Host: Sheryl Glick

Guest: TJ Woodward

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within”, your host Sheryl Glick, Reiki /energy practitioner-teacher/medium and author of The Living Spirit, shares intimate stories of spiritual awakenings, spiritual communication healing energies, miracles and ways to go within to access intuition and Self. Sheryl welcomes TJ Woodward author of Conscious Being, a compelling resource for those seeking self-actualization and a connection to a natural condition that many people are now becoming aware actually exists within each of us.

TJ Woodward shows us how the circumstances of our lives and what we call reality are created by our level of consciousness. We will discuss methods for unlearning and releasing self limiting beliefs/ the illusion of ego, so we can come into alignment with an existence overflowing with compassion love and purposes. TJ Woodward is a spiritual author, speaker, awakening coach and addiction counselor and the founder of Awakened Living in San Francisco. He is also the host of Awakened Living TV and Awakened Living Radio.

TJ was very impressed and moved by his friend, Mary Helen.

Mary Helen’s Seven Spiritual Truths are;

There’s nothing “wrong” with you

There’s only one of us here

The only prayer is thank you

God is within you

Nothing outside of you needs to change

Everyone is perfect, just as they are

We’re not here to get good…only to become real

A beautiful quote which reflects TJ’s journey and wisdom is:

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.

If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate

all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift

you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao TsuIf

TJ listened to his inner-knowing and set out on a course of spiritual exploration. During those times, his spiritual path took him to the highest highs, and the lowest lows. TJ has been driven from “Darkness

to light; from shame to acceptance; separation to oneness; and ultimately to an indescribable sense of personal freedom. After many years of clinging and aversion, I find myself today resting in a greater reality; a deeper experience of joy than I ever knew possible. It has delivered me to this moment and a profound understanding of my true purpose.”

TJ writes, “When I was in my late 30s, I lost everything I had worked so hard to achieve. Without much warning, everything I had strived for and accumulated was gone. Despite feeling devastated, one of the gifts of this experience was that I no longer had anything left to lose. Therefore I had no reason to fear loss of anything. From this experience, I was able to separate out my true self from my material possessions and from the circumstances of my life. I was aware of the “I” that did not change when everything around me completely changed, I decided that if I were going to rebuild my life, I was going to do it from the inside out, not the outside in. I knew that everything outside of me could be taken away in an instant. I had to find a way of recognizing my true foundation. In his book, The Second Book of the Tao, Stephen Mitchell states, “The master knows that in looking forward there are endless possibilities, but looking backwards, there’s only one.” The truth of this statement became vividly clear to me when I was no longer identified with the things that change in my life.”

Sheryl Says “In terms of loss many people fear change and loss…loss of a loved one, loss of a home loss of a job or ability but in truth there never is loss, only an opportunity to remember yourself, and experiences to refine and enlarge your awareness.”

Oprah wrote… “All of life is energy and we are transmitting every moment.