Donnie Soddu

Donnie Soddu is a Shamanic Healer and the founder of High Light Rituals, a jewelry brand where every piece is energetically activated and blessed in ceremony by Donnie. Her practice lives at the intersection of energy medicine and wearable art – working with crystals, nature spirits, and her ancestral lineage to create pieces for people navigating seasons of transition and expansion. The jewelry isn't just something you wear. It carries deep healing intention and the weight of ceremony.

Based in Westport, CT, she's a maker, healer, mother, wife, and business owner. On any given week she's blessing jewelry, helping pack orders, making content, running back-to-back healing sessions – shamanic readings, reiki, energy work – and still finding her way into the garden, hands in the earth, talking to the flowers. Being in nature does something for her that nothing else quite replicates.

You can connect with Donnie and her work through her IG handle @highlightrituals or at highlightrituals.com.

Before anything else, Donnie comes home to her body. Every morning, no matter what the day holds, she grounds – calling her power and energy back to herself before she moves into the world. Some mornings that's a full journeying session. Other mornings it's three deep breaths and a moment of intentional stillness. But it always happens. It's, as she puts it, the difference between moving through the day and being dragged by it.

The rest of her rhythm flows from there: daily journeywork, weekly altar cleanings, ceremonies in nature, and time in the garden every spring and summer. No agenda. Just being present and letting herself be delighted by the process.

When the routine breaks, she doesn't spiral. She makes a list of what must get done and finds space for it in the days ahead. She keeps things loose enough for magic to happen.

"I like to leave time and space for connections to happen." That openness isn't an accident – it's the practice itself.