Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast

My husband (and soulmate!) Garrett Demers and I sit down for a candid conversation on how to use your relationships to evolve spiritually. We talk about some of the challenges and triggers in the early stages of our relationship and how we overcame them. We also respond to a listener email on how to remain confident and continue evolving while being in a romantic relationship. Here are the resourc...

This episode of AWAKENING explores the concept and experience of toxic positivity. Join me for a discussion of: What is toxic positivity, and how does it harm us on the path of healing and evolution? Examples of toxic positivity that you might be inflicting on yourself and/or others (including examples from the spiritual community) How to avoid toxic positivity in your life What I've learned about...

This is the final installment in my four-part series on the Tarot suit of Wands. Join me for a discussion of the Wands court cards: the Page, Knight, Queen, and King of Cups. I'll break down each card and suggest a variety of ways in which you can interpret them and apply the cards' healing energy to your life. Please help me fulfill the goal of keeping this podcast free of ads, for good! Any amou...

This episode of AWAKENING explores the dangers of staying only at a mental level of healing (mental insights or breakthroughs) and not applying or living your insights. Join me for a discussion of: how and why insight is only one level of healing the temptation to stay only at a mental level of healing, which can delay emotional, spiritual, and physical healing how we can become addicted to mental...

Welcome to the thid part of my four-part series on the Tarot suit of Wands. In this installment, we'll explore the 7, 8, 9, and 10 of Wands in depth. Join me for a conversation of these cards as they relate to: standing your ground and holding true to your core values establishing healthy boundaries that are neither too porous nor too rigid healing past wounds & trauma to emerge out of hypervigila...

This episode of AWAKENING invites you to ask an important question: Are you choosing peace above all else? Above drama? Above unnecessary conflict? Above proving yourself right, or others wrong? Above the whims and demands of your ego? Join me for a conversation on the critical importance of choosing peace, no matter what. This episode includes a sequence of powerful affirmations for peace and saf...

This is the second installment in my four-part series on the Tarot Wands. In this episode, I cover the 4, 5, and 6 of Wands. Join me for a discussion of: the 4 of Wands and learning to celebrate yourself the 5 of Wands and the importance of rising above your ego the 6 of Wands as an invitation to step into your divine leadership   One of my current goals is to keep this podcast free of ads... for...

On the path of awakening, you can sometimes feel stuck in survival mode. You might use this mode as a coping mechanism, if you learned early on in life that you need to be tough, to put up with things, and to survive. In this episode, I answer a listener's email about how to emerge out of survival mode and begin thriving. Join me for a discussion on: how there's absolutely NOTHING you need to just...

I've sometimes heard from people that the Tarot is evil, and that using Tarot cards opens us up to negative forces and energies. I have also met people who are afraid of using the Tarot for these kinds of reasons. Is there any veracity to this? In this bonus episode of INNER WORK, I address the belief that Tarot cards are evil. Join me for a discussion of: religious references and thoughts on Taro...

Finally! The Tarot Wands. Due to high listener demand for this, I'm continuing my in-depth exploration of the Tarot suits (or Minor Arcana).  In this 4-episode series, we'll explore the Tarot Wands. Join me for a discussion of: essential features, lessons, and characteristics of the Tarot Wands how the Wands challenge you to ignite and balance your inner fire how the Wands can help you focus your...

Your physical body is like a container for your Soul and Higher Self. But what happens when you've filled up this container with too many intrusive "guests", and your Higher Self is unable to anchor into your body? Why is it important to be able to fully embody your Higher Self? That's what we'll explore in this episode of AWAKENING. Some of the intrusive or unwelcome guests that can occupy your b...

Walking the path of spiritual awakening can be a lonely experience at times. As you wake up more and more, you might find you're no longer resonating with many (or most) of the people in your life. And it can be difficult to explain what you're going through. This episode of AWAKENING explores the loneliness of awakening. Join me for a conversation on: spiritual awakening and your ego identity wha...

My returning guest for this episode is Rachel Hardy, a Nervous System Wellness Coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who helps successful but stressed out women enjoy a relaxed body & mind by regulating their nervous system and releasing stress and trauma from the body.  Rachel also works with the Akashic Records and Archetypal Astrology to support her clients in aligning more deeply with th...

Speed, efficiency, multitasking, and productivity are highly valued in our modern culture. This means we've lost touch with the slower rhythms and pace of nature and our inner selves. This episode of AWAKENING is all about the remarkable benefits of slowing down and pacing yourself, as well as what prevents you from doing so. Join me for a discussion of: how we've become disconnected from a slower...

How do the Akashic Records work, and how can you access them? What are the Akashic Records made of? Where are they located? What is the Akashic Field? To answer such questions, this episode of Inner Work takes you into the research of Ervin Laszlo, a Hungarian philosopher and systems theorist who has written extensively about the Akashic Field (or A-field). I cover the 3 immutable laws that govern...

The process of awakening will cause you to outgrow certain situations, relationships, people, habits, and ways of thinking/being. This happens naturally as you evolve and shed old, outdated layers of yourself. In this episode, partly inspired by the 8 of Cups from the Tarot, I talk about this process of outgrowing things and people and how it can bring up some deep fears of losing your identity, s...

My guest for this episode is Dr. Lissa Rankin, a healer, author, mystic, and activist committed to healing the landscape of healthcare. In this interview, we reflect on deep questions including:  When it comes to healing from illness and injury, how is it that some people do everything right and stay sick, while others fully recover? How does faith healing work - or does it? Can we make ourselves...

There are so many choices you make every day, from the mundane and minor to life-defining choices. This episode of AWAKENING is all about using the choice points you face every day as a kind of spiritual practice - as an opportunity to notice what you're choosing for yourself as well as which parts of you are informing your decision-making. Bringing more consciousness to this can help you slow dow...

What is shadow work? And how can you do it responsibly and effectively? This episode of Inner Work explores the shadow as a "dark aspect of the personality", in the words of Carl Jung. Your shadows are aspects of yourself that, for whatever reason, you've deemed as unacceptable or shameful. And so you repress these aspects into the subconscious. However, your unexamined and un-integrated shadows w...

This episode of AWAKENING focuses on all kinds of childhood losses, from the seemingly minor to the life-altering. I talk about some of the intangible childhood losses that might still be impacting you today - for instance, the loss of childhood innocence or playfulness if you were forced to grow up too fast. This episode also defines childhood losses as anything that, ideally, you should've been...

My guest for this episode, Johnny Guidry, is a speaker, podcaster, and spiritual and career coach focused on helping others awaken to their most authentic and intuitive life. His career progression includes 16 years of learning design and management, human resources, project management, and operations.  Johnny's current path of spiritual growth has been a decade-long process facilitated by his exp...

As humans, we sometimes develop a survival or coping mechanism of bracing against - bracing against other people, against pain and suffering, against potential criticism or rejection, against vulnerability, and even against life itself. As a spiritual and psychological state, bracing serves at least two functions: to push away unpleasant things , and to hold on tightly to the people, things, and r...

This episode of Inner Work addresses some common questions and misconceptions about the Akashic Records. Specifically, I answer these questions: Is there only ONE way, method, or prayer to access the Akashic Records? Aren't the Akashic Records a tool of the third dimension? Where are the Akashic Records located? Why are the Akashic Records accessible to us? What's the ultimate purpose for humanity...

Ideally, on the spiritual path we use our triggers and challenges as opportunities to become more conscious and awake. This brand new series, AWAKENING, is our next adventure - and evolution - following my TRIGGERED! series.  Awakening is a continuous, ever-unfolding process and not something we can force, rush, or put on any specific timeline. With this series, we'll continue exploring some of ou...

Join me for this episode of TRIGGERED! as we explore all things ego. Your ego carries your sense of self, your self-image, the stories you tell and believe about yourself (especially as compared to other people), and your attachments to things like your car, house, relationships, social status, money, etc. The ego's primary agenda is to make sure you're keeping up appearances, looking good to othe...