The Mystic In Training Podcast

Melissa Amos
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Mystic in Training is a podcast for soul-led seekers navigating the messy, magical path of becoming. Hosted by Melissa Amos - spiritual psychotherapist, Akashic Records teacher, and author - this show blends everyday mysticism with grounded insight. Through soulful conversations and practical guidance, you’ll find the golden thread back to your inner wisdom. No dogma, no fluff - just real talk for the spiritually curious ready to come home to themselves.

  1. 14h ago

    Your Business Isn’t Here to Keep You Safe

    Send us Fan Mail “Just trust your intuition.” It sounds like good advice. And over two days at PEAKEFEST, surrounded by hundreds of business owners learning about strategy, sales, marketing, messaging and growth, I heard versions of it again and again. Be yourself. Follow what feels good. Trust your gut. Listen to your intuition. But there’s a problem. What if you don’t actually know which part of you you’re listening to? Because your intuition isn’t the only voice inside you. Fear has a voice. Your past has a voice. The part of you that wants to belong has a voice. The part that wants to protect you from rejection, failure or embarrassment has one too. And sometimes the thing your Soul is asking you to do feels anything but comfortable. In this episode of Mystic in Training, recorded just after bringing Soul Space to PEAKEFEST 26, I explore what it really means to put Soul into the strategy. We talk about the difference between what is familiar and what is aligned, why fear doesn't necessarily mean “no”, and why the nature of the Soul may be less about keeping you comfortable and much more about your evolution. Because perhaps the question isn't simply: “What does my intuition say?” Perhaps it's: “Which part of me is speaking — and what is it orientated towards?” Safety? Belonging? Money? Approval? Or Soul? This is Spiritual Intelligence in practice. Not ignoring psychology in favour of spirituality. Not handing every decision over to your mentor, an algorithm, AI or the latest expert you've heard speak. But developing the capacity to come back to yourself, discern what is true, and put yourself back in the driving seat of your own life. Because your business isn't only here to make you money. And it certainly isn't here to keep you safe. It might just be one of the greatest vehicles you have for becoming more of who you are. In this episode: – Why “trust your intuition” can be incomplete advice – The difference between Soul guidance, fear and protection – Why aligned decisions can still feel uncomfortable – What hundreds of business decisions teach us about discernment – The relationship between familiarity, safety and growth – What it means to put Soul at the centre without becoming “Soul only” – Why Spiritual Intelligence matters in business, relationships and life – What I witnessed when Soul Space went on tour to PEAKEFEST Soul Space — the home of Spiritual Intelligence: https://melissa-amos.com/soul-space Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  2. 6d ago

    Intuition vs Fear: How to Know What Your Soul Is Really Telling You | Mystic in Training

    Send us Fan Mail How do you know when it’s your intuition speaking? And perhaps more importantly… how do you know when it isn’t? We’re often told to trust our intuition. Follow the nudge. Listen to our guides. Notice the signs. Pay attention to our energy. But the more spiritually sensitive we become, the more information we can potentially be receiving. Our intuition. Our fear. Our conditioning. Our ego. Our nervous system. Other people’s emotions and energy. Our guides. Our desires. And somewhere amongst all of that… the quieter voice of the Soul. So how do we tell the difference? In this episode of Mystic in Training, I’m exploring intuition, energetic sensitivity, spiritual guidance and the discernment required to actually know what we’re listening to. This episode has been created from a longer conversation I had with Gordon Mackay, founder of The Empath Academy and Empaths Are United, where we originally began by talking about what it means to be an empath. But the conversation quickly became about something much bigger. Being sensitive isn't the same as being discerning There can be a tendency within spirituality to treat sensitivity as the goal. To feel more. Receive more. Open more. See more signs. Hear our intuition more clearly. But I don’t necessarily think receiving more information makes us more spiritually intelligent. Because then comes the question: What are you going to do with it? You can feel somebody else’s emotion without needing to carry it. You can receive guidance without automatically obeying it. You can experience fear without assuming it means “don't go there.” And you can feel deeply intuitive about something while still becoming curious about what, exactly, is creating that feeling. That distinction matters. Intuition doesn't always lead towards comfort One of the things I come back to again and again is that my Soul has not always led me towards what feels easiest. Sometimes the most aligned path has frightened me. Sometimes growth has required me to walk towards something that another part of me would much rather avoid. So if our definition of intuition becomes: the thing that feels good, expansive or safe… we can get ourselves into trouble. Fear isn't necessarily a stop sign. Discomfort isn't necessarily misalignment. And ease isn't necessarily confirmation. This is where discernment becomes part of spiritual practice. What belongs to you? For empaths and highly sensitive people, there's another layer. Sometimes what we're experiencing may not even originate with us. We can walk into a room and feel the atmosphere. Spend time with somebody and notice our emotional state change. Sense tension before anybody has said a word. That sensitivity can be an extraordinary form of information. But sensitivity without self-awareness can also become overwhelm. The work isn't necessarily to shut it all out. It's developing enough relationship with yourself that you begin to recognise: This is mine. This isn't mine. This is information. This is something I need to act upon. Those are very different things. Spiritual guidance shouldn't remove your agency The same is true of guides, signs and synchronicities. I love spiritual guidance. I work with it. I teach it. I have built an enormous part of my life around developing a relationship with the unseen. And I don't believe its purpose is to make us less capable of making our own decisions. Quite the opposite. For me, spiritual development is not about continually asking something outside of yourself what you should do next. It is about becoming more deeply able to meet life. To receive information from many places — psychological, emotional, energetic, intuitive and spiritual — and develop the capacity to be in relationship with all of it. Without abandoning yourself in the process. That is where intuition becomes something much richer than simply “trust your gut.” It becomes Spiritual Intelligence. And perhaps that is part of what it means to be a Mystic in Training. Not somebody who has all the answers. But somebody who is learning how to listen. Want to go deeper? This conversation sits right at the heart of the work we are exploring inside AWAKEN — developing your relationship with your intuition, your Soul and your Spiritual Intelligence so that spirituality becomes something you can actually live, rather than simply something you know about. https://melissa-amos.com/awaken And if you’d like to hear the conversation this episode came from, you can watch my full interview with Gordon Mackay here: https://youtu.be/wP15_hoNd9o?is=rtKlceWnbIcCjz8X Gordon is an empath mentor and the creator of The Empath Academy and Empaths Are United. In the full conversation we go much deeper into empathy, energetic overwhelm, boundaries, sensitivity, intuition and learning how to work with what you feel. Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  3. Sep 18

    Can We Ever Be Free? Trauma, Self-Expression and the Stories That Shape Us

    Send us Fan Mail Can we ever be truly free? I have been sitting with that question since hearing Dr Gabor Maté speak in London. He spoke about childhood, attachment, the body and the experiences that shape us: what we were praised for, what was allowed and which parts of us seemed to threaten our belonging. It left me wondering how much of the life we are living today is genuinely being chosen by us—and how much is being chosen through a lens we learned to wear long ago. As babies, our needs and responses are immediate. We reach, cry, turn away and make ourselves known. But somewhere along the way, many of us learn that self-expression has consequences. Do not be too difficult. Do not ask for too much. Do not become angry. Be good, amenable and easygoing. Preserve the relationship. Keep the peace. For a child who depends upon attachment, this adaptation makes complete sense. Belonging is not a luxury; it is survival. Yet the strategy can follow us into adulthood, long after the original conditions have changed. We call it our personality. We say we genuinely do not mind. We rise above anger, soften the boundary and swallow the no—while resentment, tension or exhaustion gathers inside us. Then one day, self-expression begins to matter more. We set a boundary. We name what is true. We stop volunteering for the role everyone expects us to play. And because our nervous system remembers that authenticity once risked rejection, even a healthy act of self-loyalty can feel dangerous. This is the painful choice beneath so many apparently ordinary moments: do I risk disappointing someone else, or do I continue abandoning myself? Freedom may not mean becoming free of everything that happened to us. We may always have a history, conditioning and a body that remembers. Perhaps freedom begins in the moment we recognise: this happened; this is what I made it mean; this is who I learned to become because of it. Then a new question becomes possible: do I still need to be that person now? That awareness is not an instruction to blame our younger selves. The adaptation protected something precious. Nor is it a demand to express every feeling at another person. Self-expression can begin privately—with the courage to admit what is actually here. What is true for me today? What wants to come through me? If I did care, what would I choose? One of the most beautiful parts of the evening came during a question about supporting children through painful circumstances. The response Melissa heard contained three simple invitations: care for yourself, allow their full expression and delight in them. What if those are also instructions for our own healing? Can I care for myself and tend to my emotional state? Can I allow the anger, grief, desire, joy, guilt, ambition and mysticism to exist without immediately correcting them? And can I enjoy myself—not merely treat myself as an endless healing project, but become available for my vitality and aliveness? Perhaps healing is not becoming better at holding pain. Perhaps it is becoming more available for truth, authenticity and life. This is spiritual intelligence: not collecting more knowledge about why we are the way we are, but developing the capacity to meet our mind, body, emotions, Soul and history consciously enough that we can participate in what happens next. What happened to you matters. The meaning you made was intelligent. The person you became helped you belong or survive. But what are you doing with your story now? Join AWAKEN, Melissa’s free three-day live Spiritual Intelligence experience: https://melissa-amos.com/awaken Learn more about Melissa: https://melissa-amos.com Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  4. Sep 11

    What If You’re Not Lost? Your Life as an Odyssey

    Send us Fan Mail What if the chapter that feels like a detour is not evidence that you have gone wrong? What if it is part of what is preparing you to arrive? A couple of weeks ago, I went to see The Odyssey with a friend. Three hours later, I left the theatre with the feeling that I had witnessed far more than an ancient adventure story. So I went back. The second time, I took a notebook. Odysseus begins with a destination: Ithaca. He knows where he wants to go, but the journey home refuses to become a straight line. There are storms and monsters, temptation and loss, magical helpers and moments when the way forward disappears completely. Again and again, he has to meet the chapter he is actually in—not the one he thought he should be living. That is where the myth began to feel like a mirror. It is easy to believe we are supported when life is flowing. The signs appear, the right people arrive and the ship seems to be travelling directly towards the destination we chose. But what happens to our faith when the feathers stop—or when we are too frightened, tired or disappointed to notice them? What happens when the map disappears and we cannot understand why life is asking so much of us? We can begin to treat divine guidance like a guarantee: if I am aligned, things will work out in the way I want. If I am supported, the path will be smooth. If something goes wrong, perhaps I have missed the sign, made the wrong choice or somehow fallen off my soul path. But support does not always look like ease. A sign may be an invitation to pay attention, not a promise of a preferred outcome. The difficult chapter may be developing the strength, wit, resilience or discernment we will need later. The detour may introduce a helper, reveal a truth or return us to a part of ourselves we had left behind. This does not mean every painful experience was deliberately sent, or that harm should be spiritualised and endured. Some chapters ask us to leave, seek help, set a boundary or name clearly what has happened. Finding meaning is not the same as justifying suffering. Spiritual intelligence asks us to stay awake to that distinction. Nor is faith the same as passive waiting. Odysseus receives help, but he still has to build the raft. He has to listen, choose, act and sometimes begin again. Perhaps our work is similar: to remain open to guidance without handing over our agency; to notice what life is showing us while still taking the next honest step. So perhaps the question is not simply, “How do I get home?” Perhaps it is, “Where am I in the Odyssey?” Am I in the storm, being asked to hold my centre? Am I with the sirens, learning what can pull me away from my true north? Am I on the island, mistaking comfort for belonging? Or am I building the raft—working with the materials available instead of waiting for perfect conditions? We do not return home unchanged. The person who arrives could not have existed without the journey, and the home we return to may have changed too. What might you do differently if you knew you were not lost, but navigating a necessary detour? And what might this part of your spiritual journey be asking you to become? Listen to this episode of Mystic in Training for a reflection on the hero’s journey, faith, divine guidance, discernment and the conscious choices that help us find our way. Join AWAKEN, Melissa’s free three-day live Spiritual Intelligence experience: https://melissa-amos.com/awaken Learn more about Melissa: https://melissa-amos.com Follow Melissa: @themelissaamos Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  5. Sep 4

    What If I Lead Them Wrong? Power and Spiritual Leadership.

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when the person who helped deepen your spiritual practice also leaves you questioning your own knowing? In this deeply personal episode of Mystic in Training, Melissa shares the story of a five-year spiritual apprenticeship that contained powerful teaching, genuine magic—and a gradual shift that left her questioning her practices, relationships and inner authority. After the relationship ended, Melissa discovered that she had carried a hidden agreement into her own work: What if I lead them wrong? That fear did not make her more responsible. At times, it made her soften her beliefs, over-explain herself, hesitate around her work and dilute her leadership in an effort never to control another person. Years later, words written by clients for the Business Ascension Awards reflected something back to her that she had struggled to see from the inside: her work was helping people trust themselves, discover their gifts and find their own rhythm. In this episode, Melissa explores: How a mentoring relationship can contain both valuable teaching and a damaging dynamicWhy access to supposedly hidden knowledge can make us feel specialWhat happens when questioning a teacher begins to feel like disloyaltyHow losing trust in a mentor can also disrupt trust in yourselfThe hidden agreement that made Melissa afraid to lead fullyThe difference between responsible humility and leadership shaped by fearWhy influence is unavoidable—and what healthy influence should strengthenHow spiritual guidance can offer a map without replacing someone’s compassWhy psychological, spiritual and somatic understanding belong togetherThe questions that help us assess whether mentorship is strengthening our inner authorityFor leaders: Does my influence make people more dependent on my certainty—or more able to recognise their own? For anyone receiving guidance: Is this relationship helping me strengthen my own inner authority? Over the coming weeks, Mystic in Training will explore Awareness, Discernment and Coherence as Melissa prepares to open AWAKEN, a free three-day live Spiritual Intelligence experience beginning 29 September 2026. Learn more about Melissa: https://melissa-amos.com Follow Melissa: @themelissaamos Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  6. Aug 28

    The Breakthrough Feels Good. The Follow-Through Changes You.

    Send us Fan Mail We can understand the pattern, receive the breakthrough and know exactly what needs to change—then find ourselves standing in the old position again. In this episode, Melissa explores why insight feels like progress, why our bodies and routines may not immediately catch up, and how the real transformation happens through the uncomfortable practice of returning. You had the insight. You understood the pattern. You found the book, practice, teacher or explanation that made everything click. So why are you still finding yourself in the old response? In this episode of Mystic in Training, Melissa explores our attachment to the breakthrough—and the part of transformation that is far less exciting to sell: the follow-through. Drawing on a simple adjustment to her yoga practice and a recent experience of losing her own centre during a tense situation, Melissa examines what happens when the mind understands a new possibility but the body, routine and protective patterns are still organised around the familiar one. Inside this episode: - Why insight can make us feel as though the change has already happened - The difference between receiving new information and integrating it - Why familiar physical, emotional and relational patterns return automatically - What happened when Melissa realised her centre had moved into fear and a worst-case scenario - How returning to centre created clarity without magically changing the circumstances - Why discomfort can be the signal that a new pattern needs conscious practice - The difference between shaming yourself for “knowing better” and compassionately rehearsing a new response - Why Soul work reveals possibility while the human needs repetition, support and lived experience This week’s reflection: Where do you understand the new way but still find yourself automatically standing in the old position? When you notice it, ask: If I were implementing the new pattern now, what would I do? Then take the smallest available action. Soul Space is where we take insight into our relationships, decisions, businesses, bodies and ordinary lives. Doors close Monday 31 August 2026. Explore Soul Space: https://melissa-amos.com/soul-space Learn more about Melissa: https://melissa-amos.com Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  7. Aug 21

    Visibility Isn't the Problem. Self-Abandonment Is.

    Send us Fan Mail I wasn't expecting the Daily Mail to become one of my greatest teachers. When I agreed to share my Invisalign journey, I thought the story would be about how aligning my teeth unexpectedly became the beginning of aligning my life. Instead, the headline became about obesity and weight loss. Then came the comments. Hundreds of opinions from complete strangers about my body, my choices and, indirectly, my worth. Only... something had changed. As I sat reading them, I noticed something quietly remarkable. I didn't feel the familiar pull to explain myself. I didn't feel the need to defend my decisions. I wasn't desperately searching for evidence that they were wrong or that I was right. Instead, I found myself asking a very different question. What if visibility isn't about learning to tolerate criticism? What if visibility is actually about becoming so deeply rooted in yourself that criticism no longer requires you to abandon who you are? That realisation became even more profound as, over the same few weeks, I began publicly sharing my live channeling for the first time. Unsurprisingly, that brought opinions too. Some people were curious. Some people were sceptical. Some people questioned the work entirely. And once again, I found myself returning to the same place. Not defensiveness. Discernment. Because there is a profound difference between asking, "Am I enough?" and asking, "Is there something here that wants to refine my expression?" One question comes from fear. The other comes from alignment. This week's conversation explores visibility, criticism, self-trust, identity, Spiritual Intelligence and why the inner work always shapes how we meet the outer world. Perhaps the greatest gift of healing isn't becoming fearless. Perhaps it's simply becoming someone who no longer walks away from themselves when life gets loud. ✨ Continue the journey in Soul Space – The Home of Spiritual Intelligence https://melissa-amos.com/soul-space 🎧 Listen to last week's Live Channelled Message [Insert link] 📖 Read more essays https://themelissaamos.substack.com Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

  8. Aug 7

    Micro Mysticism: Are You Missing the Universe's Quietest Conversations?

    Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had a moment that felt too perfectly timed to be a coincidence? A feather appearing exactly when you needed reassurance. A stranger saying the very words you've been thinking. A song, a number plate, a bird, a chance encounter that somehow feels deeply personal. In this episode, Melissa shares one of the most unusual experiences of her life after attending a retreat in Findhorn, Scotland. Finding an eight-inch feather lodged inside her trousers should have been impossible... and yet there it was. But the story isn't really about the feather. It's about what happened inside her. As a psychotherapist, Melissa understands confirmation bias, pattern recognition and our tendency to create meaning. As a mystic, she's spent years experiencing moments that seem to point towards something greater. So where do we draw the line? Perhaps the real question isn't whether the universe is speaking to us. Perhaps it's whether we're paying enough attention to hear it. This episode explores the beautiful intersection of psychology, spirituality and presence, introducing the idea of Micro Mysticism—the tiny moments that quietly remind us we're part of something much bigger than ourselves. Read the companion essay: https://themelissaamos.substack.com/p/the-feather-up-my-trouser-leg?r=2cwz2j&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Soul Space is where mirco mysticism is part of the everyday conversation. Join us here: https://melissa-amos.com/soul-space/ Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired.  Follow her @themelissaamos across the platforms

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Mystic in Training is a podcast for soul-led seekers navigating the messy, magical path of becoming. Hosted by Melissa Amos - spiritual psychotherapist, Akashic Records teacher, and author - this show blends everyday mysticism with grounded insight. Through soulful conversations and practical guidance, you’ll find the golden thread back to your inner wisdom. No dogma, no fluff - just real talk for the spiritually curious ready to come home to themselves.

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  • Creator
    Melissa Amos
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    63
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