Body Wisdom Rising

Spirit Speaks: Messages, Mediumship, and Ancestral Guidance —with Monique Gagnon

• Alyssa Stefanson

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We share grounded tools to reconnect with intuition and ancestry through breath, nature, and simple ritual. Monique offers clear methods for protection, energy clearing, and discerning guidance from fear, plus how to work with symbols and the four clairs.

• why breath, nature, and movement regulate the nervous system and open intuition
• the role of simple candle rituals and ancestor altars in daily life
• protection basics with intent, cleansing, cord cutting, and stones
• water practices for clearing, from showers to salt baths
• asking is this mine as a fast discernment tool
• how to use a symbol journal to speak with guides and ancestors
• understanding clairvoyance, clairsentience, claircognizance, and clairaudience
• surrendering outcomes to receive clearer guidance
• humility, ego, and staying authentic while serving others
• sitting in the power and embodying inner light
• Monique’s intuitive guidance, mediumship, and audio readings

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SPEAKER_01:

Welcome to the Body Wisdom Rising podcast. I'm your host, Alyssa, and my intention here is to deliver grounded embodied insights alongside practical tools and resources to help you heal, awaken, and remember your sacred nature. This is rooted spirituality, bringing people back to their bodies, back to their roots, and back into connection with the ancestral ways that have always carried us. Not spiritual fluff, not disconnected theory, weaving together the best of ancient wisdom and modern science, living, breathing practices and conversations that integrate healing, wellness, earth-based wisdom, and conscious growth. Each week I share space with experts in trauma recovery, holistic health, and ancestral ways of knowing, as well as voices with lived experience and powerful transformational stories. Together we explore what it truly means to rise rooted, embodied, and whole. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to leave a five-star review as it helps these conversations reach the people who need them most. Let's get into the episode. Hello, and welcome back to Body Wisdom Rising. For those of you who are new, welcome. And for those of you who keep coming back and listening to each episode, thank you so much. Your support means the world to me. And today I'm joined by my dear friend Monique Gagnon. She is an incredibly gifted, intuitive psychic and medium. And she's been on the show before. And her episode was actually one of the most downloaded because you all obviously loved it so much. So if you haven't already listened to that first conversation, definitely go back and check it out. And if you're ever wanting to book a private reading with Monique, I can't recommend her enough. So I'll leave her link in the show notes. And before we dive in, I have a few really exciting announcements to share with you. First, Ancestral Alchemy is officially open for enrollment. This is my new 12-week live virtual program beginning January 11th, 2026. It is a sacred, high-touch journey that blends the best of ancient wisdom and modern science. And this program was really born from my own journey of remembering, realizing how much of what I carried wasn't even mine, and how deeply so many of us have become uprooted from our own lineages and ancestral traditions. For years, I was drawn to other cultures and spiritual practices that still held those living connections to the earth, to ritual, and to community. And eventually I understood that what I was truly yearning for was my own ancestral remembrance. That path has given me such a profound sense of belonging, guidance, and support. And ancestral alchemy was created to help others experience the same. So throughout the 12 weeks, we move through five core phases from rooting back into the body to remembering, releasing, reclaiming, and reweaving the gifts of your lineage. It's a beautiful synthesis of somatic work, ancestral healing, neuroscience, and earth-based wisdom. You can find the link in the show notes to explore the full program and join us. And before the program begins, I'm hosting a free live workshop on Sunday, November 16th. So it's an opportunity to experience this work firsthand, to feel what it's like to reconnect with your lineage and the wisdom in your body. And if you're curious about ancestral alchemy or just want to deepen your understanding of ancestral healing, definitely join me for that. So if you're listening to this before November 16th, 2025, you can find the registration link in the show notes as well. And finally, my Sedona retreat is happening April 2026. So I'll be joined by my dear friend Gabrielle Logan Braun, an incredible musician and sound healer. It's an intimate small group retreat and it's already half full. And we'll spend four days immersed in ceremony, sound, and nature in the red rocks of Sedona. So that link is also in the show notes if you feel called. All right, let's dive into today's conversation with Nique. Yeah, I was actually just thinking, Monique, that you've been like a second mother to me over the past several years. It's yeah, it's been seven years that I've been seeing you, that we've been connected. Now you're um, you know, offering readings in our online community and everyone just absolutely adores you. And it's you've just been such a great support for me personally over the past several years. And I think a lot of people don't know that you, yes, you're a medium, yes, you're a psychic, but you're also just such an incredible intuitive guide and intuitive counselor. And you've empowered me so much in times when I've felt really uncertain with myself or like uncertain the direction my life has been going in. And yeah, you're you're you've just been such a solid um rock of support and just helping me reconnect back to myself, back to my body, back to my intuition when I have been feeling disconnected.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you so much for saying that. I appreciate it. And I feel the same about you, Alyssa. You know, like you said, we've been connected for seven years now at least. And you do feel like a daughter to me. You really do. Because, you know, I'm always so proud of you when you make all these progresses in your life, you know, and when you connect to what you're really authentically meant to be doing in this life, which you totally are, you know, being of service to others, helping others heal, um, find their place in this world. And uh, yeah, I'm very proud of you. So keep going the direction you're going.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you. I received that.

SPEAKER_00:

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_01:

We've we've had some really good conversations lately about just the importance of like women connecting back to their intuition, back to their bodies. Uh, it's really been stripped from us. And a lot of people just don't even know like the historic history of um all of that, right? Like we've been really to disconnect from our bodies and not to trust our intuition, disconnect from spirit, disconnect from earth. And, you know, our ancestors were always in relation with the earth, with spirit. They, you know, they they communicate connected with spirit and with their ancestors. And that's been moved from us as a culture. And I think that is just such an important piece of well-being, of meaning in life, of purpose, of feeling supported in our direction in our life. And I would really love to just give practical tips and tools today for the listeners of how to reconnect back to that because you're really gifted and great at reminding people that we need to keep it simple. It doesn't need to be complicated. Absolutely. Yeah. Um, and so let's kind of just dive into that. Like, you know, just reconnecting back to our own connection with spirit. Like, what are just simple tools for someone who's like, I feel so disconnected. Like, I don't know if I've ever received any guidance or know what it feels like to be connected to my intuition.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. So I teach this all the time, as you know, Alyssa, and I 100% agree. Like, life's become too complicated. It's it's like everything's fast, everything's quick with technology. Like our lives are quick, fast, busy. And that's what it's become with us within. So whatever, whatever your outside world is, and if it's busy, it'll reflect on the inside. You see what I'm saying? So you have to be able to be calm and at peace on the inside, and then your outside world will start to calm down. We need to calm down, and you're good at you're very good at uh helping people calm their nervous system. But the basic things are simply breathing, like that's one thing. It's our breath, our breath is such an incredible um source to use when we feel disconnected, when we feel overwhelmed, when we feel unfocused, right? So it's just deep breathing, like just close your eyes and just take a few deep breaths. And that right away that connects you not only to your body, obviously, but it'll connect to connect you on an emotional, mental, and spiritual level. This is where you're gonna connect to your spirit within is through breath. That's one way. Another way is, of course, walking in nature, being outside, being around trees, water, whatever it is that resonates for you with nature, that also connects us to our bodies, to our um to our spirit. Uh, meditation, of course, will connect us to our bodies and our meditation, dancing, moving our bodies, Pilates, yoga, whatever it is that uh hard rock. If it's hard rock, that's cool too. It doesn't have to be a specific type of music, as long as you do something to move your body that you can enjoy and it and it and that resonates for you. So all of these are just simple tools that I teach, but we need to get back to the basics. That's actually, yeah, I believe that because it's just become too complicated.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. And I love that you mentioned just find things that you enjoy and find things that you love. Yes. We won't stick to it if we don't. So, and even just these simple rituals through like connecting with your ancestors of just lighting a candle and setting the intention and asking for support. It's that simple. It's simple. Yeah. This elaborate ceremony or ritual. It can be if you enjoy that, but it also like simple is powerful. And it's just being consistent with these simple, um, practical, you know, just tools and rituals that we are easily able to incorporate throughout our lives. And I love that you mentioned too, just like getting into your body and moving and being in nature and dancing. I've been uh attending sweat ceremonies consistently over this past year. And I can't even tell you how much that has opened up my own um intuition and my own connection to spirit. You're very much just in flow state. You're singing and you're in ceremony with others and you're connected to the land. And um, you know, you're sweating and it's such a physical experience, but it's also just so, so deeply spiritual. And it was such a powerful reminder for me, you know, that, you know, many of us, like our ancestors, did these uh land practices, these nature practices. Many of them were like animist, right? And um it's just a reminder that we've always had that available to us, that we've always been connected to spirit and to land. And, you know, we forgot that. So it's not even about learning anything new, it's just about remembering and getting back to those, those basics.

SPEAKER_00:

That's exactly it. It's about remembering. It's as simple as that. And yes, going back to the and our ancestors, yes, that that's a huge uh that's a huge part in finding ourselves. Like if somebody's lost or feeling lost, which I feel a lot of people are nowadays, especially with what's going on in the world, um, people are just lost. They're not sure, you know, where they're going, they're not sure how the state of the world is going to go. So it it affects us, it it affects our energy, especially, especially very sensitive people. So, you know, it's a matter of, like you said, like lighting a candle and just reconnecting to your spirit. And then if you want your ancestors to step forward and support you throughout this beautiful uh time when you're honoring yourself, uh you call them in, like you said. It's just it's simple, or you can even um some people will sometimes have what you call um a corner in their room to honor their ancestors. So they might put a picture of their ancestors with a candle and just uh what do you call that? There's a there's a there's a word for that. There's an altar, an altar, that's it. So just just place just putting uh together just a beautiful altar, something very simple to honor your ancestors, whomever they may be. So that's another way of you know um bringing them in to uh you know your your everyday meditation, your everyday simply honoring yourself kind of thing, just taking time for yourself. So they will support you, you just have to bring them in, okay? You have to connect and say, I need you now, please, you know, please be with me at this moment and um support me in the choices that I need to be making at this time or whatever it is you're going through.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, absolutely. I uh I have a shelf on my bookshelf dedicated to um my altar for my ancestors. And yeah, it's just it's very simple. Just things that mean something to me that help me feel connected to them. Nothing elaborate, uh, but it's just a reminder, you know, just even seeing that every single day just helps me reconnect back to that support. And I can't even tell you the shifts that I've experienced when I just started really asking for that support and that guidance. It was almost like just, you know, I'm now creating this ancestral um alchemy program. And it was almost like these downloads were just coming through me from this. I love that. And I love that you're offering that, by the way. Yeah, yeah. And um, one thing I would love to dive into is well, two things. So I think I would love to start with uh setting boundaries, protection, and clearing our energy, because just like human beings, not everyone is well, same as in the spirit realm, right? And so um with humans, we need to set certain boundaries. We can still love them, but we can set boundaries. Yeah, the spirit realm, like connecting, all we have to do is ask for support from our well and wise ancestors. But of course, in the spirit realm, not everyone is well in spirit, they're still healing. And I learned this from you as well is that they still heal when they pass, right? They still get the opportunity to continue to do that healing work. So, what are ways that uh you protect your energy or even just cleanse yourself after doing a reading?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so before reading, I always, like you said, cleanse and ground and center myself. So I do this through meditation. I cleanse and clear my energy with white sage. That's what I use. Uh, but there's also um sprays that you can use. Okay, so there's the white sage, but I also use, you know, for something quick, if you if you don't want to have smoke, divine uh divine clarity sells uh these um high vibrational cleansing sprays. And uh they they also are just as good as the white sage. It's all about your intent. It's all about your intent, honestly. And people will say, well, what do I say? I don't know how to cleanse. It's it's very easy, it's all about your intent and don't complicate it, it's just a matter of keeping it simple. So I'll just call in Archangel Michael to help me cleanse and clear my energy and the energy of the space and to send everything to God's light and love for transformation, for transformation in love. Something like that. It doesn't have to be exactly that. It's all about what you want to put out there and what you're trying to accomplish. So I have to cleanse and clear my energy before a session, and I do it after a session. And after a session, yeah, I even cut energy cords as kind of like a deeper cleansing, where I'll ask Archangel Michael, he's just the guy I go to. He's the main protective uh angel, he's the big guy, big guy of the angels. Um, so uh so I will ask him to help me to cut all energy cords that are not serving me at this time in my life. And that's it. And it is done. So that's one way of clearing cleansing your energy. Water is another very uh important way of cleansing our energy. Of course, when we when we go under the shower, we if when we lay in into a tub, like how does it feel? Like everybody feels that. You're just like relieved, right? You just people just automatically relax in water, and it and and that's because it's automatically cleanses you, not only physically but mentally. You know, when you've had a hard day, a busy day, a day that's been very overwhelming for you, and you just lay into a tub of water, that automatically cleanses you. Adding up some salt will add a little bit of a deeper cleansing, right? Spiritually and physically, lighting a candle while you're in the tub, and also putting out an intention while you're in the tub. You can do your deep breathing, breathing in white light and breathing out anything that doesn't serve you. So all of these little call them tools or rituals you can apply as you're in the water, and it'll give you an even deeper cleansing and clearing. And again, you can cleanse and clear your energy simply by walking in nature. That's another thing nature does. It doesn't only grounds you, but it cleanses and clears you. So it does a lot of different things, nature. Okay, so going for a walk outside, just breathing in fresh air will cleanse you. Um, also, honestly, um, pets, I have to say, animals. Like if you're an if you have a pet and like just allowing your pet to come to you and just like just petting your dog or your cat will help calm your nervous system. It'll help calm you on a physical and mental uh level. And this also helps to just clear everything. I just this just came to me. Your pets really will help cleanse and clear your energy, and it'll help ground you and you become in the present moment when you're with a pet, don't you? Right? Because all of a sudden you're like, all of a sudden you're just diverting your attention to them. And you know, dogs and cats or whatever pet you have, they're very healing. Animals are very healing for us. So that's another way you can cleanse, clear, and ground your energy. So don't forget your your animal friends, okay? Um, and there's many other ways. Dancing is another way to cleanse and clear us. You see, grounding and cleansing and clearing are they all kind of do the same thing. When you ground your energy, you obviously you automatically clear and cleanse it. And when you cleanse and clear your energy with sage, let's say, for example, you automatically ground yourself. So it's two things in one, so which is which is neat. And stones, like I I always have stones around me. Any dark stone will help ground your energy and cleanse you as well. Okay, this is also a protective stone. These dark stones will ground and protect your energy. These are very cleansing, the crystal quartz. Uh so yeah, rose quartz, another, oh feathers just stayed stuck to the rose quartz. Is there somebody around telling us something here? A loved one. Do feathers resonate for you, Alyssa? They do, they really do. I feel like they do, eh? Okay, well, that's not a coincidence.

SPEAKER_01:

Tell me about the feather. And to um just birds in general. Okay. You know, they're they're bridges between uh heaven and earth. I feel a deep connection to to birds for sure. And those are just some really great tools, and they're great reminders that we have to be consistent with these things. And anytime I forget, like if I'm feeling, you know, just dysregulated or I've had uh a lot of clients back to back, and it's just a reminder of like, okay, did I cleanse my energy in between sessions?

SPEAKER_00:

It doesn't take and you should, you should take at least five minutes to cleanse and clear your energy in between clients because you don't want to take you don't want to keep the previous client's energy around you before you start a new one. Do you see what I'm saying? So it's almost like taking a quick shower before you go on to the next person. Because and you're super sensitive, super psychic, and super intuitive. So of course you're gonna pick up energy, whether you realize it or not. That's why you really have to cleanse. And again, just simple and basic. Simple and basic. A few, you know, a few uh sprays around you with this spray, a positive intent, and there you go, you're cleansed.

SPEAKER_01:

That's it. Yeah, it only takes a few minutes, it doesn't take long at all. Um being consistent with it. I loved how you also mentioned bringing in Archangel Michael. So one of the things that we've been learning in uh the ancestral medicine uh course that I'm taking with Daniel Four just been absolutely incredible. I absolutely love his work and recommend uh reading his book, Ancestral Medicine. But uh he shared that before we even journey and like connect with our ancestors, it's important to connect to a guide as a resource. And in somatic healing and somatic experiencing, we talk often about uh resourcing. So anytime that say we when you're journeying and maybe you um have a memory that comes up when you're journeying and you're a deep meditation, and maybe it's an uncomfortable uh memory. It's important to have these resources to connect back to. So it's like Archangel Michael as this figure and this image to connect to if you do go through like a memory or something comes up that feels a little bit uncomfortable, can be really supportive to do that, to have these guides that we can connect to before we get into these deeper journeys or connecting with our ancestors. So I love that you mentioned that water is like my favorite cleansing um element to work with. 100%, yes. Water. And yeah, it is, it's just so clearing and cleansing. Like when I see it's raining out right now and that rain so differently, I'm just always so grateful now for rain because I'm like, oh, the earth is getting cleansed right now. Like I love rain. And it's my favorite element to work with. It really truly is right now when I want to move through any um like grief, right? So emotions like grief, working with the what the element water is so powerful. Like even just going into the bathtub and um having a salt bath if you are feeling sadness or grief come up, right? Many of us are picking up on the collective energies right now. It's not even just our own, but you might experience a wave of grief hit you and you don't know where it even comes from. And we're such thing-making machines, we're like, oh, what is this connected to? What am I sad over? Sometimes it's not even ours. And it's not about you, yeah. Yeah, and just to allow that energy to move through us and work with what our belt.

SPEAKER_00:

You want the energy to move through you, otherwise it'll become stuck there. So just being aware that oh, emotional, I'm feeling like irritated, I'm feeling frustrated, what's going on? So, what you need to do, like you said, is especially if you're when you're in the in your in the watered in the tub where you can be calm and at peace in the moment, you know, just ask yourself, is this mine? And you'll hear a yes or a no. Just close your eyes and just ask yourself, is this mine? And most of the time you'll probably hear no. And then you just release it to God's light and love or transformation in love and light. So, or whatever intent you want to put out there. That's what I say, but everybody's different. So that's just it's just a simple question uh to ask yourselves. You know, is this mine? And you'll hear a yes or a no very clearly, or you'll get a feeling, or you'll get an inner knowing. You might not hear it. Some people might hear it, depends how strong you're it depends where your psychic abilities are the strongest, because we all have psychic abilities, whether or aware of it or not. And some of us have are stronger in our clairvoyance, others are stronger in their clairsentience, others it's their inner knowing, clear cognizance. So yeah, it'll come to you in the way that it's been to, uh, connected to your uh strongest uh psychic ability.

SPEAKER_01:

And that's where I really wanted to move into and to dive into is these different ways that we receive guidance and energy, because like you said, we all receive it so differently. How our ancestors communicate with us is going to be different for everyone, right? Depending on um what our gifts and what our strengths are. Let's dive a little bit into that. And um, another thing, too, that I learned from you that I want to touch on that we can add into this is you taught me a lot about symbolism, and that showed up in the ancestral medicine uh training that I'm doing is oh, okay. Uh is um that we can actually communicate with our ancestors through symbolism. So writing down symbols, so say if like there's a symbol that you want to say you want to communicate something with your ancestors, and you're like, okay, this symbol is going to mean this. Oh yeah. Down in your journal. And so um, you know, whatever it is, an example of like, okay, like I'm gonna write this symbol down. And um this means uh yes, I should be going in this direction or something like that, right? Yeah, yeah. So you can communicate with them and ask for their support. And if that image shows up, um, they'll start communicating with you with those symbols, with those images, whatever you write down and um you know, communicate with them that you want those to mean. So yeah, let's dive a little bit into that about how everyone receives messages and symbols as well, how to work with those.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, uh well, exactly like you said, um, so when I started as a medium, when I started uh learning as a medium, so I was a student of mediumship for quite a few years before I went professional. But that's one thing that right off the hop, most of the teachers that I worked with, and I worked with a lot of wonderful teachers, um, is a symbol journal. You need to have a symbol journal to be able to connect to the other side, whether you're connecting to your loved ones if you're a medium, or you're simply connecting to your spirit team, right? Or your angels or your ancestors. It's all about connecting to the spirit world and be able to communicate with them efficiently. And that comes through symbolism. So, like you said, you just have to start writing down in a journal, um, like you like you were doing, um, this this picture will be yes, this picture will be no. Um, whatever it is that you any and and use as many words as you can think of, and the symbols that you want attached to these words, because the more you have words and symbolism connected, the more they'll be able to communicate. You see what I'm saying? If you only have two symbols out there, well, it's gonna be a bit limited, but they will communicate in other ways like inner knowings and feeling and sensing. They will also use those psychic abilities to communicate, okay? But symbolism is definitely uh a good way to start if you want to communicate to the other side with the other side.

SPEAKER_01:

And let's go into other ways that we receive these messages. So clairsentient, clair audience, uh clairvoyant. Let's yeah, touch on all of those. Just looking at familiar, how do they know what their gift is and what their strength is to receive communication?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, how do you know? That's that's a good question. You have to first of all like be aware. Okay. If you're not even aware that you have uh a psychic ability that will be stronger than another one, or even aware that you have psychic abilities, then you gotta be you gotta start with that awareness, okay? So then you have to start paying attention to how you receive your intuition. All right. Everybody has intuition, right? Everybody has, you know, an inner radar that they can count on. So that's why if you're driving down the road, you feel like you should be turning right, but you end up turning left. And we always know that if you turn left and not right because you were feeling to turn right, then it's gonna be the wrong way. You know, that's why intuition is it it's all it'll always steer you in the right way. So that's just an example. A lot of people have uh have uh gone through this. So pay attention to how you received that feeling of turning right. It's just an example I'm using because a lot of people have experienced this. Did you see a road in your mind's eye going right? Okay, so that would be clairvoyance through your third eye, which is your inner eye here. Okay. If you saw it in your imagination, um, because that's where you see your clairvoyance, is in your imagination, uh, then you are going to be stronger in your clairvoyance. If you if you had a feeling you were meant to turn right, then you're going to be stronger in your clairsentient, which is the solar plexus complex, uh, solar plexus here, which is just under under the breastbone chakra. Um, if you had an inner knowing you should turn right, like it's like, you know what, I just I just No, I have to turn right. That comes through your clair cognizance, which is your inner knowing. For me, it comes through my crown chakra because every psychic ability is connected to a main communicating chakra. And then if you hear turn right, if you hear that in your mind, you should turn right here. You are stronger in your clair audience, which is clear hearing. Okay. So I went through clairvoyance, clair audience, uh, clair cognizance, clairsentience. And then there's two that are not as common. So it's claire, I think it's clairgustive. I they're real I I never teach these because they're so seldomly used, but it's it's clear smelling. It's basically clear smelling, and the other one is clear tasting. But really, the four main communicating chakras and uh psychic abilities are the ones that I that I did mention. And you will receive your intuition through one of those. So just pay attention how you received that message.

SPEAKER_01:

Mine is clear knowing, like just a strong, strong knowing. Yeah. Important to mention too that there's never fear associated with it because many people confuse um intuition with fear. And when my knowing comes in, it comes in like a clear channel. And I can't receive that information if I'm in a state of uncertainty and fear. If I'm like, you know, really uncertain about a certain situation, if I'm going through something challenging and I'm not in a regulated, grounded state, I'm not going to receive any information. And so the first thing for me is to get to that place of surrender. And I understand that it's not easy because trust me, I've been there. It's not we all have. We all have. It's not easy to get to a place of surrender, but it's it's leaning on all the things that we talked about uh before in order to get to that place. So, like using those tools, getting out in nature, talking with a friend, um, you know, being with pets, being with animals, anything that helps you co-regulate, you know, nature is a beautiful co-regulator. Uh, we're meant to be in relation. Yes. Doing whatever we need to do to help us get to that state because life is very uncertain. Like that's the the one guarantee is that there's really no sensitive.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, exactly. We're always moving, we're always changing. Life is for constant, but it's not meant to be. Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and it's getting to that place of uh finally just being able to relax and get to a place of surrender, and then all of a sudden, my next happen. It's like I know them, I they're there, they're within me, I know the steps to take. I just have to create the environment to be able to receive them within me and externally as well.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly, exactly. And well said, because that's a thing I also teach is um you won't get clarity on an answer that you want or some guidance that you need. If, like you said, you're in a state of overwhelm, fear, uncertainty. Um if you're distracted, it's just not gonna work. So, like you said, the first thing you do is you gotta regulate, you got to calm down your nervous system and you have to calm down your being through nature, like you said, pets, breathing, doing a little bit of a meditation if you want, walking in nature, anything that'll help calm you and bring you right to the present moment. We have to be in the present moment. We can't be over there thinking of our grocery list, we can't be over there thinking of our kids. Do you see what I'm saying? We have to be present. That's the only way we'll be able to connect to our intuition, and then you will get and feel, sense, hear, whatever, however, it comes to you, a very clear guidance. You will. And guidance that is meant to come to you is always positive. It's always gonna feel light and positive. If you have guidance that comes to you and it feels heavy and weird and and fearful, then you're not connecting to your your intuition. You're connecting to your fears. Because we do that, we'll connect to our fears, and then we'll go, oh, okay, well, I'm not I'm not doing that because I'm feeling like really freaked out about it. But it's because you're not connecting to your true intuition. So always you will always feel light. You will always feel light with guidance from your intuition. It'll just feel good.

SPEAKER_01:

You see, does that make sense to you? Very much. And even just like that, it's almost like a how I like to describe it is like it's neutral, and it's not necessarily always what I want because sometimes our ego tricks us. Oh, yes. Perfect example would be like, no, I meant to be getting back together with my ex. Like, I know that when it was a really like unhealthy. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. That can be our ego, that can be our wounded inner child, right? So it's the inner work and healing these parts of ourselves so we don't get confused with that. And um, you know, we can romanticize things, we can um put what's known as like golden projections onto situations. And I've been in this, like I will speak from experience where, you know, I've I've been drawn to these illusions, which I thought was like my intuition guiding me, but I learned lessons from it. So I actually do like on the outside looking in, I'm like, okay, that was spirit in a sense guiding me, my ancestors in a sense, guiding me because that was an experience I need to have to learn from it. Right. So um sometimes they're tests. Sometimes we get delivered, you know, tests which, you know, aren't exactly how we thought they were going to turn out. And I think it's important not to attach outcomes to like our our intuition, right? So we might feel guided to go somewhere, but not have this like expectation or this outcome of how that thing is exactly going to turn out because it's our ego.

SPEAKER_00:

It's to release the outcome. That's another huge piece of it. It's like manifest manifesting, right? If you want to manifest something in your life, you put out the intent, but you cannot have a plan on how it's going to come to you because it'll never be the way you want. And then you're gonna feel frustrated and you're gonna get mad because it's not working out the way you want. So, yes, you have to release the outcome. It's super important because that tells the universe I'm trusting you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

The outcome sends the message. Okay, I'm trusting, I'm trusting that everything is in divine timing and order.

SPEAKER_01:

And it'll always turn out better than how you planned, that's for sure. Always that I've been doing is, you know, just um when I am able to finally get to that state of surrender, you know, if I'm going through something uncertain or say something happened in my life that didn't turn out how I was hoping it would. That happens often. We all experience that. Uh, when I can just get to a place of like, hey, surrender and acceptance, and then just say, um, spirit, God, whoever it is that you connect to, yeah, is a vessel. And I'm going to get out of the way. My, you know, my ego is going to step out of the way, use me as a vessel. And so it doesn't mean that necessarily things, things always turn out better than we expected. That's one thing that I've learned. It always ends up turning out better for me, even though things might feel like they're falling apart at first or not how I expected. I often disappoint myself with my own expectations, my own desired outcomes. But it always ends up turning out better. And um, yeah, if we can just get to that place and just allowing ourselves, our own ego just to kind of step back and step aside. We're never gonna get rid of our ego. It's always gonna be there. But if we can just take the back seat and just um allow spirit to work through us, then we're starting to receive that guidance of what direction we're meant to go in. A place to be in. And um, that's one thing, one major lesson that um I've been going through is uh humility. Because to really be in service and to be doing this work, you're gonna be humbled. Like that's just the reality of it. Like you're gonna be humbled through this work for sure. And that's a powerful teacher and lesson for me for sure over the past couple of years.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, a hundred percent. Um you yeah, it's it's like you just said, you have to get out of your own way. You just you have to like I would never be able to do the work I do as a medium and as a psychic if I if my ego was like right there. It just does not work. I had to learn to trust and trust and trust and trust that what I was receiving was from the spirit world because it feels like it's your imagination sometimes, especially when you first start. So some people might experience that. They might think, well, that's me telling myself that. But you have to trust that what's as long as it's it feels light and it feels positive, that's what's important. And like you said, you sometimes will connect to your fears or your ego, which is kind of under the same umbrella, right? Fear and ego. Uh, they're kind of uh side by side there. Um, it's important to, yeah, to just get yourself get get out of your own way because there is no way that we can connect to anything in our lives with our ego being right in front of us. And again, I don't like mentioning what's going on in the States, but look at what's going on in the States. It's that country is being led by ego, period. It always has been. Doesn't matter who's whether it's left or right. But but it the like the results seem to be even stronger now, like the vibrations are even stronger now. But I honestly feel it's all meant to make changes.

unknown:

Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_00:

Sometimes we have to go through what we don't want in order to know what we do want in our lives.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. Um and to think that, yeah, to outsource our power, right? To outsource, you know, looking for a savior, thinking that the government's gonna save you, thinking that anything outside of you is gonna save you, right? Like it all comes back to doing your own inner work and reconnecting back to your and it's yes, and it's more important than than ever because everybody's feeling the ripple effects of what's going on.

SPEAKER_00:

It's just affecting the world right now. And again, it's not about looking at it in a negative way, it's about looking at it in what can I do within myself to stay grounded and centered and um and and and to find myself through this heavier energy. Do you see what I'm saying? So going within is even more important than ever because it's gonna help us to stay calm through all of this and it's gonna help raise our vibrations, which we need. We need to keep the vibrations of the earth plane higher right now. It's very important. And don't think for a minute that a small gesture of kindness will not have a ripple effect throughout the world. It does. Some people think they have to do the biggest things to have effect. No, you can do just small acts of kindness will make a huge difference and it will be felt throughout the world. And I truly believe that because it's we're all it's all about vibrations and energy.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I mean, they say you want to heal the world or help others heal, focus on healing yourself. And so often, as like healers, many healers can neglect their own healing work. And, you know, they're trying to heal themselves through fixing other people. And it's really important to do your own inner work because we can only take people as far as we've gone ourselves. The more inner work we do, the more we'll be able to pick up on um, you know, just that resonance of like what's false in the world. And 2020 was a big wake-up call for so many people, right? Um everything that went on with like the pandemic and all like the corruption there, right? Like that was a major call for so many people. And now it's only continuing. Like now we're just I know it's like part two. Oh, okay. Now we're just seeing more and more layers. It's gonna continue. And that's not to scare anyone, not to put anyone in a place of fear, but more so be empowered um to start doing your own inner work and take your power back. You know, we have more power than we believe, right? Like oh yes, from that. And it's really, it's really time to start to really take our power back and be yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, and well said with taking our power back, because that's what it's about. When you when you can go within, you're taking your power back. It's done automatically because then you are in the present moment and you're ape, and like you said, the healing work that we need to do to be able to become better versions of ourselves so that we can grow from our own life lessons and continue to help others. So, as healers, so I'm going for a actually I'm going for a healing session tonight, speaking of healing. And after I'm done with my healing sessions with this wonderful practitioner, I see uh honestly, I feel so much lighter. I feel so much lighter. It's needed. Like you have to, you have to look deep. You have to go deep.

SPEAKER_01:

It it's a never-ending process. Not that we're we're broken, but you do, especially if you're in this space as someone who's supporting and guiding. Gotta be committed to your your own inner work. Yeah, 100%. Yes. Yeah. And another thing I want to speak to too is um the signs and the synchronicities of how our ancestors and our guides communicate with us. And I want to speak to this because, you know, when I went through, I went through a pretty uh intense spiritual awakening uh starting back in 2017. And it like just ripped the ground from underneath me. And all of a sudden, I was having very intense spiritual experiences. I was, uh, I had really powerful animal encounters. So I had this encounter with a great horned owl in the middle of my parking lot that was very significant. I think I heard that story. Yes, amazing. And this happened every single day for a year and a half, I'd be driving and literally like one after another, triple numbers on the license plate, every single car. It was overwhelming. And I'm telling you, I don't experience that anymore. So that wasn't me looking for it because people will always say, Oh, you're looking for it. I'm like, no, like I'm looking for it now and it's not happening. Like it was so intense. And that was a wake-up call for my ancestors. Like I really felt guided. Triple fives was the one that was really strong for me. This is really neat. Um, but one day I was driving and nine cars one after the other with triple five on the license plate drove past me. I played incredible. I just found out this is kind of wild. So I've been looking into um, like for numerology of uh my name. I never looked into this before. I don't know why, but um, I was guided to look into this the actually the other day. And um, my first name, Alyssa, is a five. My middle name, Caitlyn, is a five. My last name, Stephenson, is a five. Oh my goodness. So I almost felt like that was my ancestors communicating with me, like my lineage code. Like it's time to wake up and to step into who you came here to be, is the way that I see it, right? So yeah, that's really cool. Yeah. But one thing I want to mention too is it was so strong years ago because I really needed that because I was so disconnected. Like I hit such a rock bottom. And it was like a wake-up call of like Alyssa, like, you got to step into your power, like you gotta know that you have this connection available to you. And then it stopped. Like I stopped receiving that guidance. And at first I was like, did I do something wrong? Like, am I very um, you know, am I disconnected from this for a reason? Is it something that I'm doing? And it was like, no, you just don't need that anymore because you have that within you. Similar to like taking plant medicines, how many people, when they start to explore using plant medicines, at first you have these really powerful experiences, and then the medicine will tell you, you know, you don't need to continue on this journey. You don't need that anymore. And that was me, how I interpreted it and understand it now is I don't need those strong synchronicities anymore. Sometimes they come through, but um I have that power within me. I think exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and I yeah, that's that's really cool. I love that story. And I really feel that five, five, five or or you know, five, five is not a very common number. Like you just don't see those I don't see those numbers often. There people will see more the two, two, twos, the one one, ones, you know, um other numbers, but I find five is quite rare. So that's that's pretty neat that uh all their your whole names connected to five. So uh yeah, I agree. Like I think syncricities show up in our lives when we need it the most. You could be struggling with something, you could be thinking of a loved one, you might be missing a loved one, you might be wanting to connect in a stronger sense to your spirit guides, your ancestors, like you said, and they will show up and they will show up in different really cruel ways, but it's all it's also an important part of this is to appreciate the sign when you see it. So when you saw the sign, you were like, okay, this is a sign, thank you. But some people you might talk yourself out of the sign. Oh, that's a coincidence. Oh, that's not really happening. That's my imagination. And that's that's when it's unfortunate because you knew you're missing out on the spirit world speaking to you and guiding you through these beautiful syncricities. So it's really important to take the time to say thank you. It's a simple thank you to the universe, you know, just to say, I am aware of this sign and I appreciate it. So all these base, it's basics, right? It's just basic, it's just saying thank you. And then you're gonna receive more. I always tell people just say thank you when you see a sign. Don't second guess it, don't talk it, talk yourself out of it. Just say thank you and see what happens next without having expectations, like we said, you know, letting letting go of how that will come to you. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It all comes back to those basics, right? Just keeping these practical keeping it simple. Um, so with the veil thin this time of year, October, or it's in or Halloween that you celebrate. Um, what are some rituals that you're doing to connect uh to your ancestors at this time?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, what am I doing? Honestly, I'm not really doing anything different. Um, but I am starting to sit in the power more. I'm being pulled to do that. And actually, I guess that is something I'm doing different. I started out about two weeks ago. So sitting in the power is something you're taught as a medium um to have an even stronger connection to the spirit world. Okay. So it's simply sit, and you might be doing that now without realizing what it is, but for me, we called it sitting in the power as a medium, but it's simply um, you know, bringing yourself back into your own being through meditation uh or whatever it is that will bring you back to the present moment and closing your eyes and really feeling the essence of all that is within you, feeling it. And I can see through my mind's eye, I can I can feel it resonating throughout my body when I'm sitting in the power. And it's especially after I've done some deep breathing with the white light and I've expanded the white light past my physical body and expanded my auric field out. Um, then I it's like an energy that is alive, it's the energy of all that is, it's the energy of creator. Because we all have a connection to creator, to God, creator, call call, call this being what you want. But we all have that's why I believe we all have the Christ light within us. I don't believe the Christ light, and this is another conversation. I do not believe, and I and I believe this because of my own personal experiences, but I don't believe like some other people are, you know, and that's okay, everybody has the right to believe what they want, uh, that the Christ light lives outside of you. So basically, you know, God lives outside of you. So I I I feel that God lives within us, and I and I feel that through my mediumship. I feel it when I'm meditating, and I feel it when I'm sitting in a power, and it's just this it's just this incredible energy that's alive. I don't know how else to explain it, Alyssa. And I've been doing that differently, so that's gonna help me to connect to the spirit world in an even deeper sense. So I guess I am doing something to to to open myself up further uh with this thinning of the veil for uh connecting, embodying that Christ consciousness, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Is the exactly exactly it and yeah, I personally don't I don't go to church. Um, I feel a strong connection to Christ energy. Like you said, um it's about embodiment. And I want to live as much um in my life as Christ-like as I can, as Jesus did, right? Like yes, walk the talk. Um obviously I'm far from that, but that's something I I strive to do. That's the way that I look at it, and nature is my church. I'm also really wanting to connect and to uh Mary Magdalene energy. It's something I'm starting to dive a little bit more into. Oh, other topic that we can dive into. Yes, Mary Magdalene, yes, yeah. Yeah, so beautiful. I love it. Um, let's share a little bit about your offerings that you have available right now. So um mediumship, intuitive guidance, um, psychic readings.

SPEAKER_00:

You can share a little bit about that. So I've uh yeah, so I offer intuitive guidance. And so that's just simply connecting to your auric field or your aura or energy field, which we all have around us. And um, as a psychic, I will be pulling out information as with whatever information that you need to hear or message that you need to hear for your highest guidance at this time in your life will come through. So um it's interesting that you that we're talking about psychic readings because uh somebody asked me uh not long ago, actually, just last week, uh, this person said to me, Well, you're a psychic, you shouldn't know everything. And I said, because we he was just discussing how psychic work uh happens and all that. So I was trying to explain it to him. And I said, actually, no, psychics don't know everything. Psychics will be given what they're meant to, what the client is meant to hear at that time in their lives. So that's what I connect to. I don't connect to everything in your life, I connect to what you're meant to hear in your life, not what you want to hear. So I thought this is just to clarify. You see what I'm saying? So I will connect to, yeah, whatever guidance you're meant to hear in an intuitive guidance session. And mediumship, of course, is connecting to the other side. Okay, so as a medium, I'll be able to um bring to you messages and insights that your loved ones want you to uh want you to know today for your highest good. And I'm also offering audio readings, and this is a new thing I'm offering. It's a 20 to 30 minute audio reading, and it's uh it's it's it's intuitive guidance. Okay. So I will record myself giving you the reading. It's gonna be with a three to five card pull. So I use a deck of cards, and I'll be pulling the cards, and the cards are simply used as a tool. Okay, so the cards just open up the energy of what's meant to come through. So it's a simple tool that I use. And um, these audio readings will be delivered into your mailbox within 48 to 72 hours. So this is just something you I'm excited about. So if anybody's interested in getting, because sometimes there's a bit of a waiting period to see me, okay, for my one-hour session. So if anybody wants a quick intuitive guidance uh at this time in their lives, like soon, um, I'll be able to provide that for you through my audio readings.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh I'll include all of that in the show notes so you can find all the links there. And anything else that um you want to end with, anything coming through, anything channeling through you that you want to share?

SPEAKER_00:

Um honestly, just just stay true to yourself. Just just stay connected to your authentic self in your life. Because when you try and be somebody or not, or if you try and um please everybody and you're and you leave yourself out of of um, you know, like we said, taking care of ourselves, just always just try and be your unique self in this world. And that's really what's important, and that's what's needed in this day and age, is just everybody just connecting to your spirit and and being true to yourself, and that's that's also gonna help raise the vibrations and push out some beautiful ripple positive energy in the world.

SPEAKER_01:

Beautiful. Authenticity is the highest vibration, highest vibration, absolutely. Well, thank you, Mike. Thank you so much for this conversation, and yeah, we'll definitely have you back again. I know that the first episode that we recorded together was one of the most downloaded. So wow, that's exciting. Definitely back. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you for having me. Uh, I had a lot of fun uh in this conversation with you. Thank you, Alyssa.