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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
The Divine Guardianship: Connecting Children and Parents to Angelic Wisdom
What if the secret to parenting wasn't found in more control, but in divine surrender? In this soul-nurturing conversation, Julie Pries—social worker, pranic healer, and children's book author—reveals how connecting with angels can transform family dynamics and relieve the burden of constant worry.
For over three decades, Julie has been helping families rediscover their spiritual nature. Her journey began with a profound insight from Master Choa Kok Sui, who suggested replacing parental anxiety with a simple visualization: placing children in a protective ball of light and entrusting them to divine care. This technique became the foundation of Julie's bestselling children's book "Angels Adore You" and her "Huckleberry and Henry" series.
Julie shares the remarkable synchronicities that led to her writing career during COVID lockdown, when a client who happened to be a children's book editor encouraged her to share her message through stories rather than parenting books. These divinely-timed connections affirmed that her angel-centered approach was meant to reach families everywhere.
The conversation delves into practical spiritual wisdom: how we are not our bodies, emotions, or thoughts, but eternal souls having a human experience. This understanding helps both children and adults navigate difficulties with greater resilience and peace. Julie explains that angels are always available but need to be invited—no elaborate rituals required, just a simple request.
Perhaps most touching are the stories of children's natural connections with angels, like Justina's eight-year-old daughter who excitedly reported seeing Archangel Jophiel twinkling in the corner of her eye. These moments remind us that the veil between worlds is thinner for those who maintain childlike wonder and trust.
Whether you're struggling with anxiety about your children, seeking spiritual support during difficult times, or simply wanting to deepen your connection with divine guidance, this episode offers gentle wisdom and practical techniques to help you remember who you truly are: a beloved child of light, never alone, always adored.
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Speaker 1:Welcome, beloved Soul Sisters and brothers, to another heart-centered episode of the Sacred Soul Sisters podcast. I am your host, justina, and today we're opening the space for a conversation filled with divine light, healing presence and angelic wisdom. I am so honored to welcome our truly radiant guest, julie Priest. She is a gifted counselor, social worker, parent educator, pranic healer and the inspired author of Angels Adore you, a beautiful children's book that reminds us all, young and old, that we are never alone and always adored by the angels. She also has some other books that we're going to mention and some beautiful angel cards that are absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1:For over 20 years, julie has devoted her work to helping families connect with their faith, with themselves and with the divine guidance always available to them. Her message is simple yet profound the angels are here, they do adore you and they want to help you on your journey. In this episode, we'll explore Julie's journey with the angels, her healing work with families and children, and how her spiritual practices support emotional wellness across generations. Whether you're a parent, a grandparent, a healer, a child, a seeker, a friend, this conversation will inspire you to deepen your trust, soften into grace and remember that the divine support always is surrounding you. So take a deep breath and open your heart. Let's welcome the energy of the angels and this beautiful soul, julie Priest, to the Sacred Soul Sisters Circle. Welcome, julie, how are you?
Speaker 2:Fine, thank you so much.
Speaker 1:What a lovely introduction Justina, right back at you, thank you. So if you want to introduce yourself just a little bit, are you where you're located in the United States? Then yeah, just a little bit of background.
Speaker 2:So I'm Julie Priest. I live in St Louis Missouri. Born and bred, I have been a social worker for over 30 years and a chronic healer for 30 years. I have three kids who are all grown up and married, happily married, and they each have two kids the two-year-olds and one-year-olds. They all had babies at the same time.
Speaker 2:So I'm the proud grandma of six gorgeous babies, three boys and three girls. That's wonderful, yeah. So I've been doing the pranic healing work and then I got into writing these books. So, as you said, we have angels adore you, and we have the Huckleberry and Henry series. This one is already out there and this one is coming soon, and then the angel cards. But these are all a result of the work that I do in chronic healing and as a therapist.
Speaker 1:Okay. So how would you say when you like? Do you remember when you started to think of? You know, I feel like there's something else that can help these people? That can help them when I'm maybe not available at that very moment, or something when they need a little pick me up? Like, when did that first come to you, that you know the the idea to create these amazing things?
Speaker 2:Well, honestly, I took a pranic healing course 30 years ago and a year later I met the founder of Pranic Healing, master Choa Koksu, and at the course he was talking about the angels and about divine intervention and all of that. And I had the privilege of taking him to lunch that day because he was in St Louis and I was of the area and they had to do a quick. Something happened that we had a very short lunch. So he was in St Louis and I was of the area and they had to do a quick. Something happened that we had a very short lunch. So he was a very sophisticated, very holy, really cool guy and I was so honored.
Speaker 2:So I took him to Taco Bell because we had a short break when it was close by, but that was when all of my kids were babies. So I had had three car seats in the car, you know, in the back seat, and he said, oh Julie, you have three kids, huh, and I said, yeah, young kids. And he's like, well, that's great. And he said, now, do you worry about them? And I said, well, isn't that a part?
Speaker 1:of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, right. He said I want you to realize that that worry is just kind of sending negative energy. When you worry and have anxiety you're connecting to them with a lot of like heavy, yucky energy. And he said why don't you instead practice just handing them to God and letting go of that cord of worry, doubt and fear? So in the class we had already talked about cords and those kinds of negative connections and so he said just say a simple prayer and just visualize this ball of light around the child and just give them to God and ask angels to be with them, and assign angels to be with them and cut the negative cord so that you can worry less and that they don't feel that drag on them. Right.
Speaker 1:And so.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh my gosh. So I started practicing it and I loved it. And then a year later I said, can I tell everybody? And he said absolutely. And I said honestly, I would, I love to write a parenting book, because I have the background in family therapy and social work and I was doing parent education and I'd worked with so many families and anxiety and worry about each other was the biggest thing. You know, kids with anxiety are worried about their parents most of the time, right, and so he's like absolutely.
Speaker 2:So I had started and wrote a rough draft and this was in the 1900s. You know, when I started the whole idea and I was getting into it, I was very excited, but then I I just kind of dropped it and I thought, you know what people hardly go to parenting classes, much less read parenting books back then. And who am I to think I can write a parenting book? And my kids were still young and I thought, what if they turn out bad? So they turned out good. I love it, they turned out really good. They're wonderful human beings. But anyway, I just kind of thought, eh, so then in in covid, my mentor, kim fantini, who is the midwest pranic healing boss woman she said well, during covid she goes.
Speaker 2:Remember a long time ago you said you wanted to write a parenting book and I said, yeah, that was a long time ago. And she said just pray and just ask God, do you still want me to do this? And I said, oh, I really don't think so. And she goes just think about it.
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Speaker 1: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.
Speaker 2:So during the lockdown, I just said this prayer and said okay, dear God, if you want me to write this book, send me the help and send me the inspiration. And there's more, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:Within a couple of days I had a new client call me for energy healing and since it was during the lockdown, I did distant healing. So in pranic healing, like in Reiki, we can do distant healing. So I was talking to her on the phone and we were having sessions and I did some distant healing and her back pain went away. But then she came in to see me once the lockdown was over and she said I'm just so stressed about my daughter. She's away at college, she's going through such a hard time with the lockdown and it's supposed to be her first year having a great time and it's just so upsetting. And so I taught her the ball of light technique and taught her to really just let go and give her to God and have the angels be with her. And she said oh my gosh, gosh, julie, you should share this with everybody.
Speaker 2:And I said well, actually I considered writing a parenting book a long time ago. But I thought and she said no, if you want to teach parents something, you write a children's book. Wow, oh my gosh, okay, that's an interesting idea. And she said actually that's what I do. She said I am a children's book editor. Stop my new career, I'm not kidding you, this is crazy. She said my new career is that I will help people write children's books. So she said I can wait with you, yeah, and I thought, oh boy, I guess I.
Speaker 1:Well, there's your answer.
Speaker 2:Huh goodness, yeah and then the very next client who came in. You know she had my head spinning. The next client came in and I get centered again and this girl was 16 and her dog had died over a year ago and her mom's like I just feel like this isn't normal she is still grieving and so depressed about her dog. So we know how dogs are full of the Holy Spirit and the divine energy and connected to the angels, right?
Speaker 1:So much love.
Speaker 2:So I'm like, okay, this was her best friend.
Speaker 2:So I said was this dog your best friend. And she said yes, and she just broke down and she said I could talk to him about anything. She said I talked to him about everything I was going through and he was my best friend. She said then my parents got divorced and my mom moved and I had to go to a new school and I didn't have anyone to talk to about it and she bought me a new dog and I was so mad and she just doesn't understand.
Speaker 2:And so the whole idea of Huckleberry and Henry came in and I thought, okay, I've just got to start writing notes and then I'll send it to the editor lady. Hey, I've just got to start writing notes and then I'll send it to the editor, lady. So I worked on that story for probably seven months and refined it and we got this beautiful storybook and I sent it to publishers and then a publisher picked it up and said I like it, I get it, we'll do it, like it, I get it. Um, we'll do it.
Speaker 2:And then, uh, after I signed the contract for that book, I was in a session with a lady who was in her, probably about my age, maybe a little bit older, and she had a grown-up son who was a severe alcoholic and drug addict, and she was just devastated and she's like, I am so overwhelmed. And she said I feel like I'm shutting down and you could feel her heart energy center was just closing up and so I'm like, oh, please, don't do this. You know, just pray, praying and asking the angels to be with her. And and I. I then heard these words from the angels that were going right to her and I started jotting them down and wrote them down. At the end of her session, I said I got a message from you, from the angels, and it was ultimately everything that was an angels adore you.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness. And I I just want to briefly say I, um, so this is the angels adore you, and my daughter, who just turned eight, read that book to me. I think we read it three times, um, and she just absolutely loves that. We, we talk about angels all the time. So, luckily, um, she was familiar too. But, oh my gosh, I can just, I could feel the love in the book and this envelope of this just warm blanket of knowing that we're never alone, we're never left out in the cold.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I can't take any credit for that book, really, you know. And so I I had written it down just for this woman and then I kind of refined it a little bit the next day, so I probably spent 45 minutes on the whole thing and I sent it to the editor and she's like that's great, send it to the publisher. So I I said I know you are, I know he has a whole system you have to do, but I'm like I'm just going to send it to him right away, directly. And he said I love it, we'll do that first.
Speaker 1:Wow, so it wasn't necessarily the first book that you wrote, but it was yes, and I love that book. That's great.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you. I'm so glad you love it and that your daughter loves it too. That makes me very happy.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad you love it and that your daughter loves it too. That makes me very happy and what great guidance if you want to get to parents, write a children's book. I know I mean that's so true because you know we spend a lot more time I think a lot of times, especially as women, you know focused on our children versus ourselves. Right, you know we did our children versus ourselves. Right, you know we did pick up a parenting book and try to help ourselves and everything. But we're like, but if I have an opportunity to read a book with my child or read a parenting book, I'm probably going to pick reading a children's book with my child.
Speaker 2:So because you have five or 10 minutes instead of you know hours and hours when you have small children, yes, and angels adore you has turned into the uh, the bedtime story that that people get for newborns. I, I'm like just keep putting these thoughts in their heads from the moment they're born, that they're always aware of the angels being with them.
Speaker 1:I even tell people um a lot of times too, like when they're pregnant, to just start talking to their baby, just about you know how loved they are, not only from mom and dad or or family, but that they have angels all around them, and this would be a great book for that too, like baby showers, all of those kinds of things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could totally see that hours, all of those kinds of things. Yeah, I could totally see that. Yeah, it's. It's been fun to be a part of seeing people reading it. And my son, who is a grown man now, said this is my favorite book to read to Harry when Harry, my oldest grandson, was an infant, he said I just love it because so many books are silly and cute and sweet. And he said but this one has so much meaning and it just makes me feel like I'm telling him something so important, which that was that made me happy it was worth it right there.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, A hundred percent. And like best grandma ever, Like my grandma wrote these books Like I can't imagine your grandkids are. Probably they're going to be like bragging at school about you. But so I have a question what would you say to someone who is curious about angels, doesn't have a background in any type of religious practice or anything like that and no familiarity with angels so someone who's curious about the angels but they've never really felt connected to them before and don't know how to connect with them? What would you say to somebody like that?
Speaker 2:What I have done since writing the books is I have offered little meditation groups where people come in and we do a meditation. One of the instructors in Pranic Healing, Master Nona Castro, has an archangel meditation that you can get online and it's, I think, $9.99. But Master Nona Castro Archangel Meditation Okay, and you just download it to your music app is it at nona castro?
Speaker 1:is that the website where you get it, or you just google nona?
Speaker 2:yeah, master nona castro archangel meditation and it pops up and you can download it. I love it. It is such a beautiful meditation and it reminds us that the angels are with us. But she does. Uh, the angels, the archangels surround you in the meditation and it's just so peaceful and so soothing and it gives you the awareness because it's so sweet and loving that you can feel the angels with you.
Speaker 2:But I have done that meditation group with the kids, with little ones. I teach them to say the guardian angel prayer. You know the little prayer angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever, this day, be at my side to light, to guard, to rule and guide. Very simple. But when we ask what Master Nona has taught us is when we ask the angels to be with us. They are and that our guardian angels are always with us, but they are so excited to be with us and another. So I am not an angel angel expert. This just all came into my life. Um, big fan of master nona and all of her teachings, but um, lorna burn has written books about angels she's phenomenal angels in my hair.
Speaker 2:I was like what does that mean? But someone recommended it to me and I'm like, oh my gosh. And she talks about the unemployed angels. That are angels with us. Some of that, some of us don't know that they're there. We don't ask them for help and they're. They're just, they're waiting. And it's interesting because asking is important.
Speaker 1:Yes, Right, yes, I have. You know, my spirit team even, and it's so easy to forget to ask. Sometimes I'll find myself you know my spirit team even, and it's so easy to forget to ask. Sometimes I'll find myself, you know, in my head about something and starting to stress and get anxious and, oh, what am I going to do with this, what am I going to do with that? And then I'll get quiet for a minute and I'll hear my spirit team. Did you ask? That's awesome. You've just been spinning around in circles. I mean like, if you want to keep acting like you're having a temper tantrum, go ahead. But if you would ask, we're we really want to?
Speaker 2:help. You know, right, and that's what you do for a living, and you still forget me too. It's like hello, right. And then when I'm, when I'll be saying something to my sister about, oh my gosh, I'm worried about so-and-so and and she's like, really, julie, I'm like what? And she's like put them in the light, give it to God, ask the angels to be with them, cut the cord. I'm like, oh yeah, that's right, that's a great idea. I should do that. Yes, it's incredible, but it's just life, it. And when we do that prayer and we do put them in the light and we do cut that cord, it's amazing the things that happen to us. It's like we step outside of the bubble. We're not in the midst of their chaos and we can see things more clearly and we calm down.
Speaker 2:But they calm down too, because we're not that cord. You understand about cords. So that cord is feeding the cycle.
Speaker 1:Right, they blossom. You know that's incredible. Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 1:I started working with angels several years ago and I am I can't put even like a grasp of a number of the amount of angels that there are like a grasp of a number of the amount of angels that there are, because almost every session there is, I can visualize different angels that I haven't necessarily seen.
Speaker 1:But then sometimes they come in and they tell me a name and I'm like there's no way, that's really your name and you know, and I'll look it up and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's legit an angel Like you know, and I'll look it up and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's legit an angel like you know. Because I think you know, we're still human, right, so we're holding sacred space for to allow this healing to take place for people and we get to have all these incredible experiences as well, right, and being in the room where it happened and to be reminded that of all of this stuff that's available to us and it doesn't matter what you've done, who you've been, where you come from, what color your skin is, what nationality it, none of that.
Speaker 2:None of that. And just because we exist, yeah, that's, that's's so awesome. I love that you said all there's so much you just said just now. But one of the things you said too, is about the names of the angels. So one thing I like to do in my meditations with grown-ups and at story times with kids is just say close your eyes, just take some nice deep breaths and just think what is my angel's name? And if you want, you can ask them their name or you can give them a name.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:The importance of the name is that it's more real for us. We're like, okay, wait a minute, there is truly someone with us that we can call on. And if we call them by name, maybe then we'll really form that personal relationship that we can call on. And if we call them by name, maybe then we'll really form that personal relationship that we need, you know, to be really they're not worried about their name.
Speaker 1:They're not worried. It's very little to them.
Speaker 2:But it's us, but yeah, but it's so cute with the kids because so many of them, when they close their eyes and then and they're like she said her name was Mary I don't even know where that came from, or you know they come up with these names that they never even heard of and they're like so excited and then other ones make up a name, but at least then they make it more personal.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, and the angels know that you're calling on them, whether you make up a name or not.
Speaker 1:Like they just know who you're calling for. They just know, like we sometimes we get so caught up in um, how exactly we're going to do each and every step of everything Right, and really they just want us to call on them, that's right. It doesn't have to be a perfect process, it doesn't have to be okay. Just want us to call on them, that's right. It doesn't have to be a perfect process, it doesn't have to be okay. I have to say this first, and then I have to say this second, and then I have to say this third, and then I have to stand up and turn around and then I have to touch my toes. You know, like right, we always are seeking these processes. I feel like for things, and the angels and our spirit teams, no, I just want you to show up and then I want to help you you know, and in Master Nona's meditation she says the angels are here to love and to just keep on loving.
Speaker 1:I'm like okay, yes, and how many people are there? Right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everyone, everyone.
Speaker 2:Everyone needs this and it's just so encouraging. And it isn't magic Well, it is magic, but it's the truth, it's the reality of who we are. So we are made in the image and likeness of God. We are children of God, literally children of God, and God loves us so much that he assigns an angel or two to be with everyone. Each and every one of us, even people we don't like, have a guardian angel. Amen, everybody.
Speaker 2:So when we realize that we're all made in the image and likeness of God, we're all the same.
Speaker 2:So, like you said before, no matter what race, color, creed, age, whatever our behavior is, whatever's going on, we are all made in the image of god and when we're aware of that, it's reflected in our good behavior.
Speaker 2:So when we can remind more and more people who they really are is a child of god, a spiritual being then it just increases their love for themselves, their respect for themselves.
Speaker 2:And it goes to say that you're going to have to respect other people if you know that they too are made in the image and likeness of god. So there's so much in it and angels adore you is so powerful because it talks about that with babies and little kids, and kids are like yeah, I get it, you know we forget when we're older, and so I guess in the storybook it starts reminding the children who they really are, and at the end the parent goes oh, I get it, I'm going to trust in God and not worry about you all the time, because he has a plan for you. He or she, you know God loves you, has a plan for you, he or she, you know God loves you, god adores you and sends angels to be with you. So I'm not going to spend my whole life going, oh, my child, what do we do? And send all that energy? But trust, yes, enjoy absolutely.
Speaker 1:I um spirits, just bring this story to mind. Oh, I, I wanted to say too. So even though you know we, we get assigned you know an angel or two or whatever, that doesn't mean that there's not a million other angels that come in and out throughout our lifetimes, right, so there's I just, you know, just for people that aren't, you know, super familiar with it, and like in Lorna Byrne's book, I mean there are angels I tell my kids a lot like if they're having a math test or something like that, I'm like listen, call on, like past math teacher angels, or you know math professor angels, or you know angels that are super good at you know going through test taking, and, and it's incredible because by the end of the day you know they get home and they're like, oh my gosh, I really think it helped.
Speaker 1:You know, and I'm like, yes, it helped because they want to help us. They want to help us so much.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's so many, so many helpers out there for us. We're so blessed.
Speaker 1:Yes, we really are my, my youngest, who just turned eight the other day. So we we always, you know, say our prayers at nighttime and everything and, and we invite the angels in and we call them in and we talk to them and the other day she was had just woke up and she comes running out of the room and she's like, oh, my gosh, mom, mom, mom, guess what, guess what.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, oh, okay, what's going on? And she said, okay. So I got up and I went to the bathroom and I looked in the mirror and you know, like when you have sleepy eyes, when you get up, like you're like, you know, kind of tired, but your eyes are kind of open. And I'm like, yep, I've had sleepy eyes, got it in. And I'm like, yep, I've had sleepy eyes, got it. And and she said, well, I was looking in the mirror and I kept seeing this twinkling out the corner of my eye and, mom, I really think it was Archangel Jophiel. And I was like, well, I think you are right.
Speaker 1:And she was so elated and and she said, mom, now I don't know if I can tell people at school because, well, I think they might think I'm crazy, but I know I can tell you. And and I said you're absolutely right, you can tell me. And you know what? The only reason they think that is they haven't met her yet. Yeah, they haven't met their angels yet. So if you ever want to tell them that you know they can talk to angels too, it's okay. And and if they look at you like you're crazy? People look at mom like she's crazy all the time. Yeah, it'll be okay, but it was to see the joy just bellowing out of every piece of her Right.
Speaker 2:And that's how you know it was an angel, right, because you feel that joy and it's just it's. It's not even a question when you know you're in the presence of the angels, it's just overwhelming love and joy, and so powerful.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, it's absolutely amazing. I, you know, and you too, I'm sure, feel so blessed to be able to be in the environment where we get to experience it just more and more and more all the time. It's incredible.
Speaker 2:I had an experience with one of my clients many years ago who who had, by the time I met her, had metastasized cancer to her entire body. It was a sorry, I don't know the technical word, but her cancer was very extreme, and they extreme. And they said she um had a year to live. Right then that year had passed by the time I met her. And so then we, we did pranic, healing work and, um, anyway, we did the archangel meditation with her.
Speaker 2:I said now, myrna, it's a she, I can tell her story, I could tell it when she was here. But, um, I said, myrna, do you believe, do you have any particular faith? And she said, well, my dad was a minister and it was pretty rough, so I don't identify as Christian or any spirituality. And I said, are you comfortable with the angels? She said, sure, go, you know. And I said, well, let's play the archangel meditation and and just pray because we're in a situation right. And she's she's like, okay, we'll do it. And so she was somewhat receptive, but not like, oh my God, yes, yes, yes, right, right sure, sure.
Speaker 2:So during the meditation I was doing my healing work and all of a sudden, someone grabbed my hand and moved to a whole other area and started doing something else and I'm like, okay, and I just felt overwhelmed and I just was like, oh my gosh, and I, I was overwhelmed with this powerful energy and I was very clear that it was the Archangel Michael and I saw this image and it looked like fish scales is what I would say I saw and, um, like the book, rainbow Fish is a kid's book yes, I was picturing that, as you said that yes, and that's what I saw, and I was just so astounded.
Speaker 2:And then, at the end of this session, I'm like I mean, I'm in tears. Still even thinking about it puts me in tears. And and I'm just like even thinking about it puts me in tears and and I'm just like, okay, myrna, did you notice anything? And she's like, oh my god, julie, the Archangel Michael was, was with us, he was here, he was here. I'm like I know, and we were both bawling, and she's like I can't believe it. That was just so amazing and we were just like so grateful and we just just thanked God, you know, and it was so amazing. Well then, a few months later, my husband and I went to france and we saw mont saint michel, which is amazing. It's this I don't know what that is. It's this beautiful little island that was created by the archangel michael. Really, he had visited a bishop and told him to. Anyway, that's the whole story. You can look up the story of mont saint michel in france, but I was there.
Speaker 2:I was in the little chapel below and I saw this little statue of when archangel michael appeared to this bishop, of what he looked like and he had on silver armor that looked like the same fish scales that I saw in the meditation. And they say when people are in the presence of the archangel michael they often see that the scales of his metal armor that he's wearing it's like chain link almost and anyway. So I texted myrna and I said, oh my gosh, myrna. The message that came through was you don't have to come to france to be in the presence of me. I'm with you always and anyway, so grateful and so overwhelmed to be in the room with her when the archangel was there for her, you know, and so many times witnessing it's just amazing and I'm just so grateful for the opportunity.
Speaker 2:So I'm grateful to master nona and to master choa kuk sui for teaching me these things that make me aware you know and I think that awareness is what brings us blessings.
Speaker 1:That's why I wrote all the stories right, right, right, it really is and, and to see you know in the healing sessions that we do right, so you know the angels come in our intentions. We set for the utmost healing of the, of the client, right, like're um coming from a place of love. The angelic realm is coming from a place of love. There is so much love pouring into the client and and you can see, and if you can't see, you can feel the light coming back on in them. Right, yes. And if sometimes I feel like I want to climb on the top of the highest mountain and just scream like you are loved, like you are loved.
Speaker 1:You are loved like you have no idea how loved you are. Just because you're you Right. Not because, like you know, you clean the house really good. Not because you had 900 children. Not because you know you paid a lot of money for it. What like? You are loved just because.
Speaker 2:Just because, just as you are, no matter what.
Speaker 2:And so as the, as a psychology major and a family therapist, one of the biggest things when I taught parenting classes is as you believe, so you behave. So if you believe, you are loved, if you are believed, you are a child of God that is so beloved that you have angels that hang out with you. If you believe that you are goodness and that's the essence of who you really are, then you're going to behave that way. So this message is that vital. So if the whole world understood that, right, peace on earth, yes, right. And if we see that in each other, if we see that light in other people, if we go okay, wait a minute, it's not just us who's a spiritual being, it is that guy over there. He just obviously doesn't know it yet. So maybe if he understands that, or maybe if I can see it that way, then I can just shed more loving, kindness to people who aren't acting so great because they don't know who they really are. So once we know who we are, it helps us to behave better.
Speaker 2:Not that I behave great all the time, but sometimes we are aware of it, and when we're tuned into that truth, it just changes everything. So it makes me so happy to share the information with people.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Before I forget, I want to mention so. 20 years ago, I saw Julie Priest on in some article or on some website or something. You, with Kim, say her last name, because I can't ever Kim Fantini Fantini, who is also a pranic healing practitioner and teacher, right, yes, and I remember so.
Speaker 1:20 years ago is well, like 21 years ago, 22, something like that is when I first got attuned to Reiki and I've attended a couple intro to pranic healing, like classes, and I remember looking at you and just being like, wow, I want to meet her, just because I felt this love inside me, that you were genuine and authentic inside me, that you are genuine and authentic and that means so much to me, just in the human world, but just in um, especially if you are providing any care for anyone in any way. I think one of the most important things is to be genuine and authentic and come from a place of love and and not ego or or anything like that. And so it like it almost brings tears to my eyes the fact that I'm'm well, the fact that I even have a podcast to begin with, but that I'm right, getting to interview you, someone who I looked at in awe 20 years ago today, well, always, always overrated, but the idea that was our angel saying, hey, you girls are going to connect someday, right I feel.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's just incredible. So this whole soul sister thing, there's something to it, right?
Speaker 1:that's right. I mean, it's just, it's mind-blowing yeah so I know that was just a side note, but I just wanted to make sure I mentioned that. Oh, that's so sweet. How do you, what do you feel like I'm not sure how to word this like is your goal or what is your hope? Um, that people are able to grasp from these books between the parents and the children. What is your main like number one hope?
Speaker 2:well. So, with angels, adore you. The number one hope is, what we were just talking about is that they realize who they really are, that that the parents realize and the children realize that they are really children of god and they are so loved. And so for parents, you realize this is god's child, so you don't put all your stuff on them. You think, okay, this child has a path. We're not going to try to form them into being just like us. We're going to let them be who they are, yes, and we're going to disconnect our anxiety and we're going to trust that God has a plan for them and that God loves them. Right, that, I want to say, doesn't mean that life's always going to be easy. That doesn't mean that bad things are going to happen, but that, no matter what's happening, there is some plan that we don't understand. That God is with us, that God is supporting us, right, with the help of his angels. Right, that angels are real and that they're here.
Speaker 2:And then, with Huckleberry and Henry, the whole reason I started was when I learned the ball of light technique. Right, and the ball of light technique is a step-by-step, little detailed. We already showed it super simple. But that technique of putting the child in the light, or kids. How many kids have I taught to put their parent in the light and just hand them to God and say, please, let the angels be with them to support them, to help them. So the goal there is to reduce anxiety, and increasing our faith helps reduce anxiety, and when we do this and we cut that cord and we go, you realize, wow, that was not good what I was sending and I I'm so relieved to have faith instead of fear. So it's about reducing anxiety as well, just to kind of clear the path for the kids, right? So when I was working with kids and families, I'm like, well, you just get off of them and let them live their life.
Speaker 1:Just trust, because a lot of times the parent is they. They don't necessarily wake up and they're like I want to just control everything. Their kid. You know their thought process. Anxiety is like well, I just want to make sure they're okay and everything works out for them and everything's perfect and that and so many different, so I think it relieves some pressure by reading these books.
Speaker 2:It does, and now there's so many great parenting things out there, so this was Adlerian. Psychology is the stuff that Children. The Challenge was the old, old, old book. It's about Ward and June Cleaver. Basically it was in the 1950s. It was even old for me.
Speaker 1:That doesn't exist Really yeah.
Speaker 2:But the advice is just so true. It's about mutual respect. It's about trusting in the child's ability to figure things out, and so much of the parenting stuff out there now is is totally lined up with it, and it's been really neat as a grandma to see my kids raising their kids based on these principles.
Speaker 2:following somebody on Instagram you know, it's like there's some a lot of good advice, and so all of the truth of the storybook really resonates with my kids and their friends and their kids, and so it's been really neat and rewarding. So I think that's why it took me almost 30 years to get this out there, cause now's the time when people are ready to hear it and they they're starting to understand it.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, Absolutely, Absolutely. Um, what advice would you offer to those walking through a session of fear or doubt, especially parents or grandparents so say that, um, you know, they have come across this book, they have read it, they things were going pretty well, but they got themselves in kind of a situation. Um, you know, a lot of bad things happen in a short amount of time and what I have some people come to me with when I, you know, am talking to them about the angels or anything like that, you know they're like well, you know, everything felt like it was kind of going okay and I felt like I was being supported, but now, Like, a lot of bad things happened and you know, if I was so supported, bad things wouldn't happen. Is there a response that we could offer during that time, that that you can think of?
Speaker 2:For me, it's continue to pray right and just to continue to ask God okay, be with me and show me. Show me that you're with me, help me to feel supported and to know, even if I don't feel it, that I am. If I'm a child of God, I have to be somehow supported. So for me, when things are hard and difficult and challenging, pray harder, right.
Speaker 2:Right Dear God be with me or send me or angels to be with me, even if I'm not aware of it, but to pray for our kids, it can change things. A long, long, long time ago, when our daughter was going through some, some learning difficulties and some social anxieties, when she was just a little bitty kid, I started putting her in the light and cutting the cord and I told my husband how to do it and he's like all right, all right, all right. And then a few months later I'm like, wow, did you notice how good she's doing? She is doing so well. And he said, wow, I just started putting her in the light and cutting the cord. I learned a little late and he said, as soon as she did, it's like blossomed right.
Speaker 2:So when we, we have to realize that our prayers work, they help, and that there's actually, when we put them in that ball of light, we're forming a shield of protection around them and we're asking the angels to solidify that shield. So there's whole entire courses on psychic self-defense and energy healing and they're really amazing and there's so many good things in them. But the thing that came at the end is or you can ask the angels to really create this solid shield around them because they're the professionals, they know how to get it done and that helps them feel that love right no matter what, they're okay.
Speaker 2:So the other part of angels adore you is that you are a being of light. So we're not really this body, yes, amen. We're not really our emotions, we're not even our thoughts, right? So if I'm feeling angry, that is a feeling, it's an energy, it isn't me. If I I quit feeling angry, I still exist, right, right, if I think about an apple and I quit thinking about the apple, I still exist. That's just a thought. Mm-hmm. If I lose this body and my body dies, I still exist because I'm the soul, I'm a spiritual being. Yes, right.
Speaker 2:And there's this whole prayer by Master Cho Kok Sui I am the soul. That reminds us every day. We're not this body, we're not the mind, we're not the emotions. I'm the soul, I am a child of God, I am a being of light and that helps us to know that, even if our body is really sick, if our emotions are a mess sometimes I'm having emotions I'm like, oh, thank, oh, thank god, that's not me, because that's not what I want to be, right yes or you have thoughts and you're like oh gosh well that's right.
Speaker 1:Where'd that come from?
Speaker 2:yeah, that's not me, or the body's not functioning well and you're like, well, that's not me either, thank god. So when kids one of the things that is very rewarding for me I've had people buy hundreds of books and donate them to Cardinal Glennon, to Children's Hospital and, most recently, to St Jude's Hospital. Oh, I love that. Kids whose bodies aren't functioning, operating yeah Right, and that's not who they are.
Speaker 1:They are that beautiful spiritual being who's completely whole, and it doesn't mean that you know that one time you connect, your angels and your whole environment will always be perfect, or your whole body will always be perfect, right?
Speaker 2:that's not eternal life is not the physical body, obviously.
Speaker 1:Right, right. So even if we experience hard times, that doesn't mean that we've been left. That doesn't mean the angels have left us at all. That means it is what it is. We live in a 3D world of duality, where there is good and bad, but as a soul, as our soul, we are always safe, we are always loved yes yes my dad had, I always say, four fatal diseases.
Speaker 2:He had so many different illnesses throughout his life and he had.
Speaker 2:he was sick from the time he was a little kid, with severe asthma, and it wasn't being treated properly back in the day, but he had so much faith and so much peace, wow. And no matter what his body was doing, you know, it was just terrible Some of the things he was going through, and and, and he would just say well, he said you know he's, he was a Christian. And he said you know what I do. He said I always say Jesus, I trust in you. And he said and eventually I believed it. That is such great advice.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I just did. I thought, okay, I trust you know, there's so much joy in his life, so much happiness in the midst of feeling miserable. But he wasn't his body. He knew that and he showed me that you know.
Speaker 1:that's amazing. So what is your practice? Because you know, as humans, you know sometimes we do have a lot going on and we get in our head like what is a practice that helps you kind of get back into your heart and get back into the reminder of you know that you're always protected, you're always loved, that kind of thing. Do you have like a prayer you say every day? Or do you have a meditation you do, or do you have a certain special water you drink? Like what is your all of the above?
Speaker 2:lemon water just for my liver. But I there's a really beautiful meditation called the meditation on twin hearts that I do several times a week um, the archangel meditation. But I also just do I might say the angel of god prayer. But I just in the morning just invoke and say, okay, god, thank you for being with me and being aware of your presence and thank you for the angels who are here just to you. Know, I think like it's constant praying, right, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about yes yeah, like every day.
Speaker 2:It's like when do you pray? It's, it's not a formal ritual, all the time it's, it's constantly. I used to hear that and I didn't get it, but now I do, because I'm driving in the car and I'll find myself saying a prayer. You know, absolutely. Absolutely Like sometimes it's God bless that person and may they learn to drive better, you know.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. Yes, but it's, yeah, and I feel like you know, I I try to really really enforce with people. It just doesn't have to be fancy, it I try to really really enforce with people. It just doesn't have to be fancy, it's you can pray at any time and praying simply as talking to God, you know, or talking to your angels, you don't have there, doesn't have to be a formal process.
Speaker 1:You're okay If you're not sitting on your knees and in a sweatshop, or that you've had just all of these hours and hours of sitting in stillness, you know, for 18 days or something, to say one prayer right, you can simply just talk.
Speaker 2:Right, there's a. There's a technique in pranic healing where we invoke before we do the divine healing, and one of my friends practically said a full rosary before and I'm. You just have to ask, they're listening, just get on with the healing. It would take so many. You know, you don't have to beg, you do not have to beg, right? I remember a quick little guardian angel story, but I remember I was driving down Lindbergh Boulevard, right, and I stopped at a stoplight big intersection, and all of a sudden I just kind of had the heebie-jeebies right and I thought, yeah, so Ilight, big intersection, and all of a sudden I just kind of had the heebie jeebies right and I thought, yeah. So I said, okay, angels, be with me. And boom, boom, boom, three cars behind me had a three-car collision and my car was not hit and I was like, oh, thank you yes, yes there was no begging.
Speaker 1:There was like okay, angels be with me and definitely ask anytime you feel like you're guided, especially in a situation like just ask for prayers, ask for protection, ask for the angels to come in. Don't brush it off and be like, oh no, I can't ask, I don't want to bother them. Here's the thing. They, they are omnipresent. Archangel michael can be hanging out helping me and helping Julie at the same exact time that you know God can be. Uh, because I've had some people come to me and say, well, I just don't want to bother them.
Speaker 2:Please. Well, and Laura Byrne and Master Nona are like they're bored, right. If there's unemployed angels, you know John's guardian angel never gets called on. He's, he'll jump in if you need him, but there's, that's their job, that's what they do and they're dealing with. So, master nona, I had her read my archangel meditation and a book. My boy. We get excited, but anyway, I read the angel of god book and she but anyway, I read the angel of god book and she, angels, adore you book.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:Angels adore you book and she said julie, that's truly how the angels feel about us. And then, um, we talked about doing the angel guardian angels prayer and she said the angels are so glad that you're teaching people about them. I was just like, okay, because you can tell once you meet her that she is completely connected to the angels.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love that so much. That's absolutely wonderful. Is there any message from the angels? And I feel like we've covered this, but you feel called to share with our listeners.
Speaker 2:Just know that we are here for you, no matter what. You are so loved and so precious so precious, a hundred percent, absolutely.
Speaker 1:And how can our listeners find your book? Connect with you for healing, um support your work, you know? Uh, all of those kinds of things, and uh, you have a special offer for our listeners for the next three days as well, if you could?
Speaker 2:yes, yes, so I have a website. It's a shopify website. It's wwwjuliepriestcom. Can you spell that? J-u-l-i-e-p-r-e-i-s. Mm-hmm. And I'm going to have the um free shipping if you just put in the code, justina.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Three days after this is online, we will have that free shipping discount. Otherwise, you can get the books on amazoncom, you can get them through IngramSpark. They're at Target online and Barnes and Noble. And if you do read the book and you like it, I really appreciate any reviews because that helps make me popular. But the cards that we have we talked about the angel cards and these are designed for, like, you can't read a whole story, but somebody's going out the door and it's just to say say your angel is with you, your angel loves you.
Speaker 1:Um then they can take this little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead, so they can take these little cards and put them in their pocket when they have to leave home and they're a little anxious and just say, hey, your angels are with you all day. So, like those little reminders so that kids never feel alone. And then we ended up designing some angel cards for road trips. These are all pictures from the storybook and angel cards at bedtime. Huckleberry and Henry is full of mindfulness techniques as well. So a little bit of ways to help anxious kids relax.
Speaker 2:And then these are little reminders that point out some of those techniques too. So, and the new book that's coming, on the website.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. So um so for the discount, I just want to clarify. They'll go directly to your website to put in that code for the free shipping. And um and the angels adore you book and the huckleberry and henry book are available on there, as well as the cards. Yes, correct and then when does your other book come out, and what is that called again that one?
Speaker 2:I have on here is a lesson in forgiveness. So this is a way to help people grown-ups and let go of any anger or frustration, because when we're angry at someone else, it's really affecting us. So we can use that same ball of light technique to let go. So in the story, henry's dealing with his friend who accidentally hurt him, but it still makes him mad. And the truth of the book is that it's hard to let go. You know, right, we know all these great things and still sometimes it's like, yeah, but I'm mad and I don't need you, right? Yeah, so it's like, how do I let go of that? And Henry's disappointed in himself because he can't let it go. He wants to let it go, so he has to work at it, and that means praying and asking god for help and asking his angel to help carry some of that anger away for him. And when does that come out? Takes him some time.
Speaker 2:Uh, that'll be out in october, so it's available for the holidays, okay 2025 right and then the next one that's already written but not drawn is yeah, it's, they stand up to a bully. So Huckleberry and Henry is going to be a little a little series of stories, right. But Huckleberry and Henry stand up to bullies and it happens to be Henry's old friend, own friends, who are bullying a new kid and he's like no, no guys, we can't do that. But it takes him a while to build up the courage.
Speaker 1:But how real is that? How real is that Right? And?
Speaker 2:this day and age, we need to have less anger and less bullying and and more loving kindness.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I will say a quick note on and I'm sure you've ran across this in Pranic Healing too, but in my Reiki sessions. You know, when we hold on to resentment and anger, it starts to build things in our body that are not good for us and sometimes that's our root of disease. You know, or effect on the other person Right and people do it to protect themselves themselves.
Speaker 2:they're like, if I stay here, this won't happen to me again but actually that anger inside of us is attracting more dirty energy. Right, right, right. It's courage to let go of that and we need help yeah absolutely it's just a very beautiful thing that that we can, can let it go, and when we do and we're like, oh, wow, that feels better, and what I learned with Master Choa Kok Sui would say, yes, absolutely forgive, but you don't have to forget.
Speaker 1:Right, right.
Speaker 2:You don't want to yourself in the same situation over and over and if you're, and if you're in a relationship through family or through a career and you can't like quit or whatever, you can internally forgive, but externally you don't have to, you can keep that boundary and say, no, I'm not going to connect with you anymore, or whatever it is you need to do, but internally let go of that energy absolutely okay do you have an instagram page or anything like that?
Speaker 1:julie m priest.
Speaker 2:Okay, facebook, I'm julie priest okay, wonderful.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you so much, julie gosh. Thank you been a pleasure. We gotta hang out. It has been so wonderful and I'm so grateful that you joined me on the podcast and the audience gets a chance to learn about you and learn about all the amazing things that you're doing in the world for all the people in this world that are so loved and need every reminder of that that they can get.
Speaker 2:So thank you for this beautiful podcast and the energy that you spread through the world with all the information you share and the beautiful work you do.
Speaker 1:You're an angel yourself. Thank you so much, julie. All right, guys, well, everybody. Have a great rest of your week. Definitely check Julie's website, order those books, especially if you have a baby shower coming up you know any children you have a library near you, anything or grandparents that'd be a great book to have at your grandparents' house to hang out with the kiddos and read for them too. So I wish you all the best and we will talk again soon. Thank you, hey everyone.
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