🌬️ Breathwork for Healing & Awakening with Stephanie Pereira Lima (Ep.27)

What if your breath could help you release years of emotional weight, reconnect with your truth, and awaken a deeper part of your soul?

In this powerful episode of HEALED with Nicole Mixdorf, Nicole sits down with Stephanie Pereira Lima — soul and business mentor, divine feminine channel, energy healer, breathwork guide, and sacred spaceholder for spiritually awakened women and soul-led entrepreneurs.

Stephanie shares her journey from the fast-paced corporate world and Wall Street into a life of healing, embodiment, spiritual awakening, and feminine leadership. Together, Nicole and Stephanie explore the deeper power of breathwork, the healing of the divine feminine, emotional release, shadow work, intuition, and what it really means to return to your authentic self.

This conversation is both grounding and activating — especially for anyone who knows they’re being called into a new chapter but feels stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward.

In this episode, we explore:

• Stephanie’s path from corporate success to soul-led work
• How breathwork can unlock emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual healing
• The difference between calming breathwork and activating breathwork
• Why so many people fear feeling their emotions
• Divine feminine embodiment and releasing over-functioning
• How awakening often requires letting unsustainable structures fall away
• The power of being seen, heard, and returning to your truth

If you’ve been craving deeper healing, clarity, softness, or soul remembrance, this episode is for you.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Welcome to Heal with Nicole Mixdorf. Let the journey begin. Welcome back, beautiful soul. It is so wonderful to have you here. I am your host, Nicole Mixdorf. I'm an Akashic healer and an intuitive guide. And today I have a very special guest that I'm so happy to introduce you to. She's a former Wall Street leader, turned mystic, guiding empathic souls, merging healers, priestesses, and light workers into the awakening, alignment, and embodiment of their sovereign, divine, feminine essence. And I have to tell you, Stephanie is a soul sister of mine who I had the deep pleasure of connecting with when we did a training last year together to have our soul body or ca activated. And it was just such a beautiful experience. And I got to connect with her and her magic and all of the beautiful things that she does. So I'm so happy to welcome you to the show. Thank you, Stephanie, for being here with me.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

Thank you. Thank you so, so much. I am so excited. And we've, as we always do, right? Our our souls remeet each other in this form. And so yeah, I feel very, very blessed and excited for our conversation today.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Absolutely. And one of the things that I always really appreciated about you is that you and I both have this similar background where we come from the corporate world and we recognize at some point on our journey that there was something more for us. And it took gave us this leap of faith opportunity to dive into something new. I'm curious if you could share with our audience today maybe a little bit about your story, your journey of how you started and maybe what were those important moments that you had along the way that have shifted your path. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

And we're also Pisces Sunset. Yeah, so I'll I'll just set the stage a little bit of a context and background. So I'm I'm from Miami, Florida originally. I'm a first generation Latina. My father is Brazilian, my mom is Cuban, and at a very young age, I think I was 14, I knew I needed to get out of Miami and go to New York. My soul was calling me to really be in the New York rat race and the hustle and bustle. And, you know, I was very focused on creating my money and having, because for me that meant freedom, that meant choices, and I was very disciplined about that. So much so. I'm also an older sister. And, you know, I think I was called Basi at the age of three. Like I've always been, yeah, just kind of like in my element and like knowing, you know, what I want and very much a go-getter. And so this energy, which we can today, you know, identify as the wounded masculine, when we're operating out of that constant survival fight or flight and and really burning out, the burnout, I very much have that burnout story. And so back in the day, before I even had the language to say I'm empathic or intuitive or sensitive, I think I was always called sensitive, but I didn't really understand that. It was very like I was always the, I was the healer. I was the mother, I was the nurturer, I was the therapist, you know, the the one that people come to for guidance and for support. And for so long that was part of me and and my identity and how I showed up. And there was a deeper layer of shadow that I still had to look at and awaken and process. And yeah, so I think, you know, fast forward to my early 20s, I was 24 when I was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship. And I was yeah, I was teaching English in Brazil. So this another really crazy, I had applied two years before when I was still in college. I didn't get it the first year. They sent my application back into without me do doing anything. Like I was literally working on Wall Street. I had a boyfriend, I had an apartment, like my whole life was set. And out of nowhere, I get this email saying, Congratulations, you've been awarded the Fulbright to teach English in Brazil in this small college town, which is near where my family is. And here's like, I don't even know, like 25k grant, which goes a long way there. And I was like, you know what? Soul nudge, I gotta go. I need to do this. Yeah. Left my life, went, and it was the first time that I ever had the actual space and privilege to question my reality and my purpose and my existence and to deepen into. Um, I actually was starting to go to the center there, the Spiritism Center, Centre Espírito, which I have on my Brazilian side, I've got, you know, mediums and psychics and my uncle, he like trans channels. So that was like a both side that I was able to connect with. And that just opened, you know, the the curiosity. And I think naturally, as Pisces, I've I've always been very connected to the stars and to astrology and always felt a pull to the esoteric. But it wasn't until I came back to New York and I, you know, got planted back into the hustle of of you know living here. And all of a sudden, like all of this anger, crazy, crazy anger, just started to surface. And it was really, really challenging for my now husband, my then boyfriend. Yeah. Um, and I knew I knew I was like, there's something deeper here. And so instead of doing the talk therapy route, which I had done when I was younger, when my parents were divorcing, I went in to see a Chavonic Reiki master. Yeah. And started to journey into past lives, started to receive energy work, started to understand the basics of boundaries and energetic hygiene and how to ground my energy, how to clear it, what you know, how to move through this world as an empath. And yeah, it evolved, it evolved from there.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Wow, that is so magical. I love that you followed Nudge, because you know, that happens a lot. And an opportunity will show up and present itself. And then we have this choice. We have this moment. Are we going to say yes and allow ourselves to step into a path of, I don't know where this is going to take me, but it's exciting and we'll see. Or are you gonna say no and just stay comfortable, you know, in the path that you've already been on? So I love that you leaned in and said yes and it brought you closer to your family and and to all of this magic that exists within your lineage. I mean, that is so powerful and beautiful. After you did that experience and then you came back, um, tell me how you wound up getting into the breath work component. So I know you kind of went through Reiki, I think, first. Tell us a little bit about that. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Yeah, and I also want to name it's my Aries moon placement that like gets the fire going. And I'm really impulsive and like quick with some of these decisions. And I know not everybody operates that way. Yeah, yeah, that that gives me the extra yeah, that gives me the extra let go, you know, kind of energy. Yeah, which can be wild sometimes. But yes, so coming back to Reiki, so Reiki was really the gateway for me. Um, and then I started to seek out community spaces. And it was at Maha Rose in their Green Point, Brooklyn location, which now has shifted since the pandemic. It was in there that I sat in my first breath work circle. And it was powerful. It was the first time that I was laying. I I remember the a woman next to me had a really, really cathartic emotional release. And I just started wailing. And, you know, because a lot in the beginning, when you're first starting off with this work, it's it's very even with Reiki, I was like, is this doing anything? What's happening? Am I okay? What is going on? You know, there's like all of these weird internal narratives, you know, the ego is is doing its thing. And I just remember, yeah, just like really it cracked me open. And it was also aligning with the pandemic. That was when I really looked into deepening and training and understanding this both from a science perspective, but then the spiritual perspective of what happens with breath work.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Yeah. And I really want to dive into this topic of breath work a little bit because, you know, in the corporate wellness work that I've done for 14 years, a lot of the breath work that we guide is the calming side of the breath work. It's how do we release the stress? How do we calm the nervous system? How do we just get ourselves out of fight or flight and just feeling calm in the body? So it's a lot of deep breathing or box breathing and different types of breathing experiences. And obviously, with my background being a yoga teacher and tapping into the pranayama, which is the breath work, but that's more the type of breath work that I have done with my clients that probably a lot of listeners that are on right now have had experience with. But I want to point out that the type of breath work that you're talking about is very different. Now, our breath is one of the most powerful tools that we have, and our breath follows us everywhere that we go. We are constantly breathing and it has the power to calm us, but it also has the power to activate us. So I'm curious if you can share a little bit with the audience today about the other side of breath work, the activating side of breath work and what's possible when we focus on the breath.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Yes, yes. You know, to put it so poetically, that this was really the aha moment for me when I realized we enter this world with our first breath. We leave it with our last, right? And so when we really start to calm the mind and drop in and really understand that this is our life force, and we can, you know, to your point, with the box breath or the long deep breathing, we can soothe and calm and ground ourselves. But then with the activating breath, we can turn up that fire and the kundalini and awaken the heart, which is the portal to the soul, and then we journey, as you know, because you also do shamanic journey work. And so for me specifically, I trained in the three-part breath. It's often called holotropic breath as well, conscious connected breath. There are a few names and terminology, but essentially you're breathing through your mouth in three parts. The first breath goes deep into the lower belly, the second breath expands up into the heart. And the third, you exhale down the back. Yeah. Beautiful. And so I just want to say that this breath pattern is meant to be used very intentionally, only in journeys. If you are pregnant, do not do this breath. If you are, let's say, at the point of burnout and your nervous system is very fried, do not do this breath. Very powerful. As we start to, and here's the thing, you start to drop into this breath pattern, and in the first couple of minutes, there's the internal ego, the critic, what am I doing? Why did I agree to this? This hurts. You know, like there's this whole thing going on. And then eventually that soothes and you start to deepen into your subconscious, you start to deepen into your body. And then depending on, you know, every person is very different. Some people will journey, they will see colors, they will connect with ancestors, they will, you know, and again, it just depends on the guide. And so for me, just through the breath, just through the breath.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

They're not taking any medicine, they're not doing anything. You're saying just through this pattern of breathing, that they're starting to access higher dimensions of consciousness. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

And this this breath can also be called the psychedelic breath because it can have the same effects activating the DMT molecule in the brain.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

So again, like I said, it just it really like every single time you lay down to go through a journey, it will be different. You will be connecting with a different version of you, a different part of you. Some people feel it very physically, some people will connect and clear the emotional body, some people will go deeper into higher dimensions. And so again, it just depends on where they are in their journey and how open and how much of a surrendered state they can go into while being guided. And yeah, and of course, every facilitator is very different. They're bringing in their unique codes and frequencies into the experience. But for me, it's been incredible because as I've evolved in my soul path, the gifts that begin to open and come online, it's it's a it's wild. Like I get humbled by this. So um, so so in the beginning, right, when I had just left corporate, I left um in May of 22. And I was I had already been sitting for many years with the understanding that my soul is here to facilitate healing. And we can understand that mentally, and then right, and then you start to like, okay, wait, how many Reiki sessions do I need to facilitate to pay my bills and this and that? So I was in that. I was in that for a really, really long time until I finally was at the bottom and like, okay, I'm going to, I'm gonna step into this. And so along the way, breath work for me, being able to quite literally move through the emotional gunk and density and you know, which we need to go there. We need to embrace the dark just as much as we embrace the light. We are here for both. We are here for the the sacred union and the polarity, but that's our nature, right? We are cyclical. And so when you start to go into this healing journey at the beginning, sometimes your emotions can feel really intense and they can feel deeply overwhelming and not everybody is going to understand you. And this is why this breath pattern I find to be one of the best tools. I mean, you could literally be at a stoplight in your car and you can drop into a two-minute breath, you know, flow just to come back into your center, right? So it's it's with you at all times. You don't need to pay for this, you don't need to go physically somewhere to breathe. It is part of your being. And so, yeah, it in other clients I've seen from, you know, being really rigid in their masculine, very hypercritical to then, you know, after working together for a couple of months and and and layer by layer, right? Every healing session, we go into it with a different intention. We're calling it in your higher self. And then we are in together, right? I'm also channeling, but with with the the recipient, they're also on their own journey. They are also opening up portals. And yeah, this this one client I'm speaking to, she fully opened her channel and she is now psychic and she is now stepping into her soul calling. And and it's it's incredible. And it's it's all through the breath. The breath that's think of it as clearing the inner architecture, the pathways. Yes, all the other modality. I'm thinking of acupuncture and body work and you know, everything is valid, everything is perfect. To me, breath work is one of the most powerful ones.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Wow, that's so amazing. And the breath is just like you said, it's part of us, right? You don't have to do anything other than breathe in a specific way, but it's what you're describing is so beautiful. So it sounds like people can do this type of breath work to release emotional burdens that they have been holding because a lot of people struggle with that, have different traumatic experiences that happened to us when we were younger or in the Akashic healing work that I do. I'm even exploring deeper layers of that from past lifetimes through generational healing, things that you've inherited that you know, you came into this life with. But there's a component of what your physical body is holding. And people struggle figuring out how do I process this experience that I went through? How do I release this from my body and the way that it's actually blocking me in my life? So maybe can you explain like with the breath work? What are all of the different types of things that the breath work can help someone with?

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Yes. So I think the best way to think of this is, you know, in four categories: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So physically, I've had people who are fresh out of the surgery or healing from, you know, a broken bone, right? People there, there are many facilitators of breath work that had a tragic car accident and they were paralyzed and you know, regaining spinal nervous system connection. Like it's insane, right? And so through breath work, through breath, yeah. And so, you know, physically there may be that type of imbalance. Another thing that has come through as well. I remember once I was facilitating both, it was both a Reiki and breath work journey. This woman's kidneys started to buzz so intensely that she then went to have it checked and confirmed that it was like an early, early stages of of cancer. It was in the session. I know I'm getting chills thinking about it.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

It like revealed it for her.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Revealed it for her. Wow. Because, you know, in the day-to-day, when you're in autopilot, you may not necessarily be thinking about your posture and how you're feeling, right? Especially, I knew back in my corporate days, like I wasn't listening to the cues of I'm hungry, I need to go to the bathroom, I need water, the most basic things, right? And so when you're in this journey, you get very, very present to the physical. And sometimes it will highlight pains and you know, the left side of the body is the feminine, the right side is the masculine. So often feeling something on the left, what's going on with mom, feeling something on the right, what's going on with dad. Then you open up this. So in the spiritual category, this then opens up ancestral healing.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Right. And sometimes even past life healing. So coming back to so that's physical, right? That's just an example of what can come through mentally, just the ability to dissolve the constructs that are so deeply conditioned in our brains and having the breakthrough and the aha moment and/or the clarity.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

A lot of a lot of clarity comes through after these deep, energetic, and emotional releases. And then emotionally, it's the balancing, it's the clearing, it's the ability to actually channel and connect with the grief and the anger and the sadness that might be lodged in your womb. It might be lodged in your lower back. If you have financial security issues, you might in your lungs, you're feeling the grief, right? In in your liver, you're feeling the anger. So connecting the Chinese medicine to the emotion is stored in the body, where, you know, what this all connects to. And then again, depending on the facilitator where you're at, like this can unlock old childhood memories and and things that need to literally be felt and processed to then be cleared.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Yes. And I'm glad that you brought that up because, you know, I think there's this notion that people are afraid of looking at their shadow and they're afraid to do the inner work. But I always say that the that inner work, the shadow, don't be afraid of your own shadow. It's literally just an experience that you already had. You don't have to relive the experience, but you get to see the experience of what it is, of how it's impacting you now. And you give yourself for what, five minutes, 10 max, the opportunity to feel whatever you didn't process for five minutes. Like give yourself permission to just let it out of you. You cry it out or you scream or whatever way it needs to be expressed. But as soon as you're done expressing it, you get to release it forever. And you don't have to run and hide from these experiences anymore. It's like it doesn't have to run your life. It doesn't have to be your story that you're stuck in and that you're living from and blocked around for the rest of your life. So being able to even tap into that kind of work just as simply through the breath, that is so powerful. Like that is life-changing, I would imagine, for a lot of people. Yeah, no, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

What I have found is there's a fear of feeling. Yes. Fear of opening Pandora's box for some people and not knowing if they can come out of it. And I've heard this multiple times, and often these are the people that are the most, let's say, emotionally constipated and are so on edge and ready to pop off that it's like you need to access that rage and that anger and that expression. Yes. This is really, really important. So yes. Here's here's what I'll share, you know, because it's it's it's it varies, right? So if I'm if I'm in a one-on-one session with with someone virtually, it's usually about 75 minutes that we carve out. And I always love to, you know, look at people's natal charts prior to getting together because that gives me information that I can work with. Um, but we really drop in and you know everyone is coming with uh maybe there's a certain thing that they're moving through that they're processing, and we bring that into the intention. And so we create that sacred space. We drop in meditation, grounding, even before, right? Taking the time to lay out the yoga mat, the pillow, get the eye mask, get cozy, you know, maybe grab some crystals, light a candle, incense, grab tea, right? Like all the things that we do that help us to create that sacred space. Yeah. We jump on, we chit-chat, and then from there you lay down and you have headphones on and you are guided both through my voice and through sound, through the music, into a deeper journey. And every time it's very different. I have a certain flow and structure that I've codified over the years, but it varies with each person and different elements are revealed and again based on what they're going through.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Yes, just yesterday, I was in New York City for our wound wisdom circle that I facilitate with my dear friend Shanti. And that was also about an hour of you know, a guided flow. When we're on retreat, we have a a bit more space and and time, but it's it's a journey, right? It's not it's not 10, 15 minutes. It's we need at least an hour, hour and a half to go through that full cycle, come back out, and then often you need at least like 10 minutes of journaling to write everything down that came up and came through, and all of the messages and the clarity. And yeah, it's it's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. And there's there's a deepening into the soul self, there's a deepening into your true self, and all of the weight of the illusions and and and the disconnect and the stuckness and the stagnation, like all of that shifts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

It's so powerful. And what you're describing is just an opportunity to change your own frequency, to change your own vibration of what you're experiencing. If you're at a point on your path where you're stuck, or you're tired, or you're exhausted, or you know something's out of alignment. You know that you're ready for something else. And maybe you don't know what that is yet. This portal of tapping in through your breath has such a beautiful, it's like an initiation, right? It's such a beautiful way of being able to release something that maybe you've been holding that you don't need to carry, and then have this deeper experience where you can start to awaken to deeper truths. And Stephanie, I know that you do so much more than just breath work. Like you started with Reiki, and then the breath work is this big, huge piece that you do incorporate into your retreats and into pretty much everything that you do. And then you've now taken people even more. So, can you share with me maybe a little bit about your own journey of awakening and opening up and where all of this is leading you and your clients right now?

SPEAKER_02 27:13

Yes, absolutely. So I would love to share that for me, it's been this deeper soul remembrance, my priestess lineage and connection to goddess Isis and the divine feminine goddesses. And so at different points, like Kwan Yin was a a very important figure for me early on when I was learning compassion and softness and how to be more gentle, right? So, so these different goddesses, Kalima, she's huge. She's and and she comes through in in the phases of when we need to burn shit down and we need to destroy and just start anew. And so there are these goddesses that come through for me individually on my healing path, and now in the sessions with clients. Another big evolution for me has been the awakening and the embodiment of my channel. And that's an ongoing journey, and there's there's another level of initiation that I will be stepping into this spring. But what I found to be true is as a light channel and as a divine feminine channel, when someone is in that sacred space with me, they are also, they're not, they're not just clearing, but they're also receiving codes and and higher frequency. And um, it happens a lot where they'll feel the buzzing in their hands. For example, when they're starting to awaken their Reiki or their sin, right? Attuning to Reiki and then eventually potentially facilitating as well. It's it's these divine channels and both connection to the womb and the throat and the heart that starts to awaken. And there's like this whole energetic code exchange that that happens in these spaces as well. But it's incredible. And I've I've found to be true as well is I am an activator, I am a catalyst for change, and I'm not for everybody. Um, I have a lot of dragon energy in my chart, and so it is very much like shape up or shape out, kind of like let's go, you know, your identity work and releasing, releasing it ultimately, but also when you're stepping into being more seen and taking up space, and whether it's in your personal life with family and and romance or in career, in stepping into maybe the healer's path as well, right? So there's so many layers uh that start to unlock. Um and it's amazing. And I'm I'm here for it and I'm ready to expand to a whole new level.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Oh, I love it. I love it so much. And honestly, I haven't shared a whole lot about that part of my journey with people. I recently went through a priestess initiation as well with Goddess Isis, the training that we did last year together to awaken our soul body that was facilitated through Goddess Isis. And but I haven't connected to her like deeply until recently. And, you know, went through my own initiation and embodying the divine feminine is something I've been talking a lot about lately because, you know, there's this duality, and there's the distorted masculine and the distorted feminine and the embodied masculine and the embodied feminine, and what does that really even look like for each of us? And I didn't realize that I was living out of my masculine energy forever. I mean, really, it was so much of trying to control everything, pushing this very pushing energy, making things happen, which you need some of that, obviously, when you're an entrepreneur and I've been running this business for 14 years and had, you know, a decade in corporate before that. Gosh, I'm aging myself, aren't I? Anyway. But, you know, allowing the feminine part of me to rise and to be seen and to be felt and to shift more into this energy of flow and ease and attracting and allowing and intuition has been life-changing, like truly life-changing for me. And I feel that regardless of your gender, we all have both of these energies that exist within us, the masculine and the feminine, which is part of that divine union when it comes together so beautifully to create this energy of pure creation and noticing within ourselves where are we feeling distorted? What is not feeling aligned and what do we need to embody more of? And I think that we live in a society that praises, you know, a lot of masculine structure and a lot of pushing and going and doing and doing and repressing emotion and not really leaning into those more feminine energies of intuition and empathy and emotional intelligence and allowing things to be easy, that it doesn't have to be hard. There's just an awakening that I really feel is happening on the planet right now, where the divine feminine is rising for all of us, for everyone, regardless of gender. It's just bringing balance back in where we were completely out of alignment before. So I love that you're doing this. Oh my gosh, I love that you're doing this. So tell me more. Tell me more. I want to hear more.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

You know, I think everyone goes at their own pace and they're on their own path when it comes to identifying and understanding it. And sometimes we need the labels, we need the the black and white and masculine, feminine. And regardless of your gender and or sexual identity, we all have both qualities within. And there's one essence that is a little bit more expressed than the other, but there's always a wounded expression of it as well as the highest expression to your point. And so something that I would love to offer up for the listeners is where might you be operating out of overfunctioning? Or where are you saying yes when you want to say no? Where in your life are you pushing a rock up a hill and feeling either anger or frustration or bitterness, right? These are all indications that things are out of alignment. And sometimes it's in partnership, sometimes it's in friendship, sometimes it's in your career and or even your environment and where you're living. And so when we start to peel the layers back, you can start to identify and see. And again, often whatever's external, there's there's an internal, right? We got to look within and really feel into like taking accountability and responsibility, which is often the hardest part for people to be like, you know what, that's my shit. And I need to look at it and I need to own it. And how can I because everybody has, you know, parts of us that are that we don't see, that we're not aware of. And this is why it's beautiful to work with, you know, a coach or a healer or within, I would say, a conscious relationship where they can also act as a sacred mirror to highlight, to help you see things that maybe would have taken you months, if not years. And so, anyways, yeah. So coming back to, you know, not just the breath work, but the healing modalities, this is this is what we're doing. And I also want to name, because I think all of us go through this, at some point it can feel like an ongoing project of inner work. And I want to say, yes, it's important and there's a time and a place, but also we are meant to be in joy and to be in the abundance and the love of what it is to be human. We're all learningless, we're all here in this earth school and really going through our own karmic cleanups and aligning with our highest, most expressed timeline. And so as we raise our consciousness, this is what that 5D new earth dimension is that we are starting to embody within ourselves to then ripple out into our communities.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Yeah, that's so powerful and it's so true. It's really about awakening. And I think that that's happening very much on the planet right now. People are awakening to their truth and also recognizing that a lot of the chaos that we're seeing around us is all of the unsustainable structures just falling away because we can no longer be living in illusion. We can't ignore the difficult things that we've pushed under the rug. It's like that's not capable of happening. And it almost feels like all the destruction that's going on right now is to bring us all to kind of like a breaking point so that we can rise, so that we can all rise together. And part of that rising is that awakening within your own self to say, okay, let me mirror the energy of what's happening around the world. So, what within me is unsustainable? What within me needs to fall away right now, or what actually is falling away right now that I'm clinging to? What am I trying to hold on to out of fear, right? That something better isn't coming or whatever. You know, what am I holding on to that I'm not meant to carry anymore? Because we all have so much, these massive boulders that we push up these mountains. And it's like those are things that we were never meant to hold on to. You know, experiences are meant to flow through our lives. Emotions are energy in motion. We're not meant to hold on to them. We're meant to allow things to flow through us and then be free of it. And so when I see destruction and craziness and chaos happening in the world around me, I look at that energy and go, oh, okay, then we're globally in an energy of destruction and chaos. What does that mean for my life? What in my own life am I needing to let go of and release so that I can set myself free? Because when each one of us sets our own self free and we bring awareness into our own stuff and we can let things go and start to awaken, then we rise individually and then we rise collectively. And it changes the world. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Yes. And, you know, something that's coming through that I want to mention to those that identify as a light being, light worker, light leader. There's also an initiation process when we start to embody this more and more, and it can look like speaking your truth at all times. It can be showing up in a different, more intentional way on social media, or maybe not, maybe pulling back, right? But the important thing is that you are needed. You have chosen to do this and to walk this path, and it is not for the faint of hearts. It is not easy. It can feel absolutely awful in some moments. And then once you break through and move through some of those portals, so much opens up and all of the soul-aligned tribe and friends and opportunities. And, you know, I was just sharing with Nicole before we we hit record. I was in Miami and just synchronistically, and actually, her name is Nicole as well. Look at that. A woman approached me because she saw me lift my phone with the Shazam, you know, you're trying to like capture the music. And she came up to me from behind. She's like, I've got, I've got this music. And we clicked right away. And it was like just such a like soul reconnection happening. And so it's if this this way of the magic and the ease and and the synchronicities, and it's not always like that, right? There's always things that we need to go through, but it can be lighter, it can be more joyful, it can be more abundant in all the ways. And another message I want to share is, you know, for for all that is happening on the collective stage, which it is a lot that we're we're in the underbelly of this, of this shadow. Mother Earth is purging, purging, purging.

SPEAKER_01 39:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

It's important to find that balance of what it means for you to be informed and also protect your energy and know when to pull back from all of the, you know, the the fear. And it's a balance. And, you know, not everyone is always going to understand or trust, you know, when you make those choices. But I do feel that it's important, even in those spaces, right, to know your boundaries, know what feels good for you, and and to show up in the ways that you feel you want to, not because it's expected of you from others.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

That's such a powerful message. And I think especially right now, it's really easy to get caught up in all of the chaos and the heart, the heaviness of it all, really. And if you're not careful and you're not intentional and aware of it, that can really start to affect how you're feeling yourself. And you can, especially if you're a sensitive person or an empathetic person, you can start to absorb a lot of those emotions and anger and fear and anxiety. And it can kind of become yours if you're not careful with it. So I'm glad that you brought up that point because it is true. Can you check the news and all of that part of your life midday? Let yourself take it in, let yourself feel whatever needs to be felt. If there's an action that you feel inspired to take, take it. And then when you're done, shake that out of your body. Just shake it off of you and then shift yourself back into your life. Shift yourself back into something positive. I like to look around the room. Oh my gosh, I'm surrounded with so much abundance. What am I grateful for? Raise your vibration back up because being online and arguing with people is it's only going to suck you down and drain your life force. And it's not going to do anything positive for you right now. So just take it in little bits, let yourself go through it, feel it, whatever, and then let that go and come back to your life and ask yourself, what can I do for myself to elevate? And the work that Stephanie is talking about doing, you know, this breath work, the Reiki, the energy healing, tapping into your soul in a deeper way, it's so powerful because it elevates you to become a better version of yourself. And I'll tell you from my own experience that when I do the inner healing work, when I'm willing to like uncover what is this belief system I have, or what is this fear connected into, or why do I feel blocked around this? And I can allow myself to get curious about it. And when I uncover whatever it is, give myself the permission to finally freaking feel it and let it go, I get lighter. Every layer of pain and burden that I release, I get lighter and I get more connected and I get more inspired. I become more me. And that's really what it's about, isn't it, Stephanie? Like becoming more of our authentic truth of who we are. Isn't that the big goal of like what we're trying to do through all of the different channels and modalities and everything that we're doing for these people?

SPEAKER_03 43:01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Absolutely. And I would also add, you know, I find it's two main things. It's being heard and being seen. And it starts with you doing that for yourself before, you know, it can it can ripple out into your relationship with your mother or your father or your partner or friends in the workspace. So it's it's always within and everything you need and is within.

SPEAKER_01 43:30

Yeah, that's so powerful, so beautiful. I love what you're doing. Your magic is so needed, my love. So, Stephanie, tell us. I know you've got an upcoming retreat that you're gonna be leading to Guatemala. Maybe you can share that with us and then also tell us how people can connect with you, follow you, et cetera.

SPEAKER_02 43:48

Yes, thank you so, so much. So the upcoming retreat is called the Triple Moon Goddess Retreat. And this is an eight day womb healing and feminine embodiment. Experience. And so we're working with the maiden, the mother, the wise archetypes within every person, regardless of your physical age and regardless of where you are in menstruation or perimenopause, menopause. We have women 30s, 40s, and 50s joining us. But this is an intimate sacred container. We're going to have 13 women at most. And we're taking you on a journey. And it's a beautiful combination of somatic and energy rituals, ceremonies. We are also connected with a couple of Mayan elders that we bring in specifically for cacao fire ceremony and temascal. And there's just so much that we are connecting with. And of course, the lake. So Lake Katitlan is where it is, which is its own deep portal. Very motherly, very nurturing. And um yeah, we'll be exploring some of the towns. So it's it's a really nice, you know, if you're looking to deepen within, whether it's your first retreat or not, or you know, you're you're deepening into your room healing experience and looking to just really unravel. I think so much of what comes through is also the opportunity for sisterhood and connection and a deeper intimacy in those spaces, which is powerful. It's extremely powerful. There's so much deep medicine there. But what I found is, you know, a lot of these women are really seeing themselves in a deeper way. And there is this deeper layer of self-trust and self-worth that is connected with and felt, right? That's that's the piece of embodiment. It's not just a mental construct or mental idea or notion. It is now who you are. It is now this magnetic radiant essence, right? From your sacral, your sacral fire that we're we're turning up. So yeah, we have two scholarship spots as well. We have some incentives if you'd like to join you and a soul sister. So I can drop you the link and um invite you to, you know, check out the details. I've got an episode on there with my collaborator, Shanti, um, on my podcast, which is the Soul Space by Steph podcast. And we're gonna have Nicole on there very briefly. But yeah, we've also interviewed a few women from our 2025 experience. And so if you feel resonance with me with this experience, please, please apply and we'll jump on Zoom and chit-chat, you know, talk through all the all the things that come up before stepping into a container like this. And um, yeah, we have payment plans to make it accessible. Yeah, that's that's a big baby of ours that's coming through.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

That's so awesome. I love it. Definitely check out her podcast, it's wonderful. So I will share all of the links in the show notes so that you can connect with Steph because she's really just such a beautiful soul, such a special healer. She has so much magic that she's sharing with the world. And I'm so, so grateful for you to come on the show today. So thank you so much for sharing your light.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

Thank you, thank you. My Instagram is my full name, Stephanie Bidema. And on my website, which is soulspace by staff.com, I offer free readings, so more of a space for us to connect one-on-one. And then I've got a couple other containers and ways that I love to work individually with women that are on their path. If you feel resonance, please reach out, say hello, and hopefully we can meet each other.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

Oh, that's so beautiful. And for any of the guys listening, feel free to share that with the beautiful women in your lives as well that might be on a journey to really awakening healing with themselves and rise into their own beautiful light, ease, feminine power within them to live their best expression of life. And at the end of the day, that's really what it's all about, isn't it? So thank you all so much for being here today, for taking the time to listen and join in. I hope you feel inspired. I hope you feel uplifted. Definitely feel free to um connect with stuff. Check out breath work as a new modality for you, and just thank you for allowing us to inspire and guide you. We'll look forward to seeing you next time, beautiful friends. Thank you so much for joining me on Healed with Nicole Mixdorf. If today's episode inspired you, please take a moment to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who's on a healing journey too. And be sure to follow me on Instagram at Nicole Mixdorf for more inspiration, healing tools, and to find out about my programs. Remember, you have the power within you to create a life of balance, vitality, and joy. Until next time, stay grounded, stay open, and stay healed.