Next up on Soul Level Human. 

So many people on the path of awakening suddenly think they have to change everything. 

Everyone that I'm talking to is going through a bit of a throat chakra upgrade. 

Wow, this is great. 

Motherhood, that is a whole transformative  crucible of a container that brings everything to the surface to be looked at, to be healed, to be worked through.

You can't tell your children to do something that you're not willing to do yourself. 

Have you noticed a change in your acting from this perspective?

It almost came out of my mouth. Oh, well, I'm channeling. Before I knew that's what I was doing. 

Huge, huge. 

I was there in circle with you the day that you stepped into your claim being a teacher,  being leader of being a guide.

Traffic is your teacher. Amen. traffic. 

Traffic is your teacher. The 4 0 5 is my greatest teacher. 

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Please welcome to the show. My dear friend, Autumn Reeser.  Autumn Reeser, welcome to the show. Soul level human. Good to see you. Yeah. 

Thanks for having me. I love that we're doing this together. Me too. Oh my gosh. 

I cannot wait to just jump in, but we were just talking off camera and we just decided to do. 

Start recording because I had the idea to set the intention and to drop in and to just channel this whole thing. And then you said to just start recording and let's do it on camera. So here we are. So why don't we start with breathing?  If you're listening, you can join us to close your eyes, get comfy in your chair.

If you can, it feels, if it feels comfortable for you,  sit straighter.  Get your feet on the floor, if you like, and just notice how your breath is feeling to start, and then see if you could turn up the volume on the deepening of that breath,  and allow it to just drop in, slow everything down,  allow yourself to fully arrive,  let go of whatever it was that you were doing before, anything that's  taking up mental space.

Like apps running in the background of your phone. Close them all out for just a little bit. And as you take a really, really deep breath on the out breath, imagine yourself releasing all of that extra energy. And the big theme for today that's been coming through is a major voice activation.  And of course we're on the podcast together, um, pretty on the nose, but seasonally, astrologically, energetically, synchronistically, everyone that I'm talking to is going through a bit of a throat chakra upgrade.

Okay. So we're good. Do you have anything else 

to add? 

Thank you for that. We don't get to do that enough 

easy to do the shorthand of things when we're alone,  just like marking it like dance steps. Right? Yeah. Okay.  But when we are even in community of two,  it helps to anchor the energy solidify the intention. 

It's kind of a feedback loop that helps you just be a little bit more present a little bit more intentional with what you're doing. Do you find that too? 

Absolutely. 

And it creates a shared intentional space. And my intention is clear communication.  

Me too. I hope my voice rings far and wide and touches  the truth nerve that it needs to hit.

I second that. 

Let that vibration do everything it needs to do and release the outcome. 

May it be 

so.  

A freaking men  . Oh my love. I am so happy to have you here. And what an adventure it's been. Um, I wanna go way, way back to the beginning, how we met the completely, drastically different phases of life that we were in, and how it's transformed to now.

So to get everybody caught up.  2009, I believe. Rehearsal dinner.  I feel like it was somewhere in there. Oh no, you met my husband first. That's what 

happened. 

I met your husband in acting class and he's also a very talented photographer and he photographed my rehearsal dinner. As well as like other shoots really early in my career.

So funny. And then we became friends.  I became friends with all your friends. Now they're all my friends,  which I'm so grateful for every day, every day. And somewhere in there, there was a whole spiritual awakening process, which I'm completely glossing over. That's like a decade's worth in one sentence. 

Yeah. And then motherhood. Parenting, moving, supporting each other. 

Yeah. And now here we are. And now here we are. Yeah. And our connection, it's been so  fun to meet  different deepening layers of each other on this journey. That's real. 

That was 

real. Will you share, and maybe you did this on a previous podcast, but I want you to do it on this one too.

Will you share what your inspiration was for creating this podcast?  And what is the, what is the angle from which you're, you're approaching these interviews?  

Yeah. So my intention is really to anchor a soul level presence. So level intention, so level living and illustrate and show what that actually looks like practically, not just for psychics, not just for mediums, not just for healers.

What does it look like to live as a soul in the 3d world as a regular person? No matter what the job title is. So I want to really dive into what does it look like for you? How do you set your intentions? What is your background religiously? What is your family context about how does that inform how you make your decisions now?

Um, and how do you navigate life  with your intuition?  

Yes. Yeah. I love it. And I think this is such an important direction because I think so many people on the path of awakening, however it comes to them, suddenly think they have to change everything and become a Reiki master, for example, or, you know, move to Costa Rica and open a retreat center.

And both of those things are amazing, but so much of what is needed right now is awakened souls in every part of society. In every job, everywhere.  

Exactly. In every job, everywhere. Yep. Yep. What does that look like?  Oh my god, I'm so annoyed by my throat. There's like the most disgusting like, just  gunk. 

Just like It's not just you.

It's I was in a class with my teacher, my teacher last night and same thing with her. Her voice is and there's something going on with mine right now. So I think there's some sort of collective throat chakra healing happening right now.  Yeah.  Okay. 

So  you. Or a working actor, you're a mom, you balance 10, 000 things.

Let's start with that. How do you start your day? How do you keep yourself plugged in? What does it look like for you? And how has it evolved over time? Oh yeah, 

that's a great question. Well, uh, first of all, my kids are 10 and 12. So that's a very different phase of parenting than when you have, for example, a three year old At home.

So everybody listening, this is this, the routine I'm about to say was not my routine when my kids were three, when my kids were three, it was like, you know, stumbling out of bed and somebody didn't sleep and somebody was in my bed and I'm just going for the coffee,  you know, just help me. Um, the routine that I've been doing right now, I have, um, a devotional practice that I'm waking up at five 55 for, for the last couple of weeks. 

And it's been really beautiful that, but the months before then I went through a couple of months of allowing myself to wake up on my own time or, you know, to get my kids at school, but to be gentle with myself and to not be super disciplined. And then I was ready to go back to the word that I want to use for it is devotional, not disciplined.

Um, 

and my practice is to sit in front of. My altar and light my candles and breathe and listen and just get present. And then I pray, I pray out loud because, and that was a big shift for me when I started praying out loud, which I started doing about a year ago, um, because I was afraid of my own voice  and so it's very scary.

You make that step because all you have to face all your resistance, all of the voices in your head. What are you doing? Who do you think you are? Whatever your own personal demons sound like. And now it's a major part of my practice and my skin tingles and I feel heard by the divine by God. And, um, especially during, um, challenging, painful times to know that you can send prayers into the field, um, for others feels, uh, very  important 

right now.

Hugely important. Um, I wanted to go back to the words you just chose devotional versus discipline. And I wonder how That's been a journey for you as well.  Yeah. 

Yeah. I think a lot of us are brought up with religious constructs that are, that are quite rigid. Um,  it's in the, it's in a cultural field. And while I think discipline can be spiritual discipline can be crucial at certain stages.

One of my teachers said, it says that which is spiritual is only that which is performed with joy.  And I've been leaning more and more towards that about, let me make sure this  feels good, that it doesn't feel like I've got, you know, that image of the priest with the whip,  like  giving his back, trying to discipline himself into  being  accepted by God.

When  you can come from a place of love, which he is what God is,  It feels a lot better.  It feels a lot better. And so for me to move and I've gone through periods of, you know, performing the traditional lent period of giving up certain things and following through and failing and. Facing those parts of myself and now I'm at this place where I'm doing my acts of devotion as a, as an offering as an offering to the divine and not as a way to punish myself or to beat myself into submission because we're, we're existing in many cultures of, of, of abuse. 

And to perpetuate that is not, uh, feeling good 

to 

me. 

Okay. The thing about the self flagellation,  the discipline, the control, and how that actually becomes a tool of oppression, a tool of. wounding. It's a, it's a way to keep that hurt cycle going versus coming from love  allows that to transform things almost as if by magic, right? 

A loving gesture, a loving word,  even, and especially if it starts with us,  has the power to change everything, to move mountains.  So can you come, could you have an example of what that looks like in your life, how that's  transformed a situation that had been 

untenable  before? I think I want to come at this from an example that I think most people will relate to, which is, um, like dieting.

Or trying to get yourself healthy talk about, you know, soul level, human day to day that most people come at, right? Uh, the absolute sure fail way to, uh, not succeed at your diet is to be self punitive.  Right? I'm not and it's usually how people start. January, I'm not going to eat this and I'm not going to eat this and I'm not going to do that.

I have to 

kick my own ass.  Yeah. I have to get my shit together. 

Yeah. And it's in the language. 

It's 

violent. It's violent. Yes. Exactly. And we're used to that way of being because it's normal living in systems of violence, right? 

Yes.  

So lo and behold, by day three, I'm not going to eat any cookies. Well, if I just have one, well, if I eat the cookie in the dark, well, if I eat the cookie at, you know, the justification we go into in order to  justify that we have set ourselves up  to fail so that we can then punish ourselves so that we can continue to exist in a cycle that we already know, which is a cycle of I'm not good enough. 

Yeah. Which is a cycle of I can never get anything right. Why? Because a lot of us were told that as children.  Yeah. Right. Or we're told the inherited language. That's it. Or you get 70 percent on a test. You failed.  As opposed to no, no, a test is supposed to just be a measure of knowledge so that we can then receive support for that, which we have yet to learn. 

So I've been on a huge, so I use that example because most people can relate to it. That's not going to work. And then you're going to be in the same cycle for the whole next year, because your soul is going to rebel against that because your soul doesn't want to be abused, this is not of God,  that's not, that's not, It's not how divinity wants to experience itself within a human form. 

Right. And so a lot of my journey has been around setting myself up for something like that. Um, messing up  and then learning that I can forgive myself  and, or that there's nothing to forgive or that there's nothing to forgive. Right. It's like, okay, that happened.  That happened. I love you.  Let's start again.

You know, and letting it be a process until it feels good. And so to use the, the diet example, to go further with that, that we shift our diet, not to punish ourselves in shape, but to nourish ourselves.  To nourish ourselves into greater love, into greater health, into creating a vessel that can support in better support, whatever my mission here is, whatever my commitments are to be a better mother, to have more energy available for my children, to have more energy available for myself, for romance, for love, for whatever it is that my soul wants to express and experience while I'm here.

How can I? Better nourish.  Myself  to, to experience and express all of that.  

So you just mentioned how everything really is truly all connected. And if you're not filling yourself up, you won't be able to do any of the things  around you. Yeah. Yeah. And it sounds so simple. It sounds so basic. It sounds, well, you know, so obvious, but it's so, I mean, it's just everything.

It is everything. Yeah. But also 

so many of us are, are overcommitted and overtaxed and feel like we have to do this and that. And also beyond the PTA or a room mom or whatever it is without really realizing, oh, I don't actually have the. Face to do all of that and fully be in my body and enjoy it, right?

We're so used to, to over committing. 

Yeah. I think so much of that really comes down to, well, not having the awareness, first of all. That all of those dynamics exist, that they all have an effect, that we have energy that affects everything  and the lack of honesty around all of it too. If you're not aware of it, you can't have an honest conversation about it.

Once you're aware of it, then you're still operating in the have tos. Well, yeah, it doesn't matter because I have to, I have to, I have to.  But then honestly, truly honestly, If we are able to get to the conversation with ourselves about does this fill me up, does this feel right, does, is this even necessary for me, is this mine, all of those conversations really start with an introspection that takes a lot of courage.

And most of us aren't able or willing to get to that place. Yeah. One of my 

favorite, um, things to ask  my friends or my clients when they are saying, Oh, and then I have to blah, blah, blah. And then I have to, I say, says who, who says you have to, and then they'll go into a lot of justifications about it. 

Really? Are you sure that's true?  Mm-Hmm.  . 

That's, that's when it gets fun when you start peeling the paper back or peeling the wallpaper back to see what's actually underneath. Um, when did you start having those conversations with yourself? 

Um, oh, when I was 30.  Uh, I basically blew up my life. I walked away from my marriage, from my house.

I built this big, beautiful life and then woke up inside of it and said,  I don't want any of this. It's not healthy. It's not what I want. Uh, who signed me up for this? How'd I get here? I started looking at every single choice I was making with that. Says who? Well, I have to blah, blah, blah. Says who?  You have to have a big house and it has to look this way and it has to blow.

Oh, really? Says who?  I live in a tiny two bedroom apartment that I rent right now. And I love it by intention because the amount of responsibility that was on my shoulders from owning this big. Four bedroom house that with this, it's hilarious to me. I drive by this house now and I'm like, whose house is that?

It's not mine. That house had nothing to do with me. It was chasing somebody's idea of who I was supposed to be. And by living a much more contained minimalist life,  it has  allowed me to do other things like travel. I don't have to spend hours cleaning this place.  Which is the best, the best freedom, right?

It's  like, I drove my other car practically into the ground. I didn't need a new car. I don't need like, we're told there's all these ideas that aren't even ours that we end up carrying around and chasing and chasing. Like, and I was a room mom for pretty much every year until I think my youngest son was in second grade and I couldn't get emails back to people on time and I was suddenly like,  I hate this.

I actually hate this and I'm not good at it.  So permission to offer my services and ways  that are, that are more effective to the world as opposed to having to do the thing just because doing this thing means you are a good mom or doing this thing, baking for the bake sale means you love your kids. You know what else?

There are other things that also mean that you love your kids. It doesn't just have to be that. So that was, that was my process in, in waking up to the, to the shoulds.  So would you say that motherhood was a big part of that? Yeah. Yeah. I think we all have ideas about what it means to be a parent or, well, when I'm a parent, all right, especially when you're a teenager and you're so mad at the ways that your parents are not.

Being good parents. Well, when I'm a parent, I won't. Well, I'm a parent. Then you have actual children  and you're like,  so humbling every day. So yeah, definitely motherhood launched me into the present moment. And it launched me into having to become  the example of.  Um, that I wanted my children to see  because you can't tell your children to do something that you're not willing to do yourself 

100%.

And I know, I know you went on that journey as 

well. 

Yeah, I mean, motherhood, that is a whole transformative  crucible of a container. That brings  everything to the surface to be looked at, to be healed, to be worked through, um, at a point when you're the most exhausted, depleted, unsupported, alone, at least for my story,  on many levels, right? Yeah. And I've, I found that  it was  the key to unlock myself.

What a gift. And that was so hard and  I can see how necessary it was  to grow myself up, grow everyone around me up, and also tell the truth about everything that existed before and everything that I wanted to exist from that point forward. 

Wow. I feel, I feel your heart in that. And yeah, what a gift too, because now you're out there offering your gifts to the world.

I was there in circle with you the day that you stepped into your claim being a teacher, being a leader, being a guide.  

Yeah, yeah, you were  by invitation. So  I think it's funny to me that this whole spiritual awakening has been acknowledged so much more recently, but I feel like we were already doing it naturally for so much longer.

And I think the language that we have, you know, in normal people life is just inspiration. Oh, I had an idea, you know, I had an idea to call you and invite you to a circle one day. And then all of a sudden there's this whole beginning of a story. So thank you for listening. Thank you for following that guidance, that inspiration, that idea, because look at us  

And I love what you just said in the translation there, because sometimes when we, when we hear things like, oh, I'm listening to my guides or all of that, it can scare people or turn people off or people go, oh, that's so woo, woo, or blah, blah, blah.

And so. Starting to learn, like, okay, well, what are the translations? Oh, yeah, I had an idea or this just felt good, or I don't know. I thought it'd be fun, but we're really, we're really talking about all the same thing. And  

really early. Go ahead. Yeah. Well, I was just going to say that when I teach intuition, I start with that.

That is the language of intuition. Our Claire's is, oh, I see you. Wow, that looked really good. Oh, did you see that sandwich? That looked so good. Looking, that's vision. That's clear vision. And hearing, oh, that sounds really good. You know, it sounds good. Hearing, you know, oh, I had an idea. Oh, I thought that was a fantastic idea. 

You're teaching us how to be a witness to our language,  which then Is instructing us as to how we're receiving information. 

Exactly. Exactly. And everybody already does it already. Just everybody already has that experience, but breaking it down into regular people, language, you know, the visual artist or the sommelier who has a very intuitive nose. 

It's it's all there. It's all already there. And what I talk about is that intuition is a language. The clairs, our senses, our vocabulary, and the strong,  the strong senses are individual. We all have an individual signature of how that works for us. And that's our dialect.  That's how I break it down in class.

And I am so grateful for my acting background because even though I didn't ever do anything professionally, it's such a framework that already exists. It's already so human. It's already so relatable that I can  just lay it out in a very fun and simple way.  So since memory, for example, I'm sure you know exactly what I mean, and you know exactly how that translates when you're tapping in.

Yeah, it was only, I want to say it was maybe five years ago when people were asking me how I do what I do, how do you act? How do you do this? How do you, and it almost came out of my mouth.  Oh, well, I'm channeling before I knew that's what I was doing. And so I experienced it just like tuning, like tuning a radio.

Yeah. That the character already exists in the field, and I, my prep work is basically about being next to the radio, and my, my primary player is player audience, so it's almost like being next to the radio and listening for where the station is most clear. And then, Oh! That actually got 

me. 

Allowing the character to come in and through me.

So she's telling me who she is and of course, but it will always use my experiences because that's where I'm going to have the greatest access to my emotions, which is what I'm, that's the material, the prima materia  that I'm working with to express something. And so this energy is always going to use that, which will be most effective to communicate this story for the audience to receive. 

Do you have to have their own emotional experience? 

That is so beautiful. What a way to simultaneously get out of the way and also be used. Yeah. And there is a level of, I'm looking over the word is mastery. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. There's a level of mastery of the self that's required.

I feel to give an honest performance in that way. 

It's, it's funny because I'm, I'm in the process of, I'm writing a book right now and I'm reading back through all my old journals and I just came across my journal from, I think I'm 18  in it and I'm in college in my first real acting class.  There's a whole piece where I'm going into how acting is the same as psychology acting it's really, they're both, they were both so yummy to me.

And they're both kind of the same thing. It's like embodied psychology in many ways. And so I've always  seen the, um, the way that. Those  two, two disciplines, two studies, um, interviewed. 

That's beautiful.  Also visually, the way that I see that acting and psychology are kind of parallel and then the soul experience is just a few levels underneath.

There's just so much there. If you can tap into the soul of the character and there is such a shorthand there. Um, Because everything with acting or psychology feels very human, feels very 3D, feels very technical, definitive, concrete. But if you go just a few levels deeper into the soul, everything feels more nebulous, watery, expanded a little bit.

And I think from a soul perspective, I'm getting chills as I'm talking. From a soul perspective, as you channel a person, a personality, a character, then it's so much easier I feel to tap into their essence without judgment. And I feel going, uh, acting from the top level, I think it takes a little bit more effort to get to that person.

Who might be an asshole might be a murderer might be just this person that you would never hang out with in real life. You know, how do you tap into that person from that level versus this level? Have you noticed a change in your acting from this perspective? Well, 1 thing 

that's coming up is where, um.

As you're sharing about that is nobody's the bad guy in their own story. Nobody. No. So every time, even when you're playing a bad guy, that person in, if you were to tell it from their perspective, they're the hero. Yeah. So when you're looking to prepare that character, you have to come from from that direction.

And also I see this in the world right now too, you know, where it's like,  you know, we see people. And they're doing what they think is right and they might be justified and justified and they're working with, um, they might be working through distortions and most of people who are doing things that hurt other people are because they are hurt.

They're working with, um, a system that has been deeply traumatized. They're working. With suffering that has not been processed.  And that's why so much of what I've become interested in is working with all of us to process our trauma, our shadows, being willing to.  See the more difficult parts of our humanity.

So we stop projecting it onto other people. Yes. I don't know how we get out of this place without all of us doing that work. 

I don't either. I think that's exactly what all of this. Is for, you know, I think that really brings me to an easy conversation, easy segue into spirituality as a, as a bypass opportunity as a lot of, duh, let's just feel good.

Good vibes only  versus actually doing the work, like no hate to retreats and meditation, you know, whatever, whatever, no hate to that. Love it. So necessary. So fun. And also if you're doing that without the integration, without the follow through, without the action, without the actual hard work, the painful work of healing, then it's, it's empty.

Have you seen that a lot with your own journey too, and people around you? Yeah, 

one of the things that's been coming up a lot, um, with, I, I mentor, um,  People right now on a 1 on 1 basis, and then I'm starting a group mentorship program this summer. Um, 1 of the things that's been coming up a lot right now is people going, okay, what do I do next?

People wanting. What to do for like a quick, they want to, what happens next? Where's my homework? And I say, your life is the homework. It is showing you every day where your healing needs to take place. And the way to know where that is, is where are you closing? Where are you opening? Where are you closing?

Where, feel your body, how your body is responding to the stimulus around you.  Huh. When I went to order a coffee and the barista said that thing to me, I felt anger. What's that about? Now I take that back into my little classroom, into my little workspace, to my journal, and I try to find the root of it. Oh yeah.

I felt disrespected. Where was the first? I'm in my life that I felt disrespect. Now I'm in like a real icky part  of my childhood or my marriage or my adolescence, and that's the work. And if you don't want to do that and you just want to bypass it and go, it's fine. Um, you can do that, but it'll only take you so far and eventually.

It's going to come up and that's, that's the beauty. It's like, there's, there's the thing I always say. There's nowhere to go. There's nowhere to hide. There's nowhere to be. And people will find this too. People will go, Oh, I'm going to get on a plane and go here. I'm going to go there. Nope. Wherever you go, there you are.

You're going to have to deal with it sooner or later. You might as do might as well do it now. 

And I think the piece right before the, I'm feeling anger is, wow, she was such a bitch,  right?  God, he was such an asshole. No, no, actually. I mean, maybe they were, but our response, if we have a button to push, then we have the response, then we have the story, then we have the spiral that we go into for the rest of the day, where it didn't have to be that way.

Somebody cut us off on the 405. Okay. Maybe they were in a hurry or they were such an asshole, you know, and the power of story, the power of meaning, the power of just slowing down that observation response cycle. 

Yes. Traffic is an amazing place to do shadow 

work. Traffic is your teacher. Amen. Traffic 

is your teacher.

The 405 is my greatest teacher.  I also find like, traffic is a really great place. Like, what usually comes up around there is entitlement.  Oh, you feel entitled to go first. Like, okay. Watching that piece in ourselves.  Okay. Right. 

Yeah. I would be curious to see a study done about  road rage incidents and what they do in their real life and how those people act in their real life and what, what their relationships are like.

I would be so curious to get into the mind of.  People who lose their shit.  

Yeah. Yeah. Because how we're driving is, is how we're behaving elsewhere 

in life. True. And, or maybe we feel the permission in the power of the vehicle that we're driving to have our messy feelings or to speak our mind suddenly, but of course we're doing it from a risk reactive perspective.

You know, emotional way. We're not doing it at all intentionally at that point. So I'd be curious, I'd be curious to see like, what, what the background is for all those people. We need to fund that study. 

Yeah. Like people who are feeling that we're feeling disempowered somewhere else in our life. And so this is a moment where we're trying.

To reclaim power, 

and 

then the work that we would do with, with clients here is like, okay, how do we shift that root place of disempowerment so that you don't need to take it out in these other places where you could potentially hurt someone. 

Yes, I want to touch on how the journey of psychology and the 3d healing journey has.

impacted or informed your spiritual awakening process?  How have you managed all that? And is this one necessary for this one to be effective? The way I see energy, the way it works for me, is that if we are too  3D, too  Psychological to  confined,  and we're not tapping in, then we're only getting one level of information, one level of awareness. 

And also, if we're too crown chakra,  enlightened, connected, whatever, without the basis, the grounding 3D work or learning more about the world that we actually do operate in, that's where. Unhealthy patterns, uh, prolonged psychosis,  like unhealthy mental patterning can begin. So it's like, we need both. Yeah.

What do you think? What's been your experience?  

Um, okay. So I have two pieces that are, that are coming up around this. The first one being, uh, I think a lot of people at home will understand this, where you understand. Mentally, why it is that you have certain patterns in your life, why you're attracting certain people, why you chose that person, why you're doing this thing.

And yet you can't seem to shift out of it. Yeah. Right. And so that's sort of the danger with, um, psychology that people can understand. I say that in quotes themselves very well, but, um, nothing's changed. That can, you can go to site, you can go to your psychotherapist every single week and just keep repeating the same patterns.

So that's 1, 1 side of not, um, fully embodying the, the lesson, the, that you came here to learn  and shifting the energy along with that and shifting the energy and doing,  usually it's like embodiment practices to, to make that change. Um, and my friend Christie Salerno has been amazing at this. This is like her, her medicine, her, her jam.

And so she's always, it's really amazing. I actually have quite a, quite a good group of girlfriends who, because I tend to be this person who goes to the mind who will, will shift me down, down, shift me down to the body. And they'll just go, stop. How are you feeling? Because I'll intellectualize it. I have a lot of air in my chart.

So I'll go up here. How are you feeling? And sometimes I don't even know, for those of us who left our bodies, who disconnected from our bodies, it can take a while to put those plugs back in. So  there was a period of time where I could not identify how I feel, felt for two weeks at a time until it was two weeks later, because I had disconnected myself.

From my feelings so profoundly. So anyone who's in that process, being gentle and constantly coming back to, okay, how do I feel? And you might not have an answer. It's okay. Ask yourself again, before you go to sleep, what's happening in my body. Um, even if you can just say my ribs feel tight, that's a start, right?

And uh, what I'm feeling as I'm saying this is there's a lot of people saying,  I need that and I'm not going to do it.  Oh, I need that. They're recognizing themselves in this and then they're immediately having the thought, well, I'm not going to do that. Yeah. Cause that's exactly what you need. And also 

it doesn't matter because it, life doesn't stop just because my ribs hurt.

And also I have to do the dishes before I go to bed or else like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Totally.  Yeah. 

Absolutely. Absolutely. But you can, um, accelerate your healing process, your transformational process, your manifestation process. Let's say you want to use that word. That's the word that speaks most to you.

This is the acceleration path  to all of that. You have to like, you don't have to, first of all, you don't have to do anything. The invitation is to just identify your physical sensation in the body. And let it tell you what's going on. That's the first part. The second part in the spiritual bypass part, when people are in these stages of awakening and they don't want to be in the body and they're floating around and they're feeling angels and they're feeling, you know, God, and they're having these incredible experiences.

One of my sons taught me this actually, my little one. I was saying something to him. I was in my bullshit that we do as our parents, as parents, I'm teaching, teaching my kid. Oh, I'm so enlightened. Right. And whatever it was, I was saying to him and I was saying something like, you know, you came here to have a spiritual experience and he goes, that's not why I came here, I came here to be human. 

And I was like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Thank 

you, 

sir. Yep. And, uh, he was eight at the time. Wow. And it was, I was getting this lesson from all directions.  Because, um, it was exactly the lesson I needed. No, I'm here in a human body because I chose to be here in a human body, which means I am here to have a human experience.

Yes. I'm a soul. Yes. I'm spirit. Yes. I am a piece of the divine currently in a human body, currently in a vessel. That's the game. So if I am trying to bypass that part of the game, I am not present in the experience That I'm choosing. I am not present to the lessons at eight years old.  Yeah. He didn't say all of that.

He went on to say some other genius things. I mean, but just that one little soundbite, I know life changing life changing he's, he's got these moments of just beautiful little sage. I mean, and that's the thing with all of us, with our, with our kids, we're not their teachers. They're ours.  

Huge, huge. Can we just take a moment to take that in  how the world would shift if we would all get out of our own fucking way and listen and be in humility and open ourselves to the experience.

Of  learning,  being shown amazing. 

If you have children, you've got little gurus living with 

you.  I was going to say for free, but that they're not,  they're not free. 

That's incredible. Have you actually have, have you had any interactions with your kids where they talk about past lives or spirits or anything like that? 

Uh, when my youngest son was little, he, and this was before I was really acknowledging my own relationship to spirit. I was still in the, I was still pretty much like sort of plugging my ears and going, well, that's not, that's not a thing.

Um,  he would. This is from the time when he was like, you know, one until three, maybe even little, or maybe six months old until two, he would be like at night and he'd be having his bottle. And he would always point up to the corner of the room and just point clearly looking at something. And I used to get goosebumps  and, uh, he would do it regardless of like, if we were in a hotel room, if we were traveling, if we were in my parents house, It was every night he was  feeling something, someone communicating with someone, and they ended up having somebody tell me without me ever sharing this with them, that my grandmother was watching over him and she came to visit him every night. 

Um, 

so that was, there was that, and he's, he's gone through a process of, you know, like, uh, like a lot of children who experienced different energies, being afraid of the dark, not feeling. Safe, wanting to, I had to go with him to brush his teeth until he was almost 10, just not really wanting, and my house is not big, it's like very small, um, but not wanting, not feeling fully safe, and so, um, teaching him prayers. 

And, um, but yeah, that, that was the most,  most prevalent one. How about your 

kids?  So we've had a few conversations over the years, of course. Um,  and I, and I'm also very careful just as a disclaimer, not to lead the conversation, not to input definitions about things or how things work so much. I, I tried to say, what do you think?

What do you, you know,  I don't want, I don't want to feed the information. So  one night, um, Ava, she must've been seven or eight.  She was telling me that she remembers before she came into my tummy. She said that there was a big white room with all these TVs and all the different TVs had families on them. 

And that she looked at all the different ones and saw our family. Oh, it makes me want to cry.  And that she picked that family because she knew that it would be so much fun and she would love. Being our kids. Isn't that beautiful? That's 

amazing. She's so special. She is. We just spent an evening coloring together 

at your house just like a month ago. 

Mm hmm. She loved it. She would not stop talking about it. She's like, when is she coming back? It was so, so much fun hanging out with her. Girls, nay!  She's so fun. Um, and I mean, what else? Like same thing, just not wanting to brush teeth alone at night, needing the nightlight. And I have taught her about energy and cleaning off energy, like energetic hygiene at the end of the day.

A visual that I, I use for, for doing stuff like that is the transformation scene from Beauty and the Beast.  Like at the beginning, how it's all kind of yucky and. a little creepy or scary and how the intention is the magic is the love that transforms everything from dark to light  just  changes everything as if by magic because it essentially is what it is it's one word that we have for the work that we do, right?

Um, you, you 

give the audience, like, will you give us instructions right now on what that looks like? Yeah. At the end of the day, what that, what, what, what would that look like to me? Energetic hygiene at the end of the day, what do I do?  

So we all take showers hopefully once in a while. Uh, what helps is to, I'm a very visual person, so you don't need to visualize.

You could just set an intention or say out loud. I. Okay. I set the intention to cleanse my energy, or you can also ask your guides and your angels to help amplify your intention or do the work for you.  Um, but, I like Disney, I like sparkles, I like sparkly things, so I just imagined myself, or tell Ava to imagine herself or Cole when he starts listening,  that we are in a shower of light, and it's just sparkles that are landing all over us, that transformational, like, fireworks rain that they have in Beauty and the Beast is kind of the perfect metaphor.

Experience of it, the sound that they used, the, the ethereal quality, the, the sparks of light that are coming off of this as they, um, as the raindrops land on the, on the ground, the more senses you can get into it, the more real it is for you, the better.  And even though you might not feel it or see it as well, just  having that attention, that space to do the process is enough.

So having that rain just fall everywhere, have it just wash off the day.  When she was younger, another thing that I would do is literally say, Okay, we're washing off the day. Washing off the day. Washing off the day. And I would just like do this on her whole body. And it was just like a fun little thing.

And so, like I said, it just, it doesn't have to be so serious and precious and perfect. It's just the intention. And then with the room, like if there's, you know, Oh, I don't like whatever's under my bed or whatever's in the closet, then we use that same visual, that same intention of bringing in that light and that sparkles.

And you could add hearts and you can add confetti and you can add  rainbows, whatever to just.  Wash off everything, wash off the walls, wash off the teddy bear. That looks a little creepy. Wash off the closet and imagine that everything is  transforming into something beautiful, something safe, something loving. 

And that's 

it.  I love that.  Everybody simple ways to, to infuse more of the sacred and more of a spiritual perspective into human name.  

Mm-Hmm. 

at any age. At any age. Yeah. And so much of this is about shifting our, shifting our perspective and finding more moments of pause  and um, intention and.  Presence. 

Exactly. With parenting, they say it's like having your heart out of your body, out in the world.  And my background is,  I like to plan things and be in control.  Those two things don't not, do not exist together. They do not work together.  Is this also an experience for you? And how have you managed it? 

So, how do you?

Navigate the surrender necessary in parenting.  

Yup. 

Yeah. Um,  I had a crash course in that because I, um,  started parenting on my own when I left my marriage before my little one even turned one.  And there's so much, uh, control that just had to be released at that point due to co parenting. And not being it, not being in control of what happened when they were not with me.

And so anyone who's listening, who has, um, it's been in a co parenting situation, I think can relate to this.  Um, it was an immediate initiation into,  I can't control, I can't control if they show up at my house with socks. I can't control what they're wearing when they show up at my house. I can't control when they eat, what they eat when they're not with me.

And so really having to deepen my faith.  That into that they  were protected, that they were, I was not in charge of their journey here that I could do everything that I can do to love them deeply, bigly to protect them in the ways that I can and. To trust  their earthwalk,  that it is correct for them. And so many parents don't end up having to fully walk that until their kids are teenagers  and then their teenagers are rebelling against the control.

That's why we see rebellion in the teenage years. They're, they're claiming their autonomy. The solar plexus becomes activated. The I will center  

like, 

this is my life. Correct. Correct.  Correct. This is your life.  And so many parents never have to navigate that tricky part of parenting until their kids are older.

And so I got a really profound and deep and painful initiation into it when my kids were quite young.  And so I've always parented them from a place of sovereignty.  From a place of, and it's not always easy. Let me say this. Like I still misstep on this sometime because it's natural instinct to want to protect.

Yeah, of course. And so learning, what does it look like to protect and to allow sovereignty?  And so what does it look like? A lot of the way that looks like for me at the ages my kids are, and this probably started at like the age of. The age of six, the age of seven, it's, it's always been present, but once they pass, uh, age of seven, eight, seven is known as the age of reason.

So there's a certain level of awareness and presence that is  there, that is here by that age is, so the way that I've parented in this way is. Let me give you all the information.  If you climb up to the top of that slide and you don't want to Come back down. I'm not coming up to get you. So you have all the information.

Should I go up there? I don't think you're ready, but only you can know that  But if you go to that place, I can't fit through that tunnel.  So here is the information,  right. And you know, you have to do this in ways in which they will also be safe and not hurt themselves. Um, but  empowering them in that way.

To live their own life, to make their own choices, and to make bad choices sometimes too. I think a lot of us don't want our kids to make bad choices. That is life. You are not going to learn if you don't make mistakes. And if we don't allow our kids to make mistakes or if we judge them. Um, they're not going to come into the fullness of their being, and they're going to be afraid every time they come up and misstep and have to face that part of themselves.

Like, was that your experience as well  as a kid? Yeah. I think one of the things I've had to heal from is being very, very hard on myself,  very hard on myself when I don't meet my own standards.  Um, yeah, I think a lot, a lot of us were, I think the culture raised us in that way. I don't even think it was unique to, to our parents.

I think American culture sort of, um, exacerbated that.  And a lot of us are, are counter parenting due to  the damage that, that, that created.  

Often as at a detriment at this point, like I could see the pendulum swinging all the way to the other side with a lack of the integration and the lessons in the middle space.

Right. Yeah. Yes.  

And also I'm saving for therapy for my kids. Cause I'm sure I'm going to fuck it up too. And you know what I mean? It's a guarantee. Yeah. And I think the goal is parents should just be able to sit there once they're grown and they'll be like, this didn't, this wasn't great and this wasn't great. 

You're right. You're right. I'm so sorry. I did the best I can, and I'm so sorry. Like, to, to,  Yeah,  both.  

Yeah. I feel so much, so much is in the and, because  historically, at least, so much has stopped at the, I did the best I could, or the  angels and, and spirit guides and meditations and whatever.  We, we're just not stopping.

Now we're getting into the place where we're realizing that the and is necessary.  And so that I guess is what it looks like to be a soul level human, you know, to be truthful about ourselves, to act in integrity, to have  as much as we possibly can, that objective,  Lens through which we see ourselves in the world.

It's so hard. It's not easy.  Of course, most of us don't do it. It's hard. It sucks. It can be 

painful. Yeah.  Yeah. And that's why it's so important to have compassion for where everybody is on their path. And when we have people in our lives who we feel like aren't waking up as much as they should, or aren't doing as much as they should, or fast enough or whatever, whatever that story is.

It's like. Yeah, because it's painful and it's hard and it's hard. And from my perspective, it's a journey that we all are are on together and we're all going to go through eventually anyway. And so constantly. Seeing that everyone is at the right place for them  and, um, and also compassion for, um, compassion for how hard it is to human. 

Yes. It's just, it's hard period,  you  know, and you don't know what is right for anybody else. You don't, you can offer. 

Especially as, 

as a guide, as being in a position of a guide, you can offer what you see, but I now really trust that everyone is moving at the correct pace for them.  

I've gotten to that point too.

Yeah. And it's so much better this way. So much better.  It was exhausting. For everyone.  Yeah.  It was 

exhausting.  And I'm sorry to everyone who I rushed, sorry, sorry, sorry,  and everybody else, sorry. Consider this a group apology. Yeah.  

Okay. So  you've mentioned that you work one on one with clients. Can you go into a little bit how that came about and what it is that you do?

How does that work for you? Sure.  

Yeah, this is newer for me. It was something I was doing, um, behind the scenes for a long time. And, um, just with the people I know, or friends of friends, or people, you know, Um, who I met and I was doing it because it brought me joy, which is basically just  helping people get into alignment and because I have had the privilege of having so many teachers on my path to and, um,  wanting to offer what I have received. 

And I got the guidance this year to open it up and, um,  and so what I say is that I am a heart led storyteller and guide.  And so my work is just to bring people to  shine a light on the path that already exists  for people to walk their way back home to their hearts.  When we can live from a heart centered place, we're living in alignment with our truth. 

And with the truth of our expression, and a lot of that work is just to help people remove that, which doesn't belong to them.  Stories we picked up that aren't serving us and that aren't ours and aren't a match for our truth and our love and our vibration and our mission. And so most of my work is just helping put light into, um, the dark places. 

That's beautiful.  I wish everyone could do this work.  Everything would get done so much faster,  but that's 

what's amazing about entering various and, and honestly, one of the, one of the gifts that, um, that COVID brought into the world is this type of.  Zoom, for example, is a lot more online  connectivity, um, and everybody has access to that, you know, not everybody, but most everybody has access to there's a lot of free offerings and a lot of free, um, healing techniques, which is, um.

I, I'm really grateful for that, that it's out there if you go looking for 

it. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. I'm so grateful for YouTube. YouTube has helped me in so many ways.  So many ways. Um, I want to wrap up so I don't take up your entire day, even though I really, really want to take up your entire day. I'm so glad 

we got to hang out today.

Oh, me too. I needed this. I needed this so badly. Um, three questions. One is, is there a book that you read that was,  Like, before this book is one version of you, and after this book is another version of you. The Untethered Soul. 

The Untethered  Soul by Michael Singer. Yep. Yep. Because of the concept of the roommate and the voices that we let take up space in our head.

Love it. So good.  And then for the next two questions, I want to drop in just a little bit. So let's close your eyes for just a sec. If you're open to it,  I want you to drop in and bring to your heart a past version of you  that needed some support.  And I would like you to send energy,  the transmission, the communication and message  from your present you to them.

And if you're open to sharing, I'd love to know what that, that message is.  

It's really beautiful hearing your kids in the background right now. 

It sounds so basic, but you're going to get through this,  

you 

know, and I had a coach who worked with me as I was working through some trauma from right around this past time in which I had felt very alone.  And  he helped me see that I was never alone  going back and seeing all the ways that  God was walking alongside me, the spirit was walking there with me that I was held, I was just being deeply initiated and what's coming through to say right now is to  that girl, you are a match for your mountain. 

Oh,  I'm getting full body chills right now because the languaging that I was given a couple of days ago was I, my mission is to move mountains. Yes. That 

was the card I pulled for my client this morning too. So very present,  

hugely present. My mission is to move mountains. Your mission is to move mountains.

Hmm.  Yeah. I want to keep the attention on you though,  because I could go into so many places after that  attention on you. I want you to drop back in.  I want you to connect with your future self on your very last day after this ride is pretty much done.  And I was 

very old, by the way. So old, hugely old, very old by the time this is over, just  like a little, yeah, I look amazing.

Yeah. I'm a little prune. I just needed to make that clear. 

I am on the same page, my friend.  I would love her to do the same thing for you that you just did for your past self. Wow. This is, 

I love your three questions. This is great.  I really love old and new too. She's 

great.  

You got this.  We got this. We got this. 

Yeah. We were made for this. We are the ones we've been 

waiting for. 

Yeah. 

Yeah. So good. So, so good.  You're just going to have to come back. I have so many other questions. Okay.  Okay. Love you so much. I love you 

too. Thank you so much for starting your podcast, for following your guidance. I love the idea of talking about how do we infuse spirit into everyday living. 

I love it. Every day. Have 

a beautiful 

day. 

You too. I love you. I love you. Bye. That brings us to the end of this soul level conversation with Autumn Reeser. To my soul level human listeners, thank you for already following the intuition to tune in today. And I'm so excited for everything that's in store for all of us on this journey together.

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