The Sober Witch Life: Sunshine’s Guide to a Mystical Recovery Podcast Season 2 Episode 21 How Psychic Abilities Supported My Recovery Journey

In this episode of The Sober Witch Life podcast, Sunshine takes listeners on an intimate journey through her transformative experience of connecting with her spiritual guides—a path that began in 2018 after she stepped away from her corporate job. Sunshine opens up about how tapping into her higher self became a cornerstone of her recovery process and personal empowerment. She shares the daily practices that support her connection, including meditation, tarot readings, bibliomancy, and seeking guidance from her spiritual team for life’s decisions.

Sunshine emphasizes the crucial role that developing psychic abilities has played in her journey and encourages listeners to trust and cultivate their own intuitive gifts. This episode is a powerful reminder that with dedication and practice, anyone can awaken and strengthen these innate skills.

Sunshine – The pink-haired sober witch:

All right. Hey everyone. I think we are live. Welcome back to the sober witch life podcast with your host, sunshine, the pink haired sober witch. Ah, oh my goodness, I’m realizing I’ve taken my notes down, but I didn’t change a whole bunch of stuff, so I was about to talk about the last episode. Yeah, we’re as always, you know, always going to start with a little bit of story. And I teetered and what I was going to do today on, like I penned and on. There’s a couple of things that I went back and forth on. And, you know, it was a matter of, we’ve been exploring the steps each of these weeks, and it was a matter of, do I go into the next step, which is a Step 11, or do I go back and talk a little bit more about shadow work? And then it hit me, I can actually talk a little bit about both here. So we’re going to start with that story time first.

If you didn’t know I was a witch or a psychic, you might label me as legit crazy right, even before recovery, I had occasionally talked to my guides. And I remember it was in 2018 when I really started doing it a lot, and I had left a I’d left a corporate job that I had been at for many, many, many years, and it had just gotten so horrible for my spirit. It just got, had gotten so horrible for my spirit that I remember I had started doing, you know, when I left, I didn’t have anything lined up. I started doing yoga every morning. I would do yin yoga every morning 90 minutes, and afterwards I’d be in Shavasana. And I would often just start talking to my guides and, you know, connecting. And I’d finally asked at some point, I said, is there anybody here? Is there? Is there? Is there a guy that’s able to help.I don’t want to find myself back in a position like I was like, I want to change my life. I want something different, and I didn’t know, I suppose, where that was going to take me, but I knew that I didn’t want to go backwards anymore. I didn’t want to find myself in the same kind of environment and betraying myself in the same way. And so I met B, my spirit guide, who I’ve now come to realize, is my higher self. And when I stepped in recovery, I began speaking to my guides every single day, every time I stopped and meditated, every time I stopped and reflected, you know, I would talk to them, never really asking for guidance, but just sharing conversations. So to speak. We are probably about five, maybe six months into my recovery. I started working with my ancestors. I started working with deities. I eventually learned to even recognize my higher self versus all of those other wonderful guides and protectors. And it’s really important that we’re able to do that, because sometimes our ancestors, and even some of the Spirit and deities, and you know, they can be a bit biased, you know, their perspective our higher self, that portion of our self that’s literally representative in the collective conscious and the divine, that divine part of our self is the truest, truest guide that we really have.

Since then, I have began connecting to my guides, into my higher self, for all sorts of different guidance. You know, I think I mentioned maybe last time that I’ve I’ve had disordered eating throughout my life, and so I’ll check in on my diet and what I’m feeding myself, and ask for guidance and strength, so that I know that I’m eating well and nourishing my body, right? Or, you know, should I take this supplement? Should I take that supplement? Whatever that may be, I will often allow them to guide me towards what it is I might need be, need to be engaging in. I also mentioned that I have a lot of shadows that I’ve been dealing with in my recovery. You don’t drink for 30 something years of your life and not hide from a lot of shadows. And so over the course of the last five years of my recovery, I’ve been actively working in them, engaging them, and asking my guides to show me them. Show me what I need to work on, show me what I need to focus on, show me what I’m resisting. And that’s that’s another thing, like, I will ask them when I’m in a pouty mood and don’t want to do something, whether or not it’s actual resistance to change or it’s something I really don’t need to be engaging with. I can’t think of a lot of things that I do today that I don’t engage my higher self, my intuition, my psychic abilities to help support but. I and how do I do this? I’ve spent so much time honing these gifts that I can engage in conversation directly. I can literally say yes or no and get auditory as well as somatic responses for things. That’s just a lot of practice. I’ve done that. I’ll pull cards.

So if I have yes or no questions, which I can usually frame a lot of things in a yes or no. I’ll do it in yes or no. If it’s something deeper meaning I need deeper insight, deeper exploration, a deeper or a different perspective. I’ll pull cards. I’ll pull oracle cards, tarot cards, you know, whatever it may be. Sometimes I’ll even do, like, some bibliomancy, like another form of divination, maybe the pendulum bibliomancy, shufflemancy, or something of that nature. If I I’m out and about, I can’t pull a card, you know, I’ll ask for from a message in another way. And why I’m sharing all of this with you. This is Step 11, right, meditating regularly and communicating with our guides to gain knowledge of what our purpose is, as well as the direction to carry it out. And I want to emphasize, like, in a lot of ways, this means purpose, like life purpose. But you know, as I was sitting and reflecting today about what I was going to share with you, I wanted to touch on it. It can be just purpose of right now. What is my purpose right now? What do I need to be doing? And I’ll give you a perfect example.

Last night, you know, had a bit of a tough weekend as far as my relationship goes. And last night, I laid in bed and I just kept asking, What do I need? What do I need? You know, what do I need right now? To feel safe. What do I need right now to feel safe? And I would hear responses. This is why I 100% trust my intuition and my psychic hits. Because if I didn’t, I know it would be a quick slide back in my recovery journey. Couple of months ago, I sat with a client who I’ve been working with to strengthen their own gifts and, along their own spiritual journey for almost two years. But as I’ve shifted and changed and focused more on folks in recovery, I kind of have to change the way that I work with them because they weren’t in recovery.

Well, we got to talking again, and there was a comment, it’s not for the first time I’ve heard this individual say, I wish that were my gifts were like yours. And the reality is, their gifts are different. All of us have our gifts show up differently for us, where no one’s going to ever be cookie cutter, the same as somebody else’s. But I told them, as I sat there and reflected on what they had said for not just the first time, but probably the fourth, fifth, sixth, or maybe even 10th time that I’d heard this. And I said, you want to know the only difference between my gifts and yours. And they said, What? And I said, I require my gifts to stay in recovery. I require the trust in and the confidence in them and to stay in recovery. I’m also sharing this with you because I know not everyone is confident in their guides or their intuition, and it can make you often feel like you’re not capable, but I promise, I promise you absolutely are capable.

Our psychic abilities are just like any other skill. Some of us are going to be naturally gifted, and I’m very blessed that I’m naturally gifted. But just because I was naturally gifted didn’t mean that I didn’t have to work on strengthening them, even where I came from. The truth is, is, even if you might not be naturally gifted, you may pick it up easily. You may just pick it up easily. You may take 123, lessons, and oof, there you are. And for others, you’re going to have to work at it. But I promise you, I promise you, that no matter which one of those buckets that you fall into, you are absolutely, 100% unequivocally, going to be able to strengthen them and gain confidence if you’re committed to doing the work right, committed to doing the work. I’m going to really emphasize this again, it’s not just about reading books, reading articles, reading blog posts. It’s not just about talking about them. It is actively committing to continuing to use them. Try different things. Learn what works, learn what doesn’t work for you. Try something new over and over and over again. It may be the best gift that you give yourself in recovery. That being said, My dear friends, if you have any questions. Yes, you want to know how you might be able to, hopefully you know how to reach me. Just reach out. I am always here and on your side so that you too can embrace this beautiful path of witchcraft and your recovery. Much Love for Me to all you until next time.