Catch Up on My Life | Life Update
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A Resonance Transmission for You
This is a Resonance Transmission in video, audio, and text format that is rich with timely stories, messages, and synchronicities tied to the resonance of the moment.
Video Length: 24:10 minutes
The text transcript and audio file are down below.
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“Hello, sweet souls. How are you? How is your heart? How is your body? And how is your sweet, sweet soul? The soul that moves through you, the soul that your body hosts, the soul that's connected to all souls, to all that is.
I'm so glad you're here with me today. I heard the call to do something different. I am going to get to making that soul voice practice video, but today I'm just coming in to catch you up. I'm coming in to tell you a little bit of my story and what's going on in my life, just to relay more of my humanness, right? Because we are souls and we are humans. We are both.
We are here to experience this human existence and how beautiful and trying and gorgeous it can be. But today, I heard a call before I go out for the day to just catch you up on like, a decade or so of my life. Now that would take forever, but I just want to give you a like a highlight, highlights on why I talk about the soul, why I talk about remembering wholeness, why I am here to help you remember who you are, and that is because I have been on that journey myself for a very long time.
I have been working to remember who I am, and working is the wrong word, I hear. I have been allowing myself to rediscover who I am, and part of that is listening to the soul.
I spent much of my life listening to my mind, to strategizing, to using logic to figure things out. And about 10 or 11 years ago, there was a small voice inside of me that said there was another way, that it didn't have to be hard, that it didn't have to involve hustling, that I didn't have to keep efforting or trying, that my life, my new life, my easeful life, was waiting for me. It was just up to me to allow it to come in.
So close to 10 years ago, my life was falling apart in every single way that you can imagine, and that means every part of my life, between my relationship, my home, my family, my friendships, my work, all of it was askew. And a couple of things happened.
I began drinking Cacao, ceremonial Cacao. I talk about that a lot in my videos. I began getting into my body, mostly through yoga, through yoga, through acupuncture, through energy work, through meditation.
And consequently, I began to hear this voice inside of me. It first said it was an inner voice, and so I began to study consciousness, right? And it wasn't quite the witness, the awareness. Eventually it identified itself as my Soul, and I began the process of learning how to allow all the voices within me to have their place, to have their space, but to allow the soul to find its way to leading my life.
Now, all those things that were happening, all the pain I was moving through at that time—and you know, I'd moved through pain before in my life, but this was like source / soul piled up every dark night of the soul possible on top of me at once.
My relationship was beginning to fall apart. And if I'm being honest, it had started before that time, and it had begun to feel more like work and less like joy, right? We understand that there's a little bit of everything in a relationship, but it felt more like work. It felt more like effort.
My parents died a year apart, and that was its own kind of struggle, because with one parent, I had been estranged for a long time, and with the other, I had been caring for them through cancer.
My work just didn't feel aligning anymore. I was pursuing this dream that was alive at some point, but suddenly it just felt wrong, and I remember getting hit by a car. I was driving on this road where I had the right of way, and there was a gentleman in a car at a stop sign, so he was waiting for me to pass, naturally, to continue to go. And we looked at each other in the eyes, and I just drove… like… because I had the right of way, and even after looking at me in the eyes, he proceeded to go and plow right into my car.
And I remember we both got out of our cars, because I was okay and he was okay. And he said, I do not know what happened. Right?
That was one of the wake up calls in my life—to be like, Why? How? Who is trying to send me a message?
And the voice within me, my Soul's voice, got stronger and stronger, such that not only could I hear my own voice, this other voice inside of me, this language of love that wished to hold me, that wished to help me discover a new life and help me retrieve the parts of myself that I had left behind, but in addition to that, the call—right?—was to change everything, like change it all somehow.
But I could feel my body resisting, right? I could feel tears. I could feel pain. I could feel panic attacks. I could feel heart palpitations. I was just talking about heart palpitations with a girlfriend the other day, and I remember them so strongly. They were here and they were here, and in my body, that is just a signal that something is off center, askew, not at all aligned.
So I stopped working on my food business, and I had written two cookbooks at the time, so I had a pretty good food business going and a consulting business. But I stopped.
I went within. And I kept getting called to the forest and the sea—on my own solo which was fine, because there weren't a lot of people who wanted to go and do those things.
And I would just go to the sea and sit there and look at the ocean, and I would just go to the forest and walk. And through the re-wilding to the elements, relating with the elements, not only did I hear my Soul, but I began to hear my ancestors, the people who were there supporting me, the souls who were there supporting me, even if they were in other dimensions. And I could hear them, and I could see them, and they came in my dreams.
So my relationship ended. We sold our home. I moved out to the sea because my Soul called me to there. My soul called me to merge with water. I lost a lot of friends and acquaintances because that's what happens when you divorce. It's also what happens when you move through spiritual transformation. It's also what happens when the work you're doing doesn't feel aligning, and the people you used to work with—your colleagues, your community—it no longer is a fit, and that's what happened for me.
And so I got a tiny place on the top of this really old building out by the sea in Massachusetts. And that's when, like, the soul awakening really solidified. All the things that have been happening over the seven or eight years prior, it came together in a language, in a story, in a body of study, right?
And I had been studying for many years. I'd been studying consciousness. I'd been studying various shamanic practices. I'd been studying energy, right? I'd been studying transformation and just how it happens.
And I got to the sea, to this perch high above, across the street from the ocean. And the water and the air held me, held me and allowed me to continue to go within.
And I remember being up there, and I think I got onto a zoom call with an old friend, and I was showing them this place that I lived in, that I had designed, right? Because I sold everything and started over. And this friend, who wasn't even in the room, just could feel energetically, Wow, your space looks so different. When I would zoom with you in your house, it was so dark and the energy was so heavy. And I'm looking at you and your space now, and you just feel alive.
And I remember saying that I am alive now. I feel alive now. I'm beginning to remember who I am, right? I'm beginning to move from accepting myself to liking myself to, today, loving myself for who I am.
And my whole life has been a journey in finding a way to love myself. Oh, and I get teary. The poor girl who tried in her teens to love herself, or tried in her 20s to love herself, right? Who said, in her 30s, I love myself, when in fact, I was lucky to be accepting who I was at that time.
But now that I've really done my work, right?—and we all have work to remember wholeness and retrieve parts of ourselves, and my work is different than your work, and yet the paths can be similar, right?
And I can now say wholeheartedly that I love and appreciate myself, that I tend to myself, that I offer reverence and devotion to myself, and in doing so, I offer reverence and devotion to life, right?
So… but we got to a point in Massachusetts where I started anew. I felt like a completely different person, a soul-led individual, and yet I didn't feel like I could be all of me there, because I had lived so much of my life there.
Now I've lived in places all over the world, but much of my life has been in the US, has been in the Northeast. So I remember going to the northwest, the Pacific Northwest, and I would go a lot because one of my dearest friends lived out there. And there was one trip that was just so fun and so alive. And I felt like I had a community there, a much bigger community than I had in Massachusetts.
And I flew home, and on that plane home, in tears, I was like, I'm done, like, I can't be in a place where I cannot continue to cultivate my aliveness.
Nothing wrong with Massachusetts, right? Every place has its pros and its cons. We allow neutrality. But I came back from that trip, and I began to wonder and feel into how I could pull apart my life.
And, you know, source, God, universe, everything came in to pull it apart for me. I ended up needing surgery from hiking, from a hiking sort of thing I had done, and I scheduled the surgery, moved out of my place, and the moment my surgeon cleared me from three months of relearning how to walk, right?
I got in a car and I drove across the country to a new place to the southwest. So I am in Austin, Texas currently.
This process, this unfolding process, has helped me remember who I am, has helped me to really retrieve parts of myself and sort of like, um, if you can imagine an image, stitch my soul pieces back together, though they were never really apart.
I like to say we are never broken. We are just remembering our wholeness. We have never been broken. You have never been broken. You're just remembering your wholeness.
And as I did that, I learned how to choose myself and hold myself and soothe myself through those choices. And part of that was like moving to the southwest and doing something different, trying something different and building a new life here, which looks completely different than my life on the east coast.
I think that the biggest pain I have experienced over the last decade or more was feeling rejected or neglected or betrayed by others. And when you look at that kind of pain, the soul helps you see or reflect back to you that that is really about bringing curiosity to the ways in which we have neglected or rejected or betrayed ourselves.
And you know, part of me had betrayed myself by staying in a relationship for too long. Part of me had betrayed myself by pursuing a dream, a professional dream, that was done that I had maxed out, right?
And part of me was betraying myself by staying in a part of the country that felt constrictive. Is that a word? Constricting? I'm a writer.
And I'm not up for betraying myself anymore. I'm up for looking at all the things that happen, all the suffering, bringing curiosity and allowing that to reveal my gifts, my purpose and more parts of my journey.
So… and then sometime last year, when I landed in Austin and began to figure out what my life here would look like, I heard the call to come onto YouTube and start making videos. I don't know exactly why. I don't know what it will lead to.
My ancestors, the energies with which I collaborate, have said, Detach from the outcome. Just allow. Just heed the call. And that's what I'm here to do, heed the call of the soul, abide the call of the soul, continue to retrieve parts of myself.
So that has morphed over, like over many years, into a shift in my work, right?
I hold space for others to remember who they are, to retrieve parts of themselves, to hear their soul, and I teach them how to hear the voice of the soul. And I do this in courses and workshops. I do this in person, in ceremonies and circles. I do this by taking you through soul journeys with the ancestors, with ceremonial Cacao, with the elements.
So and I have a new free course. It's a two-part workshop. Essentially, my work is to help you be the love. So you can call in all the love that you seek. That's the path as it's been explained to me by my own Soul, by my ancestors, by the magic, the signs and synchronicities that unfold in my life.
And so I've created this free two-part workshop with practices called You Are Your Soul(mate). And you can sign up for it down in the description. It is free. It's about two hours of content of videos where I take you through how to become the love to call in all the love you seek. Because everything I've wanted and desired is here. It just arrives with far less hustle.
And in fact, if there is something within me that thinks, oh, I have to do this the way I've always done it. I have to work hard. I have to promote or sell. I have to hustle or try, the instinct of this body now is to surrender and to bring curiosity to that old instinct.
So my instinct says, oh no, we can get softer. We can settle into the soul. We can ask the soul what we should do.
In fact, like I woke up this morning and I had planned to record four videos today. I was like, gonna get all the work done. And I woke up and I said, Soul, what should I do today? What do I want to do today?
And my soul said, we want to go have fun. We want to go explore, so maybe make one video, this one, make one video, and then let's go out into the country and just do some exploring. I am an explorer. I love to discover. I love to travel.
So, yeah, this is all that I wanted to tell you today, and I'm just feeling to see if there's anything else.
I've shifted my video set up. Let me know what you think of that. Two, if you have questions about your own life that you'd like my Soul to offer some insight, to the ancestors, to offer some insight to, you're welcome to leave them in the comments. And as I hear responses or replies, I will make videos in response.
And you know, every day I have a ritual where I sit in reverence to life, where I rest, where I receive and in that space I am offering gratitude to life itself, to my Soul, to all the energies with whom I collaborate. So if you'd like for me to think of you there, please leave a comment down below and just share your challenge, your love, your insight, your Soul, with me.
All right, I think that feels like plenty for today. The free two part workshop is free for only a week or two. I think I asked my Soul what to do, and it's free for for a limited period of time. So if you want it, go and subscribe to that link, and then you'll get an email to be able to watch the video, and to watch it, you'll have to subscribe again. It's like this two part process, but it's how I heard the call to do it.
So thank you for your patience and your sweetness and for watching and I will be back again very very soon. Promise.”
This transmission is a guided story and summary of what feels most resonant energetically in the now based on my clairvoyant gifts, multidimensional messages, and ongoing studies in Ancestral Reverence, Mayan Cosmology and the Mayan Sacred Calendar, Human Design, the Gene Keys, Western Astrology, Lunar Cycle Study, Soul Attunement and the Soul's Voice, Receptive Living, the Embodied Masculine & Feminine Polarities, 10 years working with Ceremonial Cacao, Kundalini-Shakti Activation (the Divine Mother) Energy Transmission, and Deep Stillness in Somatic and Vedic Meditations.
