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Have you ever felt like a song was trying to tell you something? In this soul-stirring episode of Intuitive Mentor Mom, I share a personal story of how my higher power, God, Spirit, the Universe, communicates with me through music.

What began as a nostalgic moment with a Lionel Richie song turned into a divine message that cracked open my heart and reminded me of one powerful truth: I am love.

You’ll hear how waking up with a song in my head became more than coincidence, it became a love letter from something greater. If you've ever questioned your worth, sought validation from others, or wondered if you're being guided… this story is for you.

Topics we explore:

  • Spiritual signs and synchronicity
  • Receiving messages from the Divine
  • Self-love and inner validation
  • Healing through music and memory

Press play and discover how your higher power might already be speaking to you — Truly.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are the relationship you've been waiting
for.
That's what today's episode isabout.
Today's episode is about whenGod or the universe, your higher
power, begins to communicatewith you and connects with you
in certain ways.
And my question is are youreally paying attention?
Are you paying attention towhat's being communicated to you

(00:22):
in this moment?
Because you are therelationship you've been looking
for.
So here we go.
Welcome back to the IntuitiveMentor Mom podcast, where we
explore strategies forpracticing more self-love,
gratitude and finding new waysto empower ourselves in this
ever-changing healing adventureof life happening for us.

(00:43):
I'm your host, tara, michelle.
Let's get started.
Welcome back to the IntuitiveMentor Mom podcast.
So happy to be with all of youagain, and today's episode is
going to be a little story aboutsomething that shifted and
occurred for me last weekend andthe week prior.
I had some moments that I wantto share about that are aligned

(01:07):
with music, songs and how spiritcommunicates with me through
music and film.
But before we get into that, Ido want to just say quickly this
will be the last episode ofIntuitive Mentor Mom, because in
the next episode I will belaunching the new podcast.

(01:29):
I'm not going to go into thename.
I'll share it then.
But I'm very excited and I wantto say thank you to all of you
that have been on this journeywith me over the last year.
I just felt it was importantfor me to rebrand this podcast,
to really speak to really whereI'm coming from, really, I think
, what's at my core and although, yes, I'm intuitive, yes, I'm a

(01:53):
mentor, yes, I'm a mom, everytime I say that name it just
doesn't land in terms of, Ithink, the message that I'm
really trying to put out there.
So that's what's going tohappen next week, on the next
episode, so two weeks from today.
So I hope many of you willstick around and continue to
listen.
It will continue to be aboutlife happening for us and not to

(02:15):
us, and who are we going to be,and all of that.
But let's go ahead and get onwith this story.
And again, welcome back to allof those who have been
supporting me, following me onthis journey.
It's been a little over a yearnow and I just want to thank all
of you.
And then, to those of you thatare new, welcome to the podcast.
And yes, there'll be a shift inthe next episode.

(02:35):
But my name is Tara, michelle,and I am the host of the show,
and the show is really about howlife is happening for us, not
to us, and I'm going to go aheadand get into this story because
I don't want this episode to betoo long.
So this story is about a recentmoment I had where my heart and
mind had a complete shift inperspective when it comes to

(02:58):
love of self, and something thatI want to share that I came to
understand over the years isthat my higher power, or God, as
I like to say, communicateswith me through music.
Music really speaks to me.
Music is literally theheartbeat of my soul, but spirit

(03:19):
will utilize music as well asfilm, so film will also speak to
me, utilize music as well asfilm, so film will also speak to
me.
And what that looks like is isyou know, I could be in a
certain time in my life whereI'm processing or going through
something and I'll decide I wantto watch a movie and I'll flip
through hey, prime or or youknow, netflix or something, and

(03:40):
I'll just pick a movie and itjust happens to be that there
will be a line, or the contentor the context of the movie is
exactly what I needed to hearand things will be said and I
will actually get aha momentsthat are happening in my life
through the movie.
Another thing that spirit doesis I wake up almost every day

(04:00):
with music in my head and it'swild and it took me a long time
probably in my early 30s did Icome to realize, oh, these songs
that are in my head actuallyhave something to do with my
life and they often are areflection of wherever I'm

(04:20):
standing in my life.
Like recently there was a song,lies, lies, lies by Thompson
twins.
I shouldn't say recently, itwas earlier this year or last
year.
I was dating somebody and itwasn't the best person to be
dating and lies, lies, lies keptcoming up and I was like, why
that song?
I haven't heard that song inlike I don't know 30 years or
something.
And then it dawned on me ohyeah, it's referring to this

(04:41):
person.
Another time when I was movingthrough a pretty intense time in
my life where I was doing a lotof self-reflecting and really
doing an overhaul within myselfand honestly tired of the
journey and really ready to bedone with it and continuing to

(05:04):
ask God, like can I please justbe done with this.
And one morning I woke up withthis song by Trevor Hall you
Can't Rush your Healing.
So God was like, hey, babe, youcan't rush your healing.
Okay, you can't rush yourhealing.
Such a great song I'm not goingto try and sing it because I'm
not a singer.
And then another time is Magicby Olivia Newton-John from

(05:26):
Xanadu.
Another time over the moon in mylife have an amazing time and a
pivotal moment where I had thebig breakthrough and that song
came on and I was like, oh,that's a good song.
And so what do I do?
I go ahead and I'm like, oh,let me go listen to the lyrics.
And as I play the music Ilistened to the lyrics, I'm like
, holy cow, it was this wholenew awakening to even that song,

(05:49):
cause that song has alwaysreally spoke to me as like it's
Xanadu, it's Olivia Newton-John,it's put on your roller skates
and watch the movies and be inthe seventies, right, and uh, um
.
But really what I I came torecognize this was last year is
how beautiful that song is andhow that song was really how I
saw it.
Today I can't say that this iswhy it was written, but this is

(06:10):
how I saw it today it was myguides or my higher power
speaking to me, telling me thatthey are always with me, they're
never not with me, and thatevery day there's this magic and
miracles, and that the powerwithin myself, like everything
around me, is something of abeautiful creation.
And then I, you know, I neverhave to doubt.

(06:32):
All I have to do is ask, likeit's always there, and I thought
, wow, I never heard the song inthat way.
So I have this whole newrelationship to magic.
It's a beautiful song.
So now to get into today'sstory and that was just a little
recap as to how spiritcommunicates with me through
music.
But this story is a reallysimple one and it cracks

(06:54):
something open within my heart,and I hope it does for you too,
as I share.
So last week, or I should saythe week before now, we had to
do a quick trip to Arkansas.
My mom was not well and so wehad to jump in the car and go
visit and see what was going on.
And on our very long journey wewere listening to Yacht Rock,

(07:16):
because who doesn't need alittle dose of Yacht Rock when
you're on a long road trip?
And the thing I love aboutyacht rock is the velvet 70s,
80s love songs, you know, and itreally is this comfort music
for me, it's music thatliterally speaks to me and has

(07:40):
me feel, you know, completelycradled from that time.
Just, you know, soft rock, it'sjust the coolest.
So there we are, driving and asong that I had literally
forgotten about, lionel Richie'ssong, truly, okay, that song
comes on and I almost laughedbecause I just thought what a

(08:02):
drippy, sappy love song.
But I went ahead and turned itup.
And I turned it up because Ijust it took me back to that
time.
It took me back to, you know,couple skate or dances or middle
school moments that are awkwardand slow songs, you know, and

(08:24):
it was this moment of justsoftening into that time and
allowing that song to play andenjoying the sappiness of it all
.
So then I forgot about it.
I had that moment, sweetinnocence of the 80s and
listening to, truly, by LionelRichie, having all these
memories of life then, and thenI forgot about it.

(08:47):
You know went about our day fastforward to this last weekend.
I was spending the day withsomeone I'm dating and somebody
really special, and we werehaving the most magical day.
We hadn't seen each other in afew weeks and it was the perfect
day, like everything wasaligned.

(09:07):
It was beautiful weather, greatfood, lots of laughs.
We were hanging in the lake andjust having an amazing time.
And we were listening to YachtRock.
And so the song All Night Longby Lionel Richie comes on.
And what was funny is he thensays you know, lionel Richie

(09:31):
really made the Commodores.
He was the Commodores and wewere talking about the song All
Night Long and I said so.
True, I said, but with thissong he totally sold out.
He totally sold out with thissong.
And you know, we kind oflaughed about it.
But in my mind it was a veryflippant comment at the time and

(09:55):
I was thinking to myselfbecause the Commodores were like
the shit.
You know, that's full blown 70sfunk roots.
It was amazing.
And then you come to All NightLong and it's just 80s pop
glittery, glamorous, lots ofhigh energy colors.
It's like it's all this energy.

(10:15):
And in that moment I thoughtwhat a sellout moment.
That's what I thought.
Now I'm not going to sayanything more because I want to
get to the rest of the story,because I have to go back and
retract some thoughts I had thatday.
But that is what I was thinkingin that moment.
Now, the other thing that Ithought was very interesting, as

(10:40):
I was thinking about how he hadsold out on that song, is I was
thinking here you're going tosay he sold out on that song,
yet you knew every word to thesong, you knew every dance move
to the video and you couldn'twait for that video to come on
on Friday Night Tracks, whichwas a show that my friend and I,
lisa, we would watch on Fridaynights, and we couldn't wait for

(11:02):
that song.
So I even thought that wasfunny.
Like here you're going to saywhat are?
Are you such a music snob today, tara, that you're going to say
what a solo, when in fact itwas like one of your favorite
songs at the time.
So those are some things that Iwas thinking about, and then
our day continued to carry onand it was a beautiful day.
Here's where it getsinteresting.

(11:22):
The next morning I wake up andI'm hearing that song Truly, by
Lionel Richie in my head.
The moment I wake up, literallymy eyes open and the lyrics
girl tell me only this I won'ttry and sing.

(11:43):
I'm going to try and sing, butI'm not going to try and sing.
You know the song.
So that song is playing in myhead and it's gently whispering
in my mind, right, and I'mthinking, oh, I love that song.
And then I thought to myself,oh my gosh, is that the universe
like telling me about theamazing day I just had yesterday

(12:05):
?
Like, oh my God, you know,that's my girl brain.
My girl brain goes off.
It's like, oh my God, it'syesterday.
No, it really wasn't, butthat's the female brain doing
her thing.
And you know, because I had anamazing day with this amazing
human and I thought, oh my God,that's such a perfect song, it's
so beautiful.

(12:26):
But then what happened was Irealized, okay, I'm going to
read the lyrics to this song andI'm going to take the dogs for
a walk and then I'm going toplay the song because, given
that, god, you were playing thesong in my head, there's
something you want me to hear.
So I'm going to get dressed,I'm going to take the dogs out
and I'm going to put that songon.
I'm going to tell you somethingreally shifted on my walk

(12:46):
because, as I was listening tothat song, it wasn't about the
person I was with yesterday, itwasn't even about us.
This song was totally dedicatedto me and this was a love song
to myself.
It was a love song from God,maybe even myself, but it was a

(13:07):
love song to me Because here'swhat I'd been reflecting on, and
even a conversation that Ibrought up to this person I was
with the day before is I reallywanted to?
Or I should say I was practicing, not needing that validation
from outside of me, not needingvalidation like the kind that

(13:31):
comes from texts being answereda certain way or at a certain
time, or people showing up in away that I expect, or even love
being defined by reciprocity.
That's something I was reallypracticing or have been
practicing, because so much ofwhat we think during those times

(13:51):
often occurs like rejection,like if it's if you know
somebody doesn't respond to youright away or they don't respond
in a way that you want.
You know, a lot of times peoplewill start going down this
track of I'm feeling rejected orwhatever the story is, when
really it's just a story that isbeing made up by your ego in

(14:12):
that moment because it isfeeling the need to protect you
at all costs, because there'ssome trauma underneath that
right.
But the truth was, this songwas playing because my love is a
frequency song was playingbecause my love is a frequency.

(14:36):
My joy, my presence, mybeingness, that is all mine and
it doesn't have to shift becausesomeone else's silence or their
delay or whoever it is.
However they show up, that love, that frequency, that presence
and that beingness within medoesn't have to shift, it
doesn't have to change.

(14:57):
And so that morning, as I'mwalking with the dogs and I put
truly on, I must've listened toit like four or five times, and
then I started listening.
It's not from the context of,like this memory of some
romantic ideal, but as thismessage that God is truly in
love with me, that I'm truly inlove with me.
And I could feel it.

(15:17):
I could feel it in the breeze,I could feel it Literally
butterflies were flying in frontof me.
You know, the dogs were happy.
Their tails are wagging whilethey're walking and they're
smiling.
I could see their smiles.
The birds are singing andthey're literally calling across
the sky to one another.
And I am wrapped up in thatmoment, just feeling love like

(15:38):
real, unconditional, divine love.
And in that moment I thenrecognize for myself that I
don't need to chase love.
I am the love that I need.
I am the relationship that Iseek.
It's not for me to have toperform for it, it's not for me

(16:01):
to prove that I'm worthy of it.
I'm here to remember it in thismoment, right now, to root into
it and to rise from it becauseI am it.
I am that relationship that Iseek.
Because I am it, I am thatrelationship that I seek.
And so maybe that song trulywasn't as sappy as I thought it

(16:21):
was.
Maybe it's actually medicinefor my soul.
It's medicine for my soul inthat moment, and what I like to
think is that it was God's wayof saying hey, tara, you're
loved, you are loved, you areneeded.
You are seen truly in that verymoment.
So if you're listening to thisand you've been seeking

(16:42):
something or someone outside ofyou, like some response to tell
you that you're okay, I want totell you you're okay, and maybe
this is it.
Maybe this song is for you too.
So I encourage you, break outyour phone, look up Truly by
Lionel Richie, read the words,but go outside and really hear

(17:07):
it as it's being sang to youLike you are enough, you're more
than enough, you're exquisite.
You are enough.
You're more than enough.
You're exquisite, you are therelationship you've been waiting
for you, only you, only you.
And that's what I wanted toshare today, because it was such

(17:29):
a powerful moment for me torealize that, hey, I could have
taken that song and been like,oh my God, yes, it was all about
yesterday, but no, it reallywasn't.
It was really about no.
You're in this moment today,girl, and you truly truly are

(17:51):
the inspiration or the love orwhatever it is like, whatever it
is that I need to feel.
I am that and I'm going to sayyou are that.
So be that for you, be it foryou now.
So I want to thank all of youfor being with me today.
Thanks for listening, and ifany of this spoke to you, if any

(18:12):
of this resonated for you, Iencourage you.
Please share it, share it witha friend you know better.
Yet, like I said, turn on thesong, truly, go for a walk.
Really, I encourage you to doit and I would love to hear if
you do it like what?
What shifted for you?
What happened?
What opened up?
How did you hear it?
How did you see it?

(18:33):
Did you see it newly, as I did,because it's a really beautiful
song and, yes, it could be thatsappy 80s love song that's on
the Yacht Rock station, but it'salso just a beautiful song and
it really had me see that LionelRichie really wasn't selling
out Like who he was being.
Was he needed to be his fullestself-expression?

(18:55):
Like who he was being?
Was he needed to be his fullestself-expression?
And maybe where he was in thestate of the Commodores was
holding him back.
Because when you think about somany of the beautiful love
songs that he wrote, just somany beautiful songs, and that
was shift a lot of perspectivesand remove me out of the state

(19:16):
of judgment and put me into anew paradigm around.
These songs are justself-healing self-love.
That's what it's about, becausethis is life happening for me.
It's happening for me in thismoment and it's wanting me to
see something newly anddifferent.
So I leave you all with that.
I thank you so much for beinghere with me this week.
Different, so I leave you allwith that.
I thank you so much for beinghere with me this week as a

(19:37):
reminder.
Hopefully, I should be on trackwith the next episode two weeks
from now.
If not, forgive me.
It is because I'm going to berehauling everything and we will
be relaunching this show, but Ilook forward to being with all
of you.
Thank you so much because Iwill be back with more stories,
more soul and more reminders ofhow life is always working for
us.
Have a blessed day and we'llsee you soon.

(19:59):
Thank you for coming on thishealing adventure today.
If you're starting to see howeverything is falling into place
for you, consider rating theshow and sharing it with one of
your friends.
Keep that spirit alive and joinme next week.
Same place, same time.
Have a great week.
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