Mystical Sisterhood host Maureen Spielman joins you today to celebrate the journey. Five years ago Maureen received a life changing diagnosis that led her down paths she wouldn’t have chosen but led to startling self discoveries. In today’s episode, join Maureen as she posits questions for you to consider as you walk the chapters of your life.

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS (what you’ll learn):

• The meaning of an anniversary
• Turning inward away from the voice of cultural conditioning
• Will you accept the invitation to take a new path?
• How we’ve all been conditioned to look to the outer world
• The Mystical Sisterhood membership invitation & what it entails

About the Host:

Maureen Spielman is the Founder of Mystical Sisterhood, a podcast dedicated to bringing more joy, healing and expansion to the world. She is a seasoned life coach who supports individuals through one-on-one coaching, groups and workshops.

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Hey there, welcome to mystical sisterhood.

This is your host, Maureen Spielman. I started the show to

highlight the intuitives, healers and other courageous

women that I've met along my journey and continue to meet.

Through amazing interviews, I seek to ask insightful questions

to uncover ways in which you, the listener can apply the

wisdom and knowledge to your own life. I believe that we're all

in this together. So sharing healing and joy, and bringing

community together is both my passion and purpose. If you'd

like to learn more about the mystical sisterhood community

I'm building, please visit www mystical sisterhood.com See you

in the episode.

Welcome back to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,

Maureen Spielman. I'm here with you today in celebration and

contemplation. And if you know me at all these two go hand in

hand, as the premise of or foundation of the podcast is joy

and healing. And they're really important to me, because I know

that they can exist at the same time. So thanks for being here.

Today. I'm by myself, I have no guest, and this is the 20th

episode of mystical sisterhood. I've had the absolute honor of

interviewing 16 women and one man thus far, and the interviews

have blown me away. How about you, I cannot thank you enough

for going on this ride with me. I'm wondering what has been your

experience of the guests and topics so far, I can say that

I've lovingly heard from you, when they do speak directly to

your heart and soul. So keep the feedback coming. I absolutely

love it. And I'm personally trusting that what is brought to

me and the podcast will lift humanity and bring us into a

higher consciousness. So those are lofty goals. But I really do

feel the more that we have on this earthly plane of that type

of content. The better for us all. So one of the reasons that

I'm coming to you today is because it's a five year

anniversary for me. And I had been eyeing this date for a

while, May 10. And I knew that I wanted it to be a day of

celebration of some sort. So I was originally thinking like,

oh, will I go get a massage? Or will I do something? I don't

know, along those lines to celebrate, have a meal,

something. But then I thought, oh my gosh, that's the day the

podcast come out, I can actually do a podcast of celebration of

where I've been, what I have to share, and where I'm going along

with where you've been, where you are now and where you're

going. I really think that the last five years in particular,

have been just huge, huge periods of the universe,

bringing us certain things that we never expected. And we have

all grown so much from them. Even in the really hard times. I

think it's really important that we take a look at our lives and

settle in this moment. And see where have I been? And what is

next for you. And I'm not going to worry about the length of the

episode. It'll be much shorter than my usual ones. But I'll

focus more on what I'm going to share. And I'll trust that you

will hear what you're meant to hear and share with others if

you're meant to share. So I was thinking along the lines of what

qualities come up when I think of the past five years. And

they're endless. But they do include the qualities of fear

and apprehension, which slowly became a willingness leaning

into trust. Definitely intuition, new beginnings,

community wisdom, contraction, expansion, growth, letting go

allowing and receiving. Those are just a few qualities that

come to mind when I think of the many roads I've traveled. So I

also got curious about the word anniversary. And it struck me to

look up the Latin root of the word. I think that was a visit

from my dad, our dad because he was one of those kids that grew

up in Catholic schools and they always took Latin. So I looked

up the Latin meaning of anniversary, and the word that

came was Anna Anna ver Sarah Mmm. And it means turning of the

year. So the Annie has to do with the year. And verses or

VERTERE means turned, or to turn. So turned or to turn. So

on an anniversary, we're literally turning a page. When

you turn a page in a book, you don't know what's on the next

page, but you keep going, unless you really don't like it. I

heard someone say recently that our birth and our death are like

the back and front covers of a book. And our life is what

transpires in between. And that really spoke to me. So we really

do have these chapters of our lives. So I'm going to

interchange anniversary with turning point, we all have these

turning points. And sometimes it can be true that they're

happening for us all the time. Can we have many truths? Can we

agree that we can have many truths around everything in our

life? I think that's what I find. But my turning inward

point was a diagnosis. And in the form of a breast cancer

diagnosis, it came as a shock. Because I had no symptoms, no

warnings, no family history, um, nothing that I was aware of, at

the time that tried to, you know, there was nothing I could

have done to see this was in my future, in what seemed like an

instant life threw at me medical appointments, and prescriptions

and surgeries, and honestly, many things I was in opposition

to. And that really forced me to get quiet, to get still and lean

in. So I leaned into my family and my friends and trusted

resources. And I, at first I was thinking it invited me to ask

how can I be in the flow? And what's here for me to learn? But

actually, you know, in all honesty, those weren't the

questions that came to me because I didn't live by those

questions at the time. Now I do. But one of the first questions

that beckoned to me that has become so important in my life

is, what's my intuition telling me about the big things that

were coming to me? What am I here to let go of? And what can

I possibly consider for my healing that I haven't

considered before. And this opening up, led to try new

complementary or alternative healing modalities, like Reiki

or acupuncture, or having my Akashic Records read, or what is

being channeled? For me. And this is where I began with the

opening. So if you're in a similar place right now in your

life, or you reflect on something that's happened in

your life, that caused you to get really still, you know, what

was there for you? And are, there are, were there new ways

of thinking and being that were calling to you, I began to

follow and trust my intuition. And like I said, it's really

become a hallmark of my life as to one of the things I checked

with first. I believe intuition is one of the most overlooked

yet powerful tools we have. And it's free, so lean in, invest in

learning how to listen to your intuition, we could do a whole

episode on that. So I'm curious what comes up for you. When you

get still and you think about your own turning points have

there been several in your life. These don't have to be colossal

life moments, my celebration today is around a big life

moment. But so often, it's not. So often they are we know that

maybe from our own lives or for from friends or people close to

us that it often comes in a big form. And so it also can come in

small forms. You may be signs from the universe to consider a

new job. Maybe there's a recurring anxiety that you're

experiencing, and it's calling you to get in touch with and not

push down. Maybe it's a call like an internal knowing to take

something out of your diet, or begin a new type of movement, or

see a particular healer or a doctor. The people in your

outside world may come to you as a messenger of just what you

needed to hear. Or the message might be coming from within

something that you've long ignored that keeps on coming to

you. I say that about mystical sisterhood. It was a it was

something that came in my mind five years ago, and then about a

year ago, it started coming back to me like a Maury. Pay

attention to me. So pay attention to the things that are

saying hey, your name. Pay attention to me. And I love that

for all of us. But if we see these recurring thoughts or a

new one that is coming to you, it's really important. I

remember at the time five years ago, that My inner voice was

saying you need more sleep. And the other one was Maureen, you

need to clear resentment you've been holding for a long time.

And that was kind of hard. Because, you know, we don't

always want to want to let go of what we don't want to let go of,

I'll just leave it at that. But, but also, maybe you're just

having a calling to slow down, you know that that's what you

need right now. But what I do know

is that we're always getting information as we hit these

turning points. And it's whether I think we might have thresholds

where it was sort of like, before, when we didn't know

there were signs and things coming to us to pay attention

to, to Oh, my gosh, I'm beginning to realize, and can we

talk about this and, and share with each other to, to really

living and trying to live your life by like, wow, I'm really

paying attention and waking up to what's coming to me on the

outside. So important. And for me, in the last five years,

there's been a clarity around accepting the invitation to take

a new journey. Could I work towards a flow or ease? Again,

that question? Or did I want to stay in the uncomfortable

opposition to what was happening? So I knew because I

knew in you may, too, that when we're in opposition and

resistance, we might not be ready to let that go. But it

doesn't feel aligned, and it doesn't feel good. And I have to

say about, you know, in my form a diagnosis that came to me, it

wasn't a journey that I wanted. That was very clear to me. And

it's a lot when our soul takes us in a new direction. That

doesn't feel good. I don't want to downplay that at all. The

Universe had my plans for my life that I didn't have in my

calendar, we can talk about that calendar sometimes, too. But,

you know, this idea that we can map everything out, and that we

have this control. I think that's the sneaky thing about

the universe, as so many of us know, what it brings to us is

not guaranteed to be easy for us. But it is so much for our

souls growth. We know that over time. We don't always know that

in the moment. But it's something I've learned over

time. And it's true that all we have is the present moment. And

we don't know what are around those corners are on that next

page. So is the journey to improve upon a relationship?

study something really interesting to you let go of a

relationship. Maybe it's a call to start setting boundaries, or

simply giving yourself more compassion. But what is this

invitation that comes to us? And that has come to you that that

you answered or you haven't answered. Another big thing

that's happened over the last five years, is my realization

that I didn't think along these lines that I had been

conditioned to really look what was happening in my outer world.

But over time, I realized that our lives look like they're all

about the outer, but they're actually mostly about the inner.

How could that be? I discovered that my conditioning had led me

to over focus on outer circumstances. And you know,

even though I was a soulful person, and I and I had looked

inward, I still look to other people to be certain something's

for me. And that's something that I've had to let go of. And,

you know, that's not to say, I want to add here to that. Do you

remember just the times in your life where you just knew a

certain something or you knew what culture was telling you

wasn't right for you. But then I think like what I've learned

over time is like, the voices are just so strong from our

outside culture that really forging our own path is a brave

and courageous road to travel. And we have more people taking

the invitation, and listening and joining communities and

being in conversation. And these are what I call conscious

conversations, things that advanced, you know, our inner

worlds advance what our soul is here to learn. But on the

outside, you know, we're so cultured to look at the degree,

the job, the car, the merit, I don't know why the handbag came

to me. The kids our body is a representation of who we are.

And that's not who we are. Those are things we have. And those

are outward representations. And those were all that culture

tells us is important. And, you know, certainly advertising and

marketing does too. But what is it that we begin to learn and

often in midlife, sometimes people wake up earlier. But

often in midlife, we have just things happening inside of us,

and outside of us, that wake us up that lead us to this

awakening. So one day, I just woke up, and it was in one of my

coaching programs with Dr. Shefali. But I woke up and I

realized I had acted as if everything happened to me. And I

shifted in that and it wasn't shifting in a moment, it was

shifting over months time, shifted to know that life was

happening for me, and take responsibility, like I had to

take responsibility for myself, and not putting what I needed on

others, to kind of like, show up in a certain way we can ask for

it. That's a whole another story. But yeah, I'm wondering

for you, throughout your lifetime, what's been on your

outer list? What things have you felt so much pressure in society

or culture? To do to just feel what have you felt pressured by?

And how has this changed for you, as you've gotten older,

gotten wiser? Is it changing now? And I'm wondering what

showing up on your inner list to heal to become more aligned

with? And you know, when it comes to this, I hope I'm making

sense. Is there an invitation you are considering accepting?

And so that whole part on cultural conditioning is really

because I think it's important to understand how this outside

has affected us in our quest to find what's authentically, ours

or yours. What someone else named for you, at some point in

your life, is really meant to be examined and become curious

about, even if it's bringing it into conscious conversation

alone. Does it fit anymore, and did it ever. And, you know, one

of the last points I want to make is just the journey inward.

When I took the invitation when I accepted, it also brought me

to unresolved places inside and emotions. unhealed hurts and

wounds. Like I said before, how I long hung on to dear life for

resentments, which I just felt so justified in having, I think

I was tired and exhausted in a lot of ways. And as I began to

understand more how I was showing up, what I said I wanted

on the inside, didn't mat match the actions on the outside, how

I was being triggered, or reactionary. I just started to

take more responsibility for the life I wanted to live. And I

began to get really curious about how overwhelming

frustration or confusion had become internal operating states

for me. And I knew it didn't feel good. And it was time to

discover what was holding me back from how I really wanted to

feel on the inside. Little by little, I began to see how

voices of my past were still operating so much inside of me,

I have looked over and over at my limiting beliefs and patterns

and questions, so many of them, and a lot no longer fit. I have

committed to myself to do this work so that I can thrive on the

inside. And in my outer relationships to it's a

byproduct, when we're when we work on cultivating an inner

consciousness that is just more aligned with who we are

authentically. We do all the work inside and then it benefits

our outer relationships. And you know, we decide which ones are a

match for us anymore. Which ones fit in, I'll tell you the more I

can hold myself with compassion and hold you with compassion,

the better it will feel. So, you know, the way that I went about

this work is I had declared at one point in time about five

years ago that I was going to go into the coaching world and I

did programs in integrative health and wellness. I did a

conscious parenting program which I really was thinking was

like, all about awareness and consciousness with Dr. Shefali

Sabari. That was beautiful. And then separately through Suzie

Lulu and her soul care coaching. And I just learned and grew. And

I always think it's like we become aware And then we begin

to integrate until we embody it. So to me, it's awareness,

integration, and then embodiment. And that takes time.

And I still I always say, for all of us on this journey, to

me, it's a journey of a lifetime. And there's beauty in

that. And I think walking the path with each other, is just so

beautiful. Like I said, it was individual work, and it was

ongoing, just conversations with my biological sisters.

And my adopted sisters. And, you know, that's why I call this a

sisterhood. And not that you can't listen if you're a guy,

and you identify in another way, but it is this this spacious,

and expansion, expansive sisterhood that I'm looking to

cultivate sort of with within all of us and with each other. I

have to give so much gratitude, these programs taught me new

ways of looking at the world, that the universe is benevolent,

and that we are powerful creators. And so immersing

myself in all of this led to my own inner transformation, and

openness to share it all with you. And sometimes I laugh

because I did not know this was a calling for me, I didn't know

that this was around the corner on the next page. So I'm just

saying, I'm just offering we don't know what's around. But

let's be in this together. It's it's, it's there's a lot of

abundance, there's a lot of healing, and there's a lot of

abundance. And so at the beginning and end of each day, I

know what I have this connection, connection to

myself, first and foremost, I'm here to look inside at what I

still carry, that's no longer mine. And what I can seek to let

go of and put down, I no longer wish to be exhausted by that

luggage. I don't think any of us do. And it's just finding the

path to that healing for ourselves. And then the bigger

connection with each other. And my journey inward in the last

five years has informed everything I choose these days.

It's why I chose to follow the path of conscious life coaching,

to begin this podcast. And to begin and launch a monthly

membership, to the side of my coaching and the podcast is that

it's all about nurturing, connection, and communication,

and community. So what I want for you is what I want for me

well for all of us, is to become more connected with yourself

more integrated and embodied within yourself, and to have a

full out love affair with who it is that you came to be. And to

be so inspired by what you bring to the table and to develop or

find the practices that keep you deeply connected to yourself. So

thank you for celebrating that part of today with me. If it's

you're listening on another day, hey, it's all the same to me.

It's a celebration of where we've been, where we find

ourselves and where we're going. I'm going to offer you a

personal invitation to consider today to join us in the mystical

sisterhood monthly membership community. It's a community for

women on this journey of self reclamation, reclaiming the life

you really want to live deeply and that you're so deserving of

living. And in my intention is to create a community, a

sisterhood, a mystical sisterhood of all and joy and

abundance. And what it looks like is I it's in a it's held in

a space called Mighty networks. So it's off social media. And in

the portal, we've got a really rich community feed where we can

all share our experiences share our questions. There are four

live events per month, where we take deep dives into the

principles of the universe, practices for soul connection,

connection with each other as women and community and deep

sharing is alive and top of mind. It's it's been my

experience and I'm gonna say in the past five years, that the

circles, the circles of light, and the communities that I've

been immersed in, keep me on this path of thriving and keep

me in an energetic vibration, where I want to share it all

with you and bring you all in including whoever is meant to

join any part of this journey. But and through the guests that

I share, I just, it's just all coming together. I truly believe

we connect when we connect with each other, and support each

other's abundance and thriving humanity lifts. So to give you

an idea, I said for live topics a month and included in that as

a guest speaker. And so, so far we've had in the first three

months speakers on breathwork, sacred writing in this month is

tapping into your spirit guides. So other things that we're going

to cover your values and vision and Who who are you now, tapping

into the abundance within the language of the universe, the

universe as our mirror, and creating safety and intimacy

within our inside ourselves. What I want to end with is

turning points can be magical. They can be they can hurt, they

can be painful, they can take time to get through. But they

also can be magical. They can come to us from the outside, or

they can come to us from an inner calling within. So you,

you get to decide, you know where you go with that turning

point, you get to choose, but I do believe the time is now.

Let's do this work together. Whether it's by continuing to

listen to the podcast, or sharing it with people that you

think will be lit up by it. Choosing individual coaching

sessions for your own inner transformation, or joining it in

the membership. I love to have you and your experiences and

your wisdom and everything that you bring to the table. Bring a

friend with you who you think might enjoy it. You can find the

mystical sister application in the show notes. And on my

Instagram or my website, which is Maureen spillman.com. Or

Instagram is at Maureen Spielman. Lastly, what I want to

say is celebrate your own light. Every day, find a moment in each

day, to put your hand on your heart. And say thank you to

yourself, for showing up however you are. I know you are

appreciated. I know you are loved. And I think it's through

exalting each other that we create the world we want to live

in. So thank you, thank you. Thank you for joining me on

episode 20. I am so excited to just be beginning the this this

dream of a lifetime and what is called mystical sisterhood. If

you have any feedback for me, if you have any guests that you

would love to see interviewed, my door is open and you're all

invited in to this chapter of my life. Okay, I'll see you next

time and celebrate yourself.

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