High Vibration Living with Chef Whitney Aronoff
Chef Whitney Aronoff is a Health Supportive Chef, entrepreneur, and podcast host based in Laguna Beach, California. She is the Founder of Team Starseed Kitchen, a personal chef and custom meal-prep company offering nourishing, chef-prepared meals, and the Founder of Starseed Kitchen, an organic spice-blend company rooted in whole-food healing and flavor.
Deeply involved in the farm-to-table and regenerative agriculture community, Whitney believes that food is the foundation of good health, but that true nourishment goes beyond what’s on the plate. Her work bridges food, consciousness, and lifestyle, honoring the physical body while also supporting emotional and spiritual well-being.
As the host of the High Vibration Living Podcast, Whitney explores what it truly means to be nourished in modern life. Through thoughtful conversations with experts in food, wellness, healing, spirituality, and personal growth, the podcast is designed to support listeners in nourishing their physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies—and in creating a life that feels aligned, vibrant, and fulfilling.
High Vibration Living with Chef Whitney Aronoff
Into the Void & Back: Alyson Charles Storey on Her Spiritual Evolution
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Alyson Charles Storey is an internationally respected oracle, bestselling author, and spiritual transmission teacher whose work has reached millions worldwide. Named a top voice in spirituality by outlets like Forbes, who call her a “full-fledged guide into your psyche,” Alyson is known for bridging authentic Divine connection with real-world embodiment, helping people access their wisdom, align with their calling, and be at one with life with clarity, love and sovereignty.
Alyson’s shamanic education book and deck, Animal Power, were both #1 new releases and bestsellers, and as a speaker and leader, Alyson has guided journeys and imparted wisdom in collaboration with high profile media outlets HBO, The NY Times, ABC radio, Nat Geo, Gaia tv, ELLE, Marie Claire, Dazed, NYLON, POPSUGAR and many others.
Her journey as a national champion athlete to television and radio host, into her calling as an oracle were catalyzed by a life-altering awakening, and today she stands at the forefront of modern spirituality—bringing depth, integrity, humanness and transformation to audiences around the world.
In This Episode, Whitney Explores:
- Alyson Charles shares her powerful spiritual awakening journey and the divine interventions that transformed her life path.
- A conversation on trusting divine guidance, honoring intuition, and embracing divine timing through every season of life.
- Alyson opens up about humility, vulnerability, and the importance of embracing the full human experience during spiritual growth.
- Practical tools and grounding practices for navigating challenges, building resilience, and staying aligned through difficult moments.
- The episode explores healing, sacred relationships, community support, and the magic of connection with both people and the natural world.
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Welcome to the High Vibration Living Podcast. I'm your host, Chef Whitney Aronoff, Health Supportive Chef, founder of Starsea Kitchen, and creator of nourishing food rooted in real ingredients, intuition, and intention. This podcast is a space where food, wellness, spirituality, and everyday living meet. We explore how what you eat, how you live, and what you believe all shape your energy, health, and overall sense of well-being. You have a physical body, a mental body, an emotional body, and a spiritual body. And all need to be recognized and nourished so you can feel balanced and truly thrive. Only you know what your body truly needs. Let this be your reminder that you already have the wisdom to tune in to your food, your self-care, and your spiritual practices and choose what supports you best. Through personal insights and conversations with experts across food, wellness, and spirituality, we'll explore how to nourish the physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic layers of who you are so you can feel your best and live with clarity, vitality, and purpose. Let's get started. Hi friends, and welcome back to the podcast. I am chatting with Alison Charles Story, a shamanic practitioner, spiritual teacher, author known for bridging ancient wisdom with modern life. Through her work in energy healing, intuition, sacred rituals, she helps people reconnect to their inner truth, the natural world, and their own capacity for deep healing. I know you know her. She's been featured everywhere in publications like Forbes, The New York Times, and is the author of Animal Power, a guide to working with spirit animals for guidance in transformation. If you've been looking for a book that allows you to look up the reason why you saw that possum, you saw that hawk, you saw that bunny in an unexpected time and place, and you want to know the meaning, the deeper reason, the story that maybe your guides and angels of the universe is trying to pass on to you. This book, Animal Power, would be a great resource for you. Allison is also well known for her podcast work as well as her work with her husband, Luke Story. And she's taken a break the past few years from being at the microphone, and she's just coming out of the cave. So it is such a pleasure to tune in with Allison Charles Story today. Without further ado, here's the episode. Enjoy. Cheers. Allison Charles Story. Welcome to the High Vibration Living Podcast. Well, thank you, Chef Whitney. Thank you so much for having me. And I love as we were chatting off camera here, that took us a couple years to arrive to this moment, but here we are. And thanks for the invitation. And I know that you're kind of coming out of taking a long pause from podcasting into sharing a lot of your work so you could recharge. And so one thing that I noticed when I was doing some research on you ahead of time was you communicated that you were being told to pause, that you were being told to slow down and you honored that. Was it hard to do? Because most of us kind of hear that nudge and we still try to keep pushing through. Ah, my heart feels that so deeply. Um, hearing that reflected back to me. Oh, I'm gonna track a few layers here. So I might go on a little bit of a ride, but it's it's very multifaceted. Um, the answer to this and the path of living in that way itself. But when I was, you know, reflecting yesterday, knowing that I was gonna do this um interview with you and um saying yes to being on a podcast uh for the first time in a very long time, I think the thing that rose to the surface um the most in terms of like a potential talking point was how grateful I am that I have gotten so in sync and in such pure, pristine, clear alignment with being at one with God, great spirit, source, whatever name you have for it. Um, because that has really gotten me in such juicy, rich, fulfilling texture with all that is. You know, it allows for an earth voyage and an earth ride where you know everything can be looked at, felt, um, tended to. I fully welcome truth. I don't, you know, cut off or suppress, or if I have been cutting off or suppressing, I allow that information to present. Uh so yeah, being at one with God and and being at one with this really precious sacred earth walk is something that I'm really proud of that I've arrived to and really grateful for. And so the answer more specifically to your question is it's it's it's kind of been all the things, you know, since I had my divine intervention and spiritual awakening, what feels like many lifetimes ago, um, there's been a lot of different voids and rites of passageways where God and Earth Mother and my own soul have very clearly instructed me to cease operations of certain things that I was really kind of famous or well known for, like very abruptly. Um, and the other intriguing part is you never really know, as I'm sure you can relate to when you're given these instructions, most of the time God isn't saying like this pause will be for one year. This, it's like when you go into the void and when you go into these abysses where you're truly fully living on divine instruction, it's uh it's you know, it's called a void for a reason. There's not a lot of uh clarity or answers to those initial questions in there. And so it's been beautiful, it's been mysterious. Um, some of these portals have been very deep and to be quite honest, very terrifying and scary at times. And the one that I'm emerging out of was a three to four year period that was the darkest, deepest terrain of my life. And so I'm here and I survived miraculously. There are times where I honestly wasn't sure that I was gonna crawl my way out of that. And I am obviously uh embodying a whole other depth and layer of wisdom through crawling through that cave that I that I did not have before. And so there are definitely moments, um, especially having this calling that again, I'm sure you and a lot of the people listening can maybe relate to when your calling blends both being a spiritual practitioner, healer, oracle, whatever you want to call it, along with um being out in the world and being more of a public figure, when you do get these instructions to kind of go into hiding or become a renunciant, it can be a little unsettling to the ego or to the part of you that has been equipped with like the drive to also have the entrepreneurial spirit and to bring these ancient teachings to others so it can support them in remembering too. So uh there's a lot more. I mean, we could talk about this for probably three hours straight, um, but I'll take a breath here. So it's it's it's all the things that could be my shortest answer to it. It's easy, it's hard, it's beautiful, it's mysterious, it's everything. When you first started hearing that you needed to pause and pull back and recalibrate, where did you hear or feel that? Now you are a shaman, so where you're gonna hear and feel that is clearly different than most of us, but I'd love to know like, did you feel it? Did you hear it? Was it all encompassing? How did it approach? Yeah, that's a beautiful question. Um, I'll tune into two of these portals. The one that I received, I lived in New York City for about 15 years, I believe. And um, that's the birthplace of my rebirth. That's where I had my in Brooklyn is where I had my divine intervention and spiritual awakening. And through that I was really instantly shown visions of who I really am and why I incarnated um on earth. And and I got into devotion to heeding and answering these visions and calls very quickly because my life previously had been riddled with a lot of suffering and pain. So I was like, okay, like I am on it, God, whatever I need to do to uh course correct or pivot, I'm here for. And so what somewhat quickly began to ensue through me heeding these directives, um, you know, it there was a lot of vulnerability and it took a ton of courage. But what ended up happening was I became quite known for my guided shamanic journeys. And I, you know, got started on this path so long ago, you know, I kind of feel like a little ancient in this space at this point, which is a beautiful thing, but I definitely feel more of an elder. Um, because back when I was, you know, guiding shamanic journeys on the rooftop of, you know, the William Vale or working with One Hotels and having all these really huge um partnerships around the world, like it there weren't too many other people doing this. Um, but I bring all of this up because I think after I'm not great with time, but there were a number of years of me doing all these big events and gatherings and ceremonies all over. And then that's when um I both heard Claire Audience. My Claire Audience gift is one of my strongest. And when I had my spiritual awakening, that was the gift that turned on through that uh cataclysmic experience. I heard God speak to me that day, and I God give gave me directions, um steps to take. And through me taking those steps, that's what lifted the veil. And there's a whole story with it that I've shared on a lot of other podcasts, but it's a bit involved. And so I heard God, and you know, fast forward to this portal that I'm speaking to right now. I heard God in my um Brooklyn apartment one day to tell He told me to stop, to cease all events, all gatherings, all ceremonies. The thing that, you know, I was living on my own, and I don't, you know, I don't come from a family of money. And so being a solo woman entrepreneur in New York City, it's like, you know, to hear God um tell me that I need to stop doing all the things that were allowing me to survive and live was um a bit of a startling Claire Audience instruction, but energetically, I also felt so I'm Claire sentient as well. It's this did you get a shiver when I said that? Yeah. I've gotten a few as you've been chatting. It's good, it's good, it's good confirmation, but that's how my body reacts. I wasn't when I was getting messages, I wasn't acting on them. And so it's like what changed for me is they force me to physically shake. So I can't not respond to the message that they're sending me because I was denying for so long. So I what I kind of laugh every time it happens too now. Um, my stubbornness forced them to physically make my body shake every time they want me to really understand a message. So wow. Well, honoring that and just taking a second to really, yeah, what a gift that's really special. That you and your soul and how do you refer? Do you refer to source, God, great spirit? What what is your word for great question? I do God, guides and angels. I I I kind of do it all. Yeah. Um, and I just use the word that feels good in the moment. So it all responds for me because it's all something greater than me and greater than all of us. And, you know, I'm just here for service and experience. Um, so I use all of it. Beautiful. I was just curious because I just wanted to take a second to honor the healthy, beautiful agreement that you and your, well, all parts of you, not just your soul, have with God, creator, um, great spirit to have that communication, um, that co-creation to keep you on track together. That's that's a really huge gift. So I wanted to give it its proper, proper do because what I have found on the journey, and then I'll get back to what we're talking about, is um sometimes we humans, especially if we live a lot in our mind, oh my God, do we overcomplicate things? Do we make things just so much more convoluted or challenging, oftentimes than what they need to be? And what I have found is that most of, if not all of the most powerful spiritual teachings and practices and rituals are truly the simplest. And so, you know, you saying, like, oh, I get these, you know, shivers, I know you weren't making light of it, but I just really wanted to create an honoring moment for us and for everyone listening to provide that reminder to the listeners too, that those two-second quick shivers um are actually a really big deal. Um, because wow, in that two to three seconds of a shiver, you are fully present to the awe of earth, to the awe of the magic that's real. Um, and so just honoring the simplicity being the most powerful. So now back to um the other thing that I felt was this energy when I was sitting in my chair at my little dining room table and my tiny little Brooklyn apartment, I felt the energetic system of this command from God go to my back, fully to my backside. So it was kind of like the energy field that I had been living in, doing all of the ceremonies, all those events, all those talks, went behind me. And then I was set into this new place. And then over the course of that, that pause, that void went on for more than three years, I believe. And there was a lot that happened there, and I will unpack a couple of those details, but then when that time was coming to an end, it was clear as day. Again, sitting in my Brooklyn apartment, when it the time for me to stop the things that I shifted into, um, which I'll I'll answer, um, the energy system then pressed up against my back and I and I felt a push forward. And I just knew then that that three and a couple months um kind of voided time had come to an end, and God was now instructing me to get back out there in the world again. So, you know, of course, these instructions can come in in in so many different ways. And that's part of the beauty of walking this path is learning um how how your gifts work, how your communication with the divine works. Um, I my heart is so much more online now that I feel and I get the sense that a lot of your listeners um are quite heart-based. And so there's probably just a knowing in your heart. The other thing entering in is just this feeling in your bones, just this sense that you just gotta get out of that job that you have been in. And, you know, again, I get all of these human-based concerns and fears of like, well, if I leave that job, and then what? You know, I I got confronted with those as well, and they're very real. But how else do you expect to truly get into this like sparkling magic, alive, truly alive web that is pure love God, that is at one with sacred earth, mother, if we don't do these trust falls, if we don't um say yes to entering into these areas that that God or or source is asking us to, you know, that that's the only way that it can become that co-creative experience. Uh so yeah, there's there's a lot of different ways you can feel it. And what happened for me is yes, I felt a lot of fear and concerns for how do I by myself, because at this time I was single for a long time, celibate, I was truly solo. How do I make a living in New York City on my own? But when I said yes out loud to God that day, and I said, I will answer this instruction, and I cleared my calendar. I had other talks and things like I was booked and I canceled them all and I completely cleared my calendar. And what happened was I got given this idea, probably from God or the wisdom of my soul or both, to start, I think I had called it um shamanic media. And so I have a background. Um, I studied telecommunications and public relations uh in college, and I also have a background before my awakening uh in radio and television as both a producer and on air for both of those industries. And so what I was able to do by me stepping out of the limelight, by me stepping back, I got given this really cool uh business idea of shamanic media to support other healers that don't have those have those studies and backgrounds that I do that are also given a similar mission to be out with their work and to help other people get out of the spiritual amnesia, but they maybe don't know how to be on podcasts or they don't know how to start the process of writing your book or a card deck. I have all of that wisdom and knowledge. And so for years, I while I stepped back, I was able to empower and fan other healers' flames, and it was so rewarding and so fulfilling. And so, am I saying it's super easy? No, of course not, and that's by divine design. You know, there's a reason. So yeah. A quick pause to share something I truly use and love. I'm Chef Whitney Aronaff. And as a personal chef, I began sharing my Starseed Kitchen organic spice blends with private clients when I couldn't find high-quality seasonings that met my standards for their meal prep. My clients are people who care deeply about what goes into their food and how it makes them feel, just like you. Every Starseed Kitchen blend is made with the highest quality organic spices with no added sugar, no MSG, no anti-caking agents, and no fillers. Just clean, real ingredients that support your body and elevate your cooking. Two of my most loved blends are 11 Magic Herbs and Spices, a go-to everyday seasoning that works on just about everything, and Starseed Kitchen Adobo, a light, bright, anti-inflammatory blend designed for modern, health-supportive cookie. Every jar is prepared with intention, charged with kundalini mantras, quartzkies of crystals, and blessed by a shaman. Because spices and the food you prepare with them are not just nourishment, they're a transfer of energy. You can find Starseed Kitchen Spices at all Erawan locations or online at starseedkitchen.com. Use code Starseed for 10% off your online order. Now let's get back to the conversation. Thank you for providing all that clarity because sometimes people think, oh, that person stepped back. It didn't mean that you went on vacation for three years. No, I could not. Right? But a lot of people think that's, oh, that's, you know, what what a blessing. Uh, but that you you kept working, but in different ways on yourself, supporting other people, still following, you know, your soul's mission. It just looked different, you know, on the outside. So it never, it never stopped. It just shifted. Correct, correct. And there's all sorts of things that uh, you know, can bubble up. And again, it's all a part of these rites of passage, these initiations that they're those those words carry and those experiences carry a lot of. Power because they're they're powerful, brave steps. I mean, when some of the other experiences that I went through in New York City, you know, coming out of uh being a talk show host for a daytime talk show, um I then, you know, began working as a as a cash register. I don't even remember what you call it, like I literally worked the cash register. I was a cashier for my friend's juice company. Um and she was opening up her first brick and mortar store. I was friends with her. She knew the talk show had gone under, like it was, it ceased production. Um, I was also simultaneously having my spiritual awakening and given these visions. And so for a couple of years in Soho, I was literally ringing up people's juices and smoothies. Um, sometimes would get recognized, and then you know, people would be a bit like confused. Um, and also I at the same time was being shown that I needed to like get out with my gifts. I'm just trying to retrack in real time. That's kind of why I'm I'm stuttering a little bit. So I find I reached out to my friend Paz. Now, Paz um had a vegan expo. I was not a vegan, but I was told that I needed to set up a table at this vegan expo called the seed in New York City. And so I messaged him, I was like, Paz, I'm supposed to have a table at your expo. And he was like, Great, what are you what are you going to have there? And I was like, I don't know yet, but I know that I'm supposed to be there. And I he was so gracious. And I I love to give shout outs to these people that, you know, 15 plus years ago just said a wild yes to supporting me and answering my divine calls. And I ended up setting up a table and doing many chakra healings for these people that were there at this vegan expo. Um, but you know, there there were a lot of humbling moments then. And I'm also coming out of this other three and a half, four-year, um, even much darker, um, deeper cave time terrain that I'm that I'm emerging out of. I mean, I truly was taken to a complete puddle of goo, like a chrysalis goo body of myself through the things that I was facing, confronting. I mean, I'm talking, I was going back to to tending to um imprints, terror imprints that were were placed upon me when I was just a newborn, five weeks incarnated. I was dealing with spiritual warfare in a very scary way. Um, I was dealing with things um, both of the mind and body that I had not ever been faced with, and so many different initiations happening simultaneously. So just one initiation can be very discombobulating and um can take all you have in you to like keep in your center, keep your connection with God. But through this last one that I'm coming out of and survived, I there were times where I was dealing with four or five different rites of passage and initiations compounding all at once. And so um that's why it was so challenging. And I might be getting a little off track here. So I'll take a beat and a breath because I don't even remember what the original. Well, I'm just really grateful for what you're sharing because the past few years have been the hardest years of my life. Yeah. Um, and no one would know that, um, except my shaman. And uh and I'm coming out the other side now, and it's just so nice to hear that other people sometimes don't have it easy either. You sometimes think you're the only one that's going through it. I think we can all feel like that, right? Um, because we don't see how people are feeling or living when they get home. Um, but it's been an emotional roller coaster these past few years. Not even, you know, not even paying attention to what's happening on the outside in our communities, in our cities, counties, states, country. Like, you don't even have to look at that. But just for I think every man and woman just trying to like follow their soul journey or have the life experience that they expected for themselves at that time, at that age, it's been really challenging. And uh it's just so nice to hear another person say, I've been dealing with getting energetically attacked. I've been dealing with grief. I've been dealing with recognizing experiences in my life that, you know, I just sucked it up and moved through. And, you know, finally I was forced to face the feelings that I felt or uh really recognize what happened to me at that age. It's just, it's I I think maybe more of us have been going through it that we don't realize. So thank you for sharing it. And you're probably coming out at the perfect time to talk about it because we've all probably been going through it in a way. Yeah, thank you for that reflection and for your honesty as well. And uh, that's another thing that I just feel um it's been it this part's been pretty easeful for me, but I do feel really grateful and proud that God equipped me with this transparency and vulnerability component to my fabric and to my essence inside of me. I think um I think it's really important and and I love just being fully honest. I I really um do not prefer teachers that are um, oh, what's that word where it's escaping me right now? Stoic. Uh well it could perhaps be that, oh, it's gonna drive me nuts, but maybe it'll come in in a little bit. But it's teachers that like tell you, like, this is what's happening, this is what you should do. Like they're very um dogmatic. Uh and and I just my preference, you know, is to just be honest and I I value and treasure the human in me just as much as I do the oracle Allison. There I there's not a better than, truly. I and how could there be if you really really feel into that and think about that? We are here on earth to be a human. So how can we not embrace and celebrate and honor the human just as much as the spiritual component? Because after our time here doing our earthwork, earth walk is said and done, then we're back being fully the you know, fully enlightened consciousness orb blob that we are, you know. Um, but we're here to be a human. And and so I really love honestly sharing about the the very human components. And the other thing that I want to speak to uh that came up in your share is that, you know, the this may not be the case for everyone, but when you get deep enough on the spiritual path, like enough years after your initial awakening, kind of coming out of that amnesia stupor, there can be a descent that is just as potent, if not even more powerful, than that initial awakening that you had maybe five, 10, 15, 20 years ago. There tends to then be a process where we descend back so fully into our earth body, into our sacred vessel that is the home, the house of our spirit and our soul. And when we when we descend back from like when we have our awakening, we we then go back into those realms and dimensions to remember more, right? Oh, like I do have this gift, I do have this capability, I do have this knowingness. Oh, I can meet Jesus here, I can do this here in this dimension. You know, there's there can be many years of that reconnection and remembrance. And then after a certain amount of time, then you kind of kerplunk more and more and more back down into your physical vessel, and you can be brought all the way back down to earth. And typically what coincides with that descension process is a lot of humbling. Um, and just, I don't want to say that there has to be, there doesn't, it doesn't have to equate with pain, but there can just be um a lot of revelations that that come up. You see, I I in my process, I've become so, so, so attuned to my body and the wisdom and intelligence of my body. I, in full transparency right now, I'm just a little bit more than halfway through a parasite cleanse. My body is talking to me so loud and clear, and I'm so grateful for it. So thank you, body, again, right now with Wee's Witnesses. Thank you for your communication. Thank you for your intelligence. It literally told me there were methylation issues, possible parasites, most likely from a Peru trip a year and a half ago, um, a low-grade bladder infection. And the other one, there was a fourth one that I'm forgetting right now. But I went and got a lot of lab tests done, you know, all the things, all the things. And out of, you know, the thousands of things that all these test kits um were checking for, when I had my follow-up with my doctor, those four things, the exact four things out of millions of things that could be a little out of balance or uh out of harmony in my physical body, the exact four things I intuited and my body told me were going on were the four things confirmed. And so there's just, yeah, there's this beautiful, rich, powerful descent back into your sacred earth vessel and back to Sacred Earth Mother, the planet that we inhabit. And um, it can, it can have more of that underworld texture, more of that cave-like thing. And that's that's where I was, I called it my my cave period, kind of sometimes a renunciant period or a semi-retirement period where I was being forced and required um to face, feel, and tend to things that I even unconsciously didn't know, you know, had not been had not been tended to. It was I was confronted with it all. When you reflect back, especially on this past year, are there particular tools that you use to move through it? So foods you ate, um, practices that you had, ways you moved your body, uh, time that you spent by yourself, um, any tools that you had picked up over the past 10 to 15 years that actually really helped kind of soothe you physically, emotionally, spiritually, or mentally during the time? Oh my gosh, there's so many. I I truly started to log. There were so many things that I had to go to to stay sane, to stay alive, to find any semblance of centeredness. Um, there were so many. I started to put them in my phone notes, and um, I still like to do the pen to paper kind of thing. And I would just write these lists so that if I was having a very um kind of discombobulated day or zone, I could go back to this list. I mean, anyone watching the video, one big key is this cute, cute little doggy that's taking a nap behind me, my little cookie girl. She's just, oh, she's such an angel. Can you not feel how angelic she is? I know. I actually want to cuddle her. And I'm not a dog person. She is sleeping, she's taking a nap um behind me here, and she is such a godsend. My husband, Luke, rescued her many years ago um in Los Angeles. And um, so yeah, spending time, my my dear cat, uh Harry Gato, aka Jelly Bean, he did cross over a year and a half ago, but I had him for nearly 20 years. And my grandpa, who I was very close to, who had crossed over when I was in college, he sent me this cat. I was never a cat person, but long story short, I decided one day I needed a Persian cat. There was one black cat in the litter. I knew that one was mine. And he ended up having the same birthday as my grandpa. And I connected that dot after I knew my grandpa sent me that cat. So, again, something so simple that we kind of gloss over or take for granted as being humans, but it's these animals, these pets that truly can keep us um in our sanity and and bring us like the coziness and the cuddles and the kisses and the cuteness that just can, you know, truly be our saving grace when we're really going through it. I also um really learned that um my central nervous system, focusing on um keeping my vagus nerve um in good health and my central nervous system regulated, those were you know, top, top of the list. Um, I started going to network spinal analysis, I believe is what it's called. There's an amazing doctor here in Austin area, Dr. Jeannie, who is such a wizard pro at that particular practice and modality. And and it's um it's I don't resonate with um harsh chiropractic. It's not that at all. It's more energetic. Um, she's a real wizard, and so she it's hard to explain, but it's more energetic, just getting your all the energy and wisdom and power in your spinal column reorganized and reoriented, especially if you are emerging out of trauma or a time where your system was very dysregulated for a long time. Network spinal analysis was really supportive. Um, again, another most simple one uh baths with like um detox clays and um oh, there's a brand that I use that I forget the name of. Um, but tons of healing baths. We have a Japanese soaking tub, and I have like, my God, I live in that thing. I I take there were periods of time where I was taking sometimes baths twice a day to just try to stay regulated with the water medicine. Um having a partner, I'm so grateful. My husband is truly the most incredible gift. Um, I my awakening came out of um being in a previous, very abusive, suffrage-filled um past relationship that just had so much pain and so much karma and codependency, um, a lot of unhealthiness. And that was it was through uh God, you know, divinely intervening to pull me out of that relationship that that woke me up. And so I I I know the opposite of what I have now. And my biggest prayer, you know, I went into a long period of being single and consciously single and celibate because I really needed to learn how to trust myself again and um completely reset and become, I ended up becoming a born-again virgin in that process. And what emerged through that was I was unwilling to compromise. I had grown so comfortable and happy with being alone and being and loving myself that I thought the number one thing is I have to have a partner who can fully have the capacity to be with my my fullest expression. Um and so having a husband who's has a wife who is an oracle and a high priestess and a medicine woman, you know, I don't think that that's an easy feat. Um I would not guess that's like the easiest task uh to say yes to. Um, and I bring, of course, a lot of gifts and incredible things to the union. So I don't want to uh short sight that either. But me in my fullest expression, it it brings a lot. I'm a seer, I see a lot, I feel a lot, I'm aware of everything. And so as I was going through um these multi-layered initiations, and I would sit by the fire and I would tell him some days, like, I just I don't know if I'm gonna make it. And to have somebody who's not afraid of that level of honesty, um, who can be grounded in that conversation and still hold um, you know, what he felt to be clear and true, and to have him reflect that back to me, you know, that was a huge saving grace. Um, I mean, there's there's again, that could be, you know, I could talk for days on some of the things, but um I really found but the last thing I'll say, and I think you might have something to share along these lines, but I I historically it's been very much in my nature to be very self-sufficient. I'm an incredibly sovereign person. And one of my favorite things is to honor my sovereignty and to honor all others' sovereignty. I am very non-invasive with my gifts. I do not give unsolicited advice. It's just like I'm sovereign, you're sovereign. I that's that's how I move throughout this world. And through that three plus year cave renunciant period, I really had to call upon support. And that is just not my innate nature, you know. So for me to kind of make a list of other spiritual masters who I knew, I again put that list in my phone notes and in my my journals because I was like, Allison, if you're in one of those total upside-down world warfare moments where, you know, there's these attempts to get you to just not know what to do, go to this list and know that I can call upon um my transmission teacher, you know, shout out to Paige Britt, Alejo and Maria and their children down in South America, uh, Swami, our dear Himalayan cave master from India. Um, you know, there's a beautiful community here in the Austin area. Um, and so it uh that was another saving grace was allowing myself to be humbled enough. Um, like as deep as I was on the spiritual path, and as masterful as as I truly am and and can be, I had to phone a friend and and do an ET phone home a number of times in those three and a half years. And I'm so grateful um that my ego didn't stop me because that was part of part of the learning for me is that it doesn't make me less powerful or less of an oracle to reach out. Um I gained so much from that. I want to take a moment to share how Team Starseed Kitchen can support you beyond the podcast. I'm Chef Whitney Aronoff, founder of Team Starseed Kitchen, my personal chef and custom meal prep service. This is for people who want to eat well, feel better, and be supportive of nourishing food without the stress of planning, shopping, or cooking. Through Team Starseed Kitchen, I work with a trusted team of health-supportive chefs who prepare fully customized meals based on your needs, preferences, and lifestyle. Whether you're focused on clean eating, hormone balance, digestion, energy, or simply having high-quality food, ready for your week, we meet you where you are. All meals are made with real, whole ingredients, no seed oils, no refined sugar, and no shortcuts. 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And so you start to build those connections, you start to meet the people, you find out who's in other people's tool belts, you start to collect the equipment that you can have at home so you can do your own work on yourself when the when the time comes. But we all have to keep building this spiritual multidimensional tool belt because we don't know what's gonna come our way. And we do have to be able to dial a friend, you know, dial a support system, or have that visual tool, that tool. In their home, you know, kind of right in front of us to grab when we need it. Um, but it is, I completely understand, especially as being a woman in 2026. You you have to at some point learn how to take care of yourself and do it all yourself. And then you have to relearn how to ask for help. It's an it's a funny little game. Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm chuckling because you you sharing what you just shared took me back to um one of the sacred pilgrimages um down in Peru. And um there's certain details, you know, just to to keep the the temple and the the pilgrimage fully honored that I I need to omit. And I I do feel comfortable sharing, you know, what one of the well, do I want to share this? It's just there were there have just been um yeah, some very funny, you know, thank God I was able to at least at some points remember God's sense of humor and like the cosmic jokes of of some of these things, you know. We were we were down having this very, very deep experience in a at a sacred temple. And um yeah, I was with it was a very small, small group, all people very long time devoted to um living their calls and divine assignments. Um, and rather than always being the capable one that I am, like the one that can be there for others or lend a helping hand when asked, or you know, just be in the power and capability, I was taken into this experience in these journeys and ceremonies and in these temples where, yeah, with a small group of really respected, um powerful peers, um, and just one example after another, I was the one that felt like I was kind of like quote unquote bringing the group down or making a quote unquote mistake, or you know, um, yeah, like having to, this might be TMI for some, so I'm blanketing it with with honor and um sacredness, but you know, at one of these sites, like I I had to, I had to go poo. Like there was no way around it. And like I, you know, that was not the ideal situation, but I I literally had to and so had to join with a couple of other people in the group to find the ideal location at this sacred site for me to take a poo. And I just I say that because these are examples of like literally, you know what I'm saying, just brought being brought down to the most humbling humanness. Um, you know, literally being uh yeah, just brought into those experiences where I it could have appeared or felt as if I was being the quote unquote weak link. But by me being courageous enough and brave enough to allow myself into those experiences and to not be the powerful, capable one, but to really remember what it feels like to be fully human, that reconstituted the fabric of my being. And it just reoriented me so that I have less drive towards perfectionism. I have I celebrate quote unquote mistakes more, I celebrate the learning more. Um, and I couldn't have gotten those codes of this new fabric had I not let myself be brave enough to be brought back into that level of humbleness and humanness. Part of your new teachings as you come out of the cave. Exactly. What a glorious ride. Yeah, and and in in this past year and a half, there there have been various passageways, you know, my cat, one of my very closest friends, my husband's dad. There's been a lot of a lot of really sacred beings in my life who have uh made their sacred passageway home to God. And um yeah, being witness to those processes um has really brought me back into a different level of of preciousness and and gratitude. You know, my husband and our doggy cookie and I, when we wake up in the morning, like the first thing out of one of our mouths is like, oh, we get to we get to be together again. You know, God woke us up again. We get to be together as this sweet, loving family again. And um, I've just, yeah, I've had so much reorientation um in so many different ways over the last few years, and I'm very, very grateful for it. You mentioned something before we started when we were trying to figure out kind of the the through line or the information that would be most supportive for the listener today. You mentioned something about a vow and the field and your transmission work. Could you share that again and maybe open it up so we can see if there's anything else that needs to come through that would be supportive for the listener today? Absolutely. Yeah, thank you for that invitation. And I very much feel the field. Um, you know, I've I felt it really enhancing its richness in the last five minutes. I felt it really get more present. I knew we were getting close to this time. What I will share is a sacred vow that I've arrived to in the last couple of years. Um, you know, of course, arriving to this is a culmination of my entire life's work, but it also very specifically came through one of my friends, colleagues, and teachers, um, Paige Britt. She's really masterful in this work. So I do want to honor her while also saying my particular offering that we will be uh sharing in the field with is kind of my unique uh formulation of everything, my shamanic path, uh, you know, the oracle that I am, along with the teachings and transmissions that um I've gained permission to share through my trainings with her. So it's an amalgamation of sorts. Um and my vow, I'll say it in a moment, um, but I also because this work can be, you know, it can it can be all sorts of things, but it can be quite powerful. So for anyone listening, again, offering on honoring your sovereignty, it's it's totally up to you if there's a part of you or a whole whole of you that says yes to this, which is what happened to Chef Whitney when we were talking off camera. And I said, Well, we could open up into the field together. I didn't even get the full explanation out. She's like, That's a yes, that's what we're doing. So her system was a 110% yes. So I want you to honor your system. If you're getting a no, this does not feel an alignment. Maybe you wrap up your time with us right now, and maybe you come back to this when you feel the call. For those that are feeling a yes, you know, and enjoy the ride, but I do want to give that um information up front because it's a transmission and um so it can be it can be quite powerful. So, with all that being said, my vow is I experience pleasure with I vow that the field is enough. And so with that, I already feel the field that we are sharing in, this co-creative relational field. And we just simply allow ourselves to be present in this field. And for the next few minutes, all we have to do is just be present. And Chef Whitney, I just invite you as we reveal the field, as anything shows up for you, just share what you notice. And there's no rush, this is a practice of rest and allowing and presence. So for me, I went from being in a in a golden bubble to a very earthy green bubble with just lots of giggles, just lots of light and joy, and I just keep having these giggles percolating inside of me. And thank you for your willingness, because precisely that is what can evoke when there's just two souls and two humans meeting each other out together in the field, and we remember, and there's safety and there's presence. And I want to honor your gift and your wisdom because another component that comes along with this transmission teaching is learning which of the seven wisdom channels you have. And I have a good solid mix of all seven, but my two strongest are the earth wisdom channels and tree wisdom channels. And so, right out of the gate, as soon as you uh you and I met one another in this field, you felt my earth wisdom channel. And even as I speak of the earth wisdom, there's a settling in my system. I notice I feel this rich soil gravitational energy in my hands and in my body. My heart feels strong and secure. My feet feel like they're suction cupped to the floor. I feel the richness and the support and the heart of earth. I feel my belly protruding more, softening, opening, expanding, and I feel a breath of relief. I'm very grounded right now. I just keep seeing a really solid, tall, straight oak with you in front of it. It's just very comforting. Let's stay with that for a moment and just see what else arises in the presence and in the resting with that tree. I feel a pristine expansion of my center line running all the way from earth all the way up into the divine, the tree center, pristine connection. And as we keep resting, let's just see if there's any one additional thing that shows up for you at any point. For me, it is all the particular birds. So they're birds of prey, like a hawk, a California condor, like very strong birds of prey, circuling but in a positive way. And then just lots of little critters of the forest, just curious. So let's just invite if there's one of those animals that wants to come forward to you even more. We invite that animal to get closer to you now. Just noticing if you feel fur wings. It's the bunny and the chipmunk, and they just keep making me giggle. And for me, it makes me feel like this is what I'm gonna get to experience next. Yes. A little more joy, a little more fun, a little more lightheartedness. Amen. I also saw the rabbit in the field, and it was very this its fur is silky, silky soft. It's so, so soft. Long flappy ears, the cutest little wiggle nose, cutest little feet. Such sweet medicine. And it does carry rabbit. Um, I I wrote a book in deck called Animal Power, and I work a lot with um the power animal realm. And each animal has different medicinal traits and healing attributes. And one of the main ones that rabbit carries is fertility, and it's it can be a main symbol of of new life, regeneration, you know, doesn't necessarily have to mean um a physical human pregnancy, it's fertility of anything, of new life and new life force, new life energy. And that's what I got present to when you shared um your felt experience of both of those animals coming in as entering into new texture, new essence of life force. And I also am aware of that. Um that has been opening up for me to more lightheartedness, uh, more joy, more laughter, more um experiences of being carefree. Yes. And then a season of joy and giggles. Ah, season of joy and giggles. I will rattle my rattle to that. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. And honoring the field, honoring my vow, honoring this long lineage of transmission teachings that whose thread is carried through for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. Perhaps even two before the beginning of time, honoring this thread of transmission and all of those who have carried it forward so that I may receive it. And you know, and everyone joining us in the field um received in the perfect way that serves their highest, greatest good too. Um and the candle just went out. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. I just I smell the waft of smoke that just went out on its own, completing our time together in the field. And the candle's not done. The candle's still three-quarters of the way, um, and it just completed on its own. So this is the magic of field work. And there was no plant medicine involved. It was just literally two humans saying yes and being willing to meet one another safely in the field together, and all of that magic showed up in what five minutes. I you lose sense of time when you're in that space. So I have no idea how long we did that for, but it was probably very short, and all of that happened. Yeah, and the candle is just like, you know, the cherry on top. And that's, you know, what makes what makes all of this fun again is just that that soft divine intervention, the synchronicities. You know, I think that's why people are always drawn to your book and cards about animals and that symbology. Um, it brings it back into like the physical world and makes it fun. Amen. You hit the nail on the head, and that's one of the things that I share most about. Again, it's like because we get so acclimated to and accustomed to seeing animals, we lose over time the sense of wonder and how incredible it is that there's things flying through the air. And last week I have videos and pictures on my phone. In the middle of the day, I came home to the cutest, fattest young girl possum just walking around my front yard in the middle of the day. She came within a foot and a half of me. You know, they don't have great sight. So she had to get real close. And then she lifted her head and wiggled her nose and smelled a human, kind of scurried off. So I went inside the house to go get some um organic little carrot chips for her. And so I was kind of tossing them into the brush that I saw her scurry into. And I was kind of doing little noises to try to like get her to play with me again. And my intuition told me to look up. She was up in this huge oak tree. I mean, we have massive oaks here in Texas, these ancient oaks. And she was at the top limb. Some she told me, she's like, I'm up here now. I looked at the top branch of this massive oak tree, just perched there, just watching me, like, you know, kind of giggling and laughing at me. And I had this most magical possum experience in the middle of the day last week. And so this is a perfect note to end on is just reminding everyone joining us, take some time today to go outside and to just be present to look around, see what animal visits you today. You don't have to get my book, but it is a really um valid, trusted resource. Again, it's called Animal Powers 100, 100 Animals to Energize Your Life and Awaken Your Soul. And um, so I most likely have the animal that you'll come across in the book, and it will teach you um about its messages and its healing attributes. And that is a huge, simple, powerful way that you can get more into the co-creative divine web, um, which is why we are here. And that's being present to the magic and wisdom that's presenting to you, and then taking the next deeper step to find out why, why that showed up, what message is in there, and if there's an instruction um in that messaging for you to take next. So, yeah, this was a beautiful time together and perfect timing. Perfect. Thank you, Allison. Well, for those listening, now that you are coming out of the cave, where would you like people to connect with you, follow you, and learn from you? That's another great question. I um I hope that I will get back on uh social media again. I haven't posted too much in the last year and a half, but um but yeah, I in honoring my dear uh closest brother who uh made his passageway recently, he gave me the impetus to to get back on Instagram. So you can find me there at I am Allison Charles, A-L-Y-S-O-N. Um, and my website is allisoncharles.com. I'm in the midst of you know developing a new website and you know, because I'm just so new, um, so new and different, but you can still find me there. Um, yeah, so I guess that's the best answer I can give right now. Perfect. It's enough. Well, we look forward to seeing everything that you share and create in this new iteration. And thank you so much for spending time with me today. You're welcome. My pleasure. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the High Vibration Living Podcast. If you enjoyed today's conversation, I'd love for you to leave a five-star rating and a written review wherever you're listening. 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