🙏🏽 The Frequency of Gratitude: How to Shift Your Life by Changing One Thought (Ep. 12)

When life feels heavy, overwhelming, or unfair, gratitude can feel like the last thing you want to reach for — yet it’s one of the most powerful forces for shifting your energy and changing your reality.

In this deeply personal and transformative episode, Akashic Soul Healer and award-winning corporate wellness executive Nicole Mixdorf shares how gratitude became her lifeline during one of the most painful chapters of her life: losing her father, navigating medical crises, facing a business collapse, and battling chronic illness… all at the same time.

Nicole reveals:

✨ Why your “inner radio station’’ determines what you attract
 ✨ How gratitude instantly raises your emotional frequency
 ✨ The difference between using gratitude to bypass emotions vs. truly healing
 ✨ How to hold grief, joy, pain, and blessings all at once
 ✨ A perspective shift that instantly reconnects you to your power
 ✨ Her morning and evening gratitude rituals that elevate your energy
 ✨ Why gratitude opens the door for miracles in your life

This episode is a soothing, uplifting reminder that no matter what storm you’re walking through, you can shift your trajectory — starting with a single “thank you.”

🎁 Free Gift:
Enjoy Nicole’s Akashic Activation for Abundance in the show notes. Let it raise your frequency, open your channel, and help you receive more of what life is trying to bring you.

Transcript

Hello, beautiful soul, and welcome back. I’m your host, Nicole Mixdorf, an Akashic Soul Healer and award-winning corporate wellness executive. Today, we’re diving into the topic of gratitude — how to elevate your energy, shift the momentum of your life, and genuinely feel good every day.

I believe wholeheartedly that it is our birthright to feel good daily. Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools I’ve ever used to navigate the hardest chapters of my life.

There have been seasons where it felt like “when it rains, it pours.” One of those hurricanes came when my dad was battling cancer, I suffered a miscarriage, and then — thankfully — became pregnant again with my beautiful son. That pregnancy became a source of hope for my dad, who had already endured seven long years of medical malpractice, surgeries, near-death experiences, and unimaginable pain.

At the same time, I was managing flare-ups of ulcerative colitis, running my business, and trying to stay afloat emotionally.

For most of the pregnancy, I felt amazing — such a gift after feeling unwell for so long. But at 34 weeks, everything changed. I learned I had preeclampsia, my placenta had calcified, and my baby had stopped growing three weeks prior. Within days, I was placed on bed rest and ultimately rushed in for an emergency C-section.

It was scary. It wasn’t the plan. But when the doctor said, “You get to meet your baby today,” everything shifted. Gratitude moved me out of fear and into excitement. It carried me through the spinal tap, through surgery, and through the moment my three-and-a-half-pound miracle was born and taken straight to the NICU.

Leaving the hospital without my baby was one of the hardest experiences of my life — driving over painful speed bumps twice a day, pumping milk, healing from a major surgery, all while visiting him in the NICU.

And then, one week in, I received the call that my daddy only had three months left to live.

My business deal — a massive contract I spent 18 months building — fell apart.

My health flared again.

Everything collapsed at once.

I didn’t bounce back quickly. I felt grief, despair, fear, and exhaustion. But there were also moments of profound beauty. Holding my newborn son brought joy into my broken heart. Losing my dad took some sparkle from those early motherhood moments. I was witnessing the full cycle of life at the same time — birth and death intertwined. It was deeply spiritual.

And through it all, gratitude was my anchor.

Gratitude didn’t erase the pain — but it lifted me above the storm long enough to breathe.

I learned that what you focus on grows. When I kept telling myself the story that everything was falling apart, it kept falling apart. When I shifted my story — even slightly — by choosing gratitude for anything going right, things slowly began to change.

But there’s an important distinction: gratitude is powerful, but it’s not a replacement for feeling your emotions. For a long time, I avoided letting myself fully feel the sadness, anger, despair, and fear. Those unprocessed emotions eventually made me sick. Later on, I had to go back and heal what I hadn’t allowed myself to feel.

Now I teach this:
 Feel the emotion → release it → then rise into gratitude.

Emotion is just energy in motion. It’s meant to move through you, not get stuck inside you.

When you tune your “inner radio station” to gratitude, love, or appreciation, you raise your emotional frequency — and you start attracting experiences that match that vibration.

When you tune into fear, frustration, grief, or anger, you’re broadcasting a lower frequency — and life reflects that back.

Gratitude is the shift.

It’s the bridge.

It’s the portal to miracles.

Even when I was sick and exhausted, gratitude helped me rewrite my internal story. Instead of waking up and thinking, “I’m sick,” I started thanking my body for the parts that were working beautifully. My lungs breathing. My heartbeat pulsing. My eyes seeing. My feet carrying me. My hands holding and touching.

This body is a miracle. Yours is too.

As I shifted my gratitude, new healers appeared. New opportunities emerged. My life recalibrated. Gratitude opened the door.

I use it every day.

In the morning, I wake up and say, “Thank you.”
 Thank you for this breath.
 Thank you for this bed.
 Thank you for my partner.
 Thank you for this home.
 Thank you for this warm shower.
 Thank you for the food in my refrigerator.
 Thank you for another chance to begin again.

In the evening, I hold my gratitude rock — a little fluorite crystal — and I recall all the blessings of the day. I imagine sending all that loving energy into the stone. Over time, that crystal now radiates the vibration of my gratitude. All I have to do is hold it, and I can feel it.

And on the days where nothing seems to go right, those are the days gratitude matters most. You stretch for it — even if it’s just gratitude for your lunch or for someone letting you merge on the freeway.

Gratitude multiplies.

So whatever you’re walking through — the good, the painful, the beautiful, the messy — feel your emotions fully. Let them move. And when the moment passes, let gratitude gently lift you back into the light.

Thank you, my beautiful friend, for being here with me today.

As a gift for you, head to the show notes for a free Akashic Activation for Abundance. May it elevate your energy and open the door to the miracles waiting for you.

From my heart to yours — thank you.