Spiritual Boundaries and Protecting Your Energy with Lauren McAlpin

Today I share my conversation with Lauren McAlpin, an educator, tarot card reader and soon-to-be deck author, reiki practitioner, psychic channel, and graduate student in psychology at Harvard.

Topics

• Developing your "clairs" (heightening your intuitive abilities)

• Lauren's intuitive gifts

• Overcoming a debilitating illness

• Experiencing communicating with their father's spirit

• Protecting your energy from your own energy

• Balancing their multiple sides: the mystical/spiritual side and type A side

• Spiritual boundaries

• Being conditioned to never rest

• Indications of overwhelm

• Inspiration for Lauren's new tarot card deck: Tales of the Black Tarot

• Exploring their lineage and being adopted

• The label of "being non-binary" and sexuality overshadowing gender

Links

• Lauren's Instagram

• Fog + Reign Instagram

• Lauren's website

• Tales of the Black Tarot website

• Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story

• Rider-Waite Tarot Deck

• Medium Fleur

• 365 Days of Hoodoo by Stephanie Rose Bird

• A Cultural History of Tarot by Helen Farley

As always, thank you to Maytav Koter and Spencer Stewart for the music on my podcast. And to Laura Strohbusch for the podcast graphic.