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Episode #156 Isabeau Maxwell Boundaries & Breakthroughs: A Medium's Journey

• Tracy searight • Season 3 • Episode 156

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What happens when your grandmother visits you after death, and you're a math graduate with zero spiritual background? Isabel Maxwell's extraordinary journey from skeptic to spiritual teacher unfolds as she joins Tracy Seawright to share how one paranormal experience launched her into becoming a professional medium, energy worker, and intuition expert.

The conversation takes a fascinating turn when Isabel describes how her unbalanced energy literally caused electronics to explode around her – from cars to air conditioners – until Reiki helped her find alignment. "I think after Reiki Two was when I felt aligned for the first time, and didn't know what I was feeling because I was aligned for the first time," she reflects, highlighting how energy work can transform our relationship with ourselves and the world.

With 19 years in the spiritual field, Isabel boldly challenges common misconceptions about mediumship and intuitive abilities. She dismantles the idea that only "special" people are intuitive: "We're all intuitive. Every single one of us, and your intuition is already 100% strong. It's ju

st covered up." Her approach focuses on practical strategies rather than mystical theories, helping thousands break through the barriers keeping them disconnected from their innate abilities.

Both women share vulnerably about setting difficult boundaries with mothers and ending marriages as part of their healing journeys. Isabel's advice for spiritual seekers centers on navigating the inevitable internal challenges of impatience and self-judgment, transforming these obstacles into opportunities for growth. Her award-winning course The Sage Method and supportive online community The Sage Circle provide pathways for others seeking similar transformation.

Ready to explore your own intuitive gifts? Visit thesagemethod.com to discover Isabel's courses, community, and her revealing book "Cracking Open: Adventures of a Reluctant Medium." As Isabel reminds us: "Take a step, any step. I don't care how small it is. Take a step. Stop planning and take a step."


 As an intuitive teacher, professional medium, and trailblazing spiritual leader with 19 years of experience, Isabeau has dedicated her life to guiding people through their most profound spiritual transformations. This isn't just a passing interest—it's her calling. She has worked with thousands, helping them shatter the invisible barriers that have kept them stuck, confused, and disconnected from their true power. Her approach isn't about recycling mystical theories or vague spiritual concepts—it's about providing practical, powerful strategies that create tangible, life-changing results. Her training comes from nearly two decades of deep spiritual work, professional mediumship, and transformational leadership. She is the founder of the award-winning course The SAGE Method, author of Cracking Open: Adventures of a Reluctant Medium, and builder of the popular online spiritual community, The SAGE Circle.


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Speaker 2:

This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and all energy work, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide. So I'm Tracy Seawright and this is Ready Set Reiki. Hello, my beautiful friends, welcome to Ready Set Reiki. Today, joining me on this journey is a wonderful and amazing intuitive teacher, professional medium and trailblazing spiritual leader with 19 years of experience.

Speaker 2:

Isabel Maxwell has dedicated her life to guiding people through their most profound spiritual transformation. Now, this isn't just a passing interest. It's really her calling. She has worked with thousands, helping them kind of shatter this invisible barrier that has kept them stuck, confused and disconnected from their true power. Her approach isn't about recycling mystical theories or vague spiritual concepts. It's about providing practical, powerful strategies that create tangible, life-changing results. Her training comes from nearly two decades of deep spiritual work, professional mediumship and transformational leadership. Now she is the founder of the award-winning course the Sage Method, author of Cracking Open Adventures of a Reluctant Medium and the builder of the popular online spiritual community, the Sage Circle. Welcome to Ready Set Reiki.

Speaker 1:

Thank you. Well, I'm so happy to be here because your message resonates deeply with me and I knew we'd click.

Speaker 2:

Let's begin our journey together. So here we go. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 1:

Well, I'm a former skeptic, opened up into the spiritual world by my grandmother. A couple hours after she passed middle of the afternoon, showed up in my living room. That was an experience. That was not anything I thought would ever happen. I assumed it was grief and then I tested it because I didn't really want to lose her and I wanted the possibility to be there. And that started my journey, like you said, 19 years ago, and the proof started to come in. That's when I went and got Re you know Reiki set up for Reiki. I did the training, started using it, all this alignment came into place and then I found myself working as a professional medium also. So I did energy work, clearings of buildings and individuals and a medium really. And eventually it just started to where I got really excited to teach others and my guide point blank said you need to teach others how to open up intuition, because I'm the poster child I think of, like if I can do it, anyone can, kind of thing. So that's how I got to this spot today, beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 2:

So you are where you are today and when you kind of look back, reiki kind of blossomed. So tell us, did you find Reiki or did Reiki find you?

Speaker 1:

It was suggested to me. So here's how I came across it. Now, mind you, mind me. Now mind you, mind me. I knew nothing I'm talking about. I had a degree in mathematics. There was no religion, no science or no religion, no spirituality in my life. So I was brand new, 32 years old, trying to find my way, and I went to a Tai Chi instructor and said you're the strangest person I know, can you help me? And I now see that that wasn't the most polite approach, but he loved me through it. Spirituality brings compassion and a whole lot of inner awareness. But he was the one that said your energy fields are all over the place. And I was like, okay, you know, I was having a hard time believing stuff.

Speaker 1:

And in a matter of and I actually tell this story in my book, but in a matter of 24, three days really, but very short, compact time I had a car, just I mean, the lights on the dashboard went, I parked it and the next morning it was it was dead. It was dead and the alternator was fried, brought it into the shop. The two or three days later it was the middle of summer, super hot. I have my air conditioner blow out, my kid's clippers blow out in the middle of his haircut, a laptop blow out, and I was just I'm like that's it to my husband at the time. I need to take a break. I'm taking the truck because my car's in the shop and I'm going to just go get a coffee, a latte and actually a chai tea. And I was brought the truck there. As I parked it in the parking spot, the dashboard lit up and I turned it off and I went in and got my chai tea, of course, and then came out and it was dead.

Speaker 1:

So that car got towed and we went to the mechanic who was next door to our apartment complex and it was so fun because he leaned in. He goes you got what my brother's got, that's that he gets mad and stuff starts blowing up. So I went back to the tai chi instructor and he said I think you could benefit from reiki, yes, and wow, did I like chapter turned? Uh, I think after reiki too was when I felt aligned for the first time, and then didn't know what I was feeling, because I was aligned for the first time. It was wild and it just enhanced my intuition dramatically as well. But that's how I got into Reiki Beautiful beautiful.

Speaker 2:

So when did you kind of realize, oh, I think I might be a medium?

Speaker 1:

So the mediumship was happening before Reiki. So the mediumship was happening before Reiki. I think I was open about almost a year intuitively. There was a couple parts of my home and such, and then another really big opening there, but so the mediumship came first. I was just all over the place and unbalanced with it. But yeah, if the mediumship didn't show up, I wouldn't have met the Tai Chi instructor and wouldn't have gotten into Reiki and I wouldn't have been able to be sitting here with you.

Speaker 2:

Sure. So it's kind of almost like it helped be an anchor through your experience and kind of get these things under control a little bit and to help and help open up that intuition, that third eye.

Speaker 1:

Yes, and now, having taught intuition, intuitive development for 17 years 16 years, something like this I can't tell you how many people start with reiki and then reach out and say I think my intuition's opening up, yeah, so yeah, absolutely 100. And they're like I'm doing these reiki sections, sessions, and then all of a sudden, like a message would come through and like there it is, there it is.

Speaker 2:

If they just trust the process you know and let things unfold. So 19 years in this business as a medium. What are some of the misconceptions about being a medium?

Speaker 1:

There's a bunch of them, Some of the popular ones, though we'll go with some of the popular ones. There's a quirky one too. We'll start with quirky that they, they visit you all the time, every time like in the bathroom, and all that kind of stuff too. That's a big fear of like, oh no, I'm going to be seen everywhere, which leads into the one that people listen to, a medium talk, and this makes complete sense. They say, oh, I see this, I see that they're showing me this, I'm hearing this.

Speaker 1:

And when you hear someone say that, it makes you feel as if they're seeing everything in living color, like it's right off of a movie screen, and that's so far from the truth. And a lot of people are seeing. They just don't know that they're seeing because they have an expectation of what it's going to look like. That's a big one. And my favorite one, I think, is that people think that you have to be special or gifted. You have intuition, when the truth is, we're all intuitive, Every single one of us, and your intuition is already 100% strong. It's just covered up. And the uncovering of it which is why Reiki increases intuition the uncovering of it, that clearing of that energy and decluttering of your environment, your mind, all of that type of stuff is what allows you to access what's already there.

Speaker 2:

Right, I feel like I'm able to see things more now than I was when I was a child. I did have the abilities, but I feel like going through Reiki helped heal different parts of me so that I would be able to kind of clear that clutter from the mind. But I agree with you on the. They think it's kind of a whole movie or a whole longer conversation. And you may be. I tell them it's like charades in a bit, like they show me something and we have to figure out the meaning.

Speaker 2:

And I did a session with someone about a week ago and something came through and it just blew her mind, I don't know. She asked her mom, she asked her sister, she's asked family members and I said but it may not be what you're thinking, it may be, you know, another understanding of what that person meant. It might have a different meaning. So don't take it as that physical object that I'm telling you. We have to kind of try to peel back the layers and try to decode it and I think they don't understand. Like, even when I work with animals, you know the caregiver will ask well, what kind of favorite food do they like? They are a brand of food and sometimes that doesn't come through right, because I'm meeting the animal for the first time and they're just warming up to me, so it may not be something that they may say right away.

Speaker 1:

So exactly, and the best intuitives let the information come in that needs to come in. We can ask questions, but we don't try to steer people the event. We say to them what's the most important thing you want to say, because they might not answer what kind of dog food, but they're going to tell you that their green ball is their favorite toy, right? So you know, you got to let them say that, and spirit is going to know what the sitter needs to hear way more than we are. The the minute we think we should say this or say that or say this, we're blocking the intuition Right.

Speaker 2:

So you have helped many people on their journey with just life-changing results through these challenges and struggles. But what has been one of the biggest challenges or struggles you faced in your own healing journey?

Speaker 1:

First off, I love my job. What a cool job, hey To be, to just be surrounded by people that are like becoming empowered. Seriously, I hit the lottery with this job, so opened up at 32. I started to have to set boundaries and that was the most brutal, because setting boundaries with people especially important, key players in your life the first one was my mom. That was very difficult. And then the second one was getting divorced of a 20 year marriage. Those two boundaries had to be set, but it's just. It goes against everything that, like an empathic person, is wired to do. I have to hurt this person to save myself, and that was probably by far the most difficult thing that I did and also by far the most wonderful thing I did. It's that conundrum, you know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I completely understand. I had to make a decision, actually believe it or not. In my 30s as well, I had my mother and a divorce, so we're similar on that. It was one of those ones where you know she could be your anchor or your ache and it was the ache, and so I completely I can feel it and, pat, I get you sister, so yeah, it's really hard, but I've never, I've never been happier.

Speaker 1:

That's the one thing that I keep telling people is pursuing um, balancing your energy, uh, reiki, intuition. Whatever your path is, it's so important because there's a level of happiness that you will step into that you haven't experienced before. There's like the grass is greener.

Speaker 2:

Or, and also you know you have culturally, religiously, you know those are society wise. That it's your mother, you know you have. That's the excuse, no matter what the other parent did, it's your mother. And I don't think I've ever had someone asked me well, what did your mother do to you for you to make that difficult choice? It was always my responsibility to repair the relationship. Let it go, throw it aside. She gave up everything for you. You know you owe her kind of thing. So I can say the Reiki definitely helped me heal with that prayer. You know it was a struggle because it was ingrained in me in church growing up honor thy mother and father. That was it, no matter what. But what do you do when it's hanging by a shoestring right?

Speaker 1:

Exactly and I completely relate. I cut my mother off. I went no contact back in 2000. And I think 11, somewhere around there. Back before people were more openly discussing it as a mental health issue, and when you're drowning it's it's first off. Back then people had to do this and then live with it silently Because, yeah, you couldn't say it out loud because shame on you and Tracy, I'm an only child. So rule and I get it, but at some point you have to decide if you're going to sacrifice the rest of your life for a person that's hurting you. And you know, most people that go no contact, just like myself, do everything they possibly can do before finally making that decision. So I would say that mine was a 10 year process of trying to do everything I could do, you know, to get it somewhere close to healthy, and then and then there's nothing left you can do.

Speaker 2:

And it's just kind of like it can't be sustained if you're the one kind of doing all the work. Yeah, so I was around probably the same time period as well, and it's it's an horrible decision to have to make, to put yourself in, because it goes against everything. You know your mother is supposed to be your best cheerleader, your biggest fan, and when you have to cut that tie, and especially when you have your own children, right, exactly, Difficult journey.

Speaker 1:

So it is, and I actually ended up cutting it because of my kids. You know, I started to see the patterns and went nope, nope, so it. It's that difficult. It's so difficult that as a grown woman, I couldn't do it for myself. But the minute you mess with my kids, we're all set, you know. So, yeah, it's an incredible journey and energy, work and alignment and all of this is the most important self-care you can do.

Speaker 1:

Just, I still, to this day, do the two seconds of Reiki just to get lined back in to make sure that I'm grounded, I'm cleared, I'm protected. That's what I teach in my courses. Is'm grounded, I'm cleared, I'm protected. That's what I teach in my courses. Is GCP ground, clear, protect. So you ground, anchor into Mother Earth, as we know how to do Clear it all out, wash it all away that it's not yours, and then put up a filtration bubble, kind of protection thing to say if it's not supposed to be here, it's not coming in, and if it's supposed to be here, it's coming in. And that kind of self-care is foundational, absolutely.

Speaker 2:

So this can also be a medium question as well, Because when I do I feel like I'm more of a psychic than a medium. But I do trade with friends because I feel they're able to see things on my end more clearly than I can on myself. So when it's time for you to get an energetic tune up or to get guidance, what do you look for, either in a Reiki practitioner or into a medium?

Speaker 1:

Here's a couple of things. I have worked hard, Tracy, to try to find ways to make this sound positive. I talk in terms of red flags. That's hard to do red flags in a positive way, but I tell people to look for red flags If there's any sort of positioning whatsoever. I'm better than you. You can never reach my level. I'm super special. Oh yeah, yeah, that's, that's the biggest red flag.

Speaker 1:

I tell people to look for people who are authentically tapped in and authentically um, channeling energy and doing good, good healing work. Know that the two of you are in it together and that it's not a, you know, pedestal type thing. That's my. That's the number one, really. I'll speak specifically to mediumship. On the second one, though, because this isn't true for Reiki, People need time with Reiki to heal certain aspects. It's usually not a one, and sometimes it's a one and done, but they need time to build their strength back up. But with mediumship, if you have a medium that tells you that you got to keep coming back to them over and over, like once a month, don't, just don't. And if they show you a candle and say it's $300 and you're cursed, anyone brings out the word cursed, walk out the door.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, there's like something attached, you know. Yeah, something really dark. I've been in situations where I've seen things on people and I won't. I'm like I'm not going to charge you for that because it gets it on. I've seen it on Tik TOK, like something's attached to you, $300. But if I see somebody, one of the Reiki that I do the style of holy fire, is there is a spirit release with that and I'll help them and I'm like I'm not charging you for that because I'm just being of service with that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we are spending time together and whatever you need in this time, I will facilitate. There's no add on, there's no upgrade, there's none of that, just two people together raising the vibration in any way shape possible. And I've done clearings of buildings, land, people for almost 18 years. It's not a multitask Clear it and then it's done. That's it. Clear it, set the boundaries and it's done. And it also isn't a four hour event, you know yeah.

Speaker 2:

I've heard it like $150 to $1,000 to come and do clearings and it's some of them are online as well and it was like hmm.

Speaker 1:

Yeah yeah, that's that fabulous fear tactic. It's just not the case. Somebody that's good at clearing can do it very quickly, very efficiently. Usually it's a very boring meeting. There's no hands in there. I went to a house clearing once and it was really. It was actually kind of cute. I went there and the woman that owned the home had like three of her friends there and it was kind of like this, like what is she going to do, right? So I tapped into the home I said, okay, I feel like there's two spirits in here that need to cross over, need to go home. That's another thing. We've got the spook factor around ghosts and I try to tell people ghosts are people too. Okay, this is somebody that passed and is trying to also cross over.

Speaker 1:

When it comes to this house, though, I said, okay, this is what's going on, so I'm going to clear it now. And she said, okay, do you need us to circle? Do we need candles, do you need any? And I was like I'm just going to sit on your couch and it's going to probably be really boring and it's just going to sit there with my eyes closed. She's like, oh, and they were super let down, but but we got the house cleared.

Speaker 2:

You know, that's all the show is being is a kind of a put off for me. Very good, so what advice after 19 years? What advice do you have someone who just is entering spiritual?

Speaker 1:

work. Ah, to know what you're going to battle within yourself. And this is what you're going to battle within yourself. You are going to battle patience. Patience shuts down intuition. You are going to battle patience. Patience shuts down intuition.

Speaker 1:

Turn your impatience into curiosity as often as you can and you will fast forward. You are going to battle having to take a very good look at yourself and you're going to learn the things that you don't like about yourself and knowing that that's going to happen, trying to walk through that without shame and remembering that the things that you don't like about yourself, or the behaviors you don't like, they developed to protect you at some point in your past. And rather than feel bad about that, say thank you to yourself for having those traits when you needed them to protect yourself and then come back into the present. So a lot of inner work. That happens when you open up spiritually. This is why life gets so good, because when you do the inner work, you heal and it gets better. And but it's between the impatience, I think, and the self judgment are the two that if you know that those are going to come up, you know how to deal with them. When they come up, you're going to be in a much better place.

Speaker 2:

And it's a process, like you said earlier, it's not a one and done, it's cumulative. And I had found myself years ago and it's a nice spin that you put on it with it was a coping mechanism. So I would get 500 things would happen and the 501 thing would be so small like a glass would break or a drink would spill over, and I get reactionary right and I didn't like that about myself and so I started doing the work and now I'm not as reactionary, but looking back I can see how that could have been a coping mechanism for things in my life to kind of okay, I need to be heard. Now I have to get loud and reactionary where. Now I've learned no, there's another way. So it takes time. It's a process.

Speaker 1:

Exactly For me. An example would be I am ferociously private and I wouldn't tell anybody anything or ever let anybody in. And then you open up and you start doing the inner work and you start realizing that how that's received by others and it's not good. And I had to learn how to open up and ask for help and not just be have it be a one-way street all the time, with me taking care of everything and me people pleasing. That was a really difficult, really really difficult one to go through, but that was my coping mechanism. That's how I survived my childhood.

Speaker 2:

So and that's what the type goes back to, the type of mother right. Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 1:

It's not. Thanks mom. Thanks, mom, right. No, in sincerity, she did the best she could do, so sure.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's how you know you're healed, because you can look through the eyes of grace.

Speaker 1:

Yeah and say no, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 2:

So what books do you recommend?

Speaker 1:

I so some of my I don't do a lot of books just because a lot of just my personal path. I know I have a lot of friends that devour just tons of books, but the ones that pop up the most probably. Eckhart Tolle is a good one, great thinking book. My favorite, though, is the four, four I almost said four commandments, four agreements not commandments, absolutely not commandments. The four agreements I not commandments, absolutely not commandments. The four agreements, I think is probably one of the most life-changing books a person can read, and it's a short read. I'm trying to think there's one more book. It's a woman that went to Australia Mutiny Mutant Messages Down Under. I think I got that right. I read it like 20 years ago and that book woke me up to what is possible energetically in this world. It was really cool book.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for sharing that. So what other services or modalities do you offer? Do you trainings, classes, events?

Speaker 1:

My big, the big offering really is the trainings. I am just a passionate teacher. I absolutely love explaining how things work and explaining things that people can try and do. So the Sage Method course is a seven week course that I've been teaching since 2007, 2008. I brought it online in 2019. I had taught it in person up until that point and now we have students all over the globe and it's just empowering. I've created an online spiritual community that's been available for about four years now and that supports the students, so that you're not just sitting there taking a course all by yourself, because that could be tough, and that community is great. We meditate, we do energy work, card readings, q&a, all that kind of stuff, and that's that's close to my heart, because when I opened up, I didn't have anybody in my circles, and so there's a lot of people. There are a lot of people in this world that don't have anybody in their immediate circle that they can talk to about this type of stuff, so that that's communities growing fast as well, and that's global too.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful, beautiful. So where can we find you? Where can we look to see where we can book a session with you or reach out to you?

Speaker 1:

I do really good at keeping everything on one website, as an organizational skills of the former skeptic. The sage methodcom is the best place to go.

Speaker 2:

It's a T H, e, s, a, g E methodcom Beautiful. Well, that ends the first part of our journey and I'm going to continue to be your guide through the second part, which is questions from social media. Now, the first one we touched on just a little bit, but we can circle back around and go into a little bit more. Number one what red flags should I look for when I'm dealing with a medium?

Speaker 1:

Right, I wish we, I wish we had more of these discussions. I would not recommend going anywhere that had fluorescent lighting in the window. That's one. That's another one Like if, what is that lighting called? It's you know what?

Speaker 1:

I mean the neon lights, yeah, neon lights, yeah, yeah, just if you see the word psychic and neon lights, don't, don't go there. I would definitely ask friends if they know anyone that is qualified. I'd stay off of hotlines, and I know that when we're looking for an intuitive, we want answers and we want them now. At least that's how I am. But if you do find an intuitive that's booked out a month or two, that's a very good sign. That's a very good sign. So if you can just give it a little time, you know, and let that go out, yeah, that's. Those are the things that I would add to that one. Such a great question, though See, every it's. There's such a common question like how do I know I'm not somebody that's not real?

Speaker 2:

Right, yeah, I mean, I usually have found it word of mouth, like in my case. I also, you know, do readings and people just think that you're available right then and now and not realize like I got, like I teach yoga, I do all those kinds of other things. I'm booked up for like a couple months, exactly, exactly, and so yeah, and I always just go to if it feels right. If you start with that process and it already feels awkward and weird, listen to that inner intuition, listen to that gut Yep. Number two you spoke about it a little bit, but we can go and uh and elaborate on it more. Tell us about your award winning course, the sage method.

Speaker 1:

So that is that seven week course and, oddly enough, what happened was after my grandmother showed up and I started working with, with trying to communicate with her. Shortly after that I met my first spirit guide and I called him big dog just cause he felt so big, um, like tall and stuff. So can I call you big dog? He was like sure. I worked with him for about two years. He taught me everything I know about past lives, how we come down here, how we leave all of that, and that that was priceless. It meant the world to me. But he also demanded some of the inner work that I do and some of the different things that I try.

Speaker 1:

And two years later I was a professional medium booking out and it was great, it was wonderful. I was like, okay, maybe this is my career. And a little while after that he said I need you to take everything I taught you and bring it out into the world. And I was like, okay, small task, that's, that's a lot, dude. And he was like I know, dude. And so I said, okay, fine, I went through all the journals of the two years and the best I could do is get it down to seven weeks of training. So it's because it was a lot. In essence, it is what I did for two years that opened me from, took me from a complete skeptic to very strong intuition, and it's created in such a way to help you figure out why your intuition is blocked, how your intuition is unique and how all of this works. So it's a very that's. I think those three components are what make the course so popular, because people come out of it going I get it now. You're like yeah.

Speaker 2:

And we're able to find that on your website. Right, and you said there was a group, right that yeah?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and when you? Well, when you sign up for the course, we automatically give you 60 days for free in the membership so that you're you're covered, no matter what. You're not taking the course alone, you're in a free in the membership so that you're covered, no matter what. You're not taking the course alone, you're in the community. If you want to be in the community, you don't have to log in. If you don't want to, but we automatically put you right into that community so you have access to me and to all the people that are in there.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful, beautiful. Our third question what inspired you to write Cracking Open Adventures of a Reluctant Medium? And that wasn't one of the books you recommended, by the way.

Speaker 1:

Oh my bad. So the best book I've ever read is Cracking Open. So wait, there it is. So I have two reasons that I wrote this book. One is completely selfish and one is completely not selfish. So we'll start with the selfish one. So hopefully you'll forget that when I say the second one, I I was teaching the sage method and I had been teaching it. So the book came out in 2011 and I had been teaching for I don't know six years, just years.

Speaker 1:

And I remember thinking to myself I don't want to tell this story again, like there's so much of it and people are so curious about it, and I was like, okay, I'm going to write it down, I'm going to do a book and then when they're curious, I can go. Here you go. So it was a very selfish reason and at the time I was probably a little bit burnt out still married, you get it trying to set the boundary with mom. But the true reason that's that's all a little lighthearted there. The true reason is I wanted to put out there the truth, the truth about what it was like to open up.

Speaker 1:

I I read a couple of books and they kind of irked me because they were like and then the power of the light of the greatest and I was this and I was that and I did that and I was like, oh, that is not what it's like to open up, it is more like a jaggedy roller coaster. And I needed to put that out there to say, here is a true version of an average person and what happened to them? The screw ups, the positives, the frustration, all that kind of stuff. All the good too, but I needed I needed to put that out there for people, because that was the beginning of me kind of pushing back on pop culture.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful, beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. Well, that was our last question and, as we've been talking, is there anything else that you'd like to share, or maybe something that you forgot? The floor is yours.

Speaker 1:

What else do I love to tell people? Two small things. The first one would be take a step, any step, I don't care how small it is. Take a step. Stop planning and take a step. One simple step. That's all you have to do, because all those steps do start to add up. That old adage is true, absolutely true, and for those that are interested in intuition, this is the one I want to share. When you see something out of the corner of your eye and then you turn to look at it and it's gone, I can tell you why. It's because when you turn to look at it, you take your physical eyes and you're landing on physical objects in the room. The reason you saw something out of the corner of your eye is that your peripheral is defocused. So when we can remember that what we are looking for in spirit, energetically and intuitively is not in the material world, that will allow us to let go of the material world, defocus from it, and that's where what you're looking for will be found that's where you're.

Speaker 2:

What you're looking for will be found Beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing that. It was wonderful and thank you so much. That's why I consider this a journey right, it's not a destination. So we're learning and it's great that you're able, as you go through the journey, to find people like you that help and can be of support, and that you never are alone. So know that the helpers are out there. So check out the website, check out the book, check out the information. You have amazing and wonderful resources. So thank you so much for taking time out of your very busy schedule to join me on this journey. Thank you for having me. Wonderful, all right, my wonderful listeners. If you would like your question featured on Ready Set Reiki, reach out wwwreadysetreikicom. I'm Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki © transcript Emily Beynon.

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