Kate Drummond is giving us permission to create our own magic

Kate Drummond is giving us permission to create our own magic

A conversation with The Great Kate I’ve had the pleasure of doing energetic healing sessions with psychic inKate Drummond, whom I’ve taken to calling The Great Kate. I have been so moved by her work that I asked her if she’d be willing to be on the podcast, and she agreed! In this interview (recorded in September), Kate shares about her journey as a healer. She also discusses her cutting-edge work with children who demonstrate psychic sensitivity—and her work with adults seeking healing via her Auric Light Alchemy modality. Along the way, we touch on so many things: addiction; connection; ritual—and how to develop our innate psychic capabilities…and prioritizing pleasure as the ultimate act of resistance. Thank you so much, Kate! Come to Kate’s Psychic + Wellness Fair next Sunday! I’ll be at Kate’s 2025 Psychic + Wellness Fair [https://www.theenergeticheart.com/2025-psychic-wellness-fair] on Sunday, October 19, 11am–3pm (advance tickets only). I’ll be leading a 25-minute group Inquiry Meditation (IM) session at 1:30 pm. If you’re in the Atlanta area and want to spend some some time with the area’s finest healing/psychic/wellness practitioners: do come thru [https://www.theenergeticheart.com/2025-psychic-wellness-fair]! More about Kate and her work Kate is an occupational therapist, a psychic intuitive empath, and creator of Auric Light Alchemy and The Codes of Aset. She is the owner of AboutPlay Therapy and The Energetic Heart. Kate works online as well as in person in Atlanta. Kate believes that we all have inherent gifts and is passionate about helping others to unlock their own potential and divinity. Learn more about her here [https://www.theenergeticheart.com/]. And as always, you’re invited to… – Buy 99 Problems [https://www.lqwrites.net/]– Book your 20-min IM Consultation [https://calendly.com/lquigless/inquiry-meditation-20-minute-consultation]– Subscribe to The Gospel of Leslie below! The Gospel of Leslie is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe [https://thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

"It is so good that I am here." How to do shadow work, Part II of II

Listen on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3xLChwFMkDrVZK4cCLJSJj?si=4b805f88d3b14345] or Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leslies-onlyfam/id1776194002]. Last week, in Part I [https://thegospelofleslie.substack.com/p/i-am-a-complete-failure-how-to-do]of this 2-part series on shadow work, I shared two helpful shadow work exercises and weaved in a bit about the tenets of shadow work. Here in Part II, I’m talking about why shadow work, or integration, as I call it, matters so much—and it does matter very very very much. I share in this vid why shadow work is key to our greatness. And in case you were wondering what greatness is made of, I share that, too. All in 10 minutes. Hope you enjoy. Learn more about how I do shadow work here [https://www.thegospelofpleasure.com/]. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe [https://thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

"I am a complete failure": How to do shadow work, Part I of II

Listen on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3xLChwFMkDrVZK4cCLJSJj?si=4b805f88d3b14345] or Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leslies-onlyfam/id1776194002]. Ready to bring some smiles to your misery and fuckeduptedness? If you’re actually miserable and fucked up right now, I’m assuming that’s a fuck no. Still cool. Just passively watch or listen as I share two helpful shadow work exercises and weave in a bit about the tenets of shadow work. It’s entertaining but not, like, overly cheerful. It is shadow work, after all. And it’s short. Ten minutes. You can do it. If you find yourself trying out the exercises and smiling a little, though, don’t blame me. I’ll be back next week with Part II, where I’ll talk about why shadow work matters—and it does matter a great deal. That video’s gonna be so much fun that look: you already have something to look forward to. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe [https://thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

So you're goin' no contact.

I’ve white-knuckled it through no-contact before. Been doubled over in agony the whole time—hi, 20s and 30s! (Know someone going through a break-up? Forward this to them!) The problem with doing no-contact this way is that even if you finish perfectly, with not one slip-up, not even a glance at the person’s social media—you’ll find yourself either: * going back to the person; or * enacting the very same dynamic with another person. This same truth applies to going no-contact from groups—groups of friends, a cult, family members, etc. You won’t go back or repeat the pattern because you’re weak, or masochistic, or defective, or did something wrong. You are relegated to, choiceless in, going back or going through the very same shit with someone else because you haven’t healed—you haven’t seen—the pattern that’s quietly (unconsciously) at work behind the scenes. All you have to do to heal a pattern…is see it. You really can’t do anything to or about a pattern. You can’t kill it. The harder you try to get rid of it, the more desperate you become, the more it shows up—because it’s coming up in order to be seen. Seeing is the only healing that sticks. We skip over seeing and do everything else except seeing because seeing is so simple. But it’s the only thing that works. And it is so simple. I teach you exactly how to do it—how to see a pattern, how to see and be with your pain—in this 10-minute video. We practice together. And The Gospel of Pleasure Deep Pleasure [https://www.thegospelofpleasure.com/deep-pleasure] no-contact route is so goddamn cool. So deeply healing. Nourishing. Life-affirming. And you’ll see that it begins working in real time as we practice here. And if you do exactly what I tell you in this 10-min vid, you just might be able to sprinkle on juuuuust the right amount of petty, too. And you won’t even be trying to be petty. You’ll just be a deeply healin’-ass human who no longer—well, you’ll see what I’m talking about in the vid. If you have questions, comment below and I’ll reply so we all can learn. An important P.S. There’ll still be pain going no-contact the Deep Pleasure way—plenty of it! You’ll still be ugly crying and carrying on, for sure. But it’ll all feel really sweet, and you’ll know you’re healing the entire time. I practice everything I preach, so here’s what it’s looked like on me before. You’ll see what I’m talking about. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe [https://thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When the cat falls off the refrigerator

I said I’d be trying out more “guerilla-style” sharing a coupla weeks ago…I’ll say more tomorrow in my weekly email, but I think I’m moving toward something prob a little less spontaneous than that. That being said: I was walking to get some food yesterday, and I found myself able to spontaneously walk and talk and recount my horrendous fucking morning and share what I got from it. It’s hilarious in the manner of true shit shows. I hope you crack up laughing at my pain. Along the way, I share action-based takeaways you can begin applying immediately when the shit show comes to your town. At the bottom of this email, you can meet Little Miss Coco Violet, the titular cat at the center of said shit show. Six pounds. 11 ounces. All hellion. And very very sweet. Some notes: * If you’re vitamin c-deficient—curse words-deficient, that is—buckle up, motherfuckers, ‘cause as you may have gathered, we bout to get right. * There’s background noise bc I’m outside and out&about, but maybe you’ll find that part charming:). * (If you happen to watch (versus listening), the captions’ll help things along. And if you’re listening, I suppose you can follow the transcript.) Time stamps: * 00:00-05:29—so what ha-happened, was… * 05:30-07:09—the even worser and more open weeping part… * 07:10-09:35—the exact thing I did all up & through the horrendousness that kept me in a space of peace and non-suffering even as I was Godzilla-style screaming and overturning living room couches and whatnot, but minus the glory of slow-mo effects, so it just looked like I was re-injuring my back at 7 in the morning on a Sunday. * 09:35-10:54—the worst part: the part when the fucking cat fell off the fridge…and what I was doing that made it so I still wasn’t suffering, even as she slipped on some papers and—well, you’ll see. * 10:55—11:52—the real reason we suffer; and what we can do to instantly come out of our suffering. * 11:53-13:15—something I’ve been trying out that I also think is reducing my suffering when shit goes awry. * 13:15-14:41—discipline vs intuitive timing and scheduling…thoughts about that; * 14:42-16:35—“What if the present moment is awful?”, and my amazing Eckhart Tolle accent—NOT! * 16:36-18:49 —the horrendous is part of the flow, too…and why there is no being out of the flow—and exactly what I was doing so that that sentiment wasn’t some annoying (and unattainable) bullshit someone says in some airbrushed social media post, but was a living truth in my body that I could feel even I was openly crying in the vet tech’s face and he was mumbling and stammering and doing all he could to act like that wasn’t happening and I was so broken down that I wasn’t going along with it and kept right the fuck on crying in his fucking face. (Vitamin C-deficient, you will not be. Not on my watch.) * 18:50-19:28—Why it is that wherever we are, there is the flow. There is the flow. I suggest you don’t skip around, just bc you’ll better appreciate the full horror of the story if you hear it from the beginning, and thus you’ll get more of the full payoff…but hey, sometimes this bitch right here likes to see the payoff first and then go back and listen to/watch the beginning and then watch the whole thing. And so, as I’ve said before, am saying now, and goddammit will say again soon: In the words of that man DMX, do you! Hope you enjoy, my friends. Last, as promised, please meet The Petite Feline Femme Fatale: Little Miss Coco Violet. (Age 2. Already birthed 5 healthy kittens. She’s lived. She don’t need no last name.) Coco’s so sweet that she eventually ventured from under the couch last night (after returning from the vet in the afternoon and bolting for her safe space)…and she even wanted some pets. All while ensuring multiple exits were visible. She ain’t no damn fool. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe [https://thegospelofleslie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]