Connecting with Your Spirituality with Wendy Watson

Perhaps you've heard of spirituality but aren't sure what it means. Spirituality is a broad concept that provides meaning, purpose and connection to something greater than ourselves. It cultivates a deeper sense of self-awareness and can serve as guiding light during the storms. But have you ever wondered how spirituality shapes our relationship and perception of the world? In this episode, I have Wendy Watson, CEO and Founder of TBR Spiritual Health. We discuss how spiritual therapy works that helps clients tap into their spirituality. Wendy discusses several self-care practices, meditation, energy communication and how peoples’ spiritual practices can change over the course of time. Tune in and connect with your spirituality today! --- Listen to the podcast here: Connecting with Your Spirituality with Wendy Watson Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. In the last episode, we briefly touched a bit on spirituality and on how we’re at a time period where things may be changing, may be evolving, we may be changing the way we’re even thinking about spirituality and how it relates to everything else that we’re doing in life. Today, I would like to bring on Wendy Watson, who is the CEO and founder of TBR Spiritual Health, to talk a little bit more specifically spiritual therapy. --- Wendy, welcome to the program. Hi. Thank you so much for having me, I really appreciate it. Beginning with what you do with your spiritual therapy, I know you have a few different offerings with your business and a few different manners in which you work with your clients, but tell us about what it means to go into spiritual therapy and how it relates to any of the endeavors that we all have in our minds. Yeah, so I really focus on getting the individual person in touch with their spirit, their higher self, their intuition, and whatever is above and beyond that for them I have no judgment on whether or not you call it God or Vishnu or Freya or whatever vocabulary, whatever name you use, I just want to get you in touch with it so that you can communicate and develop your individual relationship with yourself and whatever is above and beyond for you rather than what people tell you your relationship with God should look like. And so your clients, when they come to you, are most of them in a place where they already have some sort of a spiritual tradition or do you commonly get people who come with absolutely no, purely like everything’s just logic, science, and how atoms come together, blah, blah, blah? No, I get more --- I get people that already have some sort of relationship already established, whether they grew up Catholic or Christian or very much into the spiritual world, more on what people call the woo-woo side. I get all walks of life. Really, all I do is I try and build on what they’ve already cultivated for themselves and get them to look at that more on their own, helping them to define it for themselves. Like, okay, what does that mean to you versus what has somebody else told you that it means and how can you use that in alignment with yourself and how can we set up a self-care routine in order to keep your spirit clean, in order to keep you in connection with spirit, with God, with whatever you want to call it? We can get really caught up in our day-to-day lives and get really busy so most people that come to you, are they people who just generally have the time, are they generally too distracted, are they generally constantly busy? I’m from New York where everyone’s constantly busy all the time and that’s a code of honor, what state is that relationship with the spiritual usually in when people come to you? So, I get a lot of people with high anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies or suicidal thoughts. They’re so focused on the right here and the right now that they’re in fear of the future or they just feel like the future is not coming to them, something along those lines. I deal with a lot of entrepreneurs which are busy, busy, busy, they’re very task oriented and so it’s like, okay, being task oriented is great in business but once you’re done with it, you have to have the life-business balance, so when you’re done with business, what does that look like so that we can do the self-care. And most people are used to the nutritional self-care, like eating healthy, getting their exercise in. Some people are familiar with mindfulness or meditation or at least going for a relaxing walk, something along those lines. But just as it feels good to take your car to go get a carwash after a storm, it feels even better when you can clear the spirit.Share on X As entrepreneurs or as people that are very task oriented, you deal with a lot of people on a daily basis. It only takes seven seconds to make 11 judgments about somebody. That’s a lot of energy in a very short amount of time, would you not agree? Yeah, I said woke for a reason. Yeah, right? But you don’t just spend 11 seconds with somebody. You spend 30 minutes or an hour talking with somebody. And then think about how many people you deal with on a weekly basis. So clearing your spirit of their energy, of the grime of the different energies that you’ve taken on throughout the week and being able to do a spiritual bath or do whatever works for you, whatever we can create for you to just clear that energy off and refresh the spirit. And so people oftentimes phrase self-care in the categories of mind, body, and spirit. And so you know, there’s a body, mind, and spirit expo here in Colorado, I think it’s twice a year. So you talked about the body stuff obviously being what you eat, how much you move, and then the mindfulness. Is the mind and the spirit, is that a separation that people oftentimes kind of forget to consider when they think about self-care? So, to me, I don’t know if you can tell, on the bottom corner of my screen, I have like these six points of energy. So you have your physical and your nutritional that we’ve already talked about. But then you have your mindset, your emotion, your spirit, and the overall importance of love for energy, and they all work with each other and affect each other in some way, shape, or form. You go through a breakup, you’re going to emotionally eat, you’re going to eat that pint of ice cream or binge drink. If you ate something that you weren’t supposed to eat or it didn’t sit well with you, you’re not going to feel energized to go exercise. Yeah. Or it may impact your mental capabilities and your problem solving skills. To me, all six points interact with and affect each other so that’s what I focus on is all six points of energy and how can we get you into at least 70 percent of alignment with that. Seventy percent of alignment. Now, is that something you can measure? Is it easy for me to look at, say, what I do with my day and write down a list of activities and actually come up with a percentage like I am this many percent in alignment with who I am or is that something more of a general estimate? I think that’s up to the individual person and how their brain works. I’m able to do that, but then again, I’ve been working on it for a few years. And I’ve been able to teach other people how to do it but other people struggle with that and we need to use a different method. So, I think it all depends on how their brain is wired. And I was just thinking that specifically because you mentioned really task-oriented people and I just envisioned a task-oriented person also being the one that’s going to say, “Well, how do you know I’m 72 percent? How do you know I’m not still 69 percent?” and really kind of zone in on that number. Right. Well, and that’s up to them. In that case, I would just say it’s more of a generalization. It’s not like we’re going to know whether it’s 70.5 percent or it’s 71 percent. Exactly, but I guess the point where you’re talking about not expecting perfection is really kind of what you’re getting at, right? Like you’re not going to be perfectly aligned and you’re not going to avoid ever having that one day that just feels so out of alignment and you end up so drained, it’s just about what happens more often than not, Yeah, like where are you at the majority of the time? Because somebody is going to say something that’s going to catch you off guard or you’re going to get frustrated because you had to drive in traffic on the way home. Yeah. Right? You’re always going to have something that’s going to try and throw you out of balance. It’s learning the tools or how to pull energy from different sources or set up the self-care or any of that stuff to help you keep in alignment and not allow outside sources to pull you out of it. So, I think we’re all aware at this point of what like your standard offering self-care routines are, a lot of meditation, napping, baths, sometimes hikes in nature and stuff like that. In the world of people’s thoughts about self-care, is there anything you feel like we generally get wrong or need to rethink or kind of overlook as potential versions of self-care? I think there’s an infinite number of ways that you can develop your self-care routine. I just had a client create a self-definition board. So kind of like how some people are making affirmation boards? Yeah. She did not know how to define herself so instead of doing an affirmation board, we did a self-definition board. And so she came up with adjectives of how she would define herself and she wrote down definitions for them on a piece of paper, but then she made this collage of a board with all the different adjectives on it and put it up on her wall. So I think some people get very boxed in on what they think self-care should look like....