ACIM: Theresa McGallicher’s Path to Inner Peace and Happiness

Are you seeking the path to inner peace and happiness? Theresa McGallicher has traveled that road, and discovered a power within herself she never knew existed through the transformative teachings of ACIM, otherwise known as A Course in Miracles. Show Notes | Transcript "All the worries, fears, anxieties, and doubts that had plagued me my entire life evaporated. It was so subtle. I just suddenly noticed that I felt like a different person one day." - Theresa McGallicher Theresa McGallagher is a spiritual transformation coach who found inner peace and happiness through the transformative power of A Course in Miracles. After experiencing a spiritual shift in 2015, Theresa committed herself to transmuting fear into love and helping others do the same. With a background in linguistics and a deep curiosity about faith and spirituality, Theresa embarked on a journey of self-discovery, seeking answers to the questions that had always intrigued her. Through her practice of A Course in Miracles, she found the guidance she had been searching for and experienced profound shifts in her relationships, mindset, and overall well-being. Now, Theresa is passionate about sharing the teachings of A Course in Miracles and helping individuals find their own inner peace and happiness. In this episode, you will be able to: Discover the transformative power of A Course in Miracles and unlock your path to inner peace and happiness. See why overcoming fear and ego can help you experience true freedom and find lasting happiness in your life. Seek your own personal spiritual path and uncover the deep sense of fulfillment and peace it can bring. Learn practical strategies for finding inner peace and happiness that you can apply to your everyday experiences. Related Live. Love. Engage. episodes you may enjoy: From Chaos to Clarity: Real-World Stories of Spiritual Awakening Find Your Path to Clarity and Confidence with Elizabeth Kendig and Monica Lawson Finding Your Inner GPS to Happiness with Marina Shakour Haber Creating Happiness Habits with Barbara Ellison Resources: Connect with Theresa here Follow Theresa on YouTube here Join Theresa's Miracles Attraction Community here Join the Soulful Women's Network here Send me a message here ☕ Support the podcast here ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating here Connect with Gloria: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter TRANSCRIPT Gloria Grace Rand Namaste and welcome to the show. Whether you're a regular podcast or YouTube subscriber or you are brand new to Live, Love, Engage, I'm just really glad that you're here. I am Gloria Grace, the light messenger and spiritual alignment coach and women entrepreneurs hire me to clear the inner blocks, keeping you stuck so you can live the life you want now. And I am so happy to be I've just been looking forward to this discussion today that we're going to be having with a friend of mine that I met a few years ago, and I love that we are both interested in the same thing. But before I get to that, let me just tell you about her. So I want to welcome actually, I'm going to go ahead and bring her in right now, and then I'll read her by her while she's here. So I want to welcome Theresa McGallicher to Live, Love, Engage. And Theresa experienced a spiritual shift in 2015 as a result of her practice of A Course in Miracles, and that resulted in the release of anxiety, worry, and self-doubt. And since then, she has committed herself to transmuting the vibration of the planet from fear to love, which is a wonderful, wonderful mission. I love that you're doing that. So officially now, welcome to the show, Theresa. Theresa McGallicher Thank you, Gloria Grace. I'm so happy to be here today. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I'm just really excited to share A Course in Miracles with my audience because I've had lots of different people over the last few years that I've been doing this podcast, talking about all sorts of different ways to be able to improve their lives, to live fully, love deeply, engage authentically, as I like to say with the show. And one of the things that started me on my path, among others, was discovering a course of miracles. A Course in Miracles, I should say. So I would love to have you share what drew you to this course, and maybe you can explain a little bit about what it is as well, for those of you out there listening going, what is she talking about? So I'm going to leave that to you because you really are much more of an expert in it than I am. So I'm going to have you tell people a little bit about your journey and about what it is. Theresa McGallicher Okay. So I'll start off by saying that I was raised Christian. I was raised in a Methodist household, Protestant, so not too evangelical, not too crazy. But we did go to church every Sunday, and I went to Vacation Bible School in the summer, and I loved all the Bible stories. Jesus loves everybody, all of that. But I did have issues with the church growing up because I felt like a lot of the things didn't make sense. I couldn't reconcile some of the things that I was told, and I started exploring different faiths and different religions at a pretty young age. As a teenager, I visited churches of my friends and a Jewish synagogue. And then I learned about the Baha'i Faith and became very fascinated by that. And I was really just kind of always looking for answers to these questions that I had about my faith that didn't make sense, or my lack of faith, I should say. And when I was in my twenties, I realized that I had grown up in a dysfunctional household. I thought I grew up in a very normal household, an average American family of four living in the suburbs. But I came to realize that my father was an alcoholic, that my mother was codependent, and that I discovered Alanon and Twelve Step Work. So I dove into Alanon with a vengeance because I thought, here are the answers to all these questions that I've had about life. Suddenly things are starting to make sense. And as I was reading some of the literature from the twelve step programs, I started to run across quotes from A Course in Miracles. And I was like, what is this course in miracles? It sounds really intriguing. When I was younger, I used to visit my grandparents and they always had Guidepost magazine in the bathroom and I would always read the miracle stories that people had and think, wow, I wish something like that would happen to me. But my life was very ordinary. It seemed nothing mysterious or mystical ever happened. And so this was in the late 1980s that I found A Course in Miracles, 1987 or 88, I think. And at that time I was living abroad. Of course the internet wasn't invented yet, so I couldn't just google it. So the next chance that I came back to the U.S. On an R-and-R, on a vacation, I went to a bookstore and I found a Course in Miracles and I took it back with me and I opened it up and I tried to read it and I couldn't make any sense of it. It seemed like Gobbledygook, it was written in English, but it just was very dense and I didn't really understand what I was reading. And I also felt really suspicious because there was no author listed on the cover. So I was like, where did this come from? Who wrote this? What is it all about? I had a lot of questions, but I felt very drawn to the material. It uses Christian terminology and I found that very comfortable. And I decided that instead of trying to read the Text, which is a really long 600, some pages that I would do the Workbook Lessons first. So if you've never heard of the Course in Miracles, it's actually three books in one. There is a section called the Text. There is a section called The Workbook Lessons, which is 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. And then there's a small section after that called The Manual for teachers. And I a very action oriented person. I like to get things done. I don't like to just sit around and philosophize. I like for things to be practical and I want to be able to use them in my life. So I thought, I'm going to do these workbook lessons instead of trying to read the text. And that's what I did. So I would write the lesson each day on a three x five index card and I would take it into my office and I propped it up in front of my computer and then I would read it throughout the day and trying to remind myself what the lesson was. And as I got through the first 50 lessons, I started to notice something was changing in my life. I was feeling more peaceful. I was noticing that I was involved in relationships with people that didn't serve me, that were full of drama, and that made me uncomfortable. And I started to ask myself, like, why am I allowing myself to participate in these kinds of relationships? I really wanted to be happy. Bottom line was, I just wanted to be happy. I wasn't happy all the time. And I felt like this book had the answers for me. So the book was supposedly channeled. It's a channeled work by Jesus. And because it came from Jesus, I had some trust in the message. One of the things that I had an issue with in Christianity is the fact that the Bible wasn't written until some 300 years after Jesus lived and died. So basically, it's heresy. It's stories that have been were passed down orally for 300 years. And if you can imagine, our country is not even 300 years old. If someone were to write down the history of how our country was founded just based on stories their parents and grandparents and great grandparents had told them from revolutionary times how garbled that would come out, because you know that telephone game that you play when you repeat things, the story gets a little muddled. So that was one issue that I had. Another issue that I had was I had studied and worked professionally as a linguist. I had studied foreign languages and I had worked abroad as a linguist....