A New Year

Recorded at the start of 2021, and at what an interesting time. This talk is good for the start of any new year, an ongoing time. Renewing daily. Getting into a rhythm of daily self-healing and inspiration.

Transcript

So welcome to empowering chats with Susan Burrell.

It is 2021.

Woohoo,

And how many people are already done with 2021?

I'm raising my hand.

Oh,

My goodness.

Just a few short days.

And where are we going now?

So this is a new year and and not necessarily than anything's new or different or,

Or,

Or going to be.

But it is still an ongoing time of going to the well,

Within yourself and renewing daily.

And what I mean by that is,

Is taking that time for yourself,

Especially.

And if you hadn't gotten into the rhythm of it last year,

This is the year to do it.

Because this is the year to really focus on your inner well being your inner health,

Physically,

Mentally,

Emotionally and spiritually.

And that's what I'm all about.

Empowering chats is here to help inspire you to give you ideas for your own self healing self regulation,

To give you insight into other people's empowering journeys that often have come out of extraordinary,

Excruciating times,

Or experiences.

And most of the podcasts that we've done up to date have amazing people who love to share their story,

And why.

So in case you don't know me,

I'm Susan Burrell.

And I just wanted to let you all know why I do what I do and and and what I do,

Oh,

Maybe you don't even know what I do.

If you're listening to this for the first time.

So I'm an intuitive healer,

And spiritual guide for people that are at the crossroads of life.

I work mostly with women who are strong and capable,

But that have may have lost their connection to themselves if they ever have it.

You know,

My personal journey comes from a lot of self doubt and pain,

Um,

Physical pain,

I'm a type one diabetic have been for close to 30 years.

And that journey was amazing to get there.

And scary.

But also,

Why I'm empathic and how this all happened was because of having had to deconstruct myself and basically have my heart shattered and all the thoughts and ideas of who I thought I was.

So sorry,

Justin,

Just cut it.

So who I thought I was,

It was,

Or who I thought I wanted to be,

Was someone ended up,

Who wasn't true to themselves,

Who wasn't listening to their inner wisdom,

Who wasn't following the divine guidance that resides within all of us who wasn't listening to that divine spark of light of love within,

That's who I was.

And then my heart got shattered,

I went through a life changing divorce and ending a 28 year marriage.

And while I was doing that,

I knew I wanted to come out stronger and have my own personal freedom,

Free from all those belief systems that had shackled me and kept me small.

And,

And those were my belief systems.

And we all have internal belief systems.

We all have things that beliefs that were actually trained into us or beaten into us from families of origin or our ancestral lineage.

And so they're not even ours.

But we just add those on top of on top of on top of whatever we think we are,

Until we have the suit of armor on.

And we can't even express ourselves.

And that's kind of where I was.

And in the wanting to get out of that in the absolute need,

Live or die,

Get out of that I had to be shattered.

And a lot of the things that we saw last year,

And we're seeing this year,

That looks like shattering,

I guess.

Breaking,

Breaking and entering.

I'm alluding to what happened at the nation's capital.

What had to happen for me,

Is a shattering is,

You know,

Lots of people say it's a breaking open.

But what happened,

For me is it,

It broke me down,

I had to be shattered in order to rebuild myself in order to come out stronger than I was in order to come out clearer and more confident.

And part of the rebuilding of myself from the inside out was learning how to love and respect myself.

And I know that there's lots of people out there that have really good gigs,

Have long term relationships.

But if you really secretly ask yourself,

Do I love myself?

Really,

What's the answer?

And for those of you who say yes,

Good for you,

Good for you.

But for the many of us who go,

Gee,

I don't know,

What's that look like?

How do I know that?

Is there a is there a quiz I need to take to answer the right question?

So I know I love myself,

Or respect myself,

Or am kind to myself.

Because what I find,

And what I found in my personal experience was I wasn't being kind to myself.

I wasn't respecting myself.

And so my health deteriorated,

My belief in myself,

And my purpose deteriorated until I was like,

Nothing.

And so the rebuilding of that the reclaiming of my personal inner life and my inner self was a journey.

It was a big journey to empowerment.

And so I had to realize I was holding myself hostage in many ways internally,

With beliefs that weren't mine,

By cultural ideology that I had adhered to,

And you know,

And I'm talking like wallpaper stuck on a wall adhered to that had to be peeled away,

So that I could then find what my purpose was,

How I wanted to express in life.

And what I found out is that my intuition quadrupled,

Quinzt toppled the need.

Is that a word?

No.

But it grew exponentially.

And,

And that was pretty exciting,

Because there's an intuitive healing that occurred within me,

And that I now am able to utilize in the work I do with clients,

Which is very,

Very fulfilling,

And honoring to be able to facilitate that kind of work for people.

So the reason why I'm telling you all this is that how did I get here is that my years ago,

I,

I got very clearly in the meditation,

That I am a conduit for spirit.

Conduit is an avenue,

You know,

It's also a coming together of spirit.

And so when I focus on that,

That that is the truth of my being,

I am a conduit for spirit,

I can allow the infinite to move through me,

I can allow that inner wisdom to inform me,

To guide me.

And I think this is true for many,

Many people.

In fact,

I think it's true for everybody,

I'll just be straight up.

And so in being a conduit for spirit,

Then there becomes this practice,

I had to begin and maintain of listening within meditating,

Listening,

When I'm walking,

Listening,

When I'm talking to people,

A deeper listening,

What what is being said here?

What do I need to hear?

What,

What is it that I'm not hearing,

That I need to pay attention to?

And often,

It isn't about what it isn't about affirming what I believe,

Although it does affirm what I believe,

In terms of,

You know,

Am I right?

I'm talking about the black and white,

I'm right,

You're wrong thing.

It was it's never about that.

But it's about affirming that we are all amazing,

Divine sparks of light.

And because that is the truth,

When we live from our inner light,

When we access the love that we've always been within us,

The compassion,

We've always been the peace,

We've always been the joy,

The happiness,

We've always been the kindness,

When we access and live from that,

Then that light supports the world that ignites creativity,

It ignites unity,

Unifying yourself with others,

Which is so so so important right now.

But also,

Recognizing that I am light.

I want to lead myself and others from that place of being light of being love of being kindness,

And compassion.

And so last year,

Again,

In meditation,

I heard,

Activate the light.

Oh,

Great.

What light?

Okay.

Actually,

What I said is really,

That's,

That's what I got to do next.

Activate the light.

So last year,

Empowering chats with Susan Burrell.

We did a monthly theme and the monthly theme built on the word empowerment,

Right?

Empowering chats empowerment.

This year,

We're upping the game a bit more.

And the monthly theme is based on the word light leader.

Because I really came to believe that that is who we all are,

If we choose to step up,

If we choose to lead our lives,

From that place of love,

From that place of interconnection of light,

If we choose to lead our lives radiating and vibrating at a higher level of consciousness,

Awareness,

That that accesses all of the information that's been downloading through us over the last several years.

And this this information has been reprogramming our brain has opened us up to see what the real situation is on planet Earth.

And this information is has also been attuning us in our energy fields,

That she that Chinese medicine talks about that runs through us those meridians of energy,

It has been tuning us up so that we can be more fully us,

We can stand in our own power,

We can create and co create with the infinite end with each other,

A life that is better and more beautiful and more brilliant than we can imagine.

And so for me,

It,

It's been a journey of moving from here,

My head,

And resonating and residing in my heart,

And then leading myself from that place,

Like I said,

Of light of love from within me,

Not looking outside of myself,

For those answers,

Or those people or that person that will love me more because I can't love me.

Not doing that,

But loving myself.

Now,

I will tell you that this journey I'm currently on of learning and loving myself more than I ever have,

Has been empowering.

At times,

It's been daunting.

At times,

It's been miraculous and spectacular and unimaginable in terms of the amazing beauty and grace and fun that I've been able to have.

And so aligning myself with my truth of being a conduit for spirit,

Of recognizing and owning one of my brilliant gifts,

Which is intuitive healing.

And then standing not only in that power,

But that brilliance.

That is what a light leader does.

And activating other light leaders.

That to me is what this new year is about.

Reminding myself and encouraging myself and loving myself,

So that I can be who I was always meant to be.

And that's what I want to encourage you to do.

To check in with yourself as you begin this new year.

What am I still holding on to?

What is my responsibility here?

And what isn't?

And oftentimes,

It's a pretty simple answer.

Very simple answer.

But where are you holding yourself in bondage?

Where are you not letting yourself be at peace?

And I'm talking to those people,

Myself included,

I'm pointing at myself,

Where you have that shaming,

Blaming,

Judgment game going on in your head where you start the story,

And it loops and it loops and it loops,

Because you're not stopping it,

Because you're not standing up to that small self within you that wants to shame and blame and judge you.

And the work of a light leader is to recognize those parts of ourselves,

Those shadow pieces,

Right?

Acknowledge them,

Accept them,

And let them go.

Because that's the thing that stops many of us from being who we are.

That shame,

Blame and judgment within our heads,

Right?

You've heard this so many times from so many people besides me,

I'm sure you have.

So in clarifying yourself,

Clearing those beliefs,

And that energy that gets stuck from all the different wounding we get,

We have,

We are subjected to during a course of living a life.

If we,

As we clear those wounds,

As we clear that energy and clarify it,

Crystallize it,

And align it with the truth of our inner being,

With the truth of light and love within us that's always there,

Then our life gets to be better and better and better.

Doesn't matter what's happening outside doesn't matter the circumstances you may be facing when you face your,

Your accounting system or your next zoom call for work doesn't matter about that.

Because the more you clarify and crystallize who you are,

The more opportunity you have to be who you are.

So the theme this year is light leader.

And to ask yourself,

Am I a light leader?

And for the month of the first month,

This is going to be it's going to be light and love focusing on light and love.

But we're also going to focus later on inspiration and guidance and healing.

And many other things.

And some of the guests that I'm going to have on are just juicy,

Luscious,

Phenomenal individuals that have gone through challenges themselves,

And they are happy to share how they've overcome them,

Grown beyond them,

Become better and happier human beings.

So ask yourself,

What am I hanging on to?

Where am I holding myself in bondage still?

And how do I want to live this next year?

Do I want to live it from a place of empowerment,

Feeling free,

And happy and kind and loving?

I hope those are yes.

Yes,

Yes,

Yes,

To those questions.

I really do.

So I pulled one of my inspiration cards.

If you don't know I have inspiration cards.

You can go to Susan barrell.

Com and find out more about that and everything else that I do.

But this is an affirmation I wrote when I was going through all that challenging time before I absolutely owned,

Recognized and owned that I am a light leader,

And a conduit for spirit.

And I'm going to leave you with this today.

Today,

I have the courage to face my life and live it from a deeper place of connection and love.

And how good is that?

So everybody,

The year the word of the year is a light leader.

And I want to invite you to ask yourself what's going to be your word,

Your word,

My personal word,

Well,

I always have to this year is peace and fun.

Until next time,

And so it is namaste.