On this episode of Enlightened Connections, I sit down with Michele Lundstrom - Shamanic Intuitive Channel, Akashic Records Reader, and former mental health therapist, for a deeply expansive and heart-opening conversation that bridges psychology, spirit, and the elemental world.

Michele shares how, even during her 20-year career in traditional therapy, she was quietly guided by ancestors, spirit allies, and intuitive knowing. Over time, she recognised that while cognitive processing has its place, true healing often requires something deeper; energetic, ancestral, and soul-level work. We explore the intersection between modern psychology and ancient wisdom, discussing where the systems support us, where they fall short, and how shamanic practices help address the root rather than the symptom.

One of the most extraordinary moments in Michele’s life came in 2019, when she was struck by lightning indoors during an unexpected storm. Surviving the strike, and clinically “gone” for several minutes, became what many indigenous traditions would call a shamanic initiation. Michele describes how the experience cleared trauma from her physical and energetic body and awakened what she now calls “lightning medicine” - a powerful channeled current of healing energy she runs through her right arm to support both people and the Earth.

We also dive into her remarkable remote water crystallography readings, inspired by her deep love of water and the work of Veda Austin. Michele explains how water communicates through frozen imagery, how it holds memory across time and space, and how she reads these crystallised messages as living oracle cards. From galactic memory to elemental gratitude, this part of our conversation opens an entirely new way of understanding consciousness.

Our discussion expands into channeling, star-seeds, awakening gifts, and the growing divide between those leaning into heart-centered awareness and those resisting it. Michele shares what she’s witnessing in her sessions; more people activating clear knowing, reconnecting with their intuitive senses, and remembering why they came here.

We close with practical guidance on reconnecting with the elements : Earth, air, fire, and especially water - and Michele offers one powerful message for the world: return to the heart. In a time dominated by the mind, she reminds us that the heart always knows truth.

This is a rich, soulful conversation about healing, remembrance, initiation, and the quiet power of living in alignment with nature and spirit.

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In this deeply transformative episode, Lisa is joined by Stephanie Hew, a multidimensional practitioner, energy shifter, womb healer, kinesiologist, and psychic medium, for an expansive conversation about witch wounds, feminine suppression, and reclaiming authentic spiritual power.

Despite a few cosmic-level tech interruptions, the conversation flows into profound territory as Stephanie shares her work supporting light leaders, healers, and spiritually awakened women to reconnect with their inner wisdom, dissolve energetic blocks, and embody their true soul essence.

Stephanie explains the concept of the witch wound - a deeply embedded fear of being seen, heard, or punished for spiritual gifts, often carried across multiple lifetimes due to historical persecution. This energetic imprint commonly shows up as lack of confidence, self-silencing, or fear of fully expressing intuitive and psychic abilities.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• What the witch wound is and how it manifests today

• Womb healing and releasing stored emotional and energetic imprints

• Priestess codes and reconnecting with ancient feminine wisdom

• Past life therapy and karmic pattern resolution

• The stages of spiritual awakening and embodied growth

• Navigating the “darkness” as part of soul evolution

• Identity shifts, relationship changes, and soul-aligned living

• Energy healing, kinesiology, and physical-energetic integration

• Healing ancestral and past-life trauma held in the body

Stephanie shares powerful insights into her multidimensional healing approach, which weaves together womb healing, past life regression, psychic insight, energy activation, and personalised kinesiology. She also discusses how unhealed past-life trauma, such as repeated loss, can surface as anxiety or fear in the present life, and how these patterns can be gently released.

This episode is for women who feel a deep inner calling, sense ancient wisdom stirring within them, or know they are here for something more - yet feel blocked, hesitant, or energetically held back.

✨ You are not becoming someone new—you are remembering who you have always been.

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In this powerful and deeply reflective episode, Lisa is joined by Rebecca, a practitioner of Family Constellations, Reconnection Energy, and ancestral healing, to explore how inherited trauma, unconscious family patterns, and energetic imprints shape our lives, often without us realising.

The conversation begins with Lisa sharing a pivotal spiritual experience that sparked her journey into mediumship, followed by an open discussion about different intuitive abilities, including claircognisance, clairsentience, and spirit communication. From there, the episode moves into a profound exploration of Family Constellation Therapy; a modality designed to reveal and release ancestral trauma carried through family lines.

Rebecca explains how emotional, energetic, and even biological trauma can be passed down through generations, using examples such as famine, war, and displacement. Through family constellation work, clients are able to release inherited burdens, restore balance to the family system, and reconnect with their own inner divine light, often resolving patterns linked to addiction, illness, and chronic emotional struggles.

In this episode, you’ll learn about:

• What family constellation therapy is and how it works

• How ancestral trauma is inherited emotionally and energetically

• Mediumship vs energy-based healing modalities

• Crystal-based constellation work and intuitive session design

• The Court of Atonement and releasing soul contracts

• The difference between Family Constellations and The Reconnection

• How remote energy healing can be just as powerful as in-person work

• Inherited emotional patterns such as anger, grief, and fear

• Women’s power in family planning and ancestral decision-making

• Navigating stepfamily dynamics and unconscious loyalties

Rebecca also explains The Reconnection, a two-session energetic realignment that works with meridian points and universal grids, reconnecting individuals to Source Energy, often resulting in profound peace, clarity, and energetic shifts.

This episode is for anyone interested in ancestral healing, family systems therapy, mediumship, energy healing, emotional inheritance, and spiritual liberation.

✨ What you release in yourself, you heal for the generations that follow.

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In this illuminating episode, Lisa is joined by Kim Fairminer, a professional astrologer with over 25 years of experience, to demystify astrology and explore how it can be used as a practical, grounded tool for insight, healing, and everyday decision-making.

Kim shares her unique approach to astrology, blending traditional horary astrology with transpersonal counselling, and discusses her long-standing role writing daily horoscopes for The West Australian newspaper. Together, Lisa and Kim explore the key differences between natal astrology - which offers a lifelong, big-picture view of the soul’s journey - and horary astrology, which provides clear answers to specific yes/no questions about immediate situations.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What horary astrology is and how it works

• How natal charts reveal life themes, priorities, and personal timing

• Why free will still matters, even in predictive astrology

• The importance of learning astrology in layers, like a language

• How empty houses in a birth chart should really be interpreted

• The role of healing planets and houses for intuitive and service-based work

• Why Chiron matters for healers (and when it doesn’t)

• The spiritual significance of the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th houses

• How astrology supports intuition rather than replacing logic

Kim also addresses common misconceptions about horoscopes, explaining how astrology can function both as a daily spiritual touchstone and as a profound system for personal growth. The conversation expands into mundane astrology, and how astrology can be applied without needing exact birth data.

This episode is ideal for astrology beginners, seasoned students, healers, intuitives, and anyone curious about how astrology actually works beyond sun signs.

✨ Astrology doesn’t remove free will - it helps you use it wisely.

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In this heartfelt and expansive conversation, Lisa is joined by Kari Magee, intuitive healer and founder of Alchemy for Empaths, to explore what it truly means to be an empath, and how sensitivity can become a powerful gift rather than a burden.

Kari explains that empaths are naturally attuned to their environment, emotions, and subtle energies, much like animals. While empathy is a universal human trait, some people are more sensitive due to lived experiences such as trauma, burnout, or nervous system overload, often amplifying intuitive abilities like clairsentience, empathic sensing, and animal communication.

Together, Lisa and Kari explore:

• What it really means to be an empath in today’s world

• The connection between empathy, intuition, and personal authority

• Why self-care is not optional for sensitive people

• How unprotected empathy can lead to burnout and energy depletion

• Identifying subtle energy leaks (not just obvious boundaries)

• The impact of social media, television, and unconscious habits on empathic systems

• Astrology, neurodiversity, and sensitivity as tools for self-understanding

• Midlife awakenings, identity shifts, and intuitive growth

• Sovereignty, individuality, and staying grounded while feeling deeply

Kari shares her own journey from corporate conformity and chronic exhaustion to reclaiming sensitivity as a superpower, leading her to develop The LIGHT Method: Liberation, Intuition, Grounding, and Healing - a framework designed to help empaths release limiting beliefs, build strength, and reconnect with their inner wisdom.

The conversation also touches on starseeds, neurodiversity, societal conditioning, and the suppression of empathy, offering a compassionate lens on why so many sensitive people feel out of place, and how they can realign with their truth.

This episode is for anyone who identifies as an empath, highly sensitive person, intuitive, healer, or anyone feeling burnt out, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves.

✨ Your sensitivity is not the problem—it’s the pathway.

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In this deeply insightful episode, Lisa interviews Graeme Kapono Urlich, an ordained Alakaʻi of Huna International, exploring the ancient Hawaiian healing tradition of Huna, the philosophy of Aloha, and the transformative power of presence, energy, and self-empowerment.

Founded in 1973 by Serge Kahili King, Huna International teaches that energy flows where attention goes, and that all healing and power come from within. Graeme shares the seven principles of Huna, including the powerful idea that the world is what we think it is, and explains how these teachings apply directly to modern life, emotional healing, and personal growth.

The conversation explores Lomi Lomi temple-style bodywork, not simply as massage, but as a spiritual and emotional healing practice rooted in counselling, awareness, and self-responsibility. Graeme recounts extraordinary personal experiences from extended Kahuna bodywork sessions, highlighting the importance of total presence, focus, and energetic alignment.

Together, Lisa and Graeme discuss:

* How distraction and media manipulation affect energy and decision-making

* The fear of rejection and our deep need to belong

*The “Adventurer Way of Thinking” and breaking free from societal conditioning

* The Hawaiian principle of Manawa - the power of being fully present

* Why effectiveness is the measure of truth (Pono)

* The true meaning of Aloha: love increases as judgment decreases

* How belief systems influence success, health, money, and self-worth

* Using the mind as a healing tool rather than a limitation

Graeme also shares real-world examples of Huna healing, including how creating an environment of aloha and high energy allows individuals to heal themselves, without giving power away.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in:

Huna healing, Hawaiian spirituality, energy healing, Lomi Lomi, conscious living, emotional healing, shamanic wisdom, personal empowerment, and spiritual growth.

✨ Bless the present. Trust yourself. Expect the best.

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In this deeply compassionate and insightful episode, Lisa is joined by holistic counsellor and intuitive healer Sarah Yeoman, who brings over two decades of experience in health, wellbeing, and trauma-informed care.

Sarah shares her professional journey from primary school teaching into the healing arts, including her background in exercise science, remedial massage, nutrition, and energy work. Through years of hands-on practice and lived experience, Sarah developed her own healing modality, Cevelo, which blends talk therapy with energy healing to help people release emotional triggers, reconnect with their authentic selves, and feel empowered in their lives.

The conversation explores Sarah’s path through further study, personal loss, and professional transformation, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the passing of her father. These experiences led her to retrain as a counsellor and create the RISE method, a framework designed to help individuals redefine their stories, understand emotional triggers, and move beyond survival-based patterns.

Lisa and Sarah discuss how trauma often originates in childhood and can shape adult behaviour, relationships, and emotional responses. Sarah explains how intuitive coaching and counselling sessions create a safe space for clients to uncover unconscious patterns, process stored emotions, and gently resolve trauma without force or re-traumatisation.

The episode also delves into the concept of negative memory bias, explaining how the brain prioritises perceived threats as a survival mechanism. Sarah highlights the importance of safety, trust, and nervous system regulation in trauma healing, acknowledging that each person’s healing timeline is unique.

Drawing from her experience as a trauma-informed massage therapist, Sarah discusses the role of touch in healing and the necessity of consent, safety, and emotional readiness. Lisa shares reflections from her own trauma journey, reinforcing the importance of finding practitioners who are deeply attuned to both physical and emotional boundaries.

This episode is a powerful reminder that healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about creating safety, awareness, and space for authenticity to emerge.

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In this fascinating and heart-led episode, Lisa is joined by Dr Meghan Barrett, a holistic veterinarian and sound therapy practitioner based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr Barrett shares her unique approach to animal healing, blending conventional veterinary medicine with holistic modalities and therapeutic music designed specifically for animals.

Dr Barrett discusses her journey from a background in aerial dance and music into holistic veterinary medicine, explaining how a serious neck injury became a catalyst for deeper exploration into whole-body healing. She unpacks the key differences between allopathic (conventional) veterinary care and holistic approaches, highlighting how Western medicine excels in acute situations, while holistic care focuses on long-term wellbeing, chronic conditions, and prevention.

The conversation explores how emotional health and physical health are deeply interconnected for animals, and why addressing both is essential for true healing. Dr Megan shares how she integrates rehabilitation, acupuncture, laser therapy, herbal medicine, and sound therapy into her practice, always slowing down to truly listen to what each animal needs.

A central focus of the episode is the powerful role of music in animal wellbeing. Dr Barrett explains how she creates custom soundscapes and original musical compositions using harp, flute, and ambient textures to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, reduce stress, and support healing. She discusses the importance of understanding animals’ unique hearing ranges, sensitivity to vibration and frequency, and why music for animals must be carefully edited to avoid sudden or overstimulating sounds.

Lisa and Dr Barrett share personal stories of animals responding visibly to music; from softened eyes and slower breathing to deep relaxation and emotional release. They also discuss how familiar music routines can help animals feel safe, particularly during times of anxiety, illness, or transition.

This episode offers a gentle yet insightful invitation to rethink how we care for animals, reminding us that healing can be supported not only through medicine, but through presence, environment, sound, and emotional connection.

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