Listener note: This episode shares a personal survivor's story involving emotional manipulation, controlling relationship dynamics, abuse, and addiction. The content, particularly accounts of physical abuse and fear for life, may be activating. Please listen with care, and feel free to pause, step away, or return when it feels supportive for you.

Guest Sam shares her raw and powerful story of spiritual awakening through trauma. After enduring a decade-long, controlling relationship where she lost herself and then a frightening, abusive relationship fueled by drug addiction, Sam reached her rock bottom

Hear how ignoring red flags and lowering standards led her down a path of manipulation. Sam recounts the moment she discovered her first partner's cheating and her subsequent decision to move to Portugal. She describes her spiritual journey, including her first life-changing moon ritual on the beach the soul-connection with her child who "saved my life" and the terrifying moment of physical abuse.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Guest Introduction

1:03 The Guest's Story Starts

1:06 Ignoring Red Flags and Lowering Standards

2:23 Controlling Relationship and Loss of Self

2:51 Current Co-parenting Dynamic

5:51 Discovery of Cheating

7:00 Confrontation and Reaction to Cheating

8:34 Mother's Support and Move to Portugal

10:20 Ex's Mother Blames Sam

10:49 Finding Spiritual Wellness Christine (Embodied Energy Wellness)

12:05 Shamanic Journey and Connection to Ex's Grandmother

14:25 The Child's Role as a Savior and Awakener

15:46 Start of the Healing Journey: Reiki and the Beach

17:17 Friend Michelle and Finding the Healing Circles

22:20 Jumping into a New Relationship

23:57 New Partner's Addiction and Manipulation

28:54 Physical Abuse and Fear for Life

34:07 Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval

38:59 Healing, Self-Acceptance, and Current Relationship

39:00 Advice for the Listener: Trust Your Gut

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Welcome to The Healing Circle podcast, a grounded and soulful space for a healing journey through real-life conversations. Each week features live shamanic counselling sessions and conversations with brave souls navigating emotional change, identity shifts, grief, and soul-level transformation. This space is for those seeking healing, clarity, emotional guidance, and spiritual awakening.

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Listener Note: This episode explores choosing alignment over approval and the journey of living life differently. It’s for anyone feeling the call to stop seeking external validation and start trusting their own inner fire.

In this episode of The Healing Circle, host Christine Higgins sits down with Laura Seed, founder of Inner Wild Fire, to talk about the brave transition from living for others to living for yourself. Laura shares her powerful story of moving away from the "climb" for external status and titles to find a life that feels truly aligned with her soul. They discuss the concept of choosing alignment over approval and how we often ignore our body’s signals just to fit in. This conversation is a deep dive into reclaiming your personal power, breaking free from people-pleasing, and the liberation that comes when you finally decide to honor your "Inner Wild Fire" and speak your truth.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:08 Meet Laura, the Artistic Creator behind Inner Wild Fire

02:45 Founding Inner Wild Fire

04:50 Stepping Up & The Fear of Standing Out

06:57 Finding Your Calling

08:30 Blurring the Lines Between Passion and Work

11:20 Taking a Step Back: External vs Internal

16:24 The Fear of Money

19:40 Following Your Path

22:20 Travelling & Being an Artist

25:20 Self-Imposed Limitations & Giving Back to Yourself

35:07 Being Grounded & Life Stages

37:05 Finding Your Voice

NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY

Welcome to The Healing Circle podcast, a grounded and soulful space for a healing journey through real-life conversations. Each week features live shamanic counselling sessions and conversations with brave souls navigating emotional change, identity shifts, grief, and soul-level transformation. This space is for those seeking healing, clarity, emotional guidance, and spiritual awakening.

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✍️ Step into a safe, grounded space and receive a full shamanic counselling session. You can choose to be on camera or remain anonymous. Apply here:

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Listener Note: This episode includes the sharing of a personal survivor's story, which explores themes such as silent trauma, grief, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, physical sexual abuse, the process of healing and returning to oneself, and physical manifestations of trauma (including issues with the root chakra, sacral chakra, and solar plexus, and medical issues like endometriosis and adomiiosis). The content may feel activating. Please listen with care. You are always welcome to pause, step away, or return when it feels supportive for you.

A guest joins the healing circle to share her story of carrying silent trauma for decades. This heaviness froze her in a grief that shaped her life. The conversation explores her journey of healing and returning to herself, a story that will resonate with anyone who has felt stuck between who they are and who they are becoming. Her trauma began at age 14, involving physical and verbal sexual abuse, which the manipulative abuser encouraged her to internalize as blame. She didn't voice what happened until January 2021, which was tied to a closed voice chakra. The guest recounts how the quietness of COVID allowed her to see what was beneath the surface. The trauma manifested physically, causing issues in her body (including endometriosis, adenomyosis, and pelvic problems) and blocking her root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, and throat chakras. The healing journey, including reporting the case to the Guards, is discussed as a crucial step in speaking her truth.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:09 Calling in Sacred Space

02:54 Dropping In and Feeling Stuck

03:41 Voicing Trauma in January 2021

04:58 The Stillness of COVID and Seeing Beneath the Surface

05:48 The Trauma Began at 14

06:02 Physical and Verbal Sexual Abuse

08:12 Manipulative Behavior and Internalizing Blame

09:26 The Body Never Forgets and Soul Loss

13:42 Endometriosis, Adenomyosis, and Pelvic Issues

15:27 Womb Trauma and Manifesting Trauma in the Physical Body

15:54 Blocked Chakras: Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, and Throat

18:07 The Turning Point in 2021

22:53 Reporting the Case to the Guards

23:35 The Waiting Period and Breakdowns

26:55 The High Burden of Proof for Historical Cases

28:15 The Perpetrator Passed Away Under Suspicion

30:47 Anger, Feeling Robbed, and Difficulty Talking to Others

33:17 Moving to Energy Healing and Soul Retrieval

36:02 Connection with Paternal Grandmother

39:22 Ancestral Wound of Not Speaking the Truth

42:39 Forgiveness as Freeing Yourself from His Energy

48:44 Last Words of Wisdom: Beauty in Damage

50:18 Thank You and Closing

NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY

Welcome to The Healing Circle podcast, a grounded and soulful space for a healing journey through real-life conversations. Each week features live shamanic counselling sessions and conversations with brave souls navigating emotional change, identity shifts, grief, and soul-level transformation. This space is for those seeking healing, clarity, emotional guidance, and spiritual awakening.

JOIN THE HEALING CIRCLE

✍️ Step into a safe, grounded space and receive a full shamanic counselling session. You can choose to be on camera or remain anonymous. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...

💬 Prefer a private session? Join me for intuitive energy healing and discovery calls. No pressure, just gentle guidance when you are ready.

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE

▶️ Subscribe here: @embodiedenergywellness

💌 Website: www.embodiedenergywellness.com📱 Follow Christine on Instagram: @embodiedenergywellness