Unlock Your Intuition, Embrace Your Journey, and Manifest Your Dreams with Kelsey Aida
Are you tired of feeling stuck and craving a major breakthrough? Ready to access the universe’s limitless energy and achieve your fullest potential? It’s time to ditch the self-doubt, step off the hamster wheel and ignite your inner power.
Join Lauren Abrams as she speaks with Kelsey Aida, coach, self-love, and meditation expert. Kelsey bravely shares her journey of overcoming depression and embracing her intuition - and then guides you to do the same.
"And I was just going through a lot of grieving and somehow, like, processing all those really heavy emotions just shed so much energetic density from my body that I opened myself up to all these psychic and intuitive gifts that I had no idea that I had." – Kelsey, (2:17).
“I basically just made an ultimatum with the universe, and I was like, God, universe, whoever is out there, what’s a girl gotta do to get help?” – Kelsey, (4:09).
Reignite your passions as Kelsey teaches powerful self-compassion techniques, providing a unique perspective on manifesting for your highest good.
"So every emotion, no matter how icky or heavy it feels, has a positive message for you. But you can only access that if you're willing to go there, which is uncomfortable." – Kelsey, (16:00).
Get inspired as Kelsey shares her approach to mindfulness, gratitude, and finding the courage to pursue your dreams.
“If I can get myself out of a suicidal state, then anything is possible with this information, and it needs to be more accessible.” – Kelsey, (5:34).
With Kelsey's refreshing insights and empowering vision, you're in for an episode that will leave you feeling reinvigorated, hopeful, and ready to embrace your best self.
"So, yeah, those were the two biggest moments that shaped me into the teacher, writer, and author that I am. And it shows that, like, your best manifestations always start in contrast. Because when you're experiencing that thing that's so uncomfortable that you hate, it's giving you so much clarity, and it's shaping you into the person who can have the thing that you're asking for. There's beauty in it even though it definitely sucks when you're going through it." – Kelsey, - (13:05).
“The best place to start is “I am” affirmations. I think those are very powerful and simple.” – Kelsey, - (7:04).
Get dialed in, focused, and ready to listen to Kelsey and her incredibly inspiring journey as she gives you simple yet powerful tools to set you on a path toward renewed success and happiness!
"Not in the same way where you go to therapy and they try to fix you or diagnose you or make you feel better, but it was more just like, okay, we're just gonna be curious about this feeling. We're gonna let it happen in the body. We're gonna observe it just from the compassionate witness standpoint. We're not gonna get lost in it. We're just gonna watch it happen in the body and see what comes from that." – Kelsey, (14:50).
“Your best manifestations always start in the contrast.” - Kelsey, (13:14).
In this episode:
(1:52) – Battling with depression.
(2:07) – Walking through the dark night of the soul gets you rewards.
(2:16) – The dark night of the soul.
(2:24) – The dark night of the soul and its effects on the body.
(2:31) – How the dark night of the soul opens you up to your gifts.
(3:14) – Navigating dark times and having functional depression.
(4:24) – The quality of life.
(4:36) – Finding a good therapist and a good shaman.
(5:24) – Lifestyle changes, not medication, and healing.
(5:33) – Sharing a wellness journey.
(6:02) – Builing a following through blogging.
(6:20) – Affirmations and how you evolve through them.
(7:00) - The most important affirmations you can make.
(7:27) – The energetic harm of faking it until you make it.
(7:33) – Affirmation shifting.
(7:49) – Remaining true to where you are, but also being mindful of where you want to go.
(7:52) – The work of affirmations.
(8:20) – You can’t wait to say I love you.
(9:53) – Sometimes life crashes.
(10:04) – The reality that some partnerships diverge to different paths.
(10:22) – The second breakup with the same guy devastatess.
(10:56) – Moving to heal.
(12:03) – Letting yourself completely break.
(12:41) – Moving through grace, finding a new version of yourself.
(13:24) – The thing you hate most brings you clarity.
(14:42) – Learning about emotional intimacy.
(15:17) – Becoming more intimate with your feelings.
(15:26) – How you can access the personal truths that reveal themselves.
(17:00) – How you can access your spiritual gifts.
(17:52) – Giving yourself permission to receive information.
(18:57) – The amazing practice of journaling.
(19:37) – Writing is therapeutic.
(20:00) – Delving into new projects to help your audience.
(21:02) – When the universe brings you something through personal experience.
(21:48) – The power of meditation and journaling.
(22:08) – Your hardest challenges.
(22:39) – The identity crisis that came from not making it in your dream.
(23:23) – Refusing to tie yourself to one identity.
(23:51) – A message of hope for you.
(25:08) – The power of asking yourself the right questions.
(25:14) – The power of acting on the information you get from asking the right questions.
Resources and Links
52 Weeks of Hope
About Kelsey Aida
Kelsey Aida is a best-selling author, Transformation Facilitator, and Podcaster. She positively impacts people from all walks of life who are looking for empowering and spiritual nourishment that helps them manifest their dreams. Her approach allows people to learn to love themselves in a deeper, more authentic way. Kelsey also helps them raise their vibration and walk into the life that was destined for them! She openly uses her challenges to help them overcome theirs and, in the process, build stronger people, more able to navigate the challenges of life, and most important of all, become the best versions of themselves!
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If you’re struggling to get to that next place in life, but you know something better is on the other side of whatever storm you’re in, listen to this week’s episode! Lauren and Kelsey will help you:
Understand the power of meditation and journaling
How to become more intimate with your true feelings
Why you can’t afford to wait to say I love you to yourself
The destructive nature of faking it until you make it
If you’re ready to:
Deal with the things you hate and the clarity they bring
Heal through lifestyle changes, not medicine
Get tips on navigating through the dark times
…then this episode is for you!
Key Takeaways
“Every emotion, no matter how uncomfortable, becomes a messenger of some kind of personal truth.” - Kelsey, (15:21).
“If you genuinely want something in your heart of hearts, there’s a reason why and if you’re withholding that from yourself or the world, you’re doing both a disservice.” – Kelsey, (24:04).
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Lauren Abrams [00:00:00] Are you a burnt-out overachiever buried in responsibilities? Do you miss laughing with your friends just laughing from the gut? Do you feel like life's passing you by? If you've been wishing for some kind of shift, you're in the right place. Welcome to 52 weeks of Hope, the show where we take you off the hamster wheel by ditching your to do list for the to don't list. This is where you get to learn how to make that lonely ache vanish. Learn self-compassion techniques and to give yourself grace. I'm Lauren Abrams and I get to help you feel that magic again. Since going through my own dark night of the soul, so you can learn from my experience and the mentors and experts I read along the way. And today we're talking to coach self-love and meditation expert Kelsey Aida. Are you ready to use all the incredible energy of the universe and tap into all your intuitive abilities? Do you want to learn how to manifest and use all of this incredible personal development for your and everyone around you? Oh, yes. Good. You're in luck because you get to hear from Kelsey, who overcame an almost deadly three year depression and now makes it her mission to teach you these inspiring, empowering visions. After studying and learning for years, she's here to show you how you too can enjoy life and enhance the lives of others. Known as the Meditation Maven. Welcome to 52 weeks of Hope Kelsey.
Speaker 2 [00:01:14] Hi. Thank you for the great intro. Excited to be here.
Lauren Abrams [00:01:18] Yeah, I'm so excited to hear from you, the meditation maven weight and also the self-love cycle. I absolutely love that. No one does that. Yeah.
Kelsey Aida [00:01:28] Yeah that one. A nickname bestowed to me by one of my friends who was really into human design, and she was like, oh, your design, like, explains everything about why you're so good at this. Good self-love. Psychic. And I was like, yeah.
Lauren Abrams [00:01:40] Take that on. Yeah. As soon as you take that on, that's what you become anyway, right? As soon as that's your moniker, I love it. Okay. So our three year depression just, so dark, which I'm sure it was.
Kelsey Aida [00:01:51] Yeah, it was. And I was so young too, that three years felt a big portion of my life. So this is probably age like 17 to 2021 ish. And that was like my first dark night of the soul. That kind of initiated me into becoming this wellness spiritual teacher that I am today. And then a few years after that, there was a second dark night of the soul. And that's when I went through a really bad breakup, and I was just going through a lot of grieving and somehow, like, processing all those really heavy emotions, just shed so much energetic density from my body that I opened myself up to all these psychic and intuitive gifts that I had no idea that I had. I became basically like a psychic medium overnight, which was crazy. And so now I use those gifts of channeling and intuitive gifts to help my clients, and to write awesome books, and to just help people avoid unnecessary suffering and manifest their best lives.
Lauren Abrams [00:02:49] And now the unnecessary suffering, I guess, is the part because suffering is part of life, I guess, and it's all just from our darkest times. I read this beginning and I'm like, yeah, there's not going to be only one life. It's just not life. But it's so interesting. So from 17 to 2021, it is so young. And how did you get out of it? And were you still like showing up for life? What what were you doing then?
Kelsey Aida [00:03:14] Yeah, I was doing the bare minimum. So they labeled me. They diagnosed me with like functional depression. So I was still going to school and like, stuff, but with a brave face on and just like, suffering and, like, slowly dying from the inside. And it was the perfect storm of hormonal imbalance, of being a teenager going on birth control. I trained my whole life to be a professional dancer, and then I got injured. And on top of that, I was just like, really lacking emotional intimacy with myself and others that I just need to feel connected and to thrive. And all of that just led to the perfect storm. And eventually how I healed was I hit my pain threshold and I was like, okay, I'm like dreaming of a coma. I'm like dreaming of driving on the wrong side of the road and getting hit by a bus like this is obviously not sustainable. I need to figure out how to enjoy my life steps. And I basically just made an ultimatum with the universe and I was like, God, universe was out there. What's a girl got to do to get some help? I need help, send help. I need to learn how to enjoy my life again and feel better and thrive. Because quality of life is everything. So I put that out into life. And as life would have it, I received what I was asking for and I started seeing a really good therapist. I started working with a shaman. I started reading a lot of books about.
Lauren Abrams [00:04:40] How did you find a shaman?
Kelsey Aida [00:04:42] Actually, he was already one of my friends. And we did hair together. So when I couldn't become a dancer, I shifted to cosmetology because I was always very good at beautifying people and do people's hair and makeup. People always came to me for that randomly. Like, people be like, cut my hair. I'll be like, okay, I don't know why you want me to cut your hair, but. Even when I was little. And so I ended up being a cosmetologist. And the guy who I trained under doing hair with. He just so happened to be a shaman also. So it worked out he was already there before I even asked. Between all the spiritual work that I was doing and the emotional work that I was clearing, I was able to start feeling a lot better within a short period of time without taking any medicine. Just lifestyle changes, mindset changes, and doing those energetic shifts and upgrades. And that's when I was like, okay, I really need to share this with the world, because if I can get myself out of a suicidal state, then anything is possible with this information and it needs to be more accessible to people. So that's when I decided to become an author. And obviously, like I didn't have a platform back then because I had just decided I was going to be an author.
Lauren Abrams [00:05:47] So I to the prayer helped me. Yeah, I have to alternate. That's the ultimate prayer got me.
Kelsey Aida [00:05:54] And it worked. It was a good one.
Lauren Abrams [00:05:56] Yeah, I can testify. Yeah. Okay. So yes.
Kelsey Aida [00:05:59] Yeah. So then I started a blog to build a following, and I would write about overcoming anxiety and depression and manifesting and raising your vibration and mindset work. And how did you have formations in a way that actually works. And like everything that was working for me, I was just sharing about it too. What kind of.
Lauren Abrams [00:06:16] Affirmations were you doing at the time? Because I'm sure that's evolved. Yeah.
Kelsey Aida [00:06:20] So, well, one of the first affirmations that helped me the most was I am not my depression. And that was when I realized that like the same way that you get the cold or flu, you're not like, I am the flu. I am my cold. Right? You just have a cold. It's temporary. You sleep a lot, you drink a lot of water, and you trust that, like your body's going to heal and you're going to get better, right? You're not like I am I cold? So if depression is a mental illness, I was just like, okay, if I'm mentally ill, like, I'm sure my body, my mind can heal from this too with the right support. So when I made that mindset shift, one of my first most important affirmations was I'm not my depression. Like I'm so much more than that. And that helped me to really shift my perspective. And the best place to start is always I am affirmations. I think those are really powerful and very simple, but they've since evolved into. My big thing is not to fake it till you make it. I hate when people teach like the 80s approach approaches. Oh, just say your millionaire a million times and it'll happen. I'm like, no, if you feel stupid when you say it or you feel like a fraud when you say it, it's actually doing more energetic harm than it is good. So instead, how can we shift the affirmation to be I'm open to lining up with my riches timeline. I'm excited to make more money than ever before. I'm learning how to manage my finances. Like we just shifted the verbiage and the vibration so that it is true to where you are now, but it's also expansive to where you want to go. So you have one foot where you're accepting reality and the other foot in your new vibration. And that, I think, is the most powerful way to work with them. So that's how I teach them now.
Lauren Abrams [00:07:58] Yeah, no. That's good. It's like God doesn't drive parked cars. You can't sit in a corner going, I wish this and that. Like you have to take some kind of action too. So I like that it it's also the only one that I disagree is saying I love you in the. Yeah. Looking at yourself. Because if you wait until you actually feel that it's never going to happen. Yeah.
Kelsey Aida [00:08:19] And even if you don't think it's true, it is true because it's impossible for you to be against yourself. So that's why it works.
Lauren Abrams [00:08:26] So that's the only one that I think you just keep doing it until one day you realize you mean it and you believe it. And it's not. You're not faking it as the only one. It is a kind of a fake it to make it. Even though, like you said, it's true. You just don't know it.
Kelsey Aida [00:08:40] Yeah, exactly. You just. It's true. Because if you're trying, you wouldn't be trying to feel better. If you didn't love yourself, right? You wouldn't be doing personal development work like affirmations if you didn't care about how you feel. So you do love yourself. It's just a matter of expressing that more in your conscious mind and in your life.
Lauren Abrams [00:08:58] Yeah. And by the way, for everybody listening, Kelsey is also the authentic affirmation queen. That's the third moniker that she has that I hadn't mentioned yet. So I love that. Okay, so here you are. You're going along and you're doing this and you start writing and you went through another depression. How much later with the breakup and everything else?
Kelsey Aida [00:09:19] Yeah, that was probably like five years later. I want to.
Lauren Abrams [00:09:23] Say, okay, so here you are. You see, you're good. All right. You're like, I'm like, yeah.
Kelsey Aida [00:09:30] And then bam, massive heartbreak on a platter.
Lauren Abrams [00:09:35] Yeah. It's always like finance and romance as our biggest teachers.
Kelsey Aida [00:09:38] Yeah yeah I would definitely agree with that. And hell yeah.
Lauren Abrams [00:09:43] Yeah. Oh yeah. Throw that one into definitely. So what happened I like I were you like riding a high. Were you like everything's good or.
Kelsey Aida [00:09:52] It was like everything was good for a while until I realized that me and my partner of like, many years my high school, we. Ha! The one that I plan on being the premier. We're just like growing on to different pads, which was nothing wrong with that. But I was just realizing that we were wanting very different things out of life and our values weren't aligned anymore. And even though we cared and loved each other so much, like there was just no way that we would both be happy being together, creating a life together that worked for both of us. So we broke up and I felt really guilty because this was the second time I broke up with him. So I felt so bad for living his heart. I felt so guilty and I was just like, so devastated that this whole life that I planned was like taken. I was mourning the loss of this person that I'm like, never going to spend time with again or be with again, or probably ever talk to you again. And I really don't talk to him anymore. And it was just one of those moments where you're just really broken open and you're so devastated, like, how could life do this to me? How is this possible? How could this happen? And during that time, I ended up moving to a place that was very green. I'm from San Diego, so it's like a desert. And I ended up randomly moving to Columbus, Ohio in the summer. It was like.
Lauren Abrams [00:11:04] Random.
Kelsey Aida [00:11:05] So random. I only knew one person there. I visited one time and I thought it was so cute. I was like, oh my gosh, there's no traffic here. People hang out on their front porch. Look at all these cute parks. I can walk.
Lauren Abrams [00:11:15] Everywhere.
Kelsey Aida [00:11:16] And I just was like, I don't care what anybody says. It's really weird to go from San Diego to Ohio, but I'm doing it because I need to be in a place that's green, that's lush, where I can start over and just have a new life. So I moved there. It was cold, obviously. I only lasted two winters until I met my now husband, who he had gone to Ohio State and then returned back to Columbus. And we were just like both passing through. And we met and I was like, we got to get out of here and go somewhere where we moved down to the Carolinas. But yeah, when I was like, so heartbroken, I just let myself like break, like I had never before. And this was when I actually knew more how to be in touch. Like with my sadness versus the first time I was depressed. I think it lasted so long because I resisted the actual sadness that I was feeling, and it was like pushing it down. Right? And that takes a lot of energy. So you're tired and you're confused and you want to sleep all the time, and you want to avoid your feelings, but when you're actually sad and you feel it, it goes through the body and it moves and you cry and you do what you gotta do. But on the other side of that, you actually do start to feel better. So what happened was, from all the grieving and processing and just starting a new life all by myself moving across the country, I just had a lot of time to move through that and a really graceful, self-loving way. And on the other side of that was a version of me that had access to all this information, all these like next level gifts, and that just even made my teachings even better and made me more wise and made me more resilient and made me more sure in what I was teaching about energy and self-love and everything that was going on at the time. So yeah, those are the two biggest moments that shaped me into the teacher and the writer and the author that I am. And it just goes to show that, like your best manifestations just always start in the contrast. Because when you're experiencing that thing that's so uncomfortable that you don't like, that you hate, it's giving you so much clarity and it's ripping you into the person who can have the thing that you're asking for. There's beauty in it, even though it definitely sucks when you're going through it.
Lauren Abrams [00:13:33] Yeah, it definitely does. But the only way through is through. If you're I could dance or tap or jump over it or anything else, I sure. Whatever. I'm sure everybody, whatever your dog of your house is nodding your head. Yeah, definitely. So you said something before that I found really interesting. You said when you were in your earlier depression that you were you didn't have any emotional intimacy, that that's got to be hindsight. You did that at the time. That's such an adult view, not a 17 year old's view.
Kelsey Aida [00:14:05] Yeah. Because at the time I didn't understand like how to feel or I would just always suppress everything. Oh, I don't have time for that. I don't want to feel like.
Lauren Abrams [00:14:13] Yeah, I didn't grow up feeling anything or knowing for we didn't talk about our feelings in my house growing up. So a lot of people do, but we didn't let people go anyway, I so Google feelings chart. Sometimes I go, oh, that's it, I'm way better now. It's lots of practice, but there's a lot of feelings. So sometimes, like I'm not sure how I look. So how did you learn and grow and know about emotional intimacy? I found that to be an interesting.
Kelsey Aida [00:14:41] Yeah. So in a lot of the work that I was doing with my shaman friend, he would just sit with me and whatever I was feeling, and we would just make it okay to feel like that. Not in the same way where you go to therapy and they try to fix you or diagnose you or make you feel better, but it was more just like, okay, we're just going to be curious about this feeling. We're going. I let it happen in the body. We're going to observe it just from the compassionate witness standpoint. We're not going to get lost in it. We're just going to watch it happen in the body and see what comes from that. And when I started practicing that over and over, I became more intimate with my feelings, and I became more accepting that every emotion, no matter how uncomfortable, is a messenger of some sort of personal truth. And you can't access that personal truth unless you let yourself feel that feeling. So, for example, if you're angry, your anger could be trying to point you to a personal boundary that you violated or someone else violated. If you're sad, that could be pointing you to a need that's not getting met in your life. If you are, let's say, feeling jealous, that could point you to a desire that you have. So it's every emotion, no matter how like icky or heavy it feels has a positive message for you. But you can only access that if you're willing to go there, which is uncomfortable. But with practice and breathing through it, and sometimes with a guide by your side, which now I help people with this too, it really becomes less scary and less intimidating. And you just ride the wave.
Lauren Abrams [00:16:12] Yeah, yeah. It's interesting when you sit there with a feeling you can feel where it moves to, and eventually you can feel it move out of your body. And then you're creating new neurotransmitters, which is really incredible. It's how we grow. And Kelsey's nodding and nodding for anybody listening that watching. So I love that. So here you are. You meet your husband, you move on. How did you continue your growth? I love hearing how people's, spiritual journeys move, because what you're doing now is so further along from where it was. How did you get introduced and find all your gifts, and how would you help someone else tap into their intuition? Like how could they, if they're listening, tap further into theirs?
Kelsey Aida [00:16:59] Yeah. So something I've been exploring ever since the psychic gifts open up is trusting my intuition and trusting the information that comes through, and not judging it right away, or trying to put a label on it, or trying to figure out what it means, like just letting it come through and then observing it be like, oh, that's interesting. I wonder what that means, like getting curious about it, because sometimes, like, I'll write something down and I'll be like, I don't know where that came from, but that is fire. I'll read it back and I'll be like, that is so good. That is what the people need. That is what I needed. And it just comes through and you're just like, whoa, where did it come from? And like when I ask, where does it come from? Sometimes it's God, sometimes it's a universe. Sometimes it's like my spirit team or my higher self. But at the end of the day, it's all really like different fractals of the same thing. I would say you have to give yourself permission to receive information, first of all, to receive the insights, no matter if you like them or if you don't like them. Because and I'm sure you're not going to like what you receive, you're gonna be like, oh yeah, that's true, I'm doing that, or that's going on, or yes, I need to change this or whatever. But letting yourself receive it, letting yourself not judge it and then just practicing even I am still practicing with clients, with friends, with family. I'll be like, hey, can I do this reading on you? Hey, let's do this new technique that I learned. So I feel like I'm just always learning, practicing and like using the gift. It's like a language, right? It's if you don't use it, you lose it. So I'm just trying to use it as much as I can.
Lauren Abrams [00:18:28] Yeah, I love that. And it's so true. I feel like every time I jump out of a shower, like writing down, okay, yeah, it's.
Kelsey Aida [00:18:36] Time to receive.
Lauren Abrams [00:18:37] Information. It is because, you know, that's the whole thing about down there. Take a walk without a device. It's and it's also the getting outside part. But it's so true because that's where the downloads happen. It might not be.
Kelsey Aida [00:18:51] Wrong.
Lauren Abrams [00:18:51] For you, but you're a big right now I want to hear.
Kelsey Aida [00:18:54] Oh, I was gonna say I'm a big journal. So I like to do a lot of my intuitive work in the journal so I don't lose it. So like I'll pose a question to my spirit team, let's say if I'm struggling with something and then I will just journal the answer. So I have it in writing. So I don't forget, because sometimes if you're just doing it all in your head, it comes really fast and you're like, oh, I forgot already. Or if you like voice, record yourself to run a walk or something. That's helpful.
Lauren Abrams [00:19:17] Yeah, definitely. And ChatGPT, no matter how you feel about it, it does a better job of voice recording than just notes or wherever you voice recorder.
Kelsey Aida [00:19:26] I used it for that.
Lauren Abrams [00:19:27] Oh my God, it's so much better. I just thought I'd throw that out there. Yeah. So what is your favorite thing to do right now?
Kelsey Aida [00:19:34] My everything is always writing. I've hosted retreats, I work with clients one on one, and I love all of that stuff. I love where you want people and seeing the instant shifts that happen. But for me, the most therapeutic thing where I feel the most charged after not drained is to write. And it's interesting because and this goes back to your question about my spiritual journey. Now, I've been working on a book that I intuitively feel is going to be a lot bigger than. All of my other books combined, and this project has felt very intimidating to me because of that. Because before, when I was a new author, I was like, who knows how many people are going to read this? Who cares? Just put it out there. But now, like, I have work behind me, right? So you got to outdo yourself. And this book I know has information that a lot of people are like asking for, like from the depths of their soul. So I feel like I have a responsibility with it. And it's about love, attraction. And when you're feeling blocked or when you're feeling stuck, unstuck yourself. How to work through your resistance and align your energy really good no matter what's going on. And so I've been like lowkey procrastinating because I'm so intimidated by the project and like, I feel like I've been called to this higher calling to like, work on this book and like, channel this book. So I've been like, like with psyching myself out about it, which is my like, which is me working through my resistance. Right. Which is like the irony of working on a book about resistance, and you're resisting the book that you're writing, which is hilarious. So it's funny, like when you're a teacher and you ask for certain information and then the universe puts you through it yourself so you can write from experience. So that's my spiritual journey right now. I would say, like finding the confidence and summoning the courage to just put all expectations and like, intuitive feelings aside and do it because, like, it's just being birthed through me and do it like without the ego, without the judgment of myself, without like self-sabotaging. The project of just I'm too scared.
Lauren Abrams [00:21:25] So many people are going to read.
Kelsey Aida [00:21:26] It's going to change so many people's lives, like it's going to have an effect. So I feel this like responsibility that comes with the power. And that's something I'm really moving through right now. To go back to the my current spiritual awakenings.
Lauren Abrams [00:21:40] Yeah. I always say that the two biggest tools that work the best are meditation and journaling. Yeah, they they get you your answers. They give me balance. They they do everything. And they're the ones that I'll put aside anyway. Not that often, but that's there. Just the best, the richest. What's. Yeah. What's the hardest challenge you've ever gone through? And how did you get through it?
Kelsey Aida [00:22:06] I would definitely say the hardest challenge was the heartbreak of not becoming a professional dancer, because that's what I banked on for, like, my whole entire life, from age two to age 17. So almost 18 years of, okay, this is my timeline, this is my life, this is what I'm doing. I'm really focused and really aligned. And then feeling like my body betrayed me by becoming injured and feeling like, God, what the heck? I thought you created me for this, but now you're taking it away and I don't understand. And that identity crisis that I went through during the depression and all of that was really tough because I had really wrapped myself around the identity of being this artist, being this dancer, being this ballerina, and that's that's all I am, which is not true. But at the time, that's what I felt and believed. And so I think mourning the loss of that timeline and then just realizing that everything that I was trying to get through dance and performing, like feeling graceful, feeling beautiful, channeling God's energy, feeling strong, feeling like my presence is like giving a positive effect to other people. Like all of those things I can still access in other ways, and finding other ways, creative ways to access them has really been, I think, the most healing part. And then just not tying myself to such a limited identity anymore and just being mean, like, I mean, I do a lot of different things, but I'm not any of those things and just really letting myself be bigger than what I'm doing or what I love.
Lauren Abrams [00:23:35] Yeah, I love that. Do you have a message? I hope you want to give.
Kelsey Aida [00:23:40] A message of hope. Yeah. This has been something that's been coming through lately, like a message for everybody. And it's really to let yourself dream and to let yourself go for those dreams, even if you don't know how it's going to manifest or when it's going to happen, or you don't know if it's possible. Like, I think you owe it to yourself and everyone to go for it. Because if you genuinely want something in your heart of hearts, there's a reason why. And if you're withholding that from yourself or the world, you are doing both a disservice. So I would say the message of hope for today is to dream big, let yourself dream big and go for it. Even if it's hard or scary or you don't know how it's going to happen. Because just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't.
Lauren Abrams [00:24:27] Yeah. Yay, I love that. And is there anything else that I didn't ask you that we're going to be done and agree like Lauren didn't ask me about this time.
Kelsey Aida [00:24:37] I would love to give a resource since we're really like talking about journaling a lot. I literally just a few weeks started a new Etsy shop called the 1111 club, where I'm posting a bunch of different journals to help you manifest different things, and they're downloadable so you can just go purchase it for 11 bucks. Download it. You can print it out if you like writing by hand, or you can just use it. On your iPad or phone or wherever you like to use your PDF journals, and I like. I'm obsessed with the tool of self-inquiry. Like when you ask yourself the right questions, you get powerful insights, you get powerful answers. And if you act on that information that you get like you can totally change your life. So I just wanted to plug that resource for people, and I'll send you the link so you can put it in the show notes to you. But I like I'm obsessed with self-inquiry. So I would say that into the conversation too, because the questions in there are so good. And I'll ask too, like when I'm writing it, I'll channel and I'll be like, what's the question that this person needs to ask themselves in order to get like the most clarity or the biggest breakthrough and all these good questions come through. And so I think your audience will really appreciate working with those.
Lauren Abrams [00:25:44] Oh, I love that. Thank you. Okay. And the self-love psychic. How did you get the moniker? Explain. I forgot to ask you that.
Kelsey Aida [00:25:52] Yeah. One of my human design friends labeled me that because I don't know how much you know about human design, but my type is a manifesting generator. And on my chart, there's all these different energy centers similar to the chakras, and some are filled in and some are open. But on my chart, I have every single thing filled in except the heart area, like they call it the ego center. So I'm pretty like defined as a person. Like I've a pretty set identity and like my thoughts or my thoughts, and I don't get easily affected by a lot of other things. But this open heart energy, this open ego center, means that I'm very in touch with, like where other people feel that they're lacking or they're not good enough. And so it helps me the way that I'm designed to read others and to read their most vulnerable things and to be able to call that out so we can shift it for them. So that was how I got this self-love psychic.
Lauren Abrams [00:26:51] Oh, that's.
Kelsey Aida [00:26:52] Great for my friend. She was like, you're literally designed for this work that you're doing.
Lauren Abrams [00:26:56] It's crazy.
Kelsey Aida [00:26:58] And I was like, that is great.
Lauren Abrams [00:26:59] Perfect. That is that's perfect. I love that. Yay! This is so great and I can't wait. We'll go live and maybe do some stuff in, in the community also. That would be so fun. Thank you so much. Everybody's got to get the 1111 journal too. We'll have links for everything of Kelsey's, of course, on the website in the show notes. And thank you so much for being a guest today. I'm 52 weeks, I hope. Yeah.
Kelsey Aida [00:27:23] Thank you. Hopefully we did give people some hope and some inspiration and some resources. So definitely check out the links in the show notes because I have literally written so many books.
Lauren Abrams [00:27:34] Yeah.
Kelsey Aida [00:27:34] So thank you so much. There's a podcast. Obviously you like that because if you're listening.
Lauren Abrams [00:27:39] To the podcast is amazing, everything you just go see, there's so much to offer.
Kelsey Aida [00:27:44] Yeah, there's so much stuff. Just go dive in.
Lauren Abrams [00:27:47] Yay!
Outro [00:27:48] I hope you enjoyed this week's episode and take with you the messages of honesty, gratitude, and an open heart. Such great messages to take into your week ahead. Be sure to tune in next week for another empowering episode, all about how to live abundantly, authentically and how to have fun. It's a great episode that's super upbeat, and that's next week. You definitely don't want to miss that. Be sure to sign up for a free confidence and Clarity Boost sessions. If you're struggling, this might be for you. It's for those who feel like life's passing them by your inner critic going nonstop and feeling burnt out and jealous of those who are doing what you wish you are doing. Just go to the website at 52 weeks of hope.com and sign up over there. If you're enjoying the podcast, share the love and tell two of your friends I'm Lauren Abrams. Thanks for listening.
