You Can Change The Past. How To Rewrite Your Story | Jan Engels-Smith

What if the past isn't fixed? What if the moments that wounded you could be revisited, unravelled, and given a new ending? In this conversation, I sit down for the third time with Jan Engels-Smith, shamanic practitioner, teacher, and author, and one of the most generous and grounded voices I know. If you'd like to hear Jan's founding story and the origins of her work, you'll find our earlier conversations linked below. Jan explains that every event is a matrix of energy that stays in motion until it's interrupted, and that through journeying and attention, it's possible to return to the moment something happened, unwind it, retrieve what was lost, and choose a new ending. The healing is instantaneous in the energetic, but it lands on us to bring it through our thoughts, our words, and our behaviour, until the old story no longer runs the show. We speak about blind beliefs, the ones handed to us at birth that we don't even know we're carrying, and the three places they tend to hide: our beliefs about ourselves, about God or Source, and about money. Jan makes the case that belief systems are choices, nothing more, shaped by culture, era, and family, and that if a belief causes you distress, you're free to put it down and choose one that brings you happiness instead. I also share some of my own experience with this work, including the soul retrieval Jan guided me through, and what's changed since: the practice of catching the old patterns, asking "is this even my belief?", and the slow return of self-love that follows when you stop running and simply look. This is a conversation about the past, and our freedom from it. About choice, belief, self-love, and the quiet army of help that's available to every one of us, if we're willing to ask. If you've ever felt trapped by your story, or suspected that the life you're living was authored by beliefs that were never really yours, this one is for you.   Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/   Jan Engels-Smith Site http://www.janengelssmith.com/ Courses https://www.lightsong.net/ Book: Becoming Yourself https://www.amazon.com.au/Becoming-Yourself-Journey-Head-Heart/dp/1500854395 Previous conversations with Jan https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/decoding-reality-how-your-mind-and-heart-create-your/id1737944971?i=1000652799451 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/shift-your-emotions-shift-your-reality-how-to-create/id1737944971?i=1000667885142