The Confident Healer

Sharmila Mali I am blessed

I am back from my week-long break from The Confident Healer podcast.  This week’s episode is my solo cast.  I have been thinking about making a solo cast about my bff’s mother since her online celebration of life I attended in early March.
One of my bff’s mother passed away in the hospital after battling covid, she must have been there for a month.  In the episode I used fictitious names to protect their privacy, so when you hear “Clara” that is my bff’s mom.
She had quite the impact on me, she used to always say, “I am blessed” whenever you asked how she was doing. And I never understood what that meant until years and year later, like over a decade later.
When I was writing the script for this episode I must’ve cried a couple of times, even while editing it days later. I guess it’s part of the grieving process.  After I finished recording this episode, I drove to the grocery store and on KCRW one of the interviews was about Karla Funderburk’s origami memorial crane project. She started making origami cranes last year for every person that died of Covid. Maybe you remember that story because it made the national news last year and then earlier tonight on KCRW. I guess part of the project is people left voicemails and emails that memorialized their loved ones. It was so hearbreaking to hear their stories.  I was crying when I parked the car when I got to the grocery store. And I cried on the way home.
Also, March 15, is @fairygodmothergeorgie birthday! It’s a big one, too 70, so please wish her a happy birthday, it doesn’t matter if you see this after the 15th, she will still love birthday wishes!
About me, Sharmila Mali,  I am a healer, and for the past 15 years or so, most of my clients have been women, who want to get over their ex. I use different modalities to help women get over their ex and I also teach intuitive energy healing and Reiki. 
Sharmila Mali contact: www.ojaireiki.com, Instagram: sharmila_the_self_love_expert, FB: Intuitive Consulting with Sharmila
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Edited and produced by Sharmila Mali
Links mentioned: Wish Fairy Godmother Georgie happy birthday (March 15). Instagram: @fairygodmothergeorgie
Karla Funderburk, Memorial Crane Project www.memorialcraneproject.org
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Eva Cristina Calderon on Trust, Spirituality and Heartmath

Please welcome this week's Confident Healer, Eva Cristina Calderon! Talking to her is like being wrapped in a warm, electric blanket. If I was a cat I would always be next to her! She is both esoteric and practical.  And she is the second person that I have spoken to on this podcast who has a deep, unwavering trust in the unknown.  She definitely walks her talk!  This is my biggest takeaway from this conversation is to keep trusting the unknown, it can be scary but the more you find ways of trusting that deep unknown (which is really trusting all of you) the stronger you build that muscle and the easier it becomes.   Listen to find out where this deep trust and confidence comes from with Eva Cristina Calderon.
Cristina has a passion for the human condition and the mystical.  She considers her own life as a laboratory finding tremendous satisfaction in overcoming her own limitations, she is a licensed Heartmath Coach, Reiki & EFT practitioner She loves marrying science with the mystical. She is originally from Mexico and currently lives in the U.S. since 2001 and is a mother of two girls.  Contact Cristina: www.evacristinacalderon.com, YouTube/Instagram/Facebook:  Eva Cristina Calderon. Get 15% off when you mention The Confident Healer!
I want to thank you all for tuning in, this is the 20th episode so far, and did you know that listening isn't the only way to support the show? I invite you to support the show in 2 ways: leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Doing that helps to grow the show. The other way to support the show is by becoming a patron and making a monthly or a one-time donation on my website theconfidenthealer.net/support. Thank you so much for coming with me on this journey, I couldn't do it without you!
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Edited by Chris Jessup and Sharmila Mali. Produced by Sharmila Mali

Keslie Mack, Reiki Master and Channeling Usui

So you wanna know what this episode is all about?
Oracles, muses, and mediums, oh my!! This week I asked my dear friend and colleague, Keslie Mack to come back to the show because she is experiencing a non-ordinary state of consciousness otherwise known as channeling. Though it's not something she does for other people she has had medium experiences before and is now a direct channel of Mikao Usui, who brought Reiki to the world in the 20th century. 
For those non-Reiki folks, Mikao Usui himself had a vision and downloaded the system of Reiki after meditating for 21 days on the mountain (non-ordinary state of consciousness). In fact, all the different facets of Reiki that were brought into our reality are a result of some type of non-ordinary state of consciousness experience.
For Keslie,  channeling Usui started in December of 2020, and she has been creating some amazing content because of this experience. I wanted to normalize this type of experience and give confidence and courage to anyone out there that may be having a similar experience. 
Oracles, muses, and mediums have been around since people have been around. Every culture had (and still do) a spiritual leader of the community that knew how to access these non-ordinary states of consciousness. We want you to know, you can access this non-ordinary state of consciousness too if you want. And for others, this type of consciousness sometimes seeks the person out, as it did for Keslie.
This new Reiki is actually the original Reiki that Usui himself downloaded (according to Keslie) but people weren't ready for it, so he modified it to hands-on healing and kept it less esoteric. Find out more in our exciting interview about how this all got started for Keslie and about Reiki 2.0 (actually, it's the original Reiki as the founder Usui intended!)
Join Keslie's FREE workshop: What is KarmicSoul Reiki? on February 23, 2021, @11am PDT.  You will also get a BONUS: Deva Uzu Blessing (completely new blessing), and a 7-day Manifesting challenge.  She will be doing these free workshops twice a month so if you miss it on Feb 23, you can join the next one. Sign up for the free workshop on www.karmicsoulreiki.com
I want to thank you all for tuning in, this is the 19th episode so far, and did you know that listening isn't the only way to support the show? You can also support the show by taking me up on my invitation to leave a rating and review on apple podcasts. Doing that helps to grow the show. The other way to support the show is by becoming a patron and making a monthly or a one-time donation on my website theconfidenthealer.net/support. Thank you so much for coming with me on this journey, I couldn't do it without you!
Keslie Mack is a direct channel of Mikao Usui and has channeled the original Reiki as Usui himself intended. She is an Intuitive Healer, Certified Hypnotherapy Teacher, and Reiki Master Instructor. She specializes in Energetic and Emotional Trauma Release.
karmicsoulreiki.com, Instagram: @karmicsoulreiki, www.facebook.com/groups/karmicsoulhealing
Other mentions: Little Soul and The Sun by Neale Donald Walsch
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Tamara Miller Davis on writing, empowerment, and publishing her first book

 
*****UPDATE ON BOOK RELEASE****
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PRE-SALE: MAY 9, 2021 IT WILL BE VISIBLE ON AMAZON.COM
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Today we have an ever-so-bright and lovely soul, my friend and fellow dancer, Tamara Miller Davis! This week's episode is a little bit of a different twist in terms of the type of healer that I have on the show, although her energy is naturally very healing as you will soon find out.
Do you remember that substitute teacher that was mostly assigned to your school, someone who was so awesome, someone you could relate to and you just loved? Well, that's Tamara, figuratively and literally. One of her many jobs is as a substitute teacher and a soon-to-be-published author of her new novel called, DESPITE THE BUZZ! which is slated to release on mother's day of 2021. 
Despite The Buzz is a fictionalized tale about technology's toll; it's a human interest story with heart and a sociological study of modern times--pre-pandemic.  
The novel centers around a motivated character named Miss Oliver who raises awareness about screen use inside her Reflective Writing class. The book depicts the demands upon school teachers and especially to those that grew up before and after current technology. But when an intimate act is shared between students over social media, an inciting incident demonstrates that the potential in our pockets could be lethal.
By the way, my remarkable friend regularly volunteers as the secretary for Parent Club at her children's school and was able to squeeze in time to write and professionally edit her new novel over the past 4 years while also starring in USA Today's Storytellers' Project. 
We talk about how writing is healing, and how it led her to get the book published. Tamara teaches us that even though you may not know it at the time, everything you do has a purpose and each person you meet has a meaningful impact on you. 
She also learned she had to prioritize herself, which wasn't always easy as a wife of a firefighter and mother of two children under the age of 10, especially during a pandemic. This novel journey of hers, which took her "4 long years to write," is a beautiful testament to self-love and self-care. You see, self-love is also asking for help, tending to your dreams in addition to all your responsibilities that you have in life. 
Tamara Miller Davis is a writer, author, substitute and ESL teacher, and is a U.S. Coast Guard Veteran who hails from Michigan.  She has a B.A. and teaching credentials from CSUCI. 
Tamara's reading list, these are the authors that influenced her while writing Despite The Buzz:  Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michelle Borba,  Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, A Memoir On Writing by Stephen King, Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, The Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey, Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales , Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis, Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro, Educated by Tara Westover, This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Phillips, Inside Out by Demi Moore, A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oats, The Split by Randi Harvey, Life by the Cup by Zhena Muzyka, Islands Apart by Ken McAlpine, Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
Contact: www.despitethebuzz.com, Facebook Despite-the-Buzz-130765802059455, Instagram @TamaraMillerDavis
P.S.  Have you been loving the podcast? If you have been, (and many of you have told me!) I invite you to please help me grow this podcast by doing two things:
You can go to Apple Podcasts to rate and review the show, see my how-to down below, AND by becoming a patron, click here https://www.theconfidenthealer.net/support/.   Thank you so much for coming with me on this journey, I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am!
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Adama Sesay Astrologer and Intuitive Alchemist Coach

 
If you have been loving this podcast, I invite to please help me grow it by going to Apple Podcasts to rate, review and subscribe  to the show, AND by donating on my PayPal link on theconfidenthealer.net.
Today’s guest Adama Sesay is a like warm, nourishing cup of tea just mmm, so good! She is a stellar soul in our galaxy. Adama has been featured in and writes for numerous online magazines such as Allure, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan,  Essence and Madam Noire, to name a few.
She is a wonderful example of trusting yourself and the unknown, a trait that was instilled in her by the women in her family.  She is fearlessly insightful and passionate, and knows astrology like the back of your hand, meaning she can tune in to you and read your chart and decode the secrets of your universe and help you move past your blocks and how to use the planets to work with you, even when it feels like the universe is not your friend. After this listening to this delightful conversation you’ll be reminded that the universe is always your friend because you are one in the same. 
She is a Cosmic Alchemist,  Astrologist and the founder of LilithAstrology.com. She is dedicated to empowering womxn through her profound knowledge of the universe and Magick manifestation techniques. She believes that "Magick", or creating your reality purely through will and your mind, can transform your life.
 
She studied under the guidance of veteran astrologists through the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR), and she is NCGR PAA 1.
As an eternal cosmic student with three planets in the psychic sign of Scorpio, she naturally goes beneath the surface with her clients in every session, using her natural intuition and magickal expertise.  Her clientele includes womxn from all walks of life in the United States and around the globe.
Contact Adama: www.lilithastrology.com, Instagram: @lilithastrology, www.youtube.com/lilithastrology Facebook:www.facebook.com/lilithastro/
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Produced by: Sharmila Mali. Edited by Chris Jessup. 
 

Kani Kido and Deeply Trusting Your Intuition

Hello, my confident peoples! I just want to remind everyone if you have been loving the episodes, to please help me grow this podcast by going to Apple Podcast to rate and review the show, and by donating a couple of bucks on my PayPal link on theconfidenthealer.net. Thank you so much for coming with me on this journey, I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am!
Let me tell you about what’s in store for this week’s episode.  The life of a healer, so many altered states of consciousness, and then you have to find a way of bringing that back down the mountain while managing the life duties like paying rent and other bills. My next guest had a life-changing experience at a Wizard training and started to channel information that was well received by her audiences. But, she started to doubt herself and lost the ability until she could rebuild and trust herself again. We talk about this and healing from an abusive family and finding the courage to honor your intuition despite what that may mean for your finances. I know it sounds like a bunch of heavy topics, but I promise you it’s a fascinating and joy-filled ride, so hop on in with me and Kani Kido, this week’s confident healer.
This week we have a very sweet and bubbly soul among us, Kani Kido. She experienced a spontaneous kundalini rising in 2006 at a Wizard Training retreat, where she opened to channel a higher guide called Orion.  Although that experience reignited her psychic centers, she struggled to stay grounded in the 3D world.  Through music, dance, voice dialogue, nature, and a tremendous support system, she has been able to build her repertoire of somatic/body consciousness tools and step more and more into her fully expressed sElf.
Nowadays, KaNi (meaning “sound” in Hawaiian) prefers to get back to her ancient roots, connecting with the land & nature spirits, allowing them to “speak” through her dancing/movement; much like how any indigenous peoples communicated in generations past.
Kani Kido is a certified Sacred Depths Coach, certified Massage Therapist, Retreat Facilitator, & Energy Conjurer.  However, with everything shifting so quickly in the Great Awakening, she professes to be indefinable. 
Contact Kani Kido:
www.kanikidocoaching.com
https://www.facebook.com/kani.kido/
https://www.instagram.com/kanikokorokido/
Information about the Schumann Resonance
Mentions:  Ask and it is Given by Abraham Hicks, T. Harv Ecker
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Shawna Bluestar

 
Have you ever thought about where all these societal hierarchies come from? And by that I mean sexism, racism, classism.  Hasn’t it always been this way—don’t we as humans beat down on the weak in some way, isn’t that just a part of humanity as a whole?  My next guest says no.  We jump right into a conversation about finding the courage and confidence to educate people about some unknown and uncomfortable truths about U.S. and World history. We dive into a lot more about self-trust, expanding into fear, and accepting that we spiritual beings having a human experience. Let’s listen in to my convo with Shawna Bluestar, this week’s confident healer.
Shawna Bluestar is an international keynote speaker at universities, festivals and community events. She has been on the radio and host for online summits. She is dedicated to supporting seekers, changemakers, and advocates who want to make a positive impact, to live their true calling and share their unique gifts living their purpose and dreams. She works with her father to help lead a global movement for conscious change to speak out on The Doctrine of Discovery and Domination Code. She is the creator and facilitator for her ground-breaking programs, The Reverence Code Reset, and Sacred Feminine Rising. 
www.shawnabluestar.com/. To learn more about her upcoming course, The Revernce Code Reset in February of 2021 and other upcoming programs..
Resources mentioned: Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Discovery by Steven Newcomb (Shawna's father)
Documentary Film of Shawna's father's book: The Doctrine of Discovery:Unmasking the Domination Code
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Audio Editor and Engineer: Chris Jessup
Audio Co-editor & Producer: Sharmila Mali

Sofia Wren

Do you remember being 22?   Do you remember what you were doing, who you wanted to be or were becoming? Did you ever consider doing something that was so far out of your lane, you almost had to become someone else? Well, that’s what my next guest did, on a suggestion of a friend, she went from being a doormat to a Dominatrix. 
She just published a book about it:   "Freedom Year: How Trying to Be a Dominatrix (and Failing) Changed my Life.”
We talk about that, intuition, long-distance love and the pandemic, and using an object as a muse for creativity.  Let’s find out what else the ever-so-lovely Sofia Wren has to say on this week’s, confident healer.
Sofia is a writer, musician, and spiritual support for writers, creators, and entrepreneurs around the world. Beginning her work almost ten years ago, she's been described as having spot-on intuition, positive vibes, and a gift for words that inspire. She has an M.A. in Spiritual and Pastoral Care from Loyola and a passion for helping unconventional people to always know what to do next because they can hear their intuition and trust it. She recently published the memoir, "Freedom Year: How Trying to Be a Dominatrix (and Failing) Changed my Life" which you can buy directly at: sofiawren.com/freedom-year-how-trying-to-be-a-dominatrix-and-failing-changed-my-life/
If you are interested in getting involved in the Sierra Leone organization that she mentioned please see Sofia's email below.
Email: sofia@sofiawren.com
Site: http://www.sofiawren.com/blog
Podcast: Http://anchor.fm/sofia-wren
Youtube: http://www.sofiawren.com/youtube
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sofiawrencoaching/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SofiaWren
Tiktok: @sofiawrencoach
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sofiawren
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Produced and Edited by Sharmila Mali

Sharmila solocast

 
Happy New Year!
This week, I am the confident healer! Muhaahahahaaaaa, it's my show so I can do what I want!
:D
Here is your invitation to this solocast, where I reflect on some of the things that the pandemic taught me. These were: forgiveness, finding my voice and expressing myself in a more public way *cough* The Confident Healer podcast cough*, and figuring out how to deal with your loved ones when you have opposing political viewpoints. I mean we are all humans living on this planet, we have to help each other. 
I also miss hugs. The other major lesson last year taught me even more so is the power of touch.  I get hugs from my partner and our cats, and I miss hugging all my loved ones, too. *sigh* Soon, it will happen.
I had my ups and downs, and had plenty of time to reflect, grow, retract, grow, reflect…well, you get the picture. Honestly, there were some deep pitfalls than I had experienced in a couple of years, but I found a way to climb out. 
Part of climbing out was *not* turning off my phone, staying in touch, seeing uplifting posts, and seeing friends in the safest way possible.  And getting many covid tests. I have never swabbed my nostrils and sinus cavity (in some cases) so many times like I did last year.  It's not over so I expect to get more nasal penetration until we are all somewhat safe and immune.
I do hope you are all well and have found some sort of refuge from the chaos happening in our country. Turn off the news, close your laptops and get outside-- weather permitting of course!
And if you can get outside, take me along with you, and allow me to add a pep in your step, and let you know that we all struggle and we all recover. Find your light and shine bright, my friends, shine so bright other people shine, too.
Much love.
About your hostess, Sharmila Mali: She is a Self-Love expert helping women get over their ex and guides healers to find their unique gifts. She is an Intuitive Consultant, Reiki Master Teacher, and hosts this podcast, The Confident Healer where she has uplifting and soulful conversations with other healerpreneurs about having confidence in their business.  You can find out more about her healing work by visiting: www.ojaireiki.com. Instagram: sharmila_the_self_love_expert/
Facebook: Intuitive-Consulting-with-Sharmila, Instagram: @sharmila_the_self_love_expert,
Music: New Day by Tokyo Music Walker Stream & Download : https://fanlink.to/tmw_new_day​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0, Tokyo Music Walker: https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060  Special effects dramatic clip by: Beetlemuse, https://beetlemuse.bandcamp.com/, https://freesound.org/s/533506/Elevator music by Jay_You  http://www.stonefree.de https://freesound.org/s/460432/, Produced and Edited by Sharmila Mali

Lotus Sky--Music Channel and Shamanic Guide

 
Happy New Year!!!  If you are reading this, you made it! Congratulations!!!! For real, we got through it so let’s pat ourselves on the back and celebrate with a new episode with this week's confident healer, Lotus Sky.
Trust. surrender. Deep connection. Domesticated. Full expression as you are in the world, unwavering commitment. Disney movies. Being the hero of your life. Catholicism. Estrangement, Empowerment. No, it’s not just about 2020, these words are directly transcribed from this week’s potent guest.  And at the end, when I asked her for any parting words of wisdom about confidence, she gave us a special channeled experience, it will blow the socks of your soul!!   
Lotus Sky is a music channel and shamanic guide, who was born and raised in the Philippines.  Through her study with different shamanic lineages, training in multiple healing and transformational modalities, as well as connecting to her star and earth guides to channel Light Language, she helps people cultivate Self-Mastery as Illuminated Leaders so that they may create a life of impact, freedom and spiritual fulfillment.
She has been called Nature Spirit, a Cosmic Channel, and Earth Angel.  Her voice brings profound healing, and her shamanic offerings are truly transmissions from beyond the veil.
To learn more about Earth Warrior School that begins in March, tinyurl.com/earthwarriorschool to book a free appointment. 
www.lotussky.com
https://www.facebook.com/dolends
https://www.instagram.com/lotussky_/
hello@lotusskytribe.com
tinyurl.com/earthwarriorschool link only open when Lotus Sky is enrolling please check on her site   Music: New Day by Tokyo Music Walker Stream & Download : https://fanlink.to/tmw_new_day​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0, Tokyo Music Walker: https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060 , Produced and Edited by Sharmila Mali