If you’ve been feeling ungrounded, disconnected, or like you’re carrying everything on your own, this episode will meet you where you are. We’re talking about the kind of spiritual support most people don’t even realize they need: a team of guides who help you feel steadier, clearer, and more anchored as you move through everyday life.

In this conversation, we explore why guidance has always been part of human experience, why so many people today feel unsupported even with strong intuition or spiritual practice, and how guides actually help you hold boundaries in both your inner and outer world. This isn’t about outsourcing your life to something mystical — it’s about remembering that you don’t have to navigate uncertainty, transition, or rapid growth by yourself.

You’ll learn how the relationship with your guides begins, why the first signs are usually subtle, and what shifts when you finally stop white-knuckling your way through your inner world alone. We also cover what guides are not so you can approach this work with clarity, agency, and grounded discernment.

And if you’re curious about meeting your own support team, I’ve created a guided journey to help you connect with a Guardian Guide — a steady, accessible starting point. The link is blow.

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In this episode, I’m joined by fellow Celtic shamanic practitioner and intuitive healer Dani Smith for a grounded conversation about what it actually means to build a spiritual support team & how to practice safely in a world full of overwhelm and mixed messages.

Dani shares her path into Celtic practice, and how that shift helped her reconnect to her body, her inner seasons, and her own self-trust. She breaks down her “sacred triangle” of support: you, your guides, and the humans who genuinely have the capacity to hold you—therapists, mentors, practitioners, and friends who meet you where you are.

We talk about the messy middle of healing:

• why you don’t need to be a practitioner (or have an hour-long meditation routine) to have a real spiritual life

• how to weave simple, meaningful practices into a busy day—omen walks, clearing energy while doing dishes, five minutes of automatic writing between naps

• what integration actually looks like in practice (often rest, stillness, and letting things land instead of sprinting to the next breakthrough)

We also get into safe practice and ethical spirituality—opening and closing space, setting clear intentions, working with trusted guides, and spotting red flags like spiritual ego, fortune-telling, or any practitioner insisting “my way is the only way.” Underneath it all is the slow rebuilding of self-trust and learning to discern who—and what—feels safe in your nervous system.

If you’ve wondered how to build a spiritual support team that’s real, sustainable, and rooted in everyday life—not performance or perfection—this conversation offers both language and lived experience to guide you.

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This episode continues our listener-favorite series on moving from doubt into intuitive clarity—but this time, we’re going deeper. We’re exploring the archetype of the North Star: the part of you that remembers who you’re here to become long before you feel ready to embody it.

We’ll look at the North Node through both astrology and Human Design—the signs, houses, gates, and lines that shape your soul’s direction—and how this energy acts as a compass for your intuition. I share why embracing your North Star can feel both strangely familiar and profoundly uncomfortable, and how your conditioning, nervous system, and past identities can make it difficult to hear the guidance that’s been whispering all along.

If you’ve ever felt pulled toward something you couldn’t explain, wrestled with the tension between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming, or found yourself caught in the trap of “fixing” instead of evolving, this conversation will help you reconnect to the deeper wisdom already moving through your life. Your North Star isn’t a destination—it’s a relationship. And when you learn how to orient toward it, doubt loses its power and intuitive clarity finally has room to land.

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