Co-Author · Breast Cancer
An Essential Guide through Cancer
Offered from an Oncologist’s Perspective
Rev. Windi Braden, RN (Ret.)
Sacred Wisdom Remembered®
Knowledge becomes healing when it is offered with compassion, received with trust, and integrated with wisdom.
Spiritual Midwife · Medical Intuitive · Energetic Body Medicine · Health Sciences Educator · Co-Author
For more than four decades, Rev. Windi Braden has devoted her life to helping individuals and families navigate some of life’s most profound transitions with compassion, wisdom, and hope.
Her professional journey has been shaped by a unique integration of nursing, health sciences education, spiritual care, and intuitive guidance — devoting care to the whole person rather than focusing solely on disease.
Windi is currently co-authoring “An Essential Guide through Cancer,” a Cancer Series offered from an oncologist’s perspective, with Monique Semien, MD. They are beginning the series with a book on Breast Cancer.
In addition, Windi spent five years, well before AI, as the collaborative writer for El Chess. Windi sat with her, asked, listened, and distilled the information into a language that could carry a 12-step path for adults who were abused as children — honest enough to be useful, gentle enough to be received.
As a retired registered nurse, licensed minister, health sciences educator, and lifelong student of both science and the healing arts, Windi believes that information has the greatest power when it is communicated with kindness and received in a way that supports understanding rather than fear. Throughout her career, she has helped countless individuals make informed decisions by translating complex health information into language that is approachable, reassuring, and deeply human.
Her work extends beyond traditional health education. As a Spiritual Advisor, Life Coach, and provider of Intuitive Counsel, Guided Imagery, and Body Magic Touch®, Windi has dedicated her life to creating safe and compassionate spaces where individuals feel deeply heard, respected, and empowered. Her approach recognizes that every person carries not only a physical story, but also emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences that deserve equal care and attention.
The guiding philosophy of her life’s work is rooted in Sacred Wisdom Remembered® — the belief that within every individual resides an innate wisdom, resilience, and capacity for healing that can be gently awakened through knowledge, presence, compassion, and conscious awareness. Rather than seeing healing as something imposed from outside, Windi views it as a process of remembering the extraordinary intelligence already present within each person and supporting that wisdom with informed choices and compassionate care.
Visionary alchemist
From the known to the unknowable.
I am a visionary alchemist. I have always sought to expand my awareness from the known to the unknowable.
I am a born intuitive, an empath, an oracle, and a medicine woman. The mandala has shaped and informed my life through dreaming, and stillness, since I was very young. I began to draw them when I was five. Their creation has now expanded to the sacred form that I offer today.
They awakened my consciousness, enlivened my understanding of divinity, and grace my life with profound insight. I am a lover of life, and as a visionary, I love to take photographs of the beauty and life I see around me. These mandalas are made from photographs I have taken along my life’s path.
The dreamer
I have been a lucid dreamer since I was a child.
Dreams have informed my life, and I understood that they were meant to guide others as well. My dreamer is an essential aspect of my life, and has long guided, informed, and provided me with the greatest insight and joy.
Jaguarwombyn
I am Jaguarwombyn this lifetime.
I was perhaps seven or eight when I first felt it — not with my eyes, but with something beneath my eyes. A room would fill with grown-ups talking about ordinary things, yet beneath their words I could sense the real conversation. I did not have language for what I was doing. I simply knew the pattern was there, the way a jaguar cub knows the shape of the jungle before it can see through the dark.
Most children are told the world is solid and straightforward. I seemed to have been born with night vision in a daylight culture. The Jaguar had already found me, though I would not recognize its name for decades.
Not just what is forgotten — what is asking to be Remembered!
A personal reflection
I have always believed that true healing begins the moment a person feels seen, heard, and understood. My hope is that these pages offer not only trustworthy information, but also a quiet place to pause, breathe, gather your strength, and remember that even in life’s most uncertain moments, you do not walk this path alone.
Training of this lifetime
Nurse, minister, oracle, spiritual midwife — and companion.
Credentials & Training
- LVN
- Registered Nurse (Retired)
- Licensed Minister
- Credentialed Health Sciences Educator (K–14)
- Certified Aromatherapist
Gifts & Practice
- Spiritual Advisor & Life Coach
- Medical Intuitive
- Energetic Body Medicine
- Spiritual Midwife
- Death Doula
1979 — 1980
Santa Rosa Junior College
LVN (Licensed Vocational Nurse)
1982 — 1984
Santa Rosa Junior College
Associate of Science, RN — Nursing and Psychology
September 11, 1988
Church of Divine Man
Licensed Ministry (attended spiritual training programs and classes, 1978–1988)
1994 — 1996
Cal Poly Pomona
Teaching Credential, Health Sciences and Nursing
1996
State of California
Certified Teaching Credential — Health Sciences Educator (K–14)
1998
International Certification Course in Aromatherapy
Taught by Dr. rer. nat. Kurt Schnaubelt
1980 — present
Sacred Wisdom Remembered® & Body Magic Touch®
Forty-six years of practice; full-time since 2008
Work history
Concurrent rooms of a life in service.
Some seasons overlap. That is how the work was lived — more than one calling at a time.
1976 — 1984
Santa Rosa Junior College — Enabling Services, Disabilities Resource Department
Created and performed health intake and needs assessments for disabled students to support equal access through mobility and physical assistance
1978 — 1984
Santa Rosa Junior College — Adaptive PE Aquatics Instructor
Taught the Adaptive PE Aquatics class
1978 — 1982
US Wheelchair Swimming
Local and National Coach, and US Paralympic Swim Coach for the 1980 Arnhem (Netherlands) Paralympics. One swimmer coached from afar for six of the eight years was later inducted into the Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame
1980 — 1984
Hospice of Petaluma
1983 — 1987
Hawthorne Group
Caring for high-acuity, ventilator-dependent quadriplegic patients
1988 — 1992
Hacienda Skilled Nursing Facility
Nurse Educator, then Director of Nursing Services of a 98-bed facility
1992 — 2000
Educator for the Office of Statewide Health Planning
Geriatric Technician Demonstration Project, through the Sonoma County Office of Education
1998 — 2008
Santa Rosa Community Hospital
Nurse Educator on the Transitional Care Unit; Wound Care Specialist and Wound Care Educator for the hospital’s Residency Program; led a community-wide Senior Education Program every Saturday for six years with special guests
In print
Two collaborations, and two books of her own now in the beginning.
Collaborating writer
Adults Abused as Children, from a 12-Step Perspective
“Someday she would tell.”
By El Chess — five years with Rev. Windi Braden
Windi interviewed El Chess, distilled what was spoken, and expressed it in print so a child’s promise could be kept.
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