Why do we shrink ourselves to fit rooms we've already outgrown? In this episode, we're retiring the energy of performing — and remembering that playfulness is the frequency of abundance. I'm talking about what abundance really is (it's bigger than money), why fear always wants the guarantee before you're allowed to be excited, how resentment is actually information, and the one practice that will show you exactly where you're still auditioning for belonging. This one is an invitation to stop making your life an audition — and to let joy be part of your purpose, not a

distraction from it.What would playful me do right now?

Wear the thing.
Create the idea.
Dance in the kitchen.
Celebrate the first step.
Let yourself get excited before you know how everything is going to work.

The energy of performing is retiring.
The energy of proving is retiring.
The energy of abandoning yourself to belong is retiring.

You don't need permission to be happy.

The journey is the joy.
And you deserve Happy Happy. 🤍

~Your private space to document signs, synchronicities, personal meaning, patterns, reflections—and now explore your Astrology Lens with Sage.

Start here:
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If this episode found you at exactly the right time, send it to someone who needs permission to stop performing and start living.

The journey is the joy. Happy Happy. 🤍

What if your life could begin to change… before your circumstances changed at all?

This week, my family lost an incredible earth angel — a woman who faced battle after battle and still found reasons to be grateful, hopeful, excited, and deeply alive.

And losing someone who lived that way changes the way you look at your own life.

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, we’re going deeper into hope, perspective, grief, duality, and the way one simple question can completely shift the way you experience your life:

“Okay… but what if?”

What if it works?

What if this isn’t the end?

What if the thing falling apart is actually redirecting you?

What if you haven’t met the happiest version of yourself yet?

What if there are people you haven’t met, places you haven’t stood, opportunities you haven’t received, and memories waiting for you that don’t even exist yet?

Because hope isn’t pretending everything is okay.

Hope is being able to stand inside uncertainty and say:

“I don’t know what happens next… but I’m willing to believe something beautiful is still possible.”

We talk about the duality of being human — how grief and gratitude can exist at the same time, how moving forward doesn’t mean forgetting, and why joy after loss does not dishonor the people we love.

Sometimes the people we lose don’t only leave holes in our lives.

Sometimes they leave instructions.

Love harder.
Say it now.
Take the picture.
Make the call.
Stop waiting.
Get excited again.
Notice your life while you are actually living it.

And maybe that childlike wonder we feel around Christmas, birthdays, surprises, signs, traditions, and little moments of magic was never something we were supposed to grow out of.

Maybe we were supposed to carry it with us.

So if you’re grieving, feeling defeated, questioning your path, or simply wondering what comes next…

this episode is for you.

You don’t need certainty today.

You don’t even need proof.

Sometimes you just need enough hope to ask:

“But what if something beautiful is still possible?”

And if you can’t find that hope today…

borrow some of mine. 🤍

Your story is still being written.

There are still blank pages.

There are still memories waiting for you.

And maybe your happiest day hasn’t even happened yet.

✨ Stay curious. Stay hopeful. Notice your life while you’re living it.

And always remember:

The journey is the joy.

🌙 Awaken With Autumn
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https://whatfindsyou.app

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Inside Awaken With Autumn, you can also explore my Heart Restoration Sessions, private coaching + mentorship, What Finds You, and the Embody Manifestation workbook.

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What if the signs showing up around you were never random?

The repeating numbers.
The animals.
The songs that play at exactly the right moment.
The dreams.
The feathers.
The strange coincidences that make you stop and think…

“Okay, Universe… was that for me?”

In this special interview, Norma Q. sits down with Autumn Grimes, spiritual mentor, intuitive guide, founder of Awaken with Autumn, creator of What Finds You, and host of A Journey to Happy Happy, for a conversation about signs, synchronicities, intuition, self-trust, and the spiritual breadcrumbs that can quietly guide us through our lives.

Autumn shares the unexpected story of how What Finds You was born—including the intuitive nudge that stopped her from creating the course she originally planned, a trip to Florida, an unforgettable encounter with a shark, and the realization that what she was building needed to become something completely different.

At the heart of this conversation is one powerful idea:

Your signs are personal.

A cardinal, feather, number, dream, song, or synchronicity does not have to mean the exact same thing for you that it means for somebody else.

The deeper work is learning to notice what was happening inside of you when the sign appeared.

What were you thinking?

What were you feeling?

What had you just asked for?

What was happening in your body?

What story were you telling yourself?

That is where your own spiritual language begins to reveal itself.

Inside this episode, Autumn and Norma explore the FOUND Method, documenting signs as evidence, recognizing patterns, strengthening intuition through self-trust, asking the Universe for signs, reflecting on what you receive, and allowing spirituality to become something you experience through your mind, body, and soul—not simply something you intellectually understand.

You’ll also hear about Sage, the reflection companion inside What Finds You, which was created not to tell you what your signs mean, but to ask questions that help bring you deeper into your own inner knowing.

Because the goal was never to make you dependent on another person, teacher, reading, book, or app to understand your intuition.

The goal is to eventually trust yourself.

Maybe your soul already knows.

Sometimes your mind simply needs the evidence.

And maybe the thing you almost dismissed as a coincidence…

really was a sign. ✨

Document your signs, synchronicities, emotions, reflections and patterns while strengthening your own intuitive language:

https://whatfindsyou.app

Learn more about What Finds You:

https://www.awakenwithautumn.com/what-finds-you-app

The philosophy behind the FOUND Method and the perfect place to begin if you want to understand the deeper meaning behind documenting signs and discovering your own universal language:

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My 7-phase guided workbook created to help you identify limiting beliefs, shift your perspective, align your energy, and begin embodying the version of you who is ready for what comes next:

https://a.co/d/00hyxVSZ

Explore readings, Heart Restoration, coaching, spiritual mentorship and more:

https://www.awakenwithautumn.com

I’m deeply honored to have been named one of the Top 8 Best Psychics in Chicago:

https://bestchi.club/psychic/

If this conversation found you at exactly the right moment…

maybe that’s your first piece of evidence. 🤍

Notice what finds you.
Document it.
Get curious.
Trust yourself.

The journey is the joy.

Happy Happy. 🤍

What if the life you’ve been praying for is already being built through the way you’re showing up right now?

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, I’m celebrating something that still feels completely surreal: Awaken with Autumn was named one of the Top 8 Best Psychics in Chicago for 2026. 🥹✨ BestCHI currently lists Awaken with Autumn at #7 on its Top 8 ranking. 

But this episode isn’t really about an award.

It’s about everything that happened before anyone was watching.

The readings I showed up for while still questioning myself.
The moments I chose my calling even when I was afraid.
The dreams I continued building before there was visible proof they were working.
The tiny promises I kept to myself when nobody was applauding.

Because people see the recognition. Spirit showed me the repetition.

In this episode, we’re talking about the relationship between discipline, presence, and devotion—and why I believe discipline has been deeply misunderstood.

True discipline isn’t punishment.
It isn’t working yourself into exhaustion.
It isn’t proving how badly you want something.

Discipline is self-devotion.

It’s remembering what you said mattered after the temporary emotion passes.

And presence is what allows us to actually experience the life our devotion is creating.

We talk about:

✨ Why your gift can be divinely given while still requiring your participation
✨ Showing up even when fear and self-doubt are still present
✨ Why motivation alone cannot carry your purpose
✨ The difference between discipline and self-abandonment
✨ Why discipline without presence becomes pressure
✨ Why presence without action can remain beautiful intention
✨ Receiving recognition without making recognition the source of your worth
✨ Why invisible progress is still progress
✨ My three-part Devotion to the Now practice: Arrive. Choose. Receive.
✨ How signs and synchronicities can bring us back into the life already unfolding around us

If you are creating something right now that still feels invisible—a business, a dream, a new version of yourself, a healing journey, a book, a calling, or a deeper relationship with your intuition—I want this episode to remind you:

Do not confuse invisible progress with no progress.

Roots grow in darkness before the world ever sees the bloom.

Sometimes what eventually looks like one giant breakthrough is really a thousand quiet choices finally becoming visible.

You don’t have to force your entire future into existence today.

You only have to meet this moment with enough presence to hear what is asking something of you—and enough discipline to answer.

The present is the gift.
Discipline is how we honor it.
Devotion is how we become available for it. 🤍

The journey is the joy. You deserve Happy Happy.

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View the BestCHI Top 8 ranking

✨ What Finds You — Your Signs & Synchronicities App
https://whatfindsyou.app
Document the signs, synchronicities, emotions, and meaningful moments finding you—and begin recognizing the unique language through which life speaks to you.

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Explore readings, mediumship, healing, coaching, and ways to work with me.

📖 EMBODY Manifestation
My 7-phase guided workbook created to help you release limiting beliefs, align your energy, and begin embodying the version of you capable of holding the life you desire.

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Remember:
People may see the breakthrough. They rarely see the repetition that built it.

The journey is the joy. ✨

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What if every person you meet is a doorway—and your presence is one too?

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, we’re talking about the energy we carry, the imprint we leave on others, and the incredible transformation that can happen when we choose to lead with love. Some people open us into fear, doubt, and contraction. Others make our nervous system soften, remind us what is possible, and somehow help us remember pieces of ourselves we had forgotten. And whether we realize it or not, we have the ability to be that kind of presence for someone else.

We’ll explore what it really means to become a portal for love without abandoning your boundaries, pretending to be positive, or believing you need to heal everyone around you. This is about awareness. Presence. Responsibility for the energy we bring into our relationships—and recognizing when our own wounds may be speaking louder than our truth.

You’ll also hear a simple practice to begin asking:

What am I carrying into this moment?
What do I want my presence to open here?
And what energy am I leaving behind?

Because the goal isn’t perfection. The goal is presence.

We’ll also explore how the people, emotions, interactions, and patterns that find us can become part of our own intuitive language—and how noticing what expands us, contracts us, or continuously repeats can strengthen our connection to ourselves.

Your presence matters.
Your energy matters.
Your love matters.

And you may never fully know how one moment of kindness, safety, honesty, compassion, or simply being there changes someone else’s journey.

People are portals. And so are you.

🔮 What Finds You — Your Personal Sign & Synchronicity Journal
Document the signs that find you, notice the patterns, strengthen your intuition, and begin discovering the unique language the Universe uses to communicate with you.
https://whatfindsyou.app

📖 Embody Manifestation — by Autumn Grimes
A guided journey to release limiting beliefs, align your energy, and begin embodying the version of you who is ready to receive what you’ve been calling in.
Amazon:
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Explore sessions, coaching, spiritual resources, offerings, and more.
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✨ The journey is the joy. Happy, happy.

✨ CONNECT + EXPLORE

What if you’re not blocked?

What if you’re simply stagnant?

This episode was born in the middle of a two-mile walk when I heard Spirit say something that stopped me in my tracks:

“Autumn, you have to move the stagnation.”

And suddenly, so much clicked.

We spend so much time trying to think our way into transformation. We journal harder. Analyze more. Pull another card. Ask another person. Wait for inspiration. Wait for clarity. Wait for the universe to show us what’s next.

But sometimes transformation doesn’t need another answer.

It needs movement.

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, we’re talking about what happens when life becomes repetitive, why rest can eventually stop feeling restorative, how physical movement can support the brain, creativity, mood and new ways of thinking—and why movement doesn’t always mean exercising.

Movement can be changing your environment.

Learning something new.

Creating something just because you want to.

Crying.

Saying yes when you normally say no.

Saying no when you normally say yes.

Taking a different route.

Questioning an old belief.

Opening the damn window.

Because you can be incredibly busy and still be stagnant.

And sometimes the thing standing between you and the version of life you’ve been asking for is simply introducing something new into the pattern.

I’m also sharing why movement has become so important to me in motherhood, how presence strengthens our intuition, and how becoming more aware of what is happening around us allows us to begin recognizing our own unique language with the Universe.

And I’m challenging you:

Your body.
Your thoughts.
Your environment.
Your emotions.
Your creativity.
Your attention.
Your perspective.

Then ask yourself:

“What did moving reveal to me today?”

Because maybe you were never blocked.

Maybe you were waiting for circulation.

And when you begin moving through your life awake, present and curious...

you start noticing what finds you.

✨ WHAT FINDS YOU

What Finds You was created to help you document the signs, synchronicities and patterns showing up in your life so you can begin understanding your own unique universal language.

Start your 3-day free trial:
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Learn more about What Finds You:
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📖 WHAT FINDS YOU — THE BOOK:
https://a.co/d/00hyxVSZ

✨ LEARN THE FOUND METHOD — FREE:
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Come find me, explore my offerings, coaching, classes and everything happening inside Awaken with Autumn.

And remember...

The journey is the joy. You deserve Happy Happy. 🤍

For the next 7 days—MOVE SOMETHING.

Have you ever asked God, the Universe, your angels, or a loved one on the other side for a sign… and then received something that stopped you in your tracks?

11:11.

A cardinal.

A song at exactly the right moment.

A dragonfly during a season of transformation.

A name, number, dream, feather, conversation, or synchronicity that made something inside of you whisper, that was for me.

And then… life happened.

You forgot the details. You Googled the meaning. You found seventeen different interpretations. You questioned whether it was “just a coincidence.”

This episode is about changing that.

I’m sharing the heart behind What Finds You, the app I created after realizing how many meaningful breadcrumbs we receive throughout our lives—and how easily we lose them.

I’m also introducing you to the FOUND Method™, my five-step practice for understanding signs without giving your power away:

F — Find the moment
What actually happened?

O — Observe the context
What were you thinking, feeling, asking, grieving, hoping for, or experiencing when it found you?

U — Understand what it means to YOU
Before the internet tells you what a symbol means, what relationship do you have with it?

N — Notice the pattern
What keeps repeating throughout the different chapters of your life?

D — Decide what it invites
Not what the sign commands you to do—but what this moment may be inviting you to notice, feel, heal, release, explore, or act on.

Because I don’t believe signs are supposed to become another authority outside of you.

I believe they can become invitations back into you.

What Finds You was created to give your intuition somewhere to speak..to document the signs that find you, remember what was happening when they appeared, track the patterns unfolding over time, intentionally ask for signs, and eventually look back at the breadcrumbs that may have been guiding you all along.

Maybe you don’t need to search harder.

Maybe you need to become present enough to notice what is already finding you.

🔐 Access What Finds You:
https://whatfindsyou.app

🌙 Learn more about What Finds You:
https://www.awakenwithautumn.com/what-finds-you-app

And because What Finds You is a web app, you can put it right on your phone’s Home Screen so it feels like opening any other app.

🍎 IPHONE / APPLE:
Open What Finds You in Safari → tap Share → Add to Home Screen → turn on Open as Web App → tap Add.

🤖 ANDROID:
Open What Finds You in Chrome → tap the ⋮ menu → Add to home screen → Create shortcut → Add.

Depending on your phone, you may also see an Install app option.

If you want to go deeper into your intuition, signs, personal symbolism, and learning how to understand the language already unfolding in your life, you can find the What Finds You book here:

https://a.co/d/00hyxVSZ

The app gives your intuition somewhere to speak.

The book helps you learn how to listen.

And the FOUND Method™ gives you a way to bring it all together.

Stay curious. Keep listening. Keep living.

And remember…

The journey is the joy. 🤍
Happy Happy.

✨ EXPLORE WHAT FINDS YOU📖 GO DEEPER WITH THE WHAT FINDS YOU BOOK

Have you ever felt completely certain about a decision... until someone else's opinion made you question everything?

What if your intuition never disappeared?

What if you've simply spent years carrying fears, expectations, and beliefs that were never yours to begin with?

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, we explore what it truly means to return home to your own inner knowing. Together, we'll talk about the difference between intuition and fear, the influence of collective consciousness, and why asking one simple question—"Is this actually mine?"—has the power to transform the way you move through life.

We'll also explore why your uniqueness isn't something to hide—it's your contribution to the world. Just as nature thrives through diversity, humanity heals when each of us has the courage to become more fully ourselves.

This conversation is also the heart behind my coaching philosophy: I don't believe intuition is something we develop—I believe it's something we uncover after removing everything that has been speaking louder than it.

Your inner compass has never left you.

Maybe it's simply been waiting for you to come home.

The journey is the joy.

Happy Happy. 🤍

Book your session with me @

www.awakenwithautumn.com

What if the parts of yourself you've been trying to let go of aren't meant to be thrown away... but transformed?

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, Autumn explores the true meaning of detachment—not as avoidance or suppression, but as the sacred practice of honoring your experiences, learning from them, and allowing them to become fuel for the life you're creating.

Inspired by the simple wisdom of a frog that sheds its skin only to nourish itself with what it leaves behind, this conversation invites you to see your pain, grief, fears, and old stories through a new lens. Nothing you've lived through has been wasted.

Together, we'll explore:

• Why life repeats the same lessons until we're ready to see them differently.
• The difference between releasing and repressing.
• How to process emotions without letting them define you.
• The energetic power of gratitude, forgiveness, and trust.
• Why asking for signs from the Universe can become a beautiful reminder that you're never walking alone.

If you've been feeling stuck in old patterns, carrying emotional weight, or wondering how to truly let go, this episode is your invitation to stop fighting your past and begin transforming it into wisdom.

Because Happy Happy isn't found by becoming someone else—it's found by remembering who you've been all along.

www.awakenwithautumn.com

Have you ever watched a child walk into a room and simply exist—without wondering if they are too loud, too much, too different, or somehow out of place?

In this episode of A Journey to Happy Happy, I share what my one-year-old son has been teaching me about belonging, purpose, fearlessness, and the identities we collect along the way.

Children do not enter this world questioning whether they deserve to be here. They laugh, explore, take up space, and bring their full energy into every room. Somewhere along the journey, many of us begin to forget that we were once the same way.

We start attaching ourselves to labels like anxious, awkward, broken, the black sheep, too much, or not enough. But what if those are not identities? What if they are simply experiences your nervous system has been carrying?

This episode is an invitation to stop talking yourself out of the spaces you were divinely led into, release the stories that keep you small, and remember that your presence has purpose—not because of what you accomplish, but because of who you already are.

You do not have to earn your place here.

You do not have to become someone else to be worthy.

You already belong.

The journey is the joy.

Happy Happy. 🤍