Jacquelyn Haley: Shamanism, Sister Miracles, and the Day the Tumor Disappeared

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Jacquelyn Haley — hypnotherapist, counsellor, shamanic practitioner, reflexologist, nutritional diploma holder, and one of the most genuinely alive people to ever sit across from a camera in South Wales — for a conversation that starts with a tarot card prediction and never really slows down from there.Jacquelyn's origin story is one of the most compelling in the field. She was a resort team leader traveling the world for a major tour company — not remotely interested in spirituality, loudly skeptical of anything she couldn't explain — when her sister was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2007. A brochure arrived through her door for a hypnotherapy school that specialized in cancer care. She was pregnant with her first child. She rang them up anyway, promised she'd be there by December, showed up, and fell completely in love from the very first session.What followed was a nine-year journey alongside her sister's cancer — multiple diagnoses, two major surgeries in six weeks, lung involvement, and then something her oncologist couldn't explain. Her cancer simply stopped following its predicted pattern. In 2016, she had her last bout. In February 2023, the NHS told her treatment was over — not because they'd given up, but because there was nothing left to treat. She now runs a Reiki practice and has a gift for mediumship that Jacquelyn says the trauma helped open.The conversation goes everywhere it wants to go. Jacquelyn walks Ryan through the Incan medicine wheel — snake energy, jaguar, hummingbird, eagle — and how each maps onto the stages of healing. She describes seeing things around her clients during sessions and thinking she was losing her mind, until she stopped fighting it. She talks about a client with a brain tumor, non-epileptic seizures four to five times a day, who came in dragging his leg and left three sessions later walking normally — and then sent a WhatsApp photo of a letter saying the remaining portion of the tumor had disappeared. She doesn't claim credit for any of it. She just says: who knows.She also talks about building a thriving practice without ever running an ad, buying a derelict old bus garage that her friends thought she was insane to want, and defining her business goal not as a revenue target but as being at every single school concert her children ever had. She made it to all of them.The sun came through the closed curtains and flooded the room for the entire recording. Her dogs wrestled on the couch. Ryan drew the Six of Cups before they started. It felt like it was supposed to happen.Three quotes from Jacquelyn worth writing down:"When you can remove all the noise — guess what happens? You connect.""If an emotion turns up in your body, it's saying: hey, I need your attention. You wouldn't leave a friend knocking at the door. So why do we do it to ourselves?""I never doubted for one minute that it wouldn't work. Not one minute. This is what I was going to do, and this is where I'm going with it."Connect with Jacquelyn Haley: Instagram: @jacquelynhaleyhypnotherapy Facebook: facebook.com/jacquelyn.haley Jacquelyn is based in Swansea, South Wales, working one-to-one with clients in a city centre office. She is moving into a new space with a dedicated training room and will be launching group training and stage hypnosis shows in Wales later this year — collaborating with a singing client for combined music and hypnosis events. She is also training as a stage hypnotist with Dylan Lovejoy and in advanced techniques with Justin Tranz — reach out through her social channels for updates.Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]