E 228: Spiritual Healing After Childhood Trauma: Guest Cheryl Stelte
In this powerful episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy Vincent sits down with Cheryl Stelte — spiritual coach, healer, and bestselling author — for a deeply moving conversation about transformation, empowerment, and spiritual growth.
Cheryl shares her personal story of being abandoned in the hospital as a newborn and how this early trauma shaped her lifelong quest for healing, self-understanding, and divine connection. Through her 30+ years of experience in spiritual development and energy work, Cheryl has helped countless women clear subconscious blocks, access inner clarity, and step fully into their authentic power.
As the Founder of the Star of Divine Light Institute and Azarias Energy Healing, Cheryl brings a wealth of wisdom to this episode — blending compassion, science, and spirituality to illuminate the path toward deep healing and soul alignment.
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Well, hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction.
Speaker AToday we have with us Cheryl Stelt.
Speaker AShe's a spiritual coach, healer, and best selling author.
Speaker AShe helps mature women clear subconscious blocks, gain inner clarity and step into authentic power.
Speaker AShe is the founder of the star of Divine Light Institute and Azarius Energy Healing.
Speaker AShe brings over 30 years experience guiding women into deep healing purpose and lasting transformation.
Speaker AOh, that sounds good, doesn't it, Cheryl?
Speaker BOh, yeah.
Speaker BOh yeah, it is good.
Speaker AIt is good.
Speaker AThat's what I'm saying.
Speaker ALike that sounds good.
Speaker ASo welcome.
Speaker BThank you.
Speaker BI'm thrilled to be here with you, Tammy.
Speaker AYeah, I know we had just a brief conversation, but I felt like I was like, oh, we're like kindred spirits.
Speaker ALike we have so much of the same energy going on and I absolutely adore you.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker BAnd like this.
Speaker AYes, love this.
Speaker ABut you asked me to ask a question and I love this because I've never really looked at the difference between what is happening now in healing and humans versus 50 or 100 years ago.
Speaker ALike, why is it different?
Speaker BOh gosh, it's.
Speaker BIt's so different.
Speaker BYou know, you talk about dysfunction.
Speaker BA hundred years ago, was the word dysfunction even used?
Speaker BYou know, what was, what was healing back then?
Speaker BAnd so people didn't really recognize, I don't think that they even had problems.
Speaker BYou look at how we functioned and I look at today, it seems, there seems to be an epidemic out there of narcissists, especially in men.
Speaker BYou, you hop on YouTube.
Speaker BEnter, enter narcissist.
Speaker BMy gosh, you are.
Speaker BEven 50 years ago, 40 years ago, that word wasn't used.
Speaker BIt didn't happen.
Speaker BSo a hundred years ago, no, we were conditioned.
Speaker BWe were all conditioned that the man came first.
Speaker BThis is, it's tradition.
Speaker BIt's how things were for hundreds of years, right.
Speaker BAnd so in order to have any kind of healing on any level, we have to recognize there's a problem.
Speaker BSo years ago, it only used to be in the physical.
Speaker BAnd how do you deal with that?
Speaker BAnd so we look at today, we can say, oh, I grew up in a dysfunctional home.
Speaker BWhat does that mean?
Speaker BWell, I look at it from the point of a whole lot of conditioning.
Speaker BIt's a whole lot of conditioning that humans have all agreed to.
Speaker BAnd the most wonderful thing I think about being alive today is we are so heavily.
Speaker BI don't know why I'm using the word heavily, because we are heavily stepping out of that conditioning.
Speaker BAnd I think I'm tuning in the word heavily.
Speaker BWe're Taking solid steps, heavy steps, not lightweight steps.
Speaker BWe are not living this way anymore.
Speaker BAnd so we have to face.
Speaker BFace the realities of what's going on, acknowledge them, see what we are releasing.
Speaker BThat's healing, letting go of so we can become the new evolved species that we've always been meant to be.
Speaker AYou know, it's funny that you said that too, because, well, and I agree with the word heavy.
Speaker AIt's not heavy as in like deep and dark.
Speaker AIt's heavy as in solid and, and foundational.
Speaker AThat's kind of what I think when I think of that going kind of back to the foundations.
Speaker ABut it is true.
Speaker AYou hear these wor.
Speaker ALike narcissist.
Speaker AAnd I mean, that is thrown around so much now.
Speaker AAnd, and I think we all have narcissistic tendencies.
Speaker AI mean, we.
Speaker AOf course we do.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AIt's our ego.
Speaker AI mean, that's just life.
Speaker ABut I look at it too, and I remember going to therapy and I was in therapy for a while and I remember going back to one of my therapists and saying, why didn't you tell me my mother was a narcissist?
Speaker ALike, why didn't you explain that to me?
Speaker AShe's like, well, I never met your mother and I couldn't really diagnose.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, and, and she, I remember this is 20, 20 years ago and she was like.
Speaker AAnd it's kind of just now getting to where we will say, you know, it's in a form of a manipulation that has just never been explored before.
Speaker AAnd it was really coming to light.
Speaker ABut I, I agree in that we are in a world and I don't know if it's because of the Internet, because we have so much access to information that it is coming to light.
Speaker AAnd it's.
Speaker AI love the fact that it's no longer ex.
Speaker ANormalized to bury everything.
Speaker ATo bury it deep.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd I love that.
Speaker AI love, I love the world we're in right now.
Speaker AI love the fact that grown men are out there crying on stage and saying, you have to cry.
Speaker AYou have to let it go.
Speaker AYou can't hold this in.
Speaker AIt's going to tear you up, you know, so, yeah, I love that.
Speaker AAnd I was wondering where you were going with that question because I didn't know if you were going to the.
Speaker AWe're going to.
Speaker AI was very curious about that question because I didn't know if you were going to go to the fact that this stuff never existed, because obviously it existed.
Speaker AI mean, trauma has been built Brought down for generation after generation after generation.
Speaker ABut you're right, it was just normalized.
Speaker AIt was just the way things happen.
Speaker BIt was normalized and it was held in, you know, sexual abuse was not something you told anybody.
Speaker BI was at an event, I was co.
Speaker BLeading this practice at a retreat.
Speaker BThere are about 50 people there.
Speaker BAnd we were doing this practice on forgiveness.
Speaker BAnd so there were two circles of people facing each other.
Speaker BI'll skip the details, but it was about looking at the other person and imagining that they were someone from your past and forgiving them.
Speaker BSo this went.
Speaker BWent on.
Speaker BAnd then this one older woman just started crying uncontrollably, uncontrollably, sobbing.
Speaker BAnd she.
Speaker BShe wasn't moving beyond it.
Speaker BAnd I, and I went and, you know, talked with her a little bit and then took her off to the side and she confided in me that she never told anyone that she knew.
Speaker BShe knew that her granddaughter was being sexually abused by her son.
Speaker BAnd she told nobody and she did nothing about it.
Speaker BAnd the shame and the guilt that came up and so I helped her release that.
Speaker BIt's feeling it.
Speaker BAnd then what she confided, once we moved through that, was that she was sexually abused as a child and never told anyone.
Speaker BAnd this woman was around 70.
Speaker BShe carried it with her her whole life.
Speaker BAnd that.
Speaker BAnd what happens with the patterns is that they repeat themselves.
Speaker BSo when we're holding in guilt and shame for anything, we are going to attract more of that energy to us and we just.
Speaker BWe can stuff it in.
Speaker BBut she never felt safe to tell anybody because people didn't talk about their emotions.
Speaker BEverybody needs.
Speaker BIt's a human need to have an emotional resource.
Speaker BAnd so when I asked the question what was healing?
Speaker BHealing is so much a release of the deep emotions, of allowing them.
Speaker BAnd it's not how human beings used to function, period.
Speaker BAnd it's through my lifetime, our lifetime, you're not 20 years old.
Speaker BThat we could see how it wasn't a thing.
Speaker BBut then I remember when I was raising my kids and when I got divorced from my alcoholic, narcissistic husband, that I really embraced the need to feel emotions and encouraged my children.
Speaker BAnd we spoke differently.
Speaker BWe came from a different place.
Speaker BAnd that is healing.
Speaker BSo we are still in that process.
Speaker BAnd you're right, it's a joy to be alive.
Speaker BIt's okay to tell the deep, dark secrets.
Speaker BIt's actually necessary in order for us to grow and evolve.
Speaker AYep.
Speaker AAnd you can only imagine, like you said 100 years ago, 50 years ago, my Grandparents.
Speaker AI mean my father was sexually molested.
Speaker AI didn't find out until way later.
Speaker ABut of course that made sense as to why he had so much pent up anger, how, you know, he was a drinker, he was this, he was that.
Speaker AAnd it just really let me, it made, gave me such a level of empathy for him that it broke my heart that he could never tell anybody that, that he, you know, he was a 13 year old boy for 7 years being molested by an uncle.
Speaker ALike, how do you live with that and not.
Speaker AAnd now I'm just like.
Speaker AAnd you know, I'll drop things, like I'll.
Speaker AI dropped a comment in front of my mother in law the other day and I thought she was going to fall on the floor.
Speaker AAnd I said something and I said, well, because she said, oh, we all have trauma, but we just need to get over it.
Speaker AAnd I said, and then she was talking about forgiveness and I know, and I was like.
Speaker AAnd then I said, you know, there are some acts to me that are not forgivable.
Speaker ALike the, you don't condone, like there are some things.
Speaker AAnd I said in forgiveness.
Speaker AI said that's a whole nother, that's a whole nother podcast episode actually.
Speaker ABut, but I said to her, and I think I dropped the comment and I said, well, you know, I said as a child I had a right to be angry.
Speaker AWhen my mother was pimping me out to her drug dealers, I thought she was gonna fall on the floor.
Speaker AAnd she's like, you didn't tell.
Speaker AAnd literally that was her thing.
Speaker AYou didn't tell anybody, did you?
Speaker AWhat, what did people say?
Speaker AI don't give a rat's ass what people say now.
Speaker AYou know what I mean?
Speaker ALike, but that was, that was seven, she's 83 years old.
Speaker AAnd it was just, oh my gosh, the shame.
Speaker AAnd it almost was like I could see it on her face that, the shame that her daughter in law would be talking about something like this.
Speaker AAnd I was like, wow, like that's crazy.
Speaker AYou know, but yeah, we didn't, we didn't talk about that, those things and what.
Speaker ACan I ask what your aha moment was where all of a sudden you were like, this is it.
Speaker AI'm not living like this.
Speaker AI'm not holding it in.
Speaker AI'm not being that person.
Speaker BWell, like many women I could see, I was starting to see in my marriage how much our poor marriage was affecting our children.
Speaker BSo like many women who are with someone who's narcissistic, you have to face the fact that you're codependent, period, Period.
Speaker BI started to learn about what codependency was.
Speaker BI didn't know what it was.
Speaker BYou know, I was young.
Speaker BWe got married really young.
Speaker BWe had children early on in the marriage.
Speaker BI mean, I was married a month before I turned 19.
Speaker BOh, wow.
Speaker AYeah, you were really young that you.
Speaker BJust grow up and you get married and have children and you buy a house.
Speaker BAnd so I applied for the mortgage on our house when I was 17, living in Alberta, and you have to be 18 to borrow money.
Speaker BSo, yeah, we bought the house, got married, and then by the time I was 21, I was pregnant.
Speaker BBut I started to see the impact on my children.
Speaker BAnd we had a blowout one night.
Speaker BThat was the real tipping point.
Speaker BAnd so I started to get professional help.
Speaker BI started to read self help books.
Speaker BAnd then I thought, no, this is, this is.
Speaker AI always.
Speaker BI knew for a number of years I would leave him, but I gained enough knowledge.
Speaker BI gained enough knowledge to leave, and that was it.
Speaker BAnd then it was later exploring the similarities between him and my own father.
Speaker BMy own father was not an alcoholic.
Speaker BSo I'm like, why?
Speaker BWhy did I end up with this guy?
Speaker BBut I, you know, through my own healing, and I.
Speaker BThen I. I discovered meditation, which was, you know, through an extremely profound event on the beach one day where my deceased brother's spirit came.
Speaker AOh, wow.
Speaker BAnd my.
Speaker BMy girlfriend channeled him, and his message was to start meditating.
Speaker BBut that's.
Speaker BThat's what got me on that journey and my own intense healing.
Speaker BBut when I look back, you know, you talk about the shame that people hold, and you mentioned forgiveness, and I would love to speak about that on another podcast.
Speaker BIt's.
Speaker BWe are all divine beings.
Speaker BWe signed up for all our wounding.
Speaker BWe signed up to learn our lessons.
Speaker BAnd it's about taking responsibility.
Speaker BThat's a root chakra thing.
Speaker BAnd growing through it.
Speaker BSo if we can see the other, what happens when we heal our own wounds?
Speaker BTruly at the deepest level.
Speaker BAnd so many of my clients who've been in therapy for 40 years and done everything, they say, cheryl, nobody goes as deep as you.
Speaker BI mean, we get this stuff at the core early on in life.
Speaker BAs a toddler, as a baby, even in the womb, in utero.
Speaker BAnd what happens is when we heal ourselves fully, compassion for the other, for the perpetrator, naturally develops.
Speaker ANaturally.
Speaker BWe can see how wounded they were and that they are a divine being as well.
Speaker BAnd they had to learn.
Speaker BThey have to learn through that.
Speaker BSo it's not about the.
Speaker BForgiveness isn't something you do with your head now.
Speaker BYou know, I do chakra readings.
Speaker BI do a lot of chakra readings, and I can see through the chakra readings how much people have worked on forgiveness, how much of it has held, and whether they practice true forgiveness through their own healing or not, because it's a natural occurrence to me.
Speaker BThat's what I witness and that's what I've experienced in myself.
Speaker AYeah, no, that makes total sense.
Speaker AAnd yeah, we'll have to do another podcast episode on forgiveness.
Speaker AI. I talk a lot about that on that.
Speaker AYou know, we do.
Speaker AI have a lot of clients and a lot of people that I know that go through like 12 step programs because of a lot of children of alcoholics also have their own substance abuse issues that they struggle with.
Speaker AAnd they're in 12 step, you know, the whole thing.
Speaker AAnd forgiveness is somewhere where people get stuck.
Speaker AThey just get stuck.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, well, let's redefine what forgiveness means to you then.
Speaker AYou know, it doesn't necessarily mean going to your mother and saying, I forgive you for doing this.
Speaker AAnd I, you know, that's not like.
Speaker ANo, but I love that.
Speaker ASo what obstacles did you run across?
Speaker AWas forgiven when in your healing journey was forgiveness one of them?
Speaker BI learned.
Speaker BI learned to not look at the other so much, but to look at myself.
Speaker BIt's taking responsibility because one of the things.
Speaker BAnd I didn't know this at the time, but I know it now.
Speaker BScience has really come a long way with research on what trauma really is, what wounding really is, and trauma.
Speaker BIt's been proven trauma is actually encoded in the right side of the brain.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BWhich is the subconscious.
Speaker BAnd it's not so much about what happened.
Speaker BIt's the lingering emotions, especially of uncertainty through life.
Speaker BIt's really hard to feel confident when.
Speaker BWhen you have trauma in your background.
Speaker BAnd one of the most common traumas, and I think so many, if not all of my clients have this.
Speaker BIt's the lack of an emotional support.
Speaker BGrowing up, when we don't have an emotional support, it's considered trauma.
Speaker BIt's the silent, hidden, ongoing trauma that for years, decades, even the best therapists, the best psychologist could not recognize, did not recognize.
Speaker BIt is coming forward today.
Speaker BBut that is trauma.
Speaker BAnd so when we don't learn to express our emotions, we end up with a backlog, a huge backlog.
Speaker BSo when I started on my healing journey, in answer to your question, it was about releasing all these repressed emotions.
Speaker BAnd then I felt better and within time I realized that as I released these repressed, you know, horrible emotions.
Speaker BI mean I remember one particular healing meditation of just feeling utter disgust, utter disgust.
Speaker BAnd it was, oh, it just was making me sick and I sobbed and you know, I used the full breath and I'll talk about that, why I use the full breath.
Speaker BBut I never figured out what that was, what it was about.
Speaker BI never knew.
Speaker BAnd it's not required, it is not necessary to remember everything.
Speaker BIt's also been proven that trauma is stored in the right side of the brain through physical sensations and emotions, not through linear memories.
Speaker BLinear memories are a left brain thing.
Speaker BWhen we have trauma, if we have any memories that are always fragmented, they're always fragmented, they're in pieces.
Speaker BSo we may remember a piece.
Speaker BAnd when we don't remember anything, the healing is more broad, it covers more of the patterns so it's not necessary.
Speaker BAnd it's more about the body holds things physically.
Speaker BSo even during healings I might feel pain and same with my clients, pressure, tension, a lot of discomfort, tightness.
Speaker BBut it always moves, it moves pretty quickly and, but it's, it's really the deepest level is the emotions and then underneath the emotions are the subconscious beliefs that were formed, that be formed, not the perpetrator.
Speaker ARight, right.
Speaker BSo how can you, how can you even think of forgiving them?
Speaker BYou're responsible.
Speaker BSo Even as a 2 year old, how does a 2 year old have capacity to make logical sense of things?
Speaker BThey don't have it.
Speaker BThey are confused with all trauma there's a sense of confusion.
Speaker BSo they form these subconscious beliefs which then can be released and you discover more of who you truly are and you discover what's true and then you form new subconscious beliefs which reprograms your subconscious.
Speaker BYou know the brain's neuroplasticity is absolutely fascinating.
Speaker AWhat we today, absolutely resilient and so resilient.
Speaker AAnd I love that you said, and I'm going to rephrase, not rephrase but I'm just going to repeat back because for the listeners I think it's very important what you said, that you didn't remember the event that made you feel that way, but you were able to release that feeling because so many people I think really hinder their own progress because they're so afraid of being re traumatized or re digging stuff up or remembering.
Speaker AI know it was a really.
Speaker ALook, I had, I've had a recurring dream since I was 5 years old and when I tell you it's a graphic dream, I don't even know how a 5 year old dreams something like this.
Speaker ABut I am 57 and I will still have this dream maybe once a year.
Speaker AAnd I remember going to like a hypnotherapist and I'm like.
Speaker AAnd they were like, well, you know, we can, you should go to a psychotherapist.
Speaker AYou should like, let's, let's get to the bottom of this.
Speaker AAnd I, I remember and it wasn't until just like maybe 6 years ago someone said to me, we can get rid of that, the feeling, the emotions, everything, without you having to try to figure out what exactly happened that caused that recurring dream.
Speaker ABecause that I think was my biggest fear.
Speaker AI didn't want to relive whatever it was.
Speaker AI didn't want, I didn't want to know, honestly, but I was.
Speaker ABecause it had to have been so horrific to have a five year old have this dream, if that makes sense.
Speaker BAbsolutely, absolutely.
Speaker BAnd you definitely do not have to relive anything.
Speaker BThere may be pieces, but we don't focus on what happened.
Speaker BThe left brain is going to want to make sense of it, but we don't have to focus on what happened and the actual release.
Speaker BWe want to make sure there's two ways to do it and one will re traumatize you.
Speaker BIf you just get caught up in the tears and the pain and all that, you can re traumatize yourself.
Speaker BSo what I use with all my clients and what I teach is, is to use a long full breath because you want to stay in the subconscious.
Speaker BAnd we'll talk about the long full breath and there's where the deepest release happens so that it's gone.
Speaker BYou will never ever experience whatever it was in that way again.
Speaker ASo talk more about it.
Speaker AGo ahead.
Speaker BOkay, what happens when we breathe fully with the lower abdomen?
Speaker BAnd I invite you, everybody listening, and Tammy, put your hand on your lower abdomen with your thumb at the level of your navel.
Speaker BAnd you want to breathe with a long inhale to the count of six or eight seconds.
Speaker BLet your belly expand and then you exhale using your abdominal muscles until you expel all the air again, six or eight seconds.
Speaker BSo what does this do?
Speaker BIt changes your brain function.
Speaker BSo when we're sitting here, we're breathing with the back part of the brain, the brainstem, the medulla oblongata.
Speaker BAs soon as we change the breath to conscious breathing using our abdominal muscles, that breathing shifts in the brain to the frontal lobal brain.
Speaker BAnd what it does, it frees up the back of the brain, the medulla Oblongata, so we can start to access the subconscious.
Speaker BSo when you start to heal yourself, I'll just go into my three steps.
Speaker BIs that okay?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ANo, no, absolutely.
Speaker ABecause this is fascinating because no one has ever told me why.
Speaker AI know.
Speaker AYou know what?
Speaker AThe explanation I've gotten from pretty much everybody, even breath practitioners, was that when you breathe in through your belly, well, that your rib cage doesn't expand.
Speaker AThat's the explanation, the only explanation I've gotten.
Speaker ASo you want to breathe through your belly because you can actually physically make your, like, you can see your belly coming out, but when you breathe into, like, your lungs, your.
Speaker AYour rib cage doesn't expand, so you can't get a full breath.
Speaker AThat's the only explanation I've ever had given to me.
Speaker BOh, the other thing that happens when we breathe in the chest, you will always notice.
Speaker BWell, you won't feel it when you're being traumatized.
Speaker BYou hold your breath breathing, and they hold the breath in the chest.
Speaker BSo you don't want to ever, ever do that.
Speaker BYou don't want to be breathing in the chest, because you will.
Speaker BWhen, when you're doing this type of healing, you, your body will want to hold your breath.
Speaker BSo also, keeping the breath down low and in the abdomen helps keep you in the subconscious and release it and it.
Speaker BAnd you stay aware of it.
Speaker BSo even when I'm working with people, I keep reminding them to keep your focus on the breath, because I can see it, I notice.
Speaker BAnd that will release the trauma.
Speaker BAnd then what it also does.
Speaker BThink of it this way.
Speaker BWhen I do chakra readings, I don't see the chakras with all the lotus flowers and the petals and the mandalas and the colors.
Speaker BI see them as light because we are made of light.
Speaker BKirlian photography has shown that.
Speaker BAnd then I see the black spots.
Speaker BThose are where the blocks are.
Speaker BAnd I can tell you what everything is all about and where it is.
Speaker BAnd so it's extremely in depth.
Speaker BA chakra reading.
Speaker BPeople are always blown away with how complex it is and how much information they get.
Speaker BBecause I look at the top, the bottom, the middle, the sides, and.
Speaker BAnd everything has different meanings.
Speaker BAnd I often have to tune into each individual.
Speaker BI'm still learning through them.
Speaker BBut what happens.
Speaker BYou think of that block, think of it like a black ball.
Speaker BSo your energy isn't flowing there, right?
Speaker BIt's like a clog in a plumbing pipe.
Speaker BSo when you breathe fully and you release this block, it allows your energy to flow and the light comes in and the Actual truths of your being will come in and you'll realize the most amazing things that you've ever, ever known.
Speaker BAnd so the three stabs, if you think of the word ace, you can always remember if you just think of an ace of spades.
Speaker BA is for access, C is for clear, and E is for empowerment.
Speaker BSo I've told you how to access.
Speaker BYou want to sit up nice and straight.
Speaker BThe spine straight and vertical is extremely important.
Speaker BThat keeps the energy running up and down.
Speaker BSit in a chair, not cross legged.
Speaker BYou want your feet firmly planted on the floor and you want to be comfortable.
Speaker BAnd so breathing through the nose helps keep you in your body.
Speaker BSo if you have a clogged nose, you can breathe through your mouth, but ideally breathing through the nose.
Speaker BAnd you know when you're in your left brain because you're thinking, thinking, thinking.
Speaker BSo this is a real shift for people.
Speaker BAnd I, for me, it's kind of like I get into the breath and then I just wait to see what comes up.
Speaker BSo you allow the information to come up from your subconscious, whether it's an emotion, notice any physical sensations and then the clearing.
Speaker BThe C is for clear.
Speaker BAnd when something comes up, you want to breathe through the emotions, breathe through the physical sensations.
Speaker BAnd ideally you keep your eyes to start with in the root chakra, because that's the bulk of the wounding is there.
Speaker BAnd that chakra affects all the other chakras.
Speaker BAnd you can follow what I call the emotional thread.
Speaker BSo you go, there's layers of emotions that have been held.
Speaker BSo the first emotion might be fear, it might be anger, but you go underneath.
Speaker BAnd it seems like sadness is so often under anger, it's wild because it's not expected.
Speaker BBut you can follow down to the deeper emotions of shame and guilt and confusion.
Speaker BAnd then you can go back to, you can ask your subconscious, when did this pattern begin?
Speaker BSo you start with a current event, whatever it is, you're angry with somebody, you're angry with your husband, whatever you follow those emotions, they have very little to do with him.
Speaker BIt's more about your pattern.
Speaker BSo then you go back to, your subconscious will let you know when it first existed, when this first pattern, this pattern was first developed.
Speaker BAnd you will never discover what you're not ready to discover.
Speaker BOkay, so you might go back to age three, but it really started in utero.
Speaker BBut you're, you're ready to clear it at age 3, right?
Speaker BThat, and then you release everything and you can reparent.
Speaker BAnd that's a whole other topic.
Speaker BBut it's all energy work.
Speaker BAnd then the empowerment is when all the truths come through.
Speaker BPeople are always blown away how and they the truth of your being and these amazing emotions of joy, expansion.
Speaker BA lot of people experience light and then that's the empowerment.
Speaker BAnd the only homework, and I love to recommend the homework, is that you continue to breathe into these new truths and the new emotions with your inner child once a day for a week or two.
Speaker BBecause that creates the neuro.
Speaker BThe.
Speaker BIt's kind of like a highway.
Speaker BSo you have the highway of pain.
Speaker BYou want to create a new one that's taking advantage of the brain's neuroplasticity.
Speaker BSo you want to keep that going.
Speaker BAnd you will notice what you attract is different.
Speaker BYou'll notice how you talk is different.
Speaker BAnd you'll notice how certain events that may have triggered you in the past don't trigger you anymore.
Speaker BIt's amazing.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker ASo for the people listening, and I know we're limited on time today, but when you say breathe into the emotion, just talk one minute about what that really looks like.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AAre you thinking about the emotion?
Speaker ALike talk about that just for a second.
Speaker BYou open yourself up and allow yourself to feel it.
Speaker BAnd when we've been conditioned to not feel our emotions to stuff them, that's our sort of go to.
Speaker BBut staying in the subconscious, using the full breath helps.
Speaker BSo you keep your eyes down in the root chakra and you just keep breathing and you allow yourself to feel the emotion however you're feeling it.
Speaker BAnd it can be completely overwhelming.
Speaker BYou may feel discomfort in your body of some sort.
Speaker BYou don't change your focus.
Speaker BWhat I've discovered over the years is if you change your focus to oh, this hurts in my shoulder, that's like a dandelion.
Speaker BIt's the flower on the dandelion.
Speaker BSo wounds, any, any trauma, any wounds.
Speaker BI think of them like a dandelion.
Speaker BYou want to get rid of a dandelion out of your yard, you're not going to pluck the flower?
Speaker ANo, it just seeds and makes a lot more.
Speaker BYou need to go all the way to the tip of the root.
Speaker BAnd we know how deep the roots of a dandelion are.
Speaker BSo you need to keep digging.
Speaker BYou need to stay deep in the root and you're going to pluck the whole dandelion, the whole wound.
Speaker BWhen you go to the pain in your shoulder, you're plucking the flower, it starts to become superficial.
Speaker BSo it's staying in that full breath, breathing, allowing the emotion, knowing that it will end so it can be uncomfortable.
Speaker BBut know that it's temporary.
Speaker BThe full will release it.
Speaker BIt's just like, let's say, I think of a.
Speaker BSomebody buys a home and they want to renovate it.
Speaker BThey buy it specifically to renovate it and flip it and they go in the kitchen and the stove hasn't been cleaned in 20 years.
Speaker BThe oven is disgusting.
Speaker BCrusted on, crusted on, crusted on.
Speaker BIt's going to take some very uncomfortable effort to clean that thing.
Speaker BSo you can think of it the same way.
Speaker BOr a big clog in a drain.
Speaker BYou have to take the snake, you have to keep poking at it, poking at it, and then you poke at the emotion enough, you feel it enough, and it's just like all of a sudden there is a release and your body calms and relaxes and then you can open up to the new, higher level, the enjoyable emotions coming in.
Speaker ALove it.
Speaker AAbsolutely love it.
Speaker ABecause I know people have said to me, you hear these words like, get in touch, breathe through your body, breathe through the pain, breathe that spot.
Speaker AAnd people like, what does that even mean?
Speaker AI mean, literally, I've had that.
Speaker AHad that question a lot.
Speaker AAnd that makes sense.
Speaker AYou know, you put it, it's kind of like meditating, like people like, well, what do I do?
Speaker AWhat does it mean to be in my body?
Speaker AAnd those are terms that again, we hear all this.
Speaker AWe're on TikTok, we're on Instagram, we're watching all these coaches say, be in your body and.
Speaker AAnd feel it.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd that doesn't really always make sense, Practical sense to some people.
Speaker BThat's right.
Speaker BThat's right.
Speaker BAnd that's how you do it.
Speaker BThose are the steps.
Speaker BAnd it's really about learning the full breath first.
Speaker BLet your body get acquainted with it.
Speaker BAnd it's mastering it.
Speaker BBecause when we have wounds, that breath is often not smooth.
Speaker BIt can be.
Speaker BYou might notice you have a much longer exhale and a way shorter inhale or vice versa.
Speaker BThose are all just symptoms of held trauma.
Speaker BSo even just through mastering the full breath, you are healing yourself?
Speaker AOh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker AI notice it when, you know, it's when I can remember my daughter, she would get so anxious and I would just be like, breathe deep.
Speaker ALook how like, she's like.
Speaker AShe's like, I can't breathe.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, you can breathe, like, breathe, breathe, like.
Speaker AAnd we would walk through and.
Speaker AAnd then I started telling her, feel your chest.
Speaker AYou could if your chest, if you can feel it going up and down while you're breathing, and you're anxious, you're not breathing, like you're, you're just.
Speaker AAnd I feel like in today's world, honestly, so much of us stay in that running.
Speaker AAnd like, I try very hard to be conscious all the time of my breath.
Speaker ALike, so that because by nature you're running around, you're jumping in the car, you're doing this, you're doing that, it's very easy to get into that kind of panting, like, you know, and it's just, just two or three deep breaths can change your whole nervous system, literally.
Speaker BAbsolutely, absolutely.
Speaker BAnd what happens when you learn the full breath and you practice it?
Speaker BYou will automatically go to it eventually.
Speaker BSo if, if something tense is going on and you're holding your breath or you start to hyperventilate, you will automatically go into a full breath.
Speaker BYou start to get used to using it.
Speaker ASo, yeah, it's.
Speaker AYes, I, it's absolutely one of the best pieces of advice I learned a long time ago.
Speaker AI'm just more intrigued that no one ever explained really what was happening when I did that with my brain.
Speaker AAnd I mean, it kind of made sense to me.
Speaker AI mean, and when you say it, it makes way more sense.
Speaker ABut I could, it's almost like I could feel it going on, but I was just kind of like, yeah, I need to switch, I need to flip flop.
Speaker ABut that's what regulating your nervous system is, is, you know, move.
Speaker ABecause, you know, it's like I told my daughter, there's so many parts of trauma that literally physiologically change your DNA, like your brain, the size, the shape, you know, everything.
Speaker AAnd, but it can all be re.
Speaker ARewired.
Speaker ALike you said, our brains are putty.
Speaker APutty.
Speaker ABut, oh, wow, this has been amazing.
Speaker AI've learned so many things.
Speaker AI'm sure the listeners have too, but.
Speaker ACheryl, tell people where they, if they want to work with you.
Speaker AAnd I know, I love what you.
Speaker AI'm looking at your crystals in the back.
Speaker AFor the people that are just listening to this beautiful crystals in the back and quartz and all kinds of stuff, it just gives me happy chills just to look at it.
Speaker ABut, but where can people go to find you, work with you, learn more about what you have.
Speaker BYou can, you can find me on Instagram, Stel.
Speaker BCheryl, you can go to my website, starofdivinelight.com and that name was downloaded one day.
Speaker BIt was amazing anyway, because we are all stars of divine light.
Speaker BAnd you can, you can, you know, you can find me on social media, on YouTube.
Speaker BBut one of the best Ways to find me is to download my three meditations that I'm giving as a giveaway.
Speaker BAnd these are new.
Speaker BThere are three powerful meditations teaching you about the full breath so you can get used to it.
Speaker BThere are two of them, the full breath and the rhythmic breath.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker BAnd then my most listened to meditation creating safety and stability in the root chakra.
Speaker BBecause it's one of the biggest blocks around moving forward that my clients experience is you need to feel safe and stable and then you can move into trust and faith.
Speaker BSo know that all your blocks are serving you as an opportunity to grow.
Speaker BThey.
Speaker BThey are all a catalyst for change and you can have deep transformation.
Speaker BSo I hope you click on that.
Speaker AYes, absolutely.
Speaker AAnd we'll put that in the show notes for people driving so that you can go grab it.
Speaker ADon't want anybody being unsafe, but definitely go there and grab that.
Speaker AAnd Cheryl, this has been absolutely amazing.
Speaker AThank you so much for coming on.
Speaker BOh, thank you, Tammy.
Speaker BIt's really just been such an honor.
Speaker AWell, good.
Speaker AAnd before you leave, I always have the guests.
Speaker AI don't know if you've listened to any episodes, but I always have the guests leave the listeners with just some final words of wisdom or something tangible to take with them throughout the day to make their life a little better.
Speaker BYes, thank you.
Speaker BWhat I want to say is you are all powerful beyond belief.
Speaker BPowerful beyond what you can currently imagine.
Speaker BAll of my clients, when we finished working together, I say to them, did you ever think you'd become the woman that you are now after 11 weeks?
Speaker BAnd they always say, no, I couldn't imagine this.
Speaker BSo it's staying in the moment, healing and allow your greatest self to be born through you.
Speaker AThank you.
Speaker AThat was so sweet.
Speaker ASo you heard it, guys.
Speaker AThat's.
Speaker AThat's Cheryl.
Speaker AAnd she is absolutely amazing.
Speaker AAnd for everybody listening, you heard it, you heard she.
Speaker AI can't say it any better than that, that.
Speaker ABut know that you are worthy.
Speaker AKnow that every step you take walking forward towards a happier, more joyous you is.
Speaker AIs your.
Speaker AIs your divine right.
Speaker AAnd you're just amazing right now, right where you are right here.
Speaker ABut there's better out there for you.
Speaker ASo much better.
Speaker AAnd you deserve it.
Speaker ASo thank you.
Speaker AAnd you all have a blessed week and we will see you back by.