The Goddess Rising Podcast

Ep 6. Navigating Life's Challenges with Inner Strength and Sisterhood

• Jemma Wheatley • Episode 6

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Can you imagine unlocking your true potential by tapping into the power that resides within you? In this enlightening episode of the Goddess Rising podcast, we shake up the conventional wisdom around healing and empowerment. We tackle the controversial issue of clients handing over their healing entirely to practitioners, expecting them to be the ultimate fixers. You'll learn why it’s essential to see healers as guides and how taking an active role in your healing journey can lead to profound and lasting transformation. By embracing the tools and insights offered by healers, you can reclaim your personal power and embark on a path of self-managed healing.

Discover the pure strength that comes from within and learn to trust your intuition and body’s wisdom. As modern-day goddesses, we’ll explore the exhilarating journey of becoming our own navigators through life's myriad challenges. This episode also reveals the incredible power of community and sisterhood, highlighting how support and upliftment from others can bring clarity and healing to our lives. Open your heart, harness your inner strength, and join us in seeking peace and harmony in your daily existence. Let’s rise together, empowered and united.

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Speaker 1:

Hello, beautiful goddess, and welcome to the Goddess Rising podcast. I'm your host, gemma, and today I have a little bit of a controversial topic to talk about. It's something that I have shied away from sharing too much because I don't want to hurt people's feelings, but I also need to speak the truth, truth, my truth and my understanding of my realizations of this. Um, because I think sometimes, until we have these conversations that do feel really hard and do feel really, you know almost like I'm pointing the finger, you know you're not, it's not going to help you by not hearing it. And so, yes, get yourself settled in for this one, because it may be a little ranty, it may just, if you know you're in in the healing industry. You may decide to switch me off at some point, and that's okay, but it's something that I feel, even as a healer and as myself, as a healer and anybody who offers a healing service of any sort, I feel that it is up to us to open up our thinking a little bit further. With all of this, and for you listening and witnessing this conversation, it would be really interesting to know how you feel about it. So feel free to leave me a comment or send me an email or, you know, get in touch with me any way that you can, because it's an important conversation, and so the conversation I would like to talk about is please stop handing over your power to other practitioners or healers or therapists. Yes, 100%, there is a need for all of those things, but what I am talking about is to not hand over your power. I'm not saying don't go and see them. I'm not saying don't get help if you need it. I'm not saying any of those things. What I am saying is that when you go to see any sort of practitioner, any sort of healer, any sort of therapist, do not put all of your stuff in a basket and say here's all my stuff, now you fix it. Your stuff in a basket and say, here's all my stuff, now you fix it. That is not what happens, that is not what you should expect and, as a healer, that's not what we should be doing for our clients either. In my opinion and again, this is my experience of many years working with clients and many, many years going to see other people it is all relevant, it is all needed and necessary. So I'm not saying that you, as a healer or a therapist or a practitioner of any sort, that you're not required, you know. Just go and give up your job. I'm not saying that at all. I am saying don't let people give them all of your stuff and expect them to be fixed and healed the minute they walk out the door.

Speaker 1:

My perspective on this is that, as a healer and somebody who goes to see healers often, I want to be able to leave as a client, leaving my practitioner. I would like to be able to go home, process all the work that they've just done which enables me to open up to a new level, to a new layer, to a new awareness of what is next for me. I don't want to go into a healing session going here's a hundred problems, can you please fix them and like glue everything back together and pass it to me again and like glue everything back together and pass it to me again. I don't want to go in asking for that, because that is me handing over my power. I am going to go into those sessions as a client, stepping into the space of a healer, going okay. So I'm really stuck on this. Can you please work some sort of magic magic you do whatever is your specialty can you please give me the keys so I can take those keys away and I can unlock the door? And this is an analogy that I love Like this is something that I am so known for, because I would love if every single person that came to me in a session, that every single client that laid on my healing table, if I just handed them a key and I said look here, this is the key. I'm going to take you on a journey and show you the door. The rest is up to you. I am handing you the power to change your own life, so you know how to do it. So then next time you can take a step closer, you can get to the door and eventually you can open the door and do it all yourself.

Speaker 1:

Because by me taking a power away from somebody as a practitioner and not teaching them and showing them and opening them up by opening them up to be able to do this for themselves, I'm setting them up for failure. I am setting them up to be reliant on me, which, if I look at it from the 3D perspective, from the base chakra perspective, it's like the money and the income and the I need to be busy and all of that stuff. I know eventually this client, at some point, after one session, after three sessions, after five sessions, whatever it might be, after a period of time, they're going to be fine to go out and do this, they're not going to need me anymore. And so it takes a certain level of acceptance that maybe you're not going to have this client for a long period of time. And that takes a lot of releasing, that takes a lot of, you know, ability to go.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I'm okay that they don't come back, because as a society we're taught that we have to grasp everything, but we're being taught to live in a scarcity mindset. And that's not what it's about, because when we can support someone through their healing to a certain point where they can now go and do it themselves, we are being of service, we are helping to change the world, we are helping to break cycles, because they then know how to do it themselves. And so, to bring this back to you, my beautiful goddess, I would love for you to step into this power so you aren't giving away your power. Every time you see somebody, every time you speak to somebody, every time you need help with something, it's time to start to take ownership of your decisions, to put to this point, to get you to hear all of the choices that you have made up until this moment have been yours, of the choices that you have made up until this moment have been yours, and so it's up to you to then learn how to break these cycles. It is up to you to find the practitioners that you need and ask them for support, not to fix this, and I'm asking anybody who's listening to this as a practitioner, as a therapist, as a healer, to please stop taking your client's power and start stepping into service and start opening up the doors and start really giving them the power to be on their own journey. Have them, have you alongside them to guide them, but not to give them the answers. Be the type of therapist and practitioner and healer who gives them the key, unlocks the door if you need to, but gets them to that point to be able to go on their own self-healing journey.

Speaker 1:

And so this can be quite controversial because there are so many aspects to it. You know, when we first start out wanting support and wanting to be healed, we go seeking the people that are going to give us that fix. You know that quick fix that solution, but that's not necessarily where the sustainable work and sustainable cycle breaking is. They are going to peel back layers. So go for it. Go and see the kinesiologist, go and see the Reiki master, go and see the whatever it is the practitioners, the psychologists, the whatevers to peel back the layers so you can see clearly. But once you can see clearly, take a look yourself. Don't ask them to take a look, because that's not where your power is.

Speaker 1:

So I'm going to leave it there because I feel like I've said all that I needed to say for this episode, but that is definitely a perspective that I feel needs to be spoken about, needs to be shared.

Speaker 1:

And again, another cycle that we need to break as a collective of giving away our power, because we are doing it in so many ways and it's time to step up and choose to take the power back and to hold it in a new light, because that's what we all deserve.

Speaker 1:

We deserve to have our hearts open, to have our power in a way that we feel strong and connected with ourselves, so that we can trust and know what our bodies need, because that is what power is. As a goddess, we don't have the power out there. We have the power within us, so we can be our own GPS. We can navigate all of the stuff that we're holding on to and just ask for the sisters to come along on this journey, for all of the other goddesses to come together and say I'm having a really hard time here. Can you just give me a little bit of an uplift, enough so I can see clearly again, because that is the power of healing. I hope you enjoyed this episode and please let me know if you've got any comments, questions, happy to chat further, and otherwise I hope you go out and have the most amazing day, find peace and harmony in any way you possibly can, sending you so much love Until next time. Bye.