Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Anastasia Simone. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Anastasia, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I’ve undergone experiences and faced aspects of myself and my environment that I wouldn’t put on a “vision board” such as trauma, C-PTSD, divorce, single parenting, long-term illness, displacement, financial adversity, addiction and a near fatal car accident. For me, resilience is born out of needing to continue on through these adversities. In some ways, my resiliency led to me being in survival mode. The path out of survival led me to dig deep and return back to love, truth, inner light and my divinity. I’ve had to learn to trust that there is a divine plan for my soul. We are all divine beings but you don’t hear that being reinforced in 3-D reality especially when you are going through hardship. You hear a lot of ego reinforcement in fact. The contrast showed me what I’m really looking for is spiritual. And beyond that, I am really looking for my own spirit. That is something I find within myself. My challenges beckon me to seek deeper pathways and return me to inner alignment. This alignment is my life-force, my divine nature. Nothing can disconnect me from my soul or dim my inner light and once I have that, I have everything. The light shines from within.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I’m a lightworker I use shamanic alchemy to clear blocks and reclaim energy-fields via my own healer model. I offer support for all who are ready to heal and allow their light expression and creative visions to be effortlessly realized. This has been a lifelong journey. My channels began to open when I was six. At that time I was busy rescuing ants on the sidewalk because I didn’t like the idea of people stepping on them. I always had innate kindness and concern for others. I developed multiple spiritual practices; Ashtanga yoga for 24 years, vows with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, retreats to Deerpark Monastery and pilgrimage to India that led to mindfulness meditation practices. In 2017 at the tail end of a 10-year illness, divorce, and while single parenting a brilliant boy, my car was T-boned on Sunset Blvd driving home from yoga. I was soon signing with an X for my dominant arm to be amputated and I was bleeding to death. Seven hours later I awoke looking into the eyes of the surgeon who saved me and my arm. The trauma, compounded with a series of other traumas, made the borders of what I once considered reality peel away like cotton candy and my channels fully open. I could see, feel, know and hear energy fields. There was no going back. With my newfound gifts I awoke to my healer gifts and started Magic of Intuition. Now, I have the absolute honor of assisting a global clientele to reclaim joy, creative channel expression and sacred destiny. Through Magic of Intuition I offer 1:1 Healing and Intuitive Sessions, facilitate Group Healings and publish a weekly Light Language meditation flow.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

One: Authenticity. Being are true selves and using our natural abilities. Sometimes people come to me and say they have no idea what they want to do and are in a lot of fear. After we clear their fear we find gems in their authentic nature that are gifts, natural abilities, and inclinations. Being authentic means to start where we are, with who we are and not copy others. Often people have things that come so naturally to them they never consider how they can build it into a business model or use their gifts to be of service to others. It’s a reclamation of our true selves and it doesn’t have to be a struggle.

Two: Practicality. I had to learn how to build and manage my own website, client bookings and payments. I also needed to learn how to manage an email list, write copy for my weekly newsletter,  create social media content, keep my books, open a corporation, manage taxes, keep on top of client communication and follow up emails. Some of these things came more naturally than others. My business model as a light worker has been to bring the spiritual into the material reality. I’ve had to not avoid where we need to grow and learn these new things in order to become a full fledged entrepreneur who can manage all aspects of my platform.

Three: Growth. I learned from trial and error how to manage my boundaries with clients and how to deal with things going sideways. I’ve been profoundly lucky I’ve had a beautiful client base that I’m extremely grateful for but there are occasional glitches. When I make a mistake or hit a snag, I grow from it and learn how to establish more boundaries to prevent a reoccurrence. This growth has led to innovation and change which are symptoms of my growth.

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?
Sometimes there’s a lot of things that come at me at once. I liken it to being on the side of the tennis court where the ball feeder is throwing the balls and they’re accumulating much faster around me than I could possibly return them. So when things get really piled up like this, I just imagine that I’m in a really messy room and I can only put one thing away at a time. It is part of my ability to clear and order energy that I live in an orderly way. So, being overwhelmed, is often a symptom for me that I’m trying to control chaos. I surrender to knowing that it will go back into order. I take a deep breath, and just start on the one thing that I can take care of. The more I stay present, the easier it is. When overwhelm comes because I need to learn something new and I get resistant I sit down with it and go as far as I can. I rest. Then I return to the challenge. I don’t give up. I chip away at it. When I treat life like a living meditation and check in with my breathing, I can get through anything.