From Electrician to Empowerment Mentor - Anastasia Salichou

Anastasia Salichou is an Akashic Records Healer and Coach, public speaker and trainer who helps people reclaim their unique personal power, heal past and present life trauma, and step into their authentic selves and potentiality. With her work in the Records alongside several healing modalities, she channels healing energy and messages in a way that’s practical, empowering, and transformative. She supports her clients and audience into deep healing, understanding their Soul Gifts and Potential, and creating a life that truly speaks to them.

Links

• Website: www.anastasia.coach
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnastasiaSalichou
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnastasiaSalichou/ 

https://www.facebook.com/AnastasiaTransformationCoachHealer/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anastasia_transformation_coach/

Transcript

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Welcome to Island Life Stories. I'm Darren, coming to you from the beautiful island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. Today's guest is Anastasia Salachu, a psychic coach and healer based in Greece. Now, Anastasia didn't start there. She started exactly where I did, in electrical engineering. Logical, methodical, box thinking, and somewhere in her mid-20s, exhausted, unwell, and watching TV in her living room one evening, she asked herself a question that changed everything. "Is this the life I want to live?" The answer was no, and what followed is one of the most remarkable stories of reinvention I've had the pleasure of hearing. From engineering to Reiki, from Reiki to health coaching, from health coaching into the world of Akashic records. Anastasia didn't just change careers, she rebuilt herself from the inside out. Let's get into it.

Anastasia Salichou 1:17

you, Darren. Thank for your invitation. I'm glad to be here and having chat with you. I am Anastasia Salichou. I'm Greek. I live in Greece, and I am a psychic coach and healer. I help people transform their, the view of their lives and the view of themselves, their relationships. And I work on an energetic way to shift the vibrations and frequencies that block them from moving forward with their goals, from achieving their goals, and understanding, their own identity and what they can achieve in their lives. These are This is the nutshell of what I do. I work in the ac- the realm that's called the Akashic records. maybe we can talk about that later. And, yeah, that's the general gist of it.

Darren Gentle 2:07

how about your background? what led you to that point Well, obviously it's something, would've changed for you to be, to become that? wa-wa-was this something that's always in you, do you think, and you just hadn't discovered it when you were younger?

Anastasia Salichou 2:21

The answer is yes and yes. since I was young, I was- pretty much an introvert, and I was thinking a lot, and I had a very concrete connection with God and the divine, or whatever somebody could- would call it. And there were some things I knew that they were not normal for, all people around me. So I was spending a lot of time thinking, in a sense, imagining things, understanding things, we are all one when I was five years old, things like that. And w- going to school, I closed this, this opening I had, to the divine because I became the good student, and I had to read lot, and I went into this box of thinking and how things should be and we should behave. I wanted to be a little bit more normal, in a sense. And, because I was a very good student, I became a electrical engineer, which is one of the top careers, let's say, in Greece that you can choose. And, I did that just because they told me that I would have a good career the truth is that when I started working as an electrical engineer is when the financial crisis hit in Greece, and things were not very good for the jobs I would find. So I was working a lot, and then I wasn't getting paid. So it was, a, it was a big financial and identity crisis for me. Of course, I knew that since the beginning of my journey as an electrical engineer, I knew that was not really for me. But I thought, in my perspective back then, I thought work is, something different than the rest of our lives. So I go to work, I'm patient, I get to have career. Maybe I don't like it, it doesn't matter. I make money, and then I live the rest of my life, which is obviously

Darren Gentle 4:35

Yeah.

Anastasia Salichou 4:36

but that's what

Darren Gentle 4:38

That's what we're all

Anastasia Salichou 4:39

would be like. Yeah. yeah. I ended up working for, 10 hours a day, in, environments that were very toxic for me, and, and it wasn't good. So the re- the change happened when I started feeling like I'm becoming depressed. I was getting sick very often. My body was falling apart, and I was, like, 25 years old, 26 years old. And- Of course, that's not a good place to be. So at one point, I was I remember that still because I was, in my living room, and was watching TV because I didn't have a lot of friends. I was working, then going back watching TV, eating some junk and then going to bed. And I was, watching TV and I asked myself, "Is this the life I want to live? Th-that's what I signed up o- for? what I want to do for the rest of my life?" And the answer was a big no. And since then, I started changing a lot of things in my life. I started taking different actions with the limited resources I had, because I wasn't getting paid, so I didn't have a lot of money. I started doing whatever I could get my hands on that could change things for me, and one of those things was, going into studying Reiki, the level one of Reiki, which changed my perspective or opened my perspective back up, the perspective I had as a kid, basically.

Darren Gentle 6:26

that makes sense. So do you think uh... I know. I, I agree with everything you're saying. I, completely, and I, will get onto it later. I completely agree with things like manifestation and, and things like that. And I think possibly the older I'm getting, the more I believe in it. But I think when I was younger, I, my philosophy was more of a, you make your own luck and possibly things happen for a reason. do you think that if, the situation was that, that you were getting paid, you didn't have that sort of, push if things were working out okay in the electrical field, if the, work environment was okay, would you, do you think you still would've chosen that path or would you not have had that sort of push to nudge you in that direction?

Anastasia Salichou 7:14

that's a great question. I- I would I think I would end up where I I am, but maybe it would have taken longer. 'Cause I was pressed, I was pushed because things were not w- were not good all. They were very bad for me. So I had I knew I had to make changes in life really fast order to avoid being sick, basically, mentally and physically. And I still think I wouldn't be- satisfied with my career as an electrical engineer, no matter how much money I would make. So I would still be pursuing something different, but maybe it would have taken a little bit more time.

Darren Gentle 8:01

I get that. with regards to the, the sort of work environment W-were you in in a really sort of heavy industrial environment or was it commercial in terms of, electrical engineering? Or was it sort of office-based?

Anastasia Salichou 8:12

was mainly office-based. Yeah. Yeah. I was doing pre-sales. I was, coming in contact with contractors and clients, and giving them offers and designing the offers. This was my main task, and then at some point I was also, designed, putting together, bids for, the government.

Darren Gentle 8:34

Okay. So we've got to the point, you've studied Reiki, you've decided in yourself, I can't go on this physically and mentally, you're, not in a good place. when you started going down this path, did you see, a difference straight away? Did you feel a s- a sort of maybe a weight lifting, uh, that sort of

Anastasia Salichou 8:59

yeah. so when I went to study Reiki, I will, my mentality was, I'm an electrical engineer. I'm a very logical person. If they are If this is BS, I will figure it out." And I didn't really know what it was because I just signed up for it. It was an offer and I was like, some friend told me about it, and I was like, "Okay, I'm desperate. I will try anything." So I tried that too, and I went in there and there were some people that were f- further, along the spirituality path than me, so I thought they are very weird. I was like, I don't know if I fit in this group of people. I don't know what I'm doing here, but I will go with it." and I did, and it was a weekend seminar. And so with Reiki y- we use our hands to channel energy, the universal energy, healing energy, right? So it's about learning how to do that. So by the end of the, weekend, I could feel my hands burning, like they were very hot when I was giving Reiki to other people. So I was like, "Oh, that's- odd. That's interesting. and I could feel where they needed the energy most. So when I asked him I had, I did reiki on a pilot, and I didn't know, back then I didn't know that pilots, pilot's shoulders and necks are very strained and they because they get a lot of, energies from the Gs that they are, them basically. So I pushed I put my hands on his shoulders and, I felt like a lot of energy, and I told him, this spot on you is needing a lot of energy." And he told me, "I have a serious problem there." So it was, it was information like I couldn't have because I haven't talked to that person before. I hadn't talked to him. And, so that opened up an, a new idea for me, a new world, a new perspective that I didn't have before because I had become that logical person. if you don't see it, it's not there, and if science doesn't say so, it doesn't

Darren Gentle 11:17

Yeah, I get that as an electrician myself. Obviously not an engineer, but the logical sort of, thinking is almost hardwired into, you, isn't it? looking, whether it you're fault-finding or it's it's either correct or it's not. and everything's quite logical basically, isn't it? And I... that was gonna be one of my questions actually. How did you find that transition? Because, I'm quite autistic and I think, the two don't really, sit-- they, on the surface of it, they don't seem compatible. The, electrical engineering and then going into, the, manifestation that side of it because there's nothing, uh, proven,

Anastasia Salichou 11:52

Yeah. Yeah. So I didn't jump right into doing the work and the healing work, so I Because as I said before, I was getting sick physically. I started working my way into having a clean diet. And because I was so excited with all the results I was getting, I cleaned my diet, I s- started going more herbs and natural foods. there were a lot of changes i- on my body, and, all of the issues that I thought I had, they disappeared within a week or two. So I was so excited about it, and I started talking about that, and people, were asking for my opinion on their diets, and I was reading more, and more, and more. And then I realized that I love talking to people about their food. my first transition out of being an electrical engineer was health coaching. That's how I started. honestly, it would have been a huge stretch if I did the intuitive part, of the game. but still, the health coaching was a big stretch, too, because I went from a field that's, again, very logical into more, holistic, talking to people. It was a very big change, but it was like, like there was a force on me opening up the pathways in order to find the right school, the right people, the right ways, the opportunities, and it was, It happened in, within a few years, and I Looking back, I'm like, I'm still amazed about that, 'cause I didn't really think about it. I wanted out of this world, the logical, electrical engineering, corporate that sucks my life, basically, because that's how I felt, into something that lights me up and makes me feel fulfilled and happy, because helping people was making me feel really happy. So that was my first

Darren Gentle 14:10

Did you feel out of your comfort zone s- when you started that, talking about, people's, health and trying to help them, 'Cause I was just, I presume you, you would've been in situations you wouldn't normally have been in as an electrical is more people-facing and, I'd imagine more addressing larger, audiences. you think that, positive mind change snowballed into that? That's something you wouldn't normally have considered Going back to, when you were working in corporate.

Anastasia Salichou 14:40

Yeah. L- so I didn't go directly into speaking to larger audiences. I worked one-to-one with people, and that was going very well, so we're getting s- amazing results, so that was giving me a lot of energy and inspiration to continue, and, I started having referrals here and there. So i-i- it was a very different way of life, for sure. And it was scary at the beginning because I had invested a lot of money in the school, one of the most prestigious schools in, in the world. And I wasn't-- I was-- I had left my job. The last job I had, I was getting paid. So I left that one, the secure one, and so I was basically earning zero for some time until I started have- having some clients, and that was, a very limited amount of money, and then it started growing. But, it was definitely very different. And in this big difference, I had to go from somebody who works alone on their computer to do things that are m-more with, reports and stuff like that into talking to people, and that was the biggest... That, that was the big transition, the big change that I had to work, a lot on because I'm not a very talkative person usually. And I had to explain what I do and how I do it, and I had to advertise myself. That was very difficult for me,

Darren Gentle 16:21

w-would you say that working for yourself though was rewarding as well as, job satisfaction from helping people?

Anastasia Salichou 16:30

It Has always been very fulfilling. it feels... First of all, I, of course, I have a lot more freedom now than I used to have, working for other people. Now I am, when I'm working a lot, I'm working myself. I am excited to research new stuff. Although, with my old job, I just didn't want to do anything more with it, basically. So now everything I do is for my own, in-investing in myself and helping other people. So it is a big difference.

Darren Gentle 17:07

So we've... You've made that change. the corporate life is well in the rear view mirror now, and uh, you can see that this, what started as a change of attitude and just getting that little bit of positivity, it go in, it snowballed enough that it helped change your diet, which snowballed and made you feel even better and then helping people, which made you feel even better again. So you're, all of a sudden, you're, you're quietly replacing your old job, you're finding this new life, this new balance, and things are looking much better. So w- how did that journey then progress from there basically to where you are now? did I see that you, traveled quite a bit as well then? W- Was that at that point, or was that a bit further down the road?

Anastasia Salichou 17:52

Yeah, it was around that time that I started also traveling a lot. circumstances gave me the opportunity to travel a lot in the US, for studies and not only for studies, for stay-- I, I stayed in the US for some time. And, so I worked as a health coach for two, three years. And then with my clients, although there were-- I, I realized that the-- although there were some clients who were getting amazing results very fast because they were changing their diet according to what we talked about, and then I studied further, and I could give them and suggest supplements for specific, things they were going through. Some of my clients, they seem to... So I meet with them every two weeks, okay? for the first week after we meet, they are excited, they are doing the things we talked about, and then the second week they fall back into their old habits. And it's a mess, basically, because they go back and forth all the time. And I was very upset because I felt like I couldn't help them. And then I started realizing that these people have deep-embedded trauma. They have deep stuff, emotional and mental stuff that are blocking their vision for themselves, for the future. They're stopping them. There's there's this thinking that th-there's nothing they can do, that they will always fail and things like that. And then I realized I wanted to go deeper into understanding how our thoughts affect our reality, belief systems, childhood, the way we think in general, and the way we feel. So I started pursuing that in a more energetic and karmic way. So this is where I sta- I stumbled upon several amazing modalities, apart from Reiki, that gave me the tools to go deeper with belief work. And then I-- because I was excited with that, and I found that it goes deeper and gives me the tool to go deeper with people I started, waning off of the health coaching part and then, giving my c- the existing clients the p- the option to continue with me in a d- in a different way. and then attracting more people that were more, into the spiritual side of things, more, they wanted to understand themselves deeper, and this is where the Akashic Records came, too. So I changed my business.

Darren Gentle 20:47

Yeah. So you've still kept the old clients, but given the option to get on board with this new way of thinking as well, this, these new therapies, okay. So how have you found that? how quickly did that build? How, how did you find it, I suppose? Did, did you, did you see results almost straight away with clients? were they fully invested into it when they got going?

Anastasia Salichou 21:12

So the, the results are very, usually very fast. So with the intuitive coaching, the spiritual coaching, and the energy healing part, it's more vague to say what we- people are getting, right? But the results in people's lives, are very evident to the change they have been through, the transformation they have been through. So yeah, pe- people started getting results as empowerment from deciding to change careers to, to, divorcing that 'cause because they were thinking about it for 20 years and they were not doing it and Or, going into a new relationship in a new way that's more effective for them. It was all kinds of changes that people And through this work, people can get different, results depending on what they want. So that was, of course, for me, evident to the work I'm doing to see what the clients were getting.

Darren Gentle 22:21

I was just gonna say, when a, say a new client comes to you, do they come to you with, the issue, the problem The, the, the, they want a career change. they feel like their life is, just part of this daily grind and they don't see any sort of light to the tunnel, or do they just say, look, I just need help. I'm not in a great place at the moment. Do, I'm just trying to think. do they start at the problem? Do they already know the problem before?

Anastasia Salichou 22:45

Yeah. Some of them do. They do-- they know what they want to achieve and they, that they don't have, so they come to me for that. So they are very specific. And some other people are more vague in the sense, "I don't feel well. I feel like I'm confused. I don't know where I'm going. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I want in life." So we work into identifying more of who they really are, in a sense, so that they can understand what goals are theirs and 'Cause why this happens when people are confused and they don't know where they are going, is because usually they have been taking on other people's, goals for, as theirs. Like their parents, society's. So they follow these and then at some point it doesn't work for them because it's very misaligned, and, they don't Because they have been doing that for long, they have no idea what they actually want. So there is like this, "I don't want where I'm going, but I have no idea what I actually want because I've never practiced wanting my own goals." So it, it could be both, but generally most people, in a sense, because you asked if they know what the problem is. No, people don't know what

Darren Gentle 24:14

providing them with

Anastasia Salichou 24:15

That's why we

Darren Gentle 24:15

sense of clarity. it's giving them that, the tools to sort think for themselves Okay. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. So c-could you tell us a bit more about, methods you use? like manifestation? I think we've all heard of that, but not sure how many would have actually practiced that. I think in principle I, I'm totally on board with it and if there's something in particular I, I want to achieve or, or target, then that is something I possibly consciously or subconsciously focus on and I make sure the path I take leads to where I want it to go. is that a very sort of basic outlook o-on or is there a lot more to it? Basically, could you just a bit more.

Anastasia Salichou 24:57

yeah. Although my approach is not the basic approach of think positively and good things will happen to you. That's a very good start, but it doesn't take you very far. so if we're talking about manifestation, realization of our goals, in another term, in another way, w- what we want see is- Whether-- So let's say the goal is and we're here, how to get to that point, and sometimes it's about just making some act- taking some actions, which is n- very easily identified usually, and that's the part of the coaching I do, right? Taking some actions like, "Oh, I want to create a podcast," let's say. Okay, what do you need? Y-you don't need to change your frequency to create a podcast. You just need to find some-- your, your equipment, set up a time, and start finding your guests, right? Very-- I-it can be very practical. But in the terms let's say, I want to create a relationship, then a little bit more, it's a little bit more energetic work because then it's about indeed changing the frequency of ourselves and sometimes identifying some men-mental and and emotional issues that are lingering from past experiences, past relationships that maybe 'Cause the subconscious mind, you can think of it as the iceberg. a lot of people, give that image, and that's how it is basically. W-we can see the conscious part. The conscious part says, "I want to have a relationship." The subconscious part says, "I don't want to have a relationship because the previous relationship I was feel- I felt restricted. I was abused. It wasn't good. It's going to be same way. I don't want it. I'm better alone," And the subconscious will win every time because we don't know the-- what is going on there. So because it's working underneath the surface, it will find a way to manifest itself. So unless we figure out what's going on under the surface, understand what beliefs are, and some of the beliefs, s- some of the beliefs might be the ones I mentioned, and clear the energies of those, the, having a relationship might be m- in a sense blocked. It might be we're making our l- our life difficult, and that's just an example, right? Or finding an ideal, job or becoming a healer 'cause I have clients that want to become healers themselves and, getting clients. So we need to go into the, underneath the surface stuff We can get to the point where we understand what's going on and we release the experiences, in a sense, that are creating the loops of the subconscious mind. Does it make sense?

Darren Gentle 28:25

yeah. Yeah. it doesn't matter really what, how much you think you're you're able to change and Correct. what the you're, you're you're looking at when you've got the subconscious is pretty much in control regardless. Yeah. it's pretty much it's very much like what you've already done yourself, haven't you, it's bursting out of a bubble, and it's a very difficult thing to do, isn't it? It's not something that can be done, very quickly, but it can be done with a lot of small actions, Yeah.

Anastasia Salichou 28:54

Yeah. Yeah, it depends on how fast someone, can go and how ready they are, right? For me, the changes happened very fast because I was ready. I was birthing it into it, like it was being birthed into it for quite some time because I didn't like my school. I wasn't really feeling, fulfilled in it. I was like, "Nah." And then because it was aligned, the changes happened fast. But some changes, might take a long time. Some others might take a really might be really fast. sometimes I'm surprised by the results people are creating after one or two sessions where their life has changed dramatically just because we did a healing.

Darren Gentle 29:44

So what does the future look like for you now? I, I, I know you mentioned people are interested in possibly learning, how to do these techniques themselves. would you go down that road of, of teaching as well? Where do you see yourself?

Anastasia Salichou 30:00

I will continue my one-to-one work because that's, that, that feels really aligned and I love it. And at the same time, I working I'm working on, um, exactly as you said, teaching some of the techniques I'm using, and I have been using for quite some time now, in order to teach people how do it on themselves or how to do it on other people if they wish to. Um, and I am already working on a course I'm going to be offering in order to do that. So this, this is will be my next step, more group work and

Darren Gentle 30:39

Oh, that's amazing. Well, thank you so much for joining us today, Anastasia, and really appreciate your time, and it's been a fascinating story. I've loved talking to I, I just still find it amazing that you've gone from that... Obviously, being an electrician myself, I know what that... I can see that environment. I know the environment you're in there. And to get, to go from there, um, and suddenly sort of finding that positive energy to, to sort of make that change, finally making that decision and saying, "Right, I need to make a change here. That something needs to change." And to, you know, the, the, and the result is not just a positive change for you, and hopefully you're in a much, much better place now and you, you know, it's, it's more than obvious you're, you're very, very happy with, with the direction you're taking. But the fact that you're taking other people with you and you're helping other people out along the, your journey, I think is amazing. Um, and thank you so much. Thank you for joining us today. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

Anastasia Salichou 31:46

Thank you, Darren. Nice to be

31:51

And that for me is what Island Life Stories is all about. That moment when someone says enough and then actually does something about it. Anastasia went from burning out in a corporate office to helping other people breaking free from the loops that are keeping them stuck. And the really beautiful thing, she used the same logical engineering mind she thought she'd left behind to figure it all out. You'll find links to Anastasia's work in the show notes below