Life, Health & The Universe - A Podcast For The Midlife Rebel
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Life, Health & The Universe - A Podcast For The Midlife Rebel
Faith Over Fear: Discovering Your Soul’s Blueprint with Dr. La Toya Davis
Ever felt like you’re doing everything “right” but still missing something essential?
In this episode of Life, Health & The Universe, Dr. La Toya Davis — spiritual teacher and founder of the Chi Healing Institute — shares her journey from high-achieving academic and entrepreneur to living in true soul alignment.
We explore how societal conditioning creates a disconnect between external success and internal fulfilment, and how breaking free from these patterns can lead to a life that feels authentic and energising.
Dr. Davis introduces the Akashic Records as a profound tool for self-discovery, revealing how your unique energetic archetype — your soul’s blueprint — influences your natural strengths, challenges, and the environments where you thrive.
Our conversation touches on:
- Signs you’re out of alignment (and how to recognise them)
- Practical ways to shift toward greater authenticity
- The courage to choose faith over fear when making life changes
- How parents can model authentic living for the next generation
Whether you’re questioning your career path, struggling with people-pleasing, or curious about your soul’s blueprint, this conversation offers both practical guidance and spiritual insight to help you step into deeper alignment with who you truly are.
Listen now and explore how the Akashic Records, soul alignment, and energetic archetypes can help you reclaim your divine path.
You can learn more about La Toya through her profile in our Guest Directory
https://lifehealththeuniverse.podcastpage.io/person/dr-latoya-davis
Welcome to Life, health and the Universe, bringing you stories that connect us, preventative and holistic health practices to empower us and esoteric wisdom to enlighten us. We invite you to visit our website, where you can access the podcast, watch on YouTube and find all of our guests in the guest directory. Visit lifehealththeuniversepodcastpageio. Now let's get stuck into this week's episode. Today, I'm joined by dr latoya davis, a spiritual teacher, intuitive guide and founder of the chi healing institute. I hope I said that right, is it? It doesn't. I don't have to say chi, no, chi healing institute. Latoya helps achieving with high achieving women break through internal limitations, reconnect with their intuition and align with their soul's divine assignment. She's a three-time best-selling author with a gift for making spiritual concepts both grounded and transformational. Latoya blends ancient wisdom with modern clarity and today she'll be sharing powerful insights on reclaiming your soul path and living in full energetic alignment. Latoya, thank you so much for joining me. I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me too. I was just saying off air. I've watched some of your YouTube videos in preparation for our call today and, yeah, I watched one video and I had so many notes. So I don't think that we're going to be short of things to talk about, and we've both acknowledged that we kind of might. Oh, there's a little squeak there. I've got some building maintenance going on, so we'll try and avoid that going into the recording as much possible. Sorry that we both kind of meander. Oh, there it goes again. Do you want to share a little bit about yourself and then we'll get stuck into some of the things.
Speaker 2:Yes. So big picture, you kind of tapped on or touched on those, those ideas, and I think what's really important for me is always says like, depending on the day you ask me is kind of where I'm leaning into. I'm leaning into I am just coming back from almost two months in Brazil, started there with two retreats that I had and then just kind of stayed. And so, coming back from that, like being there, I always really get to tap into like who I am and I feel like Brazil for me is like the place where I just get to show up the most authentic and live and be and just all of the things. And so I think what's bubbling up for me today to talk about is that, although I do a lot of things right so I do Akashic Records work, I do ancestral lineage healing, I do Reiki study, crystals, study, herbs For me, at the core of everything that I do, it's really about helping people to like shed the programs right. It's like really letting people, helping people to understand what it is to show up and be your most authentic self and to live that freely.
Speaker 2:I'm from Miami, florida, and I always say, you know, growing up in Miami during the time that I grew up, in order to get out of there, you really had to develop a personality, and this thing that wasn't yours, but you had to, in order for safety, in order for all of the things. And it wasn't until I got into college, right, that I even started to be like wait a minute, that's not mine, this is hindering me. And then I got married and that started to, like you know, ripple out even farther, and so now I am really just passionate about helping people identify where they are not showing up in the best and highest version of themselves.
Speaker 1:However, whatever modality you know I'm using to help people get there, wow, yeah, that's like a topic in itself, isn't it like that whole um layering of what, what our human experience is? And I've definitely been going through a bit of that and I think we do through different part in different parts of our lives um, what's mine, what's not, why do I believe that? A really simple example my son. He's nearly 11, he wanted to get his ear pierced. I'm not really that into it, but then I kind of, and my husband was like, oh yeah, not really, although our daughter, who's younger, has her ears pierced twice and so and I'm kind of like, but where does that come from? Is that really what we believe? And that's a really simple example of how, like, those societal norms and the things that we've been taught and fed become just normal.
Speaker 2:Until you question them Until you question them, and I believe that children are a part of that mirror, right? If you're aware enough to be able to allow that type of reflection, right? I do believe that children are a part of that mirror. That really makes you question wait, what is this? Why is this? Why am I doing this? Because, no, my kids, they definitely bring it. They're the ones I'm like. Wait, why did I say that? Give me a second, let me come back to you and tell you how I really feel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have my kids late in life, so I had the oldest one when I was 40, the second one when I was nearly 42. And I think that I really believe that they have been part of my midlife awakening journey because they have given me a completely different perspective on life and, just going through the motions, you know, even being able to see things through their eyes when they're young you have and see their fascination and their you know the dream like qualities that they have, like all of those things that are kind of part of our nature that we lose through all of that conditioning and that societal stuff, exactly. All right, let's start by talking about success, because you work with high achieving women specifically, so can you kind of tell us what high achieving looks like?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:To start.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know I've actually been grappling with this term lately right, because, again, all things are fluid. Right, we are where we are, and what I realized is that I think one, we are our own best client. So, when I look at my life, I was always the person who did all of the things. Things came easy I graduated at the top of my class, got scholarships for school, was in the bed, like all of the things. You name it. I did it, and I didn't necessarily have to work hard to make it happen. Right, it was programmed in me that I was going to do these things. And so then I did those things. Right, I didn't question it, I just kind of followed the script. And so, as I started to work and notice who my clients were right and the people that I was attracting, I was like wait, we're all the same. We've all done the same things. We've gone to school, we've gotten the degrees, we've gotten the jobs, we've gotten like. We've done all of these things not because, necessarily, it was a conscious like and this is what I'm going after but because we were following the program, right, of what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2:And what I realized was that the underlying kind of similarity or the underlying energy. The underlying energy in all of this was that success was important from an external like. There was an external success that was important, but it didn't necessarily reflect an internal happiness. Women, and primarily the people that I work with and I do work with men, right, they come as well, but primarily I do focus on women the push or the pull, or the things that we explore, is what does success actually look like? Right, what are we actually using to measure success? Are we using the things that actually feel good, because that's my goal to get us to a life that lights us up from the inside out or are we using those markers that we've been taught as success? And most times we're using those external markers for success.
Speaker 1:So I next question was does achievement equal happiness? And you've kind of answered that one already. So, yeah, I'm really interested in this because when I read your biography and it said high achieving, I was like and I was writing it down I thought, oh, high achieving, what does that mean? Because initially I thought high achieving woman, specifically corporate, that's the thing that came to my mind. But when and I'm not corporate, but I'm a high achieving woman I was at school, I was top of the class, I got awards, you know I got.
Speaker 1:I went to in my first jobs. I received awards for the best staff member. You know, I've competed in CrossFit, like, like, so that. So I'm one of them. And interestingly, um, I have witnessed in myself recently I'm 51 and I've witnessed in myself in recent years, probably in the last couple of years, when I speak to my dad, who's in the UK every week, and he asks me what have you been doing? I feel like I need to. I feel like if I haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary, that I haven't succeeded and I'm letting him down, and that was a real eye opener for me.
Speaker 2:And I think that that is the key. Right, that is the. And just again going back to the, our children are our mirrors, right? I look at my youngest daughter and I'm like she is me and so like her drive to excel in everything and the like I don't really need to do sleep because I can do 50 things at one time. You can, right, but you don't need to. It's okay to stop and to sit down and to take a nap and to do all of the things. And I think that that when you just talked about when your dad calls, it's like when someone's like well, what'd you do? And you're like well, these are the things. Like, but yeah, no, but what did?
Speaker 2:A friend of mine one day asked me how do you feel? And I said something standard, like, some standard answer. He was like no, that's not what I asked you. I asked you how do you feel? And I was like no, but that is. And I realized that no, I was an autopilot. Right, just like in everything else, I was an autopilot, I was following the script. And how dare something like not fit happiness and the success and like do those two things equate? And I tell the story of like when I really locked in that something was wrong, Right.
Speaker 2:So I used to own. I'm a dancer, been dancing since I was three, teaching dance. I would say I've taught dance longer than I've done anything else. I started teaching dance when I was 15 years old and I owned a dance studio when I was maybe 21. I opened a dance studio so I had my own dance studio. I had a dance company. I was in school, working on my PhD, was married, so all of the things were happening right. We had a house, my then husband at the time had a great job, we were doing things in the community. It all looked great.
Speaker 2:And then I had kids, or a child, because I didn't have them at the same time, because I didn't have them at the same time. And I remember one day thinking to myself like if my children or if my child came to me and was like in this same cycle, like would I be happy for her? I was like I wouldn't. I wouldn't because I'm doing these things. And again there's this external thing and there's momentary happiness. When I was at the dance studio it was fab. I love my students, I love the parents when I was doing this thing. That too was great.
Speaker 2:But when all of those things were gone, how did I feel? Going back to the guy's question, how did I feel? And I was like wait, this doesn't feel good. And so for me, I recognize that children will always do what they see. So, regardless of what I said to them like, regardless of no, it's okay, don't know, they follow what they see. And I was like I can't fake being happy because they're also little sponge empaths, right, so just gonna feel if I'm like fake. And so I was like no, I have to make real, wholesale changes if I want the future generations to be happy. I have to also figure out what is that block between the success and the happiness and figure out how to bring those two things together.
Speaker 1:Wow, I was just thinking when you were describing that story of, like your success in inverted commas versus happiness, and were you happy just on a high level. Before we get into more detail, did you kind of have you dug deeper?
Speaker 2:I'm sure you have dug deep enough now that you know what the seed of that happiness is like, what that looks like for you yes, um, and so this brings us to the Akashic Records, right, um, I think that the I always say the Akashic Records are the one thing that really shifted my ability to to deep. Like you said, right, prior to that I had already been around or aware of. You know, I've been a spiritual person my whole life. I can't separate that aspect of myself, right? Granted, I didn't know exactly what or how, because I didn't grow up in that as a culture. And when I got into college and started dating someone who introduced me to African traditional spirituality, then my understanding of like, oh, spirit downloads, intuition, like all of those things started to come together. But in that process again now in retrospect, right, I still recognize that there was almost a like, an external, there was a barrier, right, there was the you and the spirit, and then it goes this way, like there are these protocols, there are these steps, all of these things.
Speaker 2:When I started to study the Akashic records, the focus shifted to the soul, and the idea of the soul was not something that I had ever consciously thought of. I'm sure that it had been mentioned, I'm sure that I wasn't oblivious to it, but to say that I am understanding myself as a soul, as a being that continues to come into this reality and has experiences, and those experiences continue to kind of build upon each other. And as a soul, I have agency. Like wait, I've made some choices. You know, I chose to do this thing, I chose to have this experience. Wait, this was a lesson that I wanted to learn, right, just for me, getting that or flipping kind of how I was experiencing life through that lens really started to shift.
Speaker 2:Akashic Records and understanding myself at soul level made me question all of the things and in that I got to understand, like, what the true seed of my happiness is. And I think that this comes into we all have a soul blueprint, and a part of our soul blueprint is this aspect that I call the energetic archetype, and essentially that is how you were designed or kind of at soul level, how you were kind of wired to, I like to say, be or do or show up Right. And I think when you are able to live in that energy, that is where your true happiness is Right, because now you're in flow, you're in alignment, everything is in ease. And so once I understood what my energetic archetype was, I was able to release all of the things that didn't support that. And now I'm like, yes, I'm good, doesn't matter, literally, doesn't matter what else is happening, I can always find my center and I'm good, I love that's.
Speaker 1:It's a process, though, isn't it? I want to get into more detail about the Akashic records, um, but yeah, just in with that, that process of like you know and you sort of mentioned this when you first discovered or started exploring spirituality. But even well, my experience has been, anyway, that you know that this is you, you see your blueprint, you understand your blueprint, but actually embodying it, that's a process, isn't it? Because of all of the conditioning and all, which is, what will other people think of me?
Speaker 2:yes, yes, so I just resigned from my job. Um, congratulations, I think that's always a good. And what will other people think of me? Yes, yes, so I just resigned from my job.
Speaker 2:Oh, congratulations, I think that's always a good thing At the end of the month, and I knew that I needed to do it. Right, my spirit had already said we're not congruent anymore. Right, but the conditioning. So I always I tell this to say, even when you're doing the work and when you know the work and when you teach the work, right, you still have to like, it still comes back to be like wait a minute, are we truly doing what we're saying? Because I stayed a lot longer because of no, you're at a university, right? No, everybody's.
Speaker 2:The goal when you have an academic is to be at a top tier university. You have this job. People in my department literally retire from there, like there was someone who had just retired from 39 years of being in my department and then the person before that was at like 30 years, right? So, like this is the, it's secure, you get a check every two weeks, like all of the things. And so that kept me that programming, that condition, all of that, the fear, all of that kept me longer than I needed to be.
Speaker 2:But the reality was it had become completely incongruent. But the reality was it had become completely incongruent, right, my spirit didn't feel good and I had to say to myself either you can stay in this space and continue to uphold these paradigms that aren't yours, right, continue to look on paper like it feels good and not be happy, but what you're losing from not making the choice to be authentic and be in alignment is far greater than anything you can count right or that you can quantify. And so when I made the choice to leave, like again, my spirit now is like yes, we're free. I don't know what's happening, but yes, Love it.
Speaker 1:I was talking to my husband the other day about this thing, because you sometimes I feel like sometimes you can see what's happening in your life like, for example, you being at university and you can know that this is not right if you, if you're watching kind of from the outside and and you know that it's not right, but it's almost like you have to live out. You still have to live out that bit, yeah, even though you know that at the end you're going to do the thing like I'm going to, I know I'm going to leave, but I still have to live out this experience to learn the lesson. It's really kind of fascinating, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know what was when I started to tell a few people that I told I was. And this again, this is that, like, the mind does something really crazy, right, and it's not real Half the time the things that the mind is telling us are not real things. So I have made this perception that people are going to be like oh my gosh, you're crazy, what are you doing? Every single person that I told was like I'm so proud of you, oh, you're such an inspiration, oh my gosh, the courage that that takes. You've given me inspiration to do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I did not expect that you know, expect that you know. And so, again, for me, that was just confirmation of like. When you live in your truth and your purpose, it shows you don't have to like, you don't have to work to be the thing right. Because if, when you are living in your truth, that ripple effect and how that, how that plays itself out, will do its part, that plays itself out will do its part.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, that kind of. We are going to talk about the Akashic records in more detail, but I would love for you to share, like that's kind of taken us to that idea of alignment. But I'd love for you to start by sharing some of the telltale signs when we're not in alignment, because I think these can be like red flags for us and, yeah, once we kind of acknowledge them and go actually, yeah, that sounds like me or I'm having that experience, then we might take steps to.
Speaker 2:Yes, I think an easy one is like the energy drain right, you're going someplace, so you're constantly around someone, and it's like you could go and you're like, yes, my energy is up. And then you come back and you're like, oh right, it's like that energy zap. It's like why, why was that a zap for you? Right, particularly if it's constant, because of course we have moments and times and days and ebbs and flows, right. But if it is a thing that's consistent, then I say hmm, let's take a look, let's assess why is this happening?
Speaker 2:Also, I believe that the soul never stops speaking to us, right, our spirit is always trying to communicate us, or trying to communicate the best and highest version of whatever it is, and so I believe that there's never a moment where we don't receive the internal like yeah, this isn't it anymore. But what happens is we suppress that, we don't listen, we kind of push it back. But the soul is persistent, right, the spirit is persistent, it keeps popping up. You might see something on TV, right, you might be thinking, oh gosh, if I could just start this ice cream truck. That's a really random example, but let's go with it. Right, I can just start this ice cream truck and then, really randomly, somebody calls and is like hey, you want to go see this movie about the founder of this ice cream company. So I feel like we start to get these signals that if we're tuned in, we're like wait a minute, that's really in alignment, or that's really kind of these little breadcrumbs that is feeding this thing, that my spirit is also telling me Maybe I should, you know, take a look at this. And I think that sometimes we just dismiss those things because we dismiss that initial urge.
Speaker 2:Another thing is so we talked about energy, like the energy drain, kind of synchronicities synchronicities that align with what the spirit is kind of bubbling up for us. Also, like the loss of zest or zeal for something, you know, because all things sometimes they start out in alignment. Right, a lot of times they start out in alignment, but because we are continuing to evolve and grow, the ability for something to shift, you know, is easy. And so it's like, yes, when I started this I was gung-ho and I was excited, and now it doesn't feel good and with that I'm being cautious to bring up right now that is not all the time like we don't have to make a wholesale change, right. Going back to the job that I had, let's just say that I experienced the energy drain, which I did, experienced the energy drain which I did, I experienced the spirit telling me all of those things. But let's say I still had the zest and the zeal for, like my students which I do, right, I love showing up in class, I love doing all of those things.
Speaker 2:One way that I could have possibly worked to get into alignment versus like the whole self, throw the whole thing away was figuring out, okay, what part of this still feels good. The part that still feels good is showing up for the students. Okay, that part still feels good. Okay, how can I do more of this and lose these other things that don't feel good? Can I activate my voice, right, so that I am able to advocate, to do more of this, to lose these other things? And so sometimes getting into alignment isn't about this whole big radical shift, because sometimes people think that that's what it has to be and then it becomes frightening, right, so it doesn't have to be this really big radical shift. Sometimes it literally is just saying what about this still feels good and how can I amplify this? What about this doesn't feel good and what steps can I take to release this, remove this or shift how I have to show up for these things?
Speaker 1:And again, that takes time or a conscious awareness, doesn't it? But yeah, we can get caught up in the day-to-day and those cycles of like, well, I have to go to work, I can't afford not to give up my job, but then you're waking up and you're, uh, dreading it, feeling worried, anxious. Um, yeah, potentially, if you, if you go.
Speaker 2:Awareness is always the first step. No matter what we're talking about, awareness is always going to be the first step, right. And then what you do with the awareness is where we start to get into the nitty gritty of it. Right, it's like I can be aware and then still choose not to do anything. I can be aware and systematically still choose not to do anything. I can be aware and systematically right.
Speaker 2:Small steps figure out how I'm going to address this. I can be aware, and, just you know, I always say I'm team, I'll jump and I'll figure it out later. Hence, no job right now, cause I trust the universe is going to catch me like 1000% of the time. So I don't have that fear. You know that that is there, but neither I always say don't do that unless you're clear. You know it's nothing wrong with doing the small steps.
Speaker 2:You know, we don't write a book in a day, right? We write it line by line. You write the first line, which makes a paragraph, which makes the page, and there's nothing wrong with that approach. I think. What happens, though, is sometimes we feel like going back to the has to be this big thing, and then we get stuck into paralysis, right, or the task feels so big and so daunting that we end up just kind of staying where we are. And I think that the nervous system and the ego, like all of that, the job is to keep us safe, right. And so when we do something or have a thought or do these things that the perception is, wait a minute, if we take these actions, this is unsafe, then we automatically can kind of trigger a response that keeps us locked into the place. And so, again, I think it's important that awareness of like, how do I process, how do I best make change right, bit by bit, small pieces, all of that, I think, is perfectly fine and a healthy way to shift into alignment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, great tips. I'm curious, excuse me, excuse me about your recent resigning. Is that what we call it? Resignation? That's the word your recent resignation, the one thing that I find challenging, because when I was younger, before I was married, before I had kids, I did things. I was like I'm going to go to Australia to live, right, I did these big things just like dropped everything, I'm going. But now I feel very responsible for taking into consideration the others in my life, and you're a mom of two. Can you describe to us how you overcame that?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes. So one of the things that I always say to myself is that faith and fear can't live in the same place. Either you're faithful or you're fearful, right? And so when I find myself stuck in operating from the place of fear because that's what that oh wait, is this gonna be that's operating from the place of fear I have to say or remind myself that one, I don't believe that any download or input, any vision or version of my life that I see that is great, is outside of my ability to bring into reality. Right, if I can see it, if I believe it, then that means that it's there for me to get to. And so that's the faithful part. And I believe that because I do, like a lot of work around, you know, like quantum realities and timelines and all of that stuff, like I know that I can't be anchored in into one thing, trying to get to something else, like the two are diametrically opposed and I'm going to always, you know, shift down to the lower thing. And because faith and fear can't live together, I literally that's what I tell myself, that's literally what I tell myself Faith and fear can't live together. Are you faithful or are you fearful?
Speaker 2:And I think for me, because how I've raised my kids is we have very open communication and, you know, I say this is what mommy's doing and we talked about. All right, I'm going to make this choice, this is what this means for you, all right? The example that I gave them was, you know, normally when you come to mommy and you say, mommy, can I have such and such? And I'd be like, oh, wait, you have to wait until Friday, which was payday. I was like, when you come to me now I'm going to be like, oh, I don't know, right, I don't know when we can get that.
Speaker 2:And again, this goes back to how children are reflections, right. So one day I was like, oh, my gosh, like I'm about to do this, what's going to happen with my kids? And my daughter said, mommy, it's okay, they weren't paying you enough for the stress anyway. And I was like, thank you, baby, you're right, they were not, you know. And so I think that that was cause. My only fear is always my kids, right, like, are they going to be okay? But I trust. I trust with, like everything in me that I'm going to always land on my feet.
Speaker 1:Amazing. I love that. It's an interesting pull, isn't it like this, when because I don't know, I don't know if all women go through this I certainly am experiencing it right now that pull between the the current, but knowing that there's something more, that there's something not quite in alignment, yeah, it's a pull. Do some people, does everyone go for the pull, I guess, towards being in alignment, or do some people just stay in the normal?
Speaker 2:Some people definitely just stay in the norm. But I think this goes back to I don't want to sound like a broken record, but it goes back to the programming and the conditioning right, the programming and the conditioning says I have, particularly as women, right, I have to make sure that the kids are taken care of and the this and all of these things. And I say they are their own individual souls with their own unique experiences and gifts and lessons and all of that stuff. And I trust that us collectively can move through this thing and navigate, you know, for them. I trust that I have taught them enough to be able to weather whatever this storm is right, I'm like my children don't have like a sense of entitlement, like I've raised them to be really good individuals and so, whatever the transition looks like, I trust that they can be along for the ride. And I think what happens is a lot of again for women. We fall into the guilt of even like I'm not cooking, I'm not coming home and cooking dinner and I'm not at all of this and I'm not all of this, but all of that is conditioning.
Speaker 2:I remember when I first separated from my husband or ex-husband, we moved to Tallahassee. Me and the kids moved to Tallahassee and I had a, an au pair, so someone who comes in. They were living with me. And somebody tried to guilt me into like why did I have this person coming to stay with me? And like, why, basically, why couldn't I raise my own kids? And I was like, first of all, I do right, but I am. We have just moved, I have just uprooted them from everything that they know. We're in a new place. I'm starting a new job that's going to require me to be here and be active.
Speaker 2:For me, what makes sense is that I know that my children are in a stable environment with somebody who can be there for them. And in that moment I realized like I almost stopped talking to that person because I was like, how dare you judge me for what I'm doing? It was a guy. How dare you judge me for how I'm choosing to make sure that my children are good, to make sure that my children are good? But I realized in that moment that everybody has an opinion on what they think is the best way. And if I have to try to like meet everybody's expectation of what they think is right, I'm never going to be able to get to the life that I want. I check in with the kids hey, this is what we're doing, okay, great, yes, they share their concerns, right, and that's how I live, and so I think all of it is programming.
Speaker 2:All of it is programming and as long as you can say to yourself what program am I operating in right now and be able to question and figure out where the program comes from, and do you really believe that?
Speaker 1:Then that's where the work starts totally, and that is really a really great segue, I think, because what you just described, with your daughters and the and the conditioning that is so ingrained that you're actually healing that ancestral wound by changing the story, so that kind of takes us into that ancestral healing and the Akashic records. I think they're connected. I hope they're connected, so can you. I have had a couple of other guests on that have kind of touched on it briefly, but we haven't gone into a great amount of detail and I'm still kind of grasping what the akashic records are. My perception is that every possibility exists all the time and that, um, so we have, we have, we can basically choose any of those um and they're, they're everywhere. That's about as far as I can go with it is. That is that kind of a bit um, big picture overview.
Speaker 2:I always like to say so. The akashic records are an energetic field, and why I lean in with that idea that it's an energetic field is because then it takes people out of the space of like it's this spiritual thing right, or you have to have some type of gift or this thing right yeah, if we believe that everything in the world is energy, which it is like, we don't have to work hard to believe that it's a fact, right, everything is energy and the way that energy exists is, we've learned.
Speaker 2:Energy is not created Once it is there. It just continues to have different variations and permutations. Right, but the energy itself is there. So the Akashic records are an energetic field. And what you're doing when you're accessing the Akashic records, I like to say think of universal consciousness, right? So in universal consciousness, everything is just happening and swirling, and what the records do does is it like compacts it into, like a slice or a sliver, in a way that the mind can kind of grasp it and make sense of it. Right, so it kind of collapses all of the particles, all of the energy, all of the stuff. It collapses it down into this like one field of thought, and in this field of thought, all past, present, future possibilities exist.
Speaker 2:The idea that I don't know no one has ever seen like Men in Black 3. I've never watched it. No one has ever watched it. Because who watches the third part of a trilogy? Right, but there was this guy and I'm horrible with like remembering characters and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But there was this guy or a character in Men in Black 3 where he was essentially like he for me is how I perceive what's happening in the world. So he would like, let's say they were in the bar and in his mind, like he would say, ok, if somebody walks in and puts the cup down to the right, then we need to move left. If somebody comes in from the back door, then we need to go this way. So it's like he could, based on, like what the step was, because he had all of the possibilities in his head, he could figure out like what the next thing needed to be, based on the thing that preceded it. Right, because all possibilities exist all the time.
Speaker 2:And it is just about, like what choice you make right here, right now. That kind of determines the ripple effect out, but I think the larger, because I don't where I like to lean more into the Akashic Records, for again it's kind of coming back to that soul level understanding, right. I think that in understanding that we are an infinite being that has had multiple incarnations, with past life choices and all of those things, our ability to access that information helps us understand why I'm making this choice or why this pattern continues to repeat, or you know when I was in this relationship and I continue to go back and I continue like what was happening here, right? So I find for me the past stuff is a lot more beneficial to us, healing and moving forward than kind of the future possibilities aspect.
Speaker 1:Sure, Because we kind of have to. We kind of have to let the future unfold, don't we? And we can't control it. Necessarily, we can witness it, we can kind of step outside of ourselves and watch what's going on, but, yeah, trying to control it. Well, I've tried, you just don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I say for the future. You know one of the things that I say when I'm doing readings or people ask me about something, I say given all things remaining the same, meaning your thought pattern is the same, the people that are involved like nobody is doing any major shifts, right, then we can kind of look a little bit past where we are. But people make quantum lifts and shifts in their mindset all the time and that shift will drastically change the trajectory of something that you thought was going to happen.
Speaker 1:You know so, yeah, definitely, and your attitude as well. Like your, your beliefs, all of those things can kind of shape your. Well, they do shape our realities, don't they? Yes, so before we move on, I'd love to talk about, like, how you use the Akashic records for professional expansion with your clients. But you mentioned your own archetype, your soul archetype. Is that what the term is? Energetic archetype? Can you describe to us what that looks like and how it came about?
Speaker 2:describe to us what that looks like and how, how it came about? Yes, um, so who is the person? Uh, I think is it Carolyn Mice. Um, oh, somebody, someone has like, yes, carolyn Mice, she has like all of these archetypes, um, widow, the maiden right, and all of these things, and how you show up, and so it's similar to that. I mean, and the idea of the archetype, I think exists across kind of modalities or spectrums, right? So it's just like if you were this type of person or if you align with this, then this is how you show up At soul level.
Speaker 2:When I'm looking at energetic archetypes, it's basically saying that there are these nine ways that we are all kind of wired to be right. We are either wired to kind of show up and present through the energy of love. We are wired and tapped in to be in alignment with the energy of wisdom, right, with truth. So, like, whatever these archetypes are, then say how you best show up in the world. So I will use, for example, I'll use truth, right? So someone who has an energetic archetype of truth says that, well, as the name suggests, right, truth is really, really important to them at soul level. So what does that mean. That means that the soul is going to always be trying to get the truth to come out. These are people who, when you're saying one thing, their brain is telling them what you really mean, right, so the words are coming out, but they're already processing what's behind what they're seeing, what they're hearing. Right, because their soul is oriented to present the truth Also for them, because truth is important. These are those people who, like, it is really really difficult for them to lie, right, like you know. Those like dang, did that come out of my mouth? You know? And it's not, it's not conscious, right, it literally is just how the soul is oriented. And so once you kind of understand, but what happens is so sorry.
Speaker 2:So what happens, let's say in alignment, right, I've learned that truth is my thing. So now, when my brain is telling me, no, what she's saying isn't real, no, that's not really like, I'm inclined to believe it a little bit more, versus the conditioning that has taught me. No, if they're saying they're smiling, they've shown up, what they're saying is right, right, so I've learned to suppress my own internal knowing, because everything has taught me to believe these things externally, right, or I've gotten in trouble. So much for saying the things that are coming up, that now I don't say anything. So now I'm not living in my soul, my energetic archetype, because I'm afraid of sharing that.
Speaker 2:And what happens when we do that? That's how we push ourselves further and further out of alignment. We no longer able to be in that ease and in that grace, and so I think one of the beauties of understanding what your energetic archetype is is that it gives you that strength, it gives you that power to be like wait, no, I'm not crazy, I get to show up like this. No, this is how I perceive and how I receive information, and that is probably one of the biggest like gifts, like when I of all the different types of readings and the sessions and all of the stuff that I do, I think that giving people that like I've gotten, I've had people cry from like what they've had to suppress and how they've had to shift from growing up, because that was how they were naturally, and everybody was like, no, you can't do that, no, don't that.
Speaker 2:And so they learned to adapt, but it never felt good. And so just me saying, no, your soul is wired for you to show up like that, like break something in them. You know that has been really really beautiful to watch.
Speaker 1:What's your soul, your archetype?
Speaker 2:Mine is freedom, hence being at the job that doesn't work right, yes, being at the job that doesn't work right, yes. So we all have kind of like a combination of well, let me not say it like that we all have a dominant one right, meaning that this particular one carries us most, but sometimes people can have two that are really really close to each other and so they kind of, you know, work in tandem. And so truth is actually one of my, is actually one of my energetic archetypes, but my other one is freedom, right. And so being in situations where I feel caged, where I don't get to, where I feel like I'm being dictated, let me tell you, micromanaging me, even even if it's not me, me, watching you micromanage somebody else, really just irks my whole spirit, right? But that? So for me, the, the choice to leave, was like you're not like the abundance, the flow will never come to you, because you were literally going against who you are at soul level.
Speaker 1:So yeah, Really interesting that you use those two words, because truth is one that I feel is quite relevant for me, that word truth and part of my journey has been finding my own truth, the truth of who I am amid, you know, beyond the conditioning. And the second thing I stopped drinking alcohol about three and a half years ago. Um, you know, I was just like a glass of wine every evening, kind of girl, and it was like this, this uh little niggling. You need to stop, you need to stop, you need to stop, always, always, and I did. I didn't know why, but when people ask me what does it feel like? And I the word I use is it feels like freedom, and freedom comes, and it has shown up in a number of ways that, but that those two words feel very, um, relevant to me, and so that was kind of cool that they're your two words and you know, I think that also for me because I do have experience in like multiple.
Speaker 2:You know, I think I think all so like astrology, human design, like I think all of those things, if you're going to someone that's good, like the information should overlap right the perspective that is coming from is going to be different, right?
Speaker 2:so when you're in the akashic, the information is coming from soul level. Right, so the information, the perspective, is different, but there should be like themes that are consistent. And so when I got into the Akashic Records and I started studying this and this idea of truth came out, I really had to laugh because in so, I'm an initiated priestess in the Sheshe, which is like out of the Yoruba people, and we do these things. They're called Itas, right, so an Ita is when you become initiated. They basically give you like etahs, right, so an etah is when you get, when you become initiated. They, they basically give you like a life reading, right, and it's like these this is how you are, this is what you came here to do in this life and this is what you shouldn't do, and this is like all of the things.
Speaker 2:And so we have these things that are called taboos, and a taboo is something that you just you don't do, and my taboo so this was before I got to this my taboo is telling a lie, right? So I was like, okay, so bookmark that. Okay, great, taboo, telling a lie. And for me I was like I don't really lie, like I've always, even as a child. Like my mother, you know you'd be like just tell them you're 12 so we can get this free meal. Like my mama would not do that to me because I'll be like I am not 12, right. So that was never really my thing. So it was that. And then I got into another system, got another reading no-transcript really affirming actually, um so how?
Speaker 1:how does someone get their archetype? Is there, do you kind of do an intuitive reading to help someone determine their own archetypes?
Speaker 2:yes. So, um, I do what's called for that particular thing. I do a soul blueprint reading. A soul blueprint reading, I'm looking at five or six like kind of key things that are. I like to say, the blueprint are those things that do not change, right? So we just talked about kind of that realm of possibilities. Today, I make this choice, I learned this lesson, right. So those things are ever shifting, but then there are aspects of us that are going to be consistent, right? What were the life lessons that I wanted to work through in this lifetime? That energetic archetype, my soul group, which is going to bring kind of, like, my innate skills and talents and gifts, right? So those things.
Speaker 2:So I do a soul blueprint reading in the Akashic Records and I did, and I go back and forth with this thing because I'm like, no, the Akashic Records are for everybody. Anybody can tap into the Akashic Records and you absolutely can. So anybody that tells you that you can't is not, it's not a true statement. The Akashic Records are for everyone, but there are definitely certain styles and types of you know readings and informations and sessions that you learn and you study and you do. So the Soul Blueprint is one of the readings that I offer um and, like I said, I'm looking for those particular things to help you understand who you are at soul level wow, and what sort of uh transformation?
Speaker 1:let's talk about transformation. What sort of transformations have you seen with, um, the people that you've worked with? We love a transformation.
Speaker 2:Yes, they're so varied, right, I'm trying to figure out what's coming up to the top of my mind right now. Actually, this one is because we've talked about women in empowerment, but the one that's coming to my mind right now is actually about a couple. Um, and why is? I don't know why it's bubbling up, but we're sharing it. So in relationships, right, often part of what what happens is, again, we have to remember we are two individual souls that are coming together, that are trying to be in harmony with each other. But we've made our own life lessons that we wanted to work through and, yes, we made choices about. I'm going to meet this person to have this particular lesson.
Speaker 2:So I was originally working with this woman who came to me for her own personal growth. She realized that she was repeating patterns of not using her kind of shrinking in space where there was conflict, even though she would really feel a particular way, she wouldn't ever really voice it, so she would just kind of go with the flow, and it was happening at work, it was happening at home, it was happening in her familial relationships, and so she really wanted to shift that, and so that's what we were working on, and her husband noticed like the changes in the shifts that were happening with her, and so then he came to me. And he came because he wanted or he realized that he wanted to process some trauma that had happened to him when he was younger Right, and it had to deal with men and women relationships, right. And he was like I feel like this is impacting how I am able to interact with my wife. So then we did the work and so now he's healing. The important part of this is that both people were taking individual responsibility for their own collective healing right, or their own collective work. So they're both doing the work.
Speaker 2:And then they said we want to do a session together and I said, okay, great, let's do it. And I had not heard from them after we did our session together, right. So I don't know, every now and then somebody sends me an email, but I taught a masterclass a few, a few months back, and at the end of the class they stayed on and they said we just wanted to tell you that our relationship is so much better. Like he talked for like 15 minutes about like the transformation and how I really helped save their marriage, and like I wasn't expecting that because this class was about ancestors and you know here they were ancestors and you know here they were, and so for me, it was like this thing of you never know how the energy is going to unwind itself, right, when you kind of start doing the work, you never really fit, you never really know those things.
Speaker 2:Um, I've had people who, in jobs so speaking of success, right who have been able to kind of break the mindset of this is what I am worth, right. So accepting, accepting the smaller job, accepting the smaller pay, accepting all of those things Right, and really being able to identify why that was there, what that operation was from, and shifting that. I've had people, you know, be able to change jobs, get more money, work less, right, all of those things. And this one is coming up this is the last one A lot of my clients. So, although I work with high achieving women, we discovered that that can be across any spectrum.
Speaker 2:I work with a lot of, like, spiritual coaches and, you know, light workers and energy workers, and a lot of us and I include myself in this right, a lot of us are dealing with a past life, a past life vow or contract that prevents us from wanting to charge for spiritual services. Right, there is a program or a contract that a lot of us are locked into that makes it really feel like we're doing a disservice when we are asking for money and so because of that, people show up and they overgive, they don't ask for money, they oh, whatever you want to offer me, like all of those things. And so I think a lot of if I had to say like there's been consistent trend, like been able to really provide that consistent transformation. It is definitely in that realm of getting people to kind of unloose that, that vow and that contract that they have unloose that, that vow and that contract that they have.
Speaker 1:Amazing Sounds, really cool, love it. I'm just going to flag that the builders have seen that it's time that they can start banging, and so they've started banging. So I'm going to ask you one more question because I think it's a really beautiful way for us to close. I've loved everything that we've talked about and we've not ticked off half the things I had written on my list, but that's okay because it's all been amazing. So one thing that you say on your website is my work is rooted in one core truth you are your own answer. Can you talk a little bit to that as we head towards our close? Yeah, bit to that as we head towards our close.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that we, again this conditioning, we have been taught that things external to us know better than us. Right, in all of the ways, right. And again, particularly as women, we go to men for validation when we're in the church, we go to the pastor or the preacher for acceptance, Like everything has to happen externally. And I believe that that's a disservice because, again, the soul is always trying to get us to the best and highest version of ourself and it's not to say that I can't talk to somebody else and say, hey, what do you think? But I don't need them to be the authority of my life, right? I believe that if we can center ourself enough to trust that our soul wants the best for us, and we can give ourself permission to listen and to tap into that and then again start taking small steps. I don't need us to, you know, like all of us say, it's like yes, and I believe everything. Just take small steps and see that, wait, a minute.
Speaker 2:When I followed that nudge, nothing happened. Wait, and it actually turned out really really well. Okay, let me do it again. And then eventually you realize that you have everything that you need internally, right, you're able to get the answers, you're able to trust all of the things.
Speaker 1:Love it. Amazing. I've so loved our conversation. Thank you so much for joining me. We're going to share all of your details in our guest directory so that people can access your website, your YouTube, and you have got an event coming up, haven't you? In the next little while, so do you want to share a little bit about that?
Speaker 2:Yes, so I have a retreat that's happening. It's called the Power Within. I feel like the Power Within Embodying your Soul's Blueprint. Hi, we've talked about the Soul's Blueprint Embodying your Soul's Blueprint. Hi, we've talked about the soul's blueprint, embodying your Soul's Blueprint, and it is about helping you to kind of take away the fuzz and the noise so that you can really identify and understand who and how you were designed to be at soul level. And so it is a retreat that I use the Akashic Records to kind of help create the container and help people dive in and dig in. And it's important to note that you might not know how to use the Akashic Records, and that's fine, because we go through that process, you know, during the, during the three days together, so that is October 10th through the 12th, and we'd love to have you.
Speaker 1:Amazing. One more thing, and there is banging in the background, but it seems to be okay, do you? We're in, I'm Australia, I'm in Australia, and we do have listeners around the world, including America. Yes, but do you do any online retreats or courses that people from around the world can tap into as well?
Speaker 2:Yes, the majority of my stuff is online. All of my classes are not all of them, because I started the business during COVID, all right, so you learn to adapt. So I have on-demand courses to learn how to do the Akashic Records, ancestral lineage, healing, spiritual development All of those are on-demand. I do virtual conferences, I do summits. My retreats are. I do a virtual, two virtual summits a year, one for the Akashic Records and one for it's called the Lion, liberated and Abundant. So those two are virtual summits. But all of my other retreats are in person. But I'm all over. So I have one in Costa Rica I mentioned. I just came back from Brazil. I actually only have one that's in the US, right, so I am online. Follow me.
Speaker 1:Find all the things I do. Sessions online yes, amazing. Thank you so much for joining us. That all sounds fantastic. I'm going to be tapping into your website and having a look around and, yeah, I really appreciate your time. It's been really amazing. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me.
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