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Welcome to Between Worlds, a podcast about becoming.
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I'm Ashley Ray.
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This show was born at Hardin de los Sueños, a sanctuary in Tos Santos held for one purpose: to honor the threshold.
00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:35.200
Each episode, I sit with people devoted to their own healing and others' healing.
00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:41.359
People who hold sacred space for others because they've stood at their own edge and crossed it.
00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:53.359
This is also a space for surrender, for the unseen, for the parts of reality we can't always explain, but can feel moving through us and around us.
00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:59.600
These are the conversations from the space between who we were and who we're becoming.
00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:02.240
Between the seen and the unseen.
00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.959
Between the world we know and the one that's still revealing itself.
00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:14.079
Last episode, I talked about what threshold means, why it matters, why we tend to rush past it.
00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:16.319
Today I want to share mine.
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I was born in Toronto in the summer of 1993 on the hottest day the city had ever recorded.
00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.239
I'm a Leo, Leo Sun, Scorpio rising, and Taurus Moon.
00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:35.760
When I was a child, I really connected with the energy of being a Leo.
00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.359
I was your typical Leo child.
00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.519
I loved performing.
00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.680
I loved the arts.
00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:55.760
I am a middle child of three, and I grew up with both my parents and my grandparents being major roles in my life as well.
00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:13.360
I've always been extremely sensitive to the subtle energy, and this impacted me in really beautifully profound ways and also quite terrifying ways as well too growing up.
00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:27.280
My dreams were extremely vivid, and I had what is called sleep paralysis, which is basically getting stuck in these scary modes while sleeping.
00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:42.960
I experienced quite traumatic bullying when I was a child throughout elementary school and the beginning of high school, and this really impacted me.
00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:57.759
It really pulled a lot of my natural feelings of wanting to be on stage and wanting to be seen to being in more of a quiet, recluse space because that felt safer.
00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:05.759
My love and my passion and my path was really working towards being an actress.
00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:19.759
But as the bullying got really intense throughout elementary school, I ended up shutting down a lot of those abilities and moving in a different direction.
00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.120
I think if it wasn't for the bullying, I would probably be a famous actress.
00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:45.599
But the bullying really had me tend to a part of myself and tend to a part in others of really wanting to take care and hold and create space for sensitive, vulnerable moments of someone's life.
00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:51.759
Even though I was getting bullied myself, I really became an advocate for others that were being bullied.
00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.719
And I wanted to create spaces for others to be seen.
00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:09.280
And so throughout high school, I was a part of the welcoming committee for the foreign exchange students and really just creating that experience of inclusivity and safety.
00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.000
And that felt really good for me.
00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:18.079
And so that path really took me into this world of caretaking.
00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:30.319
I've always had a deep connection with the elderly, and so I thought that was a path that I would pursue after high school, working with the elderly in some way.
00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.759
But I was also really fascinated with the power of touch and healing.
00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:45.439
And so I ended up studying aesthetics and massage and really understanding the power of touch.
00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:54.480
My biggest superpower is my ability to connect with the other side.
00:04:54.879 --> 00:05:01.839
And this is a gift that I had access to from a very young age.
00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:09.279
I always thought that maybe something was wrong with me because I would dream of the person passing.
00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:16.399
And I would process a lot of the emotion and particularly the grief in my sleep.
00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.360
And it wasn't just my grief, but it was the grief of the collective.
00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:33.360
And so when that person would end up passing in this reality, I had already moved so much of the energy that I wouldn't feel sad in that moment.
00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:53.839
And that was a very difficult thing for me because it took a long time to realize that there wasn't anything wrong with me for not feeling deeply in that moment because I had processed and moved through the grief in a nonlinear way, which allowed me to create sacred space for others.
00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:59.439
So the death space was a space that always fascinated me.
00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:07.279
And it was a space that I would naturally be able to hold for others from a young age.
00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:19.759
And as I got older, this manifested as supporting in funerals and really creating ceremony and sacred rituals around death.
00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:33.199
In my mind, I imagined that this would be something that I would pursue later in life, like working in hospice or working with the elderly in some way.
00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:43.600
But when the pandemic happened and so many people were passing, I had a strong pull to step into this body of work sooner.
00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:55.920
And so I went to a private hospice in Toronto where I was living at the time and got my certifications to be an end-of-life support worker.
00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:17.279
And this path was happening alongside me, really deepening into the world of plants and creating natural skincare remedies for a company that I was working for in Toronto and doing healing facials from that apothecary as well.
00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.879
My treatments at that time had already deepened so much.
00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:35.680
After living in London in my early 20s and into my psychic gifts and abilities, really understanding energy work and being able to offer these deeply profound energetic treatments.
00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.920
I experienced a lot of heartache and trauma as a child.
00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:51.759
And because of that, I made a promise at a very young age that I would give myself permission to create the most beautiful, abundant life available to me.
00:07:51.920 --> 00:08:05.680
That promise is part of why I moved to England when I was so young to really give myself permission to explore and see the world in a way I never had before.
00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.120
England was an experience in itself.
00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.120
I got married very young there and I learned so much about myself.
00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:20.560
It was really the first time that my own path began to open.
00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.800
And it was the first time that I was able to really dive into deeper work.
00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:37.919
I lived there for almost five years before moving back to Toronto, right before the pandemic, which is what eventually led me to move to Mexico.
00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:55.519
One of the most profound moments on that path happened in Hawaii on a trip with my best friend, a trip that we took to really honor ourselves and everything that life was handing to us at that point.
00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:06.080
I remember walking without any shoes on, feeling the earth beneath my feet, and feeling so at home in my body.
00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:17.679
That feeling of surrender, of deep connection to the warm earth is what eventually allowed me to manifest my life here in Mexico.
00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:24.559
Even after I was back home in Toronto, I kept returning to that feeling again and again and again.
00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:34.080
My feet on the earth in Hawaii and how badly I wanted to create that same connection to myself in my everyday life.
00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:47.840
I think we've all had experiences that break us open, that ask us to go deeper into our own healing and self-inquiry to get really honest with ourselves.
00:09:48.159 --> 00:10:02.080
Our paths all look very different, but I believe there are moments on every path where we're invited to ask, how does this truly feel?
00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:13.519
How does this feel in my heart, in my soul, in my energy, and what needs to shift to really have me feel at peace?
00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:21.600
My relationship with my husband has been the biggest catalyst for my own healing and growth.
00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:31.759
In a lot of ways, we've been direct mirrors for each other, highlighting exactly where the other needs to grow.
00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:40.080
My strengths are often his growth edges, and his strengths are often mine.
00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:49.759
We complement each other, but that closeness has also brought a real edge alongside real beauty.
00:10:50.159 --> 00:11:00.240
Because my deepest dream has always been to grow inside partnership, and this relationship has asked everything of me to do that.
00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:07.039
About a year and a half ago, my husband and I went through a complete upheaval.
00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.519
It felt like the ground beneath us broke and crumbled.
00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.399
It was one of the scariest moments of my life.
00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:21.519
And it's without question my greatest threshold.
00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:29.039
It led to a real collapse at the time of my mental health and my well-being.
00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:33.120
And my husband and I ended up taking three months apart.
00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:47.919
It was one of the hardest seasons I've lived through, but in retrospect, I learned so much about myself and my own patterns more than I had ever expected to.
00:11:48.240 --> 00:12:03.440
I think that story deserves its own episode and possibly a conversation I'd want to share with my husband directly about how we navigated the energy between us.
00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:20.000
But for now, what I'll say is that threshold showed me how important it is to keep choosing the healthy expression of ourselves so that fear doesn't get to run the relationship.
00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.759
It taught me to keep choosing trust and to keep choosing love.
00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:46.960
That season, alongside my devotion to healing and my understanding of consciousness and subtle energy, and all the beautiful healers, teachers, and loved ones who supported me along the way has expanded my awareness of life more than anything else.
00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:52.000
As a sensitive soul, I haven't always felt like I belonged.
00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:56.559
So much of what I experience moves through energy first.
00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:16.879
And there have been moments where I was perceiving something clearly, accurately, but because the other person wasn't in integrity or wasn't being honest with themselves or with me, that gap made me feel gaslit.
00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:27.279
Not because my perception was wrong, but because their lack of transparency made me doubt something that was actually true.
00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:45.679
But learning to trust that sensitivity rather than doubt it and ultimately heal these deeper levels of myself has become my biggest strength and superpower.
00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:53.519
And how this shows up in my body is now as a strong, clear yes and no.
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As I've continued to heal, I've continued to make room for that gift to move through me more fully, removing the fear, quieting the noise that unprocessed trauma can create, and instead meeting life through a truer sense of truth and rest.
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For a long time, I lived inside the need to know why and how everything was going to happen.
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That was a program that guided me safely for years.
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But surrender has become one of my greatest teachers, and it's taught me to release control and trust the beauty of divine timing.
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One of my favorite practices is praying every morning, closing my eyes, and expressing gratitude and love for this experience that I'm having.
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I sit with all the beauty I imagine coming into my life, and that's how I love to begin my day.
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Something I've learned about myself is that I am an incredible manifester.
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I'm actually a manifest a manifesting generator.
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And there isn't anything on earth that I don't believe I could have.
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But what I love most and what I actually want is simplicity.
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All of my dreams for the future are really around creating a life that feels simple, full, and true.
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And in a lot of ways, I don't need much, just an environment that fills my cup and my family and friends around me.
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That season taught me more than almost anything has, and it's part of why I hold the space I do now.
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For a long time, I offered a process called the remembering facial, which was built around a facial treatment that my clients loved so much.
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I learned that the face is a gateway for the nervous system, a place where people can truly relax and receive.
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Through the combination of energy work, nervous system work, facial work.
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I was able to support so many people in downregulating, co-regulating, and coming back into their bodies.
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That work has shifted again, and I'm now offering threshold sessions, which is a combination of everything I love: facial work, guided meditation, energy work, medical mediumship, and ceremonial techniques used to seal and close the energy body during thresholds.
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I'm currently completing my full spectrum doula training with wounds of the world, where I'll continue to deepen my ability to hold space across birth and death, beginning and endings.
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The two greatest thresholds that I feel we will ever move through in this life.
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I'm so excited to bring this new expression of my work in the world and to continue supporting people through their own thresholds.
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Until next time, I leave you with this.
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See you next time.
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Welcome to Between Worlds, a podcast about becoming.
00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.679
I'm Ashley Ray.
00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:28.879
This show was born at Hardin de los Sueños, a sanctuary in Tos Santos held for one purpose: to honor the threshold.
00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:35.200
Each episode, I sit with people devoted to their own healing and others' healing.
00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:41.359
People who hold sacred space for others because they've stood at their own edge and crossed it.
00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:53.359
This is also a space for surrender, for the unseen, for the parts of reality we can't always explain, but can feel moving through us and around us.
00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:59.600
These are the conversations from the space between who we were and who we're becoming.
00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:02.240
Between the seen and the unseen.
00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.959
Between the world we know and the one that's still revealing itself.
00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:14.079
Last episode, I talked about what threshold means, why it matters, why we tend to rush past it.
00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:16.319
Today I want to share mine.
00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:25.040
I was born in Toronto in the summer of 1993 on the hottest day the city had ever recorded.
00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.239
I'm a Leo, Leo Sun, Scorpio rising, and Taurus Moon.
00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:35.760
When I was a child, I really connected with the energy of being a Leo.
00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.359
I was your typical Leo child.
00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.519
I loved performing.
00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.680
I loved the arts.
00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:55.760
I am a middle child of three, and I grew up with both my parents and my grandparents being major roles in my life as well.
00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:13.360
I've always been extremely sensitive to the subtle energy, and this impacted me in really beautifully profound ways and also quite terrifying ways as well too growing up.
00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:27.280
My dreams were extremely vivid, and I had what is called sleep paralysis, which is basically getting stuck in these scary modes while sleeping.
00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:42.960
I experienced quite traumatic bullying when I was a child throughout elementary school and the beginning of high school, and this really impacted me.
00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:57.759
It really pulled a lot of my natural feelings of wanting to be on stage and wanting to be seen to being in more of a quiet, recluse space because that felt safer.
00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:05.759
My love and my passion and my path was really working towards being an actress.
00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:19.759
But as the bullying got really intense throughout elementary school, I ended up shutting down a lot of those abilities and moving in a different direction.
00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.120
I think if it wasn't for the bullying, I would probably be a famous actress.
00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:45.599
But the bullying really had me tend to a part of myself and tend to a part in others of really wanting to take care and hold and create space for sensitive, vulnerable moments of someone's life.
00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:51.759
Even though I was getting bullied myself, I really became an advocate for others that were being bullied.
00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.719
And I wanted to create spaces for others to be seen.
00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:09.280
And so throughout high school, I was a part of the welcoming committee for the foreign exchange students and really just creating that experience of inclusivity and safety.
00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.000
And that felt really good for me.
00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:18.079
And so that path really took me into this world of caretaking.
00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:30.319
I've always had a deep connection with the elderly, and so I thought that was a path that I would pursue after high school, working with the elderly in some way.
00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.759
But I was also really fascinated with the power of touch and healing.
00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:45.439
And so I ended up studying aesthetics and massage and really understanding the power of touch.
00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:54.480
My biggest superpower is my ability to connect with the other side.
00:04:54.879 --> 00:05:01.839
And this is a gift that I had access to from a very young age.
00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:09.279
I always thought that maybe something was wrong with me because I would dream of the person passing.
00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:16.399
And I would process a lot of the emotion and particularly the grief in my sleep.
00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.360
And it wasn't just my grief, but it was the grief of the collective.
00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:33.360
And so when that person would end up passing in this reality, I had already moved so much of the energy that I wouldn't feel sad in that moment.
00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:53.839
And that was a very difficult thing for me because it took a long time to realize that there wasn't anything wrong with me for not feeling deeply in that moment because I had processed and moved through the grief in a nonlinear way, which allowed me to create sacred space for others.
00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:59.439
So the death space was a space that always fascinated me.
00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:07.279
And it was a space that I would naturally be able to hold for others from a young age.
00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:19.759
And as I got older, this manifested as supporting in funerals and really creating ceremony and sacred rituals around death.
00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:33.199
In my mind, I imagined that this would be something that I would pursue later in life, like working in hospice or working with the elderly in some way.
00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:43.600
But when the pandemic happened and so many people were passing, I had a strong pull to step into this body of work sooner.
00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:55.920
And so I went to a private hospice in Toronto where I was living at the time and got my certifications to be an end-of-life support worker.
00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:17.279
And this path was happening alongside me, really deepening into the world of plants and creating natural skincare remedies for a company that I was working for in Toronto and doing healing facials from that apothecary as well.
00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.879
My treatments at that time had already deepened so much.
00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:35.680
After living in London in my early 20s and into my psychic gifts and abilities, really understanding energy work and being able to offer these deeply profound energetic treatments.
00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.920
I experienced a lot of heartache and trauma as a child.
00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:51.759
And because of that, I made a promise at a very young age that I would give myself permission to create the most beautiful, abundant life available to me.
00:07:51.920 --> 00:08:05.680
That promise is part of why I moved to England when I was so young to really give myself permission to explore and see the world in a way I never had before.
00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.120
England was an experience in itself.
00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.120
I got married very young there and I learned so much about myself.
00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:20.560
It was really the first time that my own path began to open.
00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.800
And it was the first time that I was able to really dive into deeper work.
00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:37.919
I lived there for almost five years before moving back to Toronto, right before the pandemic, which is what eventually led me to move to Mexico.
00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:55.519
One of the most profound moments on that path happened in Hawaii on a trip with my best friend, a trip that we took to really honor ourselves and everything that life was handing to us at that point.
00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:06.080
I remember walking without any shoes on, feeling the earth beneath my feet, and feeling so at home in my body.
00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:17.679
That feeling of surrender, of deep connection to the warm earth is what eventually allowed me to manifest my life here in Mexico.
00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:24.559
Even after I was back home in Toronto, I kept returning to that feeling again and again and again.
00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:34.080
My feet on the earth in Hawaii and how badly I wanted to create that same connection to myself in my everyday life.
00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:47.840
I think we've all had experiences that break us open, that ask us to go deeper into our own healing and self-inquiry to get really honest with ourselves.
00:09:48.159 --> 00:10:02.080
Our paths all look very different, but I believe there are moments on every path where we're invited to ask, how does this truly feel?
00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:13.519
How does this feel in my heart, in my soul, in my energy, and what needs to shift to really have me feel at peace?
00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:21.600
My relationship with my husband has been the biggest catalyst for my own healing and growth.
00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:31.759
In a lot of ways, we've been direct mirrors for each other, highlighting exactly where the other needs to grow.
00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:40.080
My strengths are often his growth edges, and his strengths are often mine.
00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:49.759
We complement each other, but that closeness has also brought a real edge alongside real beauty.
00:10:50.159 --> 00:11:00.240
Because my deepest dream has always been to grow inside partnership, and this relationship has asked everything of me to do that.
00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:07.039
About a year and a half ago, my husband and I went through a complete upheaval.
00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.519
It felt like the ground beneath us broke and crumbled.
00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.399
It was one of the scariest moments of my life.
00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:21.519
And it's without question my greatest threshold.
00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:29.039
It led to a real collapse at the time of my mental health and my well-being.
00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:33.120
And my husband and I ended up taking three months apart.
00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:47.919
It was one of the hardest seasons I've lived through, but in retrospect, I learned so much about myself and my own patterns more than I had ever expected to.
00:11:48.240 --> 00:12:03.440
I think that story deserves its own episode and possibly a conversation I'd want to share with my husband directly about how we navigated the energy between us.
00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:20.000
But for now, what I'll say is that threshold showed me how important it is to keep choosing the healthy expression of ourselves so that fear doesn't get to run the relationship.
00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.759
It taught me to keep choosing trust and to keep choosing love.
00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:46.960
That season, alongside my devotion to healing and my understanding of consciousness and subtle energy, and all the beautiful healers, teachers, and loved ones who supported me along the way has expanded my awareness of life more than anything else.
00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:52.000
As a sensitive soul, I haven't always felt like I belonged.
00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:56.559
So much of what I experience moves through energy first.
00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:16.879
And there have been moments where I was perceiving something clearly, accurately, but because the other person wasn't in integrity or wasn't being honest with themselves or with me, that gap made me feel gaslit.
00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:27.279
Not because my perception was wrong, but because their lack of transparency made me doubt something that was actually true.
00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:45.679
But learning to trust that sensitivity rather than doubt it and ultimately heal these deeper levels of myself has become my biggest strength and superpower.
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And how this shows up in my body is now as a strong, clear yes and no.
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As I've continued to heal, I've continued to make room for that gift to move through me more fully, removing the fear, quieting the noise that unprocessed trauma can create, and instead meeting life through a truer sense of truth and rest.
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For a long time, I lived inside the need to know why and how everything was going to happen.
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That was a program that guided me safely for years.
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But surrender has become one of my greatest teachers, and it's taught me to release control and trust the beauty of divine timing.
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One of my favorite practices is praying every morning, closing my eyes, and expressing gratitude and love for this experience that I'm having.
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I sit with all the beauty I imagine coming into my life, and that's how I love to begin my day.
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Something I've learned about myself is that I am an incredible manifester.
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I'm actually a manifest a manifesting generator.
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And there isn't anything on earth that I don't believe I could have.
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But what I love most and what I actually want is simplicity.
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All of my dreams for the future are really around creating a life that feels simple, full, and true.
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And in a lot of ways, I don't need much, just an environment that fills my cup and my family and friends around me.
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That season taught me more than almost anything has, and it's part of why I hold the space I do now.
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For a long time, I offered a process called the remembering facial, which was built around a facial treatment that my clients loved so much.
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I learned that the face is a gateway for the nervous system, a place where people can truly relax and receive.
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Through the combination of energy work, nervous system work, facial work.
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I was able to support so many people in downregulating, co-regulating, and coming back into their bodies.
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That work has shifted again, and I'm now offering threshold sessions, which is a combination of everything I love: facial work, guided meditation, energy work, medical mediumship, and ceremonial techniques used to seal and close the energy body during thresholds.
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I'm currently completing my full spectrum doula training with wounds of the world, where I'll continue to deepen my ability to hold space across birth and death, beginning and endings.
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The two greatest thresholds that I feel we will ever move through in this life.
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I'm so excited to bring this new expression of my work in the world and to continue supporting people through their own thresholds.
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Until next time, I leave you with this.
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See you next time.
