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Angelic Self-care with Janette Stuart · The Bridges and Beacons Podcast

• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, hello, hello, and welcome.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to start by thanking you all for being here, for appreciating this podcast and the space that I've opened up to share these wonderful people with you.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: I am feeling so calm and serene, which, you know, is not always my natural state, if you know me personally, but I am with one of the angels on earth, Jeanette Stewart, who is the emissary of Joy.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: And Jeanette and I have been friends for a couple years now, doing some intense writing together when we first met and started spending time with one another, learning how to write an ultimate uh guide blog, which is intense if you've never done such a thing, but both of us have.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: And Jeanette came on tonight and she's gonna talk to us about angelic self-care.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've been here for a minute and you've heard me talk, I am obsessed with self-care, believe in radical self-care.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: So anytime somebody wants to have a conversation with me about self-care, I'm in.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: So, Jeanette, welcome.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: And thanks for being here on the podcast.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you so much, Kelly.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's an honor to be here and to talk to you about angelic self-care and uh your wonderful listeners.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I just have to start by saying before we even came on, uh, Jeanette was asking me, so how how many of these podcasts have you done?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: What number is this?
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought to myself, trying to add up the numbers in my head, I think it's 22.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: And we were both like, ooh, that's a good number.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: So uh she pulled out her book to to figure out what it what does the 22 mean?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I want you all to go and look it up and see what it means.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: But it definitely um landed on my heart.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: I love the number two, and so angelic self-care maybe isn't something that people have heard of or have talked about before.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm blessed to have spent some really nice time with you over the past couple years, so I know where your heart is coming from.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: But if someone hasn't met you before, tell us a little bit about your journey and how you found yourself, you know, spending time with the angels and investing in angelic self-care.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I started working with the angels in 2012, and I had grown up in the church, I knew about angels, um, but my brother was in very dire physical condition, and um he was declining very rapidly, and I couldn't find um the reassurance that I needed from the church, and so I was looking elsewhere, um, and I found a woman on Facebook illuminating souls, my friend Laurel Bleedon Mafey, and her words were such a healing balm to my soul during that time when I was struggling, um, and I felt loved and supported and cared for and held by the angels, even when my brother was declining so rapidly.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: And um those words were so soothing to my heart.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: And after about um a year after he passed away, then I had my first angel reading with Laurel, and I didn't know what to expect.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know if I was gonna start seeing dead people or if my faith would be compromised.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I just didn't know, but it was such a love fest.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and just that everyone knows that the angels are there for you.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: We each have at least two guardian angels who are with us our entire life.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: They have loved you since before you came to the earth, and they're pure unconditional love.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: They don't judge you, they love you no matter what, no matter if you did something you think is a mistake or um whether you didn't do something you think you should have done.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: They love you unconditionally, and especially now, Kelly, um the angels are whispering about self-care because we are all in a trauma.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: We are all trying to find our footing in this wild world that we live in.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're all feeling the COVID fatigue and all that's associated with that.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so the angels want us to treat ourselves with some gentle, tender love and care.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so we'll go into that a little bit more.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: But but that's my um way that I came to work with the angels.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: And um after six months after having an angel reading with my friend Laurel, I was studying to um learn how to read angel cards and became a certified angel card reader, and so from there I wrote some books and created my own angel cards, and it's just been really great.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: I retired in 2015 and I am a pancreatic cancer survivor.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: I had pancreatic cancer in 2019, so um, that's when Kelly was talking about our ultimate blogs.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: I wrote mine about surviving uh cancer in 2020.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, and it's amazing, and I think I think no matter what you have going on in your life, that that blog that you wrote and the energy that you put into it, um I think is a really special piece.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh I would highly recommend it.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: We can link it in the in the show notes so people can read it.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: But if you have someone in your life who is facing a cancer diagnosis at whatever end of the spectrum, I think it's such a a wonderful tool for being able to figure out all of the pieces that can help you to thrive through diagnosis and treatment and remission versus feeling like you're just surviving.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Is that fair?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: And and I think an important thing is there's always hope.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: Even when you get terrible news, there's always hope.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think that's absolutely true.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I I love that you work with the angels, and and I've I've been the recipient of a reading in a live group, and it's just a really special thing.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: So, you can you tell us more about how how does that come into play?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: How do you know who your angel guides are?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: How do you connect with them?
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: And so our angels are literally a breath away, they're right there.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: Some people can see the angels, some people feel their essence, some people can like hear them.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm a feeler, so I can feel when they're in.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know, you can see I have angel bonds.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: So the angels are here, they're so excited to be here.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: And um some people actually like see them, you know, they're clairvoyant.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and as a kid, I remember seeing them and talked to my mom, and she said, Oh no, that's just your imagination.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's not real.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: And um so a lot of well-meaning adults kind of put the kibosh on the uh um relationship with the angels.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then I thought, okay, well, there's angels, but they're not gonna want to work with just regular old me, you know, they only want to work with somebody like Mother Teresa or Gandhi or Jesus, you know, somebody like really um holy, but they um their mission is to uh love and support us on our journey here on earth, and so you always have a team, whether you believe it or not, or whether you're uncertain um or unsure, they're right there.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so you just need to ask for their help.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Since we have free will and we have dominion over our life, we need to ask for their help.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and they give us little signs, they give us breadcrumbs along the way, and so some people, like I said, hear messages like in songs or bits of conversation, um through nature, through seeing birds or feathers or dimes or some uh repetitive numbers that Kelly and I were cracking up about before uh uh podcast began.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um and and so I'm always on the lookout for miracles and synchronicity.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: And this year, my word of the year is wonder.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: So when my dog and I go out for our morning walk, I'm looking for wonder.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we go about the same kind of area, um, but it's always different.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: We go different streets, different directions, um, and the world is always changing.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so we're looking for um, you know, focusing on something, and you'll be seeing that.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: So you can try asking your angels for a simple favor, like angels, please help me get a good parking spot, or you know, help me make this deadline.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, sometimes the answer comes in a different way than we're anticipating, but um they're always we they always answer.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: I love it, and I I kind of see it as like the synchronicities and the things that happen that we say, oh, maybe that was a coincidence, but you know, often that's that's signs and and confirmation.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it's funny because I think we really some of our humanness, our egos want like the scientific proof that they're here, and yet, you know, it does not necessarily exist in the way that our our human minds can understand it.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: But um I think about like times when I've been driving and I just feel this pull, turn here, you know, and avoid a traffic jam, or you know, slow down, and then I pass a police officer.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Not that I make it a habit of speeding, for the record.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you're paying attention and you're um listening to that, because we all have a powerful intuition, and you know, that's where we get in trouble.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we get stuck because we're not paying attention to our internal guidance, you know.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I should have paid attention to that.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: I should have stopped at that yellow light, and maybe I wouldn't have had a ticket, um, something like that.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I look at the time now, 4 44.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: My time.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's just so wild, you know.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm looking for all of those synchronicities and things.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um so yes, uh about angelic self-care.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: So treating yourself like the angels, they love us unconditionally, and it's a pure love.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so there's uh you might want to make like a self-care first aid kit.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: One sometimes one of the things that I do when I've got some um bad news and I'm feeling unsettled, like to to um ground myself, I will put on like you could grab a shawl or a blankie and just like swallow yourself and um you'll find instant comfort from that or hug yourself, and that is so soothing.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then in your angel self-care kit, you might want to put in some things that your go-to.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so if you love chocolate and you um like just need a piece of chocolate and then everything's gonna be okay before you move forward, um, you might want to have a little box or a drawer where these things are just for you ready.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um maybe it's fuzzy socks, maybe it's a tea, um all kinds of goodies, bath salts, any any of those kind of things are very nurturing and so that um is very soothing to our body and it's when you're in water, like if you're taking an absence salts bath, that is very conducive to ideas, to relaxation.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, energy is a great water is a great conductor of energy, and so sometimes people get their best ideas in the shower or in the tub or by a body of water.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: So any of those things are really good.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Going out in nature and umor having a cup of chamomile or peppermint tea, those things are really good too.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: I love that, and I I think what's so nice about it is choosing things that you may already either have in your environment or know that you enjoy or make you feel good or a nice self-soothers for you, but to intentionally create a kit so it's not like what do I need right now?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: I know I know I need something, but I'm not sure.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: But like you take that thinking, planning piece away and you just have, oh, I just go to my kit and I take out what I need.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like here in California, there we have earthquake kits, go kits uh for fires and things to um, so that you don't have to scramble around the house at the last minute and try to get that um all your stuffs together and you're ready to go.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: So the same thing with your angelic uh self-care first aid kit.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, you just want it in one spot and then you want it for you, right?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want it in a place where other household members are going to be um nibbling on your favorite chocolates or whatever.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: So, and so that's part of it is like valuing yourself enough that it's kind of selfish, right?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: The world kind of thinks, oh, that's selfish, but it's important because we need to keep our lights bright and our energy levels high so that we can be our best and brightest self and that we are able to help others then from our plenty.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, ma'am, I agree with you on that one.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: I think that that is a mistake I've made in the past with thinking that I needed to, you know, serve from my cup, and that was, you know, I have a cup, I can give some of what I have to you, but understanding I like that your plenty, your overflow, whatever you have extra of, that's what you're giving to others from, because it has the right energy to it, yeah, yeah.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, and I'm speaking from experience, otherwise you become resentful, um, depleted.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: I became anemic.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, like I said, I just uh journeyed with pancreatic cancer, so all of that um required extensive self-care, um, focusing on what it is I wanted, um the outcome that I desired, and to flourish no matter what was going on, no matter if I was sick, throwing up, whatever, um just to focus on okay, how can I flourish in this moment?
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: And that was really important.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: And that flourish was my word for 2019.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I was so grateful that the angels gave me that word because that word pulled me through.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: That helped me every day, many times during the days when I was unable to do anything other than laying at the couch on the couch.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, knowing that brighter days were ahead.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: And that's part of the self-care too, for all of us, right?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're all in the throes of COVID fatigue, of um figuring out different ways to celebrate, different ways to do this and that.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it's very fatiguing.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: So the angels are just saying that this is an excellent time for us to um nurture ourselves, and it's not selfish, it is a necessity because when we keep our energy bright, we help the world, we help all of those that we connect with.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and I I love that you've talked about your you had a plan for going through your treatment.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it wasn't it wasn't about you know your your chemotherapy or radiation or medications you were taking, but it was something a little more special than that.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Can you can you share that?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think people would love to hear what you did.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Well, um, I would ask the angels for help all the time.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I felt like I was never alone, and we are never alone.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: So the angels gave me the message that I was gonna be okay and that cancer would be with me for a season, but her lessons would last a lifetime.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've done a lot of writing about it and sharing about it because it's such a miracle that um I am thriving with such a dire diagnosis received.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and one a few weeks before I was scheduled to have my life-saving surgery, um the angels gave me a vision overnight and I drew it, what they showed me.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: So they showed me a healing journey, and I drew it.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have it with me at the moment, but it it was saying that I was gonna go on this healing journey, and um it would involve chemo, it would involve the surgery, and then it would be thriving.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: And it didn't say chemo surgery, chemo thriving.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And after I had my surgery, um I had really good results.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: They were able to get the tumor, and no lymph nodes were involved, and I didn't want to have any more chemo.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: They got all that stuff out, and I was starting to feel pretty good at that time.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: My hair was starting to grow in, and they wanted to give me four more doses of chemo just because that's like the normal protocol to do 12, and it just didn't feel right to me.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: And um my doctor was on vacation, and so the nurse practitioner was in saying that that would be the protocol, and she said, although you're the patient and you can say what you want, and I said, you know, I really feel strongly that I don't want to have more chemo after this, and um, can we just wait till the doctor gets back from vacation and ask him?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: And he was gone for three more weeks, and when he came back, I didn't really know what to expect, what he would say, you know.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but he came in and he said, first off, I recommend no more treatment, there's no evidence of disease, and um, you know, just keep what you're doing.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I could hardly get out of there without walking on air.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that was just like the best thing.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I felt so much lighter and freer, right?
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: I had that behind me, and now um it's three years behind me.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm just so blessed.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: I I I think what I love so much about that is that you made this decision to go on a healing journey.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: Wasn't a cure, it wasn't a remission journey, it was a healing journey.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: And you were talking about intuition earlier.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: So your intuition was telling you I don't need anymore.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: In the face of, you know, physicians who sometimes we can feel like they they know best, they know better than we do.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: This is what they study, this is what they know.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I almost wonder if the lesson there for all of us is sometimes you just have to trust your own intuition.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: And if Jeanette can do it in the face of, you know, a a pancreatic cancer treatment and diagnosis, then couldn't we do it in other places in our lives?
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: In in with you know, what higher stakes are there?
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's like as high as it gets.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: That that is a great takeaway, Kelly.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think that's important for us to uh to know, you know, we we talk about that, the your like trusting your gut feeling, um, trusting your intuition, trusting your insights.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we have so much inner wisdom within us, and we doubt it or we dismiss it um and say, oh, the doctor knows better, or the experts know, or whatever.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: But um, today the invitation is just to tune in and um what is your inner healer saying?
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: What is your inner guidance doing?
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because we've all had that sick feeling in our gut when we've gone against what we were guided to do, and like, oh, and it's such a hard lesson, right?
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, I get those all the time.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Human being learning, yeah, learning every day.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, but yes, I think that also setting the intention to tune more deeply into those intuitive feelings and messages, however, you get them.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like you said before, some of us are more tuned into getting a picture in our head or a feeling or hearing something or or seeing all of those signs.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm seeing tons of angel numbers, even as we're talking, just lots of 44s, 22s, 55s, you know.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and just what if I wonder, like this is what I asked myself, what if I just surrendered and believed and felt like that could be that could be it.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: That could be what there is to it, just tuning in and listening to those messages and following them, you know?
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and when we are in that state, it's in flow, right?
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: Things uh come together easily, and we're not fighting against the current and all of that.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like sometimes why didn't I pay attention?
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Why didn't I do this?
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and um, that's part of the angel self-care is to give ourselves grace when we make a mistake and just let it go.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um our angels are treating us with pure unconditional love, and so we need to just treat ourselves with love and compassion.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Also, when we blow it, um, there's always we can push the reset button and start over um and make a better choice.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, sometimes if I eat um more cookies, oh, what's one more?
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: Then the whole bag will be gone.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: But then tomorrow's a new day, right?
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we we we just um kind of are learning and figuring out as we go.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um so and another part of self-care is counting your blessings because the gratitude in your life um that will magnify your joy.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: It makes what you have be enough, and it is just such a huge piece of um life.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, there's there's different ways people um do gratitudes.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm currently doing a uh gratitude journal list that lists three things each day that I'm grateful for.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of times I have um more than three, but it's it's just a great um uh tool.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I've written on a piece of paper what I'm grateful for and put it in a jar and have a gratitude jar.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: And at the end of the year, I'll read all of those things and have a little ceremony, and it is just a wonderful tool to like remember those things.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, have them in I had mine on a mason jar that I decorated on my dining table, so I would see it all the time.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: And it was just fun to to um watch those things multiply because again, you know, that's the law of focus.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: The um the more you focus on what's going right, uh, the more you find that life is giving you things the way that you'd like them to unfold.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I I really, yeah, yeah, I think gratitude, I like the way you put that.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I I think that's such a great strategy, you know.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're all, you know, often succumbing to the complaint fest, you know, and I say that in a non-judgmental way.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm throwing myself right in there with that grouping, but the there's something really special about counting your blessings, and you know, like you said, literally writing it in a journal every night or collecting it in a jar.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: And that is such a a tiny, easy, simple thing.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it can cost nothing.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the back of scrap paper, a jar you already have, um, and and they make it sacred.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: You you put it in a spot um on your altar, on a place that lights you up.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's another thing for self-care is to make a special spot in your house, in your office, on your desk, um, where you can put these items to remind you, oh, you know, I'm I'm looking for ways to flourish.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking for wonder.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and recording those things, I think that's important too.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm a writer as Kelly, so we're writing everything down.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh so yeah, yeah, I I I love that and I love that idea of cultivating a space and you know, creating a sacred space for things.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: For me, I love the sacred space for sleep.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I think that a sacred space for gratitude is that's really special.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: And um I was actually thinking about, you know, I need to do that at work, at my desk at work, like put a little, a little sacred area where I, you know, can write down little bits of gratitude for for my days at work and uh have a way of collecting that and looking at it.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: I kind of have done that, you know, over the years.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: I work as a as a therapist, I work with kids, and um, you know, the notes that I get from parents and thank yous and you know, when a kiddo draws a picture for me and is just so excited to give it to me, I save all that stuff.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: I have like a little a little spot in my drawer where I keep all those mementos and I pull them out when I need a little pickup.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: But even just to track like something simple, like you know, having lunch outside with coworkers and laughing and you know, yes, the little things that are really the things, they are the things, right?
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: Right, exactly, because the little things are the big things, um, because that's the thing we miss the most when we aren't able to go outside and have lunch with a friend or co-worker or something.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when when we were in lockdown, we missed that human connection.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the the giving of a hug um and the receiving of a hug, those things.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know, so so the swaddling yourself um is is a great thing, you know, giving yourself a hug when you can't um hug another um is a great self-care tool as well.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love that.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: So how did you figure out who your angel guides were?
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: So you can ask.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I never knew that.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: I just knew I worked with the angels.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't really sure, and I thought, okay, um, I knew that I would work with Archangel Raphael, who is the archangel um for healing and for travel.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so the color associated with Archangel Um Raphael is green.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: So when I was in the hospital, I would see green lights on the little machines.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: And okay, I know you're here, thank you.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm not alone.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I also knew Archangel Gabriel, um, who is the archangel that works with writers and authors uh to deliver clear messages, speakers, things like that.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I did ask who my angels were.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it's funny because I don't like talk to them like I would a friend, like, hey Kelly, what's up?
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um, I just kind of know, okay, it's it's you guys.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then at certain times of our life, like I'm writing a chapter for a book that's coming out in July, and it's called Inspired Living.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I received an attunement to use as my tool to help people sit in the essence of Archangel Hanniel, who is the angel of joy, and so her invitation is okay, come bask in my energy and you know ask your questions so that you can receive your answers in this loving, uh, healing environment.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I I do a lot of reading um and journaling, things like that, Kelly, but not everybody likes to read or journal.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um there's uh websites, people can get um oracle card readings a day.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: I post on my um site um memes of love and encouragement.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um and so also you could work with oracle cards, and that's what I did.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I developed three decks, and so right now I just feel guided.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna pull one for the group.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: So this is um my drenched in love deck that it kind of goes with the newest book.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_01: Oops, sorry, which way you got it that way, opposite of what you feel, um drenched in love, which is a devotional.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: But the cards, uh, there's 44 blessings on a card.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: So, what do we need to know today?
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: May I feel worthy and deserving of every blessing flowing to me always.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: May I feel worthy and deserving of every blessing flowing to me always.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: So that's opening and allowing these messages of love and um uh support to flow to us, um, not closing ourselves off, not thinking, oh, I'm too busy for this, or um Kelly spoke about being in the flow, and then we get the flow card.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: So okay, angels, we see you, we hear you.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: So that's real fun.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh let's see, I put it away.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to show you one more time.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um so Kelly, do you have anything to say while I'm uh getting this card again?
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: I I am a huge fan of Oracle cards.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: I think they're such a nice way to tune to your guides, to your inner self.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um I tend to really enjoy cards like yours that are very uplifting and motivating.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think people kind of don't understand and and see them as like dark or like a negative energy, but I find it's the opposite.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's like opportunity to think about the ways in which you can um enlighten your life and offer more to the world and give yourself some direction.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I I will find that I will journal um what's coming up as I'm as I'm meditating, and then I will pull cards that will directly relate to what I was channeling and writing about.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: And to me, that's a synchronicity, and that's like confirmation.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, yes, so this is what you should do.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I will ask questions too.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: I will ask questions, you know, specific guidance on things.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's like a nice way to actually open up the flow for me to sort of go from like how I'm feeling into like, so then what do I do?
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, to receive the guidance.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that that really um was something that I would do every day.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: I would pull an oracle card, um, an angel card.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_01: And um sometimes I was pulling cards like every 10 minutes, and that was when I was like doubting my inner wisdom.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: So um some folks might relate to that also.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: So um we had talked earlier about trusting our intuition and knowing.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so sometimes I'll just ask for the guidance.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: What do I need to know today?
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but like Kelly said, this like a message like this is just a confirmation.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, Jeanette, that you are worthy and deserving of every blessing flowing to you always.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you know, you can picture the angels kissing your forehead and enveloping you in their wings with with that kind of love.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and that's what I find.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: I probably have I don't know how many decks, maybe 30.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, I have them.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: I I have more than one dresser drawer full of them.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I have a lot, and there's always more coming.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_01: So yes.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: Tools of the trade, yes.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: Tools of the trade, they really are.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I I just find it's such a nice, it's a nice process.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I've I've also been told, like, um, I was helping my my cousin kind of like teaching her about them.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_00: And after I had taught her about a deck, I was like, and now I'm being told you need to take this deck with you.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: The deck wanted to go with her.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: So she was like, okay.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's for sure.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I I love it.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I these are just such nice little ways that we can tune back into ourselves.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I know you just put out a really wonderful book in that vein.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you wanted to talk about that a little bit.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you see that was a good point.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_01: I was a little hesitant, but anyway.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so in in the fall, I um created this my fifth book uh on my own, and this is a 31-day devotional, um, and it's a daily dabble into angelic uh goodness, and it's a devotional, and this one um Amazon has a cool thing, uh, so Drenched in Love by Jeanette Stewart.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: And um, Amazon had a cool feature.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you could get your books printed in hardback.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I had to get a few of those.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but so Kelly, what day of the month are you born?
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to tell me the month, but the day.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: The 28th.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_01: 28th.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_01: So here's the devotional for the 28th.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_01: May I allow myself the gift of laughter, which is a healing balm to me and others.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, laughter is such a wonderful gift.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: It knows no bounds or language barrier.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's an excellent medicine for our body, mind, and soul.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: Laughter triggers feel-good hormones to tickle and delight every cell of your body with these natural chemical messengers.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: Laughter is contagious.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: You may want to check out some funny videos on YouTube.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing more contagious than the pure joy of a baby unabashedly laughing.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: Enjoy the gift of some laughter today, dear heart, to bless yourself and all those you encounter with its healing and invigorating properties.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: So a little bit of devotion, and then it has a blank page that you can journal, write some notes, um, draw pictures, whatever you want.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's the latest.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I'm so grateful to be able to do the work of my soul and that I am alive and thriving.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_00: So oh my gosh, and and the work that you do, it is so special and spending time with you.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I've done some workshops that you've run, and um I really think and know that you are here with purpose and you live on purpose.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and just for you to be here to tell us to connect with our angels and to explain how simple and um accessible it is that you know it's it's right here, right now for anybody.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you can certainly also be like Jeanette and I and start your own addiction to Oracle cards.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, exactly.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: It so lights you up.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but uh I will be sure to link in the show notes all the places that people can connect with you because I think the work that you're doing out there is just so special and your heart is so tender.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um I I really appreciate and always enjoy seeing what you post.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a lot of us can say that we want to be positive forces in the world, but you are always doing just that effortlessly.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: So um I really appreciate that.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm so grateful that you came to talk about angelic self-care.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm going to make my own little self-care kit for sure, and put Kelly's self-care kit.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: Kelly's off.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: No one else.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_01: I like, I like that.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that's great.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and um, I want to thank you so much, Kelly, for um letting me uh come here and be a mystic nerd with you today, which um I'm a word nerd, so uh being a nerd is like really cool for me.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you so much.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: You you're the perfect mystic nerd guest.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_00: So um welcome to the squad and thank you so much for being here.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_00: All right, everyone, have a good one and stay curious.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Take care.