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In this episode of Discovering the Miracle of You, Rachael O’Brien has a conversation with her friend and fellow Access Consciousness facilitator, Heather Nichols. Together, they dive deep into what it means to be an X-Men—someone born with no judgment who navigates a world saturated by it. They explore why judgment is so exhausting for sensitive and neurodivergent people, and how to use powerful Access Consciousness tools to reclaim your space, ease, and true living. Topics Include The Reality of X-Men & JudgmentThe Power of "Who Does It Belong To"Navigating Neurodivergence & AwarenessThriving in NatureHow Judgement Impacts Our Bodies  Favorite Tools Mentioned "Who does this belong to? / Is it mine?""What am I aware of?" "If I wasn't functioning from somebody else's thoughts, what choice do I have here?" "What if judgment isn't real and true? What if there is nothing wrong... what if you are never, ever, ever wrong? What if you're just aware of everybody else's wrongness and judgment of themselves, and you don't have to play that out for anyone else?" How to contact Heather Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/heather.k.nichols) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/heatherknichols/) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@HeatherNicholsCF)  Website (https://heathernichols.com/) Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In this episode of Discovering the Miracle of You, Rachael O’Brien is joined by Amel Be for a candid conversation, where they dive deep into what it truly means to own your unique difference. They explore moving away from the cultural expectations of fitting in, dropping judgments, and embracing a life of expansion, joy, and body awareness.  Topics include: Moving from Fitting In to Owning Your DifferenceBody Awareness & EmbodimentCreationship vs. Traditional RelationshipsTransforming Cultural ProgrammingBodywork & Access ConsciousnessWhat if you are not wrong if you are not normal?  Are you willing to claim and own your difference? How to contact Amel Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/amelscosming) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alchem.you/) Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In this episode of Discovering the Miracle of You, Rachael O’Brien is joined by Monica Gilliam for a vulnerable conversation about letting go of the belief that we have to do everything on our own. Moving away from the childhood conditioning of helplessness—or its opposite extreme, hyper-independence—Rachael and Monica dive into the relief of gathering a supportive community and opening up to being in communion with the universe. This episode is an invitation to embrace your unique differences, let go of judgments, and realize that you never have to do it all alone.  Topics include:  Childhood Conditioning & The Relief of Weirdness  Needing Help vs. Vocalizing Your Requirements  How a Rat Saved Monica’s House  Zone of Awareness & Clearing Destructive Energies  Connecting with Nature  "The adventure is to discover the miracle of you. You're the only one that's ever been you before... you get to create yourself along the way with the choices that you make." — Monica Gilliam How to contact Monica Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/monica.gilliam.5832) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/monicamatagilliam/) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ1dJ2e1qbRzJGNnJbqnNzg)  Website (https://talktotheplants.com/) Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In this inspiring episode of Discovering the Miracle of You, Rachel O’Brien sits down with Julia Sotis Mattis, author of A Recipe for Magic, to explore the power of Access Energy Pulls and how they can shift the way we create our lives. Together, they share practical tools for moving beyond judgment, opening to receiving, and choosing more peace, ease, and joy in everyday life. Julia also opens up about the power of embracing who you truly are, working with your unique capacities, and using energy to create a future that feels lighter, kinder, and more magical. Main points Rachel O’Brien introduces the podcast as a space to discover the miraculous capacities we often miss in ourselves.She welcomes Julia Sotis Mattis, author of A Recipe for Magic, to talk about one of her favorite tools: Access Energy Pulls.Julia explains that Energy Pulls are a simple way to ask the universe to contribute to you and help create change.The episode highlights how this tool has supported transformation in relationships, business, money, confidence, and personal well-being.Rachel shares a personal story of using an Energy Pull during a turbulent flight, showing how quickly peace, ease, and joy can shift an experience.Julia emphasizes that receiving requires congruence, and that the book helps readers discover what they are truly congruent with.The conversation encourages listeners to stop comparing themselves to others and instead recognize what kind of “creature” they are, with their own unique gifts and quirks.They discuss embracing the parts of ourselves we once judged, such as drama, gossip, sensitivity, or intensity, and using them productively rather than destructively.Julia shares a personal story of depression, grief, and energetic overload after the death of her uncle, and how Access tools helped her change her reality.The episode closes with a guided Energy Pull exercise, inviting listeners to expand, receive, and create a future beyond judgment. Core message You are not wrong.Your awareness is a gift.Energy Pulls can help you create with more peace, joy, and ease.Your life gets lighter when you choose what is true for you. How to contact Julia Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/JuliaSotas/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/juliasotas/) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7BdIkgvMplBM8qnTCbnYHA)  Website (https://www.juliasotas.com/) Julia's New Book A Recipe for Magic (https://www.juliasotas.com/arecipeformagic) Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In this deeply honest episode of Discovering the Miracle of You, host Rachel O’Brien speaks with Brendon Watt about the hidden cost of self-judgment, addiction, and the stories we create to survive. Brendon shares his journey from pain, confusion, and using alcohol to numb his awareness, to choosing sobriety, self-honesty, and a life that truly feels like his own. Together, Rachel and Brendon explore what it takes to stop fighting yourself, release the need to belong by becoming someone else, and discover the freedom that comes from choosing what is true for you. This conversation is a powerful reminder that no matter how far you’ve gone into suffering, a different future is always possible. Check out Brendon's Website here (https://www.brendonwatt.com/) Brendon's Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/brendonwattcfmw/) Brendon's Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/accessbrendonwatt/) Brendon's YouTube (https://youtube.com/@brendonwatt?si=wa2vzaotI9koxVxP) Brendon's Podcast "What's the Value of Addiction" (https://open.spotify.com/show/32EIzYGDDRGPGzL3AUXewj)  Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In Episode 6 of the Discovering the Miracle of You podcast, host Rachel O'Brien interviews Simone Milasas, a pioneer of Access Consciousness, creator of Joy of Business, and Relationship Done Different. They dive into overcoming control and chaos around money and business by choosing joy, contribution, and conscious creation. Key Topics Create your reality: Don't let world chaos (wars, politics) define you—question everything like Socrates and choose what you truly desire.Receive and contribute: Drop limiting stories; surround yourself with capable people and focus on what you love (even if it doesn't seem "profitable").Life = Business: Enjoy every choice (a snowy walk, a nap); ditch familiarity for comfort and pivot by following energy.Real stories: Simone shares debt-free journeys, light investments, and quitting boring jobs; Rachel credits Simone for her 2012 breakthroughs. You can find more about Simone  Instagram Facebook Website YouTube Why Listen ~30-40 min runtime. Perfect for entrepreneurs stuck in judgment or scarcity. Core message: "Your point of view creates your reality—what will you choose today?" Subscribe for more empowering episodes! Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

Access Consciousness®️ has a very different point of view about many so-called “disabilities. What if autism, OCD and ADD are abilities? OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), autism, ADD (attention deficit disorder) are called disabilities in this reality. In Access, we look at them as abilities. They are the X-Men generation coming to fruition, the mutation of the species into an advanced form. The change of the species is beginning. We don’t call them disabled at all, we call them highly able. A lot of people who have OCD, ADD,  and autistic capacities have a level of brilliance that does not fit this reality In this episode I have a conservation with Gary Douglas about Access X-Men. Gary M. Douglas is the Founder of Access Consciousness. Bestselling author, international speaker and business innovator. You can find more about Gary's classes, book and the tools of Access Consciousness by visiting accessconsciousness.com. For more information about the Access X-Men Class Gary, Alison , Arthur & I will facilitate visit: https://bit.ly/accessxmen Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

The episode explores how projections and expectations—from ourselves and others—shape our behavior, limit our choices, and pull us out of being who we truly are. By becoming aware of these energetic influences and clearing them, we create more space, authenticity, and freedom in our relationships, future, and daily life. 1. The Central Theme: Projections & Expectations Projections and expectations are powerful forces that limit presence, choice, and authenticity.We often unconsciously play out other people’s projections due to our heightened awareness.2. How Projections Shape Identity People frequently step into roles written by others—family, partners, society—rather than choosing who they truly are.Without awareness, you live according to external expectations instead of your own being.3. The Energetic Impact of Projections Projections compress your energetic space, creating contraction and anxiety.4. Awareness vs. Reaction Many “reactions” aren’t personal—they’re you picking up someone else’s world (Graeme).If a moment doesn’t feel like “you,” you’re likely inside someone else’s expectations.5. Key Tools for Clearing Projections Destroy and uncreate all projections and expectations toward people, money, relationships, and situations.Ask: “Would an infinite being choose this?” to return to presence and being.6. Relationships & Projections Projections often distort romantic and familial relationships.Healthy relationships require space, not merging into another person’s expectations.7. Contribution vs. Projection Contribution is spacious, expansive, and choice-based.Projection is result-oriented, controlling, and limiting.True contribution empowers others without demanding sameness or agreement.8. Returning to “Being” Being is the state where “you have you.”Projections pull you out of being and into roles, reaction, and self-judgment.9. Childhood Conditioning & Internalized Projections Long-term projections—especially those from childhood—create deep identities about who we think we are (Graeme).Many lifelong self-judgments come from absorbing others’ definitions, not actual truth.10. Recognizing What’s Not Yours Much of the “wrongness” people feel is not theirs, but internalized projections.Letting go of these opens the possibility to choose who you want to become.11. Practical Awareness Tool When something feels tense, reactive, or off:  Ask: “Whose world am I buying into?”12. Vision for a Conscious World Hosts imagine a world where people genuinely like themselves, free from projections.A society without constant judgment or expectation would create ease, joy, and natural contribution.Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In this episode Rachel welcomes Max Zoulek, facilitator and teacher of Access Consciousness and Talk to the Entities. Together, they explore what it means to be spirit aware, how to recognize personal signs of energetic and entity awareness, and how tools from Talk to the Entities can empower individuals to know what they know—rather than rely on belief or fear. Rachel and Max share their personal stories of discovering their own awareness, the ways it has shown up in their lives, and how learning to trust themselves has transformed their relationship with energy, spirit, and daily living. 🧭 Key Topics & Insights What is “Spirit Awareness”? Understanding how awareness of entities and energies shows up differently for everyone—through sensations, emotions, smells, sounds, or intuitive knowing.From Belief to Knowing Max and Rachel discuss how Talk to the Entities isn’t about blind belief but about developing personal knowing through direct energetic experience and change.Personal Signs of Awareness Both share their unique indicators—such as feelings of paranoia or heaviness—that often signal energetic or entity presence.The Power of the Tools How clearing and awareness techniques from Talk to the Entities helped Max dissolve lifelong feelings of unease, proving awareness can lead to real energetic shifts.Sensitivity as Strength Sensitivity, often judged as weakness, is reframed as a powerful capacity for healing, creativity, and deeper connection with self and the world.Trusting Yourself Learning to trust one’s own awareness is an ongoing process—freedom and ease grow as you stop resisting what you perceive and start receiving it.Receiving from Everything Letting go of the habit of struggle to allow communication, contribution, and guidance from entities, nature, and universal energy.🔮 Essential Takeaways Your perception of the spirit world is unique—trust it.You don’t need to “see” entities to be aware of them.Awareness creates ease; resistance creates struggle.Knowing comes with peace, not proof.Sensitivity and openness are pathways to greater receiving and self-trust.🧰 Resources & Mentions Talk to the Entities by Shannon O’HaraAccess Consciousness®Tools for energetic clearing and awareness (available via Talk to the Entities facilitators)Talk to the Entities YoutubeTalk to the Entities Stories of Change🙌 Connect Guest: Max Zoulek, you can find him here:  Instagram – @maxzoulek YouTube  Webpage Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

In this Episode Rachael is joined by her husband Troy Aldanmaz and together they explore how to create relationships “beyond normal” using Access Consciousness tools, focusing on peace, gratitude, allowance, and co-creation rather than judgment, control, or separation. 💡 Key Insights and Lessons 1. Foundations of Their Relationship Built on ease, peace, honor, and gratitude.Rachel shifted from perfectionism and self-judgment to allowance and vulnerability.Troy learned not to expect separation after mistakes but instead to embrace conversations, humor, and “choice creates” (choosing every 10 seconds what kind of life and energy to create). 2. Practical Tools from Access Consciousness they use on their relationship Choice Creates: Every choice adds energy to your life; mistakes become opportunities.Five Elements of Intimacy:Honour (respect without judgment)Allowance (accepting differences)Gratitude (ongoing appreciation)Trust (believing in each other’s intent to make things greater)Vulnerability (lowering barriers, receiving, not needing to control.3. Co-Creation in Business & Life Their joint mission: expand consciousness globally.Business is not just work but “generating and creating.”Their relationship is sustained not just by each other but also by welcoming contributions from others and surrounding themselves with uplifting energies.They emphasize that no single partner should be the source of all energies in a relationship. 4. Handling Challenges Use humor and curiosity (“What’s funny about this that I’m not seeing?”).Space and independence are crucial—time apart strengthens the bond.Contribution from each other and from external energies makes life lighter, more joyful, and more creative. 5. Advice for Listeners Start with your relationship with yourself—clarity on what you value and desire.Don’t rely on a partner to fulfill all needs.Continuously ask: Does this relationship work for me today?Choose gratitude and presence daily instead of assuming permanence. 🌟 Essential Takeaways Relationships flourish through conscious choice, allowance, and gratitude, not through control, judgment, or perfection.Creating a sustainable relationship requires space, external contributions, and co-creation beyond the couple.The longest and most important relationship is the one you have with yourself—this sets the foundation for every other relationship.Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube

Do you ever feel exhausted and feel like life is a hamster wheel? Are you living in reaction or action? This first episode centres around Rachel’s personal transformation journey from depression and self-judgment to joy and inner peace, using  the tools from Access Consciousness — especially the Bars therapy and the concept of no judgment. 💡 Key Insights and Lessons 1. ⁠Transformation Through Choice Choice  is a powerful tool in creating change and transformation in life. Look at your choices and ask, What future is this going to create? More on choice, Gary Douglas 2.⁠ ⁠Access Bars Therapy Involves touching specific points on the head to release the energy of  judgments, and points of view locked in the body. Access Bars changes people physiological, neurologically and psychologically all at once.  3.⁠ ⁠The Power of No Judgment Judgement is like having an elephant on your head. It creates damage in your body, mind, and spirit. Letting go of judgment creates space for joy, peace, and self-acceptance. Dr. Dain Heer on No More Judgement. 4.⁠ ⁠"Interesting Point of View" Tool A mindset shift tool to detach from negative self-talk and fixed beliefs and enter into a new perspective. Shannon O’Hara on Interesting Point of view By saying: “Interesting point of view, I have this point of view,” she disrupts judgmental thought loops. 5.⁠ ⁠Embracing Possibility and Asking Questions Question always gives you a different awareness. Key empowering questions include: “What would I like to have as my life?”“Am I willing to like myself today?”“Am I willing to enjoy being alive?”“Am I willing to allow miraculous possibilities?” ❤️ Final Reflections You can change anything in your life.  Rachael went from being emotionally and physically unwell to living a peaceful and joyful life. The tools of Access Consciousness and the willingness to stop judging herself were central to this shift. She urges listeners to recognize their own capacity for miracles through choice, self-kindness, and releasing judgment. Want to know more about Rachael you can visit her social media and website: Website  Facebook Page Instagram Youtube