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Episode #191 What are you up to now Rose Wippich? From Burnout To Alignment: Reiki, Journaling, And The Courage To Pivot

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A special Ready Set Reiki as I circle back around to past guests to find out what they up to now? What if the dream you manifested finally arrives—and the person you are now no longer wants it? We open up about divine timing, the courage to pivot, and choosing alignment over obligation. With Rose: teacher, energy alchemist, podcaster, and breast cancer warrior—we explore practical ways to reclaim your throne: a grounded physical sanctuary and an inner seat of intuitive power that guides every yes and no.

We dive into seasons of life and the tools that keep you centered through each one. Journaling becomes a compass for foggy months, revealing patterns you miss in the rush of parenting, caregiving, and career shifts. We talk about adding timelines to intentions, blessing them with Reiki, and still practicing discernment when they land. Burnout gets honest airtime too: stepping back after big projects, ignoring comparison culture, and building offers that feel organic—like workshops before long programs—so the work stays joyful and sustainable.

Teaching emerges as a surprising calling for many practitioners. You may start with sessions and discover your deepest impact is training others, amplifying healing across communities. We share stories of transformation, the value of retaking trainings with new teachers, and why collaboration beats competition—especially among women lifting one another’s work. Expect grounded takeaways: protect your pace, laugh often, write things down, and let adventure find you, whether that’s a new workshop or a month living in London. If you’re navigating a pivot or seeking your next step in Reiki, this conversation offers clarity, courage, and gentle direction.

Enjoy the episode, then subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who’s ready to choose alignment this year.

Rose is a Teacher, Guide, Energy Alchemist, Podcaster & Breast Cancer Warrior who has harnessed her experiences to become a beacon of hope and inspiration for others. Rose's life journey embodies resilience, transformation, and spiritual growth.

A Journey of Self-Discovery and Healing

Rose's path to becoming an Energy Alchemist was shaped by life's challenges and triumphs. Before embracing her spiritual calling, she built a successful career in the corporate world, managing multi-million-dollar projects for Fortune 500 companies. However, it was during this time that she began her spiritual journey, turning to yoga, meditation, and Reiki to navigate personal struggles, including the loss of her mother.

A pivotal moment in Rose's life came during a Reiki session when she received a prophetic vision of having twins—a vision that materialized eight years later with the birth of her identical twin boys. This powerful experience not only gave her hope and guidance but also deepened her commitment to energy work and healing. 

Rose's dedication to energy healing deepened when her twin sons were diagnosed with a medical condition. Drawing on her skills as a Reiki Master & Teacher, she used energy work to support their healing process. This experience solidified her belief in the transformative power of Reiki and energy work, inspiring her to share her knowledge with others.

Empowering Others


Today, Rose is a certified Qigong and Yoga instructor, as well as a Reiki Master Teacher. She combines these practices with her role as an Energy Alchemist to guide others on their transformational journeys. Her approach is holistic, focusing on helpi

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SPEAKER_01:

This is Freddy Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, 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 rather than a host. So I'm Tracy C. Wright, and this is Ready Set Reiki. Hello, everyone. Reiki, blessings to you one and all. Another opportunity to take an amazing and wonderful journey in this year of 2026. But right before I begin this journey, I invite you to check out the Reiki Business Collective. Now, this is a Facebook book group, so no cost at all to join. Christian Standing Stone has a wonderful community of sharing, supporting, and serving. And this is connecting with your Reiki business community. Now, don't let that business word fool you. No matter where you are on your journey, this is a very supportive group, whether you are just beginning, you're currently in your business, or you're thinking of pivoting. So wherever you are, check it out. Christian cheers everyone on every week. It's share a win because one of us wins, all of us win. So check it out, Reiki Business Collective. And I just want to let you know that you don't ever have to feel that you are on a Reiki island. There are wonderful individuals out there who are supporting you and encourage you along the way. And that goes into my next guest. Now, my next guest, I on the podcast, I got to be uh connected to her and lifelong friends. So you'll find someone on the journey that you'll just connect with. And it feels like I have known her since Atlantis. So let me tell you a little bit about her. Uh, she's made a few appearances here on the podcast. Now she is a teacher, a guide, energy alchemist, podcaster, breast cancer warrior, who has harnessed her experience to become a beacon of hope and inspiration for others. Now her life journey embodies resilience, transformation, and spiritual growth. So let's give a nice ready set Reiki. Welcome to my friend's dear friend Rose.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you for that welcome. That's amazing. You know, I was videotaping you. I was just Oh my gosh. I'm like, let me do that. I love to promote you. I love to share what you're doing. And I just love being here. So I'm so happy that you asked me to come back. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_01:

So she is the very first in my little segment of what are they up to now? Because those of us on this journey, magical and wonderful things have been happening. And so she's gonna tell you all about the incredible things that she is up to, planning amazing things in this year of the horse that's coming up. Oh my goodness. So, Rose, tell us a little bit about yourself.

SPEAKER_00:

All right. Well, you already said a whole bunch of beautiful things. Thank you so much. So I have my own podcast called Chat Off the Mat, and Tracy was on that a while ago. I should have you back actually because you've done a lot of things since then as well. Uh so I've had I'm I'm going into my sixth season. Um, and I'm excited because I'm doing a little rebrand this year, not just the cover art, but I'm doing more solo episodes. Where in the past I was doing a lot of guest uh interviews, but I decided, you know what, I think I have some things to say myself, and they're just shorter episodes. And I just released the first one of this year. I took a little time, a little break, a very much needed and deserved one to just gather my energy back. And I just released the last this um this first one uh yesterday, actually. Uh, and it's about uh reclaiming your throne or creating a throne, which is a physical environment and also an internal intuitive guidance type of environment called the throne. Uh so if you're interested about that, you can have a listen to it. Uh a couple months ago, and I can't believe it was only a couple months ago because the journey was so long. I published my book, uh, Empress Rising, of which the concept of the throne energy comes from. It's what I wrote about. Uh it comes from the book, one of the chapters. So, yeah, so I've been marketing my book, I've been getting it out there. Um, I love when people send me pictures of them reading my book on the beach in Hawaii or even in their, you know, I don't know, in their throne area or their sacred space. It's it's been a it's been really well received, and I'm very, very grateful for that. And I've also been asked to do a lot of guest speaking. And you know, we're talking earlier about manifesting. And one of the things I want to manifest, wanted to manifest for this year, want to, is to to to go out there and have talks in front of audiences and and speaking engagements around my book. And wouldn't you know it? It's just like the universe heard me and the phone was ringing. And so I've been able to schedule a few of those. So that's where I'm putting my focus a lot of this year. And then I have other things coming up which I could talk about later on. So that's kind of in a nutshell. It's only January. Tomorrow's my birthday. So I'm excited about that. It's always good to have a birthday.

SPEAKER_01:

Beautiful. I love that. We were talking earlier about manifestation, and I was explaining to you um, you know, when we put these things on paper, when we send them out into the universe, when they get when you give it Reiki and everything, I have learned that I need to put a timestamp on that because you never know when it's going to show up. And I had explained to you all the things that have been coming in, many of them like three, four years later. And I think I'm a very different person now than I was four years ago. So it's just interesting, you know, when these manifestations arrive, right? And here they are. And then I was explaining about the guilt I felt with it because I'm like, I don't think I want that anymore. Or yeah, this isn't for me.

SPEAKER_00:

But it's okay to change, right? So it's really giving your permission, give yourself permission to make the choices that are in alignment with where you are, excuse me. So if you can't feel guilty, right? Because there's other things that maybe you need to focus on and you need to do, or there's circumstances in your life that are shifting that alignment and you need to take care of certain things. So um, but I always trust in the universe, and I know you do too, to let things show up for us that are right. And it's okay to make the choices that may be different from what we wanted to manifest earlier in our in our years, right? Because who knows? I don't know about you, but I I journal a lot. I know you journal as well. I don't know if people out there journal, but I I was looking through some of my journals in the past, and I was amazed at the growth that I've gone through in the past couple of years, where when there were times when I was really at some low points and struggling with identification, like what do I want to do? I was, you know, raising my kids and it was tough, and they were going through middle school or high school, and I had health issues, and I was struggling with certain things, and I knew that I wanted to do something that just was um I don't want to say the word spiritual, but like teach, you know, there was something, but I didn't know what it was, and everything unfolded so beautifully. I was already a Reiki practitioner, and then a yoga teacher training popped up, and I'm like, that's it, that's what I want to do. And then Shigan came up, and so like everything just started showing up at the right time, right? But when I read years ago, I'm like, I was lost, I was a like a lost little fish, not knowing what to do. I was just like, so anyone out there that feels like that, they don't know what they're doing next or what their next calling is, just go then and just pray or seek guidance or ask the universe, write it down like Tracy does or like I do, and it'll show up for you when it's supposed to, I think.

SPEAKER_01:

When I was in college, we had all the, you know, certain classes that you needed to take before you entered your core classes, your teaching ones, and here it is. And my very first day uh in that class into the core classes, the teacher said, I want you to remember it's just a season in your life. No matter what you're going through, it's just a season. And so I always kind of framed it through the view of a season. And I journal for years. And when I go back and I look at sometimes, you know, like what I was going through, my life is very different today than it was then. And sometimes it thought, like, I'm never gonna get this or this isn't gonna happen for me. I mean, I had those seasons where I was a mom and it was the kids first, which they're still, even though they're older, they're right. But you felt like I can't get what I want to do. And uh, I have a couple students that are young mothers and they're frustrated. They're like, I want to be able to do this and this and that. I'm like, you will have your season. Believe I was there, I was there, not able to do things, and I had to cancel opportunities and leave jobs and move things as well. So, and now I have that season where I'm able, as I talked to you earlier about picking and choosing, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's so true. You're so you're so right. I do too. I meet a lot of women, they're like, I want to I want to do something different, and or even women that are retired um that have raised their children and now they want to do something else. And wow, what a what a what a gift that is to have the time to explore. But um, yeah, so I I love having those conversations with women. And a lot of times are, you know, and I say this, I'm like, do you what what what are you passionate about? And a lot of people don't know. They're like, I don't know. All I've done is ever worked. I really, never really enjoyed life. So it's a great time to just try different things and explore. For me, even now, this year, my word is adventure. I don't know where my adventure is yet, but I'm manifesting adventures. And and and so that's that's where I'm at. And I'm hoping to have a few this year, however, the universe wants to show me. Um, but yes, exploring and trying new things and not being afraid and taking risks, all those things we can do, all those things.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and rebranding, like you said, right? You can just go along this journey and realize, you know what, I need to move in a different direction, change things out.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly, exactly. And you know, and a lot of what I write about in the book, and I'm not here to talk about my book all the time, but it is about trying new things and taking on a new journey because, like you said, and I love that you said season, because we move into different seasons, right? As we age, you know, we we come out of retirement, that's a new season. We come out of to empty nesting, that's a new season. We come into the empress years, which I are the crone years, that's a new season in itself. And we need to embrace, we need to walk through that threshold, embrace the season. And as we get older, life gets shorter. So we can't waste that time and that our energy on things that are just not working for us anymore. And I'm can't emphasize that enough.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's why your book is fantastic for anybody wherever they are on that journey, so that they can stop and find their turn north on it. My husband had asked me the other day, you know, I was reaching that burnout. What do I do? And he's like, honey, what's your purpose? What's your purpose? What do you want to do? And I was like, I don't know if I want to do this anymore, right? And so it's okay. And not worrying about what other people think. Like, I don't want, I was worried, like, are they gonna think I'm failing? I'm choosing to leave something, you know, and you put all this time and work in, and then you get to the very top, and you're like, you know what? I don't think I want this anymore. And it's okay to shift and change and go in a different direction.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. So, so I I love that conversation. And um I have to say that at the end of last year, I felt a little burnt out myself. Uh, getting the book published, doing a lot of work with the podcast. And then I allowed myself the time to just do nothing, like not do nothing, nothing, because that's not me. But I didn't have to worry about, well, what is the other podcaster doing? What is the other person on social media doing? I should do what they're doing, I should have courses all in place, I should have all of these things in place and ready to go. And I was like, no, my body literally and my mind just was like, no, Rose, you don't have to do that. Okay, you don't have to be what everybody else is being or do what everybody else is doing, do what feels right. And I really honored that. But I think the first time in my many, many years on this earth, I said, no, I'm just gonna allow and let things emerge the way they're supposed to, and give myself that grace this year, embrace that grace and and and go easy on myself because it'll all be out there. And you know, it's not like I'm just sitting around doing nothing, it's just I'm deciding to do it at a different pace, and I'm okay with that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you know, it's easy to get swept up into it because you have, but you have to do social media, and then you have to have a course. And oh, if you're a yoga teacher, you have to be doing a 200-hour training that you should be teaching. There's all this pressure to do all these things, and then you have people that'll message you Hey, did you release a new track? Can you can you record something? This what about this? I had people asking me about a prenatal class. Put that up, you know. It's like, oh my goodness. And then the enlomment uh the enrollment was low. It was like you kept asking.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. And there's a lot of people who are out there selling, selling, selling. Even my inbox is filled with people putting themselves out there, selling something. And, you know, honestly, I want it to be for me more organic, where I'm not pressure selling anybody or or or putting out there anything that I'm not comfortable with. Right. Um, because I really believe in divine timing and that everything shows up the way it's supposed to. Um and I'm good with that, you know. Um, I know this book, for example, I for years, for years, I wanted to write a book. I would tell people, I'm gonna write a book. I mean, this is like years ago. And they're like, well, what are you gonna write about? I'm like, I have no idea, but I'm gonna write a book someday. And then one day, one morning, I started channeling this book. I'm like, okay, this is it. I could feel it in my body. And so I just started writing it. And the book, you know, showed up for me basically. And I went with it. I'm and I'm I'm happy with with it. And I felt that this is part of what I need to do moving forward. So all the other things I think that are like all over the place with me, my I'm going to be channeling a little bit more and focusing that energy so that I don't get burnt out and I have a more of a uh a purpose or an aligned uh that I'm more in alignment with what I want to do.

SPEAKER_01:

Beautiful. So, where can people get in touch with you if they want to connect with you?

SPEAKER_00:

So I am at rosewicht.com. You can check uh my website there. I also, if you want, if anybody ever wants to have a really quick chat with me uh on my schedule, you can schedule like 15, 20 minutes if you're struggling with anything. If you want to talk about maybe some of the concepts in my book or anything like that. I also am a Chagong teacher. I work a lot with energy, yoga teacher, and Reiki Master, as um Tracy said. I also have my podcast, Chat Off the Mat. Um, I also have a free uh I'm offering my course, a course called New Energy, uh, New Year, New Energy. I'm sorry, New Energy, New You, and with the code new energy, all caps, one word, you can get it for free. It has a Chigong uh course, it has a uh lengthy ebook in there and um some other things that it's not a very extensive course, but it has you going through identifying blocks of energy, releasing that energy, and starting fresh, helping you write your intentions for the year. And it's still early in the year, so I'm offering that with the code new energy. And I'm also working on some workshops this year. I think I'm gonna start with workshops instead of full-blown six-month or four-month courses just to just to pace myself and get the message out there and and and come up with really quality workshops for people. So everything will be on my website. Oh, and if you sign up for my newsletter, there's a free chapter of my book that you can get. So I'm offering that as well. So I love to give to you know out as gifts um whenever whenever I can. So hopefully people will connect and reach out. So thank you for allowing me to say that.

SPEAKER_01:

Sounds like you have a lot of adventure coming your way.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I think so, right? So, and I also plan to to live abroad. One of my goals is to live abroad for maybe a month or so. And I've I love London, it's called to me many times. I've been there. There's something magical and mystical about that land, and I feel that there's something for me there. So I plan on living there for a month, maybe later in the year. So beautiful, and it's so funny because I I was reading through an old journal two years ago, and I wrote in there, I love London, I want to live there for at least a month. And I was like, Oh wow, look at that. I wrote it and I think it's gonna happen this year.

SPEAKER_01:

So yeah, that's why it's so important to journal because you forget all these things. Like my daughter was mentioning something she had come down to visit, and she was mentioning something from when she was like in kindergarten. I'm like, really? Did that happen? Like, I completely forgot that memory. So it's good to write this down so that you can come back and look like, wow, I really did accomplish a lot.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. And I and it's important, even write down like silly things, it doesn't matter, just write them down.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I would just write words. Uh there would just be days that my page would say just thank you. And then other days I would just be like, just make sure my family's healthy and protected and things like that. And then other times it looked like a Christmas list, right? Yeah, yeah. But it was always being thankful, thank you for these things. And uh then you'll have those seasons where it's like here's everything at once. It's like, whoa, what's happening?

SPEAKER_00:

And to be grateful for everything. I think you hit the nail on the head, right? Gratitude is the best.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and always have that in the pages that's grateful. If you don't like writing, then draw, color something, do something, write just one word down. Yeah, yeah. It's like Facebook and they have um a meme that I put like 15 years ago. I'm like, where was why did I post this?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, your memes are the best. Everyone out there should just follow Tracy. She has the best memes. I don't know where you find them, but then the best.

SPEAKER_01:

It was something for 14 years ago. I'm like, where was my mindset? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I and I just want to impart. Also, to everyone out there, you know, life is meant to be lived and also be happy and have fun and laugh and not take everything so seriously. With everything that's going on in the world, I know we can't ignore some of the things that are happening, but you know, what you can do as far as your part is send good energy. You don't have to be a Reiki practitioner to just set the intention to send peace out into the world. You can do that every day to help raise the vibration of the world. And then in your own little world, just have fun. And, you know, I know life is serious, but sometimes we we need to just laugh.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And laughter is is wonderful medicine, as they say.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, this feels like it's gonna be a year of people really needing healing, whether it's yoga, yeah. Out there listening to podcasts, reading books. I mean, we need it, we need it as a world.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. We need we need definitely need more people like yourself and others in this world who are changing that collective vibration with Reiki and other healing energy. So it's really important. So that's why people like yourself who are teaching others to become Reiki practitioners, and I do the same way, I do the same as well. I offer classes like that. Um, we're here to make sure that we create we we have um we we teach others, we we send out more and more Reiki practitioners into the university and energy healder healers so that they can go out and heal others, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Right. And that's kind of too, if you're listening and wherever you are in your journey, you know, when I started mine, I thought, oh, I'm gonna have all these Reiki sessions, right? And it turned into just me teaching people to go out and teach. So that was completely different than what I thought, because I thought, okay, I'm gonna open this up, I'm gonna have all these Reiki sessions, and then it was people coming. I really want you to teach me, and I really want to learn this. And I'm like, okay. And that's what I kept getting to send them out to help raise the vibration. So you'll figure out your purpose, you'll you'll find your way. And no, it may not look like somebody else's, because that was the way I thought it was supposed to be. And the universe is like, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00:

Same here. Same here. I definitely meant to teach others. And you know, one of the things is a lot of my students that after they're taught, they forget that they have they're like, Oh, I forgot, I I don't know what to do. And you always have it, and you can always reach out to people like Tracy or watch her podcast or connect with her because you know, she's the teacher. And if you need to take another class, take another class, don't be afraid to take another class. It's always a part of you. You're no, you don't forget, you just need to practice it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I was uh preparing uh for a class I'm teaching, and uh I put together finally like my lineage chart, right, from a Zooy all the way down. And I have like five different teachers, you know, that I retook things over again, right? And so don't be afraid to retake it because you'll learn from different people. Like at first, I did. Oh man, I gotta pay, but it it you'll get that money back, you know, as you teach your students.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, well, I've seen people transform just by, you know, I I I have had people who are have cancer, will always have cancer, that become Reiki practitioners and and it their healing changes. Yeah. And it's because they now have this practice of Reiki and the belief that Reiki helps them, and it does, and they've changed. Right. And so I love that. I love those stories, so it can definitely change you. It's life changing.

SPEAKER_01:

It's life changing. I mean, my life again was completely different, and it took me in a direction. So my word for 2026 has been flow, flowing. I love that too. So, and I can add little things like flowing with grace and ease, right? And I was teaching a class and I was like, flowing, remember you're flowing.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that's um that's important, right? It's it's part of uh the nature of not uh being resistant when things happen. And um, I think as a healer that we need to do that because the energy needs to flow, otherwise it gets blocked.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. So as we've been talking, is there anything that you may have forgotten or something you want to share with the listeners here? The floor is yours.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, no, I I I'm just grateful for our relationship. And you know, you said it at the beginning, when you find someone that you're really comfortable with and you become friends with, you're not competing against them, you're working with them. And to have that, like I reach out to Tracy, she reaches out to me, uh, send me Reiki or can I talk to you about something? And we like I get excited about helping you and knowing that you're there for me. And having collaborations is really important. So if you do find your tribe, if it's one person or many people, um, you know, connect with them on a regular basis, support them. I really feel strongly about women supporting women uh and being there for each other, and and we need to do that instead of competing against each other. So I'm just grateful for you, Tracy, and for allowing me into your space. Uh, I'm just grateful for that and you and for you as well.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you, and I am with you. You know, and that's what I mean. You find people in the most unusual places, right? Who would have thought, like having a podcast, I connect with you. And it's not that we talk every day, but when we do connect, it's as if time has, you know, not moved at all. So that's what I mean. Just be out there, support each other, cheer everybody on, let everybody know they're not by themselves. There's always a safe space in the journey. And so, and I appreciate you so deeply. Thank you for being my friend and being a part of my journey. Well, that is it, my wonderful listeners. Uh, catched up on Rose. Rose, let them know one more time how to get in touch with you, whether it's in person or online.

SPEAKER_00:

So it's rosewhippage.com is my website. Uh you can reach me at rose at rosewhipage.com. You can find my book on Amazon or Borns and Noble online as well. And I'm available. You can just reach out to me. I love hearing from people and connect with connecting with everyone. So, yes, I'm easy to find. I'm on social media at RoseWhippage on Instagram and also Facebook.

SPEAKER_01:

Wonderful. And there you have it. That's what she's up to. All right, wonderful listeners. If you'd like your question featured on Ready Set Reiki, reach out www.ready setreiki.com. I'm Tracy C. Wright, and this has been Ready Set Reiki.

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