Healing's Not Woo-Woo, It's an OS Upgrade

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Jul 30, 2026

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In today’s mix of magic + musings: 🫶 Client Corner, 💁‍♀️ Story Time where you’ll learn an Emotional Healing Technique, 🔮 Oracle Insights from the heavens, 💕 things I’m loving right now.

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🫶 Overheard in Session

This past week I created a very special subliminal Safe to Receive, which came through when I was working with a client. This subliminal is designed to create a sense of safety around receiving. It addresses the pattern of over protecting your energy, with affirmations that install safety, trust, and openness, so that energy, support, love, and abundance can flow in freely.

Quick tip before you listen: This track features hidden positive statements layered beneath the music. Because the words play below your conscious hearing level, your analytical mind won’t block them. It takes zero active effort from you—just press play, relax, and let the track support your new positive habits on autopilot.

💁‍♀️ Story Time:

Healing is not for the faint of heart. It requires you to get up front and honest with yourself to uncover parts that have been hiding behind a mask of insecurities, limiting beliefs, and a vast range of emotions. I think that’s why so many people choose to opt out. Being vulnerable on a deep, intimate level while confronting the shadow side of yourself can be terrifying.

What will I uncover? What if I can’t ‘fix it’? What if I don’t like what I see? What if I find substantial evidence for my biggest fears to come true? What if everything I know and believe about myself is real and I’m just an imposter?

WHY TF DO I (we) THINK LIKE THIS ⤴

Well, I’d like to first blame the ego. Its fragility forces us to stay small in order to protect its entire existence. The ego is not your true self. It’s a temporary identity formed by a collection of labels, stories, and memories you tell yourself. Driven by fear, the ego craves control and the constant need for comparison. It is insatiable in its needs and requires constant reinforcement, which further perpetuates the negative mindset. IMO the ego’s a little bitch.

ego | /ˈēɡō/ | Noun
the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world
the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality

ooooo self-doubt and self-loathing are over oooo you're capable and worthy and sexy oooo a wizard casting a magic spell for increased self worth

Next, I’d like to blame society. Since we all have ego’s it makes sense a pessimistic viewpoint has been indoctrinated into our culture. Unfortunately, I think it’s become second nature for most people to look at the glass as half empty. I grew up listening to scarcity mindset phrases like:

“It’s always something!”
“When it rains it pours!”
“Money doesn’t grow on trees!”

But if you zoom out, it makes sense. Evolutionarily, we’re constantly on the lookout for risks to our safety, which leads me to number three: survival. Long gone are the days where we have to worry about a saber tooth tiger killing us in the middle of the night, but the threat of imminent danger is so deeply ingrained into our cells and DNA that we can’t help but revert back to our primal urges, regardless of how outdated they may be.

It reminds me of how a dog circles it’s bed before settling down. They instinctually know to check for hidden creatures, by circling their spot before laying down. Even though a threat is virtually impossible on the 30th floor of a climate controlled downtown apartment, with a doorman and a pool, their biology compels them to double check, just in case.

You seeeee, it’s not our fault that we’re like this. These patterns are hard wired into our human nature and a part of who we are. But just because our internal programming naturally defaults to a negative viewpoint, doesn’t mean we need to continue running our lives on outdated software. In fact, I’d beg to argue there’s a better way!

I want you to reframe the idea of healing as something woo-woo and starting looking at it from the lense of upgrading your operating system. Each time you upgrade, you become a better more aligned version of yourself.

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SIDEBAR: Let’s take a little detour and look at astrology for a moment. Every 7 years Saturn ‘squares’ or 'opposes’ aspects against its original position in your chart, while Uranus shifts into a new zodiac sign. Together these force a massive psychological growth spurt in your life. AKA a system reboot. (Not to be confused with your Saturn Return at 29, 59, + 88ish)
These planets come back around to see if you’re living in alignment. Saturn checks on your foundation, while Uranus demands liberation. They’ll shake things up when necessary and continue to do so until you either figure it out or start living in purpose. It’s givinggg 7 year itch.
Think of every 7 years as a new and improved version of you. Exhibit A:
Age 21 = Version 3.0 Age 42 = Version 6.0
Age 28 = Version 4.0 Age 49 = Version 7.0
Age 35 = Version 5.0 Age 55 = Version 8.0

This past year I entered Version 6.0. I even refer to myself as Christina 6.0 when I journal or talk to myself. This reaffirms the upgrades and acknowledges to my subconscious all the shifts I’ve made to my OS over the years. The magic happens in the shifts. Let me say that again for the people in the back: THE MAGIC HAPPENS IN THE SHIFTS.

It happens when you start getting real with yourself. Because getting real with yourself means putting the ego in its place. It means actively affirming WHY the glass is half full. It’s about finding tenderness and care for the versions of you who didn’t know any better or acted out of protection and preservation, rather than truth. It’s about loving yourself so much, that you forgive yourself for all the mistakes and limiting beliefs you let yourself hold onto so tightly.

People over complicate healing. It doesn’t have to be a full on therapy session where you rehash every childhood wound or experience. It can be much more gentle than that. It simply requires you to get vulnerable with yourself.

Simply telling yourself positive affirmations is not enough, especially if/when you don’t believe. An understanding of the emotions holding you back must first occur. You need to get to the root of the issues, before you can resolve them. It’s like finding a weed in your garden. Simply cutting the leaves off will do nothing, you have to dig it out from the root to banish it completely.

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Here’s an emotional healing technique you can try with yourself in the comfort of your own home: RAIN by Michele McDonald

Recognize - acknowledge your emotional experience: “I feel…”
The next time you feel triggered, notice what’s happening inside your mind and body without judgement. Use statements like “I feel…” to help to quiet the amygdala or alarm center of the brain.
Allow - sit with the feeling or experience
After you’ve identified the emotion, allow yourself to feel it. There’s no need to regulate or fix, just sit with the intensity without changing it. By doing this, you’re rewriting your emotional response pattern in real time.
If you notice a specific feeling or sensation, breath with it for a minute. The longer you sit with it, the more it will start to shift. The objective is to go towards the intensity instead of trying to repress or deny what you’re feeling (which is the typical response).
Investigate - ask gentle prompting questions
Bring curiosity to your physical or emotional state. Where am I feeling this in my body? How old is this feeling? What is it trying to protect me from? What does it what me to know or is there a message attached to it?
Nurture - offer a clear gesture of kindness or self-compassion
Lovingly be with the emotional experience and vulnerable parts of yourself. Be the nurturing caregiver to the experiences you’ve had, where you didn’t get the emotional support you needed. You’re building your capacity to be your own internalized parent.

You can do it! (and if you need help MESSAGE ME)

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"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” - Pema Chödrön 🤍

🔮 Oracle Insights:

starseed Oracle deck by Rebecca Campbell, and Danielle Noel cards are fall into my arms, loosen your grip and jump in

Open your hands. What you’re gripping so tightly — the worry, the ache, the loneliness, the fear that nothing will come to take its place — lay it down on her altar and fall back into her arms. She has been here since your first breath. Whatever you leave empty, grace will fill. And then take a run up and leap. You were never meant to wait until you were ready; you were meant to swim with the tide and find your calm inside the chaos. Let this life swing you wide in both directions — the agony and the ecstasy both — so that one day you can say, truly, that you lived.