About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

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In this episode, Katie welcomes Shannah Game, a certified financial planner, trauma-of-money expert, and author of Unraveling Your Relationship with Money, for a compassionate and deeply human conversation about money, meaning, and healing in midlife. Together, they explore why money so often feels overwhelming — and how our relationship with it is shaped far more by emotions, nervous system responses, and generational patterns than by numbers alone.

Shannon shares her unique path into financial healing, blending traditional financial planning with trauma-informed practices that center presence, self-connection, and compassion. Her work focuses on helping women — especially those navigating midlife, perimenopause, and major life transitions — feel less intimidated by money and more at peace with it.

Katie and Shannon discuss how shame, scarcity, and the cultural belief that “more is always better” disconnect us from our sense of purpose and inner stability. Drawing subtle parallels to yoga philosophy, they explore how defining what “enough” truly means — both financially and emotionally — can restore clarity, confidence, and inner peace.

This episode also introduces gentle, practical tools Shannon uses with her clients, including Financial Forgiveness, embodied awareness around money decisions, and creating financial plans that honor energy, capacity, and real life. Rather than pushing hustle or perfection, this conversation invites a healing, sustainable, and meaningful approach to money, rooted in acceptance, regulation, and trust.

If you’re in midlife and feeling behind, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your finances, this episode offers a grounded reminder: financial peace begins with presence — not pressure.

00:00 – Money, Midlife, and the Longing for Peace

Opening, welcome, shared struggles with money, and why this conversation matters for purpose and meaning in...

This episode completes a three-part exploration of manifestation through the lens of yoga philosophy, and it may be the most misunderstood — and most liberating — step of all: surrender (Ishvara Pranidhana).

In Part 1, Katie explored manifestation as clarity of truth and desire, inviting listeners to reconnect with what they truly want beneath conditioning and expectation. In Part 2, the focus shifted to alignment and right action — how living your values, cleaning up unconscious patterns, and staying present creates the conditions for meaningful change. Together, these episodes laid the foundation for a manifestation practice rooted in purpose, connection, and integrity, rather than force or hustle.

Now, in this final episode, Katie invites listeners into the deeper truth of manifestation: what unfolds in our lives is often a byproduct of alignment, not something we can force or control. Especially in midlife, when old strategies stop working, surrender becomes a doorway to peace, meaning, and genuine connection.

Rather than passivity, surrender is revealed as an active, moment-by-moment relationship with life. Katie explains how trusting a larger intelligence — something loving and unseen — allows us to relax out of struggle and into presence. When we stop fighting reality or fixating on outcomes, we create space for healing, clarity, and unexpected possibilities to emerge.

This episode reframes popular manifestation culture by introducing yoga’s:

Order of Operations: truth → alignment → right action → results offered, not demanded.

Through embodied wisdom, nervous system awareness, and lived experience, Katie shows how surrender restores flow, creativity, and courage — and why it is essential for living a life of purpose rather than pressure.

As the final chapter in this manifestation series, this conversation invites you to soften effort, trust the unfolding, and recognize that alignment is not about perfect choices, but about right relationship — with yourself, your values, and the intelligence of life moving through you.

04:30 – The Misunderstanding of Surrender: Control vs Trust

Introducing Ishvara Pranidhana and why surrender is essential part of manifestation

Why surrender feels threatening when we believe everything depends on us — and how that belief creates struggle.

7:45 – Alignment Over Outcomes: Yoga’s Order of Operations

How yoga reframes manifestation: truth → alignment → right action → results offered, not demanded.

11:30 - Nervous System Regulation & Manifestation

How regulating our nervous system helps us see the greater possibilities that life has to offer

16:30 – Roadblocks and Detours As Opportunities

How roadblocks to our goals are actually communication with the Universe

24:00 – What It Means & How It Feels To Live In Alignment

How yoga philosophy defines living in alignment and why it's important for manifestation

33:30 – What It Looks Like To Live In And Out Of Alignment

Practical application of living in alignment

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About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and...

What do you really want—and how do you know the difference between a soul desire and an ego desire?

In midlife, this question becomes impossible to ignore. The goals that once motivated us may no longer satisfy, and popular manifestation techniques—visualizing harder, wanting more, pushing forward—often fall flat.

In this episode, we explore desire through the lens of yoga philosophy, offering a grounded and spiritually mature reframe of manifestation. Rather than treating desire as something to amplify or control, yoga teaches us to listen—to discern whether a desire is rooted in fear and identity, or in truth and soul alignment.

You’ll learn why desire itself is not only natural, but spiritual, how yoga understands desire as a form of communication with the universe, and what it means to co-create with life rather than demand outcomes from it.

This episode is especially for midlife women who feel called to live more intentionally, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and manifest a life that feels meaningful—not just impressive.

1. Why desire is considered sacred in yoga philosophy
2. The difference between ego desire (ahamkara) and soul desire (sankalpa)
3. How popular manifestation culture misses the step of discernment
4. Why manifesting ego desires can “work” but still feel empty
5. How the body helps us recognize truth versus fear
6. Desire as spiritual communication with the universe
7. What co-creation really means in yoga philosophy
8. Why midlife is a powerful initiation into soul-aligned manifestation

Yoga philosophy teaches that manifestation is not about forcing outcomes, but about aligning with truth. When we learn to listen to soul desire instead of chasing ego desire, life begins to respond in more meaningful—and often surprising—ways.

About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

✨ Explore Katie’s work and offerings:

1. Visit Katie’s website
2. Join the newsletter for soulful insights
3. Read and watch on Substack
4. Book a reflective Insight Seat

In this episode, Katie Farinas explores manifestation in a grounded, embodied way—breaking it down into something that is simple, though not always easy.

Katie explains how manifestation works through the combined power of attention and intention, and why where we place our awareness directly shapes our lived experience. She outlines five key areas to focus on for 2026—health, relationships, work, money, and material possessions—and demonstrates how attention alone can shift perception and experience.

You’ll learn Katie’s three-step manifestation process: clearly defining desires and planting them into the subconscious, surrendering the outcome while maintaining focus, and holding the energetic state of what you want rather than what you don’t. Through metaphor and mindfulness, Katie explains why calm, regulated energy supports manifestation far more than effort or force.

The episode includes a guided meditation inviting you to explore your desires across different areas of life, release them into silence, and return with greater clarity and trust. Katie closes with practical tools for maintaining alignment, reframing unwanted experiences as clarifying teachers, and staying rooted in self-trust as you consciously create your life.

02:05 Manifestation Foundations

Katie introduces manifestation as simple but not easy, explaining how attention and intention work together across health, relationships, work, money, and material life.

07:29 Subconscious Desire Seeding

Katie explains the three-step manifestation process, including defining desires, surrendering outcomes, and holding the energy of what is wanted.

20:35 Guided Desire Meditation

A guided meditation inviting listeners to explore desires across life areas, observe the breath, and release intentions into silence.

28:30 Awareness And Energy

Katie discusses maintaining focus on desired outcomes, shifting habits through awareness, and using meditation and journaling for clarity.

30:15 Alignment And Self Trust

Clarifying personal desires, staying aligned with them, and trusting yourself in the process of creating a purposeful life.

About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

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• Visit Katie’s website
• Join the newsletter for soulful insights
• Read and watch on Substack
• Book a reflective Insight Seat
• Schedule a Clarity Call

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In this illuminating episode, Katie Farinas sits down with Katie Beecher, a licensed professional counselor and renowned medical and spiritual intuitive, for a deeply honest and expansive conversation about intuition, spiritual guides, and the true nature of healing.

Katie Beecher shares her unique process of creating highly detailed four-page intuitive reports and watercolor energy portraits, offering insights into clients’ emotional patterns, health challenges, and life experiences—often revealing information they’ve never spoken aloud. She explains how she works through the chakra system, integrates guidance from spiritual sources, and approaches sensitive information with compassion and care.

The two Katies explore:

1. How intuitive information arrives—through images, physical sensations, emotional impressions, and spiritual guides.
2. The art of trusting your intuition, even when it feels vague, mysterious, or surprising.
3. The courage required to share intuitive messages, and the responsibility intuitive practitioners hold.
4. The difference between intuition, spiritual guides, loved ones, and other sources of guidance—and why the message matters more than the messenger.
5. Setting boundaries in intuitive and energetic work, and why self-care is essential for practitioners.

Katie Farinas opens up about her experiences with chronic migraines, her search for healing, and receiving intuitive messages about her own physical symptoms. Katie Beecher offers a spiritual perspective on migraines—how they can be connected to avoiding uncomfortable truths or protecting oneself—and shares a powerful writing practice for exploring these connections.

The conversation also touches on:

1. Overcoming disconnection from your intuitive gifts
2. Letting go of the fear of being wrong
3. Writing to your guides as a path to clarity
4. Healing old patterns through honesty, curiosity, and compassion
5. Redefining productivity and honoring your body’s wisdom
6. Creating a culture where well-being matters more than overwork

Katie Beecher also discusses her book,

In this Substack Live conversation, Katie Farinas is joined by fellow midlife coach Sue McCreedie to explore the powerful difference between setting goals and living from soul-aligned intentions.

Both Katie and Sue share their journeys from medical professionals into midlife coaching, and why the new year is a natural inflection point—a time to reflect, release, and consciously choose what we want to bring forward.

They discuss why goals often leave us feeling like we either succeed or fail, while intentions allow us to live in alignment with our deepest values and soul’s desires. From that place, aligned goals can naturally emerge.

Sue introduces numerology and explains how it can guide us through 2025 and 2026. Tarot cards are used as symbolic mirrors for each year, helping tap into the subconscious. Katie then guides Sue through a body scan, breathwork, heart chakra activation, and visualization meditation to connect with a soul word for 2026.

Listeners are invited to play along, reflect, and listen for what their own soul is asking for next.

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00:00 – Show Intro

Show overview

10:00 Origins & Callings

Katie and Sue share their paths from healthcare into midlife coaching and what called them toward purpose-driven work with women.

15:10– Intention Versus Goals

Why goals can feel rigid and draining, and how intentions create alignment, clarity, and freedom in midlife.

23:40 – Numerology Year Themes

Sue explains numerology and how different years carry distinct energetic guidance for reflection and growth.

23:00 – Tarot As Reflection

Using tarot as a symbolic tool to access subconscious wisdom and explore what each year represents.

39:30 – Breathwork Body Awareness

A grounding body scan and breathwork practice to calm the nervous system and quiet the thinking mind.

43:26 – Heart Chakra Activation

Katie guides a visualization meditation to connect with the heart and receive a soul-aligned word for 2026.

49:00 Katie and Sue Reflect On Their Individual Experience

57:00 – Releasing Old Identities

Why letting go of what no longer serves you is essential for stepping into an expanded, energized self.

1:01 Outro

About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

You can find Sue McCreedie on Substack or on her website: drsuemccreedie.com.

Want to see the tarot cards in today's episode? Go to lightseerstarot.com and look for The Magician (2026) and the The Hermit(2025)

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In this episode, Katie helps you navigate the holiday season with more clarity, grounding, and energy. Building on the idea of energy hygiene, she shares how daily energy maintenance is just as essential as caring for your physical health. Simple practices like pausing, walking, or breathing mindfully can help you stay centered even when life feels overwhelming.

Katie also opens up about a deeply personal moment of clarity: recognizing an old unconscious pattern of trying to fix and protect everyone around her. This habit—rooted in childhood experiences of caretaking and managing others’ emotions—has continued into adulthood, often draining her energy without her realizing it.

Through this real-time awakening, she explains:

• The obvious and not-so-obvious ways our energy leaks
• How family dynamics can activate old patterns
• Why trying to control everyone’s experience depletes your internal resources

During a family Christmas tree outing, Katie noticed her body physically tightening—an immediate sign of stress. That moment helped her see the deeper pattern she was living out: the role of fixer, protector, and emotional buffer.

Katie describes awakening as the moment when something previously invisible suddenly becomes clear. These moments are sacred—they’re invitations to shift, not judge ourselves.

She breaks down five ways to recognize your patterns:

1. Repeated emotional reactions
2. Physical tension or constriction
3. Feeling drained or depleted
4. Automatically acting without choice
5. Losing alignment with your values

Becoming aware of these patterns gives you the power of choice.

Katie shares practical tools including:

• Breath awareness to calm your system
• Grounding exercises to create space between stimulus and response
• Vagal toning through vibration, humming, singing, or chanting
• Journaling to reveal your patterns and support clarity

These techniques help you witness your patterns without judgment and reconnect to your values—especially during the intensity of the holiday season.

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94: Healing Through Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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66: Aparigraha: Letting Go For True Freedom

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In this deeply insightful episode, Katie and Britt dive into the transformative world of energy hygiene, Reiki healing, and intuitive wellness practices. Britt—a Reiki Master, artist, and therapist—shares her journey into energy work, highlighting how intuition, grounding, and self-awareness can support healing and personal growth.

Together, Katie and Britt explore how energy practices like yoga, Reiki, Saima Diksha, Tai Chi, and Qigong help release blocked energy, balance emotions, and elevate consciousness. They discuss the growing scientific understanding of the human energy field and how maintaining energetic alignment can positively impact both physical and emotional well-being.

Katie opens up about her own energy rituals, including a morning visualization practice for clearing unwanted energy and inviting divine light. Britt offers practical tips for daily energy hygiene, emphasizing grounding, nourishment, gratitude, and forgiveness as essential components of a healthy energy system.

Listeners will also learn about:

• The difference between Reiki Level 1 and 2 and how each deepens energetic awareness
• How forgiveness and compassion play key roles in healing
• The importance of combining therapy with energy work to address trauma holistically
• Britt’s concept of “attenergy” and how to maintain a high vibrational frequency
• The impact of media and daily choices on your personal energy field
• Simple grounding techniques like hand-rubbing, shaking, and breathwork to release stagnant energy

To learn more about Britt's work head over to her website at: brittmichaelian.art. Take a listen to her podcast Daily Healing Podcast, and check out her Healing House event, an annual art and wellness fundraiser for City of Hope Cancer Treatment Centers.

If you’re seeking tools for energetic balance, spiritual growth, and self-healing, this episode will inspire you to reconnect with your intuition, raise your vibration, and practice energy hygiene as a way of life.