I am so sorry that you are dealing with this strange, scary, confusing corner of reality. I have been working with clients with entity attachments for over twenty-five years, and I have had the honor of working with some truly lovely, good-hearted, wonderful people who are in a terrible and bewildering situation. You have a tender place in my heart.
My hope is to offer you a clear, grounded map so you can navigate this with a little more ease and clarity, whether you ever work with me or not.
When you are dealing with entities or spirit attachments, it is completely natural to long for a one-and-done solution. You find someone who knows how to clear entities, they do the work, and the sensations stop. No more poking, pinching, tapping, voices, or strange movement in the room.
Sometimes it really does work that way.
And sometimes, even after a very effective clearing, it still feels like entities are attached.
This article is my attempt to give you a clear, grounded map for why that happens, and how to think about entity work in a way that gives you more power and more realistic expectations, whether you work with me or not.
I talk about this in a recording I recently created as well as in this article. If you’d rather listen that read, here you go!
Short version: why it can still feel like entities are attached
If you just want the quick overview, here it is.
- Clearing entities is real, and it helps.
In my experience over more than twenty-five years, entities or spirit attachments are absolutely a real thing, and there are many categories of beings that can get tangled up with humans in unhelpful ways. I am very good at clearing entities in the energetic sense, and I see people get genuine relief. - Your “energetic immune system” and brain may still be in alarm mode.
If you have been dealing with entities or intrusive phenomena for a long time, your system often ends up in a state of hypervigilance and reactivity. Your energetic immune system is compromised, and your brain has built neuropathways that interpret almost any subtle energetic sensation as threat. That pattern does not switch off instantly, even if the entities are gone. And if your energetic immune system is compromised and that is not addressed with homework, you may pick up new entities after a clearing. - Untrained psychic ability plus fear makes everything louder.
Many of the people who find me are very psychically open, often with past-life histories as shamans, priests, priestesses, or mystics. In a modern culture that does not train that ability, it is easy to be wide open to a very noisy energetic environment. This can amplify sensations and make it very hard to “close the loop” and feel safe.
So it is absolutely possible for the entities to be gone and for your body, brain, and psychic perception to still be telling you “They are here.” That does not mean the clearing failed. It means we are dealing with a more complex intersection of factors than “just get rid of the entities.”
Medium version: a more detailed explanation
If you want a little more context without reading the full deep dive, this section is for you.
1. Clearing entities is often easier than changing how you feel
Every single teacher I have ever studied with in entity work has said some version of the same thing:
It is much easier to clear entities than it is to persuade your client that they are gone.
That has also been my experience.
When I journey for you, I work with very specific teams of guides. We address a wide range of possibilities:
- Beings from other realms who made contracts with you.
- Souls from past lives or lineages that have become entangled.
- Earthbound spirits who have not crossed over cleanly.
- Old priestess or priest vows to forgotten gods.
- Other non-corporeal beings who are interacting with you in non-consensual ways.
My guides and I are very thorough and very technical about resolving the actual interference.
Where it gets tricky is that your perception and your experience are not only driven by whether an entity is present. They are also driven by how your brain and nervous system have learned to interpret sensation.
This is similar to the distinction between a heart attack and a panic attack. The sensations can be very similar. The panic is real. The fear is real. The physical discomfort is real. But the underlying cause is different, and the treatment is different.
With entity issues, we often have both: there really were entities or spirit attachments, and at the same time your whole system has gotten trained into “entity alarm mode.”
2. Your energetic immune system can be compromised
One of the patterns I see over and over is a compromised energetic immune system.
On the physical side, imagine someone going through chemotherapy. Their physical immune system is weakened. They need to be more careful about exposure to illness than the average person. They are not imagining the risk. They simply have less capacity to handle it.
Energetically, something similar can happen. You might:
- Have had specific experiences that left you vulnerable.
- Have a lot of unprocessed trauma or grief.
- Have a long history of drug or alcohol use that opened your field.
- Live or work in a very energetically intense environment.
Once one thing gets attached, the field is often more permeable, which makes you more vulnerable to other entities or spirit attachments. It is not just “bad luck.” It is a pattern that needs rebuilding.
So even if we clear everything that is currently attached, we still need to work on strengthening your energetic immune system so you are less likely to be overwhelmed again.
3. Your brain can get stuck in an “entity interpretation” loop
Your brain is always trying to decide what matters for survival.
People with fibromyalgia have real pain, even though doctors do not find tissue damage in the places that hurt. People with phantom limb pain feel sensations in a limb that no longer exists. Medical students sometimes develop symptoms of diseases they are studying simply because their brains are so focused on those patterns.
The brain is capable of doing very intense things with sensation and interpretation.
With long-term entity issues, your brain can start to tag any subtle energetic sensation as “entity.”
- A shift in your own energy body.
- A movement of emotion.
- A normal energetic fluctuation in your environment.
All of it can end up in the “this must be entities” bucket. Just like a small child who learns the word “duck” and then calls every bird, dog, and moving animal a duck, your system can start filing a lot of different input into the “entity” category.
That means you can be in a room with no entities present and still feel all your familiar entity sensations.
4. Untrained psychic ability in a noisy world
If you had been born into an indigenous community and identified as a psychic child, you would likely have been trained from a very young age. You would have learned:
- How to shield.
- How to choose when to open and close your perception.
- How to know which world you are walking in.
- How to manage your sensitivity so you can function.
Most of the people who find me are have psychic gifts and never got that training.
On top of that, we are living in a world that is, in my opinion, more psychically noisy and chaotic than anything our ancestors dealt with. There is very little spirit release work being done as part of regular death and grieving. There are many more earthbound spirits around. Many people are experimenting with substances, intense emotional states, and spiritual practices without protection.
So if you are wide open, you are simply going to experience more “signal” than the average person. And if your system has learned to interpret that signal as “entities,” it will keep doing that even if the specific beings I cleared are gone.
Deep dive: the full, nerdy, compassionate map
Please read the previous sections as the longer answer builds on that information.
If you want to really understand what I am seeing when I look at this problem from a shamanic and practical point of view, this section is for you.
When clearing is one-and-done, and when it isn’t
First, I want to say clearly: sometimes entity clearing really is one-and-done.
I often see this when:
- The entity issue is recent. You were not having entity problems, something changed, and within a fairly short time you found your way to me.
- You moved into a house with a ghost, did not live with it for years, and reached out quickly.
- You had a particular event or opening that led to attachment, and we move on it while the pattern is still fresh.
In those cases, my hit rate for “That took care of it” is quite good.
I have also seen people who had a clear, diagnosable psychotic break (these clients agree with the diagnosis) for which they sought effective treatment. In these cases it may be that entity work was one important part of the healing picture. Mental health professionals often work from the premise that entities do not exist. My direct experience is that they do. So sometimes we have a “both/and”. There is a real mental health issue and there are also entities or spirit attachments that need to be cleared.
On the other end of the spectrum, I work with people who have been struggling with entity sensations for years. They have gone from healer to healer, from modality to modality, from mental health care to spiritual work and back again. They have learned pieces of the puzzle but the whole situation has never felt properly put to bed.
For those clients, expecting one clearing to make everything stop often sets them up for disappointment. Not because the work is not effective, but because the problem they are living with is not only an entity problem.
The “wrong map” problem
A lot of people come to me with the map:
“My problem is entities.
I need to find the right healer to clear them.
Once they are cleared, my sensations will stop and my life will go back to normal.”
This may not be true at all.
From my side, when I journey and look at what is actually going on, I often see:
- An entity or several entities that need to be cleared.
- A compromised energetic immune system.
- A very activated trauma or instinct response.
- Hypervigilance and scanning for danger that has become habitual with psychic scanning sometimes making contact with and calling in new entities.
- Untrained psychic ability that is wide open to everything.
- Brain and nervous system patterns that have been reinforced over and over.
That is a very different map.
So yes, I absolutely believe you when you say you are having entity issues. I am willing to go look, to negotiate, to clear, to enforce boundaries on your behalf.
What I probably will not do is agree with every part of the backstory you have constructed about exactly who or what is attached, why it is there, and what it is doing. My guides and I often get very different information when we actually track the energy.
Sometimes your perception and my diagnosis are close.
Sometimes they are far apart.
If that feels like a dealbreaker, it is better to know that before you work with me, so you can find someone who is a better fit for your expectations.
Plumber, physical therapist, and bedbug analogies
A lot of people understandably want entity clearing to behave like calling a plumber.
There is a clog in the pipe.
The plumber comes.
They clear the clog.
The water flows again.
Problem solved.
Sometimes it is like that.
More often, entity work behaves more like physical therapy.
You go in with wrist pain. The physical therapist says:
- Yes, this is in my lane.
- Yes, I can help.
- No, it will probably not be fixed in one visit.
They might give you exercises, stretches, and a treatment plan. If you go home after one session and say, “My wrist still hurts, physical therapy failed,” your expectation of the modality is out of sync with the actual healing journey.
Entity work also has elements of the bedbug analogy my guides like to use.
If you have ever dealt with bedbugs, you know how upsetting it can be. You might:
- Tear apart your room.
- Wash and dry everything.
- Have professionals treat your space.
- Check your bed over and over.
Even after the bugs are gone, your skin may still tingle. You might still wake up in the night and flip on the light to check the sheets. Your nervous system is still convinced the danger is present, even when it is not.
Entity work can be like that.
You can have:
- Real entities or spirit attachments that need to be cleared.
- Real fear and distress.
- Real sensations.
We clear the entities. The sensations and hypervigilance can still be there for a while, because the brain and body have been so deeply trained to respond that way.
Bugs, phantom limbs, and the problem of “closing the loop”
One of the things that makes this so hard is that, unlike a spider on your arm, you cannot just look and see whether an entity is there or not.
If you feel a tickle and see a spider on your arm, you brush it off, and your brain is satisfied. Loop closed.
If you feel a tickle and look and there is nothing there, your brain can also eventually relax. You checked. Loop closed.
With entities or spirit attachments, you do not get that kind of visual confirmation. You are dependent on psychic perception, and that perception is often noisy, scared, and confused.
That means:
- Your nervous system does not get the relief of a solid “no, nothing is there now.”
- Your brain keeps scanning.
- Your psychic senses keep stretching and reaching and poking at the problem.
Over time, your inner map can end up looking like this:
“Any energetic sensation I do not like means entities.”
Which is how you can end up in a room alone, with no entities present, and still feel like entities are crawling all over you.
This is similar to phantom limb pain. The limb is gone. The pain is real. The brain is producing the sensation out of established pathways.
Energetic mosquitoes and psychic screens
I also like the mosquito analogy.
If you are in a place with lots of mosquitoes, you do not stand outside uncovered and hope for the best. You:
- Use repellent.
- Wear protective clothing.
- Keep screens in good repair.
- Close the door instead of leaving it wide open.
Similarly, if you are very psychically sensitive in a noisy environment, you need functional, repeatable ways to:
- Reduce exposure.
- Maintain protection.
- Keep your field screened.
- Notice when a door is open and close it.
Most psychically gifted people in our culture were never taught that. No one trained them from childhood in basic energetic hygiene. So by the time they get to me, they are often wide open and exhausted, with a long history of weird experiences. Now is probably a good time to mention the course I put together on the subject: http://Free Yourself From Entities
What I am actually treating when I work an entity case
When I take on an entity case, I am usually working with several layers at once, whether through my shamanic journey work on your behalf or with counsel for how to address these areas:
- Actual clearing.
Removing what is attached, negotiating contracts, helping beings cross over, enforcing boundaries. - Energetic immune system.
Helping your field become less permeable and more resilient so you are not constantly re-exposed and overwhelmed. - Anxiety, fear, and hypervigilance.
Supporting your system in shifting out of “entity alarm mode” and into more grounded safety. Helping you move from “Any sensation means danger” to a more nuanced map. - Untrained psychic ability.
Helping you find ways to have some volitional control over your perception rather than being flooded all the time. - Trauma responses and established neuropathways.
Addressing the way your brain has been trained to interpret subtle energetic sensation as threat, and creating space for new patterns.
This is why I say that being free of entities, curses, black magic, and similar interference is often a journey, not a single event.
What this means for you, practically
If you remember nothing else from this article, I hope you remember this:
- It is absolutely possible for entities to be real, for clearing to be effective, and for you to still feel like entities are attached.
- The fact that you still feel those sensations does not automatically mean the clearing failed.
- The problem you are living with is rarely “only entities.” It is usually an intersection of entities, energetic immune system, trauma responses, hypervigilance, and untrained psychic ability.
Another important piece is that this is not a process with a perfect formula. Every client I have ever worked with shows up with a unique intersection of history, sensitivities, mental health, trauma, and spiritual wiring. I have a lot of tools in my toolbox to help with both the actual entity clearing and the other layers that come into play, but there is always some amount of trial and error and research-and-development in finding what really shifts things for you. You can absolutely reduce the odds of a good outcome by refusing to do any homework, by expecting someone from the outside to “just fix it,” or by not getting qualified support for the pieces that really are not appropriate for a layperson to handle. But even if you hire an effective practitioner and you do all your homework, there is still a discovery process. There is usually a period of “warmer, colder, warmer, warmer” as you move from being deeply impacted by this issue to thriving in your life in a way where this is not something you think about every day.
I wish I could tell you there was one simple thing to do, one practice or one session that would reliably make this all go away forever. For some people, it is close to that. For many others, it is more like physical therapy. It takes a bit of time, willingness, trial and error and homework to really shift.
My hope is that this map helps you feel less crazy, less alone, and more empowered to choose what is right for you, whether or not you ever book a session with me.
Other Ways People Talk About This Work
When people are looking for help with unwanted energetic interference, they use many different words to describe it. Some of the most common terms include:
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entity removal, entity clearing, entity attachment removal, spirit attachment removal, negative entity removal, spirit removal, entity attachment, and clearing entities.
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Others search for phrases like how to get rid of bad spirits attached to you, how to remove entity attachment, remove entities from aura, how to get rid of a spirit attachment, how to remove a spirit attachment, how to get rid of a spiritual attachment, or how to get rid of entities attached to you.
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You may also hear it called removing spiritual attachments, negative attachment removal, spiritual attachments removal, spiritual removal, attachment removal, removing entities, removing spirit attachments, or even dark entity removal.
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Some people describe it in terms of experiences, such as ghost attachment symptoms, negative entities attached to your aura, spirit attachments, energetic attachments, or spirit detachment.
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And there are those who focus on the practitioner side, searching for entity removal shaman, entity removal spiritual healer, spirit removal services, or healing entities.
However it’s named—whether “spirit attachment” or “entity clearing”—the essence of this work is the same: helping you remove what doesn’t belong in your field and restoring clarity, sovereignty, and balance.
Conclusion
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