The Healing Circle with Christine Higgins

Listener note: This episode explores deeply personal stories of sudden loss, emotional processing, and life-altering transitions. The content includes discussions of grief and sudden death which may be activating for some. Please listen with care, and feel free to pause, step away, or return when it feels supportive for you.
Are you feeling constantly exhausted, trapped in a cycle of chronic stress, or disconnected from your body? In this episode of The Healing Circle, host Christine is joined by CJ, creator of Honestly Becoming CJ, to unpack what it actually takes to regulate your nervous system and reclaim your health from modern societal conditioning.
The conversation dives deep into practical entry points for escaping the constant "fight-or-flight" of hustle culture and managing an overwhelmed mind. From using conscious breathing techniques to stabilize a chaotic, high-functioning ADHD brain, to exploring how sound frequencies can clear years of physical tension and pain, this episode serves as a down-to-earth blueprint for true well-being.
Christine and CJ also discuss the major cultural shift of traditional medical professionals integrating alternative healing modalities, how to completely rewrite a stressful relationship with money, and why slowing down to live in harmony with natural cycles is essential for long-term health.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro 
1:38 Processing Grief and the Sudden Loss of CJ’s Mother
5:29 Relocating to Ireland and Shifting Lifestyles
7:41 Escaping Career Burnout in the TV Industry
9:08 The Life-Changing Breathwork Session in the Moroccan Desert
11:02 Trying Holotropic Breathwork and the Beauty of Vulnerability
12:57 Moving Energy and Stepping into Healing Modalities
14:31 Intentional Living and Channelling Healing Frequency
16:41 How a Sound Bath Instantly Healed a 7-Year Physical Injury
18:36 Why Modern Medical Doctors are Learning Reiki
21:11 Unexplainable Synchronicities: The Mystery of the Missing Keys
24:32 Becoming the Observer and Embracing the Human Experience
26:25 Finding Calm in Community and Nature Rituals
28:44 Why the Calendar You Follow Might Be Keeping You Stressed
32:20 Active Rest: Why Hibernation is Essential for Success
34:07 Quieting an ADHD Mind Without Medication
36:14 Surrendering to Delays and Reclaiming Peace
37:35 Rewriting a Scarcity Mindset and Fixing Your Relationship with Money
42:32 CJ’s Final Message on Finding Your Inner Power
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

CONNECT WITH CJ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honestlybecomingcj/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@honestlybecoming

Listener note: This episode shares a personal story involving near-death experiences, close calls, and open reflections on end-of-life topics. The content, particularly accounts of a terrifying near-miss car accident and a past severe medical emergency, may be activating. Please listen with care, and feel free to pause, step away, or return when it feels supportive for you.
In this powerful solo episode of The Healing Circle, host Christine Higgins dives deep into her favorite topics: transformation, death, rebirth, and life. Prompted by a wild week of synchronicity, Christine explores whether we are truly divinely protected or if we are navigating major timeline jumps.
From a frustrating case of misplaced luggage keys to a symbolic encounter with a dead magpie, the universe was clearly trying to get her attention before a terrifying, millisecond-away head-on collision on a wet hill. Christine reflects on how these jarring moments - including a severe hemorrhage after the birth of her fourth child - serve as profound spiritual wake-up calls, reset moments, and catalysts for our deeper purpose. Tune in to explore what it means to push past your self-imposed blocks, embrace your intuition, and choose to fully live the life you desire today.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
0:50 Welcome & Breaking the Taboo Around Death
2:22 Lost Airport Keys: Surrendering to the Inconvenience
5:35 Shamanic Signs: The Message of the Dead Magpie
6:22 The Near-Miss: Surviving a Terrifying Car Crash
10:28 Who Protects Us? Spirit Guides, Angels, and Ancestors
11:28 Jumping Timelines & Shifting Subconscious Blocks
14:45 Signs from the Spiritual Realm & Car Key Mysteries
16:02 Reset Moments: The Tower Card & Rising From the Ashes
17:03 The Invitation to Fully Live Your Desired Life
18:39 Final Reflections: How to Share Your Story

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

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
MindyNEW 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

CONNECT WITH MINDY
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/mindy-jackson-lpc-reiki-master-carrollton-ga/1298495

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.
CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE
▶️ Subscribe here: @embodiedenergywellness💌 Website: www.embodiedenergywellness.com📱 Follow Christine on Instagram: @embodiedenergywellness

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

CONNECT WITH GUEST, LAURA MEDCALF
Instagram: @thebarleymoon