Practices That Quietly Change Your Life | Motherhood, Music, Prayer & Finding Your Voice | Ep. 31

Practices That Quietly Change Your Life | Motherhood, Music, Prayer & Finding Your Voice | Ep. 31

DON'T LISTEN FOR THE ANSWERS. LISTEN FOR THE PRACTICES. What kinds of practices shape us into the kind of people who can recognize when it's time to change? In this episode, I'm joined by holistic coach, singer-songwriter, and soon-to-be author Gina Marie Slager to explore a lifelong spiritual journey that took an unexpected turn. For more than twenty-seven years, Gina immersed herself in yoga, meditation, chanting, world religions, motherhood, music, and holistic healing. But instead of asking where her journey ultimately led, I found myself asking a different question: How did she become the kind of person who could recognize something profound when it happened? Together we explore the practices that quietly shape us over a lifetime—and how those ordinary practices may prepare us to hear our own inner voice when life asks us to change. Whether you're deeply religious, spiritually curious, deconstructing your faith, or simply trying to make sense of your own path, this conversation isn't about telling you what to believe. It's about learning to listen. IN THIS EPISODE • Why people become spiritual seekers • Motherhood as a practice of presence • Finding your voice through music and chanting • Walking as meditation • Why Gina explored yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Kabbalah • Gina's unexpected return to Christ consciousness • Discernment vs. persuasion • The freedom of surrender • Why community matters more than ever • The courage to take the leap—even when you're scared ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 — Why We Become Seekers 01:40 — Don't Listen for the Answers. Listen for the Practices. 02:49 — Meet Gina Marie Slager 03:12 — The Phone Call That Changed This Episode 05:23 — Practices vs. Destinations 07:09 — Motherhood as a Spiritual Practice 11:03 — Music, Expression & Finding Your Voice 13:32 — Walking, Meditation & Trust, Peace, Surrender, Freedom 17:32 — The Practice of Listening 17:46 — Exploring Every Spiritual Tradition 19:01 — Returning to Christ Consciousness 21:05 — Spirituality vs. Religion 22:15 — Embodying Faith Through Movement 23:55 — Trusting Something Bigger Than Yourself 26:28 — Discernment, Catholic Guilt & Returning with New Eyes 32:09 — Fearless Feminine Freedom 34:08 — Freedom, Community & Letting Go 35:23 — Do It Shaking in Your Boots 37:35 — One Final Question ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH GINA 🌿 Website https://ginamarieslager.com [https://ginamarieslager.com] 🎵 Music Trust, Peace, Surrender, Freedom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH KELLY 🎙️ Podcast: Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735] 📸 Instagram: @thatspiritualgirlnextdoor ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor [https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What practice has quietly shaped the person you're becoming? Share your thoughts in the comments—I read every one.

Your Body Is Listening to the Thoughts You Think | Ep. 30

YOUR BODY IS LISTENING TO THE THOUGHTS YOU THINK What if your body isn't working against you... but communicating with you? In this episode, I'm joined by hypnotherapist Peter McLaughlin to explore the fascinating connection between the subconscious mind, trauma, physical pain, hypnosis, past life regression, and healing. Peter's journey into this work began after being diagnosed with leukemia and later navigating Lyme disease. Those experiences led him beyond conventional medicine and into more than a decade of studying hypnosis, subconscious healing, regression work, and helping others uncover the deeper roots behind emotional and physical patterns. Together, we explore questions like: ✨ Is physical pain ever trying to tell us something? ✨ What is hypnosis... really? ✨ Can unresolved emotions show up in the body? ✨ Are past lives literal, symbolic, or something else entirely? ✨ How much power does our imagination actually have? ✨ Can changing subconscious patterns change our lives? Whether you're skeptical, spiritually curious, or somewhere in between, this conversation isn't about telling you what to believe—it's about asking better questions. IN THIS EPISODE • Peter's healing journey through leukemia and Lyme disease • Taking ownership of your own healing • The emotional roots of physical pain • What hypnosis actually is (and what it isn't) • Havening and subconscious reprocessing • Why your imagination may be more powerful than you've been taught • Past life regression and remarkable client stories • Hypnosis vs. psychedelics • Practical ways to begin exploring your subconscious ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:22 — Meet Peter McLaughlin 01:35 — A Leukemia Diagnosis Changed Everything 05:20 — Why You Have to Own Your Healing 09:25 — What Actually Happens in a Hypnosis Session 17:04 — Using a Pendulum to Talk to the Subconscious 20:43 — Why We've Been Taught to Distrust Our Imagination 28:49 — Havening: A Faster Way to Reprocess Trauma 30:46 — What Is Hypnosis, Really? 41:13 — A Live Havening Demonstration 48:34 — Holding Space for Someone's Deepest Wounds 56:12 — Peter's Own Past-Life Experience 1:01:20 — Are Past Lives Real—or Powerful Metaphors? 1:03:36 — Hypnosis vs. Psychedelics 1:05:46 — Final Thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH PETER 🌐 BlueSky Hypnosis https://www.blueskyhypnosis.com/ [https://www.blueskyhypnosis.com/] 🌐 Peter McLaughlin https://www.petermclaughlin.com/ [https://www.petermclaughlin.com/] ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlueSkyHypnosis [https://www.youtube.com/@BlueSkyHypnosis] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH KELLY 🎙️ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735] 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor [https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor] ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thatspiritualgirlnextdoor [https://www.youtube.com/@thatspiritualgirlnextdoor]

We're Back! Part 2 with Dr. Brooke Soto | Ep. 29

What if the eyes are only one way to "see" the world? After a few months away to focus on family and the "spiritual practice of real life," I’m back with Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Brooke Soto—and it takes us to the very edge of what we believe is possible. In this episode, we dive deep into Mindsight: a practice where individuals (often children) learn to perceive their environment, identify colors, and even read text while completely blindfolded. Dr. Brooke Soto, founder of the Mindsight Training Institute, explains how this isn't just a "trick," but a window into the untapped potential of human consciousness. In this conversation, we explore: • Defining Mindsight: What it is and why children seem to access it more naturally than adults. • Dermal Activation: How the skin and body can "perceive" information without relying on the eyes. • Belief vs. The Analytical Mind: Why our skepticism is often the only thing standing in the way of our intuition. • Remote Viewing & Telepathy: How Mindsight connects to broader psychic and intuitive abilities. • Shared Consciousness: A powerful mid-episode demonstration with Brooke’s son, Robbie. Meet Robbie Midway through the episode, we are joined by Brooke’s son, Robbie. Robbie is an autistic pre-teen and nonspeaker who communicates via spelling. Together, they demonstrate a profound shared consciousness and telepathic connection in real-time. Watch vs. Listen Because this episode includes live demonstrations of Mindsight and Robbie’s communication, I highly recommend watching the video version. You can find the full video on YouTube, and it is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Whether you are a deep believer or a curious skeptic, this conversation is an invitation to ask: What else am I capable of that I haven't tried yet? ——— CONNECT WITH DR. BROOKE SOTO 🌐 Website: https://www.drbrookesoto.com/ [https://www.drbrookesoto.com/] 📱 Quanta Bliss App: https://www.drbrookesoto.com/app [https://www.drbrookesoto.com/app] 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrookesoto [https://www.instagram.com/drbrookesoto] 📚 Marc's book, "Aliens Out of Earth": https://a.co/d/0e6XcPXk [https://a.co/d/0e6XcPXk] ——— CONNECT WITH ME 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor [https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor] ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor [https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor] ——— CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome back: The "Sandwich Generation" & Life as a Practice 05:35 Defining Mindsight: Beyond physical vision 09:30 Teaching children Mindsight 23:40 Connection to Remote Viewing & Intuition 27:00 Meet Robbie: Shared consciousness and telepathy 32:45 Live Demonstration: Robbie’s communication 59:30 What is really happening in the brain? 1:05:00 Mindsight and the Autistic community 1:18:30 Dermal Activation: Seeing through the skin 1:26:30 Live Mindsight demonstrations with Brooke 1:44:30 Telekinesis and the "Dime Experiment" 1:47:15 Final Thoughts: "If you tell Mindsight to show you, it will." #Mindsight #Consciousness #Telepathy #HumanPotential #Intuition #Spirituality #RemoteViewing #DrBrookeSoto

Feeling Existentially Exhausted? Try This Grounding Trance Practice with Niko the Medium | Ep. 28

> What if your exhaustion isn’t a sign that something is breaking… but that something is reorganizing? > > > > In this episode, I’m joined by Niko the Medium, a trance medium, teacher, and author who brings clarity and grounded wisdom through a collective consciousness called Noah — a group of archangelic beings here to support our evolution. WHAT WE COVER: – What trance mediumship actually is (and isn't) – How to understand disorientation as recalibration – Why trance states help us become more ourselves, not escape reality – How Niko connects to Noah and who this collective really is – A real-time guided trance exercise you can follow along with – A powerful message from Noah about the phase humanity is in right now 🎙 One quick context note before we begin: There’s a section where we talk about activism and the state of the world. This is not an episode telling anyone to disengage or ignore injustice. It’s an exploration of something many of us are feeling — that when we’re emotionally flooded, even well-intentioned actions can become reactionary or draining. The invitation here is regulation for clarity. Because when your inner state is steady, whatever you choose to do — speak up, parent your kids, have hard conversations, donate, create — comes from a place of presence, not panic. Some people are called to be out front. Others are called to stabilize the room. This episode is about that role. ---------------------------------------- 🔮 CHAPTERS 00:00 Hook + Intro 01:35 Who is Niko the Medium? 02:48 What Is Trance Mediumship? 06:05 Disorientation as Evolution 09:40 What Is Noah? 14:00 Guided Trance Practice (Follow Along) 21:00 Channeling Begins — Noah Comes Through 28:12 A Message for the Collective 33:40 Holding Coherence in a Chaotic World 38:00 The Role of the Stabilizer 42:15 Why You're Not “Doing It Wrong” 45:00 How to Connect with Spirit Safely 49:15 Final Thoughts + Ways to Work with Niko ---------------------------------------- 🌐 CONNECT WITH NIKO Website: https://www.nikothemedium.com [https://www.nicothemedium.com] Offerings: Private Sessions, Group Circles, Books, Courses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikothemedium [https://www.instagram.com/nicothemedium] ---------------------------------------- 💫 CONNECT WITH KELLY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor [https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor [https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YfjCr9r5X8kXLiTHQcgF3 [https://open.spotify.com/show/1YfjCr9r5X8kXLiTHQcgF3] Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735]

Out of Body Experiences for People With Day Jobs | Ep. 27

A conversation about out-of-body experiences for people who still have responsibilities. In this episode, we join Emma from Out of Body Stories to talk about out-of-body experiences from a grounded, human perspective. Emma shares her journey from spontaneous experiences to learning how to explore them intentionally, all while balancing a day job, family life, and real-world responsibilities. This is not a how-to or a promise of enlightenment. It is an honest conversation about consciousness, curiosity, fear, and what actually changes when people begin exploring these experiences for themselves. We discuss: * What out-of-body experiences really are and how they differ from lucid dreaming * Techniques that have worked best through lived experience * Common threads Emma has noticed after interviewing dozens of people * How these experiences impact everyday life, work, and relationships * Why many people feel drawn to explore consciousness without wanting to escape reality This conversation is for the curious, the grounded, and the people who still have to clock in the next morning. ---------------------------------------- CONNECT WITH EMMA You can explore Emma’s work and interviews here: 🔗 Out of Body Stories on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@OutOfBodyStories [https://www.youtube.com/@OutOfBodyStories] If you’ve had an out-of-body experience, Emma also welcomes everyday people to share their stories through her channel. ---------------------------------------- CONNECT WITH KELLY Subscribe and follow Kelly for grounded conversations exploring consciousness, intuition, and human potential through That Spiritual Girl Next Door. 🎧 Listen to the podcast on your favorite platform 📺 Watch full episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor [https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor] Follow along for new episodes and clips: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor [https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor] and https://www.tiktok.com/@spiritualgirlnextdoor [https://www.tiktok.com/@spiritualgirlnextdoor]