5 Signs You’ve Lived a Past Life… and What It Means for This One
You don’t have to believe in past lives for this to resonate. But maybe—just maybe—you’ve had one of those moments:
- A sense of déjà vu so strong it made you pause.
- A connection with someone that felt ancient.
- An irrational fear that you know didn’t start in this lifetime.
That’s where we went this week on the podcast.
What if some of the blocks we carry… aren’t from this lifetime at all?
Episode 8: Been Here Before?
Past Lives & Present Lessons
Let’s get this out of the way:
We’re not here to convince you of anything.
We’re not asking you to abandon your beliefs or replace them with new ones.
We’re just saying: we’ve seen too much weird shit to ignore it anymore 😅
Because when a four-year-old looks you dead in the eye and says:
“Before I came to live with you, I was a boy. Then I died. Then I came back to live with you.”
You pause.
And when you feel physically repelled by a state for no logical reason (hi, Colorado) and then uncover a soul memory so vivid and emotional you sob through the session… yeah. You stop brushing that off too.
Nora’s Story: "Before I came to live with you..."
It started innocently.
My niece, Nora, was three or four, playing in the other room with her sister when she casually dropped:
“Like when I was a boy…”
What followed was a vivid, detailed description of a past life in the late 1800s—clothing, hairstyles, marble games (played the old-fashioned way), milk deliveries in glass bottles.
She even pointed out a U.S. president from that era.
No one had taught her any of it.
She was confident, calm, not playing pretend.
And by the time she turned five… it was gone.
If we hadn’t stayed curious—stayed open—we would’ve missed the whole message.
(ps. to listen to the full story on Nora’s past life, check out the episode of Two Girls One Ghost where Sabrina reads it! CLICK HERE)
My Story: The Colorado Aversion I Couldn't Explain
For years, I had this unreasonable aversion to Colorado.
I love the outdoors. I ski. I hike. I love the mountains.
And yet… something in me felt off. Heavy. Blocked.
When Sissy mentioned she felt the same way—I knew we had to dig deeper.
I booked a spontaneous solo trip to Colorado and did a 6-hour past life regression with Larissa from Divine Ascension Healing. And what I discovered?
A soul memory of living a past life as a Southern girl in the 1800s—escaping an arranged marriage, boarding a train west, and ending up in Colorado.
In that life, I left a little sister behind.
In this life, that sister is Elise (aka: Sissy).
We eventually wrote letters in that lifetime just to check in, but we were basically estranged. And it hurt… deeply. I experienced dying in that lifetime with regret, sadness, remorse, anger… but most of all, loneliness.
But in this life, we get to talk every single day. We’re creating together. We’re healing that thread.
Past life or not—what came through changed how I see everything.
So... is it real?
Could my have just been making this entire story up in my head during the regression? It’s possible - I don’t deny that…
But here’s what I know…
Even if I made it all up… it helped me heal. It gave me peace. It revealed a lot about my subconscious that is playing out in this lifetime as well. And that’s enough.
Maybe we don’t need to prove it.
Maybe it doesn’t need to be linear or logical.
Maybe healing doesn’t always look like answers—maybe it just looks like relief.
Why It’s Hard to Talk About…
About 1 in 4 Americans say they believe in reincarnation.
But among millennials? It’s closer to 50%.
And I’d argue even more are curious, but afraid to say so out loud.
Because most of us were raised in systems where:
You get one life.
Your soul has one job: behave.
Death is the end, and then you’re sorted.
But what if… your soul is on a journey?
Not to be perfect, but to remember.
Not to “get it right,” but to grow?
What Past Lives Actually Teach Us
Even if you’re a skeptic, here’s what we’ve found past life work really does:
Reframes guilt → Maybe that fear or regret isn’t yours alone
Softens shame → You’re not broken, you’re remembering
Unblocks patterns → That “thing you can’t stop doing”? It might be a loop
Heals relationships → Soul contracts are real (even when they’re messy)
And most of all? It makes life feel deeper, richer, and way more magical.
5 Signs You've Lived a Past Life
Based on personal experience + real research (cited below)
1. Unexplainable Fears or Phobias
Like Elise’s neighbor who loves boats but panics if he can’t see land… or people with a fear of fire, deep water, or being trapped—without any traumatic experience to match it.
Studies (like those by Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist at UVA) show that many children with past life memories also carry lingering fears that fade with age【source: University of Virginia School of Medicine】.
Could those be trauma echoes? Old loops still trying to close?
2. Strong Connection (or Aversion) to Certain Places
My weird repulsion toward Colorado made zero sense. Sometimes the place that repels you the most… holds the healing.
But also, the first time I came to Portland, Maine I felt like I was home. And now I live here.
3. Soul Recognition with People You Just Met
That instant bond. The “I’ve known you forever” feeling. The “I could cry just looking at you” energy.
It might not be new—it might be a soul you’ve danced with across timelines.
4. Strong Affinity for Certain Cultures or Time Periods
Feeling an intense connection to a particular culture, era, or location—despite having no direct exposure—might suggest a past life in that context. For me, it’s the Titanic. Ever since I watched the movie in theaters (yes, I saw Titanic in theaters when I was 7…) I was obsessed with the history of it. I even planned my entire wedding around it. Our wedding date - April 14th. The date the Titanic struck the iceberg. Not super romantic if you think about it that way, but for whatever reason, I felt like it HAD to be that date. We also spent half our honeymoon in Belfast staying at the old Harlan & Wolfe building where they drew up the ships architecture (now the Titanic Hotel) and spending a day at the Titanic museum. Something about being in the exact spot she was built felt like a soul calling… past life connection? I’ll let you decide.
5. Vivid Dreams That Feel Like Memories
Ever wake up from a dream that feels more like a download than fiction?
Repetitive dreams. Dreams with themes. Dreams where you wake up weeping because something in you remembers.
Those could be soul memories, surfacing so you can release them in this lifetime.
Want to Explore This Yourself?
Start here:
Journal the unexplainable
What are you afraid of that makes no sense? What do you just know without explanation?Pay attention to soul nudges
People, places, music, names, dreams that tug at your memory in strange waysTry a regression
Whether it’s a guided meditation on YouTube or a full-on session like I did—see what comes up (Book with Larissa HERE)Stay curious. Let go of proof. Follow the feeling.
Here’s the lesson:
You’ve never made the wrong choice.
Every path, even the twisty ones, serve your highest good.
And you’re allowed to remember what came before—so you can choose differently now.
Got a Past Life Story?
Has your kid ever said something eerily accurate about another time?
Have you had soul recognition with someone you just met?
We’d love to hear your story—and maybe share it on a future episode.
📩 Email us: stories@trustyourselfpodcast.com
✨ (Let us know if we can read it out loud!)
Full transcript:
Elise AKA Sissy (00:01)
before I came to live with you. I was a boy, then I died, and then I came back to live with you. And she was so serious about it.
Heidi (00:12)
For generations, women were shamed for trusting themselves, sensing things before they happened, and believing in their own power. No one encouraged them to embrace it until now. Welcome to Trust Yourself.
Elise AKA Sissy (00:26)
Have you ever met someone and felt like you've just known them forever? Or maybe you've had an irrational fear that doesn't really make sense in this life? Have you ever considered that maybe this isn't your first time here? Studies suggest that thousands of kids recall verified past life memories and I will say my daughter is one of them. So today we're going to talk about past life.
what they are, maybe why they're controversial and how they might just explain and hold keys to healing parts of ourselves that logic can't explain. So for me, it started with my toddler's vivid recollection of being a different person. And for Heidi, it started for you with a deep soul regression in Colorado.
Heidi (01:21)
Well, it really started with just like a weird aversion to the state of Colorado and I thought it was weird. But then when you also said you had the same aversion, I was like, ⁓ this has got to be something. Dive in.
Elise AKA Sissy (01:33)
Let's explore this.
Well, we definitely live in a world right now that is obsessed with proof, right? Yet we can't tell what's real or what's AI created content. And we also live in a world that clings to what's that quote, seeing is believing. And quite literally, we can only see a sliver of the light spectrum. I just think that's so ironic.
Heidi (01:59)
We gotta see it, otherwise it doesn't... It's not real life.
Elise AKA Sissy (02:03)
So why not be a little bit open? Let's suspend disbelief a little bit today and take a deeper look into those unexplained patterns, fears, or maybe even passions that you just can't explain why you have this. You just have it. And maybe it's not random. Maybe it's part of something bigger that you've already lived through.
Heidi (02:26)
Spoiler alert, probably is.
Elise AKA Sissy (02:31)
I have a really short funny story about this. One of my neighbors here, he is not the type that believes in past lives at all, but he did have a funny comment the other day. He's like, I love, I just love water. I love boats. I love the sea. I just feel like, I just love being a pirate. And I feel like he kind of joked, like I was a pirate in a past life, I'm sure. But then he's like, but obviously I couldn't have been because.
Ironically, I also need to see land. I can't be in the middle of the ocean, because I'm terrified of that. So then I said to him, well, actually, what if you were a pirate in a past life, but the ship sank and your crew drowned, and maybe that's why you still have these fears and desires. Like you love the sea, but you want to see land because in your past life you actually died in the sea.
Heidi (03:24)
That was 100 % my first thought.
Elise AKA Sissy (03:27)
His eyes were like, big as saw-shirks. He's like, whoa, my mind is blown. Actually, what if that did happen? You never know. I thought that was funny, I will say I have been, I've never really been big into past lives or reincarnation and never really thought of it until I had kids and my middle daughter.
Heidi (03:34)
Probably. You never know.
Elise AKA Sissy (03:56)
Nora, she was actually, even when she was really young, when she was just learning to talk, ⁓ she would always say she was a boy. And I'm trying to be like a very liberal parent here, like, yeah, you can be whatever you want to be. But even when she was two and three, I'd be like, ⁓ hey, little girl, hey, sweetie, or like, you're such a good girl. And she'd say, I'm a boy. Like, okay, yep.
whatever you want, but it wasn't until she was probably three or four and her older sister, Harriet, they were playing in a room together and I was in the other room, but I could hear them. And Harriet said something to her. I don't know what it was, but Nora responded. yeah, like when I was a boy. And I perked up, when you were a boy, when was this? And she's like,
before I came to live with you. I was a boy, then I died, and then I came back to live with you." And she was so serious about it. She like, not even joking, not even cracking a smile. And I was just like, what do I do with this information?
Heidi (05:09)
Yeah, what do you like? Yeah, first thought I'd be like, ⁓ how do I respond? But tell me more.
Elise AKA Sissy (05:17)
Exactly, so I did spend quite some time trying to be as open as possible and not have any leading questions, right? But I just wanted to ask about it. So, Sean and I were both like, let's stay open-minded, but Sean more so is a skeptic than me, but it got to the point where it was so crazy that we both couldn't deny it. We're like, this is insane. I mean, she's describing,
hairstyles and clothing styles that are all in the 1880s ish. And then she pointed to a president in that exact era. I'm just, my mind was blown, but I'm not going to spend this whole episode talking about it. Wait, I did actually submit this story to another podcast, amazing podcast, Two Girls, One Ghost. If you guys want to listen to them, they're amazing. Shout out.
Heidi (06:04)
Yeah. Do you remember what episode it was? I was just going to say- We should drop that. We'll drop it in the show notes.
Elise AKA Sissy (06:08)
that is.
Yes,
yeah. Yeah, it was a listener story, but yeah, I'll put that in the show notes so you guys can go listen to the whole thing. It's crazy. It's good.
Heidi (06:20)
I will say though, I think my favorite part of that whole shenanigan story was when four-year-old Nora taught your entire family how to play old-school marbles. with the circle and the marbles and all the, you know, in the 1800s how they played marbles. And she taught the family how to actually play marbles. And I was like, damn, that is so cool.
Elise AKA Sissy (06:43)
Because we had the marble set, we got it for Christmas, but it has like the plastic connector pieces and it spins around and around. And I think it, I can't remember if it was me or one of the kids, like, hey, Nora, did you play this when you were a boy in your past life? And she just, she was like, no, but we did play with marbles, but not like this. There was not this stuff. then she was
Heidi (07:07)
Marble run craziness.
Elise AKA Sissy (07:09)
Right. It was nuts. ⁓ Yeah, she talked about that. She talked about milk coming in glass containers to the door, bathing suits that covered most of your body.
Heidi (07:22)
⁓ It was pretty cool. So cool. But then of course, like, I mean, we've done research on past lives too, and a lot of them were saying like once they hit like five or six, they kind of forget about it. And she totally did. So it was like fit. Everything fit.
Elise AKA Sissy (07:37)
Yeah, kindergarten started and she's like, I don't really remember. I don't know. Maybe I made it up. Like, ⁓ okay. Maybe you did, maybe not, but it's, I don't know, pretty coincidental. But Heidi, tell me a little bit more about the Colorado trip and like kind of what spurred you on for that.
Heidi (07:57)
Oh man, that was nuts. was so kind of like I hinted before. I've always had this weird, I just call it an aversion to the state of Colorado just because like I had no reason to not like Colorado. We went as a kid, maybe just like a couple of times. We went skiing, we went to Breckenridge and Keystone. I remember having so much fun. And it's beautiful. It's beautiful. I'm such an outdoors person too.
I love hiking, I love skiing. So there was really realistically no reason for me to like have this weird almost anxiety when you think about going to Colorado and almost just like, oh, gross. Like I don't want to go to Colorado. But I mentioned it to you earlier this year and you were like, oh my gosh, I feel the exact same way. And then I was like, ooh, I wonder if we both had a past life there or something crazy happened in Colorado. And so I...
I kind of forgot about it. And then one morning I woke up with this strong urge that I had to book a trip to Colorado, a solo trip. had to just go. And shout out to my husband, because he's very supportive.
Elise AKA Sissy (09:06)
Might I just add here that Kent is an amazing husband. Good job.
Heidi (09:10)
I was just like, hey, so I think I need to go to Colorado next week. And it was immediately after our family trip to Florida for my cousin's wedding. And so he's like, okay, whatever. Because of course, I also, I really like numerology. And so I was looking up the dates and like what dates would be most important for me to go to Colorado to heal. And it had to be that day. Like the day after we came back home from Florida. But anyway, so as I was like preparing for this trip, I was...
Elise AKA Sissy (09:28)
now
Heidi (09:37)
I was searching for past life regression healers and therapists for that. And I was looking in the Denver area and I found this woman. Her name is Larissa, Larissa Carter with Divine Ascension Healing. And I contacted her and we did like a quick zoom free consultation and immediately like we totally clicked. And she's actually from Iowa, a small town near where our dad was born.
So I was just like, I just really connected with her. And so we scheduled it and it was, what was it? hours, it was a six hour past life regression. So the first like three hours, I just kind of gave her like my life story basically. And then the second half was she talked me down into hypnosis and went right into a past life. And it happened like so much faster than I expected it to. It really just kind of felt like, you know, my eyes were closed. I was very in a meditative state.
And I'm kind of that person that I can, I see visuals very easily. And so I just immediately had this visual of me at the base of a mountain, kind of in a valley with like a really calm creek. And then there's this little log house or like a cabin that was there. And I was like standing barefoot in the grass. Like that was my first like, shoom, like into my past life basically. And I started explaining it. so what kind of came out of that was basically, ⁓
I wasn't like super certain on the time. It was definitely in a time where slavery was happening in the South. And I felt like my family was from Georgia and we were very rich. We were rich family and I had one sister. I know. It was so yucky. Like not yucky, but it was just like I felt all the feelings. so, you know, so it was our family was probably living on a plantation. I mean, I could see the house and everything. It was very much like that.
Elise AKA Sissy (11:20)
like this.
Heidi (11:35)
And family was well off and I had one younger sister and she was like much younger than me. And I was probably around like 16 and my parents were like wanting me to get married to this other rich man who was probably like old. Yeah, yeah, super gross. And so I wanted to run away and I was super conflicted because I didn't want to leave my little sister.
because I was afraid that she would like have the same... my God, I'm gonna cry when I'm talking about this too. Eww. Okay, so anyways. But I didn't want to leave her because I was just like afraid that she would have the same fate as me basically. So anyways, I left and I took a train and I ended up in Colorado, I guess. And I met this woman and she immediately felt very warm and I immediately knew...
who this woman was in my current lifetime. And just had that same feeling with her of she felt like my second mother and just felt like home, really. And so I was with her family. She had three sons and I got really close with one of the sons. And it was almost like we were just deeply, deeply friends, we both felt more, but we never actually said it to each other. And then he left for...
the military or something, I don't know, he just had to leave and then just things kind of changed. And I felt like every decision I was making was the wrong choice. And then I left that family and then I was living on my own and then things were hard and I couldn't have contact with my sister. I kept trying to write to her, but I think, so in my regression, this little girl was like six or seven years old, but I was writing to her, but I wasn't getting anything back. And...
I ended up, so that lifetime was really sad and I, took me, Larissa took me to a time, well, like with the hypnosis, Larissa was like, okay, take me to your death now of this lifetime. And where are you? Describe everything. And I was like in my bed alone, just feeling really sad and heavy. And like I was dying with so many regrets and feeling like I failed, like I failed my sister, I failed my family. Every choice that I made was wrong.
And it was awful. Like it felt, it just felt really sad. But then after that, we kind of talked about it again. And well, actually, and then Larissa helped me connect with my higher self. And she was like, okay, I'd like to speak with Heidi's higher self now. Is she available to talk? And then of course, like this just came through.
Elise AKA Sissy (14:19)
What is the difference between like Heidi and higher self Heidi? Like what is that? Fabulous question.
Heidi (14:26)
⁓ I don't fully understand obviously, but this is just like my own feeling and my own sort of knowing is you kind of have this like higher self version, which is to me, it feels almost like a guardian angel or like a spirit guide. It's almost just like this soul that or this energy that kind of knows what your path is going to play out in this. Like it knows your soul contract or it knows what your... ⁓
your lessons for this lifetime are supposed to be. And so it just kind of like is all knowing in my mind. And it was just able to kind of give me a lot more insight onto what just happened with that whole past life. And the interesting thing was ⁓ Larissa had asked something like, why did you bring me to this past life? Why is this one so significant? And my higher self had said, this is a mirror lifetime to her current lifetime.
And everything just kind of like clicked because all of the people that were in that past life that we were going through, I knew exactly who each of those were in this lifetime. And like, so my little sister was you, obviously. And the feeling that we both didn't like Colorado, it was almost like because that's like how we like separated. And I'm going to get emotional again, but it was so healing. But mostly just because it like brought awareness into
You know, why I sort of feel some of the things because a lot of what we discovered there too, it was because it was this like mirror lifetime. All those same struggles and all those same lessons that I was learning in that lifetime were mirrored in this lifetime too. So was learning the exact same lessons. So I ended up taking a trip to Colorado and I went to the Red Rocks Amphitheater, which is beautiful. I'd never been there before. And I just sat there in the morning. It was a beautiful morning. It was February, but it was like 60 degrees and sunny. It was gorgeous.
And coming from Maine, it was much needed sun and it was delicious. But I just sat there. I needed all that vitamin D. I actually had a sunburn. It was lovely. ⁓
Elise AKA Sissy (16:31)
yay, cancer.
Heidi (16:32)
But I just journaled and it was almost like my higher self was coming through my journaling again and I was just kind of free writing. And it was all about having stability and freedom simultaneously because I always thought it was and or. Like you can't have stability and freedom. It would be stability or freedom, but you can't have both. And that's how I made a lot of my choices and that's how I kind of felt.
in my life, like I can't really be free if I'm stable, so I just must be unstable all the time. So it was that, that is kind of what came through out of that session. But then one of the bigger things that I released and realized in that ⁓ trip too was that my choices, I've never made a wrong choice. Each choice was made for a reason and it was all made for my highest good.
I think I've carried a lot of burdens of my past choices for most of my life. And I really was able to release it on that trip of, you know, everything happens for a reason. I saw everything so much more clearly afterwards and it just was this amazing, eye-opening time with so many synchronicities. There were so many signs and synchronicities on that entire trip.
that I kind of knew ahead of time that I was going to be seeing because I started getting these signs and synchronicities ahead of time. Actually, the day that I booked my Colorado trip, I went to the store and I had cash, which I never fucking have. I paid, I know, right? I don't know how I got the cash. ⁓ But I had cash. So I paid in cash and then I got my change back and
Elise AKA Sissy (18:20)
Okay.
Heidi (18:27)
I like, you you just plop the change in your hand and I kind of looked down and I almost, did a double take and I looked at this quarter again and I was like, hold on. And then I looked at it and it was, it's a Colorado quarter, which I still have. I kept it because it's kind of just like my reminder of that healing journey and everything that happened with that. But my other signs were I was, my higher self had told me in that session that I would see ⁓ an eagle. An eagle is a symbol of when I'm following my path.
And then like Queen chess pieces kept coming up too, which was super random, but it totally made sense because it was almost like, you know, ⁓ when you're playing the game of chess, people are kind of focused on the King, but the Queen is almost always a silent assassin because she can move anywhere, right? And she's just a bitch. ⁓
Elise AKA Sissy (19:15)
T-shirt the silent assassin
Heidi (19:17)
The
queen, the silent assassin. Please, oh my God, I would love to do that. So then when I was booking my trip, I didn't really know... I kind of wanted to stay around the Denver area, but not necessarily downtown because it was expensive. But I found this place out in Lakewood, which is just a neighborhood suburb or whatever. But it was so funny because the very first picture of this hotel... You know how usually it's a picture of the room or something, like the pool? It was a picture of their courtyard.
which had a life-size chessboard. And like the queen was just like right there, right in the front. And I was like, ⁓ well. That's my sign. I need to stay in this Lakewood hotel. So I did. And then as I was leaving my hotel one morning, it was like probably my last day there. And I realized that right across the street, there was this big sign that said, Eyewear. And I was like, eagle, there's eagle too. So it was just so fun to see all those little like winks and nods from the universe.
It was a really, really fun and healing experience. And ⁓ and then I forgot to tell you about ⁓ the fun little game that I played while I was there because I kind of wanted to do, well, like what's this fun stability versus freedom thing that I could do? Like, okay, I can have stability in my choices, but also freedom in my choices. And so I wrote ⁓ on a bunch of different colored popsicle sticks. And for example, I had one that said,
this person's favorite restaurant, or Heidi needs to go to this person's favorite restaurant. And it was all kind of like that because my idea was I wanted random strangers to pull from this jar of popsicle sticks and determine what my next move was.
Elise AKA Sissy (21:00)
So you had to do whatever they chose and told you.
Heidi (21:04)
I had to do whatever they said. And so like the first one, I was at a coffee shop and I had them pull and it was like, it was that one, like Heidi has to go to your favorite restaurant. And then, so she told me what her favorite restaurant was, Fire on the Mountain. And she was like, oh, and you have to get the seitan wings and like this specific sauce. Seitan wings? Yeah, so seitan, it's kind of like tempeh. I don't know how, I'm probably saying it wrong, but it's like, it's, I don't know, is it like tofu or?
I don't know, but basically it's a plant-based wing. But it was delicious. It was a plant-based chicken wing. And it was so good. And the sauces that she recommended were amazing. And so I was like, this is so fun. And then another thing that I had was, tell me your favorite Spotify playlist. And so my waiter that I had at the Fire on the Mountain told me his, he's like, well, I don't really have Spotify, but my favorite artist right now is Father John Misty. And he gave me a specific song to listen to. And I listened to it and I absolutely loved it.
And I sent it to my husband like, this song's so cool. And then the next day he was like, did you know that he's going to be in Portland doing a concert this summer? And I was like, no, but we should go. So it was like all these little things that just kept like aligning. And it was, it was just really fun. But it all kind of stemmed from this weird aversion to Colorado. But now I feel like so healed from Colorado that I'm like, I actually love it now. Like I have like a special place in my heart now to like.
I don't think I would ever live there, but it was almost kind of funny because I can't really figure out Colorado because I forget that it's like the wild west technically. And so like when I'm seeing cowboy hats and cowboy boots and stuff, like I associate that with like Texas, but then I'm seeing it in Colorado, my brain can't really compute because I'm like, there's mountains, there's skiing and cowboys. I mean, it makes sense because it is the gateway to the west, but...
Yeah, it's hard for little Midwest slash East Coast girl me to figure that out.
Elise AKA Sissy (23:04)
⁓ I love it. I remember when you first told me about this and you said, you were my little sister and I'm like, gosh, that sounds great. But you were saying how, you you felt bad because in that past life, I didn't really get to know you that well. didn't talk to you after I was seven. And then I went on to probably marry some old man too.
Heidi (23:17)
Use. ⁓
No, I actually do have the rest of your story if you want to know. I think I... Yeah, but it kind of came when my higher self was talking too. It was... You actually moved to New England. I think it was Connecticut or something. But you did get out of the South, which was very important to you. And you actually married somebody who was lovely. You had a fabulous life. And we did kind of... We were able to exchange letters back and forth, but we didn't ever...
Elise AKA Sissy (23:34)
okay.
Heidi (23:57)
I don't think we ever really like reconnected to, but we were able to at least write, but yeah, it was sad.
Elise AKA Sissy (24:02)
So
now we're making up for that in this life, spending every single day together.
Heidi (24:06)
Every
single day, talking for hours every day. ⁓
Elise AKA Sissy (24:11)
will say when I was younger, I remember this very vividly and mom, if you're listening, let me know if you remember too. But I remember you are four years, you are four years younger than me. And so when I was almost four, I remember being like, mom, where's my sister? Where is she? Because I knew, like I just knew you were supposed to be there or maybe I thought you like my older sister. But I just remember being so freaking bored until you came along.
⁓ But I was kind of a bitch and a little shit afterwards when you did come along. was like, wait, now I want my attention back.
Heidi (24:51)
But know, four years apart when you're like 11 and seven is very different from when you're like 30 and 34, which we're not anymore, but you know.
Elise AKA Sissy (24:59)
No. We can protect.
Heidi (25:02)
Whatever, 34 and 38?
Elise AKA Sissy (25:05)
well. I think I actually already mentioned my age. It's okay. Okay, I do want to ask you a question though about the past life regression that you did with Larissa because I've never done it and I do want to do it but of course the skeptic in me is like, how do I know if I'm making it up? Is there a feeling you get like, how do you know you're actually going and tapping into a past life?
Or if you're just like, is a picture I'm seeing, I'm going to turn this into a story and make it make sense in my brain. don't know. Sorry to sound rude, but no.
Heidi (25:40)
So that's totally valid and that's something that Larissa really did address very well too. ⁓ But it was pretty much just like that. She's like, yeah, people think that they're just making this up. But at the same time, you're not gonna be just seeing these pictures. They're not just random. I mean, they feel random. But even the story that you can kind of link together things, like when you're seeing these pictures or getting these feelings, it just...
If it comes out of you and you say it and it's like flowing, it's all coming out for a reason. So whether or not you made it up or not, like what if I made up all that story? I could have made all that up, but the fact that it was able to help me heal in this lifetime, that's really what matters. I don't think it matters whether or not every single fact of what I did was right. I think what matters is how it helps me and how it helped my journey.
Elise AKA Sissy (26:35)
That's beautiful, Heidi.
Heidi (26:37)
Well, shout out Larissa. She's amazing. So, if you guys want to... Her information is definitely in the show notes. If you book a session with her, tell her you heard it from Trust Yourself podcast because she's just so great. I would love for you guys to hit her up.
Elise AKA Sissy (26:42)
information in the show notes.
Yeah, I will say like, of course I've always been skeptical and like, I don't know if that's true, but after hearing all of these things from Nora and this from you, it's just, I can't deny it anymore. And you know what? It's a little bit more fun this way.
Heidi (27:10)
It's so much more fun.
Elise AKA Sissy (27:13)
It's exciting because it's like, the opportunities and you mean I get to try again? Also, although I probably I'm like exhausted. I don't know if I want to do this again.
Heidi (27:22)
I know there are times when like, definitely don't want come back in this decade.
Elise AKA Sissy (27:26)
my God, But I did do some research and I thought it was fascinating that really only one in four Americans believe in reincarnation. Although it's about 50 % of millennials do. So hey, millennials. But this is why it's really hard for people to talk about, I think, or just say like, I had this weird feeling and everybody kind of keeps it to themselves. But then...
Heidi (27:42)
Bring it
Elise AKA Sissy (27:57)
I also think a huge factor of this has to do with religion, not dissonant religion at all. Obviously I'm a pastor's kid here. But whether you're religious or not, I think that's still kind of ingrained in our society that a lot of religions like Christianity and Judaism and Islam,
And of course there's branches within those that are very different, but I think like the mainstream belief of those religions is that we have a linear soul journey and we live this one life, we die and we go to heaven. So the idea of reincarnation being like a do-over doesn't really fit that narrative. So that's why it's really hard for people to be like, I believe that, I don't know. I will say though, I think despite that.
I think a lot of people still believe in reincarnation even if they are religious because you've got things like your kids saying creepy shit or you have like that deja vu or those soul memories and those instant connections. You're like, you know, yes, I know this is what my religion says, but what if, I don't know, what if we all live like a what if life?
Heidi (29:09)
I love that idea. Just saying what if. Just because it can really expand your mind and open up your universe and your world because yeah, is sometimes, you know, if you think about you just die and then you spend eternity where? Like, it can get really, it can get really like, I don't know, it gives me anxiety sometimes if I think about that. But if you also think about like, oh, but you have the choices and like you can...
do this or you can come back or you can, you know, help other people. It's just, it's, it feels good to me. So I like to think of it that way, but everybody can think of it however they want.
Elise AKA Sissy (29:47)
do
think, and I love my dad for saying this, obviously, we should have dad on this podcast.
Heidi (29:53)
100%.
See if it works.
Elise AKA Sissy (29:56)
If he's willing, sorry, dad, I'm just throwing you out here. But I've always thought, like, I've talked to dad about this before because he is a Presbyterian pastor. And I'm just like, I'm so confused. There's so many religions, so many different beliefs. What's real? What do we know? And he's like, who knows? What if they're all true and they're all true in their own way? Yet we are human. Like, we are human and the Bible was written by human hands. Doesn't mean we're perfect.
There could be things in there that are completely made up, right? ⁓
Heidi (30:27)
It's misconstrued, know, like it gets changed so many times.
Elise AKA Sissy (30:31)
I
need to stop saying 100%. I just listened to episode four and I said 100 % like thousand times. sorry. Crap. But I just think that's beautiful because yes, you can have belief in something greater than you. Doesn't mean that your belief is right or wrong. So, and doesn't mean that you are, this is your only life. Who knows? What if, what What if? So, that.
Heidi (30:37)
I do the same.
Elise AKA Sissy (31:00)
I think we can, maybe we just start journaling the unexplainable things that happen around you. Like if you have unexplainable fears, like my neighbor, I love boats, but I have to see land. Like journal about it. See what comes out. Ask if your kids do come to you with some weird shit that they're talking about. Be open about it. Just ask them questions. Stay curious and don't shut it down right away. Like, no, no, no, no, that's not right. What? ⁓ I think that was a dream, honey.
Don't shut it down. And then also try a guided past life regression. Maybe even just like a meditation. You don't have to go to someone like Larissa. That's amazing by the way. I can't believe Larissa does that. need to know. But you can also do meditations and maybe we can also put a link for one of those in the show notes because they're so good. But mostly just trust what resonates with you and what makes sense in your soul.
Heidi (31:40)
need to six hours?
If you have any stories like this, maybe they're not exactly the same, but if you've ever experienced something unexplainable or your kids have, or if you have a past life or if you feel like you just had unexplainable events or anything just weird that you haven't really felt like you've been able to tell anybody, you can tell us. please send your stories to us.
Elise AKA Sissy (32:06)
or your kids have.
Heidi (32:23)
Just email us stories at trustyourselfpodcast.com. Link is in the show notes, but we would love to hear your stories. We want to start reading stories on these episodes. So if you do send it to us, let us know if we are able to read it or not, please.
Elise AKA Sissy (32:37)
Okay, Heidi, are you ready to do the Tarot for the Week?
Heidi (32:41)
I am so ready. So I just pulled them off the mic so you don't hear me shuffling. But ⁓ it's so crazy how these cards align so much with what we are talking about. So the two tarot cards that I got with my spirit song tarot deck ⁓ was the moon, which is represented by the owl. It's all about imagination, perception, seeing through the night, seeing through the dark. And then I also got king of feathers, which is represented by the lion.
all about logic and justice. So it's literally almost like the yin and yang of like having a little bit of logic, but also trusting your intuition. And it's almost, I feel, it almost felt like a poll between the two of like, ⁓ you know, don't overthink things, don't overanalyze, make sure you have a nice balance. And then I got two Oracle deck, Oracle cards for us. The first one ⁓ is from the Moonology Oracle deck. And it says, ⁓ nothing is yet set in stone.
So again, those choices, there's never a wrong choice. And then I got for my Earth Magic deck, clouds, which represents shape shifting. it's- ⁓ I know, I got goosey's when I was pulling them and I was like, my gosh, this is so perfect. So yeah, it's just as reminder to use both logic and also your intuition and your life is going to be shape shifting and nothing is ever set in stone. So don't ever feel like you made the wrong choice or you're like,
Elise AKA Sissy (33:44)
you talked about
Heidi (34:04)
Ruining your life with a choice because that's never the thing right? We're always changing. We're always growing and we're always moving forward
Elise AKA Sissy (34:10)
I love it. Well, until next time, it's your move Sis
Heidi (34:15)
Make it count. Byeee!