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Speaker 2: Welcome back. Hey, I'm rich This is Coast to Coast
Speaker 2: Tanya Carol Richardson is our guest tonight. She is a
Speaker 2: professional intuitive who's given readings to literally thousands of clients
Speaker 2: all over the world.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: She's the author of nine nonfiction books, including Empathetic Heart
Speaker 2: or is It mpath Heart? My Apologies, Angel, Intuition, Are
Speaker 2: You in Earth? Angel? And Self Care for m Past.
Speaker 2: Tanya has an annual calendar, a Year of Self Love
Speaker 2: and a two Oracle dex Awakening, Intuitioned and Grief, Grace
Speaker 2: and Healing. She here's our guest tonight. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about, you know, soulmates, twin Flames, past lives. Tanya,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Coast to Coast AM.
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you, Hi, Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: having me.
Speaker 2: This is pretty exciting. We were kind of talking, me
Speaker 2: and the crew at Coast to Coast and they were
Speaker 2: talking about the things that we want to get into,
Speaker 2: and I said, I really don't understand twin Flames and
Speaker 2: I want to know more about I feel like I
Speaker 2: hear about it a lot. Actually, the last time I've
Speaker 2: heard about it, Tanya, was when I was watching that
Speaker 2: Netflix show Escaping Twin Flames? Did you watch that show?
Speaker 3: The BiH that show, But I'll check it out after
Speaker 3: our show.
Speaker 2: It's it's not a positive thing. It's basically a couple
Speaker 2: that ran a scam on people by charging them to
Speaker 2: help them find twin flames. And part of the part
Speaker 2: of the scam was like they would say, well, this
Speaker 2: is your twin flame. You you've paid us for it.
Speaker 2: You pretty much got to marry them. Are like, well,
Speaker 2: I really don't feel connected to them. They're like, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's your twin flame. You got to marry them. But
Speaker 2: we'll get into that in a second. I am curious
Speaker 2: to know, since we haven't met before, tell me how
Speaker 2: you discovered your your EmPATH ness or your intuitiveness, bring
Speaker 2: bring us, bring us all into that. How did you
Speaker 2: discover that about yourself?
Speaker 3: Oh? Thanks, that's a great question. I always teach about
Speaker 3: the four Claires. I talk about intuition and psychic ability,
Speaker 3: So just for people who aren't as familiar with it,
Speaker 3: the four's or main psychic pathways are clear. Audience. That's
Speaker 3: where you hear a gentle voice in your mind giving
Speaker 3: you intuitive guidance. Clairvoyance is where you see images in
Speaker 3: your mind giving you intuitive guidance. Clare cognizance is the
Speaker 3: mental in psychic pathway where you have epiphanies, breakthrough thoughts,
Speaker 3: downloads that give you intuitive guidance. And then Clsentience is
Speaker 3: possibly the most common psychic pathway to have open, although
Speaker 3: you can have all of them open or a couple.
Speaker 3: Clare Sentience is the feeling psychic pathways. So all impaths
Speaker 3: and sensitive people are very strong and clear sentience, and
Speaker 3: that's where you feel energies and emotions of other people,
Speaker 3: of spaces, of groups. You can feel and sense them,
Speaker 3: but you feel them internally as if they are your
Speaker 3: own energy and emotions. So I have all the four
Speaker 3: players psychic pathways open. And that's really how I got
Speaker 3: into this work, is that I, you know, I had
Speaker 3: psychic phenomenon and intuitive stuff happened when I was a child,
Speaker 3: and then as I got older, kind of one by one,
Speaker 3: these pathways started to open up for me.
Speaker 2: In your experience, does everybody have one of the players
Speaker 2: or some of the Clayers?
Speaker 3: Yes, I would say definitely that everyone has at least
Speaker 3: one of the players. And the interesting thing about intuition,
Speaker 3: and this is really inspiring, it's not a static thing.
Speaker 3: So if you're listening to this and thinking, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe I have one of those players open, but I
Speaker 3: think that's probably all for me. It's very likely that
Speaker 3: you at least have two that you have the capacity
Speaker 3: to open up. And our intuition really can blossom and
Speaker 3: improve and grow and strengthen over time, So it's not static.
Speaker 3: So the more that you learn about intuition, the more
Speaker 3: you practice it and play with it, you might surprise
Speaker 3: yourself and have different psychic pathways open up for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, before we get into the soulmate thing, let me
Speaker 2: back up to what you just said. So it sounds
Speaker 2: like what you're saying is you should listen to that
Speaker 2: intuition because it's probably guiding you somewhere that you should go.
Speaker 2: Am I hearing that.
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely. And your intuition is it's a GPS system
Speaker 3: that we all have. Everyone has an intuition and it
Speaker 3: really is there to guide you, just like a GPS
Speaker 3: and a car, and it's hardwired to you and it
Speaker 3: really course corrects just like the GPS and a car.
Speaker 3: So if you make one choice and then you think, oh,
Speaker 3: my intuition wasn't really guiding me here. I wish I
Speaker 3: could go back and do that again. Just like a
Speaker 3: GPS and a car, it will keep course correcting with
Speaker 3: every choice and turn and bend in the road. I remember,
Speaker 3: you do have free will, so you know sometimes in
Speaker 3: certain situations there are a couple of choices that might
Speaker 3: be positive for you or.
Speaker 2: Work as a farmer, Like anxiety person, tell me the
Speaker 2: difference between your intuition and maybe your paranoia leading the
Speaker 2: thought pattern or the feeling being like, oh man, that's
Speaker 2: bad news. That's bad news. But what if it's just
Speaker 2: in your head? How do you know the difference.
Speaker 3: That's an excellent question. I think that most people in
Speaker 3: this modern age suffer from some degree of anxiety or
Speaker 3: experience that often on at different times, and intense emotional
Speaker 3: experiences like anxiety can kind of block or freeze or
Speaker 3: shut down your intuition, not stop it or take it away,
Speaker 3: but it'll be really difficult for you to discern or
Speaker 3: hear or see what your intuition is showing you if
Speaker 3: you're in a state of you know, really high anxiety
Speaker 3: and panic, which can happen to people, and especially now
Speaker 3: in this modern age where we're all kind of chronically
Speaker 3: overstimulated at times. So the one thing that's really helpful
Speaker 3: when you're trying to discern is this my panic? Is
Speaker 3: this my paranoia? Or is this genuine intuitive hit or
Speaker 3: download that I'm getting. Your intuitions will come to you
Speaker 3: in a way that's very neutral, you know, so there
Speaker 3: won't usually be any kind of emotional charge to it.
Speaker 3: So often if you're say you have clear audience, that
Speaker 3: that psychic pathway open where you hear the gentle voice
Speaker 3: in your mind, the voice will always sound calm, you know,
Speaker 3: so again you're it's just a way to illustrate how
Speaker 3: the intuition it always comes in is a very neutral way.
Speaker 3: It's not emotionally charged. It doesn't feel tense or anxious. Now,
Speaker 3: sometimes you will really get an intuitive hit that has
Speaker 3: a bit of urgency behind it. That usually happens to say,
Speaker 3: you're trying to buy a house, or you want to
Speaker 3: buy a house, and you're getting synchronicities external intuitive hits.
Speaker 3: That's where you get signs outside of you, but your
Speaker 3: own internal intuition is saying, oh that thing that someone
Speaker 3: said that I overheard the grocery line or that movie
Speaker 3: that I was watching and that one line stuck out
Speaker 3: to me. You know, I think that was a synchronicity.
Speaker 3: These are all kind of urging me to buy a house.
Speaker 3: You might feel suddenly, you know, kind of a physical
Speaker 3: emotional sensation of I really need to do this now,
Speaker 3: I need to move on this. So you know, it
Speaker 3: won't necessarily feel like anxiety or panic, but it could
Speaker 3: feel like this strong nudge or gut instinct like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, now is the right time to try and
Speaker 3: buy a house, try and get a new job, go
Speaker 3: on that trip. So it won't quite feel like anxiety,
Speaker 3: but you can't have that kind of sense of urgency
Speaker 3: with things.
Speaker 2: So do you have an app or something? I thought
Speaker 2: I was seeing something about a calendar that people can follow.
Speaker 2: What is in that calendar when we get that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, thanks for asking. It's a calendar that I've
Speaker 3: put out with Workmen Publishing. It's a New York City
Speaker 3: publisher that's now owned by Hashet. It's a really lovely calendar.
Speaker 3: It's a page a day calendar, so you get to
Speaker 3: know the fun of tearing off a different page every day.
Speaker 3: That is a self love calendar. So every day you
Speaker 3: get a self love message that I've written and then
Speaker 3: an action step of how to use it in your life,
Speaker 3: and you just it's really pretty. It's got lovely little
Speaker 3: illustrations and you pull those off every day. So I
Speaker 3: do have books oracle decks in the calendar about a
Speaker 3: couple of different subjects. So, as you said, I'm a
Speaker 3: professional intuitive. I give one on one readings to people.
Speaker 3: But I'm also a writer and I love to write
Speaker 3: about lots of different things, intuition, sensitivity, self love, and mindfulness.
Speaker 2: I want to get into as much of it as
Speaker 2: we can because I also feel like my intuition tells
Speaker 2: me that you have the heart of a teacher too,
Speaker 2: So as a novice to this, I want to learn
Speaker 2: the difference between a soulmate and a twin flame. In fact,
Speaker 2: let me give you a little background. I was talking
Speaker 2: to my beautiful bride, Stacy. We just got married about
Speaker 2: a year ago, and we were talking about thank you
Speaker 2: so much. It seems like it took a long time
Speaker 2: for us to find each other, but in our lives
Speaker 2: we had lived in the same cities, even the same neighborhoods,
Speaker 2: and never really found each other until, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: ten years ago. So we always talk about, like, did
Speaker 2: you go to this restaurant in Dallas? Yes, I went
Speaker 2: to that restaurant. We were in the same places all
Speaker 2: the time, but didn't meet. And she was saying as
Speaker 2: we were talking tonight, when I was talking about having
Speaker 2: you as a guest, she said, I don't know that
Speaker 2: I believe in the soulmate thing, but I'm super interested
Speaker 2: just because of our story is so unique and it
Speaker 2: almost seemed like it would be impossible for us to
Speaker 2: ever find each other. But it also seems like how
Speaker 2: impossible it seemed that we didn't find each other sooner.
Speaker 2: So take me into a relationship of what a soulmate
Speaker 2: is and what a twin flame is.
Speaker 3: And I really just wanted to comment on that relationship
Speaker 3: you just shared. Rich That story that you shared, I
Speaker 3: thought was so wonderful when you were sharing that you
Speaker 3: and your wife, you know, had kind of been living
Speaker 3: these parallel lives where you were in similar places and
Speaker 3: in the same city, but hadn't met. It made me
Speaker 3: immediately wonder if it was a divine timing issue. So
Speaker 3: there might have been some divine timing of why you
Speaker 3: didn't connect until you did eventually connect. And also, I
Speaker 3: think the interesting thing that I would like to share
Speaker 3: that I have learned of after doing thousands of readings,
Speaker 3: as you said, with people all over the world, that's
Speaker 3: a heck of a teaching experience. As far as learning
Speaker 3: a lot, it's been really fascinating to me how much
Speaker 3: of our lives can be kind of divinely orchestrated, for
Speaker 3: lack of a better term, it right, And I think
Speaker 3: sometimes it can feel a little mind blowing, you know,
Speaker 3: as your wife said, it seems it seems implausible that
Speaker 3: so many people would have angels or guardians or spirit
Speaker 3: or soul contracts, these benevolent forces that are weaving us
Speaker 3: all together and are pairing us up and having certain
Speaker 3: experiences happen. At certain times, it feels like it's incredibly orchestrated,
Speaker 3: and I think it's hard for us to wrap our
Speaker 3: minds around that. But I think after doing so many
Speaker 3: readings that's actually true. So I do think that things
Speaker 3: are way more orchestrated than you know, even down to minutia.
Speaker 3: We then we would probably guess.
Speaker 2: At the time those that connect, right, those that connect
Speaker 2: mean way more than maybe you pay attention to right.
Speaker 3: Like synchronicities, having against overhearing a conversation, having a friend
Speaker 3: text you at just the right moment, saying just the
Speaker 3: right thing, having someone recommend a book on something that
Speaker 3: you were just wanting to learn more about. All of
Speaker 3: you know, seeing an animal on someone's T shirt that
Speaker 3: is your special animal message or and a symbol for
Speaker 3: you of something, having a number pop up on a house,
Speaker 3: you know, your favorite number, this kind of stuff. It
Speaker 3: feels a bit wild that it could be so orchestrated,
Speaker 3: but I think it is. At the same time, I
Speaker 3: always like to really remind people that in my belief
Speaker 3: system there's a huge amount of free will that we
Speaker 3: have with our lives. So I think it's you know,
Speaker 3: I think so many so much of spirituality are these
Speaker 3: two truths that feel contradictory, but they're both valid. So
Speaker 3: while so much is orchestrated, I think and so much
Speaker 3: might be planned out or might be, you know, there's
Speaker 3: some conductor helping facilitate all of this. I think there
Speaker 3: is also a huge amount of free will and choices
Speaker 3: and even random stuff that happens, you know, when you
Speaker 3: have so many people living in the world, all, having
Speaker 3: a human free will, you're going to have a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff changing on the fly and a lot of
Speaker 3: things happening very organically. So I think both things are true.
Speaker 3: Things can be incredibly orchestrated down to minutia, and there's
Speaker 3: so many things that you can't quite predict or guess
Speaker 3: because things really are organic and changing on the fly.
Speaker 2: Okay, So before we have to go to break, let's
Speaker 2: see if we can get the difference between a soulmate
Speaker 2: and a twin flame. And then when we come back,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing you have a way for us to set
Speaker 2: ourselves up for the success to find the one that's
Speaker 2: right for you. Right, you have probably a practice or
Speaker 2: an exercise or a way to open yourself up to that.
Speaker 2: So let us let us find out what is a
Speaker 2: soulmate in what is a twin flame? What's the difference?
Speaker 3: Well, a soulmate is just simply someone that you have
Speaker 3: an agreement with that you have a strong spiritual connection
Speaker 3: to your earthly kind of practical connection to them, and
Speaker 3: it's something that you can feel, it's something that you
Speaker 3: might get synchronicities around to reinforce, and it really can
Speaker 3: just be a deep knowing that this person is in
Speaker 3: your life for a reason, for a reason that isn't
Speaker 3: just obvious. It could be someone who's a coworker. It
Speaker 3: could be a romantic interest, it could be a pet,
Speaker 3: it could be a family member. Some family members you
Speaker 3: might feel a strong, much stronger soul connection to than others.
Speaker 3: As far as the twin flame, that's a really interesting concept,
Speaker 3: and it goes all the way back to Plato. Actually,
Speaker 3: this idea that a soul can be split into kind
Speaker 3: of two bodies or two beings having the same soul.
Speaker 3: And then the twin flame theory or how it has
Speaker 3: evolved in modern times is that you are looking for
Speaker 3: that person who feels like your other half. Often the
Speaker 3: theory goes it's a theory because these things are all
Speaker 3: just theories that you know, it could kind of be
Speaker 3: a yin yang thing. So they could complete you in
Speaker 3: the sense that I'm really a pessimist and they're really
Speaker 3: an optimist, and somehow, you know, we're catching each other's
Speaker 3: blindside or we're complimenting each other. But according to the theory,
Speaker 3: there's a strong sense of being very understood by that
Speaker 3: person having similarities in your background, and again it's the
Speaker 3: sense of a completion or feeling more completed or whole
Speaker 3: when you have that person in your life. So, you know,
Speaker 3: I think that that, again, I would say, is a
Speaker 3: theory and I have heard of unfortunately, you know people,
Speaker 3: whether it was that one particular organization or others. You know,
Speaker 3: people can you know, take advantage of this kind of
Speaker 3: stuff or take advantage of people, And maybe sometimes they're
Speaker 3: doing it without even realizing it.
Speaker 2: Maybe they Oh, you're talking about the you're talking about
Speaker 2: the Netflix show. Yeah, that's a whole other thing. That's
Speaker 2: a scary documentary, right, Yea.
Speaker 3: The reason I was bringing it up, Rich is just
Speaker 3: because I think we can all fall prey to lack
Speaker 3: of a better word, of getting too kind of obsessed
Speaker 3: with these concepts good.
Speaker 2: I wanted to kind of cover that because I think
Speaker 2: that you get that romantic or you can be like, well,
Speaker 2: there's some there's somebody out there for me, and if
Speaker 2: they're my soulmate, of they're my twin flame, then no
Speaker 2: matter what happens, we ride or die. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: that you can be attracted to people, maybe even from
Speaker 2: a past life or something like that that could be
Speaker 2: just like straight up poison for you, right, so we
Speaker 2: should probably cover all that too, And then before we
Speaker 2: go to break, give me a quick definition of a
Speaker 2: twin flame.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we just did rich. You know, it's
Speaker 3: that sense. And again, this is a theory and it's
Speaker 3: not one that I that I really subscribe to or
Speaker 3: talk about a lot, because I think it is just
Speaker 3: a theory, and it's not that it's a bad theory.
Speaker 3: Some people love this idea, but I think there is
Speaker 3: kind of a shadow or difficult side to it. It
Speaker 3: sometimes sounds a little bit like codependency or you can't
Speaker 3: be completed without this one person. And I do fear
Speaker 3: that it sometimes sets people up to feel like there
Speaker 3: is only one person for them. And I really like
Speaker 3: to remind people that soulmates is a big plural, even
Speaker 3: in the romantic sense. So I like to think that
Speaker 3: many as many chances as you want to take in
Speaker 3: life and put yourself out there, the universe will meet you.
Speaker 3: So I don't like to think that there's just one
Speaker 3: person for everyone. And then I do worry sometimes that
Speaker 3: when you get too into any kind of soulmate concept,
Speaker 3: you can get so idealistic about it that you might think, well,
Speaker 3: this person just doesn't fit that, so they can't be
Speaker 3: the one, and you could miss out on someone that
Speaker 3: could be a lovely partner.
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