Michelle Katz, Author and Metaphysical Healer Releases Memoir “Awakening in an Age of Metals”
As an author, coach, podcast host, documentary producer, and abstract artist, Michelle helps individuals share their journeys through truth telling and storytelling, transforming the most meaningful experiences of their lives into powerful, coherent works of art. Her work sits at the intersection of creative expression, spiritual awakening, and personal healing. Openly sharing her own story of healing after a vaccine injury, she is the author of Awakening In An Age Of Metals, a former producer on award-winning film and television projects, the founder of Story Is Medicine, and creator and host of the Broken & Healed podcast.
Share a pivotal moment in your life.
During my third ceremony in Peru, I had a spiritual experience that changed my life forever.
It was there that I came face to face with my father’s trauma—extreme trauma he carried as a young child during the Holocaust. He was no longer alive, but his consciousness was. During the ceremony, we became intermingled—his trauma and my broken body merging into one shared death experience. He died of COPD, and I found myself coughing up much of what he had buried.
In that moment, something became undeniably clear: we are not here for the reasons we’ve been taught. We’re not here to do more, get more, or move faster. That’s a kind of illusion—a distraction that keeps us disconnected from our bodies and what actually matters.
We’re here to connect. To grow. To become our highest selves.
After that experience, I understood that my life had a different purpose. I was meant to help myself—and others—unravel the stories we carry so we can finally be free.
I saw clearly that suppressing trauma is a one-way path into darkness. And I made a decision at that moment: I would never remain silent again—not in the face of my own suffering, and not in the face of anyone else’s. I decided that I don’t care what anyone thinks, and I’m done pretending I’m anything other than exactly who I am.
I knew then that I wasn’t here just to survive. I was here to transform—and to help others do the same.
Many people who are faced with a health crisis know all too well: dismissed by experts, failed by systems, and left searching in the dark for answers that conventional medicine couldn’t provide. Tell us about your debut spiritual memoir, Awakening in an Age of Metals. What did you discover during your journey?
During my 12-year health journey—from being completely bedridden with severe mercury poisoning to where I am now, as a published author who has found love, purpose, and a sense of wholeness—I learned things I never could have learned any other way.
The illness was one thing. But the gaslighting was something else entirely. Being told I was fine when I could barely function. Being dismissed, minimized, or told it was in my head when I knew, at a cellular level, that something was very wrong. That kind of experience forces you to wake up.
And for me, that awakening was brutal. I had to face the fact that so much of what I believed about health, medicine, and healing just wasn’t true. I always thought if I got sick, I’d go to a doctor, take something, and it would go away. There is no magic pill.
Unwinding that belief system took time. It meant looking at how deeply influenced we are by advertising, marketing, and systems that don’t always have our best interest at heart.
Women, especially, are living this. So many are dealing with chronic illness and being told nothing is wrong—or that it’s anxiety or stress. The level of dismissal and gaslighting is real, and it further damages the very parts of our brains that have been told we weren’t enough.
The first real step in healing for me was radical honesty.
The kind where you actually sit with yourself and ask: Is this how I would live if no one were watching and judging? Is this work actually nourishing my soul—or draining my body? Are my relationships aligned—or am I repeating patterns that take me off course? Are my belief systems contributing to my illness?
And the biggest question: Have I outsourced my authority?
Because I had. I had handed over my body, my intuition, my trust—to people and systems that didn’t really see me as much more than a paycheck.
That realization was painful. But it was also the beginning.
My healing stopped being just about detoxing heavy metals. It became about detoxing the stories I was living inside of.
I also started to understand that toxins aren’t just physical—they’re energetic. If a relationship felt toxic in my body, I had to listen to that. And that meant making hard decisions.
I had a lot of conditioning around putting myself last, around feeling shame for choosing myself. And I had to rewire that. I had to learn that taking care of myself wasn’t selfish—it was necessary if I wanted to heal.
One of the biggest turning points was a 61-day juice fast. As my body started releasing years—decades—of toxicity, other things started to go, too: The weight of other people’s expectations. The emotional buildup I had never processed. Stories that were never mine to carry in the first place.
I realized we’re not just digesting food—we’re digesting emotions.
And when we don’t have the tools to process our thoughts, our trauma, and the stories we’ve taken on, they get stored in the body. That’s where disease can begin.
And that’s when something really clicked for me: It’s our responsibility to decode our own story. Not anyone else’s.
Because the moment you start carrying other people’s stories in that way, you burn out. You lose yourself.
Once I began working with plant medicine, I understood that what we see is not even the tip of the iceberg. There’s so much more, and it’s been obscured from our vision.
From there, I started to understand the nervous system, the limbic system, and how trauma—both ours and what we inherit—shapes how we experience reality.
Healing became about rewiring my brain. Teaching my body how to feel safe again. Breaking patterns of fear and hypervigilance that had been running the show for years.
And that’s where everything started to shift.
Because once you start trusting yourself again—your body, your intuition, your experience—everything changes.
You don’t just heal. You become reborn.
And somewhere along the way, I realized something even deeper:
The reality we’ve been taught to chase—the one we can touch and measure—is only a small part of what exists.
The reality we’re actually craving lives somewhere else. It’s in the expansion of consciousness. It’s in what we can feel but can’t always explain. It’s otherworldly—and that’s not a bad thing. That’s the truth.
That’s what I discovered.
Awakening in an Age of Metals is about that process—what happens when everything you thought was true falls apart, and you have to rebuild from something deeper. There was no roadmap for me to get better, nothing that existed within the model of modern medicine -so I wrote my own. I believe this is the foundation of how we, as a culture, can move forward into a better understanding of ourselves and how our bodies and spirits are united.
It’s about moving from just surviving… to actually living in alignment with the very highest version of yourself. It’s multi-dimensional, and it requires being stripped of everything sometimes—and that’s often a blessing.
Who is Awakening in an Age of Metals for?
Awakening in an Age of Metals is for anyone who wants their mind blown. It’s for those who feel stuck, trapped, or have not been able to move past their history—or their physical limitations.
It’s definitely for those who have gone in circles trying to heal themselves of a chronic condition, and that includes illness, addiction, and a feeling of not being enough in a world that never stops pushing.
People who have endured abusive relationships and don’t really know why they’re here—and feel like they’re just punching a clock until it’s time to check out.
Reading Awakening in an Age of Metals will help you truly understand the level of healing that is possible and will wake you up to the fact that you have never been told the truth and it’s not your fault. From page one, you will be taken on the ride of your life, and you’ll never be the same. I promise you.
Tell us about your Story Coaching.
Story Coaching — I help people heal by defining their stories—not only writing their stories, but observing who they are through food, lifestyle, relationships, and belief systems.
Why do we eat what we eat? Why do we think what we think? And how is this keeping me stuck? How do I physically detoxify while simultaneously opening up the detox pathways that are almost always shut down in people with trauma? I ask you to bravely dump other people’s limiting views of you. They are always wrong anyway…
I give you my overall detox routine and layer in nervous system regulation tools so your body can actually process what’s coming up, instead of shutting down or going into overwhelm.
This work goes far beyond writing. It’s about seeing the patterns that have been running your life—often unconsciously—and bringing them into awareness so they can finally shift.
It’s about understanding that your story is not just something you tell—it’s something you live in your body every single day.
We look at everything: The way you speak to yourself. The way you relate to others. The environments that are burdening your system in subtle ways. The relationships you stay in long after your body has told you it’s time to go. The habits that you may have normalized so you can stay in the loop of others who don’t value you or themselves.
From there, we begin to unwind it—not by forcing change, but by bringing the truth into the light. By radically accepting what is.
Because once you can see your story clearly—without distortion, without shame—you can begin to rewrite it in a way that actually supports your healing.
And that’s where the body begins to open up without pushing, and the mind begins to expand without self-consciousness.
And that’s when everything good starts to happen…
You are the creator and host of the Broken & Healed podcast. What can we find?
Broken & Healed is a space for conversations that don’t fit neatly into mainstream narratives.
I speak with doctors, scientists, healers, artists, and truth-tellers—people who are willing to go deeper and challenge what we’ve been told about healing, the body, and what’s actually possible.
I’ve interviewed some incredible people on my podcast, including Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Brian Hooker, and RJ Spina—along with medical intuitives, quantum healers, and individuals whose stories will shock you, expand you, and change the way you understand healing.
I’m always looking for people with powerful healing and transformation stories. I love when someone breaks through in ways that are often misunderstood and unexpected.
I love pushing boundaries and showing the world, through miraculous stories, that much of what we’ve been told is impossible is actually misinformation used to sell us something we never needed.
Tell us about Story Is Medicine.
Story Is Medicine is way more than a coaching program. It’s a quantum healing modality that enables the writer to move beyond their mind’s programs and download their stories into an actual book.
They are using storytelling as a modality for self-healing. They may become writers, healers, healed, and whole through this process.
They will revisit the past without becoming stuck. They will uplevel their belief in their own ability to relate to words in a way that feels safe. They will be seen, heard, and guided in a very safe and loving container.
They do not have to have any writing experience—only the willingness and desire to reveal and unravel their stories so they may become the best, most whole version of themselves.
I also roll in mindset work, detoxification, and nutritional components, so it’s a full-scale healing program.
It’s for anyone struggling with chronic conditions, depression, PTSD, illness, or someone who has been thinking about telling their story for a long time and can’t get past the first few chapters.
We don’t push a boulder up a mountain when we write—we make the boulder feather-light. My program is unique, and I created it while writing my book and still healing my brain. Writing rewired my brain so I could get better.
What’s next?
I will be speaking around the country and on podcasts, expos, and book signings throughout California and possibly the East Coast.
Stay tuned on my podcast Broken and Healed, as well as on my Substack Broken and Healed, where I write about all the wisdom, healing, and observations I’ve made studying the human condition from the vantage point of my own experience and wild story. Join our community, as we heal the world one story at a time!
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