153: 7 Insightful Lessons from Together We Seek Podcast in 2025

A Year of Awakening, Remembering & Rising

In this year-end reflection, JJ shares the lessons that illuminated our path toward deeper alignment, meaning, and remembering. Every episode offered wisdom and activation, and through these conversations, powerful themes emerged. 

7 Lessons That Shaped JJ Awakening in 2025

Lesson 1- The Body Always Knows First

What we suppress gets louder later.

• EP 145 — Your Body Holds Your Messages with Majo Torrelli
• EP 146 — Stuck? Releasing Energy That Isn’t Yours with Corby Furrow
• EP 111 — Healing with Tai Chi & Qigong with Danielle Pashko
  
  

Lesson 2 - Ritual Activates Two-Way Guidance

When we show up with intention, the universe responds.

• EP 147 — Ritual as a Two-Way Conversation with Kilkenny Tremblay
• EP 118 — Inner Healing Through EFT with Heather Sherrill
• EP 149 — Ancestral Healing & Karma Release with Edit B. Kiss
  
  

Lesson 3 -  Stillness Isn’t Optional — It’s Instructional

Quiet moments are where clarity lands.

• EP 132 — Daily Meditation & the Seven Chakras with Joe Singleton
• EP 105 — Higher Human Integration™ with Donna Bond
• EP 140 — Clearing the Way: Preparing for What’s Next with JJ
  
  

Lesson 4 - Relationships Are Soul Contracts for Healing

Some connections activate us forward.

• EP 148 — Soul-to-Soul Channeling with Stephanie Banks
• EP 130 — Breaking the Silence with Laura Gray
• EP 135 — Ending Unavailable Relationship Cycles with Nathalie Gaglione
  
  

Lesson 5 - Creativity Is Communication with the Soul

Expression moves energy.

• EP 121 — Intuition & Creativity with Gwyneth Flack
• EP 122 — Sound Healing & Encoded Frequencies with Katie Jameson
• EP 106 — Clearing Energy Blocks with Janine Regan-Sinclair
  
  

Lesson 6 - Awakening Happens in Phases — Not Flashes

Growth cycles repeat — and reveal.

• EP 125 — From Crossroads to Enlightenment (JJ’s Story)
• EP 150 — Unlocking Inner Joy with Holly Erin Copeland
• EP 140 — Clearing the Way for What’s Next (JJ)
  
  

Lesson 7 - Soul Work Isn’t Selfish — It’s Leadership

When we rise, we elevate others.

• EP 129 — Vibrational Remedies with

JJ DiGeronimo is an award-winning author, speaker, and intuitive guide dedicated to helping people trust their inner wisdom and align with their gifts. As the host of the Together WE Seek Podcast, JJ creates sacred spaces to explore light, energy practices, and ancient wisdom with healers, mystics, and spiritual leaders. Through her authentic conversations, she empowers listeners to remember their intuition, embrace their unique gifts, and elevate their frequency for a more enjoyable journey.

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Transcript

7 Great Lessons from Together We Seek Podcast in 2025

Happy holidays to everyone who joins me here at the Together We Seek podcast. Twenty twenty five has been very much a shedding year for me and a learning year. I've learned so much from all of the things that I've leaned into, so many of the guests that I spoke with, and even the one on one sessions I have booked. And I'm looking back on this amazing…group of lightworkers, healers and mystics from episode one hundred and two to one hundred and fifty five, which is today. And I love the lessons that I'm taking away from this year

The year for me has been a lot about releasing, grounding, creating space, and having compassion for where I've been and where I want to go. And this episode is about sharing the seven key lessons that lit the way for me in twenty twenty five. Of course, I would love to hear what lit the way for you, what conversations, what light workers, what healers. You can obviously message me on this platform or visit me on Instagram or LinkedIn or my website, JJ DeGeronimo

as I reflect on these conversations right here in twenty twenty five, I really think of three words. I think of awakening…remembering, and rising. And today, we're really going to celebrate the seven lessons that have show up for me again and again through these incredible episodes. I encourage you to listen to podcasts from two and three years ago as there's so many amazing lightworkers and healers. This celebration, this holiday thank you to all of you is really sharing the highlights for me.

But as I mentioned, I'd love to hear what has resonated with you…

Lesson number one for me is the body always knows first. The body always knows first. I remember hosting an event in two thousand eighteen where I had an iridologist come to the retreat and I had about twelve women at the retreat and the iridologist visited each of us and did one on one sessions. And two of the women that were at that retreat, she indicated that they had some inflammation, unusual inflammation, things happening with the lymph nodes, and both of them went to their doctors…in the future weeks and both of them had to get immediate, medical attention as they had some inflammation and some things going on for their lymph nodes. So I do think the body always knows first.

And in episode one hundred and forty five, we talk about the body holds the messages

and Mayo joined us from Spain and her episode is how she's used her body as a tool to learn the lessons and now help other people determine what they're holding on to and what the message is in those things that are tension or indigestion or maybe they have shortness of breath or a tightening of the chest…

I have also worked with Corby this year, episode one forty six. She's helped me with family constellation and releasing energy that is no longer yours. And I've done many great sessions with her, and her episode is so helpful because I think it really shows us that we carry so many things of other people and figuring out what to let go of. If that resonates with you, visit episode one hundred and forty six. And then, of course, my dear friend, Danielle, she joined us from Florida.

She talked to us about Tai Chi and Qigong for healing and how she healed herself. And I think for so many of us, we carry so much emotion in our body that lives in our nervous system, and we need to dedicate the time to really listen to our body and understand what it's trying to tell us, that there is truth and intuitive signals in our bodies. So really think about what is your body trying to tell you and are there healers or light workers or mystics that can help you get to the answers of what is happening within…

Lesson number two: Ritual activates two way guidance. Is this not true? Anytime you create ritual, which doesn't have to be going sitting on a mountaintop or even leaving your home, you can create an altar, you could have a space in your backyard. I have a space in my bedroom. I think ritual is really about intention and energetic collaboration, showing up in places that the universe can respond.

And in fact, I love my space in my bedroom, but I'm not in there all day. And so I've even created space in my office that when I put on this certain necklace in my office, it is when I'm opening up my channel to speak to my higher self. And I noticed because I'm at my desk so much that all I need to do is pick up that necklace now and put it on, and it's like an instant activation of intentional connection with the universe

I learned this from Kilkenny. Episode one forty seven, ritual as a two way conversation with the universe. And since then, I've just kept that necklace at my

desk, and I just put it on every day is my goal. Every day I'm in my office to put it on and dedicate five to ten minutes of really intentionally showing up with my higher self. Heather also talks about this in episode one eighteen, Inner Healing Through EFT. She uses tapping…to connect with herself.

There's different tapping points that she shows in the video on YouTube, for Together We Seek and she shows very intentional tapping that gets her centered and intentional. She creates that spiritual communication with herself by creating this ritual in this space.

And then, of course, Edith Kiss in episode one forty nine. She talks about ancestral healing and karmic release…

It's amazing. I feel like so many of us are holding things and we're craving this time to like move the energy through us. So creating that ritual to tap into your body, to find ways to move energy, to create rituals so that you have dedicated space…that allows nature and the universe to know that you're ready to activate and be in the moment. So lesson number two is rituals activate two way guidance. These lessons are incredible.

I'm so honored to have these guests. I think it's amazing that so much knowledge is…transferred in such a short amount of time…

Lesson number three, stillness isn't optional. It's instructional. Right? Stillness is activating. Quiet is where guidance lands.

And I think for many of us, we often are too busy, too busy, too busy. We lay in bed at night and be like, Oh my gosh, what did I what I do for myself today? Like, how did this day go so fast? I didn't get everything I wanted done. But oftentimes we're jumping over the stillness.

And I think it was Gandhi that says, when I'm busy, I meditate for an hour. When I'm really busy, I meditate for two hours. Now I think that to me seems difficult if I'm really honest, but the reality is is that we are the only ones that can create quiet time for us…

And quiet time…creates the signal, the clarity without static, without the outside world. It's the clarity of connecting with our higher self. And I think three episodes really leaned into this this year. The first one is Episode one hundred and thirty two, Awakening Through Meditation and Chakras with Jo Singleton. I love this because I feel like we can do it from anywhere and Jo gives us some really easy tips to do.

And then of course, my friend Donna Bond in Costa Rica in Episode one hundred and five talks about higher human integration and how do we find that time and space to connect with ourself in that stillness. And then my episode one hundred and forty, I talk about clearing the way, preparing for what is next. All of these really are about finding the stillness in your very busy life as there's so much wisdom you have access to. But oftentimes we do tap into it because we're so busy doing, and oftentimes, we're doing for others…

The reflection you may want to ask yourself is what wisdom appears when I slow down enough to listen

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Lesson number four…relationships are soul contracts for healing…

it's hard sometimes to think our relationships are really our biggest lessons. But through Stephanie, Laura, and Natalie, so many of the episodes we talked about relationships with other people and how sometimes those connections and contracts activate us, make us feel something, force us to use our voice, force us to step out in ways that we still are uncomfortable to do. And it really honoring ourselves in relationships, I have found, is one of the biggest lessons

because relationships challenge us oftentimes. Yes, there's a lot of fun and connection and laughter, but really, if we think about the relationships, especially the ones that are very close to us,

They often teach us lessons that we need to learn. And these relationships are contracts for us to find our voice, to lean into what is calling us, to not sit on the sidelines. And I think for many of us, they're contractual in a way. And Stephanie Banks in episode one forty eight…

talks about transforming relationships through channeling. This was an amazing episode because it talked a lot about the relationships I have in my life and she talked about relationships she has in her life and how these relationships through channeling have been further defined and given additional insight. So we understand the role that we're playing with each other. And then my dear friend, Laura Gray, breaking the silence and Inner Whispers of Relationships That Happened When She Was a Child that kept her quiet. And later in life, she found her voice, and she has done a lot of work around healing and emerging and being the phoenix in her own life.

And then Natalie in Episode one hundred and thirty five, Breaking the Cycle of Unavailable Relationships. If you're struggling with relationships, you should really check out these episodes one hundred and forty eight, one hundred and thirty, and one hundred and thirty five because you need to be thinking who is expanding me and who is contracting me and what lessons are these people here to teach me

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on a lighter note, lesson five, creativity is communication with the soul. Expressing yourself, being creative. How do you create and express yourself? And how do you suppress yourself? I loved it.

We talked about with Gwen in episode one twenty one, limitless, transform life with intuition and creativity. And her beautiful new book is all about how to use creativity with your intuition to really transform into the beautiful butterfly you are here to be.

And then Katie, episode one twenty two out of Australia. She has encoded frequencies and sound healing. If you have not checked out her YouTube channel encoded frequencies, you are missing out. So many of her videos really are…

so voluptuously beautiful and how it really moves the vibration of the water in your body that allows you to break free of some of the ways we suppress ourselves. And I just love her courses I've been part of, and I listen to her YouTube videos, and she's just a wonderful soul, so talented…and really just creating such amazing work for so many of us to break out of what's holding us back and release some of the energy that has us in a holding pattern in some instances and also illuminating what is next for us

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And of course, in episode one zero six, Janine Reagan Sinclair talks about clearing energy blocks with multidimensional healing. Creative expression is emotional digestion. Finding ways to get creative, move energy, clear blocks, and use multidimensional healing…

and seem a little crazy, but I'll tell you, I've worked with many of these practitioners and I have freed a lot of energy that is no longer serving me. Lesson number five, creativity is communication with the soul. I highly encourage you to check out many of these episodes that really talk about clearing…creating, leaning into because

what may feel silly is really a way to move energy aside…and

it's amazing how creativity can really help you move energy around. Sound visualization can even shift your reality. Ask yourself, what feeling inside of me is asking to move? How do you move this energy in a way that really helps you activate

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These episodes one hundred and twenty one, one hundred and twenty two, and one hundred and six are just a few of the many episodes that tap into creativity…because creativity is communication with the soul, as we stated in lesson five, and sound and visualization can help you shift. I'm looking forward to hearing what creative projects you're working on in the years to come and what is activating the energy for you? How are you communicating with your soul

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As we round this out, lesson number six. Oh my goodness. Awakening happens in phases, not flashes. The journey is layered, and for many of us, it's about expansion, contraction, expansion again, and I talk a lot about this in episode one twenty five, from Crossroads to Enlightenment. And then in episode one fifty, Holly Aaron Copeland joins me to talk about inner joy and awakening…And I really feel like for many of us, phases of awakening is so important.

And I'm super excited to share with you that I've been working on my fourth book and it's six phases of awakening and remembering to illuminate your path. And I'll have a quiz for you to identify where you are in your awakening journey and what are strategies, podcasts, and ways for you to really open up to the next level of self awareness and the divine energy that you hold within. So lesson number six is awakening happens in phases, not flashes. And for many of us, really thinking about where am I in my journey…

and…knowing that you are becoming the next version of yourself and each of the relationships and energies around you are here perfectly positioned for you right now to ask questions, make decisions, lean out, or even lean in. So really thinking about where you are in your own journey…

And I think that's why I love lesson number seven and waited to hold this to the end is that lesson seven is soul work is not selfish. It's not selfish. It's leadership. Soul work isn't selfish. It's leadership.

When we rise, others rise with us and alignment within is alignment without. So there are all the episodes

in together we seek highlight soul work. But the few I want to mention here is my dear friend, Sharon, in New York, who talked about Bach flower essences and energy support in episode one twenty nine. In Episode one thirty three, Brenda Winkle joined us and talked about breathing your way to sovereignty.

And every episode before and after that, we talked about your work, your soul work, why you're on the planet, what you were here to do. Our choices shift the collective…and it takes courage…courage to really lean into our life's work. And courage becomes a permission slip that we give ourselves to do the work that is calling us, which really starts back at lesson one. Right? Our body holds the messages.

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I think as you reflect on each of these soul messages, which I've put in the show notes for you to reflect upon and also the episodes I mentioned, I think it's important you to really think about

how you will be moving out of the holiday season and into the new calendar year, which is about to bring a lot new astrological energy. And really think about how are you going to support yourself? How are you going to listen…and be aware as we talked about in each of the moments that you have to identify the lessons and messages that are coming to you?

How may you use my fourth book, illuminate your path with the six phases of awakening to help you move and migrate through each of those paths…

and really learn…

to make the time for yourself. You need…to dig into the energy you're holding…and the whispers that are coming so that you can illuminate your path from within. So with that, I'm really honored to spend this amazing year with you. I'm so grateful to all of you that spend time listening to this podcast and sharing it and reading it. I feel like we are doing the work of many here.

And if you are a lightworker, healer, mystic that listens to this and we have not yet had a conversation, I hope you reach out to me. I'd love those connections, and we're going to be having many more conversations in the next year and many years to come. So with that, I

wish you all beautiful holiday season and really getting ready for the next year ahead. I look forward to staying connected and hearing what you're up to. And I really appreciate you being here with me now with that. I'm signing off JJ DeGeronimo…Happy holidays…