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This is the House of Andrea.
I'm Andrea Lee Matthews, an artist,photographer, and clairvoyant medium.
And in this podcast, we explore what itreally means to thrive as a soul having
a human experience, how to connect withour energy, transcend those edges and
boundaries that we create for ourselves.
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And open to the fullspectrum of who we are.
If you're ready to see yourselfdifferently, to sense more deeply,
and to expand into more of who youare, you are in the right place.
Let's dive in.
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Hello and welcome back
to another episode of The House of Andrea
This week, I thought I would dive intothe concept of time just how much can
change in our lives in a blink of an eye.
And I think there's such a paradox whenit comes to time because we often feel
like nothing in our lives is changing.
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Like we have such big dreams and goals andthere's so many things that we wanna do.
even if we don't have a clear pictureof what that is, we just, we have this
feeling, this knowing, this, gnawingthat we are meant to be doing something.
Yet, we look around in our life andwe feel like nothing has changed.
And it's interesting because Ilook back to where I was when
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this podcast started, which.
You know, we've been running for justover three months now, which is exciting.
and I look at who I am and where I amin my life now, and it is so different.
I feel different.
The energy that surrounds me is different.
The way that I view who I am, theworld, my work within that world,
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it is fundamentally different.
But on the same token, I look around andthink, well, some things feel like they
haven't changed, and this is the crazyduality that we need to hold, particularly
when we have these big dreams andthese goals that we're working towards.
We need to be able to hold this dualityand allow ourselves to really see and feel
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and sense the things that have changed.
Otherwise, we get stuck in this beliefthat, well, nothing has changed.
Everything looks the same, and I thinkthis is really interesting point between.
Feeling and energy and energeticsand our senses, to witness
that world that is beyond thephysical and beyond what we see.
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And the very physical, tangibleevidence because as humans and just
society in general, we typically relyon the physical matter evidential
stuff to not only measure ourworth, but measure our progress.
You know, if we're still livingin the same place, if we're still
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in the same circumstances, westill have the same routines.
We attribute meaning to those things.
And sometimes that meaning canbe, I've made it, I'm successful.
I have a good life, I've progressed.
Or sometimes it can mean the opposite.
We assign the opposite.
It's like, well, nothing has changed, sotherefore I'm useless or I'm worthless.
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I'm not progressing.
Bored, boring.
these types of attributes weassociate with what we can
see and experience physically.
But there is so much more that existsbeyond what we can see so much more.
And I think this is what.
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Has really changed the game for me in.
Embracing my abilities, embracingmy senses, really allowing myself to
witness believe and witness what existsbeyond the physical material world.
Because if I measured, if my worthand my progress, and I have done
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this in the past, but if I continuedto measure my worth and my progress
according to how the world lookedin my physical reality day to day.
I would think that I have donenothing with my life because I
have the similar, same routines.
You know, we live in the samehouse, we have the same types
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of experiences day to day.
And whilst some of those are magicalexperiences, you know, there is
the regular mundaneness of life.
Sometimes we'll have to pay ourbills, we all have to do our taxes.
We all have to take the garbage out, like.
it can be so easy for us to just getinto this pattern and into this mindset.
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And yet really down about it, reallyplace such heavy emphasis on who we are
as people and on what we mean to the worldbased on these physical, tangible things.
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And this can lead to going down therabbit hole of just feeling terrible and.
If, if you're so inclined to feelingthat sensation of I need to just burn
everything to the ground and flipeverything on its head, like I cannot
handle one more day of mundaneness.
I cannot handle one more dayof same, same routine, and
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feeling like nothing is working.
I just, I can't, I can't deal with it.
And that's where so many timeswe go through these patterns of
just following along and thenbeing like, I can't deal this.
I can't deal with this,uh, burn it to the ground.
That's it.
Complete flip, overnight,change everything and my
relationships and my career.
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Move outta the house like thewhole lot, the trifecta, let's go.
And I've done that.
So many times in my lifetime, uh, I'msure my family are listening to this
and just chuckling their heads off beinglike, yep, I think we did that like 12
or 13 times with idea over my lifetime.
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And so that's why I can speak tothis topic with authority in that.
As soon as you start to embracewhat exists in terms of progress,
in terms of value, in terms of worththat exists beyond the physical,
everything starts to change.
And so coming back to what I was saying,reflecting back to six months ago
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where I was in this space of really.
Just turning everything on itshead and feeling like right, I need
to completely reinvent my life.
I, everything I thought Iknew I don't want anymore.
If I reflect back to that energeticmoment in time, and then I allow
myself to feel into my body as towho I am now, it is worlds apart.
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The level of self love that I have formyself and my life is unbelievable and
it's also feels almost unbelievablein that I know how I felt about myself
back then, and it wasn't necessarilycompletely favorable like I thought
I was okay and that I had good valueand that I was useful to the world.
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But I didn't necessarily have the samedepth of self-love that I have now.
Like I was reflectingwith Matt the other day.
I've just had these blissful moments oflate where we would be doing something
or I'd be traveling somewhere or we'd.
Be going to an art gallery openingor just driving in the sunshine,
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or just these simple unflashy, butdeeply resonant, beautiful moments.
And I just remember turning to Mattand just saying, God, I love my life.
Like I'm so grateful forthe choices that I've made.
I'm so grateful for theexperiences that I've had.
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The good, the bad, the hard because.
This cracking open that starts to happenwhen you allow everything to drop away.
You allow to source your value frominside yourself rather than looking at the
physical, the routine, the possessions,and attributing value to that.
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As soon as you.
Allow yourself to come home and feelthat everything starts to change.
And this is where you can feel thisinternal mechanism of upleveling,
of expansion, of transitionhappening within yourself without
the physical reality changing.
And it's really interestingbecause this coincides
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With a lot of the manifestationpractices out there, which all state, the
manifestation comes from the inside out.
It comes from the feeling andthe believing and the knowing
that who you are and what you.
Already exists.
It already exists.
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It's just that youcan't physically see it.
The physical reality hasn't caught upwith it yet, but the internal shifts,
when you start sourcing that self-lovefrom inside yourself, and I know this
sounds easier said than done, but whenyou are able to source that from inside
yourself, it doesn't matter where you are.
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It doesn't matter what you have.
It doesn't matter if you wakeup in the same bed, in the same
house with the same routine.
The shifts in terms of, I know thereis so much here for me, I know and I
can feel beyond what I can see, theseripple effects, these tiny little
changes that are shifting in my energy.
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Feel them.
So therefore I feel different andI know the physical reality is
just starting to catch up with me.
And so coming back to the otherday with this feeling of God I love
my life, these are not words thatI've ever been able to say ever.
And.
you know, there is some sadness aroundthat, but also so, so much beauty in that
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I'm finally starting to be able to feeland sense and step into this powerful.
Energy of this is, this is who I am.
I'm finally letting go and strippingback all of the, masks, the labels,
the, the layers of who I thoughtI needed to be, the contortion.
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All of that is starting tostrip away enough now that.
I'm able to come back to self and yes,it does make me sad that it's taken me
so long to be able to really feel that.
And you might feel that as well, like.
There can be this sense of sadnessaround why has it taken us so long?
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Like why has life had so many upsand downs with those downs, really
feeling so resonant that, thatthey stay stuck in our, in our
aura, in our energy, in our mind.
Like why does that sadnesshave to stick around?
Why can't we just come out of the womb?
I mean, maybe some of us do.
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We come out of the womband we're like, yeah, baby.
Every single second ofthis life is amazing.
And of course, I a hundred percent am surethere are beautiful humans that have that
existence in through their entire life.
I just know for me, Ididn't, I didn't have that.
I had a lot of struggles withself-worth and self-esteem and
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body image and just conditioningand all these sorts of things.
Um, that I've had to really like workthrough when use, part of me wants
to say I've had to battle through,but it's, it's not about the battle,
it's about doing the work that's beenrequired to, to come home from self.
And whilst there is that sadnessand that, well, couldn't I have,
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you know, figure this out earlier?
There's this huge, and this isthe part that's so important
that I wanna share with you.
There is just this huge feeling ofgratitude of it doesn't matter because
I'm finally coming home to this feeling,and that's what I wanna share with
you is that there is no ping behind.
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It doesn't matter whether yourtwenties, your thirties, your
forties, 56, 7, eighties, nineties.
It doesn't matter.
The point is, is that there is a pointthat you can come to where you feel this.
And you just start to crack open whoyou are and, and are able to look
around in your life and be like,I am so glad that I am who I am.
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I am so glad that I've been throughwho, what I've been through,
because I've been able to heal.
Those things that happen to me in thislifetime, which are always linked to
other energetics, either ancestrally,past life, soul contracts, all sorts
of different energies There's thisbeautiful, stuff that comes together
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to make who we are and we can unravelall of that to come back to who we are.
And it doesn't matter how long ittakes, but this feeling of self-worth
it is possible for all of us.
And I am just in this place now.
And of course I have bad days.
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I still have days where I wakeup and look around and be like,
oh, so this is still the same.
It's not quite.
The dream that I have yet, we'renot living in this house and we're
not, you know, associating withthese people in this way yet,
or, you know, whatever it is.
But this fuel, this fire, thisburning, this flame that exists within
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me now, it's like I can feel it.
And I can sense it.
And the more that you start coming backto just feeling the, a tiny little flicker
or the tiny little shimmer of the heat, alittle bit that's coming off, that flame
that exists within you, the more and moreyou can come back to knowing who you are.
Because I was saying to Matt theother day, like, you know, he and I
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made the choice not to have children.
And we made that choiceactually independently before
we were back together and.
Because if you're not familiar withmine and Matt's story, he and I were
together, um, in our early twenties.
I think I was like 20, 22maybe around there, around 22.
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And we dated for a couple yearsand we lived together in this
beautiful little share house and,um, the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
And I had a lot of depressionback then, like severe social
anxiety, severe depression.
And Matt, his beautiful soul that hewas, you know, early twenties social
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butterfly, loved to be out and about justthe life of the party and caused a lot
of issues because of my social stress,I just, I couldn't go out all the time.
I didn't wanna go out all the time andbeing so young and a very low lack of
emotional intelligence, you know, Iused to wanna imprint that on him and be
like, well, you know, you stay home too.
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But he wanted to go out and
We just became very differentpeople and wanted different
things, and so we drifted.
Now, it was a heartbreaking breakup,but you know, at the time it made sense.
It made sense.
So we parted ways And I think atthis, at the time, the share house
was being, um, dissolved anyway,actually, I think it had been condemned.
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Uh, non livable was part of thefront of the house was falling down.
But anyway, we moved out andmany, many, many years later,
like 12 years later or so.
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And you know, with that we hadto move out of the, and with our
breakout, we moved out of the sharehouse and went our separate ways, but
many, many years later, I think itwas like 12 or 13 years later, we.
I started seeing each other again,started dating again, and then
eventually got together and gotmarried and we've been together since.
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But separately, during all ofthat time, each of us had made
the decision to not have children.
That children wasn't inthe cards for either of us.
It wasn't something that we both craved.
And it's really interesting when youmake a decision like that, there's.
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Freedom, but also guilt that can comewith that, particularly society's
expectations of women, and this ideathat if you aren't birthing children, you
know, what are you doing with your life?
What meaning do you hold, but.
Making the decision not to have children.
It felt right, but it cancreate this sense of guilt.
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Around, well now you have time.
Now you have money, which is an exciting,free feeling, but I kind of started
to feel extremely guilty for all ofa sudden having all of this time.
And with having all of that time, I'dalso unconsciously created this pressure
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of, well, if I have all of this time andI have all these beautiful friends and
my sisters who have children and are.
just how little timethey have for themselves.
I had created this narrative withinmyself of guilt and that I have
too much time and because I havetoo much time, I need to fill it.
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With so much progress, toretain a sense of value.
And this is such a trickyplace to end up, right?
This is where this, using theexternal, using the, the lifestyle,
the material stuff, the, thetangible things that we do.
To equal our value is such a trap becauseall of a sudden I had made this powerful
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decision of not wanting to have children.
'cause it just, it didn't feel likemy role, my, my role here is to be
in service of, of women, of men, of,of us here as souls on the planet.
But I didn't need to have achild to be able to do that.
And that was just a feeling and anenergy that came through me and.
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Just felt like the right powerfuldecision, but all of a sudden I was like,
well, if I'm not gonna have children,if I'm not gonna be busy with the
family, typical family lifestyle, then.
My material world or my physicalworld or my tangible outcomes
need to justify that decision.
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They need to prove that, that I wasdeserving of making that decision
because it's like, here on this platter,look at all these other things that
I have done still give me value.
It's really interesting andI think, you know, my mother.
she loved having children.
Like she loved having children.
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There are some stories that my motherused to tell me about her and her
mother, them sewing and singing, andit makes me emotional to think about.
'cause they were just, theywere so beautiful together.
My beautiful nana, she passed lastyear, and I even though though it's um,
it's been a year of her anniversary,there's still, there's just still some
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deep sadness and, and you know, love,of course love that exists there.
That makes me just.
You know, you still feel sad that she's nolonger with us, but these stories of her
and my mother and these beautiful moments,like I remember hearing about them.
I remember seeing them together, andI think at some point I'd internalized
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that, well, if I wasn't gonna havemy own children, it meant I was
never gonna have those moments, andso therefore I had to feel it with.
Other things to prove that I wasstill deserving of being here or
deserving of the value and, and thisheaviness and this, this need to either
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fill it with academic accolades or.
Success or career or titleor work or material things.
felt like in my mind, thisreplacement of these maternal
bonds that I was never going to.
Um, experience based on my, my choice.
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And so a lot of this heaviness, thisstriving, this proving energy has followed
me most of my life until this incrediblechapter that I'm in now where I've made
these powerful decisions to let that go,to put that down, and to actually just
fall in love with the energy and the soul.
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And the humanness that exists withinme, and that's why I look at my
life now, and I've had these genuinemoments recently where I can say
thank goodness for those decisions.
Thank goodness for being ableto witness the maternal bond
between my mother and my.
My grandmother and still making anempowered choice to know that it wasn't
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mine to be able to source that lovefor myself within myself, for the
life that I chose, because I chose it.
And I think this is the fundamentaldifference that I'm discovering,
is that the power of trust, thatwhatever decision that we make.
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If it is in alignment with our souland our yearning and our knowing,
and that deep internal fire, if thedecision is in alignment with that, it
doesn't matter what the decision is.
It is the right decision.
It's almost like as we arefollowing our soul, following
that burning and that internalknowing, there are no bad decisions.
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And I think that's why when thesunlight hits my face now, it's
like, oh, I chose to be here.
I chose to have this life right now,and I followed my soul no matter what.
No matter how sad it made me, nomatter how much pain I had to transmute
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experience and then transmute, nomatter how much I had to let go of the
stories of others or the lives and theexpect experiences and expectations
of others, no matter how much I.
I felt like I wanted to gripand strain and hold onto those
things and make them mine, but byletting them go, it was worth it.
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I am.
Here I am finally, finally, finally,starting to realize how much I love.
The fire and the energy andthe soul that exists within me.
And when we do this, it's almost likecomparison becomes less of a need.
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It becomes less of amechanism that we rely on.
And again, being vulnerable, I, I've spenta lot of time comparing myself to others.
I think this is a common experienceamongst so many of us who are women.
This energy of comparison, we canreally get stuck in it and it's
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often because there are so many.
Gaps in the energy, in the self-lovethat we have for ourselves, that
we're just filling it with what'sbeing presented by other women.
We've, we, we see them and we grab hold ofthe pieces and instead of seeing them and.
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And looking beyond into the energy ofthe woman who is inside and understanding
why she has what she has or why she'sdoing what she's doing, and then making
a decision whether we want that or not.
We see her and what she has in thelifestyle that she's moving through,
and we feel the gap within us.
And so we kind of just grab it,patchwork, grab it, and grab it and
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shove it in ourselves and be like, well.
This is what I want for myself, andI'm really annoyed that you have it
because I, I want it, and I, it'snot fitting inside these, these gaps
and these holes that I have, but Ireally want it to, and so I'm furious
and now I'm gonna compete with you.
And I like, it's just suchan icky, messy energy that we
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can live for all of our lives.
And it's not until we realizethis core fundamental.
Issue of these are just gaps that Ihave from my own self love, because
I've told myself I don't know who I am.
I've told myself that things arehard, like all of these narratives and
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conditionings that I'm so used to playingthat they're, they're part of me now.
Like I don't even know that there isstory because they just feel so real.
But as soon as we can identifythem and be like, you know what?
Enough.
Oh my gosh, I'm so tired ofliving with this narrative.
I'm, I'm going within to find out whatis here, what is invisible, what exists
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beyond, and figure out what is here, thisfire, this essence that exists within me.
And then just let the fire rip, like.
Let it fill all of those gaps withinourselves and just start to feel it.
And it's interesting becausethe mind wants to get in there
and be like, so what is here?
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What are the gaps?
What's the math?
What are the things that I'm missing andwhere can I acquire them from yesterday?
That the mind is just such anincredible processing tool that it
wants to problem solve and problemsolve and, and turn this into math.
If it doesn't really work like that,it's like, what is the energy here?
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Start with that little sparkand then let it spread and
discover what exists so that.
We then are not trying to contortthe physical reality, trying
to manufacture the physicalreality to feel a certain way.
It's like you can just feel acertain way from the inside out.
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And so when I have these moments now whereI'm like not doing anything spectacular,
it's like going for a walk and it is so.
Beautiful.
You know those moments where youjust wanna cry 'cause something is so
beautiful, there's like a resonancethere that there is a frequency that.
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You see, you experience and itstarts to resonate within you,
and you just have this moment oflike, gosh, this is beautiful.
Gosh, I'm so grateful I'm alive.
Gosh, that's like, this is me.
This is, this is the stuffthat I wanna do with my life.
These are the moments that start tobecome more and more apparent, more
frequent, because we are allowingthe frequency that exists within us.
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Fire, this flame, whatever languageyou wanna put around it, this,
this energy that exists within you,you're starting to see it outside
of yourself and all of a sudden lifestarts to reflect the magic within us.
And that's when that feelingof, gosh, I love this.
Gosh, I'm so grateful thatI walked away from that.
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I'm so grateful that I had that experienceand I had to go through the depths of
myself, the dark night of my soul to likereally be able to see this right now.
Like I'm so grateful.
And that's coming very all the way backto the very start of what I was saying.
That's when we feel sixmonths down the track.
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That things are so incredibly different,even if the physical reality hasn't
changed because the things that I'vehad to transmute and overcome that
stripping back and coming back to thisfrequency that exists within me to.
Be able to be like, oh mygosh, I have feel so different
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than six months ago even.
Although the physical reality of,of the house and the car and the,
those things haven't shifted yet.
It's like I feel like I'min a whole lot timeline.
A whole other timeline.
This is like, there's a lot of conceptsaround timeline jumping, quantum shifting.
You might have heard these words.
These are what we're talking about.
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It's like going from a onestate or one feeling into the
next and everything changes.
and I think this also is reallyexciting because it sets us up to
see the glimpses of what's possible.
Right.
If we can feel completely different insideafter only six months or even less like I,
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I feel the shifts week on, week on week.
Honestly, if this can move so quickly,
All of a sudden we can feelexcited about what's coming next.
It's like, oh my gosh, if I can sourcethis feeling in any moment and things
can rapidly change what's gonna happenin the next hour and the next day and
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the next week, in the next month, likethings can start to radically shift
in both the physical and the internal.
When we get into that energy oflike, look how far I've come.
I have the ability to do this.
I have the ability to shift this, whatis coming next rather than, I don't know,
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like feel the energy difference, right?
What is coming next?
Like six months ago I feltlike a different woman.
How am I gonna feel like in thenext month, six months to now?
Like, that's, that's amazing.
Versus.
Yeah, but I don't know what'sgonna happen next month.
And I, I just, I don't really know what'sgonna happen in the next six months.
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Like, it's such different feelingbetween the energetic anticipation
and the mind anticipation.
Totally different games.
And so I try now to get out of mymind and into the energy of what's
coming because this is where therapid radical transformation happens.
And I keep saying to the universe,I'm like, oh, bring me the magic baby.
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Like I am here to feel it all.
I am here to feel and witnessand experience the depth.
Of love that I can have for this life.
The depth of appreciation, of gratitude,of connection, of relationship.
Like I am finally in a place whereI'm starting to get out of my head and
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outta story and out of conditioning.
To be so present to what actually exists.
Bring it to me, I'm ready.
And quite often when we ask the universe,okay, bring it to me, I'm ready.
The universe brings challenges, right?
Can bring us experiences that dropus back down to our knees, that ask
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us to resource this within ourselves,and we can get frustrated and be
like, that's not what I asked for.
Ask for you to bring me themagic stuff, the good stuff.
Like why am I now dealing with thisdepths of grief or breakdown, or.
Relationship transition or worktransition or business difficulty.
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Like I asked for the knees on the earth.
I love my life magic moments,and now you're giving me this.
And it's like, yes, I'm giving you thisbecause you are ready to go through
this experience to transmute and get.
Out of the way, all of the sadness andall of these beliefs and stories so
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that you can feel this magic on a deeperand deeper scale so that things can
shift, so that your timeline can shift.
Now is the time.
And so if you're listening to thisand you're like, I really am ready
to shift the energy around thisStart to come back to yourself.
Find that flame, find that energy.
Find, the soul that exists within you andallow that flame to start flickering up
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and out and agitating out the experiencesand the stories that need to shift so
that you can start to see what existshere in this moment beyond the physical.
Beyond where you live, your financialsituation, the relationships that you're
in, start to identify what exists withinyou beyond those things so that that
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flame and that fire can start to getbrighter and start to show you what's
really here, those single magic moments,those feelings of, I am so grateful
because I made this decision in alignmentwith my soul, not based on what I
thought I needed physically, not basedon what I thought needed societally.
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This is me and my life, and I'mmaking these decisions because
they're in alignment with myfire, with my soul, with who I am.
And allowing that to start burningbrightly in you so that you can have these
moments where you're like, this is it.
This is who I am.
I love this and I'm ready for more of it.
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And even if it takes a little bit oftime for the physical to catch up, what
I can tell you is that the feeling thatyou have when you wake up, the feeling
that you have when the sunlight hitsyour face, or you're doing something
that you are choosing to do because itmakes sense for you, not based on what
someone else wants, it changes the game.
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It changes everythingand it changes your life.
So no matter what it is that you'refacing right now, I hope that there's
been some golden nuggets here tojust help you just take a breath.
Sometimes that's all we need.
Just like, okay, okay, I can do this.
There's something else here startingto move into the invisible, the unseen,
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the energy start to open my senses.
This is where it all.
Changes.
And so I love you.
I have so much coming in this space.
If you haven't joined already,jump into The Channel.
It is an absolute fire of a space.
I'm dropping the channeledmessages every single day.
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I also am absolutely mindblowinglyrebuilding the entire business of House
of Andrea with this brand new frequency.
This new energy.
this new world that's being built at themoment that is coming is so exciting.
I cannot wait to share it with you.
It is like spiritual couture.
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It is next level.
There's a whole bunch of stuffthat's coming that I'm really
excited to share with you.
So make sure you tune in nextweek for the updates and the drop.
Oops.
And I love you and I'll seeyou in the very next episode.