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April 14, 2025 44 mins

Feeling the weight of recession, uncertainty, and emotional overwhelm? In this soulful episode of Spirit Speakeasy, psychic medium and energy healer Joy Giovanni shares a powerful spiritual reset designed for sensitive souls navigating chaotic times.

When the world feels overwhelming—whether from financial stress, global instability, or emotional burnout—it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in energy that isn’t even yours.

The 7 Spiritual Self-Care Practices you’ll learn aren’t lofty, time-consuming rituals—they’re grounded, doable, and designed to help you feel like yourself again, even in uncertain times.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Identify when you’re picking up collective energy
  • Anchor into your body and your intuition with ease
  • Create sacred space daily (without adding pressure)
  • Let your emotions move through—without judgment
  • Call in support from your spirit team and actually hear it
  • Take small aligned actions that shift your entire frequency


💛 This is your invitation to tend to your soul, lean on your unseen support system, and return to center—again and again.


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(00:01):
Joy, hey, beautiful soul,welcome to spirit speakeasy. I'm
Joy Giovanni, joyful medium. I'ma working psychic medium, energy
healer and spiritual giftsmentor. This podcast is like a
seat at the table in a secretclub, but with mediums, mystics
and the spiritual luminaries ofour time. So come behind the

(00:22):
velvet ropes with me and seeinside my world as I chat
insider style with profoundlygifted souls, we go deep, share
juicy stories, laugh a lot, andit wouldn't be a speakeasy
without great insider secretsand tips. You might even learn
that you have some gifts of yourown. So step inside the spirit

(00:43):
speakeasy,hey, beautiful soul, welcome
back, or welcome in for anotherepisode of spirit speakeasy, I
am your host. Joy Giovanni,joyful medium, psychic medium,
energy healer and fellowsensitive soul navigating this
world right alongside you. Ifyou've been feeling heavy,
tired, uncertain, overwhelmed,or just like the world is a lot

(01:05):
right now, this episode is foryou. Today. We're talking about
recession, uncertainty andenergetic self care, a spiritual
reset for sensitive souls likeus, between the economic
uncertainty, potential,recession, total unrest,
globally, collective burnout.

(01:26):
The energy around us is swirlingright now, and it can feel like
a fog that we can't quite shakeis just resting over us, right
and as a sensitive or intuitiveperson, chances are you're not
feeling just your own emotions,you're likely absorbing or
tapping into everyone else'semotions too. That can be a lot.

(01:50):
So today, I'm sharing aspiritual reset of sorts seven
ways to tend to your own energyand emotions when everything
around you feels chaotic,unstable, uncertain, whether
you're stressed about theeconomy, overstimulated by the
news cycle, or worry aboutwhat's going on in our
collective world, overwhelmed byyour own personal current

(02:13):
circumstances, or just feelingemotionally off. These practices
are simple, grounded andsupportive of your spiritual
connection, and there are lotsof ways to play with them and
integrate them into youreveryday life. So I'm excited to
share them with you, and I wouldlove it if you would share with
me which of these you feelresonate most with you and like

(02:34):
you can integrate them prettyeasily into your existing day to
day habits. So let's dive rightin the first of these seven self
care techniques that can supportyour emotions is naming the
energy that's not yours. Thissounds really simple, but
sometimes it can be confusing,like we were just talking about

(02:54):
sometimes things feel reallychaotic, and it can get to feel
a little hard to discern whatemotions belong to us and what
we're picking up of everyoneelse around us, even if it's
people that aren't in ourfamily, like the collective
energy or concern that'shappening. So when the world
feels like it's spinning out,it's really easy to tune into or

(03:15):
absorb some of that collectiveenergy, even without realizing
it. And the quote, unquotecollective can be like from a
world event, from our owncountry that we live in, or
country of origin, our towns,our communities, the groups that
we're in, even our own familiesand friend groups. So there are
so many different energies thatwe're greeting on a day to day

(03:37):
basis, and all of this is comingat us, swirling around us all at
once, that weird fogginess thatmaybe you've been feeling, that
anxiety that doesn't seem tohave a root, it might not be
yours each day or anytime, thatyou feel off or just a little
unsettled. You can pause and doa quick energy check so when

(03:59):
energy or emotion feels foreign.
You can just check in like, ifyou're just feeling a little
off, a little unsettled, alittle foggy, just do a quick
scan of your physical body, ofyour energetic field, and just
ask yourself what energy oremotion feels foreign or feels
like it doesn't belong to metoday or in this moment. You
don't even need to figure outwhere it came from necessarily.

(04:21):
Just notice what's yours andwhat's not yours, and then
gently release it. You can evensay something like spirit team
or spirit guide, help me releaseany energy that doesn't belong
to me. We don't need to judge itas good or bad. Just belongs to
us or doesn't. And sometimes theway that you can do it is just
to if you're feeling like alittle unrest in your body, a

(04:42):
little anxious or nervous energyin your body, the way I'll do it
is just check in and say, like,is there something I'm anxious
or nervous about in this moment,in this day, in this hour? And
if there's not, then I know it'snot mine, and I can just release
it. But if there is, I.
Work on, you know, soothingmyself around, whatever you

(05:03):
know, is mine. So if you reallywant to take this to the next
level, even to test it out forlike a week, try doing this as a
quick energy check before andafter each segment of your day.
For me, I'll usually set myenergy first thing in the
morning. The truth is, we resetovernight. As we sleep, our
energy naturally resets andcomes back into some version of

(05:25):
balance. So first thing in themorning, I'll set my energy.
I'll take a baseline. How am Ifeeling this morning? Right?
What's my mood? What are my ontop emotions? Am I in resistance
or flow? Right now? And thenI'll just quick, quickly notice
my energy and emotions, and I'lldo this throughout the day. So
if I was going to go to the gymfirst, for example, when I

(05:46):
arrived at the gym, I would justtake a moment and do a quick
energy check, what's my mood,what's my energy level, any
emotions on top, and then Iwould just notice releasing what
wasn't mine. I might even do itafter I left the gym as well.
Okay, am I How am I feeling?
What's my energy level? What'smy mood has? Has anything
shifted? And if I notice, yeah,I'm feeling some, some just
amped up energy. This doesn'tfeel like mine. I would just

(06:08):
intend to do a quick release.
And then you shower, get ready.
Move on to the next segment ofmy day. If I had meetings, I
would again do this right beforeI went into my first meeting,
how am I feeling? What's myemotion on top doing, what's my
mood doing a quick energy checkright before going into the
meeting, or the zoom, orwhatever you have, and then

(06:28):
again, after right has anythingshifted for us during this
meeting? So you can just kindof, and it doesn't have to be a
long check. It can be 30 to 60seconds checking in on your
mood, your energy, and so on. Sothat's the first one, and this
is just such a quick and easycheck, because again, we are
picking up so much around us,and we can match our energy to

(06:49):
other people's moods, otherpeople's stressors, things that
they have going on. And it canbe an unconscious thing. The
quicker we can get in the habitof noticing, the quicker we can
release and then we don't haveto carry it around our day with
us. So that is the first thing Ihave to offer. The second of
these seven self care checks andtips for stressful times is

(07:10):
coming back to the body. So whenlife feels overwhelming, our
energy can just shoot right upinto our head or into our upper
chakras, kind of out of ourbody. And often, what's really
happening is that our energeticfield, our soul, our auric
field, is spread way out aroundus to kind of suss out whatever

(07:31):
is popping off at the moment.
It's a natural response. Itusually happens as a result or a
reaction to fear or stress orconcern, it can be a trauma
response that we can just easilyslip into once we've done it
before. And you might even haveheard people save before, things
like, Oh, I felt like I left mybody or I wasn't even in my body

(07:53):
for that experience. And thishappens to varying degrees at
different times, so you mightfind yourself overthinking,
spiraling into worst casescenarios, or even having
trouble sleeping, that's a goodtime to make sure you're coming
back to your body right. Thereset for this is really just
bring your awareness back toyour body often. The way I said

(08:15):
it say it when I'm guidingmeditations, is bring all of
your awareness into the centerof your head and start to say
hello to your body and feel yourbody. There's lots of ways to do
it, but I'm going to give you asuper easy way. It's just
putting your hand over yourheart, one hand over your heart,
if you want to put the otherhand somewhere, I like to put it
on my third chakra, which is inyour solar plexus, kind of right

(08:37):
at the bottom of your rib cage.
And you can just do some quickor Well, let's not say quick
breaths, but slow, easy breaths,just three or four breaths,
bringing yourself back into yourbody, just with your intention.
And then you could even take aquick stretch after that for
some if you have a few extraminutes, you can roll out a yoga
mat or a towel, move your hips.

(09:00):
If you have a little extra time,you could go for a walk without
your phone. So the thing I wantyou to focus on with this one is
your body is your antenna. It'san incredibly sensitive
instrument, way beyond ourcurrent understanding. We always
joke in my classes and groupsthat science is like catching up
to what the body and the energyfield can do all the time. So I

(09:22):
don't think science has fullyproven or understood even what
our instrument, this incrediblysensitive instrument of our
body, is doing. It's way beyondour current understanding. So
when you come home to it to yourbody, your intuition gets
clearer, your energy getsgrounded, you get calmer, and
remember, our emotions andintuition work together, and our

(09:43):
body is not separate from thatrelationship. So how these
emotions land in your body canalso tell you a lot from an
intuitive sense. I recentlysomebody sent me this really
cool post or reel that somebodydid on Instagram, and it was
someone.
Talking about that. They didthis experiment with pheromones,

(10:04):
and they had three differentgroups. I'm not going to get
this exactly right, and quitehonestly, I can't remember what
the real was. I couldn't save itfor some reason. And they they
had, it's like a double blindstudy. So they had people wear
these neoprene, like wetsuits,and one per one group did
running one group did like afear based activity where they
like a really adrenaline fearbased like, I think it was like

(10:26):
Cliff Diving or something likethat. And the other group did
something like, where they werebeing chased or something, and
then they bottled all thesesweats and had people smell them
that had no idea even what theywere smelling or why. And the
brain had biologic responses tothe smells of these pheromones,
even if they didn't smelldifferent to the naked nose,

(10:48):
right? So it's it's letting usknow that our bodies are
interpreting more than, eventhan we could possibly
understand. And the reason Ilove that is it shows you that
our body really is thisincredible instrument, whether
it's through our physicalsenses, through our subtle
senses, lots is happening as wego through the world. So we can

(11:10):
intuitively know a lot just bycoming into our body and
understanding how theseconversations are hitting, how
emotions are rising up as thingsare happening. So it just if you
can find that experiment, it'sreally cool to watch. I'll see
if I can find it. If I can, I'lllink it in the show notes. The
more that we can come back intothe body and work on sensitizing

(11:31):
ourselves to our own emotionsand how they land and live in
our bodies, the more clear themessages from your body and your
intuition can become. But wehave to know what our own
emotions are, right? So that wecan recognize when an emotion
isn't ours, and so that we canrecognize what this emotions
telling us, like, Oh, this isthis meeting. Felt pretty

(11:51):
successful. I feel still alittle anxious about this, this
project that we're talking aboutstarting. Let me check in and
see, like, what's going on here?
There's obviously more to know,right? So it's, it's so subtle
and so simple and something wecan do as we go about our day to
day. When I was new to thiswork, my first mentor told me,
You're out of your body. Like,that's one of the reasons you're
not because she would say, Wheredo you feel that in your body?

(12:13):
And I was like, I don't knowwhat you're talking about. She
was like, Oh, you're, you'reout, you're living mostly out of
your body. And I was like, Ididn't even know what she meant.
And once I really started comingback into my body energetically
and being able to feel in mybody, it really did help me
connect some dots and be able towork in a different way with my
intuition. So I highly encourageit. The third of these seven

(12:35):
suggestions and tips for selfcare in chaotic times is turning
down the noise. Okay, let's behonest. The digital world can be
emotionally exhausting,especially during uncertain
times between news headlines andsocial feeds and even well
meaning conversations aboutthese things can feel like an

(12:58):
overload and can overload arealready kind of sensitive and
maybe feeling overloaded,already systems at times. Plus,
part of the challenge of thecurrent chaos is that it seems
to turn on a dime. It's like onething will be rolling out that
feels concerning, or like weneed to be worried about it, and
then all of a sudden, there'llbe a quick pivot, and then more

(13:20):
things layered in. So it's noteven like we can rest into some
semblance of order or ease orunderstanding what's coming
next. It's really chaotic allaround so it's hard to
understand exactly what's trulyhappening, what's just big talk,
and how each piece of what'shappening truly affects us in
our individual lives and goingforward. So if we didn't have

(13:42):
enough stress, this is all verystressful, right? So even though
nothing is truly, quote, unquotepredictable, even though
sometimes we feel like it is, wetend to feel much more anxious
when things feel reallyunpredictable, right? So how do
we turn down the noise? BecauseI believe we need to be informed
to some level so we know how toprepare or what's going on or

(14:03):
what we need to do, but we don'tneed to be inundated having the
news cycle running in thebackground at all times. So one
of the things you can do is setboundaries with your inputs.
What do I mean? Maybe you onlycheck your news once or twice a
day. I have just a few newsources that are who I even
check news from that are moreless sensationalized, more just

(14:26):
the actual nitty gritty of whatwhat I need to know. So perhaps
it's the sources that you'rechoosing and maybe only checking
in once or twice a day, so it'snot on your mind plaguing you
all the time. Maybe if you wantto be even, do it take this a
little bit extra? Maybe you have148 hour scroll break, right?
What I've already seen in 2025is that many things going on can

(14:50):
look very different in 48 hours.
I don't know about you, but Ithink sometimes we're there's a
really, am.
Thing that's happening, and in48 hours, it's either been
postponed for 90 days or, youknow now, these two entities are
in talks, and we, we are more oneggshells, not needing to worry.

(15:10):
So a 48 hour break, if you canmake it happen, is great in our
own lives. Check in with yourspin. What do I mean? Are you
worrying, stressing, mentallystewing like spinning out on
something that is not yours,meaning Nobody asked you to help
with it. Nobody asked you toworry about it. Maybe you're

(15:31):
concerned about something for afriend or a family member or
someone you care about justworrying and spinning and
stewing, it's not helpful, andmaybe they don't even need your
help, or haven't even asked foryour help. So you're putting
this on yourself or taking it onyourself in a way that just
might not be serving you oranyone else the best, especially

(15:52):
when it comes to our individuallives and loved ones, it can
feel really hard not to worryright? Whatever the situation
that you're facing is spinningout into these stories that we
tell ourselves in our anxiousminds, is really never helpful.
The truth is, when we'respinning out emotionally and
mentally, finding ways to turndown the noise is really the

(16:14):
only way to shift to the energy.
Right? If we're reallyoverloaded, putting more in and
more on top, on top, on top,it's not the solution, right?
The solution is to pause or toget still or to shift the
energy. And sometimes turningdown all the noise around us is
the best way to do it. Andremember, getting quiet looks
different for each of us, andsometimes it can even be
different case by case in eachsituation, like even for me,

(16:37):
turning down the noise orgetting quiet can look different
in different in differentcircumstances on different days.
So give yourself someflexibility here. Instead of
filling the silence with morecontent, fill it with your inner
voice, right? Maybe pull a card,do some journaling, or just sit
and listen within. Maybe you canenjoy some music, or maybe even

(16:58):
enjoy some sunshine if it'ssunny, where you are yet in your
part of the world, take in someart or some natural beauty. Use
your own creativity, or evenread a book if you can, and just
let your imagination take thewheel. So diverting your focus
even temporarily. So if youcan't fully shut down that

(17:19):
noise. Maybe you're justfocusing on a different
vibration of noise, a morepleasant noise, right? Number
four of these tips for timesthat are stressful,
overwhelming, uncertain,chaotic, for self care, anchor
into something sacred every day,feeling disconnected, numb,
overwhelmed or unmotivated. Iknow I have been feeling some of

(17:43):
these things lately. That isyour soul calling you back to
center. It's a little flashingred light back there saying,
Hey, you're off center. You'reoff center, come back. Come
back. Right? So choose one smallsacred practice each day. It
doesn't have to be fancy. Itdoesn't have to be elaborate. It
doesn't even have to be timeconsuming. It just has to be

(18:05):
intentional, right? Just yousetting the intention and
intentionally doing a sacredactivity, something small for
yourself daily. It could besomething like lighting a candle
and saying a prayer. It could besipping your morning tea with
mindfulness and just takingthose five or 10 minutes for
yourself to have that mindfulmoment. You could do a three to

(18:26):
seven minute meditation and justground or get still, or even a
fun guided meditation, whereyou're, you know, floating off
to some mystical forest. Thatmoment of connection creates
almost like a thread back to theunseen world and back to you.
And it helps us, if we can kindof plug in these little sacred

(18:48):
moments for ourselves, it's justa touchstone, and it makes it
that much easier to come back toourself, to call our energy back
from all the noise. So if youcould do this a few times
throughout the day, even better,many years ago, most of you know
I had a practice primarily as ahealer and a massage therapist,

(19:08):
and a trick that I used that wasfast and simple that I want to
share. I almost never had breaksthroughout the day. I've had
some clients and students thatlike to do these little
anchoring into something sacredon like their lunch break. For
example, if their morning'schaotic, I almost never had
lunch break. So I had to find adifferent way to do this, and so
I would take advantage of thetime when I washed my hands.

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Now, many, many, many massagetherapists and healers for eons
have used washing hands as a wayto release energy and for
grounding. So I already wasdoing that. I actually learned
that in my initial holisticmedicine training in like 2001
so I already was doing that. Soevery time you wash your hands,

(19:51):
which hopefully you're stilldoing a lot of times throughout
the day, you can imaginereleasing energy and grounding
as that water runs over your.
Hands. Then before each client,what I would add in is, right
after washing my hands, I wouldtake just about 30 to 60 seconds
outside that room door, thattreatment room door, before I

(20:12):
would go into the treatment roomto just breathe, connect in, say
hello to myself as a soul, andjust take those 30 to 60 seconds
to feel that connectedness. Imight also, you know, I would
see several clients a day, sosometimes I might just take that
30 to 60 seconds to say Hello tomyself as a soul, and remember
I'm a soul having this humanexperience. Sometimes I might do

(20:35):
a quick hello to a healing guideor healing master that I'm
working with for that sessionjust acknowledge them and take
30 seconds to just breathe andfeel them beside me. I might
take that 30 to 60 seconds togive some gratitude for my body,
my muscles, for working so hard,for my lungs and my heart. So
there are lots of ways that youcan take these sacred moments.

(20:57):
You could easily find 30 to 60seconds to pause in your day,
where you could take a momentand privately infuse some small
practice you could I like thiscould be a little game for you,
where it's like, where could Ifind 30 to 60 seconds to just
acknowledge myself as a soul, orjust to acknowledge my body, or

(21:18):
just to say a quick hello to myguide or my angel or my loved
one on the other side. 30 to 60seconds, you'll be amazed how
much more connected you feelover time. Okay, number five of
these seven tools and tips andtricks is when let your emotions
move. Is the way I want to sayit. When emotions feel stuck

(21:38):
right or like stuck on anemotion, are stuck in a feeling,
hooked on a feeling. Whenemotions feel stuck, we often
want to avoid them. That's justthe truth. Our human nature is
to avoid discomfort. Or if we'renot trying to avoid those stuck
emotions, we often will judgeourselves for even having that
emotion. Oh, why do I feel likethis? Why is this feeling still
here? Why am I still thinkingabout this, right? So sometimes

(22:05):
we are intentionally pushingthose emotions down or ignoring
them in some cases, andsometimes maybe for a long time.
And this can cause a lot ofissues. It can cause physical
discomfort and illness. It cancause lots of discomfort for us
in lots of ways, when thingsfeel chaotic, especially when

(22:25):
things feel like threats ofdanger,
threats of potential upheaval inparts of the world, potential
conflict or war, even we'relooking at a lot of economic
uncertainty, right uncertaintyin many ways, collectively right
now, plus on top of that,whatever you have in your

(22:45):
personal life, circumstances, inyour own workplace, in your own
world, right? It can feel likejust too much sometimes, so
sometimes it does feel hard tolet these emotions move and deep
fears are also being triggered.
I want you to just notice andknow that triggered or
activated. If you like the wordactivated better, I tend to like
that a little bit better, and itcan stir up a lot of emotions

(23:08):
that come out in all sorts ofways. So perhaps these threats
of economic upheaval oruncertainty or recession might
be triggering very old fears foryou, for example. So when things
feel really chaotic, we can haveall types of responses, because
activated emotions are part ofwhat's in this mix here, and we

(23:33):
might not even know it, right,but emotions are just energy in
motion. They're not blocks.
They're part of the pathforward. So really, the job here
is to create space to feel thatcan look like just taking five
minutes, three minutes to sitbreathe. You can do that
breathing exercise with hand onheart that we talked about and

(23:56):
just asking yourself. And itdoesn't have to be a hard
question. It can just be holdingspace for the idea of what wants
to be felt right now, whatinside me wants to be felt right
now. And you don't have to fixit. Just honor the emotion. Just
let it move. Just let it revealitself to you. You don't have to
fix it. You don't have to knowwhere it came from. And if you

(24:17):
want to take this to the nextlevel, just throughout your day
to day, notice if you are actingout, and I put that in quotation
marks, acting out deeperemotions in any area of your
life, this might be obviouslyconnected to the deeper fear
that's coming up for you rightnow, or it might be coming out
in a totally different area orpresentation. So I'm going to

(24:38):
give you a couple examples. Forexample, let's take one person,
but three different versions ofthis person. Let's take a
person, someone who's afraid ofhaving afraid and having lots of
anxiety and fear aroundpotentially being laid off due
to all the political extremecuts. I've actually had this in
several people in these in thislast i.

(25:00):
I was gonna say these last fewmonths, but it hasn't even been
that long. These last severalweeks, a lot of people are just
feeling stressed, overwhelmed,concerned, this dread about, oh
my gosh, I'm afraid that I mightget laid off due to all of these
dramatic and drastic and andreckless cuts that are being
made. Okay, so that's the fearperson. A might react to that

(25:23):
fear in outbursts of anger, likequick anger that just bursts out
and rises to the surface. Forexample, maybe they get mad and
have an outburst at lunch at thewaiter for forgetting to bring
their lemon with their icewater, rather than just giving
that waiter a break and sayinglike, Oh, yeah, oh, if we need a
chance, would you mind to bringthat lemon, you know, but this

(25:44):
really angry outburst that justbursts out of nowhere that's
likely out of character for thisperson,
person B, might emotionallywithdraw from like their
partner, for example, and theywould go to stewing inside and
ruminating and panickinginwardly and questioning
everything that they have intheir five year plan. And that

(26:06):
second person might not expressthe fear and might struggle
privately and put all of thatfear inwardly. And the way we
experience it, as their partneris them just really pulling
away, and we feel the energy ofpulling away. So that's a very
different way to have this fearmanifest in the emotions in our
body. Person three with the samefear of layoffs might suddenly

(26:30):
be compulsively buying orspending online, finding that
they are shopping, consuming,wanting to even stamp maybe late
into the night, moving theintensity of their focus here,
instead of to the real issue, tolike a compulsive shopping type
of an issue. So that's threevery different ways that this
fear and anxiety, thisrumination of, you know, the

(26:53):
fear of getting laid off, couldpresent itself. Now the reason
I'm encouraging you to noticethe behavior is because when we
start to notice behavior inourself that's out of character,
here, it's a it could be a redflag for us once we identify our
own behavior, or like, well,that's weird. Why am I why am I
snapping at people that doesn'tfeel like me? Why am I so on

(27:14):
edge? Or, why, why am I sowithdrawn? Why do I feel like I
want to push people away from meright now? Or, Why do I feel
like I just want to buyeverything? Do I need these
things? Am I panic buying? Whatis happening here? Right? So
just noticing the behavior andthat once we notice it's out of
character, we can investigatefurther and proceed accordingly,

(27:34):
based on whatever we becomeaware of, right? And of course,
if therapy is accessible to you,if that's something that's
within your means or you havethe privilege to access it is
also a great option here to helpgain tools to identify our
emotions and actions, but reallyjust acknowledging that, you
know, we need to take space tofeel, because sometimes our

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feelings can be tricky andsometimes they can be coming out
that toothpaste can be oozingout of that tube and messy
directions that don't even seemconnected to what the emotion
is. So pausing, noticing ourbehavior as we go throughout our
day, especially if something's alittle out of character, off
color, and coming back toourself, all of these really
intertwine, even though you canuse them separately, just to be

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able to identify our actions andlet those emotions move so that
we're not shoving them down andhaving them come out in Messy
other ways. Number six of ourseven tips and self care tools
for chaotic times is call in,hire help and then get quiet.
What do I mean by this? And Idon't mean hire as in, like hire

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some help for yourself. I wishwe could all do that. I mean
higher, as in highervibrational, right? Sometimes,
when the world feels chaotic, wecan crave signs or messages or
validation from spirit or ourloved ones. But the truth is,
guidance doesn't always getthrough to us. When we are in an
emotion of chaos, our loved onesand guides and ancestors and

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support from spirit. It's allthere. It's just we are not as
available to notice it whenwe're really lit up in our
emotions, when our emotions arereally chaotic, right? So what's
the workaround? Try this. Youcan even pause and say, either
inward or out loud to yourspirit team, to your loved ones,

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I'm open to receiving thesupport in the highest and most
aligned way. Open to receivingsupport in the highest and most
aligned ways. Or you can createyour own version of that little
affirmation or mantra, and thenyou can sit in the stillness,
even if it's awkward, even if itfeels uncomfortable to have five
minutes of silence, right? Yourguides or the intuition of your

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own soul can't shout over thenoise of your emotions, but they
will meet you in the stillness.
And if you really cannot sit inthe stillness or just want to
try another option, walking isgreat here, something that's
gentle, that doesn't.
Take a lot of mental focus, butthat can help you, like
literally, move your energy,move your physical body. I like

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walking for it. It could bewalking around your
neighborhood, something that'sjust leisurely. It could be
walking around a local park,even a hike, if that's for you.
I've also known people who findfishing really useful for this,
or even something like knitting,an activity that doesn't take a
lot of brain power, but that canhelp you do something with your

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hands or your mind, so that youcan get quiet in a different
way. Remember,there are many ways to find
stillness. It doesn't have tolook like just sitting on a lily
pad and meditating, althoughthat is a wonderful way, if you
can do the exercise of workingyourself up to being able to
sustain just sitting on a littlelily pad of some kind and

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meditating. But there are lotsof ways to find stillness, and I
find those of us who like tolook for like stones or shells
on the beach, for example, finda special stillness and this
activity. So if you're, ifyou're a nerd like me, and you
love to, like walk on the beachand look for shells or stones,
even an activity like that thatis just leisurely, slow, easy,

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comfortable, but focus enoughthat we can get that stillness
because we're focusing onsomething that doesn't cause us
to think so that that guidance,that inspiration, that support,
can just kind of drop in, is theway I always feel it. And
remember your loved ones andancestors, your guides, the
spirit world. They're alwaysstanding by supporting you as

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well. And also remember theycan't give us all the answers or
make it so that we avoid alldiscomfort, but they can
support, encourage, and evensometimes remind us how much
love we have behind us from theunseen world. Surrender is one
of the hardest things that wemust do in our human experience,
each in different ways atdifferent times, but we will all

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experience things outside of ourcomfort zones and outside of our
control. But I want you torealize that surrender is not
giving up, right? Surrenderingto that stillness, surrendering
to what is it's not giving up.
I want to give you a couplethoughts of what surrender is
and what it's not surrendersays, I'll still show up, but I

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don't need to predict or controlhow it unfolds. That's
surrender. Surrender is theexhale and release after we've
been trying to force somethinginto place, right? Surrender
doesn't mean giving up. It meansletting go of the fight against
what's already here or what'salready happening. And I find
the emotion of surrender reallyexpressed beautifully in the

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Serenity Prayer. So I also hangon to that as a little bit of a
mantra. I'm gonna It's, I don'tobviously, I don't own this. I
don't even know if it'scopyrighted, but I know it's
used a lot by the AA programs.
God grant me the serenity toaccept the things I cannot
change, the courage to changethe things I can, and the wisdom
to know the difference, right?
And this brings us right intoour seventh way to tend to our

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emotions and energy duringuncertain times. Number seven,
return to what you caninfluence, right? So it is
again. It is spirit or God orwhatever word you like in there
universe. Grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to changethe things I can, and the wisdom
to know the difference, yesplease. In uncertain times, we

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can spiral into stressing aboutwhat we can't control, global
events, the economy, politics,suffering, war, all of these
stressful things. And thatspiral creates this feeling of
more helplessness, right? Sowhat's the antidote here? Choose
one aligned action that you cantake today or any day or every

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day. It might be tidying onedrawer, drinking your allotted
water for the day, emailing thatclient that you don't really
want to email. I sometimesthere. There was, like, a book
about it a long time ago, andwas called eat the frog. It's
just like, do the thing you youknow that you don't want to do,
that you know you have to do. Soit could be something like that.
It could be like, do thosedishes, or clean out that shed,

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or whatever it is that you haveto do. But what is it that's one
aligned action that is a goodthing that is in support of a
goal you have, or somethingyou're working on that you can
do, right? One of my go to toolcombinations is really doing the
energy scan that we talked aboutabove, right? How's my mood?

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What's going on in my body? Isthere any energy or emotion that
wants to rise up and be noticedright now. The other piece of
this is setting my own energy,and this is one thing we can
control and that we are actuallyresponsible for. And I
especially lean into this when Ifeel anxious or I need to have a
conversation that just feelspotentially confrontational to

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me. I'm pretty nonconfrontation.
Conversational by nature, forthose of you that don't know me
yet, especially, yeah, if it'ssomething that's a little
outside my comfort zone, orsomething I can't handle myself,
or that I feel like might be aconversation of conflict or
feels confrontational to me,because really it might seem
small, but the action that we'retaking, whatever that small

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aligned one action that we cantake, a thing we can move the
needle on. It's really not justdoing that one thing or action,
right? Part of it is that ouractions can shift energy, and
taking one small aligned actionlets the universe know I'm
anchored, I'm participating, I'mwilling. I'm ready for help and

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assistance, right? So I'm goingto give you an example of when I
used this recently, returning toone thing I can influence. I
think we all know that there'sbeen just chaos in the economy,
the stock markets here in theStates and also globally. And
one of the things I had to dojust this last week is there's a
wellness place that I go to, andit's like a Wellness Center, and

(36:06):
I am like, have a membershipthere, essentially. And I just
noticed at the beginning of themonth that my account had been
being over billed by about 25%for the past three months,
right? I had so much anxiety. Iwent on my weekly appointment. I
went and talked to the person atthe front desk and brought this
to their attention. They said,Oh, you know what? I don't know.

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I'll ask my manager. They kindof gave me a little bit of a
hard time about it, which builtmy anxiety even more. I never
heard back from that person, soI was it was kind of stewing in
the back of my mind a littlebit. It was on my to do list. I
was aware it was there. I alsoknew that there was, like, a
timeline for this, because if Ilet it go too long, you know how
it is, if you're asking for arefund or a price adjustment,

(36:49):
you let it go too long, chancesare they're gonna say no. So I
knew I had to call. So what Idid when I was setting myself up
to do the call and in themorning, I knew I was gonna do
it. I knew, Okay, it's it wasjust the other day. I was like,
Okay, today's the day I have toget this done. I have a block of
time that I could be on thephone. I need to do this. So I
was feeling really anxious aboutit. The truth is, I was avoiding

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it a little bit. I did someother things that I needed to do
before I tackled this item. Andthen I realized I was in
resistance. I was avoiding it alittle bit, even though I knew
it was getting done that day, Ihad already pushed it back a
couple other days. Is the truth.
And so what did I do? I did aquick body scan. How am I
feeling? What's happening in mybody? What's my mood? I got
grounded, because that's how Iknow I can discharge that

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anxious energy. I can bring inmore of the energy of my highest
aligned soul self. I canremember who I truly am as a
soul. And I know this might seemridiculous, like a little bit of
a situation, but for those ofyou who are introverts or INFJ
or just sensitives, I think youcan vibe what I'm saying right
now, because I think we've allhad situations where it's like,

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oh, I don't want to call anddeal with this thing. So I get
grounded, I do my body scan, i iI make sure that I set my
energy, I kind of released someof the anxiety, and then I said,
Okay, I'm going to set my energyat easy, peaceful, kind
grounded, because my desired endresult was to have a peaceful
conversation with this personand hopefully get some sort of

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price adjustment refund and getthis fixed going forward, right?
I set my energy, and I try tolean into being extra nice on
these type of calls, whichsometimes works and sometimes
doesn't. And I was able to movethrough the call with ease. It
was fine on the other end, Iactually didn't hear anything

(38:35):
for a couple of days. And thenthey did ultimately end up
saying they would, they would dothe correction for this month
and not the other months, andthat they would change it going
forward. And I was fine withthat, but I do notice this, and
I wonder if this is true foryou. If you're someone who is
energetically very sensitive, Iactually have a couple other
things that are, I'm waiting forresponses on or emails on, and I

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do get a little nervous tummyaction about it. So what I do in
those cases? Again, I amresponsible for setting my
energy. I am responsible for howmuch something going on affects
my emotions, my physical energy,for how much I let it how much
time, like how much space I letit consume in my mind, in my
day, in my conversations. So Ihave a couple other things right

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now that I'm waiting forresponses on. And whenever I'm
doing my energy check in mybody, sometimes I feel a little
anxiety, and I'll ask, okay,what is that about? Oh, it's
about that I'm still waiting forthis response. And this one in
particular that I'm waiting for,it's, it's such not a big deal.
I mean, it's important to me.
It's significant. So in thatway, it is a big deal. But it's

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not like I'm gonna get introuble for something. It's not
like, that's the energy, the wayit feels, and my body is like,
Oh, I don't know how this isgonna go. I don't know if this
person's gonna approve of me. Idon't know if this
conversation's gonna go forwardin the way that I'm hoping. And
so I acknowledge that energy,that emotion, I try to ground it
out or release it as much as Ican. I.
I try to really understandwhat's true and factual about

(40:03):
the situation and what's withinmy ability to do something about
I've already done all the partsthat I can, and so I'm working
on in these instances, just kindof getting a little separation
emotionally from it, andacknowledging, okay, some of
this might be heightened in itsactivation because of things
I've experienced in the past.
And the truth is, I knoweverything's always working out.

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Everything's always working out,even if it doesn't seem like it,
even if it means that my path isgoing to be totally diverted and
I'm going to have to take thelong way around. I know and I
trust that things are alwaysworking out behind the scenes,
that divine timing is always atplay, and that I have guides and
supporters behind the scenesworking on my behalf at all
times. And the truth is, I havecome to learn, perhaps the hard

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way, that I really only want tobe involved in things that are
in alignment with my highestgood, that are in alignment with
the direction that I want to goin this lifetime and the things
that that I want to experienceas a soul. So I'm okay if some
things are not for me, even if Idon't understand why, even if it
seems like something I wanted, Ihave learned to trust okay if

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it's not for me, keep it farfrom me, and I just have to
trust that delays are in myfavor, that if something doesn't
work out, it's because there'ssomething that I didn't that I
didn't know about the situation,and it's always for my highest
and greatest good, and thatthere'll be more opportunities
just around the corner andsaying those type of validations
or affirmations or justacknowledging what is true, what

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I can control, what are myintentions? What do I know for
sure? It just kind of calms myenergy somehow. So whether
you're sitting still and doingit or taking a walk and doing
it, I really encourage you tofind ways to just sprinkle or
marinate these little quicktools, quick self care for the
spiritual side of you, for thesoul side of you. It really does

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help, because the truth is, youdon't need to carry the weight
of the world. None of us do asindividuals and as sensitives,
we kind of want to we kind ofthink it's our burden to bear,
because we can feel it andbecause we have compassion,
right? Your compassion is abeautiful part of you, but you
also need to care for your ownenergy and open to support from

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spirit. These are intense times.
I think it's something we canall agree on, and you deserve to
have tools you can use andstrategies to support yourself
through all of it. Your soulcame here, in this unique
moment, in this specific time inhistory, even if you don't
understand why right now and youdon't walk it alone, that's the

(42:35):
truth. Your guides are with you.
Your light still matters, andyou're allowed to feel, to reset
and to rise again and again andagain. And if this episode
resonated with you or kind ofpiqued your curiosity to explore
some of these tools or open yourmind in a different way, I would
love it if you would share itwith a fellow sensitive soul.
And if you haven't already,please hit that follow or

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subscribe button so you nevermiss an episode. I hope that
these tips have helped you.
Whether we end up in a recessionor not, whether we feel like
things are really uncertain, orwhether we feel like they're
settling back in. We do needthis energetic self care,
especially as sensitive souls,so I hope that things are well

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for you this week, and I hopethat these tools are helpful.
Let me know what is coming upfor you and how you are finding
it best to use this energy andthese tools in your own day to
day. Big hugs. Lots of love. Byefor now, from inside the spirit
speakeasy, you.
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