Enlighten & Elevate with Kelly
Thank you for being here dear soul! My name is Kelly and I am a Reiki Master, mother, wife, and lover of all things spiritual. Come with me on my quest to find tools and knowledge for continued spiritual growth. It can be tough to navigate the world as a human and parent. Dive in with me for enlightenment and ways to empower your life! We will explore many topics such as spirituality, holistic healing modalities, and metaphysics.
Enlighten & Elevate with Kelly
Reverend Stacey P.'s NDE & Journey through Spiritual Awakening and Healing!
Hello beautiful souls! What happens when a registered nurse's life takes an unexpected spiritual turn? Join us as Reverend Stacey P. shares her poignant story of transformation, marked by multiple near-death experiences and a profound awakening on April 24th, 2021. Once healing patients, Stacey now heals through Reiki and writing, shedding light on her battle with breast implant poisoning and the peace she discovered amidst turmoil. Her journey from nursing to becoming an author and spiritual guide reveals the transformative power of creativity and faith.
Throughout our conversation, Stacey opens up about healing from trauma, finding self-love, and nurturing the inner child. Drawing inspiration from spiritual luminaries like Wayne Dyer and Abraham Hicks, she explores themes of empathy, compassion, and the importance of spiritual truths that resonate personally. Stacey's narrative is rich with insights into overcoming personal challenges such as PTSD and self-doubt, demonstrating how practices like Reiki and writing poetry have brought solace and connection in her life.
As we wrap up our enlightening chat, Stacey expresses her gratitude for the support of our listeners and invites everyone to embrace the light and positivity of Reiki. With her new literary works on the horizon, including "Becoming a Manifesting Diva" and a poetry collection titled "Soul Spells," Stacey continues to spread hope and healing. Stay connected with Reverend Stacey on Facebook and Instagram for more inspiration, and consider exploring the benefits of Reiki through her offerings.
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Hello beautiful souls, Thank you so much for being here and being part of my journey. I love to explore topics that make us consider different perspectives and meanings of life. The topic today that my guest and I are going to be discussing is a near-death experience. Near-death experiences often will change people very deeply. It'll strengthen their belief in life after death. They feel profound love. They have increased compassion for others, a renewed sense of mission and purpose, and my guest really goes into this and talks about how her experience changed her life.
Speaker 1:She is also an author, a co-author of many books. Her latest release is Becoming a Manifesting Diva and she will also be releasing a book of her poems very soon. So definitely be on the lookout for that. I will have links to her books in the podcast notes. But I want to thank you all so much for being here and enjoy this conversation. She is just such a beautiful, dynamic person. She's really funny and I think you guys are all going to love her. Thank you and enjoy this episode. Hello Soul Family, I'm so excited I have Reverend Stacey P here with me today and she is a writer and a near-death experience survivor. And welcome, Stacey. We're going to talk about a bunch of different things today. I'm so happy you're here.
Speaker 2:I'm really excited. I'm really excited about this. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:My goodness. I was a registered nurse for 27 years. I've been in healthcare for 34. I've always been a healer by nature and when I had my near-death experience, I had to reevaluate everything I thought I knew about life and I truly wasn't living my life. For me and I almost want to say it was a huge epiphany I started waking up and I started looking at the world with brand new eyes, like seeing I don't know, seeing life through the eyes of source. Like I started waking up, my perception changed. My old paradigm changed, like everything changed, and then I was led down the Reiki path. So I became a Reiki practitioner.
Speaker 2:I went all the way with Reiki, except for teaching Reiki. I became a Reiki master, had a blast with that the last couple of years and in September of 2022, I was shocked by an electric fence and I've had. I've been struggling since then. My health went to shit. So right now, all I'm doing is healing and writing, and I have a couple books coming out. So this year I call it my Stacey sabbatical year. I'm just writing and sharing poems and just sharing love and hope with people, and that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1:Beautiful, that's absolutely beautiful. So near-death experiences I know a lot of people listening will be curious.
Speaker 2:What was your experience like? I've had multiple. I started having NDEs about six years ago, but the big daddy of them all was April 24th 2021. I was in critical condition. I needed 24-7 care. I was released from the hospital and they didn't know what was wrong with me because everything kept coming up normal on my labs. There was no explanation why I was so sick. And then finally thank God for my sister and my functional medicine doctor we discovered that my breast implants were poisoning me, so my body was so full of toxins and poison and emotional stress I was going through.
Speaker 2:I was going through a true like mental breakdown because my whole world was shattered. And that day I knew I was getting bad because I wasn't able to talk. So I had a conversation with my daughter and I was pretty much. I said to my husband if something happens to me, get my journals out. And looking back now I feel this was always part of God's plan to be like God, dang it, start writing already, you idiot. I was like I'm writing. And before I went to bed and this was truly before I became a reverend, truly before I started studying the Bible and just getting really serious about my spirituality I said to my husband, if I don't make it through the night, but I had peace. I had the weirdest feeling of peace come over me and I really it's hard to explain I ended up falling asleep and I woke up. I think it was like a three, three, three in the morning and I knew I was with God because I felt a feeling that was so indescribable. But now I can actually write about it and talk about it. It was like the most magnanimous feeling of love and light that I can't put into words. I met my family members. I met some people that have been coming through that.
Speaker 2:I didn't really know what was happening back then, but all I remember was feeling such unimaginable peace. There was no pain and it was almost like every emotion was positive. If I wanted to think like, I asked God why did I have to live a life like this? Because I've been in a trauma response ever since I was nine years old. Why? And he explained everything to me that night. He also tied all the pieces to me. If you picture a big puzzle of the sky in the sky of your life. Oh, that works there, that fits there. Oh, that's because of this I was able to put all these pieces together. And it was almost like God said to me you are God, you can heal. You are not meant to live a life suffering and struggling and being sick. And it was just magical.
Speaker 2:And I remember waking up, shaking my husband and I'm like I'm going to heal and he's like you're half dead. I'm like no, like I popped out of bed that day and understand this is all documented. I think that's why I was a nurse, because if you don't document it, it never happens. So that day, as soon as I woke up and I popped out of bed, normally my blood pressure would be like 160 over 110. Just getting out of bed, just getting out of bed, I popped out of bed my blood pressure was 100 over 65. And I was able to take a deep breath and I was like oh my God. And I didn't understand.
Speaker 2:It was a near-death experience until probably I don't remember if it was a couple weeks or a couple months after I was seeing a therapist ever since 2020. I take my mental health very seriously and I had a lot of shit. And she's the one who said you had a near-death experience and I'm like but I didn't die. And she said you believed you did and she said you believed you did so that night. And looking back now my three-year anniversary was last week it's like my ego died that night.
Speaker 2:Everything I thought, I knew and was taught completely dissolved that night and I started on the path of love and light, where trees are beautiful, flowers are beautiful, people are beautiful and I was like, what the fuck? Spring tree, I'm not all loving like God. But now I'm looking back and I'm like all this time I believe I was supposed to be this person, but I'm a trauma survivor. I've never needed anyone and I've never depended on anyone. I think God was finally like I've never needed anyone and I've never depended on anyone. I think God was finally like I'm taking over. Give me the reins, rest in my embrace and let me take over. I'm still fighting that one. I'm not. It's extremely difficult. But now, three years later, I'm like it's no longer weird and people are like what are you doing? I'm like, oh, I'm talking to so-and-so and they're like who? I'm like he's dead. You won't know who it is. They're like what, but now it's like my world.
Speaker 2:Now I've grown leaps and bounds since my near death experience and for some reason I have so many health problems. I have an illness that's called mast cell activation disease, where most people get hives and have to take a Benadryl. I go into pure anaphylaxis. My throat start closing up. I have to call the ambulance. I have to get to the hospital. I have a lot of these health problems that every time I get sick now I'm able to self-regulate myself and say you're calm, you're safe. So I've done a lot more trauma healing in the last three years since my NDE.
Speaker 2:But I think my NDE showed me that we're not meant to be sick. We're meant to be healthy and living in harmony and just happy people. We're not supposed to be fighting and had this big division that is dividing our entire world. And it was a magical. I still call it the most magical night of my life because people are like and I'm like what do you mean? And God explained everything that makes sense to me. People are like I don't understand it. You're smoking crack, you're doing this, and I'm like and it's crack-a-lacking, because it's some really good shit.
Speaker 1:I think it's so interesting what you're talking about, because we aren't meant to be miserable, suffering human beings. And what's interesting on my path is that I have, in all the things that I've read and listened to, that we often do cause our own illnesses yes, that, through lack of love. I know Anita Moore Johnny maybe people listening would be familiar with her story Now it's fairly well known dying to be me and that she, when she had her near-death experience, she crossed over, met her father that she had a difficult relationship with healed that. But I know that she was told that the reason she was shown why she was sick with stage four cancer Yep, she was sick with it because she had never loved herself. She had people pleased her whole life, and so I love it. She had people pleased her whole life, and so I love it.
Speaker 1:She puts I'm getting goosebumps as I'm talking with you about this, but she I know she writes, she does. I follow her on Instagram and she writes every day that you love yourself because your life truly does depend on it. It does, and so when she came back I know it was like two weeks after she she came back from her NDE and everybody thought she was going to die that she healed miraculously. They did scans on her and her oncologist was they didn't know how to explain it because they looked at her and her tests and the results looked as for a healthy person, not a person who had any kind of signs of cancer, and I know she does all this talking, much like you, about how we are meant to heal and love ourselves and speak our truth and live our truth and be authentic.
Speaker 1:And it can be difficult sometimes for people to live in their authenticity and be who they are. But we've got to remove that fear piece, like we have to stop being afraid. We have to stop being afraid of who we are. But I did want to go back to I know during your experience you were able to ask, like you had a Q, some clarity on the human experience and what we agreed to. Or do you want to talk a little bit about the Q&A and how that kind of impacted you?
Speaker 2:So I didn't understand it back then because I was completely left brain thinking. I had no imagination at all. I was going through the emotions of life. My inner child died when I was nine years old, so I had to pretty much resurrect her because she was just broken beyond anything I could ever say. But it wasn't until I asked God the questions and I understood, understand what my role is in this lifetime. This is my last incarnation. I know all about that.
Speaker 2:I'm here to teach how to show people self-resilience, self-actualization, self-realization exactly what Wayne Dyer teaches. I had to walk through that because now and I found especially in the last three years it's very hard to trust people. But I feel the minute you resonate with something, like the minute you say, oh, I'm a sexual abuse survivor, you're there, you've got that little edge where you can be like I know what you're feeling. So it's almost like I was definitely more empathetic, which I'm still fighting with because, look, I was an unbelievable nurse. That is one thing. In my 27 years as a registered nurse, I went up the ladder like you couldn't go any higher In 2021, I was up for a director of clinical operations position. I was going places and after what happened. I had to really look and say I thought this was in your plan. Like here, I am being successful. You want me to share my story? I'm teaching, I'm educating. What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 2:So I took the last three years to really do some deep healing that I thought I did, but it wasn't as deep as I could have been and, with God, I guess, once I became a reverend and started going down that path after the Reiki and I would never diss the Reiki, I would never disrespect Reiki at all, because Reiki is truly what brought me to God and everyone's so, oh my God, it's witchcraft.
Speaker 2:I'm like screw you, don't know anything about it, it's not. I'm like serious. But again, it's like the love I felt when I had my NDE, that it's almost like the Holy Spirit just comes inside of you and gives you a love that makes you feel limitless and so damn powerful you can do anything. So God gave me that night. But back then I was really sick. So, even though I went into a radical remission, a week later I had to have my implants surgically removed. So on May 7th, which is coming up, that's when I truly started breathing for the very first time and seeing the magnitude of how God can heal us and how we can use our own healing powers to heal ourselves.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Yeah, interesting that you're talking about the trauma that you have to experience so that you can go on to teach and learn, because it's often those traumas that break us wide open. It forces us to face why are we here? Because, when you're brought down to your knees so the questions you're asking, what's the point of all this? Exactly, very beautifully, you know to be here as a teacher to share that and that also, I think, sharing your truth, living your truth and having experienced all that, you're a light for people, because you're showing them that they can't. We can do hard things, we can move forward and we can do it in love and we can overcome. And I think that's absolutely needed for people to hear and it's beautiful what you're doing.
Speaker 2:I hope so. I still doubt myself. I still have there's that little girl inside of me that still you're never going to be enough. But I'm like shut up, bitch. I'm now like to be said, but then I have to have some grace and realize to not beat myself up. If I show up and I'm like I stumble with my words or I start stuttering, like I'm in a place in life where I'm so damn comfortable in my own skin, it's just like my healing journey now, looking back, is it's such a beautiful thing and it's because God entered my life and understand this is for everyone.
Speaker 2:I'm not anyone special because I had an NDE. I think I had to get to the point because I was so traumatized, coming from an unconscious response and trauma response with everything. I had to learn how to truly love myself at my cellular level and not just say, oh, I love you, bitch, you're fabulous. Like I truly had to dig through all that horrible shame and just ugliness that I experienced when I was younger and be like that is not who you are. Three years ago that's who I was. I was like, oh my God, I'm still this ugly little girl inside of me. But now I'm like with God, I'm fearless and I'm unapologetically just Stacey, and that's enough, and I love it. I just love it, macy, and that's enough, and I love it.
Speaker 1:I just love it Absolutely. I think healing your inner child, too, is powerful. We all have things that we're, I think, unconsciously sometimes carrying with ourselves, that we don't even realize, because there could be things that had occurred, maybe who knows what age, and it could be a various array of things, that we were, something somebody said to us or did to us or whatever. But we carry that as we move forward and unconsciously and do you want to speak to healing inner child and how, like for people listening who are maybe curious or maybe for whatever reason that's coming up for them, how do they start to dig into that and maybe get at what is there, how to heal that for them? It'll be different for each individual, but what do you think about that?
Speaker 2:So you have to know what love feels like in order to give love to others. When I started my inner child healing, I didn't even know what it was Like. The same thing with Reiki. It's not that I was ignorant, I just never. The whole concept was like weird, but it was very hard for me to connect with her. So I could not connect because I was not that in tune yet with my body or my spirit team. So I didn't know how to love her. So what I ended up doing was I ended up imagining the love I felt for my daughter and my son. So imagine feeling holding my babies.
Speaker 2:And when I started clicking it with my own children, I was ready to open up my heart a little bit more and say, oh okay, let me love her like I love my kids. And then it ended up becoming so much fun for me because I'm like, because I call her Namastasia I call her Nami for short I take her everywhere with me, like I have an actual doll that was so aligned by source on August 1st in 2021. I'm in Cracker Barrel and all of a sudden I walk over. I'm told to walk over to the toys. I'm like okay, and right in front of me is a beautiful doll that looks like a mermaid with fairy hair, and I look at the time and it's 2-2-2. And I'm like, okay, I'm doing this. And I turned it around and her name was Aurora.
Speaker 2:When I was growing up, my favorite Disney movie was Sleeping Beauty, so I was like if that ain't a sign, I don't know what is. So I got a doll and Nami went everywhere with me and a funny story. Now, looking back, it is funny, but my daughter did not think it was funny at the time. So, as sick as I've been, she lives in Virginia and she came to visit me with her boyfriend and I met him for the first time and my daughter and I are two fires together. It's not good, we're too much alike. And she said something and I said just need to heal your air shine, let's go get an army. Her new boyfriend, who's now her fiance, and you would think her eyeballs bolted out of her head, and she's like oh my God, you're batshit crazy and it was not a good visit. So she ends up leaving and I look at Kenny. I'm like what? And she's Abe. He's you don't see it. I'm like was it too soon? And he's you're 53 and you're playing with dolls. What do you think I'm like? Yeah, too soon.
Speaker 2:What the best part about inner child healing is I never need friends. I am not lonely. I have her all the time. We watch Disney movies, when I write my poetry, she comes out and it's such a beautiful, crazy journey. But it's amazing because I was not raised with caring parents. I was raised on my own. At nine years old I didn't have that love that I so desperately needed as a child to form that basis of love and foundation of you feel cared and loved. I never had that. So for me, I had to heal my inner child in order to move forward in life and now she's a part of me. It's just. I take pictures with her. We do photo shoots.
Speaker 1:But it's really important, though, having that solid foundation, and I encounter a lot of different. We all do encounter a lot of different people, and sometimes I, when I hear people or I see how they behave or what they say, I think to myself, wow, they have a lot of inner child issues that have not been healed. But I do agree. I think that's what a lot of people out there in the world who are living in anger or mistrust or a lot of that, comes out when people. It took till, I'll tell you, stacey, took me until adulthood to realize that when people project things on you or say things negative to you, that it isn't really about you. It's an ugliness in them that needs to be healed and it's something inside of them that needs to be healed. And it took me until I awakened, until I started, started to really learn, and I will say it's still uncomfortable when somebody is angry or doing negative things towards you. That can be very, still very challenging, but I do understand it. That is something unhealed and it may not necessarily be inner child, but it could be connected to that or it could be something completely different, another sort of issue within them, an insecurity, something completely different, another sort of issue within them, an insecurity, a self-esteem thing, whatever. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I did learn that and I think it's interesting though, but I love that you we all should, I think approach spirituality with playful curiosity. We have to yeah, you're approaching it with playful curiosity and and you know what? That's something we've lost as adults. Right, being playful, being silly and doing things like that.
Speaker 1:Children do that. Without children do it, and they don't think. They don't wake up thinking how do I be silly today? They just are. They are silly, they are creative, they are so imaginative and I think that encouraging that in our children and in our adults be imaginative, be silly, be crazy, and in a fun way. If we were all because you should do things that like that that bring you joy. Everybody, people who are happy are living in joy. They're not angry, they're not mean, they're not out there tearing other people down or looking for a fight. That's why we all need to do that. We need to heal, and I know that you talk about that too, about healing ourselves and how important that is in the journey and that we can heal ourselves. Do you want to talk about our power and how we have that ability, like we don't need to look outside of ourselves really for anything.
Speaker 2:No, and I have a I get. I try and stay in a place of love and joy all day long, but I constantly fall. I don't know if you're familiar with Abraham Hicks. Do you know Abraham and Esther? Okay, yeah, so I live in the vortex. Most people are like what the fuck is that? But I live in the vortex.
Speaker 2:So when you heal and when you are happy and when you feel joy, you are at your most childlike state. If everyone could wake up and find what brought you joy as a child and, even if it's for 30 seconds, have a memory and just stay in that vibration of ease and flow. This is easy Happiness. There was no jealousy, there was no fighting, there was no bullying when we were a child. It's amazing what society has done to us and conditioning, but the healing that I found was when I was quiet, when I was by myself. I would get the messages, the downloads from spirit, from God, whoever was coming through that day, and every single one of them was what are you doing with Nami today? What are you doing with your inner child today? And then she would come through and I could tell the difference, because when I would get, let's say, I would be short with someone and instead of being like you're such a bitch, I would think, okay, what is going on? So I'm able now to see what emotion is causing nausea, what emotion is causing, like, my depression, and I'm able now to look at it in a childlike way and say we're going to heal this together and let's just get over shit. I don't hold grudges, I don't hold on to things, because my heart is only here for love. My heart is only here to do good. I don't have time in my life for jealousy or drama and I feel so many women are like you want to keep up with the Joneses. Just keep up with yourself. Just connect. Everyone has and this is my philosophy and again, I teach a lot of Wayne Dyer, louise Hay.
Speaker 2:I use a lot of their healing modalities, but Carl Jung says it perfectly the best way to lose yourself is to believe in a God outside of your own soul. The minute you connect with a God of your own understanding, whomever that might be, it's a game changer. A game changer. Everything you thought you were taught about religion and all these rules and regulations and everything you have to do, you're like this is not how it's supposed to be and I think by connecting with that inner child, the innocence in you, the imagination that lives in you, the spark of God, target to find that and a whole brand new world wakes up for you. It's like right in front of you. You're seeing life through the eyes of source. You're seeing life through the eyes of your own inner child, the way it's truly supposed to be, and that's how we heal. We laugh, we have fun, we don't worry about stupid shit. Get rid of everything toxic. If you've got friends that just don't lift you up and don't light you on fire, bye-bye, wish them love and light.
Speaker 2:But you know what it's like for me with my healing. I'm in such a I'm in a very vulnerable place. Right now I don't look as sick as I am, but there are days I'm bed bound. There's days I'm housebound. I can't leave my house. So it's like those are the days that I spend in quiet. And the more time you spend in meditation or mindfulness or just being quiet the tools to heal yourself you start hearing them and you start listening and trusting and opening up your heart.
Speaker 2:Because most of us, all of us, have trauma, every one of us. We're not going to get through this lifetime without bullying, trauma, jealousy, all the bad shit that just happens of just living life. But for me, connecting to my inner child, it it just made everything so different. I look at life so differently. And now I look at whatever disease I'm slapped with, I'm like all right, god, how do we heal? I don't trust medical professionals anymore. I'm done Like I don't, and I was in that field for 34 years. I'm now on the right side with Albert Einstein, right brain imagination. And the other thing about the inner child is that's how I came to truly know God, my inner child. I have such a childlike faith for Jesus and I don't mean to get preachy or religious, but God, that child loves Jesus. It's I want to do good, because it's almost like I'm rewarding her and God rewards me with just happiness and joy. As sick as I am, I still have happiness and joy because my inner child is I love Jesus. Okay, we love Jesus.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's awesome. And what's interesting too is, as I've awakened and I know I told you before I was raised Catholic but Jesus what I've learned of him and who he truly was and what his message was, is Jesus did not have a set of rules for people to follow. He didn't care what faith you were. He wanted us to know that God was inside of us and to love unconditionally. To love our neighbor, help our neighbor and to show that to each other and to have compassion and forgiveness. And that's what his messages were Love, compassion, forgiveness. And that somehow changed over many thousands of years.
Speaker 1:The message has changed and we're taken by religion and, in my opinion, made into be something that he never wanted, like Jesus, never wanted to be part of the politics of his time.
Speaker 1:He never was one to be wearing the fine finery of the hierarchies and in the Jewish faith at the time.
Speaker 1:But he of the hierarchies in the Jewish faith at the time, but he found the people in those hierarchies to be as cruel as the people in the Romans that were governing over those areas at the time. And so he just what I've learned in the truth of, and people notice respect to anybody's faith, but if you really do your research and look at who Jesus really was, I think that you would find those messages and they're universal messages and you don't have to be a Christian to embody that energy, because Christ consciousness is an energy and that energy is not discriminatory in any way, shape or form. It's just in. Christ brought that to our plane of existence. He brought that here for us to just know what it was and he was trying to help people to see it and raise their consciousness and really learn what we were here for. At least that's my belief and from my research and everything that I've done. But I love that you said that and Jesus was always connected with children, always.
Speaker 2:And the homeless, the poor, the strippers, the prostitutes, was always connected with children, always. And the homeless, the poor, the strippers, the prostitutes?
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on Everybody. Jesus never turned anybody away, amen. And he didn't judge anybody. He didn't. That was not. He wouldn't turn you away because say that you had lived a life of being a prostitute or whatever it was, you were a murderer, whatever. He never turned anybody away. And maybe we all need to embrace some of that. I'm not saying that go out and embrace murderers, but maybe looking at it in a different light, that for all the difficult things that we face or people, I think maybe if we all just stopped judging so much and getting out of that place of judgment.
Speaker 2:For things that Start judging yourself. Of judgment for things, start judging yourself. It always start with judging yourself. And I can honestly say the best book I'm reading is the Bible. Never in a million years did I would say I would consciously want to read the Bible, but I'm up every morning and I just I'm just lapping it up like a thirsty dog. I am just like I want more because nothing. And I'm an Old Testament girl Like I'm.
Speaker 2:I was raised Jewish, I was born Jewish, so I really resonate with the Old Testament and when I started in the ministry and meeting more spiritual, aligned people, you know it was just amazing the peace. And again, when you feel the Holy Spirit in you Holy Ghost, whatever you want to call it, it is holy Like you can. There's a no, it was God. When you've been kissed and touched by the Holy Spirit, you automatically just want to be a good person. You don't have to work at it, it's just automatic in your if your heart is pure. I had a lot of. My heart was broken, my heart was frozen. I'm still like. Still every day, like every day, I ascend higher. Every day I want to learn more about God and Jesus and just being one with everyone. But it's crazy to think that I'm now saying it's the best book I've ever read.
Speaker 1:I'm like my God Right.
Speaker 1:It definitely has things to offer, would say.
Speaker 1:Without a doubt there's a lot of and, like you said, in the old testament those were some of the earliest teachings of source and connection.
Speaker 1:And it's really interesting that you talk about that, because after I was awakened and I learned so many things about the catholic church that weren't true and it were lies or things that were hidden or changed, I was angry about it when I was ready to just write it off all together and say never again am I going to look at any of it. But I met somebody and she had gone through a similar situation and she really put me on a path of actually reading things and then reading the Gnostic Gospels and that has very much helped me. Of course, I've released that anger and I'm on this path of I can't get enough of figure like learning about the truth and the messages and there's, I would just say, encourage everyone who's listening to just go out there and whatever you're drawn to, of course, and to read and listen and seek what you feel resonates in your soul, and I love how you talk about that.
Speaker 1:Like you do, you feel it within you what you're reading, if it resonates or it doesn't. And I've had many spiritual teachers that say because there's so much out there right, so much.
Speaker 2:Take what resonates.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Take what resonates and discard the rest. Take what works for you and use that, implement that in your life and move forward with everything in a good way. But I love that you always talk about gratitude and positivity and laughter, and that comes through in everything that you're saying, because you're and here it is like you're facing storm after storm and you're still smiling, You're still laughing, you're still out here being funny, telling people how to go through this and how to you know. So this has got to be part of your practice, right? You have a great like a gratitude practice that you use on a daily. Do you want to tell people about what your practice is, and maybe something that they may want to implement in their life?
Speaker 2:Sure For me, it started as simple as writing down three things I was grateful for, and please understand, this was a chore for me. Like I was working 70 hours, I'm like, okay, I'm grateful for this and this. But once I got intentional and just started writing every morning three things I was grateful for, and then, at the end of the night, three things I was grateful for, and I would write it down because I found if I didn't write it I would forget. And I also set an alarm. I'd been to the point where I had to set my alarm hourly because I believed I was a piece of shit, I believed I wasn't lovable, I believed I was ugly. Like no one wanted to love me. So I'm talking. I went hardcore every hour Positive affirmations I am loved, I am beautiful, I am kind, I am compassionate. It was horseshit in the beginning, but I truly was like that's the woman I want to be. My ultimate goal was to look in the mirror and look and see God shining through me in my eyes. I knew one day. So I had to start very simple.
Speaker 2:So journaling surround yourself with positive people. Surround yourself. If you've got these debbie downers that always cause you and trauma dump on you. It's time to go or set a parameter. You know what I'll deal with your bullshit once a week, but you have to really. You have to really. First of all, you have to also know energy as well. It's like the minute you start living in gratitude you have to be like is this filling my cup? How does this person make me feel I also.
Speaker 2:For the past four years I wear a bracelet. Gratitude changes everything, so I have constant reminders, post-it notes all over the house. I'm no longer driving, but when I was driving I had a little stuffed animal called Harmony and it was the it's T-Y. I forget the name name of it, but every time I would look at harmony because she was on my desk, the ty was thank you. So every time I would see her I'd be like thank you. Every person I met, thank you, nice to meet you like. I never let anyone else's energy infiltrate on my energy.
Speaker 2:So in the beginning I was very intentional with the gratitude Now and it has to become a habit, so I was. I had to do it every single day and you have to be consistent, but I can promise you there is not a person in the world who's going to say your gratitude didn't work for me. It's going to work. You just have it's going to work. Yeah, first of all, you have to want it to work, and I wanted to be a truly grateful person and, after everything that I've been through all my tools. I've been waking out truly since 2018. But, like the toolbox I have right now, my foundation is gratitude.
Speaker 2:Like I can't, I just it's just normal for me to go outside and look at flowers and just be overwhelmed by the beauty. Normal for me to go outside and look at flowers and just be overwhelmed by the beauty. Another thing that I like to do and I did it with a friend of mine was I had a leaf and we went walking and I'm like, what do you see? She's like a leaf. I'm like, no, what do you see? She's a leaf. I'm like, oh my God, look at the color. Does it smell? Let's look at the texture. There's so much that we can do for free. That'll just put a smile on our face.
Speaker 2:I started a group five years ago based on laughter, gratitude and positivity, healing autoimmune, and it's like the more people that you have surrounding you that believe in gratitude and truly want you to do better, and let's vibe off each other, it becomes effortless. I can never say that word Effortless, effortless I can never say that word. Effortless. Just gratitude and just being grateful for being able to walk to the bathroom to pee.
Speaker 2:I remember there were days that I struggled. I'm like, what am I grateful for? Like I had to literally go to the bottom and be like just anything. But I did it and I've done it consistently now for about four years, which is making my current health crisis. It's not shits and giggles, but at least I'm able to be like. I got this Plus Reiki taught me, one day at a time. So I would tell people don't rush anything with spirituality, because once you're in a different dimension and you understand the universe and how the energies work, time stands still, you don't age. You get younger in your mentality, your heart gets younger. Yeah, more wrinkles might appear, but your soul the more spiritual I become, the younger my soul becomes and I feel like I connect in such a beautiful way. And it all started with gratitude, that's it.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. That's really beautiful and I think it's interesting too. You talk about how tough it is sometimes. Like you said, you had to sometimes find. I think sometimes, when we are maybe working with a challenging person or dealing with a challenging family member or whomever, that it's hard to find the good right in those situations or the good. But, like you said, you can just it doesn't. We can always find good Smelling a beautiful flower, seeing bees pollinating, seeing a beautiful bird, anything you know what. Just like watching a child enjoy something, like there's such a purity there that always warms my heart to see children play and be joyful, and because they really do have this, just we do need to return, I think, to being more childlike in so many ways as adults. Amen, and I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1:Do you have any advice for people maybe dealing with a difficult person? Do you have a method or something that you would use to help work through that? I know limiting your time with them is obviously a good one and I know, like you were saying, how do you deal with people after you're with this person? But if it's with a person, say in a work situation, where you can't necessarily get away from them. What do you recommend for people?
Speaker 2:with that. So I'm. It don't work for most people because I'm very blunt and honest. Right, I'm just like you need to back off. You need to back off. But even if the person is toxic, you have to really make sure you are filling your own cup up first. If this person is toxic and you talk every day, look, something comes up and automatically what happens is either the person gets the message or the universe makes the way, because if you set that intention out there, look, I'm only going to be surrounded by people that are love and light. It's almost like toxic people come, but it's almost like you neutralize that emotion that makes you so. Oh, my god, I can't stand you.
Speaker 2:Distance, time setting boundaries which, I'll be honest, are very hard for a lot of people. I'm the same way I. I give my all to just everyone. Like I don't, I'll meet some for the first time and it's like I'm your best friend. That's how. That's just the person I am.
Speaker 2:But for me, cutting out toxic people, I had to realize toxic is toxic. I don't give a shit who it is. It could be your mother, your father, your aunt, your grandmother. If it's toxic, you need to put yourself first, your own energy first and slowly start to back away, ask the universe for help because, again, we're not meant to be in this world where we're bound up like living in stress mode the rest of our lives and a lot of people take on so many different energies. And right now, the state of the world I feel like everyone is suffering, like everyone is just exhausted. Anxiety, depression, suicide is at an all time high. If you don't have people surrounding you that are making you feel better and vice versa, there's that reciprocity of just love and light, but distance, distance yourself, and then let God just be like I can't deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, just be like I can't deal with you anymore and surrendering and I do and if you um hold your own vibration and I saw this thing yesterday, read it yesterday on Instagram and I know it's something that I personally needed to see. But when you're engaging with people, like maybe not engaging is probably the choice in the way that you react. I guess it was all about, like, when you emotionally react, that you are then and that is your, even if you're not wanting, that's your way of giving permission to interact with that person's energy field, maybe really resonating on that and thinking on that before you emotionally react. Think about do I need to engage in this right now? How do or how can I lovingly stay calm? I think there's so much to what I've learned. There's so many things that we can use, like our breath. It's okay to walk away if a person is frustrated or any of those things, but it just really that really gave me pause and made me think when, in all of my interactions, like when you, we just have to be really mindful about how we respond and sometimes just taking that minute and breathing and thinking about it instead of just exploding or the first thing that comes in that we feel in our body and we want to just say it or whatever. That just really hit me and I'm like okay.
Speaker 1:So when these difficult things happen, taking time to pause and really think through it, how do I want to react? How do I want to engage with this person's energy? Do I want to give them permission to be in my energy? And if they're a toxic person, no, thank you Like sending and sending love into that situation too. I find I don't. Are you familiar with the Hope Opanopo prayer? It's a Hawaiian prayer. You said it better than me. I was going to teach it. Oh. So I think that's so powerful, it works, it does, and I have found that you just saying those four phrases. Can you tell the audience what those four phrases are? It's I, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:There you go, I forgive you, thank you, hold on what's? I'm sorry, I forgive you, thank you and I love you. And there's no specific order. But basically what you do is you're looking at the emotion and you feel the anger or whatever coming up and you just say take a breath, I'm sorry, I love you, please forgive me and thank you. And it almost makes it where. It neutralizes that emotion. But yeah, the Ho'oponopono is a huge rewind prayer for forgiveness. You can Google it, you can do it for free. There's plenty of videos on YouTube. But again, I think what people really want to know is you have to want to heal that wound. It's not just going to magically go away. People can be like oh, this bitch, and be like do you really want to heal that relationship? Because what you're doing is you're healing for you.
Speaker 2:You're forgiving for you, not the other person, which people seem to forget. Yes, so if you want to truly heal and you do the ho'oponopono, it is going to show you where it's. Like you said, you take the breath and you don't feel that emotion that is you just want to hurt someone. It's amazing how therapeutic that prayer is, or just being in mindfulness or meditation in general. There's so much we can do. But again, how much do people want to heal? Like we have to truly look in the mirror and say are you okay being a bitch, are you okay being triggered? Are you okay doing this? And again, everyone has their own spiritual journey, but for me, I wanted all the ugliness out of me. I wanted all the darkness out of me. I wanted all the bitchiness. I did keep my backbone, though. I want to keep that, but I intentionally didn't want to be a piece of shit human being Like. I wanted to be a good person. I wanted it.
Speaker 1:I love that so much. You talk about intention because everything is intention, everything in it. I love that so much. You talk about intention because everything is intention, everything, even if you're not thinking you're intending the energy you're bringing into a situation is your intention. So I and that's really powerful and we are powerful in what our intention is and I just want to say thank you for everything that you just said, because I think that's a beautiful way for people to approach dealing with difficult or toxic people and, like you said and I do believe and wholly agree with you, if you really want to heal, that universe and source creator works in the most mysterious and beautiful ways.
Speaker 1:I've seen it in my life and in your story. It comes through in lots of people that I talk to and I just just I felt such a light and a lightness when you were talking about that and I needed that and I just wanted to tell you how much I'm so grateful that you talked about that and I know people listening are going to feel the same for that explanation, for that thing about it being intentional and all of that. Um, thank you so much, stacey, for that. You're an author and Stacey has written a book called Intuitive, speaking Her Truth, and she's working on several other books. Let's talk about your writing. That's your path now and let's talk about it.
Speaker 2:So so the writing started after I had to resign from the, resign from my nursing company in 2021. And I was like what the hell am I supposed to do with my life now? Never in a million years did I ever think I would be a writer. I didn't dream about becoming a writer. So I get a call from a publishing house and she loved my story and she's like would you like to share? And I was like I'm not a writer and I'm also very self-conscious from. I had moderate cognitive impairment six years ago from a traumatic brain injury that I'm still recovering from. But I was very like self-conscious about writing. I was like, no, this isn't for me. But I was told to jump. It was an opportunity and I jumped in and didn't expect anything Like I went into it where I go into every other job, who can I learn from? What can I learn? Let me open my horizons, let me. What can I learn here? And it took, let me see, it took probably three months to write my chapter. It was one chapter 24 women from around the world and it was one chapter about finding dark around the world. And it was one chapter about finding dark, finding the light in the darkest of places. So three months to write this chapter.
Speaker 2:I became a bestseller on the thing I've been like October 27th 2021. And I didn't know what to do with myself. I developed severe PTSD after it. I didn't know. I was like, oh my God, my story's out there. I look crazy Like.
Speaker 2:I was very self-conscious and the self-doubt came running forward like a hurricane, but I stopped. So I stopped writing after that and then I ended up getting really sick. But then what I started doing was I started writing poetry and I call it glitter shit. And people are like what the hell is glitter shit? I'm like I only have diarrhea and it just keeps coming out of your mouth and it's really nasty. It's glitter and it's powerful. It's all love and light and this was my poetry. And I kept writing and writing, but I did nothing with it. So for the last couple of years I've been writing and I aligned with the most beautiful partner, david, who lives in the UK, and we tried doing a Reiki business and I ended up getting too sick to continue.
Speaker 2:So, by the love of God, after my electric shock I was bedridden a lot. What do I do when I'm bedridden? I write a lot. So I just started writing short stories and I started writing poems and I have a thousand journals full of all these poems and these short stories. And again, divine timing. I knew I was always meant to be a writer but all of a sudden this year, magical opportunities happened. I'm now posting weekly in a blog with the ministry, I now have an author's page, I now have a new book that I'm working on.
Speaker 2:But I guess I was always meant to be a writer because I find when I write, I connect so batshit crazy with source that I can't explain it. So when I started sharing my poems this year because I've been sharing them for three years and it's like there's nothing worse than sending a friend something she's like what do you want me to do with this? I'm like read it, I'm signed Really with this. I'm like read it, I'm Stein, really. You read it, you read it. So it happened too many times. So I stopped sharing.
Speaker 2:But in the last month I started sharing more and more poems and people are now reaching out to me saying you took me to a different realm. I'm like I just light up and it's my husband. I talked about it this morning. He's because I started doing podcasting and I stopped doing podcasts for a very long time. He's what is your intention with all this?
Speaker 2:And I'm like, I'm sharing a piece of me with the world and that's what my poetry is. That's what my books are like, my books that are coming out. My memoir will be coming out this year, later this year, but I've got a poem book coming out with David called Soul Spells. That'll be coming out next month, and I have a book called Becoming the Manifesting Diva, which is through a UK publishing house that's going to launch on July 20th. So all the signs are pointing to writing. I just have to be on the same page and be like you're a good writer, no one's going to judge. They're going to love you. But yeah, so I'm excited about writing and I do have to say, seeing my poem, my first published poem, which was published a couple of weeks ago, it was like a kid on Christmas morning just seeing my words published and just it was probably one of the most magical moments of my life and it's hey if it can keep feeling this good and all I'm asking for is people. Hey, if you want to read it, that's it.
Speaker 1:It's pretty awesome, oh God. That's beautiful and sharing your story. I think that we all came here to be creative beings and you putting that stuff out there, being able for somebody to read your work and be taken to another place, that's powerful. You know, and you're meant to do that. That is source coming through you. That's why we're meant to come here and create and either speak our truth, write our truth, paint our truth Co-create.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, and we're meant to do that, and I'm so excited for these books to come out. Stacey, if people want to reach out to you, where can they find you? So?
Speaker 2:right now I'm Reverend Stacey on Facebook and I'm redoing my author's page, so pretty soon they'll be able to find me as like just Reverend Stacey Pietrigi on my website, and I am actually beachin' preachin' on Instagram. I'm supposed to have 30 followers because I don't share, but I'm ready to share, like I'm ready to spread my light with whomever's meant to resonate, and let's light each other up.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. That's what we're here for. We're here for that. We're all in this together. We're all just walking each other home. Right, that's right. I love that. Stacey, I'm so honored to have spoken with you, to have met you, heard your story, all the beautiful things you're bringing into this world, and I honor the beautiful light that you are. I really do.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you, kelly. Thank you so much for having me and I'm sorry if I ramble, because I do that a lot.
Speaker 1:Oh no, you are wonderful. I can't wait to share this. Thank you, god bless. Bye. Hello, beautiful soul. Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support. I honor the beautiful light that is in each and every one of you. I would love it if you would take a minute and rate and review the podcast. It really helps get the messages out there. I'm also now offering distance Reiki sessions links in the podcast. It really helps get the messages out there. I'm also now offering distance Reiki sessions links in the podcast notes. Reiki completely changed my life. If you are interested or curious, please reach out. I would love to be of service or just help Reiki and it's an amazing benefit. Thank you so much and I'm wishing everybody an amazing day.
