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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
Embracing Your Authentic Self: The Power of Being Seen
hello there.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to my podcast, sacred soul sisters. My name is justina. I am an Usui 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.
Speaker 1:Here you go, 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.
Speaker 1:Hello friends, I can't believe we're at episode three. I'm so excited we are still in the month of March 2025 as I'm recording this and today I did some connecting with spirit prior to this episode and I just keep hearing over and over it's okay to be seen and that I need to share that with others. I on Instagram, my Instagram page, angel Reiki Journey I posted about a YouTube video by Amanda Ellis it's like angelic celestial colors, I think might be her YouTube handle. She's absolutely phenomenal. I've been following her for years and her most recent message about all of the energetic shifts right now with the eclipse and the moons and everything going on. She has a moment in there where, as she's channeling in there, where, as she's channeling, she pauses and looks directly at the camera, which so much feels like she's looking directly at you, obviously, and she says why wouldn't you be seen? Why wouldn't you be seen? And I felt that through my bones. That's something that I struggled with for what feels like 100 years, but really it's been the past 20 plus.
Speaker 1:Like I think I mentioned before, I just came out of the spiritual closet as far as the whole world, knowing that I do Reiki and that I speak the spirit and that I get messages from past loved ones and that, um, I get guidance for the collective and all kinds of things like that. I kept everything inside and hidden, except for, you know, I mean, there were some people that knew and then some people told other people and then, you know, I was still doing Reiki sessions, but it was very much a underground sort of hidden thing and people that I saw every day had no idea right, and so much of it went back to my own insecurities and concerns and fear of being judged and fear of people not fully understanding my mission, my intention for things. There was, a little while back, someone had talked to me about doing a night out kind of thing. They're like you know, can we get like spiritual messages and stuff like that? And they were holding it at a bar and there would be a lot of alcohol and I'm not sure everything else that was going to be in it. But yeah, it really felt kind of uncomfortable. While I love doing messages for people, I love bringing guidance, I love providing healing to people, I truly feel this is a sacred thing. This isn't something I want to feel like an act and a part of a show, you know, it just didn't feel right. And I'm not for sure if someone had been drinking heavily and I was able to connect to their loved one, that they would truly have the same healing experience if they hadn't been intoxicated. So I feel like everybody kind of has a different view about how they view these things.
Speaker 1:I guess my point is is that I'm okay with being seen now I am. I have come to a place I have done so much internal healing, so much inner child healing, so many meditations To say that, you know, I highly recommend doing womb meditations, which when I first heard about that, I thought that's absolutely insane. Why would I want to go into my womb? And it's really the womb space. So, even if your womb has been removed, even if you're a man and you don't have a womb, the area where it would be, it's one of the safest places in the world to go and I've never felt that level of safety which I didn't realize I hadn't in a really long time, in a really long time, or if ever, to be honest. So I guess my point is is that, even though I'm ready to fully be seen, I'm also very cautious about where I participate or in what event or in what company or anything like that.
Speaker 1:I always go to my spirit team and kind of can you know, converse with them and you know, does this feel right? Does this feel like in alignment with what your plans are for me? And maybe everybody else's plans are different, maybe maybe I'm totally wrong and someone could have a totally healing session and everything would be great and and all of that. But when I went to my spirit team about the alignment within me, it didn't feel right, so I didn't end up doing it. I do, I'm okay with being seen. Like I said, I'm okay with people knowing who I am and I'm okay with people not resonating with it. And I think that's what Spirit's plan is for us is to fully stand in in our power and not even our power, but understand the sacredness of this life that we've been given and this ability that we have to bring hope and healing to so many people. So with that again, we always kind of go back to community and Spirit.
Speaker 1:I've been kind of reading off my poem, my mission statement, so to speak, my full intention for this podcast, and Spirit said to me I really want you to take a minute and read it throughout the episode. They actually said start with the episode, but apparently I got distracted and started yacking prior, so we're going to pause for just a minute and I'm going to read this to all of you. And I really want you to feel this, and I want you to feel this intention that every time you listen to one of my episodes, I'm holding you in the highest amount of love. I am sending so much love to you and I am asking your spirit team and your angels and your past loved ones to be with you and support you in each and every way they possibly can, and I'm rooting for you and I believe in you. So here it is.
Speaker 1:Welcome, dear soul, to this sacred space where all are embraced with love and grace, from every land, from near and far, with love and grace from every land, from near and far, no matter who you are. You are 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 souls sister space, a home of love, a sacred embrace.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that is definitely my intention and I want you guys to know. I'm also just sending a million hugs to each and every one of you too, and if you get a minute and you're listening to this, I just ask you to close your eyes for just one moment, just one moment. Put your arms around yourself, take a deep breath in through your nose, hold it for the count of four, hold it and then release it for the count of four. And just know, in that moment I'm giving you a huge hug and I'm just trying to do everything I can to support you on your journey, your healing journey, and I just want you to know you're not alone. You have people we haven't even met yet and I'm rooting for you.
Speaker 1:So this morning also, I pulled a card and, um, at first I was asking for some guidance on some different things and it was kind of funny because two cards popped out and I really had just one in mind. But the first card I read and it did. While it did resonate with me, I heard you need to share that with your podcast listeners, so I'm going to share this card. It's from Kyle Gray, who's absolutely amazing If you don't follow him, I highly suggest it and it's his Angels and Ancestors Oracle deck. The card I pulled this morning was Spirit Fox and it says trust your talents and changing times. Just FYI, we're in some changing times, to say the least. Right? So he has a little guidebook with it and this is what it says. It says stay alert as change is in the air.
Speaker 1:The spirit fox features my favorite animal of all time, the red fox, an amazingly resilient creature able to survive in urban environments or the freezing temperatures of the Arctic. Foxes know what it's like to be hunted. For centuries, they have been sought for their precious fur when all they want to do is survive. So the spirit fox can help you overcome the energies of adversity and unfair treatment. Also, as urban foxes hide in cities and go about their business in the darker hours, the fox offers the medicine of blending in the extended message. The energies around you are changing at this time and, although it may not always be comfortable, you are equipped with all that you need to survive this shift. You are being presented with opportunities to reach spaces you've never encountered before, and this can make you feel on edge. But be open to the shifts occurring, because they really are the answers to your prayers. The experience of being hunted or threatened is now behind you and you are being invited to come out from your den and reveal your glory and talents. Call upon Spirit Fox Medicine to help you be seen for what you are and who you are, and trust in your talents in order to be the best you can be in these changing times.
Speaker 1:Wow, so that definitely went along with this moon energy, this, the YouTube video that I referred to, and just what kind of spirit has been telling me lately. You know, I feel like just over and over, that the time is now. The time is now Is to be fully you. You were so created for a purpose you really were and it's so important that you stand in that purpose and harness it and embrace it, because then it helps facilitate everybody else having the ability to do their part as well. And could you imagine, like if we all did our part, if we all acted in accordance with who we truly are, how cool this place may be, anyway. So, yes, we are in some crazy changing times. And that draws me to my next thought and is really about what have you done for you lately? But really take a pause for a minute. And I'm not talking about, like, I fed myself breakfast this morning. That's great, but you should be doing that anyway. I'm not even talking about getting the right amount of water in, which is also good, and you should be staying hydrated. But what I'm really talking about is like really providing some love to you.
Speaker 1:You know, we go about this world and we run ourselves ragged often Not everybody, obviously, but many people do, especially women. I feel like you know, we're always like oh, we got this. Yeah, we can take care of the kids, we can work full time, we can clean the house, we can run somebody over food, we can help the neighbor do something. Yeah, we got this, we got this. And we get so caught up in this hamster wheel that we forget to invest in ourselves. Caught up in this hamster wheel that we forget to invest in ourselves. If we don't, we, for one, are not going to be able to live our purpose, because we also have to make sure we are filling our cup, but for two. What does that result in? When we neglect certain areas, when we don't work to heal our inner child, when we don't work to provide love to ourself, when we don't work to understand the value of this human life and this ability, that we have to provide this hope and healing to other people, that we have to provide this hope and healing to other people and yet, in doing so, understand that one of the parts of that is providing hope and healing to ourselves by calling on our spirit team, by calling on Jesus, by calling on Buddha, by calling on the powers that be, by calling on the universe. It's so important to do that. You, you got to do that. You've got to also continue to build your community. Follow your gut with that too.
Speaker 1:Like, really feel into when you, when you meet somebody, take a minute and be like okay, am I fully present right now? Okay, now I'm fully present. How do I feel when I'm around this person? Do I feel like exhausted when I'm around them? Okay, probably shouldn't invest in spending lots of extra time. Do I feel invigorated? Do I feel happy? Do I feel empowered? Hmm, I need to take a step further and really think about this Do I want to try to build some type of friendship or community with them, and what would that look like? Could I invite them to have coffee? Could I invite them I don't know to go for a walk in our neighborhood or something like that. What would that look like?
Speaker 1:So, meditating is another thing we need to look at, and I feel like I feel like I can feel this audience be like yeah, I know we're supposed to meditate. Oh, my gosh, which was totally me in the past, especially with my Virgo self. I was like what the you want me to sit and stare up in space and say, oh, like I don't have time for that, like I got crap to do. I do not have time to be sitting here. Turning into the thinking, man, right. However, I finally started doing it relatively consistently. I would say.
Speaker 1:My goal is to do it every day, and what does that look like? That doesn't have to be like a 20, 30 minute meditation every day. That can be a five minute meditation every day. That can be five minutes of literally just pausing, deep breathing, staring at a lit candle for five minutes, feeling into my heart, feeling into mother earth. Blow me a minute to pause. It can be that simple. So I'm up to oh, some weeks I'm only making it three days a week. Some weeks I'm making it six days a week and again my goal is seven days. But when you do that, again, my goal is seven days. But when you do that, okay.
Speaker 1:So when we invest in healing ourselves, that clears out space for us to be able to better hear our intuition and for us to better connect with our spirit guides, with our past loved ones, because everybody can do this. And as far as meditating, that's the same thing. So if we, if we are able to clear stuff out, if we are able to take those minutes for meditating, it calms our, our nervous system down, it calms our overactive brain activity down and it allows our body to already start, in just that short amount of time, to restore, to rejuvenate, to replenish. And when we do those things even five minutes a day five minutes you can take like a really long pee. You know what I mean. Like you go in the bathroom, lock the door. Five minutes you can have an earbud in and listen to a five minute meditation and pee all at the same time, if you want. Anyway, but please do that for you Do that for you and when you do stuff like that for you, it just naturally starts to elevate the vibration of this world With everybody that you come in contact. Afterwards it's freaking amazing, because you invested five minutes in yourself and you start to feel better, you start to smile more, you start to be less crabby. Not always this doesn't always work, but it's a good start for sure.
Speaker 1:So I really want you to make sure you're doing some self-love for you, and hugs that was another one. So there's this lady I met a little while back who I absolutely adore and I want to say she said try to hug for three whole minutes. And I thought, oh my gosh, that's way too long. I mean, like, how many times do we do this little like half hug, like pat them on the back? Maybe, maybe three seconds? We're doing this right, and it's not even like a total hug, cause you really just use like one arm and you're kind of like, uh, hi, uh, I'm awkward, you're awkward, we don't know how to hug each other. You know, it's like this weird thing. So she actually hugged me for that long and while it was crazy uncomfortable for the first like minute, something genuinely happened within three minutes.
Speaker 1:I really felt like you know how some days, you just feel like the world is just like weighing on your shoulders. Everything just feels heavy. You just feel like, oh, I just want it to be bedtime, please, god, let it be bedtime. And it felt like that was lifted. It really did so. While it started out feeling like torture I know that's terrible to say, but that's how my Virgo mind works it really lifted my spirits and I felt more connected to her. I felt like, even though we didn't even know each other that much the first time she did that, I felt like she gave a crap I don't know if she did for sure, I guess but just that knowing of feeling like somebody's supporting you is so great. So that brings us back to okay. So we do all that. And it brings us back to talking about stepping fully into you, ready to be seen. No more hiding, we got this. No more hiding, we got this Knowing that what we bring to the table by connecting to spirit, by connecting to our higher selves, by connecting to the universe, is important and it's valuable and it's okay and it's wanted and it's wanted.
Speaker 1:So I have another announcement to make which I'm so excited about. I am finally going to teach my first Reiki one and two class. It's Usui, holy Fire Reiki. I'm going to do that on a weekend in May let's see what. I believe it's May 3rd and 4th. It'll be like an all day thing.
Speaker 1:And what's really weird about this is that I had people ask me kind of over the years, you know, if I could teach them this or that, and I would be like, oh me, no, I'm not good enough to do. No, but I can give you a website where you can take a class, you know, and all these kinds of things. And I really, I mean, I've taught things, um, in the medical field. Like you know, my background's nursing, so I've taught like anatomy and physiology and things like that. But I was like, oh, teach you like energetic stuff, like where my like incredible passion is like that's, that's a little scary. Anyway, the moment that I embraced this, which was just not that long ago, all of a sudden I got this huge, amazing burst of energy within me, to the point that I could not sit.
Speaker 1:Still, my regular day job. I'm sitting and like squirming in my seat all over the place and I'm like I keep picturing duct tape and I'm like man, I'm about to duct tape myself to my seat because my day job oftentimes goes into right now it's supposed to be four 10-hour shifts, but so often it's four 13-hour shifts to try to get all of the work done. And I currently work from home, which I do love. I love wearing my pajamas. However, I think expectations in our 3D world continue to rise More and more and more and more expectations are put on with less and less and less amount of people. It's becoming a struggle. It's been becoming a struggle, let's be real, for probably the last six months.
Speaker 1:For me, just period doing it, because spirit will drop in, you know, for a minute during work and be like hey, I really want you to record this meditation. Hey, can you write this down? Hey, I want you to share this with the collective. And I'm like I can't right now, like I'm, I'm working, I can't like switch to that part of my mind and my heart. Every time is starting to hurt, like it's like every time is starting to hurt, like it's like no, like my soul and my heart is like no, justine, I want you to go. Come on, you can do it, you can do. You know the energy healing, you can do the teaching, you can do the courses, you can do meditations.
Speaker 1:And I have this internal struggle with the 3D world as well, because I have a family, I have a spouse, I have children, I have dogs which feels like I have 900 dogs and I am, you know, part of that process. I am part of that process bringing income into the home and bringing grocery, you know, I mean like everything. You know how much it costs to just be alive right now. Everything. You know how much it costs to just be alive right now. So I've been working through this fear of it would definitely be a pretty big cut to make that change all the way. And I've been talking with Spirit a lot about it and lately I've been hearing like what do you value the most? Where do you feel the most alive? And, of course, without a doubt, every time that comes up, every like, I'm about to cry Even thinking about it.
Speaker 1:Every time it comes up, it's with energy healing, it's with connecting to people, it's with trying to uplift people, it's with providing meditations, it's with helping people walk through things in their life. It's with telling people about Reiki, about energy healing, about how, when we clear out all the gunk. We can prevent disease, we can remove disease. In some instances we can. I mean, there's so many, oh, I just feel on fire.
Speaker 1:So when this happened and it finally came to me that, okay, you're going to teach this class, this is the weekend, I want you to do it, and I was like what you're already telling me? Um, you know, we've talked about before how I argue with spirit. However, I am becoming less and less argumentative. Something big, humongous is changing and in that YouTube video that I mentioned, she talks about that. She's like it's almost like the old version of you is moving. This new version of you is moving.
Speaker 1:This new version of you is coming, which I feel like has kind of happened, because, like muscle memory and that kind of stuff, I go to cling to, like, oh, but if I don't make enough money for my family, if I make this? And oh, what if I offend somebody? Oh, what if somebody thinks I'm crazy because I do energy healing? Oh, you know, like I go to cling to that. This is just kind of happened in this last week. But when I go to grab for it, like from muscle memory, I can't reach it and I'm like what just happened. It's literally like things are falling away. All of these limiting beliefs are falling away.
Speaker 1:So when I'm sitting in my chair and I'm talking about how I keep just picturing duct tape trying to hold me down, I mean I, I was like I had a moment where I thought, maybe if they just like wrap me up like a mummy like and keep me in this chair, I can do this job. I can get through it. I can keep pushing to stay doing this day job. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it Right, I can do it.
Speaker 1:But my soul, I swear, I felt leave my body like 18 times and just start dancing all over the house and was just like, yeah, we're going to teach this class. I'm so excited, I'm so excited how, you know, when they call on their spirit team and when they call on Jesus, and when they call on Mother Mary or Kuan Yin or Buddha, or they can channel all of this amazing energy and provide hope, love, healing to others. That just makes me ecstatic, like I literally had to get up a couple times and jump up and down like like a child, but but uh, I think my curtains were closed, so I should be okay, Anyway, um, but yeah, it was just like, wow, it is. So it's such a cool feeling to feel that. So then I heard Spirit say they're like so you've been telling us a lot lately like, hey, no, can't do it right now. I'm going to fit you in. I'll make a note to come back to Spirit in about four days when I have like a couple hour window where I can kind of channel what they want me to relay and and they're like, we've been letting you do this like over and over and over again. And then we get to that day when we're supposed to do that and we can't access everything that was coming through on the moment that it came through initially. We can still access information to share with the collective, which is wonderful, and we can still do things, but what is it going to take to trust? So right now that's kind of what I'm trying to go back and forth with Um, also considering like moving to like a part-time job, and then I can do this more as well.
Speaker 1:And I just don't. I don't know for sure how it's all going to play out, but I do know it's going to play out, but I do know it's going to happen. I would be surprised if it didn't happen in the next six months, because I feel like it's well. Like I mentioned not too long ago, it feels like things are literally just starting to disintegrate, to move out of my energetic field like these, these limiting beliefs, these concerns, these restrictions that I put on myself and so many things. So, just to be clear, even though I recommend all of these things and I know all of these great things to do and all of these great decisions to make and all of these great things to invest in, I'm also still a human being. So I'm just on this healing path, like you are, I think.
Speaker 1:Sometimes in some of the things that I've done different workshops or retreats and I've had some people come up and they've said, oh gosh, I just hope someday I can get to where you are. And I'm like girl. You should have seen me yesterday I was having a fit arguing with spirit. I was stomping my feet. I wasn't trusting, full in spirit during that time. We're all just alike. We're all on this healing journey together. We're all doing it.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to be a friend along the way and to remind you of how cared for you are, how loved you are and how supported you are. I know that I needed to hear that for several years, throughout this, and I didn't. I would have done anything to have a whole community around me. I would have done anything to feel strong enough to speak who I really was years ago. That's a huge relief to just be you. It truly is. That's going to wrap up our episode today.
Speaker 1:I hope that I brought you some hope. I hope that I allowed you and guided you to feel the sense of community, to know that I'm supporting you, I'm lifting you up, sending love and light to you. I hope that you continue to go inward and you continue to work on healing so important to heal the inside of you and I hope, more than anything, that you take those moments to show yourself love and, of course, be reminded how loved you are. Thank you, guys, so much for listening. This is also a dream come true. I can't believe that I'm recording a podcast. That's crazy. So thank you for listening. Thank you for taking a minute and hanging out with me, and please follow me on Angel Reiki Journey. Feel free to DM me at any time.
Speaker 1:I love meeting new people and check out my website, angelreikijourneycom and schedule a session. I do zoom sessions in person. That was the other thing. I was going to tell you all about the Reiki classes. So the other thing spirit told me was like okay, so we're going to do your first in-person class, but virtual classes are coming and I want you to hold a virtual class in September, which is crazy. However, I was drawn back to. I do Zoom energetic Reiki sessions all the time and energy is energy right, so it doesn't matter where you're at in the world. We can still connect and we can still facilitate coming together and raising this vibration. So I'm super excited to be offering those in the near future.
Speaker 1:Have a great day, guys. I love you and take care. Hey everyone, I wanted to take a quick second and say thank you, thank you, 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.