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Hello, beautiful friends.On today's episode, I have Althea here, and today's topic is going to be about Althea's personal healing journey.
She is not only a cancer survivor, but she's also a shamanic reiki master, yoga teacher, tarot oracle reader, suicide survivor.I mean, the list goes on and on.So welcome, Althea.We are so happy to have you.
Thank you.Thank you for having me.
Absolutely.So, yeah, we want to hear about your story.
Yeah.I mean, I'll start with the fact that I grew up Mormon.That's a very big part of my life because I felt very indoctrinated into that life and that idea.And I had a very specific role in life.And as soon as I started to stray off of that path,
I had a whole bunch of people telling me, no, you're not doing this right.You're not, you know, you have to do this.And I felt very trapped.And I think that's what led to my depression early in middle school.I mean, I've always had mental illness.
I've always had bipolar disorder.It was the 90s, though, and we didn't know much about it.And so, yeah, I just kind of went through life. in a fog and not really knowing the difference between hallucinations and between my spirit guides.
It wasn't, that's not until later, but early on. Growing up Mormon, I very much did not feel like I fit.And it wasn't until my first suicide attempt.I was 16 years old.I had a boyfriend who was a part of the church and who had assaulted me.
and lied to all of the high school friends of mine and made me the bad guy.And so all of a sudden I was enemy number one in a very small town.
And so I just kind of skated through the rest of my high school career and early adulthood feeling really hopeless.
Carrying that trauma with you.Yes.
Yeah, and that cycle kind of continued into early adulthood.It wasn't really until I met my husband that it started to kind of slowly shatter.
Because I got really lucky there.He's the type of person to really just be like, hey, maybe there's something wrong.
That's me.That's soon me.Investigator, let's get to the root of the issue.Yeah.
Yeah, he's a Leo.He's very much a caretaker.
My man's a Leo too.I get it.
So he just very much wanted to fix things.But it was when I was taking a yoga class and the yoga teacher was a Shamanic Reiki practitioner.I didn't know what Reiki was.I didn't know what shamanism was.
I was like, these are all big scary words because I'm just getting into yoga and yoga is a scary word in Christianity.So yeah, I met Lori Ferry is her name.Wonderful person, dear friend of mine still.
And that's really where my healing journey kicked off. was I was, this was five years ago actually.So yeah, see now I'm losing.And how old are you now?I am 37.37, okay.
So my 20s were filled with a lot of that tumultuous and down again having bipolar disorder.
having these spiritual gifts that I didn't know I had, and just feeling the pull between both worlds, between, you know, Western ideas and spiritual ideas, because I had people telling me, like, oh, well, maybe you're not really sick.
And I'm like, well, now I'm on my fourth suicide attempt.I've been married to my husband for a few years.He's been through quite a few.Yeah.With me.Oh, wow.
I tell people I would not be here if it was not for my husband because he was the one that really pulled me out of that hole and literally got me to the hospital.
I got chills when you said that.Yeah.
Multiple attempts and I was still feeling like really like I was hearing all these keywords all these like, you know Reiki Ayurvedic medicine like all of these like healing keywords that are like I now do yeah, and It wasn't my spirit guides holding me back.
It was my hallucinations fully moved back.So I had to really discover the difference between between the two.Yeah.So I really had to get myself well by going to therapy.I bet that was a journey.Yeah.
I say going to therapy is like going to a hairdresser, right?You can fire your doctor.
You can absolutely, if you have a doctor who's not working with you, you can just be like, you know what? This isn't working for me.I'm going to go find a different one.It's not that I wasn't hearing what they were saying to me.
It's just like they weren't a good fit.And you need that in both like your spiritual healers and your doctors.It needs to be a good fit. Um, and so, yeah, it was a journey going through therapy, finding the right medication that worked for me.
And, and then once I got that right is when I really leaned into Shamanic Reiki.And that's when I felt like, okay, this is the time.I'm going to lean into this.
I'm going to follow in the footsteps of my dear mentor, and I'm going to become a yoga teacher.I love that.Love it. And so, yeah, I, things were looking great.
Things were looking up and things were looking, you know, I'm like, finally, after so many years of trauma and so many years of, you know, trying to pry myself away from the church, I literally changed my name legally to separate myself from the church because they have my name, my dead name.
in the temple still.And so, yeah, I just I got myself on this really good path.Great husband who was just like, yeah, whatever you want to do.I quit my massage career of 10 years.
I did not know that you were a massage therapist.Oh my goodness.
OK.That was just like thrown in the mix there.
You know.Yeah. And people were like, this is what you're good at.And this is what you should do.And duh, you don't have kids.So you should be like a good provider for your household.And so that's what I did.
And then when I was like, I'm going to be a yoga teacher.I'm going to do Reiki.And people were like, what are you thinking? Like, what about this lucrative career I was like, that was killing my mind and my body?It wasn't a good fit for me.
And so I graduated from yoga school in 2022, December 2022.And January 2023 was when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. And so I had not even gotten my feet wet as a yoga teacher before I discovered I had cancer.
And that really threw me through a loop because I had warnings.I had warnings.I had a Reiki session, actually, for my birthday before.And she had told me to actually, like, something's up with my third chakra.Something's up in that area.
Like, you need to look into that.Yeah. And I did.I went to the doctor, and the doctor was like, that's a little swollen.Like, maybe we should get an ultrasound.And so they did.They got the ultrasound.They followed up with a biopsy.They came back.
You know, because nowadays they give you like the text.You have everything on the app.Yeah.And so as soon as I saw the word like malignant, on there, I, you know, I was, I just, I just, my heart, everything in me just shriveled.
And I was like, this is not the plan.
This is not the plan.Yeah.So I immediately woke up my husband.He was on gray bear shift at the time.And we just cried all night.We just, we were just scared.And so, yeah, we just, We took the night to grieve and, you know, because we didn't know.
So, yeah, we just had to take that whole night because it was late when we got the notification.So we just had to sit with it until we heard from the doctors.
And they called at like eight o'clock the next day, like on the dots, because obviously it's cancer.And so, yeah, it's a weird feeling.It's a weirder feeling.
When you have been in the throes of mental illness, and you have had multiple attempts, and things in my life were good, and so... You were changing your life around, doing the holistic healing, and then you get bad news.
Your life won't have to be the same.
Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Again, wasn't in the plan.This wasn't, you know, I have been through too much trauma and too much hard things already.Like, I don't need this.
Now, do you understand it was all part of the plan?Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.
See, that's the whole point, right?Because I look back, someone asked me the other day, And they were like, oh, what, how did they word it?They're like, how, you know, oh, I bet it just changed your life.I said it changed everything.
It changed my life.It changed my business.It changed the way I look at things now.It changed the way I teach my yoga classes.Everything.I end my all my yoga classes with time is precious.Thank you for spending your time with me.
Because we don't know how much time we have left.Yeah. And so, yeah, I spent the next six months undergoing treatment, doctor's appointments, scans.
And then that's the thing they don't tell you about cancer is like afterwards you have three month scans.And then if those are good, then it goes up to six month scans. Every time you get another scan, it's like, oh, is the cancer back?
And it's another three weeks of waiting to find out if you have cancer.
So my question for you at this point is, at that time, you had just kind of started like the whole holistic healing approach.Were you aware at that time that we can heal ourselves? Yes.OK.
Yes.OK.So this is interesting.This is where I tell people this is where the convergence of the spiritual team and everything comes in.OK.They were only going to remove half my thyroid originally.
They saw a small lymph node on the other side, and they're like, it's so small we can't even biopsy it.Like, we're not going to worry about it.Because remember, I only went into the doctor to get the ultrasound because of my Reiki practitioner.
And so I just was not feeling good about it.I was not feeling good about their plan.I was just like, we had surgery scheduled.And they're like, the sooner we get it done, the better, because less chance of it spreading.And so I had to fight them.
I had to say it because my spirit guides, holy cow, I've never heard them so loud before.They were just screaming at my tummy or like, get the whole, no, they wanted me to take the whole thing out.The whole thing out.
They're just like, get it out of there.Get it out of there.It's literally poison in your body.Get it out.And I did.I fought for it.And they're like, okay, well,
It's gonna move it to me and they did their thing But I bet that was really scary for you at that time because you're going Against like what the doctors are telling you you need and then oh my spirit guys.
I can't tell them that Like the whole reason why I want to take the whole thing.Yeah, like oh by the way, my grandma's here Yeah, like it's heli me to get the damn thing.
Yeah, I They're gonna be like, okay, we need to schedule her a different type of appointment.
Which, I mean, remember, like, I've been to that part of the hospital, so it's like, I really didn't want to end up back there either.So, yeah, they took the whole thing out.They did a biopsy after the surgery.They always do.
And there was cancer on both sides.And of course, I just wanted to rub it in their faces.
Ego.But that was them protecting me.Yeah.And everything since then has healed tremendously well. Things that they didn't even think were going to heal have healed.And it's all because I had this blockage that needed to come out.
Everything in that throat, my throat chakra was so heavily influenced by my religious upbringing, by the trauma, multiple traumas from multiple people who you know, hurt me physically, emotionally.
And yeah, so it just needed to come out.I tell everyone that anything in the physical is a manifestation of energy.And whether it's trauma or, you know, any disease or anything, it's built up and then it manifests into the physical.
But a lot of people don't get that.And we do because of our own experiences.
Yeah, it had some people tell me that like, oh, it's like past life stuff.It's comic stuff.And I'm like, I don't know.I don't like that for myself.If you want to believe that, sure.
But for myself, I would like to think that I'm a decent enough person in this lifetime and hopefully past life.
Yeah, I know as a healer in the past lifetime, but yeah, it definitely was something that needed to be moved energy that needed to be moved that those the Western medicine was not going to move.Yeah, unless I really was an advocate for myself.
Yeah, that's what you have to be in both Western medicine and when it comes to spiritual practices because, like I said, there are people who don't think I have bipolar disorder, who don't look at my lived experience as my suicide survivor.
They don't see that as a testament of my strength, of my will.
But have they gone through that experience? I don't know.Yeah.It's usually people who haven't been through those experiences that like to project and give their thoughts and opinions.
Yeah.I mean, it's just all part of this gatekeeping that happens in everything, in everything.And I'm just not, I'm just not for that.You know, it's the way it's, that's where my practice changed, right?It was after cancer.
And then I ended up going to Guatemala for a month. So awesome.So cool.It was really cool.I bet.It was got to work with a shaman one on one there.It was magical.
And again, really changed my perspective of what community is and what it should look like, what is accessible to people.And so I came back from Guatemala and I just completely revamped my business, revamped my logo.I got someone to design a logo.
So that's why it's the blue butterfly blue for the thyroid. I told her specifically, it's got to be that sky blue.Yeah, I love that.Because butterflies, yes, are transformative, but also they break out of that cocoon, right?They come from nothing.
They literally break down inside of that cocoon into nothing.
and they come out more beautiful and stronger than ever and that's why I just have butterflies everywhere in my office and at home and you know that's the I love that so yeah I just I've really spent this last year let's see it's been
Gosh, it's almost been two years.
I know time flies.And it's all cleared and gone.
It's all cleared.I had, let's see, three surgeries this last year.It was my thyroid was the first one.And then they did a secondary biopsy surgery in September.And then five months ago, they did my hysterectomy.OK.
And that was another one I had to fight for because women's health. in this country is atrocious.But that's another podcast.Yeah, another episode.But I really had to fight for that one.But I feel amazing after that.
And so I just feel 100% and I'm just ready to continue being there for my community and just doing what I do.In that year, I legally changed my name.Althea means healer or heal.I did not know that.OK.Yeah.I chose that specifically
Thank you.I have more people to compliment.I'm like, thanks.I chose it myself.And the process really wasn't that hard.
It was just time and money that it takes, you know, which not everyone has, but there are ways to get help financially to change your name.I work with a lot of the LGBTQ plus community and I hold a queer collective each month down in Takoma.
Everyone just gets together, has crafts, brings food.
It helps people with resources.Yeah.So all in all, my journey, I mean, like I said, It's like you need both.Yes.Right.We live in this physical realm.So we do need medication and certain things to help us along.
I take medication for my mental illness and it keeps me going.It keeps me, you know, but I also bring in cacao and other plant medicine.And do I tell the doctors about it?
Yeah. Yeah, but I just like they look at my blood work and they're just like, oh, this is great.I'm like, yeah Yes, it is.So it's really that beautiful mixture.
And like I said, there's going to be people on both sides who are telling you you're doing it wrong.
Your entire life, there's always going to be those people.
There's always going to be those people.And that's why I'm like, I'm not in the mood for gatekeeping.Like, I am too old for this.I have been through too much through this.And I just want to put more good into the world while I'm here.
And I don't need someone telling me I'm reading tarot wrong or doing Reiki wrong or taking the wrong medication, Western medication.
Have you ever read the book How to Heal Your Life by Louise Hay?
Do you know who Louise Hay is?That sounds familiar.
Oh my goodness.I haven't read that one.That book changed my life.There was a documentary on I think Amazon Prime or Netflix called Heal.I got like hundreds of people to watch it, but reading that book just changed everything for me.
So definitely check that out and I will still, oops, I will still always talk about that book.It is just a game changer.
Yeah, there was another documentary.We just watched it.Joe Dispenza.
Yeah.We were just watching that the other day.
When we did a Reiki exchange over in Gate Harbor at Tecmo Reiki.
I used to binge watch Gaia like episode after episode and I go through spurge.
I think that's when we were watching Gaia.
Definitely check out How to Heal Your Life.And what I love about that book, I've actually gifted that book to like probably 20 people because in the back is like a pocket dictionary.
So any physical ailment you have, it will, you'll, it's, you know, alphabetized and then it'll tell you the trauma behind it and how, and then it'll say an affirmation on how to heal it.And it's just, oh my gosh, I love that book so much.Yeah.
I'll send it to you for sure.
No, please do.Because I'm all for that kind of thing. I think for me, unfortunately, with my thyroid, it's just, it was too many years.I mean, it's 30, 30 plus years of trauma.
And so I want to ask you a question.And I mean, we've just started to get to know each other in the past year.Althea does my website, which I'm super grateful for.I don't have to touch it.I just send people her way, anything that needs adjusted.
So if you are somebody who needs help with your website, we will put her info below.She is taking on new clients, right?Yeah. Awesome.So my question was, where were we at with that?I just lost my train of thought.
Where were we before I started talking about the website?You were talking about books and Joe Dispenza and I was talking about the thyroid.I was like, well, it's been like 30 years.
Yes, the thyroid.So to me, you know, I'm still learning and I'm a knowledge seeker.I'm just always wanting to grow and be better and learn.
And I don't know a lot of your past, but to me, did you have a problem speaking up growing up, using your voice or feeling like you weren't heard?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.Oh, yeah.No, I mean, I was a born female in the Mormon church.And I have a lot to say about the Mormon church.But yeah, you know, there wasn't a lot for woman to say or do or that.Yeah, it definitely was.
But like moving forward with my life and being more open and aware of these things.Yeah.I feel like I can stop more things from happening.I can take better care of my body on that spiritual level.
And like, I'm going to be more on top of those guides giving me those warning signs.Everyone's a psychic.
Everyone has those pings in their body that we just tend to... It's just slowing down and listening.Yeah, we just tend to ignore.Like, I would get ringing in my ear.
I'd be like, well, that's tinnitus from when my eardrum got burst when I was a kid, you know?And no, it was the spirit guide trying to get my attention.
Oh, yeah.My ears ring all the time, and then my mom just went through that, and she went to the doctor, and I'm like, Mom, your spirit guides are trying to talk to you, you know?Yeah. Everybody, not everybody's ready to receive that information.
You can suggest things and you know, but oops, gosh, I keep hitting this thing.Yeah.So yeah, the timing will be right for you when it's meant to be.
It's all about divine timing.Yeah, because I'm where I'm at because divine timing, you know. Heidi approached me about the website because I was getting ready for a six-week recovery.And I was just like, oh, I'm literally sitting here doing nothing.
I literally manifested alzheimer's.I put it out there and I said, please, universe, send me somebody to do my website because that's something I've learned.You know, I want to do the things that bring me joy. and that excite me.
And sitting down behind a computer when I'm such a busy bee, I'm zipping all around, I would notice I would pay attention to my energy.I'd start getting frustrated.I don't know what I'm doing.And so I said, you know what?
I'm going to find somebody who loves to do this kind of stuff.And then Heidi comes to me and she's like, hey, my girlfriend Althea.And I'm like, oh, my gosh, thank you.And she's been doing it ever since.So manifesting I'm telling you.
Honestly, it's that Capricorn Moon of mine.I have all Gemini in my placements, but Capricorn Moon, that's where I just love organization.I love this kind of stuff.It's my creative outlet.
Yeah.See, mine's like physical, decorating, hands-on, you know, but sitting behind a computer, I'm like, oh my goodness.
Yeah.But organization, it's important for me.And it was important for me to keep track of like what I was doing with my life, because we were sitting in for six weeks.
I mean, because if it wasn't this surgery, it was the other two surgeries where I had a lot of time to sit and think.
But when you say that's advice to people out there who are going through something similar, like using that time wisely, not just sitting there in your thoughts and allowing that depression.Yes, absolutely.
Because there were so many times, especially right after the diagnosis, when we were just waiting for the surgery. right?Because that's all they could do.And there were so many times where I would just sink.I could feel myself spiraling.
And I'm just like, I recognize this pattern.My husband recognized the pattern.And so we just like, people say to me all the time, like, you're so busy.And I'm like, because I would rather be busy And again, bringing something into the world.
Busy in a productive way.Productive way.Yes.
Yes, where some people say, you're busy all the time.But like, yeah, defining busy.
Well, in my session with Alex, with my human design, I'm a time bender, apparently.So I am just meant to be a busy person.
I'm a manifesting generator.I do a million different things.I am as well.I'm a manifesting generator.
time bender.And so, like, when people tell me, like, I'm doing too much or this or that, I just kind of smile to myself.And I'm just like, nope, because this is exactly where my life path has me going.
But in the past, we would get shamed for it.Yes.And that is something that human design has changed my life so much.Like,
understanding why I am the way I am, and it's okay for me to move faster than people, skip steps, and that has helped release some of that trauma because I always felt like, oh my gosh, I'm too much for people, you know?
So human design is something I will always advocate for.
Yes, absolutely.I didn't know much about it.I've learned so much.And Divine Timing, I met this friend who got me connected to Crescent Moon Gifts in Tacoma.That's where I started the Queer Collective.
And then that's when they asked me to start reading Tarot.And now I do Reiki sessions there.And so, yeah, and it's just like things like that.I lost friends during my cancer treatment, but I gained new ones.
We've talked about that on so many episodes and that should continuously be a theme in everyone's life because as you expand and level up, you know, and the right people will either be with you or they'll fall off and new people will come in.
I feel like I've been through like multiple cycles of losing people and gaining new friends.
Yeah, no, I had a friend who called me out of the blue after, like, almost a year.Yeah.And was like, oh, hey, Althea, it's really hard to call you.She left a voicemail.It's really hard to call you Althea.
And I'm thinking in my head, if that's hard for you, then, like, what's the rest of my life going to be for you?
Not like, oh, my God, I'm so happy for you.This means you're me.
Like, you know, and so just I don't need those people in my life.Of course I grieved when it happened.Yeah. But then I look at where I'm at and I'm like, now I have this great gig in Gate Harbor with Brooke and Taylor at Tetra Meraki.
They're a great space there.And then I can just like hop up here, you know, when I'm over.Yeah.So it led me to where I am.And so when people get angry for me about my cancer,
I'm just like, I'm not angry though because like this was a growth experience for me and this was just, you know, it's shaped me into a better person because you can go two ways, right?You can let it destroy you or you can let it build you up.
I think that brings you back to, you know, things aren't happening to you.They're happening for you.And I've mentioned that in several episodes, but I don't have any regrets.I know everything I've been through has gotten me to where I'm at.Yeah.
Yeah, no, and that's how I feel.Everything's, you know, even growing up in the church, right?
You know, as horrible as it was, I still have 10 million friends that are in the church that choose to be in there for various reasons, and that's their choice.But for me, I mean, yes, it was awful, but Here I am.I'm still alive.I'm still breathing.
Yeah.And there's still so much more to me than just that.You know, I'm just there's, you know, all human design.
Yeah.And I love bringing people in who have that religious background.I mean, we've had several episodes and it's a topic that I will want to continuously talk about.And it's not that we're dissing on churches.
We're just trying to help expand your mind and open your mind to something different, and not even something different, like just how would I word that? I don't know.We all believe in the same thing, but religion has put these strict rules.
I had a friend, Janelle, who passed away a couple years ago, and she was the reason I actually took yoga teacher training and actually got into Reiki in the first place.She was a Christian.She believed in Jesus.
She also had a trans son who she loved dearly. And we would have conversations after yoga class about all of the things.
And I'm like, this is a person who can see the difference between a religion, which is someone who wants to be in charge and put you in a box, and spirituality.I'm like, you can be a Christian.You can believe in whatever you want to believe.
and still have this, like, beautiful spiritual practice and belief.Like, you don't have to be what they tell you to be.So you can have both.
Look for the answers yourself.That's what I always advise people.That's something, you know, don't go off what you're told or what you hear.Do your own research.Dig in yourself.That's where I found most of my answers.
It's going to look different for everyone.It's what I say with Reiki and with tarot as well.When people come to me, I've had tarot readings, people were like, oh my gosh, this is life changing.And other tarot readings, people were just like, eh.
And I'm like, that's OK.I might not be the reader for you.I can point you in the direction of another reader who might be more your style.Again, it's all about that fit, right?And every body, every person is completely different.
And it's not one size fits all.It's
But I also don't think people understand this.When it comes to tarot readings, and I have to say this, it's not even that you're not a good fit for them.You are the vessel.It's not you reading for that person.
You are channeling that person's spirit guides, correct?Yeah.So that person just may not be ready to receive that information.They're like, no, this doesn't resonate with me.This doesn't make sense.
But how do you how do they think you're getting that information? You know, so it's true, you know, and I've seen that happen a lot.
It might be just the way I approach it.
Because like every person has a different approach.Every person has a different way they word things.Right.Some people are manifesting generators.Other people, you know, other people are something else.
And so, yeah, it just might be the way it's packaged.
I'd be the way it's totally.
And that's why I've always had multiple Reiki healers rent rooms for me.Tarot, I say there is no competition here.
And I highly suggest people try them all out and see who is a good fit for you because yes, like, but it's not you delivering the information incorrectly or anything.It's just, yeah, maybe it's the approach.Maybe it could be multiple things.
Yeah, I'm just never offended.No, and you shouldn't be.Because I did have that mindset at one point.Oh, I think we all have.Right?I think it was like before cancer.Yeah.Yeah.
And then after cancer, after Guatemala, when I went to Guatemala specifically. And I really saw, like I said, community, this third world country, beautifully working together, peacefully protesting.
They were protesting at the time, dancing in the streets, feeding each other.And I came back home and I was like, we're just so disconnected.
People react versus responding.
Yeah, we're just always in competition.And we should be building each other up and supporting each other and shouting each other out on social media because that's the age we're in right now.
So, like, it's free to post someone's thing on social media.It's just like you don't have to have the money to support people.
People ask me all the time, you promote healers that don't even rent space from you?I'm like, yes, because I believe in what they do.
I'm supporting them or it's just yeah, we're all in I'm not threatened by anybody because I believe the right people will come here for the right reasons and vice versa.
Yeah, because we're all in this together.Yeah, it's a collective, right?Absolutely.And I think the thing I want people to take away from this episode in particular is like you might be going through something mentally that you do need help with.
And it's OK.It's OK to get that help.It does not make you weaker or less than to go get medication, to go seek therapy.I go to therapy every month. I love therapy.I do.I highly recommend it for everyone.Yeah.
But yeah, don't be afraid to seek that out and also seek out that spiritual healing.Find a fit in both, that work both, that work concurrently together.My therapist knows I do Reiki and knows I do Tarot and everything, and he's all on board with it.
And that's why I continue to go see him because he supports my whole healing journey.
And that's how it should be.
Yeah, absolutely.So because I think for the longest time, I just felt there wasn't a fit for me because it's like, well, I didn't fit in the Mormon church.Yeah.And I don't fit in the end to this.He's close to the world.Yeah.
Like I don't really fit in either.So like I had to find my own space for myself. Because I was told I was too much.And I was told I was too much.I wasn't enough.I wasn't this.I wasn't that.And I was just like, I was really tired of people telling me.
Isn't it so freeing now?Yeah.I feel so free where I don't get offended by people projecting their own shit onto me.And I just, I'm so calm in that sense where I don't argue with people anymore.I'm just like, I get it because of doing the inner work.
Yeah, absolutely.I think I'm much less reactive to things that would use it just like I would use to just want to stand my ground and just be like, no.Yeah.Because it's like you're just proving your own character, your own self-worth.
And then at the time I was losing all of friends and I was like, wait, why am I having to put in all this work to prove that I'm worth something?Getting to that place where you don't need to prove it, you just know it. I just know it.
So the people that are around me now are the people that are that my time is worth that, you know, vice versa.You don't want to pour into a cup that has a hole in it.Right.You want to pour in a cup.
Like my therapist says, friendships are kind of transactional.It's energetically transactional because it's giving and receiving.You can't just give.You have to receive, too.So as long as all those relationship in your life are equally
And it's a daily practice, too.I definitely daily, at the end of the day, I'll go through and be like, where were my highs?Where were my lows?Who was I around that made me feel good?Where did I feel low energy?
And you just start dissecting it and weeding things out and bringing new things in. Yeah, this journey is, most people think, oh, spiritual butterflies and rainbows and unicorns on life.Bitch, if you only know how much inner work and crying.
I always say the violence it took to make me the healer I am today. It's immense.
I would do it all over again and I'll continue to.
Absolutely.Everything I learned, where I'm at now in my life, I'm so happy with the support and the beautiful practices I just keep building.And it's just getting better because I'm not doubting myself anymore.
I'm just putting it all out there and I'm just like, take it or leave it.It's either for you or it's not.
So I know we have to wrap up because I got to open up the shop in like three minutes, but one last question I wanted to ask you.So do you do plant medicine?
For myself, cacao is pretty much the plant medicine I take.
Okay.Okay.Which is a heart chakra opener, which is amazing.Yes.Yes.But you haven't dabbled with anything else?
I've not dabbled just because there's been a little bit of my guides are like
I don't know if it ever will be.OK.But I am a huge advocate for it because I have many friends.
And I have seen the transformation and I have seen it.So again it's just like it's really your journey is not going to look like anyone else's journey. And people ask me all the time.They offer.I've been offered several times.
And I say no every time.And I used to feel guilty and I used to be like, well, maybe I should because that peer pressure almost kind of sinking back in.But after a while, I was like, you know what?That's just not part of my journey.
See, I've always resisted it.And everyone around me, I've seen the transformation in them.And I'm over here like, why can't I connect with my higher self?I'm around people who hear things, see things, all that.
And lately spirit has been coming in hot saying it's time.I've had multiple people text me, you need to do plant medicine.Like spirit is trying to crack you open.Then I pull a car.It's just like one after the other.
So I'm actually really excited in the next two weeks.I'm going on a little three day retreat with Michael and Tara and yeah, we're going to journey down that road and I am actually ready for it.Before I think I was.
not scared but anxious and like I just trusted myself I wasn't ready for it but now it's like I feel calm about it I'm excited about it yeah so yeah I'm excited to touch on that like when I get back from there because hello new Tasha and Rita
Well, like I said, it's been great for a lot of people I know.I've been offered several times, but maybe one day.But I think just like in 2023, it wasn't that long ago I had cancer.So it's a hard, it's a hard jump.
And you've already learned and practiced how to connect with your higher self and your guides and all of that.
That's where the shamanic reiki comes in, for sure.That's my dreams. Yeah.People are like, I wish I could dream and remember my dreams.I'm like, that is not a problem for me.
Yeah.I get lots of messages every day.Well, any last words or advice you have for our listeners?Just do you.
Yeah.It's easier said than done, right?Don't pay attention to the people trying to put you in a box.Pay attention to the people who are leveling up with you.If you're going and they're keeping up with you, pay attention to those people.
And listen to your body.When you get the responses and just where do you feel in your body.Yeah.
That's what I tell my yoga students all the time.And yeah, if it doesn't feel right for you,
Our guts never lie, our guts know.
Well, Althea also has a discount for anyone listening.So if you want to go ahead and mention the discount, we're going to put her contact info listed below.
Oh, yeah.Well, you can find my website, right?UntamedReikiYoga.com.All of my offerings are on there.And if you want to book a shamanic reiki session with me, that can be half off. Perfect.And you can experience Shamanic Reiki.
Like I said, it's really what opened my eyes to this whole other world.
Yeah.I'm curious.I want to book a session with you because I've done regular Reiki, Egyptian Reiki.I went and got Reiki 1 and 2 certified.So I'm curious as the Shamanic Reiki.
Yeah.I've done some soul retrievals.I've done some core clearing. Okay.
And I was told I was a shaman in my past life, too.
So, yeah, I'm definitely interested in that.So, yeah, if anyone wants to check that out, I'm usually in Gig Harbor or Tacoma.Those are my two places that I dance around.I do have a home office, but that's south of Puyallup.
Okay.That's a little far from here.And she can and will do Zoom also.Yes.Yeah.Distant Reiki.
Awesome, well thank you so much Althea for coming on and sharing your story with us.
Of course, we will see you all soon.
