290: Jo Casey + Holly ~ What’s Better: Spirit Guides or Tapping into Your Intuition?

Into the Woods with Holly Worton

Today’s Guest

I'm back with another co-hosted episode with the fabulous Jo Casey!

Today, we talk about spirit guides, our higher self, and tapping into our intuition. We discuss whether or not it’s disempowering to get guidance from external sources, and whether we should just rely on our intuition and our higher self for everything. This was inspired by an email Holly received from a listener:

Spirit guides versus inner self! This has been on my mind for a while and has come to the foreground while I've been taking Lisa MW's WooWoo101 course I've been wondering; if you rely on spirit guides for guidance, is that not... disempowering? Your inner self has all the answers, right? So is looking to spirit guides, or things like pendulums etc, not giving your power away? Is it trusting external factors rather than trusting your own inner guidance? Or are they simply all coming from the same place? I'd love to have more clarity on this, since it feels a little woolly in my head.

About Jo Casey

Jo Casey has over 20 years experience of working as a trainer and consultant in the corporate, public and third sectors. Her flashy clients and workplaces have included Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC), The NHS, BT, Toyota Motors, Peugeot Business School, The Welsh Assembly Government, The Girl Guides UK, Vets4Pets/Companion Care, several Local Government Authorities, and The Department Of Work And Pensions. But she's also worked with many no less wonderful smaller ventures, micro businesses and SMEs.

She's a self-confessed nerd and has taught at college and university levels and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester. Jo has a Masters Degree in Coaching and Organizational Development and she's an NLP Master Practitioner, MBTI qualified professional certified Emotional Intelligence EQi 2.0 consultant.

She's been coaching for over 15 years now – clocking up over 1000 hours of coaching experience. Basically, she carefully treads that line between being passionate and a tiny bit obsessive about what she does (obsession often wins). Jo runs accredited coach training programs and coaches people from all over the world via the power of the internet.

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What You’ll Learn

• What are spirit guides, and why might you want to connect with them?
• Do things like lineage and ancestors come into play?
• Are angels, ghosts, and ancestors etc akin to spirit guides?
• What are they trying to guide us to/from?
• What is your higher self?
• How do you know the difference? Do you hear voices? See things? How do you know you’re not just making it all up?
• Is listening to guides abdicating responsibility to someone/something else?
• Is it our ego that says we should primarily be led by our own intuition?
• What kinds of things you can ask for help with in your life
• How you can get started channeling your own guides

How to Get Started: Professional Channels

• Joanna Hennon
• Lisa Wechtenhiser
• Cara Wilde

How to Get Started: Books

• Ask Your Guides, Sonia Choquette
• Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide, by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

How to Get Started: Courses

• Cara Wilde’s Channel Your Guide online course
• Opening to Channel: Connecting with Your Guide Audio Course by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
• Lisa Wechtenhiser’s WooWoo 101 online course

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