Trusting the Unknown: How Reiki Taught Me to Listen to My Intuition

Forty seconds after holding sacred space for a student's Reiki attunement, I was standing in my kitchen being asked to put the washing on. That small moment showed me something I'd been trading away for years. In this episode I share why, after building my Reiki teaching online and reaching students all over the world, I'm feeling called back into the room. I talk about what online learning has given my students, what only the room can offer, and why I believe the attunement and lineage are t...

So many people who get scammed say afterwards that something told them it wasn't right. So why don't we listen? My guest is Caitriona (Cait) Forde, Managing Director and Principal Consultant at caIT, a Perth cyber security specialist with 25 years in IT, a master's in cyber security and a PhD underway on the human side of cybercrime. She's also the woman who helped me when my Facebook page was hacked. We talk about how scammers use urgency, fear and curiosity to override our intuition, why sm...

Could you tell if this episode was made with AI? If you've ever felt torn about using AI in your own business, wondering whether it makes your work any less real or any less yours, this episode is for you. In this episode of Connecting to Spirit, I share an experiment that changed how I think about authenticity, technology and my own voice. I record every episode by myself. No creative team, no editor, no ghostwriter. I use ChatGPT the way I'd use a walk with my dog, to think out loud, tell s...

What if the intuitive impressions we sometimes dismiss as “just my imagination” are worth paying closer attention to? In this episode of Connecting to Spirit, I sit down with Julie Ryan — serial entrepreneur, inventor, psychic medium and medical intuitive — for a fascinating conversation about intuition, energy healing, Spirit and what she believes happens as we transition from this life into the next. Julie spent decades in the business world, inventing and manufacturing surgical devices sol...

My guest this week had a single experience in his late teens that changed the entire direction of his life. He didn't plan for it. He didn't even know what it was called until it was already happening to him. Thirty years and 35 countries later, he's one of the most trusted names in complementary therapy. Lawrence Ellyard, founder of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, joins me to talk about what actually separates practitioners who quietly practice from the ones who bec...