Greetings! I'm here to share with you another talented woman for the guest interview blog series. Her name is Rachel Richardson. Rachel is blessed with vocals, is passionate for organizing around a cause, and finds comfort and guidance through her ever deepening spiritual practice.
By reading her personal story I hope that it invites you to consider who you are at your core and feel more empowered in owning your life story.
On Sunday February 7th from 8PM - 9PM EST I will be hosting a FREE online Reiki event featuring musical guest Rachel Richardson. Together we will be sharing our creative gifts to offer you entertainment, relaxation, and healing.
Before the event, I am honored for you to meet the multitalented guest in this interview.
Tell Us A Few Things About Yourself
1. What are your natural talents and abilities?
Singing
Playing Music
Writing
Performing
Counseling
Organizing Around A Cause
Connecting to Ancestors and Spirit Guides
2. What would you like the readers to know about you and your professional work?
I’m a writer/performer/singer who has recently launched Girl Parts Publishing & Productions. I host a weekly workshop of women pursuing creative projects to lend support and accountability toward achieving our individual goals.
I also recently launched a consulting service to assist people in deepening their connection to ancestors and spirit guides. The goal of these sessions is for people to feel comforted and encouraged toward their personal purpose through joyful interplay between the physical and spirit worlds.
3. Do you have a favorite self-care product that you want to share with the readers?
I would love the readers to know about Buddha Teas - Chakra Blends. I have a weekly ritual of drinking a different chakra tea every day and have noticed specific advantages to each day’s formula.
This is part of how my life is and feels like alchemy. The best kind of cauldron is the one we stir within our souls. Tools and trinkets used by my own ancestors and spirit guides accompany me wherever I am and whatever I am doing. I would recommend a similar practice to anyone open to the idea.
Tell Us About Your Past
4. What is one of your earliest memories of noticing your own natural talents and abilities?
A dream I had when I was 3 that my grandfather, whom I never met, visited me at night to turn on lights down a long hallway in our home. This let me know which room he was in if I ever needed him.
I also remember the first time I meditated at age 13 and a phase I went through around that time that included meditating and deep relaxation techniques.
I knew I could sing around the age of 4 and got decent reviews at piano recitals.
5. What is a past hardship, challenge, breakthrough, or life lesson that has had a big impact on you and has shaped your life perspective?
My parents split up when I was 3. The age difference between myself and my older siblings and a degree of emotional neglect created an environment of mostly growing up alone with a record player. I am grateful for the dynamic now because it informs an introverted lifestyle I am comfortable with. I never felt alone or lonely because I always had a sense I was being kept company. And hanging out with a record player was very good for my musical passions as it was a constant rehearsal for some big show to come.
6. What is a habit or lifestyle pattern that you have come to realize no longer serves your best self and what did you do to initiate change?
Seeking approval from men…like at all. Who needs it?
To initiate change, I was constantly rejected professionally by the white guys who run the local art scene while showing competence, ingenuity, and massive achievement. Finally, an emergence of “indifference" is coming to replace the need for validation. My work is more satisfying and the indifference is liberating.
Also, being apologetic in professional scenarios. I’m working on removing language from emails and interactions that imply I am a bother or am inconveniencing the person I am working with by having a perfectly reasonable request based on the work being done. Along with that, removing the people pleasing aspect of work so that I actually get exactly what I want and am paying for.
7. Do you recognize any similarities or differences from how you were raised to the values and lifestyle you have today?
If my life were a three ring circus, it would be:
Family
Work
Spirituality
As I was raised, spirituality did not enter the conversation. Family was splintered beyond recognition. I insist on the opposite for my adult self and my own family. My family had no lessons about cultivating happiness under any circumstance. That is simply unacceptable.
Tell Us About Your Current Lifestyle
8 .What is your personal driving force/passion/motivation?
To serve my purpose.
9. What are your 'go-to' self-love practices/hobbies/interests and do you have a structured or spontaneous approach to these?
Some of both. I try to do regular yoga and exercise. My meditation practice is solid and consistent. I also try to get a regular professional massage. And a semi-regular Reiki session or Tarot reading. Those are structured.
Spontaneous self-love practice comes when I see a few extra hours of alone time and take a bath or watch a show I can’t watch otherwise. I also self-medicate with marijuana vapors and have since I was 17. When I can find a good therapist, I visit with her regularly. Time spent in nature and intentional grounding and connecting to the Earth are crucial.
10. What are some personal boundaries that you have established and practice that allow you to tend to your own well-being so that you can then show up for others?
My 5 year old has been in daycare/preschool since she was 2 years old even though I have been home most of that time. Enough said.
11. How do you support yourself through a funk?
Send my child away some more...haha. On the day Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the Presidential race in 2020, she spent the afternoon at her grandma’s so I could cry and veg out and smoke a lot of pot.
Tell Us About Your Future Aspirations
12. What type of personal lifestyle and/or professional career are you cultivating?
I am cultivating the life of a published author, a widely viewed sketch comedy writer/actor/producer/director, a singer, and a spiritual consultant.
I am also cultivating financial security to provide freedom enough to say what I need to say and for myself and my husband to make the work we want to make. This work will lead to further security and savings. It will lead to travel and seek out new experiences. I am also cultivating a personal lifestyle that will teach our daughter about being an equal part of a domestic/professional team. As well as emotional health and understanding of feelings that will assist each of us in building a loving home.
13. What is one thing that you would like to try or experience during your lifetime time that you haven't experienced before?
I want to see an owl in the wild.
14. What is the legacy/message/influence that you hope your life has on humanity?
Do good work.
Make good money.
Spend good time with family living on Earth and existing in the Spirit world.
Tell Us 5 Daring Sentences That Express Your Authenticity
An ideal lifestyle for me is when I’m daring to be grounded in the physical world and my physical body while still feeling inspired by and aware of constant mystical connections and interplay. One where all of my chakras feel activated rather than just the top 3.
An ideal lifestyle for me is when I’m daring to stop myself from the instant gratification of a snarky response to my husband or an impatient response to my daughter and replace that with a compassionate, egoless, and loving response instead. This also applies to other family members and interactions with friends and strangers alike.
An ideal lifestyle for me is when I’m daring to imagine being in the same physical space with people who I perceive to have burned a bridge with and not feel scared or anxious or less than because of comparisons to their levels of “success”.
An ideal lifestyle for me is when I’m daring to choose not to socialize or associate with those I do not enjoy and not feel a shred of guilt about it.
An ideal lifestyle for me is when I’m daring to speak truth to power, call out abuses and wrongs, and do my part to dismantle systems of patriarchy and white supremacy… all with thoughtful writing and comedy!
Tell Us About Your Experience With Reiki
I have experienced Reiki both with hands on practice and also with Kim’s distant session and have had very different impressions from each. Both have been healing and inspiring and are something I seek out as a way to integrate insights and intuition by hearing what I already know from a voice and perspective outside of my own. The physical sensations I have experienced during a Reiki session have been profound and produce such an undeniable vibration elevation that it is almost addictive in its euphoria. For anyone wondering if Reiki is for them, please give it a try. It can only be for good and healing.
FREE Online Group Reiki Event
Sunday Feb 7th 8PM - 9PM EST
Featuring Rachel Richardson
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