A Silent Epiphany…. Your Words are Your Medicine
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My main reason for starting the live over 5 years ago and then the blog was always to help you heal, know you are not alone, and that you are loved and needed. But what I did not expect was the healing that has surfaced within myself through speaking to you. I read your comments and emails and appreciate when I see your comments about the talk that resonated with your soul and aided you in your healing process.
Yesterday, I was given a silent epiphany that I want to share with you. While I was cleaning off my desk, preparing for a Zoom reading, I came across a small sticky note with my writing on it. I don’t remember how long ago I wrote it or why, but it surfaced yesterday. The quote I wrote was, “Your words are your medicine.” I thought how interesting it was to find it. I often write quotes down in a notebook or a sticky note that strikes a chord with me. Apparently, it was interesting enough for me to save it for a later date. That date was yesterday, and now, for you today.
“Your words are your medicine.” Good right?! It gets better, hang with me. Don’t stop reading yet. Without going into details of yesterday’s readings, I’m going to hit on the epiphany messages.
While meditating before meeting with my client, I pulled the Mountain Lion Medicine card. I heard and wrote down the meanings I was given. We connect through zoom to begin the session. She later told me she was struggling with some pretty heavy emotional stuff. She started the conversation by saying, “I am open to the surprises of grace.” When she said that, it hit that chord and I replied to her, “I’m going to write that down, that is my new mantra.”
I explained the meaning of the message of the Mountain Lion. It is to always live in and through your truth. In the way you speak, act and live. Be truthful to yourself and to those around you. The message went on about other things but the final sentence from the Mountain Lion was, “You are only responsible for your response and reaction to the situation. Powerful, right?! Your words are your medicine. Speak and live in your truth and you are only responsible for your response and reaction to the situation. And then her words from the beginning of the reading, “I’m open to the surprises of grace.”
But wait, there is more. I told you, silent epiphany. My last client of the day came in not knowing why she came only that she felt drawn. Never having had a reading before she said she was open to whatever experience that came.
As always, I meditate beforehand and pull a medicine card. Her card — The alligator, which speaks about the ability to digest your victories. To not get stuck in the quicksand that “failure” brings, which are actually learning lessons for our growth. Even if we don’t know it at the time.
Her angel cards addressed things from the past that she, like most of us, felt had been worked through. But deep down it was still affecting her. The alligator poses the questions, “Are you rushing through life, missing opportunities, not seeing the victories, moving from one project to another, checking them off the list of things to do? Are you keeping your mind and body so busy it doesn’t have time to feel the emotion and heal? Are you searching for validation but not receiving it because of the busyness? Are you taking responsibility for things out of your control?” Do any of these questions resonate with you? I know they did with me. I spoke to her of the message of my earlier meeting. “You are only responsible for your response and reaction to the situation.”
As I guided with messages, I said I was told to say, “I feel like you have a very close relationship with, (I named the person) but they don’t seem to really know you. It seems as though you speak and act in a way that you think is appropriate for them.” She agreed with this statement. I was guided to continue with the message, “it is time to let others know your true self.”
As I reflected on my day with a smile in all the interconnections of signs and messages. It all started with a sticky note and the realization of these two readings with the powerful statements received. It reminded me of my intention I set with my client before every reading. Part of it I state, “I do not argue with Spirit. These messages are for you or for me, for today or tomorrow.”
It was no coincidence that I found the little pink sticky note or my client saying that she was open to the surprises of grace. The Mountain Lion advising to speak, act and live in your truth and that we are only responsible for our reaction or response to the situation. Asking to ponder the question of being busy in order to avoid the emotional thought process that others won’t like something about us. So busy that we are at the point that some of our closest people don’t even know. We’ve grown accustomed to speak and act the way we perceive is acceptable to them. Masking our true selves and missing opportunities placed in front of us out of fear of failure. Not realizing the life lessons and experiences for us to speak about and share with future generations. Our words are our medicine. We are only responsible for our reaction and response to the situation.
I, myself, admit that I have had and still have rocky relationships. Some to the point of not trusting the emotional intentions of others. I was conditions through experiences not to trust anyone which included family members. At one point in my life, I trusted no one. Always being on high alert of what their intentions may be, and when they were going to point out their disappointment in me. It’s sad to think about this, not only sad but it is tiring and exhausting to feel like prey, waiting to be devoured. After some counseling and shadow work I learned to speak my truth. What I found was my lack of trust was actually a protection I placed around myself to avoid future hurt. I was not taking the change of giving someone the opportunity to hurt me. You see, we are the result of the conditioning we are taught from our experiences. I was conditioned to feel that my words and actions weren’t important. They were wrong or crazy; they didn’t make sense. Having been constantly corrected in the words I spoke or spoken over from the people I thought I needed their approval. Later to realize they weren’t my tribe. The more you hide and allow others to be spoken over you, the more your thoughts and actions become and feel like dirty little secrets. You know those unspoken secrets that hold you in shame and guilt. Accepting that all that is wrong in the world has to my fault.
But then, there was this tiny pink sticky note, that I found and share it with you, “Your words are your medicine.” The statement from my client, “I am open to the surprises of grace.” Remember, “you are only responsible for your response or reaction to the situation. POW, Mind blowing right?! Something so easy to realize, but it takes work, guts to be able to put in place the courage to speak it. Fear keeps us from being who we are meant to be. The fear that others won’t accept us. The fear of not being good enough or worthy. The fear of not being validated for the magical person lurking deep within our psyche.
First off give yourself grace. “I am open to the surprises of grace.” Learn to like the true you. Speak your truth. Own only what you are responsible for, your reaction or response to the situation. Find wisdom and grace in the messages and lessons given to you. Apply them in your favor not your defeat.
Together, we can help heal the world one person at a time and it all starts with healing ourselves in the process.
That is what this platform has given me the ability to do. It has been the catalyst of my healing journey. Heal, recover by using your words as your medicine. These talks originally were for your healing journey and God bless you, you allowed me to heal as well through speaking my truth to each of you.
I hope bells and whistles were going off in your head while reading these words in this blog. The silent epiphany I received yesterday is now yours as well. I hope it helped you realize that what make this world truly amazing and life an adventure are all the different varieties of people who come into your life. The ones who surround us. We can offer a safe space to listen to their truth and their stores and returning it with our truths and stories. Actions speak louder than words, but your words are your medicine. Use them as the prescription needed to live the life you love and love the life you live.
If this blog spoke to you drop me an email at connectingtospiritwithstacey@gmail.com, I would love to hear about it.
Have a magical week.
Blessings
Stacey
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