Aging with Purpose and Passion

Zahara Celestial: Transforming Trauma Through Spiritual Connection and Healing

• Beverley Glazer • Episode 104

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After years of navigating the turbulent waters of childhood trauma, Zahara Celestial has emerged with a powerful story of transformation and resilience. Join us as Zahara shares her journey as an "awakened child," coping with painful memories and finding strength in nature and divine connection. Her experiences with severe trauma led her to profound out-of-body experiences, granting her peace and guiding her towards a purpose of helping others heal. Listen as Zahara recounts a pivotal 2018 trip to Bosnia, where she connected with war survivors and discovered a universal energy of trauma that binds us all, fostering healing through empathy and understanding.

Discover the intersection of energy, emotion, and healing on a spiritual path that has empowered Zahara and countless others. With insights into the practice of light language and the therapeutic power of sound, Zahara takes us on a journey of reconnection and self-discovery. As she emphasizes the never-ending journey of spiritual and creative expression, Zahara encourages us, especially women, to embrace our unique gifts and to find strength in the interconnectedness of all beings. This episode promises to inspire and guide anyone ready to explore their true self and embrace the healing potential within.

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Please note: Zahara Celestial has some training in Psychotherapy but is not a trained Psychotherapist

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion, the podcast designed to inspire your greatness and thrive through life. Get ready to conquer your fears. Here's your host. Psychotherapist coach and empowerment expert Beverly Glaser. Psychotherapist coach and empowerment expert, beverly Glaser.

Beverley Glazer:

How can trauma bring you your own personal growth? I'm Beverly Glaser and I empower women to overcome their challenges in life business with so much more renewed purpose, and you can always find me on reinventimpossiblecom. But a word of warning here If you've lived through a childhood trauma, this episode may not be for you of rising from sexual and emotional abuse, having an out-of-body experience and many of them and finding purpose in helping others heal through their darkness. Let's dive into the powerful story of Sahara. Celestial Welcome, sahara.

Zahara Celestial:

Oh, thank you, hello.

Beverley Glazer:

Sahara. I want to ask you if you could just share something to give some background to what your story is really all about when you were a child um, well, I, um, I was, you could say, an awakened child.

Zahara Celestial:

So, um, I was aware that I was, you could say, an awakened child. So I was aware that I was different from everybody else in my family and those around me. I had past life memories, for a start, and I knew not to talk about those experiences. Talk about those experiences. So, from the word go, I was aware that I felt I had a soul, divine purpose being here, and it has taken me I'm 57 now, so I've been on a journey to discover more about what that sole purpose is, and it's taken me to this time to come to a place of a really fulfillment and holding peace.

Beverley Glazer:

So, yes, yes, because I really struggled with severe trauma here as a child. And how did you handle that trauma when you were living through it?

Zahara Celestial:

As a child I actually tried to sit especially my father down. I used to try and sit him down and try and talk to him. So I was a typical codependency relationship when you've got adult children. I was trying to parent my parents, but I also had a lot of spiritual experiences that assisted um to balance the darkness and the light um, so I would at times feel very alone and isolated um, and I was even homeless at one time as a child. So I didn't feel I was getting much support from other uh human beings um, but I did feel I had support from from nature actually, and other um divine beings. So that's where I went for solace and support and felt I could come to a more of a sense of harmony was out in nature um, and also because I had that um, it's very close to a near-death experience, I had a very big outer body experience and that gave me an an arc to hold me through my and still does hold me um through my journey, my journey.

Beverley Glazer:

When was the first time you ever had that out of body experience? Because you probably know, because you're also a child psychotherapist as well, that many abused children, both sexually and emotionally, have these out ofof-body experiences. It's, it's a coping strategy. It's just so difficult to live in your own reality. Did you this first happen to you? When did you first experience that?

Zahara Celestial:

I think you make a really um, answering that question. You make a really good point because at some points I would feel very dissociated, very I'm not in my body. I would cover up mirrors because I would see somebody else looking back at me. I was so not feeling present. So I would know what that would feel like of lifting out of my body and going to what I would say is heaven was such a huge experience of love and peace and light that that was so different from freaking out when there was mirrors and having panic attacks. So I know what the difference is. I know what, um, I felt held, I felt loved, and I realized that there was a bigger divine source, that is god. And so, yes, that that's um, it's beyond words, really beyond words. Um, yeah, and I feel very, very blessed to have had that experience. Um, so that was, uh, when I was a 10, when I had that experience and it's amazing that you could say that I'm very blessed to have that experience.

Beverley Glazer:

You chose trauma to work through your own trauma. Someone else would perhaps want to reject trauma and not want to go there at all. Why did you choose trauma, Zahara?

Zahara Celestial:

That's another very powerful question. Through my journey, very in my sort of teenagers into my 20s I came across people saying that you chose your parents or you chose your life, and while I was still holding the trauma not not I still was holding a lot of the emotion and the post-traumatic stress that felt like an accusative, judgmental statement. I did not understand it. I could not cope with that. Um. So I'm very aware of that. Depending on where someone will be on their journey, that can be can be very jarring, um, but for where I am now sort of to do the leap and fast forward because I'm aware of the time that we've got um, which is all perfect, um, I in 20, um, I think it'll be 2018, I went to Bosnia and I stayed with some Bosnians there and I recognized the same energy.

Zahara Celestial:

Because I'm also a healer, a spiritual healer, I recognized the same energy of that, what they were describing and there was. You could feel it in the, in the cities, with the people of the war that they've been through. It was the same energy as I had experienced as a child in my family and that was one of the big sort of it. It's more than a light bulb, more sort of aha moments, because I was able to support the people there, because people kept on wanting to come to me and tell them their story, because I felt that they knew I understood. I understood what they'd been through.

Zahara Celestial:

It wasn't exactly the same, but I understood the trauma, what they've been through. It wasn't exactly the same, but I understood the trauma. I understand the places that human beings can go to and I've healed from that and I understand so many sides. So, for instance, even though I had psychotherapy myself in my 20s, I then went into an abusive relationship in my 30s and so I understood, like, from my mother's perspective, I relived the pattern. So that was very powerful. So I chose everything so that I could understand, not just from a singular microcosmic perspective, but the macrocosm, and that is what I feel and believe and experience. That is what we're doing in humanity is where we're seeing the bigger picture now. Yes, we're seeing the bigger picture now, yes.

Beverley Glazer:

So Was that the turning point that you had to help others heal in the same way that you're learning, and have been learning, to heal yourself?

Zahara Celestial:

I'd already been healing people for many years, like you mentioned, child psychotherapy. I'd already started energy and spiritual healing. That was a turning point in that I understood um in a way. What you've described was choosing the path, choosing the experiences and um and then understanding forgiveness. Because that's another tricky one, because when you're in post-traumatic stress and trauma and holding the emotion, that can be um misinterpreted, I think, because it's it's not about forgetting what's happened. And for me the turning point with that was that I didn't want to hold on to the fear, the rage, the hurt, all of that. So in a way it was forgiving myself. Then I could release the attachment I had, because I could embrace and allow myself to feel the difficult feelings so that they didn't have to be attached to the other person For instance, it might be my father or my mother. I was able to then let them go as well, let that sort of chaining to the pain go, and so that for me was forgiveness.

Beverley Glazer:

For those who don't understand, explain sound and energy. Heal as you do that.

Zahara Celestial:

Okay, as you do that. Okay, so, in reference there, while I was talking about chaining, that is, we make attachments all the time when we communicate. Um, most, uh, people are aware, I think, now, that when we communicate, we, the majority of the communication isn't through the word, it's through the energy, the emotion, the feeling. A lot of people have, um, a gut feeling and they don't question that, that their gut instincts, I feel it. You know that doesn't feel right. That is not from the head, it's from the energy, yeah, the body. So, um, because I was had a lot of um outer body experiences and, as well as dissociation, I spent a long time getting back into my body so that I was not in a numbed experience. And I think there's a lot of humanity that have experienced a lot of trauma and so are numbed to being alive in their body, for being sensual.

Zahara Celestial:

And emotion is energy, feeling is energy, everything is energy, and so when you are a healer, you work on that level, you, you go by direct to the energy and light language talk about that um, well, I started what you would call light language, where, because I work shamanically, um, and I would hear birds singing with the drumming, when I'd be drumming with other people in a circle, in a teepee or around a fire, and I would hear birds singing or wolves howling and all sorts of other sounds. And so then I started sounding along with what I was hearing from the spirit realm, spirit, animal spirits and guides. And so then that in the present day is called light language. But, um, people back then, so that was in what I didn't know many, many years I've been doing this. People would say, well, how, how, how have you, um, learned how to do shamanic singing?

Zahara Celestial:

And then then fast forward a few years and it's now, how did you learn to do light language? And it's like, well, I hear it, and then I want to sound along with like in a um, so um, it's singing, um sounding. So I I predominantly sing like language. Some people talk like language. It's very hard to relay what it is because it's not coming through the rational mind. It's the sounds and vibrations, a bit like om, I would would say you know that from the uh, that's an indian um tradition, so a lot of that I would call light language, actually um it's healing tones um, yeah, and today we have scientific research that it is healing.

Beverley Glazer:

Binary, binary beats, for instance. You can even find this on the internet. It's soothing, it helps people with autism, it helps people with bipolar disorder. It's a sound that for you or for me may be completely different, and it's just a sound, like you mentioned, which comes from really within. It's a universal sound, but it's healing and Indigenous people throughout the world. This is nothing new, but now we have scientific research, so that grounds it. It just doesn't happen. It's there and we are all emotional beings, like you said, and when we have body and spirit, it all comes together. So how does all these life experiences today, zahara, how does it affect you?

Zahara Celestial:

um it it's been. Um. It's taken me a while to accept that a lot of people who I've met on my journey, from the different spiritual um groups and traditions, have been wanting to explore and open up more. Um, my um journey has been not to open up more. I'm very open and because of the trauma in my childhood about of of not being valued and not being loved in a way that was loving enough for me, and then, being homeless, there was a lot of rejection and I wanted to find home. I wanted to be part of a group, a family, to belong, to be accepted, to be loved, to be like others.

Zahara Celestial:

And yet, um, I have now come to a place where I realize the gift. It's a gift and gifts I in that dis-ease of not feeling at home on the planet or with each other, this divisiveness that's occurring. So I understand, because I've had that journey really powerfully from a childhood, of feeling I didn't belong. So now I'm seeing it on a you know big scale. I understand what that pattern is and also the energy that goes with it, and so now, um, I'm feeling I'm able, I'm really able to. Um, now I've healed so much that I'm able to be with the I'll put it in words the bigger unity, the bigger of connectedness of everything and everyone. And I've always been able to see like through to people's soul or their past life or different aspects, and when I was healing more of my trauma I would tune into that with people. But now I'm like, oh, let's tune in with people on the level that I want to resonate more now because of where I've arrived at.

Beverley Glazer:

So what I hear is it's opened you up, just opened you up to everybody. You're not fearful, it's like you've just come out of yourself. It's a gift. Yes, I want to ask you what message would you like to share to other women who are on their own spiritual path and they don't know what to do?

Zahara Celestial:

it is never too late. I went to, I went to art college straight from school, left art college not able to do any art and then when I was um, I don't 50, I then, quite fearfully and sort of very tentatively, would just draw one line on a piece of paper and then over weeks and weeks and weeks I would sit with another friend and we would just chat and do some doodling I'm only doodling and then the doodles got a bit more lines and then now that's a big part of what I do and I love making images. I also sound and sing. I'm not a trained singer.

Zahara Celestial:

All this started in this stage of my life because of my. The journey was needed to be like the vessel to hold everything and then to express my journey. So it's, it's it, that whole concept of even that phrase. It's never too late, it's all perfect in divine timing, um, and it can be fearful, but then that's part of the, the wonder and the magic, and um, it's like coming full circle. You, you're the inner, your inner child can flower and come out and play with that wealth of wisdom as well, um, so yes, I want to thank you.

Beverley Glazer:

Thank you for being so open, so honest, so transparent, and it was a beautiful interview. It was really my pleasure, oh, my pleasure. Thank you very much. Zahara Celestial is an energy healer, a sound healer, a spiritual guide who has dedicated her life to assisting others in their own spiritual growth and healing. Where can people find you, zahara?

Zahara Celestial:

I have a website which is my name, so it's very easy Zahara Celestial, and that's where you can find me. And then I've got a youtube channel and this, that and the other, facebook. But if you just go to my website, you can, you can find me there perfect.

Beverley Glazer:

All those links are going to be in the show notes. That's just below, and they're also going to be on my site too, which is reinventedpossiblecom. And now. Now, my friends, what's next for you? Are you just going through the motions or are you passionate about your life? Get my weekly self-coaching tips to empower you through your journey, and that link will also be in the show notes below. You can connect with me, beverly Glazer, on all social media platforms and in my positive group of women on Facebook called Women Over 50 Rock, and, if you think I can help you in any way, there's also a Zoom link where you can get in touch with me as well. I want to thank you for listening and have you enjoyed this conversation? And have you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe so you don't miss the next one, and send this episode to a friend and always remember you have only one life, so live it with purpose and passion.

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