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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
Sacred Balancing Act: Learning to Receive When You're Used to Giving
Welcome to Sacred Soul Sisters, a sanctuary for souls seeking balance in an unbalanced world. Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to simply be present without feeling the need to be productive? After leaving my day job, I've discovered my biggest challenge isn't finding things to do—it's becoming comfortable with comfort itself.
The peace settling into my soul has been so profound that strangers stop me to ask what's changed. This transition has required confronting my fierce independence and learning to accept support from my husband—a humbling journey for someone who has always prided herself on self-sufficiency. As I navigate these shifts, I'm discovering the immeasurable gift of presence, especially with my children.
Recently, my youngest daughter and I spent an afternoon creating fun-shaped sandwiches and decorated treats. In the midst of our creative play, she looked up at me and declared, "Mommy, this is the best day ever." That simple moment crystallized everything that matters—being fully present without distractions or productivity pressure. As parents, we have just 18 years with our children if we're lucky. Those years vanish faster than we can imagine, making these moments of connection infinitely precious.
This episode also explores the delicate art of receiving. Many of us excel at giving but resist receiving with grace. Spirit reminds us that this resistance disrupts natural energetic balance—when we only give and never receive, we're not just shortchanging ourselves but disrupting the flow for others too. The universe operates on principles of balance and reciprocity.
In this time of global transition to higher vibrations, grounding becomes increasingly vital. Walk barefoot on the earth when possible, connect with Mother Gaia, and create intentional moments to send love and light to all beings. Despite the chaos surrounding us, beautiful synchronicities and sparks of higher consciousness are emerging everywhere.
Ready to raise your vibration and connect with a community of like-minded souls? Follow me on Instagram @AngelReikiJourney or visit angelreikijourney.com to book a session. Together, we can create ripples of light that transform our world.
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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, hello friends.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, we're at episode nine. So we are actually right at a week from my last day of work at my day job and I have to be honest, I do miss a lot of the people I worked with, because I worked with some great human beings, so great, truly heart-filled, just awesome people, and so that is a little tricky for sure, but on the flip side, it has been amazing and unreal and I find myself, I think maybe the biggest difficulty is getting comfortable with being comfortable. How freaking crazy is that? When I say that out loud, I'm like what I mean seriously? So obviously I have some stress, like it's almost impossible to be a human and not have any stress. For sure, and I do have moments where I start to, I begin to freak out a little, you know, and I'm like oh my gosh, am I going to be able to bring in or will flow to me? Or what if you asked how much more abundance will flow to me? Because knowing that income is not all there is right and abundance can come in so many different forms I've had people like stop me in the store and in the coffee shop and be like what's going on with you, like there's something different. I don't know what it is, but there's something different, and I just kind of giggle. You know, and they're right, though there is something different.
Speaker 1:I am so at peace in my soul right now. I I'm I'm just really still trying to get used to it. I really have to give a huge kudos to my husband for supporting this whole process and assisting in being a backbone for me and allowing me a safe place to feel vulnerable and reminding me that it's okay to rely on your spouse, which is also not the most comfortable state for me, right? I think I mentioned that before. I, you know, I don't know. I think I established a long time ago, even as a child, like you know, hey, I got my craft together. I don't need anybody's help. Like you know, even with our kids, I would be like you know, my kids, I can take care of my kids, no matter what. I Like, you know, even with our kids, I would be like you know, my kids, I can take care of my kids, no matter what. I can, you know, take care of the house, no matter what. I can take care of the dogs, you know, the whole nine yards, right? I don't need no help, and so the fact that there are some things that very much so I do need and and that's okay, and knowing that you know cause we have to in order to get on his health insurance, you know I mean, we have, we have children. You know, usually they were on mine and and I was on mine and it just that's just kind of how we did it. And looking back, I'm like, well, that's probably how we did it, because I probably insisted that that's how we do it. We did it and you know cause I was so up in my head about how, you know, I'd take care of anything.
Speaker 1:So the fact that we're transitioning over to my husband's health insurance and everything is a little bit of a swallow my pride type thing. You know, I had to have some talks with my ego and my and some talks with things that, hey, you know you worked really hard on your inner child, justina, and you worked really hard on healing lots of aspects. But maybe, maybe this is an aspect that you need to look at too. Maybe, as much as you hate to admit it, you have a little bit of a pride issue about this super, overly independent person that you are, and maybe maybe you need to humble yourself a bit to know and to remind yourself that you know you do need people, right? So, and I do know that on a heart level, I do know that and I but I get wrapped up in my little crazy head sometimes and, um, get this mentality and all of a sudden my shoulders get a lot bigger and my head gets a lot higher and I'm like you know, get into my little, I don't need nobody business. Anyway, I've rambled enough about that. But so lots of transitioning going on in different areas of my body and my present and not productive sometimes, and that I didn't realize was quite as hard for me previously until I've been able to do it fully.
Speaker 1:Like the other day, my youngest daughter and I she watches this really super cute show on YouTube and this lady that makes these lunches for her kids and she uses like these little cookie cutters and for sandwiches, you know, to cut sandwiches out and then she also has they're called food picks and she'll put like little eyeballs on things and things like that. It's the cutest thing in the world. So I ordered some stuff off Amazon and so her and I, like, made different sandwiches and then we made these little treats with pretzels like the square pretzels and put like a white chocolate wafer on top. And then we made these little treats with pretzels like the square pretzels and put like a white chocolate wafer on top and then like little mini M&Ms. Or we would put one of those little food pics of eyeballs on it, or a little food pic that is like a little kitty cat, you know, that has a stick on the end of it that you can put in.
Speaker 1:And it was so much fun. I had so much fun, and she did too, and she. She stopped for a minute and she said mommy, this is the best day ever, guys, it was a great day and I wasn't without distractions or anything like that to have that time with her and to do little creative, fun stuff. And we even got like these little food pen type things where you know we could even draw like a smiley face on things, and it was so fun and it just assisted me to do a lot of reflecting and reminding myself that this is what it's about. Like, this is what life's about Making sure that we have these moments where we truly can be present, we can be okay without being productive for a minute. Right, we can be okay with enjoying ourselves.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't know like, logically, I feel like hello. I don't, I don't know like, logically, I feel like hello. You know, what do you like, duh? But honestly, it it caused me to do a lot of thinking and a lot of self reflection, and so, as, of course, spirit comes in all the time, and they said, you know, yeah, just, you know, this is definitely a message that people need to hear, that they need to hear that it's okay to be present, it's okay to have fun, it's okay to be silly, it's okay to not be productive for a minute.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh, should we even say like not productive for a whole day? What A whole day? Yeah, legit, whole day. Whole day chilling on the couch eating bonbons. I don't know. Now, that shouldn't be your every day. Let's be clear Unfortunately, in this 3D world, we do have to do something now and then, right, and we do have to pay our bills. And you know, while it's amazing to be able to do that with your children, which is, yeah, there's, you know, there's a friend of mine that she tells her husband all the time that you know, we've got 18 years. If we're lucky, we got 18 years right. So make every year count. And wow, you know, I reflect on that now and I'm like you're right. You know that time with our children we don't get back. And I think you could talk to probably most parents of grown children and they'll be able to tell you yeah, that went way faster than I planned. So really enjoy those moments that you can have with your children. The other side of it, enjoy those moments.
Speaker 1:If you still have grandparents. Oh, my goodness, like, do everything you can to get to have a moment with them. I'm not saying you have to spend all your time with them, even if you could spend an hour a week with them and ask them questions, give them hugs, like a million hugs. And, by the way, if you still have have grandparents, could you go ahead and email me because I would like to borrow them as well, because I'm all out. I am all out of grandparents and there is something so, so special about grandparents. They hold so much knowledge and if you didn't have great grandparents or you never had grandparents to begin with, borrow somebody's. I'm not kidding about that. You guys Like that. That reminds me actually. I'm gonna start like asking that around like people that I know too, like that I live near and everything, and just being like so, uh, you got a grandparent around anywhere. Um, you know, I could borrow for a little. Yes, that sounds strange, but there is something so cool about the energy that they hold and and there's something so great about the love that you can give to them and the love that you can feel from them.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, you know friends. That's not always easy to do, especially when you're in the time of life where you're all having kids You've all got little kids because, let's be real, holy camoly, they keep you busy, right? And especially when you're working full time, have kids full time, like you know everything, I get it. But that's when you have to be creative on making sure that you can spend some time with somebody. You know that you can get to see them once in a while, even if it's once a month, like just kind of, hey, uh, can we meet up and do it in one of your houses? That makes it so much easier when you have little kids. You know, hey guys, can we come over and like, hang out in my basement? We've got a bunch of toys. You know we can um, make it easy. We can have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or sun butter and jelly or whichever. We can have little carrot sticks and ranch Make it simple.
Speaker 1:But you still get to have some of that interaction with another adult and your kids get to have an interaction with some other kids right, that's so great. And your kids get to have an interaction with some other kids right, that's so great. Also, if spirits are reminding me looking up mom's groups, I mean that's one of the best things in the world, because you all know what's going on with each other. You should be able to understand that if somebody can't make it at the last minute, or if somebody has a child that missed their nap and they're losing their mind, and you know that you can be somewhere without being judgment. And if you've got to head out earlier because they've just got to get to sleep, you know you've got people that would be oh, I totally get it, by all means. Like, you know we'll hang out another time, and if somebody doesn't get that, you don't need to be hanging out with them anyway. Straight up, people have got to learn to have some more patience these days with each other, I feel like. Anyway, so those are just some different ideas for community.
Speaker 1:And I wanted to take a minute to talk about a session I had yesterday too that was wonderful with a friend of mine so a friend of mine that probably doesn't know how amazing she is, but I'm going to remind her of that again and again, so eventually she will know and she did a session on me. We did like a swap and a Reiki swap I should specify Sorry and we also pulled a couple Oracle cards for each other and different things, and it was incredible, incredible and, again, a great reminder that you know, even though as healers we receive healing a lot of the time, when we're giving a session to someone, right, it's still important that we take a minute to fully receive. And I still have to remind myself. And spirit often comes in in the sessions that I'm doing on somebody and they'll say, hey, ask them if they're okay to receive, and then I'll let them answer. And if they say yes, then spirit almost always will say I want you to ask them to say it three times out loud I am open to receive. And they'll say I am open to receive, I am open to receive, I am open to receive, and it just really allows their chakras to be open and their aura to receive that beautiful, ongoing, loving, healing energy into every piece of their soul.
Speaker 1:It's such a weird thing, you know. On paper, us humans really look like we've got most of our crap together right, like, oh, I can give, I can receive. Of course I can, of course I can. But when it comes down to it, we have such a freaking hard time with that. Most of us are okay with giving no problem there, we got that down pat. But the receiving part, which has been a really hard struggle of mine, like I turn into this on the inside I don't usually show it, but on the inside, like this kicking and screaming toddler, like, oh no, it's okay, it's okay, I'll just get, I'll get you this time. I'll buy your lunch this time, you know, and then next time I'll come. Okay, well, you bought my lunch last time. Oh well, you know what. Actually, you can get it another time. I already paid for it, sorry. And or, or I'd like to send you something. Um, in the mail, can I have your address? Oh, uh, actually, you know what? Why don't I send you something? Or, um, yeah, sure, I'll get it to you and then never get it to the. It's so weird.
Speaker 1:Even when I receive a healing session, I've got to consciously make an effort and be like, okay, I'm open to receive, I'm open to receive. If this is the expectation I have for my clients that come to me, I better get my crap in gear and be able to do this for my clients that come to me. I better get my crap in gear and be able to do this. Now it has gotten a lot. My resistance to it has decreased more and more because of spirit, because of all my increased interaction with spirit, all of my encouragement from them and all of them reminding me over and over and over. This is the way it was created to be.
Speaker 1:There is a balance that, in order for that balance to take place and they show me it on an energetic level, because they know I love energy and I love how it works and they're like, if you're always the one giving and you never receive, you're jacking up your balance and the other people's balance. Why are you doing that? So when they, when they say stuff like that, I'm like oh, crap, okay, I see that, okay, okay, that kind of gives me a better um way to look at it, a better perspective, a better way to make it um, not not mess with my own ego, I guess. I don't know. It's kind of a weird thing. Probably ought to talk to somebody about that. Huh, I do see a therapist. Actually, I started seeing a therapist I guess a couple months ago now, maybe something like that, and she's absolutely wonderful, absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1:I highly recommend a therapist, mostly because, especially if you have trouble being vulnerable or if you have trouble receiving or anything like that, it's so great to talk to somebody that you know is a neutral presence, right and honestly, a lot of times you can build friendships like that, which are phenomenal, which I feel like is starting to take place even more too. Like I am really meeting some phenomenal people and I am having people guided to me and I am being guided to them, and there's this beautiful thing that's taking place right now and I feel like I'm so excited, like all the time. I'm just like whoa, whoa, whoa, and I feel like spirit's, just like yeah, we mentioned that about 950 times If you would do what we want you to do, which is what you're meant to do, which is what you feel best when you're doing which is being in alignment. We got you, that's all you have to do, Like legit, be your authentic self, which is what I've always wanted to be Right, and they're like so. So, yeah, we told you we would be here supporting you and that's what we're doing. You stepped in and you're doing your part, so we are here to do ours. Wow, it's so exciting. I am, I'm just so excited. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1:One of the things that did come up yesterday in the Reiki exchange that I had done and was really staying grounded and I think I talked about this too recently, but that's so important and I needed that reminder as well and really started doing this kind of envisioning and I led her through this guided meditation. That spirit assisted me with basically kind of crawling into a tree, practically like sitting into a tree and anyway, and it was so beautiful and so grounding and it's really added something to my sessions that I will be doing going forward as well. There's going to be a little bit of a change in my process and so much of it has to do with what's going on in this world. Right now. We're transitioning to this 5D right and in that our vibrations are higher, there's a ton of information coming from the spirit world and everything is sort of accelerated. So in order for us to be able to calibrate and integrate, we have got to really work on grounding, like a couple times a day. Work on grounding. Walk barefoot anywhere you can and okay, not anywhere you can, let's disclaimer do not walk barefoot over crocodile, you know like I mean. You know I'm talking like dirt and grass and the land, mother Earth. Get every opportunity you can to connect with Mother Earth, to feel her beneath you, to feel her supporting you, to feel her assisting you in grounding, so you can adjust to all of these different frequencies. Right, oh my gosh, you guys. I am so excited about the future.
Speaker 1:Amongst all of the chaos that is going on in this world, I really, every minute I spend with spirit and every minute I stand in being my authentic self, I feel myself pulling even further away from the chaos, almost to the. I don't want to say I live in a different world, because I don't. I live in this same 3D world and it's definitely still happening all of this craziness. And I do continue to send love and light, yes, to all of those affected, and I have to do a little self-talk, to send love and light to some that inflict things, and that's not always an easy thing for me to do, I'm going to be honest. However, it is definitely a thing that spirit wants us to do. However, it is definitely a thing that spirit wants us to do and, in all honesty, when you step back and look at the big picture of things, what do they need? They need every chance they can get to be exposed to the light, to be exposed to love, to be exposed to something other than themselves in this situation. So that will probably continue to be something that I really have to call spirit and really have to make a conscious effort to do, but it really is what we're being called to do right now and that will assist in this beautiful world that is being created.
Speaker 1:There's so many beautiful things happening, so many synchronicities, so many beautiful energetic sparks of light. Things are igniting in beautiful ways, caught up in the horribleness of a lot of things, I want you to know that there's so much wonderfulness Is that a word, wonderfulness, anyway? So many amazing, full of light, full of love, full of higher vibration type things that are out there right now, and I want us to be able to do everything we can to continue to vibrate high and, while we're doing that, to embrace being grounded, so we can harness even more of that and even more of that beautiful frequency, and even more of that beautiful frequency. Oh, my goodness, I'm so excited. You guys. Thank you again.
Speaker 1:So, so, so, so, so, so much for coming with me along this process and for trusting in me and for supporting me and supporting each other, right, because that's what we're here for. This is community, this is community. This is community. And where intention goes, energy flows, right? We know that. So be sure that you're taking those moments to set that intention, to send that love to everyone's heart that you come in contact with, even the grouchy people in the grocery store. I always like to mention them and, as my seven-year-old reminds me, we need to send more love to the chickens. I'm not sure where that came from, but she loves the chickens. Maybe we should look into getting some chickens, okay. So, yeah, lots of ideas coming in here, anyway.
Speaker 1:But on a bigger, global note, do send love to all of the animals as well, because they are here with us and, to be honest, they're making this world a great place, sometimes even more so than us humans, right, like, how much love can a super cute little puppy bring somebody? Or a big dog, you know I mean. Or a big dog, you know I mean. Or a cat, or a bird, or a chicken, you know. So. Thank you, thank you, thank you To all of you. Thank you to Mother Gaia, thank you to Jesus, thank you to all of the angels, thank you to all of our spirit teams, thank you to all of the angels, thank you to all of our spirit teams, thank you to Buddha, thank you to Kuan Yin, thank you, thank you to all of the animals. Thank you, thank you. All right, guys, I will see you next time. I am so. We got this. We got this. I am hugging all of your necks right now and I am doing everything I can to send love and light to you and lifting you up. Thanks, talk to you soon. Bye, hey, everyone.
Speaker 1: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.