Episodes

  • How Essential Oils Heal | Science, Spirituality and Chakra Activation

    How Essential Oils Heal | Science, Spirituality and Chakra Activation
    Oct 4 2026
    Essential oils bypass the brains slower processes and go straight to the limbic system - the anxiety center of the brain to calm anxiety instantly. In this episode we explore how essential oils heal and the science behind them. We explore the aromatherapy properties of oils like ylang ylang and rose for soothing and calming the limbic system in the brain and why they are so effective for soothing to the heart chakra. We also take a look at stimulating oils such as peppermint essential oil and eucalyptus essential oil that can wake us up, give us mental clarity and stimulate our imagination. I give you several formulas or recipes for healing essential oil blends that you can create at home to activate the third eye, nurture the heart chakra and release anxiety instantly.

    In this episode you will learn:
    • How essential oils work to heal the body
    • The immediate healing effects of smell
    • The importance of the limbic system in the brain and how essential oils affect it
    • How essential oils reverse an amygdala trigger and calm the fight or flight response
    • How essential oils operate on the hippocampus
    • How essential oils operate on the hypothalamus
    • Which oils work best for the heart chakra and which ones activate the third eye
    • Which oils are good for grounding
    • How to blend essential oils including adding top, middle and base notes
    • Several recipes for your own essential oil blends Including one blend that can become a perfume
    • Some essential oils with anti-microbial properties for healing infections

    The Recipes:
    Use a 10 or 20 ml roller ball bottle for easy application. Top up the blend with your favorite carrier oil such as jojoba oil or fractionated coconut oil which both are odorless and have a long shelf life. Oils such as sandalwood and rose otto tend to be expensive and are often sold diluted in carrier oil. If you are using oils diluted in carrier oil you will need to add more drops in proportion to the dilution so:


    5% in carrier: 20 drops = 1 drop
    10% in carrier: 10 drops = 1 drop
    20% in carrier: 5 drops = 1 drop

    Stimulating Blend
    • Peppermint: 3 drops
    • Eucalyptus: 3 drops

    Third Eye Chakra Activation Blend
    • Lemon: 2 drops
    • Lavender: 6 drops
    • Rosemary: 2 drops
    • Frankincense: 2 drops
    • Sandalwood: 3 drops
    Heart Chakra Blend
    • Bergamot: 3 drops
    • Rose Absolute: 3 drops
    • Ylang-ylang: 2 drops
    • Sandalwood: 4 drops
    • Patchouli: 3 drops
    • Vetiver: 1 drop
    Anxiety Calming Blend
    • Lavender: 5 drops
    • Bergamot: 2 drops
    • Frankincense: 2 drops
    • Ylang-ylang: 1 drop


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    29 mins
  • Dark Night of the Soul | When Everything You Believed Stops Being True

    Dark Night of the Soul | When Everything You Believed Stops Being True
    Aug 31 2026
    (00:00:00) Dark Night of the Soul | When Everything You Believed Stops Being True
    (00:00:16) Intro
    (00:00:49) Welcome to Great Light Rising
    (00:01:08) The Awakening Experience
    (00:01:31) Shattering Beliefs and Identity Crisis
    (00:05:31) The Hero's Journey Through the Dark Night
    (00:09:26) The Tarot's Representation of Transformation
    (00:10:59) The Trigger and the Rabbit Hole
    (00:12:48) Embracing the Unknown and Shadow Work
    (00:13:28) The Star, Moon, and Sun: A Tarot Journey
    (00:23:06) Emerging from the Dark Night

    The dark night of the soul is not a single moment, it’s not a matter of having a bad day or a bad week or even a bad year. It’s an existential crisis that calls into question everything you thought you knew about your life and the world we live in. In this video we explore both the themes in the heros journey and the journey of the fool in the Tarot through the Major Arcana to understand how they relate to the Dark Night. We explore what it means to have a dark night of the soul, and how you recover from it. It might feel like you have become an outcast, an anomaly, someone who does not fit in but actually you are experiencing the same thing as many people right now - a spiritual transformation that will set you free.

    In this episode you will learn: - What is the dark night of the soul?
    • How the world as we know it starts to crumble
    • How we question everything we have ever believed to be true
    • How this relates to the the stages of the hero’s journey
    • How it relates to the progression of the Fool’s journey in the Tarot
    • How passing through the dark night of the soul always leads to transformation of the spirit and awakens you to a new reality that is better than ever before.
    To watch this episode on YouTube go here: https://youtu.be/xxaMrV-KsPo

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    30 mins
  • The Positivity Obsession: Is High Vibrational Living Exhausting Your Inner Light?

    The Positivity Obsession: Is High Vibrational Living Exhausting Your Inner Light?
    Aug 5 2026
    Are you suffering from Spiritual Burnout? Do you feel under pressure to maintain a high vibration at all times? Do you tell yourself you cannot indulge in negative thinking because we are manifesting our thoughts? If so, your soul may be on the verge of a spiritual breakdown. Soul evolution is not a race to the finish. There is no deadline and the most harmonious and holistic approach to raising our vibration is by riding the universal waves, learning the universal currents and responding by allowing ourselves to sometimes have a down day. When we deny our true feelings and try to maintain a high every day even in the face of disaster, we are not benefitting our soul development. In this video I talk about how to navigate the hard times without sinking into victimhood and how important it is to be honest with ourselves when we are just not feeling it - our body, mind, spirit knows the truth even when we don’t admit it to ourselves and that can create health issues - the exact opposite of what we are trying to do. Instead we can do the shadow work - allow ourselves to sit in quiet contemplation accept the Divine timing and wait for the right cosmic alignment to resume our quest for spiritual enlightenment. We were never meant to be perfect or perfectly happy all of the time but neither were we meant to suffer.


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    24 mins
  • Which Chakras Need Healing: What Your Aura Color Says About You

    Which Chakras Need Healing: What Your Aura Color Says About You
    Jun 30 2026
    What Your Aura Colors Mean:
    Find Your Personality Type and Identify Your Aura Color(s) - you may have more than one dominant color. Your aura or energy field reflects your personality, including your innermost feelings and desires (yin energy) and outer personality - or the way other people see you (yang energy). Some people have a single color that dominates and that indicates a balanced and grounded personality that is characterized by the primary color in the aura. Some people have more than one dominant color. Despite having an aura color, different colors often appear in the aura in response to changing emotional states, traumas or triggers that cause our chakras to move in and out of balance. When our chakras are well balanced, a consistent aura color appears and when our chakras are out of balance, splashes of different colors appear in the aura. I also discuss what negative energy looks like in the aura and how white auras indicate a very spiritual person.

    In this episode, I share practical and spiritual insights to help you understand the colors in your aura and to realign your chakras if they are out of balance. You will learn:
    • What each aura color means if it is your primary color
    • What each aura color means if it is not your primary color but it’s showing up in your aura
    • What your aura colors say about your personality What moves each chakra in and out of balance
    • What it means when a chakra is too closed
    • What it means when a chakra is too open
    • How to reset your energy state and restore balance
    How this podcast is made:
    Creation and original Script: Mary Fielder
    AI Voiceover: Deevid.ai
    Sound Effects: Elevenlabs.io
    Note: While I use an AI voice, the content of this video is original material drawn from my many years experience with energy healing, chakra balancing, aura imaging and hands on energy healing using Reiki and tuning forks. I hope you enjoy the episode.

    If you would like to watch this episode with visuals please go to YouTube: https://youtu.be/HhctEQme3Ko


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    29 mins
  • Here’s How You Integrate Your Shadow To Become The Best Version of Yourself

    Here’s How You Integrate Your Shadow To Become The Best Version of Yourself
    May 28 2026
    The shadow is not an evil part of ourselves. It is a lost part of ourselves. The undesirable parts of ourselves we hide away, like jealousy and anger are simply unmet needs. In this episode I explore how to identify and integrate not just our suppressed emotions but the warped and twisted idea of ourselves we form because our cultural environment has not accepted or encouraged those parts of ourselves to exist. Come with on a trip into the darkest parts of ourselves where we will talents we didn’t know we had and learn which parts to reintegrate and which parts to let go in order to reclaim our emotional health and become the best and unedited version of ourself.

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    20 mins
  • How Does Tarot Work with Dina Berrin

    How Does Tarot Work with Dina Berrin
    May 5 2026
    We all know that the messages of the Tarot can be powerful and accurate but where do those messages come from? It’s not magic, so what is it? In this dynamic conversation with Dina Perrin, Tarot card reader, numerologist, Life Coach, and published author, we discuss the importance of intuition, our first language, and how the energy in the room magnetically influences the cards that come up. We talk about the Tower Moment which happens when you don't follow your innate calling on your personal Hero's Journey and how the progressions in the Major Arcana can encourage you in difficult moments of your life.

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    57 mins
  • The Alchemical Transformation of Tears: Why Crying is a Healing Breakthrough

    The Alchemical Transformation of Tears: Why Crying is a Healing Breakthrough
    Mar 30 2026
    While some people cry easily, others hold back the tears for years believing that crying is a sign of weakness. But healers know the truth: that tears are a powerful sign we have touched the nerve of a sensitive and painful emotional root cause. Come with me as I explain how something I said make a 60 year old man break down and sob for several minutes in my treatment room and what that did for him. Crying can be a powerful healing breakthrough leading to release of old, pent up energies that leads to a spiritual transformation of the soul.

    Here is the link to the youtube video if you prefer to see a video:
    https://youtu.be/rzWNy3Vvxas

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    23 mins
  • Raising Your Vibration by Redirecting Your Consciousness - It's easier than you think!

    Raising Your Vibration by Redirecting Your Consciousness - It's easier than you think!
    Feb 15 2026
    While we know that we are “supposed” to stay positive and maintain a high vibration in order to attract positive things to us, none the less, life sometimes gets in the way and we find ourselves spiralling downwards into a depression or a state of anxiety or panic. In this episode I give you some ways to pull yourself out of a negative spiral, reset your energy state, and move yourself back into balance. I also give you some tips for managing sleepless nights. One tip is just to leverage your waking state as a time to practice looking through your third eye and explore your psychic vision since the veil thins in the in the middle of the night. This will often lead naturally back to sleep without even trying. Want to know more? Take a listen to this episode…

    To view this episode on youtube as a video go to:
    https://youtu.be/lXZcB3aE90U


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    17 mins