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In this week's conversation, Cristina speaks with Mariah, a mother of three, dancer, realtor, and author in progress, about the spiritual journey that shaped her life and writing. They explore automatic writing, reparenting, unconditional love, and how Mariah moved from organized religion toward a more personal connection with Mother Nature, source, and her higher self.
Mariah also shares how journaling, meditation-like grounding, and daily writing helped her process trauma, deepen compassion, and eventually begin a memoir built from journals she has kept since childhood.
Key topics
- Mariah’s life and career path - She shares how she spent her adult life teaching dance, opened her first studio at 23, later sold the business, moved back to the mountains in British Columbia, and eventually got her real estate license during COVID.
- Early spirituality and religion - She describes growing up Catholic with her grandmother, feeling disconnected in church, and realizing much later that she was already tuning into a different kind of spirituality.
- Manifestation without knowing the word - While sitting in church as a child, she imagined her adult life as a wife, mother, and homeowner, later recognizing those visualizations as early manifestation.
- Family trauma and reparenting - Mariah opens up about growing up in a home shaped by addiction, dysfunction, and emotional absence, then explains how her psychologist encouraged her to reparent herself through compassionate journaling.
- Compassion that changed everything - Writing to her younger self helped her soften toward her children and others, replacing fixing and dismissing with listening and emotional validation.
- Discovering automatic writing - After hearing Elizabeth Gilbert describe a spiritual practice, Mariah began asking for guidance from Mother Nature and later realized the words coming through were wiser and more loving than her usual inner voice.
- Designing a higher power - She explains how she changed the language of God to Mother Nature so she could receive guidance without the old image of a judging figure in the sky.
- Writing as daily practice - Mariah describes her ritual of cacao or green tea, incense, grounding breaths, and writing in the early morning before distractions begin.
- The memoir breakthrough - While writing at night one day, she received a strong inner message that her real book was waiting in the stack of journals she had kept since fourth grade, leading her to transcribe her life story from childhood through age 25.
- Unconditional love and healing - She connects automatic writing to a deeper understanding of unconditional love, especially through her grandmother, and says this awareness helped her make difficult life changes.
- Everyone can try it - Both Cristina and Mariah emphasize that automatic writing is accessible, and that people can begin with one question, one word, or even voice notes if journaling feels hard.
Timestamps
00:00 - Introducing Mariah, her many roles, and the automatic writing conversation
04:53 - From dance studio owner to real estate and back to British Columbia
05:20 - Childhood Catholicism, boredom in church, and what never quite fit
10:10 - Growing up with addiction, dysfunction, and emotional scarcity at home
12:00 - Imagining adult life in church and realizing it was early manifestation
14:29 - Finding Conversations with God and starting to rethink spirituality
18:02 - Why organized religion began to feel increasingly misaligned
20:58 - A church group praying for her business and a different kind of faith
22:18 - COVID loss, therapy, and the beginning of reparenting work
23:47 - Listing childhood trauma and using journaling as emotional processing
26:08 - Writing to little Mariah with compassion instead of correction
27:37 - How reparenting changed the way she parents her own children
29:04 - Elizabeth Gilbert, spiritual practice, and designing Mother Nature as higher power
31:24 - Asking for guidance and realizing something else was speaking back
33:30 - Advice that sounded far kinder than her normal self-talk
34:57 - Morning writing rituals and why the early hours matter
36:22 - A massage session, an unexpected message, and the start of her book
37:21 - Writing with eyes closed, channeling, and not editing the first draft
42:00 - The nighttime download that revealed her journals were the real book
44:24 - Transcribing childhood journals and building the memoir from memory and pages
46:12 - Ending the memoir at age 25 and leaving space for a second book
48:35 - What automatic writing looks like for Mariah in practice
50:00 - Grounding through breath, roots, and connecting earth to divine
52:28 - Writing brief questions so the guidance stays clear
55:47 - Why the responses feel like unconditional love instead of self-talk
60:27 - Asking who is speaking and receiving messages from specific guides
66:20 - A powerful exercise: writing a letter to a loved one and receiving one back
68:04 - Unconditional love, marriage, and how the practice supported hard decisions
71:17 - Receiving love through her grandmother and the deeper healing that followed
73:48 - What Mariah wants listeners to remember: everyone can do this
75:43 - Where to find Mariah and what’s ahead for her books and name change
Connect with Mariah:
Website: https://www.MariahRealEstateFernie.ca
Instagram: @Mariah_in_Fernie
Facebook: Mariah Sheridan
TikTok: Mariah Sheridan
YouTube: @mariahrunions6611
Learn more about Mariah's upcoming book: https://www.mariahrealestatefernie.ca/mariah-author-speaker
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