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Channeling the Divine: Messages for Your Soul (Stephanie Banks) - Episode 212

• Robyn Miller Brecker, Karen Loenser, Stephanie Banks • Season 2 • Episode 212

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Every once in a while, we meet someone whose gifts are so pure, so loving, and so spot-on that you walk away feeling like your entire soul just got hugged and rewired. That’s exactly what happened when both Robyn and Karen had sessions with Intuitive Channel and Spiritual Teacher Stephanie Banks.

Stephanie connects with guides, souls, and higher wisdom in the most grounded, compassionate, and insightful way. The messages that flow through her are not only accurate — they’re life changing.

In this week’s conversation, Stephanie helps us understand:

  • What it really means to be an intuitive channel
  • How we can all access our own inner guidance and strengthen our intuition
  • The truth about divine connection — and why it’s not “out there,” but already within you
  • What our souls most want us to know right now

Stephanie also shares her deeply personal journey — one that began when her mother was diagnosed with early-onset dementia and ultimately led her to open to higher wisdom. What began as a heartache turned into a doorway for spiritual awakening and the discovery of her life’s purpose.

Her story is raw, beautiful, and a reminder that the divine truly lives within all of us.

A FEW SOUL NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE
“Channeling is connecting to divine energy and wisdom. We are all divine beings — it’s not something outside of us.”
“Intuition never lies. It’s never off. We’ve just been trained to doubt it.”
“When we cultivate that quiet, loving presence within, we strengthen our ability to hear our soul’s wisdom.”

ABOUT STEPHANIE BANKS
Stephanie Banks is a highly sought-after intuitive channel, mentor and guide who helps people connect on the soul level. She channels from the perspective of any soul currently on the planet, souls on the other side, purely non-physical beings such as spirit guides, as well as trees, animals, and Gaia.

As a conscious channel, Stephanie is both the vessel to receive the messages as well as a guide to provide depth and context for the information coming through. She uses her keen sense of humor, love, and compassion to join her clients in their spiritual experience.

Stephanie also mentors clients in discerning their own inner voice of wisdom, enhancing their confidence and self-trust, improving their relationships, clarifying their soul’s purpose, and finding their laughter and joy.

Visit seekingcentercommunity.com for more with Robyn + Karen and many of the guides on Seeking Center: The Podcast. You'll get access to live weekly sessions, intuitive guidance, daily inspiration, and a space to share your journey with like-minded people who just get it.

You can also follow Seeking Center on Instagram @theseekingcenter.

Robyn: I'm Robyn Miller Brecker and I'm Karen Loenser. Welcome to Seeking Center, the podcast. Join us each week as we have the conversations and we, through the spiritual and holistic clutter for you, we'll boil it down to what you need to know now, we're all about total wellness, which to us needs building a healthy life.

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Robyn: And for the best wellness and spiritual practitioners, experts, products, experiences, and inspo, visit theseekingcenter. com. Every once in a while we meet someone whose gifts are so pure, so loving, and so spot on that you walk away feeling like your entire soul just got hugged and rewired. That's exactly what happened when both Karen and I had our sessions with Intuitive [00:01:00] channel. Stephanie Banks, Stephanie connects with guides, souls, and higher wisdom in the most grounded, compassionate, and insightful way.

 The information that comes through her isn't just accurate, it's life changing. Stephanie is an intuitive channel author and spiritual teacher who helps people strengthen their own intuition and deepen their relationship with their soul's wisdom.

My session with her actually included guidance about Seeking Center itself and also brought through some profound insight from my daughter. It was a moment of such clarity and confirmation that I'll never forget. We're diving in to have Stephanie channel's higher consciousness, how we can learn to hear guidance for ourselves and what our souls most want us to know right now.

Let's get going. Hi Stephanie. 

Stephanie: Hello, you glorious 

Karen: ones. I'm so happy to be here with you. Oh, we've been looking forward to this conversation for a long time. The sessions that you gave to Robyn and I, they're life [00:02:00] changing, for both of us, it was energizing, I think is the word I would use . It was like no other. So maybe that's a good place for us to start. For people who are listening now, what does it mean to be an intuitive channel? How do you define that? 

Stephanie: Let me define how I language channeling.

So channeling is to me, connecting to divine energy and divine wisdom. And a lot of us think, we have to go outside ourselves for that, right? Like divinity is something that exists beyond our human experience. But actually we are divine beings. So when I'm channeling, I'm going to that deep, quiet, present, loving, accepting, compassionate place within.

We all have it. We all do Also need to cultivate it so that it is more present and takes up more space and guides us better. But that's what channeling is. And I call it intuitive channeling because for me it comes through the place of intuition. Intuition is also something we all have. It's often referred to as our sixth sense, and it's our [00:03:00] knowingness, our inner voice of wisdom.

It never lies. It never steers us in the wrong direction. It's never off. We just have been trained away from it, or we've been trained to doubt it, and so we. Make choices and decisions that are outside of alignment with what our intuition might be guiding us towards. But that's what being an intuitive channel is for me.

And I wanna do this till my very last breath. 

Robyn: And thank you for really expressing that so beautifully and. we know your story, but we would love for you to share your story with everyone listening or watching, because the way that you came into this knowing and into this work is really unique.

 Can you tell us all about it? 

Stephanie: Yes. So I came to channeling really just 20 years ago. This was not something that I grew up around. I wasn't aware of it at all, but my mother [00:04:00] had a form of dementia that affects young people, and her symptoms started in her late forties. And my background is as a clinician, I'm a speech language pathologist by training.

So I thought, I've got this in the bag, I know what dementia is, I know how to address it, treat it, connect with people with it. But nope, it all just fell flat when it came to trying to treat my mom as a patient. She was not a great patient. I needed to find ways to stay connected to her that transcended our traditional communication.

 It couldn't only rely on verbal communication. It couldn't only rely on what we've known previously. And at the same time that I was struggling with this relationship with my mom. I had a new best friend who channeled, and that was my first exposure to it, and I sat with her as she would channel for other people, and I would think to myself, oh my gosh, if I could just have some insight from my mom's soul.

 What would that [00:05:00] change for me? What might I ask her soul to answer for me? So I asked my friend to meet with me privately. 'cause this is deeply personal. It is deeply personal to have someone channel for you. were really peeling back layers we sat outside on her patio and I asked all my questions.

I asked my mom's soul. What do you need from me? Why dementia? Like Why is this part of our journey? What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? How can I be in greater service? How can I also take care of myself and through my best friend, my mother's soul, laid it all out. She held nothing back, and that's what souls will do.

They are happy to talk, happy to illuminate for us, happy to join us and really shine some light on where we can all be in greater love. It changed everything for me with my mom. It changed our relationship entirely because I chose to trust what was coming through. And I chose to change how I related to her.

And what used to be [00:06:00] difficult, challenging, frustrating, aggravating, became playful, joyful, silly, and fun. 

Karen: How did you know you could trust that information from your friend? What was it that came through that you were like, oh my gosh, this is my mom. 

Stephanie: Yeah. Chills all over my body. All over my body.

 So for me, truth and intuitive understanding comes through on my skin. People will call it goosebumps. Chill bumps, angel bumps, whatever bumps you wanna call 'em. I was bumpy, totally. And I could just, it's hard to describe, but it's a resonance with the heart. and I recognized the essence of what was coming through as how I knew my mom, how I ex.

Experience her. It might not have been always the exact language she would use because it doesn't mean that she wasn't required to present herself only in the personality that I know her as. When we go to the [00:07:00] soul level, we're peeling away the personality. Oftentimes, the soul doesn't carry the same personality every lifetime, right?

We get to have fun with that and experiment with that. We don't carry the same gender in each lifetime that we choose to come forward. So I could just feel it in my bones that this connection could be trusted, that what was coming through was her essence and then I also have the option, like if I'm not sure, I can test it out a little bit and see if there's an improvement in the way we relate.

 if there is, then that must have been her soul. 

Robyn: I think there is so much in your story that will. Motivate people and inspire people to not only potentially seek out a channel, intuitive channel, whether that's you or someone that they can trust, but it may inspire them to try it to understand that they can do this themselves.

Because I think what you said. This wasn't something that [00:08:00] you realized that you were able to do until 20 years ago. and I'm similar in that way. I didn't realize when I was younger that we were capable of channeling. And so I feel like what happened then that led you to now in terms of being able to do this not only for yourself, but for others.

Stephanie: When I saw what transformed for me and my mom, I knew, I had to sort out how can I learn to do this for myself because, I have to have mercy on my best friend. I can't call her every 15 minutes. Ask her to channel all day long. she was very generous, but she has her own life.

I asked her, I said how can I deepen this? How can I develop this within myself? And she said, here's my mentor. Go to her, take her classes. And luckily her mentor was local. And I took her classes and she's the one that taught me how to use a pendulum. That is how I first started learning to channel was with a pendulum and a letter board.

 And I got the names of my spirit [00:09:00] guides spelled out for me that way, it's so cool what you can do with a pendulum and letter board. So that's how I started. And then I was just really hungry. For more, I wanted to take classes from other teachers and from world renowned teachers.

So I got trained with Sonya Who is a world renowned psychic medium, and I went to her trainings back when she lived in Chicago. And it just all opened up and each teacher that I learned from was so very encouraging and whether they saw something in me. Or whether they say this to everyone.

I received understanding that we can all do this. This is something that's accessible to all of us. Are we willing to put in the work and the practice? And I was. So that's how I got better at it, how I learned to trust it. But it took me years before I felt willing enough to take the leap of faith and do this for others professionally.

Robyn: And how did it impact your relationship 

Stephanie: with your mother? [00:10:00] So instead of sitting at a table having completely empty and non-connected conversations, we would just get up after dinner or something, go to the kitchen, and we would literally dance around the kitchen island. And I would sing songs from my childhood, she would pump her arms, and we might not be saying anything of any depth, but that wasn't actually the point.

What channeling allowed me to see was that. I have this very finite period of precious time with her. How do I want us to experience this space together? And in her soul communication, she said to me, she suggested, can we just have fun? Can't we just be more playful?

Why do you keep trying to yank me back from my reality when actually it's better than yours? That's what her soul said to me. Wow. 

Karen: What a profound different way of being able to look at her. Yes. I love that. You were talking about the goosebumps [00:11:00] and Robyn and I talk about that a lot.

 it is one of those little feelings that you get when connecting. Can you talk about what it feels like to be a channel and What you're tapping into. is it a frequency, is it another energetic realm? Like for people who can't picture what exactly this experience is like for them, but also for you, how you actually tune in.

Stephanie: So channeling actually requires us to step aside, to make space for truth, for love, for divine energy, for. Essence for souls spirit, whatever you want to call it. And this is actually what takes the work, right? So most of my work is not what happens when I show up in a channeling session, but it's what happens in between.

 I have to prepare myself. I have to maintain as high a vibrational frequency as possible. That is the best news ever because everything that creates a high vibrational frequency within each of us individually. [00:12:00] Feels amazing. So let me start with my list. Dark chocolate. 

Robyn: Alright. I love dark chocolate. 

Stephanie: That for me is a high vibrational food, so I make sure I am never low on dark chocolate.

I love that Time in nature. Nature has the most. Intense and effective way of draining energy for us that does not serve us. So if you just get outside, if you just do some earthing just standing with your feet directly on the soil, on the sand, on the ground, and breathe and connect to the life around you, I promise you that good things are happening.

Your vibrational field can rise because you are allowing whatever's dense, whatever is not in the highest service to be drained. Nurturing relationships, those create high vibration. So sisterhood or I call it sisterhood because my, women friends, but sibling ship loving [00:13:00] connections.

People who have your back, people who see you in your highest light, who want the best for you, people you laugh with, people that you can be playful with. This is really important. It creates high vibration. There's lots of, practices of meditation. Some people shy away from it, but actually meditation is just creating a wee bit of space between your thoughts.

That's it. You don't have to take it so very seriously. There's lots of ways to meditate, moving meditations quiet meditations through the heart with your breath, whatever resonates. But if you can't get that space between your thoughts, then there is no space where you can hear your divine guidance and where you can hear your intuition.

Because intuition is a subtle frequency and the voice of ego, which is what we hear in the news cycles in social media, that is a loud shouty. Intense energy and it intuition can't compete with that. It's not meant to. So we have to find a match for a close match [00:14:00] for the frequency of intuition, and that is high vibration and subtle energy.

Karen: And then do you literally tap into the energy of that person that you are reading? Like when you did my reading? I felt the voice of my soul coming through you. Every word that you said was my higher self. The self of me at my happiest, most joyful, most truthful essence. 

Stephanie: Oh, do I love hearing that?

 Yes. And that is actually what's coming through because I've learned to step aside. I have learned to be open to what's here. I have learned to be joyful and playful with it. Spirit is always joyful and playful. higher selves want us to stop taking everything so seriously so we can be And the fullness of this human experience, it is challenging here. Nobody's gonna argue that. And we're also here to have fun. A lot of fun. So yes, that's what I'm tuning into. I just invite in whatever my client wants to hear from. [00:15:00] Oftentimes it's their own higher self or the higher self of their child, or their spouse, or their supervisor, or their cat fluffy, or the oak tree outside or the worms.

I channel for a client very much into Vermaculture, and we channel her worms. Yeah. Wow, that's different. 

Robyn: Yes. I did not expect you to say that. 

Stephanie: Everything is spirit. It's all around us all the time

Karen: and for some who may know and be familiar with channels, they're almost, of a higher realm just reporting in on the state of the universe. And what I really experienced with you was you were observing my higher self.

You were really just the conduit of what you saw and delivering that information to me, which was. Magical. It was just so different than anything I've experienced before.

Stephanie: love that. I love that you felt that and noticed that. That's what I love about what I do. I'm no expert on anyone. Not their higher self, not their path in life. Not anything. I [00:16:00] just open myself to what is here. Can we please have the highest frequency, the greatest love? And when the messages come through, I am witnessing them only a split second before you are, and only a split second, because it takes me just that long to speak it.

 But I have these moments when I'm channeling where I will see. What's coming or have a sense for the next statement or phrase. So sometimes I'll start laughing before the words are available to me, because I see it, but I am, I'm observing it along with you. And sometimes I'll pause when I'm channeling and say, oh my God, I was so fascinating.

Okay, let's go back to this. Exactly. Yes, I'm Alwayslearning. Yes. 

Karen: definitely a partner in the experience. 

Robyn: Yes. And I would also point out to people that when you are channeling, you actually are not on. Camera. So if you are virtually having an experience with you, you're on Zoom, but we are not seeing you.

Although you can feel [00:17:00] you very much throughout . I thought that was very interesting. as being part of that experience. , What I also love pointing out about how you are channeling is that. for me, you channeled seeking center, as I said in the introduction, as well as my daughter, and you could feel the difference in frequency.

And so you were that conduit and you could still feel a difference. And the shift, yes. Shift. Yeah. And. Equally so powerful and transformative for both my relationship with Seeking Center and my relationship with my daughter. the way that you are able to be that conduit is so special.

 As Karen said, it's like unlike other experiences that we've had. 

Karen: What's 

Stephanie: an honor. 

Karen: It's the reminder of who. We really are like, part of my reading was with my husband, who's been going through a lot lately, and his energy is at a [00:18:00] different frequency.

But when you brought him through the energy rose, everything that you said would have been something that he would say at a soul level. could trust it. Like you said, you felt like with your mom, but the energy frequency was totally at that love. Joy perspective and that's what made it

Stephanie: impactful, Yes. I'm channeling from what's called fifth dimensional consciousness. Don't ask me about the other dimensions or to label them because not an expert there, but fifth dimensional consciousness. I do know it's unity consciousness, it's all love. So I'm choosing that realm.

As the one that we enter, the one that I'm receiving from, and that it just guarantees that we're going to raise, like you said, no matter what a person is going through in their human experience, the soul is high. The soul knows what the soul is doing, and that person's essence is of a higher frequency.

So that's where we're connecting [00:19:00] and that's what we're bringing forward. 

Robyn: I think that's also a good reminder of when you are in the 3D world, right? Versus the five D where you are channeling from. In that 3D world, we're feeling things at a different frequency at a different level. So when we talk about what we may be going through on an earthly.

From an earthly perspective, from a 3D perspective, as we know there are challenges that come up on a day-to-day basis, but it's recognizing that we can receive information from a different frequency and also implement that into our 3D world. Like that opportunity is there for us on a daily basis as well.

Stephanie: Yes, absolutely. And I have come to really rely on it personally for myself, but I never wanna give the impression because sometimes people make the mistake of thinking that because I channel, I somehow live some etheric life. Oh no, 

Robyn: exactly. That's what I'm trying to point out, that right before we started this conversation, [00:20:00] the three of us are like, damn, this has been a tough week.

You know what I mean? It doesn't mean that like life is perfect, yeah, 

Stephanie: exactly. Nor does it mean that I'm always in a spiritual, mindset because I have my own personality, which I like very much, but she presents me with some challenges too. Attachments and, disappointments, et cetera.

So we're just all doing our best. And this happens to be something that I touched into, I believe by luck, by a truly organized, benevolent universe. Open this door for me, so I'm so happy to share it and to teach it because every single time someone else is released into the world with their intuition connected and their belief in themselves and their access to channeled messages from the greatest Love, the planet is better off.

Karen: Isn't that the truth? do you channel for yourself, Stephanie, can you do that? Do you actually tap into certain angels and guides for yourself regularly? 

Stephanie: So I don't sit with my crystals the way [00:21:00] I do in a formal session, but my guides pester me in the cereal aisle of the grocery store and in the shower and as I'm driving.

 we're in constant communication and that's how I channel for myself. Or like my mom she's on the other side now, but she communicates to me through birds. And it's been incredible stories of birds that she sends my way and at the most unbelievable times. And if I'm curious about what that particular bird message is, I can just ask her outright is this, you chills?

 Okay, what do you wanna with me? And then it comes through. 

Robyn: Wow. and I just go back to. The fact that you thought about reaching out to her soul because of the condition that she was in. And I know I personally, can relate to that. Like I have a mom who's cognitively declining and it never really occurred to me to talk to her soul.

And so I know that's just one example and there are so many ways [00:22:00] to use this, but that's so beautiful. And in the way that came to you and then that it ignited this. other part and path for you. so I think it just gives us so much hope as to you really don't know where your life is gonna take you.

You 

Stephanie: know what I mean? That is for sure. 

Karen: Yes.

Are there ways that you can suggest, even for those of us who are curious about dabbling and trying some of this work for ourselves on how you can do that for members of your family that you're. Worried about or just simple things that you mentioned earlier some of the things that you do.

I'm happy to have the chocolate outside on the ground if that's what you think is the best way to start. But I'm just thinking, for those of us who are so curious about this and our own abilities and might wanna just. Try tapping into it. Are there certain things that you would suggest We do?

Stephanie: Yeah. So you have to start with self-love, self-care, self-compassion. You have to, because again, if you attempt to channel [00:23:00] someone and you are cranky, grumpy, tired, irritated, overworked, guess what you're gonna get? That sort of message, I'm using it loosely 'cause likely it's something that your thinking or ego mind is creating.

 So don't waste your time doing that. But do invest in yourself, your sweetness to yourself, your kindness to yourself, your compassion to yourself. It makes you a point of attraction for whomever you're worried about. Whoever you love. To come for their essence, their energy to, to lean into you. Just think about how, if you're out and about at the grocery store and you are standing near someone and you don't even have words with them. Sometimes you can feel their energy field. Sometimes you wanna shrink back and be like, whoa, you need a little more space. Or the opposite. You might wanna lean in.

So be aware of what vibes you're giving off. I think that what is most important is if you have deep concern about someone in your family or someone very [00:24:00] close to you, there's also a high likelihood that you have attachment to any message that would come through that makes you not the greatest channeler for that.

It's like we get into habits and behaviors and we don't really see what those are until we go to an awesome therapist or a great coach or someone who can see beyond that. So that's the purpose of professional channelers. But if you want to start somewhere, start with your higher self. And start with your angel team.

If you have angels that you connect with and start with your spirit guides instead of going to another living being that you are in relationship with, because that gets sticky. Like I said, we have attachments, we have expectations, and that will crush your ability to really discern what is true and what is hope, or what is wishes or what is your own.

Stuff. So start there. Start with yourself and the way you start with yourself. I would guide everybody to begin with writing. There are so many automatic writing protocols and prompts that you can [00:25:00] utilize, and you'll just find if you're open to it and you practice it enough, your pen will flow over the page and you are not planning it, and you are not thinking it, but something is guiding you.

 Don't edit. Don't even look at what's coming through. Just let it keep going and flowing and then look back and see the wisdom. That's where I would start is with automatic writing 

Robyn: how do you differentiate someone who would be starting from what your ego is and 

Stephanie: your soul? They feel so different in the body. So I always like to use the body as the reference point for what feels true or right, or off or wrong. And because again, it doesn't lie. there's no way for the body to signal us wrongly. So when you feel constriction. Tightness like you wanna shrink back some, it feels cold and you wanna move away.

That is the thing that's not for you or not your truth or. Whatever it [00:26:00] is. But if you feel expansiveness, a curiosity and open-heartedness, a warmth, and you wanna lean into that, there it is. There's your soul, there's essence, there's truth. And this process of discernment is crucial because you can see it in the.

 In the field right now, the field of words or news or cycles, social media or otherwise, there is so much misinformation, disinformation, intentional, misleading. It is getting harder and harder to discern what's true, but you can always bring it through the body and tell that way. 

Robyn: So good. and one thing that you brought up earlier that I just wanted to touch back on is the pendulum and the letter board. 

Karen: Yes. Talk more about that. 

Stephanie: Okay, good. I love it. So let me see if I have a letter board on my table.

So I have this one custom made by a client of mine who has an Etsy. Store. This is not a plug for her. I'm just telling you where I got this. of [00:27:00] course, tree is, my spirit animal. So I have a tree in the center.

But a letter board is basically just all the letters of R English, alphabet. You can do it in other languages if you wish. And I have numbers along the bottom and you hold, You center your arm on the table, stabilize it, you center your pendulum for me over the midpoint of the tree.

And you might ask to start off real simply, you would start with yes or no. Establishing what is your yes answer and what is your no answer, and get really consistent with that. When that's consistent, you start asking simple and then gradually more complex. Yes and no questions. So you'd start with, is my hair brown?

Am I sitting in a chair? Is it raining inside this room? Things that you know the answer to, and then you can gradually go to, does it serve my highest good to stay in this relationship? Get a yes or a no. Does this particular school serve my child's greatest good [00:28:00] to attend next year? So there's lots and lots of ways.

Almost every question can be asked in a yes or no format. So once you get really solid with those answers, with your pendulum. You can ask a whole bunch of things and trust in a response, and then eventually you move to the spelling of things. So maybe you want to know is there an ancestor present with me right now?

Your pendulum would swing? Yes. Amazing. Please, can you spell your first name for me of this ancestor? And then you wait. And the pendulum will swing. Letter to. Letter to letter. This is not for the inpatient.

Okay, duly noted. This is not a practice that you do when you have only 10 minutes. So it's devotion, it's dedication, it's continuing to show up to it. And gratitude. Gratitude for all of the guides and. Angels and ancestors that [00:29:00] are working with you to bring forward this connection and these messages.

' cause it's not easy for them either, right? Moving through all these layerings of realms to get to this density that we're stuck in with thoughts that we continue to think over and over, even though they're not accurate. So yes, it's a 

Robyn: process. I am so excited to try using a letter board. 'cause Karen and I both like using pendulums, but we've really only used it with the Yes.

Stephanie: No. 

Robyn: And I know you actually have an on-demand course on your website too, so it's just a little plug for that because that's so cool that if you want to understand it better and more, you can go onto your website, which we will have in our show notes as well. But. I just wanted to bring that up again because some people I'm sure are very curious.

Karen: And it's a nice tool to have. I think a lot of people who are starting any new practice it's helpful to have a tool to guide them and then eventually they follow their own intuition. They don't necessarily need the [00:30:00] pendulum, but just to start that way. It's fun too. 

Stephanie: it is fun and pendulums are beautiful.

 You can get metal, wood, crystal, stone, anything you want. I have a collection. Yeah. and we like holding things. Something about having something in our hand. It can feel very grounding and it also, there's some reassurance of using, like you said, Karen, using a tool really gives us that extra assurance that, okay, there must be something to this because this is a spiritual tool I'm using.

Robyn: That's right. And actually I had taken a class with a spiritual medium that we've had on the podcast. Her name's Lisa Nitzkin and she's the one who introduced using a pendulum to me. And one of the exercises that she gave us to do is holding that pendulum over our heart chakra. 

While you're lying down and , you can do it to someone or they can do it to you. And when you think about something that makes you a. Upset or [00:31:00] scared or angry. The way that pendulum moves is pretty powerful. You can see it very tangibly and then. the other exercise at the same time, she'd say, now think of something that makes you so happy and feel peace and it would just stop like on a dime.

And the fact is, to your point that we all have this within us, to me it's such a tangible way of seeing it. And I remember showing it to someone who loves magic, like literally do magic tricks. And they're like, how are you doing that? What are you doing? How are you doing that? The magic is within us. And I just, I'm saying that because it's very relevant to what we're talking about.

Stephanie: Yes. I remember the first time my pendulum actually did start moving towards letters. I got really scared and I flung it. 

Karen: I could see it's almost the Ouija board feel like 

Stephanie: yeah. 

Karen: Just me or somebody else. controlling it too. But all of this is about learning how to trust yourself, right?

Stephanie: Yes. And I always teach how to protect [00:32:00] oneself when practicing channeling because people are concerned about that, not that there's some, something trying to pervade their field, but there is a lot of dense and energy around, and we do not want to host any of it.

We don't wanna invite any of it. We don't wanna play with any of it. So we have an entire team of guides. Who are devoted to our protection. So bring 'em in every single time you practice channeling, place them around you. Ask for that support. It's there, you'll get it. 

Robyn: That's really important to remember.

 Thank you for that. Are there certain messages that surprise you Overall? I was literally distinct that come in. 

Karen: Because again, going back to the voice in my head of you channeling, has there been actually a soul or a guide or something that's come through that has been particularly interesting or surprising?

Stephanie: So when I channel for clients, I'm not surprised by anything because I have no expectations. And the only way we could be surprised is if we were expecting something [00:33:00] different. 

Robyn: Great point. Good point. 

Stephanie: Yes. I do have plenty of surprises for my own channeling, and one of them came when I was sitting in the carpool line talking to my guides.

And asking my guides, Hey, what's my next class? Who's my next teacher? I had just finished all these trainings and I was like, ready to go again for another series with a new teacher, and the message was, ha, sister, it's time for you to go serve now. No more classes. Oh yeah. I was like, Nope. I would like to ask someone else, please.

So that was surprising. I did not feel like I was ready. When do we ever feel ready? I did not feel like I knew enough. When do we ever feel like we know enough? And the idea of getting out in service to humanity felt weighty. what if I get it wrong? What if I don't get anything?

 What if? What if? What if? And they just. Stood, steady around me and said, no, you're, you got it. We're here. We're gonna help you with every single one. Just get started. It's [00:34:00] not about learning more because there's no place to put that learning if you are not using it in service.

And then I also heard surprising messages, plural from my mom. Who minced no words when she told me what I was doing wrong. That's what moms do. But where I thought that my actions and my intentions to take care of my dad and it was, I guess a controlling thing that I was doing to try to manage the very difficult situation of her dementia, her behaviors that came with it.

 She told me you're getting in the way. She said, this is my relationship with your dad. And while you might be well-meaning it's actually intrusive. Back up. Stay in your lane. This is our agreement. Together, he agreed to show up in this way. He agreed to serve in this way, let him do what he's agreed to do.

'cause we're completing some cycling here. And I did not know that, and I wasn't expecting that. So [00:35:00] it allowed me to choose differently and to really look at how I was addressing, what really were my needs. To have a controlled situation or have everybody happy or feel comfortable.

So that was a surprise too. 

Karen: How nice to get some kind direct Yes. Message to help guide you that way. 

Stephanie: Yes. 

Robyn: Are there reoccurring messages that you hear over and over that you believe overall spirit and our guides want us to know.

I know you talked about we're here to feel joy and love. Are there other messages that we should keep in mind? 

Stephanie: Yeah, so this has to do with how I am assembled as a soul, but I am very connected to the natural world. Animals, trees, really all life forms. And so a lot of what comes through me is bringing us, leading us myself included back home.

To nature, because we're not separate from nature. We are nature. We are made from the [00:36:00] very things, the very elements that is in the natural world. So we have, again, this is a learned thing to separate ourselves from. As children, we know how to connect to nature. We know how to talk to the trees and we hear them.

the little tiny creatures that are on the ground. The kids never miss those. They notice them. They're crouching down, they're playing with them. They're noticing these things, but as we grow, our tensions are guided in different ways and how sad.

Because we have this entire world that needs for us to awaken as humanity is in the process of awakening and needs for us to connect to our nature, to us as nature and to be in service. So I'm always striving to sort out like what is mine to do? Because I can feel really. Leveled by what is happening in the world, the destruction of the natural world, human cruelty to one another and to other creatures.

So rather than let that send me back to bed, which sometimes it [00:37:00] does there are actions that I must take as a soul who has a purpose to serve in this way. And each of us has something that breaks our heart and that thing is what we're meant to be in service to. It doesn't mean we martyr ourselves.

I don't think it's the time for that. But it is time to be in service. It's time to be in action. And how do you know what that is? What breaks your heart? Be in some sort of small service to that, let it grow naturally. 

That is really good advice 

Karen: I feel compelled to ask too, Stephanie, in your own spiritual journey, have you done other modalities that have given you additional insight into not only your practice, but who you are as a soul and where you come from?

For example, have you done the past life regression? Have you done astrology? are there other tools that you've utilized to help you paint that picture of where you've come from as a soul? 

Stephanie: Yeah, all of it. Isn't that such fun? 

Karen: Yeah. It's one of my favorite things.

Yes, It's a joy. 

Stephanie: it's a joy of [00:38:00] being here. It's the self discovery. So yes, I have had astrological readings, which I find it be fascinating. I love when people have their craft and they're really good at it, and you can just feel the resonance of it. So I've done that. I'm also a big fan actually, of Kundalini yoga.

I have found that has saved me from myself. For years and years. It's just the way it's laid out as a practice, there's a mantra, part of it, there's a meditation part of it, there's postures that you do creas, thing, things of that nature that really set me up to be open and receptive and clear, So that practice has really helped me. And then . I am lucky enough to live near Dr. Brian Weiss so I have actually been able to attend one of his past life regression groups and experience what a journey.

That is because that was actually the first book I read on the topic of spirituality. Wow. Yeah. Completely changed my life [00:39:00] and again, just resonated goosebumps everywhere. Of course, this is true. 

Karen: Is there any past life that you, and no pressure if you don't wanna share, but anything that helps you define why this lifetime, you're doing what you're doing.

Stephanie: That's a great question. The sense that I've had from my past lifetimes is that there have been many. So nothing is really new to me as a soul anymore, which doesn't make it boring. It actually makes it more, textured. I get to have more freedom now with choosing something. I'm not necessarily having the experience exclusively for the purpose of growing or learning something for the first time, but maybe refining.

And I feel what we get to do as mature and older souls cycling back on this planet. So that's been useful to me. And there's been imagery that's come through, some of it really beautiful and some of it very. Sad and loss focused [00:40:00] that have illuminated certain aspects of my life, of what I experience now.

But in general, I feel like my orientation is there's nothing new under the sun. We've done this all before. How can I do it a bit better and with a bit more love right now?

Robyn: that's really cool have you seen yourself as. A healer in other lives?

Could have seen you like maybe almost being high priestess or something like 

Stephanie: Yes. The high priestess has come through. I'm sure somewhere along the line, I've healed, I've been healed, I've been healer, et cetera. What I'm really jazzed about now is to repeat what I believe is true, which is that we are each our own healers. 

Robyn: Yes. I'm so glad you're bringing that up because that is the truth. You're right. It's really like you can be a healing practitioner and help somebody facilitate their own healing. Because the only people that can heal ourselves is ourselves. 

Stephanie: Yeah. That is a beautiful empowering [00:41:00] thing. Something we're not often told.

We're sold a whole, nonsense about how we need to go here for that or to this person. You're so right. 

Robyn: I'm really glad you're saying that because. People, they give their power away in that sense.

Or they believe that someone else is going to fix them. 

The truth is we have to do that ourselves. But others can help facilitate For you. But you ultimately have to do it. 

Karen: Stephanie, you remind people, you bring them back into that feeling. Of themselves.

Of their their full self, of their soul. And that's the compass point to start from. So if you can bring them back. And put all aside, like you said, the personalities that we've taken on and the life experience that we've taken on, just really bring them back to that essence of who they are.

that is that most healthy, loving, growth infused space to be in. And if they can remember that, then they can start there to [00:42:00] find their way to making that part of their everyday. Way of living. 

Stephanie: Yes, beautifully said. Oftentimes, when I'm channeling for a client and a whole message, sometimes 10, 15 minutes will come through of me just bringing the message, speaking the message.

 We'll stop. We'll process it. And the first thing the client says is, I knew that. Wow. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah. I forgot to mention, I'm not likely to tell you anything you don't already know. Yeah. But there is something to hearing it at this moment in time that lets you utilize it, that lets you put it into play that lets you be believe it.

So a lot of times, especially for people deeply on their spiritual path, this is not new information coming through me. It's just like you said, a reminder of who they are.

Robyn: That is so key. And what I would also say in terms of where Karen was asking about something with her husband, or I was asking something about my daughter, what I [00:43:00] found was that you were able to connect me in my case with my daughter's soul, who was very confident in who she is and wanted me to understand that.

And you were able to relay that In a kind, confident way that really made me hear it. And so I could then go have a conversation with my daughter about where she's going in her life with love, but respect for. What her soul knows, . So when you do it for your family, 'cause that is something you're able to do, that you're able to be a conduit for the souls of people in your family.

That's another beautiful way that I think you're facilitating healing. I'll take that. 

Karen: The other thing that I'll also say for those listening who may be either new to the Woo or a little bit. Doubtful of the woo, what I experienced. 'cause I replayed yesterday just so I could be refresh for this call, Stephanie, [00:44:00] what I love that you do, it's like you go number one, this is what you're being said.

And then the second thing they're saying is to do this. And then so it's very, yes, you almost get a roadmap or a to-do list, dare I say. That is very. Actionable. Very tangible. So it's not just like your soul came here to evolve and to be, it's not so up there that you're like, wow, that felt good, but I'm not really sure what to do with that.

 I really felt you gave very specific steps on things that this soul who has this moment in time through you to express is great, I'm gonna get these points out and hopefully they'll be very specific enough to be able to utilize 'em. So just wanted to share that for anybody listening too.

Stephanie: I love that too. I love that comes through because I am a big fan of all things pragmatic and organized. we are bombarded all the time with everything. There is a lot [00:45:00] of scattering of energy about, and to have things come through in an organized fashion with steps, with lists, with numbers.

Sometimes I've gotten outlines that go so detailed. remember how it's. School, we would have the title and then there was like one and then A, B, C. Yeah. And then one a i, I outline to get that detailed. And I love that because that is how our thinking mind can use information.

That's what we can hold onto and create change with.

Robyn: That's so true. We have a couple of quick. Rapid fire questions for you one is there a spiritual book or teacher that changed your life? 

Stephanie: Yeah, the book that changed my life spiritually is the Many Lives, many Masters by Dr.

Brian Weiss. And the book that has changed my life in terms of my relationship to Money is by Lynn Twist. It's called The Soul of Money, and I actually don't know anyone that doesn't struggle with their [00:46:00] relationship with money, but this book healed mine, so I recommend it. 

Robyn: . I actually recently reread it and I agree with you.

So good. What's your favorite way of grounding after a big channeling session? 

Stephanie: Oh, a tree. I go hug a tree. . If I can find a really big tree that I can just wrap my arms around and feel like the strength of it, I press my heart against it. And I feel like we're joining and I feel like that being is allowing me to just release or let go of any energy I might have absorbed.

It's a cleansing, it's a purification. I did it before our session, actually, our interview. 

Robyn: Is there a message that you feel that Spirit wants us all to know today? I know we shared a lot actually in our time together, but is there anything specifically for right now where we are 

Stephanie: we're never alone? It makes me cry. We have so much support. From every direction and they [00:47:00] will not leave us. 

Robyn: I think that is really the perfect way to close today. Besides asking, how can people work with you, what is the best way for people to find out more about your offerings?

Stephanie: They can go to my website, it is soul insight.com and on social media, I am at Stephanie Intuitive channel. 

Robyn: please go check out everything that Stephanie has because there's working with her one-on-one. There's working with her in groups. There's on demand courses that cover some of what we talked about today tapping into your own intuition, how to use a pendulum.

it's all on there. So highly recommend you check out. So insight.com. 

Karen: I feel like we've learned so much from you and just that following your own inspiration. Thank you for your mom and that she was willing to co-create this opportunity, but for also for you to have the courage to follow it and to [00:48:00] really study and do the work.

we know firsthand. It is a big commitment to really following that path. But what you're doing it's healing people, but it's also inspiring those of us who wanna connect more and wanna learn more about our ourselves on a soul level, on a five D level, all of the things, and being able to translate it in a way that we can really action and use in our own lives.

So that's inspiring to us, Stephanie. So thank you for what you're doing. 

Stephanie: Thank you both for this opportunity and for what you're doing and sharing all of these beings with others in the world. these are the voices we need to hear from. I'm very grateful. Oh, 

Robyn: thank you. And Karen said it so beautifully, and I just wanna add that there's a frequency to your voice and your presence that I feel like will come through to every single person listening and watching.

I am so grateful for you following everything and continuing to hone that frequency because it's really needed in our world right [00:49:00] now. So thank you. 

Stephanie: Thank you so much.