Do You Want to Live a Mediocre Life?

Do you want to live a mediocre life? 

Most people when asked this question say, “NO”. 

And when I say mediocre I don’t mean this to be synonymous to simple. A simple life is a different thing. 

And yet often a simple life, is one that requires the MOST of what I’m about to talk about these days. 

I CAN HELP YOU LIVE A LIFE THAT IS AMAZING AND AUTHENTIC TO WHO YOU REALLY ARE!

You spend a tonne of time scrolling on social media and seeing many various expressions of a “luxury lifestyle” this can include: travel, vacations, living off-grid, owning and running your own business, homesteading, stay-at-home-mom, as well as buying new cars, or latest clothes or vintage finds, supplements, health products and wellness tools — you name it. 

A luxury lifestyle doesn’t necessarily mean it has to fit into only 1 certain aesthetic. The aesthetic can look different for everyone, but the core desires and what is needed to live or create that lifestyle are the same. 

CONSISTENCY. DISCIPLINE. COMMITMENT TO YOUR SOUL PURPOSE AND GOALS. FOCUS.

All of this creates…

Financial Freedom + Power, Vibrant Health + Wellbeing, Time Freedom + Flexible Work Opportunities, Healthy + Happy Loving Relationships 

One of the fastest and effective ways to experience these core values and desires? 

AUTHENTICITY. 

When you are living in alignment with your authentic self, you are 1000x more likely to succeed and experience all of what I’ve mentioned above. 

If you are NOT living authentically; emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually and on a soul level, then the lifestyle you dream about is much more difficult to attain. And often you’ll feel like you’re struggling, swimming upstream, and facing many hardships without reprieve.

So what does that mean? It means do not settle for mediocrity. Mediocrity being; settling for your patterns, your habits, living from your unconscious trauma, fear and family dysfunctions, and letting what others think of you stop you from honouring your truth and going after the life that you really want. 

My work offers you the support you need to live your authentic self out in the world, free from conditioning and imprinting that keeps you stuck, playing small, hiding, or living in fear. 

If you are dreaming and desiring in a way that truly feeds your soul and nurtures your spirit or take your life to the next level of greatness and fulfillment I can help you make the changes that are necessary while deepening your self-love along the way. 

How to Remember Your Dreams  —

 6 Tips for Dream Recall

Dreaming is a unique experience for everyone. Some people remember all of their dreams, and others have a harder time connecting to the sacred dream-space. Dreams communicate to us of beginnings, endings, premonitions, healing old memories, and sometimes even nightmares! Your dreams are always sharing with you through your subconscious. It’s where your mind can be at ease and the deeper truths of your being, your desires, or your fears come to surface. 

Conscious dreaming and lucid dreaming is a beautiful way to tap into more of your potential and who you are at your core. There is so much to decipher and decode from the dream world that can support you in your waking life! 

Here are some top tricks for enhancing your dream recall. Give them a try! 

Tips for Remembering Your Dreams

1. Meditate before bed or listen to a guided meditation track with binaural beats. This prepares the subconscious mind to do some dream work while sleeping. It’s a great time to listen to a track that focuses on a specific goal, like building wealth or abundance for example, or just pick something that you know will help you get really relaxed. You can even listen to a longer track that you can let yourself fall asleep to!
   

2. Set the intention to remember your dreams. You can’t receive, if you don’t ask! If there is something troubling you, or you know you are working towards a certain manifestation, ask a question you’d like some clarity or support on and see if you get an answer either through your dreams or upon waking. Dreams can be working their magic, even if you don’t get woken up by a dream or you don’t remember the details...but if you wake up and something feels like it has shifted or altered you in your sleep there's a good chance you were busy dreaming and working in the astral planes.

3. Keep a notebook and pen beside your bed for journaling. If you ever wake up from a dream in the middle of the night, or remember your dream upon waking in the morning — write it down! If you remember something throughout the day, any little detail — write it down. This communicates to your subconscious mind that you are listening, making connections and being receptive. More pieces may come to you throughout the day. Often when you are doing something meditative where your mind doesn’t have to think too hard, it can make it’s way back to you. This can happen often while washing dishes, making breakfast or even cleaning the house.

4. Place an amethyst crystal near your bedside, or around your head. Some of the best crystals for supporting lucid dreaming and dream recall are amethyst, moonstone, and clear quartz. Use all three to really super charge your night-time visions. 

5. Drink an herbal dream tea blend of Blue Lotus, Mugwort, and Passionflower. These teas are known for activating psychoactive properties and enhancing the visual parts of your brain. When you drink a nice cup before you head up to bed, you are priming your body for an even more open minded approach to dreaming. 

6. Trust and acknowledge what you receive. The art of dreaming is a practice, and so the more that you engage with your dreams, and trust them the more you will deepen your intuitive connection and open up to new dream experiences like astral travel, and past life recall. 

Another thing to note as you practice your dreaming, is that it is important to shield and protect yourself energetically before you sleep. This is important, because although we want to be open and receptive to the magical wonders of the night we also want to be protected as there are a lot of various energies, and spiritual entities active at night-time. It’s important to imagine and visualize a strong shield of protection around your entire energetic body and aura. You can use the colour violet for a strong shield and then see a strong copper pyramid or another metal of your choosing, surrounding you and keeping you safe. 

Pay special attention around New & Full Moons, as it is likely that your dream-space will be more active at these times.

Make it a normal thing to honour and respect your dreams, to listen and hear each other’s dreams. With your friends, or your lovers. If you’re a parent, ask your children about their dreams daily. You’ll help them discover so much, and help them feel more confident to keep dreaming! This daily dream conversation is also super helpful for decoding, healing and working through night terrors with young ones. Happy Dreaming! 

By Vanessa Faria

Here’s what I learned about myself from My Personal Soul Therapy consultation with a Licensed Soul Therapist

I felt the call to begin a 6 Week Soul Therapy Awakening Sessions with Sarah about 3 weeks ago...

I reached out to her right away and inquired, but then I took about 2 weeks to sit with the idea and really ask myself if I was ready to embark on more work. (I know the commitment that this work requires and how much it asks of me, and so I needed to be myself to feel if it was the right time).

I thought so long and hard about whether I really needed it, and whether I could financially afford, and commit to it. I thought about whether it was the most responsible thing to do for myself while I’m not working as much as normal, and I’m not in the most ideal financial position. 

I almost decided against it, but I was purposely letting myself stay open to receiving more guidance before shutting it down completely. 

This little nudge kept showing up in unexpected ways throughout the days and weeks, only now it was getting harder to ignore. My intuition was speaking to me, and I was absolutely trying to resist it. Finally, I realized I needed to book a consultation with Sarah so that I could have some support with literally just hearing what the heck my soul was asking for by initiating this call to action. I needed a chance to ground into the whole idea even further because my mental resistance was keeping it all at a “safe” distance.

During my consultation I realized that it was really hard for me to let myself show up vulnerably in total honesty, and be seen while doing something that is just for me. 

I also became instantly aware of how much difficulty I have in allowing myself to receive support, and love from another person. (This is especially heightened if I know the person, and they are a friend, or a colleague - of which Sarah is both). 

The thoughts I normally brush off became so apparent as I heard myself say, 

“I am finding this really hard, and I can feel myself wanting to slip away, distract and squirm my way out of being here...fully open, present and honest with you, and with myself.”

I started laughing a bunch of times, out of PURE COMPASSION for all of my one-on-one clients!!! It was humbling to be reminded just exactly how much effort this really is! (Bravo to you all! xo) 

I got really hot, sweaty and turned beet red many times because of how uncomfortable and unsafe I felt in my own body. I could feel how much I felt I didn’t deserve to be there and give myself even this time and space to just consult and see what was calling for attention. (Hello --- This was it!) 

As the consultation progressed, I found myself saying things out loud to Sarah, that I’ve only ever told myself in my own head and heart about a million times...and even though most of these things I have a conversation about with to myself constantly...expressing them out loud felt so equally liberating and terrifying. To watch someone else really listen and receive what I was saying on not only a verbal level, but also on an energetic level was so powerful. 

She gently reflected back to me, what I had been feeling. The nudge from my spiritual child to dive deeper into this work for myself prior to her arrival...while I have the time to be more introspective and not as busy. How I felt I was answering a call of divine timing with the completion of my recent Doula training, and how my soul and spirit knows this as a marker for the deepening of my personal preparation for Motherhood. How I am feeling scared and unsafe about becoming a Mother and yet, it’s an experience I really long for, and know I am unconsciously keeping myself from fully creating. How I feel a bit scattered about what my next steps are, even though I know I’m supposed to be making some big moves soon on a personal and professional level in the coming months.

Intuitively, I can feel that these next 6 Weeks of Awakening will prepare me for other initiations to come later this summer and fall. And once I started to let myself be held in this consultation, I was able to feel my heart opening in ways that I don’t feel as often as I’d truly like. I could feel my whole body settle into a space of deeper trust in myself and all of the nudges and pulls I’ve been receiving over the last few weeks. It felt like confirmation, and internal validation. By the end of our call, my soul had completely taken the reins...I was ready to enrol in the 6 Week Awakening Sessions. 

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Stay tuned to continue reading my week by week reflection of what it’s like to go through a 6 Week Soul Therapy Awakening Session with a Licensed Soul Therapist. I’ll be sharing my personal experience as much as possible (of course I'll be keeping parts of it sacred just for myself), so that you can come along for the ride and start to understand what this process is like, and what it might be able to offer you! 

Thanks for reading xo

What Does Expanding Consciousness Mean to You? ~ Conscious Expansion is A Gift for Us All

If someone asked you, what does it mean to be conscious, and spiritually awakened…? 

What would you say? 

To me it means being highly attuned to your own being and the energy that you are carrying, and emitting everywhere you go.
This includes being mindful of how you speak, the language you use, the tone and nuance of your voice when you express yourself both internally, and outwardly in conversation with others.

It means using your intelligence for the greater good, and using it to support a positive thought process in your own mind. It means being able to recognize when you are repeating outdated thought forms, or being influenced by others so that you can change your mindset to promote more peace. It means taking care of your personal mental and emotional health so that you can feel your best and begin to live as authentically as possible.

It also means, being aware of more than just yourself. Being mindful of how all other living beings, systems, and things are operating, flowing, and simultaneously existing in the world, and beyond. When you are spiritually awakened there is a great realization that can make its way into your heart, mind and soul...that everything is interconnected.
You begin to live in alignment to the spiritual law, where there is no separation between this or that, her or him, me or we.

I personally believe that wherever we have come from before entering the physical body, we have already known the feeling of true enlightenment at some point along our soul’s journey. And yet, for many of us we still choose to come back to Earth in the human form to challenge ourselves and experience something new, or to carry out specific missions to assist our planet's evolution.

We come to give ourselves an opportunity to remember,
to evolve into and embody on the physical plane what we know so well on the ethereal planes.

My personal journey of spiritual awakening, evolving consciousness and quest for enlightenment teaches me so much about our human nature. It shows me how difficult it can seem for those of us who are just beginning to desire more clarity and authenticity for themselves and their families. You want to make some major changes but don't quite know how.

If you feel you'd like support with this, I am here for you.

There are so many things that are made to distract us, to keep us feeling like we can not be or do better than whatever our current or past experiences have been, but I know that there is so much more that SO many people could be experiencing on this planet, and we are barely skimming the surface when it comes to utilizing our consciousness to its fullest capacity.

My heart finds strength in knowing that when we decide to continuously move through the challenges and opportunities that life offers us with as much faith, grace and humility as possible there is so much to gain for all of us. 

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So this mid-week love-note is just a reminder for you if you have recently found yourself stuck in a rut, working non-stop, or feeling a little lack-lustre about the path and trajectory of your days...to love yourself.
To love and honour your journey because it is always being divinely executed by your soul’s choosing.

Do your best to offer yourself and those you meet a little more compassion, support and honest connection today.

Final Challenge:

Seek out the meaning of consciousness in as many of your daily interactions with yourself and others as you can...

Knowing that each time you practice it, you embody it a little more, and the world will be better for it. 


With love & blessings,

Vanessa