E18: LISTENING BEYOND WORDS ft. Sherri Huáng

What if children are communicating far more than words can explain?

In today’s episode we explore the connection between nervous system regulation, intuition, emotional energy, and the deep unseen ways children respond to the world around them. Blending science, spirituality, and real-life experience working with children, this conversation dives into how emotional safety, co-regulation, imagination, and inner healing shape both parent and child wellbeing.

Joined by a speech therapist, energy worker, and healer, Sherri Huang, we discuss mirror neurons, intuitive children, the impact of a parent’s emotional state on the home environment, and why imagination may be more than “pretend” — it may be a form of inner intelligence. We also explore inner child healing for parents, grounding practices for families, and how connection itself can become a pathway to healing.

This episode is for parents, teachers, healers, and anyone curious about raising emotionally aware children while learning to listen more deeply to themselves.

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Disclaimer: For privacy and protection, all children mentioned in this episode are referred to using fictional names or general references. We deeply honor and respect the confidentiality of every child and family we work with.

The views and experiences shared in this episode are personal, spiritual, and educational in nature. We may discuss energy work, consciousness, and wellness practices using symbolic or simplified scientific language. This content is not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for professional healthcare, diagnosis, or treatment. We encourage listeners to use their own discernment and seek support from licensed healthcare professionals when appropriate.

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Sherri Huáng, CCC-SLP, RMT is a multilingual speech-language therapist, clairvoyant reiki master-teacher, and founder of The Holistic SLP®, LLC. She was guided to the field of speech-language pathology at the age of 19 and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh (BA, Communication Science & Linguistics, 2011) and summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA, Speech-Language Pathology, 2013), followed by her clinical fellowship. She has since practiced across a range of medical and school settings.

Sherri studied Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki® with William Rand, founder of the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT). She leads reiki classes of all levels in New England and has conducted thousands of personalized intuitive reiki energywork sessions and channeled readings worldwide.

In her practice, she infuses creativity and the metaphysical along with the clinical for a more comprehensive, whole-soul approach to healing/integration and communication development. She brings heart-centered presence to supporting empaths and deep-sensing individuals from babies to aging adults.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:17

Hello and welcome to Ed Spiritual Tip Kids, a podcast for parents, teachers, and caregivers seeking to support their children's emotional and energetic development. On the show, we'll blend insights from neuroscience, child psychology, and emotional awareness as we explore natural ways to help kids understand their own energy, stay grounded, and enhance creativity and imagination. Don't forget to check out our Twitter channel at SpiritualSense, where we dive a little deeper into the metaphysical, working to build your intuition, connect with spirit guides, the paranormal, energetic killing, and more. Join me at Stacy Piagno, where we work to bridge the gap between the science. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Int Spiritual Synthes Kids. I'm your host, Stacy Piagno. Today I am very excited to have our special guest on, who is similar to me, also works in the school system. She is a speech and language therapist. She also is a Reiki healer. She's an intuitive. And as usual, we are going to really dig into both the science and the spirit today. So everyone, please welcome to the show, Sherry Hong.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Hi, Stacey. Thank you for welcoming me and inviting me into your space, your beautiful community that you've created. It's an honor to be here.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Thanks for coming on. I know you and I are both really busy. It's the end of the school year for us, and you know, we just happened to make this squeeze in. So thank you for coming on. I'm really excited to have you here today. So, Sherry, I would love for you to give us a little bit of background. You know, you and I spoke about how one, you're a language and speech therapist, and you also work in the intuitive world. I would love for you to share a little bit about your work and then how you grew up.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Yeah, I'll start at the beginning. Um, so I had always been intuitive or intuitive in the sense that the average person would say, Oh, you have strong intuition. You know, looking back, I had a totally different understanding of what intuition was compared with now. So as a kid, I would be very much in my inner world, just very observant of other people. And I found my way into the field of speech language pathology through linguistics. So I actually grew up um learning multiple languages. My parents are immigrants from southeastern China, and English is actually my fourth language. Wow. Yeah. So of course, that already shapes a person's worldview. You know, we have different capacities to understand events and experiences based on the languages we're taught and the languages that we're exposed to. So the languages that I grew up with were all from different language families as well. And so I've got that Eastern and then I've got that Western. And in reality, they really merge. They're not separate, they're not opposites, right? So I might have mentioned this to you before as well. I had this upbringing of it's a little bit unusual to people when I explain it, because I went to a Catholic school from kindergarten through third grade. And then I would go home and see Buddha statues and you know the deities. We would talk about Taoism and Confucianism. So the yin and the yang principles, everything is energy, your body is energy, the qi, the life force energy that flows throughout every living system. And I think that's the best word for qi because we don't have a word that's exactly qi in English, right? So the whole thing with the languages and differences like that. Um, so I would have that, and I would remember as a little girl going home. Oh, we didn't go to church service. Oh, we were singing songs about Jesus. And then I'm, you know, connecting with Guan Yin, who is a very prominent, um, she's like a Bodai Sappa from Buddhism and transformed into like a Chinese culture. Right. And so basically, Guan Yin, her name means listener or hearer of cries. So she feels the sorrows. She was on her, she's like a saint, basically. And she's on her way to enlightenment and she hears all the suffering of humanity. So she chooses to stay connected in that way and to guide humanity. So I've worked closely with her as a little girl, but that really helped my intuition develop. Intuition, even being like psychic senses. Um, you know, we talk about dream work and a sense of knowing without knowing how. I used to sketch and draw like crazy in these books, and I would just see these um images of strangers, uh what I understood as strangers as a little girl. And they turned out decades later to be people I would meet. I look back and I'm like with characteristics. I would draw like certain features, and it yeah, it would give me chills. And so at the time, people would think, wait a minute, why are you drawing strangers, people you've never met? Yes, instead of drawing right in front of you, or sorry, drawing what's right in front of you.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

Yeah, you and I have so many similarities because I, well, I mean, I grew up drawing too, and I've mentioned that. But in my later years, you know, when I started learning how to meditate and just kind of being more mindful, of course, my art transferred over. And as my intuition's growing, that was one of the things that I would always do is I would start drawing and I would start receiving faces. And so I totally understand what you're talking about. And I think it's such a beautiful thing that you're able to stay tapped in. And as we're going to mention today, you know, we're going to use it for healing, we're going to use it for balancing ourselves. So I think it's, you have such a beautiful background and very eclectic. And I think that that really helps with everything that you're doing with your life, which it's another purpose of today is, you know, childhood kind of leads us into those things that we're supposed to be working with or incorporating in our life. So I love all of that. Um so, and now you're a speech and language patholicist, or say that word for more.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

No, it's still hard to say. I just say therapist because it sounds so clinical, right? The pathologist.

SPEAKER_03 6:28

Pathologist.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

It sounds so fancy. So yeah, speech language uh therapist, we always go by SLP or SLT as well, speech therapist. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

The medical field, right? With our alphabet soup.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Um it's interesting because when I look back um around four or five years old, I started to stutter. And I would be selectively mute in certain situations, especially at school. And you know, as a girl who's Asian, we were like the only Asian family around, too. This is like a small Midwestern town in the States. And people just thought, oh, she's shy, she's really shy, she's timid, you know, um, she doesn't talk. And it it wasn't unusual. Like people just kind of accepted, like, oh, you're quiet, you're shy. But then I would win every spelling bee, I would win like every contest where I would be in the zone, you know, when it came to certain other situations, you know, people, little kids go through certain experiences or witness certain things that don't really make sense or are um those things are confusing to them. So then I think it comes out as uh barriers or challenges in communication.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Yeah, and that's and that's a great place to start is do you notice that these situations around children? You know, we can talk about like a physical experience that they're going through, and or this is a big question, and or the energy that is around children. What is the relationship between that and speech? Do you notice that affecting speech?

SPEAKER_01 7:57

So I do because in my holistic practice, so I do work in the schools as well as have my private practice where I support kids and adults of all ages more holistically. And from this perspective, I notice a lot of it is in the gut, you know, the gut brain access. I notice the energy and the environment. They pick up on what their parents are going through, even if it's unspoken. So, you know, for from personal experience, I grew up, I picked up such an empath, right? Just soaking up all this pain all around me. And I remember watching myself from that like higher level of consciousness and noticing, wait a minute, this person is really angry, but they're not angry at me. They're they're acting very violent and forceful and aggressive, but I can see the pain behind that, you know. And I'm six years old, you know, I'm looking at that and I can feel their suffering, their pain. You know, um, it wasn't we have a a lot of kids in the family, so four of us, you know, in a small working class family. And my parents were struggling during certain years. And so I think that just really took a toll on their relationship, on the family, on their mental health. And this was the 90s, of course, so that wasn't such a um priority mental health.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's starting to grow a little bit more now. Let's talk about the nervous system. So, what is the nervous system? What does it do for us? How does the nervous system actually start to shape the world around us?

SPEAKER_01 9:24

So I would look at it like there's the central nervous system, and then we might hear sympathetic nervous system. So when we talk about the nervous system, um, it's more gut instincts, uh, all about protecting us, right? I use this example of seeing a bear on a trail, and that's a very physical experience, physical event. So historically, humans evolve from that into social groups. We're not wandering in nature to gather our food anymore. So we might not encounter wild animals and see that physical threat. But this the thing is our brains interpret or experience emotional and social quote-unquote threats as the exact same thing, same energy, same imprint as physical threats, because that's how we've evolved, right? So we're social creatures, social uh beings, and the nervous system is there to help us know okay, is it safe to be in this situation? How do I so fight or flight, right? That comes through. Fight, there's more now. Fight, flight, fawn.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

I can't remember the other one. There's like four F's.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

Like four different levels of four types.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Yeah. So if you're if you're in stress mode or um, you know, those survival instincts kick in. We're not physically in a space where we're probably facing a wild animal like a bear, right? But uh it's the same feeling and the brain doesn't know the difference.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

Yeah, okay. That's what I've been really into. So it's almost like we're our our system, even though there is no bear, as you're saying, when we get stressed, our system is reacting as if we really see a bear. And then internally it's causing all of these imbalances. And then our energy inside is creating how we view the world, how we're actually physically experiencing the world. That tie is so interesting. What would a balanced versus an imbalanced nervous system look like? Like, does that have um does that change us over time if we're constantly in those states?

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Right. So chronic stress and burnout, that's been big in media and our just I feel like the collective awareness. Over time, if we repeat or when we repeat a certain activity or a thought pattern or a belief, it becomes a habit. It becomes part of our identity. So somebody who's really busy and good at navigating crisis after crisis, right? That energy-wise is going to catch up to us at some point because our systems are only designed to hold so much, right? Before we we need to shut down and rest. It's all about balance. So you were asking, how does a well-balanced nervous system look like? I would say somebody who's feeling fulfilled in life, somebody who's flowing, who's not fighting against every little perceived mishap, or, you know, let's say something doesn't go your way, you didn't get the job promotion, or you know, things like that. Your child didn't get placed into the right program that you were advocating for, right? And so then our nervous system goes into fight or flight. Well, I need to fight the bear on the path, right? I need to, I need to treat this as an emergency. And so how we respond with our cortisol levels, the adrenaline, like all those stress hormones, like they go wild.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

Yeah. Would you say that it's fair that if we're not paying attention to our nervous system and we're constantly in that fight or flight, do you would you say it's fair that physical illnesses can appear from that? Is that kind of the trajectory of what happens?

SPEAKER_01 12:57

It's really interesting you say that because in terms of energy work and being a Reiki teacher, Reiki practitioner, I see that every physical illness, disease starts from emotional energy that gets trapped. Because of my intuition, I can see actually what age an adult or parent was when a certain event happened that didn't get fully processed. So, why do we hold on to these imprints, right? Because our mind has moved on. We're not physically in that same five-year-old body anymore. We're not a baby anymore, but that same trauma, that same stress, it stays in our nervous system because I'll throw it out some words like the hippocampus and the amygdala. So our nervous system is designed to help us avoid threats and to keep us safe. So it goes both ways. If we meet someone and we fall in love and they feel really safe and they're consistent, they feel like home, then our nervous system will remember that. That that connection will be imprinted.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

But if we have an experience where we got socially rejected, bullied, anything like that, um, anything that affects our self-worth, even if it wasn't spoken directly to our face. Somebody can think that, and we can, because of mirror neurons, and I'll come back to that later. But mirror neurons, um, there's a lot of research about that and empaths and how that affects the way we navigate stress and take on energy that's not ours. So you think about family dynamics, right? How often do we hear a conflict or know about a fight going on in the family and we don't feel great? And we want to, you know, maybe human instinct is to separate ourselves, but we still carry that. I'll talk about cancer really briefly. So cancer is one of those, uh, I guess, a diagnosis. Cancer is one of those energies that accumulate over time where even if it's subconscious, again, we've moved on from that little inner child, the five-year-old, we're not in that body anymore. But maybe something happened at five years old, like the death of a family member that never got processed. Like, you know, a big shift, a big transition in life that didn't fully get explained. We don't talk about it, right? You don't you don't need to feel bad, you don't need to grieve it. You don't because those are uncomfortable and guilt, shame always goes into it. When we carry guilt, shame, those are really heavy, dense energies. And so we tend to just put a band-aid over it, you know. We go to therapy, maybe. Um, if we have access and we cope, we learn ways to camouflage or get by, right? Healing is hard because healing can be painful to go back into those memories and heal our inner child, you know. Basically providing our inner child with the needs, those emotional needs that did not get met. Not by any fault of other people. I think everybody, even parents, just do our best. And if you have an overrun nervous system or a burnt-out nervous system, you're not going to be able to make thoughtful choices in the present moment. You're going to react, you're going to yell, raise your voice, right? Uh sh slam the door, leave, shut down, all those things to basically preserve, self-preserve.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

Right. And then if we are not taking care of that, here's the episode, then our children start to feel it, and then we don't have a good environment for them. And so the whole push and pull, I really want to make clear for people is we as parents and teachers, we have to make sure that we're doing our work so that one, our children don't feel it and experience it and react to it. And two, so that they don't later on have to go through it, right? I think that that's a that's a big theme. Um let's talk about the mirror neurons, because that's kind of what we're getting into. What are mirror neurons?

SPEAKER_01 16:52

So it's a fancy phrase. Um, if I were to explain it in simple terms, I would say look at it like you're going to imitate or mirror, not mirror like reflect, but mirror like mimic kind of. And this is not conscious, this is not on purpose. Like I'm gonna go into a room, look at a person, and copy everything they're doing, right? This is something that happens subconsciously, like in the background. So mirror neurons help us to navigate our environment. And as children, we're still learning about the world, we're still learning what's safe, what's not safe, how to respond, how to exist, basically. So mirror neurons make it so that we tend to absorb or at least receive information. Maybe that's a better way to put it. Like we receive our system receives information, even if the logic of mind is not involved. You know, like that gut feeling. You just feel something, a vibe around somebody is off, or the room is something a little awkward or weird, right? When you walk into a room, and so mirror neurons help us to respond to that environment, to know what to do, and also to fit in, right? Yeah. Like mirroring somebody's body language, even if it's subconscious, you know, it helps people feel more connected.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

So if a is is so is mirror neurons like let's say, like, let's use an example between a parent and a child. Can you pull an example for that? Like the parent is feeling that let me and let me make sure I understand this. The parent is feeling a certain way and projecting a certain energy, and then the child subconsciously will pick up on that. And then is it that their nervous system is going to mirror or match the parent's nervous system? Is that, am I understanding that?

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

That's powerful.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Yeah, so powerful. And I want to make it clear for our listeners that it's not that parents need to be perfect or bring a clean slate every time because we're still human, we'll we'll experience things and take on things, you know. We're still doing our own healing too. So um, it's not about being perfect, and also if and when our children pick up what we're going through, whether we're parents or teachers, it doesn't mean that it's our fault. So it's not about blaming, it does mean that we have a say in how an interaction unfolds. We have a say in how safely our child feels. Yes, the child may be fed and um nourished in that way, but if we're bringing chronic stress, we're in the room sitting at the dinner table, maybe, and we're on our phones because of it just like trying to dissociate from a stressful day, you know, something happened at work, something happened with family, something happened in the community. Any one of these things and more can really impact how we show up in the present moment. And maybe we're not looking at the child, you know, maybe we're distracted physically. But even if we're interacting with a child and we're smiling and saying, everything's okay, mommy's fine, the child will feel what you're actually stressed about. They won't know why, they won't know that it's not their own. That's something important to note as well, because kids, again, they don't know. They just all of a sudden they feel angry, all of a sudden they feel anxious.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

And it's like, wait a minute. It took me a long time to realize that's not my stuff. This is not the same quality of stress energy or same, like, you know, I've witnessed myself be stressed out or anxious before about certain events. But I remember even me opening up to channel for clients, children or adults, and even families together, I'll feel a different quality come through. I know that it's anxiety intuitively, but it's not my anxiety because it doesn't feel the same way. Does that make sense? It's very subtle.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Have you ever, um, so dealing with this, like when you're working with children or families, have you ever sensed or or or seen a child or another person respond to something that maybe wasn't happening yet and like they can feel the energy? How do you work through that when you're working with this? And do you have any stories about that?

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Yeah, my heart just sank when you mentioned that. So I'm feeling guided to share about this event. And actually it ties right in because you're familiar with that video I shared on Instagram that it's the little six-year-old boy that I was helping who's minimally speaking, diagnosed with autism. And he used to be in the home when I would see him. I would enter the house and I just felt something was off. There was a lot of stress, but it was silent. It wasn't like parents were fighting, nothing like that. It was just kind of dad was in his own inner world. Mom was trying to hold the space, you know, and I felt like something was wrong. Something was really wrong. And I and the the child, as soon as I enter, I can already hear him. Not because of my entrance, but I can already hear him start to kind of escalate and he's in distress. And because he's not speaking yet, you can hear a lot of vowel sounds. And a lot of times children will say like a neutral vowel, uh, right? And they'll just go, uh, and just like make all these sounds with their voice, maybe. And he's pacing around, he's moving things. I can tell that there was just something really just physically, you know. Right. So then I set my toys. Down and I'm tuning in. I connect with the mom and I'm like, Oh, dad's packing. How's everybody doing? And because I'm intuitive, for some reason I was kind of in this position of watching myself go, Did somebody pass away? Is somebody because I felt like something unexpected happened? Is somebody in the hospital? I felt it was something like that. And so his mom basically was, you know, a stepmom, but close enough like a mom. You know, those relationships that don't that aren't limited to labels. Of course, yes. So his mom. And she's in a different country at the time, you know. So he's packing and he's trying to get an overnight flight, and he's gonna be gone for a few days. And I'm telling the little boy, oh, I can sense then I'm just naming it for him because the language therapist comes in and I'm bridging the intuition with what I'm familiar with clinically, like I can still help him make sense of what's going on because I can tell he's scared, he's anxious, he's stressed. Most likely what happened is he also picked up on what happened with his grandmother.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

But how many times do parents think, oh, I'm gonna tell my six-year-old all of this going on and how I'm feeling about it, right? We don't we don't seem to do that. I feel that maybe because of the way we were raised, our parents are trying to, in their way, protect us, right? So if we don't talk about it, it's uncomfortable. How would you explain death and dying to young children? So I was telling the mom, we can explain to him what's going on without giving him details that would probably cause more distress and confusion. So instead of making it about death and dying, we can say, Oh, um, daddy's going to go to Jamaica for a few days, but don't worry, he'll come right back. And you can hear his voice on the phone, and he's going to go on an airplane. You know, so relating it in that way, not dumbing it down, but just giving the basics so that children know, oh, what I'm picking up in my body, I'm restless, I'm scared, I'm nervous, I don't know what's going on, no one's talking.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

You know, it was a very quiet house except for the little boy who's in distress, and no one was telling him what to do.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

No, you know, they were just trying to navigate because the news just came in that morning. Yeah, it was fresh and they didn't cancel on me, you know. So I feel it was really meant to happen that way, and I was there to thankfully support them, um, but giving them that language. And so we did that. The little boy calmed down right away, kissed the daddy goodbye, and we were sitting on the floor while mom was sitting on the couch, uh, just observing, and I'm talking with the mom. All of a sudden, my hands go into like the Reiki channeling position, and I have not even touching him, but just kind of behind his head. And all I did was I intend for Reiki to flow, you know, to for healing, you know. So I'm not like moving anything body work-wise. I'm not verbalizing to him what's going on. I'm gonna put my head here and you're going to relax, nothing like that. It was just an intention, a thought, which thoughts carry energy. Of course. So he immediately within a second started kind of sliding up to my shoulder, my side, and was just hugging me, like almost like holding me, you know.

SPEAKER_03 25:11

Yeah, he can feel that healing energy around you, that support.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Yeah, and just that moment of being present together. Hey, you're safe. Here's what was going on. Here are the words. Daddy's worried, but you don't need to worry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Oh, that's so important for a child. You know, I I agree with you. We don't always think about that. Sometimes, like, the kid can pick up on a lot of imbalances, but we don't think to explain that to them because we're trying to protect them or we're trying to keep them away from it. But by explaining that, I think subconsciously it will allow, especially children, to be able to connect the dots between what they're feeling and what's happening and that get that gives them the security. That's such a beautiful moment.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

So many parents, moms, tell me, oh, I don't want my child to feel me be stressed. I don't want them to see me be angry or sad. I want to always be happy for them. And I get that. I feel like it comes from a really well-intentioned space. At the same time, we are unintentionally depriving the child of a richer emotional vocabulary and context. Okay. So letting them know just, hey, I'm feeling sad about this. Mommy's crying, but it's going to be okay. You don't need to take that on. You know, and we don't have to like emotionally dump on, you know, vent to the child, but just letting them know this is the emotion, this is what's going on, but don't worry, you don't need to take that on. Even those words just help the child feel in their nervous system reassured. Okay, that makes sense. Okay. I can still be safe emotionally. So you can be in households where there's so much tension, no one talks, no one's yelling, no one's arguing, but we don't talk about the emotions, right? And so then that creates a very unpredictable environment for a child.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

Yes. Oh, and you know, and it's so true. And it's because I honestly feel, and you'll maybe agree with me, is we haven't been taught how to talk about our emotions. We're supposed to hide everything. We're supposed to keep going. You know, that's been generationally the right thing to do. And I think science and and everything is catching up to actually the opposite of that. And and I love when you mentioned creating an emotional vocabulary for our children because you're right, they don't know. They are learning. I mean, hey, we're still learning, you know. Okay, so let's get into healing as a parent. We've you've mentioned inner child. I love inner child work. Um, actually, this is perfect timing. We just had an episode come out. It was an older episode from my old channel about the inner child. And it's my opinion that the inner child is quite literally a roadmap for us to find our purpose and or find that balance. But what if your childhood was not healthy? It can be traumatic. And pulling up those old triggers is hard. And why would we want to do it? Especially what we were just talking about. We're not supposed to talk about it. We're not supposed to dig back in. What is the benefit of being able to tap into the inner child? What is the inner child?

SPEAKER_01 28:23

The inner child, I would describe it as part of our essence. Even if we go into soul-level terminology, right? I'm making up words anyway, but like our soul level essence, right? Who were we at four years old? For example, a lot of clients around preschool age, they tend to be really joyful, carefree, dancing around, taking up space unapologetically, because that's how toddlers are, right? Right. And then somebody along the way, because of what we've been talking about, not on purpose to cause harm, usually, that's my belief too, is that adults don't usually try to cause harm, but they kind of, you know, want to stay in their own comfort zone as well. So if a child's being noisy or dancing too extravagantly or playing with their hair in church, right? That kind of thing, then it makes the adults feel very uncomfortable. What will other people think? What will other people say?

unknown 29:25

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Instead of making about the child taking up space. So I often see after around preschool, kindergarten age, definitely around six, seven years old, children tend to shut that part down. You know, if they grow up in that environment where they're told no and don't do that, stop doing that, even being hit, right? So the inner child is not like a separate person, of course, but like this energetic imprint of a part of ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

And what and so the inner child, the inner child who has not been seen now turns into an adult. And then we get into the neuron conversation. You know, if an adult is not healed, usually due to something in their inner child, you know, that creates the imbalance that then your children feel, and it's like this endless cycle. So how can we as adults make sure that we're on the path to healing? Again, there's no such thing as perfect, there's no such thing as happiness all the time. You know, you've mentioned we're supposed to be able to feel all of the things, but how can we do a better job of making sure that we're balanced? And how does that connect with the inner child?

SPEAKER_01 30:34

So, as we know from physics and um this energy work, right? We know that energy does not get destroyed, at least within one system. It doesn't get created or destroyed. We don't just make it vanish, right? So think of it like painful emotions. That's energy, it's not something physical that you can hold outside of the body. And we just end up doing what? We push it down deep, we push it down deep, we don't talk about it. So all of that buildup turns into what we would call the dormant self in Reiki healing. So the dormant self goes even deeper than the shadow self, right? The shadow, we can look at that in psychology as the subconscious mind and um those parts of ourselves that we might feel ashamed of uh because of how we've been uh treated or how we witness those same experiences being treated to some extent. Yeah. But the dormant self is, for example, the teenager who is a rebel, who is outspoken, who is angry, right? Um, the dormant self gets pushed down really deep to the point where we end up attracting situations and people to us that connect with that dormant self. And why? Because we talk about even sorry, I'm kind of going all over the place, but manifestation work, you hear about manifestation, attraction, the law of attraction. It's not just your conscious intentions of, oh, I I attract uh an abundance of wealth and it will happen. And only, you know, love. We have the dormant self that most people don't recognize or don't know that they they still have, right? It's like, wait, I addressed that long ago. How many times do we hear adults say, and this is not judgment, of course, we're human, but adults saying, I already took care of that. We already healed that relationship. My mom and I are good, but there's a lot of stuckness still in the energy. And also anytime we do healing work, there's residue, you know, and then we can even talk about souls and um soul agreements, karmic cycles, past timelines. So it gets pretty layered, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:37

Layers of dormant energy that we're not aware of, nor are we taught how to deal with them. So, how can we get in there? How do we reconnect with those areas? These are real big questions, I know, but what are some steps parents can take? You know, they're listening to this right now and they're like, oh my gosh, do I have dormant energy in me? How can we connect with it in a healthy way?

SPEAKER_01 33:00

I love that question. So my biggest piece of advice to listeners is offer yourself compassion. I think that is the simplest yet hardest to embrace, right? Offer yourself compassion. So this means noticing the thoughts, the moments when we are talking negatively to ourselves. Why did you do that? What's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_03 33:26

Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_01 33:27

That's just your imagination. How many times have we heard that growing up? Right. And then that becomes our identity of, yeah, I'm somebody who can't do things right, or I'm somebody who, you know, all these different limiting beliefs. So there is a part of us that is aware of that, though, right? I always tell my clients, who is it that's watching those thoughts? Who is it that's observing, right? In that moment of awareness is the only time we can truly heal it. So this isn't about going to see an expert or a healer or taking something, you know, or buying something, or a program or a coaching book. It's it's about in those quiet moments where we get triggered and watch ourselves react the way that we have learned how, right? Shutting down, hanging up the phone, um, not talking, you know, avoiding. A lot of it is avoiding. And so knowing in that moment, oh, I don't need to attach to that experience. That belief isn't true. I'm not a bad person, you know.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

Yeah, no, I love that. It starts with awareness. When I first started getting into all the energy side of things, that's kind of how I started in my mind is I started healing by becoming an observer, an observer of myself. And every time I had a frictionous thought, which takes a long time to learn how to, you know, to catch it. But once you start noticing every time you react to something, I think that that's the starting point. And then giving the compassion from there, oh, hold on a second, that thought isn't me, or that reaction wasn't that wasn't me, that wasn't my soul. That reaction was because of XYZ. It was because of these things. And I think, what is your idea on meditating or quiet time? It it, you know, meditation can mean lots of things. Um for me, when I started learning how to just be quiet and just sit with myself, be reflective, that's when I started to understand where those thoughts came and why I was acting that way. So for me, it's like, okay, notice the thoughts, catch them, and then spend time understanding why you have those thoughts. And then what's what's that process like? Is that is that a good kind of starting point?

SPEAKER_01 35:53

That's so beautiful, Stacy, that you had that experience and are able to talk about it, right? So you are able and have been able to stay in that energy of curiosity. And I always tell people, curiosity is an open energy, right? Being curious, you don't have to have all the answers. You don't have to fix it or repair it. It's not about that. You don't have to rewrite it either, right? I like um, I think if we talk about language, I prefer reframe. Yeah. Or um, even just reclaiming it for ourselves, not rewriting. Like we don't have to change it, the past, we don't have to fix it, right? Or give part of our personal power away. But looking at it like, okay, I can choose to stay curious about it. Wait, where is this coming from? I wonder. So I always ask people to notice that shift. I wonder, versus, well, that's just how it is. Yeah, there's a certain energy. I know, of course, my tone changed, but there's a certain energy behind those words too. One's more open and one's just more stuck.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

Perspective is such a tool, isn't it? It's like once, like we're saying, okay, we start to observe, we start to realize how we're responding or how we're thinking. And then when we when we are able to look at those disharmonious experiences, whether they were from childhood, that's kind of what we're getting into now. Um, and then we can see them, and then we can change our perspective. We can retell ourselves the story that happened. You know, we're not we're not covering anything that happened, but we're seeing it in a different way. That's another shift that helped me personally is becoming a master of my perspective, right? It's almost like a muscle. It's a muscle that we can train and it takes time. And I think that's where the compassion comes in is I'm a fixer. Listen, I am a fixer. I want the answers right away and I want it to be solved. But being able to sit in that space where we're not going to get the answers, but we're spending time with ourselves. Um, we're learning how to re-see experiences and take them as turn them into something powerful. That's I'm really big into like the transmutation of energy. Like, how can we, like you mentioned, reframe it, see it differently? Because when we do see it differently, it changes the belief. And when we change the belief, it changes the energy. And then the energy changes the experience and the physical, right? It's like that whole dynamic. That's just the alchemy of it.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

So learning how to do that. So getting back to the inner child now. How can we use our inner child as a tool to steer us? Because you mentioned before, like the inner child in a way, like that's our purest selves because the inner child is our most untainted selves, right? Like we came into this world with this personality. We came into this world so ourselves. And, you know, as we grow, we we get inspired, we want to be like other people. Um, we might be judged, so that shuts us down, and we start to become sculpted sometimes by the outside world. How can we reconnect with our inner child and use it as a tool to reconnect with who we are? Do you have any tips or tricks for that?

SPEAKER_01 39:16

So the authentic self is what we're referring to. You've got the layers of the dormant self, the shadow self, and then the authentic self. That makes it really uh human, 3D, like the levels. They're not quite levels. We kind of just um navigate through them as we are navigating this journey through life.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Um, it gets a little bit, I guess that we're coming through is complicated because we can also look at soul imprints and wounds and how there are fragmented parts of our souls based on tragic events or unprocessed emotional energy from past timelines. Yeah. Right. Um, and it's a spiritual podcast, so I could probably say past lives.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Yeah, we get into it. Yeah, the yeah, I believe it. You know, we've got, you know, past lives, past timelines of this life. If there's so many, even even if you want to get into it, even when we have dreams talking about the nervous system, you know, anything that you're seeing, it could be a dream, it could be a memory, it could be from this life, from a past life. Even if you're not into the past lives, it doesn't matter. It's it's the things that we're thinking. It can be a simple thought. A thought is going to change our nervous system. I think you mentioned in the beginning, the nervous system doesn't know a difference between a thought or a memory or a TV show or something that you're physically going through, right?

SPEAKER_01 40:40

Especially if it has heavy emotional energy, heavy not meaning negative. It could be something like intense love, but it can also be intense guilt and shame. So anything that has an emotional attachment to it, our nervous system will hold on to that. It doesn't go away, it doesn't just disappear once the logic side, the mind moves on.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

Yeah, right. And even within a lineage or within a family, right? Exactly. Okay, talking about the neurons. Let's say that my grandmother went through something. Well, my mother's gonna have that in her system, and then I'm gonna have that in my system. And so, although I do believe that we start to heal more and more, you know, generationally, it's it's all that dormant self that you mentioned that we don't know. And so I want to bring back the inner child. If we can remember the positive inner child that we went through and we can reconnect with that, I kind of feel like that in itself is a medicine. That it keeps it kind of starts to change all of these dense experiences and it helps us reconnect with our joy and and our passion and the things we're good at. And I think doing those things as much as possible when we can be in a state of joy. Well, how do we get in a state of joy? Well, it's going to come from us doing the things that we enjoy. Uh why that's why joy isn't it? How can we, well, how do we know what we enjoy? Well, what are the things that you used to enjoy as a child, right? Can we bring those back into our lives? And I see that that for myself, that starts to heal all of this dormant stuff that we don't know. And and so I just I for me personally, I like to do the things that make me happy as much as possible, reintroduce that into my life. And I know like sometimes parents can be very busy, and and we've had this conversation on the show before. It's like, well, how am I supposed to do all this stuff that I want to do? Because I got to take care of my family. Do you have any good tricks for that?

SPEAKER_01 42:35

That's really important because I feel that um as human beings, again, going back to habits, right, and creating these limiting beliefs, they serve us on a certain level, right? And if we had anything along the way that made us feel our dreams were too big or somebody criticized us or made us feel unworthy in any way, then we're not likely to feel, oh, I don't need to entertain that scarcity or lack mindset, right? It's it's harder to go against the grain. It's harder to um challenge our own perspective from the past. It's harder to say, oh, I notice I don't feel I have enough time. But wait, what if I can work with time? What if I can bend time? What if I connect with my higher self, you know, the and the authentic self within, so spirit and the inner authentic self, connect and say, okay, I trust this experience to unfold how it needs to. I trust that I will have enough time and also take those guided action steps, not just sit and do nothing and say, okay, just give me more time. It's more like, okay, we have to challenge those beliefs because it's going to be hard and say, you know, we're we're in society where it's fast paced, we're um surrounded by technology and fast things, fast experiences. And so I want to tell. Listeners and parents that there's no such thing as not having enough time. So if we were to reframe that, time is completely relative, right? If we are saying we don't have enough time compared to somebody who's, you know, maybe have moments to live, right? What like that's relative. You know what I mean? So if I were to oversimplify that as a joke, I would say time isn't real. Time isn't real. You can bend time. I've gone through phases in my adulthood where I look at it like, okay, I have a really crazy busy day ahead. Please help me, you know, the powers that be consciousness, you know, uh, universe, God, spirit, source, all of this. Um, help me receive more time. I trust, you know, I flow. And so, yeah, just even I want to pause there for a moment. Even that mindset of scarcity, not having enough time, not having enough of anything, whether it's physical or not, that can also be inherited energetically, right? Because think about the nervous system being so focused on survival. And you talk about ancestors who have had to be in physical situations that were probably not safe. And, you know, people risking their lives to save the next generations, like that kind of thing. If they didn't um survive, we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be able to talk about these things and you know, navigate into higher levels of consciousness. It's all because they were able to physically survive and emotionally too. So being able to honor the past, being able to honor where we come from while knowing we don't have to be stuck in that same loop. We have a say in how it goes. If I wake up thinking, oh no, I'm out of time or I'm running out of time, I have a say in checking that, right? I can look at it like, wait, where is that fear coming from? Okay. Let me take a deep breath. Breath work is huge. I feel like grounding into the body is huge for parents. And parents, you know, what happens when we are running around and taking care of scheduling and uh, you know, responsibilities.

SPEAKER_02 46:11

Yeah. Keeping our families alive.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Yeah. And and forget to breathe. Yeah, we forget to breathe. And breathing creates presence. And that's one thing I've spoken about in the past is presence for me expands time. When we can become present, but how do we do that? It starts with the awareness that we were talking about. I feel like awareness is is the underlying fix for a lot of things. And it's hard because it takes we have to practice that, right? Um, and then you mentioned trust. Trust and reframing, that those are so big for me. You know, becoming a master of the mind starts with the awareness. I love to hold the belief that life works for us. And I've talked a little bit a little bit about that in the past. But if we can trust and truly believe life is always working for us, it helps us stay in flow, which helps us stay balanced and it helps us do all of these things that we're talking about. And then on top of that, I want to get into creativity and intuition, being creative with how we spend our time and making it all work for us. I think that there's something to that. And I I want to get into like the dynamic between creativity and intuition. Um help me link it here. But you know, for you, how does creativity and intuition connect? How can we use those two things as tools?

SPEAKER_01 47:40

So, what I want to bring up just briefly is the chakra system. So chakras coming from the Sanskrit word meaning the energy wheels, right? And we talk about this concept in yoga and meditation. So if we look at the seven main chakras aligned with the kundalini energy, they're like the rainbow colors by design, but we look at the root or the base chakra, and this is usually connected with the color red and um grounding healing in that way by being in the physical body, shelter, food, nourishment, water, money, financial stability. Okay, just feeling secure. If we are stuck in that or trying to heal that part of ourselves, if we're stuck in survival mode, in other words, we're not as easily going to be able to access creativity because creativity, intuition, a lot of that lives in the second chakra, the sacral chakra that's more connected with reproductive organs. And so it's not like left brain versus right brain at all. It's one system, right? But if we look at it from an energy perspective, we cannot ascend and grow and evolve if we are just trying to get food on the table. So if we'll look at countries who are in war right now, yeah, you know, they're they don't have that ability right now. They don't have that space to. I mean, yes, they can still be aware and heal in that way, but they don't have that space to go um connect with their intuition and heal other people.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

They're just worried about how do I get through this hour or yeah, you really I I've I've I've sensed that too, is like, you know, if your foundation is not secure, if you're if you don't feel secure with your foundation, how are we going to connect with intuition and guide and heal? So what are some steps that that we can do? You know, okay, we're not feeling secure. Let's, you know, finances are are tough right now. I'm struggling to provide. What can people in that situation do to feel more balanced, to then tap into the intuition for more help and more guidance?

SPEAKER_01 49:49

Absolutely, absolutely. So we can say, like we've been talking about um the intention, the curiosity, the awareness. Well, that's all wonderful and all, but how do we actually make the like what are some tangible items, tangible steps that can be taken? Because we do live in this three-dimensional world after all. You know, so I love um stomping, grounding, taking a moment outside, you know. I think um it's all perspective when we say, I don't have time to go for a walk. Yeah. It's all perspective. Time yourself five minutes, give yourself even just two minutes to ground. And that's how I got started in meditation was just a little bit at a time because if you try to sit for six hours, like it's just not your brain is just gonna be like, I can't conceptualize this.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 50:36

Go for a walk, go to the gym, you know? I'm already in chronic burnout, chronic stress. So we can even take a step back further and say stress is really resistance, you know. Maybe life is working out for us. Maybe our child isn't supposed to go to that program that didn't work out, you know, maybe there's something even better. Yes. What if? So asking ourselves, what if? What if I take five minutes, invest in myself, not spend it and give it away, but perspective, right? With the language, there's so much we can do. What if instead of going to the drive-thru for fast food, what if I, you know, go to the store and pick up something that's uh whole and uh wholesome and nourishing, you know, about process processed foods?

SPEAKER_03 51:20

Yeah, no, it's such good advice. Yeah. What if reframing, how can we reframe? And that's that's what I was trying to say earlier. That's where the creativity piece comes in. How can we use um how can we reframe things positively? I hate that word positive because everyone says it, but just follow, right? So how can we shape something in a positive way versus, you know, survival can sometimes hold a lot of energy. That's dense. Um but getting out of the mind. You know, I think that all disharmony stems from the mind. Stress stems from the mind, right? All of these imbalances, all of the stuff that we're carrying within the nervous system that doesn't help us. It stems from the mind and from perspective. So, how can we heal the perspective to then heal the nervous system so that we can receive going outside, working out really it's kind of interesting the like the duality, like getting out of the mind, we want to get into the body. So, how can I pay more attention? Paying more attention to the physical body actually helps us become more spiritual. That's a trick I've had to learn. It feels opposite. But yeah, going outside, you know, there's so much science with that. I've talked about it a lot. The ions that we've received, but giving space to the mind. I know when I was younger, especially through school, I would I was a stressor. When I would stress about something, I felt like it was gonna make me feel better because the more I stressed and the more I thought about my checklist, I thought I would be more on top of it, which would give me the security. But in reality, I'm just replaying all the things that I don't want to worry about. So what happens? I end up worrying about them. And then my nervous system is trying to keep up and I'm so tense and I'm so stressed. And to be honest, as a child, I had a lot of fits. Like I would be, I would have a lot of tantrums, not at school. It was very much at home with my parents where I felt safe. And I had a great childhood, but I had to learn even through high school and stuff. I overworked myself. I was so living in that productive state. And I would just cry a lot and I would break down a lot. And I know that there's parents who are going through that. You just break down and break down and you're stressed, and and you think replaying that mental list of all the things that you have to do, that that's one of the examples. You know, you think like that's going to make you feel more on top of it, but it doesn't. You're actually making it worse. Something I, a little talk I've had to have with myself was like, Stacey, I trust myself. Like I, well, you know, I'm a planner, I'm a teacher, I'm a doer, I'm productive. I feel like there's a lot of people like that who are listening. You know, I had to kind of reteach myself, Stacy, trust yourself. You're always on top of it. Why do you have to stress about being on top of it? You're gonna be on top of it. Let it go. And that is so hard to do. And it takes practice. But again, I'm rambling, but that's where we get back into paying attention to the I've used this term before. I got it from a book, not for me, the mini-movie. Pay attention to the mini movies so that we can catch them and dismiss them. I like to write things down on paper. If I write it down on paper, that means I can let it go in my mind. That's a trick I do. But yeah, just don't feel like you have to keep re-staying on top of everything. Go outside and let your mind go. Let the mind go. And then here, I'm getting, I'm starting to channel here. Get into the inner child. Okay, how well, how do we let things go? What did you like to do as a child? Well, me personally, I liked to draw. I like to be outside. Okay, so now as an adult, hey, I haven't pulled out that sketchbook in 10 years. Let me pull it out. Let me start doodling, let me start drawing. Because it's actually releasing a lot of stuff too when we do those things we liked. So yeah, that was my little tangent. But I feel like noticing what we're thinking about is the start to fixing all of this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:23

And not having to attach to it. Because having compassion for that side of us helps it to start quieting down, right? And like you mentioned, we don't want to go into toxic positivity or bypass. But looking at it like your brain, your mind already knows it has the evidence. Like Stacy, you've navigated something difficult before, you know, you've crushed it before. Like, look at here's the evidence. So um stressing and looping, I feel like that is just what the mind is wired to do. It's wired to help us by problem solving, and that keeps us safe because we're doing something, even though the energy of it is looping, it's stuck. The energy is stuck. It's like the third eye making decisions. It's stuck, it's not flowing and connecting with the other energy centers, right? Our aura is probably really congested, right? So I love working with the elements for extra grounding. Water can be so healing. Just that intention is going to help as it is.

SPEAKER_03 56:23

Yeah, intention holds so much power. Intention directs the energy, right? Okay, so we're starting to heal. Now we're feeling more grounded. Let's talk about how imagination plays in with our intuition.

SPEAKER_01 56:35

Um, I love this question.

SPEAKER_03 56:38

Sorry, you didn't even ask it yet. Oh, you know it. This is now now let's get into the fun stuff. Okay, we're healing. We're we're we're we're being easy on ourselves, we're giving ourselves grace. How can we start to use the imagination and or the intuition to receive guidance? Because I feel like people downplay that. Oh, it's your imagination. No, how can we listen to the imagination? Hold on, what are we sensing all the time? What's that like for you?

SPEAKER_01 57:04

And I did my seat because this was the key to everything for me. I know that sounds cliche to say, but it really was because I would always hold this phrase, just your imagination as a kid. Again, people knew I was intuitive to a certain degree, right? But I would tell my parents about intense dreams and nightmares that I would have and like things that would happen later on. I knew I didn't cause them, but there was a way almost like I was in, I don't know, like an observer's seat and I was watching something play out. And then I hear about it at school or a friend tells me, or it's on the news, things like that, right? Almost like premonition. So my parents would be like, that's crazy. That doesn't make sense. It's just your imagination, you know, like that kind of thing. And they're not trying to hurt us when they do that. Um, and even for the parents listening, we are not trying to hurt our children when we go there because listen, that's what we've heard. That's the narrative. It must be imagination. And so here's what where the turning point was for me is hey Sherry, your imagination is your intuition. Yes. Yay! Showing up. I mean, it was so simple, but showing up, letting the mind wander, letting yourself daydream. How beautiful, giving yourself permission to go beyond limits, right? To imagine and get out, not like dissociate, you know, not that kind of thing, but to explore because we do have access to infinite consciousness. We have the ability to uh tune in to that well, or radio frequency, if you want to call it that, right? Um, but imagination is the key to intuition, and to develop our intuition is to trust ourselves when we have those moments. Then we get verification, maybe we share about it, and then the people around us don't dismiss it or say you're crazy, right? Maybe they go, wait a minute, that's true. Right?

unknown 58:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:00

I will be parents. Here's a little story I wanted to add in. I um met this little girl who's very intuitive, not really speaking much when I met her around four years old. And immediately when I uh go into the session, I can sense her. So it would be her great-grandparents, but the mom's grandparents. And I could just sense just the energy, like I just knew the words maternal grandpa and grandma. I just knew that I could feel how loving and present they were, just holding the space. And the mom with her mom, the three of them are in the room with me, and then I sense these spiritual beings coming through with love. And I just mentioned it, you know, speech therapy session. And I'm like, hey, by the way, have you connected with your great grandma? I feel your your granddaddy and your grandma. I don't know why I called it that, but you know, those are the terms coming through, and she goes, Yeah, I was really close to them. And they passed, um, I think her grandmother must have passed around the same time her daughter was born, like within days. Okay. Okay. And she tells me the daughter, before she could talk, before she could barely walk, even, you know, like certain milestones, she would look at pictures of the great-grandparents and she would say their names. Yep. No reason, no logical explanation, right? But it tells you there's something deeper going on here. And I reassured her without even thinking, I didn't know how I knew. I was like, yep, they were on the other side guiding her here, they were helping her. There was a big celebration and all this. And yeah, you know, I feel like this happens a lot in the spiritual realms where loved ones, there are no boundaries, like there are no, oh, I haven't met you in in physical life.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:46

So but there's a whole nother world running on that's that we're just now learning how to tap into. And what if we could always tap into that and use it for guidance, for help, for healing? Well, it starts with listening, right? Listening to what are you daydreaming about? That, like, I I love that you're you're you're what you daydream, that is your intuition, the imagination. What you imagine is your intuition. But we have to learn how to to to trust it and to believe it. And I think that's so beautiful. Oh, so next week is our season finale, and this is exactly the conversation. I love that you shared that story, because kids are so in tune, right? They don't have the limits that we have. Do you think children can come in to heal a family? Like, I I think sometimes, you know, children are born into our family to help us with things that we're going through. And even it's kind of two different conversations here, but even something like that. If we can listen to our in to our children more often, they are going to, they're so connected with their intuition. It's just, it's such guidance that we can receive if we're open to it. Do you think that children come in to heal families?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:07

Heal families. So I view from my work, I view children as pure light, right? We all are pure light at our core. And I feel like that goes against organized religion in a lot of ways. Like we're we're born a certain way, but I look at it like children are so connected to spirit, especially babies coming through because they were just on the other side, you know, in spirit. And so um children are able to see the world in a way that doesn't have those biases yet, right? They didn't learn, oh, if I say that, then the kids will laugh at me. Oh, if I say that, then I will be rejected or alone or you know, feeling ashamed, right? They haven't learned that yet. So, especially around like toddler age, I love that age a lot. I feel like they just say things that you're like, wait, what that is so true.

unknown 1:02:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:58

And they they heal families by just being that mirror. So I know we talked about mirror neurons earlier, but it also goes both ways. Where, you know, even as the parent, the teacher, the healer, we can go into a room and we can intend to hold that frequency to transform any negativity or I don't want to say negativity, but dense energy. Okay, denseness, stress, worry, fear, a lot of fear in our environments these days. So again, not toxic posity, but just grounded presence, right? Entering a space, tuning into our inner light. And that's how I can help people navigate through really tragic past life memories, because I know just somehow growing up, I just knew I'm surrounded by this light. There's just it's just fact for me. And I think that helped my framework because I I can easily see somebody who's an open channeler and they're coming in with fear, right? Because they learned that it's not safe to connect to the other side. And so everything's kind of tainted now, right? So knowing you're safe.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:02

And if only we could all understand and trust that we are all light and we are all surrounded by light, even if we might have had very dark experiences. I'm a big believer that is part of your power. Those negative experiences, those harsh triggers, that, if we can look at it, turns into our power. And so I believe it, you know, that's part of the purpose is those people who are going through really dark things, it happens. It's true. There's just as much dark as light. It's the duality that keeps it both alive. But if we can understand, well, that's here for my benefit. That's part of the whole understanding that life is always working for us. Well, those dark things, that those dense things, feelings, thoughts, experiences, hold on a second. Let me see that as part of my power, because that's really training me to become who all I am capable of becoming. And oh, I am light. And oh, I do need to see this a different way. How can I change the relationship between this? And then we re-establish that understanding that we are light and we are surrounded by light. And uh, and I think as we're going through this process and as we're healing, asking for help is another big one. And that's even getting into the organized religion. How many times have you heard, you know, ask, ask, and you shall receive? That's what it's teaching. So let's ask, allow our intuition to open so that we can receive, listen to the imagination as we ask. What are the coincidences happening in our lives? What are my children coming up to tell me? Right? How can we slow down? All that good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:40

Slowing down. Yeah, that's a big one, right? Slowing down allows us to be more in the present moment. It allows us to like bend time, so to speak, right? We are able to really savor. And if you think about it, I'll give an example of going to see a beautiful sunset, an ocean beach sunset, you know. And it there's something that just feels so magical about it. And doesn't it feel like time freezes? Right? It just stands still. I was channeling really quickly recently to somebody who received a cancer diagnosis and I didn't know where the cancer was. You know, I knew in general what type of cancer, but I didn't know the placement with a tumor, their pain, anything like that. So I'm going around their body and I find this spot on their shoulder just intuitively. And I'm closing my eyes and tuning in. All of a sudden it feels like hours go by. And it feels like I'm in this really expansive space, somewhere really otherworldly. And they can feel it. They were able to check in with me after the session where we both had our eyes closed. And they said, Wow, when you had my hands on my shoulder, I could feel and see this light reverberating and just coming in. And I could feel it was so heavenly. And that's not from me. I'm not giving them something they don't have. I'm just helping them to remember.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:02

That light also lives within you. You know how people say Namaste? No, it's like a maybe it's yeah, it's like over.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:08

It's become commercialized, but it has a root.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:10

It has a root. Like the light within me sees the light within you. Because we are light.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:16

And how can we learn to listen? That's the whole intuitive side is listening beyond the words. How can we listen to the body? Even the fact that your client was able to feel that light, it's because they're in a state of presence, in a state of calm to be able to receive, right? Um, what would you say would be some good habits? How can how can we, as parents, as adults now, we're busy, we're crazy. What are some good habits that we can maybe add into our routine to help us get in this state more often?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:47

I'll recommend a resource. It's called The Artist's Way. It's the Artist Apostrophe S by Julia Cameron. She was a director, I believe, in the 70s. And it some of the parts are a little outdated, but it helped me as I was navigating deeper intuitive abilities and channeling, which I later realized was inherited because it was, again, something that my family didn't talk about. Yeah, you know, until um certain events happened, and I was like, wait a minute, and going full circle, it all makes sense. So anyway, I I was doing this book and it talks about morning pages. You can also add in evening pages. So morning pages is just a beautiful romanticized way to look at it. Like, okay, before I do anything, look at my phone. I wake up, I'm still in theta state, right? Of brain waves, and I'm just free writing three pages, right? Free writing, not editing, not really thinking it through. So it's a different kind of writing. It's an allowing, it's a flowing, right? It's coming from that more um divine feminine energy. We all have both masculine and feminine energies, but it's more that sense of just listening. And so even at the end of the day, I might do my evening pages, do the free writing, but I'll also write down any signs and synchronicities I received. Maybe I was thinking about this. It's kind of funny. So I would be thinking or catching myself thinking about somebody. I'll focus on the car in front of me. The license plate will be that person's birthday.

unknown 1:09:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

Um, even as a Ricky teacher, these kinds of funny things happen. And then the literal next car that pulls in front of me is that person's name.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:21

That is so funny. I've had this happen multiple times with the same person. And the second time, same thing, their birthday. Like no other numbers, nothing else.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:29

Okay, just their birthday.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:31

Literally their birthday.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:32

And then it'll be like their name spelled with an emphasis on the last letter.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:35

Like, there's just something so uncanny about that. And you're like, okay, fine, universe, I'm listening. What do you need me to know? There you go. I surrender, I trust.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:44

Yes, okay. Coincidences. I love talking about this. This is like the language of spirit is when we have these coincidences, I see them as direct communication from the spirit side, from energetic side. And you know, we we deem coincidences to just be something that happens. No, I love what you said. When you see a coincidence, stop and say, okay, spirit, what do you have for me? Or okay, what is this supposed to be teaching me? What is this showing me? What's the communication right now? And I think that the more we do that, this is how we receive guidance. Okay, you're asking whoever you pray to, who whatever your belief is, when you ask for help, when you ask to receive, okay, well, pay attention to the coincidences. That is, that's the magic. And start writing them down. Because I think that that's one of the turning points was when when I started writing things down, I realized, wow, this happens all the time. And then you start looking for them. And that's getting into the manifestation. As you start to look for these things, you see them. And then you receive more and more. And then you're you're creating a world where you're constantly receiving more and more. And that's the intuition speaking. That's the the guides, the ancestors, Jesus God, the angels, whoever nature, right? It's all inclusive. It's all here to help us. And so I love that that, yeah, you want to pay attention to the coincidences because there's always messages there for us. And then, and I love that your morning and evening pages, I love to write too. And listeners, you might be surprised if you start writing and just getting in that flow state. You mentioned theta. We're gonna talk about theta, uh, or maybe we already did on one of these episodes when we the dream work. There's a dream work episode where we talk about being in the theta state. That's how we receive because our mental side is shut down. And that's what we want. You know, talk about left-right brain, masculine, feminine, left-right brain, shutting down the mental side allows the feminine side, which is the intuitive side, to open up so that we can receive. And when we start writing and getting things out with no judgment, with no rules, that's that's how I started learning that I channel all the time. I I connect with my guides and I'm writing and I'm channeling. And then as I'm reading it back, I'm like, wow, Stacey, what beautiful advice I've just gotten from myself, from my higher self, from my guides angels, whoever you're connecting with. And it it empowers you and you think, wow, I don't, you know, I have everything I need within me. I just needed to calm down and spend some time with no structure, with no distraction. Yeah, no distraction. And so I love the writing, the free write. Start writing. I've uh actually I heard this one time. A beautiful way to get into get into the fate of state when you're writing. I've had people just start like drawing um squiggles over and over and over, and then slowly they'll start turning into writing. Or maybe you can start like writing a song over and over and over, or just start writing a word over and over and over. And then all of a sudden you kind of start zoning out, right? That's that purposeful daydream, which turns into a med meditation, right? Being in a meditative state is getting into the feta state, as far as I've learned. And so I wouldn't be surprised, listeners, if you start writing that, you know, you will start receiving information and it's all beautiful and it's all healthy and it's all safe. And you hold that intention because it's it is it's safe, it's healthy, it's it's it's guidance and it's love. And you know, you become love, you connect to love. And I think there's so much here that we're just now starting to tap into as a society. There's so much hope and guidance and love around us. And so, yeah. So the what the question was uh adding things into our routine. So getting in a routine. Yeah, the morning and evening writing.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:34

Stack it, you know, stack the activity with something that you already do. Maybe you're having your morning coffee or tea or smoothie, you know, whatever you're doing in the morning that's consistent. Um, that quiet time. Don't give up your quiet time. That's something I want to emphasize to parents too, is don't give up that quiet time because that needs to be a priority. You need to be grounded and, you know, good. You need to be present, taking care of yourself. That's what I'm trying to say. If you don't take care of yourself, right? It's not about sacrificing and prioritizing other people. You don't have anything to give. You're going to be actually fueling subconscious resentment, probably. You need to get into those denser layers of guilt and despair. And those are a lot of the driving forces of why we start to shut down from spirit because of the fear and the guilt and the despair, feeling unworthy, right? When we look at organized religion and all the world's spiritual paths, in the metaphysical space, they're all working together. Yeah. I'll regularly see Jesus and yogis together, and I'm like, wait, what? My human side would also start to understand this because of my upbringing, right? From the um diverse cultures, but also it makes sense because there is no label or limitation in spirit. It's not something that is like in our world where it's not negative, but just dense. You know, it's yeah, everything is physical, solid, right? They can move more freely in in the other realm.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:58

Yeah, and we need some of that too. Like I love getting into the whole like the logical side of the mind. We want things to be compartmentalized. We want it to be this lane and this lane because it helps us understand. And as you mentioned in the beginning of the show, it's a survival mechanism because we are physical humans and we need that logic. We need the separation, but we also have to catch ourselves if we fall too much into the separation, too much into the lanes, too much into the judgment. It stops us from being able to be open and be in flow and receive. So that's a balance that we have to learn how to do living here in this earthly plane.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:36

That's such a beautifully um articulated way of describing that.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:41

Yeah. But that's one thing. Yeah. Um, but the whole point of that was that's one thing that I wish parents would understand. And that was gonna be my one of my questions for you is what is one thing that you wish every parent understood about children and energy? I was gonna say it's that having the quiet time or taking care of yourself. We talk about it a lot. I've talked about it before, but are we doing it? Are we actually taking care of ourselves just as much as we're taking care of our children? Is there anything else that you wish parents knew just right now?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:14

There is one. I kind of want to do a play on words. I I didn't come up with it. I'm sure somebody already said this before, but it's so in terms of energy, intuition, even children's abilities to be telepathic and know things and feel things before or without them being spoken. Um you know that phrase, I'll believe it when I see it.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:35

Yes, I believe it when I see it.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:37

I'll believe it when I see it, right? Because that's the human side. Yeah. So I will invite parents to look at that and reframe into I will see it when I believe it, right? I'll say it one more time because I'm dramatic like that. Set the stage, the lights are on. My one piece of advice for parents, if nothing else, is instead of I will believe it when I see it, reframe that into I will see it when I believe it. I will see it when I believe it. So that takes away all the biases and it keeps us in that energy, like we talked about earlier, of curiosity and openness. That's where we grow. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:23

Last question for you What gives you hope about this next generation of children?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:28

You know what? I love that question because I would love to turn it back to parents and say the parenting style now and the awareness, the access, this conversation about resources for our generation of parents, I feel like that's what gives me hope, right? Because we are raising the next generations of children in a very different way that compared with um when there was literal scarcity mindset because it was witnessed in front of you, you know, food being taken away, food being restricted, the industrial age, like all this lack and not having enough and not being able to see one or both parents regularly. You know, I feel like our generation of parents have really awakened for lack of a better word to how to parent with intention. This isn't just about gentle parenting, but how to parent with intention because now parents are reparenting themselves and healing their inner child. And I see this more and more where children are responding to that. Children have more freedom to play and more creative educational environments, right? We still have a ways to go as a society, but I see it moving in the right direction. And we're not alone. You know, we have guides and healers and helpers and spirit always guiding us when we are open to that. Of course, they cannot interfere. That's the thing. Right. But when we are open to it, so again, when we believe it, when we we kind of just notice our inner skeptic, because I used to be a skeptic and I was like, very, very much. I had to be concrete, it had to be like the the list writing, the being in control, right? Stressing, worrying. And then I realized, wait, I'm resisting what life is giving me.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:20

Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah. I think being more open to creativity and intuition and balance is is the way we're headed. And I think that it's exciting to see. It's exciting to be a part of. I I know people sometimes get stuck in in, you know, the drama of the media and the world and all the collective things, but you know, there's a purpose to it. It's I I love the the play on the body and the collective. You know, there's a lot of dense negative stuff coming up right now, especially if you're online and this and that. But that's okay. That's that's how we heal. We bring up all the icky. We heal it. And then it it in return, it's really helping us become more balanced, right? There's always the pendulum, we're going this way, and then no, it's this way, and no, it's this way. And and I see us kind of coming to the middle now. How can we have both? The answer is always both. It's the masculine and the feminine, it's the intuition and the technology, and and it's it's gonna be exciting to see where we go with technology. Um, and one thing I wanted to say too is with that whole conversation of there's a lot of stuff going on now that doesn't seem healthy, there's a lot of stuff that is healthy going on too. And I think that we as visionaries and and as part of our future, it's important for us to hold that space and hold that um intention that we are moving in a positive direction. I really do believe that. And uh not having the fear-based mindset moving forward. And I think our children are coming in so open, so connected, and um they're gonna hold that positive vision and be that positivity for our future. They're gonna be the balance of all of this for our future. And so um, yeah, I think we're we're in a beautiful time and we're really gonna start to see some big shifts in our future for in a good way.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:07

Absolutely. I have a lot of hope, and I feel like it's grounded, you know, because just choosing what thoughts we entertain, choosing what in the news we grow, we can feed that fear-based mindset. Or we can look at it like, wait, this is being shown to us, but what else is happening? Yeah, what what else is beautiful? Babies are being born every day, right? People are falling in love, coming together, healing generations, things like that happen every day. Also, miracles are not elusive and far away. Yeah, so when we um believe it, we will see it.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:46

When we believe it, we see it. Yes, I love that. I so love that. All right, Sherry, where can people find you and find all your work?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:54

I am at the holisticslp.com. So Holistic SLP, like we talked about with the acronym for speech language pathology. And I am mostly on Instagram at the Holistic SLP. Yeah, people want to connect. I do one-on-one channeling sessions. I offer holistic speech and language therapy across the lifespan. I run roundtable groups. I call them tea time, where it's like empaths, parents, practitioners get together once a month, at least for now, just once a month. And we just talk, we talk about things like this the science, the intuition, the bridging, holding heart space, meditating, meditation, sorry, meditation, shared meditation.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:34

Yeah. Oh, that's beautiful. I gotta look into that. And I will place all of your links down below in the show notes today. Sherry, I want to thank you so much for coming on and talking about all of this. We got a lot of science. We talked a lot about intuition. Those are my favorite things, as I believe they are yours too. So just thank you so much for coming on and in this busy season for us both. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:58

It's a pleasure. Thank you for having me. It's been really fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:01

Yeah, and thanks for all the work that you're doing as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:04

Me too. Yes. Thanks.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:06

All right, guys. Well, that's all we have for today. If you enjoyed this episode, I hope you use it to inspire those around you. And I'll see you next week on In a Spiritual Sense Kids. For those looking to connect further, please feel free to send emails to info at in a spiritual sense.com or hit me up on Instagram where you can find weekly inspiration and updates. I look forward to connecting with you.