The prosperity shift

In this episode, we're exploring inherited survival patterns, the nervous system’s relationship with abundance, the healing power of love, and what becomes possible when you stop organizing your life around fear, urgency, and scarcity. 

I'm also sharing a profound Heart Healing session, the symbolism that changed everything, and the unexpected shift happening inside my own business and heart!!

What you'll receive inside the episode:

• A Heart Healing session that revealed the hidden emotional architecture and the unconscious family pattern beneath financial struggle. (Shout out to hypnosis!)
• Why your nervous system may resist abundance even when you consciously desire it.
• A symbolic moment during hypnosis that completely shifted a client's reality.
• The connection between scarcity, emotional safety, and inherited beliefs.
• A perspective on abundance that moved me to tears. 🥹
• The worldview most of us were raised inside without realizing it.
• What nature reveals about reciprocity, wealth, and human connection.
• The business shift I’m making after realizing I no longer want to build from survival. 🎁
• How creativity, rest, intuition, and sustainability are deeply connected.
• Why following what makes you feel alive may be more intelligent than forcing consistency.
• A new way of thinking about exchange, value, and support.
• The realization that changed how I understand love itself.

Resources:

• Aubrey Pruneda | Branding that feels like you and amplifies the energy of your soul
• The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Between Realms | A living space of dreams, symbolism, consciousness, emotional truth, and heart-led reflection that helps you understand yourself more deeply, reconnect with your inner knowing, and experience life with greater clarity, resonance, and meaning.
• Heart Healing session | A deeply intuitive and subconscious healing experience designed to help you reconnect with the intelligence of your heart, release survival-based patterns, strengthen emotional and nervous system safety, and expand your capacity to hold more love, truth, visibility, abundance, and self-trust.

Transcript

Ashley Mondor:

Hello, hello! Ooh, my heart is buzzing right now. Oh my God. I have been working with this incredible woman, her name is Aubrey, and I mentioned her in my last podcast episode where, uh, we were talking about how she invited me to become a teacher/a frequency keeper of her space called Sovereign Alignment Frequencies, which is where women like me, who have expertise or experience in some field or whatever in that way, where we live our work, uh, we are invited to teach her community, and it is so amazing. Outside of that, she also does web design and things like that based on your astrology. And oh my God, she just sent me a preview of my new website, and I literally oh my God. My jaw is on the floor. I... Oh. Well, not physically, obviously. Mm. But it is so beautiful. It's everything I have ever wanted but couldn't do myself or couldn't articulate or just didn't have the skill set for, and this is so magical to me. Oh, God, I am so abundant. I am so abundant. I just wanted to share that because this is just the truth of it, man. I have had such profound shifts around abundance and prosperity, and I'm like, "Listen, we gotta do an episode about this," because it's alive in me. It's here. You're here. We're here together, you know? And it's so funny because last week, actually... Look at me changing, changing gears like a pro. I was gonna say changing gears like a chef, and that's not correct, but maybe it is. We're cooking up some magic in this kitchen. Oh, okay. Last week, I took a week off from doing an Insightful podcast, and there was a part of my brain that was like, "Ashley, what are you doing? What about the momentum?" And the only reason why I thought that is because I got an email from my platform host, which is called Bru- Bruzz. No, that ain't it. It's called Buzzsprout, and I love them, and they publish my podcast to, you know, like Spotify, Apple, iHeart, all that stuff. I love them, and they send me stats every week, which, you know, is a really interesting thing to work on integrating, especially when you're brand new and you're like, "Oh, God." My mom listened and then, and then you learn, you're like, "Heck yeah, my mom listened. That's amazing." And then, you know, it grows or it doesn't. So it's just like a whole thing. But Insightful is my place where I just get to be true and, you know, people vibe with that and people don't, and that's perfect. Okay, so but coming back to 333, it's so interesting because that number, that angel number or synchronistic number is the vibration of the triune nature of existence. So it's the creator, the creation, and the process of creation itself. It's a sign of support from the broader aspects of your consciousness reminding you that you are never operating alone, and I really feel that. I really feel that. I'm not sure if you can hear that. Hopefully you can't, but the garbage truck has decided that now is the time to pick up the garbage even though it's almost 3:00, which is amazing. Shout out to our wonderful people who handle the garbage. We love you so much. Okay. Look at, look at how supportive we are. So I wanted to say that I took a week off, and that my brain was like, "What are you doing?" Like taps foot. B- But I also needed the space to follow what was making me feel so alive, and I'm so happy I did, and this is the invitation for you to do that, too. We are taught that the only thing that matters is linear growth and progress, and that's actually not how it works, right? We live in seasons and cycles and, and all of that stuff, and rest is part of your growth and all of these things. And I wanted to give you permission because so much of our society teaches consistency and discipline. I never liked that word, discipline. I don't li- It just has this negative connotation or this weight around it. And you can be consistent by also weaving in things that are helpful for you and nourishing for you so that you actually can create things sustainably. What a thought. Man, we are not taught about sustainability and things like that, you know, growing up. It's like you gotta keep going. You gotta, you gotta go to every grade. You gotta read all the books. You gotta complete all your homework in this way. You gotta learn these things, and then you gotta go to college, and then you gotta get a job, and then you gotta get a spouse, and then you gotta get a house with a picket fence. And then you have, like, what, two and a half kids or something? Whatever that is. And then you go, and you work, and you work, and you work, and you work, and you work, and you work, and you work until retirement, if you're lucky to retire, and then you leave the planet. Did you enjoy the journey? Sustainability is key, especially sustainability for the Earth, obviously, but also your system, being sustainable for your system, for you as an artist, as a creator, as a healer, as a guide, as w- you know, whoever, whatever you are and the things that you are bringing to Earth right now. We want things to be sustainable because, you know, then you can keep doing it if it's in your highest and greatest good, and it's something that, you know, flows through you that you were meant to bring, you know? That was, like, a little bit of a word salad, but I think that it made sense. Okay, this all comes to I'm learning that when I trust the flow, everything literally clicks into place perfectly because I have had huge shifts around abundance and building a new world that's rooted in love, and I can't wait to share this with you. So first, I'm gonna share a story about, um, a massive client shift that happened, and I wonder from this heart healing session if you might glean a gem or two out of her experience or maybe what she's been navigating unconsciously. And then I'm going to share a shift that I am making in my business that's anchored in a new frequency, and oh, oh, this is gonna be so fun. Okay, so note- I had to type all this stuff down because my brain was only able to, like, holdle, holdle, holdle? Golly. Hold only so much, and I didn't wanna miss, you know, important key pieces and things like that. So if it sounds like I'm reading something, it's my notes. Uh, okay. So I was given permission to share this story, and I'm so... Oh, my God, I'm so excited. So first, before we dig in, in my heart healing sessions, I always meet people where they're at, and it is completely tailored to you. So these are one-hour over Zoom sessions, and you basically bring to me what's on your heart, and then we go deeper. So these sessions, I intuitively guide you. I, um, may pull through tools like EFT tapping or using some sort of framework that works with your unconscious mind, or I always love, I always love resourcing you with a tool so that you can continue on your own journey of growth and expansion. It's my favorite thing. I think it's so important. Uh, also, I just love teaching, you know? But I, like... Sometimes a session calls for us to go deeper where your conscious mind won't, you know, doesn't actually know the answer for what we're looking for. And so then we bring in things like hypnosis, and I wanted to share with you more about hypnosis because some people have an idea of it, but most people, when they come to sit across from me, they share about how hypnosis, they maybe have done it once or twice, but it was when they were in school or they went to an event where they watched people be hypnotized up on a stage, and then they were taught to, like, act like a chicken or walk around like a dog or, you know. It was basically entertainment. But this is different. This hypnosis, at least what I use, is intuitive, and it's a co-creation between myself and you. And I just... It's also, like, super imaginative, and I, I basically work with my spirit guides and your spirit guides to see where we're meant to take the session, and it's, it's just really interesting. And so every session is bespoke, meaning, you know, not any of them are ever the same, and it's because you are special. You are unique. You are a rare gem, okay? And so outside of that, hypnosis is when you're in a relaxed state, what happens is the critical faculty of your mind, which is like a door between your unconscious and your conscious mind, opens, so we can access the patterns and beliefs that are running underneath your conscious awareness. So the reason why hypnosis is such a profound tool is because it works with you being a whole person. It bypasses conscious barriers to address root causes of habits and emotional issues rather than just treating symptoms. One of my favorite things about it is neuroplasticity and neural change. Hypnosis utilizes the brain's innate ability to rewire itself, which is called neuroplasticity, allowing for deep-rooted lasting behavioral and cognitive shifts. What's also really interesting about neuroplasticity is that when my clients leave my sessions, um, often what happens is they have rewired certain things, certain patterns, belief systems, stuff like that, and then they actually process and receive more information in the dream state, and it's because we wire that in during your session that your brain will be cleaning out old files and things like that and bringing in new ones and all this stuff, which is so fun. Another thing, um, hypnosis is it can change how the brain interprets pain signals. So it says, like, you can treat chronic pain, IBS, or dental fear by allowing patients to turn down pain sensations. Yeah, there's a whole thing I was taught from Melissa Tiers called... It, they didn't call, she didn't call it the pain room, but there is a room where you can work with your unconscious mind in order to turn dials on pain and things like that, which is really cool. But most people who work with me, they don't, they don't really ever work on physical pain. We work on emotional stuff. We work on, um, fears, limiting beliefs, patterns, things they have inherited, things they're struggling with, stuff like that, but it's never really physical pain. Another thing hypnosis offers, it uses or triggers, I like the word activates, a state of deep concentration, which, which makes the mind more receptive to positive suggestions that can boost confidence and reduce stress. Um, I have a, a much cooler result, but I'm gonna share it in a little bit. And then, um, hypnosis triggers the body's natural relaxation response, which significantly lowers your heart rate and your blood pressure, which helps manage anxiety, insomnia, and stress. But also hypnosis shifts your brain into theta brainwave state, which is a deeper state. It's more also creative and stuff like that. So all that to say, first I need a drink of water. Okay. Client story. Let's do this. So she came to me because she was super stressed about money, and she was struggling and exhausted, and she was asking me, like, "Why do I have to feel extremely stressed before the money actually shows up?" And she shared with me that, "I'm stuck on the struggle, and I've been identifying with struggle for so long that I actually don't know how to let it go." And she's like, "I'm aware of it, painfully aware of it, but it feels like I'm beating my head against a wall because I just can't think my way out of it." I think that's so key, that last part, "I just can't think my way out of it." I think that's why I'm so proud of the work that I do because we're, we're not- bypassing the body anymore, and your body is part of your unconscious mind or your subconscious mind. And so many people... Like, this is why affirmations don't... Why affirmations are so tricky to, like, layer into your unconscious, because it just works on, you know, if I keep affirming it and saying it out loud over and over and over again, that it's gonna, it's gonna wire in. And, you know, it could, it just might take a w- a long time, which is cool. That's great for some people. But there's a way to go about it where you're working with your body and the wisdom of your body, and you're working with your unconscious mind, which is truly running your habits, your emotions, your belief systems, the actions you do or don't take, right? The results that you have in your life, stuff like that. So we wanna, we wanna do that, you know? So she goes on to share that it seems that resources will come in, and then I'm stressed about losing them, and then I lose them. And it's like this self-fulfilling prophecy. And I understand that. I get it. And so I, I brought her into hypnosis, and part of my framework, again, is working with your body. And so I asked her to focus on a time where she felt scarcity or lack in her body. When was a recent time? And we do that because we're lighting up the memory networks in your brain, and it's easy when something has recently happened or something that we can pull from that has, you know, some sort of emotional charge to it. And so I was like, "Okay, can you pull up a memory of this?" Or, "When was the last time you experienced this specifically?" And so she goes inside her brain to find that memory. And I asked her, you know, "Where, where is that feeling in your body?" And immediately she said, "My throat." And I was like, "Okay, this is great. So if we were to imagine this energy, what color is it?" And she said, "It's yellow and orange. It's emergency." And I'm like, "Oh, yes. This is so... This is amazing." And so I was like, "Okay. Can you tell me more about this emergency?" And she said, "I'm copying my dad. This is how he operates. It's always some sort of emergency. This is his cycle that I've now inherited." And so in hypnosis, we continue. I was like, "Okay, tell me more about this. Why are we holding onto it?" Like, "Why don't you just let it go?" And she said, "The reason I don't wanna let it... The reason why I don't wanna let go of it is because I'm letting go of the remaining attachment I have to my family. I was holding it as a kind of grief." And this is huge because she hasn't talked to her mom or dad in, in so long, in months. She hasn't talked to them. And partially it's like she's been outcasted, but also, I mean, you gotta set boundaries too, you know? So she's been holding onto it as a grief. And so you know how we shared, where did you feel that lack and scarcity from that memory? And it came up as y- like this yellow-orange emergency feeling in her throat. So I invited her to feel what abundance feels like in her body. And I asked her, you know, "If abundance were to have a color, what color would it have?" And she immediately said green. And she just... She had this huge smile, and I was like, "Where is that?" And she's like, "Oh, green. It's in my heart space." Green is like money. Oh, did you hear that? That was Fern. Thanks, Fern. Have a good day. He decided to jump out of the window. Oh, these cats. Okay, great. Okay. So she felt green in her heart space, and then I, I asked her unconscious mind to imagine all of that green space and her energy to now fill her entire body and every single cell of her whole being. I want her to radiate and vibrate in this feeling, in this energy of this beautiful green all over. And so once she felt complete with that, and she felt like she was fully abundant, I invited her to imagine meeting the spirit of her father. And so her father just materialized in front of her, and I invited her to place a hand over his heart. And she asked him for consent or permission if he would be open to receiving this abundance, this energy, and he said yes. And so I asked her to imagine filling his entire body and all of his cells with the energy of abundance that was overflowing from her. And this took a little bit of time, right? Because she's just really making sure that his whole being is radiating in this abundant energy. And I wanted to take a step furth- take it a step further because intuitively I was like, "Well, I wonder what else we can explore," right? And so I invited her and her spirit guide, because I always invite a wise guide or a spirit guide to step forward, um, I invited her spirit guide and her to receive a symbol or a metaphor that would help her heal abundance generationally. And she saw... And God, I'm like, "Oh." People's subconscious or unconscious minds are everything to me because they're perfect. Do you understand? They're freaking perfect. The symbol she got was a hot air balloon filled with many, many, many sandbags. Come on now. Like, ugh, is that not juicy? It's so good. So she looked at the sandbags, and she was like, "Oh, okay. I understand what this is." She realized at an unconscious level that it's time to let go of the sandbag so that she can go to new places in her life, but it's asking her to release all of the old ties And so before she began, you know, taking out the sandbags, I had this thought of like, oh, we should invite her father in. So we invited her father into the balloon with her if he wanted to, and he did. And the reason why this was key is because this way she wasn't healing against him, but rather she was healing with love for him and everyone from their line, their lineage. And so as they're working together to clear the baggage, she has this realization. She says, "Struggle is how we show love. We don't know how to do love without struggle." And as she's saying that, she starts seeing in her imagination the hot air balloon is beginning to rise. And as this is happening and her and her dad are tossing out the bags, right, the balloon is getting higher and higher and higher. And I'm like, "Oh, we should look over the side of the hot air balloon to see, you know, what, what is her unconscious mind seeing?" And so I invited her to look over the edge to notice what she saw, and she saw all of the faces of her ancestors. But the key here is that there was a mix of envy and hope on their faces. So she shared, "Oh, there's a fear that we're going to lose family history by doing this, or it's like we're gonna dishonor our family struggle somehow." And I'm sitting here like, oh, the genius that's happening, right? And so I invite her to share a message with her father, and she turns to her father and says, "I'm telling him that our ancestors would have wanted this. They would have wanted us to keep going higher and to not stay stuck where they were." And I'm like, "Oh, yes, it's this." So then she noticed that, um, on the side of where her ancestors are or were, all of the bags that they had been dropping. I was like, "Well, what do those look like now?" And she's like, "Oh, they look like piles of dirt. I guess this baggage wasn't so special or coveted at all." And I'm like, "You can't make this up," you know? And so this is a huge, huge, huge realization for her because it's not that her family pain didn't matter, it was that she was actually breaking the cycle of love that no longer required suffering or struggle or depletion or fear or sacrifice to prove it. She didn't need all of that to stay connected. And then she said something to me that I was like, "This is so amazing." She said, "Why is stress a necessary ingredient?" And I'm like, "That's right. Tell me more." And she said, "I'm not responsible for how others think and feel and act." That's right. And so as they let go of the sandbags, as her and her father were filled to the brim with this abundant energy I said, can you please access that old scarcity pattern now? What's different? And she said, why would I worry? I'm feeling abundant right now. I don't feel that rising or scattering energy anymore. I just feel calm. And the reason why I wanted to speak to that specifically is because this is a really big deal because it's a nervous system shift. Like, you- this is such a big deal. Your nervous system runs so much of what you perceive, right? It's like tuning you into a specific band of frequency or a specific radio station, depending on if you're in fight or flight or fawn or freeze, or if you're in more receptive mode, right? If you're feeling safe in your body, you're going to receive or perceive or access different information than we are... when you are constantly stressed in urgency, in anxiety, in worry, in fear, in doubt or scarcity or lack or any of those things. So if your nervous system can feel safe in abundance, I... like, what is possible from here? You know? So we come out, and I think one of my favorite things that she told me, she was like, "I've experienced hypnosis a few times before where they're guided." Uh, she's like, "But I really loved this with you because it was so joyful." And listen, I just wanna play, you know? I just wanna play with life for the fun of it for the rest of time, okay? And if you can have fun, you know, talking about scarcity and family trauma and things like that, and then you have these huge epiphanies because you are so wise, okay. So I sent her a message because after all heart healings, what I do is I transcribe our entire session together, and I pull through verbatim comments from you or tools that I taught you that I want you to be able to remember, right, the steps to it, any lingering messages that I pull through my guides, from my guides or my higher self for you. So you basically have this whole session, and then you get this note from me with all this information. And so I messaged her, and she didn't get back to me for a few hours, which is fine. And she messaged me to say, "Oh my God, so sorry. After our session, I just, I needed a nap so bad." Which makes sense because she moved a lot of energy, right? And also we're working with your synapses, and we're, we, we're rewiring things. So it makes sense that she needed a break. And so when she responded, she was like, "Oh my God, I have to show you something." And I'm like, "What?" And she's like, "You're never gonna guess what happened." And I was like, "I need to know." And she sent me a screenshot from a message from her father who texted her after our session, after not talking for months. I... like, that blows my mind. And on, on the other side, it doesn't, it doesn't blow my mind at all because everything is energy. And she She did everything from a place of love, you know? So then she, like, a week goes by and she messages me, and she was like, "I have something so important to tell you." And I'm like, "Tell me." God, I love, I love when people come back to share things that have happened in their life because it's like I get to be part of your story, you know? And she said, "I just checked my income for April, and I broke through my glass ceiling. I made significantly more than the income limit I've been stuck under my entire life. I can't believe I finally made it. No amount of effort could get me past the limit, but one session with you and boom. It feels surreal." And I'm over here beaming because you are the one who h- who has done the work, right? Like, that genius was yours. The metaphors, the symbolism, what you felt in your body, all of that is you. I'm just guiding you, right? Like, it's your genius. And so I'm sitting here, like, my heart fully open, fluttering like a flutterby. I don't even know. Just ugh. And so I messaged her back and I was like, "I think that what's so incredible is that it was love that shifted this for you." And she responded in such a beautiful way. She said, "I think it's because you shifted my understanding of what love fundamentally is. Love is not staying limited to match each other or providing for each other through stress or effort. Love is growing and expanding together." Tell me you don't have chills. Ah. I needed to take a water break. Um, man, I'm so, like, I'm so in awe of that sequence of events and just her brilliance, you know? And that I got to be part of an expansion, whether that's emotionally or with a place of clarity or self-trust or financially or creative, creativity, creativity. Oh, words. See? Even that's creative. Good job. Hee hee. Okay. I... So one of the reasons why it was so great to take last week off is because I wanted to explore something that I felt called to. So I... Many people have talked about, uh, this book called Braiding Sweetgrass, and I wanted to read it, but then as I was re- 'cause so many people talk about, "Oh my God, this is a book you have to read. You have to read it" But I went to Barnes & Noble, and I picked it up, and I was flipping through a few pages, but I didn't feel ready for it yet. And so that was last month. And so this past week, I s- Braiding Sweetgrass came up again in my field, and I'm like, "Okay, there's something here in my hologram. Like, what is it?" And people were talking about this other book she wrote, and the writer, the author, her name is Robin Wall Kimmerer, and she wrote this book called The Serviceberry. Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, and I will link this in the show notes. But there's something in here that I wanted to bring to you because I sat back and was like, "Good. Oh my God, this would be amazing." Okay. Let give me... Sorry, I have to flip to my page. Human things. Okay. Where is it? Um, by the way, I'm only on... I'm 33 pages in, and this is great. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful book. It... The serviceberry is a specific berry that grows in the world, but this is again about abundance and reciprocity. And so if I could find the part, I hope I'm allowed to share this. I may not be, I don't know. It's- but it's also for the good. But where do I wanna start? Okay, hold on. Sorry, one more... Give me two more s- seconds. This is not the one. This is it. Okay. Mm, mm, mm, mm. I just lost my page. Why? Okay. Oh, here it is. Okay, sorry. S- thank you for your patience and your grace. I really appreciate it. So her... Robin is a botanist, and she shares, "My knowledge of economics and finance is about the size of the frilly cup or the frilly little cup at the tip of a juneberry that was once part of the flower. It's called the calyx, in case you were craving a delicious new word, the way some people crave money." Mm. She shared, "My fluency in the lexicon of berries does not easily extend to economics, so I wanted to revisit the conventional meaning of economics to compare it with my understanding of the gift economy of nature. What is economics for anyway? The answer to that question depends on, a lot on who you ask. On their website, the American Economic Association says it's the study of scarcity, the study of how people use resources and respond to incentives." She goes on to share, "My son-in-law, Dave, teaches high school economics, and the first principle he- his students learn is that economics is about decision-making in the face of scarcity. Anything and everything in a market is implicitly defined as scarce. With scarcity as the main principle, the mindset that follows is based on commodification of goods and services." Oh. If that doesn't make you see that you have been given a worldview that is not true It is a teaching. It is a foundational principle for how humans, at least in the Western world or who has this economy style, living by the, living by scarcity. And so I was like, this, ugh, this is, shakes so much of what I believe to be true, especially when we look at like freaking trees and berries and grass and, ugh, ugh, the air we breathe in our lungs, right? The sunshine, all of that stuff. So, uh, let's see. I didn't wanna share that part or that part or that part or that part, because I don't wanna give everything away. Okay. So, uh, the heartbeat of a gift economy is an antecedent alternative to market economies, which is what we just talked about, scarcity. Another way of organizing ourselves to sustain life. In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence, and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity. A gift economy nurtures the community bonds that enhance mutual wellbeing. The economic unit is we rather than I, as all flourishing is mutual. Anthropologists characterize gift economies as systems of exchange in which goods and services circulate without explicit expectations of direct compensation. And I love this because this has actually happened to me. Scientist and philosopher Marshall Sahlins names generalized reciprocity as the heart of a gift economy, which functions most effectively in small, close-knit communities. Those who have to give, or, mm, sorry, those who have give to those who don't, so that everyone in the system has what they need. It is not regulated from above, but derives from a collective sense of equity and enoughness and accountability in distributing the gifts of the earth In his book, Sacred Economics, Childs, Charles Eisen- Eisenstein, that was a word, whoa, states, "Gifts cement the mystical realization of participation in something greater than oneself, which yet is not separate from oneself. The axioms of relat- rational self-interest change because the self has expanded to include something of the other. If the community is flourishing, then all within it will partake of the same abundance or shortage that nature provides." So in a gift economy, the currency and circulation is gratitude and connection rather than goods and money. A gift economy includes a system of social and moral agreements for indirect reciprocity rather than a direct exchange. And I love that because it's something that I'm bringing in. I like, ugh, there's so many things I wanna speak to. Like, in knowing that a market economy, what we live in, where exchange is usually perceived as a transaction, a way to finish a process, in a gift economy, exchange is an initiation. It's a beginning or a seed of a cycle of relationship. And in this book, she was talking about how, um, say you were just... You were to go to store, and you were to buy a knit hat, and you just give the money, and then the hat is yours, and you're like, "Yay, there's my hat. Amazing. Cool, I have that." And then that system ends, right? Versus say you were in a gift economy, and you knew the person knitting the hat. You asked for this hat. They took the yarn or whatever. They used their gifts, their energy, their talents, their wisdom to make this hat for you, and then you take it. It becomes something more of a treasure. You're probably less likely to toss it someday, you know, because someone you knew poured their heart into this. I think that's the key. Another example she gave in the book was, say you go to the grocery store, and you get your groceries, and she talks about the service berry. She was like, say you, you know, bought a bushel or, I don't even know what you call those, of these service berries, and you hand the cashier your money, and then you go, and you bring it home, and you're like, "I own these berries now. I'm gonna do what I want with them," and that transaction ends. Where in a gift economy, say you were to go to, like, a farmers market, and you bought these berries from this person who grew them in their yard, and you gave them the money, and then they came back later, and they're like, "Oh my God, how was that service berry?" or whatever. "I heard you can make a pie," right? "Like, a service berry pie. Could I have that recipe?" And then you build this friendship, right? And maybe you make enough, or you have so many service berries left after that you can gift them to your neighbor, or you make a pie, right, and you share part of that pie with that person who grew the berries, and it's like this whole beautiful ecosystem. And I know, like I, if I were to bring this to people outside of you listening, I know that people would think I'm crazy. How could you make that work in the real world? Like nothing is like that. It's, the economy is at scale. It's so big, all this stuff. But I wanted to bring something to you where maybe you start thinking about a gift economy in your own life, if you don't already have one. If you have a business, maybe there's an idea that you can start weaving this in, which is why I'm bringing it to you, because I'm gonna play with this because it stems from a wound. So what's interesting is like I am realizing something about myself, and especially because of last week, because of my willingness to follow my heart to learn more about this book and a gift economy, I'm realizing that so much of my interest in my life focuses on how people are trying to change their lives while their nervous system is still organizing around fear and survival. This, this directly impacts and shapes how you perceive and receive love and money, visibility, safety, intimacy, and you know, even possibility itself. So this is so much of my work I'm realizing, and why I keep having patterns of people coming to me specifically focused on money. There's something in me that people are v- like vibrating with that I'm like, "Oh, it's because I can teach you about your nervous system. I can teach you how to perceive differently. I can teach you how to live differently. Like I can teach you about your patterns and how to shift all that stuff," you know? But it's so much of it is around money and abundance, and it's because we are gonna be shifting into a new world, I think. I think. And so I wanted to share a little bit about Between Realms with you because this is part of my gift economy I'm bringing into my business. So Between Realms, I've been running it, I think, over a year. Also May this month is my nine-year anniversary of being in business, so I'm really proud about that. I also had no idea that, um, I would ever be paid for my writing, like outside of working for a nonprofit or a corporation, and people pay for my writing now and my teachings, and it's, it is a joy. Like this is so amazing for me. I just, ah, the little girl in me is beaming because this was a dream, you know? But I had Between Realms, and just, I wanna speak to what it is first, and then what I've been learning, and then how I'm going to be bringing this into a gift economy. So Between Realms is a sanctuary for the seen, the sensed, and the not yet spoken. It's a space for those who are drawn to emotional truth and symbolism, consciousness, heart coherence, intuition, and the deeper layers of the human experience. And so inside Between Realms, you'll encounter dreams and transmissions, reflections, and perspective-shifting explorations that are designed to help you with what? Deepen your self-awareness, reconnect you with or deepen your intuition and inner truth, um, learning how to recognize unconscious patterns and inherited beliefs, exploring symbolism and meaning-making within your own inner world, shifting from survival or fear-based thinking or strategies into possibility so that your perspective shifts how you experience life. Also, creating greater capacity for intimac- or intimacy, visibility, and abundance, strengthening discernment and self-trust. You know, experiencing greater emotional clarity, and to me, a big one is nervous system steadiness. My goal is to have you feel more connected to your life, your spirit, and to all of the magic surrounding you. And also, just so you know, part of the thing about Between Realms that I love is that most of my transmissions or channelings or teachings, they offer you reflective questions at the end of the story or the lesson, um, or the transmission so that you can go within to remember more of your own truth and magic. That's always my key. You are a sovereign being. You have always been a sovereign being, truly, fundamentally, profoundly so. And sometimes we forget, right? Because we came here, we have this thing called the veil of amnesia. We're not supposed to remember all the things, all of the, the hugely incredible, divine, magical things about you, 'cause you came to explore density, right? To explore what it means to be a creator. And so the thing about Between Realms is that my favorite thing is that all new posts are sently, are sent sently. We're moving too fast. My favorite thing is that all new posts are sent directly to your email. This is so key because you never have to leave your email if you don't want, you know? Unless you are in one of two tiers. If you're in the inner temple or you're a keeper, and I'm going to explain that in a moment. So this whole thing, for me, has been... Between Realms has been a really interesting journey because I have been learning and practicing what it means to follow my highest excitement, and that also directly goes against things that I have been taught about marketing and about running a business Also taught, you know, things in the world, about the world in general. But one of the things that I didn't like doing, but I tried to do it, but it just wouldn't pan out for me, is I would write this post, right? Because... Well, actually, let me back up. So sorry. I launched Between Realms last year, and I was so excited about it because I, I was having all of these dreams with so much symbolism and so many unconscious patterns, and I was, you know, I've- meeting aliens in the dream space and connecting with beings like Artemis and, um, Saint Mercurius, I think his na- just so, ugh, so many things. And I have all this information to share, but social media is not the place because people are trained for short attention spans and for three-second videos, and they won't... On Instagram, if you have a reel that's over three minutes, they refuse to show it to new people. They want your consciousness fractured, but you're sovereign, so it doesn't matter. Ugh. But one of the things that I wanted to do was I had it where you could join for free, and you could get all these information, this, these transmissions for free. I also had a paid tier for $22 a month, and that was for people who wanted to go deeper, right? But what was happening was I wanted everyone to receive everything. I didn't want to, like, say, "Oh, only people who are subscribed at the free tier can get that, and then everyone else can get the deeper transmissions," or whatever that is. Like, I didn't like that because everything I was writing felt important to me. So when I originally launched this, I had the gifted and the paid tier, but I became bitter because so many people subscribed for free, and it didn't feel good to me to have my paid members receive, you know, just a few more posts than my free subscribers. And, you know, on one hand, it felt like I wasn't being fair or thoughtful to people who were investing in my work. But on the other, again, I wanted to give everything away for free because everything I write has value and impact to me. So I closed down the free offer and decided that this is exclusively for people who are willing to invest in the space, and that has been won- been wonderful, right? And also, I wanna play with a gift economy. And the old model of my world was unconsciously tied to my emotional safety in needing people to pay me. So every free member became emotionally loaded for me. And unconsciously, my system was like, "Well, will you validate this? Will you choose me? Will you prove that this matters, that these writings matter, these transmissions?" And because I grew up in the same system as you, I equated people paying me with people who could see me That I didn't have any value if I wasn't making money, which is funny, right? Because the podcast you're listening to right now actually costs me money every single month . Not only to host it, but to create it and to send it out to those who subscribe to receive emails from me. And I've never wanted to use ads. I've never, I've never wanted something that I have to give part of myself away that I don't agree with in order to have this channel be supported. So I pay for it every month, and I love it because it feels like a total gift from me to you. And I always, always, always trust that those who are meant to be here are here for a very specific reason. Even if you never become a client, at least I know that maybe something I said will live in you, and you will carry it forward. And in the gift economy, maybe something that you've carried forward moves in other people and that comes back to me through reciprocity. Maybe someone you speak to glean something and they become a client, or they listen to my podcast, or the energy itself of giving somehow pops in my field in another new way, which happens all the time because abundance isn't only money. It's gifts, it's communication, it's a perfect connection at the exact right time in order to support you. It's a synchronicity, right? Like, there's so many different ways abundance flows, but my system has been the same as yours, right? Everything has to have monetary value. If it doesn't have value and you're not making money, then are you worthy? Is your work worthwhile, right? And so now I'm shifting Between Realms into a gift economy that's rooted from my sovereignty and the foundation of abundance and reciprocity, and this is what this looks like. So today, May 11th, couldn't be better. My God. I'm gonna have three tiers available. The first tier is the threshold, and this is my gift to you. And you sign up, you put your first name and your email in, and then you get to access my living stream of channelings and teachings for a limited time. So what this is, is like usually once a week, sometimes less, because I live cyclically and seasonally, um, I have a, a post or a transmission. I have a dream come through. I meet an alien in my dreams with information to share with you. I have a lived experience where I have a breakthrough or an epiphany. I have a client session where I know someone is going to benefit from their unconscious shift, and I write a story about it. What's gonna happen for people in the threshold is you will receive that, that stream of information, that channeling for that week. After a few days, that content is being moved into an archive. So You're not going to access at the Threshold level all of my past teachings. I think I have 60 plus channelings, transmissions, stories in there. But you will get all new stuff for whatever I publish for a few days, and that feels really good to me. That feels so good. Next up, second tier, The Inner Temple. This is $22 a month, and this is where you receive all new transmissions and works, plus you get access to the full archive of all of my teachings a- and transmissions. And this tier and the next tier are for those who deeply desire exploring deeper themes surrounding things like heart coherence, consciousness, abundance, truth, spiritual symbolism, self-trust, nervous system regulation, all of that stuff. It's for people who are... They wanna go deep, right? And it's... I'm not saying that people in the Threshold don't wanna go deep, but I'm saying that people are willing to explore and to take more time. Because in this tier and the next tier, there's no urgency to have to, like, read the thing before it goes into the archive, right? And then the next tier is called The Keeper, and that's $44 a month, and that's access to all new and archive transmissions and teachings, plus the opportunity to support the continued growth and preservation of Between Realms as a living body of work. And this is huge to me because what I do, I finally realize, like, this is my art. Growing up, I didn't think that I was creative. I didn't think that I was an artist. I didn't think that I could ever be a writer. And I'm like, "Oh, we're all artists. We're all creative. We all have divine intelligence." It's just the way that the energy moves through us and how we filter it and how we create from it, you know? And so... And also, like, you can leave or unsubscribe from Between Realms at any time. Like, you can stay for a month. You can leave within that month, you know? It's just you'll... If you are in the Inner Temple or you're a Keeper, I mean, thank you for the exchange, but with deep, profound gratitude. Thank you. And I'm, I'm just so excited about this because it feels like flow. It feels like now I don't have to do this thing where I try to do it on social media. Candidly, like, this is probably why it didn't work. But I wanted to share my transmissions on social for people who were curious, but, but I also wanted them to go deeper in Between Realms, but that meant they had to pay, so they had a paywall. And so I was like, "Man, should I... Maybe I could write a teaser to this article, or I could do, like, at a high level, this is what this is about. If you're curious, you can go deeper with me in Between Realms." But they were met with a paywall. But now I can share something as a teaser, but there's no paywall for that week's transmission. And so people who are tuned into my current, they're gonna be like, "Yeah, I wanna see that." Even if it's for free, maybe something in them will shift. Or will move them or inspire them, or maybe they'll have greater clarity. And if they never want to be part of the inner temple or the keeper, that's okay, you know? But it feels so, ugh, it feels so good. Um, I also wanted to share, because this h- abundance has been so top of mind for me, this was from Elan, which is one of my favorite channelers, from a man named Andrew. I've talked about him quite a few times. We don't know who Andrew is because this is all about the message, not the messenger. And Elan trained under Bashar, who has been channeled by Darryl Anka for A- Anka, Anka for, I think, f- 40-plus years. So this specific focus is from Elan. "Understand that abundance is fundamentally about the flow. Reveling in your work is a natural result of an expressed belief in the infinite potential of the universe. When you give, you are stating, 'I have enough that I am completely open to receive.' This state of openness is the most powerful magnet for the continued abundance you desire. You need not worry about the how or the when of the return. That is the domain of your higher self." So all of that to say, I'm realizing a new truth that I think is absolutely foundational to our future and to the world that I want to live in, and I want, I wanna have this land for you if it's meant for you, okay? We are not here to wait for the world to change so we can feel safe. You and me, we're the ones who are changing the world by refusing to believe in its limitations. We've got this, okay? So thank you for being with me, and if you're curious about Between Realms or the Service Berry or, you know, working with potentially Aubrey on your website or wanting to learn about a heart healing session and seeing how hypnosis is woven in, I'll put those in the show notes. But again, you and me, we're the ones who are changing the world by refusing to believe in its limitations. Thank you, I love you, and I hope you have a wonderful, magical day.