The Creator Cole Podcast

In order to answer this question you need to understand the concept of SPIRITUAL MATURITY. As you progress in your spiritual journey, you develop what we call spiritual maturity. This maturity is defined by your experiences, exposure, and overall relationship to spirituality. The phase of spiritual maturity that many people are in is the infant phase. Think of trendy spirituality. This is where so...

There are a lot of fraudulent “spiritual” practitioners out here who are teaching + sharing spirituality in harmful ways. These three questions will protect you from joining them. 1.) Where did you get your teachings from / where do they come from? If they do not mention a direct bloodline, tradition, or elder… RUN. Self help books, certifications, and weekend retreats do not make someone prepared...

Mainstream spirituality is the colonizer’s version of “healing”. You have most likely experienced the performative, surface-level, and watered down spirituality that mainstream spirituality promotes. In order to escape mainstream spirituality we must step into traditional healing work. Traditional healing work is what mainstream spirituality steals ALL of its inspiration from. Traditional healing...

We are all walking temples. What are you a temple of? Are you the temple low-self esteem? The temple of numbness and disconnection? Or are you the temple of passion and motivation? You see, you’ve been taught to believe temples are physical buildings. The FIRST temple is YOU. YOUR BODY. & that body stores the 3 sacred gifts from Spirit; Your Mind, Heart, and Spirit. Colonization has taught you tha...

This is a foundational question you need to be asking yourself if you want to be doing your shadow work. To know if you are operating from shadow requires you to know a few things: - What are your shadows? - Are you negotiating with the worst version of yourself or your elevated self? - Are you mirroring Spirit’s beauty through yourself? Listen in to this deep teaching on shadow work and breaking...

Allow your ancestors to be the architects of the temple inside of you. Your ancestors are wells of wisdom. Store them within you and through you. In this live I go deep into the power of ancestral connection, the difference between veneration + connection, and so much more. 🩸If you want to build ancestral connection beyond superficial healing, this is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is a 6 month co...

You are a divine reflection of Great Spirit, do you know this? More importantly, do you claim this? Your brilliance is the unique gifts that the universe has stored in you to share with this world. It is the nectar of life force that makes you inspired, fulfilled, and of service. Shadow work leads us to reclaiming this brilliance because it shows us how to actually claim it without excuses. I coul...

Shadow work and ancestral work cannot be separated. The reason being is by connecting with your ancestors you are automatically doing shadow work by confronting the suppressed, ignored, and unaddressed shadows that have been passed down to you. Shadow work removes the blocks that keep you from developing a connection to your ancestors. Shadow work keeps you protected from unwell ancestors and show...

It is easy to mistaken accountability as threatening and mean when you are used to getting away with slacking off. When it comes to traditional medicine work, there are grave consequences if you half ass. Mainstream spirituality offers half assed modalities which in turn create half ass results. The missing piece in many of these spaces is the severity that comes with accountability and integrity....

Learn to be present in shadow, not run from it. We are taught to avoid shadows when they arise. This happens through turning a blind eye, ignoring the elephant in the room, or downplaying the severity of the problem. We are masters at masking. The world is demanding us to stop wearing masks. It’s begging us to learn to stand in the presence of shadow and confront it, not dismiss it and neglect it....

Capacity has become the new “boundaries” or “nervous system regulation”. It is used in the wrong context and as an excuse to neglect the work we truly need to do. What if I told you that your ceiling is really your floor? News flash, it is. The version of yourself you put on a pedestal that seems so far out of reach is only separated by your unwillingness to choose to do your shadow work. There wi...

In this live I share my life updates and how I’ve been navigating one of the most challenging times in my life. I share how I’ve been turning shadows into medicine, struggle into blessings, and tears into smiles. The shadows aren’t going away, but neither are we. We are the medicine we have been asking for. The teachings are here and alive within you. 🩸 If you’re ready to stand in your medicine a...

In this live I go deep into understanding a fundamental principle in shadow work; shadow loops. Shadow loops are the ways your shadows disillusion and trick you into repeating the same patterns over and over. It is how they make you believe you’re creating change when really you are walking in circles. Shadow work is how we step out of the shadow realities we have created for ourselves. Your shado...

In this live I share some of stories and lessons gained from traveling to Brazil. From the importance of community to the power of celebrating our humanness, it truly transformed me in ways I cannot express. I want you all to write this quote down. “Start viewing your routines as rituals of devotion to your hopes and dreams”. So many of us are living in the rituals of shadows and mistaken them for...

I highly encourage you to listen to part one as this is an expansion on the foundations of shadow work. In this live we discuss: - what are shards of your shadow? - The 4 Parts of Your Shadow - Identifying the voice of shadow - Identifying the behavior of shadow - Basic introduction into medicine work and its importance in the shadow work process. Shadow work is essential during this lifetime, we...

In this episode I go into the basics of shadow work. If you’ve been intimated but interested in shadow work, this live is for you. I discuss what is a shadow, where they come from, and why we continue to hold onto them. More importantly, I go into how we can heal our shadows and the beauty they hold when we no longer fear them. Shadow work is the highest form of healing work. If we can learn how t...

Don’t listen to this live if you aren’t ready to be called out on your excuses. In this live, I go DEEP into the shadows of - overgiving - “I don’t have enough time” - “I have low energy” - “I can’t achieve my dreams because of my mood” And so much more. Your excuses are validated by your shadows. Remember that you are not the problem, you are the solution. 🩸Sick of your shit and ready to release...

We have been approaching spirituality wrong. Spirituality is not about self-help, ego, or money. It is about building a reverent practice to your ancestors, spirits, and medicine. Mainstream spirituality does not speak about the important of being in right relation to the spirit world. Instead, it focuses on certifications, regalia, and status. Spirituality will demand humility. It requires sacrif...

Mainstream spirituality has a selfishness to it, viewing the spirit world as something to extract from and gain. It perpetuates the same colonial behaviors of extraction, disrespect, and consumption. The traditional way is the opposite. It is about building reciprocity and relationship with the spirit world. Wisdom and healing is gained through proper communion instead of forceful domination and d...

We are given a map to navigate this world from a young age. Through family, school, and societal influences that map determines how we show up in this world. That map is rooted in colonization. That map does not ensure your survival nor your best interest. We must challenge our perceptions, actions, mindsets, and ways of life. The current map many of us are following is doing more harm than good....

There is a lot of unspoken struggles that come with working with Spirit. Your ancestors, spirits, and guides will continue to demand sacrifice in exchange for their teachings. This isn’t out of punishment but rather a test of your dedication to preserving the sacredness of this work. To know spirit intimately is to know spirit painfully. It cannot be duplicated. Learning your unique medicine is ho...

After 7+ years of helping individuals name their shadows, there are 3 reoccurring struggles that everyone struggles with in the beginning. Here they are. 1.) Overwhelm. When doing shadow work correctly, you will experience overwhelm. This is actually a good indicator. It confirms that your shadow is receiving attention and being exposed deeper. It allows it to become triggered which allows us to a...

Let’s take a moment to ask ourselves what it means to heal? Western rhetoric has infiltrated into the healing space. It has brought its ways of consumerism and perfectionism. It has created a beast of believing you must constantly be striving towards perfection. This is not healing; it’s consumerism. Healing is finding the balance between your shadows and medicines. It is learning how to walk in t...

In this live I go deep into understanding the importance and power of ancestral work. Many of us are being called to heal our bloodlines and confront the traumas that have been generationally passed down. In this discussion I breakdown how we do this work and the immense beauty that comes from liberating the ancestors. 🩸 Ready to reclaim and heal your ancestors? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow W...

This conversation was one of my most vulnerable and raw ones within my process of how I do shadow work. Listen in to see if your spirit feels aligned to this way of healing. Take a look inside what Cardinal Shadow Work entails and its process. Let me know in the comments which aspects you’d like me to discuss deeper.