Body Wisdom Rising

The Recalibration Phase: Why Your Life Reorganizes Itself Right Before A Major Upgrade

Alyssa Stefanson

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We feel a collective shift where more light brings more clarity and more shadow to integrate, and that can make life feel chaotic before it feels calm. I share what helps me move from forcing to trusting, especially when relationships, work, and identity start reorganizing around a new level of consciousness. 

• sensing the current energetic shift and what it asks of us 
• integrating big experiences with embodiment and nervous system support 
• why more light can surface more shadow collectively and personally 
• navigating relationships that feel different after deep healing 
• when your job or business stops feeling meaningful 
• taking small steps toward your soul blueprint without drastic leaps 
• building community so the path feels less isolating 
• using somatic work to meet fear, visibility, and expansion 
• David R Hawkins on force versus power and how abundance flows 
• understanding the reorganization phase as recalibration not punishment 

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Welcome to Body Wisdom Rising. I'm your host, Alyssa. We're living at a profound turning point in humanity, a collective choice point where old systems are dissolving, and many of us are being called to wake up, heal, and step into deeper alignment with who we truly are. On this podcast, we explore consciousness, healing, ancestral wisdom, and the initiations that shape our lives. We also explore how to navigate times of great change and what it means when healing begins to open the door to deeper questions. Who am I really? Why am I here? And how am I being called to serve in this moment of history? Here we talk about the collective themes unfolding in our world and how each of us can learn to meet them with greater awareness, embodiment, and courage. Because real transformation doesn't just happen in the mind, it happens through the body. If you're on a path of awakening, healing, remembering, and perhaps stepping into service, you're in the right place. This is Body Wisdom Rising.

Energetic Shift And Ceremony Integration

Ancestral Alchemy And Big Integrations

Light Reveals Shadow And Chaos

When Work Loses Its Meaning

Small Steps Toward Soul Blueprint

Nervous System Support For Visibility

Force Versus Power And Abundance

Reorganization Phase And Aligned Action

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Wow, where to even start? I'm sure many of you are feeling this shift. There's definitely a massive shift energetically available to all of us right now. If you're really tapping into that, you know, we we entered the astrological new year and just coming out of the equinox, we're finally out of that eclipse portal that we were in. And yeah, we're entering a lot of forward movement right now. And I personally just came out of a medicine ceremony that I sat in last weekend. That's why I've been a little bit quiet, just been integrating that experience. And a lot came through. You know, it was really, really powerful experience. I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to be there. And I won't share what medicine we were using. I'm always very cautious. I don't want to come across as I'm promoting plant medicines because I'm really not. I think it's a decision that no one should take lightly. And it took me a while before I even started to attend those types of ceremonies. And I did it with a lot of, you know, preparation and a lot of reverence and a lot of respect for the medicine itself and making sure that I did my research on the people holding the space holding the container. And but the way that this one lined up, it was very synchronistic that I was meant to be there. We'll just say that. And the shaman was absolutely incredible. Like I'm very grateful that I even had that opportunity to sit with him. His decades of training with the Shipibo and Lakota lineage, very respected in this space. It was an opportunity that I definitely could not say no to. And one of the things actually that um was really powerful for me was really seeing how much of the embodiment practices, the somatic work I've been doing, the nervous system work I've been doing over the past several years, how much that actually helped me to fully drop in and surrender to the experience, to the medicine. And a lot of powerful transmissions came through. And so while I was just taking some space to integrate that, I felt called to get on here and share an episode and connect with you all because it's been a while and I've missed all of you just recording these episodes. I love podcasts because it's an opportunity to really go deep with you all, go into more depth. Instagram is great for finding people, you know, finding your people, but um there's not really space for depth there. And so I love long-form content. I'll actually be starting a YouTube channel very shortly as well. It's definitely been by my mind. When it came to recording, it was like I've just been getting this very clear guidance just to press record and let whatever transmission wants to come through to come through. So that's exactly what I am doing today. So we'll see what wants to come through for all of you. And, you know, I had one thing that's really coming through is I had this really powerful conversation with my community this weekend. For those of you who don't know, I'm currently leading a 12-week ancestral healing program called Ancestral Alchemy. It will be available again next January, and uh the self-guided version will actually be available for you if that's something that you're interested in in the in the next month or so. But we've been having some really deep, powerful conversations. You know, there's a lot it's a lot of women in that group who are going through an awakening, going through deep transformation and change in their lives. You know, many of us we're all feeling that uncertainty, instability, unsure of what's ahead, but just this call, calling and knowing that you're meant for something bigger, that you're being called forward. That's something that many of us can relate to. We were talking about, you know, when we have big experiences. So what I just went through in that ceremony was you know, a big it's a big experience. And after having experiences like that, it doesn't have to be ceremony. It can be going through, you know, this like this transformational journey I just took my clients through over this past 12 weeks. You know, we're we're releasing a lot, we're processing a lot, we're seeing things we didn't see before, patterns, dynamics, beliefs, outdated beliefs are coming to the surface. And so as we do that, inevitably what we're doing is as we release, we're also creating space to take in more light. But as we take in more light, with that comes more shadow, right? Even if you look at it collectively, what we're going through in a collective level is there's an influx of light coming onto the planet right now. The planet is going through a rebirth. The planet is shifting in consciousness. There is more light available on the planet. But with that, that means that the light is also shining on the collective shadow. And that's why it can feel really chaotic right now. The world needs to start to reorganize around this shift. Things can't stay the way that they have been. And that's why it can feel overwhelming and like a lot of darkness is starting to surface because it is. You know, we all have shadow aspects ourselves. We all have darkness within ourselves that needs to be looked at and integrated. And so inevitably, whenever we do any type of deep inner work, life will reorganize itself. And that's when we can start to experience things like relationships that we used that used to feel really aligned, all of a sudden just don't fit anymore. And it's not necessarily, and this is one of the things that we were talking about, it's not necessarily feeling like you have to end the relationship because often maybe nothing happened that, you know, it's not a toxic relationship. You're just on different frequencies, not hierarchy. It's not that one frequency is better, but it's like as we grow and we shift, we are operating from a different frequency when we go through these transitions and these changes in our lives and do this deep healing work. And so certain relationships may just not feel the same. Doesn't mean that they're meant to end. What I always suggest and invite in is invite in more of those relationships that are on that frequency. Find your people. They are out there. We do have to look for them though, whether that's joining a community. A lot of the girls found each other in this community and they're connecting and they're becoming friends. For me personally, and that's where I found my people was globally, virtually first, and now meeting them in person. And now I have people in my own province, my own community that I've connected with that are very much, you know, aligned. And I still have those relationships that maybe we're not vibing, you know, the same anymore. Uh, doesn't mean that we won't be again, but they may be relationships that I just don't see as often or or nurture as much. And it's also okay to not be in relationships where you're you don't have all the same stuff in common. That's completely okay too, right? Like there's everyone's a teacher. It's the way that I look at it. Life is our mirror. But another thing that we got into was how to navigate when you go through these shifts in your life and all of a sudden your work, your career suddenly feels like it has no meaning anymore. It feels draining, it feels depleted, it feels purposeless. And that can be a really challenging place to start to navigate. Because this happens for so many people who go through an awakening on the awakening journey. And it can take a while before you actually are able to fully leave that, you know, leave the the exit the matrix, if you will. That is something that you're feeling called to do, exiting your nine to five, or maybe you have a business that you're running that no longer feels in alignment. And that can be a really scary place to be in. And just knowing that, you know, you don't have to make drastic shifts right away, and sometimes that's the part that feels so overwhelming to people. For many people, that's actually the block that keeps them from actually doing the inner work because they're scared of the changes that come along with it. What I always say to that is, you know, our soul has a blueprint. We all had a mission that we incarnated with, that we're meant to pursue, that we're meant to carry out in this life. So if we're not, if we're getting those yud nudges from the universe and we're not listening, that's often when we start to get that's often when we get hit by the spiritual two by four. And I've experienced that in my own life, where all of a sudden, you know, the universe just strips it away, or does something to make it possible where it's it's impossible to continue living that way. And it doesn't have to be like that, you know, it doesn't mean that we have to make drastic changes right away, but we can start taking small steps towards it. So I'll just give an example in my own life. And I like to storytell because, you know, even though we have different experiences and every single one of us, our experiences are individual and unique to every one of us, there still are a lot of similarities on this path. And so, you know, when I was going through my awakening and I knew I needed to leave my job, like I knew I was meant to do something different. I knew I was meant to be in healing work and living my purpose. You know, that's one of the greatest things that we can do to elevate the consciousness on this planet is to be pursuing our purposes, pursuing our dreams, creating a dream world, not just a dream life for ourselves. For a little while there, I was turned off by manifestation because it was all about all I could see was people talking about creating a dream life for themselves, manifesting more things. But it is really important to know that we are powerful co-creators in this world. We are meant to co-create with the divine. We are meant to create a better world. We are meant to be living out our purposes, our dreams, and building a better humanity. And we need people around us who are gonna lift us up and support us in that vision and see that vision for us. That's why environment is so important. You know, not saying you need to cut out all the people in your life, but make sure that you're filling your time and your space with people who are on that path and are gonna lift you up and see that highest version of yourself because it can be very isolating this path. You can feel like a lone wolf, you can feel very misunderstood. It's really important to find your community and it's important to start taking steps towards those things that you're meant to be doing, because that's when the universal support comes in to help us. And that's what came up on our community call was I was sharing, you know, my experience of leaving my corporate job and how I was working a full-time corporate job. And then I was going back to school at the same time and I was building a business as a single mom. It was a lot on my my plate, but I had this burning fire and this burning desire in my heart that was carrying me forward. And when I actually was step started stepping towards taking action on the things that scared me, which initially, you know, wasn't which wasn't the the courses and the trainings were enjoyable and fun, you know, an important part, of course, of like my training. And but it was the real work was actually stepping forward into visibility, which was terrifying for me. And that was a part that I was pushing off. I kept knowing, well, I'm gonna start a podcast, I'll start my Instagram page, I'll create a reel, I'll put myself out there, but I kept pushing it off. And, you know, once I actually stepped towards that, that was when universal support came in like crazy. Like things accelerated quite fast. Pretty much everywhere in my life is blown away by how quickly things in my life shifted and changed and expanded over the last four years to living a completely different world, like it's unrecognizable to where I was. And with that, you know, came taking action. You know, it's go time, but I couldn't take action without really understanding what was happening inside my body, happening inside my nervous system, working with my protective parts that often showed up to block me from stepping forward. They do this unconsciously. So it wasn't enough to just do subconscious reprogramming. I did all of that for years, wasn't enough just to work on my belief system. I did that for many years, wasn't enough just to work on my mindset and read all the books and listen to the podcasts. What created the change was as I started taking steps forward, working with my nervous system to make sure that I was supporting my nervous system, those protective parts that felt fearful, that wanted to self-sabotage, making sure I was like integrating as I expanded. So I was going through major expansions of opportunities coming into my life all at once. I needed to ground that. I needed to integrate that so that I could hold more and keep stepping forward. And so that really is the work that you know I do with uh the women that I work with. Actually, I have a really exciting masterclass coming up, which I'll be announcing next week with Dr. Jesse Hansen, who has been an incredible mentor on my journey, the top somatic psychologist in the world. I've had the absolute privilege of being invited to two of his retreats and becoming friends with him and being on his show this year, my workshop, and we're be planning a retreat together in January as well. So that is pretty unbelievable. And if you look at that from where I was not too long ago, to be able to co-create that with the divine, if I hadn't been doing that work on myself and working with my nervous system, working with those protective parts and taking action and listening to that inner knowing. You know, we all have that. We all have that inner knowing. We all have that burning fire and that desire for something in our lives, that purpose, that passion. You know, we all have something that we're meant to fulfill here. You know, many of you have heard me talk before, if you've listened to previous episodes about David Hawkins' work, I love so much. One of my favorite books is Letting Go. Another great one is Power versus Four. But he does talk about how there is a shift where life becomes more supportive, opportunities open, and things feel like they are falling into place. But it happens when we move into higher states of consciousness, like integrity, willingness, acceptance, and love. When we reach that point, we're no longer forcing outcomes. We're in alignment. Hawkins' work was so supportive of me when I was on my journey because I would actually start to view life as like a game. So this is actually what made it more useful and helpful and enjoyable to get through those days at work where I was out at working in a job where I didn't want to be there. I would start to pretend like I was playing this game. And reality it reality is our mirror. So I would get everything being mirrored back at me to me at how I expand my consciousness, how I could work through all these tests and these lessons and navigate them and see life that way. It's almost like a video game, and you reach different levels, you get to different landmarks on your healing path. And when you get to them, that's when like another door or another, another level opens up. That's how you can see it. Because that is how life is. You know, Hawkins, he makes a really important distinction that force is hustling, controlling, chasing, fear-based striving, and power is alignment, truth, integrity, and presence. So when you're in force, abundance feels like grind, but when you're in power, things begin to organize around you. So he literally says that people in higher consciousness fields become like a magnet for supportive circumstances. And this is really when support and abundance starts flowing. Hawkins says this happens because you drop resistance. So drop the fear, scarcity, needing things to happen, needing the certainty. You stop leaking energy through drama or over-efforting or emotional reactivity. Your presence becomes more coherent, you become cleaner, you become a clearer vessel. People trust you, opportunities align and things start to stabilize. And you're no longer trying to get because you're aligned with giving, which is huge in this work. You know, and a part that a lot of people miss when it comes to, you know, manifesting is you don't reach abundance because you want abundance. You reach it because you let go of needing to control things, needing specific outcomes. That's when it starts coming. You can see it as this kind of tipping point. So there's a stage where you've done enough inner work that life just starts to feel less chaotic. Decisions are clearer, right? Opportunities show up, effort decreases, impact increases. It's not instant wealth out of nowhere. It's more like life becomes to cooperate with you instead of resist you. You know, and I always look at it like when people talk about overnight success or things seem to all of a sudden manifest and come out of nowhere, all of these opportunities. They didn't come out of nowhere. It was from many years prior to doing that deep inner work. And so just know that if you're on this path and you're not seeing the fruits of your labor, it's all compiling and it will all come in one day, I promise you that. And so it really is a path of letting go and expanding our capacity to hold more visibility, responsibility, be a clearer channel, be a clearer vessel, less junk in our minds. We feel more present, more coherent. Abundance isn't something you get, it's something that naturally emerges when you stop blocking it. But an important piece to mention is that there often is a reorganization phase, which I was talking about, you know, when we go through, you know, these deep internal shifts. There is that reorganization phase that we need to go through where life needs to reorganize itself to this new frequency, this new level of consciousness that we've expanded to. And this is often when old income streams begin to wobble or close. Our motivation for pushing starts to disappear. And this that frightens people because people start to feel like they're becoming less motivated and they don't want to let go of that motivation. That's why people want to keep pushing and, you know, controlling and hustling because they're scared of losing the motivation. One thing I can tell you is the motivation will fall away, but it'll be replaced by passion and purpose and aligned action. I actually have accomplished way more than I have in the past when I was driven by motivation, when I was driven by other things, whether that was more competitive or validation or more egoic seeking reasons. I actually wasn't getting as much done as I am now, where I feel like I'm a much more clearer channel where I can actually work for 16-hour days some days and not feel like I've worked at all. You know, we we often feel that resistance to doing things the old way as well, where we feel like we can't build from pressure anymore, or we can't sustain things that aren't fully aligned, or our nervous system literally rejects forcing. And life starts to remove what was built on strain and don't see it as punishment, but as recalibration. And these shifts first start to happen subtly. Even if it doesn't fully show externally yet, internally, just noticing that you're less available for chaos, that you're way more discerning, you feel what's off immediately, you don't want to overgive or overwork. That's higher calibration. And that's where real power begins. And it can feel uncomfortable because our identity may have been tied to effort, momentum, output, pushing through. And now that strategy just doesn't work the same. So it can feel like I don't feel like doing this or what's the point? Is this even gonna work? But underneath it, it's our system refusing to operate from force anymore. And so let's talk about what creates the flow phase from here. It's not doing more, but becoming more congruent, creating things that really feel true to who we are, saying no faster, letting things fall away without scrambling to fix them, trusting that not everything needs to be saved or pushed, not trying to make things happen, just allowing them to. You know, letting go reorganizes your life. As you release fear, control, and attachments, your choices begin to change, your energy shifts, what you tolerate changes. And because of that, your external life begins to shift to match your new level of consciousness. Our old patterns can't sustain at higher levels. So naturally, things that were built on those older patterns will fall away. And that's where we often experience that transitional discomfort, you know, those periods of uncertainty, of emotional detox, you know, feeling like our identities are dissolving, like we don't know who we are anymore, not knowing what the future holds or what it looks like, and just know that, you know, things. Falling apart are often happening so that better things can come. It sounds, you know, cheesy. We all hear that, but it's it's true. As attachments surrendered, that which is not aligned naturally drops away and life reorganizes in accordance with higher truth. When you let go of what's false, only what's true remains and life rearranges accordingly. And so that's the transmission I have for you all today. I hope that came through, Queen. I hope that resonated with you. And yeah, that was me practicing just allowing rather than forcing content rather than forcing creating something, just allowing what wanted to move through me to move through me. And I just wanted to mention that if you aren't on my email list yet, you can go to the show notes and get on there because I will be announcing very shortly. I have a few really exciting things coming up. So one being that masterclass, one being my new in-service program coming up for those looking to step into leadership, step into visibility. Perhaps you're wanting to start, you know, an online business, starting to create content, create a podcast, that will be for you. And then I also have a retreat coming up in Costa Rica that I'll be announcing. So a lot of big announcements. So if you aren't on there, get on that list. And I love you guys. I'll see you in the next episode.