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The Sacred Surrender: Finding Peace in Following Your Spiritual Path

• Justina Sharp • Season 1 • Episode 6

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Taking the ultimate leap of faith isn't just about jumping—it's about discovering you can fly. In this deeply personal episode, I share my emotional journey of finally putting in my notice at work to pursue my spiritual calling full-time. What started as a carefully calculated plan to transition in July suddenly accelerated when Spirit kept asking: "What are we waiting for?" The peace that washed over me after making this decision was unlike anything I'd ever experienced—a homecoming to my authentic self.

My podcast launch took an unexpected turn too, going live across platforms within hours rather than the anticipated weeks. In that moment of surrender, I felt surrounded by an incredible spiritual presence—my grandmother's comforting energy, my departed best friend's enthusiastic support, and what felt like a choir of angels celebrating alongside me. Through tears of joy, I understood that this was what my guides had been preparing me for through years of inner healing work.

The journey has taught me that as we clear stagnant energy and release limiting beliefs, our spiritual connection becomes clearer, like tuning to a perfect frequency without static. Trust has always been my greatest challenge, but Spirit has shown infinite patience with my resistance. This experience illuminated a powerful truth: our spirit teams never judge our hesitation—they celebrate each step toward growth, no matter how small. I'm now focused on creating community through future gatherings and retreats, bringing together souls on similar awakening journeys. If you're feeling called toward change, I encourage you to spend time in nature this week connecting with your guides. Ask them to reveal your purpose or next steps. Remember that with every authentic choice, an entire spiritual team celebrates your courage. Connect with me on Instagram @AngelReikiJourney or visit AngelReikiJourney.com to continue this sacred journey together.

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Justina:

Hello there, 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. 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, holy camoly.

Justina:

Okay, you guys, we're at episode six and as I'm recording this, this is just about the end of March, right? So we're like literally just about to start the weekend, um, the last weekend in March, and I did it, you guys, I put my notice in at work a couple of days ago. I can't even freaking believe I'm saying that I really like wow, I just wow. So I originally kind of had been, you know, talking to spirit and everything. I think I've probably mentioned this 900 times. But in the plan, what I was really going to try to hold out at least till July, you know, I just, you know, come on, I was talking to myself. I'm like get it together. Like you don't have like a million dollars in your bank, you don't have, um, all this security backing you as far as financially and everything like that. And then, oh, and then spirit was just like what are we waiting for? What are we waiting for? And then they were going to have me put my notice in on a Thursday. But then they came in and they're so cute, basically like that would have set me up for my last day being an off day already, that I was already scheduled off and I was like, no, I have integrity and I would not like give a two week notice and then skip out the day before the last two week notice. That's not nice and so not going to do that. And so spirit was like, okay, well then, you're going to put your notice in today. That was this past Wednesday and I I can't believe I did it.

Justina:

You know it, of course, came with a bunch of mixed emotions. I'm super excited about it, but I'm I was also sad in some ways, because I I really have some great co-workers. You can't always say that about everywhere that you work workers, you can't always say that about everywhere that you work, but wow, um, some really truly kind, heart centered people. Now, don't get me wrong, not everybody that way, I'm just going to be real but there is a lot of them that I really adore and I love seeing pictures of their family and I love connecting with them and everything. So there were some sad parts about it too, and I'm definitely going to miss a lot of the people that I work with. But there was also this immense sense of peace, so much peace wrapped around following through.

Justina:

So the other weird thing is you know this podcast that I have been going back and forth about and the plan was to release the podcast on April 1st. Well, let me rephrase that that was my plan and I thought it was a great plan because it was also April Fool's Day and I wanted to be like haha, not really April Fool's, you know like I don't know if that was a great plan, anyway. So, however, you know I use the platform Buzzsprout and it like spits out to Apple and Spotify and iHeartRadio and all of these different platforms, right that you can have your podcast listed. So, after talking to a bunch of people watching a million videos, learning more about it, it was relayed to me that it could take two weeks for them to reply to you. Right, and here I am like a week away, not even a week, like six days or something, when I was trying to figure this out before the day that I plan to launch it.

Justina:

So Spirit was like go ahead, just go ahead and publish it. You know, that way it can be sent out to those companies. They'll email you once they get it and hopefully they'll get it before April 1st. And I'm like well, they better get it before April 1st, because I've been telling everybody I'm going to release on April 1st and if, if I can't do it, then I'm going to be like freaking out, then my word's not good and I'm just like rambling in spirits. I feel like if they they could touch me which they probably could if they tried hard enough, but anyway, like I could feel them, just be like, just shh, it's okay. It's okay, just take a deep breath and just publish it. Okay, and we'll deal with what comes closer to April 1st.

Justina:

You guys, 20 minutes later I get a response from iHeartRadio and I'm like what? And they're like okay, we got it uploaded, ready to go. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this was supposed to take possibly a week or two. And I keep checking my email to see if I got anything back from Apple or Spotify, all these different platforms, and I don't have anything right.

Justina:

So the next morning is when I put my notice in and, uh, I hear a spirit say just go ahead and uh, post your podcast on Instagram. Go ahead and just let them know it's out now. And I was like but I don't know that it's out now, because all I got a response from was I heartio, so it could be like out and not anywhere that anybody can get it. And then I posted it anyway and Spirit's like go in your podcast app and just type in the name of your podcast, just do it. Just do it, like right now. And I'm like I haven't heard back from Apple.

Justina:

You know, I thought I had gotten better at my argument with spirit, but apparently I was kind of wound up the other day. So finally I said, fine, I'll type the name in, but there's no way it's going to come up, because I just submitted all this last night, y'all. It came up right away and I thought, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. So then spirit's like see, okay, go ahead, drop it, come on, go ahead and put it out there, let people know that you released it. And I said, well, that also kind of makes me look tacky, right, because the whole plan was April 1st. I had this total plan to release it. And then I had this cool way I was going to do it and it was going to be kind of funny. And and Spirit's like yes, that was your plan. Oh right, got it Forgot, I'm not in charge, okay.

Justina:

So I said, well, what am I going to do about the April 1st thing? That sounds tacky now and they're like, oh, you're just going to go ahead and let them know that you'll drop episode two on April 1st and then you'll just start dropping weekly. And I was like what? I was like that's not even like a whole week in between and they're like it's okay, okay. So I followed through, I did what they said and, you guys, I feel like my heart expanded by 9 million percent. No joke, I was just wow. I feel like the top of my head was going to just I don't know how to describe it, because I feel like peace is not a good enough explanation. It was utter elation and and just this, it almost felt like a coming home man. They're going to make me freaking cry again.

Justina:

So I walk in the kitchen after I'm like letting this set in right, and oh, I feel my grandma. Like, ooh, I can feel her right next to me. It's been a little while since I felt her quite that close. I almost felt like she was just holding me and it was beautiful and and she was just giving me that same sense that she's given me for years, that everything's gonna be okay. And for some reason, when she says it, I know it's truth, I just automatically am okay.

Justina:

And then, after she came in, I felt like then I kind of got in my head and I was like, oh, wait, wait, was that really grandma? I'm like crying now because I can feel her, but I don't know if grandma knows what a podcast is and like can she get to it? Like can she? Okay, of course, cause she can go anywhere, right. And and then I feel my best friend that had passed away and she jumps in and she's like I got grandma, like I already told her about what a podcast is. I am on it. Stop it, justina, just enjoy.

Justina:

And then I just felt this huge presence around me, this massive presence, and and I felt like they were all just like yes, yes, like rejoicing for me, like and just supporting me and like this is what we've been talking about, this is it. And they have been guiding me so much over and over for so long, for so long as I have cleared out stagnant energy of my own and I have released old emotions, old traumas, old beliefs, old limiting beliefs still plenty to go, don't get me wrong. But as I've cleared everything out, I've been able to tune in so much bigger. Now I'm getting stations that I would have never dreamed to get before and I can hear them so much better. The static is removed and and I'm learning to trust so much more.

Justina:

I think that was one of the biggest challenges that I have struggled with, this whole well, in every aspect of my life. Really, it's not easy to trust people. You really it makes you very vulnerable and I feel like as a child I sort of made a vow to myself that no, I am not interested in making myself vulnerable in any way, shape or form, and I will do whatever it takes to keep me safe and ahead of the game when it comes to that. That hasn't always served me well, but it did keep me relatively safe.

Justina:

All of this to say that when I kind of like got myself calmed back down, I returned to my heart, like I talk about, you know, trying to get back out of my brain every time. It's almost like that reflux reaction where you're like, oh gosh, wait a minute, I'm crazy, I'm thinking this and you know, and spirit's just like just go to your heart, go to your heart, go to your heart. I go back to my heart after I'm crying and sobbing, feeling like I have this choir of angels around me and my whole spirit team and and I'm like, okay, okay, okay, what, what else? Is there something else I'm supposed to learn from this current experience, this transition period, this how can I bring this into my future with the podcast and with you know, making this kind of my full-time gig with doing Reiki sessions and teaching Reiki and immediately Spirit, was like keep reminding everyone that they have access to this. They just need to keep tuning up and they will reach the same place. They will reach the place where they can hear spirit. Clearly. They will reach the place where they can feel the support. But until that point, just know, like you know, that you have a whole spirit team rooting for you. They're so proud of you with every step that you take.

Justina:

While I feel like my spirit team over the years has probably been very irritated with me actually the amount of patience that they hold is sort of insane right, they're never mad at you. I want to clear that up right away. I've had millions of conversation with my spirit team, with other people's spirit team. Very clearly, never mad at you. They're not disappointed in you. They want nothing more than for you to feel love, to feel peace and be able to, to feel peace and be able to assist others with feeling peace and feeling love. Okay, so there, there's no like judgment, even even when you're the person like me where you purposely don't listen to spirit about 9 million times. Right, there's no like. Oh, you hit 32 times today without listening to spirit. We're dropping you, we're done. Now, if you build up a big enough wall and your intention is to shut spirit out, you will succeed. They will never leave you, but you'll succeed without hearing them if you really truly do not want to. They'll never violate free will, but they, oh man, I am so grateful that they didn't give up on me in this process.

Justina:

No one could have told me and been able to express the feelings that I have right now about fully stepping into who I am. There's no way I can't even relay how this feels. It's just, it's such a freedom, it's such a, it's just like in logically. Logically, I'm like well, duh, you can be yourself. I mean, hello, that's what everybody talks about. Just be yourself, you know, and everything will be fine. And da, da, da, da, da. Yeah, and there's some truth to that. If you want to be your superficial self, yeah, everything will be fine. You won't have to worry about getting hurt or anything. You're just letting people in maybe a fourth of an inch and you'll be good. There does come a time where you have to be okay with being vulnerable, and that unfortunately takes a lot of times of I feel like, of being hurt along the way, of getting your feelings hurt, of to be able to sit with spirit and be like okay.

Justina:

What I truly need to understand and so many people say this too you know what? How somebody treats you doesn't say much about you. It says something about them, right, but it's true, like to the nth degree. It doesn't say anything about you. I'm really trying to keep in mind when someone comes at me negatively or rude, and to take a step back for a minute and think okay, for one, do they have the tools to not be rude? Were they ever exposed to tools that help them to not be rude? Number two I don't know anything about how their day just went. I don't know how their childhood was. I don't know how their relationship when they go home is. I don't know if they just lost 18 members of their family a week ago and now I have the goal to be offended because they were kind of ignorant to me, because they were kind of short with me. The truth is they're freaking exhausted, like most of this world right now.

Justina:

Right, so I just I urge you to take a minute and really think about what may really be going on with somebody and know that so much, so much of what is presented to you is not personal, it's not personally directed at you. You don't have to get defensive, you don't have to respond negatively, you don't have to respond worse than they responded to you and teach them a lesson and those kinds of things. I really think we have, or we should be, moving past that. Right, we really are all human beings. We really all can take so much and depending on your life experience, depending on how many lives you've lived, depending on so many different things, that amount is different and that has to be okay. That has to be okay.

Justina:

There's so much acceptance that comes the more you grow in your spiritual journey about, you know, really trying to meet people where they are and really trying to portray the way spirit wants us to portray. They want us to show love, no matter if somebody is crabby or not, and probably show more love, maybe to the person that's crabby, just really making an intention every day to show love to somebody, to bring a smile to their face. And community, once again, community. I'm working with Spirit right now trying to figure out exactly how they want me to go about creating this community and some type of platform, some type of meetup, some type of well, I know there's definitely going to be a retreat down the road. They keep showing me glimpse of that, which is absolutely beautiful and makes me so freaking excited. I can hardly stand it. Um, because how amazing would it be to meet all of you in person and hug your necks off and be able to try to do everything I can to bring a smile to your face and fill you with love and light and support you and empower you and remind you of who you truly are and what you were created for and help you to be able to harness that deep inside of you. Oh, my gosh, that makes me so excited Again. Can't believe I freaking. Just put my notice in. I am really, really trusting in spirit right now and I am really trusting in the power of the divine and trusting in my purpose, and I want you to try this week to see if you can spend some moments in quietness.

Justina:

Get outside, get outside. Get outside. If you can't physically get outside by yourself, please ask someone to take you outside. Please get outside for just a minute, okay, maybe like five minutes. Okay, so five minutes. Just get outside, stare at the tree, stare at the birds, stare at some water, whatever you have near you and ask your spirit team you don't have to say it out loud if you don't want to. They're okay with that. They're. They're very good at reading your mind.

Justina:

Trust me, um and, and ask them hey, can you help me see my purpose? Or, if you already know your purpose, see my purpose. Or, if you already know your purpose, ask them. Can you show me the next step to get me to be able to live more in my purpose? Can you bring into my life the people that I need to meet in order to further my purpose? Can you place me in the right spot at the right time to meet someone that's going to be part of my new community, or, if you already have a community spirit? Can you please help me? I'm asking you, my spirit team, please help me set up a time that we can get together. Is there a date that looks good? You can hover your hand over a calendar and try to feel one out. You can just go ahead and reach out to a couple people in your community and be like hey, I have next Wednesday and Thursday open from 5 to 6 pm. Do you have it? Great, if they don't come up with two other times, can we meet at the park? Can we meet at the coffee shop? Can we meet in the backyard, wherever?

Justina:

Try to really really, really facilitate connecting with at least one person today, not today this week, and please try to take five minutes this week to sit with yourself and find out how you can take one more step closer to living your purpose. I am, I am telling you, I am living proof of how amazing it feels. Oh my gosh, how amazing it feels. I can't believe all of this is happening. I can't believe things are starting to unravel. I just dropped the podcast yesterday and I've had like five people email me and say the most kind things, the most supportive things. I've had people message me. I am so grateful I was able to touch some people's hearts with an episode of my podcast. What can you do to touch somebody's heart? I bet you've probably already done a million things.

Justina:

Pause for a minute and try to figure out when did you have a moment where you felt so elated in life how you were connecting with someone? You felt so amazing and think back of a time you were feeling totally elated that you were connecting with someone. Like, what were you doing? Like, were you asking them about their favorite childhood memory? Were you asking them about their favorite food? Were you asking them if they know anything about woo-woo? Were you asking them if they know anything about woo-woo? That's what gets me excited.

Justina:

Oh my gosh, if I'm talking to somebody like, especially a person that I just met, and they're like we're talking about you know the weather, because that's what you talk about, at first you know, oh, it's windy outside. Yeah, it really is. Why do we say stupid crap like that? Like, yeah, I can feel the wind too. And then you know, here lately, what happens is like a third person ends up, showing up within seconds, and is like oh, hey, are you the girl that does Reiki? Or hey, are you the girl that you know does this or does that, you know? And then it strikes conversation with the person I'm talking to and they're like, oh really, yeah, actually I had this one time. Don't tell anybody, but blah, blah, blah, and I'm like, oh my gosh, and it's like all my little sensors go up and I'm so excited and I'm like tell me, tell me, tell me, like what? Did you have an experience? Did you have a dream? Did you? Did you just get a vibe? Do you feel like you want to learn more? What, oh my gosh, tell me.

Justina:

I love hearing people's stories about you know how they first came to you know, having some sort of spiritual experience? How old were they? Where were they? What were they doing? Who did they come in contact with? All those kinds of things. So, anyway, what was? What was the moment that you felt amazing? It could be you're talking to somebody and somebody's like gosh, I just started learning about accounting and I really like it. And you could be somebody that's amazing at accounting and you're like, oh my gosh, you do. Oh, that's awesome. Have you ever tried this app? Or have you ever tried this program? Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Justina:

So, really, thriving in what you were created to do helps you get more in alignment with your purpose, and every time you do more of what lights you up. Oh, my goodness, you guys. First of all, it opens your crown chakra more, which makes you more spiritually connected, more spiritually available, but it also makes you more available, connected, more spiritually available, but it also makes you more available to abundance, right? Oh, ps spirit just dropped in. I don't know if you're following the abundance babe yet on Instagram, but she's amazing and um, all about abundance. Just throwing that out there. Anyway, I hope all is well with you, guys.

Justina:

I'm going to go ahead and wrap up this episode, but I can't wait to talk to you again soon and give you an update on how the leaving the job is going. Oh, my goodness, and um, and yeah, and what's next? All right, guys, have a great week. Talk to you soon. Bye, hey, everyone.

Justina:

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.