhood.

I suffered from childhood abuse by a friend of the family, the profound loss of my father and stepfather, the relentless bullying that followed me from high school hallways into professional workplaces, and an assault in the superficial, often cruel world of modeling. I sought solace in all the wrong places, a short stint with drugs, a series of profoundly dysfunctional relationships, all while starving myself, trying to vanish under the weight of my own inner demons. I was, for a very long time, simply walking through Dante’s Inferno, feeling the heat constantly burning my arse, whichever way I turned.

I soldiered on, building a life that looked functional on the outside while I was utterly broken within. I held down jobs across the world, a master of masking the pain. But you can only outrun your demons for so long. The turning point came when I realized I had two choices: let the flames consume me completely, or learn how to walk through the fire and use its heat to forge something new.

I chose the forge, healing and rising from the ashes like a phoenix reborn.

That journey through the crap, through every circle of that hell, wasn’t a detour; it was the essential training ground. As the ancient proverb goes, “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

My wounds became my windows. I learned to sit with the darkest parts of my own soul, to listen to their stories without judgment, and to finally offer them the compassion they had always deserved. In doing so, I found an incredible truth: our deepest pains, when fully integrated, become our greatest sources of power and empathy.

Ultimately if we want change, we need to stop deflecting, and start reflecting, taking responsibility for our lives. It does not matter how many tomatoes life throws at you, the key is to uncondition the conditioned self, to hug it out with yourself and to love yourself, because if you don’t love yourself how can you heal yourself? And if you don’t heal yourself, or forgive yourself how can you ever truly love all aspects of yourself, returning to the wholesome nature of who you most authentically are, living a life fulfilled?

I became a coach and light language healer not in spite of my trauma, but because of it. I am not a guide who has merely studied the maps; I am a fellow earthly traveler who has walked the entire path. I know the terrain of despair intimately, and I know the precise, often counterintuitive, steps it takes to climb out.

My purpose is no longer to escape my past, but to use its lessons to hold a lantern for others. Experiences are not meant to taunt us, but to help us shake our programming understanding of what life is all about and return to the gentle warm embrace of loving ourselves. To show them that their hell is not a life sentence, but a refiner’s fire. To prove that the very experiences that make you feel broken are the raw materials for building an unshakable, empowered soul. The fire that once threatened to destroy me now fuels my mission: to help others find their own light, rising from their ashes, unequivocally empowered.

Q. Why are people coming to you today?

Birgitta Visser: People come to me because they’re tired, tired of the pain, their crap, the endless loop of suffering that keeps them stuck, in an eternal Groundhog Day. They’re exhausted from wearing masks, from pretending everything’s fine when, beneath the surface, they’re drowning in unresolved trauma, burnout, and the suffocating weight of their own unmet expectations.

But here’s the truth: healing isn’t about erasing the past, it’s about alchemizing it.

Too often, we bury our trauma under layers of superficial distractions, endless scrolling, people-pleasing, numbing, and ego-driven stories of why we can’t move forward. But real change begins when we stop blaming the world and start examining ourselves. It begins when we self-reflect rather than just thinking, we have to vibe out those positive vibes to make ourselves feel better.

That’s not how energy works.

“People don’t heal by pretending the darkness doesn’t exist,” I often say. “They heal by sitting with it, by acknowledging the wounds instead of dressing them up in denial.”

Self-reflection is the gateway. But not the kind where you replay your pain like a broken record (rumination). No. Solution-focused reflection, the kind that asks: “What is this pain trying to teach me? Where have I given away my power? How have I contributed to my own suffering?”

Not everyone resonates with energy healing, but those who do come to it often feel ready for a different kind of inner work. Light Language Frequency healing, for those drawn to it, is a contemplative practice rooted in sound, frequency, and intention. It can offer a reflective space for self-exploration, and integration, alongside whatever other forms of support a person chooses, remains an essential part of any personal journey.

Let’s be real: No one is coming to save you. Not your partner, not your therapist, and certainly not some quick-fix spiritual bypassing. Healing is your work, so stop waiting for some fairy godmother to waive her magic wand to make it all better.

“People want their pain erased, but how will you ever grow if you refuse to walk through the fire?” I ask. “Your demons aren’t here to destroy you, they’re here to be healed.”

So many of us are walking around emotionally dependent, begging for scraps of validation from others, lovers, friends, social media likes. We think: If they just loved me more, I’d be whole. Wrong.

“You cannot outsource your self-worth,” I remind clients. “The moment you hand someone else the keys to your happiness, you become a prisoner in your own life.”

Healing means taking responsibility, not just for your trauma, but for your awakening. It’s realizing: You are not a victim of your past, but a creator of your future.

The clients who thrive are the ones who keep going, who don’t just receive a healing session and call it a day, but who integrate the shifts. They journal. They meditate. They set boundaries. They stop abandoning themselves.

Because true healing isn’t a destination, it’s a revolution to the evolution of your own soul.

And if you’re ready to start yours? I’ll see you on the other side of fear.

“The moment you stop outsourcing your worth is the moment your real life begins.”

Q. Your new book, “Child of the Sun: Enroute to Enlightenment in India,” speaks to many readers. Why is this book resonating with people?

Birgitta Visser: In a world drowning in superficiality, where social media feeds are curated highlight reels, where burnout is worn like a badge of honor, and where loneliness thrives despite constant digital connection, people are starving for truth. Not the kind of truth spouted in self-help clichés or the empty promises of quick fixes, but the raw, unfiltered truth that comes only when you strip away the layers of ego, victimhood, and self-deception.

That is why Child of the Sun is finding its way into the hands of seekers worldwide. And trust me, this has taken me over a year to get this in front of audiences, which has been a journey in itself!

Learn more at www.powersoulhealing.com.