Awaken Your Power: Trust, Trauma & Transformation | Cara Elizabeth

In this powerful and soul-stirring episode, James is joined by healer, creator, and guide Cara Elizabeth to explore what it truly means to live in your power. From the role of trust and surrender, to working with archetypes like the dragon and animal medicine, this conversation dives deep into healing trauma, embodying truth, and creating from the inside out.

Cara shares her personal journey of overcoming childhood abuse, releasing PTSD, and discovering how to co-create with the universe through visualization, movement, and energetic alchemy. Together, they unpack what safety really is, how to hold your frequency in uncertain times, and why your inner world creates your outer reality.

About Cara:

Cara Elizabeth is an artist, author, and speaker who resides in Brooklyn. She works with individuals and groups to find their power, step into their purpose, and turn trauma into their greatest asset. Cara connects people to their true self so they can become their own healer, shaman, and guru.

She is the creator of BodyTech, a movement-based healing technology that combines breathwork, animal embodiment, and energetic realignment. As a certified breath coach, and drawing on her training in Kundalini yoga and years of dance, Cara developed BodyTech to offer direct, physical access to emotional transformation and personal power.

She received her Bachelor's degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a focus in Painting and her MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. She is a Baháʼí and grew up in a Baháʼí family, which fostered her search to independently investigate all spiritual teachings and the science of reality.  

Cara Elizabeth credits her decades of complex PTSD, due to childhood sexual trauma, as not only her greatest asset but what led to her creation of Animal Apothecary. After very little success with healing from both western and alternative medical practices, Cara finally chose to no longer look outside of herself to fix what was broken, but instead to go within and heal herself. This is how Animal Apothecary was born.

Transcript

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In this episode, I talk with Cara Elizabeth about stepping into your power and how feeling and being safe begins Here. We talk about animal medicine and symbolic guidance and the messages and transformation they can bring. Our co-creation with the universe can change your life, and we talk about holding the vision and frequency as a spiritual and energetic practice. Welcome to Man: A Quest to Find Meaning, where we help men navigate modern life, find their true purpose, and redefine manhood. I'm your host, James, and each week, inspiring guests share their journeys of overcoming fear Embracing vulnerability and finding success. From experts to everyday heroes. Get practical advice and powerful insights. Struggling with career, relationships or personal growth? We've got you covered. Join us on Man Quest to Find Meaning. Now, let's dive in.

James: 1:12

Hello, Cara. How are you?

Cara: 1:14

Hello. I am amazing expanding and all that journey of the terror and the joy and the fear and the doubt, and then the believing in yourself. But I'm at the expansion feeling. Good moment. So that's awesome because

1:30

it's always a roller coaster.

James: 1:32

Every time I go onto a episode of a podcast, there's always that anxiousness beforehand.

Cara: 1:38

Focus on the bigger picture.

James: 1:40

That's case. Let's start with being in our power.'cause something that you said recently was that safety is basically you've been in your power. Yeah. Now something, safety's been something that I've really been working on myself.'cause I had a five day festival romance. And the one thing that came from that was that she didn't feel seen. And if you didn't feel seen, she didn't feel safe. But that was that her projection? Was that my own projection? I don't know. But since then I've been on this this path. I've created that, creating this presence, this safety and connection to myself first. And so that I'm the same with everybody else. So let's start with power. Feeling your power.

Cara: 2:30

Yeah. I would also say maybe with that relationship you had, sometimes we meet people who bring out something within ourself. So maybe there is an aspect where she's not seeing herself and you allowed her to connect to that, but then projected it on you. But whatever, we're all, everyone is an equal partner in what we're experiencing. But I think as far as safety and power, I think, this world is terrifying at moments. This world is unsettling. We are dealing with a insanity epidemic that has probably gone on for centuries and centuries and centuries. And there, there is a lot of things in this reality that are very scary. But when we can feel safe within ourselves, despite the outside situation, when we can come into this and I think safety is also like completely thrown around that word and but I, a part of being empowered is. Getting into a safety within ourselves, which then really means trust. It's trusting despite if your nervous system is hijacked. And see, this is the thing when I'm talking about safety, I'm not like, okay, let's breathe slow. Let's calm the body. Let's make sure, to me, we didn't come in this life necessarily to feel that level of safety we came and we to challenge that to, because how could we understand courage and risks if we didn't know what fear was? And someone actually just said that in one of my YouTube videos, like I was like, oh my God, right? Like fear is what blesses us to bring out the gem of courage. But it is, there is something about teaching yourself safety through taking risks and doing the things that scare you, which is what teaches you. It is safe to use your voice. There are obviously places in the world where it's not safe, but I think generally in the Western world, we have this privilege of exploring who we are without too much censorship or terrifying things happening to us. I know that's not, that does not apply for everywhere else in the world, but this kind of ex experience of, going forward in fear is actually the thing that you're teaching yourself. That it is safe to take these risks and do these things. And that is empowering and that teaches your body safety and that teaches you your power. I know I just went all over the place, but the, our empowerment feels safe because once we start really, like seeing the fruits of our labor and seeing the fruits of taking these risks and seeing that it is okay to do these things that are terrifying. That is what empowers you, that you went the thing scared. It doesn't come from oh, I just know that like it's easy. That's not necessarily brings out that feeling of empowerment. So it's almost like you need unsafety to connect, you need to understand powerlessness in order to align with power too.

James: 5:54

Yeah. You talk about if you resist, it persists. So there's a sense, I suppose if you resist powerlessness, then you are going to always get powerlessness until you actually walk into it and it's with working myself with the power of the dragon the last. Three or four months. What I've come to realize is that there's a distinct feeling of connecting to it. So it's very easy, I think, sometimes to get caught in all the news get caught up in social media and to get caught up in your head.

6:32

Yeah.

James: 6:32

But if you almost pull yourself back into your body, there's a distinct, subtle sense of that connection. And I think that's the key, is being able to connect that subtle sense on a frequent basis that you can almost witness it as much as you can.

Cara: 6:53

It's interesting because I went through a quantum jump in the summer, and I feel like I'm in a weird quantum jump right now. And I noticed, I'm noticing what happened last time and what's happening again is that. I almost have to have these moments where I shut everything out. Like I become like you said, we're so influenced by all these things where I almost go into like imaginary land and like I embrace that and I go into my own little cubby hole and allow that power. So it's not affected by the chaos and the noise of everything else. I, it just remind me of what you were saying, like just shutting everything el else off and there's something, it's like going in that womb, going in that imagination land. And when I say imagination is what's creating our reality. It's like the like you go inside and it like brings it almost helps you like believe it more and more. And then there's like a, an interesting shift that can happen when we allow ourselves to just say no to everything for a while. I know we can't be totally ignorant, but sometimes you need to shut it out. Like it's just too, it's just because here's the thing, we're dealing with a mad world, right? It's mentally unstable and that our interaction with it and witnessing it throws our nervous system off. It throws us into fear. So creating your own universe of stability, of safety, of empowerment with the dragon power is super, actually, almost even like a protection too, and it helps you grow without any of that influence on the outside.

James: 8:40

Really Out of interest, what, with regards to yourself going into that kind of cocoon, what do you personally do?

Cara: 8:50

I love creating visualizations that are super empowering because they always this is the thing I know now because I've done this and sometimes it takes months and months and months and months for a thing to manifest. But if I go hard on a visualization of what am I creating? And like right now. My, my visualization for life is let me just back this up so then anyone watching this can also do this. So we our dreams are our subconscious speaks a metaphor, and actually the creator speaks to us in metaphor. That's why when certain animals come in, a dragon is so empowering to you. And if we study the, behavior and mythology of dragon, it's oh, it's actually teaching you that wisdom. It's teaching you that. And, so nature, God is a poet, like the creator. The great mystery is speaking to us in poetry and math and science. But I can I can detect the poetry, our subconscious speaks in poetry too. So when we dream, it's all symbols representing something else. It's language is symbology. So if we start visualizing in symbology instead of okay, I wanna manifest this amount of money, so I'm gonna visualize seeing in my bank account a hundred thousand dollars.'cause that's so fun to visualize, get outta my face. So the one visualization I'm doing, and we will be doing the I am Empowered membership is like I have created my relationship to with money. I think everyone's relationship with money is weird. So now I'm like, okay, it's a puppy that has its fur is made of, a hundred dollars bills or whatever, and it's loving and it's kind and it loves me and I love it. And I'm creating this new relationship with the idea of money. Before when I was trying to leave my full-time job to work for myself for almost seven months and on and off I would do this visualization. I was like, what is the metaphor of me working for myself? Like I couldn't picture a matter of fact idea of what is, what the thing should look like? So I was like me leaving my job means my energy is too big for the space I work in. So I constantly visualize myself exploding out of, and then I would have dragon shooting out of me too. But like I would see myself like, like becoming a giant bigger than the building that I worked in. And then seven months later I'm working for myself. So I think, one of my visual, I mean there's so many metaphors we can use that are fun, listening to awesome music, keep coming back, holding that vision. But it's like we're it, to me, that's a language with creating. The materialization of these things and how it comes will, actually, it doesn't need to be a set way in my head because I said, this is what's gonna be in my bank account at this time. It's no, I'm actually completely changing my relationship with finances and everything I've learned, and it's a special relationship between me and this cute little money puppy that, will show up however it shows up. But it's gonna be loving and it's gonna be supportive and I'm not gonna be, have my hangups around. So many of us have hangups with even money. I'm even realizing I have my, that they're in my faith. I'm a Baha. And really understanding that ma, this world is an illusion and not focusing on materialism also. I'm like, oh, I shouldn't care about money. And that's not the message, right? But I need to like, work through that and have a cool, fun energy exchange with this thing that's super supportive in my life. So I think, going and practicing and setting aside 10 minutes every day and just going into these visualizations as you walk down the street, have your dragon with you. You know what I mean? If you're going on a date and you want, and you're a little scared, freaking have dragon like on your shoulder, just bring your these, all these things, they're alive within us. And we're just allowing them to come with us on the journey. I've done things where. I've walked around and I just see a diamond spinning in my heart. I have my eagle wings and people come and respond to me differently because I'm holding that as I'm going out in the world. I'm seeing myself with that. So I think really getting and we're all artists, we're all freaking artists. We're all creating our own reality. Have fun with it. Like this is us being a kid. The magic is the science, right? And just bring your guides and your symbols and they all are here to help you and you're creating them. And they also they wanna be self-realized through you too. That's why they show up. So it's I go heavy on that with creating this like world, this universe that I live in that feels so fun and empowering.

James: 14:01

One thing I. I've always socialized as a kid from a kid is being a knight and a shy and a horse. So I can always imagine myself to the T of basically charging down the battlefield kind of thing. But recently we've, we are bringing Dragon in. I've seen this, it's changed slightly. I'm more against evil, but I turn to flames. My eyes flame up and I just bring in dragons and I'm always like, drawing a fire saw out my hand kind of thing.

Cara: 14:33

Yeah, no, see, that's, that is it. But it's almost just it like keep that visualization alive and keeping it transforming.'Cause you're changing, so now it's like different for you. So it's just keeping that, holding that, because it has a vibration, it has a frequency and it's a medicine for you.

James: 14:54

How do you, because obviously you, yourself and Taylor talks about the same of holding, holding the vision, holding the frequency. How do you maintain to hold that throughout the day?

Cara: 15:06

Okay, so I can only speak for myself, but I come from a background of, sexual abuse when I was younger, and then as an adult, almost two decades of post-traumatic stress disorder. So understanding a reality where you're easily triggered where your body has been. I've dealt with pretty sick things from a very young age. So there's, my chemistry, my nervous system, everything has a sensitivity around feeling safe in this life. So it's. Really can be a lot, can really be a lot. And although I no longer identify with having PTSD and it's not a daily thing, I still get triggered in really real ways. And especially for those of us on our journey to become our greatest self on our journey, to share gifts with humanity on our journey, to use our voice. I think there's a big collective of us who get, who have a lot of suffering in our backgrounds and our body. On that journey of facing your fears, it's hard. I think becoming our greatest self I'll get back to your question, but like becoming our greatest self is the hardest thing you will ever do because what essentially people I, like us and people on their growth path are fate, have to face every disbelief in themselves and have to go through those triggers. For me, staying in the frequency, it's it's a, some days are easier than others. Some days I wake up in the darkness and I have to weave myself out of it, and some days it just. Stays. But I think I'm constantly, I'll I have things that I do in the morning to set up the day, my journaling, my visualization, my body work. And then at different times I have to react to myself differently. Sometimes when I'm triggered and the and there's a lower vibration and I'm in fear, there's a compassion I need to have for myself. Other times I need to say f you to the stories that are happening. There's more of a power, a rage, like this lie doesn't get to tell me. Other times I have a cheerleader in my head screaming, just trust I'm serious. She is so loud, like she has to scream over all the scary things happening in my head. So I create, I have different characters who come and help me within myself while I'm not fully balanced, but. I still go forward, even if I'm not in this seemingly aligned open frequency. But maybe that's the point. Like maybe we're not supposed to be, ah we're not, this is a human existence and like it is, I, my empowerment expands more when it's, when I go through constriction, I come out even more powerful than I was before that. So I have to go through the doubt. I have to go through the darkness. I have to go through forgetting myself because I re-remember my power in a new way every time I come out of it. I don't know if that answers your question, but it's just like a daily kind of coming back and working differently with myself because one technique. Will work for you for a week, and then you've outgrown it, or it just doesn't hit the way it used to hit. So I think we have to keep evolving and discovering new ways that keep us in our power. The whole point for me, everything, my healing is power, is being empowered. That's all it is. I'm either, I feel okay, I'm either feeling disempowered or I feel empowered. So being empowered is for me, the best feeling in the world and aligning with that. But it's something that I have to practice and try and sometimes it's just there and I don't have to try. So it's, it just depends on the day.

James: 19:14

Makes sense. It's human conditioning. We're human beings. We have to have duality from both sides. And as you've said from other times, that you have to go through. I hate using the word negativity. The bad to get to the good. I hate using them words, but sometimes you can't find anything else. Can you tell us your story please?

Cara: 19:38

Sure. My story is, let me see if I can wrap this up. I feel like it always takes me super long and I wanna just say it more complete. I come from, childhood with sexual abuse, raped as a teenager, a lot of things of understanding complete disempowerment. Also growing up as a female in a society where there was an obsession with your body, with your appearance. And just a lot of just completely understanding powerlessness, especially with sexual abuse and. Like this huge, yeah. Just understanding what it means to have something take, have power over you. Although I know in truth, no one can take your power or have power over you, but it is the, we go through these representations where I understand what it, feels like to have someone have power over me. I, with the molestation as a kid, I had dissociative amnesia throughout. I didn't even remember it. I didn't even start coming out till I was my freshman year in college. And it came through all these ravens a really intense dream. And all these ravens were telling me that I needed to know the truth. There was this thing that I needed to like, remember. And I, after that dream, it was extremely disturbing. And I remembered my mo mother had taught me about animal medicine, which she had learned from a few of her friends with indigenous American heritage. And my mom in, when I was in high school, got really into it. And it's this, the philosophy, animal medicine, when there are certain animals that appear in your life that if you study their behavior and their mythology that they're teaching you something. So my mom had this book called animal Speaks by Ted Andrews. And it was all about he, this guy that went and spoke to a lot of indigenous peoples and got a lot of information about understanding, what these animals represented. And I looked up Raven and. I don't wanna give Raven a bad rap because Raven is also about manifesting in magic and the unknown, but also has been known to be a messenger of dark truths. There's all this mythology around Raven sharing information that didn't wanna be heard. There was this one old tale of this king lost his beloved and he sent his a page to go search the lands for his lover, and she could be found nowhere. So finally when the page came back to tell the king like had his, he was so distraught by hearing the message that his lover was just gone and he could never reunite with her that he had his wizard friend turn the page into a raven for telling him such bad news. When I learned that Raven was this messenger of something, you don't want to hear it. And then discovering through that dream that I was molested as a kid, I was obsessed. I became a vegetarian at nine years old at my own, like my own decision. My parents weren't vegetarians anything. I've always had this thing with animals. But I think everyone has, most people have this love animals. I think most people do, but so I just felt like they're the purest thing in the world and I became like just so interested in understanding them. So they've always been a part of my journey. Raven's the one who told me about my past. And then I got, as I discovered more and had more memories surface about my childhood and more and more disturbing and more, I actually, I was going and seeing every type of healer, shaman, guru naturopath, western therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, all of it, like being put on tons of pills. And I just kept, for 18 years, I just kept actually getting worse. And then it just got to this point where I was like, like my art felt like I wasn't going anywhere with the work I was doing. I felt like I wasn't aligned with I, that I wasn't living my purpose. I felt like I had a purpose and that. My destiny in this life was actually that I would have this huge purpose that I could never self-actualize while having to re-remember the emotional, physical trauma of my sexual abuse every day. So it was like, why am I even here? Let's just end it. And then I got to this, I thought the one thing I haven't done was do it alone. This whole time I'm seeing all these different healers and sure, I learned a lot. I learned a lot, but I never tried it on my own. So I had this moment with the creator and I just started working with the creator and I figured out how to get off of 12 years of medication by myself. I figured out how to like, just stop. Being a chain smoker instantly by myself. Like I was able, I started this communion in this prayer. Every day I would just go on my roof and pray to life the creator. Great mystery. And I just said, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? And I would beg and I would cry, and I would just ask and plead and bow in reverence. And I just said, whatever you want me to do. And then slowly, without even knowing it, I started creating animal apothecary, the card deck, which totally changed my life, which healed me. So it wasn't me. It was like me and God being the creator, right? Like we we healed myself. And the creator of course knew animals were so special to me. So of course it was the animals who told me. And it was the animals who healed.

James: 25:57

That's very powerful I think, because we always, I think as human beings, we look on the outsides for answers, but all the answers I'm starting to learn is from the inside. We already know what we need to do. It's just doing it.

Cara: 26:18

Yeah. And that's like when I do readings and sessions with people, I love when people start a session like a, when they do a reading with me and they're like, I wanna know about this or this, and I'm like you're gonna figure it out. Like I'm not actually, like I don't tell you anything. I get you to connect with yourself in a deeper way. I get you to channel and you discover the answers because who the hell am I? It's you're your own medicine. I'm not really interested. Anyone outside of me trying to tell me who I am. Maybe some people like that, but I'm like, no, I define myself. So I think everyone has that power in them and the fact that we're also creating our own reality. So what is the, what is the most uplifting thing inside of you that you need to hear is gonna come from you? And I wanna honor it is so amazing to have support. It is so amazing to have a cheerleader. It is so amazing. But we have to do it for ourselves too, like a hundred percent.

James: 27:23

It's in this at moment, I've decided, do you know something? Rather than using the questions rather than having any notes, I'm just going to trust to know what comes up. And I think that's it. We lack trust in ourselves. I think we look for everything outside, externally to give us the answers. We don't trust ourselves to know ourselves, and I think that's where the powerlessness comes from.

Cara: 27:46

Yes, it's trust. It's trust on so many different levels. Like I also feel most empowered when I am trusting everything to work out. I feel most safe when I am trusting everything to work out. So there is trust is the superpower. Trust is also, the magnetic force that allows these manifestations to come to us. It's like in so many different spiritual teachings, there's this wisdom about act as if your prayer has been answered. The, I forget there was this one. I don't know if it was an elder from the Hopi tribe. I, I'm not sure. But it was an elder from an indigenous tribe that says, we don't we don't pray for rain. We become the reign. So it's like you have to our trust it. I think the creator is yeah, I'm here to give you whatever you want, but you're an active participant in this. And not to say, there's infinite, multifaceted, different ways that prayer works, but I think there's something really empowering, knowing that if we trust, if we act as if the prayer has been answered, that it also gets it answered. It is the thing, but it goes back to that frequency, right? Holding the vision, like staying in that trust is a, can be difficult sometimes. All a lot.

James: 29:18

Obviously a lot of what you do is very interactive. I've never been quite, I did the free day one recently. Yeah. And the last day you're doing all their movements and my arms were like jelly. My legs were like, I think next day I was like, oh my God, what's going on? But it's this idea that it's like dance. You dance, your body just moves how you want to move. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just trust. It's trust. It's trusting that the medicine that we need is going to show itself at the right time in the moment. That's it. That's it. It's coming back to the present moment.

Cara: 29:59

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Because oh, so many of us are in the future and the past at the same freaking time without like just. And a lot of times for most of us, I know there's a lot of horrifying things happening in the world, but for many of us, and if anyone is listening to this right now, everything is probably okay. You know what I mean? Like maybe you have to figure out something to pay rent in a couple weeks and that's stressing you out. But like right now, if you're able to even listen to this conversation, your car probably isn't on fire. Like probably right now everything is okay for a lot of people and that is that is beautiful too.

James: 30:46

Yeah. It was like it's very easy to get caught up, especially if you are struggling with money or things aren't going quite to plan in a relationship. But if you come back to this present moment, you are safe. You've probably got, you've probably, most of us have got a roof over our head who are listening to this. There's probably, you've probably got food, shelter. And so it's almost coming back to them and we almost, I think we take for granted the how easy it is to get things and we want that comfort of having a million pounds in our bank or to have a sports car or what, whatever it is. Yeah. And I think it's more coming back almost to our natural ways.

Cara: 31:32

Yeah. And that also we're just surrounded by abundance at every moment too. Like we're, you know what you're saying. Okay. It'd be nice if we had this much money in the bank and then that kind of car and whatever, but let's focus on how much abundance is happening right now for everyone. Even if you only have shelter and food, you have shelter and food. You know what I mean? And like we can look and these trees are outside. This is everything around us is an extension of us. And that it's, we're just surrounded by Abu abundance. And we have this very corrupted, probably materialistic, westernized view of this possession, right? Like I need to possess more things, which is the ultimate illusion because material objects are the illusion. So it's wait, we look at around you, like it's just an extension of you. You're completely in this abundance of reality. And just allowing yourself to be in that present moment of it and coming back to that. That also makes us in oneness with everything is realizing, wait, this is an extension of me.

James: 32:52

Yeah. Is it can you explain that a little bit more? Because I can imagine people, not everybody, but people listen, some people listen to this, it's gonna hear extension of me and think, okay, what are they going on about?

Cara: 33:03

Yeah. Extension of you. So if we are creating, if we are co-creators in our life and we are a part of creating everything in our life and that this projection around us is a part of what we've created for ourselves, it is an extension of ourselves, our best friend, our lover, our parents are all these ex, they're like the tentacles, right? They're all these different parts of us. So the home you live in right now is you. It is like a projection of you on the outside, the friends that you have, the job that you have. And if you don't like it, there's information there about something within yourself. Does your house feel like a home or does it feel like the worst place to live? But that is a reflection, that is a metaphor. So we're learning all these things and then you can take it all the way to like quantum physics and how we're understanding that everything is one. Everything is just, aspects of a bigger one thing. Like we're all one human family and maybe you're a red blood cell and I'm a bone and you we're all meant to serve our gifts. Otherwise the whole system is gonna be corrupted and get cancer and not work. So we're all, I'm going off into another kind of tangent, but it just is. Everyone is an extension of us. Every thing, but especially in your own universe, in your daily world, everything you're dealing with is an extension of you teaching yourself something showing back to you, okay? This is your belief you might have around this if you have a boss who does not honor you, okay where am I not honoring myself in my own authority? What is my boss teaching me that I have a problem with is actually a teacher for me. So they're all parts of you sharing information with yourself, if that makes sense.

James: 35:12

It's projection. So an exte person, extension of you. So you are very passionate. You're very empowered. That's how I see you anyway, but it's then same like a rock star. People might worship rock stars, but it's then seeing those aspects and then owning them, parts of you yourself. Okay. And it's same the on the other side.

Cara: 35:35

You know what's interesting about what you said? So one thing, if you, and this is just so cool to know if we ever get jealous of someone and they are, they have something or they're living a life, that jealousy is just a translation. That you have that ability to do that same exact thing in your own way, but you're denying yourself to do it. And that's why we feel the feeling of jealousy because they're mirroring back to us. That this is in us too, but there's a part of us who's not allowing ourselves to do that thing, and that comes through the vibration of jealousy. So it's yeah.

James: 36:16

Okay. That makes complete sense.

Cara: 36:18

Yeah. So it's cool then to know now, instead of looking at your jealousy of someone like, oh, they got promoted and I'm feeling some type of way, oh, that means I can do it too. Yes. In your own individual way. And it's not gonna look how that other person, but there is something that person is mirroring back to you that you're not letting yourself do. And that's why it doesn't feel good.

James: 36:42

It can become, it can almost become a full-time job when you go out into like bars and you see a person doing that. You see a person doing that, you're like, shit, I'm gonna have to, oh my God, all the work I've gotta do on myself.

Cara: 36:56

Yeah, but join the, join the club of deciding to be a warrior in this lifetime. It means you gotta do a lot of work on yourself,

James: 37:07

A lot of work, a lot of healing. It's how did, when you come to using animals, how do you kind assume they come in your dreams, they come to you through phy physically, how do you actually see or be able to read what they're saying?

Cara: 37:25

So it all depends, but I think you could simply look up like on the internet, what's the spirit animal of fox mean? And what's, its totem and it'll tell you all this stuff, but if you actually go and watch a documentary on that animal. You will learn about different behaviors. And if you wanna put it in a way of what is the metaphor of that behavior teaching me in my life right now? So sometimes there's those blanketed statements of this is what this animal means. And like a lot of it, it's yeah, that is a representation, but if you wanna go on your own journey and like Eastern dragon is really different from Western Dragon and they're almost the light and shadow of the same exact thing. They're all about force power and abundance. So the Western dragon, if you study it's lore and the stories about it, there's always this story where the western dragon. Hoarding the golden coins, fighting the hero, stealing the maiden, right? It's about this abundance of hoarding and it's all for me. And then we could look at Eastern Dragon, which is benevolent, which is about helping everyone in their abundance, which is, auspicious and joyous. And you want Dragon on your your team in the ing the Chinese Book of Changes. One of the oldest divination oracles we, that I think we have records of is teaches like this, that Dragon loves to work with people who are coming from the heart. Okay? Totally different from east Western Dragon, but that shows us. That same flip side, it's the same side of a coin. They're both about this abundance, but what does abundance looks when it turns into narcissism? And what does abundance look like when it's turned into for you and everyone, right? So it's just going on your own deep research and just watching documentaries or reading about it. And you'll get clues to like,'cause when I, when I hear people talk about Dragon, I don't ever hear them talk about the duality of the Eastern and the Western. And that's because I study Dragon and I'm hearing, and not to say that's not obviously out there, but it's because I'm understanding it through my own research and then seeing that reflected back.

James: 39:53

Yeah, it's like for me, dragon's all about fire burning away, transforming, but there's almost a le a level as well being able to push the fire into the ground to heal the, to the planet's grid work. Yeah. And I think it is something that's come for also through a healer I work with. And she was saying the more people that start to use drug energy to do things like that, the more you're going to heal the earth in a big, profound way. But it's also through doing these different things of being able to bring cri like red crystals, I think I think it's agate crystals, so then shoving, yeah. Anything that no longer aligns of me, I could pass lies, anything like that into the crystal and burning it away.

Cara: 40:41

Okay, so see what's awesome about what you just said is that Dragon is teaching you like you're connecting to Dragon to teach that, right? And Dragon will come to each of us and teach us in its own way how it wants to be perceived and understood. So it That's like what you said, I'm like Exactly. That's the Medicine Dragon speaking and asking you to share with people and some people are gonna get other information, but that's the medicine that Dragon works through with you, which is so cool because it is and then who you share it with and who aligns with it is actually your tribe, your audience. Where Dragon once is speaking to all those people because that's the medicine that are gonna be so empowering for those people that you speak to. So yeah. It's awesome.

James: 41:31

It's quite cools. Because what I'm realizing as well, I can dance when I'm, I enjoy doing a static dance and yeah sober waves and it's that fi using fire in the hands. And my, i on my light and flames moving around. And the other day I was so I went to this event and usually I keep my top on, but this one occasion it says take your top off. And I was like, fuck sake. No, don't do that. Because I felt really I felt judged, but was it other people judging me or was it myself judging me or was you, so I did it and then allowed me to be able to, okay, now let's work with that judgment. And when I shifted that judgment, oh my god, yes. Suddenly I was in my power.

Cara: 42:18

I love that. And the movement and the fire and just allowing yourself to be with that. You didn't try to escape it or shove it down. You like moved with it and then you had fire there with you. That is so cool. That is transmutation.

James: 42:32

Absolutely. Could I be cheeky? Would you be able to do like a reading?

Cara: 42:37

Sure. Okay. Let's do it for, let me give this an intention. Okay. So you and anyone listening, I want you to think of like the thing in your heart, you are just like, oh my God. It would just be such a blessing to self-actualize this, to have this come into fruition. It would be such a gift from the creator. It would just be amazing. Hold that vision. Just hold that vision. Hold that vision. Keep holding that vision. Pulling a few cards. Hold it in your mind's eye. Okay. Let's be what we got. Amazing. All right, so first we start with little c Otter, surrender to Receive. Okay, so this is about co-creation with life, that there's an aspect of you that feels like you need to know, you need to control. You need to be in charge of how this is happening. You need to have structure and dedication, and you need to know exactly what you're supposed to be doing to make this thing happen. Where it says, yeah, there's an, then there's an aspect of taking action, duh. But there's a bigger thing where life is a part of making this happen and being okay with not knowing and being okay in the unknown. Being okay, like having no expectations, but just the knowing that it's gonna happen. And the Sea Otter has its stomach open to the sky, which is a very, if we look at most animals in the animal kingdom, having an open stomach is very vulnerable like a dog. If a dog doesn't trust you, it's not gonna be like, here, rub my stomach. There's something about the sea otters position, which is this openness and vulnerability. It allows the sun, the creator, to just bask in this openness while sharp could be lurking or whatever is lurking beneath. But there's this trust. So we're being asked to understand that there is something right now co-creating and making this thing happen, and you're not supposed to freaking know how it's going down. That this is interesting. So we have dream bigger. A bigger dream. Want you and I am bigger than this, sometimes cards tell me different things at different times. The message that I'm getting right now, it's not that it's a different dream, it's that you need to, the thing in your heart that you wanna see, I need you to blow it up. I need you to see it. 10 scale, whatever that thing is, that is what this is asking you to envision it. Why, or, oh, just get it there. No, it's like it wants to be here. So that is what you're being asked to hold and see your dream. See it at 20 steps further. See it even. What would that look like 10 down, 10 years down the road if this thing happens in the next few months for you, what would that shift into in three years? Just go there. Go even bigger. And also you're bigger than this means whatever BS you're dealing with right now, you're bigger than it don't put and. Your dream, you need to see it small. You need to be bigger than your dream. Okay? This chick, she wanted to create this universe, so she creates the universe with inside herself, and then she's able to materialize it and stand on it. But she created it in her, which means she's bigger than it. So when we put the thing on a pedestal, oh, it don't mean I'll be that thing. And then it means I'm good enough and then it means, I whatever our traumas, right? Because, there is an aspect of every one of us who has a dream that a part of us wants that dream to happen, to heal some childhood ridiculous belief about ourself, which is all a part of an, it's not bad. It's not good. It's not bad, but like it is a thing. But we need to take that dream and we need to see it. As, as small as a grain of sand and see ourselves so monumental and so big that it no longer seems like this thing outside of us un unattainable, but just a little bleep on your timeline. Yeah, that's definitely gonna happen. So while at the same time we wanna see that dream bigger, but that means we have to become bigger to contain that. Okay. Better than you can imagine. I love this. So there is, right now it says we're in the gestation of making this thing happen. It's not like fully ready to give birth yet, but it is in the process. And that dragonfly shares about okay, it's underwater three to seven years, depending on the species as this nymph creature. And you can never, you can't explain to, not like we can talk to dragonfly with the words, but it would be like, oh, are you excited to fly one day? It has no perception of air, so how would it know what flying is? So this tells me that this thing that everyone listening has held the vision of that is the thing I wanna manifest, is that it is going to be even better. And that your current conscious consciousness cannot even fathom what that frequency feels like because it's so expansive. It's so liberating. And the wings reflecting rainbows. A lot of times we'll see this air distance in a dragonfly wing and you'll see like a rainbow. That's not'cause their wings are rainbows, it's because the lights reflecting on their wings creates rainbows. So this shares with me that there's something that is you getting divinely inspired and sharing that reflection to others while having this freedom doing it.'cause when we see animals that fly, that always means some kind of liberation and freedom. So this liberation and freedom to share your gift and it's divinely inspired because we get the service card. So whoever's listening is some kind of their medicine. Like you all listening, have some kind of light you're meant to share with humanity that your that it's like bringing people from the darkness, the service dog, leading people who can't see. It's this idea leading people into the light, but this thing you wanna create, this thing you wanna do is your medicine. And it's medicine for others. And it's a part of healing humanity. It's a part of changing the world and creating world peace. And I'll, I will say this forever, everyone here right now who is on their growth path, you're here to change the world. You're here to create world peace. You're here to discover these gifts inside of yourself so you can share them with humanity, so you can activate other people's li light, because I'm, we're not doing this. We're not gonna keep living in an insane world. That's why we are healing and that most people who are interested in even listening to this are also have something in them. The love they wanna share is epic. The words they wanna speak are epic. We're interested in upliftment and that in itself is a part of changing humanity. And then these two things, so these coincide, so we have, you are what you think. So Pink flamingos starts off white. And after three years of eating pink, red, krill, it turns pink. So we are whatever we're ingesting, think of that through what we're watching and how we speak and who we hang out with. We are becoming that. So we are what we think. And then we have here, I can change it with my thought. This says Block. She is taking her power and she is transforming her block with her thoughts and turning it into diamonds. So the last advice is your thoughts are so powerful and that you can actually take whatever negative things you're thinking right now. Any fear, any worry, any doubt, and you have the power to change that at any moment, you are able to shift into any timeline at any second. If the thing didn't seem like it worked out and you blew it and you were rejected and all this horrible stuff, you can immediately shift into another timeline by the way that you think. So just really, you're one of our greatest powers is. Having power and we, the taming our thoughts of directing our thoughts instead of letting our thoughts destroy us and make us scared. So it's really important that we realize, what are we thinking? And then you decide to change the thought. You, you tell the thought how it's gonna go down. Not you telling, okay, I'm sorry, but so many of us have terrifying things. It's no, shut it down. Get outta my face. This is how it is. So this is asking us to have this power over our you know what, I'm sorry. My computer is plugged in. I need to No, it's not. And it's about to,

James: 52:10

it's

Cara: 52:10

about to. Let me just plug in

52:11

my computer. I've

James: 52:13

done it before. Don't worry.

52:17

Hold on a second. I apologize so much. Let me make sure. Okay. Let me get this and plug it in Anyways, but that is the, that's the reading. So yeah. Was

James: 52:29

Yeah. So obviously sur Surrender is, that is the first thing you said. Surrender that is, is a key thing. And you're right, dogs. Dogs will show their belly when they're comfortable to show their belly. Both animals. Yeah can, because surrender comes in, it gets a bit of a bad rep because a films yet. Okay. I surrender. I give up. Can you go a little bit more deeper? Deeper into surrendering?

Cara: 52:55

Yeah. And maybe this will apply to someone like I am, there is an aspect of my life that is so difficult right now and there is no freaking proof. And I could live in that fear and I could live in that uncertainty and I could. Really just marry it and just be there in that. And having my nervous system hijacked. And I just realized recently that I am just gonna surrender and trust that everything is working out and just everything is working out and everything is working out. That is what I am surrendering to. I am not going, and I, like most of this month, I surrendered to fear about this situation and it really jacked me up and I'm like, you know what I'm, that isn't, that's not doing anything for me. So I am going to surrender to trusting that it's gonna work out. And, it took, it takes practice. It takes like consistency. Keep coming back to trust, keep coming back to trust. Keep asking, people are like, how do you surrender? How do you trust me? I will ask life. Help me trust. Help me surrender. Because it's difficult, right? Because we're all like I don't know, or I gotta, this is, but I am taking the stance, like I'm gonna surrender to trust and that, and I know now I am so in the knowing, oh, this is gonna work out and I can't wait to teach people about this experience and how nothing was showing up and everything was going wrong and all of it wasn't working, and then it worked out. And I will be sharing that story soon once I see it all work out. But I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna surrender to trust because if it's like we're creating our reality anyways, so why not? Join the light force field as opposed to like the terrifying other, version of reality.

James: 54:54

See it's so easy to get caught up in negativity or anything on the external going on anything to do with anxiousness fear. It's so easy to get caught up. But to change that and to go the other way, it becomes I suppose we, it is almost inbred into us from a very early age. Yeah. It's hard to get onto the other side.

Cara: 55:18

The other thing too that makes it seemingly more difficult is that when we start aligning with fear, it starts hijacking our nervous system. It hijacks our entire existence. So we're not only just fighting a thought now, our bodies and resistance, our bo, our cortisol, our adrenaline, everything. So it's like Jesus Christ like now, first it was the fear and now my body doesn't feel safe. And then there's this other interesting thing that happens that I'm changing the meaning of, but I'm gonna, I think some people could probably agree or feel this, but since we can change things, I'm gonna change the meaning of it. I've noticed when I am in fear, people show up differently. Relationships show up differently, and money shows up differently. And I'm like, this sucks. Like, why is when I am in fear, why, i'm not allowed to be triggered. I'm not allowed to be scared without the outside world. Reflecting that back to me, so I realized oh, I must be putting up an energetic protection boundary. And that energetic protection boundary is actually pushing everything I want away from me. Inadvertently, it's pushing things away, but I'm like, this sucks that reality sucks. Like I'm what? I'm not allowed to be scared and it's gonna affect my business. Like gimme a break that no one said life was fair this life. There's a lot of horrific things happening, but I don't really wanna live that life where just because I'm scared I'm gonna see that show up financially for me. I'm like this. No, I'm not. No. So then what I've currently realizing is okay, so maybe. Me having this idea that I put up an energetic shield that is a protection boundary, pushing everything away because my body's in fear. What if I am actually just resisting the fear, resisting that disempowerment. And because I am resisting myself, I'm actually resisting other things from coming in. So now I'm interested in this okay, so I'm not gonna resist these feelings anymore. I'm not gonna resist because when I'm in re resistance, everything else is in resistance toward me. So I'm changing the meaning so I can then work through allowing myself to feel and not be in resistance. Does that make sense?

James: 57:45

Yeah. Almost like what does my fear need? And I've come to the realize most from, for me, most emotions, all they want is love. Exactly.

Cara: 57:58

Exactly. Exactly. And I think we are going into a big reception phase for, I'm just looking for and for your viewers, my second deck, it's still not out yet, but this is all about the body and working with the wisdom of the body and that we can hold certain positions that embody what we're working on manifesting. But I think a lot of us are going into a massive flood of reception very soon. We're gonna see it like coming in for us in the next few months because all the work we've been doing for years and years, we're coming into a place of full self-acceptance. And that self-acceptance, accepting ourselves is what's making us so magnetic to receive the love to receive, sharing our gifts and actually having reciprocity. I think a lot of us, like we put ourselves up there and then it was like. Silence, so there's this new level that the collective of people on their growth path we're shifting into full freaking self-acceptance. And it is through that self-acceptance that a new flood of abundance is gonna come for us with the desires we've had for years. And I'm talking about years. Think about what, there's been something for a very long time in each of us that we have been working towards and hoping and failing and getting rejected and all this stuff. Like it's coming in, it's coming in very soon. Some I think will be very soon. Others will see it roll out in the next few months. But I also feel like. 2026 is about the year of being seen, which goes back to, because we're seeing ourselves, because it's us seeing us. And that is you receiving yourself.

James: 59:45

Yeah. I suppose there's almost a level of the self-acceptance and then turning it around and seeing you for who you are, and that seeing is almost, it's almost you seeing you internally, seeing you externally, but then as you see you, people see you.

Cara: 1:00:09

Yes. Yeah. And it's I think this whole, I think one of the things that so many of us on this growth path. There seems to be this thread with all of us, and it has to do with our self worth and our self value, and that I think is what we're gonna be connecting to, right? So like this person, she finally sees that she's filled with diamonds and now she can share those diamonds with humanity. But this is I think this, there's gonna be this massive, like pieces of the puzzle coming together for most of us, where we're gonna start honoring ourselves in the way that we have been chasing for our entire lives. So that's pretty cool.

James: 1:01:03

What came to me then was here to share ourselves fully.

Cara: 1:01:06

Yes, exactly. And

James: 1:01:09

yeah, I've almost as though. But we've had this shield put up for ourselves, for centuries. But now it's got to a point where the shields are dropping completely and almost like a robotic, a robot with a a person with a robotic skin and the skin's dropping down and it's almost like it's the inside's turned around to the outside. And so the inside's been seen

Cara: 1:01:38

inside, outside. It's the inside out world.

James: 1:01:42

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd love that. So can we finish off? Can you tell us what is it that you do and how can people get in contact?

Cara: 1:01:52

So I work with people to connect to their power to create the life they love, and I am very experimental. I do, I have my membership, I am empowered membership program. I ha I do personal readings, I do coaching with people. I'm the creator of these card decks, animal apothecary, which is out sold internationally on Amazon. If you want something easy, the Body Tech will be out. Probably 20, 26 more to come on that. But my website is Carra, CARA, Elizabeth speaks the.com. That's my Instagram. That's my YouTube. I have a YouTube. I have a lot of free stuff and information I share, but my membership is really freaking cool because we really take our body and animals to this next level of manifestation. If you are interested in connecting to your, turning on the technology in your body, because our body is the most sophisticated technology. It can unlock, an activate DNA, we can manifest with it, we can transmute with it, and then we're gonna pull, I pull the animals in, we embody the animals, and we take on those characteristics of certain animals and just do a lot of freaking cool things weekly in that group and challenges and workshops and, yeah. Kara Elizabeth Speaks website, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Kara Elizabeth speaks.

James: 1:03:22

I'm a, so for the audience out there, I'm a member and I find the weekly, the readings. I listen to them every week, the weekly readings I find them, they're informative and I try to do as many, I can't always be there on the actual day, but I try to do as many of the things the workshops and the activations and yeah they're powerful. I find.

1:03:44

Yeah,

Cara: 1:03:45

they're, I it's like a self journey. It's just like a moment you, with you and getting into your power through these different modalities. So super cool. And thank you

James: 1:03:59

as, outside my bedroom window and downstairs in the conservatory there's two massive spiders, huge spiders, and you can see it's there that close to the window. You can see every minute detail of the spider. It's quite cool, actually.

Cara: 1:04:16

Oh my gosh. Spiders teach us about, being the architect of the frequency web. So whatever were our threads that we cast out, which is. From our intentions that they are the master manifesters of just, they cast out the frequency, right? Every thread holds the frequency and intention that, oh, the thing is gonna come. That is not only my home, but the food and the nourishment is gonna come to me. They also teach us about not needing to chase, but just aligning and casting out our frequency web and just wait for all the abundance to come toward us and having that be our home too.

James: 1:04:56

Frankie, very much Cara

Cara: 1:04:58

James, you're freaking awesome. Thank you so much. I love that. Thank you.

1:05:02

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