Tarot As A Tool For Healing with SpiritHealer Wellness

Tarot gets dismissed as “woo woo” when it is really a mirror, and sometimes a map. We sit down with Nicole Colella from Spirit Healer Wellness to talk about what tarot looks like when it is used with care, structure, and real-world purpose: helping you name the patterns you are stuck in, understand where your blocks live, and start making changes you can feel in your mind and body.

Nicole shares how her path into intuitive work opened after the loss of her dad, and how learning tarot felt like finally understanding a language she had been hearing her whole life. We also unpack one of the biggest misconceptions around tarot reading: the idea that it is all about predicting your future. Nicole explains how she uses tarot more like a diagnostic tool, blending channeling with her life coaching background so the insight turns into practical next steps. If you are curious about energy healing, she also breaks down how her approach goes beyond simply “sending energy” by working on mind, body, and spirit together.

Community is a core part of Spirit Healer Wellness, too. Nicole talks about her healers networking dinners, why collaboration matters in holistic wellness, and how she reaches clients through word of mouth and Natural Awakenings magazine. We also touch on her niche work in pet communication and pet mediumship, plus the creative side of her life, from knitting and crochet to writing tarot manuals and teaching.

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Transcript

Welcome And Meet Nicole

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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Joe Longo.

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Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast Live. Are you in need of a spiritual healing community? Well, one might be closer than you think. And today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbor, Nicole Kalella, with Spirit Healer Wellness. Nicole, thank you so much for being here with me today. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 0:32

Thanks for having me. Hi, Joe. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

Oh, you're so welcome. I cannot tell you how happy it is to see you sitting outside because of our up and down and up and down weather that we've been having. So it's just it's nice to see that maybe spring is actually here and will stay for more than a day.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Well, I'm it's it feels like summer today. We have a high in 94. So wow, right?

SPEAKER_02 0:54

It has been all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Yeah.

What Spirit Healer Wellness Offers

SPEAKER_02 0:57

So can you tell us a little bit about Spirit Healer Wellness?

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Well, it is a wellness center that is built around forming community. I do private one-on-one sessions where I am a tarot reader and an energy healer. I also do pet communication and pet mediumship. But a lot of what I also do is find ways to get people from the community together, to gather, to meet each other and to

How Tarot Found Her

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really collaborate.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

That's wonderful. How did you get into this space?

SPEAKER_01 1:31

I always say the universe dragged me kicking and screaming.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

That's usually what happens.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yeah, yeah, basically. Um, so it was back in 2020. My my dad had passed away, and just kind of I really started discovering that I had been psychic my whole life, and I really didn't understand. It's it's like you get plopped into a foreign country and you don't know the language, and everybody's trying to communicate with you, and then you finally learn the language and the bell goes off, and it's like ding. And that's basically what happened when I learned how to read the tarot. And how that happened was it literally showed up in a subscription box to me for you know, and I was like, oh, okay, I guess this is what I'll do next. Like, there's really nothing else to do. And uh and then just it was like I opened Pandora's box, and um, it's just been growing from there. But yeah, it was it was literally like I learned the language that I needed.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

That's so interesting. I I love it when when that happens. Um, in this space that you work in, some may

Tarot Misconceptions And Real Work

SPEAKER_02 2:42

call it woo-woo, if you will. What are some of the misconceptions that you found through through the years of this work?

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Oh, the biggest one is that I am not going to tell you your fortune of the way that I work is using the tarot almost as a diagnostic tool. And um also from a life coaching perspective, because I do have a life coaching certification as well. So it's more about working through what barriers are causing, like are coming up against your coming up against, or some trauma or some pattern that you're not releasing that's holding you back. So that's more of what I use the tarot for. It's not for like fortune telling. And yes, there are like fortune tellers out there that tell you your future and all that stuff, but they're not really using the tarot. They're just kind of they're tapping into other sources, um, and maybe just using the tarot as a tool to keep the client's eyes busy. It's more what I'm doing is more of um the opposite. Like I'm using the tarot to keep my eyes busy because I'm channeling information in. But the tarot is almost like cues for me to understand what's being told to me through the channeling I'm doing.

Building A Healer Community

SPEAKER_02 4:06

And as we were talking before we hit record, could you share a little bit about what you were doing with community and for the healers that that are in the community?

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Oh, yeah, absolutely. So every other month I have what I refer to as the healers networking dinner. And basically that's for holistic healers in all walks of professions to come together and we just have a meal together and we, you know, we network, we talk about issues that we're all encountering, ways to solve problems. Sometimes we just go really deep and start asking like questions of like, hey, do you encounter this or what's your take on that? And it gets really, really cool. And sometimes it lasts way longer than it should.

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That's when you know you have a good, you have something good going.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Right.

Finding Clients And Standing Out

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So we all know that marketing is at the heart of every business. Who are your target customers and how are you attracting them?

SPEAKER_01 5:05

So I am right now, I am primarily doing two things word of mouth, and secondly, um, hold on a second. I'm sorry, I've got a noisy puppy. Here he is. Yes. So um, and then I'm also advertising in Natural Awakenings magazine. So that has a very like specific target market already. And that's really um that's really bringing in a lot of the clientele. And you know, the word of mouth is is big too because it's um it's a rarity that people actually work with animals and do animal mediumship. That's something that I also specialize in. And then I also do energy work, energy healing, but it's different than Reiki, it's more advanced because I do bring in that life coaching perspective and that diagnostic tool of the tarot, as well as crystals. So it's not just me pumping energy at you. We're sitting down and we're saying, okay, well, why are you in this pattern? And where are these blockages in your body and what's causing them? Like, where are these behavior patterns coming from? And we really start to solve. And when someone, it's kind of almost like the 12-step program that you have to like recognize that you have the problem in order to start to fix it. So it's not just that I'm sitting here throwing energy at you. We're working on every level, mind, body, and spirit.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

Right. Very, very important to get them all together on the same page.

Podcast Plans And Creative Life

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Correct.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Um, have you ever thought about having a podcast of your own and and sharing this knowledge and this through this kind of platform?

SPEAKER_01 6:56

I I have. I have um I've tried on Instagram live a few times. I mean, not a few times. I mean, I've done it with other facilitators where I interview other facilitators and then I take it and I put it on Spotify, and that's called the Magician and the Divine. I actually have that. Um, but I haven't really expanded out into it. I'd like to, I am considering it, but it's just it's fine. I don't want to say it's finding the time, but it's it's like a whole nother job.

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Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

It it definitely is. Um, and worthwhile in this world that we live in with everybody wants us to be everywhere all of the time. Um so when you're not doing this work, what are you doing for fun?

SPEAKER_01 7:41

I am an avid knitter and crocheter, which I was at one point um during COVID, I was writing and publishing patterns. So that was something that I was doing before the tarot deck showed up. And so um that's um I'm fear took on Etsy just to push that. So I do still have that out there, and I am still doing that. I spend time with my animals and just time out in nature, and that's basically what I do. I love to read, I am also writing, I and I teach. So I have written this year alone, I've written three books or three manuals on the tarot, and then I am actually working on creating the rest of the manuals for my healing modality. So there's gonna be seven in total, and I'm on the fourth one right now.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

Wow, Nicole, you are keeping busy. You are you are keeping busy for sure.

Everyone Is Welcome Here

SPEAKER_02 8:44

If you can tell our listeners one thing that they should remember about spirit healer wellness, what would that be?

SPEAKER_01 8:52

They're always welcome. Um, I and you know, the community just isn't in person, the community is also online. So there's there's a lot of things that are going on that people can participate in from wherever they are, and they can do that virtually with us too.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

That's great. And can you tell our listeners where they can find out and learn more about spirit healer wellness?

Where To Find Spirit Healer Wellness

SPEAKER_01 9:18

Sure. My website is spirithealerwellness.com. I am also on Instagram and Facebook under Spirit Healer Wellness, and um, that's that's it.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

That's great. That's great, Nicole. Thank you so much for being part of the Good Neighbor podcast today. We wish you all of the luck and success moving forward with everything that you're doing and creating.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Thank you for having me.

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