Life of Love with Julie Hilsen

Beyond Weight Loss: Reclaiming Your Divine Self with Tara Wiskow | Childhood Healing & Body Image Truths

• Julie Hilsen/Tara Wiskow • Season 3 • Episode 28

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Welcome to this soul-nourishing episode of Life of Love with Julie Hilsen, where we dive deep into healing early emotional wounds, breaking free from false self-narratives, and uncovering the divine light within that has always been yours.

🎙️ In this intimate conversation with Tara Wiskow, intuitive healer and founder of She Rises, we explore:

The dangerous mental and physical effects of diet culture and weight loss medications

How early childhood trauma and limiting beliefs shape identity

The journey from shame to self-love through mirror work and divine reconnection

The soul contract of motherhood and the transformational moment that saved Tara’s life

Why everyone is intuitive, and how to trust your inner guidance again

💛 This episode is a call to anyone who has ever felt not enough or disconnected from their truth. You are divine. You are worthy. You are more than a body—you are light.

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🔗 Learn more about Tara & her “She Rises” program: https://tara-wiskow.com/
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Chapter Markers
00:00 - Introduction & Opening Prayer 🙏  
01:50 - Welcoming Tara Wiskow, Intuitive Healer 🌟  
03:00 - Redefining Motherhood After Empty Nesting 🕊️  
07:00 - Childhood Trauma and Identity Disruption 👧🏽  
09:30 - Food as Comfort and Addiction 🍩  
11:30 - The Dangers of Weight Loss Medications 💊  
13:00 - A Son’s Question That Saved Her Life 💔  
14:15 - Mirror Work: A Path to True Healing 🪞  
17:45 - Family Healing Through Authentic Self-Love 💗  
18:50 - Generational Trauma and Epigenetics 👵🏽  
21:00 - How One Comment Can Shape a Lifetime 🧠  
23:00 - Why Self-Worth is the Missing Link in Weight Loss 🌿  
26:40 - Healing After the Death of a Loved One 🕯️  
28:00 - Living a Life That Aligns with Your Soul 💫  
29:45 - Tara's She Rises Program Overview 👑  
34:00 - Crowning Ceremony & Living Authentically 👸🏽  
35:10 - The Global Grid of Light & Soul Purpose 🌍✨  
36:45 - Julie’s Journey with Angels and Asking for Help 👼  
37:35 - A Sisterhood of Healing and Divine Remembrance 💛

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Julie Hilsen (00:06)
Hello dear friends and welcome to another episode of Life of Love. We gather each week to explore what our life of love looks like today and explore the curiosity of our hearts and our purpose. So I'm really delighted to have your attention. I'm delighted to have your views. And when you can think of someone during one of our episodes and share, that also adds to the light grid. I honor and appreciate your energy in that and supporting me in this.

mission of just sharing light and sharing my heart with you and my journey. So thank you, thank you. I'm going to start with our intention. And so everyone knows where I'm coming from. And so I'm just going to get quiet. I'm going to get into my heart and ground my feet.

Dear God, goddess, creator, thank you for bringing me to this space. I'm very excited to collaborate with Tara today and I welcome you to work through me and for me and through us and for us actually to bring forth your message for the highest good, help us to have clarity and intensity of our signal to reach those hearts that wish to soften and the ears which wish to hear. And I honor

my guides, bring forth my angelics and my soul guides to help us have this clarity and the message that needs to be heard at this time, at this divine time. And also Tara's group if they're so inclined and please take what serves you and leave what doesn't. As we create this space, I honor your time in this message. And so it is. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (01:49)
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Thank you for that.

Julie Hilsen (01:52)
you're welcome. Thanks for being here, Tara.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (01:54)
I'm so excited. I've been looking forward to this since we set it on the calendar

Julie Hilsen (02:00)
Yes. And so I wanted to let everyone know you're an intuitive healer, a life reinvention expert, and Tara helps women release limiting beliefs, emotional pain and energetic blocks so they can step into their full power. And so that's what drew me. was like, hell yes, reinvention expert. Let's talk about that, you know.

It's timely for me. My kids are, an empty nester now. And I don't like to say, I forget, I wish I could remember who said it the first time, but she said, I'm not an empty nester. I'm a bird freeing soul developer. Like the kids have left, they're grown up enough to fly. So celebrate that accomplishment versus the emptiness of you don't get that morning hug anymore. That's my hardest thing.

I miss my morning hugs from my boys. Like, hello, mom, what's for breakfast? A hug.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (02:53)
Yes, I can

absolutely resonate with you there because I as well am an empty nester. I don't know what else to call it. And for me, at first when I thought about being an empty nester, it really made my heart hurt a lot because of what you're saying of like it's you lost something. And I decided that I wanted to look at it in the way of I actually helped my boys because I'm a boy mom of three boys.

launch into their life. And now my it's not that my nest is empty. It's just that it's more open and available for them to come home as they're living their life. But I resonate with you on that. Just that that little bit of missing right those moments where you don't actually have their interaction in person. I'm very blessed with my boys continuously constantly calling me and checking in and so that that's fantastic. So yeah.

Julie Hilsen (03:37)
⁓

That's amazing. Yeah. It's a special thing, the boys and their moms. So yeah, it does hurt when you can't, you know, be there. But it sounds like you've taught them to communicate and, and that they're, they're aware bond And that's what matters. Oh, it's lovely. So

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (04:04)
Yes, they're they're

very good at that communication. They knew they knew young that communication was the expectation

Julie Hilsen (04:11)
Nice. Yeah, so if you're a mom of young boys, instill that because they'll hold on to that and it'll make them better dads and husbands, you know, with that communication. And hopefully, you you stay in touch with, you know, life events, everyone gets really busy. you know, your intention of raising your kids, it matters. So being present when they're little, makes a big difference when they grow because they're

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (04:12)
you

Yes.

Julie Hilsen (04:39)
that heart bond is strong. So I know it's hard when you're changing diapers and chasing around and dropping kids off at Little League and you feel like all you do is run errands and cook and clean and, and, then once they, grow up and leave and come back, you realize how those little things meant so much.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (04:59)
So true, so very true.

Julie Hilsen (05:02)
They're not little, they're big. It's a big sacrifice to be 100 % there for your kids.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (05:07)
me, the hardest job I felt like I've had and the most rewarding is being a mom. And I was a single mom for many years. And even after I married my husband who became their stepdad, I still was a single mom. He's an amazing, amazing guy. He just didn't step into that space of being a parental role. He taught them how to change oil. He taught them how to change tires, fix...

fix your vehicles, a keys bin, instrumental and all those things. However, in the parenting and the schooling and all the emotional check-ins that remained me and so not only was it the money piece and the time piece, but it was that emotional piece making sure that I was doing the best job. When I was pregnant with my oldest son, I had this woman who was 80 years old and you could not not know I was pregnant because I was so, so huge.

And she said to me, goes, can I give you a piece of advice, my dear? And I'm thinking, this is my first child. You're 80 years old. You had, think she said she had like 12 kids. I will take any advice that you can give me. And she said to me, and I lived by this every day as a parent. And still, she said, I always ask myself with all of my children, what kind of 18 year old am I releasing to the world?

And Julie, that shifted me in that moment of thinking, I need to be aware of that. Like, he's going to be 18 someday. Am I preparing him for the world? I launch him out of the nest, can he survive in this world? And if he can't, then I didn't do the job that I was called to do. And that kept me on my toes through the parenting of my boys.

Julie Hilsen (06:52)
That's really, she was a wise woman and you're ready to get the message. You weren't like, whatever, crazy old lady.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (06:56)
⁓

I never met Sara again and day in my life, but that moment was a pinnacle moment for me.

Julie Hilsen (07:07)
It's an important drop-in. Yeah, and you know, it helps you focus. Like you can let go of the fluff that doesn't really matter. Like this is a core value that I wanna teach this person who's gonna be an adult, you know? Like that's a lens that's very powerful. Wow, I love that. You've been through so many transformations and I would love for you to share how you rose above and conquered your

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (07:09)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Julie Hilsen (07:36)
difficulties and the extra baggage you are carrying around. And just, I would love my listeners to have a little insight into your story. I don't want to, I don't want to be a spoiler.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (07:46)
Thank you. My journey to getting to where I am today has been quite the journey. And it started when I was eight. I'll go there because I think that's a really important place. Most of us women don't realize that that is where a lot of our traumas, if not all of our traumas actually start to begin or are born is in that childhood time of our life.

Julie Hilsen (07:46)
besides being a great mom.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (08:11)
At eight years old I discovered that who I thought was my dad was actually my stepdad and a second time I learned that I had another dad that lived somewhere else who had chosen not to be part of my life and Learning that the days that followed the weeks of the months that followed Created this belief within me that I wasn't good enough that I wasn't lovable that I didn't deserve to belong because all of a sudden

is if you can see me, if you can't, I am dark brown hair with dark brown eyes. I grew up with a mom and who became a stepdad but was my dad and two sisters that had blonde hair and blue eyes. And so it started to make sense why my friends would say, are you adopted? I have no idea what adopted meant. I would just laugh and say no, because I didn't even know what adopted meant. But then...

After learning that as days and weeks and years went on, I started to understand why they would think that because I didn't look like them. And then I started to realize I didn't act like them. I was fully different in all these ways, which created this persona within me that I had to wear masks. I had to shift my identity, which is why I became an identity shifting expert, right? A life reinvention expert is...

Helping women through that struggle in our life and it started for me at a very young age of believing That I had to write wear the right mask for the right person at the right time in order to be loved in order to not be rejected and and kicked out of the tribe and That young experience of that continued to grow continued my parents weren't aware of what was going on and They were doing the best that they could and so

Julie Hilsen (09:45)
Mm-hmm.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (09:55)
It wasn't handled in the way that would help me to heal through it. And it progressively increased and grew as I aged and as I grew. And what ended up happening, Julie, is I turned to the one thing that I knew would never disappoint me. It always showed up for me. It was always authentic. It was always a solid, solid companion, and that was food.

Food became who I knew and I say who because I literally had a relationship with food. Food became who I knew would always taste the way that I thought it would taste. It would always be there and never disappoint me. It would always give me the emotional support that I was looking for that I didn't feel like I could get in the human form within my family. And that relationship with that food

began to create an entire shift within my body and eventually led to morbid obesity of 338 pounds and that time of my life not only was I very overweight and struggling internally, I was also starting to go into some deep depression as well as some anxiety because again the traumas of that childhood hadn't been dealt with and so they progressively increased and grew.

And my marriage with my dad and my three boys was crumbling. It was crashing. Things were falling apart. My body was not where I wanted it to be. I wasn't the mom that I thought I would be. I was the park bench mama who couldn't be active with her boys due to my size and my relationship with food was continuing to increase. And when my doctor looked at me and said, Tara, you are morbidly obese. You have got to figure something out here. We've got to make some changes.

that opened that can of worms, literally, of anything that my doctor prescribed, internet suggested, friend recommended, I started to take these weight loss drugs to try to help me to lose the weight, which then led to that addiction. And when it didn't work, I internalized it as me being not good enough, that I was being rejected from these diet medications because they weren't helping me.

Everybody else was apparently being helped but I wasn't being helped. So here I was again thinking that I wasn't good enough for these Medications or these drugs because I wasn't getting the result that led to eating disorders and after a year and a half of Struggling with bulimia. I realized that I hadn't lost a lot of weight, but my hair was falling out. I was Very very tired. I was zombie status

Julie Hilsen (12:20)
to do it.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (12:32)
I was less of a mom than I was before I started this journey of trying to lose weight and that led to suicide. And my final suicide attempt, my middle son saved my life. And he asked me a question that became a moment for me to realize that I could make a decision. He asked me, are you going to die, mama? And at five years old, him asking me that question,

Julie Hilsen (12:40)
.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (13:01)
pulled me out of that moment and I heard coming in a voice, it was my voice, but I knew it wasn't me saying, Tara, you have got to learn to love yourself as much as you love these boys. That is your only way out. And I knew that I'd never tried that. I had been angry with myself, I had punished myself, I had sabotaged, I had...

Julie Hilsen (13:14)
Mm-hmm.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (13:25)
tried to end my life, I had done all these very mean and evil things to myself, but love myself. I'd never tried that. And for him to ask me that question made me realize, Tara, you can do something different if you so choose. You can take a different approach. You have the ability to do this. And prior to that moment, I thought that life was what it was, that I didn't have a choice. And again,

It started from that eight-year-old mile marker of realizing that a dad had totally rejected me. And so I believe that because that happened, that was just what my life had to be and that I had to continuously reject myself. I didn't get to choose myself. And from that moment forward is where I began to show up for myself in a way that I never had. I started mirror work before I even learned of Louise Hayes. And when I learned about that woman, she totally shifted my life.

But I started

Julie Hilsen (14:18)
Jesus.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (14:19)
mirror work of actually speaking to myself in the mirror of loving affirmations rather than the hateful things that I used to say to myself and began that journey of the true weight loss journey of eating the healthiest that I could as well as moving my body versus to relying on the drug of choice or the addiction of choice to help me get to where I desire to be.

So that's the beginning part and we don't even talk about where I am now. So we'll pause there because I am loaded a lot.

Julie Hilsen (14:46)
you

Yeah, I mean, when we were eight, nine years old, I assume we're sort of close in age, there weren't therapists. there weren't. It was like maybe you'd go to the church, maybe somebody at the church would hold space for you and healing, but it just wasn't a thing. And ⁓ so it's like holding space for that and then that sense of...

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (15:14)
It wasn't.

Julie Hilsen (15:19)
of hopelessness. And I'm, I'm so, I'm so happy your son was there. And he's that, you know, that divinity, that divine timing of mom, know, and you felt his love. And you're like, Wait a minute, I love him more than I love myself. What am I doing? And wow, I can understand why you felt so helpless in that. And in the bravery of

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (15:38)
Yeah.

Julie Hilsen (15:46)
That's badass bravery. To look at yourself in the mirror and say, love you, and absolutely mean it. That is a really, really hard thing to do.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (15:56)
It really is and it was it was a hard thing for me to begin and if I'm honest when I started I was looking at my feet I could see my feet in the mirror I could not meet my gaze because I was so ashamed of myself and so disgusted that I had in my mind let myself get to this point and I had a lot of shame around my son finding me and Him being the reason like him saving my life had a lot of shame that I put my son in that predicament to have to

be that person for me. And I've since let that go. And when I look at my son Trey now, I see a man that is such a strong pillar of strength for all individuals. He has grown from that experience and it's been a blessing for him in so many ways and I'm grateful for that. And in that space of that, that mirror work back to the mirror work, it took me time looking at my feet in the mirror and saying to myself, I love you.

I couldn't say Tara, but I could say, love you. And then I continued to work until I brought my eyes and I was able to meet my eyes. And it honestly became a family thing where my boys would come and stand in front of the mirror and they would watch me do this. And they would see the tears that would flow as I began to be able to say, I love you, Tara. And I'm so grateful I get to be you. And my boys began to look at themselves and be able to say,

you know, in their boyish way, I love you too, you know, like having fun. yeah, right. My son Trey was always proud of his his six pack. That was what he was most proud of. But they learned to be able to see themselves in the mirror and value and cherish what they saw looking back at them as well. So became a family event. They had no idea it was what was healing me and bringing me and rising me up.

Julie Hilsen (17:26)
They're like, I got the guns.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (17:51)
and that they were helping me do that. But it was something that I see benefited them now today as adults in the world.

Julie Hilsen (17:59)
And I do believe in soul assignments that we come in asking for these challenges and there are things we can grow through and for and everything is divine timing. It really, really is. And even the stuff that we wouldn't pick again, the ability for you to realize you have a choice and that free will and now you can lift other people up.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (18:15)
Yes.

Julie Hilsen (18:25)
There's divinity in that and beauty and you see it in your boys. You know honesty about your pain and what you're going through, it frees the people around you to go through theirs too. It's not such a scary thing if you can talk about it. The scariest thing is the thing that's shoved in the corner, that's unmentioned pain. It festers because kids process it like you processed it as I'm not worthy.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (18:41)
Mmm.

That's so true.

Julie Hilsen (18:52)
You don't know the situation of your biological father. But you as a child created a story around it. And children can do the same thing in anything. It could be, I remember my grandfather, he would never wear shorts because somebody told him when he was seven or eight that he had chicken legs.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (19:11)
Yeah. Yeah.

Julie Hilsen (19:13)
He spent his whole life in Levi blue jeans in the heat of summer. And gosh, I guess he used to wear like a white t-shirt. I was trying to think if he wore short sleeves, but you know, I'm sure his legs were fine, but he held onto that his whole life. His whole entire life. was like, grandpa, it's hot. Why don't you put some shorts on? I never saw him in a swimsuit. know, like we lived on Lake Erie, you know, we were on the boat fishing with them and.

And it even hit me as a child. like, well, that's ridiculous. How skinny can his legs be? Like, I knew that was ridiculous.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (19:50)
Right? And that's what happens when we internalize it and we don't talk about it. And much of like in our timing of growing up, we were we were told that you're just supposed to be strong, get over it. And yeah, you're just you're just supposed to handle that. And it is what it is and make the best of it. And there was always that

Julie Hilsen (20:04)
Yeah, just get over it, yeah.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (20:13)
Toxic positivity is what it's defined as now. And so for your grandpa, he was called that it hurt him. But of course, for him to say that really hurt my feelings, that would be viewed as being a baby or childish. And so he absolutely buried that insecurity that he had and chose to not allow anybody to have that ability to do that to him again. And the thing about that, Julie, is that

Julie Hilsen (20:40)
Mm-hmm.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (20:41)
Not only was it about his legs, it festered into other areas of his life and it likely, like I have chicken legs, became an unhelpful thought. And this is where my NLP neuro-linguistic programming practitioner piece of it comes in, is that unhelpful thought is tied to a limiting belief, which is why it affected him so much. And it could have been something. just thinking of, you know, I'll never be attractive enough.

It could have that could have been the limiting belief and then this became an unhelpful thought that supported that limiting belief and that limiting belief came from a past life passed down generationally imprinted somewhere somehow and so my point to that is that one unhelpful thought was tied to something else that impacted him and likely he never let on or shared that and lived with that all of his life and that's the beauty of healing that we're aware of now is

Julie Hilsen (21:34)
Mm-hmm.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (21:38)
we can release that out of our body, our mental, our emotional, our spiritual and our physical bodies. We don't have to live behind a lie that we believe is true for us.

Julie Hilsen (21:49)
Right, and that, and the ripple effect of that lie, you know, he wasn't always that kind to my grandmother, you know, and there's certain, and it was epigenetic too, because his father was in an orphanage. Because his father, his father's father was killed in a farming accident and...

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (21:56)
Sure.

Hmm.

Julie Hilsen (22:11)
got impaled and it was bad. So the children went to an orphanage and that was my grandfather's father. So, you know, there's, it's a lineage thing and it continues until someone can be aware and work and process through it. so it's like even like your dad abandoning you, you don't know what happened before to his lineage. So all of sudden you have grace for people and you can be like, well,

I'm not gonna hold that against them. This is sort of like the situation, I'm gonna do the best with what I can because the shame, the guilt, the fear, it's only holding you back. And that's why I love the neuro linguistics that it gives you a tool to identify and be like free, like create space because something else wants to come in. So that's beautiful. I had no idea you were in that. I love that field.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (23:01)
Yes.

Yes, that

was my starting point as a weight loss coach. I've been a weight loss coach over I think we're at 14 years now. It's just been such an amazing journey that I lose track of time. What I was finding because I brought in self love and self worth as part of my entire program because I knew that love and worth from my experience was what was missing in every woman's body.

And that's why losing weight felt impossible. Why keeping it off seemed like it would never happen, as we just didn't love ourselves or see ourselves worthy enough to show up and do the work and to keep it. And so I implemented that and I still felt like something was missing. I still felt like there was all these trials that we constantly had to come up against and even myself.

Going through the work of no longer struggling with the eating disorders becoming a bodybuilder and standing on stage as a bodybuilder and Still having all these beliefs that I was for sure going to become 338 pounds again if I ate one extra Reese's peanut butter little cups Guaranteed tomorrow morning. I'll wake up being 220 pounds heavier and I could not understand why continue to struggle with all of these beliefs that

Innately, I knew were not true for me, but I could not get away from the battle and so I Just like you said divinity divine timing. I was eyeballs deep in this struggle of it and I cried that morning Sat down pulled up Facebook. All of a sudden this beautiful woman is talking about how we can release these limiting beliefs through neuro linguistic programming

And it was like a lightning bolt through me. And I knew in that moment, okay, this has to come into my program. And at the time I was like, it won't work for me, but it'll work for my women. I went through, my gosh, I went through a year and a half of becoming certified, training, learning.

Julie Hilsen (24:56)
Mm.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (25:13)
something that I knew could not work for me because I wasn't lucky enough to get something that easy. And I began implementing into my program with my women and it was free to them. I said, you are, you get to be my, my, you know, guinea pigs of learning. Yeah. Right. And wow. All I started, first of all, I started to shift and I realized that it was working for me. And then what I saw, what I was doing for my women, I realized that that was these limiting beliefs were the culprit.

Julie Hilsen (25:19)
Hmm.

Practice, yeah, you're, yeah.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (25:43)
This is why they continued to struggle with believing it was possible and everything started to shift in the most amazing way and still is, still is in the program today.

Julie Hilsen (25:54)
No, it just came to me is like, you almost get thankful for the extra weight because it's something that you can latch on to and be like, this is something to work on. I think that someone who looks perfect and feels horrible on the inside, like where do they start?

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (26:05)
Mm-hmm.

Right? Right!

Yes, I can speak to that because that became the next leg of my journey. Yeah. So it'll be, well, it is two years. In June, it was two years I lost my baby sister to cancer. She tragically was with us and then she was gone. And after losing her, I was sitting outside, it was five days after a burial service. And I kept thinking, did Trisha have

Julie Hilsen (26:16)
Okay, alright, let's go there.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (26:41)
the best life, like was she happy in this life? Because it doesn't matter now, she's gone. Like she doesn't get a redo in this lifetime. And this was before I realized that I was an intuitive healer and so I didn't realize all the things about lifetime and coming down and so on and so forth. And I was really, really in that moment, it came to me, Tara, you're not living the life you're meant to live.

You keep looking for what's missing. You keep searching and trying this and doing this and saying yes to this. And you have no idea who you're supposed to be. You've lost 220 pounds. You've transformed your body. You've become a bodybuilder. You own a gym. You change women's lives. You're doing all this work, but you still have no idea who you are and who you're supposed to be. And to your point is, yes,

externally I had shifted everything. Internally my life was complete chaos. My inner world was a daily chaotic experience. And so where do you go from there? You just continue to dig and dig and try to find yourself and apply anything and everything and you spin and you cycle and you spin and you cycle in and out of these patterns and you continue to stay on the struggle bus.

And everything looks good on the outside. And nobody understands a struggle on the inside because they don't see it. Because you believe, I believed, that I constantly had to put on that I was okay because look at what I'd done. I'd lost 220 pounds. I should be grateful. I should be happy. I shouldn't be feeling what I'm feeling. I should be very, very grateful that God allowed me to lose that weight, right?

Julie Hilsen (28:30)
It's still

that unworthiness. It still is in there. Yeah. I can relate, yeah.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (28:33)
Yes, yes.

yeah, and moving through that healing work that I've moved through now, allowing myself to step into my calling as an intuitive healer, which is a blessing of losing my sister and her coming to me and allowing me to realize that I was playing small in life and not being my true self.

Trisha was always very frank and very to the point. Like when she was alive, she would tell you the way it is. And it's no different now that she's with me in the guide side of things. She's probably more vocal now. And it was the healing that allowed me, the releasing and the letting go to say, hi, I'm Tara Whiskall. I'm an intuitive healer. And if you aren't okay with it, that's okay, because I am. And that's all that matters in my life.

Julie Hilsen (29:18)
Yeah.

Yay!

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (29:18)
Yes, I know, right? It feels

amazing. Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I can still say that. Like today, I'm like, oh my gosh, I just said that.

Julie Hilsen (29:26)
Yeah, yeah, and it's glorious. It's just absolutely glorious and beautiful.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (29:32)
Thank you.

Thank you.

Julie Hilsen (29:34)
my goodness. So now you're, you are doing the She Rises program and you're helping, and it seems like you're on the path to help other people find their intuitive abilities or divinity or, or what's, what's your framework for that? Like, how do you, how do you find the people who need you that are searching?

Because that's my biggest thing is reaching those people that need to hear, that are ready to hear, that want to remember their divinity.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (29:56)
Yeah.

You know, to be honest, I journal. I set the intention every single day that the women that need me, I ask guides. I go up to the fifth plane and I ask all guides that, you know, here are my services. And if you have women who need my services and you think I'm a good fit for them, please send them my way. And I open myself up to receive those women that will find me no matter where they are in social media, my email list, word of mouth.

Those are my biggest ways of reaching these women. And I use the work of spirituality. I use the work of NLP, the integrated energy therapy, healing, energy clearing, chakra balancing and clearing, all of these tools I use. And to be very honest with you, some of the women that have come through the program have no understanding of this. have no, they believe in God. They

believe that there might be a universe, they believe in this, they don't know what they believe in. There's all kinds of walks of life. And I use the tools, I guide them through it, allow them to do the healing for themselves using all of these beautiful, beautiful tools that are available in the healing space. And it's not necessarily for them to like step into their intuition. I want them to know that everybody's intuitive. Every single individual on this earth is intuitive.

doesn't mean that you're an intuitive healer. Some people have just like, I've noticed when people want to lose weight, they're like, I don't want muscles like you. I'm like, you don't have to be a bodybuilder. Like that's not, so now I've learned that I have to say you don't have to be an intuitive healer if you don't want to be. Like this is just about honoring your intuition and allowing yourself to be able to go in and hear, hear yourself. Let your internal world speak to you and let you know what are these emotions that you have.

Julie Hilsen (31:34)
you

you

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (31:54)
surfacing, what do they want you to know? What do they need from you? And that awareness is so freeing when you can learn to intuitively listen to yourself and to clear out all of the negativity within that doesn't belong to you and learn how to have energy etiquette where you're keeping yourself cleared and keeping yourself safe and allowing yourself to walk in this path that is your most authentic self.

This is where the world opens up for you and you begin to travel your life living exactly as you've always wanted to, but always believed that was never possible for you. So She Rises is about unbecoming. It's three different phases. The first is unraveling. This is unraveling from who you've always been that you thought you had to be very much like me from my eight year old phase. I had to unravel from being that girl and

That's what I do for my women through release work, through healings, activations, all of the beautiful, beautiful things that we do together in the program. Then we move into the upgrade, which is rewriting your programming. This is where we do the integration and the implementation of the healing work and the different strategies and steps, the journaling, and really allowing women to get clear for the very first time because they've

Like their internal compass is now reactivated and recalculated to be just them, not the rest of the world, not society expectations, not anything else. It's them. So finally they're seeing life with a whole new lens and it's clear and they go into the upgrade after being cleared out to say, this is who I'm supposed to be. This is where I'm supposed to go in life.

These are my joys and my happiness and love and this was what would give me peace. And then we say, hallelujah, let's go baby. Let's make that happen. And that's what we do over those eight weeks is build that whole programming system within them. And then we go into the up level, which is the final weeks of it. And that is bringing all of it home. It's like putting the wax on the vehicle, the very last layer of it. And it's really anchoring them in to their authentic self.

Julie Hilsen (33:48)
Thank you.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (34:08)
so that they no longer allow themselves to wear a mask that they don't belong living behind. So that's She Rises. Thank you.

Julie Hilsen (34:16)
It's so beautiful and comprehensive.

mean, wow. And you're empowering them so they're not gonna need you. They can take this from here.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (34:28)
Yeah, that's my goal.

That is my absolute goal. Our very last day that they're in the program, we have a crowning ceremony. And they literally crown themselves with the crown that I send them. And they step into their full queenhood, ready to walk forward, knowing that that crown will stay in place for the rest of their life. And they will lead themselves in the way that is authentically divine for them.

Julie Hilsen (34:56)
It's beautiful. It's beautiful.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (34:58)
Thank you. Doors are

open, so I'm so excited about the women that are now coming in and I in fact have three slots left. So it's such a beautiful and exciting time for me as I'm welcoming the women in now.

Julie Hilsen (35:13)
well, thank you. And yes, I will put the link to your website and the show description so that people can come check that out. You know, that's exciting. And and just I am all about adding to the grid of light. I believe there's this energetic grid of light around our earth and, you know, it's connected to the the solar sun, the central sun. But we're we're in charge of our earth grid and

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (35:21)
Thank you.

you

Julie Hilsen (35:41)
anytime one of us shines, it adds to that earth grid light. And so I can just see these cells of beautiful angelic light of our souls adding to that and transforming all that needs to be transformed and transmuted from what the inversions have been placed on us to what we deserve, to what we were put here for. And that's ultimate joy and abundance and love.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (36:09)
I love that. I love that grid of grid of light. I think that's so beautifully said. And I want to share that. If you don't mind, I would love just I have my podcast and I want to just share this conversation and you share that because it's eye opening for us to know that we're all collective. And, you know, when we rise, when we shine brighter, not it doesn't just impact us. As you said, it impacts the entire world and it

Julie Hilsen (36:09)
I'm holding sp-

No.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (36:38)
shifts the world in a beautiful way. So I love how you say that, beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.

Julie Hilsen (36:43)
Thank you.

Well, yeah, and my that's how I wrote my book Life of Love. And it it's it's my offering to help people who are curious to to connect with their divinity to connect with their angels. And, and I my biggest, my biggest problem was I didn't know how to ask, I thought I was always asking the wrong way. And I wasn't worthy to receive how can I even get the words?

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (36:49)
Yeah.

Julie Hilsen (37:11)
And so I asked the angels to give me the words to ask for specific things that could help raise my frequency to feel worthy. And a lot of times I'll go back and I'm like, yeah, I'm supposed to remember this. This is part of what it is. So it's all about living in your divinity. so my mission lines up with yours so much. And so that sisterhood is just, I can feel it. So thank you so much for sharing and saying yes.

Tara Wiskow {Intuitive Healer} (37:36)
Yeah.

thank you. Thank you for this time with you today. Thank you for doing the work that you do. I know I shared that in the little pre-talk that we had before you hit record, but honestly, I mean that. Anytime that I can meet a woman and collaborate with another woman that is doing her work to help improve the world as it is, I absolutely want to collaborate and I want to celebrate you. So thank you for doing the work that you do and allowing me to get to step into your space and spend this time with you.

Julie Hilsen (38:08)
Thank you.