Embracing Your Glow-Up—From Giver to Receiver

Welcome back to Spiritual Glow-Up! In this exciting new season, Colleen St. Michaels invites you into a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment. Today, we’re diving deep into the often unrecognized cost of being the “gold medalist giver” in our lives—the reliable friend, the emotional rock. While giving can feel noble, it can also lead to emotional exhaustion and a blurred sense of identity.

Key Takeaways:

- Recognizing Your Role: Learn how identifying solely as a giver can overshadow your own needs and desires, leaving you feeling like a doormat.

- The Power of Balance: Discover the importance of aligning your giving with receiving, and how this balance can rejuvenate your spirit and relationships.

- Listening to Your Inner Voice: Colleen emphasizes the need to tune into your intuitive whispers that guide you to prioritize yourself and your well-being.

- Breaking the Cycle of People-Pleasing: Understand how the patterns of self-neglect and unreciprocated giving can create unbalanced relationships and what you can do to shift this dynamic.

- Small Steps Toward Change: Colleen shares practical strategies for reclaiming your time and energy, encouraging you to start with small, digestible actions that honor yourself.

This episode is a heartfelt reminder that you deserve to take the best piece of life without guilt or hesitation. Join Colleen as she guides you through the process of glowing up from the inside out, empowering you to embrace your true self.

Episode Summary

In this episode, Colleen St. Michaels dives deep into the concepts of values and integrity, guiding listeners on a journey to uncover their core values that ignite their purpose and fulfillment. Through practical exercises and reflective questions, Colleen encourages individuals to confront the areas where they may be compromising their integrity and boundaries. Listeners will learn to identify their non-negotiables and take actionable steps towards a life aligned with their true selves.

In this insightful and candid episode of Ask Colleen, Colleen St. Michaels explores the concept of "failing forward" and how setbacks can fuel soul growth. Sharing personal anecdotes and experiences from her clients, Colleen encourages listeners to view failure not as an end, but as a stepping stone toward personal and spiritual expansion.

Life may feel like it’s "under construction"—literally and metaphorically—but Colleen reminds us that obstacles are opportunities for transformation. This episode dives deep into how fear of failure, disappointment, and fear of looking foolish can hold us back from living fully. Colleen emphasizes the importance of taking radical accountability for our choices, emotions, and healing.

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Join Colleen for this empowering episode and learn how to embrace failure as a necessary and transformative part of your spiritual journey.

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Tune in to this episode to learn how to harness your setbacks and step confidently into your soul’s purpose. Remember, failure is not the end—it’s just a redirection toward your higher self!

In this episode, Colleen St. Michaels discusses the fear of judgment and criticism that holds people back from aligning with their soul's flow and genius. She emphasizes the importance of viewing challenges as opportunities for growth and exploring the patterns that hold us back. Colleen also talks about the misconception of constantly searching for a purpose and highlights the significance of practicing self-love, self-compassion, and self-forgiveness. She shares the role of angels in supporting and guiding us on our spiritual journey and encourages listeners to embrace their own light and make a positive contribution to the world.

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- Fear of judgment and criticism can hold us back from aligning with our soul's flow and genius.

- Challenges are opportunities for growth and exploring patterns that hinder our progress.

- The search for a purpose can be a misconception; our purpose is to experience Earth School and practice self-love, self-compassion, and self-forgiveness.

- Angels play a significant role in supporting and guiding us on our spiritual journey.

- Embracing our own light and making a positive contribution to the world is a powerful way to live our soul's genius.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Fear of Judgment

01:29 Challenges as Opportunities for Growth

04:20 The Misconception of Constantly Searching for a Purpose

06:19 Practicing Self-Love, Self-Compassion, and Self-Forgiveness

11:01 The Role of Angels in Our Spiritual Journey

17:10 Embracing Our Light and Making a Positive Contribution

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fear of judgment, criticism, aligning with soul's flow, challenges as opportunities, patterns, misconception of purpose, self-love, self-compassion, self-forgiveness, angels, spiritual journey, embracing light, positive contribution

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Learn how to overcome a lifetime of anxiety and fear, and discover practical steps to unlock your soul's genius. Break free from fear-based living and embrace inner peace and presence.

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Growing up, fear was the love language spoken in my household. It wasn't about fearing or worrying about my basic needs or my parents being met, but rather about participating in activities outside those four walls. Even seemingly natural activities, like walking to a friend's house, would become the subject of elaborate dissertations about all the potential dangers I might encounter. I could get hit by a car while crossing the street, be kidnapped by a stranger, or simply get lost. From a young age, I was unconsciously programmed to live in fear of everything and everyone, to believe that stepping beyond my front door meant stepping into danger. This constant fear was like a blockage in my soul grid, preventing me from living in my natural state of being and expressing my soul's genius.

I thought I'd done much inner work to overcome the unconscious joylessness I carried within me until I met an unexpected teacher. My partner and I decided to get our boating licenses and needed to complete an on-water certification. I was prepared to feel anxious about being in charge of a vessel. As I was performing one of the test requirements, the captain said, "Relax, boating is meant to be fun and a place to feel free. Of course, you want to take it seriously, but you can't let your overthinking and fear outweigh the joy of it." Boom! That comment hit me like a wave. I asked him, "How do I relax, then?" He replied, "When you're relaxed, you can be present and respond to any dangers that might arise." At that moment, it was like watching a video montage of my life, seeing all the moments that could have been fun but that I chose to be uncomfortable and worry through it sit out because I didn't have the emotional and mental energy to invest. It was a sign that I needed to clear the fear blockage from my soul grid.

The Lesson: Shifting from Fear to Freedom and Unlocking Your Soul's Genius

The captain's words were a wake-up call. I realized I'd been letting fear hold me back for far too long. As a personal inner investigator, I asked myself how I could shift from this mindset and clear the blockages in my soul grid on a deeper level. Here are some lessons I've learned on my journey from fear to freedom:

It's time to break free from fear-based living and unlock your soul's genius. You can clear the blockages in your soul grid and live a life of presence, joy, and freedom. You can start your journey today.

Description: Discover how to overcome the patterns of holding back and fully embody your unique gifts and talents. Learn practical steps to embrace your divine genius and live a soul-fulfilling life.

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Do you feel a burning calling within you, a unique message, gift, or craft that sets your soul ablaze with purpose? Or have you been holding back, dimming your light to fit in, or seeking approval? Holding back is a form of self-betrayal, often rooted in the illusion of separation and the fear of not being enough. It's a pattern that can prevent you from fully embodying your divine genius and living the soul-fulfilling life that's your birthright.

When you withhold your gifts, you deprive the world of the love and value you could provide and deny yourself the opportunity to grow, shine, and make a meaningful impact. Your unique talents and perspectives are a part of your sacred essence, and suppressing them can lead to feelings of unfulfillment and disconnection from your true self.

But how do we break free from this pattern of holding back? The first step is recognizing how we displace our energy onto distractions that prevent us from facing our fears and fully believing in our divine worth. Common displacement patterns include:

It's time to transcend these displacement patterns and face what's holding you back. Your divine genius is a gift, not just to you but to the world. By embracing your uniqueness and sharing your talents boldly, you'll find greater purpose and soul satisfaction and inspire others to do the same.

So, what's been holding you back? What message, gift, or craft has been burning inside you, waiting to be expressed? What distractions have you used to displace your energy and avoid leaping?

In this episode, Colleen St. Michaels discusses the concept of viewing life as a play or a TV show and taking on different roles. She encourages listeners to reflect on the roles they play in their own lives and in the lives of others. Colleen emphasizes the importance of detaching from attachments and being in the flow of life. She also shares an exercise to help listeners identify the roles they have assigned to people in their lives and reassess those assignments. The episode concludes with a reminder to take ownership of actions, release negativity, and create a narrative that brings joy and fulfillment.

In this episode, Colleen St. Michaels and Kristen Griffiths discuss mediumship and spirituality. Kristen shares her inspiration for starting her podcast, Clarity to Consciousness, which aims to make spirituality more accessible to beginners. They also explore the question of whether anyone can be a medium and what qualities to look for when seeking a medium. Colleen explains the difference between speaking with angels and speaking with loved ones who have crossed over, emphasizing the importance of living life fully and not being afraid to take risks. In this part of the conversation, Colleen St.Michaels discusses the potential dangers and precautions in mediumship practices. She explains that lower vibrational entities are attracted to light and that spiritual hygiene is essential for protection. She emphasizes the importance of personal vibration and discernment when connecting with spirits. Colleen also cautions against using Ouija boards and shares a personal experience of a client who connected with a false light. She advises listeners to trust themselves and their intuition and offers insights into how mediums perceive spirits.

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In this episode of "Ask Colleen, Spiritual Solutions for Life Situations," Colleen St. Michaels discusses the importance of holding space for individuals who are going through intense grief and loss during mediumship sessions.

In this episode of "Ask Colleen Spiritual Solutions for Life Situations," Colleen St. Michaels addresses the common struggle of feeling insecure, envious, and self-doubting as a new spiritual practitioner. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing that no one is your competition and that jealousy stems from personal insecurities. Colleen advises practitioners to do inner shadow work, acknowledge their feelings, and release them. She also encourages practitioners to focus on doing work that brings them joy and fulfillment. By blessing others' success, practitioners can attract abundance into their own lives.

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In the world of spirituality, dreaming is not limited to the realm of sleep. It extends to the dreams and aspirations we have for our lives. Colleen St. Michaels, a spiritual practitioner, emphasizes the importance of dreaming big and never stopping. She shares her personal struggle with limiting her dreams due to fear and the belief that they would never come true. However, she realized that our dreams are not static; they continue to evolve and expand as we grow. By embracing the power of dreaming, we open ourselves up to the infinite possibilities that exist within us and in the world around us.

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Colleen St. Michaels is a renowned Intuitive Spiritual Teacher specializing in Intuitive Development. She is a coach, motivational speaker, author, and a pioneer in the Spiritual Healing community, often called the healer's healer. Colleen works with individuals and groups, teaching tools to help them reach their highest potential emotionally, spiritually, professionally, and physically.For more than a decade, she has worked with thousands of clients, witnessing their transformations through her methods.

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