
Malumir Logan empowers individuals to embrace their intuition, heal from past experiences, and step into their personal power. Through writing, Tarot, and trauma-informed leadership coaching, Malumir integrates conscious alchemy to help people navigate personal and professional transformation. In this interview, they share insights on healing spiritual trauma, building psychologically safe teams, and using spiritual tools like Tarot and chakra healing to overcome fear.
How do you guide individuals in tapping into their intuition and embracing their personal power for intentional self-healing?
Through my writing, Tarot decks, newsletters and podcast appearances, I encourage people to practice curiosity—toward themselves and others. The more curious our mindset, the more we learn and grow, and the more open we become to the wealth of information and insights our super-processor minds and intuition have for us. I also encourage people to develop a regular practice of reflection, through whatever mechanisms work best for them (and I provide lots of resources and ideas on this on the blog).
Whether it’s some form of meditation, a card pull, journaling or freewriting, or time spent noticing something in the natural world (e.g. a tree, a plant, the sky, the smell of the outside air), there are many options for people to reflect each day. Each of us has so much capacity for healing from adverse experiences and deepening our relationship with our whole selves, and to do this, we need to get comfortable with what we don’t know, and with all aspects of ourselves, from the messy parts, to the parts we’re proud of, to the parts we haven’t really noticed.
Can you explain the concept of conscious alchemy and how it deepens leadership in both personal and professional contexts?
Before I speak to the concept of conscious alchemy, I’ll talk about leadership. Every single one of us is a leader. Even if we’re not in a formal leadership position, each of us is the leader of our own life. There’s a lot of responsibility there, because even if we cannot control external circumstances in our lives, we are responsible for how we acknowledge and use our personal agency to make wise decisions that affect ourselves and those around us.
Formal leadership takes that responsibility to an even more consequential level, because leaders have power over others. Power is neither good nor bad, by the way, but neutral, and it’s how leaders use power that matters. This relates to the concept of conscious alchemy, because alchemy gets at the idea of taking mundane things and combining them to make something significant. In this way, as we go about making seemingly mundane, everyday decisions as individuals or formal leaders, we are creating something much more impactful. In other words, have you lived the same year every year for the past ten years? Or have you grown, changed, and made increasingly better decisions?
Those consistent, everyday decisions matter. Similarly, formal leaders may think their everyday handling of their teams doesn’t really matter that much, but the reality is that every leader has a disproportionate effect on each person who reports to them.
What steps can individuals take to heal spiritual trauma and create a stronger connection with their higher selves?
It’s important to be clear that trauma from any source deserves trauma-based professional support, such as through a certified trauma therapist. I always remind folks that finding the right professional supports is an important part of the healing process. I myself have benefitted from trauma therapy, using modalities such as Internal Family Systems and Parts Integration, among other modalities, and I wouldn’t have reached the level of personal integration and healing I have reached without it.
Having said that, accessing these types of therapies can be out of reach or folks may not yet be ready for that kind of work. And that’s okay! All the skills and practices I’ve discussed, including developing curiosity, regularly reflecting, and building spiritual skills and connection with Self, go a very long way to supporting personal healing, with or without therapeutic work. The more open, curious and reflective we can be with ourselves and others, the better our inner “environment” is for healing our inner selves.
Also, the more we learn, grow and reflect, the better we become at thinking critically about what we come across in spiritual communities. This can help us to remain open yet grounded to avoid the pitfalls of toxic positivity or other mindsets that prevent us from truly growing and becoming fully integrated with our whole selves.
How do you integrate trauma-informed approaches into supporting leaders to build psychologically safe and thriving teams?
When I’m helping leaders learn about building psychologically safe and thriving teams, I start with some of the basics that are often ignored in leadership development materials. That is, that every single team member and colleague is a person before they’re anything else—before they’re an employee, before they’re a sibling, a parent, a friend, a community member—and I remind leaders that two-thirds of adults have experienced at least one early life trauma, with women being more likely to have experienced multiple adverse experiences in early life.
Additionally, people who have lived experience of othering also tend to experience othering in their workplaces, just as they do in the majority of their other life experiences due to systemic realities. Although leaders are absolutely not, nor should they attempt, to provide psychological support in place of trained professionals, leaders must have situational awareness of these very real contexts in which they are leading and practice emotional intelligence.
I always remind leaders that the investment of character and intention to create psychologically safe teams pays off in extremely high-performing, sustainable teams; the implication is that beyond people-centeredness being ethical, it’s also just plain good for business. In coaching and facilitating learning within other leaders, I extend significant emotional labour to create a learning environment that helps learners, who may not have previously thought of leadership in these ways, to learn and reflect on their own experiences as they put these new ways of seeing teams into practice.
What role do spiritual tools like Tarot and chakra healing play in helping people overcome fear and step into their full potential?
When we’re first starting to repair our relationship with our intuition, it can be scary to trust what we feel. Our society and lives are so busy, and there’s always something competing for our attention or telling us that we’re not enough just as we are, so it’s entirely possible for us to go through life without ever really learning how to pay attention to ourselves.
This can make it feel uncertain and scary when we first start to really pay attention inwardly—simply because we’re out of practice in being connected with our whole selves. That’s why I am such a big fan of spiritual tools such as Tarot and other types of cards, as well as other tools like journaling or freewriting and learning to work with spiritual energy (such as through energy-based meditations, learning about energy centres like the chakras, holding crystals to notice somatic responses, etc.).
These tools can help people relearn how to pay attention to the wisdom and insights they’re already having, but just aren’t yet noticing, and these tools can help us learn the difference between our intuitions and our fears, which are completely different forms of internal information. I encourage people to try out various spiritual tools to find what resonates most with them!