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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
Are You Carrying Yesterday's Baggage Into Today's Journey?
The journey toward healing is never linear, but it's always transformative. In this episode, Justina delves into the power of reflection and how our relationship with our past shapes our present experience.
What if the very challenges we've resented were actually preparing us for our purpose? Growing up amid constant change and instability, Justina shares how she transformed bitterness into gratitude by recognizing how these experiences equipped her to connect with people from all walks of life. This perspective shift didn't happen overnight—it required intentional practice and a willingness to interrupt negative thought patterns that had become deeply ingrained.
Through a compelling metaphor of an eagle bound by multiple layers of netting, Justina illustrates how trauma and unprocessed emotions restrict our freedom and drain our energy. "So many of you are carrying around past energy that doesn't even serve you anymore," she explains, painting a vivid picture of the exhaustion that comes from dragging this invisible baggage through life. The healing process gradually removes these constraints, creating space for light and vitality to flow.
A recent Reiki session revealed a profound truth: healing happens in layers. What appeared to be a missed area of trauma was actually a deeper wound that couldn't be accessed until surface layers had been cleared. This revelation emphasizes the ongoing nature of healing—we're never "done," but each step creates more freedom and strengthens our connection to spirit.
Whether through meditation, inner child work, therapy, energy healing, or a combination of approaches, Justina encourages listeners to "show up for you" in whatever way resonates. The transformation is worth the investment—a lightness of being that persists even when external circumstances remain unchanged.
Ready to experience greater freedom and vitality? Visit angelreikijourney.com to sign up for Justina's newsletter and learn about upcoming Reiki certification classes and healing sessions.
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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 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, hello, hello.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to another episode of Sacred Soul Sisters podcast. I am so excited you're here, thank you. Thank you, thank you for listening and please share this with anyone that could benefit from it. It means so much. I just I love being able to do this. I love being able to do my Angel Reiki sessions, my intuitive coaching, my workshops, all of the classes with yoga instructors. It's just, it's been incredible. Also kind of tossing around the idea of learning to teach yoga myself. I don't know. I feel like I I'm always looking to teach more and more. I love teaching my Reiki classes and I love, you know, mentoring, like new nurses and everything, because I've been a nurse for 20 plus years and just trying to give some encouragement and I feel like we've got plenty of negative Nancy's in the world right and plenty of burnt out, exhausted people which have become that way naturally by, you know, working multiple hours or the more and more demands that come on them in just about any industry. But I really, really try to have my talk with Jesus, the divine Mother Mary, like everyone, just every day, just kind of like, hey, let me be a vessel to raise someone's frequency, to raise someone's frequency at least someone each day. And and let me remind people that they are supported and there are people in their corner Right.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, uh, today I wanted to talk a little bit about reflection. I have been doing a lot of reflecting. We are coming up on the end of the Lionsgate portal right now and we had Mercury retrograde and you know, the skies have been a little bit crazy, but that goes right along with, you know, the world really too, right. But I really have been shifting my focus on gratitude and trying to change my thought process. As we talked a little bit about interrupting, you know, the self-talk and shifting it and changing it. This is slightly different.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking now, well, I'm still doing that part, but I'm thinking now about how I'm looking at how every piece of my life has contributed to where I am now and who I am now, more so and kind of you know, so many different aspects of my life. I held a grudge and looked back and was like, well, you know, if you had this childhood or if you, you know, had to go through this and if you this and I wouldn't typically say that out loud but there was a part of me that had this angst, this um wedge in my side of bitterness and irritability and just like, well, you know, I'm glad you had such a perfect life, but blah, blah, blah, you know, and I get this little pissy pants thing, and which is something I find so annoying about people, and so it was quite, you know, mind-blowing when I realized, oh well, justina, you've done a lot of that over the years too. So, yeah, I'm telling you, man, the truth. Sometimes it does, you know, give you a little kick in the ass, which is probably not such a bad thing, right, because we are human and, you know, we get ourselves off track sometimes. Hopefully you can hear me, I can hear all the nature sounds behind me and the breeze is blowing, and so there probably is some noise, noise in the background, but uh, but gosh, it just feels so good to be in nature. Um, it's so relieving, I swear I wish I could, like put it in bottle form, so like when, I, you know, take a drink of water in the morning, like I instantly feel it. So maybe I need to start envisioning that I'm sitting in nature when I take that first drink of water in the morning and understand that that replenishment and that energy can be taken. You know whether I'm physically in nature or, yeah, so I've been reflecting a lot on, uh, my past and I find that I'm being much more observant now.
Speaker 1:Instead of judgmental maybe, um, of judgmental, maybe, I'm trying to observe how people interact, how people communicate or don't communicate, for that matter and why do I feel like with a lot of people, I'm different. With that lot of people I'm I'm different. With that, um, not better or worse. I'm not trying to sound like that, I'm just. There's a lot of times that I have people in different situations say to me you know, why did you or why were you able to communicate with that lady? She never talks to anybody Um, or how did you get this patient to take their medicine? You know, and like a nursing said, and like you know, because they've refused it for like every, every time we've attempted to give it.
Speaker 1:And, honestly, my response is because I I really, really try to make it my mission to check myself every time that I'm getting ready to do something, especially when I know that I am coming in contact with a challenging individual. You know, like really thinking into you know what. I don't know their upbringing, I don't know their current situation. I don't know what's going on in their head right now. I don't know right now if, if they're in pain, if they didn't get any sleep last night, if you know they have a personal situation going on, if they're having issues with their memory and they're they're reliving some trauma that they had, you know, there may be a reason why somebody is being, you know, so disgruntled or whatever.
Speaker 1:So I find myself really taking a deep breath before I approach them, really asking Jesus, asking my spirit team to help me. Jesus, asking my spirit team to help me, to humble myself, to help me present with kindness, acceptance. If someone is sitting down, try to squat, to be eye level with them. Hello, beautiful souls, will you do me a huge favor If you go to angelreikijourneycom, if you can scroll down and go to subscribe to newsletter and put your email in there. That way, anytime I have an event, whether it's going to be live in person or on zoom, you have that information at your fingertips and you'll receive that in the newsletter. I don't spam you. I send out a newsletter once a month. I'll send out something else if something really cool and amazing is happening. Otherwise, also, make sure to check your spam folder and convert that over to your inbox if, for some reason, it is going to spam. And convert that over to your inbox if, for some reason, it is going to spam. But so also some really cool things happening. I am working on, you know, getting the courage to be on TikTok. Yes, I can't believe it. Also, a YouTube channel, spirit, made me sign up for about well, it was 2012,. However long ago that was, which feels like 100 years ago. Anyway, they are working on me to get the podcast uploaded over there too, and some other videos and workshops that we're working on behind the scenes. So, so excited. Return to the episode and have a great day. So excited. Return to the episode and have a great day.
Speaker 1:You know different things of really trying to take note of. So people feel like I'm being present with them and that I'm being genuine with them. I want, more than anything in this world, to continue to be genuine and authentic and really, really who I am, really who I am. I don't want to come across as, um well, as pissy, is judgmental, as uh, you know, car salesman, like sorry to the car salesman not all of you are like that, but you know what I mean. Like this, uh, cheesy, I don't want to come across. I want to come across genuine, like I'm leading with my heart, right so, and I don't want to present across. I want to come across genuine, like I'm leading with my heart, right so, and I don't want to present with preconceived notions. So if I have, you know, say, a client or a person I'm, I know I'm getting kind of.
Speaker 1:I know that people have had many negative interactions with. I know that maybe I've had negative interactions with them, really trying to not put that ahead of me before I even get to them. Now I will tell you that is much harder for me to do on a personal level with people I am closest to, because I feel like I, for some reason, am running this risk management business and tiptoeing around. Okay, wait, I know how to try to make them happier. I know this that irritates them. So I'm gonna try not to do this. I'm gonna like I get all up in my head, but I'm, I'm working on that.
Speaker 1:So my point is that I'm definitely human and the other point is behold, I see all things as new. Behold, I see all things as new, really trying to bring that to my focus and to be present and not to bring every piece of baggage that has ever taken place to me, between me and that person, or every piece that they've brought to it, like really, really, really removing all of that and giving not only everyone else but also me to have a different reaction today, right, and, and really trying to set that energy tone of having a different experience. So, for instance, you know, growing up we moved a lot, lot, um, I don't even know how many different houses or apartments or, uh, town. I really honestly do not know how many different places we lived throughout my childhood and with that would bring different potential siblings, different blended family opportunities, different churches, different neighbors, different, lots of different.
Speaker 1:So something that I learned pretty quickly was in my life was change. If anything was constant, it was change, right, and I used to be really irritated about that for many, many years, like you know, gosh, I wonder what it was like for somebody that grew up in the same home and, you know, still has that same home to go back to and the same parents and the same siblings and the same parents and the same siblings, and the same environment and the same neighbors, and you know, oh, I bet that stability is amazing, which it it probably is. But it really has assisted me in my life today, whether it is in, you know, nursing type stuff, whether it is in personal relationships, whether it is in, you know, my clients, my Reiki clients, my Reiki students, whether it's dealing with challenging people or non-challenging people. It has really prepared me to be able to interact with anybody, with anybody, coming from any circumstances. Right, because I've had a lot of firsthand experience with it, a lot of learning, a lot of running up against well, not so happy people I guess is the best way to say it Disgruntled people, you know, people having a bad day, me having a bad day, and being called out on it. So it really really has assisted me to have more of an understanding of where people are coming from and why they are the way that they are and how they got to be who they are. So, honestly, I'm very grateful for it.
Speaker 1:Now I say that now, I did not always feel that way, uh, and I, I just I want us to take some time and do some reflection of these stories that we've been playing over and over in our head right, like how pissed off we were, that you know we didn't have this, or, or our mom was super judgmental, or our dad was super judgmental, or, uh, you know we didn't have this, or our mom was super judgmental, or our dad was super judgmental, or you know, or our siblings were terrible to us, or we were horribly mistreated, or this and that Like, what did they do inside of you that has assisted you today? Sometimes that may be just the mere fact that you know how you don't want to be right. You know that you don't want the people in your life to feel that you are being one of those ways. That's a positive, do you understand? That's a positive thing because you have changed the cycle.
Speaker 1:Now there's definitely people that just repeat everything that has went on at generation after generation. You know if they uh, you know are alcoholics or if they are domestic abusers or anything like that. There's some people that have definitely, um, purely repeated every, every single thing that was shown to them and continue to do so, and I pray for those people that they will be able to feel the love in their heart and be able to reach out for help and and all of those kinds of things, but I'm mostly talking to the people that have done things differently because of their circumstances. Right, or they have become the type of person that is able to communicate with anybody and everybody, or they have become a more accepting person.
Speaker 1:I have some friends that their parents were terribly racist, terribly racist, and they have, from that experience, been able to be the complete opposite, to be loving, to understand that we were all created, that we all have the same blood inside of our head, right A nose on our face, like there's so many similarities. It does not matter what. Your race is right, and in doing so, what has started to happen in a couple of these situations is their parents have started to see this love that is shining through their children, who are adults now and are starting to shift and to understand that they took on their parents issues or their parents judgments without really putting any piece of thought into it themselves, that they just kind of just absorbed it and they were like, well, this is just, you know who you are and this is how you have to be, and you have to be like that in order to protect your own. And if you aren't like that, then you know, then you're going to be judged and blah, blah, blah. But they're starting to change. Some of them have already changed. Some of them have burst into tears in front of them and had this unwavering remorse come over them and this light bulb moment of I don't know why I was like that. I don't want to carry this anger and this angst. I don't want to carry this anger and this angst. I don't want to have this, this uh, hanging over me every day. Teach me to not be this way. So you know, there's so many different things that when we reflect on our experiences, they have taught us how to be. A lot of our situations have taught us resiliency, right Of being able to get back up when we experience things in this world like we are all experiencing now. There's so many crazy things Of being able to have this, knowing that, no matter what happens around us, we're going to be okay. We're going to be okay Most of us know enough people that we're going to be okay as long as we are an active participant in our healing and are reaching out, as long as we are working on ourselves all of the time and I almost hate the word working Because I feel like it does feel like that at the beginning, when you start the healing process, don't get me wrong. It feels like a lot of work, but then it I feel like the word working turns more into healing and I feel like that takes some of the ick out of it, because we just start healing more and more.
Speaker 1:I did a session the other day on someone I've done many sessions on and it was interesting because in her throat chakra there was this hardened piece of energy that felt like it had been there for many, many years and I remember thinking, wait a minute. I got in my head for a minute and I thought I have done many sessions. We have cleared out energy. We have, you know, we have returned flow to the chakras, we have sealed and healed the aura and all of this stuff. How did I miss this piece before? Like what is wrong with me?
Speaker 1:And something that was very interesting in this session, as I asked my spirit team and her spirit team and I, you know telepathically during the session, I'm like why didn't I see this? Why didn't, why wasn't I able to come across this and and assist with this, this healing? How did I miss this? Because I know, it didn't just like, it didn't just come like a week ago right, this was something that has been from childhood for her, and spirit said no, no, no, no, you're missing. You are missing the point here. This is a revolution. This is amazing that we have that.
Speaker 1:You have come to this now because there was no possible way to get to that before, because of all of the stuff that was built up on top of it, of all of the stuff that was built up on top of it. This is something that had been pushed down so deeply that it wasn't visible to you, to her, to therapy. You couldn't even get there. We had to work on the top layer first, we had to work on the second layer after there, we had to work on the top layer first, we had to work on the second layer, after that we had to work on the third layer after that. Once we were able to get all of that, now we are getting to more of the roots, we are getting to another.
Speaker 1:So it wasn't that anybody missed anything. It was that the soul was ready to reveal it to us in this session, that her physical body was ready to handle the release and the receiving that was about to take place with this specific trauma. So it had nothing to do with missing it. But if we had never started, we'd have never gotten to this level of healing and this level of freedom that she is now starting to feel, as she's able to release more and more. So, really, it was so beautiful to understand that this is what was taking place Right. So we're never done healing, you know, as we talk about often we're just not. But you start to feel some true freedom the more and more you heal and I know I've mentioned this before too but your connection to spirit gets bigger and bolder and stronger with every single piece. You invest in healing within you, and you can do this on your own. You can do this with meditation, you can do this with inner child work, you can do this with therapy. You can do this with coming to a session with me, whichever, whichever feels like it is best for you, or a combination of all.
Speaker 1:A lot of my clients um have been having therapy, talk therapy as well as Reiki sessions, and it has been an incredible, incredible transformation that takes place. I definitely recommend building a rapport with some great therapists in your area, because it is great to have those business cards as well, because that is not my area of expertise talk therapy. My area is energy work, you know, or nursing or those kinds of things. We can talk about things. Spirit comes through with many messages that are pertaining to a lot of pieces of those puzzles, but therapists are obviously very well trained in talk therapy, emdr, all different kinds of therapies. So I always keep business cards of therapists that I trust to give to my clients especially.
Speaker 1:Sometimes spirit comes in and says, hey, I really need you to refer them, you know, to therapy. This will really help them, this will be able to help them release a layer. That way, next time they come to you, we have access to more things that we can heal and help them propel on their journey and give them this feeling of more and more freedom. You see, when we heal, you know spirit gave me this image a while back of like a, like an eagle, being tied down with multiple netting, right and just. Every day is sort of a struggle, you know, to breathe, to move, to flutter the wings, to do all of those kinds of things. Then every piece we heal starts to release and remove different pieces of the netting and make it more and more free and not as heavy to move. It's incredible. It's incredible oh my gosh, I freaking love, love, love, love, love, love.
Speaker 1:Seeing all of that take place in my mind's eye during these sessions, and to see the transformation that takes place over people that have been coming for quite some times I have some people that come monthly for a session and to see this beautiful light that starts to just get brighter and brighter within them and this feeling of freedom and this feeling of how is it that I'm still, like, working the same job? I'm working like Like I still have, you know, my kids and my marriage and my daily tasks, yet I'm feeling more free, like I have more life to me, you know, and so much of it is because we were able to release so many things, and when you're able to release, you have more room to receive right All of the light and the life force energy. When we got so much gunk in there, like, not only is it hard for the light to get in, but it's hard for life force energy to get in. That's why so many people feel exhausted all the time. I mean, really, you know Spirit's showing me this picture of you know somebody wearing like 18 big old, like cargo vests and then carrying six backpacks and then behind that, dragging like a trailer, you know, packed to I don't know 18 feet tall, of stuff, like it's exhausting carrying all of that around. Well, some of you are carrying around that much energy, that much past energy that that doesn't even serve you anymore, that much past trauma that doesn't even serve you anymore, that much, so many things that you don't have to hold. You may not be able to see it, but that's what it's doing to your body, right, that's what it's doing to your soul. You're just freaking, exhausted. It makes sense. So. So when I get the opportunity to, to assist people with, to assist the angels, to, to work through you, to assist your spirit team and my spirit team working together to pull all of that out and, you know, remove it and make room for all this life force, it's so invigorating, I get so excited. I get so excited because I can just feel the lightness in your body and the peace and the calm. Oh, my goodness, it's so beautiful. I love when people fall asleep on my table because I know that they feel comfortable. I know that they're allowing themselves to surrender, allowing themselves to surrender, to release and to receive, and their soul is just drinking every piece of it in, and they needed that calmness.
Speaker 1:So often I tell my clients thank you for showing up for you. Thank you for showing up for you. Thank you for showing up for you, because I know you've been showing up for everybody else, right, but thank you for showing up for you. All right, guys. I think that's a wrap for this episode, but I love you. I'm so grateful, so so grateful for you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for listening. Make sure you've signed up for the newsletter. I'll be sending that out, uh, soon, probably in August, september. Combo newsletter. Next Reiki class in person is October 3rd and 4th, I believe Let me double check that it's a Saturday, sunday. It will be in person, like I said. Oh, I lied. Okay, it's October 4th and 5th. Next Reiki in-person class, reiki level one and two, will be October 4th and 5th, which is a Saturday Sunday. It will be in Highland, illinois and, uh, all of those details will be up on my website. You can sign up for that and I would love to see you.
Speaker 1:I love teaching those classes. When I do those, uh, I do have usually within a month or two of the class. Then I have a Reiki share slash practice day, where it's usually four hours long and any of my previous students only my students, but any of my previous students are all invited to come. So so every previous class and and ongoing, and until whenever this or if this comes to an end, or whatever, we'll continue to be invited to that. So it's really cool.
Speaker 1:It's a really nice way for people to connect with each other and have that environment where they can, you know, ask questions of me or ask questions of their peers. They can network with each other. Some of them are from, you know, the same areas, those kinds of things and talk about different experiences that they've had. And, yeah, and that follow-up time is always free. Again, it's a four-hour time frame at the same studio where I teach the in-person classes, and it's just a beautiful way to get people to come together and and not only that, I mean like we all get to feel Reiki energy for four hours. So I mean you can't lose. It's incredible and I love it so much because I love seeing my students again too, and they're all incredible and so, yeah, if you or anybody you are interested or you know that could be interested? Definitely let them know.
Speaker 1:October 4th and 5th next in-person Reiki class, so it'll be level one and two Usui, holy Fire. All right, for real, I'm gonna, I'm going to stop talking. I love you, know that. You are so loved, so, so, so, so, so, so, so loved and supported at all times. All right, talk to you later. 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 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.