Are You Creating Your Reality or Reacting to It? Why So Many People Feel Powerless

What if you are far more powerful than you've been led to believe?

In this thought-provoking episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with intuitive teacher, Reiki Master, spiritual mentor, and creator of Astarte Reiki, Theresa Richardson, for a wide-ranging conversation about spiritual awakening, energy healing, intuition, and the role each of us plays in creating our own reality.

Together, Sandra and Theresa explore:

• What it means to create your own reality and why your thoughts matter more than you may realize

• How to distinguish intuition from anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional absorption

• Practical techniques for strengthening psychic boundaries and protecting your energy

• Why so many people are feeling more sensitive, intuitive, and spiritually aware than ever before

• The role of Reiki in personal healing, self-discovery, and spiritual evolution

• Theresa's unique Astarte Reiki system and how it integrates healing with planetary evolution and consciousness

• The meaning of 3D and 5D consciousness and how humanity may be evolving toward greater heart-centered awareness

• What the Akashic Records are and how they can reveal patterns, relationships, gifts, and soul lessons

• Why spiritual community and daily practice are essential in today's rapidly changing world

• How unity consciousness, self-responsibility, and empowerment can help people navigate uncertainty with greater peace and clarity

Throughout the conversation, Theresa emphasizes a message that sits at the heart of her work, true healing begins within. Rather than giving away our power to teachers, healers, psychics, or external circumstances, we each have the ability to participate consciously in our own growth and evolution.

Whether you're new to spiritual exploration or have been walking this path for years, this episode offers practical wisdom, encouraging insights, and thoughtful perspectives on living with greater awareness, intention, and connection.

Connect with Theresa Richardson:
Website: TheresaRichardson5D.com

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speaker-1 (00:03.534)
Enjoy this Wild Soul Gathering production. I'm Dr. Santa Marie. Pour yourself a really tall glass of spiritual curiosity and join me for the Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious podcast. In the spirit of happy hour, cheers to some new insights, peace, revitalization, and perhaps an aha moment that may change your life. Hi, Dr. Santa Marie here. We are so happy to have each of you join us.

Today's guest, Teresa Richardson, a teacher, intuitive Reiki master, and creator of Astarte Reiki, a modern approach to energy healing and spiritual growth. Teresa has spent decades exploring intuition, multidimensional healing, psychic boundaries, and the connection between emotional, spiritual, and energetic well-being. With a background in education and years of experience guiding clients through Reiki.

intuitive recordings, Akashic Records work, and metaphysical coaching. Trace's work focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves, strengthen their intuition, and move through life with a greater clarity and alignment. Today we're exploring spiritual awakening, energetic sensitivity, healing, intuition, Akashic Records, and what it really means to grow consciously in today's world.

Teresa, it is so great to have you here today.

speaker-0 (01:30.776)
Thank you. I'm delighted to be here. And it's lovely to be here and to talk with you about what I love. I can always talk about that. So yay. Happy to be

speaker-1 (01:39.862)
Before we get into some of the amazing work you're doing, I would love to hear a little bit about your story. You you have described sensing emotions and energies from a very young age. Did you recognize you were experiencing the world differently than many other people when you were young? And what did that journey look like for you?

speaker-0 (02:01.518)
It was pretty tough actually. I was very sensitive as a child and and we didn't have any education or nobody knew and we were not I was not encouraged to be sensitive. You know, we were I think as a culture we were encouraged not to be sensitive and not to dream dreams and not to explore anything out of the norm. So it was it was pretty rough. And by the time I was a teenager I was a pretty rebellious teenager.

I was anti everything. I grew up in the sixties. Okay. in the early seventies and was a hippie girl. But basically what happened was was I shut all that down and then on my twenty first birthday I was living in a in in a little small town in Florida and and here it is my twenty first birthday. I'm alone, I'm broke, I'm miserable, and I decide I'm gonna I'm a s I'm a scholarly person, I love to read. So I was gonna go buy myself a book.

For my 21st birthday and go have dinner at the local breakfast place. So I go to the bookstore and I find this book by a lady whose name is Jane Roberts. And Jane Roberts channeled an entity called Seth. And the name of the book was Seth Speaks. And I get my book and I go to sit down and have my dinner, and every word, every page was like

It was so exciting because this is back like nineteen seventy-seven, maybe seventy-eight. And the first really main and powerful idea in the book was you create your own reality. You're not a victim of of who over whatever. You can create what you want. You have the ability to change things. Energetically, we create our reality. And I can talk a little bit more about that in in a little bit if

But that idea was so powerful. I'm reading this book and I'm thinking, my gosh. And it's talking about reincarnation and past lives and future lives and probabilities and multidimensional universes. And I am so excited. And I decided I'm gonna grow up to be Jane Roberts. That was that. And and then of course, you know, I was twenty-one then. I finished college, I got married, I had a baby, got divorced eventually, or separated.

speaker-0 (04:19.704)
By the time I really got an opportunity to really get into metaphysics, I was in my thirties. And this is in the eighties. And back in those days we didn't have the internet. We didn't have any of the stuff that we have now. And the way that we communicated was we would meet at local bookstores or in people's homes and and I would go and I would buy books, metaphysical books, and take home and read and learn stuff. I taught myself to read tarot out of a book.

taught myself to do a lot of stuff from a book because there was nothing there for me. Another interesting, to me, really interesting thing about that time was that I don't know if you're familiar with Nostradamus or Edgar Case, but there was all these huge predictions that ever since the atom bomb was dropped in the forties, people b were beginning to believe that humanity had to be wiped off the face of the planet. We had to start over because we were had made such a mess of it.

it's one of the few predictions of Edgar Casey's well documented, extremely accurate psychic abilities. It's one of the few that that ended up being wrong as he believed that was going to happen. Biblical prophecies all believed that, you know, the end of the world was coming. And there were many maps at that time. People would circulate these maps that what United States was going to look like after the flood. You know, Lake Erie flooded and

All the way down to Tennessee practically, and we lost both coastlines, and this was pretty much commonly accepted fact among metaphysical people at that time. And then what happened in 1987, there was something called the harmonic convergence. And Jose Arqueles organized really a worldwide meditation at many different sacred sites. What happened at that point was so many people were tuned in and meditating.

That we actually change the future. We change the future. We don't have to go through all that. Yes, we're gonna have some Earth changes, but are we gonna get wiped off the planet? No. We're gonna evolve relatively gently and we're gonna ascend. Gaia, the soul of the earth, originally made an agreement that she was gonna ensole this earth and keep it three dimensional for a certain amount of time.

speaker-0 (06:41.304)
But when that time was up, her middle range frequency was gonna go from three D to five D.

speaker-1 (06:50.136)
Do you feel like that's where we're at now in the transition?

speaker-0 (06:52.96)
Absolutely, absolutely. And because so many people are opening and awakening, we don't have to go through all that. Are we going through some tough times? Yeah, especially here in the United States. We you're going through a lot of weird times. But basically so much good has happened. And it's as a result of more and more and more people opening up. So that's kinda how I got my start and then I I found a teacher and I studied with her and

had many, many, many wonderful teachers and experiences. Took Reiki in the early nineties and mostly just practiced on friends and family until I decided I wanted to teach in the early two thousands.

speaker-1 (07:31.498)
So s the Seth books, it's interesting to me because I've had a number of people on the show who've talked about the S Seth books and reading them actually young, some of them in elementary school, but teenage years, early twenties, and how profound they were and how they literally totally changed their life. I do want to get into some Reiki stuff, but first I'm curious, when did you first realize that you had psychic abilities?

speaker-0 (07:57.698)
I didn't know what psychic abilities were until I read Seth. I had no idea. I mean I ha I was had really, really spongy energy when I was young. What happened with me is I was very empathetic and and was always absorbing everybody else's energy and so I didn't know who I was or what I was or what I was doing or anything really. I'd really bad nightmares, picking up lower astral stuff. I didn't realize any of that until I I read Seth. Then it was

speaker-1 (08:01.549)
Okay.

speaker-0 (08:26.697)
my gosh, this makes so much sense. Now I understand. Seth influenced people like Esther Hicks, Wayne Dyer.

speaker-1 (08:35.384)
Yeah, very significant to change the world significantly. You talked about being spongy and when you were younger. Can you talk a little bit about psychic boundaries?

speaker-0 (08:46.05)
I didn't know anything about that. My first teacher, who's named Gillian Macbeth Luthan, she lives in Tennessee now, taught me to put a pyramid of energy around myself. And a pyramid is a very stable structure. And so for years, every morning I would get in the car on my way to work or whatever I was doing and I would put a pyramid of light around my energy and work with that. And gradually, you know, I I was able to reclaim my own energy. But it was

process. Now, you know, I recommend that people put a sphere of unless it's unless they're really having a problem, I just recommend, you know, a sphere of light or a bubble of light. Your intention is all about everything. When you create a sphere or a bubble of light or an orb around yourself, you're you're strengthening your boundaries, you're defining your boundaries and you're saying, you know what, this is my space and I own it.

And that is your intention, that you own your space and that you allow into your space what you want and don't allow what you don't want. Does that make sense?

speaker-1 (09:52.354)
Yeah, does. Many people today, I think, struggle with psychic boundaries and like what that would look like with everyday life. But the way you explained it does seem to resonate. So many people today, I would say they're describing themselves as overwhelmed, sensitive, or honestly emotionally exhausted. What do you think's happening collectively? You you know, you talked a little bit about

how you got to where you're at today and you talk about like the harmonic convergence, those kinds of things. Those were all collective events that were very s significant. What do you think's happening collectively today?

speaker-0 (10:32.664)
The most important thing that's happening is that the veils are thinning. And what that means is we have a structure around the planet that for eons of time has kept us from being able to connect very easily. People who wanted to do what I do now would study for years. They would live in monasteries. They would have to devote their whole lives to things that young folks are learning on the internet and doing right away now.

And the reason for that is because those veils are thinning and lifting. And that is as a result of energy coming up from the earth and and stellar energies. So what that means is we're all more sensitive to each other. And we are feeling that connection that we are all one and we are all connected. We can't avoid that connection because we are all connected. So how do we live with that? Well, first of all, you claim your boundaries.

Second of all, the biggest thing is to don't watch the news. You know, if you have to watch a little news or get a little newsletter or whatever, okay. But the traditional news companies and corporations have a vested interest in keeping you afraid.

speaker-1 (11:46.584)
Right. Everyone's everyone's selling fear. I don't I don't even have a T V.

speaker-0 (11:52.17)
We don't have cable. We have a T V but no cable. Why here you just pulling your energy from all all of that and focus it on what you want, not what you don't want, because you create your own reality.

speaker-1 (12:02.872)
Talk a little bit more about that.

speaker-0 (12:05.354)
Energy, we now know science has proven without a shadow of a doubt through quantum physics that we create reality with our thoughts. And the mechanism for that actually starts at the cellular level and the quantum fields around the cells, and that's how we create all of this. What we think about and what we focus on is ultimately what we create. Now there are shared

Creations among humans, you know, we all agree that the earth is round and that, you know, our physical reality is gonna be this, that, or the other thing. So they are shared assumptions. But basically, we create, are we gonna be prosperous? Are we gonna be healthy? We create that and you could there's two ways you can do it. You number one, we grew up learning to do it by default, because you have a mechanism internally that creates reality just like you breathe and just like you digest your food.

You don't have to tell your lungs to breathe and you don't have to tell your stomach, and most of us have no idea how that works. But it works all the time. Our reality is created in the same way. And when we focus on positive things and what we want, energy follows thought. So wherever you put your thoughts, that's where your energy is gonna go. That's what you're creating. So if you wake up in the morning and you're grateful, you think, man, I got a great life. Thank you for this bed.

Thank you that I have meals. Thank you that my bills are paid, or you know, some of them anyway, or whatever, you know. The more you focus on the good things in your life and on what you want, the more you create them. Now, the opposite is true also. The more you focus on what you don't want, the universe doesn't understand you don't want it, it just understands you're focusing on it. Let's say you focus, you get up in the morning and you go, I don't feel good today. And what happens?

is the universe goes, okay, you don't feel good. We'll fix that. Well you'll feel worse. And that's kind of how it works. It's important, it's gonna happen anyway, but once you start evolving personally, your ability, your thoughts become stronger and stronger, especially if you meditate and your focus becomes greater. So it's important that you focus on what you want.

speaker-1 (14:23.242)
It's interesting, you know, there's been a lot on manifest people had in storyboards and you mentioned Abraham Hicks earlier. And it feels like some of the I'll say technology or the science that goes with that seems to be shifting like everything else is shifting right now on the planet. And I hear the word flow used a lot more, but s I was just listening to someone and

They were stepping away from instead of believing, having a belief that something can happen, because a belief is something outside of you that we need to go more inward and we need to accept. We need to accept this abundance. We need to accept that my bills are paid, whatever it is that we're looking for, because we may be

manifesting it through storyboards and all of these other tools and techniques that are out there, but we actually have a hard time accepting it and that that was a missing piece. So that's something that just recently has come into my purview. What are your thoughts on that?

speaker-0 (15:36.396)
I I think that's that's really important, accepting it is a missing piece. But doesn't take away from the importance of creation but there has to be a flow. If you look at it in terms of the divine masculine and the divine feminine, the masculine being assertive and creative and the feminine being receptive and magnetizing. Just look around the planet. You know, the the masculine energy ha has overruled everything for for quite a long time.

speaker-1 (15:43.352)
Platforms.

speaker-0 (16:06.444)
The ability to receive and to magnetize is important. It's a it's an important feminine ability. It's important, yes, that we do balance the ability to receive and the ability to create. I don't think you could separate one process from the other necessarily or would want to.

speaker-1 (16:27.96)
Okay. And I wanna go back a little bit more talking about absorbing other people's emotions. You touched a little bit on how that was an issue for you when you're younger and we talked about the boundaries. Your thoughts on helping people distinguish between their intuition versus anxiety or absorbing other people's emotions? Because I feel like a lot of it's at times people are unaware of and at subconscious.

speaker-0 (16:54.656)
An exercise that I teach my students to do is to literally call all of their energy back to themselves through their higher selves to be cleansed, neutralized, and purified. So calling their own energy back. And then say for example, if I have some of your energy, you have some of mine. So then I've got to go through and clear your energy out of my field. But I think just the understanding that you can have ownership of your field.

I think there are a couple of different types of people. Those that are very assertive and self centered and strong and don't think twice about anybody else's energy. And then there are those who were programmed, particularly women, to take into account everyone else's energy but their own. You know, that's what a lot of my practice has been here in the South. It's very different. women's lib did not hit the South at all that I can see. So a lot of my practice here is just teaching women that you have a right.

to your own energy. You know, you need to figure out who you are and claim it.

speaker-1 (17:59.65)
That's really big. That's important. Gosh, what huge work. What a difference you're making on the planet with that.

speaker-0 (18:07.266)
I hope so. Let's

speaker-1 (18:09.646)
Shift into some of your other work. I know that after years of studying and teaching Reiki, what inspired you to create a stardy Reiki?

speaker-0 (18:20.266)
Reiki in case people don't know. Reiki's just simply love and light of from source. Whatever you call source. You can call it guy, goddess all it is, I don't care what call it. But it's a love and light from source. And so there is a tradition that was created by a guy whose name was Mikhail Yusui back in the twenties, the nineteen twenties, called Yusui Reiki, that we all learned. And it's taught in a particular way and there are specific things that you must teach in Yusui Reiki.

To maintain a tradition and the integrity of the tradition. We're not regulated, we regulate ourselves, and most of us are very clear about how we teach it and how we do it. It's taught in three levels. Reiki is all about God's love and light. And I learned when I started teaching it that a lot of my students, that was their first experience to metaphysical principles. And that there was a time, by the time I finished teaching what I needed to for Yasui Reiki,

wasn't really time to spend a lot of time teaching them other things that had to do with, you know, how do you heal, how do you really heal personally, you know? And and meanwhile, all the information about ascension was coming in. And I love that information. I started getting it in the nineties, the ascension of the planet, moving from 3D to 5D, right? So we're we're evolving. We're moving from base three D to base five D. So all that information was coming in.

And what I wanted to do, I wanted because I love that information, I wanted to teach that information in a way that I combine my Reiki training with my understanding of ascension and what is happening to us universally. And so how do we use Reiki to heal and evolve ourselves? When I was

learning all this stuff. I was a single parent with no child support. I didn't have money to pay somebody to help me learn how to heal. I had to learn myself. I've always taught Reiki the level one as self healing. And so the Astarte Reiki takes it a step further where we combine really basic skills of Reiki and self healing with information about ascension. For example, there's a a

speaker-0 (20:40.888)
There's a system of understanding dimensional reality created by Barbara Hanklow, which is called the nine dimensional model of reality. I teach that to start at level one. Because when you talk to people about 5D, they don't know what it is. They don't it doesn't mean anything to them, right? So basically this this model, it's a model, it's a scientific model. It's not it's not perfect, it's not correct in all ways. But basically this model

talks about the dimensions. Zero is a zero point. One is one point. Dimension two is a line from point to point. Dimension three has length, width, and depth. And that's our physical dimension. Dimension three, that's our base. But then dimension four is the astral plane. And that's of our thoughts and emotions. We can't see our thoughts and emotions, but we know they're there. They exist for sure.

So the astral plane is a huge plane that contains thoughts and emotions. Dimension number five is the first dimension that holds a steady bead of unconditional love. And so when we access dimension five, we are able to access that steady bead of unconditional love. And that is where humanity is evolving to. We're evolving to that place where that's the middle ground of our being.

instead of three D. Three D is polarized. Good, bad, dark, light, neither or. Five D is trinitized and dualized. Trinitize, a triangle, mother, father, god you know, child. both and in three D we have polarity, we it must be either or. In five D we have duality, both and. Does that make sense to you?

speaker-1 (22:37.858)
Say that again in five D we have duality or no duality?

speaker-0 (22:41.154)
We have duality, but duality means both and

speaker-1 (22:45.858)
Okay.

speaker-0 (22:46.882)
We can s instead of saying either or we're saying both and. I

speaker-1 (22:51.59)
I was thinking of duality in the terms of polarity. I was like, no, I I thought five D was getting away from all of that. That makes sense.

speaker-0 (22:55.67)
Yeah.

speaker-0 (23:01.484)
It is, it is getting away from all that. And the interesting thing is is you know, us metaphysical people, we like to talk about all the metaphysical concepts of five D. Yay, it's wonderful and we meditate and do all this stuff, and that's good. But you don't have to be spiritual to live in five D. All you have to do is open your heart.

speaker-1 (23:21.57)
Right. It's hard. Yes. It's the wholeness and the oneness and that concept, which it's interesting. Some people are very resistant to that or unsure of it. And I've noticed more and more people are embracing the oneness and the wholeness. In your experience, what are some of the biggest misconceptions you've seen people have about energy healing and spiritual development?

I think that's a big one that you just brought up, that you don't have to be in the metaphysical spiritual world to be able to transition into five D.

speaker-0 (23:58.752)
Another really, really big one that people aren't gonna like, some many people until they figure it out, is that our body knows how to heal itself. Our body knows how to heal itself. Absolutely. It knows how to breathe, it knows how to heal a cut, it knows how to do all this stuff. Nobody outside of you can fix you. People come to me, they want me to fix I don't want any part of fixing them, you know? I want to support them in fixing themselves. Right. And I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions is

the the d generation before us, you know, doctors walked on water and and they could fix the body just like you fix an automobile. And that's of course it's not that simple. It comes from within. The younger generation is so powerful because they've been watching all this stuff on cartoon since they were little kids. And what I see when I interact with the young ones in their twenties and thirties and even forties are they are so far ahead of where I was when I was that age. You know, it's it's unbelievable.

And they're getting ready to start going into politics and a whole bunch of other things that we're really, I think, gonna see some really big changes.

speaker-1 (25:08.364)
Yeah, I I I'm gonna agree with you there. And I think that those changes are going to come pretty rapidly. Unlike the sort of slower ease of transition that we've been in, I feel like that speed of the transition is gonna pick up significantly.

speaker-0 (25:25.974)
I think so. I think so.

speaker-1 (25:28.588)
You've talked about planetary evolution. You talk about your personal and planetary evolution. How would you explain that in a more grounded way for someone newer to all of these concepts and ideas? I think people have a lot more curiosity these days. They just aren't exactly sure what they're hearing.

speaker-0 (25:49.88)
For me, the the easiest way I know to explain it is that three D is a middle ground and we're moving from three D to five D. Moving from our middle ground used to be we created from our base chakras and from survival D we're creating from our hearts. We're creating for the highest good of all that is. And accepting that and enjoying that and understanding that resources are unlimited.

And love is unlimited and everything that we want or need is unlimited once we learn how to create it. And so we create it by working together and supporting each other. There's no such thing, you know, the old beliefs, the three D belief is is that there's a finite amount of resources and if I have mine, I'm gonna take yours, kind of a deal, right? Five D is not about that. It's about everybody finding their way and flowing. You mentioned the word flowing earlier.

flowing into what is their highest good. Because there is a plan. Our souls all have a plan for all of us. We all came in to make a particular contribution, to be a piece of that puzzle. And once we understand what our piece of that puzzle is and just flow into it, the universe supports us a hundred percent. We stop pushing, we stop struggling, and we allow ourselves to be gently guided

Into a happy life, you know.

speaker-1 (27:20.256)
Yeah, and I think one of the a other areas that's getting a lot more conversation that's needed is in the spiritual space, there there's the talk of connecting with the astro planes, the p off planet energies, and it's ascension and ascending with I think the belief a lot of times you're leaving the body in of more recent you're hearing a lot more conversation on the importance of.

embodying all of this. As we're evolving and we're growing into this, we're still doing it while we're in this physical body. So we have to bring the two together and embody our spirituality and all these concepts we're talking about. And I think that that's a little bit newer to the space than it had been maybe five or ten years ago.

speaker-0 (28:12.84)
absolutely true. That's absolutely true. Back in the nineties when I first people started talking about ascension, I thought I I would try to figure out what it was going to be like. And all I could figure out was I was going to be like some ghost floating around somewhere, you know, and if I was gonna be, you know, my energies were gonna be ascent, I I couldn't I couldn't comprehend that I was gonna be physical. And over the years I've learned, yes, you are a hundred percent right. It's about embodying.

And it's not about going out there. It's about embodying the idea that we can open our hearts, that we are connected. When you talk about using your psychic abilities, we're all connected. One of the things I've really noticed lately is it's happening with so many people. They're just opening up. You know who's gonna be on the phone before they call. you know what someone's gonna say before they say it. You know, you know that I did a Reiki share the other night and on Zoom, and there was

four people, five of us. And by computer you break people into two groups. And before I even did that, they each knew who they were going to be put with, even though nobody told And we we had visualized sitting around a table and they had both visualized themselves sitting next to the people that they were going to work with. Because they were so connected. So it's not that people have this idea that that using your psyche abilities is like some big lightning strike, you know, like they have in the movies and

These huge divisions and everything, but it it's really not like that. It's really natural, it's really normal and that is what it's becoming is natural and normal.

speaker-1 (29:47.382)
just saying that I think that people have been experiencing a lot of these things all along. And they just never acknowledged it as such. You know how many times I was thinking of you, I knew you were gonna call like for decades we've heard people talk about these things, but we've never really connected it in any kind of a meaningful way. It was like that was interesting. And now we're seeing more of the connections. You've been in this spiritual metaphysical space for a really long time.

speaker-0 (29:52.514)
Yeah.

speaker-1 (30:17.014)
I'm sort of curious, what have you learned about healing that surprised you the most over the years?

speaker-0 (30:25.432)
What have I learned that surprised me the most? Well, I think when I first started and I knew that we created our reality with our thoughts, I thought it was gonna be easy for to figure out how to do that.

speaker-1 (30:40.726)
It sounds simple, but it's not.

speaker-0 (30:42.784)
Yeah, and and it's not, it's it's very complex. Yes. And healing is very complex. There are some things that we've created. One of my teachers, her name is Mary Margaret Dedholm. You think of somebody with high spiritual energies being really helpful. She's she's out of Cincinnati, by the way. Any anyway, she had been studying metaphysics and what happened was she had to go in the hospital for something. I don't remember what it was. And he gave her a shot of something she was allergic to. And she went almost completely blind and very, very ill.

And she never regained her health completely, but she became a huge and powerful healer for other people. And I thought it was very interesting that she kept those physical disabilities. She couldn't drive because she was too blind. I'd have people drive her. And yet she was able to teach this huge healing work that helps so many people. So healing I think has really complex.

And I I think that people think there's an idea. Somebody asked me the other day, have you had experiences of just fixing people with acute chronic illnesses? And I was like, No. You know, it's not that like that. It's a process.

speaker-1 (31:54.729)
But not that it couldn't happen 'cause it can't happen.

speaker-0 (31:57.242)
Yes, it can happen and it does happen. But that is is it's it's almost miraculous. That comes from inside the first of all, a person has to be ready. Right. And want it. Also with with physical illness there's a lot of secondary rewards. So it's a lot more complex than I thought it was when I started this.

speaker-1 (32:18.41)
Okay, that's interesting. I love that you're working with a lot of people that are younger in their twenties, thirties, forties, as well as people in our age groups. In your work, are you noticing patterns that you see repeatedly and people are trying to reconnect with themselves? Is there a little bit of a shift with that?

speaker-0 (32:39.552)
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is this is something I thought I don't know if this is a answer to your question or not, but one of the things I notice with the younger people is that there's so much information online that they are taking it in and taking it in and going to the next thing and taking more information and taking, taking, taking, taking it, but they're not practicing.

speaker-1 (33:01.848)
That was gonna be my that was gonna be my next question. You could take it all in, but is that really getting you anywhere?

speaker-0 (33:09.838)
probably one of the most important things that I tell people all the time is have in some kind of little daily practice because that's where you really integrate it, whether it's a practice of affirmations or yoga or both or breathing or ten minutes of meditation. People have an idea that if you don't meditate for twenty minutes to an hour every day, you're not meditating. That's simply not true. You can meditate for two minutes and get a huge benefit from it.

The important thing is that you do it every day and you have a practice. Now, for someone like me, it's easy because I live with my husband and my animals, so I have time. For say for example, parents, you know, with kids and all that is tough for them to find the time. But to find some time either early in the morning before everybody gets up or before you go to bed at night, just finding that ten to twenty minutes for yourself and claiming

You know, people don't believe they deserve that ten to twenty minutes for themselves, still to this day. Claiming that time and understanding how important it is just radically changes your life. So online is great. I have some really great online teachers that I love working with, but it doesn't replace a daily practice. The other thing it doesn't replace is spiritual community and having in person connection with folks that are like minded folks.

You know, if you live like I live over an hour outside of Knoxville in a very small town where there's not a lot of like minded folks. So I have to drive into Knoxville, you know, to do things in person and be with my community. But I found it's it's so helpful to have real physical, hands on, spiritual community. Even if you just have one or two friends, you know, that you get together for lunch or whatever. Having like minded

spiritual folks that you can bang ideas around with and talk about what's going on with you and ask questions and give each other input. I don't believe there's a substitute for that really.

speaker-1 (35:15.616)
No, I'm on board with that one hundred percent. You need to have someone that you can dialogue with, someone that you know is not going to judge you when you have different experiences and you're like, What the heck was that all about? And process it and work your way through it, as well as be there with other people. It stimulates a lot of other curiosity and that's really important. And I d honestly don't really hear many people talk about that. I think it's got

Tons of value that you brought that up for sure.

speaker-0 (35:48.236)
really important. I noticed it because I maintained an office in Knoxville for years and I decided I didn't want to drive that far anymore, so I let my office go. And what I found was I wasn't driving in to see my friends as much and how isolated I felt. You know, and if I'd feel isolated, I can guarantee you that other people do. That that was a real illuminating thing for me. We had a Reiki we called it a Reiki round table. It's just a bunch of Reiki people getting together and talking.

The gals that came had so much fun because they hadn't been doing that. They took their Reiki classes and then they were on their own and they did their practice but they they were so happy to be together and talk to each other. So it's just another reminder for me that that's really important.

speaker-1 (36:36.686)
Definitely I do have a few people in my life that I stay connected with. But once I left the city where I did have a true group of friends and honestly my Reiki soul sisters and stuff, and the more I became rural and definitely not around like minded people, it does create a unique shift of isolation. I think spiritual spir in and of itself can be extremely isolating on a good day. But then when you're

not around any kind of like-minded people or people that you can bounce ideas off of or share things with that elevates that a little bit more, that isolation. but to shift topics a little bit, and this is a topic that I'm really interested in and I don't necessarily understand real well, you work with the Akashic Records. For people who are completely new to the idea, how do you personally describe the Akashic Records?

speaker-0 (37:34.306)
The understanding is it is there a field, there's lots of energy fields around the planet and within and through. And the Akashic records are a ninth through eleventh dimensional field that records everything that happens. And I probably understand them better in a practical sense.

Because I taught myself to do it. I got a whole bunch of books and read the different books and said, How am I gonna do this and what's the best way to do it? Because I wanted to work on some stuff and what I found was it really helps you to understand relationships. For example, I have a a daughter in law that that's very difficult for me to get along with and I did a classic records reading for myself. And I got the history of our relationship was started ten thousand years ago.

But once I understood that history, it helped me to understand our relationship now. And to me that's the biggest value of the Akashic Records readings. It also helps you to understand who you are and the gifts that you have. For example, let's say you do an Akashic Records or I do an Akashic Records for you, let's say, or Akashic Records reading. And we find that

You have a life in the 16th century as an herbalist, an herb witch, a hedge witch. And you created potions and medicines and all this kind of thing for people, okay? And that was a beautiful gift and you loved it and it was wonderful. It's a beautiful divine feminine gift to be able to do that. But eventually you were persecuted because of that by the church.

And so in this lifetime, you came in with, let's say, a gift for herbs, which you may or may not use, but might want to explore because it would be fun and easy for you, but it's part of your soul's history. And also you came in with a fear that you were going to be persecuted for expressing who you really are. And that is a big one for for many, many metaphysical people now, that that fear of expressing who they are.

speaker-0 (39:54.06)
They still it's a tough one to get over. What what is everybody gonna think of me? Are they gonna hurt me? And it's so subconscious that you don't really process it all the way through. But what we process it by by not talking about who we are and what we do and all that kind of stuff. Make sense?

speaker-1 (40:12.31)
Well that's I agree with that 100% that there are a lot of people who have a lot of interests in things. That's actually how this podcast came into being. Is there's so many people who have curiosities about things like the Akashic Record, the tarot, those kinds of things, but they're not going to bring it up. They're not going to ask because of a multitude of fears, judgment of other people, but judgment of themselves also, and then a fear of the magic that goes with it.

Yeah, that makes that makes total sense to me. When people come in for a reading, do they usually have a specific question or they just ask like I want a Akashic record reading? I'm just curious.

speaker-0 (40:54.028)
Most of us just ask for an Akashic record reading and I it's on my website but I I haven't done that many people. They don't seem to wanna do that. They seem to want tarot readings. A lot.

speaker-1 (41:04.386)
That's interesting. Well, so with because you hear people or I anyways, and maybe it's because I've had a lot of curiosity about it and don't exactly understand it. The Akashic records are out there in conversation, you know, in the books, out in the media a lot, but you just seem to hear the term a lot. You don't really get into the meaning of what the Akashic records are more than they're the history of everything that's happened in all your lives and then

It seems like people move on. But for you, when you're doing an Akashic records reading, do you experience the records like visually, emotionally? Is it intuitively, or is it different for each reading you do?

speaker-0 (41:46.254)
There's a couple of different ways to do it. There's a process that that was identified by Maureen Saint Gerbain that has specific prayers that you do. And it's kind of like, you know, how the Lord's prayer has a certain frequency and it will take you to a certain place because it's been prayed 30 million gazillion times by a hundred billion people over time. So there's a pathway. There's an ejectic pathway. Same thing with the prayers for the Akashic Records.

speaker-1 (41:54.776)
Okay.

speaker-0 (42:13.986)
But before I learned to do it that way, I just learned to go up and go into a library. And I would go up the steps into this library and I would see the librarian and I would ask her what's going on and she would show me a book and I would write down what was in the book. It was very visual. But I've I'm very visual. Everybody is a some of them are more auditory or more more, you know, kinesthetic.

speaker-1 (42:41.328)
So it's gonna probably come to different people in different ways.

speaker-0 (42:45.098)
I suggest for anyone who really wants to learn more about it, I suggest Maureen Saint Germain's book. I don't remember the name of it, but I'm sure Akashic Records is in the title. It's a really good process and there's lots of really good information in there also. I have a friend that teaches it that I'm sure also would do a beautiful job of teaching it. Her name is Jennifer Stone.

speaker-1 (43:08.664)
Does Jennifer has a website if someone just googled it?

speaker-0 (43:11.918)
Mm-hmm. Multimodal holistics.

speaker-1 (43:15.224)
Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that and I appreciate the information on that. You know, many people you mentioned past lives and I think when many people hear the term past lives, they either become immediately skeptical or they become immediately fascinated. How do you approach that in a like grounded way when you're working with people?

speaker-0 (43:36.44)
That's true. One of the things I have learned to do is when I was younger I thought I had to please everybody. And as I've gotten older

speaker-1 (43:46.424)
Change.

speaker-0 (43:49.086)
Yep. That I I connect with those who I can uplift and be uplifted by. The end. I connect with those I can uplift and be uplifted by. So it's very rare for me to connect with someone who's really skeptical. When I was younger I had a lot more patience than I do now. It's it's really rare for me to connect with skeptical people because I just put that out there. There are a lot of people who are really great teachers for skeptical people. I am not one of them.

And I know that about myself.

speaker-1 (44:20.066)
Well, I appreciate your your honesty and your authenticity on it. So when you were talking about the Akashic Records and your daughter in law and the value and the pattern that that came in, so they really help you make sense of something that was actively happening in your life that maybe you weren't understanding so clearly. When you did other readings, do you notice that people seem to make a connection to present day relationships or challenges when they received the information from that reading?

speaker-0 (44:50.264)
For sure. That's what I love to do. I mean, it just it comes through. But people when they come to you for a reading, what they they want to know about the things we all want to know about. They want to know about relationships. You want to know about job. They wanna know how to create a life that is happy. And so that involves relationships, it involves creativity, and involves having a path that makes you happy. You know, where you feel like you fit in and you get up in the morning and

You know, how how many years have have so many of us gotten up in the morning and go, God, I don't want to go to work today? You know? I know I did when I was younger. And so finding out who you are and and how to align with who you are for me is the goal. First thing I do when I do a reading almost always with a new person is identify the angels that are around them and why they chose those angels and what

what part of their general spiritual path is. What do they come in this lifetime to do?

speaker-1 (45:52.366)
I would guess that that's a a big question or theme that comes up a lot when you're working with people. So do you think the Akashic records feel fixed, or do you believe people can change trajectories and outcomes through awareness and choice?

speaker-0 (45:58.636)
Mm-hmm.

speaker-0 (46:10.948)
for sure, they change. We live in a multidimensional reality and there are infinite probabilities. When you change, according to Seth, when you change the future, literally, physiologically, change the past. So if you heal something in the future, literally change the the experience, the simultaneous experience of the past. I don't know how to explain that in layman's terms. I know it's true.

speaker-1 (46:39.742)
heard that spoken a lot of times and it does make sense when you start thinking about cause and effect that that there would be a relationship between all of the different events and that there would be a change with that. These days that you mentioned that a lot of the younger people seem more interested and are more open and they're definitely more gifted. W everyone I talk to says this

is saying very similar kinds of things. I feel like people are just much more open to the non-traditional modalities these days. And I'm just sort of curious because you're in a in a more rural area, your thoughts on why people may be more open to spiritual tools like Akashic Records, Reiki or psychic readings these days than they have been historically.

speaker-0 (47:29.76)
It's rough where I live. I live in a little teeny tiny southern town and I've still am amazed by the rigidness of many people. However, what I see is that the younger ones, they're getting it from their culture. They're they're getting it from the T V that they watch or the internet that they see.

speaker-1 (47:53.48)
Okay, so the media's making a big difference.

speaker-0 (47:56.678)
it's making a huge difference. You know, people complain about the internet I love the internet. It is I mean, it is amazing and wonderful. I don't think that it's a substitute.

speaker-1 (48:06.124)
You could totally educate yourself on the internet on any topic.

speaker-0 (48:11.822)
Yeah, and the young ones too. I mean, they do. I I had to take a lesson from my one of my other daughter in laws was here staying with us and every time somebody asked a question she'd Google it. And the answer was there at her fingertips. And now I find myself doing the same thing. If I have a question I don't have encyclopedias anymore, you know?

speaker-1 (48:30.478)
Encyclopedias. People probably don't even know what an encyclopedia is anymore. I always loved books. I loved encyclopedias, I'm not gonna lie. I love the touch of the books and the pictures and the whole thing. It was it's a whole different experience than going online looking for information. But I do use the internet a lot. I do a lot of research and investigations and education, and it it really is amazing what's at your fingertips. So Teresa

How do you help clients stay empowered instead of giving their authority away to the reading or the intuitive guidance? So a lot of people come, as you said, looking for that answer, but the answer is within. You how do you help them stay empowered?

speaker-0 (49:14.318)
That's a good question. I think I think it's important that you keep handing the power back to them. Who are you and what do you want? What do you want to create? Let's figure out how to do that. But what do you want? What do you want to create? How do you wanna be teaching basic metaphysical skills in the reading a little bit at a time? So you do Reiki. So I started teaching Reiki over twenty years ago.

And Reiki is a huge practice of empowering people because I've watched people over the years feel and grow and evolve. Think just continuously reminding people that they have the ability within themselves. I teach channeling and one of the things I teach is that high guides give you information but they don't try to tell you what to do. They give you the information, they say, Here's the information on what do want to do with it? They don't try to

tell you what to do or move you in one direction or another. And I think that it's important discernment and discrimination. It's important. Yeah.

speaker-1 (50:21.73)
Discernment. And people need to be active participants. I think that they're looking to not be the active participant.

speaker-0 (50:31.97)
That's the key really. Those are the people that I mainly work with. They're people who who have made up their mind that they want to learn and grow and and I will teach them and help them and do whatever I can for them. But they have to be ready to take responsibility for their own evolution. I don't wanna responsibility for anyone else's evolution.

speaker-1 (50:51.628)
I know it's hard enough being responsible for myself some days.

speaker-0 (50:54.902)
Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.

speaker-1 (50:58.092)
Well, so I'm really curious, and it it literally is a crazy world out there these days, and that's globally. We have a we do have a lot of global listeners to the show. Your thoughts on what are people looking for spiritually right now? What is it that they're actually looking for from your perspective?

speaker-0 (51:17.292)
I think they want to be happy and they wanna be peaceful and they wanna feel safe. Whatever that means to people, they want safety and they want peace. And I think that's why people are s having such a hard time right now, because they don't feel safe.

speaker-1 (51:32.782)
What is do you feel our community is best supporting them or can best support them?

speaker-0 (51:37.678)
To me, teaching people that they create their own reality is just you learn a country so you understand. My life, I get up every morning and I'm happy as a clam. I have created a bubble in my life that is lovely, full of lovely people, good experiences, happiness. Not that it's perfect 'cause it's not, but I think we can teach people that they can do the same thing. And so as one of us learns and the end, you know, people like you and I, we're creating huge

energetic pathways for others to follow and get on. And it's easier for them because we created those pathways. We kicked those doors down, you know? So just teaching them that they can do it, that they can make things better. And also to focus on the positive. Don't give your power away. Focus your attention on what you can control. I think that's a big one. I try to explain to people right now we need to do it at the grassroots level because we can control that.

We can get involved in our local communities. Do we have any control over what they do in Washington? No, we really don't. You know, they're gonna do what they're gonna do. But we do have control and we can participate in what's going on in our local communities. For example, we had someone coming into our local community and they wanted to build a huge dump and bring in toxic garbage by rail and truck.

and dump it in this dump in our community, which would have ruined our water supply and done all this stuff. And the local politicians, the local clinic politicians, tried to sneak it in. And I don't do it. And what happened was locally here in our little community, all these people organized and so far they have been able to legally prevent that from happening, which is a huge success for us.

So that's the kind of stuff we do have control. I'm on my local library board and I do what I can to help. I have control over that. I can participate in that and and I think that's where the changes are gonna come from. They're gonna come from the grassroots. Because basically what's going on in Washington is, you know, we we can't control that. But people really let it upset them. And that's what they want.

speaker-1 (53:55.746)
Well, that's that energetic shift and the emotions and the fear which actually distracts from moving into this five D energetic world.

speaker-0 (54:05.678)
Exactly. Exactly.

speaker-1 (54:08.472)
That's great. Those were really good examples of how people can make a difference. I think we're gonna start seeing a lot more even in bigger urban areas. I do think that there's gonna be a trend into smaller communities that support each other even within the larger communities.

speaker-0 (54:25.804)
And that's how it's gonna work. You know, th right now what's happening energetically is those organizations and structures that support love and support community and support helping each other, those are being energetically fed by the earth and the sky. Those organizations and structures that are out of balance and want power over instead of power with.

Those are not supported energetically anymore. They have to die out and they will. And those folks that want to participate in that are not allowed to incarnate here anymore. The ones that are incarnating now are all about love and light and creativity. So it has to shift. It has to.

speaker-1 (55:20.93)
You just say love and light and creativity and I can just feel the energy literally shoot through my chest and it's yeah, it's it's a beautiful thing. Teresa, for listeners interested in working with you, what might that look like and how would they connect?

speaker-0 (55:36.034)
Well, I have a website. It's Teresa Richardson Five D, Teresa with an H. Teresa Richardson Five D dot com. I'll warn you now it's a work in progress. It's great on a laptop. It's not so good mobile. But you can get on there and contact me and get on my email list. I do do a lot of Zoom readings and I do do various Zoom classes. I don't have any Zoom classes going on right now, but I I teach Astarte on Zoom. I teach individual Reiki classes on Zoom. I do a lot of stuff long distance.

these days and I'm happy to talk and work with you and see what it is you're needing and how I can help.

speaker-1 (56:12.61)
Great. And I you know, I do want to make a comment on the Reiki. You know, back in the days when I got the message to take Reiki before you know Google and the computer existed and I never heard of it and you couldn't find any information on it. Now that it's mainstream, I feel like it's in some ways it's sort of gotten lost. I think most people don't recognize how powerful it is. I mean, we talk about it with healing ourselves, but it's bigger than that. It's bigger than just healing yourself. It's

actually elevating and transmuting yourself with the energy. So I just cause I know Reiki is one of your core things. There's a lot more to it than I'm gonna put my hands on the dog or cat and heal them or I can heal you. There's a lot of work with that. So I just I did want to throw that in there because it literally can shift your whole life. It does. In ways that you could never even imagine, even if you never literally practice Reiki or

lay hands on someone with Reiki, it is going to change and reconfigure your whole energy field in ways that will totally amaze you and shift things down the road. So I I did want to throw that out there because Reiki's some special magic that I think is getting sort of lost in the mainstream right now.

speaker-0 (57:29.186)
Reiki went through a phase where, especially in the nineties, where a lot of people were teaching it that weren't very skilled. And I've seen, at least in my neck of the woods, I've seen that kind of fall away. And now the people that are teaching it one of my friends that was a Reiki teacher would always tell her level one students, If you're in this and make a million dollars, get out now. It's not gonna happen. Those are

speaker-1 (57:54.718)
Because a lot of people were going into it for as a business perspective.

speaker-0 (57:59.104)
Exactly. You have to really love it and you have to really love people. But I but I think those ones that are

speaker-1 (58:05.614)
Not that it's it's okay to make money with it. I don't want to say that it's not. It is

speaker-0 (58:09.89)
No, you have to there has to be an exchange of energy. Right. But my experience has been that most people who teach and practice Reiki, most of have other forms of income as well. Maybe not, you know, there's a few rock stars like William Rand and those people, but but most of have other forms of income and that's okay.

speaker-1 (58:28.992)
As we're winding up the show today, Teresa, I have one last question for you. What is the most important thing that we did not talk about today?

speaker-0 (58:37.678)
Spiritual community, a daily practice. What is the most important thing that we did not talk about? Knowing that you create your own reality because that empowers people. Once you really understand that you create your own reality, you could change it and you can create the reality that you want. And however you do that, you can do it. I guess what we didn't really talk about is unity consciousness.

speaker-1 (59:04.406)
The and that is a biggie.

speaker-0 (59:06.71)
Yeah, we are all one. We are all connected. And what happens helps and heals one of us, helps and heals all of us. What hurts one of us hurts all of us ultimately. So integrating that understanding completely changes the way we face the world, basically. That doesn't mean that you give yourself away or you have to do everything for everybody else and not yourself. It's a balance.

The other thing I guess we didn't talk about, and now now that you brought that up was you've got to take care of yourself first. You can't give from a a an empty gas tank, you know, you just can't. And and understanding that you ha especially for women, you have a right and a responsibility to take care of yourself. Women were trained and and have been trained that if we take care of others, somebody's gonna take care of us. Well, it doesn't work that way, you know, necessarily. We have a right and responsibility to

take care of ourselves and teach our daughters and sons and families that that's a good thing.

speaker-1 (01:00:09.326)
Two very important concepts. It's a great way to end the show. Teresa, thank you so much for joining me today and for sharing your experiences, your wealth of wisdom, perspective on intuition, healing, energetic awareness, spiritual growth. I really appreciated the grounded and authentic way you approached all of the topics today. To learn more about Happy Hour and Wild Soul Gatherings, you can go to our website, Wild SoulsGathering dot com. We have some great free resources and tools for you.

And to everyone listening, I hope today's conversation encouraged you to stay curious, trust your own inner guidance a little more, and remember that growth often begins simply with becoming more aware. Thanks for joining us on Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious Podcast. Until next time, thanks again, Teresa.

speaker-0 (01:00:58.791)
Thank you, Dr. Sandra. It was an honor and a blessing to work with you, truly.

speaker-1 (01:01:04.174)
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Wild Soul Gatherings Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious. To learn more about our guests, please go to our website, Wild SoulsGathering.com. We're very eager to hear from our listeners what you thought of the episode, topics you might like us to cover in the future, your thoughts on spirituality, questions you may have. Please feel free to send us an email at WildsoulsGathering at gmail.com.

This is your host, Dr. Sandra Marie, sending each of you peace and love. Until we meet again, embrace your wild soul.