Josie with the Gems
A collection of reflections on personal and spiritual growth. Your monthly subscription goes to fund mental health support for couples and families.
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Welcome to Josie with the Gems, a personal collection of reflections on spiritual and personal growth. Join me as I share insights, channeled messages, and reflections on doing life with intention and integrity.
Community Is Relational, Not Transactional
Everywhere you turn, people are clamoring for community, wanting connection in an increasingly disconnected world. But what's emerged are pay-to-play spaces where you pay for access to networks and people. That's not community, that's a transaction. Today's longing for community is real, but we're missing the relational skills to build it. The new paradigm requires both the warmth of traditional togetherness and the emotional awareness many of us are just learning. We need the tools to actually build what we're dreaming of.
The Dos and Don'ts of Spiritual Hygiene and Protection
Just like physical hygiene keeps your body healthy, spiritual hygiene keeps your energy field clean and protected from unwanted influences. We don't live in a spiritually sterile environment, there are energies around us constantly, and your job is to stay present, attuned, and take care of yourself. Through simple practices, you can maintain a clean spiritual vessel and trust your intuition as your built-in detector for what belongs in your energy field…and what doesn’t.
Season of Self
Life's major transitions - breakups, career changes, loss, parenthood, Saturn returns - demand seasons of deep inner exploration. These uncomfortable yet transformative periods of self-reflection often happen at crucial ages like 27-30 and 38-41, when we're called to go inward and attune to how change is reshaping us. Rather than distracting ourselves with new relationships, degrees, or promotions, embracing these seasons of self becomes one of the deepest commitments we can make to our own growth.