The Emotional Wounds We Carry From Lives We Don't Remember

Some patterns feel older than our memories. When recurring symptoms, looping breakups, and nameless dread don’t match our life story, we start asking different questions. I sit down with author Chris Nielsen to trace a decade-long journey from chronic, unexplained illness to holistic healing and past-life regression—and why the most powerful answers arrived when she stopped chasing labels and listened for origins.

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Chris opens up about early health struggles that defied clean diagnoses, the teacher who first linked body, energy, and emotion. We explore how a session actually works, why it isn’t about celebrity pasts but about unfinished emotions, and the “inner equation” that moves healing from insight to embodiment: understand, discover the why, accept, and forgive. Along the way, we unpack practical signs you might be carrying older wounds—phobias with no cause, pains medicine can’t explain, nightmares, and relationship patterns that refuse to shift—and how multiple roots across time and childhood can stack to keep you stuck.

Chris also shares why she wrote about the inner life of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, not to glamorise a genius but to spotlight universal human lessons: the inner child and fear of abandonment, purpose and free will, the weight of family beliefs, depression, love and its limits, and how sudden, traumatic endings can echo forward until they’re seen and resolved. 

We close with a gentle guided meditation by our host The Gentle Yoga Warrior to gather wisdom, integrate it like stardust, and return to the present with steadier breath and a softer heart.

If you’re curious about the deeper story behind your patterns—or simply want a grounded, compassionate take on memory, karma, and change—press play. If this resonated, subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

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Transcript

Introducing Chris And Today’s Focus

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Hello everybody, I'm your host, the gentleman Yoga Warrior, and shortly I will be joined by a best-selling author and cultural communications specialist, Chris Nelson. Chris has worked inside some of the world's prestigious art institutes, including Bucharest National Opera, the Hans Film Festival, and the Land Academia, Textor, and Scala. Beyond her creative career, Chris is also trained as a half life regression practitioner. And Chris says that a power of an expectant experimental experience led her to write her best-selling book. The author. So without further ado, please welcome Chris Nielsen to the show. Welcome to the show, Chris.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Thank you so much. It's such an honor to be part of your podcast. You have such a wonderful guest, so I am glad to be among them.

Unexplained Illness And Early Search

SPEAKER_00 2:22

Dear listeners, Chris is joining us from Romania today. We're going to talk about the emotional wounds we carry from lives we just don't remember. Chris, would you please mind explaining a bit about your fabulous journey so far, your own life's experience in your path?

Opening To Energy And Holistic Healing

Training In Regression Therapy

Discovering Many Past Lives

SPEAKER_01 2:39

When I was a teenager and a young adult, I developed some physical problems which were not, for God's sake, something very hard to bear, like cancer or other uh terrible diseases that we face today so often. But I still had uh some um physical, let's say, uh troubles with my gallbladder and a lot of problems with uh my respiratory uh system and sinusitis and bronchitis, and a lot of a lot of problems which were which kept on repeating all the time. So uh although fortunately I had not uh beared any let's say important disease, I was to some extent ill all the time. And since I was a child, my parents struggled all the time because I either had problems with my digestion or I had a flu all the time and all the kind of infections and so on. And carrying all these problems ears and ears, and uh also going to see different doctors and doing a lot of analysis and so on, and nothing seemed to be wrong in my body, but still I had a lot of uh problems. And of course, that becoming an adult, I also became conscious about uh emotional problems like each of us has. I had different fears, different emotional blockages, uh, some of them connected with my professional path, some of them connected with my personal lives, and so on. And what was very important in my case is that my current life seemed to be quite, let's say, a normal and a quite happy one. I did not have in this current life any important trauma, any important blockage that would explain my physical or emotional problems. And of course, that it was not a perfect life because I don't think that the concept perfect life exists in itself. Of course, that each of us has different problems and our lives are always uh let's say uh strength and uh weaknesses, but I did not have any important issue to explain any of my my physical or emotional blockages, and this was of great help because going to doctors and who kept on telling me that everything seemed to be alright, but I was not okay at all, and analyzing my current life, which seemed to be quite a normal and quite a happy one, but still having important issues, pushed me to keep on searching further and further. And that is how I arrived to meet very important therapist in Reiki and bioenergetical therapist who was based in my native country and who opened me this great gate towards, let's say, the invisible worlds, toward towards all the upper realms, all the other dimensions which were completely unknown to me at that time. I was about 25 years old when I discovered all these things which were completely strange to me up to that moment. He started to explain me a lot of links between the physical body, the energetic body, our emotions, our mind, and it was the first time when I was approaching a holistic view, let's say, of our being. And he also started working with me. I started, of course, to notice different improvements and so on, and he also invited me to join some of his classes because he was also teaching. Well, that's really a journey. I love the way that experience pushed you to explore. I kept on following his courses about two years, and then I had this great opportunity to find out about the courses organized by the Past Life Regression Academy based in United Kingdom, which is founded by the great uh author and uh therapist uh in uh past life regression, uh Andy Tomlinson. And I started to join their classes because I felt so much attracted by the idea of understanding in a detailed way the human mind, the human soul, and its connection with the body and with and with healing. And I started it because my first therapist and my first teacher told me that my problems would find their answers and their roots if I would search maybe in past lives. But because he was a very honest person and a very, let's say, high-vibrational being with huge capacities, he told me, listen, I have clairvoyance and I do see your problems and the story behind. But it's honest on my part to uh let you discover them yourself. Because if I'm telling you what happened with you, I would implicitly add my own interpretation of what I'm seeing. Sounds a very wise teacher telling you that. I went to do these courses out of the desire to understand my own problems, but also because I felt an inner call to maybe help other people out of understanding how the human being really works. And it was one of the most fascinating journeys I have ever done. During three years, I studied and I also practiced a lot. And of course, that my teacher was right. I found all the answers I needed, all the blockages, both physical and emotional, that I had found their logic and exact answer that I was searching for. And this searching for meaning led me to discover about uh 30 to 35 past lives until now. So wow, that's a lot of lives. Fascinating. 10 years, so there are 10 years, so it's uh quite a long time. I explored a lot of my past lives, I found a lot of answers, and a few years ago, what happened is that I discovered this past identity of mine, which was the composer Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky. Wow, what a discovery to discover that! And at that moment, it was the first time in my life when I decided to write a book about this past life, which is being Piotr Illich, Tchaikovsky's inner life revealed by himself 130 years later, because I felt two things about this, let's say, character that I impersonated. First of all, I don't know how to put it in order not to seem that I'm boasting. I so out of these 30 or to 35 past lives, uh, let's say that five or six of them were what we would call famous people. So Tchaikovsky is only one of them, and I dare to say, and I dare to say that he's not the most famous.

Choosing To Write About Tchaikovsky

SPEAKER_00 10:38

So out of the lives, that's fascinating that you felt compelled to write a book about Tchaikovsky. Can you explain why?

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Why I chose Tchaikovsky. It was a very personal choice and also a choice based on what I wanted to communicate to others. So I will develop a bit on both of them. The personal choice was because after seeing about 35 of my past lives, when I discovered Tchaikovsky, I felt that if God would one day call me to in front of him and ask me, listen, darling, what life would you like to continue from all the lives that you have ever lived on earth? I would definitely choose him. I love this, fascinating. And I repeat it once again: not because he is what we call famous, but because he is not the most famous person I have impersonated, but because I was myself extremely surprised to discover a soul of an incredible beauty, of an incredible inner sensitivity, an incredible inner beauty. He was a very profound and sensitive inner being. I dare to say, maybe even more profound and sensitive than I am today. And I really think that he would, let's say, deserve to live, to keep on living among us.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

I was doing some research before he came online and I found him very fascinating and deeply, deeply talented. So I'm not surprised.

Universal Lessons In A Composer’s Life

SPEAKER_01 12:26

And I thought that maybe for the people who still love or admire his music, it would be a great opportunity to meet him from inside, to see his very intimate life and way of living and of perceiving things and of composing. But then the most important thing which is not connected with myself or with my personal approach is the fact that his life is a very intense and full of lessons, let's say, from a spiritual point of view. So if you are analyzing his life, you implicitly address some of the most important topics discussed nowadays.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Oh Chris, I think that's going to be really interesting and of use of our listeners. Could you please give some examples, please?

SPEAKER_01 13:24

The inner child, the fear of abandonment, the life mission, karma, free will and destiny, birth and death, reincarnation, parallel lives, love and impossible love, depression, the connection with the family and the way the family influences your beliefs and your pattern of behaviors, how a trauma is born and how it creates also beliefs and pattern of behaviors, or the connection between an emotion and a physical illness which develops starting from a particular emotion. So all these topics are addressed in this life story. And in this process of healing myself, this part of myself that was Tchaikovsky, I received so many, I would say, fascinating answers from the world above. And I thought that these answers would be of such a great help for anyone around us because, in the end, it's a human story. It's not only about music or a composer, it's a human story with capital H. And I wrote it with the great hope that it will help any reader to find answers to his or her own problems.

Signs You’re Carrying Hidden Wounds

SPEAKER_00 15:26

I always feel when a writer shares work like that, that's on a mission to help other people, that it can't help but lighten up people's souls. So thank you for putting the time and the energy into writing such a magical book. I think you're gonna help our readers a lot because we carry so much much, we feel so lost today, and I know that you speak so openly about your healing emotional wounds that aren't always visible. If I'm a listener who might not even realize they're carrying this kind of pain, what are the signs to watch out for?

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Some of the most frequent signs that also bring a client to a regression therapy, for example, are emotional blockages. So when you do realize the fact that you can't uh enter love relationships or that you don't love yourself, or that you have important issues in the relationship with your child or with your parents, and so on. Phobias are also an important sign. And what the physical pains which don't find an explanation when you are going to the doctor and do an analysis and they are telling you that everything seems to be alright and still you have something which you can't explain, a physical pain that doesn't find its uh cause. Nightmares, all the kind of fears, a depression, if it's not already a clinical and very advanced one, which requires specific uh drugs and treatment, so uh which is another topic. If you have patterns of behavior that repeat all the time and that you can't surpass and you feel that you are blocked within it, the fear of speaking in front of an audience, the fear of abandonment, of course, anxieties, panic attacks. So these are only a few examples that show you that something is blocked within yourself. Of course, I want to stress two important things. Not always when you have a problem, the cause is in a past life, it might be in your current life, or in the let's say the worst case scenario, which is not so worse in the end, you might have problems which have, let's say, multiple causes, multiple roots. So I will give you a concrete example. Let's say that you are afraid to come to make commitment in a strong love relationship, and you might have two uh important causes which prevent you from doing this. Maybe that in your childhood your parents had a very complicated relationship and they were quarreling all the time and so on, and you are very influenced by all the negative, let's say, memories from your childhood, but you might also have a secondary route to this problem in a past life in which you might have had a terrible marriage and your husband might have killed you or something terrible, and so there are problems which have one or more causes, you must address all of them in order to completely solve a particular problem. And the second thing I want to emphasize is the fact that you are what we would call famous people is not relevant at all. So the it's frequently the people ask me, but how it is to be Tchaikovsky or anyone else. So when you are under trance, you are not Tchaikovsky or Da Vinci or Jesus Christ or anyone else that you might imagine. You are a human being with particular problems. And for example, in my case, Tchaikovsky's life was a very, very difficult and complicated one with a lot of traumas to solve. So I swear in front of you that it was no moment when I thought, wow, it's so great that I'm Tchaikovsky. No, I was a very sad and tormented being inside myself. And all the glamour that we add nowadays to a person that we find famous, it's not something that they usually perceived when they were leaving in their own times.

Multiple Roots To Repeating Patterns

SPEAKER_00 19:49

It's true, we can really glaborize people past and present past and present that are famous, but they are human beings like the rest of us with their own set of problems and their own set of journeys. When I was reading your book about trichoscopy, uh the way you wrote, it felt really sincere. It did feel like you hadn't, it didn't feel like you had made it up, put it this way. It felt like, I don't know, there's there's something quite magical and honest, and yes, you had a very tragic life, but you did peel back those inner layers, and and I think there's so much wisdom and and learning. So, dear listeners, I will put a link in the show notes, but do check out Chris's book. I found it very beautiful. But but my question to you, Chris, is if I'm a listener and I have no concept of what a past life is, could you explain the process and and how it can help them? I know that you said it it can get rid of blocks, but if I've never done a past life before, what would you say to that?

What A Regression Session Feels Like

SPEAKER_01 20:49

Usually, so first of all, as I have already mentioned, you start with a problem that you want to solve. And then you are going with the therapist under trance. And I want to emphasize the fact that hypnosis or trance is not something so special or so magical that you might think. Because I think that unfortunately these uh topics are quite uh covered by a lot of mysticism around. It's not the case. What I want to say is that you get under trance naturally on a daily basis, each time when you are going to sleep. But generally speaking, this state of consciousness, which is between the normal consciousness when we are speaking and living our lives, and the deep sleep, usually lasts about a few seconds or uh uh two or three minutes, depending on each person. So it's exactly that state of mind when you are extremely relaxed within yourself, and if a door slaps or someone gets into the room, you're oh my god, what's happening? So all your senses are very, very sharp. You are within yourself, you are not awaken completely anymore, but you are not in the deep sleep, you are in between. So this is the state of hypnosis and trance, but which we are prolonging to two or three hours, depending on each session. So, for people, for example, who are practicing meditation, it's very easy to get into this deep state of relaxation. So it's not something so extraordinary as it may seem. And then what's important is that in trance, in this special state of consciousness, you are able to finally access your subconscious mind. Because here in the subconscious mind, uh there are all your memories from other past lives, from the period you spend in your mother's womb, the period between lives, so between incarnations, and so on. So everything that you have ever lived as a spirit is stored there, and you might access these, let's say, folders, spiritual folders, in order to understand everything that affects your current life here and now. There are people who ask me, but my god, what if I'm going to see something unpleasant or or terrible? Yes, of course. That you could say something really horrible, right? That you don't lie. Okay, I'm not going to lie anyone. Of course, you are going to see something unpleasant because no one does a regression therapy in order to find out why he or She is so happy. If you have a kind of problem or inner blockage, is something already manifesting in your current life which limitates you, which prevents you from really expanding yourself and doing what you want to do. So you must rewind your let's say your spiritual life in order to see when, where, why, and how your life blocked, your emotions blocked, and you must go there in order to follow what I called, in my own terms, let's say the inner ecuation of healing. And my opinion is that healing happens in the following way: first of all, you have to understand what happened. Then the second part is to understand why it happened, not only what, but why it happened to you, what were the lessons behind why you had to live this or that experience, how it made you evolve, and so on. Then after understanding, the third step is acceptance. You start accepting slowly what happened. And then when you accept things, you already start to forgive. Step by step to forgive. And forgiveness is, of course, the most important step in order to really heal.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Oh, forgiveness is.

The Inner Equation Of Healing

SPEAKER_01 25:44

And so a regression therapy, no matter if we speak about current or past life, because it's it's absolutely no important difference between the two. Speaking about the process itself, the only difference is that in a past life you also see your death, and in the current life you don't have a death because you are still alive. But otherwise, the process is quite similar. So you see, let's say, the story of the past life or of the current life, the most important moments. What happened, what were, let's say, the most important persons or characters that were around, and so on. But this part of seeing the story is only the beginning, the basis of the uh process of healing. Then the second part of it is what I found most important is the step of healing itself when the therapist is like a spiritual guide who helps you in order to understand once again why it happened, what you had to learn, what was your life mission, who are the persons around you. And they, of course, the therapist helps you to see all the important links between the past life and your current life and your current problem, which you are working on, and of course, that you are also releasing any blocked emotions, because this is in the end what blocks you and what brought you back here on earth. Everything that was unsaid or unexpressed, because maybe you didn't have the courage, maybe that you didn't have the time to express positive or negative feelings towards other people, and that's why you come here back, and that's why you also do therapy in order to release everything that was unsaid and unexpressed.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

In your book, you describe the story of the long-debated question about Tshais Love's death. You do you address it in your book? Why do you think it was important to revisit that?

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Now, coming back particularly to my book, to being Piotrich and to my own situation, when you have deaths that are very unexpected, very sudden, very violent, or based on car accidents, based on crimes, or something like this, people who die suddenly who didn't expect to die, or any kind of violent or sudden death are very, very traumatic for the soul. So it's very important to heal them because otherwise they will, of course, reflect on your uh current being. And I'm also explaining in the book a lot of uh important things about why, unfortunately, there are situations in which a spirit might not follow the normal path, let's say, towards heaven or towards the upper realms, depending on how you choose to name these high vibrational uh let's say uh dimensions. Because sometimes, if you speak about uh, as I mentioned, a car accident, a crime, uh, a suicide, and so on, the spirit might remain for a period of time stuck in the low vibrational realms here, let's say, besides Earth. And a lot of phenomena might happen, of course, what we call ghosts and uh so on. So it's it's not something so frightening or magical as you would think. It's you know, we we just think that these things are extraordinary because we did not completely understood and studied them until now.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

So if I'm a listener, Chris, and I'm thinking I'm feeling inspired by hearing your talk and I want to work with you. What's the best way that they can reach out and work with you?

Sudden Death, Stuck Spirits, And Repair

SPEAKER_01 29:46

So, for the time being, uh during uh the last two years, I dedicated myself mostly to my book and to my podcast. I also created a podcast which is called Time Traveling because I felt that people needed even more explanations and examples, like the ones you are requiring to me now in this interview. Uh so I developed this podcast, Time Traveling, to uh develop and to come, let's say, to add more uh interesting information to all the things I'm approaching in the book. And uh, so I'm not for the the time being, I'm in a small pause as a therapist, so I'm not working right now as a therapist. So right now I'm working only on this, and I'm trying in the future to develop some courses because, in my own opinion, uh, after studying both regression therapy and hypnotherapy, so therapies connected with the spirit and with the soul, and Reiki and bioenergy, and also some therapies connected with the physical body, I think that now linking the energy, the physical body, and the soul with its emotions, I think that, in my own opinion and point of view, what's important is to learn people to work with themselves, to heal themselves. And I'm also going to release, I think at the end of this summer or during autumn, two new podcasts where I'm already starting to learn people some simple techniques to work with their own energy and emotions. Because in this period of time of our planet, I think that there is so much need of healing that I don't think that there will be so many therapists in the end to heal everyone.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

Well, a lot of wisdom and knowledge, and I wish you the great success with your book. It's it's really quite magical. Do stay tuned as always. It's a meditation inspired by today's show. But our wonderful and amazing guest, Chris Nelson, thank you for coming on the show today. Thank you so much. It was such an honour and such a pleasant discussion to have with you. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back. Always nice to sit on a block or a cushion. Or that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching. And if you're doing something that requires legal concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, that's vegan. So take a moment, dear listener, to settle in. Imagine you're somewhere safe and you feel supported. Breathe deeply and softly. Letting the day or night drift a little further away. Imagine you are standing beneath a vast night sky. You feel the chill of the air and the delicate light from the stars. The place feels still and quiet, but there are infinite stars above, shimmering with ancient wisdom and timelessness. And they represent a moment in a long journey of your soul.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Remember, you're more than this single chapter, more than this single lifetime.

How To Learn More And Next Steps

SPEAKER_00 34:25

In front of you appears a soft glowing light. A beautiful doorway made of memory and possibility. It feels safe, gentle, and somewhat familiar. And as you gingerly step forward, you find yourself becoming lighter as if you're a feather floating in the air. The roles you carry, your name, your responsibility, they soften and seem to fall away as you move delicately through this wonderful light. And on the other side, you find yourself in another time, another place, allowing your imagination to take you safely to somewhere you feel joy and abundance. And perhaps you notice things, perhaps the landscape of this imaginary meditation, a colour, a sense or emotion. Look around. How do you feel?

SPEAKER_02 35:41

How is the light? What qualities do you feel in this place? What reflections can you learn today?

SPEAKER_00 35:59

What lessons have you learned to take through so many times?

SPEAKER_02 36:05

What strength can you reclaim again? Whatever appears, appears. Trust it, forgive it, and love it.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

Imagine that wisdom gathering the wisdom from this life like stardust and drawing it into your heart. Feel it integrate, not separate, not semicdistance, but part of you right now. The light begins to glow and guide you back softly into the wonderful being you are in this life. You feel your body, your breath, the present moment. You take one final deep breath in the here and now, feeling as if you've gained some wonderful ancient wisdom. And very slowly now you come back into the moment, come back into the day. It takes at least 30 to 40 seconds to feel back into the body. And slowly and carefully go about your day. And thank you for listening, dear listeners. I'm really excited. I've got a fantastic guest on the show next week. Well, I'm actually meeting them in two days' time, but by the time you hear this, it will be next week.