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On Being a Healer and Working with Clients as a Highly Sensitive Person

Highly sensitive people, or HSPs, are typically characterized by the following traits: sensitivity to light and sounds easily overwhelmed in crowded places and situations sensitivity to medications, caffeine, alcohol, and allergens lower pain threshold (we feel physical pain more intensely) feeling more drained than others after socializing easily startled affected by the moods and energy […]

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How Dance is Bringing Me Back to Life + Healing through Movement

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As an adult, I’ve always found it challenging to cry. To just burst out crying spontaneously. Without caring about what I’m doing, who’s around, or how others might react to my tears. I’m not sure how this resistance to crying developed in the first place, but I suspect it has something to do with… the

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Healthy Boundaries: A Tarot Spread to Support Boundary-Setting

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How can you set and enforce healthy boundaries? This question – and challenge! – tends to come up over and over on the spiritual path. Boundaries are especially important in the context of healing relationship patterns and being able to say no when you need to. Both the lack of healthy boundaries and the presence

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Akashic Records Prayer

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This Akashic Records prayer can be used to open and read your own personal Records. By using the Akashic Records portal prayer I will share with you below, you can activate your Divine birthright to access and receive guidance from your Records. For step-by-step guidance on how to read your own Akashic Records for personal

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How to Live More Spiritually: 5 Simple Practices

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Are you wondering how to live more spiritually? Clients and students often ask me for suggestions on how to live more spiritually. How can they align their daily lives, work, and experiences with their Soul purpose? How can they express more of their true, authentic selves? How can they live their spiritual beliefs and

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5 Crystals Used for Akashic Records

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How crystals used for Akashic Records can help you move through the distractions. Accessing the Akashic Records requires great clarity. You must put your ego aside, surrender to the process, and become a clear vessel for divine guidance. This is the first and most important step in working with the Records. Luckily, there are specific

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The modern cult of productivity – and how to free yourself from its grip

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pro·duc·tiv·i·ty. noun. the state or quality of producing something. The Cult of Productivity Our modern culture (at least in the west, where I live and work) glorifies productivity. Speed, efficiency, and being able to produce more – more results, more products, more ideas, more innovations, more money – in less time have become dominant values in this culture.

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How to Set Boundaries as a Highly Sensitive Person – with Scripts!

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As a highly sensitive person (HSP), you might wonder how to set boundaries that will protect your sanity and well-being. Empaths and HSPs have particular – and different – needs from people who are not as sensitive. (And please note there’s no value judgment in this. Some people are more sensitive than others; this doesn’t

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How to Develop Your Intuition with the 5 Clairs

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This article walks you through how to develop your intuition using the 5 “clairs”. I offer specific suggestions on how to develop each clair, or intuitive channel, so you can connect powerfully to your intuition. What is intuition? Let’s start by defining this term. Intuition is often talked about in spiritual and healing circles. Typically,

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How to Connect With Divine Energy: 4 Methods

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A guide to learning how to connect with divine energy Clients and students often ask me how to connect with divine energy. Here, we’re defining divine energy as energy that originates directly from Divine Source. We might also call this the Universe, God, Goddess, or all-that-is. Even if you sometimes don’t feel it, divine energy

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What Are the Akashic Records?

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What are the Akashic Records? They’re often referred to as the “Book of Life.” The Akashic Records are a vast storehouse of information about your soul’s journey. You can think of the Records as an infinite, ever-changing library of all human actions, deeds, and thoughts across all dimensions of time and space. In fact, those

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Why Is Everything So Heavy? The Challenges of Spiritual Awakening

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There’s a period right after spiritual awakening where everything might feel confusing and you may find yourself wondering, “Why is everything so heavy?” Experiencing an awakening is a wonderful and often necessary thing. It can also be a brutal experience, as everything you once knew or thought you knew can be pulled out from

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Learn How to Read the Akashic Records for Yourself

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Learning how to read the Akashic Records is a powerful healing and spiritual experience. I’ve been working with the Records for almost a decade. In that time, I haven’t been able to find any other spiritual tool that allows me to access the highest levels of Divine guidance, clarity, and healing – both for my

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Getting Unstuck: Moving Through the Creative Process

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This is a guest post generously contributed by artist & Akashic Records Reader Kathryn Wyatt. All creative pursuits begin in the same way. An idea forms in your mind or you receive a full download of the finished thing—be it a song, novel, painting, drawing, jewelry, clothing, dance, play, or whatever else. You can see

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4 Healing Principles for Akashic Records Work

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The Akashic Records are a vast storehouse of information about your life and soul’s journey across all dimensions of time and space. Each time your soul decides to come down to Earth in a human body, a new “entry” in your individual Records is created. Time isn’t linear inside the Akashic Records. This means we

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The 7 Keys to Spiritual and Personal Sovereignty

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Becoming a sovereign being means taking your power back. It means taking ownership of your life, no longer blaming others, and releasing any patterns of self-judgment or self-criticism. It also means taking charge of your spiritual connection and claiming your inner authority. I’ve written about the concept of sovereignty before because we’re in a cosmic

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5 Fears That Make It Hard To Say No

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Is it difficult for you to say NO even when you want or need to? Does the idea of having to say NO fill you with dread? Do you start sweating, mumbling over your words, hyperventilating, or feeling disassociated when you need to say NO to something or someone? If you answered yes to any

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Do I Have to Remember the Trauma in Order to Heal?

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Guest post by Rachel Hardy A common question I hear from clients goes something like this: “I think I’ve been affected by trauma, and that it’s affected my body/ health/ emotional well being… but I don’t know which trauma caused this so I don’t know where to start to try to release and heal it. Do

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On Being a Healer and Working with Clients as a Highly Sensitive Person

How Dance is Bringing Me Back to Life + Healing through Movement

Healthy Boundaries: A Tarot Spread to Support Boundary-Setting

Akashic Records Prayer

How to Live More Spiritually: 5 Simple Practices

5 Crystals Used for Akashic Records

The modern cult of productivity – and how to free yourself from its grip

How to Set Boundaries as a Highly Sensitive Person – with Scripts!

How to Develop Your Intuition with the 5 Clairs

How to Connect With Divine Energy: 4 Methods

What Are the Akashic Records?

Why Is Everything So Heavy? The Challenges of Spiritual Awakening

Learn How to Read the Akashic Records for Yourself

Getting Unstuck: Moving Through the Creative Process

4 Healing Principles for Akashic Records Work

The 7 Keys to Spiritual and Personal Sovereignty

5 Fears That Make It Hard To Say No

Do I Have to Remember the Trauma in Order to Heal?

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