Power and Purpose Podcast

Episode 121 — Sacred Rebellion, Neurodivergence & Embracing Your Weird with Io Ash Misako

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In this episode, we dive into Sacred Rebellion, Neurodivergence, and Embracing Your Weird — a raw and enlightening conversation with Io Ash Misako, a psychic channel, intuitive coach, and guide in the subtle realms.

Together, we explore what it means to live as a sacred rebel in today’s world — to hold compassion amidst chaos, to see neurodivergence as divine design, and to reclaim the word weird as a badge of authenticity and spiritual truth.

This is a journey through paradox, sensitivity, multidimensional awareness, and the freedom that comes when we stop masking our magic and start embodying it.

00:00 Intro
07:26 Who are you and who are you not?
10:30 The dark night of the soul & awakening through chaos
14:56 The true meaning of “weird” and why it’s sacred
17:43 Sacred rebellion: holding compassion in a divided world
26:10 Exploring the subtle realms & psychic sensitivity
28:08 Io’s first past-life regression at age eight
33:09 Neurodivergence as the next evolution of humanity
40:15 A channeled message: accept everything, question everything
41:26 Why being “different” is a superpower
48:13 You’re not crazy—you’re awakening
51:17 Developing intuitive gifts through her 1:1 mentorship
54:41 Book recommendations & closing reflections

🌙 Connect with Io Ash Misako
Website: https://ioashmisako.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/ioashmisako
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Psychedelics, Addiction, and IFS: Healing the Parts That Seek Escape 🌿

In this conversation, we explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS) and psychedelic-assisted therapy can illuminate the deeper roots of addiction—revealing not just what we run from, but what within us is asking to be seen, loved, and integrated.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
05:13 Who we are beyond our roles (Sankalpa & identity)
06:25 From addiction to alignment: psychedelics as catalysts for awakening
12:04 What psychedelic-assisted therapy really is
15:19 The risks of “treatment without therapy”
16:24 Toxic individualism & the need for connection in healing
22:10 Trauma vs. growth: difficult vs. bad trips
25:20 Where science meets spirit — the “brackish waters” of therapy
30:20 Mystical experiences and the measurable healing of addiction
36:38 What integration truly means
41:54 IFS, leadership, and parts in business and purpose
44:13 Understanding IFS and the multiplicity of the mind
46:05 Yoga Nidra, Vipassana, and daily practices for integration
51:49 Rumi’s The Guest House – welcoming all parts home

🌿 Connect with Clay Ickes
Website: https://www.kykeonwellness.com
Instagram: @kykeonwellness

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Website: ⁠https://sacredsoulenergetics.com/⁠
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In this episode of The Power & Purpose Podcast, Vanessa Soul sits down with Chris Eaton — Death Doula, spiritual guide, veteran, and co-owner of Trinity Yoga Wellness Center — to explore what it truly means to face death in order to embrace life.

Chris opens up about his journey through trauma, addiction, and a near-death experience that became the catalyst for profound awakening. Together, they dive into the intersections of theology, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom to uncover how acceptance, forgiveness, and breathwork can transform pain into peace.

This conversation is a reminder that we are not here just to survive — we are here to awaken, to connect, and to live with purpose and love.

Highlights:

1. The Root of All Pain

2. Twenty-Four Therapists, No Healing

3. Discovering the Power of Acceptance

4. Forgiveness as the Ultimate Medicine

5. Freedom Beyond Self-Hatred and PTSD

CONNECT WITH CHRIS EATON

🌐 Website: Awakened Lifestyle Profile📘 Facebook: Chris Eaton📸 Instagram: ⁠@chriseaton83⁠

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CONNECT WITH CAROL LOURIE

Website: https://carollourie.com
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pathofsupport
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HealingBeyondBreastCancer
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In this episode of The Power & Purpose Podcast, Vanessa Soul sits down with Carol Lourie, a naturopath, acupuncturist, and homeopath with over 40 years of experience, to explore what it truly means to heal beyond breast cancer. Carol shares her integrative approach that blends mind, body, and spirit...helping women move from survival to wholeness. Together, they discuss emotional resilience, the missing pieces in conventional care, and how reclaiming purpose can become one of the most powerful medicines of all.

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Love isn’t something you earn, it’s who you are. In this conversation with somatic therapist, author, and speaker Megan Sherer, we unpack self-sourced love, the limits of talk therapy, attachment styles, core wounds, and practical somatic tools to ground, heal, and choose yourself.

• Why love must start within before it’s mirrored by others

• How trauma and unhealthy relationships catalyze awakening

• The ceiling of talk therapy & why the body is required for change

• Attachment styles vs. earned secure attachment

• Somatic + grounding practices (including Havening) you can use today

  
  

  TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro
02:14 Guest intro (Somatic therapist, author, speaker)
02:26 Signature Q: “Who are you and who are you not?”
05:34 Self-sourced love & early attachment
07:24 Back-to-back traumas as a catalyst for healing
12:27 Why talk therapy isn’t enough on its own
16:59 Breakups, PTSD, and retraining the brain/nervous system
22:31 Attachment styles, labels, and earned secure attachment
25:13 Core wounds (abandonment, betrayal & more)
30:19 The many forms of love: romantic, platonic, familial, communal, higher, self
36:12 Somatic work: feeling to heal
39:10 Grounding practices + Havening
41:35 Journal + somatic “sandwich” for integration
43:28 Megan’s book: Choose Yourself
46:06 Closing wisdom: “Love is who you are”

Website: megansherer.com
Instagram: @megansherer
Book: Choose Yourself: How to Embrace Being Single, Heal Core Wounds, and Build a Life You Love

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ABOUT AMAYA

Amaya is a Sex and Relationship Coach who helps spiritual professionals rekindle passion, build happy relationships, and have great sex, and has supported hundreds of singles and couples from around the globe. She specializes in working with your attachment styles and uncovering your erotic blueprint so you can communicate with confidence and release shame and guilt around your sexuality so that you can finally start having the sex and intimacy you have always dreamed of. She is the host of “Your Sexual Revolution” the podcast, and founder of Siddha Labs Āyurvedic Supplements.

CONNECT WITH AMAYA

Website: amayashiva.com
Instagram: instagram.com/amayashiva
Facebook: facebook.com/sarahottocombs

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Episode Highlights:

• Amaya shares her journey from shame and disconnection to conscious intimacy and empowered self-expression.

• The truth about attachment styles and how they impact your relationships and desire.

• Breaking free from the “good girl” paradigm and releasing performance pressure.

• Why healing shame is the key to experiencing pleasure and authentic connection.

• How spiritual myths about love and “the one” can actually block intimacy and growth.

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Episode Highlights

1. Turning entrepreneurship into a game of freedom and play.

2. Why community beats the lone-wolf grind.

3. A simple ritual to build confidence and momentum.

4. How “what you don’t want” can clarify purpose.

5. The surprising simplicity of finding your life’s path.

CONNECT WITH BILL WIDMER

Website: billwidmer.comInstagram: instagram.com/billwidmer

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CONNECT W/ VANESSA SOUL https://sacredsoulenergetics.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/vanessaasoul Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.spiva.9/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@vanessaasoulPower & Power Podcast All Apps: https://pod.link/1713095352

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Episode Highlights:

• Brijesh’s journey from Wall Street to purpose-driven entrepreneurship.

• The sacred flow of money through Lakshmi, Saraswati & energy.

• Crypto, decentralization & AI as paths to liberation.

• Entrepreneurship as a mirror for values, shadows & sovereignty.

• Tools to navigate rapid change through breath & attention.

CONEECT WITH BRIJESH PATEL

Website: www.brijesh.co
Instagram: www.instagram.com/forces.at.play
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Patel.brij

CONNECT W/ VANESSA SOUL https://sacredsoulenergetics.com/

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Welcome to the Power & Purpose Podcast

Connect with Vanessa Soul: https://vanessasoul.com/Sacredsoulenergetics

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Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@VanessaSoulWork

Highlights from this episode:

• Beauty as a spiritual practice

• Self-image, worthiness & energy

• Micro-focused ultrasound explained

• From “midlife crisis” to upgrade

• Abundance, vibration, and flow

ABOUT Rhianon Cote

A natural born healer & guide! The resliant Rhianon has risen from the ashes multiple times in her life. Born into poverty and deep ancestral trauma, Rhianon has never let her circumstances get the best of her..if anything she has risen higher in spite of them. In her most recent "phoenixing'' Rhianon dug deep into the world of aesthetics as part of her self care journey and discovered Ultherapy, a soundwave technology that is used for nonsurgical facelifts, skin tightening and hair restoration. Having had amazing results herself she felt compelled to join Ferrer Aesthetics and become a master technician of micro-focused ultrasound performing custom ultherapy treatments with the patented Ferrer Technique!

CONEECT WITH HER:

IG: soundwavebeauty

Website: soundwavebeauty.com

CONNECT W/ VANESSA SOUL https://sacredsoulenergetics.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/vanessaasoul

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Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@VanessaSoulWork

Highlights from this episode:

• Identity as frequency: balancing Serena (ego self) and Serenity (higher self).

• From modeling and Hollywood socialite life to energy healing and NLP.

• The power of the heart frequency to illuminate old stories and open to unconditional love.

• Choosing presence and surrender when the world feels chaotic.

• A channeled message of reassurance: “You are not alone.”

Tune in to receive deep wisdom, practical guidance, and heart-centered transmissions that will help you remember who you truly are.

ABOUT SERENITY:

Serena is the human avatar name for Serenity, her higher frequency, evolved self.  Together they channel universal knowledge and divine wisdom from the conscious connection.  Through the years and many modalities of learning & seeking truth, the purpose & mission still stand true… To Unite our people under one entity, Unconditional Love.
CONNECT WITH SERENITY:

• Website: serenagentry.com / hearttribez.com / journeytoremembering.net
  

• Instagram: instagram.com/serenad982
  

• Facebook: facebook.com/Serenity-Dawn

CONNECT W/ VANESSA SOUL https://sacredsoulenergetics.com/

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