<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Behind-the-scenes of my life in energetics. Real-time chats on frequency, energy, and solutions to everyday clogs as I live them.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGLF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc830acfc-4b98-441a-8e40-9a49039eefde_3322x3322.jpeg</url><title>Heather Askinosie</title><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:35:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[heatheraskinosie@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[heatheraskinosie@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[heatheraskinosie@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[heatheraskinosie@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The 13th Hard Drive: Inside the Secret Lore of Crystal Skulls and the Ancient Code Awakening in Our DNA]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, I thought crystal skulls were either Halloween decor or shadow work. Then I sat in a frequency room with a 33-lb Quartz master and the skull I&#8217;d owned for years spoke its real name to me.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-13th-hard-drive-inside-the-secret</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-13th-hard-drive-inside-the-secret</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:11:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7ZU8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F704e180b-6f69-44eb-b2a7-f27899bebba9_5712x4284.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a long time, I didn&#8217;t fully get <a href="https://energymuse.com/products/clear-quartz-skull">crystal skulls</a>.</p><p>If you are a crystal lover, maybe you have looked at them and wondered the exact same thing: <em>Is this just something edgy we put out in October for Halloween? Is it strictly for intense shadow work? Or is there something much deeper going on here?</em></p><p>I didn&#8217;t truly comprehend the sheer girth of what crystal skull technology represents until I experienced it firsthand.</p><p>It started years ago when I first fell down the rabbit hole of the famous Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull. Carved from a single block of optical clear quartz with a detachable matching jaw, it completely baffled the scientific world. When researchers at Hewlett-Packard examined it under microscopic analysis, they found no trace marks from metal tools and discovered it was cut completely against the natural crystalline axis of the stone&#8212;a feat that modern lapidary science suggests should have shattered the quartz into dust.</p><p>To conventional minds, it was an impossibility. 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>The Lore of the 13 Master Hard Drives</h3><p>According to indigenous and esoteric traditions, there are 13 master crystal skulls scattered across the Earth.</p><p>The mythos holds that these master skulls were brought to our planet by advanced galactic civilizations&#8212;Sirius, the Pleiades&#8212;or preserved by ancient keepers from Lemuria and Atlantis. They were never meant to be mere artifacts; they are <strong>cosmic hard drives</strong>.</p><p>Each master skull is said to hold the consciousness, records, and blueprint of Earth itself. When you sit in meditation with a true crystal skull, it acts as a conscious transducer:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Shifting Brainwave States:</strong> It instantly entrains your neural pathways, dropping your brainwaves into deep alpha and theta zero-point states.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Thought Mirror Effect:</strong> It absorbs, amplifies, and reflects your focused intention directly into the planetary unified field.</p></li><li><p><strong>Holographic Transmissions:</strong> Ancient keepers claim that by softly gazing into the crystal skull&#8217;s carved eyes, you can receive direct holographic downloads of lost wisdom and galactic memory.</p></li></ul><p>Years ago, in the early days of Energy Muse, one of these master skulls&#8212;a 13-pound quartz skull known as <strong>Sha Na Ra</strong>&#8212;came to Los Angeles with its guardian. We hosted Sha Na Ra at our headquarters, placing it in a private room so people could sit and meditate in its field. People placed their foreheads directly against Sha Na Ra&#8217;s brow, and the room was electric. The downloads, the visions, and the sudden shift into galactic consciousness left everyone in awe.</p><p>I began learning about other master skulls, like <strong>Max</strong> (guarded by JoAnn Parks / Jenna Pearson), who works alongside Tesla coils to channel multidimensional consciousness. The keepers all pointed to the same truth: these skulls are alive, and they are holding keys for humanity&#8217;s evolution.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>From &#8220;Skully&#8221; to Beatrice: The Activation</h3><p>About five or six years ago, my business partner Timmi and I acquired a crystal skull for our personal collection. We affectionately nicknamed her &#8220;Skully.&#8221;</p><p>For years, Skully was just a sweet, beloved presence in our space. Every once in a while, under the right light, I would catch glimpses of vibrant rainbows shimmering inside her quartz structure, but she remained relatively quiet.</p><p>Then everything changed when we moved to our new Energy Muse headquarters.</p><p>Skully was placed inside our new <strong>Frequency Chamber</strong>&#8212;a sanctuary powered by over 60 advanced frequency devices. One afternoon, intuitively guided, I set Skully directly onto a pure copper plate.</p><p>The moment she touched the copper, it was as if an internal engine turned on. She was ignited, fully supercharged and vibrating in the room.</p><p>A few days later, a close friend called me after experiencing a private channeling session with a skull named <strong>Einstein</strong>. She said to me urgency in her voice: <em>&#8220;Heather, you have to call Carol Ford and get a session with Einstein.&#8221;</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Access Denied: How to Rewrite Your Energetic Software in 5 Minutes]]></title><description><![CDATA[I returned to the quartz crystals that started it all&#8212;and discovered a "command" protocol to eject the old programs and noise keeping us stuck.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/access-denied-how-to-rewrite-your</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/access-denied-how-to-rewrite-your</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:11:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGLF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc830acfc-4b98-441a-8e40-9a49039eefde_3322x3322.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>It&#8217;s been a while since I really played with my </span><a href="https://energymuse.com/collections/quartz-crystal"><span>quartz crystals</span></a><span>.</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t want to say I stopped paying attention to them, but the truth is, I did. My journey began with a single quartz point, and soon I was a treasure hunter: Lemurians, Himalayans, phantoms, and rutilated quartz. I wanted to hold every variation&#8212;not because one was &#8220;better,&#8221; but because each carried its own personality.</span></p><p><span>At the beginning, I understood quartz as something ancient and programmable&#8212;a material that held clarity, structure, and stillness. I would wash them, place them in the sun, and stare at the rainbows trapped inside. Being around them gave me a feeling I didn&#8217;t yet have words for. It was as if I were holding a piece of Mother Earth&#8217;s original intelligence: the deep knowing that nothing real needs to rush.</span></p><p><span>That was the first time I felt a &#8220;time jump.&#8221; I would hold this ancient formation and suddenly know: </span><em><span>This is not just a rock.</span></em></p><p><span>There was something spiritual there, but also something technological. Quartz became the bridge that helped me understand that spirituality and science are not enemies. There are things we feel in the body long before the logical mind catches up.</span></p><p><span>Eventually, I got distracted by stones with more color and more &#8220;drama.&#8221; My quartz collection went into a drawer, waiting.</span></p><p><span>Until today.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4d3ef5b8-94bf-4211-b47f-0df4100bb4ab&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can We Finally Retire the Phrase "Woo-Woo"?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something happened after yoga this week that I can&#8217;t stop thinking about.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/can-we-finally-retire-the-phrase</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/can-we-finally-retire-the-phrase</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:22:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGLF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc830acfc-4b98-441a-8e40-9a49039eefde_3322x3322.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something happened after yoga this week that I can&#8217;t stop thinking about.</p><p>In the moment, I was heated.</p><p>Really heated.</p><p>I almost sat down and wrote about the interaction itself. But after letting a few days pass, I realized the interaction wasn&#8217;t actually the story.</p><p>It simply exposed something much bigger.</p><p>I&#8217;ve practiced yoga for more than thirty years.</p><p>Not as exercise. Not as a trend.</p><p>As a practice.</p><p>For me, yoga has always been one of the few places where I can physically move emotions that meditation alone doesn&#8217;t always reach. Anger. Grief. Resentment. Fear. The emotions we store in our bodies don&#8217;t simply disappear. They wait. And when we&#8217;re asked to stay present through discomfort, they often rise to the surface.</p><p>Recently, I found a teacher whose classes are unlike any I&#8217;ve taken before.</p><p>They&#8217;re physically demanding, yes.</p><p>But what makes them extraordinary is that they&#8217;re emotionally demanding.</p><p>The room isn&#8217;t packed, and I understand why.</p><p>This class asks you to meet yourself.</p><p>There are moments when every part of me wants to walk out. My ego gets loud. My mind starts negotiating. Every judgment, every resistance, every unresolved edge of myself seems to show up on the mat.</p><p>And then something happens.</p><p>By the end of class, I don&#8217;t just feel physically exhausted.</p><p>I feel lighter.</p><p>As though something I&#8217;ve been carrying has finally left my body.</p><p>Walking out one day, I found myself wondering:</p><p>If twenty or thirty people just released stress, grief, anger, fear, and emotion in this room...</p><p>Who is tending to the room?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The floors are mopped.</p><p>The mirrors are cleaned.</p><p>The towels are washed.</p><p>The equipment is sanitized.</p><p>But what about the environment itself?</p><p>Out of genuine curiosity, I asked.</p><p>Before I could even finish explaining my question, someone nearby smiled and said,</p><p>&#8220;Oh... you&#8217;re one of those woo-woo people.&#8221;</p><p>I smiled back.</p><p>But something inside me stopped.</p><p>Not because I&#8217;ve never heard that phrase before.</p><p>Because I suddenly realized what it was really doing.</p><p>&#8220;Woo-woo&#8221; sounds harmless.</p><p>Playful, even.</p><p>But it isn&#8217;t.</p><p>It&#8217;s shorthand for saying, &#8220;What you&#8217;re talking about isn&#8217;t real.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need to be taken seriously.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to consider this any further.&#8221;</p><p>The moment we label something &#8220;woo-woo,&#8221; curiosity ends.</p><p>The conversation is dismissed before it even begins.</p><p>That&#8217;s what bothered me.</p><p>Not because I need everyone to believe what I believe.</p><p>I don&#8217;t.</p><p>What bothered me was watching an entire category of human experience get reduced to a punchline simply because it can&#8217;t always be measured or explained.</p><p>And I found myself asking:</p><p>Why are we still doing this?</p><p>Why, in 2026, are we still using language designed to shut down conversations instead of expanding them?</p><p>Whether you believe in chakras is beside the point.</p><p>Whether you meditate, pray, practice feng shui, or own a single crystal doesn&#8217;t actually matter.</p><p>Most of us have already experienced what I&#8217;m talking about.</p><p>You&#8217;ve walked into a room after an argument and felt the tension before anyone spoke.</p><p>You&#8217;ve entered a home that immediately felt peaceful.</p><p>You&#8217;ve stepped into a hospital and sensed the emotional weight.</p><p>You&#8217;ve sat next to someone whose calm presence settled your nervous system without either of you saying a word.</p><p>You&#8217;ve also been around people whose anxiety filled the room before they ever opened their mouths.</p><p>We all know environments affect us.</p><p>We all know people influence one another.</p><p>The only thing that changes is the language we use to describe it.</p><p>Call it psychology.</p><p>Call it neuroscience.</p><p>Call it emotional contagion.</p><p>Call it nervous system regulation.</p><p>Call it collective consciousness.</p><p>Call it energy.</p><p>The label isn&#8217;t the point.</p><p>The experience is.</p><p>If we&#8217;re creating spaces where people come to heal, process grief, release stress, stretch beyond their limits, forgive themselves, or become more whole, then tending to those spaces should be part of the responsibility.</p><p>Not because it&#8217;s mystical.</p><p>Because stewardship matters.</p><p>I&#8217;ve spent decades working with people through healing.</p><p>I&#8217;ve watched tears fall.</p><p>I&#8217;ve watched trauma surface.</p><p>I&#8217;ve watched people leave lighter than they arrived.</p><p>To pretend that none of that leaves an imprint simply because we don&#8217;t yet have a perfect way to measure it feels incredibly limiting.</p><p>History has humbled us over and over again.</p><p>There was a time when people laughed at the idea of invisible germs.</p><p>There was a time when meditation was dismissed as fringe.</p><p>There was a time when the connection between stress and physical health wasn&#8217;t taken seriously.</p><p>Again and again, today&#8217;s skepticism becomes tomorrow&#8217;s common sense.</p><p>Maybe energetic hygiene belongs in that same conversation.</p><p>Or maybe it&#8217;s simply another way of describing something humans have always intuitively known.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what concerns me most.</p><p>The phrase &#8220;woo-woo&#8221; doesn&#8217;t invite inquiry.</p><p>It ends it.</p><p>Language shapes culture.</p><p>The words we choose determine which ideas are welcomed into the conversation and which ones are pushed to the margins.</p><p>&#8220;Woo-woo&#8221; has become a shortcut.</p><p>A way of saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to think about this.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to ask questions.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to be curious.&#8221;</p><p>But curiosity is how humanity has always evolved.</p><p>Not certainty.</p><p>Not ridicule.</p><p>Curiosity.</p><p>I&#8217;m not asking everyone to agree with me.</p><p>Agreement isn&#8217;t the goal.</p><p>Curiosity is.</p><p>Because some of the most important forces in our lives are invisible.</p><p>Love is invisible.</p><p>Trust is invisible.</p><p>Grief is invisible.</p><p>Hope is invisible.</p><p>You cannot weigh peace.</p><p>You cannot photograph courage.</p><p>You cannot hold compassion in your hand.</p><p>Yet no one questions whether those things are real.</p><p>We experience them.</p><p>We organize our lives around them.</p><p>Perhaps energy belongs in that same conversation.</p><p>Not because everyone has to believe the same thing.</p><p>But because we can stop dismissing the discussion long enough to explore it.</p><p>I am no longer interested in defending the words &#8220;spiritual&#8221; or &#8220;woo-woo.&#8221;</p><p>Those labels have become too small for the conversation we&#8217;re trying to have.</p><p>What interests me now is responsibility.</p><p>If you&#8217;re a yoga teacher, how do you care for the space where people release emotion?</p><p>If you&#8217;re a therapist, how do you reset between clients?</p><p>If you&#8217;re a healer, how do you care for yourself before holding someone else&#8217;s pain?</p><p>If you&#8217;re a business owner, what kind of environment are you creating for the people who walk through your doors?</p><p>And if you&#8217;re simply a human being&#8212;which all of us are&#8212;what are you leaving behind everywhere you go?</p><p>Because every one of us leaves something.</p><p>Our words.</p><p>Our mood.</p><p>Our attention.</p><p>Our presence.</p><p>Our peace.</p><p>Or our chaos.</p><p>Whether you understand that through science, psychology, spirituality, or simple intuition doesn&#8217;t really matter to me anymore.</p><p>The invitation is the same.</p><p>Become conscious.</p><p>Become intentional.</p><p>Take responsibility for the unseen ways you affect the world around you.</p><p>Because the future of healing isn&#8217;t about proving who&#8217;s right.</p><p>It&#8217;s about becoming more thoughtful stewards of the spaces&#8212;and the people&#8212;we touch</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s the conversation we&#8217;ve been trying to have all along.</p><p>And maybe it&#8217;s finally time to retire the phrase &#8220;woo-woo&#8221; and replace it with something far more useful:</p><p>Curiosity.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-203587117&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-203587117"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Fill the Space Just Yet: The 11-Minute Ritual for a New Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most people worry about where the sofa goes. I&#8217;m asking you to sit in the silence and listen to what the walls are trying to tell you first.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/dont-fill-the-space-just-yet-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/dont-fill-the-space-just-yet-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:13:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7LhF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe07eb5a8-15cf-4c7b-b0c1-90744a292432_1344x768.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moving is intense.</p><p>Everything we surround ourselves with holds emotional memories and meaning. These objects have sat quietly in our homes for years&#8212;sometimes decades&#8212;and suddenly they need to be unearthed, moved, and dealt with.</p><p>Every treasured item has to be held and considered.</p><p><em>Will I keep this?<br>Will I let it go?</em></p><p>Often the hardest decision is, &#8220;I can&#8217;t decide. 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pack it away, giving ourselves more time before asking the real question when we unpack:</p><p><em>Does this still fit in my new space?</em></p><p><em>And underneath that question is a deeper one:</em></p><p><em>Does this still fit who I am?</em></p><p>Some things hold so many memories of a previous version of ourselves that we can&#8217;t bear to let them go, even though we&#8217;re no longer sure they belong in the life we&#8217;re creating.</p><p>Several years ago, Marie Kondo inspired people to hold each possession and ask, &#8220;Does this spark joy?&#8221;</p><p>As I recently moved into my new office at Energy Muse&#8212;which is also my healing room&#8212;I found myself asking a different question with every object I held:</p><p>&#8220;Is this me now?&#8221;</p><p>And an even bigger question:</p><p>&#8220;Does this align with my future self?&#8221;</p><p>Eventually, most of us experience a moment when we move, remodel, or completely redecorate. Suddenly the room is empty. The walls are bare. The floor is open.</p><p>It&#8217;s a blank canvas.</p><p>Nothing is occupying the space, and for a brief moment, you have the freedom to dream before your life fills it again.</p><p>When that happens, I encourage you to spend time alone in the empty room.</p><p>Sit quietly.</p><p>Breathe.</p><p>Feel the space.</p><p>Listen.</p><p>Rooms speak to us if we&#8217;re willing to hear them.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Shaman shared this crystal-clearing secret with me 20+ years ago...]]></title><description><![CDATA[And now it's time that I share it with you.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/a-shaman-shared-this-crystal-clearing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/a-shaman-shared-this-crystal-clearing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:11:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203121312/d7b4cbd325157487a765f0e75c729f04.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my favorite crystal-clearing practices came from a medicine man I met about 20 years ago, and it&#8217;s a technique I have begun using more and more lately.</p><p>When crystals start to feel energetically heavy&#8212;as though they&#8217;ve absorbed a lot from the environments, people, or healing work around them&#8212;he suggested using a mugwort bath as a way to refresh and renew them.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the practice:</p><p>&#8226; Boil mugwort in water.<br>&#8226; Allow the water to cool completely.<br>&#8226; Place your crystals in the cooled mugwort water and let them soak for about 24 hours.<br>&#8226; Remove them and allow them to air dry naturally.</p><p>What I&#8217;ve noticed after doing this is remarkable (you can see how happy they are in the video). The crystals often feel lighter, clearer, and more vibrant&#8212;as if they&#8217;ve just returned from a spa day. Their energy seems refreshed, and their natural brilliance feels more alive.</p><p>If you feel called to try it, approach the process with intention and gratitude. As your crystals rest in the mugwort infusion, imagine Mother Earth&#8217;s wisdom gently cleansing and reawakening their natural energy.</p><h3><em>A Note on Handling Softer Crystals</em></h3><p>I know it&#8217;s often said that certain softer crystals&#8212;like Selenite, Calcite, or Malachite&#8212;should never be submerged in water because of their physical composition. And while that is generally sound advice, I have to be honest: <em>this is one of the times I break &#8220;those rules.&#8221;</em></p><p>I&#8217;ve found that some crystals become so energetically saturated that they truly need a deep, immersive cleanse to feel like themselves again. However, your intuition is your best guide. If your heart tells you a specific piece is too delicate for a soak, trust that feeling! </p><div><hr></div><p><em>I&#8217;d love to hear if you give this ritual a try and what you notice afterward.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-203121312&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-203121312"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re Leaving the Home We Built 17 Years Ago (and Why It’s the Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought moving was a crisis. Then I realized my attachment to the past was the only thing standing in the way of our future.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/were-leaving-the-home-we-built-17</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/were-leaving-the-home-we-built-17</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:44:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGLF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc830acfc-4b98-441a-8e40-9a49039eefde_3322x3322.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before I dive in, I want to say I&#8217;m sorry for being MIA for a little while. Life has been moving fast, and I&#8217;ve needed some time to process everything that&#8217;s been unfolding behind the scenes. I&#8217;m finally ready to share it all with you, but I&#8217;m not going to edit myself too much&#8212;I want this to be raw and real, because that&#8217;s exactly how it felt.</p><p>A few weeks ago, Timmi and I received news that completely caught us off guard: <strong>after 17 years, we would need to move <a href="https://energymuse.com/">Energy Muse</a> from the location we have called home for nearly two decades.</strong></p><p>This wasn&#8217;t just an office. This was the place where our business was born. It was where we expanded, downsized, reinvented ourselves, and grew again. It was where we weathered economic shifts, personal transformations, and even the uncertainty of COVID. Every corner of that building holds memories. The walls have witnessed seventeen years of amazing clients and incredible people walking through our doors.</p><p>As someone deeply connected to the principles of Feng Shui, I knew that space intimately. I understood its sequence, its energy platforms, and the mathematical flow that had supported us throughout the years. Because of that connection, my immediate reaction to the news wasn&#8217;t excitement about what might come next. It was fear. Pure fear mode.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>My mind immediately went to worst-case scenarios. <em>Would we ever find another place? Would I ever find a location that I liked more than this one?</em> I found myself caught in a cycle of doubt and negativity, convinced that nothing could possibly be better than what we already had. I was in a panic, and I stayed there for a while.</p><p>After sitting in that fear, I finally asked myself: <em>what if I actually lived what I know to be true? What if I stopped doing what I was doing and actually did the work? </em>So, I took a pause and pulled out my frequency machine. I sat with the <a href="https://energymuse.com/products/417hz-frequency-generator">417hz frequency</a>, clearing my field. I surrounded myself with minerals, wearing a lot of <a href="https://energymuse.com/collections/amethyst-crystals">Amethyst</a> and <a href="https://energymuse.com/collections/citrine-crystals">Citrine</a> to help navigate the transition. I told myself to clear these old behaviors and asked, &#8220;What if you and Timmi wrote down what you wanted? What is your dream wish list?&#8221;</p><p>With that clarity, we began looking at properties, but what we saw at first was horrific. There were moments I wanted to run back to where we were because I was so sad that we weren&#8217;t going to have that home anymore. But I knew enough to know that you have to keep looking and you have to keep clearing your old belief systems. We looked at one place that had been vacant for an entire year, but by the time we got there, someone else had leased it. It clearly wasn&#8217;t our location.</p><p>Then we found it. We walked into a new location and it was perfect. It checked every single box on our list. It was actually better than what we imagined because I could build a dedicated frequency room, Timmi could have her own production space, and our whole team could be in a much more creative environment.</p><p>Yet, even then, I felt my old patterns creeping back in. I started worrying about the Feng Fhui numbers, comparing them to the old timeline and the old world I was used to. I&#8217;m lucky to have the team I do, because they reminded me that if energy is always moving and frequency can change space, I shouldn&#8217;t just look at this through a narrow numerical lens. I needed to look at it from a bigger perspective. The checkboxes were all made, and that&#8217;s when I knew. Within just five days of focused intention, we found our perfect location and signed the lease.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;96cee5a4-a42a-427e-b3f8-540a17fd5500&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>This is why I love the world of frequency. If you stay in the vibrational tuning fork of the signal and get out of your own way&#8212;which I&#8217;ll admit, I got in my own way a lot&#8212;you realize that those moments of panic are just signs that you are lowering your vibration. This move wasn&#8217;t a crisis; it was an up-level. It was time to grow, expand, and work through the story so I could help others do the same.</p><p>Now we enter the &#8220;un-fun&#8221; part: going through 17 years of stuff. It&#8217;s hard because we put so much identity into our things and the walls we live between. As Timmi, myself, and the whole team go through the space, we are letting go of that old identity. We are deciding what to bring forward and what to leave behind as we start a new era of Energy Muse.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t a coincidence that this is happening during our anniversary month of June. It feels like we&#8217;ve hit the ceiling of something and are finally looking out from a new perspective, realizing there&#8217;s a whole world available that we couldn&#8217;t see because we&#8217;ve lived one way for so long. Is growth always easy? No. But is it the best thing for us? Yes.</p><p>Sometimes in the darkest tunnel, when you finally see the light, you realize that light holds a lot more opportunity and expansion than the place you left behind. This is where our journey begins. </p><p>I can&#8217;t wait to show you the new location, the new frequency room, and all the amazing things ahead. </p><p>We are honoring the past on the way out, but we are so ready for this new frequency.</p><p>Aho. Namaste.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop Fighting the World and Start Tuning Your Signal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every day, you are being "broadcast" to by stress and chaos&#8212;but you can change the channel. Here is the 21-repetition secret I use to trigger instant synchronicities and enter the "Invisible Symphony"]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/stop-fighting-the-world-and-start</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/stop-fighting-the-world-and-start</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:33:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Sz7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dac612f-3b48-41a8-bb03-e8cb07973d12_3024x4032.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a feng shui practitioner, I&#8217;ve spent a great deal of my life working with energy between walls.</p><p>I know how space holds memory. I know how a room can carry residue. I know what happens when you introduce a new signal into an environment and let it re-pattern the field.</p><p>That&#8217;s why <a href="https://energymuse.com/pages/frequency-generators">frequency</a> has become such a big part of my life.</p><p>To me, they are pure magic.</p><p>Years ago, I traveled with <a href="https://energymuse.com/collections/crystals">crystals</a> the way some people travel with medicine. Now I travel with my frequency devices the same way. I do not leave home without them. I usually have four or five with me at all times, because they&#8217;ve become part of how I move through the world&#8212;part tool, part ritual, part energetic companion.</p><p>So when I recently went to Hawaii, of course they came with me.</p><p>And what I discovered there shifted the way I understand these devices entirely.</p><p>Not as something that simply changes a room.</p><p>But as something that can help us enter into direct resonance with nature herself.</p><h4>Clearing the Field</h4><p>The moment I entered the condo we were staying in, I did what I always do: <em>I began working with the space.</em></p><p>I placed several <a href="https://energymuse.com/products/417hz-frequency-generator">417Hz devices</a> around the condo and let them run continuously for our entire stay. My intention was simple&#8212;to clear the energetic residue of previous occupants, purify the field, and create a coherent container for our time there.</p><p>That part felt familiar.</p><h4>What was new was what happened outside.</h4><p>Along with the 417Hz, I brought my <a href="https://energymuse.com/products/528hz-frequency-generator">528Hz</a> and <a href="https://energymuse.com/products/963hz-frequency-generator">963Hz</a> devicesout with me into the natural world&#8212;on walks, into stillness, into moments alone with the ocean, the sun, the wind, and the uncontained brilliance of Mother Nature.</p><p>Inside a building, frequency devices help shift the energy between walls.</p><p><em>But outside?</em></p><p>There are no walls.</p><p>No boundaries.</p><p>No visual architecture to contain the signal.</p><p>And that, I realized, is where the real expansion begins.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Downloading the Divine]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at a Hindu monastery today, about to do a puja.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/downloading-the-divine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/downloading-the-divine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:11:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200177005/4c483003cad887d6c510f5672537917c.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m at a Hindu monastery today, about to do a puja.</p><p>I brought my <a href="https://energymuse.com/products/963hz-frequency-generator">963hz frequency device</a> with me&#8212;not as a &#8220;fix,&#8221; but as a way to support that feeling of clarity and <em>downloading</em> when I&#8217;m in a truly pure space. There&#8217;s something about showing up intentionally, in a place that already carries so much devotion, and letting that energy meet you where you are.</p><p>And I especially love doing this with Ganesh in mind&#8212;the remover of obstacles. Not just the big, dramatic ones, but the subtle inner blocks too: hesitation, doubt, distraction, the stories that keep us small.</p><p>Today&#8217;s intention is simple: arrive, soften, and make room for what wants to come through.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve been feeling stuck lately, consider this your gentle reminder: sometimes the next step isn&#8217;t forcing an answer&#8212;it&#8217;s creating a clean, sincere space for it to land.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My High-Frequency Travel Protocol: How I Shield My Field at 30,000 Feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[From EMF protection to "charging" my water: The exact energetic ritual I use to stay coherent, grounded, and clear while moving through airports.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/my-high-frequency-travel-protocol</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/my-high-frequency-travel-protocol</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:11:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3aa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57df439f-5b00-4f0a-8534-c4088ede88cb_4284x5712.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Travel is one of the most intense &#8220;signal environments&#8221; we put our bodies into.</p><p>It&#8217;s not just the logistics&#8212;lines, timing, noise, crowds, recycled air. It&#8217;s the <em>frequency load</em>: unfamiliar spaces, heightened nervous systems, other people&#8217;s stress fields, and a constant stream of stimulation your system has to translate in real time.</p><p>In the last article, we talked about this core idea:</p><p><strong>Your body is not just chemistry and structure. It&#8217;s an intelligent, responsive field&#8212;constantly organizing itself based on the signals it receives.</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7546dc48-3e1d-4380-a452-aed19ed24102&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Airports and airplanes are basically a masterclass in competing signals.</p><p>So instead of trying to &#8220;push through&#8221; travel, I work with it the same way I work with anything: <strong>informationally</strong>. I give my system clear, consistent inputs&#8212;so it can stay in coherence even when the environment isn&#8217;t.</p><p>This is the protocol I use.</p><p><em>(And yes&#8212;this is the exact one I&#8217;m personally doing right now as I&#8217;m on my way to Hawaii.)</em></p>
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It’s a Symphony.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why frequency is the "software" of your biology&#8212;and how to start choosing your signals more consciously.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-body-is-not-a-machine-its-a-symphony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-body-is-not-a-machine-its-a-symphony</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:33:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TH53!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a704a40-6ff1-44bd-8c32-843d2bfb0e44_4000x6000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are entering a time where more people are beginning to understand the body in a completely different way.</p><p>Not just as something physical&#8230;<br>but as something vibrational.</p><p>Because beneath the chemistry, beneath 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Your heart has a frequency. Your brain has frequencies. Even your cells communicate through bioelectric signals.</p><p>You are not separate systems working independently.</p><p>You are an intelligent field constantly exchanging information.</p><p>And frequency is part of that language.</p><h3>The Body Responds to Signals</h3><p>What&#8217;s fascinating is how deeply the body responds to what it&#8217;s exposed to.</p><p>Environment.<br>Emotion.<br>Sound.<br>Stress.<br>Connection.<br>Thought.<br>Energy.</p><p>Everything carries a signal.</p><p>And over time, those signals influence the way the body functions, adapts, and organizes itself.</p><p>When the nervous system is exposed to chaos, the body responds one way.<br>When it experiences coherence, safety, resonance, and regulation&#8230; it responds another way entirely.</p><p>The body is always listening.</p><p>Always adapting.</p><p>Always responding to frequency.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>Frequency as Information</h3><p>Frequency isn&#8217;t about force.<br>It&#8217;s about communication.</p><p>It&#8217;s information interacting with the body.</p><p>And when the body receives coherent signals, remarkable things can begin to shift &#8212; mentally, emotionally, physically, energetically.</p><p>Sometimes subtly.<br>Sometimes profoundly.</p><p>Not because something is being forced&#8230;<br>but because the body is being supported back into harmony.</p><h3>Resonance Changes Everything</h3><p>Think about how music can change your emotional state within seconds.</p><p>How someone&#8217;s energy can affect an entire room.</p><p>How stress can immediately alter your breathing, heartbeat, digestion, and sleep.</p><p>That&#8217;s frequency in action.</p><p>Now imagine becoming more intentional about the signals your body receives every single day.</p><p>The sounds.<br>The environments.<br>The people.<br>The thoughts.<br>The energetic patterns you live inside of.</p><p>It all matters.</p><h3>The Bigger Shift</h3><p>What&#8217;s happening right now is bigger than wellness trends.</p><p>People are beginning to remember that healing isn&#8217;t only physical &#8212; it&#8217;s energetic too.</p><p>That the body is deeply intelligent.<br>That resonance matters.<br>That coherence matters.</p><p>And that when we begin working with the body instead of constantly fighting against it, everything changes.</p><h3>Learning to Tune In</h3><p>Maybe this is really about remembering how to listen again.</p><p>To your body.<br>To your nervous system.<br>To the signals beneath the noise.</p><p>Because whether we realize it or not, we are always being influenced by frequency.</p><p>The question is:<br><em><strong>What are you tuning into?</strong></em></p><p><em>And what happens when you begin choosing those signals more consciously?</em></p><p>That&#8217;s the exploration I&#8217;m most interested in.</p><p>Not force.<br>Not fear.</p><p>But resonance.<br>Alignment.<br>And the intelligence of the body itself.</p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>I&#8217;d love to hear from you&#8230;</strong></em></p><p><em>If you take a moment to tune in right now, what &#8220;signals&#8221; is your body receiving the most of lately? Is it the frequency of rush and noise, or the frequency of coherence and calm?</em></p><p><em>Drop a comment below and let&#8217;s explore how we can start choosing our resonance more intentionally.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-196047324&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-196047324"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Who Knew He Wasn’t From Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[I left that night thinking less about him&#8212;]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-man-who-knew-he-wasnt-from-here</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-man-who-knew-he-wasnt-from-here</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 22:33:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGLF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc830acfc-4b98-441a-8e40-9a49039eefde_3322x3322.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I left that night thinking less about him&#8212;</p><p>and more about what he stirred in me.</p><p>Because on the surface, it was just a conversation at a birthday party.<br>An ER doctor. Forty years in medicine. A house lost in a fire. A life disrupted.</p><p>But that&#8217;s not what stayed with me.</p><p>What stayed with me&#8230; was what he <em>wasn&#8217;t saying out loud.</em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>He told me things he had never told anyone.</p><p>That as a little boy, he drew a spaceship and said, <em>&#8220;This is how I got to Earth.&#8221;</em><br>That he kept that drawing his entire life.<br>That losing it in the fire felt like losing a piece of his truth.</p><p>And as he was speaking, I wasn&#8217;t sitting there thinking, <em>Is this real? Is this logical?</em></p><p>I was thinking:</p><p><em>How many people are carrying something like this&#8230; and never saying it?</em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Because I recognized it.</p><p>Not the spaceship.</p><p>The silence.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>There was a version of me that would have handled that conversation very differently.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Night I Stopped Protecting My Energy—and Started Being It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year, I go to a three-day concert in the South Bay of California.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-night-i-stopped-protecting-my</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-night-i-stopped-protecting-my</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:33:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IsRN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07834667-ed9b-4f0d-acff-5ff5c0624d9d_3024x4032.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3></h3><p>Every year, I go to a three-day concert in the South Bay of California. It&#8217;s called BeachLife. Picture this: ocean air, music drifting across the sand, old friends, that golden-hour glow that makes everything feel a little more alive.</p><p>I love it.</p><p>And every year, I dread it.</p><p>Not because of the music or the people&#8212;but because of the <em>energy</em>. Thousands of bodies, emotions, moods, chaos. For someone sensitive, it can feel like stepping into a tidal wave without knowing if you&#8217;ll stay standing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IsRN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07834667-ed9b-4f0d-acff-5ff5c0624d9d_3024x4032.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IsRN!, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/w_424, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07834667-ed9b-4f0d-acff-5ff5c0624d9d_3024x4032.heic 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IsRN!, 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to convince you anymore.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moving beyond the need for proof, the exhaustion of performing "normal," and the freedom found at the fringe.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-to-convince-you-anymore</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-to-convince-you-anymore</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:12:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGLF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc830acfc-4b98-441a-8e40-9a49039eefde_3322x3322.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I used to think my job was to prove myself.</p><p>Prove I was credible.<br>Prove I was intelligent.<br>Prove what I was seeing, feeling, sensing&#8230; was real.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>My whole career, in some way, has been built on that posture&#8212;defense.</p><p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the data.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the evidence.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Here&#8217;s why this is valid.&#8221;</p><p>Because underneath it all was a quieter fear:<br><em>If I can&#8217;t prove it, will you dismiss me?</em></p><p>And deeper than that:<br><em>If you dismiss me&#8230; does that mean I don&#8217;t belong?</em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>There&#8217;s a specific kind of loneliness that comes from being someone who can move through groups, succeed inside them, even lead them&#8212;and still never feel like you&#8217;re fully <em>in</em>.</p><p>You learn the rules. You play the game well.<br>You become the cheerleader. The president. The one who knows how things work.</p><p>But internally?</p><p>You&#8217;re standing at the edge.</p><p>Always a little outside.<br>Always translating.<br>Always aware that something about you doesn&#8217;t quite match the room.</p><p>The fringe.</p><p>Close enough to belong.<br>Different enough to never fully disappear into it.</p><p>And for a long time, I thought the answer was to try harder.</p><p>Refine myself. Adjust. Prove more.</p><p>Fit better.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>But something has been shifting.</p><p>Slowly. Uncomfortably. Honestly.</p><p>I&#8217;m starting to realize I don&#8217;t actually want to be in rooms where I have to convince people of my reality.</p><p>Not because I can&#8217;t.</p><p>But because I&#8217;m breaking that code.</p><p>And the strangest part?</p><p>The more I stop trying to convince&#8230; the more real my connections become.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>When you&#8217;re not trying to be &#8220;normal,&#8221; people feel it.</p><p>Conversations go deeper, faster. People say things they &#8220;don&#8217;t tell anyone.&#8221; Not because you asked the perfect question&#8212;but because you&#8217;re not holding the invisible pressure to be understood or approved.</p><p>You&#8217;re just there.</p><p>And that gives them permission to be there too.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>For a long time, I thought the conflict was external.</p><p>Society. Systems. Science. What&#8217;s validated vs. what isn&#8217;t.</p><p>And yes&#8212;that&#8217;s part of it.</p><p>I was trained to believe that if something couldn&#8217;t be proven, it wasn&#8217;t real. That credibility lived outside of me. That truth had to be backed, cited, approved.</p><p>So every instinct became something to defend.</p><p>But now?</p><p>I think the deeper work is internal.</p><p>It&#8217;s unlearning the need for permission.</p><p>It&#8217;s realizing that ownership of your experience is a skill&#8212;one most of us were never taught.</p><p>And it doesn&#8217;t arrive all at once.</p><p>There are still moments where I feel it creep in&#8212;<br>the desire to be accepted,<br>to be seen,<br>to not be &#8220;too different.&#8221;</p><p>The old coding doesn&#8217;t disappear overnight.</p><p>But there are also more moments now where I don&#8217;t feel that pressure.</p><p>And those moments feel like freedom.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>I don&#8217;t need people to agree with me.</p><p>I don&#8217;t need them to see the world the way I do.</p><p>What I crave is openness.</p><p>I want conversations that expand, not collapse.<br>I want curiosity, not correction.<br>I want to sit across from someone and explore&#8212;not defend.</p><p>Because that&#8217;s where something real happens.</p><p>Not in agreement: <em>in expansion.</em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Maybe this is where we&#8217;re all headed.</p><p>Not toward fitting in better&#8212;but toward being more fully ourselves, even when that doesn&#8217;t fit anywhere cleanly.</p><p>Not toward proving more&#8212;but toward owning more.</p><p>Not toward belonging everywhere&#8212;but toward belonging to ourselves.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>I used to think not fitting in was the problem.</p><p>Now I think it might be the point. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">That&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;m building in this space&#8212;and I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re here to expand with me.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House is Not an Object: How to Enter Into a Living Relationship with Your Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether you are moving in or things are starting to break, your home is responding to you. This is the spiritual recipe for meeting your Home Guardian and resetting the frequency of your space.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-house-is-not-an-object-how-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-house-is-not-an-object-how-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 18:11:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bHqo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d10b7c8-da43-408a-8ee4-6fb46f98cf2f_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a moment, just before a house becomes yours, when it still carries the imprint of every life lived within it. The walls remember. The floors hold echoes. The air itself can feel layered with stories that are not your own.</p><p>But a home is not just structure &#8212; it is presence. It is something you enter into relationship with.</p><p>And before anything else&#8230; you introduce yourself.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bHqo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d10b7c8-da43-408a-8ee4-6fb46f98cf2f_4032x3024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bHqo!, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/w_424, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d10b7c8-da43-408a-8ee4-6fb46f98cf2f_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Begin Here: Meeting the Guardian of the Home</h3><p>One of the most overlooked &#8212; and most powerful &#8212; steps when entering a home is acknowledging the <strong>guardian of the house</strong>. The presence that watches over it, holds its continuity, and maintains its energetic integrity.</p><p>Most people move in without ever asking.</p><p>Instead, begin outside your front door.</p><p>Pause. Breathe. Then speak aloud:</p><p><em>Hi.<br>This is [your address].<br>My name is [your name], and I&#8217;m here with my family.</em></p><p><em>Thank you for allowing us to live in this home.<br>We are so grateful to be here.<br>We intend to take care of this space, to honor it, and to live here in harmony.</em></p><p><em>We ask for your blessing.<br>We welcome your presence watching over this home.<br>We look forward to working with you &#8212;<br>to care for this house,<br>to nourish it so that it nourishes us,<br>and to create a peaceful, harmonious space together.</em></p><p>Say it simply. Say it sincerely.</p><p>This is not about ritual perfection &#8212; it is about <strong>relationship</strong>.</p><p>In many cultures, this is instinctive. Offerings are left. Acknowledgment is given. There is an understanding that a home is alive.</p><p>And when you include it, things begin to flow differently.</p><div><hr></div><h3>This Isn&#8217;t Just for Moving In</h3><p>While this practice is powerful when entering a new home, it is just as important &#8212; if not more &#8212; when things start to feel off.</p><p>When things begin to go awry&#8230;<br>when appliances break, plumbing acts up, renovations feel difficult, or the space starts to feel heavy or uncooperative&#8230;</p><p>It is often a sign that you&#8217;ve lost connection with the spirit of your home.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plant Experiment: Crystals, Coffee, and Energetic Shifts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turning my home into a spiritual science lab to see what happens when we align our space.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-plant-experiment-crystals-coffee</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-plant-experiment-crystals-coffee</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:14:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196042601/cd5926a33e3890e49335814367275444.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been running a little experiment at home lately, and it&#8217;s been quietly blowing my mind.</p><p>I started placing crystals next to some of my plants&#8212;nothing too formal, just following intuition&#8212;and pairing that with used coffee grounds in the soil. I wanted to see if there would be any noticeable shift in how the plants responded.</p><p>And honestly&#8230; they seem happier.</p><p>There&#8217;s a subtle but real difference in their energy. They look more vibrant, a little more alive, like something is clicking into place. It&#8217;s not scientific in the traditional sense, but it <em>feels</em> like a kind of energetic alignment&#8212;like the environment itself is becoming more supportive.</p><p>It&#8217;s made me think about how much our spaces are actually interacting with us (and everything living in them) in ways we don&#8217;t always measure, but can absolutely feel.</p><p>My house is basically a spiritual science lab at this point &#128516; and I&#8217;m going to start sharing more of these little &#8220;energetic home experiments&#8221; here.</p><p><em>Would that be of interest to you?</em></p><p>In the meantime, if you feel called&#8212;try this yourself. Add a crystal next to one of your plants, maybe mix in some coffee grounds, and just observe. No expectations, just curiosity.</p><p>I&#8217;d love to hear what you notice.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 7.83Hz Sync: A Live Earth Day Frequency Event]]></title><description><![CDATA[A recording from Heather Askinosie's live video]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-783hz-sync-a-live-earth-day-frequency</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-783hz-sync-a-live-earth-day-frequency</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:44:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195176944/0cfc6cee13fb41fa164e4d1d0ccdd359.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 7.83Hz Earth Healing gathering.<br>Your presence, energy, and intention truly mattered.</p><p>We&#8217;re honored to share this sacred prayer from Bobby Lake-Thom, offered in gratitude and healing for Mother Earth and all our relations:</p><p><em>&#8220;Great Creator, the Four Powers of the Universe, the Mother Earth, and All My Relations in Nature. I come before you in a humble manner to Pray and conduct an Earth Healing Ceremony. I offer you this tobacco (or herbs etc.) as payment, and as a means to show my respect, appreciation, and love for you. I pray and ask for a Universal Blessing for you and all Our Relations in Nature; All living things that walk, crawl, fly, swim, seen and unseen. I pray for the Plant People, the Tree People, the Bug People, the Animal People, the Bird People, the Frog, Snake, and Lizard type People, I pray for the Fish People, and the Rock People. I also give thanks to Nature and all the natural elements including the air, fire, earth, and water; and the good spirits, powers, and forces that are upon the Earth, in the Earth, and around the Earth.</em></p><p><em>I thank you All for the many wonderful gifts that you share with us human beings in order that we may live and survive. I ask that you forgive us human beings of all races, cultures, and religions for any harm that we have caused you, for any exploitation and greed that we may have directed against you, and for any fear, hostility, or disrespect we may have done against you. Please forgive us for any spiritual or physical violations that I or my family and ancestors may have committed against you. I wish a Blessing for the Mother Earth and All My Relations in Nature that you will have long-life, good health, and protection. I pray that there will be Love, Peace, Balance, and Harmony between Human Beings, the Mother Earth, and Nature.&#8221;</em></p><p>May this prayer continue to ripple outward in healing, remembrance, and connection.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kme8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b4744b7-b402-4f6d-b4a0-809af315a829_1024x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kme8!, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/w_424, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Walked Out of a Cult and Learned to Read the Energy in Rooms: Kartar Diamond on Sovereignty, Illusion, and the Truth About “Enlightenment”]]></title><description><![CDATA[She gave her youth to a spiritual utopia built on illusion, trusting men who lived a lie. This is how Kartar reclaimed her mind&#8212;and why she teaches your environment never lies, even when people do.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/she-walked-out-of-a-cult-and-learned</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/she-walked-out-of-a-cult-and-learned</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:27:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EF0j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ecab304-14f7-458e-87ed-27cd545212d8_4032x3024.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Content Warning:</strong> This piece discusses cult dynamics, coercion, and abuse.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>The minute I met <a href="https://fengshuisolutions.net/">Kartar Diamond</a> over 20 years ago, I knew we would be friends. There was something about her presence&#8212;grounded, thoughtful, precise&#8212;that immediately stood out. She is highly educated and a masterful researcher who blends science and spirituality in a way that feels both rare and deeply needed right now. I can listen to her for hours. She&#8217;s wise, endlessly curious, and one of the best storytellers I&#8217;ve ever met.</p><p>But what makes Kartar different isn&#8217;t just what she knows&#8212;it&#8217;s how she knows it. She doesn&#8217;t exaggerate. She doesn&#8217;t perform. Everything she shares is rooted in lived experience and information she has carefully fact-checked. She thinks before she speaks. And when she does, you feel it&#8212;clarity, integrity, truth.</p><p>And then you hear her story.</p><p>Because Kartar didn&#8217;t arrive at this grounded way of seeing the world by accident. She lived through the opposite. She gave her youth to something that promised enlightenment and found herself inside a system that slowly eroded her ability to think for herself. What she rebuilt on the other side isn&#8217;t just a career&#8212;it&#8217;s a way of living rooted in discernment, sovereignty, and reality.</p><p>This is the story of how she got there.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EF0j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ecab304-14f7-458e-87ed-27cd545212d8_4032x3024.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EF0j!, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/w_424, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Meaning. Belonging.</p><p>Kartar was just 14 when she entered the world of yoga, and by 18, she was all in&#8212;living in an ashram in Los Angeles, fully devoted to a teacher she believed was saintly. As she spoke, I could feel something underneath her words: she wasn&#8217;t naive, she was open. Most people don&#8217;t step into these worlds because they&#8217;re weak&#8212;they do it because they&#8217;re searching for something real.</p><p>And for a while, she found it.</p><p>The community gave her identity. The practices genuinely helped her anxiety. The experience felt expansive. That&#8217;s the part people don&#8217;t often understand&#8212;these systems <em>work</em>, which is what makes them so powerful. And so easy to trust.</p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>Marriage in a Manufactured Reality</strong></h4><p>At 20 years old, Kartar was told it was time to get married. Not in a romantic, organic way&#8212;but in a decided-for-you way.</p><p>When you&#8217;re immersed in a 24/7 spiritual lifestyle, it&#8217;s easy to believe that shared belief equals compatibility. That this alone is enough to build a life on.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t.</p><p>She married a man she barely knew. And from the very beginning, something didn&#8217;t feel right.</p><p>How many times have we all felt that?<br> That quiet, internal <em>no</em>&#8230; that we override because the outside world is telling us <em>yes</em>?</p><p>Then came the truth that changed everything.</p><p>The leader of the group knew her husband was gay. They knew&#8212;and still pushed him into marriage. In a rigid, image-driven system, the appearance of a &#8220;spiritual family&#8221; mattered more than the reality of two human beings.</p><p>They used Kartar to manage a narrative.</p><p>This wasn&#8217;t just misalignment. This was <strong>manufactured reality</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>The Cracks in the Illusion</strong></h4><p>After two years, her husband left the group&#8212;and their marriage. One of the most powerful control tactics in these environments is the belief that if you leave, your life will fall apart.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying Steady in the Eye of the Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone you know is going through something right now. Here is how we become the anchor instead of the chaos.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/staying-steady-in-the-eye-of-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/staying-steady-in-the-eye-of-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:11:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFXw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d9947ba-eda6-4936-8c42-7f1a6c5bf34a_3024x4032.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other day, we were sitting around talking&#8212;one of those unfiltered, real conversations where something simple turns into something that lands deeper than expected.</p><p>I brought up something I&#8217;d heard from Richard Rudd, the founder of the Gene Keys. I&#8217;m probably paraphrasing, but the essence stayed with me. He said he agrees with the idea that we create our own reality&#8230; <strong>but only to a point.</strong></p><p>That stopped me.</p><p>Because I&#8217;ve always resonated with the idea that we are creators of our lives. That what we think, feel, and choose shapes our experience. But the way he framed it added a layer of humility I didn&#8217;t realize I needed.</p><p><strong>We create our role in the story&#8212;but not the entire story itself.</strong></p><p>There&#8217;s a bigger narrative unfolding. Something collective. Something beyond our individual control.</p><p>And instead of feeling powerful in a &#8220;control everything&#8221; kind of way, I felt grounded in a different kind of power&#8212;the kind that comes from knowing <strong>what is mine to hold, and what isn&#8217;t.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFXw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d9947ba-eda6-4936-8c42-7f1a6c5bf34a_3024x4032.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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A lot of chaos.</p><p>Not just globally, but personally&#8212;for so many people I know. It feels like no matter where you look, someone is going through something. If not you directly, then someone just a few steps away from you.</p><p>A friend.<br>A partner.<br>A child.<br>A parent.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s everywhere.</strong></p><p>So my work&#8212;my practice, my ritual, my <em>sona</em>, whatever you want to call it&#8212;is this:</p><p><strong>To stay present.</strong><br><strong>To stay calm.</strong><br><strong>To stay centered in the middle of the storm.</strong></p><p>Not by ignoring what&#8217;s happening.<br>Not by pretending everything is fine.<br>But by choosing <strong>how I meet it.</strong></p><p>By coming back to the breath.<br>By using the tools I&#8217;ve gathered over time.<br>By remembering the earth, the body, the moment right in front of me.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Work Isn&#8217;t What I Thought</strong></h3><p>Because here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m starting to understand more deeply:</p><p><strong>Holding your own center matters more than you think.</strong></p><p>We talk a lot about being &#8220;awakened&#8221; or being &#8220;light keepers&#8221; or &#8220;earth keepers&#8221;&#8212;labels that can feel abstract or even a little lofty.</p><p>But when you strip it down, it&#8217;s actually very simple.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s about the space you hold.</strong></p><p>If I can stay grounded, regulated, and present, I&#8217;m not just doing that for myself. I&#8217;m doing that for the people closest to me. My small circle. The five to ten people whose lives naturally overlap with mine.</p><p><strong>And that ripples.</strong></p><p>Because if someone in my orbit is struggling, they don&#8217;t just need advice or solutions.</p><p>They need someone who can sit in the storm<br><strong>without becoming the storm.</strong></p><p>Someone who can be steady<br><strong>when things feel unsteady.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Where I&#8217;m Landing</strong></h3><p>That&#8217;s the work.</p><p><strong>Not fixing everything.</strong><br><strong>Not controlling the outcome.</strong><br><strong>Not carrying what isn&#8217;t mine.</strong></p><p>But tending to the frequency I carry.</p><p>Creating a microcosm of steadiness in a world that feels anything but steady.</p><p>And maybe that&#8217;s how we participate in the larger story.</p><p>Not by trying to write the whole script&#8212;<br>but by fully inhabiting the part that&#8217;s ours&#8230;</p><p><strong>and playing it with as much presence, integrity, and groundedness as we can.</strong></p><p>Starting with ourselves.</p><p><strong>Always starting there.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>I&#8217;m curious&#8212;who are the &#8220;5 to 10 people&#8221; in your immediate circle right now? When the world feels heavy, what is one small tool or practice you use to stay grounded so you can keep your microcosm steady for them?</p><p><strong>I&#8217;d love to hear what&#8217;s in your &#8220;tool chest&#8221; in the comments below. Let&#8217;s hold some space for each other here.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-193734075&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@heatheraskinosie/note/p-193734075"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut the noise. Reclaim your field. Just breathe.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Woke up feeling heavy today?]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/cut-the-noise-reclaim-your-field</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/cut-the-noise-reclaim-your-field</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:09:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193831387/8a7d531eb250795764b7cdaa4d60130f.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woke up feeling heavy today? I feel it too.</p><p>Sometimes we wake up carrying weight that isn&#8217;t even ours&#8212;old stories, collective noise, or static from the world that just sticks. Today, I wanted to send you this quick tone and frequency of <strong>Black Kyanite</strong> to help you clear the air.</p><p>Think of Black Kyanite as an energetic sword. It&#8217;s one of the few stones that doesn&#8217;t just hold energy; it slices through the attachments that don&#8217;t serve you. It helps you cut the cords to anything that doesn&#8217;t have to be there.</p><p>Take a deep breath. Let this frequency do the heavy lifting for you. Sweep away the density, reclaim your space, and let&#8217;s break up that stagnant energy together.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chef Who Fed Her Shadow to the Stars: Healing Food Freedom Through Trauma and Spirituality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amber spent years in a "wobbly" dance with food&#8212;binging, restricting, and chasing the "perfect" diet. This is how she learned her hunger was a survival strategy for a trauma she hadn&#8217;t yet named.]]></description><link>https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-chef-who-fed-her-shadow-to-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://heatheraskinosie.substack.com/p/the-chef-who-fed-her-shadow-to-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Askinosie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:11:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZaKx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d4e2496-345a-43d5-b7f6-67dae2903fe3_542x700.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Content Warning: </strong>This article discusses eating disorders, binging, orthorexia, and trauma. Please read with an open mind and heart.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Whenever I see Amber, I always notice the radiance and glow emanating from her skin, the whites of her eyes, and her honesty. She is 100% herself and I love to be around her. She is curious, never takes herself too seriously, and is all about female empowerment. She is one of those people that you feel better just being in her presence.</p><p>But the radiance you see now didn&#8217;t come easily. It was forged in a fire that most people spend their entire lives trying to put out. Amber lived for decades in a battle with her own body, a war that started when she was just a child.</p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>The Wobbly Line</strong></h4><p>Amber&#8217;s love affair with the kitchen started at three years old, standing on a stool next to her grandmother. She was obsessed with cookbooks and food scenes in stories. But by age eight, the &#8220;wobble&#8221; began.</p><p>&#8220;I was always the hungriest in my family,&#8221; she told me. &#8220;I started to realize... why isn&#8217;t anybody else eating?&#8221;</p><p>What started as sneaking candy blossomed into a &#8220;wild ride&#8221; of secrecy. By sixteen, with the freedom of a car, the binging took hold. She would hit multiple drive-throughs, bury the evidence in the trash, and then go home to eat a &#8220;healthy&#8221; dinner with her family. For the next 30 years, she swung like a pendulum between two extremes: the &#8220;Chef&#8221; who was a devotee to the craft, and the &#8220;Binger&#8221; who was trying to fill a hole that food could never reach.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZaKx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d4e2496-345a-43d5-b7f6-67dae2903fe3_542x700.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZaKx!, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/w_424, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/heatheraskinosie.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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