Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
EP 16: Transforming Health Hurdles into Healing Superpowers with Lindsey Walker
20 Plays2 months ago
Lindsey is this incredible intuitive health coach who's doing something so unique - she's helping women heal their health challenges by tapping into their soul's wisdom.
We dove deep into Lindsey's journey, from her own health struggles to becoming this powerhouse healer. We got real about the messy parts of transformation, the fears that come up when you're stepping into your power, and how sometimes the universe has to knock you on your butt before you listen.
But here's the thing that really blew my mind - Lindsey shared how we can actually go into our past, shift our perspective from our soul's point of view, and come out healed in the present. It's like time-traveling for your health!
This conversation reminded me why I do this podcast - to connect with amazing souls like Lindsey and share these powerful healing messages with all of you.
If you're feeling stuck in your health journey, or you're just curious about what it really takes to become a modern-day healer, this episode is for you. Trust me, you'll walk away feeling inspired, empowered, and maybe a little bit in awe of the magic that lives inside each of us.
Can't wait for you to listen and let me know what resonates with you! Sending you all so much love and light!
Body Language Program discount code for sow notes - https://community.soulfamwellness.com/offers/bkZFQuPS?coupon_code=MODERNDAYHEALER
Connect with Dana HERE and Lindsey HERE and tell them what you loved most about this episode and what resonated deeply.
**If you loved today's episode, remember to give this podcast a 5-star rating! You can quickly leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts by scrolling down on my show page, selecting a star rating, and tapping “Write a review.” This helps other modern-day healers discover the show, and your feedback helps me curate more content you love. Thank you for your support!!
Recommended
Transcript
Introduction to Modern Day Healer Podcast
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello, and welcome to the Modern Day Healer Podcast. I'm your host, Dana Hayes, and I am so excited to share with you the stories, the trials, the tribulations, and most importantly, the triumphs of my own as well as many other successful modern day healers. We've gone all in to pursue our passion, to make an impact in the world by helping humans heal from the and anyone else who feels a calling to help others heal, grow, and share their light. You could be a wife, a mother, a teacher, a writer, a speaker, a podcast host. You might be a workshop producer, a course creator. You're most likely an entrepreneur and can't shake the desire to make your calling your career because you know how much impact you could make if you went all in and had the opportunity to share your story with the world. That is a modern day
Dana's Background
00:01:11
Speaker
healer. I'm a podcast host, a co-author of an amazing book about the journey of sobriety, a wife, a mom of two young children, and the creator of the spiritual lifestyle brand, Living in Power. I am Dana and I am a modern day healer. I am so glad you're here. Let's get started.
Introducing Lindsay Walker
00:01:38
Speaker
welcome, welcome to today's episode of the Modern Day Healer. I'm Dana Hayes, your host. And today with me, I have Lindsay Walker. She is an intuitive health coach who helps women get to the root of their own health challenges in a super multidimensional way. So I love Lindsay's work because she comes at it from such a different perspective than most. And what perspective is that? It's the soul perspective, of course. That's why I love it. um So she helps people heal their health challenges from the past. So she actually goes into the past and shows them the lesson that's available to them from their soul's perspective. In my in my perspective, that is where the root cause always is, right? Like your soul knows it all. And this is how I was able to genuinely heal from what I kind of feel like is everything from my past in one go. So it took me two full years, but I i did something similar, Lindsay, and we'll get into all of this, but I have to tell you how aligned I am with this, um, with this idea that you can go into your past, heal the perspective of it using the literally the lens of your soul and come out and have this present moment be so
Dana's Alignment with Soul Perspective
00:03:07
Speaker
different. And I'm very interested to hear how this works with the physical, because for me and in my experience, it it's been mostly the emotional and the mental, and then the physical also followed suit. But, um, I never actually went into the past to heal any physical health challenges. And besides that, I'm also really, really excited to hear how you built this business, where you started, because I also know that just like me, um you have that experience where it's like, okay, going full-time doesn't necessarily translate into going all in.
Lindsay's Healing Journey Begins
00:03:47
Speaker
And there's this huge process of becoming the entrepreneur, becoming the healer, becoming the person after the initial initiation, right? And so I'm really excited to have this conversation because I think there's gonna be be a lot of parallels in our, both of our stories. So with that, will you please introduce yourself and kind of like give us a little backstory? Who is Lindsay Walker? Where did this happen? Like, where did this all start? Yes. Well, thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here. I do feel like, yes, our paths really do align. So I am excited for this conversation. And yeah, the way that this all came about was really through my own health challenges. So the way I actually explained it recently, and when I explained it, I was like, oh, that's a really great way. I'm going to take this with me. And it was really like the way I came about it was like through the root. If you like know the chakras, like through the root, and it kind of brought me up to the crown. A lot of people will come in at the crown or they'll come in at the heart. Like if you're someone that kind of comes in at the emotional level, or if you come in at the spiritual level, like I see that coming in at the crown for me, I came in at the root with all of the physical health issues. So that's where my journey started. And I will condense this story to it as like small as possible for this particular podcast, because we could go into that for like hours. But the point was that I really was struggling with a lot of chronic health issues, tried lots and lots and lots of different paths and ways to heal myself and started by listening to other people. And it was pretty clear. I'm well, to spoiler alert, I don't like to listen to others. I like to carve my own path. So listening to other people was really not working out so well for me. Shocker. And, but it was a good opportunity for me to learn. So that is the path that got me here. Ultimately, it started with the health issues and it led me to where where I'm at today. I never saw coming. Like if someone even 10 years ago, which is about, I think when all of this kind of started to percolate all the health challenges. And it was almost like a, no, I could have never seen this coming, but it was step-by-step. It started with, I just want to feel better. I just want to heal. I didn't even know what that looked like or what that meant, but I was so sick and tired of feeling awful every day that I couldn't continue or enjoy my life, that it got me to a point where I had to do something different. So my goal is to really help people see that you don't have to get to this breaking point of throwing up your hands and just saying, oh my gosh, I'll do anything. That's kind of what happened to me, but that isn't the only path. Like you can actually choose a different path.
Career Transition to Healing Services
00:06:29
Speaker
Just if you feel out of alignment or you feel off path and your body and your life or whatever, you don't have to get to this tower moment where everything feels like it's falling apart and you're miserable. Now that is my story. And that is how I kind of climbed my way to this point. So it started with the health challenges. I was a software developer. I had just graduated college, was a software developer for a fortune 500 company. And it that is where I experienced all of these health issues. So fast forward a few years, learned a lot, end up moving more towards a holistic form of healing. So that's where I learned what healthy eating actually means, you know, what what working out to actually heal your body and support your body looks like, not just, you know, doing an intensive HIIT workout seven days a week and expecting that to serve you. I learned, you know, about root cause toxins, what toxins are actually, you know, driving your systems down and what it means to open your drainage pathways and get things moving and optimizing your body systems. And then that moved into energy work. Cause it was like, I always would get to a point. I would, I would get to a point of healing where I'm like, yes, that worked. What I just did helped a ton. And then I would plateau and I would keep trying to use those tools and they weren't necessarily, not that they weren't working, but they weren't working as well anymore. And that was, that's really the lens for for me to know that it's time to shift into something else. Maybe you'll come back to that later. You'll come back to those foundations later, but it's time to shift into something new. So that's where I brought in the energy work. And at this point now, this is just me receiving all of these things. And then there became a point where I was just really unhappy with my job. I knew I didn't want to do that forever. This was also in 2020. So obviously if you're a human being and you know what 2020 was, I don't have to explain that to you, but it was 2020. Me and my husband were getting married. We postponed our wedding because of 2020 things. And I'm like, oh yeah, I don't like my job anymore. So it's like everything was like coming to a halt. My health was okay. It wasn't great. I still had a panic attack on my wedding day. So it was lovely. um And it was just like all these things finally came to a halt and was like, I need to make a big shift. I just didn't know what it was. So it finally was me realizing I wanted to actually move into the work that I was receiving and offer it to other people, which I never saw coming.
Healing through Life Changes
00:09:00
Speaker
Like I was the the tech girl loved to be in leadership. I was like hardcore corporate girl and I was loving life until I wasn't. So that was what really got me into this space was receiving all of this healing, receiving these services, and then wanting to really offer it to others because it helped me so much. And what I saw was I had to go to like five different people to get the healing I was looking for, because I had to go to each person for a different perspective, but I knew all of those perspectives were actually helping me heal. So I was like, well, what if, because I have this perspective of all of it's working. So what if I learn all of it and do it myself and then bring all of those different perspectives to the services that I offer? And so that's what I felt like I was like collecting these like puzzle pieces along the way. I had to like shift my perspective into that at the time I was like annoyed, but I had to bring in, well, I didn't, I decided to bring in this perspective of putting everything in this one nice bowed box basically. And so that when people come to me, it's like, okay, well, what do you need to focus on? Not what do I have? Here's my tool. You'll come to me with this tool. It's like, this is the treasure chest of all the tools that I have. What do you need at this time? Which really has allowed me to offer such customization to clients because that's what I needed. And I had to keep shifting. So instead of you having to keep shifting to new people, we just shift in what we're doing that day. And that's how I really landed here. And my business has been evolving since I really decided I wanted to help people because of the help that I really received. I love that. Okay. So can we go back to the idea that there is like, there's a way to tap into your full potential as a human being. And it's this idea of inspiration versus desperation. Like you don't have to hit rock bottom in order to receive at full capacity. Right. So can you speak to that just a little bit more in like your experience of that?
Responsibility for Happiness and Soul Alignment
00:11:16
Speaker
Yeah, i I absolutely love that. So again, I shared that as my journey at the beginning, but now as I'm, I know that, and I'm bringing that to my awareness more, maybe it's not health related. Maybe it's business related. We don't necessarily have to let the business completely fall apart and completely feel like it's hitting rock bottom before you make a change. That's why listening to your intuition, listening to your body is so important because it's going to tell you. It's been telling you what moves to make before you allowed it to hit rock bottom. People just don't tend to listen to their body until it's so loud. They can't move and you don't have to, that's not the message. The message has been showing up. So for example, maybe you are experiencing digestive issues and you're like, you know, I'm really just, you start to pin it on food. Oh, I can't really digest this food. Like, you know, gluten and dairy are like the banes of everyone's existence. And that's like a deeper conversation for later, but they are villainized easily. So it's like, oh, you know what? I had some bread today. You know what? That's why I'm just feeling this way. You know what? I had too much dairy today. That's why I'm feeling this way. And there is so, so much deeper explanation to that. So, but I'm using this as an example to say, can we stop blaming external things? Food is blamed so easily. Can we stop blaming these external things and say, okay, what was I thinking about when I ate that food? What environment was I in? What was going on in my mind, in my energy, in in my life when that was happening, when you're now not able to digest food? The energetics of not being able to digest food is your body not feeling safe, not absorbing. like Let's take the energetics and the physical of what's happening and figure stop blaming, stop blaming other things, other people, and actually own up to what your body is showing you. Okay. If you are not feeling like you're able to digest something, is it sitting? This energy is like sitting in your stomach. Is this something connected to your solar plexus? Are you not in your power? Are you not feeling safe? What conversation was going on? And can we not, can we just stop blaming and listen to those little nudges, that tiny little nudge of you weren't necessarily able to fully digest something easily without feeling it. You know, if you're, if you're digesting food optimally, you should not feel this like pit in your stomach. It should just be flowing nicely through your body. If there's any kind of little pit in your stomach that you're feeling, that's that tiny little nudge that's trying to tell you, hey, hey, look here. Hey, look here. Maybe it's your shoulder. And it's like, oh, it's kind of like sore today. And you're like, oh, whatever. I, you know, I heard it doing X, Y, Z, or maybe it's your knee or your foot or whatever, your back. But it's going to get louder and louder and louder the more you put it off and say, oh, it's just this. Oh, it's just that. When you could have listened when it was the tiny nudge. But now it's become this entire chronic health issue because it's really been going on for the past 10 years. You have just come up with 50 excuses to ignore it. And I'm watching your face. So I feel like this really resonate
00:14:32
Speaker
like was out in my kitchen talking to, um, our nanny and we were having a conversation about taking responsibility and, um, like, okay. So I had a situation where I like, just for example, okay, let me back up. I was telling her that I repulse people that do not take responsibility for their own happiness and for their own joy and blame all external circumstances on everything, on the way that they feel. And I totally understand because that's where I started. Like I literally learned everything I could about nutrition and food and veganism and then vegetarianism. Like I was all over the map with everything and began condemning other people. And what I didn't realize at the time was like, what a rigid identity I was building for myself. And the idea that I was going to now have to live up to my own unrealistic expectations. And what I was going to start doing was I was going to be projecting my own disdain with myself for not being able to, you know, hold up to those new standards, which are totally unattainable. And I project that onto other people and get really resentful about life itself. And so I was telling her this and I was making the example of this, this person that I grew up with and going to visit her. And, um, it was only a one-time thing never happened again because of the propulsion here at this point, like in my life. And I know it's because we're on different levels of consciousness, period, point blank. It's not a better or worse thing. It's just different. And so I was with her and I will never forget, like, she's, you know, a healer quote unquote. And, um, I just want to make the distinction right now. Like I can't help myself because this is my podcast, but I have to say that you don't just get to be a healer. Like you have to have experience with true healing, with going through an initiation that you might not have wanted for yourself, but you got through
Transformation from Mind to Soul Healing
00:16:51
Speaker
it. You went through it and had a genuine shift of energy as a result. So that's how we heal people. We experience a shift and then we are able to then transmit that to other people. And so my point is, is that I was with her and I just will never forget the amount of complaining and complaining about the toxicity and this and that and diapers and blah, blah, blah, and the baby food. And I just, I, you know, I'm sitting there and I'm trying to, I mean, I didn't have anything to say because I had prayed up before I went and I told myself like, I'm just going to try to be of service. Like, I don't really know why we're getting together right now, but you know, let's just do it and see how it goes. So I was pretty, I was pretty present during those conversations, but looking back, it was just so much blaming and condemning and taking zero, zero responsibility or accountability for her own behaviors and thoughts and feelings and the results that that was producing in her own life. Right. So that actually, like, I, I mean, I'm not too, not too high to say this, that kind of behavior at this point in my life, like, is very, very aversive to me. I don't like it. And it's hard for me not to judge. And I'm going to just be honest about it. It sucks, but it is what it is. So I was just thinking to myself, like, man, it's crazy because I went from that same place of having all those same feelings about everything and feeling like the world was the problem. But then the most profound thing ever happened to me. And it was when I hit rock bottom and my rock bottom is different than anybody else's rock bottom, right? It actually wasn't as low as many other people's can be, but it was just that feeling of like, oh my God, I, if I keep going the way that I'm going, I'm never going to get to where I want to be kind of thing. And in that moment, realizing I was an alcoholic and needed help. And that for me was enough. And it, and it produced a miracle where the obsession to drink was really like instantaneously and has never come back, you know, almost six years later. So I know that miracles are like mundane, like normal thing. But all of this to say that the only thing that I really needed to shift back when I was blaming the world and what I see other people, you know, really like not needing to hear, but just to understand is there is such a shift, a simple shift. It's just one shift and it will literally change everything and heal literally everything. And it's going from mind to soul. It's literally getting out of your own head and getting back into your heart and allowing that place to lead. Because if she in that moment could have seen what was happening, the pain, right? I call it falling off the spiritual horse. It's like, it really hurts. And you should know that if it's that painful, you probably are, you've fallen off, you've broken your hip. Like you need fucking help. Like, yeah, you got to get back on the horse. So that's like, if you're in that much pain and suffering, it's time to just shift your perspective and go, wait, am I living for my soul or my head right now? Probably my head. If I'm complaining, if I'm doing anything that is not resonant with the, the, the person that I really am, that is actually just already wholly healed, then I'm doing it wrong. Sorry. I'm a little jacked up on coffee too right now. So I got a lot of opinions just pouring right out. No, I love that. I absolutely love that. It was just like everything you were saying really resonates, but I love what you said about like your rock bottom was different than someone else's. And I think that's super important to know too, because I had these thoughts recently, like when I was going through stuff in my business and it was like these self-sabotaging thoughts of like, have I hit rock bottom
Moving from Victimhood to Healing
00:20:58
Speaker
enough? Like, have I suffered enough to be able to like grow and soar again? And it's like, yes, if you are recognizing this pattern, like you don't have to compare yourself to others and be like, I didn't suffer enough. Like, let me sit here in my own shit longer. Like, no, you're it's like your quote unquote rock bottom is just your realization of what I've been doing isn't working or not serving me any longer. And it's time to make a shift. That's it. If you want to call that your rock bottom, lovely. What I'm trying to get people to understand is we don't have to get to a place where you're literally a potato on your bed and you can't get up. Not to say that, you know, if that happened to you, that it's wrong. But if you're listening and you're noticing these little things happening, it's time to stop and listen. When you're saying like, get out of your mind, get into your body, connect with your soul and see what's actually going on instead of this like pushing away that everybody does of, oh, well, work on it later. Or the other thing that I see happen is people loving the victimhood so much that they're like, let me just suck everyone else's energy because I'm the victim and everyone tell me, poor me. I'm sorry if I offended you. Like now I also trigger people. My existence triggers people. So sorry, no, sorry. So it's just like, look at yourself, like no more blaming. Look at yourself. Well, and I think on some level too, just while we're having this conversation and we're here, might as well just go right into it, okay? I genuinely believe that pain is addictive. I mean, it is. And I know it is because I was addicted to it. I loved it. I loved being the victim because I could justify the behaviors that I wanted to continue by blaming you and blaming the world and blaming outside circumstances for the way I was and for what I had to do to make myself feel better. And I will tell you that the world around me, you know, I will never forget my mom, like just hearing her words. I internalize them. She's like, everyone has advice. And boy, did I use that? I was like, everyone does have advice, mom. You're right. And I've got a lot of them. So I would like use that to justify all of my bad behaviors, which were obviously just continuously building this wall that kept me from knowing my real self, my soul. And that kept me super frustrated, disconnected, and then made me want to perpetrate those behaviors, those self-sabotaging behaviors more because I just couldn't figure it out. And I think you kind of said something about that in the beginning. It's like, I need to make a shift, but I don't know what it is. It's like, that's the shift. It's the most simple shift. Notice that you are in your own head right now because your ego is your mind, right? Like, I mean, your mind is basically your ego's tool or your soul's tool, whichever you choose. And it's what is laying out this path of suffering. And it's just trying to make itself feel real. So if you're suffering, that's not your soul. Your soul doesn't suffer. Your soul doesn't even have a clue about suffering. So if you want to feel good, but this is the willingness thing. It's like, do you really want to feel good? Because if you do, you can make that choice. And yes, there's work to be done. But one other thing that you said that I have to, I have to reiterate is, you know, you do not have to be in the dark to see the light.
Embracing Change for Growth
00:24:24
Speaker
Like I honestly despise that saying because it just perpetuates this idea of duality when in reality, we are all whole and it's already unified. We're in unity already. And all we have to do is scrape away and clear away the layers that, that block us from seeing that wholeness. That's it. And so you don't have to suffer. You can just be inspired by this podcast right now. And all you have to do is literally ask yourself, where am I in pain? Okay. Now focus on that, pay attention to it, not to make it bigger, but to ask it, what do I need to do? Who do I need to become in order to overcome this? Not why, right? Like, have you ever, does that ever come up? Like, yeah. Yeah. Question why come up? And you're like, that's a very disempowering question. Yeah. A hundred percent. And I think there's like a couple of things you said, like you were more, you actually move towards pain where like, you know, people are either, people either are activated by pain or pleasure. Most people are activated by pain and it's mostly because we just haven't felt enough pleasure to know that that's another avenue and we're not comfortable with it. We're actually more comfortable experiencing the pain. So because those are the two motivators, a lot of people will just gravitate towards pain because that's what they're used to. Even last week, I had a dental procedure and there's still like some like minor pain coming up in my, in my mouth every now and then, but instead of gravitating towards this, oh my gosh, let me experience pain more, which is kind of like the thought I had in the past to like create that victim mentality. What I like to do too, because especially because I work with the body is if you're feeling pain or discomfort or anything like that, instead of leaning into it in a way where it's like, oh, this is like feeding this motivation for me to like be a victim and everyone needs to, you know, surround me in my victimhood. I use it as a way of saying, okay, this is what my body is telling me right now. This is where I'm feeling a sensation. It's coming through as pain right now. Obviously, I know I had something done in that spot for me to say that there is going to be potential pain as there's healing. There doesn't have to be, but in this case there is, but I'm still allowing myself to lean into being supported because in this moment, that is what I am seeking to be able to heal. So I can lean into that without leaning into the victimhood mentality. So yes, my body is telling me, Hey, they're sending, it's sending healing to this place. Okay. What do I need to do to be able to support my healing? Does that mean me changing something in my life? Does that mean asking more from others around me? Versus, oh my gosh, I'm in so much pain. Everyone needs to do something for me because I can't help myself. See how there's two different ways of doing it. And it's the exact same scenario, but I chose how to think about it differently. So you can do this with your own body too. Maybe it's not from a surgery. Maybe it was something else that you didn't necessarily initiate, but still look at, okay, what do I need? What is it trying to tell me? What is the sensation trying to tell me? Do I need to shift? Probably in some way, but also if you do need other people to support you or you desire other people to support you, come at it from a you shift first. And then how do you ask other people for that support and help? Not from that. I need you to do this for me because I'm suffering. So that can really get you into a more empowering place because yeah, I think a lot of our society does just gravitate towards the pain. And the other thing that you said that I really wanted to capitalize on is, you know, not having to go from the shadow to see the light you can, but can we get okay with going from good to great? You can have this sensation and you can have these more dark moments, so to speak, or painful moments. And that could be what gets you to see the light, but you don't have to like dip down, like to come back up. Like, can we just go from where we're at to go to a greater space? Yeah, I totally agree. You definitely, that's, it comes right back to the whole desperation versus inspiration thing. It's like, you can come at it from that point and, and it's fine if that's how it works out. And I mean, honestly, however, anybody, if you're listening, however, this comes to you is obviously perfect.
Understanding Life Challenges as Healing Opportunities
00:28:55
Speaker
Like I said, I am definitely jacked up on coffee right now and ideas because I just had this conversation about blame and not taking responsibility. And I'll tell you that it is one of my triggers, but I digress. You know, it, you can come at healing or becoming your best self and reaching your highest potential so that you can help other people heal as well from any which way. But I think the goal is always to make sure that you are, and this is my, this is my belief, but always making sure that you're coming at it from a root perspective, like not. So I was talking to somebody the other day and we were talking about how a lot of, um, a lot of issues that we have in our life are not situational. So it's like, I remember when, before I healed, and by the way, I genuinely believe that we can heal completely from the past. I think that we're always evolving, but I don't believe that we're always healing. So I just want to throw that in there before I keep going here. But I, I was talking about before I healed and had this transformation of perspective. Um, I, I thought that I needed to go to a marriage counselor for my marriage. I thought I needed to go to like a doctor for my weight. I thought I needed to, I mean, I literally thought I need a nutritionist and this and that. And I needed to look at every single situation in my life and heal each one of them one at a time. And that was very overwhelming. I think it would be to anybody and exhausting. And it sounded also very expensive. So of course, what did I do? I didn't do anything. I never took the first step. I never went to go see anybody. In fact, my very first appointment with a therapist was scheduled for, was scheduled. Don't judge me listeners. It was scheduled for five days after I initially got sober and I was so new to the world. I was like a baby bird who knew not how to deal with her emotions quite yet and without any anesthetics. And I kicked a hole in the wall just before I left. And I said, this is not good. I am not in a good place right now, but that was my first, that was my first appointment. And luckily the, um, therapist had, uh, she had experience with recovery and she was like, okay, well, if you're getting help, maybe go do that. And then if you still need help, cause she knew it's not situational, right? She knew there was going to be a spiritual change if I did the work. And she was like, come back if that doesn't work
Soul Perspective in Client Transformations
00:31:48
Speaker
for you. And so my whole point is going from that mind made suffering, that perspective and putting on a different pair of glasses, right? Putting on a new pair of lenses and seeing the world through my soul was really what catapulted me into this healthy experience of life where everything felt like, like really good. And all of those little situations, all those fires that I needed to put out one by one just were extinguished and then turned into like, you know, you talk about Phoenix's rising from the ashes. I mean, from every fire was born like this new life in my relationships and my, in my money and my like success in life, just feeling like a great person finally. Yeah, that's amazing. And you know, when I, when I read people, cause I do intuitive readings and soul readings and I do it at the perspective of people's health challenges. But when we bring in the reading from the soul's perspective, it's always like this higher level viewpoint. Cause like you were saying, you were kind of like hanging out in the weeds and like trying to compartmentalize every single part of your life. And it's so interesting when we bring in the soul's perspective, which is why I love to do it, because sometimes you just are so in the weeds that you can't even see this higher perspective that your soul is trying to bring you on. Obviously at the time when I was experiencing all these health issues, I didn't see them as a gift. Like this wasn't, you know, this, I wasn't like, Oh, I'm so happy this is happening to me. No. And usually, you know, like all those things that you were mentioning in yourself, maybe if you weren't looking at it from your soul's perspective or looking at it from this higher perspective, you may not have seen what was really happening for you, but that's why I like to actually bring it out as well. And like you're saying, bring in the soul's aspect, because that's going to get you to see your entire life as a whole and then get to move forward. And that's the interesting part too, is like, I didn't see this when I started my work. I didn't even know that this was going to happen, but it was super interesting that you brought up like how you were trying to compartmentalize your work. I was a little bit compartmentalizing my work in as far as like health challenges. I was like, okay, I'm just going to focus on people with health issues when I first started. And it was so interesting. It was really like my coaching clients that I spent more time with that made me realize this. Again, I had had no plans of this, but it was like, we would start at their health issues and somewhere along the way, we ended up at their relationships, their job, their desires in life, like so many other things. And I was like, all of a sudden I became this like life coach as well. And I was like, what just happened? You know, obviously like there's a lot of channeling messages from their soul going on as well. So it was like this strange space I landed myself in. And I was like, I was just trying to help you heal your health challenges. But as I was like getting that reflection back from my clients and looking at my life as well, it's like, well, what actually helped you heal? Sure. There are like a lot of tools that we can focus directly on your health, but it was actually by changing and shifting your life. And that's when I reflected on my own self. That's what healed. And so, so many people are waiting to heal their body to go out and live their life. And I tried that. Like I totally tried that. The one thing I remember saying when I was like talking about how I wanted to shift careers, I didn't know what to do. And I felt miserable. We're planning this wedding, replanting. And all I remember thinking is as soon as my body is healed, then I'll go focus on the rest of this. I'm like, whenever this gets done, I'll go over here. And it was really good at compartmentalizing my life. But what really sparked all of this healing was just doing it. And I ended up just starting the path out of, I just couldn't sit in my own crap anymore. Like I just couldn't sit in my own BS. And it wasn't, it was kind of that pushing perspective where I had to get myself out. But again, you don't have to do it. If you're like aware of this already, you can start to make these shifts and changes in your life and that's going to heal. And that's actually part of what I teach now because I've seen in myself and other people, so much of you just looking at what your body is reflecting to you energetically. And what is your soul trying to tell you? What path are you trying to go on? What lessons does your soul
Personal Transformation from Leaving Corporate Job
00:36:15
Speaker
want you to learn? And if you just lean into those and learn those lessons and make the shifts and changes in your life, that is going to create the healing in your body that you're actually looking for. So instead of, oh, I'll get to my life as soon as I heal my health, why don't you use your life to heal your health? And we're going to actually reverse it. And that's the, the, one of the latest teachings that I've been really focusing on. And we can bring in both. We can bring in, yes, like the detoxing and the, you know, focusing on your health because sometimes you need that. You need the support. But I found if you're only giving that support, you're missing out on this entire other opportunity to propel your life forward into something you couldn't even imagine. That was powerful. That was really powerful to use your life instead. It's like, okay, so can you actually elaborate on that and maybe give an example of your experience with that? Yeah. So last year is when I decided to fully leave my corporate job. I had been planning it for about four months and I finally decided that it was last September was the day. And during that time, so this was mainly all of 2023 that I was really planning up to it to the end. And while I had healed the majority of my health issues, at that point, I was still now feeling a new form of weight gain. There was a lot of liver struggles going on, a lot of eye irritation. There was just like things that started to pop up again, which can be really frustrating for someone, especially if you feel like you've done all of this work and you're like, no, no, no, I did this. Why is this coming back? And that was the feeling that I was getting. So I was getting a lot of these health issues coming back that I thought I had already addressed. And on one hand, it was like, I addressed one piece of it, one layer. And then I didn't even realize it was attached to something different. So in this time, I knew I needed to leave my corporate job. It made zero sense. Logically, everyone around me, most people around me told me that that was not a good decision. And there was just a lot of other people. So external things leading me to towards this is safe. This is comfortable. What is wrong with you? Just build your business on the side until it feels safe. And I remember there was this one higher self meditation I did at an event in the summer. And it was so clear. Like I had already knew that this was what I was being guided towards, but it was so clear. It was like, you have to leave your contract is up from a soul contract. It had expired. Like I stayed past the contract. We were up, but I couldn't let go. Like there was that form of safety, especially financial safety. Like leaving a six figure cushy job is like not easy to be like, hi, I'm going to go build my spiritual entrepreneur business. They're like, you're freaking nuts. What's wrong with you? But my body was telling me this is not where you need to be. I had such a lack of energy, such lack of fatigue. And yeah, I know people are like, oh, well, if you don't like the job that you don't have a lot of energy. Yes. But if I'm like dragging my body to work on a computer and granted what the place I was at, I was leading other people. There was really not a lot to do, but energetically it was like, I was dragging bricks with me from my bedroom to this office. It's like 25 feet. It's not far. So energetically, it was like just this heaviness. So many health issues coming up. A lot of weight gain, which was new for me. Like I really had not had that in a while. And so energetically, spiritually spiritually weight gain is a form of safety. It's a form of protection. So if you're like, I'm working out the same, I'm eating the same, like I'm doing all my normal routines and, and I'm gaining weight, it's not your routine. And so obviously as someone who helps people with this, it was really frustrating for me to have all of this happening. And so I knew I was like, I have to leave this job. And once I left, there was a lot of cords that need to be cut energy that needed to be let go. And I actually had to transform into a totally new person. And I didn't realize that. And I could only do so much in that job. I, I definitely did a lot of healing, a lot of work on myself in that job. And it really got to a point where it wasn't going to happen anymore in that job. So me actually stepping into that role and leaving is what healed a lot of those health issues that bubbled back up at the beginning of 2023. I started doing again, I'm doing the same physical things, my diet, my nutrition, my workouts, my daily routines, mind you from the past two years really have not changed a whole lot. Sure. I leaned into one versus the other intuitively, but it's not like that was the big change. It was how I showed up in life. My energy, what I was lit up by is what changed. And that took me on this transformation of becoming an entirely new person. I really had not seen, and this was the other thing too. I really tried to take who I was in corporate and bring it into my entrepreneurial space. And that was a big fail. And I had to like learn that the hard way, but it was that transformation, that progress that created so much healing in my body that I didn't even know was possible or there because I had been weighed down so much by this thing that I was not even in alignment with anymore. This contract was up.
Challenges of Being a Modern Healer
00:41:58
Speaker
Even my husband was like, wow, you are really hard to be around. And he like, you know, supported me in my decision-making, but obviously him supporting me and leaving that job was challenging too. But from a mental standpoint, from who I became for making that soul led choice is what created all of this healing. And it was all of these patterns that were in my body that were showing up, that was leading me towards this is what you need to do next. And so many people come to me and they're like, I just want to know the entire path forward. And I just want to know that if I make this choice, it's going to be successful and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. And I'm like, okay, if you're looking for like the 10 path to success, 10 point path to success. Anyways, if you're looking for the entire path and you're like, this will be successful, I can guarantee you and you're going to happen. And it's just taking that one step. Like I didn't know I had all of that to heal. I didn't know I had all of that baggage to let go of. I didn't know that was going to allow me to lose all this weight. I didn't know it was going to allow me to heal my liver and like help me release a lot of this like allergic reactions I was having in my eyes and all of these things. You don't even know that they're connected, but by making that choice, all these pieces start to fall together because you're more in alignment with your body and with your soul. So what is your body telling you? That's what I actually teach in my most recent program that I did. It's called body language. And I'm teaching you how to actually use the patterns and the reflections and your body's wisdom to show you your next step. No, I'm not going to give you your like 10 point path to success, but it's the, the one path, the one step you just take the one step in alignment. So for me, that first step was leaving the job. That was super soul aligned. Then it was like, okay, now what's the next thing? And what's the next thing? And I had to keep iterating and taking those steps while working on myself. Because as I worked on myself, it healed my body. It created more alignment in my business. And I'm continuing to do that. It's not like it stopped, but it's that continuous progress towards listening to your soul, listening to your body, creating more alignment. And it's just going to perpetuate more and more and more healing. I was like dying over here because it's the same experience that I've had. And then, you know, it's like you watch all of the people who are actually making their way on this path of becoming modern day healers. And this is the path. Like the path is uncertain. It's very
Overcoming Blockages in Spiritual Entrepreneurship
00:44:31
Speaker
scary. And it, but like that uncertainty, that void, like that's where the juice is. That's where the, that's where these big leaps happen. This is where like we cross the chasm of self, like all the things that we need to do in order to become the person that does have the capability to show up every day, have enough energetic capacity to guide other people while still pouring back into ourselves. It is a full-time job and it's the best job, but it is very difficult, especially in the beginning, because like you said, you know, for me, it was the same thing. It was like, I have to quit this job. And I don't know what's on the other side of that, but I have to, because I feel so depleted and I was drinking so heavily. And then I had to get sober. These were things that were non-negotiables for my soul. And if I continued to battle them and continue to try to do them, I would have killed myself because my human is like sitting there telling me over and over in different ways. Like this ain't right. Like you are misaligned. Something's wrong here. And in my experience, genuinely, when you, when you connect to your soul and you actually take action from that place, the physical and the emotional follow suit period. And that's what it takes. But I want to mention how simple this can be also, because I know for me, like I had this whole master plan, like how my life was supposed to go, how business was supposed to go. Like, and it's just like what you're saying, you come into this, you have this idea of what spiritual entrepreneurship is going to be like. And it is the most, again, initiating process that you could ever go through to be a real healer. Because if you don't do these things, you don't take real aligned, inspired in spirit action, you are not embodying what you want to preach. And therefore it's going to be impossible for you to show up in the way that you want to and to help people in the way that you know you can. So for me, it was like, okay, I need to get sober. I need to cut ties with not just people. Like I had to
00:46:57
Speaker
fall away i had to completely shed an identity that i had for 12 years of being a drinker, of being someone who drinks nonstop and just lives that lifestyle and smokes weed all the time. Like, it's fine. I'm still like in my college years, but no, you're not. But I had to release that identity. And then once I did that, I thought, oh my God, okay. Like now I've got it all together. I was so excited and so lit up. And I knew that I knew that I knew that I had this path and I figured this thing out and now I'm going to bring it into my business because that's what ultimately lights me up is entrepreneurship. And yet I was like, oh my God, like looking back, I had so much more work to do to become the person that's sitting here, like hosting the podcast, always working with clients, leading groups, like paid groups.
Shedding Past Identities for Growth
00:47:59
Speaker
You know, these are things that we dream about, but it's a lot more than just a strategy because actually the strategies become a new blockage. They be, they can become a new barrier between you and where you ultimately want to be because you attach yourself to it. And you're like, this is what it's going to, what's going to get me to where I want to be. When in reality, it's just taking the leaps that your soul is very clearly stating are necessary for your next level. And for you to just follow that next, that next, um, that next flash of light, right. That's like showing itself to you. It's like, just do that and don't do anything else and let go of what you think any of this needs to be because it's not going to be any of that. And the faster that you can get okay with that, the faster this is all going to take off. That's my experience. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. Yes. To all, all of that. I just, I resonate with that so much. And that piece where you said of like really shifting your identity, I don't think we sometimes realize how much we're attached to a previous identity. So we have this new idea to shift our life and to create a new direction for our life. But then you think that you're in that new identity just when you make the shift. And really, it's like you had to make that choice and then become the person because you're really like, yes, you can like start the shift when you have the idea and like in the decision making, but you're not that full embodied version of that next cell until you're actually walking it and being that person. And I didn't realize how much like I kind of mentioned, I didn't realize how much of this like corporate identity I was bringing with me into my business and how much of that I had to shed. And it sounds like for you as well, like there was an identity that you had to shift and let shed away. And if you've been identifying with something for so long, allowing yourself to shift into something new is really can be stressful on your mind and just on your ego and on your body and everything. Because if you're, you know, you're identifying with explaining yourself in a certain way with certain people, with going to certain places, like there's so much that can come with this and letting that shed away can almost feel like a death or like this grieving, which is not necessarily something we as a society are always great at. And we try to like push away from any kind of death or grieving, but that's really what it is. And it doesn't mean that that past identity was ever bad, but it just doesn't want to come with you. And I work a lot with clients on this too, because especially in the health space, people love to identify with health issues with like labels and doctors will give them disease labels and illness labels and all these things. And for whatever reason, my path was always avoid the labels, which I think really supported me to be able to show people that you don't have to, you don't have to grab this label and make it your own. You can, which is why, I mean, I do a lot with energetic bioresonance. And I think this is a great way for people to like unattach from identities and labels because you can resonate with something even in life. This doesn't even have to be in health. You can resonate with something in life, but you don't have to identify with it and like grab onto it as like your new title because identities can be great. But if they're keeping you away from becoming your highest self or they're keeping you attached to something that's pulling you down, that's not helpful. So you can resonate energetically with something and not have to own it as your identity. Now, this is also maybe a little bit different as you're moving into a new identity of a person and you're becoming something new, but that's also helpful to know when you are becoming this new identity. If you came from like a highly titled and labeled past identity, is there a reason why you have to come up with this new title, this new identity for you to grasp onto? Because what is that maybe really, where is that showing you some shadows in yourself where you're maybe just not confident in yourself and who you are? So I'm, so it's like, let me attach to this label so I can feel more confident in myself. I'm someone that changes my title and label like every five
Trusting the Soul Path
00:52:23
Speaker
days. She was asking like how to introduce me on like when we started and I was like, I don't know, I'll probably change it five days from now. So like it, you know, whatever you say is great and probably will work for like the next week and it's fine. And having that like transient way of resonating with something can actually allow you to just be whoever you are in that moment and be okay with change and be okay with continuing to change and become something new without having to like attach. Because sometimes that attachment comes from a wound of like, what can I grasp onto so that I feel safe? And that's at least been, you know, my experience in having to like drop away those attachments for an identity. Yes, exactly. And I think a lot of people get very confused about like, like with Eastern philosophy, with Buddhism, for example, it's like, they're not telling us not to have fun with our identity and to, to, material things. It's, it's the attachment to it that, that causes suffering. It's not the thing itself. Like the Dalai Lama has TV shows that he loves that he watches and he's not attached to them though. Like when I, for for example, example, watch watch the the real Real Housewives housewives for for a a little little too too long, long. I I start start replaying replaying fights fights in in my my head. head and And I'm I'm like, like, this this is is not not healthy. healthy. I'm I'm attached. attached. I, I know that that's not a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. There's like, there's a form of either watching or if you're consuming things like resonating, watching and like not being attached. And also I use this a lot with like my breath work events. Like I have people set an intention, but I say like, be committed, but unattached. And I have to remind myself this too, like, cause I have goals in my business and goals in my life. And sometimes we can be so committed that we're so attached to that outcome that it's like, oh my gosh, if that thing didn't happen, then I'm a failure. But bringing in this committed but unattached, if it's new for you, it can be challenging. Even for me, this is something I have to remind myself. But you can actually start to see it in this way where you're like, I am fully committed to this thing, but I am unattached to the outcome because I'm actually okay with something even better coming in because you still want to have that commitment and motivation and momentum because otherwise you're just going to be like hanging out and, you know, hoping something drops from the sky. That's not cool either. But if you're like so attached to what, and that's the same thing when people are saying, I want to make sure that this next move creates this full success in my life. That's how you have to have that unattached feeling when taking that next step. Can you actually trust yourself? Can you trust your soul? Can you trust that nudge that you were given to do that one thing, that one thing thing? and And you're you're like, like, I I don't don't know know what's what's going going to to happen happen and and just just do do it it and and see see what what happens. happens because Because every every single single time time I I have have taken taken and and I've I've actually actually listened listened to to that that and and just just done done the the one one thing and see what happens. That's where all the magic happens. When I try and like plan out every single thing, that's usually when it busts up in my face. So if you like, I mean, start playing with that in like small ways because you're going to start to see, and that's what you can, that's how you can train yourself to trust yourself. Maybe you don't start in like the biggest way. Maybe you don't start by like leaving your job. I mean, you can, I'm not going to tell you what to do. It's up to you. Your soul is going to tell you what to do, but start with like really small things so you can show yourself that you can trust yourself in those small ways. That's where faith comes from. That is exactly where faith comes from. And I know it because I've done the same thing. It's like, I've had to take these, uh, very uncertain actions, right. And just trust, like you said, in my higher self, the part of myself that knows literally everything, I just have to follow that. But we're so afraid of things not going the way that we want that we end up not taking that aligned action, get sick, and then hold ourselves back even more because we're just like, I don't know what's wrong here. But when we take that aligned action, and we continuously follow that path, it's like, okay, you're going to you're going to be doing things without knowing what the outcome is going to be. And to be honest with you, like a lot of times the outcome might not be what you expected, but it's always going to give you what you need for growth, like period, point blank. So the more that you follow that path and you keep yourself open to the possibilities of life, that's when the opportunities come in. That's when things that you could have never conceived or planned for yourself happen. And we call those miracles, right? But really what it is, is us getting out of our own way and releasing the pressure valve. And like I said, allowing ourselves to be open to receive. Otherwise, when you're putting such a claim on an outcome or on some result that you expect, you are closing yourself in and boxing yourself into this very, very limited amount of ways that it could go, that it could result in instead of opening the box saying, okay, I would like for this to happen, but I'm not attached. And then seeing what happens. And again, sometimes you don't get what you think you want, but then it gives you an opportunity to grow. And eventually something will happen where you're like, holy crap, I could never ever plan that for myself. And it went 1 million times better than if I had sat there and jotted down this XYZ plan to get myself from here to there. And, and then all of a sudden that catapults you to the next level, to the next level in whatever it is that your soul wants you to do, not necessarily what you want, but your soul knows what you
Cultivating Faith and Alignment
00:58:20
Speaker
want. And so when you actually follow that, you'll be in total alignment and you will be happier than you could have ever expected. Yeah, a hundred percent. And I think it's also important to know, because like we are talking about like so many of these like miracles that happen, like when you listen to your soul and get in aligned and get in alignment with your soul's path. And that's a hundred percent what happens. I will say I have experience and this happens too, that it's not always this like upward trajectory of like, okay, great. I start listening to my soul's path and I'm just going to trust and everything is going to be perfect from here. Like there are times where maybe you're human is like, yeah, this is not what I signed up for. This is not what I wanted. I said this past summer, it was like every fear imaginable came true. And I'm like, well, I'm still alive. So I'm still here. Like in all aspects, like financial, personal reputation, like all these things that I was so fearful of. And I think I was operating my life in, let me avoid those at all costs. And really what happened was it was like, Oh, you don't want to feel those or experience those? Awesome. We're going to put you right where you can experience all of it. And it was me leading and listening to my soul's path and being in alignment. But it took me into the fear because there was healing there for me and I was able to transmute it. And now those fears don't exist anymore because they came true. Like you can't fear anything that now comes true. You just have an opportunity to work through it and it's now becoming a lesson for you. So now it's less of about, oh my gosh, I'm avoiding all these things. They came true. They happened. And so now it's just me living my life. Yeah. All right. Okay. Thank you so much, Lindsay Walker, for being here. This episode was so real, so raw, so good. And I was wondering if you have any upcoming offers that you would like to tell the listeners about. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I absolutely love this conversation and I hope all of you did as well. And if you do want to find me or work with me further, I do have some options for one-on-one. So you can come over to my Instagram. It's I at I am Lindsay Walker, or my business Instagram is at soul fam wellness. And the two spaces for one-on-ones, there's a 60 minute session. It's called alignment activation. This is an intuitive reading, intuitive healing, root cause muscle testing, all packed into 60 minutes. It's very customized for you. And so if that is something that interests you, that is available for one-on-one 60 minute spots or available. And then I also have coaching opportunities for an exclusive set of women. And those are three month and six months options, but those are really diving deep into this multidimensional health coaching and for your deep transformation and healing. So that's for the women that are really committed to your full, true healing from the inside out. We go all the way into root cause. We go into bioresonance scans. It's healings. It's coaching. It's full time with me for three or six months and have me in your back pocket to really transform your life from the inside out. So those are the two spaces you can find me at for one-on-ones. If you have any questions at all, come send me a DM. I'd be happy to chat. And I also was talking about in this episode, I did sprinkle in a little bit about body language. So if that is more your speed and you are looking for a program to really dive into learning how to tap into your body's wisdom, how to understand how to actually heal your body and move on with your life and really transform your life and not feel like you have to be stuck until you are quote unquote healed. This is actually a program that teaches you how to listen to your body to heal, to make these aligned transformational decisions to create healing in your life. So I'm actually going to give a special code to all the listeners here. So I think that might be in the show notes. So make sure to check that out for body language. And that is a, it's an on-demand evergreen program. There is tons of things already uploaded, recorded, and there's bonus healings and breathwork sessions in there as well for you. So it is super, super jam packed. If you're looking for somewhere to start and kind of a DIY on your own, that is a great place to go. Oh, that sounds so fun. And I love the name body language. It's so good. That's awesome. And yeah, everything that Lindsay just mentioned will be linked in this show notes. So you can go there to find any of it. And if you guys loved this episode, please, please leave us a five star review.
01:03:05
Speaker
we will see you next thank you so much lindsaey thank you