Spiritual Guide, Giselle La Pompe-Moore—Creating Your Best Through Rituals for Healing
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Interview by: Alana Eastling
Editor: Jeni Fjelstad
Creative Direction: Catie Menke
“I invite you to rub your hands together, paying attention to the warmth and energy in your palms,” she said. I continued this for a few moments. “Then, slowly pull your hands apart and feel the space that you’ve created.” In those moments, I knew I had found home.
Giselle La Pompe-Moore led this exercise in Dive in Well’s Integrating the Four Bodies workshop last spring. With grace, she guided several practices to connect the intuition of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies.
Giselle is a London-based spiritual guide, writer, space-holder, and author. Her work is grounded in her many healing certifications: Reiki, trauma-informed meditation, and Akashic studies. Giselle describes her craft as a witnessing, holding, and prompting of others to tap into their authenticity and wholeness, returning back to You.
Image by: Giselle La Pompe-Moore.
“[It’s] a place to be open to discovering what am I carrying that is in the way of me seeing my greater purpose, power, and potential,” she said.
Her offerings range from tarot readings, one-on-one sessions, group workshops, and her recently published book Take It In: Do the Inner Work. Create Your Best Damn Life. Giselle’s mission is to help people of all backgrounds to move through the turmoil and beauty of life with the tool of spirituality.
Giselle’s first practice in discovering the power of a mind-body connection was meditation. Living in New York in her early twenties, she felt the stresses of her dynamic career and fast-paced lifestyle in her body. Seeking out professional help, she learned the language to identify her anxiety and implemented meditation techniques to combat her symptoms.
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“This mental practice allowed me to be still and find a connection to my body again,” she recalled. “This was the entry point to my [other embodiment] practices. [I explored] how can I be here — feel safe in my body and skin — and navigate a world that felt, at times, really hard to be in.”
Giselle considers sharing universal lessons from her own journey as a foundation of her practice. She believes integrity is crucial.
“Unless we can feel that sense of vulnerability and honesty from the people we are working with, it’s hard to get there ourselves,” Giselle said. “I’m working through things every single day. I’m still doing this work [alongside] you.”
To create a spiritual text relatable to modern life, Giselle included personal anecdotes in Take It In. Her book expresses stories of how Spirit helped her survive difficulties in hopes that it will resonate with others who are experiencing their own suffering. While offering her personal anecdotes illustrates her humanity, Giselle is mindful of wielding her narrative as a source of inspiration rather than something to be commodified.
“I think we can get into a loop of ‘I owe my audience my pain because it shows I am human,’” she said. “There are things I haven’t shared, not from a place of shame, but the integrity of, ‘I don’t think it needs to be here.’”
Giselle owns her stories, traumas, and pains in communicating with Spirit about what she is called to share. She described writing her book as living through each chapter.
“The book became a mirror for what I was experiencing,” she shared. “It allowed me to write from a position of quite physically being asked to embody [these teachings in the present] so I can share with people on the deepest level.”
Giselle also emphasizes the need for accessibility, diversity, and inclusion within spirituality, especially among the messengers.
“My great grandmother in Trinidad did a lot of healing work,” Giselle described. “It’s part of my lineage — part of my blood.” But she also noted the problems that lack of visibility caused. “If I never saw a Black woman openly talking about spirituality beyond Oprah, then how can I believe that that is a space I can exist in?”
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Giselle’s mission in this book and all of her work is to empower all of humanity to hold space for both the complex and beautiful moments of the human experience.
“We can never say this work is for some people and not for all,” she said. “We are all spiritual beings. It has to be for everyone.”
Thank you, Giselle. I am full of gratitude for you and your work. Your guidance has had such an impact on my healing. The softness and power of your wisdom is transformative. I am ecstatic to savor each word, intention, and teaching your gift of Take It In has to offer.
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