Embodied Soul

What if receiving isn't about having the experience you expected? 

In this episode, Joanne explores six powerful keys that can help you become more available to wisdom, healing, guidance, and personal transformation.

Inspired by reflections from the Higher Consciousness Living Summit, this conversation explores the importance of consciously choosing the fields we enter, setting intentions that create trust and openness, receiving beyond the messenger, and recognizing our own role in the receiving process.

Joanne also shares why some of the most meaningful gifts arrive before we fully understand them—and why receiving more doesn't necessarily mean having bigger experiences.

This episode is an invitation to approach spiritual experiences with greater awareness, discernment, and trust, while discovering the many ways your own soul may already be communicating with you.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zFgF_fUhLZw (Recorded at the Beach)

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 What Does It Mean to Receive?
00:01:59 Choosing the Right Field (Key 1)
00:11:56 Intention, Trust, and Openness (Key 2)
00:16:22 Receiving Beyond Expectations (Key 3 & 4)
00:21:33 You Are Part of the Experience (Key 5)
00:26:57 Trusting What You've Received (Key 6) 

If souls choose experiences, then why is there karma?

This thoughtful community question opens the door to a deeper exploration of karma, soul agreements, responsibility, compassion, and conscious living.

In this episode, Joanne shares her personal understanding of karma—not as punishment, but as balancing, understanding, and experience. She explores why intention matters, how soul-level perspectives can coexist with human responsibility, and why understanding is never the same as indifference.

Together we’ll explore:

• Karma as balancing rather than punishment
• Why consciousness and intention matter
• Soul agreements and personal accountability
• Compassionate action without spiritual bypassing
• The question: “What is mine to do?”
• How to honor both the soul’s perspective and the human experience

A reflective conversation for anyone navigating the intersection of spirituality, compassion, responsibility, and everyday life.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pbQfdffv4IM (Recorded at the Beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 The Question About Karma
00:04:24 Intention, Responsibility & Soul Agreements
00:09:07 Compassion Without Bypassing
00:11:54 How Do I Want to Show Up?
00:13:43 The Mountain and the Trail 

What if the real question isn’t whether you’ve done enough…

What if the question is who’s deciding?

In this episode of Embodied Soul, Joanne explores what she calls the Productivity Committee—the collection of inner voices and patterns that have helped her build a career, stay consistent, and get things done.

But beneath the topic of productivity lies a deeper inquiry.

How do we know when the measures we’ve used to define success are still serving us?

How do we recognize when we’ve begun overriding our own needs?

And what might change if we started listening to the quieter voice underneath all the planning, striving, and doing?

Through personal stories, reflection questions, and a simple practice called Following the First Whisper, this episode invites you to become curious about the hidden scoreboards shaping your life—and whether they’re still the ones you want to use.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VzaWJWqZ-jk (Recorded at the Beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:03 Productivity and Self-Worth
00:04:52 The Productivity Loop
00:07:38 The Productivity Committee
00:08:31 New Metrics for Success
00:12:55 Becoming Curious About Yourself

What if the person you’re reacting to isn’t the person standing in front of you—but a story you’re carrying about them?

In this week’s Embodied Soul episode, Joanne explores how the stories, assumptions, and lenses we carry shape the way we experience ourselves, others, and the world around us.

Through two personal experiences, she shares how both receiving and projecting outdated stories can influence relationships, self-perception, and emotional well-being.

You’ll discover:

• How projections work in both directions

• Why people sometimes relate to old versions of us

• A practical five-step process for recognizing outdated lenses

• How awareness creates choice

• Why what you admire in others may reveal something about yourself

This conversation is an invitation to become curious about the stories you carry—and to ask whether they’re still true.

Because sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves and each other is the willingness to update the lens.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XuCF2a5uQO0 (Recorded at the Beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Seeing Through Old Stories
00:02:24 Projection in Both Directions
00:07:16 Awareness Creates Choice
00:10:26 Positive Projections & Hidden Gifts
00:11:16 Updating the Lens

What if the return of an old wound isn’t a sign that you’re failing… but a sign that your healing is working?

In this episode of Embodied Soul, Joanne responds to a community question about a deep abandonment wound and explores a challenge many people face on the healing journey: the discouragement that can arise when familiar patterns, triggers, or wounds seem to return again and again.

Through the metaphors of spirals, staircases, and layers of winter clothing, this conversation offers a different way of understanding healing—one that invites greater trust, compassion, and patience with the process.

In this episode:

• Why healing often happens in spirals rather than circles
• How recurring wounds can reveal deeper layers ready for healing
• Signs that your healing is already working
• Questions to explore when old patterns resurface
• The difference between abandonment and aloneness
• What it means to stay present with ourselves through the healing journey

If you’ve ever wondered why something keeps coming back despite all the work you’ve done, this episode is for you.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Bvsp705k3wQ (Recorded at the Beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 When Healing Feels Repetitive
00:02:52 Healing in Spirals
00:04:37 Layers of Healing
00:07:01 Evidence of Growth
00:09:17 Questions for Deeper Healing

What do we do when pain enters the body, grief enters the heart, or life becomes so overwhelming that our spiritual understanding seems to disappear?

In this deeply compassionate Embodied Soul conversation, Joanne responds to a powerful community question about navigating illness, loss, physical pain, grief, and uncertainty.

Together we explore how to remain in relationship with ourselves during life’s most difficult moments—not by bypassing what we’re feeling, but by meeting ourselves with honesty, presence, and compassion.

In this episode:

• Why your job is not to be enlightened, but to be human

• How to return to the present moment when the future feels overwhelming

• The simple question that can change everything

• Staying connected to your body during difficult times

• Receiving support without shame

• A gentler understanding of surrender

• Finding moments of softness when joy feels out of reach

If you’re moving through a difficult season—or supporting someone who is—this conversation is an invitation to take the next breath, one moment at a time.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-hmOhl6HAtQ (Mountain Jungle Views)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 When Life Feels Overwhelming
00:04:58 Returning to the Present Moment
00:08:33 Receiving Support
00:09:59 Surrender & Self-Compassion
00:12:02 What Is Enough Right Now?

What do you do when the old way no longer fits, but the new way hasn’t fully revealed itself yet?

In this episode of Embodied Soul, Joanne explores a question submitted by a community member about creating something new when there is no roadmap, role model, or clear path forward.

Together we explore why humanity has traditionally created from the past, how that can unintentionally recreate the very experiences we are trying to move beyond, and what it means to become an explorer of the unknown.

This conversation touches on trust, intuition, Higher Self guidance, following energy, the role of curiosity, and the powerful image of navigating through fog one stepping stone at a time.

If you’ve been standing on the edge of change and wondering how to move forward, this episode offers a grounded and compassionate perspective for the journey.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s9Tjgbp25Yg (Recorded at the beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Standing on the Threshold of the New
00:05:21 Trusting Yourself Without a Roadmap
00:10:33 Following Energy Instead of Certainty
00:14:31 The Fog, the Stepping Stones, and the Next Step

What if some of the things you’ve labelled as worry are actually a form of perception you haven’t yet learned how to interpret?

After three different people told her she worried too much, Joanne began investigating what was really happening beneath the surface.

In this episode of Embodied Soul, she explores the difference between fear-based projection and pattern-based perception, the subtle distinction between receiving information and reacting to it, and why discernment may be one of the most important practices of our time.

You’ll also be guided through a simple experiment designed to help you better understand how intuition, fear, perception, and knowing uniquely arrive through your own system.

Because not everything that looks like worry is fear.

Sometimes it is awareness arriving before certainty.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a4rVI5F53gc (Recorded at the beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Three People Told Me I Worry Too Much
00:03:50 Perception and Fear Are Not the Same
00:07:11 Discernment and Self-Inquiry
00:09:41 The Pattern Journal Experiment
00:11:13 Awareness Before Certainty

Why does life sometimes feel harder right after we pray, start manifesting, or ask for something deeply meaningful?

In this episode of Embodied Soul, Joanne explores the idea that the obstacles, fears, delays, and emotional turbulence that often arise after we ask for something may not be signs of failure at all—but part of the arrival process itself.

Through a grounded and emotionally resonant metaphor of a plane waiting to land while debris is cleared from the runway, this conversation explores:

If you’ve been feeling discouraged, delayed, emotionally overwhelmed, or like your prayers are going unanswered, this episode offers a softer and more supportive way to understand what may be unfolding.

Maybe the runway is simply still being cleared.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KHAM2s2FH98 (Recorded at the beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Unanswered Prayers & Obstacles
00:02:53 Clearing the Runway
00:06:40 Love, Fear & Trusting the Process
00:10:27 Perspective, Alignment & Reframing
00:14:34 Trusting the Landing

Have you ever reacted so quickly or intensely that even you were surprised by it?

In this week’s Embodied Soul episode, Joanne shares a deeply personal reflection on emotional reactions, unconscious conditioning, and the inner parts of ourselves that quietly shape how we move through life.

This conversation explores the moment awareness enters a reaction… and how that awareness can begin changing everything.

Together, we explore:

This episode is not about becoming perfect.

It’s about becoming aware enough to stop unconsciously becoming every reaction, every pattern, and every inner voice that passes through us.

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LINKS

My Website: https://joannecary.com/

My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joannecary

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/al50Mv00SBk (Recorded at the beach)

Award Winning New Book: Get Ready; They’re Here: Preparing for Open Contact – A Guide for Humanity in the Age of Awakening

FREE REALIGN TO YOUR DIVINE BLUEPRINT ACTIVATION

Just like you take your car into a mechanic to get it tuned up, the Guides tune up and energetically realign our systems so that we’re clean, clear and ready to take the next steps in our lives. This recording will benefit everyone. Get the FREE REPLAY here: https://www.joannecary.com/offers/tMe9GZoL

GIFT OF APPRECIATION

If you enjoy my content and wish to send a "Thank you", you can donate to: https://paypal.me/JoanneCaryGlobal 

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 The Reaction That Surprised Me
00:02:36 The Inner Parts Running Our Lives
00:05:31 Awareness Changes the Pattern
00:07:43 The Small Things Reveal the Deepest Patterns
00:10:13 Meeting Ourselves with Humour & Compassion
00:11:39 A Practice for This Week