Ritual Alchemy

Executive, Business & Personal Coaching

Toxicology & Detoxification Specialist

Radical alignment

Facilitating visionaries through deep healing and systemic transformation

When we consistently curate our daily habits, we alchemise to our highest timeline. One ritual at a time. Every client I work with is crossing the threshold from who they were to who they were born to be. We co-create the structures to automate their alignment.

I work with people in transition — reclaiming, reimagining, and refining.

While therapy focuses on how the past creates the present. Coaching works on how the present creates the future.

It’s the strategy you use when you are ready to rise. The Rituals you create to Alchemise.

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Who do i work with?

I work with people who are:

✧ Curious about, experimenting with, or committed to sobriety / long-term recovery

✧ Navigating estranged or complex family dynamics

✧ Processing grief, loss, or life-altering endings

✧ Moving through a dark night of the soul or spiritual awakening

✧ Experiencing cultural dissonance or displacement

✧ Unwinding ancestral and post-colonial trauma

✧ Detoxing physically, emotionally, or energetically — from substances, systems, or survival patterns

Areas of Research

✧ Addiction, recovery, and post-sobriety identity

✧ Disordered eating and body dysmorphia

✧ Ancestral inheritance and post-colonial repair

✧ Nervous system regulation and trauma integration

✧ Shadow work, ritual, and creative process

✧ Detoxification science, environmental toxicology, and alternative medicine

What is Coaching?

Coaching and therapy offer different toolkits for transformation. If therapy is the yin — reflective, inward, and focused on the past — coaching is the yang: strategic, action-oriented, and anchored in forward momentum.

Coaching is not advice or mentorship. It’s a structured, psychology-rooted process that helps you clarify your direction, reality-test your thoughts, and build the rituals that sustain change.

I hold space for you to uncover the programs running in the background — to rewire the internal narratives no longer aligned with who you are becoming. With your permission, I'll challenge the frameworks keeping you stuck.

While coaching focuses on the mind and behaviour, detoxification works with the body. You can explore either path — or both. If you're curious to understand more about how coaching works or want to join the waitlist for my upcoming detox program, you’ll find both options below.

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WHAT IS DETOXIFICATION?

Your body holds stories too.
Every emotion, environment, substance, experience, and season you've ever moved through has been recorded in your cells and fascia. Your liver, lymph, gut, and skin are constantly in conversation with your surroundings—adapting, protecting, and processing on your behalf.

This is a devotional restructuring of your internal and external life —around health, longevity, and self-love. This is the essence of Ritual Alchemy Detox. It’s not a cleanse. It’s a way of living in partnership with your body’s innate intelligence.

Your body is the most sophisticated detoxification system on the planet — designed to release through your organs, breath, sweat, lymph, and cycles. Across cultures, detox has long been rooted in seasonal rituals — but much of that has been lost and many of us were never taught how to support this natural intelligence.

Today, we’re exposed to invisible toxic loads: in our kitchens, bathrooms, laundry, water, air, food — and yes, even the chemical warfare of stress and emotions. Detoxification, when done with reverence, is the art of making space for your body to do what it was always designed to do — with the lifelong support of seasonal rituals, herbs, and nourishment.

This program begins with an investigation. You’ll learn how to assess your own system’s readiness and capacity, how to prepare gently, and how to build sustainable rituals that support long-term vitality.

You’ll be guided through:

✧ Gentle protocols for heavy metals, parasites, biofilm, and Candida

✧ Daily rituals to enhance elimination and organ function

✧ Emotional regulation techniques to support clarity and calm

✧ Home detox practices to reduce hidden exposures

✧ Seasonal cycles of cleansing to align with nature’s rhythms

The first phase will be a free foundational course, with the full seasonal journey launching soon. This is for those ready to reconnect, realign, and reimagine what the highest vibration of health can truly feel like. If you are curious to read more about detoxification click the link below.

Reach out in the form at the end of this page if you would like to join the waitlist for the Ritual Alchemy Detox program - be the first to know when the complimentary stage one is released.

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Who am i?

Gillian Barden M.A.

As a transformation coach, trauma-informed guide, and space-holder for those jumping timelines, my work sits at the intersection of psychology, somatics, and soul. I hold an MA in Community Development, a coaching qualification from the Irish Life Coaching Institute (accredited by the International Coaching Federation), and I’m currently completing an MSc in Psychology.

My initiation was forged through grief, addiction, and the relentless commitment to recovery. Through identity rupture and reconstruction. Through descent into shadow — where the only way out is in.

I am a warrior, mid-battle. Being Irish, I come from a long line of survivors. In this lifetime, I carry both the responsibility and the privilege of alchemising inherited trauma into personal power. I specialise in navigating the threshold — the crossing between darkness and light. The ancestral reckoning in the dark forest of the soul. The return. When it's time to shed the old self you've outgrown, but the new one hasn’t yet formed — this is where I meet people. I won’t show you the way. I’ll hold space while you light and curate your own path.

My work blends science and soul: weaving psychological insight, nervous system literacy, cultural awareness, and spiritual intelligence. This is not mindset coaching. This is identifying the unconscious program — and rewriting it from the highest self.

A central part of my own healing has been detoxification: not just through herbs and nutrition, but through reclaiming sovereignty over what I allow into my body, home, and life. I’ve learned to question everything I was taught about health, energy, and personal power. Clearing toxicity has become a practice of remembrance, self-respect, and return.

If you’d like to learn more about my philosophy, I’ve shared a personal blog post below. It’s not doctrine — it’s perspective. I offer it so you can get a feel for who I am as a human, because it informs my ability to understand and the quality of the questions I will ask you.

The work we do together will be led by you, I will be in the passenger seat. I bring questions and hold the space for you to cut out the noise and access answers from your deepest self.

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