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- 0:09Speaker 1: Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Caprio. Do
- 0:13Speaker 1: you believe in magic? What if you were told that
- 0:16Speaker 1: all you had to do was get a little creative
- 0:19Speaker 1: and work a magic spell to bring anything you can
- 0:22Speaker 1: imagine into your life? Here on Postcards to the Universe,
- 0:27Speaker 1: we will share manifesting, tips, postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Here's your host, Melissa Caprio.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Creating the life you crave. How is everybody doing today?
- 0:47Speaker 2: I hope everybody's doing well. If you're here live, you're
- 0:51Speaker 2: here on November 4th at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. And welcome.
- 0:57Speaker 2: It's a big, big day today. If you haven't been
- 1:02Speaker 2: paying attention, we had a huge, huge blue wave happen yesterday.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Yesterday.
- 1:08Speaker 2: I don't, my show is not about politics, but if
- 1:10Speaker 2: you guys know me well enough to know, and you
- 1:13Speaker 2: follow some of my YouTube videos, you know that I
- 1:16Speaker 2: am a Democrat and I am very, very happy about
- 1:20Speaker 2: what happened here yesterday and where we are moving. So
- 1:24Speaker 2: I'm really excited about that. Today I have a bestselling
- 1:28Speaker 2: author and personal development expert, Kelsey Aida with me, and
- 1:32Speaker 2: she's going to join me in just a few minutes.
- 1:36Speaker 2: And to my regulars, thank you so, so much for
- 1:41Speaker 2: joining me every week and telling me how much you
- 1:44Speaker 2: like my show and you love my guests. It means
- 1:46Speaker 2: the world to me because I love having these kinds
- 1:51Speaker 2: of conversations, you know, talking about the things that we
- 1:54Speaker 2: want to grow and expand in our life, right? And
- 1:57Speaker 2: the things that we want to bring abundance. And for
- 2:00Speaker 2: if you're new to my show, welcome. And just so
- 2:04Speaker 2: you know, you can watch all of my shows on
- 2:07Speaker 2: Omtimes TV. You can go through and you can watch
- 2:10Speaker 2: the videos. You can listen to them on any of
- 2:13Speaker 2: the podcasting platforms if you just like to listen to
- 2:16Speaker 2: the audios. Or you could go to Postcards to the
- 2:18Speaker 2: Universe on my YouTube channel and you can see all
- 2:21Speaker 2: of my shows and all of my guests that has
- 2:23Speaker 2: the description underneath of who I'm speaking with and what
- 2:26Speaker 2: the show is about. So you please go back and
- 2:30Speaker 2: watch some of those shows. So for those who do
- 2:33Speaker 2: know me, you guys know that I am making my
- 2:36Speaker 2: own Oracle deck and I have done my pitch page
- 2:40Speaker 2: to pitch to a publisher and I wrote my booklet
- 2:44Speaker 2: and I am doing my cards, right? So I'm going
- 2:49Speaker 2: in that way. So it is manifesting. But the deck
- 2:53Speaker 2: that I show on here is the deck that I
- 2:55Speaker 2: made homemade, right? They're my photographs of manifesting postcards that
- 2:59Speaker 2: people send me with an affirmation. So I pull one
- 3:03Speaker 2: before every show. And today's, and I swear to you,
- 3:06Speaker 2: I pulled this card today. This just happens to be
- 3:08Speaker 2: the last card of 52 cards because there's like a story,
- 3:12Speaker 2: the Oracle deck. You can read them alone. You can
- 3:14Speaker 2: read them with each other. And this is the card
- 3:17Speaker 2: I pulled. Now, you can't see the affirmation on this card,
- 3:20Speaker 2: but the affirmation is, Your future looks rosy. Your future
- 3:27Speaker 2: looks rosy. And after yesterday's win for us as Americans
- 3:34Speaker 2: and in what's happening in the world, I got goosebumps
- 3:39Speaker 2: when this card is the one that I pulled. And
- 3:41Speaker 2: I swear to you, I'm not making it up. I
- 3:44Speaker 2: didn't look for it. I shuffle and whatever flies out
- 3:47Speaker 2: at me is the card of the day. So our
- 3:50Speaker 2: future looks rosy. That's what I'm getting from this card.
- 3:54Speaker 2: All right. And when I do have them ready for,
- 3:57Speaker 2: you know, they're out, they're published and they're ready for purchase.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Believe me, you guys will know.
- 4:01Speaker 1: All right.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Let me bring on my guest, Kelsey Aida. Talk to
- 4:05Speaker 2: her today because she is a bestselling author, intuitive, energetic
- 4:10Speaker 2: alignment guide. And she's the co-host of a popular personal
- 4:13Speaker 2: development podcast called High Vibin' It. And her work brings
- 4:18Speaker 2: together spirituality, manifestation, which you guys know I'm all about,
- 4:22Speaker 2: and radical self-love to help women reconnect with their power.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Kelsey, for joining me today.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Thanks, Melissa. I'm super excited.
- 4:32Speaker 2: I'm really, really excited. So you have a book coming.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Is your book officially out?
- 4:38Speaker 3: It's about to be out if you're watching this live.
- 4:41Speaker 3: It comes out December 1st. But people can already pre-order it,
- 4:44Speaker 3: so it's like almost out.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Hold it up good so people could see it. It's
- 4:48Speaker 2: called the manifesting fix and it releases, I see December, 2026,
- 4:52Speaker 2: which is in a month. It's crazy already. And you
- 4:56Speaker 2: talk about manifesting, which is what the postcards that I
- 5:00Speaker 2: share are. So what I have people do, Kelsey, is
- 5:03Speaker 2: I have people create a sort of like a mini
- 5:05Speaker 2: vision board, but it's a postcard and then they send
- 5:07Speaker 2: it to me. And then I sort of do this
- 5:10Speaker 2: whole ritual and this intuitive, what, do I want to
- 5:13Speaker 2: bring in visually? Because I'm a photographer is my background
- 5:16Speaker 2: to sort of bring this manifestation that this desire this
- 5:21Speaker 2: person wants. And I said, you know what? I'm going
- 5:23Speaker 2: to make that an Oracle deck because why not? Because
- 5:26Speaker 2: I'm a visual artist. So yeah. So it's so, so
- 5:30Speaker 2: cool to talk to somebody else who is into the manifesting.
- 5:36Speaker 2: And I asked everybody this, how did you get into
- 5:39Speaker 2: this work? How did this start for you?
- 5:42Speaker 3: Well, side note real quick before I get into that. Actually,
- 5:44Speaker 3: one of my previous books is called Letters to the Universe.
- 5:47Speaker 3: So when I saw that your show was posted. I
- 5:50Speaker 3: love that. I'm a writer. So mine is like a
- 5:54Speaker 3: scripting journal that people use that is self-inquiry. And then
- 5:57Speaker 3: they write their letter to the universe. And then they
- 5:59Speaker 3: can like get witchy with it. They can burn it.
- 6:01Speaker 3: They can sleep with it. They can put it with
- 6:02Speaker 3: their crystals, whatever. So I was like, us good witches,
- 6:05Speaker 3: we're just on the same page, you know? So anyways.
- 6:08Speaker 3: How I got into this is kind of a long story,
- 6:11Speaker 3: but the cliff notes is I was training my whole
- 6:14Speaker 3: life to be a professional ballerina. So my background is
- 6:17Speaker 3: in the performing arts. And as many young dancers do,
- 6:20Speaker 3: I got injured. It devastated me. It obliterated my identity.
- 6:25Speaker 3: This was in my late teens when you're supposed to
- 6:27Speaker 3: start like auditioning for ballet companies and going off to
- 6:30Speaker 3: camps and doing all this stuff. And my body was
- 6:33Speaker 3: just like, no. You're not doing this for your profession,
- 6:36Speaker 3: even though you've trained your whole life and this is
- 6:38Speaker 3: the only thing you're good at and the only thing
- 6:40Speaker 3: you identify with and the only thing you've ever loved.
- 6:42Speaker 3: So that basically sent me into a depressive spiral that
- 6:47Speaker 3: lasted about three years. I would say like 17 to
- 6:51Speaker 3: like 20 ish was a huge struggle bus, like to
- 6:56Speaker 3: the point of like suicidal ideation, not understanding why I
- 7:00Speaker 3: was here, why was God punishing me, what's going on.
- 7:03Speaker 3: And so eventually I just had this kind of breakthrough moment.
- 7:06Speaker 3: And I was like, you know what? I didn't always
- 7:09Speaker 3: used to feel like crap. I used to be happy
- 7:11Speaker 3: and bubbly and have hobbies and love my life. So
- 7:14Speaker 3: first of all, what happened to me? Second of all, God,
- 7:17Speaker 3: spirit team, whoever's out there that's like assigned to me,
- 7:20Speaker 3: like send help. I will act on it. I will listen.
- 7:23Speaker 3: I will do whatever I need to do to heal
- 7:26Speaker 3: and learn how to feel better again and love my
- 7:27Speaker 3: life again. And so, of course, in asking, my prayer
- 7:32Speaker 3: was answered with a great therapist. I started working with
- 7:35Speaker 3: a shaman. I started reading all these spiritual texts. I
- 7:38Speaker 3: started just doing so much personal development work, learning about energy,
- 7:45Speaker 3: learning about manifestation. And in doing that, I was able
- 7:49Speaker 3: to get better and feel even better than I felt
- 7:52Speaker 3: before I got sick. So I'm like on this new
- 7:55Speaker 3: spiritual high, had this like awakening, if you want to
- 7:58Speaker 3: call it that. And I was just like, man, why
- 8:01Speaker 3: does everybody not have these tools readily at their disposal? Like,
- 8:04Speaker 3: why is this weird? Why is it woo woo? Like
- 8:07Speaker 3: it just works. It's the energy. It's not that weird.
- 8:10Speaker 3: So that's when I like kind of, I guess, downloaded
- 8:14Speaker 3: or heard that I was supposed to start teaching this
- 8:17Speaker 3: via writing and become an author, which. Was an interesting
- 8:20Speaker 3: calling because I didn't even go to college. I ended
- 8:22Speaker 3: up going to cosmetology school when I couldn't dance because
- 8:26Speaker 3: I'm also very visual, very creative. And I was always
- 8:29Speaker 3: like the go-to beauty girl that did everyone's hair and
- 8:32Speaker 3: makeup for Nutcracker and competition and blah, blah, blah. And
- 8:35Speaker 3: so my parents were like, you should just do that.
- 8:36Speaker 3: You're really talented at it. And I was like, okay,
- 8:39Speaker 3: if I hate it, I'll go to college, whatever. So anyway,
- 8:43Speaker 3: did that. The last... More than 10 years, I've been
- 8:47Speaker 3: doing hair parallel to writing books and teaching people and podcasting.
- 8:51Speaker 3: And it's just really been a journey that has naturally
- 8:55Speaker 3: evolved from, let me write my first self-published book. Let
- 8:59Speaker 3: me start a blog to now we're on, I think
- 9:02Speaker 3: The Manifesting Fix is my fifth book. It's the fourth
- 9:06Speaker 3: published one with a big publisher. And the podcast has
- 9:10Speaker 3: over half a million downloads. And I've posted- many international retreats,
- 9:17Speaker 3: helped thousands of women like learn how to love themselves,
- 9:19Speaker 3: manifest their best life. And so it's just been a
- 9:22Speaker 3: journey of me beyond the growth journey and then wanting
- 9:26Speaker 3: to help people who are also on similar journeys.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Very similar story to mine, except not physical. And I
- 9:34Speaker 2: was in my 30s, later 30s when everything kind of
- 9:38Speaker 2: fell apart. Like I lost my house, the job I loved.
- 9:42Speaker 2: I photographed special needs kids working with dolphins for so
- 9:46Speaker 2: many years. And I was going through a divorce at
- 9:48Speaker 2: the same time. So I went into spiraling into a
- 9:52Speaker 2: depression and the same thing and the why me and
- 9:55Speaker 2: I don't understand and why is God punishing me? I'm
- 9:57Speaker 2: a good person. Everything that you said. totally resonates. And
- 10:02Speaker 2: similar things happen. I would meet somebody who would introduce
- 10:06Speaker 2: me to this idea or this book and I started
- 10:09Speaker 2: reading spiritual texts and started connecting with people that were
- 10:13Speaker 2: sort of helping me because I was so, like you, desperate.
- 10:16Speaker 2: I was asking for help because I was in so
- 10:19Speaker 2: much emotional pain. I was in so much pain. And
- 10:24Speaker 2: after I kind of got on the other side of
- 10:26Speaker 2: it and now so much happier than I ever was,
- 10:29Speaker 2: even back then, it's like, why not write a book?
- 10:34Speaker 2: It's wrote a book. Why not create this, make it
- 10:38Speaker 2: a visual journey? Because I'm an artist. So let's, how
- 10:42Speaker 2: can photography and art come into it?
- 10:44Speaker 1: And.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Then have the show. And it just kind of blossomed
- 10:48Speaker 2: from there. So I totally resonate with everything that you're
- 10:52Speaker 2: saying about your own journey. I just was a couple
- 10:56Speaker 2: decades older than you when it started.
- 10:59Speaker 3: I'm like glad it happened early, but I'm also like, dang,
- 11:03Speaker 3: that was a lot real quick. But then I'm like, well,
- 11:05Speaker 3: I'm like a very old soul. So I guess I
- 11:07Speaker 3: could handle it. But then I forgot also a part
- 11:10Speaker 3: two of the story that might be interesting to your
- 11:12Speaker 3: viewers and interesting to you is probably like maybe six
- 11:16Speaker 3: years after that happened, I had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening
- 11:21Speaker 3: and a bunch of my psychic gifts opened up like
- 11:24Speaker 3: seemingly overnight. I called it my psychic summer, but it
- 11:27Speaker 3: was like so confusing and weird. And it felt like
- 11:29Speaker 3: Pandora's box of like all this information that I just
- 11:31Speaker 3: like didn't need or want to know. And that's when
- 11:35Speaker 3: my channeling abilities, which I've always had really came strongly online.
- 11:40Speaker 3: So when I'm writing, um, I'm literally like communing with
- 11:44Speaker 3: the universe herself. Like, okay, tell me how this law
- 11:46Speaker 3: of attraction thing really works. Like, what are we getting wrong? Like,
- 11:48Speaker 3: tell us more, you know? So that's a big part
- 11:51Speaker 3: of my work now too, is when I'm in session
- 11:53Speaker 3: with clients or when I'm writing a new book, I
- 11:55Speaker 3: just seem to know the right thing to say at
- 11:58Speaker 3: the right time.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Yeah. So you feel like that you're actually, so when
- 12:03Speaker 2: you're writing, you feel like you're channeling, like when you're
- 12:06Speaker 2: writing your books, like you're.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Getting- Not like a clear channel where I'm gone because
- 12:11Speaker 3: it's like a co-creation between my consciousness, me, like I'm
- 12:16Speaker 3: presently there, and then I'm getting answers. And then I'm
- 12:20Speaker 3: like combining my viewpoint with the answers that come, if
- 12:23Speaker 3: that makes sense.
- 12:24Speaker 2: That makes total sense because that's exactly how I photograph
- 12:28Speaker 2: the postcards. And that's exactly what happened with the book,
- 12:30Speaker 2: Postcards to the Universe. And even before the book, when
- 12:33Speaker 2: I was in the worst part of it, I heard
- 12:37Speaker 2: very loudly as I was falling asleep one night, and
- 12:39Speaker 2: I talk about this in my book, postcards to the universe.
- 12:42Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't know what this means,
- 12:44Speaker 2: but I know it's important. So I got up and
- 12:47Speaker 2: I bought the domain name and I just didn't even
- 12:49Speaker 2: do anything with it for like a year, but I
- 12:51Speaker 2: just knew something spoke to me. I heard it in
- 12:54Speaker 2: my head and I knew it wasn't my voice, but
- 12:57Speaker 2: it wasn't. Yeah. I can't explain it. You only know
- 13:00Speaker 2: it if you've experienced it. So I know exactly what
- 13:03Speaker 2: you mean. And when I'm, photographing and I'm setting up
- 13:07Speaker 2: and I'm doing the rituals, I'm there, but I'm not,
- 13:12Speaker 2: something else is coming in. That's just sort of leading
- 13:16Speaker 2: the way that I do it. So yeah, I totally,
- 13:19Speaker 2: I totally get that. And a lot of your work
- 13:22Speaker 2: is about self-love. So, right. Because that's a big I
- 13:29Speaker 2: notice with all of us at some point in our
- 13:32Speaker 2: life and everybody who struggles, we have this, people just
- 13:35Speaker 2: don't love themselves and they don't know how to.
- 13:39Speaker 3: And it's kind of the solution to like 95% of
- 13:41Speaker 3: life problems. So it comes up as a theme often,
- 13:46Speaker 3: especially in helping people manifest what they want. A lot
- 13:49Speaker 3: of it comes down to like self-love blockages. So there's that.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Yeah. So like, for example, because you do see clients too,
- 13:59Speaker 2: like what would a blockage of self-love show up as?
- 14:03Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Because we're manifesting things we don't want also. So let's
- 14:09Speaker 2: talk about how that shows up with things we don't want.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Yeah. So for example, I'll just speak from my story.
- 14:16Speaker 3: Before I learned to love myself, but I thought I
- 14:19Speaker 3: loved myself, but I really only loved myself conditionally. Like
- 14:23Speaker 3: I thought that I was cool and I liked everything
- 14:26Speaker 3: that I had achieved, but I didn't truly love myself
- 14:29Speaker 3: because it was like, oh, if you don't achieve these things,
- 14:31Speaker 3: then you don't deserve your own love, right? So it's
- 14:33Speaker 3: very conditional. So before I love myself, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
- 14:36Speaker 3: I love myself. Look at all these people I've helped.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Look at all this cool stuff I've done. Look at
- 14:39Speaker 3: how amazing I am, blah, blah, blah. But it's like
- 14:41Speaker 3: that's not actually it. And the way that the lack
- 14:45Speaker 3: of self-love was manifesting for me and how it manifests
- 14:48Speaker 3: for a lot of people is in their intimate relationships.
- 14:50Speaker 3: And not to say that every relationship is a direct
- 14:53Speaker 3: mirror because it's a little more complicated than that. But
- 14:56Speaker 3: I was in some of the most toxic– Situationships, twin
- 15:01Speaker 3: flame fiascos, disaster relationships. And looking back on it when
- 15:08Speaker 3: I was in therapy and when I was working with
- 15:09Speaker 3: my shaman and stuff, I was like, literally this person
- 15:13Speaker 3: was all of my worst parts that I don't love,
- 15:16Speaker 3: that I deny, reject and disown, personified with abs so
- 15:21Speaker 3: that I could learn how to love and accept those
- 15:24Speaker 3: parts of me. Like literally the universe was like, you're
- 15:28Speaker 3: not going to love your sad parts. Like we're going
- 15:31Speaker 3: to send you a sad boy who's going to mess
- 15:33Speaker 3: up your life, but you're going to be like, oh,
- 15:35Speaker 3: he's just going through, you're going to have so much
- 15:36Speaker 3: compassion for him. You're going to bend over backwards for him.
- 15:39Speaker 3: You're going to still love him, even though he's horrible
- 15:41Speaker 3: to you. And it literally was the most obvious mirror
- 15:46Speaker 3: of how I treated myself. And when he was mean
- 15:48Speaker 3: to me, it was like personified inner critic. You know,
- 15:51Speaker 3: when he was acting out, it was like, exactly how
- 15:55Speaker 3: I would feel, but not express. So that's, I mean,
- 15:59Speaker 3: that's one way. A lot of times it comes out
- 16:02Speaker 3: in our intimate relationships or family dynamics or at the
- 16:05Speaker 3: Thanksgiving table or whatever it is. But a lot of
- 16:08Speaker 3: times it can be like, you know, you want to
- 16:11Speaker 3: manifest something, but you just don't feel worthy or you
- 16:14Speaker 3: don't feel like you deserve it or you feel like
- 16:16Speaker 3: you have to change or be different or do more
- 16:19Speaker 3: in order to, you know, be more worthy. And it's like,
- 16:23Speaker 3: that's not really how God created you. We need to
- 16:26Speaker 3: come back to our inherent worthiness and the self-lovery of
- 16:30Speaker 3: it all is like remembering how worthy you've always been.
- 16:33Speaker 3: And then people also get it confused with like self-like
- 16:37Speaker 3: because in the English language, it's like to love something
- 16:40Speaker 3: is to like it a lot, right? Like we love pizza,
- 16:43Speaker 3: we love our dog, we love this, we love that.
- 16:45Speaker 3: But it's like to love yourself is really to take
- 16:48Speaker 3: positive ownership of your well-being. Which includes your desires, your needs,
- 16:55Speaker 3: your preferences, your boundaries. So that's a lot of my
- 16:58Speaker 3: philosophy in it. It really is very entangled with the
- 17:02Speaker 3: manifestation work that I do.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I find that also. And a lot of it
- 17:07Speaker 2: is loving the parts of ourselves that we might not like.
- 17:11Speaker 2: We might not like that. I'll use me as an example.
- 17:16Speaker 2: I tend to be a procrastinator, right? So something needs
- 17:20Speaker 2: to light a fire under my ass sometimes to get
- 17:23Speaker 2: things going. But once I start, I'm like energized, right?
- 17:28Speaker 2: I don't like that about myself, right? That's a quality
- 17:32Speaker 2: that I'm not crazy about, but that doesn't shift. Like
- 17:35Speaker 2: I accept that that is a part of who I am.
- 17:39Speaker 2: And I can still love myself.
- 17:39Speaker 3: Yeah, because you understand it about yourself. I think the
- 17:43Speaker 3: understanding part naturally leads to compassion, which naturally leads to
- 17:47Speaker 3: like having peace with these parts that we don't necessarily like,
- 17:51Speaker 3: but we can still love them the same way. Like
- 17:53Speaker 3: we might love our sibling unconditionally, but sometimes they're like
- 17:57Speaker 3: super effing annoying and you don't want to hang out
- 17:59Speaker 3: with them that day. You don't want to talk to
- 18:00Speaker 3: them for a week, but it's like you still love them,
- 18:03Speaker 3: even if you don't always like them. So it's like
- 18:05Speaker 3: you have to apply the same logic to yourself of like,
- 18:08Speaker 3: if you understood every single dysfunctional part of yourself that
- 18:12Speaker 3: you don't like, that's ruining your life, that's sabotaging your dreams, blah, blah, blah.
- 18:15Speaker 3: If you truly understood its pure positive intentions, because it
- 18:20Speaker 3: has positive intentions, whether or not the execution is helpful
- 18:24Speaker 3: is a whole nother story. You will come to love
- 18:27Speaker 3: every part of yourself. So you'll be like, wow, my fear,
- 18:30Speaker 3: my anxiety, my anger, all of this has always been
- 18:33Speaker 3: trying to protect me. It's always been on my side.
- 18:36Speaker 3: It just never knew how to help. And then once
- 18:39Speaker 3: you understand more about it, you can kind of reassign
- 18:42Speaker 3: roles to these parts of you that are not helping,
- 18:44Speaker 3: that are ruining your life, that are sabotaging everything. And
- 18:47Speaker 3: you can give them better direction of how to support you,
- 18:52Speaker 3: how to help you, which is, there's a couple of
- 18:54Speaker 3: chapters about this in the manifesting fix of like getting
- 18:57Speaker 3: to know your parts, rewiring them, having them help you
- 19:00Speaker 3: in different ways and learning how to love all of you.
- 19:03Speaker 3: So you're not at war with yourself because that, tug
- 19:06Speaker 3: of war energy, that split energy is not conducive to successful,
- 19:11Speaker 3: effortless manifestation.
- 19:14Speaker 2: No, no. And the universe, God, it doesn't matter what
- 19:18Speaker 2: you call it, spirit, doesn't matter. We were put here
- 19:24Speaker 2: universally loved. No matter if you do nothing, your whole
- 19:30Speaker 2: life just exists, doesn't matter. have anything to do with
- 19:35Speaker 2: your value as a person, as a soul, as a spirit, right?
- 19:39Speaker 2: And it's so hard for us to grasp that because
- 19:42Speaker 2: like you said, we're so conditional. Like we feel more,
- 19:48Speaker 2: and this is really our ego. Like we feel like,
- 19:50Speaker 2: like you said, like, yeah, I'm like really cool. Look
- 19:52Speaker 2: at all the things I'm creating and all I'm doing.
- 19:55Speaker 2: But that's not the real self-love that we're talking about, right?
- 19:59Speaker 2: That's something different. That is like I have to perform
- 20:04Speaker 2: like a circus animal to get validation and outside of
- 20:08Speaker 2: me and from me. And that's not what real love
- 20:12Speaker 2: inside looks like.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Exactly. Because there's two different ways to approach any goal.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Think about going to the gym, right? You could go
- 20:21Speaker 3: to the gym because you absolutely loathe your body. You
- 20:23Speaker 3: think you're so ugly. You think you're so fat and
- 20:26Speaker 3: you go to the gym because you hate yourself, right?
- 20:28Speaker 3: Or you could go to the gym from a place
- 20:30Speaker 3: of self-love. You have the same goal. I want to
- 20:33Speaker 3: lose 20 pounds. I want to get fit. I want
- 20:34Speaker 3: to feel sexy, whatever it is. But you go from
- 20:37Speaker 3: a place of self-love of today, I'm really excited to
- 20:39Speaker 3: nourish my body. This is going to feel good. I
- 20:42Speaker 3: can't wait to be stronger. I like being present in
- 20:44Speaker 3: my body. Like I'm doing this to nourish me. I'm
- 20:46Speaker 3: doing this for a place of love. That's two very
- 20:49Speaker 3: different vibrational approaches to the same goal that are going
- 20:52Speaker 3: to get you two very different outcomes.
- 20:56Speaker 2: Right.
- 20:56Speaker 3: Right.
- 20:57Speaker 2: That is so true. And think about the best way
- 21:01Speaker 2: to see, to do a self-evaluation. Do you have anything
- 21:05Speaker 2: like that in your book to do? Let me do
- 21:08Speaker 2: an evaluation of myself and let me see where I am.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Where am I in terms of romantic relationships? Where am
- 21:15Speaker 2: I in terms of my friendships? Where am I in
- 21:17Speaker 2: terms of my career, my money, my body, my health?
- 21:21Speaker 2: To find out. Because I, just from talking to so
- 21:25Speaker 2: many people, a lot of people are really not self-aware
- 21:28Speaker 2: or not, and they don't realize where they are. They
- 21:31Speaker 2: think they're somewhere that they're not.
- 21:34Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question. So in the manifesting fix,
- 21:37Speaker 3: I have a lot of self-inquiry. I don't have an
- 21:40Speaker 3: exact exercise that's like look at every single area specifically,
- 21:43Speaker 3: but a lot of it is tailored around what's your
- 21:45Speaker 3: biggest desire right now? Like what's your main focus or
- 21:48Speaker 3: main goal right now? And one of the ways and
- 21:51Speaker 3: I also give some lists. So like what self-love looks like,
- 21:54Speaker 3: what it doesn't look like. You know, if you're doing
- 21:56Speaker 3: some of these actions, you might need a little more self-love.
- 22:00Speaker 3: And here's how you can do that. If you're if
- 22:01Speaker 3: you're more in this camp and you're in a good space,
- 22:03Speaker 3: just keep doing that. So there's definitely a couple of
- 22:06Speaker 3: different questions, assessments. But a really good place for people
- 22:10Speaker 3: to start is just asking themselves simply. And this can
- 22:14Speaker 3: be for their whole life or any section of their life.
- 22:17Speaker 3: If I loved myself more, what decision would I make
- 22:22Speaker 3: here or what would I be doing instead? Or the
- 22:26Speaker 3: question can also be, what would someone who loves themselves do?
- 22:30Speaker 3: So this can be when you go to figure out
- 22:32Speaker 3: what to eat for lunch. This can be if you're
- 22:34Speaker 3: deciding to go to the gym after work or not.
- 22:37Speaker 3: This could be to go to the party or not.
- 22:39Speaker 3: This could be to get a divorce or not. This
- 22:40Speaker 3: could be to leave your job or not. Like this
- 22:42Speaker 3: can be for any question, big or small. What would
- 22:45Speaker 3: someone who loves themselves do? And then your first instinct,
- 22:48Speaker 3: act on that. Or if I loved myself more, what
- 22:52Speaker 3: would I do? Because a lot of the times we think, oh, yeah,
- 22:56Speaker 3: I love myself, blah, blah, blah. But then you look
- 22:58Speaker 3: at your life and you're like, no. This life that
- 23:02Speaker 3: I'm choosing actually shows me that I low-key hate myself.
- 23:05Speaker 3: So that's great.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Yeah. Like just drawing stronger boundaries and uncomfortable conversations, right?
- 23:12Speaker 2: Like if you loved yourself more– And somebody says something
- 23:18Speaker 2: to you or asks something of you and you want
- 23:22Speaker 2: to say no, but you say yes because you don't
- 23:25Speaker 2: want to hurt their feelings or have them be mad
- 23:27Speaker 2: at you, that is not being loving to yourself because
- 23:31Speaker 2: you have crossed your own boundary, right? So it's not
- 23:36Speaker 2: always comfortable. That's the thing. Like we're talking this conversation,
- 23:40Speaker 2: people are like, oh, yeah, love, self-love, yeah, whatever, self-love. No,
- 23:43Speaker 2: it's not pretty and it's not comfortable and it's like
- 23:46Speaker 2: really deep work and it's hard and it's tears and
- 23:51Speaker 2: it's crying and it's expelling old stories and, you know,
- 23:57Speaker 2: like coming to some truths that you may have to
- 24:00Speaker 2: face that you don't want to face, right?
- 24:03Speaker 3: Yeah, there can be some hard truths along the journey, especially...
- 24:08Speaker 3: If you're willing to look inward, be willing to see
- 24:11Speaker 3: things you don't necessarily want to see, but know that
- 24:14Speaker 3: it's so you can make the proper changes so that
- 24:17Speaker 3: you can love your life even more. So it's all
- 24:20Speaker 3: for the best in the end. But yeah, it's definitely
- 24:22Speaker 3: it's not easy. It's daily. It's minute to minute, moment
- 24:26Speaker 3: to moment. What would someone who loves themselves do? What
- 24:28Speaker 3: would I do here if I love myself more? And
- 24:31Speaker 3: then acting on that, which is where the courage comes in,
- 24:34Speaker 3: especially when you're new at this. You're like, oh, my God,
- 24:36Speaker 3: I hate myself. My life is horrible. Like I want
- 24:39Speaker 3: to change it. I want to love myself more. Just
- 24:41Speaker 3: know that wanting to love yourself more is a form
- 24:44Speaker 3: of self-love. So you've got the ball rolling. You don't
- 24:47Speaker 3: actually hate yourself. OK, if you are listening to a
- 24:50Speaker 3: show like this and you want your life to be
- 24:51Speaker 3: better and you want to feel better, that means you
- 24:53Speaker 3: care about yourself. So just lean into that part of
- 24:55Speaker 3: yourself a little bit more.
- 24:57Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:58Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:58Speaker 2: We're talking really about radical self-love.
- 25:01Speaker 3: Obviously. Yeah.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Because, you know, you could really like yourself. You could like,
- 25:05Speaker 2: you know, your life, you could like a lot of things,
- 25:08Speaker 2: but you're doing things that are not loving to yourself.
- 25:11Speaker 2: So we're not saying like you hate yourself. And I mean,
- 25:14Speaker 2: of course there are those people that it is like that, but,
- 25:17Speaker 2: but we mean like radical self-love. Like basically the best
- 25:22Speaker 2: way I can describe it is If you have children,
- 25:26Speaker 2: imagine when you just birthed your child and that feeling
- 25:29Speaker 2: for that little child, that rush of I love this
- 25:34Speaker 2: creature more than anything else in the world and always
- 25:37Speaker 2: want them to feel the love that I feel. That's
- 25:41Speaker 2: radical self-love, if you could give yourself that.
- 25:43Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's opening your heart to yourself, right? Because
- 25:47Speaker 3: we so freely give our love to everybody else.
- 25:50Speaker 2: Oh, everybody.
- 25:51Speaker 3: And then we're last on the list. And it's like,
- 25:53Speaker 3: if you can just take a little bit of that
- 25:55Speaker 3: energy and pour it back into yourself, watch what happens.
- 25:58Speaker 3: And you'll have more to give to everyone else because
- 26:00Speaker 3: I always get the carrots and they come at me
- 26:03Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, self-love is so selfish. You shouldn't
- 26:05Speaker 3: put yourself first. You should put everyone else first. And
- 26:07Speaker 3: it's like, if you actually make yourself as important as
- 26:11Speaker 3: the most important people in your life, you're not more
- 26:13Speaker 3: important than them. You're just as important. We got a
- 26:16Speaker 3: couple of people up here at the top. Your life,
- 26:20Speaker 3: your energy, your life force will increase so much that
- 26:23Speaker 3: you will be overflowing with good energy, positivity, healing vibrations
- 26:27Speaker 3: that you just naturally bless everyone else with. So there's
- 26:31Speaker 3: no scenario where loving yourself more is actually hurting anyone.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Selfish, right? No, because everybody wants to be around people
- 26:39Speaker 2: who are happy and loving and People who love themselves
- 26:42Speaker 2: are happy and loving. So you feel that energy, and
- 26:45Speaker 2: we all want to be around that. And it feels
- 26:46Speaker 2: so much better than being around somebody who's resentful and
- 26:49Speaker 2: bitter all the time, right? We know this. I just
- 26:52Speaker 2: looked at our time. So let's take our couple-minute commercial
- 26:55Speaker 2: break here. And I have so much more I want
- 26:57Speaker 2: to ask you when we come back. So stay tuned, everybody.
- 27:00Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a couple of minutes.
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- 29:44Speaker 2: Welcome back. So, Kelsey, I was thinking during the break
- 29:47Speaker 2: with your book, The Manifesting Fix, because there's a lot
- 29:50Speaker 2: of books, mine included, about manifesting. And what did you
- 29:56Speaker 2: feel was missing from the conversation around manifesting that inspired
- 30:00Speaker 2: you to write this book?
- 30:03Speaker 3: Yeah. So I feel like the biggest piece that we
- 30:07Speaker 3: don't talk about enough is the resistance aspect and what's
- 30:13Speaker 3: keeping us from being aligned with our goals and dreams.
- 30:16Speaker 3: Because I love intention setting work. And I feel like
- 30:19Speaker 3: 90% of the manifesting books out there are different ways
- 30:22Speaker 3: to set your intentions that are super fun, super powerful. Sure.
- 30:25Speaker 2: I'm obsessed.
- 30:28Speaker 3: I wrote three books about that. So that's like step one.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Right.
- 30:31Speaker 3: But then it's like, Okay, we did that. Like I
- 30:33Speaker 3: made my postcard to the universe. I wrote a letter
- 30:35Speaker 3: to the universe. I've been doing my mind movies. I've
- 30:37Speaker 3: been meditating. I've been doing everything quote unquote right. Like
- 30:41Speaker 3: where is my stuff? Why is my life not changing?
- 30:45Speaker 3: Why do I still feel stuck universe? And you're just like, ah,
- 30:48Speaker 3: universe hates me.
- 30:50Speaker 2: I love the way you said that. Where is my stuff?
- 30:53Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to start saying.
- 30:55Speaker 2: Where is my stuff?
- 30:56Speaker 3: Because they say, and I've said this too, like all
- 30:59Speaker 3: you gotta do is ask and receive. It's like, okay,
- 31:01Speaker 3: I've been asking. I've been asking nicely. I've been begging.
- 31:05Speaker 3: I've been praying. Like where is it, you know? So
- 31:08Speaker 3: that's where this book comes in is almost like the
- 31:11Speaker 3: college course of like manifestation 2.0. It's like, okay, we're
- 31:15Speaker 3: good at intention setting. We love that. It's super fun.
- 31:17Speaker 3: But aside from that, is there anything that's missing in
- 31:20Speaker 3: the co-creative process? And I feel like the way that
- 31:23Speaker 3: I see it well, step zero is like to experience contrast.
- 31:27Speaker 3: And then you're like, okay, now I know what I want. Right.
- 31:29Speaker 3: And then step one is to set your intentions, get clear,
- 31:32Speaker 3: have some clarity, ask for it. Then I would say
- 31:34Speaker 3: step two is to actually align with said goal, which
- 31:38Speaker 3: can look so many different ways, which is why I
- 31:40Speaker 3: had to write a whole book about it. And a
- 31:42Speaker 3: lot of times, the only thing stopping us from being
- 31:44Speaker 3: aligned is a little piece of resistance that we don't
- 31:47Speaker 3: even know is there.
- 31:48Speaker 2: Okay.
- 31:48Speaker 3: So a lot of people don't realize that they're secretly
- 31:50Speaker 3: resisting a either where they are, where they want to go,
- 31:53Speaker 3: what they want, what they're asking for, whatever. And then
- 31:57Speaker 3: you receive on the other side of asking and aligning, right?
- 32:01Speaker 3: So I just feel like it's been oversimplified. So this
- 32:05Speaker 3: book is like the nuance of like, okay, where am
- 32:07Speaker 3: I getting stuck? Why isn't it happening as quickly as
- 32:11Speaker 3: I'd like? Where am I maybe self-sabotaging, procrastinating, not seeing
- 32:16Speaker 3: results and why? And it's very much a journey of, Oh,
- 32:21Speaker 3: here's how I've been keeping myself stuck. Now I can
- 32:23Speaker 3: finally get unstuck. Amazing. And then you can align with
- 32:26Speaker 3: the goals. So it's not just asking, hoping, and praying.
- 32:29Speaker 3: It's asking, aligning, and then receiving.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Right. So then the follow-up would be, how do we
- 32:39Speaker 2: know we're resisting? And how do we align? Because I've
- 32:43Speaker 2: heard this. Other people have said this. People, since the
- 32:47Speaker 2: days of The Secret, when The Secret first came out, like,
- 32:50Speaker 2: You know, people will be like, well, why aren't I manifesting? Well,
- 32:53Speaker 2: you're blocked. Well, what do you mean I'm blocked?
- 32:56Speaker 3: Well, how am I blocked? Captain obvious, I know.
- 33:01Speaker 2: So why am I blocked? Where am I blocked? How
- 33:04Speaker 2: do I remove the block? Like what, you know, people,
- 33:06Speaker 2: I think that is where we do. We get all
- 33:10Speaker 2: like mixed up in why we're, the things that we're
- 33:13Speaker 2: saying that we want are not coming to us a
- 33:17Speaker 2: lot of times.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Yeah. And it can be confusing because there's different ways
- 33:22Speaker 3: we can be stuck, right? So it's not just like, oh,
- 33:25Speaker 3: this is the blockage that blocks everything. Or self-love is
- 33:30Speaker 3: a big one, the worthiness wound that we talked about
- 33:32Speaker 3: a lot. But it could also be just beliefs in
- 33:35Speaker 3: programming that are outdated that you chose to practice for
- 33:40Speaker 3: a long time and now you got to undo those
- 33:42Speaker 3: or rewrite them. It could be literally be an aspect
- 33:45Speaker 3: of you that you have never even met or heard
- 33:48Speaker 3: of in the back of your psyche is like, yeah,
- 33:50Speaker 3: we ain't doing that because I don't feel safe. So
- 33:51Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, I want all these millions of dollars.
- 33:54Speaker 3: And that part of you is like, no, we don't
- 33:56Speaker 3: want that. So we're going to do everything we can
- 33:58Speaker 3: to stop that. It's like Pixar's Inside Out, like you
- 34:00Speaker 3: have all these characters inside of you and they all
- 34:03Speaker 3: have their own needs, desires, boundaries, agendas, you know? So
- 34:07Speaker 3: it's like a lot of parts work is involved. So
- 34:10Speaker 3: there's different ways it can show up. which is why
- 34:14Speaker 3: in the book, there's 10, there's, there's a couple of
- 34:17Speaker 3: different parts to the book, but the last part, the
- 34:19Speaker 3: medias part has basically 10 blockages or I guess ways
- 34:24Speaker 3: that we resist. And then each one has its own
- 34:27Speaker 3: specific antidote or exercise or way to untangle it and
- 34:31Speaker 3: work through it. So you can transmute that resistance into
- 34:34Speaker 3: alignment because A worthiness wound is going to require and
- 34:38Speaker 3: invite you to do different work than like some bad
- 34:41Speaker 3: money beliefs or things like that. So it depends what
- 34:45Speaker 3: we're working with. But step one is really just to
- 34:48Speaker 3: ask yourself, like, is there any part of me that's
- 34:52Speaker 3: maybe not on board with what I say I want?
- 34:56Speaker 3: And then, importantly, you have to shut up and you
- 34:59Speaker 3: have to listen. You have to meditate on this question.
- 35:02Speaker 3: You have to journal it. You have to let anything
- 35:04Speaker 3: that's ready to come up and out, come out for
- 35:06Speaker 3: you to see. And honestly, half of the time when
- 35:11Speaker 3: you see your resistance on paper, you're just like, oh,
- 35:14Speaker 3: I don't want to believe that anymore. I don't want
- 35:16Speaker 3: to choose that anymore. That's not even mine. And you
- 35:18Speaker 3: can throw it in the garbage and then you're like
- 35:21Speaker 3: clean and clear from that piece.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Right.
- 35:23Speaker 3: But the other half of the time is a little
- 35:25Speaker 3: bit deeper. It's an invitation for more shadow work, for
- 35:28Speaker 3: more self-inquiry, for more self-discovery to lead you to more alignment,
- 35:32Speaker 3: which is where the practices in the book come in,
- 35:34Speaker 3: because it can get confusing out there in your own
- 35:38Speaker 3: mental landscape.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very insidious, the beliefs that we carry. And
- 35:46Speaker 2: it is a lot of self-excavating to discover what's going on. Like,
- 35:52Speaker 2: you know, just money, for example. You could say, yeah,
- 35:55Speaker 2: I want to be a millionaire. But somewhere there's this
- 35:59Speaker 2: thing in the back of your mind that's like, yeah,
- 36:01Speaker 2: but I would never want to have more money than
- 36:04Speaker 2: my parents because then I feel like I'm showing off
- 36:08Speaker 2: to my dad who worked so hard in his whole life.
- 36:10Speaker 2: And that's not even a conscious real thought that you
- 36:13Speaker 2: think about every day. But But you have that somewhere
- 36:16Speaker 2: down deep and you would think like that. Well, that's
- 36:19Speaker 2: going to block your money coming, your money coming to
- 36:22Speaker 2: you because the universe is going, oh, okay, well then
- 36:24Speaker 2: we'll make sure that you don't. You don't have to
- 36:26Speaker 2: worry about it then. You're not going to have any
- 36:28Speaker 2: more money. You're never going to be a millionaire because
- 36:30Speaker 2: somewhere deep down you can't have more than your parents had,
- 36:33Speaker 2: you know. And you look at that and go, well, hell,
- 36:36Speaker 2: I don't want that. You know, but … It is
- 36:41Speaker 2: a lot of self-excavating and it can be tiring work, truthfully.
- 36:49Speaker 3: Yeah. And I try to keep it light and fun
- 36:52Speaker 3: in the book. So even though it really is a
- 36:54Speaker 3: book of like shadow work, I never call it that.
- 36:57Speaker 3: And there's lots of fun stories. There's lots of oversharing,
- 37:01Speaker 3: embarrassing personal moments, little jokes, little asides. So it's infused
- 37:06Speaker 3: with some lightheartedness to keep it like a more fun
- 37:09Speaker 3: journey and not get so serious and bogged down by
- 37:12Speaker 3: everything you discover. Because I'm about the balance. You know,
- 37:17Speaker 3: we've got to play. We've got to excavate. We've got
- 37:19Speaker 3: to play. We've got to heal. We've got to do this.
- 37:21Speaker 3: We've got to do that. And then sometimes we just
- 37:24Speaker 3: got to be where we are. Because a lot of times,
- 37:27Speaker 3: and a lot of people don't talk about like, yes,
- 37:30Speaker 3: we can resist the things that we want. There's so
- 37:32Speaker 3: many ways that we do that. But we can also
- 37:34Speaker 3: resist things. how we're feeling, your emotional body, your personal truths,
- 37:39Speaker 3: that'll keep you real stuck. That will repel and block
- 37:43Speaker 3: so many blessings. You can also resist your current reality
- 37:47Speaker 3: rather than accepting this is the stepping off point where
- 37:50Speaker 3: you can go up from here. If you're resisting your
- 37:53Speaker 3: current reality, you're resistant, period. You have a blocked aura,
- 37:57Speaker 3: blocked energy field. So And so many of us, we
- 38:00Speaker 3: want to manifest and control freak the heck out of
- 38:02Speaker 3: our life because we don't like where we are. We
- 38:04Speaker 3: don't like something about our life. So we are literally
- 38:07Speaker 3: by trying to manifest something new, sometimes resisting it. So
- 38:10Speaker 3: it's like you have to check your energy. You have
- 38:12Speaker 3: to check your intention. Like, are we creating something new
- 38:15Speaker 3: because we want to move in that direction? Or are
- 38:17Speaker 3: you trying to create something new frantically because you are
- 38:21Speaker 3: obsessed with denying what is here and what is happening?
- 38:26Speaker 2: I see that a lot. I see that a lot
- 38:28Speaker 2: with a lot of people. They are resisting the reality
- 38:32Speaker 2: that is in front of them. And I can see
- 38:35Speaker 2: it and I see it very easily in other people.
- 38:39Speaker 2: And I'm sure I've been there, done that myself, but
- 38:42Speaker 2: it's very easy to see. But you can't unless somebody
- 38:46Speaker 2: is asking for your opinion, it's hard, especially when people
- 38:49Speaker 2: are close to you, you can't tell them, well, I
- 38:51Speaker 2: see you're resisting because you won't accept the situation that
- 38:55Speaker 2: you're in. And that's causing you so much more stress
- 39:00Speaker 2: because that doesn't mean you have to like it, but
- 39:02Speaker 2: it's your reality at the moment. And I see that
- 39:05Speaker 2: all the time. It's really interesting that you brought that up.
- 39:09Speaker 2: And I also like the fact that You say something
- 39:12Speaker 2: about making room for our feelings because I, even though
- 39:17Speaker 2: most of the time I'm very pie in the sky,
- 39:20Speaker 2: very happy, let's do it the fun, creative way, I
- 39:23Speaker 2: would never say to somebody who is working on themselves
- 39:27Speaker 2: or trying to manifest and are going through something, well,
- 39:30Speaker 2: you shouldn't be feeling that disappointment. You shouldn't be grieving.
- 39:33Speaker 2: You shouldn't be angry. If somebody betrayed you, yes, you
- 39:37Speaker 2: absolutely deserve to be angry and work through that. You
- 39:40Speaker 2: just don't want to live there. That's what I always say.
- 39:43Speaker 2: You just don't want to live there.
- 39:45Speaker 3: Yeah. And the way you don't live there is by
- 39:48Speaker 3: actually processing it so you can move on. That's the
- 39:51Speaker 3: part where people don't realize. They think, oh my gosh,
- 39:54Speaker 3: if I go into this sadness, this anger, this hurt,
- 39:57Speaker 3: this depression, this uncertainty, this hopelessness, if I let myself
- 40:00Speaker 3: go there, I'm going to get stuck there. And I
- 40:03Speaker 3: find it's quite the opposite. If you don't go there,
- 40:06Speaker 3: you're going to get stuck there. If you do go there,
- 40:09Speaker 3: if you let it come up and out of you,
- 40:12Speaker 3: it doesn't become a point of attraction. If you suppress
- 40:15Speaker 3: it and deny it for long enough, it just festers
- 40:17Speaker 3: and grows. And then you're like, why do I keep
- 40:20Speaker 3: manifesting situations that make me want to feel disappointed? It's like, girl,
- 40:24Speaker 3: because you won't process your disappointment. And universe is like, hello,
- 40:27Speaker 3: look to your personal truth, your emotional body. So emotions
- 40:31Speaker 3: are huge. Like I always say, feeling is healing. Authentic positivity. Yes.
- 40:37Speaker 3: Force positivity. Yes. No, that's not like, who are you
- 40:40Speaker 3: fooling yourself? No, the universe. No. Right. So it's like,
- 40:43Speaker 3: it was never about being positive all the time. It
- 40:46Speaker 3: was about how authentic can you be? Because that's how
- 40:49Speaker 3: you live in a place of non-resistance. We don't resist
- 40:53Speaker 3: our feelings. We don't resist the now. We don't resist
- 40:55Speaker 3: what we want. See, you see the theme here. Yeah.
- 40:59Speaker 2: Because we are the creators of, of our own universe.
- 41:03Speaker 2: So if I am the creator of my universe with
- 41:07Speaker 2: the universe co-creating, right, everything is coming through me from
- 41:13Speaker 2: me and coming back to me to show me what
- 41:16Speaker 2: I'm creating. And that is trippy for people. People don't
- 41:21Speaker 2: understand that. We are, of course, collectively co-creating the world
- 41:26Speaker 2: we live in. All of us collectively, what we see
- 41:29Speaker 2: playing out is a collective manifestation. But things that are
- 41:33Speaker 2: showing up in your everyday life, you are creating. So
- 41:38Speaker 2: why not create the best life that you could have
- 41:41Speaker 2: for yourself? And sometimes, like with everything else, it's a
- 41:45Speaker 2: skill you need to learn how to do.
- 41:48Speaker 3: Well, and it's like I said before, the contrast precedes
- 41:51Speaker 3: the clarity, right? And the negative emotions are what will
- 41:56Speaker 3: lead you and guide you to your personal truths, which
- 41:59Speaker 3: will help you to create and live your best life
- 42:02Speaker 3: and go in that direction. But if you don't know
- 42:04Speaker 3: why you're angry, if you don't understand the depression, if
- 42:07Speaker 3: you don't allow for the sadness, like you're never going
- 42:10Speaker 3: to get to that personal revelation of, oh, this is
- 42:13Speaker 3: what I'm ready for. This is what I want to
- 42:15Speaker 3: expand into. This is what works for me. This is
- 42:18Speaker 3: what doesn't. This is my boundary. This is my preference.
- 42:20Speaker 3: Like you have to go to those. unsexy, uncomfortable places,
- 42:26Speaker 3: just a few minutes. I'm not saying hang out there
- 42:28Speaker 3: for weeks, months, like don't get stuck for three years
- 42:31Speaker 3: like I did. That was only because I wouldn't process it.
- 42:33Speaker 3: I was a good couple of years too.
- 42:37Speaker 2: I was too mad. I was like, I'm not letting
- 42:40Speaker 2: this one go. I'm mad. Exactly.
- 42:41Speaker 3: I don't have time to be sad. This is ridiculous.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Why is this happening to me? Blah, blah, blah. Instead
- 42:47Speaker 3: of just being with the sadness and like coming out
- 42:50Speaker 3: the other end. more light because it's like when you
- 42:53Speaker 3: process these emotions your emotional body becomes lighter you're shedding
- 42:57Speaker 3: like a dirtiness or like a heaviness is the best
- 43:01Speaker 3: way I can describe it so then you come back
- 43:04Speaker 3: to a high vibrational state where you can manifest really
- 43:07Speaker 3: good yeah but if you're so busy trying to stuff
- 43:10Speaker 3: everything down you're wasting your energy on suppression when you
- 43:13Speaker 3: could be using that same energy for creation.
- 43:16Speaker 2: Yeah it's true It takes a lot of energy to
- 43:19Speaker 2: suppress your true feelings about things. And we need the
- 43:22Speaker 2: contrast to know what we do want, right? So how
- 43:25Speaker 2: many times, like you, I'm sure you know, you were
- 43:28Speaker 2: talking about you had some crazy relationships. Well, I guarantee
- 43:31Speaker 2: you those relationships showed you exactly what you do not
- 43:34Speaker 2: want anymore and what you want from being with that, right?
- 43:39Speaker 2: But you wouldn't necessarily know that unless you went through
- 43:41Speaker 2: what you went through. So you have to know, you
- 43:44Speaker 2: have to have the contrast. So we have to have
- 43:46Speaker 2: the things that we do. can say, okay, this, no.
- 43:50Speaker 2: This one, I got it. Nope, I'm done. Not doing
- 43:53Speaker 2: that anymore. Now I know I want this, right?
- 43:56Speaker 3: Yes. Nothing teaches you how to look for a green
- 43:59Speaker 3: flag better than intimate relationships with red flags. Walking red
- 44:05Speaker 3: flag will teach you a lot. You'll be like, oh
- 44:07Speaker 3: my gosh.
- 44:08Speaker 2: Oh my God.
- 44:10Speaker 3: I know.
- 44:11Speaker 2: I know. Oh my God. I can look back now
- 44:14Speaker 2: and see the red flags. So like, holy cow. But
- 44:18Speaker 2: you know what? I appreciate it now because- I've had,
- 44:25Speaker 2: you know, relationships, but the one relationship, the ex-husband relationship, right?
- 44:31Speaker 2: The ex-husband.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 44:32Speaker 2: He has been my greatest teacher in my life. He
- 44:35Speaker 2: has been my greatest teacher. And I can, now that
- 44:39Speaker 2: I am not in the anger and the resentment anymore,
- 44:43Speaker 2: and I'm on way on the other side of that,
- 44:46Speaker 2: he gave me such a gift that, that I can
- 44:50Speaker 2: see it from a whole different perspective. But I had
- 44:52Speaker 2: to go through the pain. I had to process all
- 44:55Speaker 2: of that to get to the other side of that.
- 44:57Speaker 2: And now I can see the gift in it. I
- 44:59Speaker 2: could see what he inspired me to do with my
- 45:03Speaker 2: life is really the gift, you know?
- 45:07Speaker 3: Yeah. Sometimes people will be coming in to blow it
- 45:10Speaker 3: all up so you can just recreate from scratch, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
- 45:14Speaker 2: And that's exactly, specifically with me, it doesn't have to
- 45:17Speaker 2: be that extreme for everybody. Everybody's different. But that was
- 45:20Speaker 2: my personal experience. And so for anybody who is watching
- 45:25Speaker 2: us today, of course, they could pre-order your book and
- 45:29Speaker 2: they can get it right in time for Christmas. Nice
- 45:32Speaker 2: little Christmas gift you could give yourself, right? Or somebody else.
- 45:36Speaker 2: But is there anything that you could tell us from
- 45:39Speaker 2: the book that we could start just kind of doing
- 45:42Speaker 2: on a daily basis that may kind of help us
- 45:45Speaker 2: navigate you know this world so we can start manifesting
- 45:50Speaker 2: what we want.
- 45:51Speaker 3: This crazy world yeah actually I have I have some
- 45:54Speaker 3: more self-inquiry for you guys so one of the main
- 45:58Speaker 3: it's not really a block but it's a little bit
- 46:00Speaker 3: of like a stagnation it causes a little stagnation is
- 46:04Speaker 3: a lot of times we don't actually know what we
- 46:07Speaker 3: want And we think, oh, I want the relationship. I
- 46:10Speaker 3: want the house. I want the job. I want this.
- 46:13Speaker 3: I want the health. I want that. And it's like, yes,
- 46:16Speaker 3: but we need to go deeper. So I call those
- 46:19Speaker 3: things that we want, that we put on our vision board,
- 46:21Speaker 3: the surface desire, not in like a judgmental way, but
- 46:23Speaker 3: like there's another thing below the surface, right? So your
- 46:27Speaker 3: surface desires, we like those. They're fun. They're valid. Go
- 46:29Speaker 3: for it. But you need to know your genuine desire
- 46:32Speaker 3: that's underneath the surface desire, which Surprise, surprise. It usually
- 46:37Speaker 3: comes down to a feeling. So how you do this
- 46:39Speaker 3: exercise is you say, okay, what's the thing that I
- 46:41Speaker 3: think I want? It's the relationship. It's the houses. This
- 46:44Speaker 3: is that. So that's your goal. Then ask yourself, what
- 46:47Speaker 3: is the goal of this goal? What am I trying
- 46:51Speaker 3: to achieve through this thing? How am I trying to
- 46:55Speaker 3: feel in having this thing? And that feeling that you
- 47:00Speaker 3: identify there when you ask yourself that, that's what you
- 47:03Speaker 3: actually are after. And sometimes it doesn't match the surface desire.
- 47:08Speaker 3: So you might be like, oh, you know, you might
- 47:12Speaker 3: be a guy and you're like, yeah, I want to
- 47:13Speaker 3: manifest this Lamborghini so I can pick up chicks. And
- 47:16Speaker 3: it's like, okay, why do you want to pick up chicks?
- 47:17Speaker 3: It's like, well, I actually want a wife. I want
- 47:19Speaker 3: to be in love. You know, it's like, so you
- 47:21Speaker 3: don't need the car to do that. Like, let's go
- 47:24Speaker 3: for a healthy committed relationship directly and not like beat
- 47:28Speaker 3: around the bush with all this stuff we think we
- 47:29Speaker 3: need to do it. So assessing what you actually want, huge.
- 47:35Speaker 3: Then once you have that answer, go for that directly
- 47:40Speaker 3: in your life as many times a day, as many
- 47:42Speaker 3: creative ways as you can. And you have to, it's
- 47:46Speaker 3: like two parts. It's like embracing that feeling more and
- 47:49Speaker 3: figuring out how and why you're resisting it. And a
- 47:52Speaker 3: lot of times it'll be like, oh, I want to
- 47:55Speaker 3: manifest more money so I can feel abundant or safe
- 47:58Speaker 3: or secure. And it's like, okay, well, why don't you
- 48:00Speaker 3: feel abundant and safe, secure right now? Like, let's troubleshoot that.
- 48:03Speaker 3: Let's figure that out. Let's do a little bit of
- 48:06Speaker 3: work there. Let's figure out like, where do you already
- 48:08Speaker 3: have abundance in your life that you can really lean into?
- 48:11Speaker 3: Is it love? Is it friendships? Is it snacks in
- 48:13Speaker 3: the pantry? Is it leaves in your backyard? Like, what
- 48:16Speaker 3: is it that makes you feel abundant? It makes you
- 48:18Speaker 3: feel full. Like don't focus on the money for a
- 48:21Speaker 3: couple of weeks. Let's lean into that vibration. The money
- 48:24Speaker 3: will come. The ideas will come. The business will come.
- 48:27Speaker 3: So it's like finding out the exact thing you really,
- 48:31Speaker 3: really want. going for that directly and then making the
- 48:34Speaker 3: surface desire, that's going to be like a cherry on top.
- 48:37Speaker 3: That will come because you're going to be actually aligned
- 48:40Speaker 3: with it. So it's shifting the focus from what you
- 48:43Speaker 3: think you want to what you actually want is huge. Yeah.
- 48:48Speaker 2: No, I agree with you. And I say the same
- 48:50Speaker 2: thing and I've said it in my book and I've
- 48:52Speaker 2: say it on here when I'm making my videos. People say, well,
- 48:55Speaker 2: I want to be happy.
- 48:56Speaker 3: Okay.
- 48:57Speaker 2: Well, what does happiness look like to you? I want
- 48:59Speaker 2: to be happy. Happiness to some people is going to
- 49:03Speaker 2: look like being married, raising a family, being, you know,
- 49:08Speaker 2: connected in a relationship. That's what happiness is to them.
- 49:12Speaker 2: To somebody else, happiness is having money because they're very
- 49:16Speaker 2: philanthropic and they want to give to charities and they
- 49:19Speaker 2: need love animals and they want to build a rescue
- 49:22Speaker 2: farm and, you know, whatever it is. What is it
- 49:26Speaker 2: look like to you? Because it's the same thing. You
- 49:29Speaker 2: get to the feeling. What is the feeling you're trying
- 49:32Speaker 2: to evoke here? That's what you need to know. And
- 49:35Speaker 2: once you know what that.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Is, the.
- 49:38Speaker 2: All those things will come because that's where the real
- 49:44Speaker 2: work is. And when I have friends come to me
- 49:47Speaker 2: who will say, you know, I just can't meet somebody
- 49:50Speaker 2: and there's nobody out there. And I'm like, well, first
- 49:52Speaker 2: of all, stop saying that because that's blocking the door.
- 49:55Speaker 3: Let's not make the one-time thing be.
- 49:57Speaker 2: An every-time thing. Right, right. And then I say, but
- 50:00Speaker 2: why do you want to be with somebody? Do you
- 50:03Speaker 2: know why you really want to be with somebody? And
- 50:05Speaker 2: if it's just because you don't want to be alone,
- 50:08Speaker 2: or you're bored, you're not going to be attracting the
- 50:13Speaker 2: kind of person that you're saying you want. Right.
- 50:18Speaker 3: You're going to be settling real quick for whoever's available.
- 50:22Speaker 2: For whoever's available. And if you think there's nobody out there,
- 50:25Speaker 2: then you're right. That's what I always say to my friends.
- 50:29Speaker 2: There's nobody out there. Well, then I guess you're right.
- 50:31Speaker 2: I mean, you're right then if that's what you think.
- 50:34Speaker 3: You're always going to prove yourself right universally and Subconsciously.
- 50:40Speaker 3: You're always going to look for your belief. Even if
- 50:43Speaker 3: it's not the ultimate truth, that's going to be your truth.
- 50:47Speaker 2: I know. I'm like, there's 8 billion people on the planet.
- 50:51Speaker 2: You're telling me that there's not at least 8? one
- 50:55Speaker 2: or two people out there for you.
- 50:58Speaker 3: When people say that to me, I'm like, have you
- 51:00Speaker 3: met every single person?
- 51:01Speaker 2: They're like, no. I'm like, you don't know.
- 51:04Speaker 3: You don't know.
- 51:06Speaker 2: It's just, but it's the story. And the story behind
- 51:09Speaker 2: that was I was hurt by everybody before me. I
- 51:12Speaker 2: was abandoned. I was this. And that's what you don't
- 51:16Speaker 2: want to bring back into your life, understandably so. So
- 51:19Speaker 2: there's a lot of fear there.
- 51:20Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe that's true. Maybe the last three times it
- 51:24Speaker 3: didn't work out, but we don't need to make it
- 51:27Speaker 3: mean that every single time moving forward is going to
- 51:30Speaker 3: be the same, especially when life is full of surprises
- 51:33Speaker 3: and change is natural. We just go with the flow.
- 51:38Speaker 3: Things are always changing. We're always changing. We're always evolving.
- 51:41Speaker 3: It's impossible for you to just
- 51:52Speaker 3: .
- 51:52Speaker 2: Same, same, same. Exactly. So what have you noticed
- 51:57Speaker 2: from the people that you talk to are the biggest
- 52:00Speaker 2: things that people universally want to manifest?
- 52:04Speaker 3: Oh, man. I would say resources, money. A companionship, love,
- 52:13Speaker 3: like we talked about, that's huge. I think that's natural
- 52:15Speaker 3: yearning for a lot of people. Better health, it could
- 52:19Speaker 3: be mental, it could be physical, which, you know, that's
- 52:23Speaker 3: always great. What else is a big one with people
- 52:27Speaker 3: that I see? I'd say those are probably top three,
- 52:31Speaker 3: but then everyone has like their own unique thing, whether
- 52:35Speaker 3: it's like that business they want to start or like
- 52:38Speaker 3: that family they want to create or the dog they've always, or,
- 52:41Speaker 3: you know, everyone has a specific dream, very tailored to them,
- 52:45Speaker 3: which I encourage everyone to follow because your heart knows
- 52:49Speaker 3: the way, but a lot of times we resist our
- 52:54Speaker 3: desires because they're too selfish. They're too big. We don't
- 52:58Speaker 3: know how they're going to happen. Other people told us
- 53:00Speaker 3: it was stupid, blah, blah, blah. So it's like, fixing
- 53:03Speaker 3: your relationship with desire is also key, which I wrote
- 53:07Speaker 3: a whole chapter about. Of course, that's one of the fixes.
- 53:09Speaker 3: So it's one of the first fixes actually is fixing
- 53:12Speaker 3: your relationship with desire because when you allow yourself to
- 53:15Speaker 3: want what you genuinely want, it gets a lot easier
- 53:18Speaker 3: to go for it. Yeah.
- 53:20Speaker 2: Oh, for sure.
- 53:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:21Speaker 2: You got to allow yourself to want what you genuinely
- 53:24Speaker 2: want and be okay with whatever it is, right? No, that's,
- 53:30Speaker 2: I have found that too. The big ones are The financial,
- 53:34Speaker 2: more financial freedom, abundance, and however they shows up for them,
- 53:39Speaker 2: relationships and health. Those are the three that most people
- 53:42Speaker 2: send a postcard around. And then it has the little
- 53:46Speaker 2: subs underneath it, right? For some, the financial abundance is
- 53:49Speaker 2: a house. For others, it's a career. It's a new job.
- 53:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:53Speaker 2: So I find that too. And it's just, it's interesting
- 53:56Speaker 2: how we all sort of collectively want the same.
- 53:59Speaker 3: I mean, we're all so similar at the end of
- 54:01Speaker 3: the day, right? Like we want to be happy. We
- 54:03Speaker 3: want to be healthy. We want to have connection. We
- 54:06Speaker 3: all have very similar needs. And then underneath those needs
- 54:09Speaker 3: is like specific ways we want, like specific flavors of
- 54:13Speaker 3: the needs that resonate best for us.
- 54:15Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So are you, when your book comes out,
- 54:20Speaker 2: are you going to be doing any, a big book launch?
- 54:25Speaker 2: Are you going to be you know, going on a
- 54:28Speaker 2: book tour, like traveling? Like what are you doing when
- 54:31Speaker 2: your book comes out?
- 54:33Speaker 3: Yeah, originally I was going to do a big book tour,
- 54:36Speaker 3: but the book was supposed to come out in September.
- 54:38Speaker 3: And now that's coming out in December and it's going
- 54:40Speaker 3: to be cold. I'm not really feeling the cold vibes
- 54:43Speaker 3: as much anymore. So I won't be doing too much
- 54:46Speaker 3: in-person stuff, but definitely a bunch of stuff online. I'm
- 54:50Speaker 3: doing still a million interviews, a bunch of lives, connecting
- 54:54Speaker 3: with people online as much as I can. I live
- 54:56Speaker 3: in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. So I'll definitely be
- 54:58Speaker 3: doing at least a couple local events here and there.
- 55:01Speaker 3: So follow my Instagram if you're in the Carolinas or
- 55:04Speaker 3: you want to come out and say, hi, I can
- 55:05Speaker 3: sign your book for you or whatever. But yeah, I'm
- 55:09Speaker 3: pretty excited for it. This is my best book yet.
- 55:11Speaker 3: And it's taken me 10 years to write it. The
- 55:14Speaker 3: idea came to me a decade ago and the world
- 55:17Speaker 3: wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. The book wasn't ready. But
- 55:20Speaker 3: now is the time.
- 55:21Speaker 2: That's great. I'm very excited. I'm very excited for you.
- 55:26Speaker 2: And you are still doing your High Vibin' It, your podcast?
- 55:30Speaker 3: We're actually taking a break, but we still have 300 episodes.
- 55:34Speaker 3: If you've never heard it, just go listen.
- 55:36Speaker 2: Go check it out. Go listen.
- 55:37Speaker 3: And you can get all these little jewels. It's an
- 55:41Speaker 3: amazing free resource. I co-host it with one of my
- 55:43Speaker 3: best friends who's a hypnotherapist. I'm like the manifesting self-love lady.
- 55:47Speaker 3: She's the hypnotherapy lady. And it's an amazing free resource
- 55:50Speaker 3: for anyone who wants to learn how to love themselves more.
- 55:53Speaker 3: manifest their dreams, all the stuff we talked about here today.
- 55:56Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Kelsey. And everything will be in
- 55:58Speaker 2: the description, her website, so you can find out everything
- 56:01Speaker 2: you want about her.
- 56:02Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 56:04Speaker 2: I love talking to you today. And thank you, everybody,
- 56:06Speaker 2: for listening to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa, creating
- 56:10Speaker 2: the life you crave. And I'm wishing everyone a wonderful
- 56:12Speaker 2: week filled with joy, abundance, and love. Peace. See you
- 56:15Speaker 2: next time.
- 56:16Speaker 1: Bye-bye.