Soul Journaling: A Sacred Practice to Awaken Your Inner Wisdom | Creating a Meaningful Life

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What if your soul held the answers you’ve been searching for?

In this powerful episode of Creating a Meaningful Life, we sit down with spiritual teacher and author Reverend Laurel Geise to explore the life-changing practice of soul-guided journaling.

Laurel shares how a tragic personal loss led her to meditation, deep healing, and ultimately a profound connection with her soul’s wisdom.

Discover:

✨ What makes soul journaling different from regular journaling

✨ How to begin listening to your “divine ears”

✨ The three-step mantra: Listen. Align. Act.

✨ Why surrender really means giving back to the soul

✨ How this practice can transform chaos into clarity, and loneliness into loving guidance

Laurel also shares practical tips for getting started, the power of waiting to read your journal entries, and why living your soul’s guidance is the key to true mastery. 💫 Ready to awaken your inner teacher and live a soul-guided life? 

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Discovering the True Meaning of Spirit Animals

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Spirit animals are more than symbols—they’re sacred guides offering wisdom, intuition, and healing. Discover how to connect with your spiritual allies.

Years ago, when I was living and studying in New York, I stumbled into an unexpected role: the perfect fit for designers in the garment district who needed models to showcase their fur creations. I spent many afternoons being poked, measured, and pinned, just to earn the chance to buy sample coats at the end of the season.

That’s how I began a career as a human mannequin. Back then, I jokingly called those coats my “spirit animals.” But years later, after a profoundly personal journey with a Shaman in Santa Fe, I realized how shallow my understanding truly was.

The deeper meaning of a spirit animal goes far beyond generic symbolism. Spirit animals connect us to our physical, mental, and spiritual worlds. They act as mirrors of the subconscious, offering guidance, insight, and even healing when we’re willing to listen.

Spiritual seekers throughout history have recorded their encounters with animal energies. The Ancient Roots of Spirit Animals
Spiritual seekers throughout history have recorded their encounters with animal energies. Shamans, mystics, and storytellers built relationships with animal archetypes as a way to expand the human experience and to understand the natural world.

At its core, the belief in spirit animals is rooted in animism—the idea that everything in the universe, from trees and rivers to stones and animals, has a soul. Spirit animals are not just metaphors; they are seen as supernatural allies, lending us their instincts, wisdom, and traits in moments of need.

Finding Your Spirit Animal
It is said that each of us has at least one spirit animal in our lifetime—a guide, a protector, a companion for our soul’s journey. But this isn’t something you can discover by taking a lighthearted online quiz.
A spirit animal chooses you. It may reveal itself through dreams, synchronicities, meditation, or repeated encounters in nature. The process is less about seeking and more about opening: observing, listening, and being willing to receive.

Here are a few ways to begin the journey:

  • Pay attention to animals that appear frequently in your life.
  • Keep a journal of your dreams and look for recurring animal symbols.
  • Meditate with the intention of meeting your guide.
  • Spend time in nature and notice who shows up.

Most importantly, embrace the process. The journey itself shapes you as much as the discovery.

Evolving with Your Spirit Animal
As we grow, change, and move through life’s thresholds, our connection to spirit animals also shifts. Just as we are not the same people we were a decade ago, our guides evolve with us. They reflect our inner selves—the courage we need, the clarity we seek, the compassion waiting to be awakened.

For me, my spirit animal has become an inner teacher, reminding me to live with passion, purpose, and presence. For me, my spirit animal has become an inner teacher, reminding me to live with passion, purpose, and presence. It brings awareness to the parts of myself I might overlook, and helps me glimpse a deeper vision of who I am becoming.

A Sacred Invitation
We live in uncertain times. Systems feel fragile, and the world often seems chaotic. Yet spirit animals offer us a timeless reminder: there is wisdom already written within the soul. By following the patterns and archetypes that reveal themselves, we remember our place in the larger web of life.

As I left Santa Fe, I reflected on this mystery—how life unfolds in ways we never expect, and how the connections we make, especially those on a soul level, enrich and transform us. Spirit-animal relationships, once considered mystical or fringe, may one day feel as natural as breathing.

Ultimately, they are simply reflections of our own sacred capacity to live a meaningful, connected, and deeply spiritual life.

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Letting Go with Grace: Fall Rituals for Balance

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7 Ways to Bring Balance to Your Life in the Fall Season

“As the air turns crisp and the days shorten, fall invites us into a season of reflection and release.”

Fall has always been my favorite time of year—cooler temperatures, cashmere sweaters, steaming cups of tea, and the quiet anticipation of my birthday month. After the bright, buzzing light of summer, fall arrives with a depth and mystery all its own. It’s a season when endings gracefully make way for beginnings.

Mother Nature begins preparing for her annual rest—trees let go of their leaves, gardens retreat into the soil, and the air turns crisp. And just as nature surrenders to this cycle, we, too, may feel called to release what no longer serves us. Because life moves in circles, nothing truly grows without first letting something die. There’s beauty in the quiet rebirth that begins under the dark and stillness of colder months.

Mother Nature begins preparing for her annual rest—trees let go of their leaves, gardens retreat into the soil, and the air turns crisp.

Here are 7 ways you can bring more balance into your life this fall—practices that help you align with the season’s wisdom:

1. Invite the colors of the season into your life.
In traditional Chinese medicine, fall is the season of the metal element, represented by the shape of a circle and colors like silver, grey, gold, white, and black. Wearing or decorating with these hues—and even sending yourself white flowers—can bring a sense of harmony and connection to the season.

2. Clear the clutter.
Fall is nature’s invitation to let go. Take this time to declutter your home—whether it’s your closet, work desk, or digital files. Make space for the new.

3. Tend to your garden.
Remove dead leaves and plants to prevent stagnant energy from lingering. This small act mirrors the bigger spiritual practice of letting go of what’s no longer alive in your life.

4. Replace your doormat.
Symbolically, a fresh doormat invites new opportunities to walk right into your life.

5. Refresh your kitchen.
Go through your pantry and toss expired canned goods and spices. Clearing out the old makes room for nourishing foods that support your well-being during the colder months.

Light seasonal candles. Bring in scents like cinnamon, pumpkin, or clove—anything that evokes warmth and comfort. Lighting these candles can symbolize lighting the way to new possibilities.

6. Light seasonal candles.
Bring in scents like cinnamon, pumpkin, or clove—anything that evokes warmth and comfort. Lighting these candles can symbolize lighting the way to new possibilities.

7. Keep fresh fruit in your kitchen.
A bowl of fruit isn’t just beautiful—it’s a symbol of abundance and the intention that you will always be nourished.

Fall is the perfect time to embrace balance: light and dark, yin and yang, masculine and feminine. If we allow it, life can truly begin all over again in the fall—quietly, beautifully, and with intention.

 

 

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The Energetics of Grief and Release | Creating a Meaningful Life

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Welcome to Creating a Meaningful Life, where we explore the unseen energies that shape our world—and the soul wisdom that helps us navigate them.

Today, we want to talk about something tender.
Something sacred.
Something we all carry in one form or another: grief.

Now, when we think of grief, we often think of death. Of loss. Of something—or someone—being gone.

But grief is more expansive than that. It can be the ache of letting go of a dream. The silent sorrow of losing a version of yourself. The bittersweet unraveling of a relationship, a home, a belief.

Grief is not just an emotion. It’s energy. And it doesn’t live only in our minds. It lives in the body. In the lungs. In the chest. In the heart. It can feel heavy. Dense. Like we’re moving through molasses or trying to breathe underwater.

But here’s the truth: grief has intelligence.

It knows how to move. It just needs space to do so.

In many cultures, grief is seen as a sacred teacher. It strips away everything false. It humbles us. It opens us. And it calls us back to what matters most.

But the thing is—grief doesn’t respond well to being silenced or rushed. It doesn’t want to be fixed. It wants to be felt. It wants to be moved.

So how do we support the energetic release of grief? Not by solving it. Not by explaining it away. But by creating gentle rituals of movement. Breath. Stillness.

Here are a few simple practices:

  • Cry. Let the body speak its language. Tears are sacred messengers.
  • Walk in nature. Let the wind, the trees, the ground beneath your feet carry what words cannot.
  • Create. Art, music, journaling—grief moves through expression.
  • Light a candle. Whisper what hurts. Let the flame hold it for you.
  • Breathe. Deep, conscious breaths into the tight places. Into the ribs. Into the heart.

Grief isn’t something we “get over.” It’s something we learn to walk with.

And with each wave that rises and falls, we are offered the chance to release.
To soften.
To reclaim.
You don’t forget.
You don’t erase.
You integrate.
You alchemize.
You become.

So if you’re grieving today—whether the world sees it or not—I want you to know: You are not broken. You are not behind. You are simply in process. And grief? It’s not the end. It’s a sacred turning point.

Grief is not the end—it’s an initiation. Choose one ritual, light a candle, and begin again. Let this moment be the turning point where sorrow becomes sacred strength. If this resonates, leave a comment with the ritual you’ll begin today.

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Developing Nightly Rituals

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Developing Nightly Rituals

At the end of the day, as the sweet, dark stillness of night beckons us to lay down our bones and rest, we find ourselves at a clear transition point: Behind us lies the previous day and all that has come before; ahead of us, dawn heralds the unfolding of all that is yet to be. While many of us have morning rituals that connect us with our center and help us to set intentions, we may want to explore the magic and power of nighttime rituals as well. It holds for us a beautiful chance for self-appreciation and blessing. Before you go to bed each night, you can send gratitude, compassion, and healing to the being you have been up until this moment. And you can send lightness and love into the future for the one you are in the process of becoming.

When you consciously engage with your own evolution this way, you may find that your sleep gets sweeterThough simple, this action honors the journey you have taken thus far while opening you to the wonderful possibilities still ahead. When you consciously engage with your own evolution this way, you may find that your sleep gets sweeter, filling your night with a deeper sense of trust and relaxation. As you rest, you can surrender to these peaceful hours, knowing that the road behind you has been seen and acknowledged with respect and kindness, while the path ahead now holds your own benevolence and well wishes.

This bedtime ritual empowers you as the only one who can determine the meaning of your own past and the hopefulness of your future. By setting this special time aside each night, you can begin to orient yourself on your path of growth. It allows you to let the past have its place, to trust that the future is taken care of, and to simply rest yourself in the graceful arms of the present moment.

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Michelle Cromer