Severe lack of trauma safety, unfulfilled promises and no accountability
I am writing this to share an honest reflection on my experience with Wild Sovereign Soul’s 6-month mentoring package to help others make an informed decision. While marketed as bespoke, high-tier programming offering a safe space for deep transformation - and for which I invested my life savings - my experience proved deeply detrimental on every level.
From the outset, core outcomes explicitly promised on their sales page - such as uncovering one's personal myth, soul name, and crafting a personal decree - were not facilitated during my time in the mentorship. More critically, despite claims of being trauma-aware, the mentors completely ignored the reality of my long-term health condition and complex trauma. While sessions touching on deep trauma with the female mentor, Lian, were met with personal warmth, they were conducted without any somatic grounding or regulation. This flooded my system, resulting in a severe physical crash - a level of health collapse I had never experienced before, leaving me unable to function or even reply to a text message. The crash was so severe that I had to completely pause the mentorship for several months because I could no longer physically cope with sessions. Empathy alone does not constitute trauma-informed care or make a session safe.
Furthermore, both mentors actively encouraged me to ignore my own clear inner wisdom regarding an unhealthy dynamic with a man that had become harmful to me. When I confided instances that revealed a complete lack of safety and integrity, Lian and Jonathan dismissed these red flags entirely. But what was unsafe to my system did not need their approval to be valid. They overstepped their role by overriding my internal safety signals with their own opinions. I was encouraged to stay in a harmful dynamic far longer than I otherwise would have, resulting in prolonged suffering and severe physical damage to my already fragile nervous system.
In individual sessions with Jonathan, this invalidation turned into active harm and spiritual gaslighting. When I was in acute distress and extremely vulnerable, sobbing and shaking, I was met with harsh judgements rather than trauma-informed support, and was accused of coming from "grasping" and "selfishness". Instead of recognising that my distress was my nervous system's valid warning signal about an unsafe man, Jonathan attributed my suffering to my Gene Keys (which he repeatedly interpreted strictly in their shadow and negative expressions), my attachment style, and claimed my heart was closed. He lacked the awareness or basic trauma literacy to realise that forcing an overwhelmed system to endure a dynamic built entirely on mixed messages and pretense was not only entirely impossible, but severely retraumatising. By repeatedly giving an unsafe man the benefit of the doubt and overriding my internal alarm system, Jonathan left me feeling criticised, misjudged, entirely unheard, and bullied. His approach was deeply harmful and did not work for me.
Ultimately, the mentorship left me deeply confused after having my inner wisdom doubted and questioned, and with a severely depleted physical baseline that I have still not recovered from.
If I needed extra proof that they were not trauma-informed, it was how they handled my feedback when I reached out to express the harm caused. I had thought it would matter to them that a former client had not experienced what they claim to deliver, but instead of actually receiving my feedback, they reacted from a place of immense spiritual arrogance and personal blame. They delivered a deeply unprofessional response, framing themselves as above reproach and incapable of any wrongdoing, and attributing my lack of improvement to being "closed to Jonathan" and projecting trauma onto him. They completely ignored my severe health crash and the devastating effect their mentorship had on my physical and emotional health. They even weaponised the delay in utilising a session with an associated facilitator - a session whose cost was included in my overall programme price - even though that delay was caused entirely by the physical depletion I experienced as a result of their mentorship. Reading their response left me so deeply distressed that I spent the next two days sobbing in bed.
For mentors claiming to provide trauma-informed, sovereign guidance, the reality was invalidating, unsupportive, and actually quite traumatic. Ultimately, Lian and Jonathan simply did not know how to safely support my complex health and trauma needs, representing a total failure in their duty of care. I strongly advise caution for anyone with chronic health needs or a severe trauma history considering their 1-on-1 mentoring programme.