Practical Shamanism

One of the hardest things is getting to clarity of whether to stay or go when we love someone deeply but the day-to-day experience of the relationship isn't working for us. This is further complicated when we have a deep and authentic soul connection, what people sometimes call twin flames or soul mates. In this two-part series, I will talk about all the things to consider to get to clarity about whether to stay or go. People who can feel soul connection need more complicated maps for navigating relationship choices than the mainstream frameworks can offer. I hope to help with that.

Even if you aren't currently in the "do I stay or go" dilemma, these ways of understanding both the eternal and human aspects of these situations can help build self-trust enabling us to be open to exploring with someone in the future. If you can trust in your own discernment with the help of a more complete map, you may be able to see more clearly what does and doesn't work for you and be able to sort through potential connections more effectively. This also allows for endings to be navigated, if that outcome is necessary, with far less emotional and psychological pain or second guessing.

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If you're sensitive to energy, this 2020/2021 chapter of human experience has been impactful at an additional level beyond all the obvious ones. The loudness of the human collective consciousness can overstimulate you and make it harder to connect into the larger peace and beauty of the universe. It can feel like trying to meditate with your neighbors playing your least favorite music loud enough to vibrate the walls of your house. But don't worry, there are ways to turn down the volume of the outside world.

Get some tips for working with this! For further study, I recommend my Energy Body Illumination Program as a comprehensive guide: https://academy.handsoverheart.com/course/details/energy-body-illumination

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People often don't believe, in their heart of hearts, that there are other potential friends or romantic partners amid the vast majority of humans they have yet to meet. In this episode, I talk about the origin of this particular cognitive bias and how to work around it.

There's a lot that goes into successful relating to other people, both in terms of inner work and in terms of sorting. But, for our ancestors and in our past lives, there really was a scarcity issue and a need to make it work with the people you were born with rather than the modern problem of meeting and sorting though so very many humans to create your personally aligned tribe.

This can cause us to try to make it work in dynamics that are unhealthy. It can feel like a choice of being in an unhappy relationship or being alone, rather than a third choice of investing the energy that was going into the unhealthy relationship into exploring new possibilities of more sustainable human connection. Furthermore, we don't always think in problem-solving terms about how to create chances to meet and get to know other people. Building skills for socializing and connecting successfully with other humans is an incredibly good investment of time and energy. This is far better than perfecting walking on egg-shells around someone who hasn't addressed their childhood wounds.

Now is a time when so many old, amazing, luminous souls have incarnated at the same time in order to get in on the humanitarian work of influencing our collective destiny for the good of all concerned. So, the chance to connect with so many smart, kind, inspired, and engaged people is perhaps the greatest it's ever been in the history of the world.

Looking for a New Friend or Beloved? You're in the Right Time!

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Codependent overgiving feels icky and exhausting. But did you know that energetically sensitive people are more vulnerable to codependent dynamics? In addition to all the psychological reasons, the child who is sensitive to energy feels other people's unhappiness. And, since we don't train people in managing energetics, often the child has no way to tell whether the anger or fear is theirs or coming from someone they're connected to. Trying to control everything so you can keep everyone around you happy can be a childhood survival strategy as well as enlightened self-interest.

Congratulations on being an adult survivor of childhood! As an adult you have so many more choices for meeting needs around safety, comfort, and connection that are more holistic.

In addition, those who express the Archetype of the Healer (professionally or personally) often need to provide this aspect with adult supervision to prevent overgiving, care-taking, and personal depletion. I see many professional practitioners for whom an authentic vocational calling to healing work is entwined with codependency, leaving them depleted and resentful.

Learn more about this dynamic and how to relate to people in a cleaner, more successful fashion.

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Get the details of the protocol! My guides have a powerful approach to dismantling addiction in a way that shifts away from being at war with yourself. While long-term, abstinence may be the path of peace, in the short term, interrupting the automatic flow and making a healthier deal with yourself around engaging with the thing you're trying to quit can help to shift the experience. My guides offer a very specific approach here.

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To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

In addressing addiction, it's valuable to understand ourselves through a compassionate lens. Your intensity of need for the thing you're trying to let go of may be outdated. And it can be helpful to understand how your own biology may push you in a not so healthy direction if you don't know how to provide it with adult supervision.

This approach is more aligned if a) you have the ability to sit with some emotionality, at least briefly, even if you don't much enjoy it and b) your addiction is something important to address but not something that any additional usage will create an immediate and terrible detrimental result in your life.

My guides offer an approach that honors both the part of you that prizes the pleasure and relief that substance or behavior provides as well as the part of you that is invested in long-term health and well-being. When we've been fight with ourselves over an addiction for a long time, those parts become polarized and stuck in a massive power struggle. This work offers a path of reconciliation that puts your inner wise person in the role of the benevolent mediator that works for the good of both aspects.

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DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

If you're someone who is dealing with entities, I'm so sorry. I know it can be scary and stigmatized. I hope to share information that will help you deal with the situation in an effective and practical way. If you're not someone who is dealing with entities, you might want to skip this podcast unless you can think of them as you would the creatures in a National Geographic special about animals in another part of the world: interesting, but not something you need to worry about.

In this episode, I'll share more about different kinds of entities and give you some resources to learn how to protect your energy body and your home space. I've been clearing entities for over 20 years now, so I have a lot to share on the subject.

If you'd like to go deeper, check out my full program: Free Yourself From Entities https://academy.handsoverheart.com/course/details/free-yourself-from-entities

I also just published a book called Freedom From Entities which is available on Amazon.

Or, if you'd like individual support, you can learn more here: https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/compassionate-entity-removal/

Book Recommendations:

• Freedom From Entities by Katie Weatherup
• Psychic Protection by Ted Andrews
• Practical Shamanism by Katie Weatherup

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DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

You know how some amazing, heart-centered people have a longing to carry less weight but feel hopeless because everything they've tried has failed? While strongly supporting body positivity and believing in "healthy at any weight", if you also desire to carry few pounds, I'd love to share some wisdom from my guides about approaching this in a way that is graceful and kind. People often don't understand that sometimes aspects of ourselves have a misguided idea they are helping us, or even working to save our life, with behaviors that cause us to gain weight rather than release it.

If you want to go deeper, please check out my Shamanic Weight Loss Program here: https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/weightloss/

I also have the following articles: Shamanic Weight Loss and Shamanic Wisdom for Holistic Weight Loss

I also offer a free Facebook support group for women: https://www.facebook.com/groups/244257910337611 This is open to those who identifies as a woman and those who are non-binary but mostly perceived as a woman by others. Just make sure you respond to the questions to join the group. I also support men in the shamanic weight loss program, but due to the complexity of societal issues around weight loss and their different impact on women, I'm choosing a very specific container for the Facebook group.

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DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

While the two may go together, energetic and emotional sensitivity are a quality, either innate or developed, that allows us to sense that which is subtle and nuanced. Reactivity, on the other hand, is often about unresolved past emotions and sometimes a need for an upgrade in skills for relating to other people.

The question of whether someone is "too sensitive" whether it arises as an internal conversation or based on a reflection from another person can be complicated to unpack. The podcast just scratches the surface, but it can be a starting place for evaluating the validity of the feedback and helping you know what to do about it. For example, if you're dealing with a person who is messy and harsh with others and not interested in being responsible for the impact of their behavior on others, they may use "too sensitive" in an effort to shut down any efforts to address their behavior. This is a different case than a healthy person earnestly trying to let you know that your reactivity makes it hard to sustain relationship.

This podcast will give you a starting place to begin looking at the questions, "Is it me?" "Is it them?" "Or is it both?" And, it will give you a map for how to start to get clear enough to respond effectively in any of those cases.

Want some support for going further with resolving reactivity? My friend Nathan has a lot to offer in Center for Emotional Education: https://www.centerforemotionaleducation.com/

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DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

My guides have often illuminated the richness and beauty of the soul experience of being transgender. There's also deep compassion regarding the harm that prejudiced human frameworks cause. There are good reasons a soul may opt to come into a body which has a biological sex that is different from the individual's gender. Sometimes the soul's plan doesn't go as elegantly as hoped for or the discomfort is much greater than anticipated. Sometimes the soul's goal is activism. Sometimes it's about mastery in the less familiar form of magic and energy work that is more aligned with the energy body of a man or a woman even though that's in opposition to the soul's gender identity and affinity. In any of these cases, a person may find themselves navigating a tension between the soul's gender and the body's birth sex. Sometimes, it can be supportive to realign the energy body to the correct gender configuration matching that of the soul rather than the human biology. Also, learning to move in sexuality in a manner aligned with gender, regardless of anatomy, creates space for a freer, fuller, and more aligned expression.

This is by no means a comprehensive discussion on the subject, just some frameworks that I've seen from the transgender clients I've had the honor to support. I apologize for any misused terms or incorrect language in talking about this subject. I incorrectly used "gender" when the correct term would have been "sex" in several places. In addition, the most up to date language changes quickly and I have more of an engaged and curious layperson level of education about the social justice conversations regarding transgender issues rather than expertise, so I may well have made other errors as well. I hope you'll grant me grace. And, if you're someone who would be hurt by incorrectly used terms or language, please don't listen to this episode, since the last thing I would ever want to do is cause distress.

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DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com