The Healing Circle with Christine Higgins

Listener note: This episode features an open discussion about navigating significant life transitions, including the end of a long-term marriage and the experience of "hitting a wall" during major life shifts. It explores themes of spiritual awakening, ancestral connections, and moving through the fear of judgment when stepping into your true power.

In this powerful episode of the Healing Circle, Christine Higgins sits down with Carol Barrett, a woman who chose to completely rewrite her life’s script at nearly 60 years old. After decades of putting her family and high-level career first, Carol found herself at a crossroads where her old purpose no longer served her soul.

Carol shares her remarkable journey of "remembering who she is" - from a child who saw spirits and gathered stones in circles, to a science student and corporate boss, and finally, to embracing her lineage as the descendant of a "white witch".

TIMESTAMPS
1:00 Guest Introduction: Meet Carol Barrett.
1:49 The "Awaken the Healer" moment: Recognizing your own power.
2:38 Life as a "Double Worker": Balancing home, career, and marriage.
3:31 Hitting the Wall: Divorce and the "Empty Nest" transition.
4:35 Finding Purpose: The pull toward intuition and family roots.
5:36 Childhood Memories: Crows, spirits, and early spiritual signs.
6:29 The Science vs. Spirit Balance: Studying plant biology.
7:31 Remembering Who You Are: Overcoming societal conditioning.
8:38 The "Volume Dial": How to increase your intuitive vibration.
9:40 The Shamanic Path: Connection to ancestors and spirit guides.
11:54 Spiritual Disciplines: Why the divine asked for "No Coffee".
12:27 Family Secrets: Katie the White Witch and the lost Grimoire.
14:24 The Pied Piper: Carol’s father and the legacy of healing.
16:41 Trust vs. Validation: Pushing through the fear of judgment.
18:37 Stepping Out of the Shadows: Leading a healing circle for employees.
21:32 The Woo-Woo Lady: Owning your identity at work.
22:46 Filling the Gap: How the loss of a parent creates space for your power.
24:51 Leaving the 25-Year Safety Net: Choosing soul over security.
26:29 Moving into the Trust: Overcoming the fear of money and failure.
31:10 Words of Wisdom: Why you are never too old to start.

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
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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

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 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.

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: 
💬 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 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

Listener Note: This episode includes the sharing of a personal survivor's story. It explores themes such as grief, sudden loss, role reversal, divorce, abandonment, health scares (breast cancer), and the process of healing and reprioritizing life, which may feel activating. Please listen with care. You are always welcome to pause, step away, or return when it feels supportive for you.
In this powerful episode, Christine is joined by Denise, a woman who intimately knows the cost of caring deeply for others at the expense of herself. This conversation explores the journey of recognizing patterns of self-abandonment, breaking generational cycles of over-giving, and choosing self-priority without shame, force, or the need to fix.
If you have ever felt exhausted from being the "strong one," this episode is for you.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
1:01 Noticing the Pattern of Putting Others First
1:17 The Pressure of Being the Eldest Child
1:48 Father's Sudden Death and Stepping Into His Role
2:36 The Pressure to Mind Mother and Younger Sister
4:56 Stepping Fully into Masculine Survival Mode
6:10 18-Year Marriage to a Partner with Feminine Energy
7:05 Finding a Partner Who Needs the "Fixer" Role
8:47 Realizing I was Down the Pecking Order
9:50 Health Scare: The Start of Breast Cancer
10:59 The Pressure of Being the Sole Provider
11:09 The Fixing Pattern Re-emerges in a New Relationship
11:56 The Body's Response to Heartache and Sorrow
13:29 The Overwhelming Breaking Point
14:00 Identifying Issues and Trying to Break the Pattern
15:09 Ancestral Pattern of Over-Giving Comes Through
16:16 Soul Stepped in to Break the Cycle
17:57 Fantasizing About Injury to Finally Rest
18:58 The Necessary "Shake Out" of Friends
20:00 Starting the Healing Journey (Breakdown before Breakthrough)
21:54 Implementing Boundaries: "Can I Get Back to You?"
22:00 Deciding to Take Medication for Mental Health
23:05 Prioritizing What's Within These Four Walls
24:16 The Need for External Validation Feeds the Ego
25:28 Turning Focus Inwards
26:26 Learning to Watch for Red Flags
27:44 Sitting in the "Observe, Not the Absorb" Mindset
28:00 Flipping the Mindset: Have I Leveled Up?
30:02 The Necessity of Shadow Work
33:10 Advice for Listeners: Stop and Take a Step Back
34:41 Healing Through Professional Singing
36:14 Final Words: You Return to Old Patterns Because They Kept You Safe
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