Practical Shamanism (Katie Weatherup)

Did you know that spoken words can carry vibrational transmissions?  When you listen to this podcast or content like it, new energetic maps and possibilities are offered as well as concepts for your cognitive mind.  If you listen more as if we were telling stories around a fire rather than in a classroom lecture, you may have a richer experience.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

In this episode I eventually share my choices about the COVID vaccine, but more than that, I invite people to see if they have tension around my agreeing with their truth in the matter.  I find that that both science and intuitive information are trusted sources in taking counsel before making my life choices.

I recorded this on the same day as I experience a lot of grief over a long standing, hitherto successful friendship shifting due to ideology conflicts.  If polarization doesn’t feel good to you, you may enjoy my ramblings about navigating this issue. 

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Once you’ve arrived at the clarity that letting go of a relationship is the right thing and committed yourself to that path, I have some wisdom to offer for getting the person out of your thoughts once they’ve physically left your life. Please note, if you’re in the midst of deciding but not firmly committed or clear, my previous episodes on “What To Do When your Soul Connected Relationship is On the Rocks” will be more relevant. If you’ve decided and taken right action to step away (even if a part of you is wailing, obsessing, and bargaining to go back and doing so loudly), this podcast will help you find a path to efficiently getting free of the pain and struggle.  Take back custody of your own mind and the ability to focus your attention.  Build trust and right relationship with yourself!  And, position yourself for a soul connected relationship that IS good for you.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

This podcast includes a module from my Right Livelihood program which is designed to help you to be financially secure in a way that feels aligned with your soul purpose! 

There is more diversity, abundance, and creativity in how human’s trade their time and talent for money than ever before.  So, unlike other times when people struggled with a scarcity problem related to viable work, today many people have a sorting problem.  It’s the same in areas of romantic relationships.

Explore the intersection of what you’re good at, what people will pay you for, and what you love doing.  Capture this information and use it to bolster your self-esteem and self-confidence related to trading your time and talent for money.

Contact me to learn about the program or check out this link: https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-training/livelihood/

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

I adore traveling and connecting with land magic!  I even wrote a short book with all my best knowledge:  https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Travel-Practical-Shamanism-Vacations-ebook/dp/B00C2LKZE6

In this episode, I share about some of my top travel tips for working with energy and connecting with the land.  Also, some specifics about places like Ireland, Peru, Iceland, New Mexico, Death Valley and more!

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode of Practical Shamanism, I share my deep affinity for rocks and crystals, exploring how they can serve as powerful energetic allies. While some practitioners connect deeply with plants or symbols, my personal journey has been profoundly shaped by crystals—especially Herkimer diamonds.

I discuss how crystals can help sensitive individuals manage overwhelming energy, protect against external influences, and maintain energetic integrity. Whether you’re navigating the psychic noise of the world, seeking grounding and balance, or simply drawn to the wonder of these natural treasures, crystals can be incredible tools for support.

Want to see the crystals I offer for sale?  Check out: https://handsoverheart.com/store/crystals/

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Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode I share about a couple of months that were hard for me.  Sometimes it’s one big thing and other times a number of small things that undermine our well-being and emotional centeredness.  I hope this episode helps you to have compassion for yourself and others when things get tough.  Also, to have a realistic idea about what mindset and meditation can and can’t do to help.  And I hope it gives you some ideas to move yourself along the journey of restoring your well-being when its been diminished by life experiences.  And, just so you know, as I release this episode several weeks after it was recorded, I’m enjoying things feeling much better in my personal circumstances.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this podcast I explore some of what neuroscience tells us about how the brain works in regards to objectifying other people in harmful ways.  If you aspire to cultivate self-kindness as well as sweep out harmful thoughts of racism, homophobia, sexism, etc. from your mind, this may offer some useful wisdom.  There are many reasons that calming the instincts is the most profound enlightened self-interest.  And, knowing why and how your mind might believe crazy, hurtful things and how to reprogram it when that happens is a valuable part of the operating manual they probably didn’t give you in school.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Many of the people I know and work with are souls that have incarnated a number a times.  Sometimes souls have a go to archetype.  But often, with many incarnations, we have a number of archetypes that we have explored and embodied and can engage at will.  People generally have a lot more delight, passion, and commitment when they are getting to actualize a preferred archetype.  This is useful to know because sometimes our favorite archetypes need a bit of adult supervision.  The expression can be so joyful and engaging that we lose discernment about whether it’s the right time and place for a given expression.  For example, the unsupervised warrior archetype may escalate conflict rather than move forward in collaboration.  Or the archetype of the healer may lead one to over-give in an unsustainable way.

It can be confusing when you have a number of authentic archetypes and abilities to pick a career path or use of your time and talent.  We have this sort of myth of the one true soul purpose based on some individuals that do authentically engage in the world in that way.  But, for many of us, there are a lot of archetypes and sometimes ones we really love are best kept to minimal expression.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

We have an aspect of our soul that is the bridge between the human experience and the soul journey.  It’s connected both to the now and the eternal.  We can learn to use our mind to direct our psychic abilities to take counsel with our inner wise one!  

For a variety of reasons, sometimes doing something like shamanic journey may not be the optimal way to send our awareness out to talk with our guides. If we’re highly emotional (which we all are at times), we may not have the clarity and focus.  For people who have some fear around psychic abilities, they may find an internal journey feels safer and more comfortable.  And finally, people who have certain mental health situations, such as what is diagnosed as schizophrenia, or entity issues, sending awareness outside of your auric field can be contraindicated as it can make things worse.

Thus, learning to connect with your inner wise one is a great way to safely access your psychic abilities and access your deepest wisdom!

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 gave me a very cool and powerful sequence of energetic interventions to support the participants in my eight-month chakra program (https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-training/chakra-journey/).  Step one was to clear learned helplessness, followed by a power retrieval, and lastly bringing this energy to the expression of their throat chakra so they could feel able to speak up and with their personal power behind their words. 

In this podcast I talk about how you can do this for yourself or get my help with it.  Join my mailing list to find out when I offer it as a stand alone $25 healing or book a session with me to receive this work.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Some of the catch phrases like “I deserve” and “I have trouble knowing my worth” can take people further away from the experience they want to have rather than closer. They can turn us towards inner work that won’t produce the results were hoping and, worst case, can bolster a story that we’re entitled to things we’re truly not.

In this podcast, I explore some alternate perspectives that I believe will help have more success in having the things that are important to you. The notion of “win-win” or “no deal” is an important concept in all kinds of human relating. And being able to discern and implement that approach quickly and efficiently saves us a lot of time so that we can move towards people and situations that are available to meet us in a way that authentically works for us.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In twenty-one years of professional practice, I’ve yet to work with a client who didn’t have energy to recover from the past resulting from endings that failed to create a full, clean closure.  Part of this is lack of training of drawing our energy and soul parts out of a relationship, situation, or endeavor when something is complete.  But, much of it is a culture that puts way more focus on beginnings that conscious endings.  In this podcast, I share from my own experience and from my work with others about the merits of being present to honor time and experiences shared even as you step away deliberately. 

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Want to make sure you're staying strong, resourceful and focused amidst the current financial changes? Join me in this podcast as I offer wisdom intended to help upgrade your money mastery skills. Learn how to increase manifestation capabilities so that it'll be easier for you get real world results aligned with what best supports your needs!

Special offer: You can get my Money Mastery Program for just $32 instead of the normal $97 when you sign up for any of my $25 healing offers through the end of 2023.  I generally offer 2 topics per month for the $25 healings, so there are lot’s of options to choose from.

Check out the current $25 offer here: https://www.handsoverheart.com/5-25/25-healing-special/

And the Money Mastery Program is here: https://academy.handsoverheart.com/course/details/money-mastery-for-modern-times

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode, I explore how our fight-or-flight instincts—like a high-energy dog living in a small apartment—can create challenges in our modern lives. Using metaphors and insights, I share strategies for calming overactive instincts, completing stress cycles, and cultivating inner peace.

Key topics include:

• Understanding the fight-or-flight response in today’s world.
• Why our instincts often feel like a neighbor’s yappy dog.
• Tools and techniques to "train" your inner dog for a calmer life.
• How calming your stress response improves physical and emotional well-being.

Whether you're managing chronic stress, seeking deeper alignment, or looking for practical tips to reclaim peace in your daily life, this episode offers guidance and inspiration.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

As a practitioner for whom the healing work I do is also my livelihood, people’s relationship to money is something that comes up when they choose whether to work with me.  In this somewhat rambling podcast, I give an overview of 20 years of balancing my desire to be of service with my need to be able to pay my own bills.  I share some of the places where a longing for something I felt I couldn’t afford tangled me up.

It’s partly a map for how to navigate for anyone who is struggling with a longing for some kind of support with a fear about the impact on their budget.  It’s also some thoughts for holistic practitioners who are wanting to be of service to those in need while also running a successful business.

Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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.

Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

Get some tips to enhance your self-efficacy.  In other words, finding a graceful way to get yourself to do the things you’re committed to without undue struggle.  If you are committed to doing something and find you’re not taking action, it’s valuable to ask what’s in the way.  Sometimes we are too tired to take on a new endeavor.  Other times our instincts object to change.  And often a given path is a good match for one part of ourselves while another would struggle with the chosen destination, like a trip that meets a soul longing for adventure but isn’t as kind to the budget.  While we can make ourselves do things with a part of ourselves kicking and screaming in resistance, I’m a fan of a more easeful approach. 

Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Initiation of connection is something that is both a tendency and a skill.  Sadly, people sometimes keep score of initiation directed towards them.  They make the receiving of phone calls, text messages, or invitations mean something about whether they are loved, valued, and respected.  I would offer that it’s useful to recognize whether you are someone who is more likely to initiate or respond to someone else’s invitation to engage.  Furthermore, once you see where you stand, it can be valuable to override your default to create a wider range of experiences.  If you initiate and plan a lot, it could be fun to see what it’s like to just enjoy someone else’s vision.  Or, if you don’t initiate, you might find doing so allows you to enjoy relating with someone who is also not apt to invite but who responds happily when invited.  Likewise, when it comes to getting messages from spirit, when you initiate by engaging, the richness of what you receive increases exponentially.   

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Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

When we’re stressed, our minds often ruminate on the past and worry about the future.  When it comes to the future, we tend to imagine that we’ll have the same or less (money, support, health, etc.) to deal with hard things.  Meditation and moving our bodies are great medicine for this.  But, for me, I also cultivate the ability to facilitate my mind into shifting away from overthinking the future.  Creating authentic faith in future me to deal with situations as they arise is something that I’ve found helpful.  I share more about that in this episode. 

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Healthy lifestyle changes can become a complicated and loaded topic.  The amount of information can be overwhelming and it’s easy to feel like what we’re doing is never enough.  In this episode I explore some new perspectives that may help you set your compass for an aligned lifestyle without shame or self-doubt.  I find that when we take care of our physical experience, our spiritual experience is profoundly enhanced.  Having an elegant approach to self-care frees us for the fullest possible experience.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

One of the best uses of our psychic abilities isn’t so much about seeing the world around us, but navigating the world within.  We can use our gifts to track what’s going on with ourselves on the subtle levels.  I often find for myself and my clients that unfavorable results are the result of an adversarial relationship between different parts of the self.  We can learn to be a wise mediator such that we come into a collaboration between our various aspects.  In the modern era, we need all of our chakras at full functionality and playing for the same team.

I’ve long applied this work to keeping my fight or flight system baseline in a calm place.  More recently, I’ve started using this approach to have a talk with my brain about re-wiring chronic pain circuits that are related to a long-ago injury from which the tissue damage has healed. 

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I find myself in a season where my deepest longings are for time freedom and less external stimulation.  I’m taking a break from many of the things I normally engaging in, like travel and dating.  I’m also taking a break from my personal improvement goals and settling for sustaining what’s already in place for supporting my body, mind, and spirit.

I’m quilting, engaging with my business and clients, and watching movies.  The net effect of some romantic disappointments and a tough financial situation have left me a bit depleted, and it feels good to allow myself the space and time to replenish.  I want to offer this map of restoring oneself without it becoming a crisis or even a miserable time.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

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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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

I’ve studied how to align the chakras for optimal money outcomes a great deal since often my sensitive, intuitive, spiritually engaged, open-hearted clients have challenges with having enough money.  One of the ways this challenge arises is when the idea of “more money” becomes an over-simplified version of what you feel is needed to be happy, fulfilled, and thriving in your life.  Money is important for sure, but if you tangle so many other pain points and longing in with your money thoughts, things get messy, energetically and in your mind.  Looking to “money” just to provide you with the things money is good for like safety and security and a material life that is good for you, you’ll be in a far better place to manifest money and to clearly see and implement right action to change your circumstances in this area as needed.

In this podcast, I help illuminate some unrelated needs and desires that often get mashed into thoughts and feelings about money that get in the way of working effectively in this area, both internally and with action in the world.  Maybe money isn’t your problem, but you might be able to find where you’ve oversimplified one aspect such as relationship, career, or appearance change into making you feel like this would solve everything.  Doing so often creates stagnation, psychological pain, and a lack of inspired action that effectively leads to new results.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

In this episode of Practical Shamanism, I dive into what might get in the way of fully living your soul purpose. Inspired by Julia Cameron's playful take on artistic blocks and insights from one of my own teachers, I explore some of the reasons we might feel disconnected from our path.

This includes:

• How we often stay loyal to outdated dreams or pre-incarnation plans, and why it's so powerful to pivot when something no longer feels right.
• The impact of stress, fatigue, and living in "fight or flight" mode on our intuition, making it harder to see possibilities and opportunities.
• The importance of living by our own "map" rather than following others' expectations or societal norms.
• How curating a life that supports our energy and creativity allows us to pursue our unique soul purpose more freely.

I believe that tuning into what’s true for us right now, and designing a life that resonates with our unique self, helps us overcome the obstacles to living a rich, purpose-driven life.

Join me next time as I continue to unpack what might be blocking your path to true fulfillment in the second half of this discussion.

If you'd like a summary, check out my article What’s in the Way of Living Your Soul Purpose?

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

When working to upgrade your life experience, one of the great introspective questions to ask is about where you tolerance for discomfort is too high and where it could be higher.  If your tolerance is high, you’ll endure something that ideally would be actionable for change.  If your tolerance is low, you’ll be apt to avoid important and necessary things.  Understanding this about yourself can help you adjust your course as needed to compensate for these tendencies. 

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this podcast I open up about a date that reminded me how much harm opinion culture can do.  In this somewhat rambling and candid podcast, I talk about race and gender issues and some upgraded ways to navigate the world if you’re not called to geek out about these issues, which is totally okay.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I’d like to make a case for optimism and hope about the future of humanity and the planet, even amid the loud, complicated times we’re living in.  I’m not attempting to erase or disregard the gulf between a needs met, balanced, and sustainable world and where we are today.  But I am heartened when I look at the speed at which certain important things are changing for the better.

Take apart times can be complex and that’s certainly what we’re living in now.  Yet, there are also so many old souls who incarnated with a desire to get in the game of moving the world through its growing pains to a more elegant place.  You may or may not agree, but I’d invite you not to absorb your worldview by osmosis because our brains are good at working with dramatic stories and not so much with statistics.   

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In past lives, we tended to place energetic bindings on the oaths and vows we swore.  These could be vows of marriage, chastity, or poverty.  In each case, there were energetic structures put in place to hold us to the vow.  Often those past life promises are disruptive to our contemporary experiences.  So, it’s wise to clear them and free ourselves.  In this podcast I teach more about how this works as well as ways you can be free of this energy- either with help or as a DIY project.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

  

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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Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

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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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

Ideally, you’ll find a way to feel like you can have critical needs met in other areas, while actively and dynamically engaging with the things that your soul thinks makes incarnating worth it. If you’re creating tension by going without enough of certain things, like safety or connection, soul purpose expression can become a tug-a-war with other parts of yourself. I want to support you in a both/and rather than either/or approach. Looking to the wisdom of each chakra about what it needs to be on board with soul purpose expression is a great way to approach to this goal.

Also, check out my article What’s in the Way of Living Your Soul Purpose?

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Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

For much of my life I had such a longing for a single teacher, mentor, belief system or facilitator that, if followed religiously, would lead to freedom from the confusion and pain that I was experiencing.  In the end, I found that I am complex and dynamic enough that I needed to draw from many sources for wisdom.  I got a lot out of talk therapy, but it doesn’t address past life influences or my psychic abilities which are such a fundamental part of my moment-to-moment experience.  Likewise, Reiki wasn’t a great match for addressing unhealthy relating strategies that I was able to see and dismantle with the help of a good therapist.  And so it went across many modalities and with a number of gifted mentors and teachers.

This episode is designed to give you support in creating your own life map and compass when it comes to blending wisdom from many sources. 

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Many of us who are immersed in the modern technological world are aware that there's a need for soul healing. We often look to the ways of our ancestors to seek this kind of healing.  And, exploring ayahuasca and other plant medicines is an increasingly popular approach. 

Sadly, I’ve had a number of clients whose outcomes became much more challenging after using ayahuasca.  And, I know people who swear by it.  Often the people who are inviting you, either friends who want to share an experience or people who have a financial interest in your “yes”, may not be the best people to provide you with a full scope of pros and cons. 

I hope this podcast will support you in making a good choice for yourself and being informed in what you’re stepping into ahead of time.  I hope this will assist you, also, in increasing your discernment in regards to human guides and general contexts if this is something you choose to explore.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

As we navigate life, we are constantly balancing choices of what to do with time, money, and energy to provide the best overall life experience.  We may long for things that aren’t very attainable, often due to money constraints but sometimes due to time or energy limits.  This podcast provides a simple way to shift energy around these longings for things we can’t have or feel it would cost too much in some way to obtain.

The goal is to increase our pleasure and happiness with what we do have, to clear out longings that are more based on the desire for a chemistry hit, and to give us clarity on where we truly are being called to bring our resourcefulness and manifestation magic to figuring out a way for the things that are truly important to our soul in our life journey.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Having a good relationship with yourself is complex because of the depth of shared experience.  The fewer conflicting needs and less complexity in a relationship, the easier it is for an average emotionally intelligent person to be successful with another person, given a similar baseline level of harmony.  I feel like certain words like “self-esteem” and “gratitude” can mislead us to an oversimplification of a complex relationship when it comes to our internal experience and make us feel like we’re failing in some way.

I love witnessing friendships, romantic relationships, business partnerships, parent/child relationships that are joyful and successful over the long-term.  I see markers of success as relationships with high levels of affinity and mutual respect with resilience in the face of difficult external circumstances.  If you ask these people about their relationships, they will often speak to the merits of the other person and go on to say they’ve had ups and downs and that it takes a lot of work.  But somehow, we don’t seem to apply this wisdom to the relationship to ourselves- that we’re nifty people, but being us has ups and downs and takes a lot of presence to the relationship for it to thrive. 

In this rather rambling episode, I speak into some of my wisdom about reframing concepts like self-esteem, gratitude, and self-sabotage.  I hope to support you in implementing unconditional friendliness towards yourself as well as a willingness to be in the complexity of balancing the needs and desires that go alone with being you.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

When we raise our vibration (or make our energy brighter), we move through the world more easily.  It improves our direct, in the moment experience as well as helping to manifest things that support us and deflect things that do not.  There are many things we can do to raise our vibration.  Ideally, you want to create a personal list of things that have a high return on investment of results for energy expended.  These things ideally will also be highly accessible on an average Tuesday and be things that you enjoy doing.  I give a number of possible activities and experiences that might support this.

In addition, I have some potent energetic techniques to help you if you’d like to work with me.

The Shimmer Rite- https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/shimmer-rite-and-star-being/

The Soul Note Illumintion Healing- https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/soul-note-illumination-healing/

Connecting to a Star Being Guide- https://handsoverheart.com/2017/01/20/star-beings/

You can also get detailed instruction in my Energy Body Illumination course- https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Or check out my article on How to Raise Your Vibration- https://handsoverheart.com/resources/how-to-raise-your-vibration/ 

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

 

In this podcast I share some of the stories about women I’ve witnessed and supported in calling in their baby in a way that aligns for them, both on a human level as well as a soul level.  I also talk about working on the soul level with women who’ve chosen not to have a baby at a given moment.  Spoiler: free choice is sacred and choosing not to complete a pregnancy doesn’t cause harm to the soul that was considering coming in.  And, for those who want to have babies, I share how shamanic work can help.  Clearing past life trauma proactively will make for an easier pregnancy, for example.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode, I continue to unpack what might be blocking your path to true fulfillment in the second half of this discussion.

If you'd like a summary, check out my article What’s in the Way of Living Your Soul Purpose?

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Soul Mate and Twin Flame are wildly incomplete and often misleading terms for describing the huge diversity of authentic and profound soul connection and affinity that we find with other humans.  This felt experience of rapport and connection of an eternal nature can have its origins in so many things- past life history, soul history, soul essence harmony, soul contracts, and where your soul originated before incarnating on earth.  Those writing about soul mates and twin flames blithely appropriate these rather amorphous terms and provide their own personal definition and meanings.  So, as someone who is constantly trying to use meaningful language to give people context to understand their experiences of the unseen world, I am annoyed at terms that seem to often lead people towards more misunderstanding than clarity.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

The majority of people I work with are deeply moved by the desire of “may we all be well” with “we” being inclusive of humans, animals, and the planet.  How do we balance our empathy and desire for social and environmental change plus care for the vulnerable with being effectively engaged in our own lives?  All too often we leak emotional energy and suffer over the suffering of others in a way that doesn’t have good for ourselves or anyone else in the equation.  I share a number of thoughts for shifting this equation to have peace with not suffering over the suffering of others while empowering yourself first for self-care and then for aligned contribution. 

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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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

Learn simple ways to connect with your intuitive wisdom and weave your personal power and magic into everyday life. As a former engineer with 20 years of experience working as a shamanic practitioner, Katie Weatherup draws on both the practical and the mystical. Find your way back to yourself while improving your health, relationships, and money results.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

About this Podcast:

This podcast is intended to provide a map for a deeper engagement for the experienced seeker as well as practical, accessible knowledge to the person who wasn’t quite sure how to pronounce shamanism at the start.

A little more about me. 

At 24, I found myself stepping into my adult life with an engineering degree, unmanaged psychic gifts, and a painful lack of interpersonal skills. I was overwhelmed, overstimulated, and exhausted a good deal of the time. Yet, this led me to an amazing journey of self-discovery that continues to unfold to this day. I now have three published books (including Practical Shamanism, A Guide for Walking in Both Worlds) and am thrilled that my full-time shamanic practice has allowed me to work with thousands of clients all over the world. My social circle is rich and extensive to a degree I could never have imagined as a lonely teenager who got along better with her goats than with her fellow human beings.

My mechanical engineering background has helped me focus my healing work on the necessity of system integrity. The human spirit is a highly complex system that can break down in complicated and subtle ways. Much of my shamanic work is oriented toward wholeness. I help people recover their power and magic as well as all the parts they’ve lost, forgotten, denied, and disowned. I’ve done more than ten thousand shamanic journeys and am very comfortable working with the hard, scary stuff.

This podcast is meant to provide a map to bring a key part yourself into a collaborative relationship with the other aspects of yourself. In doing so, your external results, such as success with money, career, and relationship may improve dramatically with less effort on your part.  As Archimedes is reported to have said, “give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I shall move the world,” I’m passionate about finding leverage points in which a small amount of well applied effort creates significant outcomes. Everything I recommend is filtered through the lens of “efficiency”. I assume you’re already living a busy, full life, and if you carve out a bit of bandwidth to listen to my words or do a practice, you need it to make a meaningful difference in your life.

For the internal side, these concepts will help reduce anxiety and give you some new ways to combat depression. Do you play an unkind script in your head that recounts your many failings? I’ll help you understand why, oh why, your mind does that to you and how to redirect it in a happier fashion. I’d love to help you understand how to tend your energy body which is a great way to support improvement with health challenges or clear them before they ever manifest. Also, my hope is to provide you with a meaningful way to engage with your sense of soul purpose and to feel you have a trustworthy internal compass as you navigate through life.

Why shamanism? I found it to be the most aligned framework for helping me to navigate and utilize the information my sense of energy was providing. Core shamanism (a term coined by Michel Harner) refers to the set of practices that are universal or nearly universal across indigenous cultures throughout the world. My shamanic journey has been the work of mastering a set of shamanic skills and then applying them to the challenges of the modern, first world experience, for myself and my clients. If you’d like to geek out a bit more on my take on shamanism, see the link in the show notes. You can read the introduction to my first book on my website: https://handsoverheart.com/2017/01/20/introduction-to-practical-shamanism/

Now, you may be thinking, “But Katie, I’m not sure I perceive energy as you do. Will this still be helpful?” The answer is “yes”! I believe it’s an aspect of being human that we can, with the rights skills for tuning in, get information about the energy in our own system and the world around us. But, you may not know that part of yourself because, for most of us, it’s not validated or engaged with when we’re growing up. As we grow, the human brain is a clearinghouse for sorting which information is relevant and should come to our attention and what should be filed at an unconscious level. There are many examples of this - children validated for forming sounds in their culture’s spoken language, watching the road when we’re driving, and tuning into the conversation we’re having in a crowded restaurant. I imagine a child who could hear sounds in a community in which all members for many generations had been born without hearing wouldn’t develop a cognitive map of this sense but that they would use it in the background to navigate life.

I hope you’ll join me! After 20 years of talking to my guides on a daily basis for myself and others, I have a lot to share and I very much hope you find something here to support your journey.

Lifestyle changes can be incredibly complicated to implement and sustain.  Giving yourself grace with this complexity and implementing a plan to address this aspect will improve your results.  I talk about lining up the energy around the change we want.  And also, about overcoming the aversion chemistry that seeks to get us to avoid implement things that we know are good for us but our inner cave person thinks threaten our survival.  I hope this helps you find a graceful path forward to a lifestyle that yields enough health and wellbeing and is something that’s sustainable over the long-term.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Learn how understanding the concept of “Soul Purpose” in a deeper way can be an amazing compass for finding your way in your life and provide a map to personal, sustained happiness –  specifically, for living a life that you feel engaged in and inspired by. For the last twenty years, one of the journey requests I most often receive is to ask the guides the question, “What is my soul purpose?” This podcast weaves together much of the wisdom my guides have shared in response to this question.

Also, check out my article What’s in the Way of Living Your Soul Purpose?

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

In this episode I talk about creativity and money and where those intersect and where they don’t.  I also share that I’m musing on the future of the podcast.  If this podcast has had value for you, I hope you’ll drop me a line at katie@handsoverheart.com and let me know.  Or tag me on Facebook or Instagram with a comment.

I’m celebrating the milestone of over 40,000 unique downloads, which is wonderful!  But I’m not sure if I’m seeing new growth.  I’d be grateful if you’d leave a 5-star review and/or share this as you feel called.  Also, I’d be grateful if you’d take a moment to visit my website: https://handsoverheart.com or my academy: https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ and see if there’s anything for purchase that is in alignment for you.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Some musings while hanging with grief….

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Sometimes people have the false belief that they need to resolve all the pain and trauma of the past before they can make functional choices in the present.  In this podcast, I talk about some focus points to help yourself make a very quick shift or change when a pattern urgently needs to change.  I hope to give you a better map for pathways to healing that don’t have to have a big time lag to getting to a place in your life that is functional and sustainable.  I invite everyone to be in a lifelong exploration of the relationship to themselves and to thrive in their lives in more and more elegant and fulfilling ways.  And, sometimes, triage is important to focus your efforts.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Spiritually and metaphysically inclined people often want to meet their soulmate and know their soul purpose. Many assume that knowing their soul purpose will also tell them the one thing that people will pay them lots of money to do that they will love doing.  While this can be an expression of soul purpose, it massively limits the expression of your full essence into something that is viable within the system of capitalism and may cause you to neglect some of the key things your soul would most love to experience in this lifetime.

Learn why it’s actually good news that you don’t have one (and only one) right expression of your soul in what you do to navigate money.  This will help you understand that you can have authentic expression of your soul’s essence in a number of different ways and help you to more deeply understand how to choose livelihood that is good for your soul and good for your everyday life. 

Also, check out my article What’s in the Way of Living Your Soul Purpose?

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Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

For many people, alcohol, tobacco, and/or drugs have been or are a part of their life journey.  No judgement!  In this podcast I’d love to share some information about how these things impact the energy body and how to repair any damage that may have been done.  You’ll gain a more specific understanding of the impact of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana.  You’ll also learn how to offset the impact whether this has been part of your life in the past or is part of your present.  This is also relevant for anyone wanting to support or restore their energy body who hasn’t engaged with these substances.

As a side note, for a healthy person, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana in moderation aren’t overly impactful on the energy body.  It’s only when they become chronic that you see significant impact.  For a number of my clients (although not all), the guides have reflected that overall positive effects of marijuana outweigh some of the challenges it can create.  Whatever your relationship to substances, it’s good to know how to keep your energy body healthy.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

Learn how to dismantle the energetic structure of traumatic experiences. Find out how to redirect your mind away from recapitulating your most painful moments. When you understand the misguided way your mind is trying to do to help you with trauma to ensure future safety, you can work with it to support you in a more functional way. Plus, the better you get at taking apart the residual energies of bad moments, the more they will naturally dissipate on their own.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

In the past, humans have specialized in different life experiences.  As a result, many people came into this lifetime with extraordinary mastery in one or more areas.  Often this shows up as chakras that are able to function in amazing and nuanced ways.  But the flip side is that most of us have less healthy, developed, or engaged chakras as well.  And these are the areas of life where we experience struggle, lack of interest, and underfuctioning.

Everyone likes to do things they’re good at, that come easily, and for which they have an affinity.  But, cultivating a capacity and discipline to be okay enough at all the important areas of life is key.  If your soul focused on a spiritual life in past lives, you may need to put some work into getting competent with the secular aspect of life like acquiring and managing money.

This modern configuration of the world can be an amazing gift in that it gives us so much access to learning and training and such a full spectrum life with so much space to choose and even choose again.  But, it can also be uncomfortable not to be effortlessly good at something.  In this podcast, you’ll learn more about the chakra system and how it applies to this.  And about cultivating a growth mindset in your approach to life.  My hope is that you will view your unskillful areas with gentleness and that will create space to engage enough to give you full spectrum quality of life.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

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

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Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

In this podcast, I challenge a popular meme that suggests we should be grateful for the present because in 20 years, we'll wish we could return to where we are now. I strongly disagree with this notion. Those who listen to this type of podcast are actively investing in a future where they have greater physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Modern culture bombards us with toxic ideas that chip away at our peace and happiness. Learning to "weed the garden of your mind" is an essential skill, and the belief that everything will worsen with time is one of the most damaging weeds to pull. Join me as I share why this mindset is often untrue and offer reasons to feel hopeful and empowered about your future.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Learn about the Solar Plexus Chakra and how to use it to support an effective and elegant life experience. When our solar plexus is in balance, we get the most out of our cognitive ability. We're capable of flexible thinking and resourcefulness. We activate self-trust and our ability to take in information and make good decisions for ourselves.

A healthy, balanced solar plexus allows us to move through the world with magnificent clarity about what works for us and what doesn't. We can use discernment rather than judgment. This positions us to find win/win situations with other people instead of being trapped in power struggles and right/wrong thinking. Balancing the solar plexus is the antidote to endless rumination and shame. This wonderful chakra holds a key to self-knowledge and offers a foundation of self-esteem!

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

I received an email from a former client I haven’t interacted with in years that went into detail about how terrible I was for holding a boundary about being paid in the standard way before working with her.  It included expressions of pity that I was such a terrible, money motivated person that I would do such a hurtful, obviously awful thing to her. 

It was, among other things, a trip down memory lane of a lot of failures in my early attempts at relating to friends and lovers.  When I got hurt, rather than introspection, compassion (for them or me), or working through the emotions before trying to address the misalignment, I would spin a story of how wrong and bad the other person was and why I was entitled to whatever I had desired from them.  Then, I’d write a really long email explaining this.  Happily, with the  help of therapy, among other things, I have more functional ways of relating.

Yet, I can still find that subroutine of ruminating on another person’s way of being in the world as invalid when I feel hurt.  This messy, vital, complex business of relating to other humans has such levels of risk and reward.  In this long episode, I share about my personal journey with mental loops of vilifying other people and how I navigate it when someone vilifies me and wants to tell me about it. I hope it helps you have a functional map for navigating this highly charged, complicated energy, whether it's showing up internally or focused outwards.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I've done over a hundred dedicated shamanic journeys over the last two years specifically about how to get to excellent money outcomes for spiritually inclined people in modern times. I’m consolidating all of that information into my new Money Mastery program- https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/master-money/

This podcast episode is one I actually created for the program, but feel will be helpful for anyone whether they’re wanting more ease, grace, and elegance around their money situation or in fear and struggle around money.  I recommend treating having enough money to support you at a material level in a way that is optimal for you as an attainable goal, rather than pie in the sky.  This podcast helps you begin to figure out what that amount would be for you.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

Despite many traditional cultures not having the concept of past lives, modern people interested in soul healing have found this to be a potent sort of work for health and freedom.  In this podcast, I share an overview of how past lives impact us and some tips for working with them on their own.

I also explore this concept in my book, “Practical Shamanism: A Guide for Walking in Both Worlds”.  https://handsoverheart.com/store/books/

Ready to give Fire Ceremony at try for clearing past life pain?  Check it out here:  https://handsoverheart.com/2017/01/20/fire-ceremony/

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

It’s powerful to define what the minimum is for enough in any area.  What do you need to have enough money, enough health, to be a good enough parent, to be socially skilled enough?  What would it mean if you were slim enough or liked enough or had done enough for the day? 

No matter how much we achieve, the instincts don’t ever switch into telling us we now have enough money, safety, or status.  So, pragmatically defining what is good enough in these areas can give you freedom and clarity about where to put your efforts in life.  To be clear, I don’t mean defining where you are as automatically “enough,” but rather, having an attainable evaluation of enough against which you can compare your results.  For example, currently in my business I make enough money to thrive without struggle and have life circumstance that are extremely supportive.  I’m not wealthy, but it’s enough.  More money sounds lovely, but would likely not make an appreciable difference in my happiness at this point.

Likewise, recently all my tests from my annual checkup with my doctor came back normal.  Which means to me that the combined effect of all my lifestyle choices is good enough for sustainable health at this time in my life.

This podcast contains some of my best wisdom for moving away from unhealthy perfectionism and unsustainable over-achieving that doesn’t lead to happiness.  And, if something needs tending, this will help you have the energy to bring to solving the actual problem.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

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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Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

Having our lives bring experiences of pleasure and delight is utterly necessary to feeling like life is a gift instead of something heavy to be gotten through.  Yet, often we are distracted and derailed from things that would bring authentic pleasure at a human level, to our unique soul, or to both.  I talk vulnerably about ways I activate biological pleasure with thinking and with the things I consume and my journey to wrangle that gently into more moderation to free up space for the kinds of pleasure that leave me fulfilled.  Whether this is a new concept or something you’re ready to dive deeper into, I hope there’s something meaningful here for you.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Some of our best mindfulness teachers live mindfulness throughout their waking hours.  It gives them a massive level of mastery and much wisdom to share.  However, I found that when I studied what they offered, my head got loud about how I wasn’t being mindful enough of the day.  In this podcast, I explore the possibility that you could find a level that was enough mindfulness if you have a fundamental level of emotional and mental health combined with a system for getting present with yourself at regular intervals.  I also talk about some of the warning signs that we have dipped below the level of “enough” mindfulness when our minds go down pathways that become problematic and create a stress feedback loop.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode of Practical Shamanism, I take a deep dive into soul retrieval—one of the most transformational and foundational practices in my shamanic work. While I’ve often alluded to it in previous episodes, I realized I hadn’t yet devoted a full discussion to this life-changing process.

I share my personal journey of discovering soul retrieval, the profound impact it had on my own healing, and why I consider it the single most powerful intervention I can offer. We’ll explore:

✨ What soul retrieval is and why it’s found in shamanic traditions across the world
✨ How soul loss happens—through trauma, relationships, and even modern distractions
✨ Signs you may benefit from soul retrieval
✨ The impact of retrieving lost soul parts and how it can create lasting change
✨ Simple practices to start calling your energy back

Whether you're new to soul retrieval or curious to deepen your understanding, this episode offers insight into the magic of energetic wholeness and how it can support your well-being.

Want to read more?  Check out:

About Soul Retrieval- This article is the comprehensive overview of my soul retrieval process, including information on what to expect during and after a shamanic soul retrieval session.  I have my clients read this article before their session.

About Soul Retrieval- Cliff Note Version- This a condensed version of my About Soul Retrieval article for those who aren’t up for reading quite so much detail and want a shorter version.

Does Soul Retrieval Make You Tried- Soul retrieval can sometimes (but not always) make individuals feel tired as the body undergoes deep healing and integration. This temporary fatigue, usually lasting 48-72 hours, indicates that old energy patterns and blockages are being processed, paving the way for increased energy and vitality in the long term.

Soul Retrieval Side Effects and After Effects- Soul retrieval can result in various positive side effects, such as increased vitality, emotional healing, improved mental clarity, and stronger spiritual connections. It can also cause shifts in relationships.

What is a Soul Retrieval? Soul retrieval is a shamanic healing practice that restores fragmented parts of the soul caused by trauma. The process involves identifying and reintegrating these lost parts to enhance vitality, emotional healing, mental clarity, and spiritual connections.

Soul Retrieval Session- Learn about the soul retrieval sessions I offer and how to book your session today!

9 Benefits of Soul Retrieval– Discover the profound benefits of soul retrieval, including restored vitality, emotional healing, spiritual growth, and enhanced self-awareness for holistic well-being.

What Is Soul Loss? Learn about soul loss in detail.  Discover its causes, symptoms, and how shamanic soul retrieval can restore wholeness and well-being.

11 Soul Loss Symptoms- Learn about soul loss symptoms such as fatigue, depression, anxiety, and emotional numbness. Identifying these signs is the first step towards healing through practices such as shamanic soul retrieval.

Top 5 Signs You Might Need a Soul Retrieval and How It Can Transform Your Life– Learn about when you might need soul retrieval as the next step on your healing journey.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I'd love to share some of my guides’ best wisdom for navigating anxiety and the activation of the fight or flight system. Dropping the everyday baseline of our stress and anxiety is one of the most powerful things we can do for our physical health. It’s also one of the most powerful ways to connect with our deeper soul wisdom because when fears get loud, we can't hear our deeper guidance or find clarity. Many people are so acclimated to anxiety, they don’t realize how much harm it is actually doing. I’d love to give you a map for how to change this! With some focused work in the beginning to make a shift, you’ll find that much less effort and focus are needed in your life going forward to provide this system with the adult supervision it requires in order not to run amok. 

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

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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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

As someone who was painfully shy and socially awkward who has become a person who mostly feels ease and confidence in interacting with strangers and friends alike, I’d like to share about that journey.  I hope that if you’re feeling the pain and isolation of social anxiety or shyness, that this will give you hope that this doesn’t have to be something that you always endure.  I break down some of the key game changers that were part of my journey in the hopes that it will give you some guideposts in navigating this issue.  Or perhaps this will support you in holding kind space for someone you care about who is less than socially graceful.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I had a journey some years ago wherein my guides talked to me about ways I was using my will and magic to stabilize things in my life that had run their course out of a fear of and resistance to change.  They shared ways it was limiting the life I would live and asked me to make a choice about this aspect.

In this podcast, I talk about ways to catch when we’re doing this and how our instincts can cause our mind to rationalize remaining committed to an unstainable course of action.  I give some advice about making choices and getting present with when to choose again.  I share a lot about my own self-inflicted pain when I haven’t done a good job with this.  I also talk about using our intention to ask our guides to help things to come out well on the other side when we travel through take apart times.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode, I explore the concept of psychic protection, especially for those who are energetically sensitive. I share personal experiences and discuss practical strategies to protect one's energy field from unwanted influences. Learn more about how to create energetic boundaries, manage psychic noise, and protect yourself from both subtle and intense energetic disturbances.

You can read an article with an overview of this information here: https://handsoverheart.com/resources/psychic-protection/

Additional Resources

Online Courses:

• Energy Body Illumination Program- https://academy.handsoverheart.com/detail/VIDEO/the-energy-body-illumination A comprehensive course on building and strengthening your energy body for effective psychic protection.
• Getting Rid of Entities and Keeping Them Gone  https://academy.handsoverheart.com/detail/VIDEO/free-yourself-from-entities – Focused on removing entities and maintaining a clear energetic field.

Books:

• Psychic Protection by Ted Andrews
• Practical Shamanism by Katie Weatherup

Shamanic Healing Offers to Improve Psychic Protection:

Soul Retrieval- https://handsoverheart.com/soul-retrieval/ 

Compassionate Entity Removal- https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/compassionate-entity-removal/ 

Protect Your Home- https://handsoverheart.com/shamanic-healing/wards/ 

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I’m often asked how I came to make such a career pivot.  Often due to time constraints of the conversation, I share the short version.  But here’s the longer version.  I share about becoming an entrepreneur, writing my first book, and falling in love with soul retrieval work.  I hope you enjoy it!

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Most of us receive little or no training in how to use our psychic and intuitive abilities to effectively support our lives.  The default can be hypervigilance even when we’re enjoying excellent safety.  In this podcast, I talk about how to redirect your third eye to maintain appropriate situation awareness, while mostly scanning for possibilities and ways forward.  This simple redirection will refocus our psychic abilities and help us to create the life we want.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

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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Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

I once went out on a coffee date with someone I later referred to as “Unemployed Manic Monologue Man.”  The fellow had done a great deal of introspection.  But, sadly, he didn’t have any pathways or experiences that were giving him quality, applicable feedback. 

In this podcast, I talk about the important role of feedback and how to determine whether it’s qualified and useful or not.  I also cover some tips for discernment for being able to sort which people might be more rewarding than others if you want to explore a deeper form of relating.  If a connection has an exceptionally low chance of success and sustainability because of some things that can be seen up front, it’s lovely to bow out gracefully sooner rather than later.  It’s by no means a comprehensive list, but I share some key points I pay attention to early on when I’m getting to know someone and deciding if I want to explore further.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

When emotional waters run high, or in experiences of depression or anxiety, my clients often share one of the most painful and distressing things is that they can’t hear or feel their guides.  In this episode, I share more about why that is and offer some practical suggestions for navigating those stretches of life’s journey, with an intent to get back to feeling and hearing your guides as quickly as possible.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

Our best qualities can also, if left unsupervised and allowed to run amok, be the qualities that most damage our relationships.  In this podcast I pull from some recent moments in my own life exploring Destined for Doom ways of relating that we may feel are actually likely to create success, no matter how much evidence we have experienced to the contrary.  I explore unsolicited advice, contribution, and arguing with the other person’s truth if you’re not getting what you want in relationship.  I hope this will help you to see relationship dynamics more clearly and have some language to express and understand what’s going on, whichever side of a dynamic you land upon.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Sometimes we get so wounded by other people’s messiness and unskillful relating or outright bad behavior that we don’t want to engage our hearts with other people going forward.  We can unconsciously (or consciously) create heart armor to avoid future connection.  We can even distort and disrupt our natural, healthy ability to run energetic connection with other humans.

I invite you to treat healing heartache and loss as a learnable skill.  Often new possibilities flow into empty spaces created by relationships that are complete.  Before we ask how to I find friends or a romantic relationship, it’s good to ask what’s in the way of these things coming to in.

Self-trust in our ability to heal and in our discernment often helps us be willing to be fully open to new connection.  Relationship discernment can be complicated.  In this podcast, I share some of the things I look for that make me believe I’d be successful with someone.  And, I allow myself to be in the fan club of someone for whom I have huge affinity and appreciation but who isn’t aligned to be a friend or in a deeper relationship.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I recently enjoyed a magical trip through Yellowstone and Wyoming.  I share about my journey and some reflections along the way in this episode.   

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Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 hurt and angered by unsolicited criticism, you come by it honestly through human biology.  It activates our instincts.  In the modern world, we navigate so many intrusive opinions about how we live our lives coming from people who aren’t stakeholders in how we do life.

Having a well-thought-out personal policy about who is and isn’t invited to give advice, feedback, reflection, or criticism is useful in being able to navigate these situations effectively.  Then we can fast track soothing our instincts and coming back to center, rather than ruminating on triggered, distorted reflections from unqualified sources.  In our important relationships, it is vital to understand how we impact the other person directly, but we can still have boundaries about what opinions beyond their direct experience are invited.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

I’d like to offer some insight on navigating weight loss with self-compassion.  The less struggle we can bring to lifestyle changes, the more sustainable they become.  As it happens, I wrote up some really cool show notes when I first recorded this, but I’m in the Yellowstone area when this is due for release and my cloud drive didn’t agree with me about making them available as I roam.   So, I’ll let the title and episode mostly speak for themselves.

You can get a 35% discount on my full shamanic weight loss program.  Just email me at katie@handsoverheart.com and I’ll set that up for you.  You can check out the program here: https://academy.handsoverheart.com/detail/VIDEO/testing

Check out my articles for more information: 

Shamanic Weight Loss

Shamanic Wisdom for Holistic Weight Loss

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

Often, we don’t experience the deliciousness of time to just be rather than do.  For me, this was because I didn’t go to stillness and release of “shoulds” until I was exhausted.  And, in the stillness, I often was overwhelmed with a lot of emotions I’d been numbing and avoiding.  It made me bounce back into the perfectionism and overachieving that were getting me external validation.

Over the years, my relationship to the balance of yin and yang has become much heathier.  I want to offer that within this stillness that isn’t the result of exhaustion or filled with difficult emotions, there is rich territory.  It is a great way to access your creativity and to connect to your spirit guides.  It offers more connected relationships and is rejuvenating for the physical body.  I would even offer it’s foundational for maximizing our sustained happiness.

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Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

In this episode, Katie Weatherup explores the deeper emotional and energetic roots of procrastination through a shamanic lens. Rather than offering surface-level hacks, she unpacks why we get stuck, what our resistance is trying to communicate, and how to create more harmony between our productive drive and our need for rest and emotional processing.

Topics Covered:

• Why procrastination is often a power struggle between parts of yourself

• The hidden role of perfectionism, emotional numbing, and overachievement

• How energetic sensitivity and neurodivergence can impact productivity

• The connection between procrastination and emotional avoidance

• Using procrastination as a signal instead of a personal failing

• How to restore self-efficacy without resorting to inner bullying

• Tips for making peace with your to-do list and accessing flow

• Training yourself in smoother transitions between rest and action

• Using short-time commitments (like 5-10 minutes) to bypass resistance

• Creating sustainable structures that honor your energy rhythms

Key Takeaways:

• Procrastination is often a symptom of emotional tension or unmet needs.

• Your inner overachiever might need limits just as much as encouragement.

• Reframing procrastination as a call for balance can reduce shame and increase effectiveness.

• Emotional presence is more powerful than willpower alone.

• Graceful, nonlinear productivity is often more sustainable than forcing yourself.

Try This:
If you’re stuck on something, try committing to just five minutes of it. You might surprise yourself by shifting into flow—or learn something valuable about what support or timing you need instead.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

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When we get into stronger drugs such as cocaine, meth, etc, there are some additional effects beyond those we talked about in Part 1 of this podcast.  Learn about what those are and how to correct them.  Please listen to Part 1 first.

Also, plant medicines like Ayahuasca, peyote, and magic mushrooms can create some specific challenges in the energy body if your use of them doesn’t include restoring certain kinds of disruptions to the energy body.  Learn more about how to take care of yourself before and after if these things are a part of your journey.

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Check out my new online Academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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Making thoughtful moves in your life that support the long-term outcomes you desire is an important skill.  Our culture has a lot of narratives about dramatic change from hitting bottom.  But there’s a more elegant approach of moving your life onto an upward spiral.

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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.  

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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.  

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Healthy, successful energy exchange with other people is a complicated topic with many factors.  In this episode, I look at the choice to give to others in some way.  Sometimes this comes from a soul level of love of contribution to loved ones or the world at large.  Other times, it’s a survival/safety strategy of people pleasing.  It can also be driven by an inefficient strategy for being liked or receiving desired support in your own life.  And, all these factors can be present at once.  Overgiving is draining and often unsustainable, no matter how noble the intention.  Therefore, understanding a thoughtful, present approach to when and how you say “yes” to others is a powerful service to healthy, sustainable relationships both to oneself and to the key people in your life.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 

As a former engineer turned shamanic practitioner, I’m incredibly interested in efficiency and elegance in addressing the question of what will create the most holistically fulfilling life.  In this podcast, I explore some ways to get to clarity on what you want, to screen out the ways our minds lie to us, and to find a sustainable path forward toward that outcome.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

A powerful way to sustain health, vitality and personal happiness is by keeping the fire of your passion for living vibrant and bright. I often work with people who don’t have a death wish, but neither do they have a particular life wish. The lack of a strong vision and intention in this area can create vulnerability to illness and accidents.  Learn about tending and amplifying your life wish!

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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 hope is that this podcast shows you a path forward to trust in your future self as well as the current version of who you are.  Ideally this will unlock a higher level of feeling safe in the world with other people and right with yourself.

When someone says, “I don’t trust other people,” it usually also indicates that their self-trust is compromised.  Self-trust may be reduced because we aren’t listening to all the parts of ourselves.  Ideally, we find a path to balance the many needs and desires we have as human beings.  I have high self-trust and one of the things I trust is my discernment to accurately see who someone else is.  Then, I trust them to be them, and I trust myself to make good choices based on that awareness.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

As magazines have become rarer, the traditional approach to vision boards becomes harder to implement.  Check out my online creation process using free tools to create a physical image of your vision board for less than the cost of a cup of coffee.  Or for free if you want to keep it online.

This helps direct your awareness away from scanning for improbable threats and towards life affirming opportunities.  It also bolsters your sense of living in a benevolent universe.  In addition, I talk about manifestation and ways to deeply explore what you’d like to dream into being in your life.

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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    

Let’s apply traditional means- shamanism- to a modern problem- that of credit card debt!  Or to whatever kind of debt is causing you grief.

If you’re like me, owing money on credit cards and seeing that amount remain stubbornly present or continue to rise evokes a lot of stress, frustration, and helplessness.  Or it may be student loans or a personal loan you just can’t seem to clear.  It certainly was a major pain point for me for a number of years.  Then, in 2018, it occurred to me that I wasn’t leveraging my tools.  I was treating credit card debt as a financial problem alone instead of something that had an energetic structure as well.

By dismantling the organized energy (and cleaning up energy created and sustained with persistent uncomfortable emotions related to the debt), it makes it harder for the debt to persist in the physical realm.  It’s not a substitute for right action. But just as treating the energetic aspect of illness often causes the body to respond better to physical treatment, and this seems to work with debt- be it student loans or credit cards or something else.

It certainly has had great results in my own life.  Prior to engaging shamanic work with this problem, I believe I was working uphill in my actions in the physical world, by trying to shift something that has a chronic and consistent structure on the energetic level.  Now my credit cards have zero balances more often than not and I don’t have any other financial debt. 

Ready to give Fire Ceremony at try for clearing debt?  Check it out here:  https://handsoverheart.com/2017/01/20/fire-ceremony/

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Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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

People often end up limiting their emotional experience to a handful of flavors.  These could be unpleasant ones that they default into and/or favorite ones that they chase.  This approach disconnects us from a lot of the opportunity of the human experience and tends to promote some health challenges along the way.

In this podcast I share a bit about a client of mine who had a number of lifetimes experiencing a particular flavor of difficult emotions.  The result was that all of the healing she sought out and her own excellent mindfulness practices tended not to move the dial nearly as much as they should have.  I think of it like an old mattress where it takes effort not to roll into the low spot, costing freedom of movement and access to the rest of the bed.

In this podcast, I hope to help you tune into your default emotions and expand the range of your life experience.

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Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/ 

Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at kyoung.keviny@gmail.com

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