“The programming that I had from early childhood is that you are supposed to get a good job, get married, and have kids, but following that path didn’t make me happy.”
Q: What are you passionate about?
A: I’m passionate about helping people develop a better understanding of themselves and their animals through intuitive guidance. My purpose in life is to make lives easier and more enjoyable for people and animals. I started studying metaphysical topics to learn to trust my intuition and found that I knew things that other people don’t know. I have always wanted to work with animals, so I focused on animal communication and have been able to learn so much from talking to them.
Q: What were your younger years like?
A: The programming that I had from early childhood is that you are supposed to get a good job, get married, and have kids, but following that path didn’t make me happy. I had to release and heal from that old programming and forge my own path. I learned to care less about what other people think and design my own life.
Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?
A: Anything is possible. I had no idea my life could be what it is now. I found my purpose by exploring and trying new things. When I was interested in something, I took a class or read about it. What I have learned is that you don’t have to know where you are going to take the first step. Try something, join a group, ask a question, it can take you places you never imagined.
Q:What does feminism mean to you?
A: Feminism to me means owning your truth and being who you really are. We are taught to conform, but if we can love ourselves and live our truth, we can help spread love to the world.
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I offer animal communication, intuitive sessions for people, and teach intuition classes. Learn more on my website: www.intuitivedenise.com
“Introduce your self to people. You don’t know which one will be your friend for life.”
Q: What are you passionate about?
A:I am a photographer who started drawing this year and am taking watercolor lessons through Zoom from our Baltic Sea detailed artist, Oksana.
Moved to the Phoenix–Coronado art district in March 2017. In March, 2018, my one-story house burned from an old lamp while I was running errands. I decided to add a personal photo gallery on one side of the top floor. I had an opening March 7, 2020, but closed the gallery the next day due to the COVID pandemic.
Then a year after that, my Sri Lanka artist friend [who depends on my help to make a living], his wife, and young daughter were starving. He would love to leave that oppressive country, and I would like to help them more.
In 2022, I converted the photo gallery into an art gallery. After that, 21 artists found and joined our gallery. We are a consortium of Arizona, Southeast, Northeast, and Hawaii artists, plus artists from five countries.
Q: What were your younger years like?
A: My childhood, travel experiences, jobs, hobbies, and friends have impacted my life. The biggest incentive was to show my mother I could succeed.
As a child, I thought we were poor. My mother didn’t buy much, besides simple groceries and household items. [It was a] simple existence. I had no allowance, a really old radio, an old record player, and couple of games. My room was 9×9 feet, my haven to escape.
I attended junior college one year, worked one year to pay for university tuition, then attended KSU, and worked during full-time college. After my bachelor’s degree, I worked another year in Kansas City, but cleaned out my desk, flew to Hawaii for a vacation, got off the plane and in the airport, I wired and quit my job.
I wanted to live in Hawaii since I was a child. When I started my business, I joined a professional women’s network in Hawaii and gave a motivation speech called, “Living my Dream Now” to 200 women and received six letters of thanks for inspiring them to start their own business.
In Hawaii, I worked for a computer company. I quit and flew to Singapore and Hong Kong. When I returned, I asked myself, “Now, what am I going to do?” I decided to start an employment agency. I passed the employment exams and obtained a license in Hawaii. I managed this business for 25 years, working up to 16 hours a day, which supported my photography/travel passion. I traveled to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand several times and visited all but two of the 50 U.S. states, including three times to Alaska.
I have over 300,000 photographic images of animals, scenes and models.
In 2012, I wanted a change and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and built a 400 sq. photo studio. In 2017, I bought the east side house near downtown. A year later, it burned. I decided to add a second story room for a photo studio, and that became Gallery Coronado–original art, sculptures, and photography.
Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?
A: 1. Everything happens for the best.
2. Watch your back, hard to know who to trust sometimes.
3. Don’t spend money on art magazine ads. It might be useful if you can afford them monthly for an extended period, but they are thousands of dollars.
4. Write press releases and hope a newspaper publishes them.
5. Be kind, generous, and fair. Compliment and help others. Help now; not later.
6. Smell good.
7. Introduce your self to people. You don’t know which one will be your friend for life.
8. Travel now when you are younger. The less iPhones you buy often, will give you money to travel.
9. Hire self-motivated people. Independent contractors work hard then many employees.
10. In your job, do more than expected to get ahead rather than back-stabbing your coworkers.
11. Be gregarious and playful. Above all, have fun.
12. Write a thank you LETTER or email after an interview stating what you will do for the COMPANY not all your demands. You will be the only one and you most likely will get the job.
Q: What does feminism mean to you?
A: On feminism, I am very much for women getting ahead. Most of the private industry jobs I had, women made less money. I am sorry to say, I didn’t think Kamala was competent to serve as President. I saw interviews of her, and I can think of five other ladies in government who are high-profile people who would have been great.
I found in my business that some women are not supportive of other women.
MORE FROM PATRICIA: I would say I am from Hawaii, since most of my life was spent there and I couldn’t wait to leave the Midwest and snow. My mother would not pay for my college because she thought I would not finish (I finished with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees). I worked before college to pay for it.
Q and A with Ginny J. from Katikati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
“I believe every one of us has a mission here, to be kind, compassionate, and to treat others how we would like to be treated ourselves.”
Q: What are you passionate about?
A:My passion, well, I have more than a couple:
1. I am passionate about helping people heal, have an open heart and a positive mindset, as I know this raises the whole human collective and the earth, creating a path to a new earth.
2. I am passionate about tapping into higher states of consciousness to explore multidimensional pathways.
3. I know this might sound strange to some, but I am passionate about gaining deeper connections through higher states of awareness to extraterrestrial beings and higher dimensional beings from the spirit world. I am in a physical mediumship group, and I facilitate ET contact groups.
4. I am passionate about coaching others to be the best version of themselves.
Q: What were your younger years like?
A: I was born very near Stonehenge in the UK, and I was an extremely sensitive child. I have always sensed energy and spirit—back then it used to frighten me. I could sense things about people and had a natural calling to help if I could. I have always been creative. I think it was natural to me; I had really amazing parents and an older sibling. I was always very good at art, pottery, creative studies, and loved environmental studies. I ended up training as a hairdresser and barber; I was in that industry for many years (15 of those years I had my own business).
As a hairdresser, you tend to become like a counselor, often knowing very deep personal things about people. I always had the energy that seemed to help people feel safe so they could open up and discuss things. I met my husband in 1987, and we married in 1990. A few years later, we had two children (who are now in their late 20s 30s). My husband and myself are still very happy, we have one grandson, and we moved to New Zealand just over 20 years ago.
Once we moved here, the spiritual flood gates seem to open. There is something special about the land and nature here; it has the most amazing energy and life force here. I know fete brought us here. We had never been here before, yet we ended up selling our house in the UK. My Hubby got a job over here, so we all came over, brought three cats with us. We arrived here on New Year’s Day, once we settled into life here, I got a strong calling to pursue my psychic intuitive side. This is when I trained as a Reiki master teacher, life coach, medical intuitive, and intuitive reader and medium. Allowing my creative artist side to be free helped me open to my intuitive gifts. I have been healing and coaching people for many years now and love it.
Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?
A: One of the main things I would say to people is to trust your own intuition; it is your compass that will help you through life, keeping you safe and leading you on your true path. I believe every one of us has a mission here, to be kind, compassionate, and to treat others how we would like to be treated ourselves. Once all of humanity starts to live like this, we will truly create the new earth. It is our destiny to make this world a better place for our children and grandchildren.
Q: What does feminism mean to you?
A: Feminism, to me, is about creating a world where everyone is equal, living in unity, women and men standing together equally. That’s what I feel the feminist movement originally stood for. There has been, over the years, varying degrees of this. It used to be, many years ago, what was known as a “man’s world,” but not anymore; we are heading into the age of Aquarius, which is the feminine age. Women are extremely spiritually and intuitively powerful, as we reach an era of expanded consciousness, more soul-lead life, expanded awareness, all leading into quantum mechanics, multidimensional awareness and connection, and self-empowerment and sovereign embodiment. This is where we will lead humanity forward, women and men together.
MORE FROM GINNY: I know now that I am a gifted healer and intuitive whose passion lies in transforming lives and empowering others on their healing journey. With a deep love for my work, I am dedicated to helping individuals clear unwanted negative energies, release old beliefs and patterns, and step into a place of renewal and empowerment.
Through my unique healing sessions, I can tap into ancestral patterns, past lives, and old negative thoughts, transforming anxiety and depression into uplifted and lighter ways of being. My sessions are a harmonious blend of energy healing and spiritual healing, working on multidimensional levels to facilitate profound transformation. With my intuitive gifts and compassionate approach, I create a safe and nurturing space for individuals to release what no longer serves them and embrace a new way of being. I love my work.
I feel I have always been ahead of my time as my healing sessions are truly transformative. I know I am an activator.
I have that energy about me and am a natural nurturer and encourager of others, but it runs deeper than that. I know I am a soul and intuitive gifts activator for others. All my work is done with pure love, light, and integrity.
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is all you have.”
Q: What are you passionate about?
A:I am passionate about helping people empower themselves to become the best version of themselves personally and professionally. I am currently working on building my hypnosis business.
Q: How does hypnosis work?
A: How the hypnosis process works is first I explain what hypnosis is and what it isn’t to make you as comfortable as possible. I ask for permission to hypnotize you. Then, you get into a comfortable position, either reclining in a chair or lying in bed. You would close your eyes and I would talk to your subconscious mind. You don’t have to talk at all. I do all the work.
Hypnosis is a state of physical muscle relaxation and focused concentration. It is a lowered state of brain activity, in which a person is highly receptive to suggestions. You are not asleep.
It can be over Zoom or over the phone. It doesn’t need to be in person. It is 100% safe. I could set up a Zoom session with you to do a free subconscious block removal session so that you could experience hypnosis. No two people experience it the same way. If you enjoy the experience, you can decide for yourself if you would want to purchase any sessions. I have a really good referral program. If let’s say [your friend] Sally wants to purchase a session or package deal, you would get a free session to use for yourself or that you could gift to someone. There is no limit to the referral or expiring time.
Q: How did you first discover hypnosis?
A: I first discovered hypnosis from a lady who was also in one of the network marketing companies I was in. She was blowing away the sales. So, the owner had her speak on a sales call. She was using hypnosis, not in a brainwashing way, but in a positive way to market the products.
Q: What were your younger years like?
A: I was brought up in a loving middle class family of four. I’ve lived in Washington state my entire life of 54 years. I have an associates degree in marketing management. I am a Certified Professional Hypnotist and Certified Subconscious Block Removal Specialist. I am a domestic violence survivor. I basically just had one day when I had enough of the abuse (mental) and a switch flipped in my head. I divorced my husband and never looked back. My son was 16 when that happened. He’s now 29. I work with adults who have developmental disabilities for my work. I love photography and dogs. I have been involved in network marketing for 30 plus years.
Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?
A: Something valuable that I have learned is basically summed up in this quote: “You never know how strong you are until being strong is all you have.” I pride myself on my determination and my desire to be the best version of myself that I can.
Q: What does feminism mean to you?
A: Feminism means to embrace all the beauty and things that make you a unique soul.
“…take pride in your skills, even if they have nothing to do with your career. Hobbies and passion projects are vitally important to living a fulfilling life. I recommend dance, but I am pretty biased.”
Q: What are you passionate about?
A:I am passionate about so many things—it can feel overwhelming at times! This year I have expanded my container to focus on identifying as an artist, and I have thrown myself into my dance practices, returned to performing as a belly dancer, and picked up fire dancing again (an art form I learned in my 20s and had gotten away from). I’m also passionate about rock climbing and maintaining good physical, mental, and emotional health.
Most of how I spend my free time is dedicated to self growth, personal development, movement, fitness, and connecting with my community. I’m currently putting energy towards passion projects, including more workshops and retreats on nervous system regulation and somatic experiencing, and creating a rock climbing program for my patients who have a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. I’ll also be working on a duet choreography with one of my dance girlfriends to be performed at a show in April!
Q: What were your younger years like?
A: It’s funny because I am doing a lot of IFS (Internal Family Systems) work personally around my younger years and recognizing patterns I hadn’t been previously aware of. I am the youngest of five, and I spent a good deal of time as a child playing outside in the nearby patch of forest we had in our suburban neighborhood. My parents were big on road trips, so my passion for travel and nature was ignited at a young age, as we camped and visited many of the beautiful national parks the U.S. has to offer.
Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?
A:Three things come to mind. 1. I’m seven years sober and went through some really tough years of struggling with alcoholism and not understanding what addiction was or how to work with it. If you’re struggling with addictive behaviors or patterns—get help! Life is so much better on the other side, and there is no shame in addiction. It truly is an unfathomable disease. Help is out there and recovery has been such a huge gift in my life.
2. Working with my nervous system through Somatic Experiencing has been life-changing. These tools are basic human skills we should all learn from a very young age. How to self-regulate, how to identify sensations and separate them from emotions, how to feel anger without it being explosive. I strongly encourage anyone and everyone to learn some of these tools. I personally offer online programs, in-person retreats, local workshops, and countless free resources providing education on these topics because I believe we ALL have a right to live an embodied and empowered life.
3. Find hobbies you love and dive into them. Be inspired, be ignited, take pride in your skills, even if they have nothing to do with your career. Hobbies and passion projects are vitally important to living a fulfilling life. I recommend dance, but I am pretty biased.
Q: What does feminism mean to you?
A: Such a good question! The first thing that came to mind for me was “equality.” And not equality in the way that a woman needs to be able to do everything a man can do and vice versa, but strength and power in our own right, for men and women. Can we please celebrate our differences and see the power and wisdom in both?
I’d like to see a world where women are regarded as subjects, consistently and without having to ask for this repeatedly, rather than being objectified. Feminism is the ability to be soft and vulnerable in our strength, and have good support from men who have done their work to hold and cherish the vulnerability. I want to run around naked in my loincloth under a full moon, live for weeks in the forest out of my backpack, and yet still have access to my softness and gentleness.
MORE FROM DR. ALICE: I have a free training on nervous system regulation if anyone would like to check it out. They can access it here: Heal your Nervous System, Heal your LIfe
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