Listener note: This episode touches on topics involving severe illness, environmental health hazards, and family-related trauma. The content, particularly accounts of living within a designated cancer cluster and dealing with psychological distress, may be activating. Please listen with care, and feel free to pause, step away, or return when it feels supportive for you.

Guest Mindy Jackson shares her insightful and powerful perspective on how environmental factors, ancestral trauma, and our emotional bodies directly impact our physical health. After investigating a high-density cancer cluster in her small hometown school district, Mindy witnessed firsthand the complex intersection of soil, water, and air contaminants alongside deep-seated collective fear.

Hear how shifting out of a fear-based mindset and regulating our nervous system can dramatically enhance our immune system's natural healing abilities. Mindy recounts her childhood experiences with a near-death experience, her family's struggles with mental health and strict religious conditioning, and her ultimate journey into psychotherapy and energy coaching. She breaks down the "sacred geometry" of our emotional blueprint, how to set healthy energetic boundaries as an empath, and why choosing a high-vibrational state of gratitude and presence is our ultimate superpower.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro

00:50 Introducing Mindy Jackson

01:48 Investigating a Small Town Cancer Cluster

06:33 Environmental Contaminants, Immunity, and Conspiracy Theories

09:50 Media Manipulation, Entertainment, and the Energetic War

13:17 Christine's Spiritual War Vision in Amsterdam

16:48 Energy Healing, Sacred Geometry, and Overcoming Cancer

23:03 Shifting Mindsets: Strict Religion, PTSD, and Generational Trauma

27:33 COVID Mindsets, Setting Boundaries, and Reality Creation

34:02 Mindy's Story of Resiliency and Near-Death Experiences

34:25 Choosing Love over Fear Through Play and Gratitude

36:45 Reconnecting to Nature and How to Connect with

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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 discusses emotional exhaustion, the toll of absorbing other people's negative moods, and the journey of overcoming a people-pleasing mentality. The conversation includes personal reflections on childhood boundary struggles and processing heavy grief during client sessions. Please listen with care and feel free to pause or step away whenever needed.

Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt a shift in the tension, even though no one said a word? Or left a simple social gathering feeling completely drained and exhausted for no obvious reason?

In this episode, host Christine Higgins breaks down the psychological and energetic reasons why sensitive people unconsciously absorb other people's emotional baggage, and why society mistakenly labels this trait as a weakness. Christine shares her raw journey from being a childhood "people-pleasing door mat" to becoming a grounded shamanic counselor. You will learn how to identify your own instinctual gifts (like clairsentience and clear knowing), alongside practical, daily habits to protect your personal space, set firm boundaries, and stop letting other people's bad days ruin yours.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:53 Redefining sensitivity as a strength

1:43 Growing up as a door mat without boundaries

3:22 Re-framing sensitivity as your greatest gift

4:42 Fine-tuning intuitive gifts in early life

5:37 What are Clair gifts and how we use them

7:01 Turning up the volume dial on your intuition

7:30 Clairsentience and a tense coffee shop encounter

9:45 Learning to separate your emotions from others

10:15 Claircognizance and the instinct of clear knowing

11:57 Clairaudience and recognizing the calm inner voice

13:03 Clairvoyance and a message from a lost son

15:35 A warning flash before a family breakdown

17:48 Understanding Clairaliens and Clairgustance

18:59 Why intuitive nudges feel subtle rather than dramatic 20:48 Daily rituals to protect your energetic bubble

21:49 Using crystals and body positioning for protection

22:52 Purifying your energy with salt scrubs and swimming 23:48 Final reminder you are not sensitive you are magic

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/1FAIpQLSe8q2W3Xwirf9ZYxbYRJKTKMFM9ybIyimkAkUyJoRUxxvMbGQ/viewform

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

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Listener note: This episode explores financial stress, inherited money beliefs, family anxiety patterns, and personal experiences of marital betrayal and divorce. Please listen with care if these topics feel sensitive for you.

Why does money create so much anxiety, even when we're getting by?

In this episode of The Healing Circle, Christine Higgins is joined by Laura Medcalf of The Barley Moon to explore the hidden money stories that shape our lives. Laura shares how leaving a secure teaching career uncovered deep fears around financial security, leading her to trace those anxieties back through generations of family experiences.

Together, they discuss scarcity mindset, inherited financial trauma, people-pleasing, navigating the cost-of-living crisis, and the importance of creating a life and career that feels safe for your nervous system.

This is a heartfelt conversation about healing your relationship with money, finding gratitude in uncertainty, and shifting from survival mode into purposeful living.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

00:50 Welcome and introducing Laura Medcalf

01:40 The career break reality check and business launch panic

03:06 Balancing business goals with the financial pressure of six children

04:58 Recognizing the family safety net vs the fear of absolute rock bottom

06:01 Christine’s lunchtime meltdown and the lingering fear of money

06:53 The modern cost of living crisis and regular "beans on toast" weeks

09:41 Social media pressure and keeping up with the Joneses 10:34 Sourcing Dior runners in Morocco and modern price gouging

12:51 Inherited scarcity: Tracing tax anxiety back to childhood memories

14:55 Generational financial trauma: Affairs, bank ruptcy, and starting over

16:11 Breaking the loop: Ending a marriage to protect the children

18:44 Christine’s story: Mental health blocks, business success, and healing blocks

20:17 Pushing through fears vs stepping back into a safe job 22:11 Why your business acts as an energetic reflection of your mindset

23:44 Breaking the constant wheel of money anxiety through gratitude

26:59 Retaining self-worth and holding vision for future goals 28:13 Shifting household language from "we can't afford it" 29:21 The real root of the meltdown: Over-mommying and lack of boundaries

32:15 Chronic people-pleasing and learning to say no

33:43 Step one to healing your relationship with money: Easing the pressure

35:21 Flipping the script from making money to helping others

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/1FAIpQLSe8q2W3Xwirf9ZYxbYRJKTKMFM9ybIyimkAkUyJoRUxxvMbGQ/viewform

💬 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

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