Happy Hour For The Spiritually Curious Podcast

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Note: This episode includes discussion of trauma, PTSD, psychiatric treatment, and sexual assault recovery.
In this deeply personal conversation, Dr. Sandra Marie speaks with Elle Ivey, who shares her journey navigating trauma, including surviving sexual assault, alongside complex PTSD, spiritual awakening, intuition, and mental health recovery.
Elle discusses a spontaneous spiritual awakening that occurred while receiving inpatient psychiatric treatment during the pandemic, after unresolved trauma and PTSD resurfaced through intense body memories and emotional overwhelm.
The conversation explores:
 body memory and trauma responses 
 intuition vs. mental health overwhelm 
 emotional safety during awakening experiences 
 mediumship and spirit communication 
 toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing 
 agape love, compassion, and self-parenting 
 psychic sensitivity and energetic boundaries 
 light language and spiritual remembrance 
 learning to trust intuitive experiences without losing grounding 
Elle also discusses her emerging platform, Beyond the Leaves. Together, the conversation offers a thoughtful exploration of what can happen when trauma, spirituality, healing, and intuition intersect in ways society does not always understand.
Links
Beyond the Leaves with Elle Ivey
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What if getting dressed is affecting far more than your appearance?
In this episode, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with personal stylist and former mental health professional Jaime Diehl to explore the surprising connection between style, nervous system regulation, identity, confidence, and emotional safety. 
Jaime shares how childhood experiences, social conditioning, body image, and life transitions can deeply influence the way women relate to clothing and self-expression. Together, they discuss why style is often less about trends and more about safety, visibility, embodiment, and self-trust. 
The conversation explores:
 The nervous system connection to clothing and style 
 Why many women struggle with being “seen” 
 How old stories influence wardrobe choices 
 Decision fatigue and simplifying the closet 
 Why clearing out clothing can feel emotional and freeing 
 Style as embodiment instead of performance 
 Becoming your own “style muse” instead of following outside rules 
This episode offers a grounded and thoughtful perspective on style as an everyday practice of self-awareness, creativity, nervous system support, and personal agency. 
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What if the thoughts, judgments, and assumptions you repeat every day are quietly shaping your entire reality?
In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with author and teacher Kay Cordell-Whittaker for a fascinating conversation about ancient wisdom, consciousness, attention, and the energetic patterns that influence human behavior. 
Kay shares her experience apprenticing for 13 years within ancient Peruvian and Egyptian lineages focused on balance, awareness, healing, and what she describes as “the truth of who we are.” The discussion explores how ancient teachings connect to modern life, including parallels between today’s world and stories of Atlantis and other advanced civilizations that may have collapsed under corruption, greed, and spiritual immaturity. 
The heart of the conversation centers around Kay’s book, The Seven No-No’s: A Guide to Awakening and Freedom, which outlines seven patterns she believes disconnect people from clarity, self-awareness, and inner peace:
 Blind beliefs 
 Judgments 
 Expectations 
 Assumptions 
 Jumping to conclusions 
 Arrogance 
 Negative perceptions 
Learn more about Kay’s work, books, and workshops HERE
About the Podcast
Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious is part of the Wild Soul Gatherings ecosystem, exploring spirituality, consciousness, healing, and the deeper questions shaping human experience. Hosted by Dr. Sandra Marie.
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In this episode, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with Sue Elliott to explore what it really means to receive guidance, including Sue’s perspective on messages from angels and how they may show up in everyday life. Rather than approaching this as something abstract or distant, the conversation brings it into a more practical, relatable context.
They also explore emotional awareness and why emotions are not something to dismiss, but signals that can help guide decision-making and self-understanding. Sue reframes both guidance and emotion as tools that are already available, but often overlooked.
Together, they discuss vulnerability, self-awareness, and how to stay grounded while navigating personal and professional growth, while also recognizing support when it appears.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode
 What people are really reacting to when they hear “messages from angels” 
 The role of permission and free will in receiving guidance 
 How intuitive or external guidance may show up in everyday moments 
 The idea that support can come through other people, not just internal awareness 
 The difference between dismissing experiences and staying open with discernment 
 How guidance can support emotional clarity without overriding personal responsibility
Learn more about Sue Elliott
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Your body is a walking history book.
The question is… are you still living from what it recorded?

In this Wild Soul Gathering summit replay, Loa Blasucci, from Hey Loa, and Dr.Sandra Marie explore how emotions are stored in the body, why anxiety can feel constant, and how the second chakra plays a central role in emotional regulation, creativity, and energetic boundaries.

This conversation goes beyond mindset and into the actual mechanics of how the body holds and processes emotional experience.

WHAT WE COVER
Why your body is a “walking history book” of past experiences
How the second chakra stores emotion, trauma, and creativity
The difference between your emotions and what you’ve absorbed from others
Why empaths often feel exhausted, anxious, or overwhelmed
How anxiety connects to stored energy in the body, not just thoughts
What happens when this energy center becomes “too open”
Why creativity gets blocked and how it reconnects
The role of grounding in calming the nervous system
How to recognize, label, and release reactive patterns in real time
Why healing doesn’t have to be forceful or retraumatizing
The importance of having a system vs trying everything without direction
KEY SHIFT FROM THIS EPISODE
Most people try to think their way out of how they feel.
This conversation makes something very clear:

👉 Your body is responding to stored emotional patterns
👉 Not everything you feel is yours
👉 Regulation comes from working with the body, not overriding it

PRACTICAL TAKEAWAYS
Simple tools shared in this conversation include:
Bringing awareness down into the body (especially the feet and lower centers)
Using breath to move energy out of the head and back into the body
Recognizing emotional reactions before attaching a story
Labeling thoughts (ex: “that’s fear”) to create separation
Grounding into the body to reduce anxiety in real time
Even small shifts can create noticeable change.

Connect with Loa 
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