The Wizard Files

Sonja the Grey
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Spirit and tech; practical spiritual tools for everyday use

Episodes

  1. 03/08/2022

    Neptune energy, comin’ right up!

    Neptune is comin’ in hot in the next few weeks! Okay not really, I’m pretty sure it’s very cold out that direction. But regardless of temperature, let’s take a look at what Neptune represents and what’s coming up. Neptune is the release of boundaries, and everything that means, both literal and metaphorical. This is the space where dreams evolve, where enthusiasm and creativity play, and where imagination rules. Your imagination, btw, may create the imaginary, but that is only one of it’s many functions. Imagination is also your access point not only to creativity and adaptation, but also into mystical realms. Here you can access your own energy, shaping it into the form that best suits you, if you so choose. You can walk in other worlds to see what they have to offer and teach. With strong Neptune energy, you can connect to your intuition. You can ask for signs that help bring you direction. Neptune energy is vast, and unboundered. … is that a word? It should be. … okay let’s see here … Oh! “Unbounded: having or appearing to have no limits.” Yes, okay. This is what I mean. 🤣 Neptune energy is limited only by what you believe is possible. Neptune leaves the restrictions, rules, and obligations to other energies, like Saturn. And when Neptune energy is out of balance, we get a wobbly planet. (j/k. Sort of.) .. .Okay, so I just looked up whether Neptune has a wobble, and apparently Neptune’s got two moons that have very similar orbits, but one is tilted in such a way as to never come too close to each other, and astronomers call it a “dance of avoidance.” Lemme tell ya, thank you, Neptune astronomers, for the tangent turned segue. Neptune energy out of balance is exactly a dance of avoidance. When this energy is out of whack, we see things like seeing things, confusion, longing, despair, victim mindsets, problematic spiritual connections. I believe this is why we see Neptune get such a bad rap so very often. Modern society often condemns connection to everything Neptune, unless it’s within a very strict set of rules. Spirituality is great! But often only within the confines of certain religions. Imagination is fantastic, so long as it’s being used constructively or only during particular scenarios. We’ve wrapped up Neptune energy in a bunch of rules … which is exactly where Neptune energy does not want to be. This can throw things off balance when Neptune energy comes into play in your life when you (or those around you) are not ready for it. Because Neptune energy isn’t ever about the one. It is not an energy of an individual nature. Because blurred boundaries, y’all! I am you, you are me, we are one type vibes here. So if the community rejects what’s coming in, it’s going to be more difficult for everybody. In the last few decades, Neptune energy has been opening up, becoming more accessible. Deeper access to guides, intuition, all the good stuff. Okay. So here’s what we’ve got coming up. In the next little while, we’ve got … Mercury moving into Pisces on the 9th, which is ruled by Neptune, so bringing communication and mind energy to Neptune and Spirit connections Sun conjunction Neptune on the 13th, bringing further intensification of Neptune energies for a few days there And then, this is where it gets interesting … Neptune sextile the North Node (which also means trine the South Node) from March 15th through April 16th This, potentially, brings a huge amount of Spiritual help to your sense of direction, meaning, fulfillment over the next month – if you ask for it. If you are ready to walk through that door and ask for help. Because that’s one thing about Spirit work, at least in my experience … ya gotta ask, ya gotta be looking for those signs, and ya gotta be willing to believe, on some level, that they are signs at all. That’s it for today. If you would like help using these energies to your advantage, join me over in my Membership. I offer daily supportive tools, and real life interaction from me to help you transform your life. Membership helps support the work I do, and I do my best to support my members. Check it out at https://sonjathegrey.com/posts/hello. Have a great day, and I will see you next time!

    6 min

  2. 02/28/2022

    Triple Conjunction This Week

    Alright y’all, this week has some big isht going on! First we’ve got the New Moon — yeah yeah, big deal. This pales (no pun intended) in comparison to the conjunction that’s coming up in the wee hours on Thursday. Venus, Mars, and Pluto form a rare triple conjunction this week. This peaks on Thursday, though I suspect it will feel the most potent on Wednesday the 2nd. Relationships are getting shook. Old, unsupportive, “relationship in name only” connections are breaking down. Any time Pluto brings a transformative touch to a situation, it’s not likely to be subtle. For some, this may be an incredibly powerful time. You may discover new relationships, or new ways of interacting with the world that help you feel whole and alive. For others, this may spotlight some tough areas that need an overhaul. If you’re in this space, you haven’t done anything wrong, you’re not broken, and you haven’t missed an opportunity in this transformative conjunction. Astrology meets you where you are. If there’s something that needs to fall apart before you can rebuild, then that’s what’s likely. If you’re already in a growth stage, then that gets amplified. This week will be an important week to honor your emotions, and follow your instincts. If you need to grieve a change, do it. Don’t shove yourself into a happy place because that’s how “they say” to manifest great things. It really doesn’t work that way, despite best intentions by many a meme maker. Alignment comes when we honor where we are. Honor the change you need right now. Follow your intuition (or, start learning what that means – it’s different for everybody, and this week is going to give you some big hints as to how your intuition shows up). Later this week, you may find things start to feel more open, and a sense of relief may settle in. There will still be work to do and feelings to feel, but toward the weekend, there’s an energy of openness, and possibility. A chance to lean in and see where your future is headed. If you’d like to learn more about how this energy is showing up each and every day, check out membership link at sonjathegrey.com/hello . You can join at the $5/month level, to receive access to the report, where every day’s energy is discussed in detail. You can check in with these reports throughout the week to see how the astrology lines up with what’s happenign in your life, and most importantly, use it to gain perspective, and ideas for how to best use the energy in your own situation. At the $10/month level, you get to join me in community on Discord! It’s a great place to come together with other people who are actively seeking a different future for themselves. This level includes a monthly intuitive call with me, exclusive content, as well as service discounts and whatever else I come up with. I love to chat and engage in community, so I would love to see you there.

    4 min

  3. 02/16/2022

    Where do you picture “success”?

    I’ve been hanging tarot cards on my wall recently (as one does), and building something of an abstract tree out of them. Each card’s placement has unexpectedly taken on meaning (much like, y’know, tarot – shoulda seen that coming). I picked up a card with the label “success.” I thought, “well, clearly this needs to go at the top of the tree, up here at the ‘end’ where fruit grows and all that.” As I pressed the tape against the wall, my body froze. Why? I wondered. Why is “success” up here? Far away? Out of reach? “At the end”? I have a story, as many of us do, that “success” is somewhere at the end of something. Not even sure what that “something” is, but it’s certainly not here, where I am now … is it? I moved the card back down to the trunk of the tree. Eye level. Right here with me, and you, and anyone else who needs it.

    1 min

  4. 02/14/2020

    Your Passion Is Not Your Job Title

    It’s an idea that has been imprinted on you since you were a child.  “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  How often do you think you heard that question? More than once? More than once a year? More?  From the time you were able to form complex sentences, people have been asking you what you want to be.  As though you aren’t “being” sufficiently already.  As though you are supposed to transform into something new when you become an adult.  And they would ask you as though you must certainly have an answer. It was rare to find the adult who encouraged you to have no answer. Those adults typically weren’t the ones who were asking the question.  And the answer has an expected form. When a kid says, “I want to be a magical unicorn!” how often do you suppose a well-intentioned adult chuckles in response, “well that won’t pay the bills, now will it?” And if someone says “I want to save the earth!” again, the adult translates to, “Ah, you’d make a lovely environmental scientist.”  The unspoken expectation is that you will answer this question with a job.  Meanwhile, family, friends, Famous People on TV and the Internet, and eventually memes all advise you to “follow your passion.” I suspect this really set in somewhere around the 90s, when all of the money-hungry behavior of the 80s was turning out to be Not So Much Fun after all. As knowledge work became far more common, employees needed to be invested in the work differently to really thrive – they needed their souls on board in a way not previously seen in the workplace.  These two ideas are both doubling down on the same myths:  That projecting 5, 10, or 20+ years into the future makes any sense at all.  That you should know what the path to that future looks like.  That you know what your passion is, or that it will stay the same as you grow.  And the most harmful myth:  That what you are passionate about is the same thing as your job title.  This approach cheapens the experience of discovering what you’re passionate about. What drives you is now reduced down to a line of print on a business card.  And it’s why rattling off a list of skills and asking, “what career should I pursue?” doesn’t work.  What drives you is so much deeper.  You have to dig underneath the skills, and see what motivates you to use them. Perhaps you’re a fierce advocate of spreadsheets. Is that because you like to organize? Or is it because you like to create formulas to help draw conclusions from data? Maybe you like spreadsheets for their ability to sort. Shit, maybe it’s because you like spreadsheet art.  Someone who is soothed by the organizational structure of a spreadsheet, might be driven to high levels of anxiety at the idea of creating a complex formula to process some data. These two motivators are different. Simply saying “I like to work with spreadsheets” doesn’t dig down to why you like to work with them. The same thing is true of work.  A web developer might find the repetition of copying and pasting known widgets soothing. Another web developer might find this task tedious.  A writer might find the editing process reassuring, whereas another might loathe the experience.  And in case that’s not enough, not all jobs of the same title are created equal. A Sales Representative at one company can have completely different job expectations at another company.  So. What does this all mean. What is the takeaway.  At my kiddo’s preschool, they used to talk about things that “fill your bucket” and things that “empty your bucket.” It was extremely weird … at first. Imagining that there’s a bucket over your head that is either full (and therefore you are happy) or that it’s empty (you are sad/frustrated/tired/out of spoons). But it is a simple idea that can be very useful to bring awareness to your experiences. What fills your bucket? What empties it out?  In order to find job satisfaction, stop asking yourself what job will make you happy. Start asking yourself what motivates you. Ask yourself why you feel drawn to one job over another. What characteristics of that job appeal to you? What about that job would make you happy to get up in the morning? How do you enjoy helping others? (I know that question feels like it’s out of left field. Humans are social creatures, and regardless of personality traits, most people find they feel happier and more fulfilled when their work is helping someone.)  As you start to uncover why you love work, your ability to find it in jobs will expand. You’ll find more of what you love in your own job, and learn what obligations to let go.  When you’re ready, find support. There’s lots of ways to get help. Start with a book. Talk to friends and family (the supportive ones, anyway). Hire professional support (someone you resonate with – maybe that’s me, maybe it’s someone else!) to help you find a career you love.   Don’t ask yourself what you want to be. Ask yourself why you want to be it.  That’s it for me today. If you would like help transitioning to work you love, reach out at my site, sonjathegrey.com, and let’s have a chat.

    7 min

  5. 01/16/2020

    Your Future is Hurting You Now

    Today, I want to talk to you about how your future is destroying your ability to make decisions in the present. … Just saying those words f***s me up a little bit, so I just want to take a moment to say it again so we are both clear on the topic today. Your future is destroying your ability to make decisions today. Once upon a time, there was a girl. That girl was me. I had a job that wasn’t terrible, but over time it drove me into the ground. I didn’t feel like myself there. I didn’t feel respected by my boss, improvements that I knew were possible were ignored, I could go on and on but if you’re listening to this podcast, you know what it’s like to work somewhere where you don’t feel seen. I knew that something needed to change. And one day while I was at an acupuncture appointment, my acupuncturist said to me, “Why don’t you quit?” Panic welled up inside me. It was subtle, but it was panic. As my heart settled into its new home in my throat, I said, “I can’t quit.” “Why not?” He asked me. “Because!” I exclaimed. And then, I launched into the list of reasons that of course, I had to stay in my job. I would never be able to afford the mortgage without this job. Nobody would hire me because my experience is too specific to this company. I wouldn’t have any references. I don’t have enough money saved. On and on I went with reason after reason that my future was fucked if I quit my job. He paused. He looked at me with a small smirk that I now recognize as, “Oh, Sonja.” and he said, “Have you called the bank?” I sat there, completely confused. Normally at this point, people will tell you, this job is no good for you, it’s hurting you, leave, blah blah blah. But the bank? What is the bank have to do with any of this? Why would I call the bank? Thankfully, he continued. “Do you know what options are available for your mortgage. Have you applied to other jobs, and do you know that no one would hire you. Do you have any evidence to support the reasons you can’t quit?” Of course, I didn’t. My fear about what would happen in the future, how much worse it might get, it was driving me to stay exactly where I was. It was keeping me frozen in a place that was unhealthy, in exchange for staying away from a potentially scary future. So, here’s the thing. Your brain, specifically the amygdala, is in charge of keeping you safe. That’s been the amygdala’s job for a very long time. Uncertainty is very scary. An unknown animal, and unknown human, and unknown darkness in the forest. An unknown sound that you don’t recognize. All of these things warrant staying alert. Heightening your reaction time. Strengthening your awareness. This is fear’s job. And yet, your brain also loves to dream about the future. To imagine what could be. To plan, to chart a course, to try new things and explore new work, new cities, new relationships. If you think about it, and if you never explored new things … would you still be hanging out with the same people from high school? From grade school? Sitting in your childhood room playing with a binky? Humans are constant explorers. Your amygdala registers this future possibility as terrifying uncertainty. It misinterprets it as an uncertainty that’s a threat Right Now. And your amygdala is not the sharpest crayon in the box. Uncertainty is uncertainty is uncertainty. Your amygdala is going to freak the f**k out, regardless of how unlikely a future scenario is. And for whatever f****d-up reason, your brain would rather remain in a place that is hurting you, where your surroundings are known, than to venture out into the unknown. If you think about how often this happens, it’s everywhere. I’ve even done this in the shower. You know the style of shampoo bottle where the cap is on the bottom, and it collects water if it sits in the path of the shower water. I will flip that sucker over and drain it out on purpose, undoubtedly hitting myself with this super cold cap water, in order to avoid the possibility that I might accidentally squirt this cold water on myself while I’m trying to get shampoo out. My brain says that it is better to accept a known discomfort, then to risk an unknown discomfort that may not even happen. All of the things I was afraid of if I left my job never happened. After that job, I was hired again, very quickly in fact. I did have references, and I didn’t need them. I did not lose my house, and I didn’t have to call the bank. Here’s the rub. The future that I thought was safe, wasn’t. I was let go through a reduction in force at a company that overtime has been trimming it’s ranks. I was so sure that staying in a space that was hurting me was the safe choice, and yet not a single assumption that I made about my future happened. The safe, expected future didn’t happen. And the unsafe, possible future didn’t happen. You don’t know your future. Don’t let your assumptions about what will or could happen impact the decisions you make for yourself today. If your future was completely unknown — and it is — what decisions would you make right now? If you would like help figuring out where to go with your life next, I have just released my services page for 2020. Feel free to go check it out at sonjathegrey.com/services. I do have openings for a limited number of new monthly clients, as well as other one-time options available. That’s it for me today, if there’s anyone you know who might benefit from this episode, please send it their way. I hope you are doing well. Until next time,

    8 min

  6. 12/24/2019

    Meditation for Support and Connection

    Today’s episode is a free meditation for the holidays. This meditation is for you if: You feel overwhelmed by family interactions You’re struggling with feeling alone during the holidays Your holiday interactions with friends and family have not felt supportive The holidays can be a real mix of emotions. My hope for this meditation is to help you dodge, or at least diminish, some of the struggles that come from this time of year. This meditation is about 9 minutes long, and you’ll need to find a quiet space to listen. As with any meditation, please don’t use this while driving or operating heavy machinery. Until next time 🙂

    9 min

  7. 11/27/2019

    Why Goals Fail

    Every new moon, I take a little time to set intentions for the month. I like to base it on the star sign that the Moon is in, mostly because it’s fun – I also feel there is a synchronicity between astrology signs and the time of the year. A few days ago I was giving an online group session around setting intentions, and an excellent question came up, Why intentions and not goals. I want to offer a challenge. In this world where goals are idealized. Don’t set any. Don’t set any this month, don’t set any for the new year. What I mean by that is, don’t set any as motivators. Sure, you can set targets that you want to try to meet, but don’t make goals your motivation. Goals genuinely suck as motivators.  Goals suck because they have been squeezed dry all of their life force. Specific, measurable, all the other things in the SMART goal-setting checklist. And that’s really useful when you’re putting together milestones for some project. It’s no good as a motivation.  Goals have nothing to do with why you’re doing something. They don’t remind you of why it matters. And if they do, they’re probably too vague. Goals train your brain to only feel rewarded when you hit this measurable marker. There’s no  joy in the process. And if you’ve been using goals as rewards for a while, you’ve also trained your brain to start looking for the next reward (because that’s where the good shit is, after all). And when you live that way long enough, you start to create stress in between all of the reward points. Because your body is generating stress to push you to the next reward.  And switching goals? Holy pivot point, Batman. This often translates to a feeling of failure when you’re using goals as motivation. Because in order to switch, you have to let go of the initial goal that was motivating you in the first place. But realistically, how often do your goals change? How often do you realize that the goal you set for yourself doesn’t match where you want to go now that some time has passed. If you’re like me, it happens pretty often. Now … motivation. When you know why something matters to you. And you follow that with all of your heart, goals just become mileposts along the trip, they’re still there, marking the way, but you can switch  freeways, or get on a boat or take a plane. You can change destinations easily when you realize that your motivation would rather take you to New York instead of Florida. The journey becomes the joy. So as we head into a time when a lot of people start to reflect on what they did or did not achieve in the previous months, I invite you to think about the adventures you had. Think about what warmed your heart one Saturday afternoon. Think about the whacky decision you made in the middle of January, or June, or July, and how much fun you had that day. Think about that, and then decide your intention for this month. Or decide your intention for the next year. Fuck goals, they’re just a measurement. New goals can come along at any time. Ask what motivates you, what inspires you, who do you want to be. That’s what matters. Figure out who you want to be, and then live into being that person with deepest intentions, and see what happens.  If you want to read more detail about how goals differ from motivation, head on over to my website. You will find PDF ready for you called “Why Goals Fail,” ready to download in the Resources section.  Have a great week, and if it if you’re in the US enjoy the long weekend. There’s a lot of twisty energy happening right now so remember to pause, and take in something wonderful near you. Even a pleasant smell or bold color can sometimes brighten up a tense moment.

    5 min

  8. 11/20/2019

    Eliminating Perfectionism

    I love listening to the intro music as a way to warm up for these podcasts. So I’m sitting here with my headphones on, snapping along, thinking wow, my snaps sound great! And then I realize … I can’t hear my snaps at all, that’s the music. Womp woomp! Today I want to talk to you about a topic that’s near and dear to my heart: perfectionism.   It wasn’t until very recently that the idea was even floated that maybe “perfect” as a goal was not helpful, and more recently had the realization that shook my understanding of perfectionism to the core.  When I was a kid (and by kid I mostly mean teenager), I thought perfectionism was an admirable trait. I thought it was something to strive for, because obviously you want your stuff to be perfect. Obviously you want to keep poking and prodding until something is right … right?  But perfectionism is a sneeeaky little shit. Because it’s taking your desire to be awesome, taking your desire to do that thing your heart wants, and turning it against you to keep you safe.  So let’s unpack that a little bit. You, and most other humans, have a fear response that is triggered by your amygdala in your brain. You may have heard this referred to as the lizard brain, or as your fight-flight-freeze response. Now this triggers in real threat situations, like being chased by a lion. It also triggers in situations that feel just as threatening due to a past trauma.  Your amygdala responds to the unknown, because the threat could be hiding there. This is a time for high alert. Your amygdala looks around and says, “I don’t know where the fuck we are, but we are not going over there.”  Now. Let’s say you’ve been wanting to write a book.  You are not in mortal danger when you decide you’re going to write a book. And you’ve been writing for a while and your gut says it’s time. It’s time to write that book. You guessed it, you are venturing into the unknown. As we’ve evolved, the unknown as a threat has remained the same. So now, threats include writing your first book.  But some part of you knows that you’re not in mortal danger when you decide you’re going to write the book.  So here we are. In the unknown. Your amygdala is freaking out. And another part of your brain is saying, I’m not in danger.  Your fear response has some seriously complicated work to do here. It needs to convince you that you are in mortal danger when you put your fingers on the keyboard.  This is where trickster level genius happens. Your fear response looks around and says, “Don’t do that. It won’t be good enough. You’re going to look like a fool.”  Boom. Perfectionism has landed, my friends. Because in this space, logic will lose. Your fear can keep saying, “it won’t be good enough, you’re going to look like a fool” every single step along the way, every edit, every improvement, and you do it all in the name of perfection.  This was my first introduction to the idea that maybe perfectionism was holding me back. It was keeping me from releasing the thing, from posting the stuff, from learning the learnings.  And this is where the popular concept, “done is better than perfect” often comes in really handy. Get that thing out the door, because getting it out there is better than not.  But we can actually take this to another level that destroys perfectionism completely.  When we say, “done is better than perfect”, we are implying that done and perfect are both equally measurable. Most of us can agree on when something is considered done. It’s been released, it’s been mailed, it’s been printed it’s been handed over to a recipient. But how do you measure perfect? How did you measure perfect 10 years ago? How will you measure it 10 years from now? Is your neighbor’s definition of perfect different than yours? Your family’s?  Have you ever made something that you were really excited about, and then you came across that same thing a few years later, and you looked at it and you couldn’t remember why it was so exciting to you?  Or, have you ever had the reverse happen. Where you made something that you thought was just okay, and then finding it many years later, it seemed almost magical.  Or when you find something in a store that you don’t really like. You have a lot of complaints about it, and your friend walks up and says, “OMG, that’s amazing, that’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.” Perfect is relative. Perfect does not exist as a measurable, achievable, state.  And when perfectionism is trying to keep you from looking like a fool, who are you worried about? You aren’t worried about yourself. You’re worried about how other people will see you. And you have no idea what they consider perfect. The other day, A friend of mine was tweeting her frustration at creating homemade Yule cards.  She was frustrated, because there was no way she could achieve the same look that printed cards in the store had. She felt like it was an impossible standard to live up to. This blew my mind. Because when I create something like a card, I am comparing to what’s inside my head. I am comparing to what I think I could create, versus what I actually can create. It never occurred to me to compare my creation to store printed cards. These comparisons are worlds apart. Neither one is right or wrong. Her experience of perfect is wrapped in mass production, mine is wrapped in fantasy. Both cases are impossible. Both are 100% relative. And I know that her cards will be amazing, because I’ve seen what she paints. And it’s amazing. Hopefully, this blows up your concept of perfection enough to allow letting it go. But I want to put one more thing out there. In a lot of new age personal development – people, memes, social media – talk about how “you are already perfect.” And I understand what this is trying to do. It is trying to create a space where you feel complete, exactly how you are now. This can be really hard to take in. You start to argue. You imagine how you know something about you that they don’t know, that of course you don’t feel perfect, and then you start to feel shame. Because you feel like if they knew, then of course they wouldn’t be calling you perfect.  So here’s what I want you to know, as I close out today’s episode. Perfection is relative. And if someone tells you that you are perfect just the way you are,  know that what they’re really saying, is that they appreciate you. That they love that you’re here. That you are a wonderful human being in their life. That you are perfect to them. That you matter.  Thank you for joining me here today. If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please rate it on iTunes, or if you have feedback I’d love to hear from you. If you know someone who would appreciate this content, I would love for you to send it to them.

    9 min

  9. 11/15/2019

    Bonus: What Does It Mean to Be a Wizard

    On this bonus podcast episode, I discuss what it means to me to be a wizard and how I got here.

    19 min

  10. 11/14/2019

    Podcast Introduction

    Hello hello! Welcome to the wizard files, I’m so glad to have you here with me as we start out on this new adventure. My name is Sonja, you can find me online at sonjathegrey on Instagram and Twitter, and my website is sonjathegrey.com.  I’m going to keep it short and sweet here in today’s episode, as I introduce what this podcast is – who it’s for, who I am, what I do, and what you can expect.  So. Who is this for.  This is a podcast for the seekers. And, I’m going to tell you what I mean by that.  You feel stuck.  Up until now, you’ve followed some kind of flow that wasn’t your own. You followed the expectations put on you by family, friends, school, media, society.  You studied your favorite subjects, along side the “right” ones that you’re “supposed” to be good at. The things you love were fun, but they were distractions. Or they were hard to keep up with as you got older and had to follow the real work.  Not to mention, you’re wicked smart. You’ve leaned on intellect for most of your life, because that seemed easier, safer, the right thing to do, rather than be “too emotional,” or “too sensitive.”  So you let go of the things that felt good, one by one, as you grew up. Or, perhaps you outgrew some of the old fun things, but new fun things didn’t pop up in their place because hashtag responsibility.  And that felt okay at first, because you are an adult now! Responsibilities required focus. You could play once all the work was done … right?  More and more, there was no time for fun and play. And that still felt okay, because the money was coming in. You were okay. You were safe.  Except.  After a while, earning the income and being self sufficient stopped feeling like an accomplishment. It stopped feeling like ENOUGH.  So, you turn to the most obvious source of help. The internet.  Now the internet would love for you to believe that a few affirmations in the morning will pick you right up. So you try that. And you try 100 other hot tips and tricks from all the lists and books and resources. (And of course, don’t forget the app.) It’s too much.  You feel like you’ve lost your way. You’re not even sure you know what “your way” is anymore.  But one thing you know for sure, something has to change. And you’re ready.  You’re ready for change. And you’re starting to feel like you can’t think your way to an answer this time. Your brain has taken you as far as it can, and it’s not enough. (Hot tip: Your brain is a great tool, but it’s time to stop letting it drive the bus.)  On this podcast, I want to help you bring that change into your life. I want to help you toss the rules and expectations that aren’t serving you anymore, I want to help you find that path, a new journey, that feels joyful, and purposeful.  And I’m going to do that by bringing you the brain science, the intuition, the spiritual magic, and the body wisdom. I hope to bring on some of my favorite people to interview from various modalities. My daughter will also likely make unexpected appearances, because she has a tendency to do that.  I also can’t 100% tell you what’s going to happen on this podcast, because I haven’t planned it out. That’s part of that intuitive wisdom, creating a without a plan (shhhhh – don’t tell the internet!)  I’m also looking forward to asking questions of you and hearing what you’d like me to address. I cannot wait to have those conversations.  So, who am I?  I spent over a decade as a manager in tech. I’ve seen this path walked over and over by my employees, and I’ve walked it myself. As a manager, my goal was to help my employees grow to their full potential, in a way that felt fulfilling for them.  So I spent years studying how we get ourselves stuck, and how we get ourselves out of it. And, probably not coincidentally, around the same time, I started exploring spirituality, and the energy that connects us all, whether for you that’s God, the Universe, Spirit, I devoted a lot of study and time to understanding how to interact with that energy in my body and my mind.  Because that magic is key to finding that space in your life that fills you up.  So now … I’m a wizard. Yep. So what does that mean.  For those who are curious, there’s an episode dedicated to what it means to me to be a wizard and how I got here. The short version is, I show up at a time in your life when the shit has hit the fan. When you’re looking for big change, and you’re ready to set out on your quest to make that big change real. As a wizard, I support you with a combination of brain science, deep intuitive wisdom, and that straight up magical spiritual shit that I can’t always explain. In my client work, I channel spirit through multiple modalities, I do energy work, I coach, I provide that wizardry backup that every hero needs to really make epic change.  Now why would I do this? Because I dream of a world where you feel free to be yourself. A world where every person feels safe to be their loving, quirky, weird, incredible self, every day. Where we treat each other with empathy and respect, while tossing the expectations that don’t work for us anymore. It IS possible to do both. Where someone being different isn’t automatically cause to feel uncomfortable. A world where weird is beautiful and respected.  And I believe, the more of us out there living life to it’s fullest, with empathy, and honesty, and all of our weird out on the table, the more amazing all of our lives will be. Also, cookies. Peanut butter cookies. That is a magic all on it’s own.  Alright. Thank you everyone, for listening. It’s going to be fun, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

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Spirit and tech; practical spiritual tools for everyday use

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  • Creator
    Sonja the Grey
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2022
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sonja Amundson
  • Show Website
    The Wizard Files