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Sacred Soul Sisters
The Sacred Soul Sisters Podcast is a heart-centered space where spirituality, healing, and sisterhood come together. Through meaningful conversations, energy insights, and divine guidance, I create a supportive community to help you deepen your spiritual journey and raise your vibration.
Sacred Soul Sisters
Awakening the Heart: My Journey into Spiritual Connection
Welcome to Sacred Soul Sisters, a sanctuary where spiritual awakening meets authentic connection. In this debut episode, I share my journey from skeptical nurse to spiritual healer—a path that began with a childhood premonition about my grandfather's passing that left me terrified and confused.
For years, I struggled with unexplainable intuitive experiences: waking in the night with urgent needs to call friends in crisis, sensing energies others couldn't perceive, and receiving messages that seemed to come from beyond. Like many, I buried these gifts beneath layers of people-pleasing and conformity until my disconnection became physically painful.
The turning point came during a spiritual retreat I reluctantly attended, where I metaphorically "kicked down the door" to my heart chakra—a dramatic awakening that unleashed both physical symptoms and profound spiritual awareness. What followed was an explosion of spiritual connection as I began seeing spirits everywhere, developing my abilities as a Reiki Master, and ultimately answering the call to serve as a vessel for divine healing energy.
This podcast exists because Spirit has made it clear: it's time for all of us to stand in our power, embrace our authentic gifts, and contribute to raising the vibration of our world. In these challenging times, when so many feel alone and disconnected, our collective spiritual awakening becomes even more crucial.
Whether you're a spiritual seeker, an intuitive soul who's been hiding your gifts, or someone simply curious about energy healing, Sacred Soul Sisters welcomes you with open arms. Together, we'll explore spiritual growth, intuitive development, and the transformative power of community—because we weren't created to stay quiet and hidden. We were created to shine.
Place your hand on your heart, take a deep breath, and join me in sending love and light to everyone in our growing community. Follow me on Instagram @angelreikijourney and visit AngelReikiJourney.com to learn more about my healing services.
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Hello there, I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to my podcast, sacred Soul Sisters. My name is Justina. I am an Asui, holy Fire and Angel Reiki Master with over 20 years of practice, and I'm your host. I can't wait to let others feel the love of community and remind us of the importance of coming together instead of coming apart. Now let's take a deep breath together in through our nose and a long exhale out of our mouth. This is my intentions in a poem to set the tone for our sacred soul sister community. Here you go.
Speaker 1:Welcome, dear soul, to this sacred space where all are embraced with love and grace, From every land, from near and far. No matter who you are, you're a star. Feel the warmth, the light, the peace. Let your spirit find release. Here we gather hearts aligned to uplift, to heal, to realign. Breathe in deeply, feel your glow, let your light expand and flow. As I pour into you with love, so true, your cup overflows, your soul renews. Together we rise in love. We stand lifting vibrations hand in hand. A mission of light, a journey divine. Thank you for sharing your soul with mine. Welcome to the Sacred Soul Sisters space, a home of love and sacred embrace. I'm so glad you're here, okay, so welcome to 2025, the time to stand fully in your power, the time to be your most authentic self.
Speaker 1:I've been praying and meditating about this podcast for the last year or so because my spirit team has been very persistent. They have been talking to me so much about the importance of community and especially right now, as I sit here recording this episode in the first week of March 2025, I feel like I get it now. I get why they talk so much about community. With that in mind, I thought maybe I would tell you a little bit about my spiritual journey About a million years ago. Okay, so not that long, but it's been a while.
Speaker 1:I was around 10 years old and I had this dream one night and my grandfather was standing at the foot of my bed and he was in a suit and he was holding a baby boy. Well, what I assume was a baby boy. It was wrapped in a blue blanket and he had, so my grandpa had the suit on and he had. There was like a little corner of white that I could see sticking out of his coat pocket or his suit pocket, rather. Anyway, I had been staying the night at my grandparents' house for a couple nights in a row, which wasn't uncommon, and I woke up and we were getting ready to go to my grandma and I to get her hair fixed. She always did that every Saturday. So I had to run out of the car to get her and as I went out there my grandpa hollered at me and said hey, go get your grandma.
Speaker 1:I think there's something wrong with the lawnmower. He was on the riding lawnmower, he could kind of shimmy off and on. So here's the part about him standing which was so weird. So he has been paralyzed from the waist down for as long as I can remember. I don't think I ever knew him to not be, but he could, you know, move around to get up and down and he could lean against things. And so I go in to get grandma. We come back out and the neighbor's over and we're all trying to help him figure out what's going on with this lawnmower. So he gets on and off like three different times. The third time he gets off, he goes down on like all fours as he kind of glides himself off of the riding lawnmower and his face instantly turns purple. Oh my gosh, it was terrifying.
Speaker 1:So long story short, he passed away and I had a horrid time accepting it, first of all, but second of all, I thought I had killed him. I was like, how, how in the world did I just have a dream about him standing at the front of my bed in a suit, like holding this baby boy? I mean, why else would I have had? Like, what did I do in my sleep? Like I don't understand. You know, did I do something wrong? I just went through every guilt thing I possibly could.
Speaker 1:And you know, I went for about a year trying to figure out how I was going to deal with this. I mean I thought, gosh, I can't tell anybody like I'm going to go to jail, like oh my gosh. And grandpa was like my best friend, I mean, I was so, so upset about all this. Finally, one day I went to my grandmother and I said, listen, I got to talk to you about something, but I think you're going to probably have to like call the police. And she's like oh my gosh, what's going on? What's going on? And I said, well, so you know, when grandpa passed away, like a year ago, and she's like, yeah, and I said so, I had this dream before he did, and he was standing at the foot of my bed and I talked about like the little corner, so the little corner of white that I could see coming out of his like suit pocket.
Speaker 1:First of all, it was the suit that he was buried in in the casket. Second of all, the corner. When he was in the casket we put our school pictures in his coat pocket. I keep using the word coat and suit interchangeably and I remember walking away from the casket and you could see the little corner of them poking out of the suit pocket. Not only that, my aunt ended up having a baby boy too, somewhere around there. So I really think that was the baby boy she was holding.
Speaker 1:So my grandma, just, oh my gosh, I am so sorry I didn't know that you were thinking that you did not kill grandpa. Oh my gosh. And thank God, because I just like fell into her. She was just the best. So she said you really remind me of your great great grandmother. So she said you really remind me of your great great grandmother. And she said that she was Cherokee Indian or had some Cherokee Indian in her or something along those lines. And she said she would have premonitions, she would have dreams, she would get like feelings about people. She was really kind of in tune. The way that you talk and the way that you say things really remind me of her and I thought, well, that's weird, but whatever.
Speaker 1:Anyway, but from then on, like I really noticed that I would be sensitive to so much. I would like feel, when I was around somebody that you needed to get away from immediately, I would, you know, notice immediately if it was someone that I wanted to really be around and spend time with. As high school came around, I was. I would be woke up in the middle of the night, like three o'clock in the morning, and it would be like hey call Susie, hey call Mary, call Corey, call you know. And, and every time I would call, something would be going on. Either they had just gotten a fight with their girlfriend or boyfriend, or some of them were in domestic violence situations, some of them were fighting with their parents and they got to a point where, like one time, somebody was about to take their life. I mean it's just all of these crazy things. But I mean I would be woke out of a dead sleep and just like call so-and-so now, call so-and-so now. And I have to like sneak down the phone and call.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it got to be kind of like an underlying thing. You know, hey, justina calls me in the middle of the night, answer her, because there's a reason. But also then people were fearful, you know, if the phone rang in the middle of the night, cause they're like oh crap, is that Justina? And what's going on? Do I need to like be on the lookout for something, or what's going on? Yeah, it just got kind of crazy. And then I kind of blocked it for a while and really wanted to try to see what I was just lifing. You know, things got really crazy. I was in kind of a crappy relationship and so I was too busy stuffing that down, being a people pleaser, trying to save everyone and anyone I came in contact with and and kind of I don't know. I feel like I turned off or smothered this intuition sort of thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, fast forward a little bit. I'm in like my mid 20s or early 20s, somewhere around there, and one of a coworker of mine, a couple of coworkers of mine, were in like a meeting. You know, the meeting's getting ready to be over, and so we're all just kind of talking amongst ourselves and I look over and one of the girls is standing behind another girl and she's got her hands on her head and I'm like what? Oh no, what kind of voodoo voodoo are you doing? Because I could see she had been complaining of a headache all morning and her face was like all scrunched up you know when you're uncomfortable, and anyway I was watching it like right before my eyes, like her face like, uh, calm down and look more at peace, and like maybe the pain was letting up, and I was like, oh great, somebody is doing some crazy, crazy, weird stuff. Right, and I had been brought up Catholic and then went through multiple different religions Like we were Lutheran at one time and we were, I think, just Christian at one time, if that's a thing and then we were Methodist at one time, and then I think I even went to a Pentecostal church and you know.
Speaker 1:So there were so many different things, but in my core what I felt like I picked up from the Catholic church was I'm sort of going to hell for everything, anyway. So I really had developed that people pleasing thing just to the nth degree. So the lady that was holding her hands over my other co workers head said I'm doing Reiki and stop talking junk about it, because you're going to end up doing it too. And I was like, yeah, no, I don't, I don't do like woo, woo, voodoo, like I'm, I'm not, like I don't work with the devil, I don't let you know. And she's like, oh my gosh, I don't do any of that either, that you're crazy.
Speaker 1:The next day I'm driving around I'm also a nurse, that's my undercover job, I call it. Anyway. I'm driving around to see some of my patients and I hear on the radio the word Reiki. Now, this is like early 2000,. You know like 2002 or three, I don't know, somewhere around there. And I'm like what in the world? You know, you barely hear the word Reiki or energy healing of any kind on the radio now, let alone you know, 20 plus years ago, right, and I remember I almost like pulled off the side of the road. I was like what in the world? How, oh my gosh, I turned the radio off. I'm like this is so weird.
Speaker 1:Two days later I have an appointment with a massage therapist and I thought I was so looking forward to that, right, well, I go in for the massage and she's like doing some massage on my head and stuff and trying. I had had a little headache and that's feeling better and everything. And next thing, I know her hands are like over my solar plexus, right Like my upper abdomen, and I'm like what? Uh, I instantly got the feeling of sorry for the grossness, but I instantly wanted to like projectile vomit. I wanted to scream. I was like angry, sad and nauseous all at the same time and I was like what are you doing? What are you doing to me? And she's like nothing, nothing, I just you know. And I was like no, what are you doing? Like you're doing something.
Speaker 1:And she said well, I've been meaning to talk to you about this. I just keep feeling like I really have to tell you about it and I just think you'd be really good at it. And I'm like what, what is going on Like? And she said so, have you ever heard of Reiki? And I thought are you freaking, kidding me? Uh, yeah, like two other times in the last couple of days. This is insane. This is the third time this has come up, right. So she says well, we have a class coming up, a friend of mine at her house and it's the Reiki one class. And, uh, I really want you to go with me, will you just go with me? And I thought, no, I don't want. And I was like, fine, screw it Right, cause it's going to come back anyway, like it's just showing up everywhere. So like, fine, fine, I'll just go. Whatever It'll be fine, we'll figure out. This is all crazy and whatever.
Speaker 1:So I go to this class, we're doing the class, we start to get to the point where we practice on different people and I'm practicing on this lady and I almost instantly see this man at the foot of her bed which is very obviously not in human form and he's in a military uniform. It's a very old military uniform. He's very stoic and I still kind of see his face. It's weird. But anyway, and the lady standing next to me had taken Reiki and some other type of energy things a couple different times and she was like you see something, don't you? And I was like no, I don't see anything, I don't see anything. And she's like, yes, you do, I can tell you can see something. And I was like, no, I don't. And I was like fine, fine, whatever, like if you guys are here for all this Reiki stuff, like you're just as crazy as I am right now, right, so I'll just tell you what I see.
Speaker 1:So I started describing what I saw. Well, the lady that we were doing the Reikion was like I really think that's my grandfather and I think it was like maybe even a great grandfather. Anyway, she was like he was in World War One and all of this, and she's like you described, like his hair color, his height, the way he carried himself, you know, and all of these things. And I thought, oh my gosh, what the freak is happening to me. So, yeah, so then that kind of started happening more and I would be guided a lot more, and I I was like, oh, I'm just always arguing with myself. And then I started to realize maybe it's not myself per se that's always talking to me. And then I started to feel my grandpa around too, which was the best feeling in the world because he was my best buddy.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so, fast forward, I'm back to lifing again and still haven't grown out of this people pleasing business, right. So I'm just kind of shoving everything I really want to say and everything I really want to do and everything I really want to disagree with down my throat as hard as I can, right? Eventually, I become so great at it that I shut off my heart and I didn't realize that was that's what was happening. But I did realize that I was very numb. I was like I don't, I'm just going through the motions, like I know to get up, I know to take care of.
Speaker 1:I had two children by that point and I was married and I was like I know how to get from point A to point B, I know where the school is, I know, but very robotic and I, I just was barely functioning and I was like what is going on? And there was something in me. I was praying about it and I was like you know what? I have always wanted nothing more than to be a mom and to have children and to have them know, like, know, like they know, like they know how loved they are. And I was like there's no way I'm I'm even doing that right now. I'm so I don't know what's happening. So I get this wild hair and I'm like maybe I need like some type of spiritual retreat, right, like surely that could help. And but then again I'm already like arguing with myself. So I Google spiritual retreats, right.
Speaker 1:Well, this one, that's like within an hour, 45 minutes from me, pops up and I was like, oh no, and it was. It was like coming up, it was in like two weekends or something and I said, okay, okay, since I feel like I'm sort of guided to do this, but I don't really want to do this sort of want to do this, I'll call, but there's no way they're going to have any open slots, right, because I mean, it's in two weeks, so there's no way possible. So I call and the whole time the phone's ringing, I'm like don't answer, don't answer, don't answer, just let me have voicemail, just let me have voicemail. And um, and I got voicemail and I was like, ooh, this is great. So voicemail. I'm like, hey, yeah, I was just looking at the retreat, but I know it's in two weeks and you probably don't have any slots. It's okay, have a great day, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:Do you guys know, like literally I swear it was 30 seconds, but it was probably a whole minute my phone rings and it's that number and I'm like, oh, my gosh, oh, oh crap, what do I do? What do I do? So I answer it and I'm like, uh, hi, and she's like you know, what's really strange is we just had a cancellation. And I was like no, freaking way. And she's, she's like so I can go ahead and put you down. And I was like, no, I mean, I really don't know, I probably won't be able to find, like, a babysitter at this point. I probably won't be able to, you know, get there. I don't even know, like yeah, I just don't think it'll work out. And she said, well, why don't I go ahead and put your name down? Okay, and you can call me back if you absolutely can't, but why don't we go ahead and count on you coming? And I'm like, who the hell does she think she is? And I was just like, okay, fine, whatever, I get off the phone, like ironically, everything sort of works out and I'm able to find a babysitter, even though I try to like literally talk my mom out of babysitting. It was so funny, anyway.
Speaker 1:So I go to the retreat, right, and I am sort of terrified because I've never been to a spiritual retreat. And again I'm getting back in my thought process of like, oh no, is this like creepy, weird stuff people do? And dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. So it's at this house, this beautiful house, with these beautiful people. But at the time I was very, very skeptic, right. So I walk in the door right, I still can't believe I did this and there's like I don't know, 12, 13 people there, some of them, a lot of them, I think, had already been to one at this same place and I walk in and I said, uh hi, and here's the deal. I don't want to get naked and I don't want to like dance on a fire, I just want to be clear about that.
Speaker 1:And everybody's like uh, this, like frightened. Look on their face. They're like okay, us either, it's okay. And I'm like all right, good, I'm glad we have that under control. So I sit down on like this corner of the couch I mean, like my butt is maybe like three centimeters on the couch, maybe just and I'm eye in the exit, right, I'm like if any time I got to run out, I know exactly where my car is, like I'm just like risk management 101. So finally, there's a lady sitting next to me. Thank god, that was like. I just wanted to want you to know you're safe, you're gonna be okay, everything's gonna be all right, it's all right and um, anyway. So I'm like okay, okay, you're right.
Speaker 1:Like I got here, I was on a mission and I started thinking back about my kids and I'm like I still still want to be the best mom ever. I still want to make sure I can do that. That's why I'm here, stay focused, it's okay. It's okay. So they say, okay, we're going to do this meditation right. And it's like you come to all these doors and turns out it's a chakra meditation. But I did not know that at the time and I knew like I mean, I knew about chakras, but not a ton at that time. I knew like, kind of where certain things were held.
Speaker 1:But anyway, so we go through this chakra meditation that I don't know is a chakra meditation, that they call a meditation of different doors, and I'm like there's no way I'm going to get into this. I mean there's all these people around, I don't know these people, of course. I end up getting into it because I'm like no's, no way I'm going to get into this. I mean there's all these people around, I don't know these people, of course. I end up getting into it because I'm like no, listen, I got my ass here. I'm going to do it the right way. I'm going to put my all into it. I'm a Virgo, so like if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we go through the meditation, come to a door, I should say, and it is like bolted, locked, like it's even like warped. You know, like when a door has had heat on it for too long and, like you, it's so hard to open and it felt like somebody had like poured rubber cement between the door, I mean, like it was so stuck. I am like banging on the door. I'm like, no, listen, I came here to figure out whatever the heck is going on with me and I'm fixing it because I'm here. So I'm like this door is opening, because this meditation was all about, like you know, get the door open. What do you see behind it? Just take notes, those kinds of things. Y'all.
Speaker 1:I am messing with this door and messing with this door and messing with this door. Finally, I kick the door down Right and I'm like, yeah, and I can't see anything. It's pitch black. I can't see anything. I can't even like step in the room and I'm like, are you kidding me? Like I finally got the dang door, like knock the heck down, and it's still okay. Well, whatever, I'm, I'm proud of myself that I got the door down.
Speaker 1:So we finished the meditation and I'm so excited because they're like asking about stuff and I'm like, ooh, they're going to be so proud. Like I got in the door and it's my first time with this meditation. And so they come around to me and I'm like, yeah, I went through this one, this one. And then I was like, came to this one and I was like, oh, my gosh, it just went open. I I ended up kicking it down and I was so proud and all of a sudden, like the whole room gasp and they're like, oh, okay, so it turns out it was my heart chakra that I kicked in.
Speaker 1:It's not really recommended to just like break in to your heart chakra like with a vengeance, because apparently, when you spend so much time shoving everything down there, there's a lot in there. So I was like, why is everybody not happy? Like this is so weird. They should be proud of me. Anyway, I just kind of was like, okay, whatever, maybe they're just like gasping because I'm the new person, I don't know. So I kind of forgot about it Now and I don't know, so I kind of forgot about it Now.
Speaker 1:Like 45, about 40 minutes goes by and I'm starting to have like chest pain and I'm like what is going on? I mean chest pain, I'm starting to sweat, I'm starting to feel queasy and I'm like, oh, this is great, I'm going to be like on the front page of a freaking newspaper, right, like nurse goes to spiritual retreat and dies of a sudden heart attack Great. So one of the leaders of the retreat come over and just very calmly and sweetly sat down next to me and he said I just want you to know you're okay. You're okay, just breathe through it. Breathe through it. You really kind of sort of abruptly open that heart chakra. So it's okay, it's just opening up, it's okay, just breathe through it.
Speaker 1:Luckily it calmed down and this was like a whole weekend retreat thing and every single thing I came to like we did like a thing with like oracle cards and we did a thing with angels and we did a thing with angels and we did a thing with I don't know like eight other things. But every single time I like pulled the heart card or there was a message about the heart chakra or I mean it was. It was an incredibly healing experience for me, but I really probably wouldn't recommend like kicking the shit down. You know, just FYI.
Speaker 1:So I remember at the retreat a lady that's a medium walks up to me, a good friend of mine. She's she's wonderful, but she wasn't a friend of mine then, I didn't even know her. She walked up to me and she said who's the? Um, the Cherokee Native American woman with you. And I'm like what are you talking about? There's no woman with me. And she's like no, she's with you. Do you have a great grandma or something? And I thought back to that conversation with my grandma and I thought, no freaking way. And then it dawned on me that she was actually behind one of the doors in that meditation too, the way she described her as well. And she said I just want you to know that you did the right thing by coming and you're on the right path and your kids are going to have spiritual gifts too. Just remember to always nurture that in you and in them. And I thought, uh, okay, wow, so we're right towards the end of um the retreat and I am like Saturday night I had like wild dreams and I felt like somebody was talking to me in the dream and then on Sunday I would like see faces out the corner of my eye and I'm like I'm freaking, losing it.
Speaker 1:So I remember driving home that Sunday afternoon and I am not kidding you the gates of heaven had opened and every single person there was everywhere. I mean everywhere. I saw so many spirits that I actually called the medium lady that I met and I said, okay, here's the deal. I'm a nurse, I did do a, you know, some training in a mental health facility and I'm I'm afraid maybe I have like full blown schizophrenia or like with hallucinations or some other, like I'm seeing, like legit, seeing dead people, like they're not, like they don't look scary, but they're freaking everywhere. And she's like it's okay, it's okay, you're all right. I promise you're okay. It was so weird, right. She's like you just got to tune up, it's okay, everything's all right. You just got to tune up. And I'm like oh, yeah, okay. So it's kind of been going strong since then. It's not. Um, it does seem to amplify a lot when I am, uh, the client in a healing session, when, when I get healing sessions and I get a tune up, so to speak, it does definitely amplify. But uh, and all of my Reiki sessions it, I would say, just about everyone you know, spirits coming through, um, they're guiding me, I'm working with your angels, I'm working with your spirit team. Often past loved ones come in and that has really magnified everywhere. In the meantime I took Reiki too, and my Reiki, uh, mastership, and I was you guys.
Speaker 1:I was still doing all of this like on the down low, you know, like people would tell people and then they would get in touch with me and everything, but I I very much did not willingly tell that many people about it unless I was close to them or they had kind of heard about me or whatever. And then about a year ago I let me think no, not even a year ago, but close to a year ago I finally just had like this choking episode in my living room and I was like what is what is going on? And spirit was like now's the time. No more hiding, no more being so worried about what someone has to say, about what you do, no more. It's just not welcome anymore. We need you to do this. We need you to be a vessel for healing.
Speaker 1:To be clear, I am not the one like healing people, I am not the one coming up with messages Like. I am literally just the channel and the vessel and it is coming from the highest heaven. I have had some encounters with Jesus, like right in front of me, which is absolutely amazing, and so many beautiful experiences and been able to be a vessel for somebody to experience great healing, somebody to experience great healing, and it is such a freaking honor. Every single time I am elated. I never feel better than I do when I am doing a Reiki session and right afterwards I am forever left with whoa, what just took place? Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me to be part of this. I mean, it's just, it's just beautiful and crazy all at all at the same thing.
Speaker 1:So that is kind of my journey and, um, in the meantime of all of that spirit has really been about listen. We really need you to encourage other people to stand in their power and other people to know that it's okay to be them, it's okay to be authentic and Spirit, god Source that's what they want for us. We really were as Jesus says. We really were created for a purpose and our purpose is not to keep our mouth shut and keep us quiet and keep us hidden. Our purpose is to do everything we can to raise the vibration of this world, and this world needs it so desperately right now, oh my goodness. And if you don't know that it needs it, check the news out for about five seconds. Actually, I don't really recommend it, but the point is they are calling on all of us to do our part in this world, all of us to do anything and everything we can to raise this vibration and to provide love to so many people. There are so many people hurting right now, there are so many people feeling so alone right now, and there are so many people that are desperate to hear that someone, anyone, gives a crap about them.
Speaker 1:All right, guys, that's our episode for today. Hey everyone, I wanted to take a quick second and say thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so grateful for you, thank you for listening to this podcast, and I want to take a minute and ask for a quick favor. If, when you're listening to an episode, if you could please just take a second place your hand on your heart and take a deep breath in through your nose and a long exhale out of your mouth and just set the intention to send love and light to every single person listening right now, yesterday and in the future, I think together, we just might be able to raise the vibration of this world. I'm so excited and please follow me on Instagram at AngelReikiJourney. Visit my website to book an appointment with me at AngelReikiJourneycom and please follow this podcast. Sacred Soul Sisters. Thank you so much and I can't wait to talk to you again soon. Have a great day.