Xandra Hawes, the creator of Soul Essence Wellness Center, shares how to use play to find the answer to a difficult or tricky question that you've been ruminating on or feeling uneasy about. Xandra is a psychotherapist and psychic-medium, and uses a variety of knowledge and modalities to explain how using the concept of "play" can help us shift into our creative space where the answer often lies. Check her website to find more podcast episodes: soulessencewellnesscenter.com

Doubt is one of the biggest hurdles to connecting with ourselves, our purpose and soul essence. In this episode, Xandra shares how she views doubt as a form of fear and mistrusting ourselves, and how being present with doubt without identifying as the doubt can lead us to a place of joy (even as we go through difficulties). Xandra discusses her experience with doubt as a counselor and healer, and how to see big emotions arising in our bodies as opportunities for true healing, rather than something we are doing wrong or we need to push down.

In this episode, Xandra breaks down how connecting with your soul sovereignty to gain spiritual leadership is important to avoid the trap of putting a spiritual leader on a pedestal. Xandra shares how spiritual teachers in her past have mis-used power and caused harm through ignorance, and how this can be avoided by trusting your inner awareness through self-identified spiritual practices, or practices that remind you that you are a soul. 

In this episode, Xandra discusses how to find empowerment in your sensitivities, and connects empathy and sensitivity to the larger wheel of intuition. As a teenager, Xandra experienced a powerful catalyst when a spirit invaded her space, which sent her on a deep and windy healing path to understanding how her empathic nature could be channeled into deeper intuition and self-trust. Check out this episode to learn more!

In this episode, Xandra discusses how operating in masculine energy longterm can make accessing intuition and connection to spirit more difficult. Xandra discusses her perspective of masculine and feminine energy and the need to have a balanced embodiment of both to avoid burnout or dis-regulation. She also expands on this topic by focusing on how women in the US have been conditioned to operate as more masculine in order to be successful, and how this has cut off their divine feminine ability to receive information, which is often a big requirement for receiving guidance from your intuition, inner knowing and spirit guides. 

In this episode, Xandra invites listeners to question and uncover where their true freedom lies, and what internal and external structures might be blocking this sense of joyous flow. She also shares her personal experience using meditation and mindfulness practices to expose how the ego can sway us into believing untrue narratives about ourselves, which ultimately obscures our true soul essence and freedom. 

In this episode, Xandra discusses how anger is an important messenger to help us identify what our body needs for healing and how to connect with this inner wisdom to have a better relationship with yourself, your emotions and other people. 

Xandra describes how grounding assists the body in releasing energy and preparing it for higher levels of spiritual development. She weaves together how grounding connects with the first chakra (the root chakra) and provides a unique metaphor for how to visualize this process. Xandra is a Psychotherapist, Soul Wellness Coach & Psychic-Medium that teaches dynamic energy healing medicine programs through Soul Essence Wellness Center. 

Xandra connects the ability to forgive ourselves and to heal with allowing "permission energy" more fully into our lives. She describes permission energy as the way we can bring more openness, creativity and relaxation to our lives, while also manifesting what we want without rigidity. Check out Xandra's website to learn more about her healing center. 

Have you ever heard of being "corded"? Or feel like your energy is still tied to someone else? In this episode, Xandra focuses on recognizing forgiveness as the true path to freeing yourself from any lasting energetic cords. Xandra explains what energetic cords are and offers her own life experience with how to work with cords that can have us feeling stuck to other people or past situations in our lives. Xandra also explains how to call your energy back from other people and to cut these cords, so that you can make decisions based solely on your wise, free self.