Spiritual Seeker's Podcast

Episode 88: Today I'm just looking back at the past couple swirly weeks, with the eclipse energies, with the Board of Ed nonsense in my town, recent adventures of my oldest, in addition to manifesting money!

To learn more about me (Karen) and the work that I do, go to rebalancewithreiki.com - if you are local to Northern NJ and you'd like to check out my store front you can visit my page moonmagicwellness.com.

For more information about my online course Spiritual Seekers 101 go here.

For more info and to book a distance healing session with me go here.

Episode 87: Eclipse Energy, Joan of Arc and Being Brave

We are currently in an Eclipse Portal and it’s been INTENSE! Have you felt it? They say with Eclipses, that we are put into a period of accelerated transformation. Ain’t that the truth! This week I share with you some of my stories relating to stepping into this advocate role. So many neat stories of how Spirit assists me when tackling this bigger than me job. Hope you enjoy listening in!

To learn more about me (Karen) and the work that I do, go to rebalancewithreiki.com - if you are local to Northern NJ and you'd like to check out my store front you can visit my page moonmagicwellness.com.

For more information about my online course Spiritual Seekers 101 go here.

For more info and to book a distance healing session with me go here.

I never grow tired of my experiences while working on my clients. On today’s episode I share some recent stories of clients and the visions of their chakras, along with my interpretations of them. This work is just so cool. Thanks for listening to these neat stories!

To learn more about me (Karen) and the work that I do, go to rebalancewithreiki.com - if you are local to Northern NJ and you'd like to check out my store front you can visit my page moonmagicwellness.com.

For more information about my online course Spiritual Seekers 101 go here.

For more info and to book a distance healing session with me go here.

I recently took a trip to San Francisco with my family. This whole trip came together in a kind of surprising way. I felt very much like our ancestors played a big role in having us visit their old stomping grounds. I don’t always know the how and why of things, but I do know to trust. I was guided to take this trip on very specific dates and my husband and kids were kind enough to go along with me and my fanciful passions. It was a short whirlwind of a trip and it certainly felt divinely orchestrated. On today’s episode I get into some of the details of how this trip came to be and some stories from along the way. By the way, this will be my last episode of 2022. I’ll be back again in late January after taking a break for a bit! Thanks for taking time out of your day to listen to the spiritually inspired stories of my life! I’m so grateful that you’re here.

Episode 113 - Taylor Swift and the Divine Feminine with Meredith Beardmore

I’m so excited to bring you today’s episode! I will be geeking out about Taylor Swift and the Divine Feminine with therapist – and Swiftie- Meredith Beardmore.

Meredith Beardmore is a psychotherapist operating a private practice, the author of Hey Addiction, Thanks for NOTHING!: A Brutally Honest Guide to Loving an Addict Without Losing Your Mind, and is also known as “Mend with Mere” from her successful YouTube Channel.

Meredith is an Ohio State University graduate with a master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Meredith specializes in substance abuse treatment, helping family members of addicts and treating emerging adults with various issues, from identity development to depression.

Her YouTube Channel, “Mend with Mere,” initially intended for therapy discussions, became a platform for analyzing song lyrics, primarily Taylor Swift's, garnering thousands of subscribers and over 5 million hours of watch time.

I am so happy to have found MEND WITH MERE, and her channel where she often thoughtfully discusses, dissects and reacts to songs. I stumbled upon her page in the research that goes along w dissecting lyrics! The recent Taylor Swift album – the Tortured Poets Department- is rich with amazing and meaningful songs that really sent me down rabbit holes.

I’ve recently become a Swiftie, and I’m not embarrassed to admit it! The more I’ve learned about Taylor Swift and her work, the more I’ve grown to love her! When she started the Eras tour last year I noticed all the girl mom friends of mine who went to see the show with their daughters were just as crazy to see her as their daughters were... this intrigued me and I ended up watching the Netflix Special on her called “MISS AMERICANA”. From there I really grew to really respect her as an artist and person. It’s clear she’s a smart, self-aware and sensitive. I only began delving into her catalogue since February of this year after watching her video for “You Need To Calm Down”. Seeing how she advocates for the LGBTQ really warmed my heart- I cried when I first saw it even tho it’s not necessarily a tear jerker! As a mom to a transgirl it made me even happier to see someone with this platform saying F U to the naysayers. I then started listening to her on Spotify, just letting it play... I heard the song “I Did Something Bad” where she mentions how narcissists love her (common for empaths) and then she sang “They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one.... So light me up” and I got CHILLS so bad!! I could feel the power she was channeling and was floored!

I later learned about the song Willow and her video for that where it looks like a coven of women dancing around the moon—fun fact, this tree is associated with Hecate—Queen of the Witches, goddess of the underworld connected to magic and divination. Witch isn’t a bad word- a witch is a woman in her power who can transmute energy and Taylor Swift does just that. From the snakes being thrown her way w the bs drama she had with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where she turned it around for fuel for her Reputation album, to changing the script on London and her relationship to that city (We recorded this just prior to those shows... Travis Kelce is clearly the Divine Masculine and his performance with Taylor on stage was so symbolic and amazing. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, clearly you are NOT a Swiftie, lol. Google it! Night 3 London, June 22). They both really embody the divine feminine and masculine so strongly.

Nothing prepared me tho for when she premiered her performance of “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me” from her new album in Paris back in May. This was an empowered woman, not hiding her rage and playfully playing on people’s fears/accusations of her being a witch. I ate that shit up!! Every single time I listen to or watch that song I get chills and my eyes fill with tears. She channels such power and light.

Meredith and I speak about sacred rage, how it’s necessary to feel in order to heal, we speak on intuition and how it grows after the arrival of our children. We speak about our kids on the spectrum and their heightened sensitivities, and we also touch on the oh so common narcissist and empath connection.

I loved my conversation with Meredith, we meandered a bit and I love all the different directions we went in. I hope you enjoy it too!!

Mend with Mere (YouTube)

Meredith's website

Books mentioned:

Anita Moorjani- Dying To Be Me (book on near death experience)

Gabor Mate - The Myth of Normal (book connecting trauma to physical illness)

Christine Northrup- Dodging Energy Vampires