Emily Merrell 00:00

Hey, my name is Emily Merrell. I’m a taco loving people connector, and I’m obsessed with playing the name game and all things networking. I’m the founder of second degree society, a female focused networking community, as well as a business coach for female business owners, passionate about bringing their business to the next level with the help of events, community and connections. I crave deep conversations and am continuously curious to see what makes people tick, and I’m invested in uncovering their stories with some life lessons along the way. This podcast is aimed to inspire and educate as you tackle your busy day. So join the conversation and tune in for the second degree podcast. I’m your host, Emily Merrell, and today I’m so excited y’all to have Emma Andrews. She is an intuitive and medium. She’s also a teacher, and she teaches all of this incredible work. And I’m so excited to dive into this with her, because it’s their first time meeting each other. And I love these types of meetings because so much comes out of it. So Emma, welcome to the show.

Emma Andrews 01:09

You so much for having me. Emily.

01:11

I love the name of any sort. So you know you got, you got, yeah, you’re already connected right there with just that, yeah, yeah. And also, do you have a middle name?

Emma Andrews 01:24

Catherine, yeah. What’s yours? Andres? So

Emily Merrell 01:29

I’m EA as well, or, well, I totally ruined it by asking your middle name. But we were almost on the same on the same track, Emma, so when I was right before we hit record, I was talking about your website, and your website definitely, like, brings me to this Stonehenge henge, feel, how did you or why did you pick that imagery? And do you have any ties to the UK?

Emma Andrews 01:56

Yes, I love that you noticed my the photos because that’s what I did before I became an intuitive and medium. I was a photographer in Scotland. That’s where I went to university. I was also born in London, so I grew up spending a lot of time in the UK, and, yeah, working as a professional photographer there. So when it came time for me to build my website and share what I wanted to with with potential clients and students, I know I wanted to incorporate the magic that I felt when I lived in Scotland, because that, that time when I was there for university was when I really my spirituality really began to open up, and that was the beginning of my journey to discover my intuition.

02:51

I can’t wait to dive into that, and I also this makes a lot more sense. Your photos are stunning, and y’all will give her, we’ll give you the link to get onto our website later, but your images are just like, I feel like I’m transported to a countryside and want a wicker basket, like, want to go collect eggs or something, whatever you do in the countryside, still unsure.

Emma Andrews 03:15

I love I love that you feel that because that’s what I want to bring to people. I really want to, like, support people and and feeling safe and in embracing, like, the different realities that we can experience. Like, I love living in the countryside, and I love nature. And so the last few years, I’ve been really working on, like, just getting into that and allowing that possibility to open up. And I love giving permission to others to explore, you know, the life what feels good for them and the life that they’re drawn to like, to really like, dig into that and dive deep into that and see where it takes them.

Emily Merrell 04:03

I love that. And before we dive into like hearing more about I want to hear there’s so much. There’s so many questions I have for you. But before we dive into intuition and medium and what you do the intuitive method, how did you end up in Virginia? I’m just so curious what brought you from the countryside of Scotland to Virginia? Yeah,

Emma Andrews 04:25

so Well, there’s, there’s a long version and a short version. But basically what had happened was I, so when I was at university in Scotland, I became really sick with auto immune disease and like chronic pain, and that was in my my first year, my freshman year, and all through university, I was trying to find healing and learning more about myself, learning about my needs, my emotions, my physical well being. And taking care of that, and I didn’t get much support besides a diagnosis from the Western medical system. So I had to find that strength and healing for myself. So I began to meditate and practice Reiki and learn about energy healing. And this is when I really started noticing shifts in my health and my feeling of, I guess, okayness, like feeling starting to feel a little bit okay and grounded in the world. And then when I graduated from university, I was still pretty ill, and I, like, I was surprised that I even made it through. And so I was at a point where I was like, Okay, once I’m graduated, like, I’m really gonna dig into this and get better. And so I began that journey, and it was about a month after I graduated that I was meditating on a paddle board on the river in Virginia, because I My grandparents are in Virginia, and so I grew up spending summers here and being with my grandparents and my extended family. So after I graduated, I was in Virginia meditating on this paddle board, and all of a sudden I felt this, like it was almost like a pink cloud. That’s how I saw. It was like a big pink cloud. And it just floated into my awareness, and with it came some information. And the information was that someone in my family was going to die, and that everything was okay. And so I really was, like, I sort of thought it was a crazy thought. I let it pass. I, like, kept being present with the meditation, and then it came again, and it was so perplexing for me, because I didn’t feel scared, I didn’t feel sad, I didn’t feel worried, I only felt like I felt so enormously loved. And the content that was coming through was kind of troubling. My mind would have thought, you know, this is really concerning, but I just felt so loved and held and not alone,

07:23

who was, who was talking to you, or who you’re having the conversation with you were just kind of like loading this,

Emma Andrews 07:28

this feeling. The best way I can describe it is it was like a loving energy that just sort of floated into my awareness. It wasn’t, didn’t feel like it was a particular spirit or person, was just this loving energy. And at this point I hadn’t done any intuitive mediumship, like consciously, you know, channeling, or anything like that, consciously. So I thought I was just imagining things. I thought it was my imagination.

07:57

Definitely. I feel like your brain at that moment can be like, Oh, you’re having sad thoughts, or you’re having dark, dark imagery, or imagery of people. And so why did did it this feeling identify the person that was going to pass

Emma Andrews 08:14

it? Didn’t, no, and I didn’t, I didn’t know then that I could continue to be open to the questions. I sort of just, well, I sat up and I ended the meditation then, and I turned to my husband, and I was like, This is really weird. I keep getting this feeling that someone’s going to pass away in my family, but I don’t feel scared, like I feel safe and supported and like everything’s going to be okay. And then a week later, my dad ended up having a heart attack and dying. No way. Yeah, yeah, that’s what I said. Well,

08:51

did you, oh, my God. I mean, I feel like, in those, in those circumstances, are you feeling like, Did you question yourself? Like, did I bring this on? Because I had these thoughts, did you Yeah? Like, what was going through your mind in this moment?

Emma Andrews 09:05

Yeah, so. So then right after he passed away, I continued to meditate. So, like, hours after I found out I was meditating, and my dad came to me. Then in the meditation, I, like, saw him in front of me, but he looked different. He had this like golden light around him. It looked like he had gotten Botox, like he didn’t have and he told me really specific message. He said that he, um, given everything he had to me, and that I and could I pass it on to my brothers? And, you know, I’m the oldest of five. I have four younger brothers, and my youngest brother was 10 at the time, so he’s pretty young. And so, yeah, so I so I got this message from him. I thought it was shock, I thought it was trauma. I wrote it down, but I didn’t really believe. Achieve myself. And, yeah, the what had happened earlier, I sort of thought maybe that’s like Synchronicity or coincidence or, you know, I didn’t really put much. I sort of tucked it away. I guess you could say then a few weeks later, I was at a party and an acquaintance came up to me and said, Emma, I don’t want to freak you out, but sometimes when people pass away, they come to me. And when your dad died, he came to me and can I tell you the message? And I said, Yes, please, of course. And she said, Okay. He said that he’s given everything he has to you, and could you give the rest to your brothers? Right? Yeah, and like

10:43

a medium as well, or someone who isn’t an intuitive that also receives messages, yeah,

Emma Andrews 10:49

she’s just, she doesn’t do it professionally. She’s it’s just something that she had noticed happens sometimes in her life. I believe everyone is intuitive, and everyone can connect with their loved ones now that I’ve done the work of understanding where it comes from so she had, she was just connected with that. And, yeah, that’s so that’s when I was like, fuck yeah. Like, I was really hoping that I was mistaken. I was really hoping that it I was crazy, or it was my imagination, because after that event happened, after she told me that information, I knew, I couldn’t deny it anymore, because it felt like something was like really trying to get through to me, you know, like it could more plain and obvious that my my life is changing, and the way that I perceive life itself is changing, and there’s something really important here for me to go towards. But I scared, sorry, sorry.

11:57

I was like, Oh my gosh. So many, so many. Quick, yeah, yeah. Quick, quick, quick introduction. So you have this information, you have it affirmed by another person, do you then pass on this message to your brothers? Like, what do you do with this information once you have this information inside of you? And do you also, my secondary question to this is, do you try to, like, resume contact with your father?

Emma Andrews 12:23

Yeah. So immediately following this, I was like, I am not meditating anymore. I was really freaked out, as you can imagine. I was also deep in grieving my dad and so, yeah, I just stopped meditating the message. It wasn’t for my brothers, it was for me. So I only talked about it really with my husband and my close friends. But I was really, I was I was freaked out in a way, but also I was really, like, inspired and energized and like in awe of life. It’s like I had a big awakening. And so I remember even at my father’s funeral and at these places, I was like, I was sad, I was heartbroken, I missed him, but I was also so grateful, and I was like, looking at everything like wide eyed, and people would come up to me and I’d be like, Isn’t this amazing? We’re alive. We have today. So it really gave me that gift of being able to, yeah, experience the grief fully, and also to like. Experience life fully.

13:51

It sounds like it was able to breathe rather than the negative, rather than the sadness, the grief, you were able to see like the positive in life, be able to build a life forward and a path forward for yourself.

Emma Andrews 14:06

Absolutely, it was a gift. It was Yeah, yeah. So then I didn’t meditate for about nine months. I ended up staying in Virginia, which is where I am today. And yeah, I didn’t meditate for a while, but one morning I woke up and I was like, I am ready. I want to figure this out. I want to know how this worked. And I want to be able to, like, use it every day to support me in my life, to support me towards the things I want, not just when, like, big, hard things are going to happen, but like, you know, with the joys of life and with the, you know, with my career and with what I want to do, and I want to be able to teach people this. So I began studying with teachers all over the world and reading books and practicing, and then clients started coming to me, um. And people started referring people to me, and then I was like, I guess I’m doing this now.

15:06

Did you ever feel imposter syndrome when you started up your your practice? You’re like, I had this intuitive experience, or I had this, I had this channeling experience. What if it doesn’t happen again? Like, what if this doesn’t that was a fluke, and my brain was playing a trick on me. How did you totally, totally

Emma Andrews 15:24

in my first year of taking clients, and in the first, like three years, I guess I would say, of taking clients, it was all over the phone, and so I really had to get good at letting go of that doubt. And I would, I would do this meditation right before I’d have a client, I’d imagine actually falling off a cliff and like, letting go of my mind, trying to control and hold on. And I would even tell myself, like, this might be my last intuitive session like this, might I might not get anything helpful for this individual, or no one. Maybe no one will come through for mediumship today, and it’ll be my last time. Yeah, every time I would end this session, I’d hang up the phone and just be like, Whoa.

16:09

That’s insane. It’s

Emma Andrews 16:11

really, it was, it was really so humbling, but, but I had to practice that letting go and like, allowing just my natural self to step forward, and I think that’s what a lot of us have to do when we have imposter syndrome, is like, it’s like letting go of like, who we think we need to be, or who we think we should be, and allowing that like true self, which is beautiful and strong and amazing and and wonderful everything we could ever dream of allowing that person, that individual, to step forward, like giving them the stage. And I think I love that you’ve shared that the self doubt aspect of it, especially holding holding space for someone. I imagine people come to you when they don’t they’re seeking closure, or they want a little bit more connection to someone that has passed. And so that fear of like, oh

17:04

my gosh, is this going to happen? Is this going to open up, or is this going to be where we talk more about their feelings and emotions? How do you, how do you get into a state to, like, make space for someone else? What is a process? What does that process look like to to work with a medium for for those that are brand new to this type of knowledge,

Emma Andrews 17:26

yeah. So, so my intuitive sessions and mediumship sessions, they’re pretty darn similar. And the way I define maybe I could start by defining intuition for people. That’d be great. The way I understand intuition, it’s receiving energetic information from beyond our brain. So I believe everyone uses their intuition all day long. It’s like a natural, normal part of being human. It’s one of our senses, you know, one of the ways we receive information from the world around us, just like if you’re driving your car and you see with your eyes a stop sign that tells your brain, I need to put the brakes on the car. We also have experiences where maybe we walk into a room and we don’t want to be around those people, you know, and there’s nothing, maybe physical that’s telling us that, you know, there’s something not good here. But we get an intuitive sense, and that can come through a myriad of ways. There’s many different ways our intuition speaks to us, and it’s unique and different for every single person. No two people receive intuitive information the same way. Many people really experience their intuition a lot when they work with animals or if they work with nature, those are really powerful ways to tap into receiving information that’s not like physical or verbal, where we can sort of sense into the situation. So that’s how I describe intuition, and once you understand it’s a pretty broad definition, but you can use your intuition many different ways. So I use my intuition to support people in intuitive sessions, and what that looks like is I’m able to see their energy in my mind’s eye. I see their I see can see colors and different things swirling around their energy, and that’s how I begin my intuitive sessions, by drawing out their energy and making notes. And then I’ll I’ll see I’m very clairvoyant, so I see a lot, so I’ll see other things that maybe will tell me things about their relationships or different perspectives to have on a tough situation they might be going through. And my work is also very based in somatic healing and somatic therapy. So I’m also coaching and encouraging my clients to feel into their their own energy and their own emotions and tools to. Like be in the flow of life and not be resisting what’s happening or what comes their way. So go ahead. Sorry, guys,

20:10

we have our camera off so it’s harder to see cues just Just FYI. That’s the pros and cons of internet connections, y’all. But I was going to ask in terms of intuition, is intuition something that you work on once and it is figured out, or is it something that needs to be practiced as an individual?

Emma Andrews 20:34

Absolutely, it’s something that needs to be practiced. Intuition is a skill that we can develop, if we choose to develop it. Some people are more sensitive generally than others. So if you’re drawn to listen to this episode, most likely you have a pretty strong intuition. Good point. I like it, but it does take practice and consistency to develop it, just like any other skill, just like how we learn to communicate with other people, or we learn to, you know, use our computers, or, you know, learn different skills that we use in our life. So yeah, it does take. It takes practice and consistency. One of the biggest things, especially with women who are highly intuitive, is it, it’s developing your intuition is about believing and trusting yourself, like learning how to believe in and trust yourself, and that’s huge for women, because we are taught actually to do the opposite, to doubt, question and make ourselves small, right? So it’s such a rewarding choice to make for yourself, to begin to value your inner voice, your inner truth, and to begin to trust it, believe it and follow it. And when you do that, it’s something really cool happens. Because when you’re living from a mental place, your world is really small. You’re analyzing the choices that you’re making, and you’re sort of living from this mental place, your world is pretty small, so you can only, you’re only like letting yourself go where you can imagine, but when we embrace our intuition and we rely on it to support us in our life, to give us information, to make our choices, we are actually allowing the universe to step in and CO Create with us. So we’re saying like my dream life is better than I can even imagine. Show me. Show me where it leads. Show me what’s next. And that’s when, like huge expansions can happen and upgrades can happen in our life. So it’s tapping in and understanding that intuition and how to utilize it and and practicing it and honing it to let it direct you. Yeah, step of life, yes, totally, totally, and actually, if we had time, it would be fun. I could, I could share a little exercise Yes, and I love to share to so that the listeners can really discover their intuitive yes and no. Oh, I love that. Yes. I’m

Emily Merrell 23:25

all for exercises and homework, yay.

Emma Andrews 23:28

Once you know your intuitive yes and no, you can ask any question you want you know and get that guidance, and you can kind of have a sense of what it feels like to be receiving intuitive information, because it’s different than mental information. When you’re receiving information from your mind, it’s very loud, it’s very bossy, the energy behind it is usually fearful or coming from this place of scarcity. So it’s saying, you have, I have to do this. I should do this like I if I don’t do this, this will happen. You know, it’s coming from this place of like urgency too, but accurate, intuitive information. It’s very soft, not forceful. So it’s giving you choice. It’s saying you could do this if you’d like. And it’s very loving and supportive. So being able to learn to distinguish between those two energies within yourself can help you to learn, oh, oh, I’m having a thought right now. I feel some fear around it. I know not to trust that anymore, and to wait and do something else until I can connect with that feeling of all is well and I can get that information, information I need from that place. So how do you do that?

Emily Merrell 24:49

Tell us your secrets. Oh, yeah. So,

Emma Andrews 24:51

so, I mean, there’s, there’s a few different things. I mean, discovering your yes and no is really. Helpful, because then you can know the language with which your intuition speaks to you, because it’s like I said before, it’s different for everyone. And then once you know that, yeah, you working with your mind is important so so learning that you can say no to your mind, and practicing saying no to your mind, not believing everything your mind says, But believing, honoring and respecting everything that you feel. So yeah, and raising your vibration is really helpful for receiving intuitive information. So like, if you’ve ever been stuck on a project and you can’t figure out the answer, and then you go, like, play with your dog, or you go on a walk, and you’re like, oh, duh, this is what I do in my word all every day. Yeah, yeah. That’s because you’ve raised your vibration and you’ve gotten out of your head and into your body. So, yeah, yeah, does that help? Did

26:01

I answer that? No, that’s very helpful. And I think to the point of, we make decisions so fast in our lives, and we move so fast to being able to listen and sit and giving yourself a little bit of time to drop in, even while you’re talking, I’m closing my eyes and just feeling, feeling your words versus making judgments about words, just letting them kind of pour over me, and I feel feel that difference versus yes, no, this is great. This is not great. This is this. This is that, like I feel like my brain is always constantly sorting things and putting things into, like, little boxes of their own. So that was a great reminder. Yeah, that’s

Emma Andrews 26:44

a great observation to make so you can you’re even recognizing how your mind works, how there’s this urgency behind it, how we’re always in a rush

26:54

That’s terrifying. Sometimes, like, oh gosh, I gotta, I gotta slow that down. I hate, I hate when I’m rushing. And then you notice the ramifications of the rush after the fact?

Emma Andrews 27:06

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it makes sense, you know, because it’s coming from a place of, of wanting to fix things or take care of ourselves or protect ourselves in whatever way. It makes sense when it happens, um, and it’s nothing to you know, it’s nothing wrong. But when we when we recognize it, then we can have this clarity about it, and we have we can explore it a little bit and say, Okay, what am I trying to rush to? What? What am I running towards? What I’m running from? And is it possible for me to have a moment here where I’m not being chased or running towards something. Is it possible for me to create a moment where I’m experiencing what I’m trying to run towards? Can I have that for myself right now, and by doing that, we are like allowing ourselves to have in the moment what we are working towards and what we desire, because we can give that to ourselves right now, in this moment. And that’s so powerful. That’s such a powerful exercise to do.

Emily Merrell 28:14

I think all of these exercises, I’m also looking at your website and or I saw it was stalking your website earlier. And I love, I love all the different workshops that you host for people from radical self love or healing circles. So I want to, I want to know what part of your business is this like self work, and what part of the business is the medium? And do the worlds collide? Or do you find that they’re two separate parts of of you as well?

Emma Andrews 28:47

Yeah, that’s a great question. So yeah, the mediumship I guess I didn’t quite answer the question before either. I can just explain that quickly before getting into that. So my mediumship sessions, that’s when I connect with my intuition, and then I’m open to any souls or spirits coming through for the client. And that usually happens very visually, like I’ll see a person step forward, and I’ll begin receiving information about them, and then I share it with the client. So in my mediumship sessions, my true client is really the deceased person, because I am really trying to honor and translate and communicate what they’re sharing with me, and I’m not working directly with the client’s energy. But in my intuitive sessions, the self healing and the Self Love is the foundation of all the work that I’ve done. It’s the foundation of my intuition development. Course, it’s the foundation of my personal journey. And everything that I do is. Just comes back to self love, and the bigger the capacity we have for self love, the easier life ends up being, and the easier life feels I’ve found. And the solution to so many problems that we might perceive in our life is actually self, love and acceptance. So learning to do that is really amazing, because it can break you out of that rat race. Because a lot of the time what we’re running towards, or we’re running from is love, is belonging and connection and acceptance, but we think it’s outside of ourselves. We think it’s this thing that we have to earn, and that’s that that isn’t true. We’re worthy and deserving of huge, enormous, incomprehensible amounts of love all day long, every day, just because we are who we are for no reason at all. So teaching that is really important because it it opens people up to their desires. It helps you know their their life, them experience the life that they desire, because they give themselves permission to not have to earn feeling good or earn these certain things, you know, it opens them up to receiving now, in this moment, all of that love that they that they crave.

Emily Merrell 31:35

It’s so fascinating, because I think there is this connection from the intuitive and the internal love that you teach and that you you preach as well, which I think is really powerful, but also thinking about consulting a medium, and perhaps I’m totally off base here, but I think there’s this aspect of like consulting a medium, because you also want that that closure, or that love or that assurance if you had a bad conversation with with a person, or if you maybe didn’t say the things that you wanted to say, there is that love piece to it with the medium. So there’s that like external seeking of love, and then you’re also teaching this internal searching and finding of love. So I think it’s, it sounds like what you do is very holistic, both externally and internally, totally,

Emma Andrews 32:27

totally. And I love that you I love that you shared that, because that is what I experience very often with clients, is and it’s not like this is the this is the beautiful thing, the love isn’t being withheld. It’s a belief or an idea that we have within us that’s limiting our capacity for love and mediumship sessions that can free people. You know, it can free them of thinking that it needed to come from outside of them, or from having this belief or idea that there was something about them that wasn’t lovable, and that that can be really profound to see shift in people’s perceptions, not just like, oh yeah, your your father forgives you, but there was never anything to be forgiven in The first place, and to have them receive that and really begin to believe this new story, that they’re worthy of love all the time, and that they’re the ones really who gets to decide how much love they let into themselves. Yeah, it’s really rewarding.

Emily Merrell 33:39

Do you ever find with mediumship. People are scared before they start the session, or that they’re worried that the person’s that no one’s going to show up for them. And has that ever happened?

Emma Andrews 33:52

Yeah, I think people probably are nervous. Sometimes. I think people are nervous just to consult with me, just because you don’t know what’s going to come through, I don’t know what’s going to come through. So there’s this sort of leaping into the unknown that we do together. So it does take a little bravery on the part of the client. And I think there have been one or two times when a loved one has not the loved one they wanted to communicate with, hasn’t come through. Other people have come through, but there’s always a reason behind the order that loved ones come through and which ones come through, and if a loved one doesn’t come through. Most likely it’s not the right time for the client to connect with them. They need to hear from someone else, or maybe it’s still really emotional for them, and they need to work through some of that so they can receive whatever message is wanting to come through. So I really trust try. Just that wisdom

Emily Merrell 35:02

that comes through that timing. And do you have? Do you have any like pre medium ritual for yourself, to both have someone come through you and to also then get back to your, your your life, and to to not hold on to the weight of that conversation?

Emma Andrews 35:21

Yeah, yeah. Well, I have my my little routine of opening and closing, my intuition, which is pretty simple and quick and straightforward, but really the most powerful thing that I’ve the most powerful tool that I’ve found in taking control of your intuition. And this is really important for anyone who’s empathic or has people pleasing tendencies, because what this is, this was my history. Growing up, I was very intuitive and sensitive, but I used it to, like, manage other people’s needs and emotion take care of other people. So becoming a professional intuitive, I had to learn to turn off from doing that and to focus on like the accurate intuition that was flowing through me, not to protect myself, but to support my clients and myself in my life. So the best thing for doing that is connecting with your physical body and noticing the sensations that are arising in your physical body and being with them, and that really allows you to stay centered, stay grounded and set boundaries, set healthy boundaries with other people, so you can be, yeah, really aligned with with and shining your light in the world as bright as you can.

Emily Merrell 36:53

I could ask you a million more questions, and I’m looking at the time now, because we don’t have time for a million more questions, but for those that want to work with you and learn more about you, what are the best places Emma to find you and to connect with you and to tap into your world?

Emma Andrews 37:13

Yeah, so I would love to to invite you to follow me on Instagram. My Instagram is at Emma r, e, w, s. You can learn about my my offerings there, and also see pictures of my goats and Bunny and all my animals. And you can also learn more on my website, www, dot Emma andrews.com, I teach an annual course the intuitive method that’s a course. I developed a 12 week online course, and I teach that once a year. So if you’d like to learn more with me, I would love to bring you along and guide you step by step to really feel into and embolden you to embrace your intuitive abilities.

Emily Merrell 38:10

Thank you for sharing everything. I’m so excited to book my own sessions after the fact too. This is so phenomenal, and y’all, you have to check out her website. The goats are so flipping cute and definitely make me want to visit wherever you are on a farm. Oh, thank

Emma Andrews 38:26

you and Emily, I we didn’t do that little exercise. Oh, yeah, let’s, let’s do it. Let’s do it. Okay, just two minutes. It’s just really and this way you all will get something really tangible that you can take from this conversation to begin to connect with and understand how your intuition speaks to you. So just if you’re driving in a car, you can pause right now and get come turn it back on when you’re home. But if you are just sitting at home, I invite you to just drop into your body, drop into this moment. Just take a few breaths, letting go of needing to hold on to any ideas, any worries, letting it go for the next couple minutes, really allowing yourself to be with whatever is showing up for you. Okay, so this we’re gonna, we’re gonna feel into two different things. The first one we’re going to feel into is an intuitive Yes. So please express to me my intuitive Yes. I’m. Whatever you notice, I want you to believe it, trust it, honor it. Might be really subtle, please express to me my intuitive Yes. Beautiful. And now let’s see the No. Please express to me my intuitive No, how do you feel this? No, do you feel it? Do you know it? Do you see it? Do you hear it? You smell it. How do you experience a no in your body? And if it’s really subtle. That’s good. That’s good. I want you to notice the subtlety and really give weight to it, like, really notice it and say, Wow, I noticed. I noticed that. And then let’s go back to the yes again. Let’s see how that yes feels now compared to the No, please express to me My intuitive Yes. What does a yes feel like? I Good job. Now you can take a moment, and I’d love for you to just make a note, write down somewhere with the no, what you notice with the no and what you notice with the Yes. The majority of the students that I work with, majority of them receive their yes and no through a felt sense. So for the No, it might feel heavy like a weight, and the yes might feel lighter. A lot of people also receive information visually, so maybe a yes is a sun or yellow light and the no is cold and darker colors, so so that, Emily, do you want to share?

Emily Merrell 42:26

Sure, yeah, I felt like my yes was, like, my heart kind of gets a little nervous, but it’s like a good nervous, like, I feel like eating, but it’s like a good excitement, like there’s something on the other side of it that I know it’s going to be positive. And then my No, it’s like my rib starts aching a little bit, so it feels uncomfortable and not in the same way that the heartbeat was uncomfortable. Aha,

Emma Andrews 42:53

interesting. Yeah, so now you know going forward, that when you’re trying to get intuitive guidance on a question. That’s one of the main ways your intuition is going to be speaking to you. You know, it might not be visual for you. It might be sense.

Emily Merrell 43:11

I’m curious to try it again too, to see if anything changes or if my body gives different signs. But that was what came to me in this time in this experiment,

Emma Andrews 43:23

yeah, well, most likely it will, you know, every time, if you did it 100 times, every time, it would be slightly different, but I bet that a lot of the time it will be a felt sense for you. So that’s what we discovered. I call this in my I have a workshop called discover your sensory superpower. So that felt sense that would be your sensory superpower. So going forward, when you get like a physical nudge, like you feel tight in your chest, or you feel that flutteriness In your heart, you can start to begin to validate yourself in those experiences and say, Hey, this is interesting. Like, I’m feeling, I’m feeling like, really open in my chest, or I’m feeling a little excited, nervous. I wonder what this means that, like, I’m just gonna go for it and see where it leads me, and then, you know, it works out. And you can be like, Wow, yeah. Like, my intuition was really leading me where I need to go.

Emily Merrell 44:20

I can’t wait to do more of it, and I will send you an Instagram DM, and I encourage all of you all to do the same for Emma,

Emma Andrews 44:27

yes, let me know how it goes for everyone. And if anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out.

Emily Merrell 44:33

I love feedback. Well, Emma, I’ve got some quick questions for you before we wrap up. So fast, furious, but I want us to know, or I want to know, what is an unknown fun fact about Emma Andrews

Emma Andrews 44:49

an unknown fun fact I love cozy British mysteries.

Emily Merrell 44:58

Cozy British I’m like, No, that’s. A fun fact, we know that on your website. Yeah,

Emma Andrews 45:02

yeah. Maybe it’s not unknown. Maybe people could deduce it from from knowing me. But I love, I love cozy British mysteries. That’s one of my favorite genres.

Emily Merrell 45:15

I love that. I’ll have to get some that actually brings me to the next question, What book are you currently reading?

Emma Andrews 45:24

Wow, I have like five books I’m halfway through right now. I’m reading a lot of books, but one that I read recently that I really loved is, oh gosh, what’s the name of it? I

Emily Merrell 45:42

think this is the hardest question I ask people on this podcast.

Emma Andrews 45:47

Well, well, what I’m reading right now, that I’m like learning a lot from is wild feminine. That’s an amazing book, and body dreaming. I’m halfway through both of those books, and those are both on sort of somatic healing and somatic therapy. So it’s kind of, they’re kind of workbooks.

Emily Merrell 46:08

I love it. Okay, we’ll check both of those out. What a dream person? I’m going to change this question. But who would be a dream person for you to do a medium reading with?

Emma Andrews 46:20

Ooh, can they is it living or dead?

Emily Merrell 46:25

It can be either, either.

Emma Andrews 46:30

Gosh, I’d love to meet Mother Teresa. That’d be a good one to full pull through see if she was as nice as she claims to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here her whole thing. Okay, this is another hard question, but What show are you currently watching? Okay, this is another British reference. I am watching. People have watched the Great British Bake Off before and enjoyed it. I’m watching a show that was also done by the creators of Great British Bake Off, but it’s called the Great pottery throwdown, and it’s like a pottery competition, and it’s really relaxing, and the contestants and the judges are really sweet, and it’s Just a really nice, relaxing, calming show to watch.

Emily Merrell 47:22

I found the British Bake Off. I’m like, why is this so appealing? Why do I enjoy watching this show as much as I did?

Emma Andrews 47:30

Really relaxing. Yeah, it truly

Emily Merrell 47:33

is. What is your favorite emoji?

Emma Andrews 47:37

Oh my gosh, I’ve been doing the heart one, like the hands that are making a heart. One of my friends started doing it, and I was like, Oh my gosh, I love that. So I’ve been doing that one all the time, the heart, hands, the heart dance. I

Emily Merrell 47:48

love that. And then my final question for you today is, what permission Do you want to give our listeners today?

Emma Andrews 47:54

Oh yes, I have a lot of permission I want to give. I want to give permission to believe yourself, love that, yeah, to believe yourself. Believe in everything you felt, seen, tasted, touch like believe it, own it, I love you.

Emily Merrell 48:16

That was wonderful. I what I’m hearing basically is, don’t gaslight yourself. Believe you, believe what you’re doing. Yeah,

Emma Andrews 48:25

I believe in you. I believe you and this Yes. Well,

Emily Merrell 48:32

Emma, thank you so much for sharing your incredible wisdom, your expertise and your story with us today. And listeners, please make sure to find Emma on all of the platforms, connect with her, work with her, and we’ll see you the next time on the second degree. Thank you again, Emma.

Emma Andrews 48:48

Thank you so much. Bye. You.