June 2, 2025 • 36 mins
What happens when your grandmother visits you after death, and you're a math graduate with zero spiritual background? Isabel Maxwell's extraordinary journey from skeptic to spiritual teacher unfolds as she joins Tracy Seawright to share how one paranormal experience launched her into becoming a professional medium, energy worker, and intuition expert.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when Isabel describes how her unbalanced energy literally caused electronics to explode around her – from cars to air conditioners – until Reiki helped her find alignment. "I think after Reiki Two was when I felt aligned for the first time, and didn't know what I was feeling because I was aligned for the first time," she reflects, highlighting how energy work can transform our relationship with ourselves and the world.
With 19 years in the spiritual field, Isabel boldly challenges common misconceptions about mediumship and intuitive abilities. She dismantles the idea that only "special" people are intuitive: "We're all intuitive. Every single one of us, and your intuition is already 100% strong. It's ju
st covered up." Her approach focuses on practical strategies rather than mystical theories, helping thousands break through the barriers keeping them disconnected from their innate abilities.
Both women share vulnerably about setting difficult boundaries with mothers and ending marriages as part of their healing journeys. Isabel's advice for spiritual seekers centers on navigating the inevitable internal challenges of impatience and self-judgment, transforming these obstacles into opportunities for growth. Her award-winning course The Sage Method and supportive online community The Sage Circle provide pathways for others seeking similar transformation.
Ready to explore your own intuitive gifts? Visit thesagemethod.com to discover Isabel's courses, community, and her revealing book "Cracking Open: Adventures of a Reluctant Medium." As Isabel reminds us: "Take a step, any step. I don't care how small it is. Take a step. Stop planning and take a step."
As an intuitive teacher, professional medium, and trailblazing spiritual leader with 19 years of experience, Isabeau has dedicated her life to guiding people through their most profound spiritual transformations. This isn't just a passing interest—it's her calling. She has worked with thousands, helping them shatter the invisible barriers that have kept them stuck, confused, and disconnected from their true power. Her approach isn't about recycling mystical theories or vague spiritual concepts—it's about providing practical, powerful strategies that create tangible, life-changing results. Her training comes from nearly two decades of deep spiritual work, professional mediumship, and transformational leadership. She is the founder of the award-winning course The SAGE Method, author of Cracking Open: Adventures of a Reluctant Medium, and builder of the popular online spiritual community, The SAGE Circle.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and
all energy work, from thecurious beginner to the seasoned
master teacher, welcoming allsystems, all lineages and all
levels.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, I refer tomyself as a guide.
So I'm Tracy Seawright and thisis Ready Set Reiki.
Hello, my beautiful friends,welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
(00:43):
Today, joining me on thisjourney is a wonderful and
amazing intuitive teacher,professional medium and
trailblazing spiritual leaderwith 19 years of experience.
Isabel Maxwell has dedicated herlife to guiding people through
their most profound spiritualtransformation.
Now, this isn't just a passinginterest.
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It's really her calling.
She has worked with thousands,helping them kind of shatter
this invisible barrier that haskept them stuck, confused and
disconnected from their truepower.
Her approach isn't aboutrecycling mystical theories or
vague spiritual concepts.
It's about providing practical,powerful strategies that create
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tangible, life-changing results.
Her training comes from nearlytwo decades of deep spiritual
work, professional mediumshipand transformational leadership.
Now she is the founder of theaward-winning course the Sage
Method, author of Cracking OpenAdventures of a Reluctant Medium
and the builder of the popularonline spiritual community, the
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Sage Circle.
Welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Thank you.
Well, I'm so happy to be herebecause your message resonates
deeply with me and I knew we'dclick.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Let's begin our journey together.
So here we go.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, I'm a former skeptic, opened up into the
spiritual world by mygrandmother.
A couple hours after she passedmiddle of the afternoon, showed
up in my living room.
That was an experience.
That was not anything I thoughtwould ever happen.
I assumed it was grief and thenI tested it because I didn't
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really want to lose her and Iwanted the possibility to be
there.
And that started my journey,like you said, 19 years ago, and
the proof started to come in.
That's when I went and got Reyou know Reiki set up for Reiki.
I did the training, startedusing it, all this alignment
came into place and then I foundmyself working as a
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professional medium also.
So I did energy work, clearingsof buildings and individuals
and a medium really.
And eventually it just startedto where I got really excited to
teach others and my guide pointblank said you need to teach
others how to open up intuition,because I'm the poster child I
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think of, like if I can do it,anyone can, kind of thing.
So that's how I got to thisspot today, beautiful, beautiful
.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So you are where you are today and when you kind of
look back, reiki kind ofblossomed.
So tell us, did you find Reikior did Reiki find you?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was suggested to me.
So here's how I came across it.
Now, mind you, mind me.
Now mind you, mind me.
I knew nothing I'm talkingabout.
I had a degree in mathematics.
There was no religion, noscience or no religion, no
spirituality in my life.
So I was brand new, 32 yearsold, trying to find my way, and
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I went to a Tai Chi instructorand said you're the strangest
person I know, can you help me?
And I now see that that wasn'tthe most polite approach, but he
loved me through it.
Spirituality brings compassionand a whole lot of inner
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awareness.
But he was the one that saidyour energy fields are all over
the place.
And I was like, okay, you know,I was having a hard time
believing stuff.
And in a matter of and Iactually tell this story in my
book, but in a matter of 24,three days really, but very
short, compact time I had a car,just I mean, the lights on the
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dashboard went, I parked it andthe next morning it was it was
dead.
It was dead and the alternatorwas fried, brought it into the
shop.
The two or three days later itwas the middle of summer, super
hot.
I have my air conditioner blowout, my kid's clippers blow out
in the middle of his haircut, alaptop blow out, and I was just
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I'm like that's it to my husbandat the time.
I need to take a break.
I'm taking the truck because mycar's in the shop and I'm going
to just go get a coffee, alatte and actually a chai tea.
And I was brought the truckthere.
As I parked it in the parkingspot, the dashboard lit up and I
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turned it off and I went in andgot my chai tea, of course, and
then came out and it was dead.
So that car got towed and wewent to the mechanic who was
next door to our apartmentcomplex and it was so fun
because he leaned in.
He goes you got what mybrother's got, that's that he
gets mad and stuff startsblowing up.
So I went back to the tai chiinstructor and he said I think
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you could benefit from reiki,yes, and wow, did I like chapter
turned?
Uh, I think after reiki too waswhen I felt aligned for the
first time, and then didn't knowwhat I was feeling, because I
was aligned for the first time.
It was wild and it justenhanced my intuition
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dramatically as well.
But that's how I got into ReikiBeautiful beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So when did you kind of realize, oh, I think I might
be a medium?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So the mediumship was happening before Reiki.
So the mediumship was happeningbefore Reiki.
I think I was open about almosta year intuitively.
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There was a couple parts of myhome and such, and then another
really big opening there, but sothe mediumship came first.
I was just all over the placeand unbalanced with it.
But yeah, if the mediumshipdidn't show up, I wouldn't have
met the Tai Chi instructor andwouldn't have gotten into Reiki
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and I wouldn't have been able tobe sitting here with you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Sure.
So it's kind of almost like ithelped be an anchor through your
experience and kind of getthese things under control a
little bit and to help and helpopen up that intuition, that
third eye.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yes, and now, having taught intuition, intuitive
development for 17 years 16years, something like this I
can't tell you how many peoplestart with reiki and then reach
out and say I think myintuition's opening up, yeah, so
yeah, absolutely 100.
And they're like I'm doingthese reiki sections, sessions,
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and then all of a sudden, like amessage would come through and
like there it is, there it is.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
If they just trust the process you know and let
things unfold.
So 19 years in this business asa medium.
What are some of themisconceptions about being a
medium?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's a bunch of them, Some of the popular ones,
though we'll go with some of thepopular ones.
There's a quirky one too.
We'll start with quirky thatthey, they visit you all the
time, every time like in thebathroom, and all that kind of
stuff too.
That's a big fear of like, ohno, I'm going to be seen
everywhere, which leads into theone that people listen to, a
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medium talk, and this makescomplete sense.
They say, oh, I see this, I seethat they're showing me this,
I'm hearing this.
And when you hear someone saythat, it makes you feel as if
they're seeing everything inliving color, like it's right
off of a movie screen, andthat's so far from the truth.
And a lot of people are seeing.
They just don't know thatthey're seeing because they have
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an expectation of what it'sgoing to look like.
That's a big one.
And my favorite one, I think,is that people think that you
have to be special or gifted.
You have intuition, when thetruth is, we're all intuitive,
Every single one of us, and yourintuition is already 100%
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strong.
It's just covered up.
And the uncovering of it whichis why Reiki increases intuition
the uncovering of it, thatclearing of that energy and
decluttering of your environment, your mind, all of that type of
stuff is what allows you toaccess what's already there.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Right, I feel like I'm able to see things more now
than I was when I was a child.
I did have the abilities, but Ifeel like going through Reiki
helped heal different parts ofme so that I would be able to
kind of clear that clutter fromthe mind.
But I agree with you on the.
They think it's kind of a wholemovie or a whole longer
conversation.
And you may be.
I tell them it's like charadesin a bit, like they show me
something and we have to figureout the meaning.
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And I did a session with someoneabout a week ago and something
came through and it just blewher mind, I don't know.
She asked her mom, she askedher sister, she's asked family
members and I said but it maynot be what you're thinking, it
may be, you know, anotherunderstanding of what that
person meant.
It might have a differentmeaning.
So don't take it as thatphysical object that I'm telling
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you.
We have to kind of try to peelback the layers and try to
decode it and I think they don'tunderstand.
Like, even when I work withanimals, you know the caregiver
will ask well, what kind offavorite food do they like?
They are a brand of food andsometimes that doesn't come
through right, because I'mmeeting the animal for the first
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time and they're just warmingup to me, so it may not be
something that they may sayright away.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So exactly, and the best intuitives let the
information come in that needsto come in.
We can ask questions, but wedon't try to steer people the
event.
We say to them what's the mostimportant thing you want to say,
because they might not answerwhat kind of dog food, but
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they're going to tell you thattheir green ball is their
favorite toy, right?
So you know, you got to letthem say that, and spirit is
going to know what the sitterneeds to hear way more than we
are.
The the minute we think weshould say this or say that or
say this, we're blocking theintuition Right.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So you have helped many people on their journey
with just life-changing resultsthrough these challenges and
struggles.
But what has been one of thebiggest challenges or struggles
you faced in your own healingjourney?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
First off, I love my job.
What a cool job, hey To be, tojust be surrounded by people
that are like becoming empowered.
Seriously, I hit the lotterywith this job, so opened up at
32.
I started to have to setboundaries and that was the most
brutal, because settingboundaries with people
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especially important, keyplayers in your life the first
one was my mom.
That was very difficult.
And then the second one wasgetting divorced of a 20 year
marriage.
Those two boundaries had to beset, but it's just.
It goes against everything that, like an empathic person, is
wired to do.
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I have to hurt this person tosave myself, and that was
probably by far the mostdifficult thing that I did and
also by far the most wonderfulthing I did.
It's that conundrum, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I completely understand.
I had to make a decision,actually believe it or not.
In my 30s as well, I had mymother and a divorce, so we're
similar on that.
It was one of those ones whereyou know she could be your
anchor or your ache and it wasthe ache, and so I completely I
can feel it and, pat, I get yousister, so yeah, it's really
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hard, but I've never, I've neverbeen happier.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's the one thing that I keep telling people is
pursuing um, balancing yourenergy, uh, reiki, intuition.
Whatever your path is, it's soimportant because there's a
level of happiness that you willstep into that you haven't
experienced before.
There's like the grass isgreener.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Or, and also you know you have culturally,
religiously, you know those aresociety wise.
That it's your mother, you knowyou have.
That's the excuse, no matterwhat the other parent did, it's
your mother.
And I don't think I've ever hadsomeone asked me well, what did
your mother do to you for youto make that difficult choice?
It was always my responsibilityto repair the relationship.
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Let it go, throw it aside.
She gave up everything for you.
You know you owe her kind ofthing.
So I can say the Reikidefinitely helped me heal with
that prayer.
You know it was a strugglebecause it was ingrained in me
in church growing up honor thymother and father.
That was it, no matter what.
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But what do you do when it'shanging by a shoestring right?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Exactly and I completely relate.
I cut my mother off.
I went no contact back in 2000.
And I think 11, somewherearound there.
Back before people were moreopenly discussing it as a mental
health issue, and when you'redrowning it's it's first off.
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Back then people had to do thisand then live with it silently
Because, yeah, you couldn't sayit out loud because shame on you
and Tracy, I'm an only child.
So rule and I get it, but atsome point you have to decide if
you're going to sacrifice therest of your life for a person
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that's hurting you.
And you know, most people thatgo no contact, just like myself,
do everything they possibly cando before finally making that
decision.
So I would say that mine was a10 year process of trying to do
everything I could do, you know,to get it somewhere close to
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healthy, and then and thenthere's nothing left you can do.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And it's just kind of like it can't be sustained if
you're the one kind of doing allthe work.
Yeah, so I was around probablythe same time period as well,
and it's it's an horribledecision to have to make, to put
yourself in, because it goesagainst everything.
You know your mother issupposed to be your best
cheerleader, your biggest fan,and when you have to cut that
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tie, and especially when youhave your own children, right,
exactly, Difficult journey.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So it is, and I actually ended up cutting it
because of my kids.
You know, I started to see thepatterns and went nope, nope, so
it.
It's that difficult.
It's so difficult that as agrown woman, I couldn't do it
for myself.
But the minute you mess with mykids, we're all set, you know.
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So, yeah, it's an incrediblejourney and energy, work and
alignment and all of this is themost important self-care you
can do.
Just, I still, to this day, dothe two seconds of Reiki just to
get lined back in to make surethat I'm grounded, I'm cleared,
I'm protected.
That's what I teach in mycourses.
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Is'm grounded, I'm cleared, I'mprotected.
That's what I teach in mycourses.
Is GCP ground, clear, protect.
So you ground, anchor intoMother Earth, as we know how to
do Clear it all out, wash it allaway that it's not yours, and
then put up a filtration bubble,kind of protection thing to say
if it's not supposed to be here, it's not coming in, and if
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it's supposed to be here, it'scoming in.
And that kind of self-care isfoundational, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So this can also be a medium question as well,
Because when I do I feel likeI'm more of a psychic than a
medium.
But I do trade with friendsbecause I feel they're able to
see things on my end moreclearly than I can on myself.
So when it's time for you toget an energetic tune up or to
get guidance, what do you lookfor, either in a Reiki
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practitioner or into a medium?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Here's a couple of things.
I have worked hard, Tracy, totry to find ways to make this
sound positive.
I talk in terms of red flags.
That's hard to do red flags ina positive way, but I tell
people to look for red flags Ifthere's any sort of positioning
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whatsoever.
I'm better than you.
You can never reach my level.
I'm super special.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's, that'sthe biggest red flag.
I tell people to look for peoplewho are authentically tapped in
and authentically um,channeling energy and doing good
, good healing work.
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Know that the two of you are init together and that it's not a
, you know, pedestal type thing.
That's my.
That's the number one, really.
I'll speak specifically tomediumship.
On the second one, though,because this isn't true for
Reiki, People need time withReiki to heal certain aspects.
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It's usually not a one, andsometimes it's a one and done,
but they need time to buildtheir strength back up.
But with mediumship, if youhave a medium that tells you
that you got to keep coming backto them over and over, like
once a month, don't, just don't.
And if they show you a candleand say it's $300 and you're
cursed, anyone brings out theword cursed, walk out the door.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, yeah, there's like something attached, you
know.
Yeah, something really dark.
I've been in situations whereI've seen things on people and I
won't.
I'm like I'm not going tocharge you for that because it
gets it on.
I've seen it on Tik TOK, likesomething's attached to you,
$300.
But if I see somebody, one ofthe Reiki that I do the style of
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holy fire, is there is a spiritrelease with that and I'll help
them and I'm like I'm notcharging you for that because
I'm just being of service withthat.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, we are spending time together and whatever you
need in this time, I willfacilitate.
There's no add on, there's noupgrade, there's none of that,
just two people together raisingthe vibration in any way shape
possible.
And I've done clearings ofbuildings, land, people for
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almost 18 years.
It's not a multitask Clear itand then it's done.
That's it.
Clear it, set the boundariesand it's done.
And it also isn't a four hourevent, you know yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I've heard it like $150 to $1,000 to come and do
clearings and it's some of themare online as well and it was
like hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah yeah, that's that fabulous fear tactic.
It's just not the case.
Somebody that's good atclearing can do it very quickly,
very efficiently.
Usually it's a very boringmeeting.
There's no hands in there.
I went to a house clearing onceand it was really.
It was actually kind of cute.
I went there and the woman thatowned the home had like three
of her friends there and it waskind of like this, like what is
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she going to do, right?
So I tapped into the home Isaid, okay, I feel like there's
two spirits in here that need tocross over, need to go home.
That's another thing.
We've got the spook factoraround ghosts and I try to tell
people ghosts are people too.
Okay, this is somebody thatpassed and is trying to also
cross over.
When it comes to this house,though, I said, okay, this is
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what's going on, so I'm going toclear it now.
And she said, okay, do you needus to circle?
Do we need candles, do you needany?
And I was like I'm just goingto sit on your couch and it's
going to probably be reallyboring and it's just going to
sit there with my eyes closed.
She's like, oh, and they weresuper let down, but but we got
the house cleared.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You know, that's all the show is being is a kind of a
put off for me.
Very good, so what advice after19 years?
What advice do you have someonewho just is entering spiritual?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
work.
Ah, to know what you're goingto battle within yourself.
And this is what you're goingto battle within yourself.
You are going to battlepatience.
Patience shuts down intuition.
You are going to battlepatience.
Patience shuts down intuition.
Turn your impatience intocuriosity as often as you can
and you will fast forward.
You are going to battle havingto take a very good look at
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yourself and you're going tolearn the things that you don't
like about yourself and knowingthat that's going to happen,
trying to walk through thatwithout shame and remembering
that the things that you don'tlike about yourself, or the
behaviors you don't like, theydeveloped to protect you at some
point in your past.
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And rather than feel bad aboutthat, say thank you to yourself
for having those traits when youneeded them to protect yourself
and then come back into thepresent.
So a lot of inner work.
That happens when you open upspiritually.
This is why life gets so good,because when you do the inner
work, you heal and it getsbetter.
And but it's between theimpatience, I think, and the
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self judgment are the two thatif you know that those are going
to come up, you know how todeal with them.
When they come up, you're goingto be in a much better place.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And it's a process, like you said earlier, it's not
a one and done, it's cumulative.
And I had found myself yearsago and it's a nice spin that
you put on it with it was acoping mechanism.
So I would get 500 things wouldhappen and the 501 thing would
be so small like a glass wouldbreak or a drink would spill
over, and I get reactionaryright and I didn't like that
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about myself and so I starteddoing the work and now I'm not
as reactionary, but looking backI can see how that could have
been a coping mechanism forthings in my life to kind of
okay, I need to be heard.
Now I have to get loud andreactionary where.
Now I've learned no, there'sanother way.
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So it takes time.
It's a process.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Exactly For me.
An example would be I amferociously private and I
wouldn't tell anybody anythingor ever let anybody in.
And then you open up and youstart doing the inner work and
you start realizing that howthat's received by others and
it's not good.
And I had to learn how to openup and ask for help and not just
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be have it be a one-way streetall the time, with me taking
care of everything and me peoplepleasing.
That was a really difficult,really really difficult one to
go through, but that was mycoping mechanism.
That's how I survived mychildhood.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So and that's what the type goes back to, the type
of mother right.
Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's not.
Thanks mom.
Thanks, mom, right.
No, in sincerity, she did thebest she could do, so sure.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, that's how you know you're healed, because you
can look through the eyes ofgrace.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah and say no, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I so some of my I don't do a lot of books just
because a lot of just mypersonal path.
I know I have a lot of friendsthat devour just tons of books,
but the ones that pop up themost probably.
Eckhart Tolle is a good one,great thinking book.
My favorite, though, is thefour, four I almost said four
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commandments, four agreementsnot commandments, absolutely not
commandments.
The four agreements I notcommandments, absolutely not
commandments.
The four agreements, I think isprobably one of the most
life-changing books a person canread, and it's a short read.
I'm trying to think there's onemore book.
It's a woman that went toAustralia Mutiny Mutant Messages
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Down Under.
I think I got that right.
I read it like 20 years ago andthat book woke me up to what is
possible energetically in thisworld.
It was really cool book.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Thank you for sharing that.
So what other services ormodalities do you offer?
Do you trainings, classes,events?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
My big, the big offering really is the trainings
.
I am just a passionate teacher.
I absolutely love explaininghow things work and explaining
things that people can try anddo.
So the Sage Method course is aseven week course that I've been
teaching since 2007, 2008.
I brought it online in 2019.
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I had taught it in person upuntil that point and now we have
students all over the globe andit's just empowering.
I've created an onlinespiritual community that's been
available for about four yearsnow and that supports the
students, so that you're notjust sitting there taking a
course all by yourself, becausethat could be tough, and that
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community is great.
We meditate, we do energy work,card readings, q&a, all that
kind of stuff, and that's that'sclose to my heart, because when
I opened up, I didn't haveanybody in my circles, and so
there's a lot of people.
There are a lot of people inthis world that don't have
anybody in their immediatecircle that they can talk to
about this type of stuff, sothat that's communities growing
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fast as well, and that's globaltoo.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So where can we find you?
Where can we look to see wherewe can book a session with you
or reach out to you?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I do really good at keeping everything on one
website, as an organizationalskills of the former skeptic.
The sage methodcom is the bestplace to go.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
It's a T H, e, s, a, g E methodcom Beautiful.
Well, that ends the first partof our journey and I'm going to
continue to be your guidethrough the second part, which
is questions from social media.
Now, the first one we touchedon just a little bit, but we can
circle back around and go intoa little bit more.
Number one what red flagsshould I look for when I'm
dealing with a medium?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Right, I wish we, I wish we had more of these
discussions.
I would not recommend goinganywhere that had fluorescent
lighting in the window.
That's one.
That's another one Like if,what is that lighting called?
It's you know what?
I mean the neon lights, yeah,neon lights, yeah, yeah, just if
you see the word psychic andneon lights, don't, don't go
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there.
I would definitely ask friendsif they know anyone that is
qualified.
I'd stay off of hotlines, and Iknow that when we're looking
for an intuitive, we wantanswers and we want them now.
At least that's how I am.
But if you do find an intuitivethat's booked out a month or
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two, that's a very good sign.
That's a very good sign.
So if you can just give it alittle time, you know, and let
that go out, yeah, that's.
Those are the things that Iwould add to that one.
Such a great question, thoughSee, every it's.
There's such a common questionlike how do I know I'm not
somebody that's not real?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Right, yeah, I mean, I usually have found it word of
mouth, like in my case.
I also, you know, do readingsand people just think that
you're available right then andnow and not realize like I got,
like I teach yoga, I do allthose kinds of other things.
I'm booked up for like a couplemonths, exactly, exactly, and
(29:04):
so yeah, and I always just go toif it feels right.
If you start with that processand it already feels awkward and
weird, listen to that innerintuition, listen to that gut
Yep.
Number two you spoke about it alittle bit, but we can go and
uh and elaborate on it more.
Tell us about your awardwinning course, the sage method.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So that is that seven week course and, oddly enough,
what happened was after mygrandmother showed up and I
started working with, withtrying to communicate with her.
Shortly after that I met myfirst spirit guide and I called
him big dog just cause he feltso big, um, like tall and stuff.
So can I call you big dog?
(29:47):
He was like sure.
I worked with him for about twoyears.
He taught me everything I knowabout past lives, how we come
down here, how we leave all ofthat, and that that was
priceless.
It meant the world to me.
But he also demanded some ofthe inner work that I do and
some of the different thingsthat I try.
(30:08):
And two years later I was aprofessional medium booking out
and it was great, it waswonderful.
I was like, okay, maybe this ismy career.
And a little while after thathe said I need you to take
everything I taught you andbring it out into the world.
And I was like, okay, smalltask, that's, that's a lot, dude
.
And he was like I know, dude.
(30:33):
And so I said, okay, fine, Iwent through all the journals of
the two years and the best Icould do is get it down to seven
weeks of training.
So it's because it was a lot.
In essence, it is what I didfor two years that opened me
from, took me from a completeskeptic to very strong intuition
, and it's created in such a wayto help you figure out why your
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intuition is blocked, how yourintuition is unique and how all
of this works.
So it's a very that's.
I think those three componentsare what make the course so
popular, because people come outof it going I get it now.
You're like yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And we're able to find that on your website.
Right, and you said there was agroup, right that yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, and when you?
Well, when you sign up for thecourse, we automatically give
you 60 days for free in themembership so that you're you're
covered, no matter what.
You're not taking the coursealone, you're in a free in the
membership so that you'recovered, no matter what.
You're not taking the coursealone, you're in the community.
If you want to be in thecommunity, you don't have to log
in.
If you don't want to, but weautomatically put you right into
that community so you haveaccess to me and to all the
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people that are in there.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Our third question whatinspired you to write Cracking
Open Adventures of a ReluctantMedium?
And that wasn't one of thebooks you recommended, by the
way.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh my bad.
So the best book I've ever readis Cracking Open.
So wait, there it is.
So I have two reasons that Iwrote this book.
One is completely selfish andone is completely not selfish.
So we'll start with the selfishone.
So hopefully you'll forget thatwhen I say the second one, I I
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was teaching the sage method andI had been teaching it.
So the book came out in 2011and I had been teaching for I
don't know six years, just years.
And I remember thinking tomyself I don't want to tell this
story again, like there's somuch of it and people are so
curious about it, and I was like, okay, I'm going to write it
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down, I'm going to do a book andthen when they're curious, I
can go.
Here you go.
So it was a very selfish reasonand at the time I was probably
a little bit burnt out stillmarried, you get it trying to
set the boundary with mom.
But the true reason that'sthat's all a little lighthearted
there.
The true reason is I wanted toput out there the truth, the
truth about what it was like toopen up.
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I I read a couple of books andthey kind of irked me because
they were like and then thepower of the light of the
greatest and I was this and Iwas that and I did that and I
was like, oh, that is not whatit's like to open up, it is more
like a jaggedy roller coaster.
And I needed to put that outthere to say, here is a true
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version of an average person andwhat happened to them?
The screw ups, the positives,the frustration, all that kind
of stuff.
All the good too, but I neededI needed to put that out there
for people, because that was thebeginning of me kind of pushing
back on pop culture.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that.
Well, that was our lastquestion and, as we've been
talking, is there anything elsethat you'd like to share, or
maybe something that you forgot?
The floor is yours.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What else do I love to tell people?
Two small things.
The first one would be take astep, any step, I don't care how
small it is.
Take a step.
Stop planning and take a step.
One simple step.
That's all you have to do,because all those steps do start
to add up.
That old adage is true,absolutely true, and for those
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that are interested in intuition, this is the one I want to
share.
When you see something out ofthe corner of your eye and then
you turn to look at it and it'sgone, I can tell you why.
It's because when you turn tolook at it, you take your
physical eyes and you're landingon physical objects in the room
.
The reason you saw somethingout of the corner of your eye is
that your peripheral isdefocused.
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So when we can remember thatwhat we are looking for in
spirit, energetically andintuitively is not in the
material world, that will allowus to let go of the material
world, defocus from it, andthat's where what you're looking
for will be found that's whereyou're.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
What you're looking for will be found Beautiful.
Thank you so much for sharingthat.
It was wonderful and thank youso much.
That's why I consider this ajourney right, it's not a
destination.
So we're learning and it'sgreat that you're able, as you
go through the journey, to findpeople like you that help and
can be of support, and that younever are alone.
So know that the helpers areout there.
So check out the website, checkout the book, check out the
(35:34):
information.
You have amazing and wonderfulresources.
So thank you so much for takingtime out of your very busy
schedule to join me on thisjourney.
Thank you for having me.
Wonderful, all right, mywonderful listeners.
If you would like your questionfeatured on Ready Set Reiki,
reach out wwwreadysetreikicom.
I'm Tracy Seawright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki ©
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transcript Emily Beynon.
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and
all energy work, from thecurious beginner to the seasoned
master teacher, welcoming allsystems, all lineages and all
levels.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, I refer tomyself as a guide.
So I'm Tracy Seawright and thisis Ready Set Reiki.
Hello, my beautiful friends,welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
(00:43):
Today, joining me on thisjourney is a wonderful and
amazing intuitive teacher,professional medium and
trailblazing spiritual leaderwith 19 years of experience.
Isabel Maxwell has dedicated herlife to guiding people through
their most profound spiritualtransformation.
Now, this isn't just a passinginterest.
(01:04):
It's really her calling.
She has worked with thousands,helping them kind of shatter
this invisible barrier that haskept them stuck, confused and
disconnected from their truepower.
Her approach isn't aboutrecycling mystical theories or
vague spiritual concepts.
It's about providing practical,powerful strategies that create
(01:25):
tangible, life-changing results.
Her training comes from nearlytwo decades of deep spiritual
work, professional mediumshipand transformational leadership.
Now she is the founder of theaward-winning course the Sage
Method, author of Cracking OpenAdventures of a Reluctant Medium
and the builder of the popularonline spiritual community, the
(01:48):
Sage Circle.
Welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Thank you.
Well, I'm so happy to be herebecause your message resonates
deeply with me and I knew we'dclick.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Let's begin our journey together.
So here we go.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, I'm a former skeptic, opened up into the
spiritual world by mygrandmother.
A couple hours after she passedmiddle of the afternoon, showed
up in my living room.
That was an experience.
That was not anything I thoughtwould ever happen.
I assumed it was grief and thenI tested it because I didn't
(02:31):
really want to lose her and Iwanted the possibility to be
there.
And that started my journey,like you said, 19 years ago, and
the proof started to come in.
That's when I went and got Reyou know Reiki set up for Reiki.
I did the training, startedusing it, all this alignment
came into place and then I foundmyself working as a
(02:53):
professional medium also.
So I did energy work, clearingsof buildings and individuals
and a medium really.
And eventually it just startedto where I got really excited to
teach others and my guide pointblank said you need to teach
others how to open up intuition,because I'm the poster child I
(03:15):
think of, like if I can do it,anyone can, kind of thing.
So that's how I got to thisspot today, beautiful, beautiful
.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So you are where you are today and when you kind of
look back, reiki kind ofblossomed.
So tell us, did you find Reikior did Reiki find you?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was suggested to me.
So here's how I came across it.
Now, mind you, mind me.
Now mind you, mind me.
I knew nothing I'm talkingabout.
I had a degree in mathematics.
There was no religion, noscience or no religion, no
spirituality in my life.
So I was brand new, 32 yearsold, trying to find my way, and
(04:00):
I went to a Tai Chi instructorand said you're the strangest
person I know, can you help me?
And I now see that that wasn'tthe most polite approach, but he
loved me through it.
Spirituality brings compassionand a whole lot of inner
(04:20):
awareness.
But he was the one that saidyour energy fields are all over
the place.
And I was like, okay, you know,I was having a hard time
believing stuff.
And in a matter of and Iactually tell this story in my
book, but in a matter of 24,three days really, but very
short, compact time I had a car,just I mean, the lights on the
(04:43):
dashboard went, I parked it andthe next morning it was it was
dead.
It was dead and the alternatorwas fried, brought it into the
shop.
The two or three days later itwas the middle of summer, super
hot.
I have my air conditioner blowout, my kid's clippers blow out
in the middle of his haircut, alaptop blow out, and I was just
(05:04):
I'm like that's it to my husbandat the time.
I need to take a break.
I'm taking the truck because mycar's in the shop and I'm going
to just go get a coffee, alatte and actually a chai tea.
And I was brought the truckthere.
As I parked it in the parkingspot, the dashboard lit up and I
(05:25):
turned it off and I went in andgot my chai tea, of course, and
then came out and it was dead.
So that car got towed and wewent to the mechanic who was
next door to our apartmentcomplex and it was so fun
because he leaned in.
He goes you got what mybrother's got, that's that he
gets mad and stuff startsblowing up.
So I went back to the tai chiinstructor and he said I think
(05:47):
you could benefit from reiki,yes, and wow, did I like chapter
turned?
Uh, I think after reiki too waswhen I felt aligned for the
first time, and then didn't knowwhat I was feeling, because I
was aligned for the first time.
It was wild and it justenhanced my intuition
(06:10):
dramatically as well.
But that's how I got into ReikiBeautiful beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So when did you kind of realize, oh, I think I might
be a medium?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So the mediumship was happening before Reiki.
So the mediumship was happeningbefore Reiki.
I think I was open about almosta year intuitively.
(06:41):
There was a couple parts of myhome and such, and then another
really big opening there, but sothe mediumship came first.
I was just all over the placeand unbalanced with it.
But yeah, if the mediumshipdidn't show up, I wouldn't have
met the Tai Chi instructor andwouldn't have gotten into Reiki
(07:01):
and I wouldn't have been able tobe sitting here with you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Sure.
So it's kind of almost like ithelped be an anchor through your
experience and kind of getthese things under control a
little bit and to help and helpopen up that intuition, that
third eye.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yes, and now, having taught intuition, intuitive
development for 17 years 16years, something like this I
can't tell you how many peoplestart with reiki and then reach
out and say I think myintuition's opening up, yeah, so
yeah, absolutely 100.
And they're like I'm doingthese reiki sections, sessions,
(07:40):
and then all of a sudden, like amessage would come through and
like there it is, there it is.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
If they just trust the process you know and let
things unfold.
So 19 years in this business asa medium.
What are some of themisconceptions about being a
medium?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's a bunch of them, Some of the popular ones,
though we'll go with some of thepopular ones.
There's a quirky one too.
We'll start with quirky thatthey, they visit you all the
time, every time like in thebathroom, and all that kind of
stuff too.
That's a big fear of like, ohno, I'm going to be seen
everywhere, which leads into theone that people listen to, a
(08:22):
medium talk, and this makescomplete sense.
They say, oh, I see this, I seethat they're showing me this,
I'm hearing this.
And when you hear someone saythat, it makes you feel as if
they're seeing everything inliving color, like it's right
off of a movie screen, andthat's so far from the truth.
And a lot of people are seeing.
They just don't know thatthey're seeing because they have
(08:45):
an expectation of what it'sgoing to look like.
That's a big one.
And my favorite one, I think,is that people think that you
have to be special or gifted.
You have intuition, when thetruth is, we're all intuitive,
Every single one of us, and yourintuition is already 100%
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strong.
It's just covered up.
And the uncovering of it whichis why Reiki increases intuition
the uncovering of it, thatclearing of that energy and
decluttering of your environment, your mind, all of that type of
stuff is what allows you toaccess what's already there.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Right, I feel like I'm able to see things more now
than I was when I was a child.
I did have the abilities, but Ifeel like going through Reiki
helped heal different parts ofme so that I would be able to
kind of clear that clutter fromthe mind.
But I agree with you on the.
They think it's kind of a wholemovie or a whole longer
conversation.
And you may be.
I tell them it's like charadesin a bit, like they show me
something and we have to figureout the meaning.
(09:56):
And I did a session with someoneabout a week ago and something
came through and it just blewher mind, I don't know.
She asked her mom, she askedher sister, she's asked family
members and I said but it maynot be what you're thinking, it
may be, you know, anotherunderstanding of what that
person meant.
It might have a differentmeaning.
So don't take it as thatphysical object that I'm telling
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you.
We have to kind of try to peelback the layers and try to
decode it and I think they don'tunderstand.
Like, even when I work withanimals, you know the caregiver
will ask well, what kind offavorite food do they like?
They are a brand of food andsometimes that doesn't come
through right, because I'mmeeting the animal for the first
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time and they're just warmingup to me, so it may not be
something that they may sayright away.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So exactly, and the best intuitives let the
information come in that needsto come in.
We can ask questions, but wedon't try to steer people the
event.
We say to them what's the mostimportant thing you want to say,
because they might not answerwhat kind of dog food, but
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they're going to tell you thattheir green ball is their
favorite toy, right?
So you know, you got to letthem say that, and spirit is
going to know what the sitterneeds to hear way more than we
are.
The the minute we think weshould say this or say that or
say this, we're blocking theintuition Right.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So you have helped many people on their journey
with just life-changing resultsthrough these challenges and
struggles.
But what has been one of thebiggest challenges or struggles
you faced in your own healingjourney?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
First off, I love my job.
What a cool job, hey To be, tojust be surrounded by people
that are like becoming empowered.
Seriously, I hit the lotterywith this job, so opened up at
32.
I started to have to setboundaries and that was the most
brutal, because settingboundaries with people
(12:02):
especially important, keyplayers in your life the first
one was my mom.
That was very difficult.
And then the second one wasgetting divorced of a 20 year
marriage.
Those two boundaries had to beset, but it's just.
It goes against everything that, like an empathic person, is
wired to do.
(12:23):
I have to hurt this person tosave myself, and that was
probably by far the mostdifficult thing that I did and
also by far the most wonderfulthing I did.
It's that conundrum, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I completely understand.
I had to make a decision,actually believe it or not.
In my 30s as well, I had mymother and a divorce, so we're
similar on that.
It was one of those ones whereyou know she could be your
anchor or your ache and it wasthe ache, and so I completely I
can feel it and, pat, I get yousister, so yeah, it's really
(13:04):
hard, but I've never, I've neverbeen happier.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's the one thing that I keep telling people is
pursuing um, balancing yourenergy, uh, reiki, intuition.
Whatever your path is, it's soimportant because there's a
level of happiness that you willstep into that you haven't
experienced before.
There's like the grass isgreener.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Or, and also you know you have culturally,
religiously, you know those aresociety wise.
That it's your mother, you knowyou have.
That's the excuse, no matterwhat the other parent did, it's
your mother.
And I don't think I've ever hadsomeone asked me well, what did
your mother do to you for youto make that difficult choice?
It was always my responsibilityto repair the relationship.
(13:50):
Let it go, throw it aside.
She gave up everything for you.
You know you owe her kind ofthing.
So I can say the Reikidefinitely helped me heal with
that prayer.
You know it was a strugglebecause it was ingrained in me
in church growing up honor thymother and father.
That was it, no matter what.
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But what do you do when it'shanging by a shoestring right?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Exactly and I completely relate.
I cut my mother off.
I went no contact back in 2000.
And I think 11, somewherearound there.
Back before people were moreopenly discussing it as a mental
health issue, and when you'redrowning it's it's first off.
(14:41):
Back then people had to do thisand then live with it silently
Because, yeah, you couldn't sayit out loud because shame on you
and Tracy, I'm an only child.
So rule and I get it, but atsome point you have to decide if
you're going to sacrifice therest of your life for a person
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that's hurting you.
And you know, most people thatgo no contact, just like myself,
do everything they possibly cando before finally making that
decision.
So I would say that mine was a10 year process of trying to do
everything I could do, you know,to get it somewhere close to
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healthy, and then and thenthere's nothing left you can do.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And it's just kind of like it can't be sustained if
you're the one kind of doing allthe work.
Yeah, so I was around probablythe same time period as well,
and it's it's an horribledecision to have to make, to put
yourself in, because it goesagainst everything.
You know your mother issupposed to be your best
cheerleader, your biggest fan,and when you have to cut that
(15:55):
tie, and especially when youhave your own children, right,
exactly, Difficult journey.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So it is, and I actually ended up cutting it
because of my kids.
You know, I started to see thepatterns and went nope, nope, so
it.
It's that difficult.
It's so difficult that as agrown woman, I couldn't do it
for myself.
But the minute you mess with mykids, we're all set, you know.
(16:21):
So, yeah, it's an incrediblejourney and energy, work and
alignment and all of this is themost important self-care you
can do.
Just, I still, to this day, dothe two seconds of Reiki just to
get lined back in to make surethat I'm grounded, I'm cleared,
I'm protected.
That's what I teach in mycourses.
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Is'm grounded, I'm cleared, I'mprotected.
That's what I teach in mycourses.
Is GCP ground, clear, protect.
So you ground, anchor intoMother Earth, as we know how to
do Clear it all out, wash it allaway that it's not yours, and
then put up a filtration bubble,kind of protection thing to say
if it's not supposed to be here, it's not coming in, and if
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it's supposed to be here, it'scoming in.
And that kind of self-care isfoundational, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So this can also be a medium question as well,
Because when I do I feel likeI'm more of a psychic than a
medium.
But I do trade with friendsbecause I feel they're able to
see things on my end moreclearly than I can on myself.
So when it's time for you toget an energetic tune up or to
get guidance, what do you lookfor, either in a Reiki
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practitioner or into a medium?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Here's a couple of things.
I have worked hard, Tracy, totry to find ways to make this
sound positive.
I talk in terms of red flags.
That's hard to do red flags ina positive way, but I tell
people to look for red flags Ifthere's any sort of positioning
(18:01):
whatsoever.
I'm better than you.
You can never reach my level.
I'm super special.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's, that'sthe biggest red flag.
I tell people to look for peoplewho are authentically tapped in
and authentically um,channeling energy and doing good
, good healing work.
(18:21):
Know that the two of you are init together and that it's not a
, you know, pedestal type thing.
That's my.
That's the number one, really.
I'll speak specifically tomediumship.
On the second one, though,because this isn't true for
Reiki, People need time withReiki to heal certain aspects.
(18:43):
It's usually not a one, andsometimes it's a one and done,
but they need time to buildtheir strength back up.
But with mediumship, if youhave a medium that tells you
that you got to keep coming backto them over and over, like
once a month, don't, just don't.
And if they show you a candleand say it's $300 and you're
cursed, anyone brings out theword cursed, walk out the door.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, yeah, there's like something attached, you
know.
Yeah, something really dark.
I've been in situations whereI've seen things on people and I
won't.
I'm like I'm not going tocharge you for that because it
gets it on.
I've seen it on Tik TOK, likesomething's attached to you,
$300.
But if I see somebody, one ofthe Reiki that I do the style of
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holy fire, is there is a spiritrelease with that and I'll help
them and I'm like I'm notcharging you for that because
I'm just being of service withthat.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, we are spending time together and whatever you
need in this time, I willfacilitate.
There's no add on, there's noupgrade, there's none of that,
just two people together raisingthe vibration in any way shape
possible.
And I've done clearings ofbuildings, land, people for
(19:55):
almost 18 years.
It's not a multitask Clear itand then it's done.
That's it.
Clear it, set the boundariesand it's done.
And it also isn't a four hourevent, you know yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I've heard it like $150 to $1,000 to come and do
clearings and it's some of themare online as well and it was
like hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah yeah, that's that fabulous fear tactic.
It's just not the case.
Somebody that's good atclearing can do it very quickly,
very efficiently.
Usually it's a very boringmeeting.
There's no hands in there.
I went to a house clearing onceand it was really.
It was actually kind of cute.
I went there and the woman thatowned the home had like three
of her friends there and it waskind of like this, like what is
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she going to do, right?
So I tapped into the home Isaid, okay, I feel like there's
two spirits in here that need tocross over, need to go home.
That's another thing.
We've got the spook factoraround ghosts and I try to tell
people ghosts are people too.
Okay, this is somebody thatpassed and is trying to also
cross over.
When it comes to this house,though, I said, okay, this is
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what's going on, so I'm going toclear it now.
And she said, okay, do you needus to circle?
Do we need candles, do you needany?
And I was like I'm just goingto sit on your couch and it's
going to probably be reallyboring and it's just going to
sit there with my eyes closed.
She's like, oh, and they weresuper let down, but but we got
the house cleared.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You know, that's all the show is being is a kind of a
put off for me.
Very good, so what advice after19 years?
What advice do you have someonewho just is entering spiritual?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
work.
Ah, to know what you're goingto battle within yourself.
And this is what you're goingto battle within yourself.
You are going to battlepatience.
Patience shuts down intuition.
You are going to battlepatience.
Patience shuts down intuition.
Turn your impatience intocuriosity as often as you can
and you will fast forward.
You are going to battle havingto take a very good look at
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yourself and you're going tolearn the things that you don't
like about yourself and knowingthat that's going to happen,
trying to walk through thatwithout shame and remembering
that the things that you don'tlike about yourself, or the
behaviors you don't like, theydeveloped to protect you at some
point in your past.
(22:23):
And rather than feel bad aboutthat, say thank you to yourself
for having those traits when youneeded them to protect yourself
and then come back into thepresent.
So a lot of inner work.
That happens when you open upspiritually.
This is why life gets so good,because when you do the inner
work, you heal and it getsbetter.
And but it's between theimpatience, I think, and the
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self judgment are the two thatif you know that those are going
to come up, you know how todeal with them.
When they come up, you're goingto be in a much better place.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And it's a process, like you said earlier, it's not
a one and done, it's cumulative.
And I had found myself yearsago and it's a nice spin that
you put on it with it was acoping mechanism.
So I would get 500 things wouldhappen and the 501 thing would
be so small like a glass wouldbreak or a drink would spill
over, and I get reactionaryright and I didn't like that
(23:18):
about myself and so I starteddoing the work and now I'm not
as reactionary, but looking backI can see how that could have
been a coping mechanism forthings in my life to kind of
okay, I need to be heard.
Now I have to get loud andreactionary where.
Now I've learned no, there'sanother way.
(23:39):
So it takes time.
It's a process.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Exactly For me.
An example would be I amferociously private and I
wouldn't tell anybody anythingor ever let anybody in.
And then you open up and youstart doing the inner work and
you start realizing that howthat's received by others and
it's not good.
And I had to learn how to openup and ask for help and not just
(24:10):
be have it be a one-way streetall the time, with me taking
care of everything and me peoplepleasing.
That was a really difficult,really really difficult one to
go through, but that was mycoping mechanism.
That's how I survived mychildhood.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So and that's what the type goes back to, the type
of mother right.
Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's not.
Thanks mom.
Thanks, mom, right.
No, in sincerity, she did thebest she could do, so sure.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, that's how you know you're healed, because you
can look through the eyes ofgrace.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah and say no, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I so some of my I don't do a lot of books just
because a lot of just mypersonal path.
I know I have a lot of friendsthat devour just tons of books,
but the ones that pop up themost probably.
Eckhart Tolle is a good one,great thinking book.
My favorite, though, is thefour, four I almost said four
(25:05):
commandments, four agreementsnot commandments, absolutely not
commandments.
The four agreements I notcommandments, absolutely not
commandments.
The four agreements, I think isprobably one of the most
life-changing books a person canread, and it's a short read.
I'm trying to think there's onemore book.
It's a woman that went toAustralia Mutiny Mutant Messages
(25:26):
Down Under.
I think I got that right.
I read it like 20 years ago andthat book woke me up to what is
possible energetically in thisworld.
It was really cool book.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Thank you for sharing that.
So what other services ormodalities do you offer?
Do you trainings, classes,events?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
My big, the big offering really is the trainings
.
I am just a passionate teacher.
I absolutely love explaininghow things work and explaining
things that people can try anddo.
So the Sage Method course is aseven week course that I've been
teaching since 2007, 2008.
I brought it online in 2019.
(26:11):
I had taught it in person upuntil that point and now we have
students all over the globe andit's just empowering.
I've created an onlinespiritual community that's been
available for about four yearsnow and that supports the
students, so that you're notjust sitting there taking a
course all by yourself, becausethat could be tough, and that
(26:33):
community is great.
We meditate, we do energy work,card readings, q&a, all that
kind of stuff, and that's that'sclose to my heart, because when
I opened up, I didn't haveanybody in my circles, and so
there's a lot of people.
There are a lot of people inthis world that don't have
anybody in their immediatecircle that they can talk to
about this type of stuff, sothat that's communities growing
(26:54):
fast as well, and that's globaltoo.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So where can we find you?
Where can we look to see wherewe can book a session with you
or reach out to you?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I do really good at keeping everything on one
website, as an organizationalskills of the former skeptic.
The sage methodcom is the bestplace to go.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
It's a T H, e, s, a, g E methodcom Beautiful.
Well, that ends the first partof our journey and I'm going to
continue to be your guidethrough the second part, which
is questions from social media.
Now, the first one we touchedon just a little bit, but we can
circle back around and go intoa little bit more.
Number one what red flagsshould I look for when I'm
dealing with a medium?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Right, I wish we, I wish we had more of these
discussions.
I would not recommend goinganywhere that had fluorescent
lighting in the window.
That's one.
That's another one Like if,what is that lighting called?
It's you know what?
I mean the neon lights, yeah,neon lights, yeah, yeah, just if
you see the word psychic andneon lights, don't, don't go
(28:03):
there.
I would definitely ask friendsif they know anyone that is
qualified.
I'd stay off of hotlines, and Iknow that when we're looking
for an intuitive, we wantanswers and we want them now.
At least that's how I am.
But if you do find an intuitivethat's booked out a month or
(28:25):
two, that's a very good sign.
That's a very good sign.
So if you can just give it alittle time, you know, and let
that go out, yeah, that's.
Those are the things that Iwould add to that one.
Such a great question, thoughSee, every it's.
There's such a common questionlike how do I know I'm not
somebody that's not real?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Right, yeah, I mean, I usually have found it word of
mouth, like in my case.
I also, you know, do readingsand people just think that
you're available right then andnow and not realize like I got,
like I teach yoga, I do allthose kinds of other things.
I'm booked up for like a couplemonths, exactly, exactly, and
(29:04):
so yeah, and I always just go toif it feels right.
If you start with that processand it already feels awkward and
weird, listen to that innerintuition, listen to that gut
Yep.
Number two you spoke about it alittle bit, but we can go and
uh and elaborate on it more.
Tell us about your awardwinning course, the sage method.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So that is that seven week course and, oddly enough,
what happened was after mygrandmother showed up and I
started working with, withtrying to communicate with her.
Shortly after that I met myfirst spirit guide and I called
him big dog just cause he feltso big, um, like tall and stuff.
So can I call you big dog?
(29:47):
He was like sure.
I worked with him for about twoyears.
He taught me everything I knowabout past lives, how we come
down here, how we leave all ofthat, and that that was
priceless.
It meant the world to me.
But he also demanded some ofthe inner work that I do and
some of the different thingsthat I try.
(30:08):
And two years later I was aprofessional medium booking out
and it was great, it waswonderful.
I was like, okay, maybe this ismy career.
And a little while after thathe said I need you to take
everything I taught you andbring it out into the world.
And I was like, okay, smalltask, that's, that's a lot, dude
.
And he was like I know, dude.
(30:33):
And so I said, okay, fine, Iwent through all the journals of
the two years and the best Icould do is get it down to seven
weeks of training.
So it's because it was a lot.
In essence, it is what I didfor two years that opened me
from, took me from a completeskeptic to very strong intuition
, and it's created in such a wayto help you figure out why your
(30:55):
intuition is blocked, how yourintuition is unique and how all
of this works.
So it's a very that's.
I think those three componentsare what make the course so
popular, because people come outof it going I get it now.
You're like yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And we're able to find that on your website.
Right, and you said there was agroup, right that yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, and when you?
Well, when you sign up for thecourse, we automatically give
you 60 days for free in themembership so that you're you're
covered, no matter what.
You're not taking the coursealone, you're in a free in the
membership so that you'recovered, no matter what.
You're not taking the coursealone, you're in the community.
If you want to be in thecommunity, you don't have to log
in.
If you don't want to, but weautomatically put you right into
that community so you haveaccess to me and to all the
(31:42):
people that are in there.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Our third question whatinspired you to write Cracking
Open Adventures of a ReluctantMedium?
And that wasn't one of thebooks you recommended, by the
way.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh my bad.
So the best book I've ever readis Cracking Open.
So wait, there it is.
So I have two reasons that Iwrote this book.
One is completely selfish andone is completely not selfish.
So we'll start with the selfishone.
So hopefully you'll forget thatwhen I say the second one, I I
(32:20):
was teaching the sage method andI had been teaching it.
So the book came out in 2011and I had been teaching for I
don't know six years, just years.
And I remember thinking tomyself I don't want to tell this
story again, like there's somuch of it and people are so
curious about it, and I was like, okay, I'm going to write it
(32:40):
down, I'm going to do a book andthen when they're curious, I
can go.
Here you go.
So it was a very selfish reasonand at the time I was probably
a little bit burnt out stillmarried, you get it trying to
set the boundary with mom.
But the true reason that'sthat's all a little lighthearted
there.
The true reason is I wanted toput out there the truth, the
truth about what it was like toopen up.
(33:02):
I I read a couple of books andthey kind of irked me because
they were like and then thepower of the light of the
greatest and I was this and Iwas that and I did that and I
was like, oh, that is not whatit's like to open up, it is more
like a jaggedy roller coaster.
And I needed to put that outthere to say, here is a true
(33:29):
version of an average person andwhat happened to them?
The screw ups, the positives,the frustration, all that kind
of stuff.
All the good too, but I neededI needed to put that out there
for people, because that was thebeginning of me kind of pushing
back on pop culture.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that.
Well, that was our lastquestion and, as we've been
talking, is there anything elsethat you'd like to share, or
maybe something that you forgot?
The floor is yours.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What else do I love to tell people?
Two small things.
The first one would be take astep, any step, I don't care how
small it is.
Take a step.
Stop planning and take a step.
One simple step.
That's all you have to do,because all those steps do start
to add up.
That old adage is true,absolutely true, and for those
(34:29):
that are interested in intuition, this is the one I want to
share.
When you see something out ofthe corner of your eye and then
you turn to look at it and it'sgone, I can tell you why.
It's because when you turn tolook at it, you take your
physical eyes and you're landingon physical objects in the room
.
The reason you saw somethingout of the corner of your eye is
that your peripheral isdefocused.
(34:50):
So when we can remember thatwhat we are looking for in
spirit, energetically andintuitively is not in the
material world, that will allowus to let go of the material
world, defocus from it, andthat's where what you're looking
for will be found that's whereyou're.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
What you're looking for will be found Beautiful.
Thank you so much for sharingthat.
It was wonderful and thank youso much.
That's why I consider this ajourney right, it's not a
destination.
So we're learning and it'sgreat that you're able, as you
go through the journey, to findpeople like you that help and
can be of support, and that younever are alone.
So know that the helpers areout there.
So check out the website, checkout the book, check out the
(35:34):
information.
You have amazing and wonderfulresources.
So thank you so much for takingtime out of your very busy
schedule to join me on thisjourney.
Thank you for having me.
Wonderful, all right, mywonderful listeners.
If you would like your questionfeatured on Ready Set Reiki,
reach out wwwreadysetreikicom.
I'm Tracy Seawright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki ©
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