If you’re hurt and angered by unsolicited criticism, you come by it honestly through human biology.  It activates our instincts.  In the modern world, we navigate so many intrusive opinions about how we live our lives coming from people who aren’t stakeholders in how we do life. Having a well-thought-out personal policy about who is and isn’t invited to give advice, feedback, reflection, or criticism is useful in being able to navigate these situations effectively.  Then we can fast track...

When we raise our vibration (or make our energy brighter), we move through the world more easily.  It improves our direct, in the moment experience as well as helping to manifest things that support us and deflect things that do not.  There are many things we can do to raise our vibration.  Ideally, you want to create a personal list of things that have a high return on investment of results for energy expended.  These things ideally will also be highly accessible on an average Tuesday and be...

When we’re stressed, our minds often ruminate on the past and worry about the future.  When it comes to the future, we tend to imagine that we’ll have the same or less (money, support, health, etc.) to deal with hard things.  Meditation and moving our bodies are great medicine for this.  But, for me, I also cultivate the ability to facilitate my mind into shifting away from overthinking the future.  Creating authentic faith in future me to deal with situations as they arise is something that...

In this episode I talk about creativity and money and where those intersect and where they don’t.  I also share that I’m musing on the future of the podcast.  If this podcast has had value for you, I hope you’ll drop me a line at [email protected] and let me know.  Or tag me on Facebook or Instagram with a comment. I’m celebrating the milestone of over 40,000 unique downloads, which is wonderful!  But I’m not sure if I’m seeing new growth.  I’d be grateful if you’d leave a 5-star...

I recently enjoyed a magical trip through Yellowstone and Wyoming.  I share about my journey and some reflections along the way in this episode.    Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions...

People often end up limiting their emotional experience to a handful of flavors.  These could be unpleasant ones that they default into and/or favorite ones that they chase.  This approach disconnects us from a lot of the opportunity of the human experience and tends to promote some health challenges along the way. In this podcast I share a bit about a client of mine who had a number of lifetimes experiencing a particular flavor of difficult emotions.  The result was that all of the healing...

Most of us receive little or no training in how to use our psychic and intuitive abilities to effectively support our lives.  The default can be hypervigilance even when we’re enjoying excellent safety.  In this podcast, I talk about how to redirect your third eye to maintain appropriate situation awareness, while mostly scanning for possibilities and ways forward.  This simple redirection will refocus our psychic abilities and help us to create the life we want. Want to support my work and...

Our best qualities can also, if left unsupervised and allowed to run amok, be the qualities that most damage our relationships.  In this podcast I pull from some recent moments in my own life exploring Destined for Doom ways of relating that we may feel are actually likely to create success, no matter how much evidence we have experienced to the contrary.  I explore unsolicited advice, contribution, and arguing with the other person’s truth if you’re not getting what you want in...

I’d like to offer some insight on navigating weight loss with self-compassion.  The less struggle we can bring to lifestyle changes, the more sustainable they become.  As it happens, I wrote up some really cool show notes when I first recorded this, but I’m in the Yellowstone area when this is due for release and my cloud drive didn’t agree with me about making them available as I roam.   So, I’ll let the title and episode mostly speak for themselves. You can get a 35% discount on my full...

Lifestyle changes can be incredibly complicated to implement and sustain.  Giving yourself grace with this complexity and implementing a plan to address this aspect will improve your results.  I talk about lining up the energy around the change we want.  And also, about overcoming the aversion chemistry that seeks to get us to avoid implement things that we know are good for us but our inner cave person thinks threaten our survival.  I hope this helps you find a graceful path forward to a...

We have an aspect of our soul that is the bridge between the human experience and the soul journey.  It’s connected both to the now and the eternal.  We can learn to use our mind to direct our psychic abilities to take counsel with our inner wise one!   For a variety of reasons, sometimes doing something like shamanic journey may not be the optimal way to send our awareness out to talk with our guides. If we’re highly emotional (which we all are at times), we may not have the clarity and...

As a former engineer turned shamanic practitioner, I’m incredibly interested in efficiency and elegance in addressing the question of what will create the most holistically fulfilling life.  In this podcast, I explore some ways to get to clarity on what you want, to screen out the ways our minds lie to us, and to find a sustainable path forward toward that outcome. Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer:...

A powerful way to sustain health, vitality and personal happiness is by keeping the fire of your passion for living vibrant and bright. I often work with people who don’t have a death wish, but neither do they have a particular life wish. The lack of a strong vision and intention in this area can create vulnerability to illness and accidents.  Learn about tending and amplifying your life wish! Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership offer:...

In this episode I share about a couple of months that were hard for me.  Sometimes it’s one big thing and other times a number of small things that undermine our well-being and emotional centeredness.  I hope this episode helps you to have compassion for yourself and others when things get tough.  Also, to have a realistic idea about what mindset and meditation can and can’t do to help.  And I hope it gives you some ideas to move yourself along the journey of restoring your well-being when...

I adore traveling and connecting with land magic!  I even wrote a short book with all my best knowledge:  https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Travel-Practical-Shamanism-Vacations-ebook/dp/B00C2LKZE6 In this episode, I share about some of my top travel tips for working with energy and connecting with the land.  Also, some specifics about places like Ireland, Peru, Iceland, New Mexico, Death Valley and more! Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my membership...

Sometimes we get so wounded by other people’s messiness and unskillful relating or outright bad behavior that we don’t want to engage our hearts with other people going forward.  We can unconsciously (or consciously) create heart armor to avoid future connection.  We can even distort and disrupt our natural, healthy ability to run energetic connection with other humans. I invite you to treat healing heartache and loss as a learnable skill.  Often new possibilities flow into empty spaces...

I had a journey some years ago wherein my guides talked to me about ways I was using my will and magic to stabilize things in my life that had run their course out of a fear of and resistance to change.  They shared ways it was limiting the life I would live and asked me to make a choice about this aspect. In this podcast, I talk about ways to catch when we’re doing this and how our instincts can cause our mind to rationalize remaining committed to an unstainable course of action.  I give...

I received an email from a former client I haven’t interacted with in years that went into detail about how terrible I was for holding a boundary about being paid in the standard way before working with her.  It included expressions of pity that I was such a terrible, money motivated person that I would do such a hurtful, obviously awful thing to her.  It was, among other things, a trip down memory lane of a lot of failures in my early attempts at relating to friends and lovers.  When I got...

I find myself in a season where my deepest longings are for time freedom and less external stimulation.  I’m taking a break from many of the things I normally engaging in, like travel and dating.  I’m also taking a break from my personal improvement goals and settling for sustaining what’s already in place for supporting my body, mind, and spirit. I’m quilting, engaging with my business and clients, and watching movies.  The net effect of some romantic disappointments and a tough financial...

One of the best uses of our psychic abilities isn’t so much about seeing the world around us, but navigating the world within.  We can use our gifts to track what’s going on with ourselves on the subtle levels.  I often find for myself and my clients that unfavorable results are the result of an adversarial relationship between different parts of the self.  We can learn to be a wise mediator such that we come into a collaboration between our various aspects.  In the modern era, we need all of...

Having our lives bring experiences of pleasure and delight is utterly necessary to feeling like life is a gift instead of something heavy to be gotten through.  Yet, often we are distracted and derailed from things that would bring authentic pleasure at a human level, to our unique soul, or to both.  I talk vulnerably about ways I activate biological pleasure with thinking and with the things I consume and my journey to wrangle that gently into more moderation to free up space for the kinds...

Want to make sure you're staying strong, resourceful and focused amidst the current financial changes? Join me in this podcast as I offer wisdom intended to help upgrade your money mastery skills. Learn how to increase manifestation capabilities so that it'll be easier for you get real world results aligned with what best supports your needs! Special offer: You can get my Money Mastery Program for just $32 instead of the normal $97 when you sign up for any of my $25 healing offers through...

I’d like to make a case for optimism and hope about the future of humanity and the planet, even amid the loud, complicated times we’re living in.  I’m not attempting to erase or disregard the gulf between a needs met, balanced, and sustainable world and where we are today.  But I am heartened when I look at the speed at which certain important things are changing for the better. Take apart times can be complex and that’s certainly what we’re living in now.  Yet, there are also so many old...

I’m often asked how I came to make such a career pivot.  Often due to time constraints of the conversation, I share the short version.  But here’s the longer version.  I share about becoming an entrepreneur, writing my first book, and falling in love with soul retrieval work.  I hope you enjoy it! Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check...