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Send us Fan Mail What happens when the life you built looks good on paper — but no longer feels meaningful? In this episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel Garrett sits down with Alice Thera Nova, an energy designer and intuitive guide whose work explores energetic patterns, inner wisdom, conscious creation, and spiritual sovereignty. Alice shares how a prolonged dark night of the soul dismantled an identity that no longer felt authentic and led her into a deeper exploration of spirituality, energy, and intuition. One of her earliest practices was surprisingly simple: walking for an hour every day without music, podcasts, or distractions so she could finally hear the inner narrative running beneath the surface. Rachel and Alice explore why old patterns are not always evidence that something is “wrong” with us. Sometimes those patterns were once protective. The deeper work, Alice explains, is learning to understand what they were trying to do, extract the wisdom from them, and decide whether they still belong in the life we are creating now. They also discuss Alice’s energetic framework, the and her approach of releasing, recoding, and restoring energy while pairing inner work with real-world action. The conversation moves into spiritual discernment, channeling, and Alice’s experiences with the guide she calls Sophia, the Divine Feminine Collective, and the Amani Council. These are shared as Alice’s personal spiritual experiences and framework for understanding her intuitive work. One of the most important themes of the conversation is spiritual sovereignty: how to receive support from teachers, healers, mentors, or guides without giving someone else authority over your own inner knowing. Rachel and Alice also explore: Why intuition often tells us exactly what we don’t want to hearHow self-trust develops over timeWhy silence can reveal the thoughts and beliefs shaping our experienceReleasing shame and judgment with greater compassionThe difference between an energetic experience and meaningful integrationHow Alice interprets the body as part of intuitive awarenessMaking space for grief, anger, and uncertaintyWhy manifestation may arrive differently than expectedLetting go of rigid expectations around how abundance should appearWhy your attention is a form of currencyChoosing which narratives, information, and noise receive access to your energyAlice leaves listeners with a powerful reminder: wisdom is not reserved for a chosen few. Her invitation is to become more aware of where your attention goes, strengthen your relationship with yourself, and begin trusting what you already know within. Where are you being asked to trust yourself more deeply? Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What if spiritual awakening isn’t supposed to fix your life overnight? In this episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel Garrett sits down with teacher, writer, and astrologer James Burgess for a grounded conversation about what decades of spiritual practice can actually teach us: how to reclaim personal authority, question what we’ve been taught, and stop handing our inner knowing over to teachers, experts, predictions, or spiritual trends. James shares his unconventional path, including years of travel and his devotion to zikr, the Sufi practice of remembrance. Together, Rachel and James explore the difference between genuine spiritual transformation and temporary inspiration — and why discernment becomes increasingly important in a world filled with spiritual advice, fear-based predictions, and endless claims about what we should believe. They also dive into astrology, Sabian Symbols, Chiron, and the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, exploring how James works with these symbols and archetypes to understand personal and collective patterns. In this conversation, you’ll hear about spiritual awakening without the hype, why life can act as a mirror for our own consciousness, the importance of testing teachings rather than blindly following them, and how language itself can become a tool for boundaries, identity, and greater clarity. James also explains his unique seven-word system and why sometimes the most important part of learning a spiritual teaching is eventually becoming willing to let it go. If you’ve ever wondered whether you are truly following your own inner knowing — or simply following someone else’s version of truth — this episode is an invitation to question, explore, and come back to yourself. What belief are you ready to unlearn? Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail Healing can start to feel like a second job. If you’ve ever caught yourself constantly processing, clearing, digging for the next shadow, or measuring your growth by how hard it hurts, this quick tip is your permission slip to breathe. I’m Rachel Garrett, and I’m sharing a simple truth that can change the tone of your healing journey: joy is not a distraction from healing. You’re allowed to feel good before everything is perfectly fixed.  We talk about the difference between meaningful emotional healing and endless self-improvement pressure. Yes, deep work matters sometimes, naming the pattern, feeling the emotion, and telling the truth about what hurt. But healing should not become another place where you feel like you’re failing. Joy can be medicine too, especially for nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and integration. Laughter, music, beauty, dancing in your kitchen, time near water, sunlight on your face, and quiet moments of comfort all count as real self-care.  If joy feels unfamiliar, you’re not broken, you may have been in survival mode for a long time. We explore the guilt that can show up around resting, playing, receiving, and doing something simply because it makes you happy, and why those moments remind you that you’re not here only to endure. I’ll leave you with three grounding questions to help you find one simple joy today and let it support your wholeness. If this resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs permission to soften, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a scientist who has spent nearly two decades in biotechnology and oncology research has an experience that completely changes the way she understands consciousness? In this episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel Garrett sits down with Crystal Cassidy, scientist, mystic, and founder of Soul Pod, to explore the unexpected intersection of science, spirituality, meditation, consciousness, and technology. Crystal spent years working in biotechnology and oncology research, including clinical operations connected with bringing a blood-based cancer diagnostic to market. Then, during a severe illness in 2020, she describes having a near-death experience that profoundly changed the direction of her life and deepened her relationship with spirituality and consciousness.  transcript-a-near-death-wake-up…  transcript-a-near-death-wake-up… Rachel and Crystal explore why meditation does not always feel peaceful at first, why becoming more aware can initially mean becoming more aware of discomfort, and why spiritual growth may require learning how to stay present with emotions rather than constantly trying to escape them.  transcript-a-near-death-wake-up… They also dive into Crystal’s concept of Soul Tech — the idea that technology, community, spiritual practice, nervous-system awareness, and consciousness can work together rather than against one another. Crystal shares why she created Soul Pod, a spiritual wellness platform designed to support people at different stages of awakening and give them a sense of community along the way.  transcript-a-near-death-wake-up… This conversation explores: Science and mystical experienceNear-death experiences and consciousnessWhy meditation can feel uncomfortableSpiritual bypassing and learning to stay in the bodyIntuition versus escapismSpiritual awakening and isolationConscious technologySoul Pod and personalized spiritual practiceThe future of AI, technology, and consciousnessLearning to trust the quiet inner calling that asks you to change your lifeCrystal’s closing message is simple but powerful: you are more powerful than you know, and there is an inner technology within you waiting to be explored Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail Your day starts calm, then you check your phone and suddenly you feel anxious, foggy, or weirdly heavy even though nothing “bad” happened. That moment is the clue. We talk about how modern digital life floods us with opinions, predictions, hot takes, and spiritual content, and how that constant stream can turn into spiritual static, especially if you’re empathic, intuitive, or energetically open.  We walk through a simple shift that changes everything: treating discernment as spiritual hygiene. Not every message deserves access to your energy. We share practical questions you can ask before you consume content like “Does this ground me or spike my anxiety?” “Does this feel like truth or pressure?” and the one that cuts through the fog fast: “Is this mine or is this noise?” Because sometimes the feelings you have after scrolling are not your intuition at all, they’re collective anxiety, someone else’s fear, or plain overstimulation.  Then we get concrete with easy energy clearing and grounding practices you can use immediately: three slow deep breaths before reaching for your phone, stepping away from content that makes you distrust yourself, and using digital boundaries like mute, unfollow, unsubscribe, or block without guilt. We also share a short heart centered reset you can say out loud to release what isn’t yours, return your energy, and call your power back to you.  If you want more calm, better self trust, and less “internet residue” in your body, hit play. Subscribe for more quick tips, share this with a friend who feels drained online, and leave a review with the boundary you’re practicing this week. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What if you didn’t come here to fix, perfect, or endlessly heal yourself—but to fully experience being you? In this deeply personal episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel welcomes spiritual medium Christy Levy and spiritual teacher and channel Gary Temple Bodley, co-hosts of An Unimaginable Life. Christy shares how her mediumship unexpectedly emerged in her 50s and how she now connects with spirit guides, crossed-over loved ones, and the non-physical collective known as White Light. Gary reveals how meditation opened his connection with Joshua, a collective of non-physical teachers, and explains why our beliefs and perspectives shape the reality we experience. Together, they explore channeling, spirit guides, pre-birth intentions, free will, limiting beliefs, light language, manifestation, and why life may be designed for discovery rather than certainty. Then the conversation becomes personal as Christy connects with Rachel’s spirit guides live. Hildegard of Bingen and Gerald Durrell step forward with powerful guidance about uniting medicine and mysticism, choosing wonder over certainty, releasing the belief that usefulness determines value, and allowing the healer to become the creator. This conversation is a beautiful reminder that healing doesn’t always have to be heavy—and that wanting an experience may be reason enough to pursue it. Learn more about Christy and Gary, explore the Freedom Project, and listen to An Unimaginable Life at https://teachingsofjoshua.com. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever said yes while your whole body begged for no, this quick Spiritual Spotlight is your permission slip to come back to yourself. We’re naming a truth that can feel hard to believe when you’re a helper: your boundary is not a betrayal. A limit doesn’t mean your heart is closed. It means your energy, time, and capacity matter, too. We talk about why boundaries feel so uncomfortable for healers, empaths, caregivers, nurses, moms, intuitive spaceholders, and lifelong people pleasers. When you’ve been taught that love equals availability, you can start to confuse being loving with being endlessly accessible. But those aren’t the same thing. You can care deeply and still say no. You can be spiritual without carrying everyone else’s emotional backpack. A boundary is simple, honest clarity: what you can offer, what you cannot carry, and where you end and someone else begins. We also get real about what happens when you change the pattern. Not everyone will celebrate your new limits, especially people who benefited from you having none. Their discomfort doesn’t automatically mean you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes it means healing is finally happening. We close with grounded self-reflection questions to help you spot where you’re overextending, what you fear will happen if you honor your limit, and whether “selfish” is actually just “unfamiliar.” If this landed, subscribe, share it with a fellow overgiver, and leave a review so more people can find support in setting healthy boundaries. What boundary would bring you peace this week? Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail Have you read the books, repeated the affirmations, worked on your mindset—and still found yourself repeating the same patterns? In this episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel Garrett speaks with Dr. Louise Swartswalter, founder of the Brain Soul Success Academy and creator of the B.R.A.I.N. System™, about why conscious awareness alone may not be enough to create lasting transformation. Dr. Louise shares her remarkable journey from a devastating health crisis and three years on oxygen to becoming a naturopath, neuro-biofeedback specialist, and transformational teacher. Together, Rachel and Dr. Louise explore how childhood experiences, emotional wounds, ancestral patterns, nervous-system responses, and energetic imprints may continue influencing our choices—even after we consciously decide to change. You’ll hear about:  Why affirmations and mindset work don’t always reach the deeper pattern  The connection between the brain, body, soul, and energetic field  Why “I’m not enough” may be one of our most common subconscious blocks  How fear can disguise itself as intuition  The importance of integration after a spiritual breakthrough  Why healing does not have to become an endless search for the next wound  How changing your energy can transform your relationships  Practical questions that can help uncover where a repeating pattern began Dr. Louise also guides Rachel through a live energetic exercise focused on releasing doubt, strengthening self-worth, and embodying the belief: “I am enough.” This conversation is an invitation to move beyond simply understanding your patterns—and begin creating change that your whole being can support. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail A big inner shift can feel amazing, and then strangely unsettling. One day you have a breakthrough in your spiritual healing, and a few days later you’re staring at the same responsibilities, the same relationships, the same dishes, wondering why everything feels off. I’m Rachel Garrett, and this Spiritual Spotlight Quick Tip names what’s really happening when you think you “changed” but your life still feels unfamiliar. We talk about integration after a breakthrough, the often-overlooked stage where your body, energy, nervous system, and everyday choices catch up to what you now understand. That’s why old conversations can suddenly feel different, old roles can feel too tight, and old yeses can start sounding like no. Feeling tired, emotional, or in limbo doesn’t automatically mean you’re going backward. It can mean you’re becoming more honest about what’s aligned and what isn’t. I also share why the in-between space can be sacred: you’re no longer who you were, but you haven’t fully learned how to live as who you’re becoming. You’ll hear grounding questions to guide personal growth and embodiment, plus simple integration practices you can use right away, like pausing before repeating an old pattern, honoring a boundary, and letting rest be part of the healing. If this resonated, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s in the messy middle, and leave a review so more people can find these spiritual healing quick tips. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you stop asking, “Will they choose me?” and finally begin asking, “What do I actually want?” In this powerful conversation, Rachel Garrett is joined by Maraya, also known as Venus.In.Pisces, a feminine empowerment coach, depth facilitator, astrologer, and creator whose work explores decentering men, feminine energy, relationships, erotic embodiment, self-actualization, and spirituality. Maraya shares how she realized that despite years of personal growth, feminism, psychology, and self-awareness, much of her time, energy, and identity was still organized around male attention, relationships, and being chosen. That realization became the beginning of a much deeper journey back to herself. Together, Rachel and Maraya explore what “decentering men” really means—and why it isn’t about rejecting men at all. It’s about deconditioning the beliefs that teach women to prioritize being desirable, agreeable, nurturing, and chosen over knowing and honoring themselves. They also dive into whether manifestation and divine feminine teachings can unintentionally keep women focused on romantic validation, how to distinguish intuition from attachment and fantasy, feminine energy beyond the male gaze, sacred rage, boundaries, self-abandonment, and the true value of your time, attention, and energy. This conversation is an invitation to stop performing for love and start building a life that actually belongs to you. Because your time is valuable. Your energy is valuable. And coming home to yourself may be one of the most powerful spiritual practices there is. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail If your nervous system tightens the moment you open social media, you are not alone and you are not broken. I’m Rachel Garrett, and this Spiritual Spotlight quick tip is a reset for anyone who feels flooded by spiritual content, other people’s opinions, and the constant hum of collective anxiety. The practice is simple, but it’s one of the strongest tools I know for clear intuition: pause and ask, “Is this mine or is it noise?” We talk about what spiritual discernment really looks like in daily life. It’s not closing yourself off, and it’s not handing your power to the loudest voice online. It’s learning to notice what brings you back to love instead of fear, what supports your sovereignty instead of dependence, and what feels grounded instead of pressured. If you’ve ever seen a scary “sign” and felt like you needed to change everything immediately, this will help you separate urgency from true guidance. This is especially for empaths, intuitive people, and sensitive folks who walk into a room and feel the emotional weather. Not everything you feel belongs to you, and that one truth can change how you move through relationships, work, and your own inner world. We close with a short set of questions you can use anytime you feel heavy, anxious, or confused, so you can get quiet enough to hear yourself again. If this helps, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s been overwhelmed, and leave a review so more people can find the practice. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What if you genuinely want something—but another part of you doesn’t feel safe receiving it? In this episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel Garrett sits down with bestselling author and manifestation teacher Kelsey Aida to explore why manifestation is far more nuanced than simply thinking positively, making a vision board, and waiting for the universe to deliver. Kelsey shares how an injury ended the future she imagined as a pre-professional dancer, leading to several years of depression and eventually a spiritual awakening that transformed her relationship with herself, manifestation, and possibility. Together, Rachel and Kelsey explore the hidden resistance that can live underneath our biggest desires—and why someone can consciously want love, abundance, health, visibility, or change while subconsciously feeling unsafe receiving it. They also unpack the shadow side of manifestation culture, including toxic positivity, manifestation shame, forced affirmations, emotional suppression, over-control, and the belief that every painful circumstance happened because you somehow “attracted” it. You’ll also hear why receiving may be connected to self-worth and the nervous system, how to distinguish a surface desire from what you actually want, why surrender doesn’t mean giving up, and how becoming emotionally honest may bring you closer to alignment than pretending to feel positive all the time. Kelsey also shares insights from her upcoming book The Manifesting Fix: Why the Law of Attraction Isn’t Working for You Yet and a practical exercise for identifying the resistance underneath your desires. In this episode:  Why manifestation can become another form of control  Hidden subconscious resistance  Why your dream life can feel unsafe  Self-sabotage and manifestation  Receiving, worthiness and nervous-system safety  Toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing  Why uncomfortable emotions don’t ruin your manifestation  Authentic affirmations vs. pretending  Surface desires vs. genuine desires  Trust, surrender and divine timing  How to identify your resistance Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail Why can giving feel easy, but receiving feel uncomfortable? In this Spiritual Spotlight Series Quick Tip, Rachel Garrett explores why empaths, healers, caregivers, space holders, and chronic givers often struggle to accept help, rest, compliments, support, or care without guilt. For many people, the nervous system has learned that love, worth, or belonging comes from being useful. So when someone offers support, the body may immediately brace and questions appear: What do they want in return? Am I being selfish? Do I deserve this? Rachel shares why receiving is a spiritual practice, not a weakness. When we constantly give without allowing ourselves to receive, we can become depleted, disconnected, resentful, and less able to hear our intuition clearly. You’ll learn how to notice resistance to receiving without judging yourself, how nervous system patterns influence your ability to accept support, and a simple body-based practice using the affirmation: “I am allowed to receive.” You’ll also discover practical ways to begin receiving today—accepting a compliment without deflecting, resting before exhaustion takes over, allowing someone to help you, and choosing relationships and spaces where you don’t always have to be the strong one. If you’re always the person everyone turns to but struggle to let others show up for you, this episode is your reminder that healing isn’t only about what you give. Sometimes healing is learning how to let yourself receive. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What happens when grief changes not only your heart, but your body, nervous system, and entire understanding of life? In this episode of Spiritual Spotlight Series, Rachel Garrett sits down with Romain Daumont, founder and CEO of Luminara, for a deeply grounded conversation about grief, energy healing, nervous system regulation, spirituality, and finding purpose after profound loss. After losing his son, Romain spent the next decade exploring the space between science and soul, searching for ways to understand consciousness, presence, healing, and what it means to live again after unimaginable grief. Romain shares how loss can leave the body feeling dysregulated, numb, fearful, or overwhelmed—even when we intellectually or spiritually understand what we are experiencing. Together, Rachel and Romain explore why healing isn’t about escaping painful emotions or rushing toward a spiritual explanation. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can offer ourselves—or another person—is simply presence. They also explore energy healing and remote healing, including one of the biggest questions people have when entering the spiritual wellness space: How do you know who you can trust? Romain explains why he created Luminara, a curated energy healing platform designed to bring greater professionalism, ethics, privacy, discernment, and accountability to the healing experience. He shares what he looks for when selecting practitioners, why ego can be an important red flag, and how boundaries and client safety should remain central to spiritual work. The conversation also touches on modalities including Reiki, EFT tapping, shamanic healing, pranic healing, crystal healing, and remote energy work, as well as the potential future of energy healing, wellness technology, and holistic support. If grief, fear, or emotional pain has left you wondering whether you’ll ever feel like yourself again, this conversation offers a different kind of hope—one rooted in presence, discernment, and allowing healing to meet both the soul and the body. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass

Send us Fan Mail What if your intuition isn’t something mysterious you have to “tap into” but something your body is already communicating? In this Spiritual Spotlight Series Quick Tip, Rachel Garrett explores how intuition can show up through real physical sensations: a tight chest, clenched jaw, sinking stomach, sudden heaviness, relaxed shoulders, or a feeling of expansion and ease. We explore why so many of us have learned to override these signals by pushing through discomfort, people-pleasing, choosing what looks logical on paper, or convincing ourselves that we’re simply overreacting. Eventually, that disconnection can turn into overthinking, anxiety, and the familiar realization: “I knew something felt off.” Rachel explains why nervous system regulation is essential for intuitive clarity, especially when fear, anxiety, urgency, and old survival patterns can sound surprisingly similar to intuition. You’ll learn a simple somatic practice using expansion versus contraction to help you recognize what your body may be communicating before making a decision. But there’s an important distinction: contraction doesn’t always mean no. Growth, visibility, receiving, change, and stepping outside familiar patterns can also activate the nervous system. Rachel shares discernment questions to help you separate intuitive guidance from fear and emotional activation. You’ll also discover how grounding practices, nervous system support, energy healing, and Akashic Records healing can help quiet the mental noise so you can hear your own inner guidance more clearly. If you’re tired of overthinking every decision and want to strengthen your intuition and self-trust, this episode is your reminder: Your body may already know what your mind is still trying to figure out. Support the show Spiritual Spotlight Series is hosted by Rachel Garrett, RN, CCH — Akashic Records Practitioner, Master Energy Healer, and Certified Crystal Healer. Conversations about the things we almost don't say out loud. For the ones who feel everything — but question it. Each episode features real stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation from guests across all walks of life, alongside solo teachings on Akashic Records, crystal healing, nervous system support, and intuitive development. Healing doesn't have to be heavy. New: Join the monthly live Akashic reading → YouTube membership at $4.99/month → youtube.com/@rachelgarrett/membership ✨ Explore More Spiritual Wisdom & Stay Connected 📺 Watch on YouTube 📘 Join us on Facebook 🌀 The Road to Spiritual Awakening Facebook Group 🛍️ Grounded Healing Tools 🔮 Crystals 101 Guide 📓 Daily Soul Journal 🎧 Free Masterclass