Laura Lorentz: You. Welcome to the Empowered Essence podcast, where we liberate you and empower you to let your soul lead the way in life and business. I am your host, Laura Lawrence, sharing my thoughts and intimate conversations with featured guests on spirituality, business, and making courageous moves in the spirit of following your soul. I want to provide you with the tools you need to tap into your highest self. I am here to empower you, to walk away feeling ready to live your most expansive and purposeful life. Let's dive in. Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of Empowered Essence. I'm so excited to welcome you back because I am coming back from a brief break of recording these podcasts. And this break happened very unplanned, I would say, but very divinely guided. I needed some time and space as I renavigated my business. So for those of you who don't know, I have pivoted in my business. I am no longer focusing on human design, but I am now offering energy weaving sessions and really focusing on this healing modality that I have downloaded. I have been guided by my guides, by the angels in terms of offering it in this world, and I say that pretty lightly. But it was a journey to get there and one that I still sit in awe and wonder how it all transpired. But it did. And it was meant to transpire the way that it did. So I want to bring you in on that journey today because I really want to open you up to the power of trusting yourself, trusting your soul, listening to your intuition and surrendering to your path and to your purpose in life. That there are no rules, that there is deconditioning work, there is this not allowing other people's thoughts or opinions to cloud or guide you, that you and the messages that you receive are meant for you. When you lead with your soul, powerful and magical, magical things can transpire. So this podcast is also going to be shifting. It's still called Empowered Essence because I still think at the root of it, I really want you to live your life and lead your business from a place of empowering your soul, letting your soul lead the way in life and business. Still, 100% is the foundation of this podcast. And so I will be doing a lot more solo episodes about tapping into your soul and following that soul guidance. But I'll also still be doing the odd guest podcast and still talking about the things that we were talking about before business, motherhood, life, relationships, all of those things, but still from that context of living it uniquely, living it in alignment with who you truly are. So I want to share with you my journey and how I went from being so confident that I was here to coach and lead people and guide people in human design, to canceling all of my programs. And now leading as a healer and sharing this brand new modality that I didn't learn in a textbook that I just felt so divinely guided to offer and to share with people. So last September, I started a healing course with my mentor, Haika, and it was fantastic because it is what started this rapid alignment. I healed and cleared things that needed to be cleared in order to create this rapid alignment. So basically, all of the stuck energy that I had, cords, attachments, fake guides that were guiding me, all of these things were basically removed in a matter of a few weeks. And I got these knowings that I was meant to cancel the human design certification that I had just launched. Which for anyone who's been in that situation where you launched something or you've offered something or you've went down a path where you thought you were so sure and then all of a sudden you get that hit that it's not the right thing. There's a lot of denial. You deny yourself and you say, no, I don't know why that's coming up. You push it down, you push it away, and you keep going. So I kept going for at least a month, and I said, I have to trust this. I had no idea what was on the other side of this. I was scared. I remember messaging the women that had signed up for the certification already and telling them that I was canceling it and offering them refunds. I was shaking. My voice was shaking, my hands were shaking. I didn't fully know if it was the right thing to do, but I trusted, I trusted that nudge that I was feeling. And they were great. They were fantastic. I'm sure there was disappointment, 100%, I'm sure there was. I felt that. But they understood. And I think it's really important for anyone who's going down this path, making this change, listening to their soul nudges that, yeah, you might disappoint people along the way, but what matters most is honoring yourself. Honoring yourself and your intuitive knowing. And that's what I was doing. And that's all I could guide myself based on, and that's what I did. So this was November at this point in time, and I basically took a month. I took a month to tap inwards. I watched a lot of Netflix. I did things that I wanted to do versus I had to do. I focused on my corporate job. I have a corporate job. I work nine to five. And I dove into that deeper than I was. It was a beautiful experience. I feel like so much became lighter in my life, and I did a lot of meditation. And then one day in December, and I will always remember this day, I was meditating. I was lying down in my bed and I was meditating, and all of a sudden my hands started moving. And so my logical brain was saying, laura, what is happening? What is going on here? But my soul knew, my soul knew I was doing something. I was doing something important. And I remember receiving messages from my guides saying that I was weaving my energetic field. And so a lot of the energetic clearing techniques that I had learned in the healing course that I did in the fall, I was able to do those things. So cutting energetic cords, clearing hooks, psychic attack, looking at past life contracts, vows and agreements, removing spells, curses, I was able to do all of those things by weaving my energetic field. And so it was a big full circle moment for me. But I questioned it. I thought I was crazy as anyone would, anyone who comes from a logical background. I was a business grad. I work in corporate, I was going to say corporate America, but I work in corporate Canada. But anyone who lives in, quote unquote, the real world, this kind of stuff seems out there, for lack of a better word. So I was in a spot where I questioned it, I trusted it, I knew it to be true. But I kept thinking like, how do I explain this to someone? How do I share this with someone? I'm sensing spirits, I'm sensing attachments, I'm sensing all of these things. It was like sensory overload. And I went into a very anxiety heavy state where I questioned a lot of it. And thank God, I truly believe everyone who's going through a spiritual awakening, a spiritual journey, needs a mentor. And thank God for my mentor because she kept me sane and grounded and assured me that what I was seeing, sensing, knowing is a gift. And that this because it is so easy for me. I am here for this. I am here to do this. I've done this work in past lifetimes and it's only just been a remembering and so I'm so grateful for that. My husband still thinks I'm a little bit crazy, but he will come around, I know that. So that was in December and so I was practicing on myself for a few weeks and in January I got the intuitive nudge to start practicing on other people, seeing, what am I doing? How is this actually helping people? I needed that tangible evidence and proof that what I was doing was actually moving the needle, changing people's lives, actually moving things in their energetic field. And so I had asked some sisters in a mastermind that I was in, whether I could practice on them. And so one by one, I practiced on these women and blown away, I blew myself away. I think it was the things that were coming through and I know it's not me. I was being guided, I was being told essentially what to do. And I was just taking those instructions from my guides, from the angels, from the goddesses that I work with. So it wasn't really me, it was just me being open enough to receive the information. And these women were having miraculous experiences and then they were referring me to their husbands too. It was so incredible. And so it started building my confidence. So if anyone on your spiritual, intuitive journey, there is going to be a period where you question yourself. There is going to be a period where you don't know if what you're doing is actually doing anything until you practice, until you try, until you work with other people you don't know. And so when you start working with people, that's when everything opens up. That's when everything shifts. That's when everything changes because you get validation, you get confirmation that you have a gift. And so after working with these women, this was January time frame. February, I was nervous, I was scared, but I launched my energy weaving sessions in February. I remember sharing it on my stories for the very first time. And I was literally I wasn't actually pooping my pants, but I felt like I was pooping my pants. And then the magic happened. Woman after woman after woman kept booking sessions with me. And I've really only been doing these sessions for a month now when I'm recording this podcast. And I've had 26 women, 26, actually 26 men and women that I've worked with over this last month. So this just confirms for me at just such a deeper level, when we open ourselves up to receiving guidance, like really open ourselves up to receiving guidance and tuning out the noise of what we think it should look like or what society is going to think, what our friends think, what our family thinks. I'm proof. Like my husband still thinks I'm crazy, but he's supportive because now he's seeing that I'm getting clients, that I'm working with people, that I'm changing people's lives. And so as you are starting out in your journey, or if you're further along in your journey, I know that there's still fear that comes up for a lot of people. It's like when you know it to be true, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. And so that's what I'm rooting in, that's what I'm grounding myself in. And I am just so excited for what is yet to come. My vision for this year, I really have been craving community and so I want to do a lot more in person. Healing circles, day retreats, things like that, that really bring women together because I think we can really change the world. We can really make an impact in the world when we come together as a community, as a collective, and we heal together. And I believe that is my mission is to do that. And so in addition to that, the other thing that's really become apparent to me, and I even knew this while I was offering human design services. We are so open all day, every day to energies to other people, to spirits, and we don't even realize it. We might feel this anxiety in our chest, or we might feel pain in our body, or we might just feel this like, overwhelming sense, but we don't know what it is. And so what I want to be able to do is to help men and women protect and ground their energy. Because when you do that, the interferences of other people, other energies don't impact you as much. And you can actually go about your day to day and actually live out your purpose when you can ground your energy, clear your energy, protect your energy. It is literally I have come to realize over these last few months, it is your most valuable resource. But people don't know that. People don't realize that because it's unseen, because you can't see it. You can't tangibly say that is impacting that. But I see that. I know that. And so I really want to help people with that as well. So I'll probably have a mini course program that'll launch over the next month or so on that too. And then I want to continue to offer my energy weaving sessions, monthly memberships for people that want their healing on a monthly basis. Like, I'm so excited. I'm so excited for what this is. But this has been a journey for me. And that's the other thing, too, that I wanted to touch on, is that for some people, including myself, it has been a lot of trial and error in my business. Like, I started my business in 2020. I started off as a coach, a business coach for moms who wanted to start businesses in 2020 when everybody was at home. And then I pivoted into a human design coach because I was really just rediscovering myself as a new mother. And that was in 2021. And then now, early 2023, I'm pivoting again. And it takes courage, it takes trial and error, it takes trusting yourself to really find that path and open yourself up to receiving that guidance. Like, I was meant to do all those things. I don't think if back in 2020, I just opened myself up and this information would have come to me, I needed to go through all of those experiences to get to where I am today. And so if you're feeling like you're in this in between, or you're not quite sure whether things are moving or not, take one step, take a baby step, just try things, experiment with things, see what happens. Because one thing leads to another, to another, and it will unfold. I trust that. I promise you that, because I know that to be true for myself. Anyways, I am sending so much love and I hope that this has enlightened you. I hope that this has opened up new avenues. And I trust and believe that if you're listening to this, there is some sort of intuitive ability, intuitive gift. There is something, some sort of genius within you that is here to be unlocked. So if there were any tears that shed through this, if there was any sense of warming in your heart, that's your soul telling you that that is true. And so I hope over this journey with this podcast, with you following along with me on Instagram, all of that, I hope that you listen to your soul, to listen to your soul's calling and just keep shining your light. Have a great day, everyone. Thank you for tuning in to today's episode of Empowered Essence. If you loved this episode, don't forget to leave a rating and review on your favorite platform. And until next time, keep shining your light.
