75. Evolving Beyond Mental Health Labels & Using Your Voice w/ Danielle Be
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this guest episode, we have the outstanding Danielle Be! Danielle (she/they), is a 41 year old, cisgender, queer, fat, disabled, culturally white woman of mixed descent. She has dedicated her life to the service of others - first, to smaller beings in the animal welfare field, and now, to humans, as she provides guidance from her path to yours. Her healing journey began from her deep need for understanding what was going on in her life and body. It is her honour to now provide spiritual guidance and embodied wisdom; she has found great solace, insight, and relief from her chronic conditions...
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74. Mediumship, Divination, & Trusting Your Channel with Kristen Lightwork
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this episode, we have another amazing guest, Kristen Lightwork! Kristen is a professional spiritual medium and tarot reader. Growing up us a military brat, she discovered that it wasn't just the houses that were haunted along the journey. She has always had a deep connection with the spiritual realm and paranormal ever since she was a little girl. Those experiences led Kristen to use her intuitive discernment and channel to bring forth messages from the other side. She uses her gifts to help others find spiritual alignment in their lives and bridge the gap of belief in the spiritual...
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73. Embodying Presence in the midst of Healing, Change, & Grief with Vanessa
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this guest episode, I am thrilled to introduce you all to Vanessa! She is a Certified Practitioner in the Emotion Code, Body Code, Belief Code, Quantum Healing, and Intuitive Rebirth. She also has training in muscle Testing, Western Astrology, and Trauma Informed Care. She offers one-to-one energy shifting sessions and is creating a guide to help people connect with their own body and energy field through nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and self-reflection. Her vision for her business, Dawning Hope, is to let others know that even after the darkest night, the sun always...
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72. Rejecting Parts of Self is Rejecting Your Medicine
Creating Light with Kelsey
Rejecting parts of self... we all do it. This is a protective mechanism that we automatically do in order to survive in the environments we grow up in. If a personality trait of the self is deemed unworthy or unlovable by our caregivers or society, we start to reject (suppress) those parts of self. We do this in order to receive love an belonging, which are basic needs as humans in order to survive. It can become a sacrifice to get those needs met which then comes with consequences. When we start to consistently reject parts of self, we are also rejecting aspects of our light, our power, our...
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71. Remember Who You Are
Creating Light with Kelsey
Remember who you are... what a concept, right? I had a healer tell me this over a year ago, to which my ego quickly responded to that statement with, "Pretty sure I remember who the fuck I am, but thank you." LOL... On this episode, I share how that statement now makes sense, and that I did in fact forget who I was. Because 2022 was a massive year of spiritual lessons where I stepped off the path of alignment in various ways, one of the ways being that I took down my story on the podcast, and these last couple years I've been coming back into alignment. (interesting that it took twice as long...
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70. Grief, Domestic Violence, & Breaking Cycles with Bri Deemer
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this guest episode, I am pleased to welcome, Bri Deemer!! Bri is on a mission of opening up heart chakras through somatic experiences. She is a retreat leader and somatic coach based out of Hawaii with 18 years of body work and reiki behind her (which is nothing short of powerful, calm, and clear). Bri has gone through a lot of change, grief, and triumphs in her 37 years of life, which has allowed her to have a depth many don't experience until their 50s. Her presence and embodiment is regularly put to practice through being a mother, free diver, and avid somatic experience seeker. Bri...
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69. Maintaining Liberation After Leaving Trauma Bonds
Creating Light with Kelsey
My Story pt6. Just because we leave a traumatic relationship, situation, or toxic cycle doesn't mean we then have the capacity to remain free from it. On this episode, I share what my life was like after I had left the trauma bonded relationship (the first time). That by leaving, it then created the space for my supressed pain to finally be felt so I could get free from internal suffering... but, I didn't actually have the capacity to be with that discomfort and feel it. This was the period of my life where I was in full swing of operating off my shadows. Doing anything I could to distract...
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68. Reconnecting To My Darkness
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this episode, I discuss how I have been reconnecting to my darkness. That by re-sharing my story on the podcast it has re-surfaced shadow aspects of self that I didn't realized I had abandoned. They are being seen again and it's been challenging. Trust has been broken, fear is present, vulnerability is at the forefront, and my shadows have a lot to say. Deciding to no longer hide is no fucking joke. Even though this has been challenging, it has also been liberating. I am remembering at a deeper level (as the spiral goes) that my wisdom lies within my darkness. That is where the medicine...
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67. Flowing with Chaos
Creating Light with Kelsey
Chaos is an inevitable part of life of being human. It is a guaranteed visitor at least twice a year during the spring and fall eclipse seasons. Since this is something that cannot be stopped, how can we then flow WITH chaos instead of resisting it (and hurting ourselves in the process)? On this episode, I share how chaos has been visiting me lately, how it is mirroring a previous chaotic time from 4 years ago, and how this time I was able to flow with it better. Spoiler alert, it involved feeling my feelings. Key Takeaways: Being on the healing journey doesn't mean you're immune to...
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66. The Paradox of Grief, Hope, and Love with Alexa Rising
Creating Light with Kelsey
On this guest episode we have the lovely Alexa Rising! Alexa is a spirited woman, who is stepping into a chapter of educating herself and community about ways to heal and find safety through movement, dance, and mindfulness. Recently certified as a Dharma Life and Soul Purpose Coach and Somatic Activated Healing Teacher, Alexa is learning to navigate the present through a lens of changing the course of her life by stepping away from her career as a teacher, and working to shift her life mindset through pursuing a more aware lifestyle. During the past few years, Alexa has worked closely...
info_outlineIn this episode, I talk about the process of overcoming avoidance. How it often can be a complex issue of it being something that we ultimately do not want to do and may have the conscious awareness of how it does not serve us, but can struggle to break out of using avoidance as a coping mechanism. I share how for me, I was becoming overwhelmed with past traumatic memories along with needing to face the fact that I just left a trauma bonded relaitonship, but it was all too much, I did not have the proper tools, and what my body knew to get through my days, was to avoid. It was a process of slowly but surely learning how to chip away at the avoidance tendencies to choose to be with discomfort instead of suppress. Through this process, the biggest revelation I had was that happiness, being at peace with myself, took work.
Tips to overcome avoidance:
- Start small
- Keep promises to yourself
- Quick somatic tools
- Curious compassion when wanting to avoid
- Let this be a trial and error and process
- Ask yourself, "What's the alternative?"
- Looking at avoidance through the lens of self-love
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