Spirituality for leaders

Apparently our brain is geared towards beauty. It's in our genes. Scientists tell us that beauty actually reflects health and strong genes. Our instincts are focused towards the survival of our species through reproduction, and so the cult of beauty was born. When you are beautiful outwards, you are given such and advantage in life. From a spiritual point of view it does not make sense. But here w...

Having lived with clutter for almost twenty years, I know first hand what it's like to live in a house that overwhelms you. It affects your energy levels, your mental clarity, your mental health even and tends to isolate you because you refrain from letting people come to your home. So let me start these show notes that I am approaching this episode with zero judgment. If I come across as judgment...

Last week I talked about new Earth, this week I am exploring new You from an energetic perspective. From very young, our parents show us how important it is to clean our bodies and clean our rooms. Most of us anyway, and there is no judgment from me either way. Whereas we are never educated as to the importance of keeping our bodies, our minds and our houses clean energetically. So let's dive in....

First of all best wishes for 2025. I am so happy we are all getting the opportunity of a fresh start, of setting intentions and feel we have a blank page to write a new story on. If you want help on how to do that, head over to  episode 17  from last January where I explore the difference between New Year Resolutions, Intentions and Goals. We will be referring back to quite a few episodes in this...

We are continuing to talk to babies in spirit in this episode, but whereas the last episode was more about Lauren's journey of becoming a baby soul communicator, in this episode a collective of baby souls came forward to talk about difficult topics such as: Autistic children Transgender kids Kids that have a challenging or life threatening health condition Kids who chose to die young These kids ha...

Although none of my loved ones died by suicide, I have supported suicidal people in my life almost as a constant since teenage. I am not a professional, but as a spiritual teacher I wanted to talk about this topic that from a religious and spiritual point of view is often labelled as a sin. If you have listened to my podcast before, you know I am here to debunk myths. I need to say right off the b...

There was a time when I was so obsessed with Near Death Experiences (NDEs) that I wished I had one myself. That was, however, at the start of my spiritual journey. As I progressed in my spiritual journey, I had what people label as Spiritual Experiences (SEs) and now, I feel these are much more gentle. I have come to the personal conclusion that not all of us need NDEs to learn spiritual lessons,...

I have just signed to join Toastmasters and when I asked myself what to talk about in the icebreaker, the very first speech one does in front of the club, the words that came were "Six degrees of separation". The concept of six degrees of separation was originally conceived by a Hungarian author called Frigyes Karinthy , although he did not use these words precisely. And the idea is that people ar...

Back in the early days of my career as a clinical hypnotherapist, I wanted to talk to babies in spirit. So you can imagine how excited I was when I came across Lauren Dionysius who does precisely that. Lauren is a former registered nurse who worked extensively in the NICU and helped lots of babies get better but also witnessed many baby deaths. In this episode, which is the first in a series of th...

Until we understand how our minds work, we believe we are our thoughts and we also believe we have no control over our thoughts. We even identify with our beliefs so deeply that we can become defensive when someone enters our world and challenges them.  This is the reason I believe that in order for us to awaken, we need to understand how the mind works. And this episode is all about that.  I was...

We live in a society that values knowledge and intelligence above wisdom and kindness. Personally, wisdom and kindness rank above but it goes further than that, so I wanted to explore this topic in depth. I was encouraged to explore after listening to a very thought provoking podcast by Rory Stewart called the Long History of Ignorance on BBC Sounds. Rory is a politician. He knows how to make a go...

Have you ever comforted someone who came to you to share their problems and said words that you thought were wiser than you? You are not alone. It happened to me a lot, until I trained in mediumship and then I started to understand better what was happening. I actually believe that some of my mosaics were channeled. In particular, one called maternity. I never learnt how to do mosaics. I just did....

Answering this question can be particularly offensive to people who have had abusive childhoods or have been abandoned by their parents. If the question offends you, then move on. Ignore this blog post and the associated podcast episode. I am not writing it to offend or hurt you. And I respect that you find it offensive. The reason I am asking it, though, is because as a teenager, in the middle of...

Kayla Subica is an artist, singer, writer and director. She is just back from the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh with a show called Happy Medium where she brings all of herself on stage. She is all about presence and flow, yet for her to come out as a medium in her singing career took a little bit of work. Happy Medium is a musical about a quirky psychic medium in 1970's New York. She was meant to b...

When I was younger and something bad happened to me, my default mode was to say "Why me?" It came from my religious conditioning, but deep down I probably thought I deserved it because my entire life I had been told I was a bad person, so naturally bad things should happen to me. And yet, I thought it was so unfair. I was a good person. I was generous, kind and generally compliant. So why me? I wa...

The Akashic Records is an expression that was first used by C. W. Leadbeater in a book called Clairvoyance in 1899. However, the concept is not new, and has been called the Book of Life in nearly all religious traditions, albeit with a slightly different understanding. It is defined by Theosophists as a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intents ever to have occurred...

Joseph Campbell changed my life and I realised recently that I probably ought to dedicate my entire podcast to him because he gave me a non religious framework to explain my spiritual experiences. Who was Joseph Campbell and why should his work matter to you? Joseph Campbell was an American professor of literature and is the author of multiple books; his most famous being the Hero with a Thousand...

Shireen Khanum is a paediatrician, who grew up in Austria, England and Pakistan and who now lives in the United Arab Emirates. Raised by a mother who was a Roman Catholic and a father who was a Muslim, Shireen turned to Islam more because at the time it was the dominant religion where she lived, although most of her education was done with Irish nuns. Luckily, Shireen has never experienced islamop...

I believe that rather than God having created humans in "his" image as claims Genesis in the Bible (we will talk about God's gender in a minute), it is the opposite. Humans have created God in their image. And my best bet is that they have done so to soothe themselves from the disturbing thought that the world has no rhyme or reason. But before we go any further, I want to highlight how much wrong...

I chose quite a dramatic topic for this week's episode and wondered if I chose more than I can chew. But it's just a start. This episode is part of a series that is helping you decide if a religious or spiritual concept resonates with you, or aligns with your values and if it doesn't, I give you permission to get rid of it. Personally, Heaven and Hell do not form part of my spiritual blueprint. If...

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Kathryn Rickert lives in Canada and has been a primary school teacher for twenty years but there is another side of her that most of her pupils know nothing about: her psychic abilities. Kathryn could see and hear spirit from very young. They opened up when her grandmother died and she used to see her uncle all the time, even though she had never heard of him because he died when Kathryn's mum was...

When I started exploring spirituality outside of religion, everybody seemed to talk about the divine feminine and masculine. There were circles for women, and circles for men. It was made very clear that we both have the divine masculine and feminine within us, whether we are male or female, but everything was labelled as feminine or masculine. Intuition was feminine. Leadership was masculine. And...

In this episode, I attempt to define the various spiritual beings that you might come across when you reach out to the spiritual world. I have listed eight of them, in no particular order. They are often confused even by some of the most famous spiritual teachers. Spirit guides Elementals Ascended Masters Celestial beings Power animals Entities Ancestors Our higher selves I just realised that I fo...

Dancing in the light and playing with the shadows used to be my catch phrase for years at the start of my spiritual journey. I was well aware that we all want to think that we are these luminous and loving being, but sadly, as humans, we have a shadow. You cannot have light without shadow on Earth. It's a fact. A fact that a lot of spiritual folks deny or hide, because having a shadow is "unspirit...