8 Ways I Shifted From Timid Misfit to Empowered Oracle
Oracular restoration doesn’t happen overnight.
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In 2019 I became voraciously obsessed with tarot (after 10 years of dabbling) and utterly consumed by a desire to read for people.
There was just one problem: I was absolutely petrified of giving 1-on-1 readings.
I was scared of getting it wrong. Scared of saying something that would upset someone. Scared of looking stupid. Scared people would think I was a fraud or making it all up. Scared of not knowing what to say and embarrassing myself. Scared my readings wouldn’t land. Scared of failing in public.
The fear felt so insurmountable I considered ignoring the urge to work with people…but resisting my craving to read for people actually felt more uncomfortable than the fear.
So I moved toward that desire…messily.
The irony is that as a Projector my gifts are most potent 1-on-1. The modality I use doesn’t even really matter — the modality is a tool I use to channel my REAL gift: my ability to really SEE people.
I can almost immediately identify the subtle shifts and tiny tweaks a person can make to restore their energy, update their relationship to life, and express their authentic life force.
But the thing is, my magic is much less potent when I cannot speak the truth of what I see.
And years of hypervigilance, people pleasing, fawning, and enmeshing meant that my readings couldn’t expand to their full potency until I could shift these patterns.
So here are some of the steps I took (and continue to take) to shift from timid misfit to empowered Oracle.
Validate where I am at. I didn’t arrive at my hypervigilance and fawning in a vacuum. There is deep intelligence in these behaviors. I can desire to shift these patterns without shaming the parts of me that still need them to feel safe.
Titrate visibility. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. When I was developing my psychic senses and restoring my oracular intelligence, I didn’t expect myself to sit in front of people from the jump. I gave a LOT of recorded asynchronous readings rather than meeting with people live. This helped me get comfortable in my channel and honestly share what I received without the added pressure of someone sitting right in front of me.
Challenge my edge. I am gentle with myself, but I also challenge myself to move beyond my comfort zone. I meet the edges of my comfort and then go just beyond to a point that feels edgy but not traumatizing. I don’t always get this edge exactly right.
Use my tools when I overdo it. Movement, energy work, somatic practices, breathing, resting, journaling, working with my mentors, decompressing. Sometimes this means taking a break from healing work altogether. Reading fiction, taking baths, walking, watching movies, and TV shows, listening to silly rewatch podcasts. I trust myself to have my own back. I trust myself to come back to my work after I’ve tended my emotions, body, and energy.
Fierce commitment to my pace. I know the kind of foundation I want my business to have. My growth has not been fast, but it has been steady. Sometimes it’s hard watching other people’s work “explode”, but I don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. Eyes on my own paper. I want to do this work for the long haul and to do that it must be sustainable and created in attunement with my natural energy—with the paradox of knowing that the capacity of my natural energy will expand over time.
Give myself permission to prep beforehand. When I was still worried about accessing my channel in front of people, I would connect beforehand and take notes. This allowed me to feel more secure and confident going into readings before I felt ready to channel messages on the spot.
Energy work before and after client readings. Before every reading, I take at least 5 to 10 minutes to ground, clear inauthentic energy, call my energy back to me, and separate my energy from my client’s energy so I can go into readings with clear boundaries. This helps to reduce enmeshment with my clients and helps me to stay anchored to my channel without overthinking about how my words will be received. I do the same after readings to restore authentic energy flow for both parties.
Most importantly, I trust the process. I haven’t always gotten it right and still don’t always. It’s not an exact science. I just keep moving toward that which calls me, at my pace, but with devotion and commitment. When insecurity arises, I tend to it. When clients don’t react how I’d like, I meet that tenderness. When a reading doesn’t feel “dazzling” on my end, I sit with that disappointment. And then I keep showing up.
In the end, it hasn’t been one thing that has helped me most in reclaiming, my oracular nature — but many little things, engaged, consistently, over time.
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Lisa 👽
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