The Healing Artist

What if the next level of your life doesn’t require you to DO more—but to feel safe enough to receive more?

In this episode of The Healing Artist, I’m joined by liberation strategist, author, and holistic healer Veronica Kelly for a beautiful, expansive conversation about self-love, emotional freedom, nervous system safety, inherited patterns, energy, and reclaiming our power.

Veronica shares the deeply personal story of how she went from a professional artist and performer to discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) after realizing that subconscious beliefs were influencing the relationships she kept creating.

We talk about what happens when we uncover the beliefs underneath our patterns, why healing can sometimes feel like an expansion followed by a contraction, and why creating safety in the nervous system is such an important part of becoming the person we’re ready to be.

Veronica also shares a simple EFT practice you can use when you’re overwhelmed, frightened, or feeling like life is working against you:

“Everything is working out for me. Even if I can’t see it right now. I am safe.”

And yes, we actually do it together.

We talk about the power of naming what you’re feeling, allowing yourself to have needs, slowing down enough to hear your own truth, protecting your attention, and choosing what you want to feed your energy.

This conversation is ultimately about liberation—freeing ourselves from the beliefs, patterns, expectations, and inherited stories that no longer serve us so we can come home to ourselves.

If you're navigating a big transition, questioning old patterns, working on self-love, or simply wondering what might be possible when you stop fighting yourself, I think you're going to get a lot out of this conversation.

Come listen, breathe, tap, and remember:

You are allowed to come back to yourself.

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What happens when the version of you that got you here is no longer the version of you that can take you where you're going?

In this episode of The Healing Artist, I'm talking about ego death, spiritual awakening, death and rebirth, and the strange, uncomfortable process of letting go of who I thought I was.

I've been watching myself cling to the old versions of me—the tortured childhood, the starving artist, the rage, the constant striving, the need to accomplish the next thing—and realizing that even my healing journey had become another place where I was always trying to climb the next mountain.

So what happens when I stop?

What happens when I stop proving, stop striving, stop chasing the next milestone, and simply ask myself: What do I want right now? What do I need right now?

During a solo camping trip, I had a series of experiences with a bunny, a dead bunny, white lilies, a river full of tadpoles and frogs, and eventually one very chonky tadpole that landed in my hand. And suddenly I understood:

I have been trying to pretend to be the frog.

But what if I could just be the tadpole?

What if becoming is the whole point?

This episode is about sitting in the void, releasing old identities, trusting the process of spiritual transformation, learning to receive, and remembering that I don't have to become some future version of myself to be enough right now.

I also share some very strange and beautiful experiences around manifestation, receiving unexpected gifts, and learning to trust that life can unfold in ways I never could have planned.

Maybe you don't need to have it all figured out.

Maybe you're not behind.

Maybe you're not supposed to be the frog yet.

Maybe you get to be the tadpole.

If you'd like to work with me, come visit me at https://fredahealing.com. You can learn more about Return to Self-Love, my morning meditation community, as well as my private healing sessions.

And I'd love to know: Have you ever experienced an ego death or a season of death and rebirth in your own life?

#EgoDeath #SpiritualAwakening #DeathAndRebirth #SelfLove #SpiritualHealing

What happens when your intuition gets louder—but your logical mind wants answers?

In this episode of The Healing Artist, I’m joined by Nicole Drummond, an intuitive healer, channel, and mentor who helps highly sensitive people and empaths move beyond overthinking, self-doubt, and people-pleasing so they can develop trust in their own intuition and inner authority.

Nicole and I have a deeply honest conversation about what it actually looks like to live a spiritual life while still being a human being in the world. Because awakening doesn't necessarily mean disappearing into an ashram. Sometimes you’re having a profound spiritual experience and then you still have to do the school run, buy groceries, put gas in the car, run your business, and figure out what’s for dinner.

We talk about intuitive development, spiritual awakening, being highly sensitive, channeling, empathy, boundaries, learning to say no, and what happens when we stop trying to force ourselves into someone else's version of spirituality.

Nicole shares her own journey from overthinking and self-doubt into trusting her intuition, including how she began recognizing herself as a channel and how following her intuition transformed the way she approached relationships, work, and her own life.

We also talk about what Nicole calls “certificationitis”—the belief that we need one more course, one more qualification, one more teacher, or one more answer before we're allowed to trust ourselves.

And then things get deliciously personal.

Nicole generously gives me a mini intuitive/channeling session during the conversation, tuning into what I’m currently moving through around letting go, identity, beingness, ego death, and the tension between wanting to expand while also desperately wanting to remain fully human.

She talks about the difference between learning something and remembering it. We explore the possibility that we are not actually incomplete—that perhaps the work isn't always about becoming someone new, but about allowing layers of who we thought we had to be to fall away.

There’s a beautiful thread throughout this conversation about letting go, self-acceptance, discernment, and learning to sit with the unknown.

And honestly? I needed this conversation.

If you are highly sensitive, intuitive, empathic, spiritually awakening, questioning your path, or simply learning how to trust your own inner voice, I think there is something here for you.

✨ Learn more about Nicole Drummond:
https://nicoledrummond.com/

✨ Nicole’s Intuitive Development Training begins November 6, 2026:
https://nicoledrummond.com/intuitive-training-level-1

You can also find Nicole on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and through her website.

And if you’d like to work with me, explore my healing offerings, or learn more about what I’m up to, visit:
https://fredahealing.com/

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What happens when you ask the universe to help you become more visible—and suddenly realize you have a whole lot of inner work to do first?

In this deeply personal episode of The Healing Artist, Freda shares what she’s been moving through during a massive ego death and spiritual awakening. After years of striving, achieving, healing, studying spirituality, and working toward becoming a spiritual teacher, she found herself being invited into something much harder: slowing down, becoming embodied, and learning to simply be.

Freda talks openly about spiritual awakening, ego death, channeling, embodiment, spiritual protection, and why she has temporarily stepped back from Frequency Friday and her channeling practice. She shares a recent experience that caused her to reevaluate how she approaches channeling and spiritual practices, and why she has begun studying with a new teacher.

This episode also explores the messy, nonlinear process of becoming a spiritual teacher—not presenting yourself as a fully formed expert, but allowing people to witness the unfolding along the way.

If you’re experiencing a spiritual awakening, questioning your spiritual path, moving through an ego death, feeling called toward deeper embodiment, or simply learning how to stop striving and allow life to unfold, you may find something here for you.

Freda also talks about:
✨ spiritual awakening and ego death
✨ becoming a spiritual teacher
✨ channeling and spiritual protection
✨ embodiment and staying in your body
✨ surrendering the need to constantly achieve
✨ trusting the unfolding of your spiritual path
✨ stepping back from social media
✨ finding your people and allowing yourself to be seen
✨ healing, growth, and human consciousness

And perhaps the biggest lesson of all:

Sometimes the next step isn't to do more.

Sometimes it's to stop.

If you'd like to work with Freda, join Return to Self Love, explore private healing sessions, or learn more about her work, visit fredahealing.com.

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#SpiritualAwakening #EgoDeath #SpiritualHealing #Embodiment #TheHealingArtist

What if mushrooms could teach us how to live? 🍄In this episode of The Healing Artist, I am joined by Madison Murphy Barney, Indigenous sister, author, and doula, to explore the extraordinary wisdom of mushrooms and the mycelial world.Madison is the author of Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms: Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Planet and Each Other, a book that invites us to look to fungi—not as something separate from us, but as ancient teachers of interconnectedness, adaptability, creativity, cycles, reciprocity, and right relationship.Rather than trying to outsmart the planet or find another 30-step framework for living, Madison invites us to remember something much simpler:We are nature.And perhaps the natural world already knows things we've forgotten.Our conversation moves through some beautiful and challenging territory, including:🍄 Mycelial networks and interconnectedness🍄 What mushrooms can teach us about community🍄 Living in cycles of death, decomposition, and rebirth🍄 Why decomposition isn't destruction—but preparation for new growth🍄 Learning from nature instead of trying to control it🍄 Self-examination and personal accountability🍄 Healing in community🍄 Boundaries, rupture, repair, and relationships🍄 Why we may be too quick to sever relationships🍄 Belonging without abandoning ourselves🍄 Curiosity as a spiritual practice🍄 Our unique gifts and creativity🍄 Ancestral wisdom and resilience🍄 Hope during times of enormous change🍄 What it means to live in right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the planetOne of my favorite parts of our conversation is Madison's exploration of decomposition.We talk about our tendency to "burn it all down and start again," both personally and collectively. But mushrooms offer another possibility: instead of destroying everything and pretending the past didn't happen, we can digest what has happened, learn from it, and turn it into fertile soil for what comes next.We also explore something I think so many of us are wrestling with right now: the impulse to cut and run from relationships.Sometimes we absolutely need distance. Sometimes we need boundaries. But what if not every rupture requires permanent severance? What might become possible if we allowed things to breathe, made room for repair, and remembered that our individual healing is part of a much larger collective project?Madison also shares a beautiful practice for reconnecting with the natural world:Curiosity.Accountability.Accountability for the harm we've caused.Accountability to our creativity and gifts.And accountability to the generations who come after us.Madison reminds us that our ancestors have faced the end of the world as they knew it before—and they survived, adapted, created, loved, and built again.We come from resilient people.And perhaps we have more resilience than we realize.Learn more about Madison, her work, and her Threshold Alchemy offering:⁠Madison Murphy Barney's website⁠Read Madison's writing on Our Medicine:⁠Our Medicine on Substack⁠Follow Madison on Instagram:⁠@madisonmurphybarney on Instagram⁠Get her book, Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms:⁠Order Madison's book on Bookshop.org⁠The audiobook is also available, narrated by Madison herself.If this conversation opens something up for you and you'd like support on your own healing journey, I'd love to work with you.Explore private energy healing sessions, Elisabeth channeling, meditation offerings, and other ways to work together:⁠Freda Maletsky Healing Arts⁠I'm Freda Maletsky, a semi-trance voice channel, energy healer, artist, and host of The Healing Artist.Thank you for being here. ❤️#MushroomWisdom #Mycelium #Healing

In this beautiful conversation, Freda is joined by Dr. Maria Inglesby—author, transformational guide, scientist, multidimensional energy channel, and quantum field intuitive.Together they explore:✨ New Earth consciousness✨ Heaven on Earth as a state of being✨ Energy healing and consciousness evolution✨ The quantum field and spiritual awakening✨ Victim consciousness vs. self-responsibility✨ Chakras beyond the traditional seven✨ Intuition and multidimensional guidance✨ Embodied self-mastery✨ How science and spirituality beautifully complement one another Dr. Maria shares how she bridges her scientific background with decades of energy work, helping people move beyond intellectual understanding into embodied wisdom.If you've ever wondered...• Why difficult life experiences can become spiritual awakenings• How your inner world creates your outer reality• What it truly means to live from your heart instead of your mind• How to reconnect with your authentic self... this conversation is for you.Connect with Dr. Maria Inglesby🌐 Website: ⁠https://www.mariainglesby.com/⁠📖 Download the FREE companion guided journal for Soaring Beyond: Transcending the Known into Unbelievable Success on her website.📺 YouTube:⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MariaInglesby📷 Instagram:⁠https://www.instagram.com/mariakatharinainglesbyphd/⁠📘 Facebook:⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573269017726⁠I'm Freda Maletsky, an energy healer, intuitive channel, artist, and host of The Healing Artist podcast.I offer:✨ Energy Healing Sessions✨ Elisabeth Channeling Sessions✨ Spiritual Mentorship✨ Grounding & Meditation Community✨ Monthly Full Moon CircleBook a private session or learn more at:🌿 ⁠https://fredahealing.com⁠Subscribe for weekly conversations exploring healing, spirituality, consciousness, intuition, energy work, and what it truly means to be human.Thank you for being here!#SpiritualAwakening #EnergyHealing #Consciousness #NewEarth #TheHealingArtist

What does it actually mean to belong? And what if belonging begins with learning how to stop abandoning yourself?In this episode of The Healing Artist, Freda explores the difference between genuinely belonging and simply fitting in.For much of her life, Freda describes herself as a chameleon—someone who learned to read the energy of a room, anticipate other people's needs, and change herself in order to feel safe, accepted, and loved. Through healing, she began asking a very different question:Can I truly be myself here?Freda shares personal stories from childhood, high school, relationships, her years working in the high-end event industry, Burning Man, and her recent experience finding a sense of community at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley.She explores self-abandonment, people-pleasing, codependency, energetic boundaries, authenticity, spiritual awakening, community, and the strange loneliness that can come when you begin becoming more fully yourself.But the conversation eventually goes somewhere deeper:Can I belong to myself while also belonging to something greater than myself?What does individuality mean if we are all connected? How do we participate in community without losing ourselves? And what does a healthy community actually make room for?Freda offers questions to consider:Can I tell the truth here?Can I disagree here?Can I change here?Can I say no here?Can I be inconvenient here?Can I have boundaries here?Can I struggle without becoming a burden?Can I leave and still be loved?And then she arrives at perhaps her deepest experience of belonging: the Earth.For Freda, the woods, mountains, trees, moss, mushrooms, and land have always offered a sense of being held without needing to perform or become someone else.Maybe belonging isn't somewhere we finally arrive.Maybe belonging is something we remember.If you'd like to work with Freda, explore her private healing sessions, donation-based Elisabeth channeling sessions, Return to Self-Love meditation community, and other offerings at fredahealing.com.Freda is a semi-trance voice channel, energy healer, artist, and host of The Healing Artist, exploring spirituality, healing, intuition, self-discovery, and what it means to be human on Earth.#Belonging #SelfAbandonment #SpiritualAwakening #HealingJourney #Authenticity

What happens when you spend years asking the universe to let you be seen—and then suddenly, someone reflects back exactly who you are?

In this very early-morning, coffee-in-hand episode of The Healing Artist, Freda shares something incredibly special: her very first podcast review. What begins as a celebration becomes a much deeper exploration of worthiness, being seen, receiving, manifestation, spiritual business, and the question she is currently learning to ask herself:

What do I actually want?

Freda reflects on building a spiritual business without forcing herself into structures that don't feel aligned, the tension between helping and receiving, and what happens when the path we've been creating begins to show us who we actually are.

She also talks about trusting the body's signals, slowing down when hustle no longer feels good, allowing integration after deep spiritual work, and remembering that even those who teach and hold space for others need support, too.

Most of all, this episode is about recognizing the evidence that sometimes arrives right in front of us.

Maybe you're not invisible.
Maybe you're not failing.
Maybe the thing you've been asking for is already beginning to arrive.

And maybe part of the work is learning how to receive it.

This episode's reflection was made even more meaningful by a beautiful surprise: Tal Gur, Founder of Elevate Society and author of The Art of Fully Living, discovered The Healing Artist while searching for another podcast and shared a thoughtful review with his community.

His team has published a wonderful review of The Healing Artist, and I am incredibly grateful for the time and care he put into reflecting back what this podcast has become.

You can read Tal's full review here:
https://elevatesociety.com/the-healing-artist-podcast-review/

You can learn more about Tal and The Art of Fully Living here:
https://talgur.me/book/

Thank you, Tal, for seeing the work—and for taking the time to say so. ❤️

If you'd like to explore working with Freda through healing sessions, Elisabeth channeling sessions, Return to Self-Love, or her other offerings, visit fredahealing.com.

The Healing Artist is a space for exploring spirituality, emotional healing, intuition, energy, conscious living, and the ongoing—and sometimes delightfully messy—journey of becoming more fully ourselves.

#TheHealingArtist #SpiritualAwakening #SelfWorth #Manifestation #HealingJourney

A Special Thank You to Tal Gur

What happens when you realize the intention you started with is no longer the intention you need?

In this Frequency Friday episode of The Healing Artist, Freda explores the power of setting—and resetting—an intention. When she first created the podcast, it was primarily for herself: to become comfortable being seen, improve her public speaking, learn to teach spiritual concepts, and step into her own voice. Those intentions have been fulfilled.

Now, something new is emerging.

Freda is ready to be found.

In this episode, she asks Elisabeth what happens energetically when she shifts the intention of The Healing Artist from “I make this for myself” to “I make this to connect with my people.” The conversation explores intention setting, spiritual growth, visibility, external validation, finding your soul family, allowing yourself to be seen, and learning to receive rather than constantly push forward.

Perhaps your people aren't missing. Perhaps they're simply still finding their way to you.

Set the intention. Become available. And see what unfolds.

If you'd like to work with Freda personally, visit fredahealing.com to explore healing sessions, Elisabeth channeling sessions, Return to Self Love, and other offerings.

#SettingIntentions #SpiritualGrowth #FindingYourPeople #HealingJourney #TheHealingArtist

What are you trying to prove?

In this deeply honest episode of The Healing Artist, Freda explores the subtle energy of proving—and the surprising realization that sometimes we aren't proving ourselves to other people at all. We're proving something to ourselves.

Freda reflects on her healing journey, spiritual awakening, building a spiritual business, creating close to 200 podcast episodes, and the longing for external validation when the inner transformation hasn't yet translated into visible external success.

What is the difference between proving and demonstrating? What happens when we stop asking our accomplishments to prove that we're worthy, capable, successful, or enough? And what if the life we've already created is actually the evidence we've been looking for?

This is an honest meditation on self-worth, external validation, success, healing, receiving, and learning to recognize the extraordinary life that already exists beneath the need for a trophy.

If you'd like to explore your own healing journey with Freda, visit fredahealing.com to learn more about private healing sessions, Elisabeth channeling sessions, and Return to Self Love.

Are you proving something? Or are you simply demonstrating what you're capable of and allowing life to unfold?

#ProvingYourself #ExternalValidation #SelfWorth #SpiritualAwakening #HealingJourney