What if saying no didn’t make you selfish — but more peaceful, present, and authentic?
In this heartfelt conversation, hosts Kelly Tibbitts and Shabana Knight are joined by Intuitive Teacher Christine Marcario to explore people pleasing, boundaries, emotional labor, and how to care for yourself without guilt — especially during the holidays.

This episode is a powerful reminder that rest, simplicity, and self-trust are not luxuries — they’re necessities.

🎧 Episode Highlights

In this candid and compassionate discussion, we explore:

• Why people pleasing often leads to burnout, resentment, and exhaustion
• How authenticity can feel uncomfortable — but deeply freeing
• The difference between being kind and overgiving at your own expense
• How to set loving boundaries with family during the holidays
• Letting go of guilt around rest, naps, baths, and saying no
• Emotional labor expectations placed on women — and how to release them
• Simplifying holiday traditions without shame
• Rethinking gift-giving, perfection, and “doing it all”
• Tools for nervous system regulation, hydration, rest, and self-care
• How boundaries actually make relationships healthier
• Abundance mindset, manifestation, and “placing the order” from alignment
• Angel numbers, divine support, and trusting you’re on the right path

This conversation is especially supportive for moms, caregivers, and anyone navigating family expectations, overwhelm, or people-pleasing patterns.

✨ Memorable Takeaways

• You can be a good person without doing everything
• Rest is not something you earn — it’s something you need
• Boundaries are decisions made in advance
• Simpler holidays can be more meaningful
• Saying no doesn’t make you unloving — it makes you honest
• Feeling good is part of alignment and manifestation
• You’re allowed to want more ease, joy, and abundance

👥 Meet the Guests

Kelly Tibbitts
Host of Live A Vibrant Life Podcast
Kelly supports people in aligning their energy and understanding themselves through coaching, Enneagram, and Human Design.
Website: www.kellytibbitts.com

Shabana Knight
Host of Organized Chaos Stories with Shabana
Shabana helps overwhelmed moms declutter their homes and nervous systems to create more peace.
Instagram: @shabana.knight

🌿 Final Reflection

This episode offers gentle permission to slow down, choose yourself, and redefine what the holidays — and life — get to feel like.
You don’t need to be everything for everyone.
You are worthy of rest, peace, authenticity, and abundance — exactly as you are.

If this conversation resonated, consider sharing it with someone who needs permission to breathe a little easier this season.

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If you're feeling tired, overwhelmed, or stretched thin, this Frequency Friday brings you into the soothing emerald-green presence of Archangel Raphael, the angel of emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. This is a short, intentionally guided episode designed to help you slow down, receive, and reconnect with your inner peace.

In this meditation experience, you’ll soften, breathe, and allow Raphael’s warm healing light to move through the parts of you that have been holding too much. Whether you're listening in a quiet moment or returning later to drop in more deeply, this episode supports restoration, renewal, and divine ease.

What You’ll Experience in This Episode

• A gentle grounding practice to help you arrive in your body
• An introduction to Archangel Raphael and his healing frequency
• Guided visualization with emerald-green light for emotional and physical restoration
• Reminders that you are supported, held, and allowed to rest
• A closing prayer to anchor healing into your day

Episode Prayer

Archangel Raphael, surround me with your emerald green light of healing. Restore my energy, soothe my heart, and bring harmony to my body and spirit. Release the heaviness I've been carrying, known and unknown. Guide me toward health, peace, and renewal in every area of my life. Thank you for healing me gently, fully, and divinely. And so it is.

Listen When You Need:

✨ Emotional renewal
 ✨ Nervous system soothing
 ✨ Support during overwhelm or burnout
 ✨ A moment of grounding and divine comfort
 ✨ A reminder that you don’t have to carry everything alone

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Today on Aligned and Abundant, Christine welcomes Reiki practitioner, medium and intuitive reader Nikki Linarello for a deeply healing and expansive conversation about spiritual awakening, intuitive gifts, and the powerful rise of the Great Mother consciousness.

Nikki shares her early spiritual experiences, including angelic visitations, childhood intuitive moments, and the dreams that initiated her onto the Reiki path over a decade ago. Together, Christine and Nikki explore:

• How spiritual gifts awaken during moments of heartbreak, grief, or identity shifts
• Why 2012, 2020, 2025, and 2026 are pivotal years of collective ascension
• The energetic meaning of returning to the womb of the Great Mother
• Rebirthing yourself through divine feminine frequency
• Understanding timelines, collective expansion, and the next 6-month energetic cycle
• What actually happens in a Reiki session (from an energetic and intuitive standpoint)
• The difference between genuine readers/healers and ego-led spiritual practitioners
• How to connect with your intuition, your guides, and your soul’s highest timeline
• Why stability, safety, and root chakra healing are core to awakening
• How past lives, ancestral wounding, and feminine consciousness shape our fears
• The importance of coming home to yourself and showing up authentically

This episode is rich, emotional, sacred, and full of synchronicities.
 If you're a spiritual seeker, intuitive, or lightworker—this conversation will speak directly to your soul.

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If you’ve been asking for a sign or craving clarity, this Frequency Friday session is for you.
In this episode, you’ll slow down, tune in, and receive divine guidance from Archangel Gabriel, the angel of communication, inspiration, and spiritual clarity.

This guided moment is designed for you to sit quietly, breathe deeply, and allow yourself to be supported.
If you’re listening while busy or on-the-go, feel free to come back when you have a few minutes to drop in fully.

Inside this episode, you’ll experience:

✨ A gentle energetic connection to Archangel Gabriel

💛 A visualization to clear your mind and open your intuition

🔥 Support for speaking your truth, sharing your message, and trusting your voice

🌟 A guided prayer for clarity, courage, and aligned communication

Who is Archangel Gabriel?
Gabriel is known as the divine messenger — a luminous presence who brings truth, direction, and inspired ideas. This angel supports writers, creatives, speakers, coaches, and leaders… anyone who is meant to share their authentic message with the world.

This episode will help you:

• Release doubt around your voice
• Reconnect to your inner wisdom
• Feel safe expressing yourself
• Receive your next aligned step

Take a moment for yourself, breathe, and let Gabriel guide you.

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Feeling drained, unfocused, or overwhelmed in your own home? In this episode, Christine Marcario breaks down how the energy of your space directly impacts your mental health, manifestation, and emotional well-being. Learn simple shifts to create a home that supports clarity, abundance, and your highest self.

Your home holds energetic weight — and in this powerful conversation, Christine helps you understand why clutter isn’t failure, why messiness is deeply human, and how simple micro-rituals can transform your space into a sanctuary for alignment, healing, and manifestation.

Inside this episode, Christine explores:

• The energetic connection between your home and your emotional well-being
• How decluttering becomes a spiritual practice, not a chore
• Why perfectionism blocks abundance (and how to release it)
• Mindful cleaning rituals that clear energy and boost clarity
• How to notice when your home is draining your vibration
• Practical ways to reset your space without overwhelm
• Why your home doesn’t need to be Instagram-perfect to be peaceful
• How clutter communicates your deeper emotional needs
• Creating a supportive environment that reflects the future version of you

Christine also shares personal stories about her own relationship with clutter, how she uses energy clearing to shift her home’s vibration, and the mindset shifts that make cleaning feel grounding rather than exhausting.

Whether your bedroom is overflowing with laundry, your kitchen feels chaotic, or you simply want to feel more peace and spaciousness at home, this episode will help you see your environment through a completely new lens.

You’ll Learn How To:

• Declutter with compassion instead of pressure
• Use small, intentional actions to shift your vibration
• Create micro-rituals that support manifestation
• Understand the spiritual message behind clutter
• Build a home environment that feels nurturing and aligned
• Start transforming your space with what you already have

This is your permission slip to release the idea of perfection and create a home that feels like you — a space that supports your healing, your dreams, and your abundant, aligned life.

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Share it with someone who wants to elevate their energy, transform their space, or create a more peaceful, aligned home. Your share helps this community grow and helps others find the support they need.

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This Frequency Friday is infused with divine protection, clarity, and angelic support. Today, Christine introduces you to Archangel Michael — the angel of truth, strength, and energetic boundaries — and guides you through a powerful grounding meditation and prayer. This episode is perfect for anyone seeking spiritual protection, energetic clearing, or a deeper connection to the angelic realm.

In this week's Frequency Friday drop, Christine shares a fresh, intuitive shift inspired by a divine download: a new mini-series introducing the Archangels. Each upcoming episode will give you a snapshot of who the Archangel is, followed by a short guided meditation and a prayer you can return to anytime you need their presence.

Today’s focus is Archangel Michael, known for:

• Protection
• Courage
• Truth
• Energetic boundaries
• Cutting cords to fear, doubt, and old stories

Inside this episode:

• Learn how Archangel Michael’s deep blue and royal purple light anchors you into safety
• Experience a calming breathwork moment
• Drop into a guided visualization designed to clear overwhelm, confusion, and energetic clutter
• Receive a channeled prayer you can revisit anytime you need strength or protection

Prayer to Archangel Michael (as shared in the episode):
Archangel Michael, surround me now with your deep blue light of protection. Cut cords to fear, doubt, and anything that does not serve my highest path. Help me stand in my truth with confidence, clarity, and strength. Guide my steps, protect my energy, and lead me forward with courage. I am safe. I am supported. I am aligned. And so it is.

If this new Frequency Friday direction resonates with you, share it with someone who could use divine protection, grounding, or a moment of peace today.

Christine is sending you so much love, light, and beauty. ✨

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Can the body truly heal itself — and what happens when we trust the messages it’s sending us?
In this powerful, heart-opening episode, Christine sits down with healer, movement guide, and essential oil alchemist Donna Dimino, who shares the extraordinary story of how she healed breast cancer naturally through intuition, essential oils, detoxing, movement, and deep communion with nature.

Donna opens up about following spiritual guidance onto a labyrinth, receiving divine messages, and reconnecting with the body’s innate wisdom — ultimately discovering how emotional patterns, overgiving, and misalignment shape our health and energy. Her journey is a testament to the soul’s ability to guide us back home.

(Disclaimer: It is strongly recommended that you use only certified therapeutic-grade essential oils and educate yourself fully before consuming or applying any oil.)

In this episode you’ll learn:

• 🌿 How Donna used essential oils, detoxing, intuitive movement, and daily labyrinth walks to support full physical healing
• 🌿 What it means to ask, “What is my part in this?” when facing illness or emotional imbalance
• 🌿 The spiritual and energetic frequencies behind essential oils
• 🌿 How childhood patterns of overgiving and caretaking can create imbalance in the body
• 🌿 Why the body is always a messenger — not an enemy — guiding us toward deeper soul alignment
• 🌿 How nature, intuition, and the feminine energy of Mary Magdalene played a role in Donna’s healing
• 🌿 The path from dancer to intuitive healer and the creation of her “playground for healing”

Donna also shares how she developed her intuitive gifts from childhood, how nature shaped her connection to Spirit, and how she integrates all of this wisdom into the healing work she does today.

If you’ve ever wondered about the power of essential oils, spiritual healing, energy medicine, or the body’s ability to self-correct — this episode is your sign.

This episode is for you if:
✨ You’re craving a deeper relationship with your intuition
✨ You want to understand the emotional and energetic root of illness
✨ You’re curious about natural healing, frequency work, and essential oils
✨ You feel called to reconnect with your body, nature, or your spiritual path
✨ You’re looking for hope, empowerment, and a reminder that healing is possible

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www.livingbodyawareness.com 

Please email Donna at [email protected] if you want to join her upcoming workshop on essential oils on Tuesday, 12/2 from1-2:30pm EST on Zoom for $47. 

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Have you been seeing 333 everywhere? Feeling nudges, pulls, or intuitive whispers that you can’t ignore? Today’s Frequency Friday episode is a transmission — a real-time message that unfolded for me at the Awaken Holistic Expo and was meant to make its way to you.

In this episode, I share the story of a powerful reading that brought through Archangel Metatron loud, clear, and unmistakably. From the moment the first card flipped — Metatron — I knew this message wasn’t just for me. You’ll hear how the universe aligned signs, synchronicities, and angel numbers (especially 333!) to confirm the guidance available for all of us right now.

We’ll explore:
 ✨ My experience at the Awaken Holistic Expo
 ✨ The moment Metatron stepped forward with purpose
 ✨ Why 333 kept showing up everywhere I went
 ✨ How to recognize when your intuition is activating
 ✨ What Metatron is helping you release, remember, and rise into
 ✨ A grounding frequency moment to help you receive today’s message
 ✨ Why you may be stepping into a higher timeline or deeper clarity
 ✨ A beautiful reminder: You are ready. The universe is assisting your next step.

I also share an invitation to revisit this week’s earlier episode on Metatron AND a sneak peek into Tuesday’s upcoming conversation with Donna Dino — a heart-centered, soul-shifting episode you won’t want to miss.

✨ Black Friday Offer:
I’m offering $20 off Distance Reiki sessions for a limited time — reserve yours for $65 instead of $85. This session can be for you or gifted to someone who could use energetic support, clearing, and healing. Purchase here!

If this episode gave you chills, sparked clarity, or if you’ve been seeing 333, send me a message — I love hearing how these frequencies land.
And make sure you’re subscribed so you never miss an episode meant for your soul.

Side note: My Buzzsprout account says I have 4:44 minutes left to add content and this episode is 11:11 minutes long (before my dynamic ad was added) - I mean, if that's not proof the angels approve, I don't know what is! Thank you Angels!

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Your Merkaba is your divine light body — a multidimensional energy field designed for ascension, protection, intuition, and spiritual alignment.
In today’s episode, Christine Marcario, Spiritual Life Coach and Manifestation Mentor, breaks down what the Merkaba really is, how it connects to Archangel Metatron, and why Sacred Geometry is activating so strongly in the collective right now.

This episode is perfect for anyone feeling pulled toward higher consciousness, energetic clarity, or deeper alignment with their soul path.

✨ Key Takeaways

• Your Merkaba is not outside of you — it is you.
• Archangel Metatron supports those ready to step into truth, alignment, and spiritual leadership.
• Sacred geometry is the operating system of your soul.
• When you align with integrity, intuition, and purpose, your Merkaba activates naturally.
• Awakening is accelerating — and if you’re listening, you’re part of the collective wave rising now.

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This week’s episode is a beautiful reminder that the Universe is always speaking to us—through signs, symbols, and unexpected synchronicities. If your faith has felt a little wobbly lately, this story is going to anchor you right back into trust.

In today’s Frequency Friday, I share the magical, serendipitous, and deeply aligned moments that unfolded for me this week—from asking God for a rare sign… to a cascade of “pink” confirmations… to a powerful message about comparison… and finally, a visitation from the wolf totem guiding me into my next chapter.

And before we dive in, I share some exciting news from my soul:
In 2026, I’m officially stepping into my next evolution as a teacher and opening the doors to a brand-new spirituality course.
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In This Episode, We Explore:

• When faith feels wobbly — and why that’s a normal, human part of the spiritual path.
• The pink car story — a divine wink that arrived the moment I fully surrendered.
• The double confirmation — six pink work trucks with the word Alive… right as an EDM song titled Alive was playing.
• Another synchronicity — heading to a café named Pink Pistachio completely unintentionally.
• A message from a former student that landed like a spiritual mic drop:
   “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
• A dream visitation from a wolf — and why this animal totem is guiding me into deeper leadership, freedom, intuition, and soul-family connections.
• How the wolf mirrors my next chapter — stepping into sovereignty, courage, visibility, and spiritual embodiment.
• The bigger theme: Trusting the unseen and walking your path with your heart as your GPS.

The Wolf’s Message (For Me… and Maybe For You):

• You’re calling in your soul family.
• You’re meant to walk this path with support, not alone.
• You are sovereign.
• It’s time to own your truth and be seen.
• Strengthen your boundaries and protect your energy.
• You’re rising into a new level of spiritual leadership.
• Trust your instincts — they’re becoming louder for a reason.

This episode is filled with signs, synchronicities, and the sweetest reminders that the Universe is always communicating with us… especially when we stop gripping and start allowing.

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