Tarot, Parts Work & Spiritual Consent w/ Crystal Hines

Message the show & share your thoughts!A tarot reading can feel like truth, comfort, and clarity all at once, but only when it’s held with consideration and consent. In this episode of YC&ML, I’m joined by Crystal Hines — an EMDR  trainer and consultant and an IFS clinical consultant — to talk about what happens when intuition and divination meet trauma-informed care. We get honest about the hidden load therapists carry, the constraints of therapy as an industry and institution, and why so many helpers quietly burn out from a model built on one-sided giving. Which has a lot to do with Crystal's personal shift from one-on-one therapeutic work with patients to supporting therapists with the resources and community they need and deserve.Then we go deeper into spiritual consent: what it means, why it matters, and how religious trauma can shape our relationship with Tarot, magic, and inner knowing. Crystal tells a story of being blindsided in a psychic session and how that experience clarified her commitment to permission, intention, and frequent check-ins. If you read cards for others, practice energy work, or simply want your spiritual life to feel safer, this part of the conversation is a grounded gut-check.We also demystify Internal Family Systems (IFS or parts work) in plain language: the managers, firefighters, and exiles, and the idea of self-energy as both intuitive presence and nervous system regulation. We talk about gatekeeping and affordability in popular therapy modalities, plus practical ways to meet your “problem-solver” or “caretaker” parts without shaming. To close, we do a live card pull that pairs a parts-focused deck with The Tower, and Crystal offers prompts you can use for journaling and self-inquiry.If this conversation supports you, subscribe, share it with a friend or therapist who's Tarot-curious or regularly dorking out about IFS, and leave a review so more creative spirits can find the show!Follow Crystal's work here, and scroll to the bottom of her page for some free resources.This podcast is a production of Typewriter Tarot. Learn more & join us:Join the newsletter and receive the first 3 journaling prompts from Tarot for Creative Spirits (the workbook).Check out upcoming events & workshops.Book a Tarot reading.Shop our bookshop.