We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Ann Klossing. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Ann below.
Ann , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.
For over half of my working life, I woke up to the alarm and checked my Soul out for the day. I loathed getting up and going about my day. I felt unappreciated by my employers (and their were a few). It didn’t matter who I worked for, the enthusiasm for the job wore off quickly. Personal and work experiences happened to me, and I welcomed the victimhood that came with them. Instead of waking up with zest for my day, I preferred to think of the drudgery of another day.
I became in a state of clinical depression for the second time and didn’t know it. Victimhood was my environment, and I was thriving in it. Like a cancer, depression begins without your knowing. Your body knows, but your mind ignores the subtle signs until the symptomology is obvious.
That was me – ignoring the signs of depression, and blaming anyone or anything for my angst. My second marriage was unstable, and another fight over the same topic led me to flight or fight mode. I opted to flee. I was tired of hashing over the same dismal topic unable to realize we were both right in our stance and unable to agree to disagree. I began taking anti-depressants again. The stronger (I’ll use that term loosely) I became, the more arguments we had. So, I ran out of the house to get away from “him”.
I traveled to the north side of my property. I sat on the edge of an open field surrounded by woodlands. Head in my hands that were beginning to pool with tears. I couldn’t take it any more. I found myself thinking thoughts of suicide. No option appealed to me. I just wanted the pain to stop – the pain in my head and the pain in my body.
Something made me look up, and as I lifted my head, I noticed a large, Alpha male coyote about twenty feet from me. Not twenty yards, twenty feet! A quick scan of my surrounding and there were 3 more in the field and others coming from the tree line. My mind reeled with thought and I heard in my mind “are you sure you want this?”
In that moment, I had to decide. I had to choose to live or choose to be mauled by a pack of coyote. Coyote are timid creatures, but not this Alpha male. He was hungry, had help, and I would make a tasty meal for a few days. Before I knew it, I answered “no” in my mind. The voice inside my head was loud and instructed me with a single word, “Bark”. With a crackly voice, I barked – well, sort of. It came out more like “barkel”, and the Alpha male took another step toward me. This time I barked loud. This caught the coyote’s attention,and we locked eyes. He didn’t budge. Here I am a early forty-something woman, standing eye-to-eye with a coyote. I opted to stand up. Nope the dog didn’t budge. I hear the voice again instruct me to “growl”. Not only did I growl, I ran straight toward the Alpha male barking, growling, arms flailing around in the air – and the pack fled, and I stood there trembling in fear.
I can only imagine how ridiculous I looked, and that image has me laughing at myself. This moment was my wake up call, and I realized that I was the common denominator in all of my experiences. I didn’t understand it back then, but I do now. This moment IS the reason I am in business for myself because I don’t want anyone else to suffer like I did – the self inflicted suffering I put myself through.
This event shook my core being. I became obsessed with healing and never going back to a depressed state of being. I researched acupuncture and sought aggressive treatment. In less than sixty days, I was weaning myself off the meds. My acupuncturist and chiropractor led me to Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, and many others on mindset and healing. I read, I journaled and began to do the work of surrender, release and heal.
I was (and still am) discovering who I am. I exited a second marriage, and a career. I took a leap of faith, and followed my heart and Soul’s desires. I couldn’t be happier and I no longer check my Soul when the alarm goes off. I am so happy and grateful to lead a Soul-led life. It’s my passion to teach others to to do the same.
Ann , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I am an author, intuitive mentor, and channeler of Divine Energy. I am passionate about skilled thought, Universal Law, Soul agreements and how they intertwine with the human experience. My mission is to transform the way a person responds to life experiences while taking responsibility for their own words and actions through simplified methods in my guidebooks, courses, spiritual mentorship programs, and public speaking. In simplified terms, your thoughts, feelings, and emotions create your current reality, and your soul agreements (between the Soul, God and every individual you experience in this lifetime) play a role in all of that too.
If a stranger approached me 10 years ago stating that I would be an author and a channeler, I would have asked what planet did you come from? I come from an extremely rural area. I live on a dairy farm with the love of my life. I am quite content hiding amongst the cows or rows of corn. However, my Soul has summoned me to something far greater than I ever imagined!
I grew up on a farm in northern Illinois and eventually gravitated to SW Wisconsin where I attended UW-Platteville and majored in agriculture. I loved the Driftless Area of SW Wisconsin and settled in a career in conservation. I have twenty years with various government jobs and ten years working at a full-service agricultural center as a warehouse manager.
I explain it best in my chapter in my first co-authored publication Women Who Shine. I was given a deck of cards at birth, and I was the dealer. I kept dealing a losing hand: sexual abuse, miscarriage, clinical depression, affair, divorce, another marriage, loss of father, another clinical depression, real thoughts of suicide, and divorce #2! Wow, what a crappy hand – until I realized that I was the dealer and common denominator of all my angst! I created that mess. I summoned it by Law – Law of Vibration, Law of Attraction, and Law of Free Will.
Accepting that I am the creator of my life, I became obsessed with feeling better. It was time to deal a winning hand in life – and I did!
This grand transformation didn’t happen overnight, but I certainly sped the process up when I quit my full-time job in the fall of 2019. I took a few months off to finish my book, and the Universe laughed at me. I didn’t know it at that time, but the book was about to expand. I began to enroll in programs from Jack Canfield, Patty Aubery, and Mary Morrissey. I immersed myself in their teachings. This is when I discovered my Soul’s purpose, my spiritual gift (Channel Clearing), and outlined the four pillars of my vocation.
My current service, Channel Clearing is offered through my mentorship programs: WE+1 Mentorship (2 weeks) and WE+1 Life Transformation Mentorship an 8 Week Journey, From Uncertainty to Knowing. The mentorships are offered to individuals who understand that they are the creator of their life, who are searching for clarity, are willing and ready to take 100% responsibility for their thoughts and actions. They are seeking knowledge from their Soul, and WE+1 Mentorship is where they learn to commune with their Soul at a much deeper level.
The WE+1 Life Transformation program is for heart centered individuals who are all in. Meaning, they are ready to live a co-created life with their Soul. This is called deliberate creation where you intimately create the results in your life guided by your Soul. This mentorship consists of four readings from your Soul, four life prescriptions, and tools and meditations that are used to perpetuate the co-creative cycle for the rest of your life.
We spend two weeks on each life quadrant: Health and Wellbeing, Vocation, Time & Money Freedom, and Relationships. It is a unique process I developed to create the four pillars of my vocation, the outline and contents for my books and coursework. If you are looking for a quantum leap in your life, this mentorship is for you.
WE is the collective consciousness I channel. It is Creator energy. Label WE with whatever you are comfortable with: God, Higher Power, Infinite, Source. WE is under the umbrella of God/Creator Energy consisting of 95 Ascended Masters, the Archangels and the entire realm of angels. Through thought, I channel WE. I asked for a name, and WE is Their name. It was given because WE are all One, and that includes YOU and me – WE.
Consciousness has no box, no container, and it is challenging for many humans to place perspective on it because we are caught up in sensory imagery or matter (physicalness of reality). What I am talking about is Spirituality not religion. Religions are containerized, and when I was brought up and schooled in a Baptist Church, I was not supposed to mix or confuse containers. For me, I respect all religions because they all believe in one creator, and I practice none because of the way many religions place God in a box with restrictive rules in various forms and containers. Instead, I practice Universal Law and apply skilled thought to bring out the best in me. For those who seek religion as their means to Spirituality, I respect and appreciate you. That is respecting the Universal Law of Free Will – to be, do, or have anything in this lifetime, AND to have the right to feel, think, and act for the self and no other. It is not my right to get in your business and it is not your right to be in mine, AND neither one of has the right to climb up the ladder into God’s business: The Law of Free Will.
To give you a visual perception of WE (because I know you want one), it would look like a round sphere (a giant dome of energy) where the top half represents Divine Masculine Energy and the bottom half the Divine Feminine. Picture an Egyptian Woman with massive wings, the Goddess Isis, at the base half of a very large sphere. Her wings embrace the sphere as if she is holding it. The top half of the sphere would be luminescent with brilliant white, silver and gold light emanating from the fringe of the sphere. Within the sphere lies the 95 Ascended Masters, the Archangels, the entire realm of angels (billions).
As for WE, it is encapsulated by God which I envision as both Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine energies. For me, the representation of the Divine Feminine is Goddess Isis (there are other representations of feminine energy -Gaia, Quan Yin, Mother Nature, etc). The Divine Masculine I envision as a massive form of energy, and commonly envision this energy as the Sun. Remove the human form of gender from this context. This is energy. Every living form on this planet contains masculine and feminine energy. The masculine energy is your protective nature, the provider, the builder, and the feminine is creation, nurturing, teaching, healing. As an example, when you are in a creative mode, you are birthing an idea and bringing it into form. As you are bringing your idea into form, your masculine energy comes out – the builder, the provider, and the protector of your creation. The Law of Polarity comes into play here too – another topic for another time.
When I channel, WE, I am working with the upper realms versus working with those who have transitioned. Loved ones who have passed come through if your Soul find’s purpose in it. I am not a medium for those who have transitioned. I am a liaison to your Soul. Much like a court reporter, I bring forth the information that your Soul identifies in need of your acknowledgment, releasing, and willingness to heal.
WE Mentorships are quantum shifts in energy, deep levels of healing, inspiring, and beyond your imagination. They are life altering.
If you are new to spirituality and energy work, I recommend the two week WE+1 Mentorship because you will discover clarity and provide a new lens to view your life and an understanding that thought becomes things by way of how you feel and Universal Law. It’s like a mini undergraduate course versus a master’s degree such as the WE+1 Life Transformation Mentorship.
WE+1 Life Transformation mentorship is about the readiness to take responsibility for your future experiences. When I was beginning my healing phase from a place of self-loathing and powerlessness, I would not have been prepared or ready for a WE+1 Life Transformation. I needed to shed many layers of emotions: shame, anger, guilt, and my addiction to fear first. I had to heal and obtain an understanding of who I am. My first step was accepting that I was the creator of a messy life. Once I did that, I became obsessed with feeling better, and this obsession fueled the desire to write my memoir/guidebook: Finding You IS Finding God, The Interrelationship Between Thought, Universal Law, Soul Agreements and the Human Experience, soon to be published by year end 2023.
Finding You IS Finding God is my baby. I am proud to be the creator of this work. This creation is for the masses and the intention is to take the reader from any of the lower vibrational emotions (anger, fear, blame, doubt, despair, grief, to name a few), and learn to focus their attention on feeling better. This is where the reader will learn about the fundamentals of three Universal Laws (Law of Free Will, Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction), processing thought, and how to transform low vibrational thought and emotion to a higher vibration through the guidebook portion, Stairway to Joy.
Transformational healing doesn’t happen overnight. Think of this process as an Olympic athlete. They train for many hours daily and their sole focus is preparing their body while envisioning the win. In the case of depression, the burning desire is vibrant health, and you will utilize the concepts in the Stairway to Joy to achieve your target goal: vibrant health. You will learn the Transformation Equation that contains concepts, journaling exercises, meditations, and visualizations that places you on the fast tract to feeling better. The book is designed to take you on a step-by-step healing journey.
I have also placed intention for this book to be a support tool for family and friends of individuals who are experiencing depression and/or anxiety. If you have never experienced depression or high levels of anxiety, it is difficult to understand what your loved one may be going through. The concepts in Universal Law will assist you in understanding the experience of your loved one.
Finding You IS Finding God has been in gestation for five years. I am absolutely thrilled to be birthing it into the world. This book is fundamental, relatable, and it will be the foundation for my coursework. My future products include self-paced courses on the teachings in Finding You IS Finding God.
If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?
If I could go back, I wouldn’t be the same person I am today. Every step, every experience led me to where I am today. To change any of it would be like the people in my life didn’t exist. What I mean by this is if I had the knowledge and wisdom that I am aware I have today, I most likely wouldn’t have made the same choices. This means I most likely would not have married my first husband and this would lead to a huge consequence: I wouldn’t have given birth to my daughter. I can’t imagine my life without her in it. I have a great relationship with my ex-husband, and he is part of our family.
Sure, I might be inclined to dismiss the second marriage, however as miserable as some of my life experiences may appear, they were greatly needed for my growth – and they make great stories! Had I not married my second husband, I doubt I would have written Finding You IS Finding God. That period of my life was a breaking point for me, and it was where I found myself and my spirituality.
Some refer to this “unwinding” as the dark night of the Soul. It was in my unraveling that I found my purpose, where I connected with my Soul and outlined the four pillars of my vocation: books, coursework, public speaking, and Channel Clearing. I turned my back on myself decades ago – I walked away from me, so far away that I forgot who I was. Now that I have found who I am, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
My transformation took place over a span of fifteen years. In fact, I will not stop transforming and creating. That’s my job: strive for happiness and create whatever I want in this lifetime. I don’t want anyone to go through the suffering I did. That’s my reason for writing Finding You IS Finding God, The Interrelationship Between Thought, Universal Law, Soul Agreements, and the Human Experience. It is my intention to birth this book fall, 2023. This book is my memoir and guidebook, and it will be the foundation for my online coursework. The book has been five years in the making and has expanded from a short memoir to a teaching tool. The intention behind the words is for anyone to be able to pick it up and shift from a place of fear, anxiety, or powerlessness to one of joy. I am eager to get it into the hands of the readers who need it.
Finding You IS Finding God is also for the person who is witnessing a loved one dealing with inner turmoil. It will provide a new perspective or lens to look through versus wanting to “save” or try to change their loved one, and it will provide an understanding of what their loved one may be going through.
As I began to heal, I wrote letters to God filled with accusations, complaints, and many questions. As I asked a question, the pen began to answer back with questions, and sometimes statements. Be who you are born to be repeatedly appeared in my journal. So often I would become irritated because I really didn’t know who I was let alone – who I was born to be. There was plenty of grumbling and swearing going on in my mind, but I kept with this process referred to as automatic writing. Before I knew it, I was communicating with archangels, my father and many other relatives who had passed on. I kept this gift hidden for a few years until I enrolled in Jack Canfield’s course Reignite Your Life. My entire world changed by taking this course, and I have COVID to thank for that. The entire world shut down, but I began to blossom in the online Canfield community.
From the Canfield network, I acquired a lovely accountability partner who coaxed me out of my channeling closet and provided me with the title Channel Clearing. I channeled for her on paper and nailed it. I was spot on with the information and that gave me great relief. Channel Clearing is my spiritual gift. It is a process where I communicate with the Soul of the client to bring forth emotions and beliefs within the mind and body that need to be acknowledged and released so that they can heal at a cellular and spiritual level. In other words, the Soul chooses the “story” that you are ready to release, and I communicate that story in a way that brings clarity and understanding so that you can acknowledge, accept, and release it so you can deeply heal within.
I tell people I am a work in progress, and I follow the breadcrumbs of the Soul. As soon as I began listening AND saying YES to my Soul, life became a desert tray. I get to choose the desert that fancies me, or better yet, I get to create a new desert with the ingredients my Soul places before me.
I also choose to be around people who inspire me such as Patty Aubery and Jack Canfield. I chose to invest in myself and attend their Mastermind Retreat held in Patty’s home in Nashville, Tennessee. This trip was essential to my growth as an entrepreneur where I was coached one-on-one with Patty, Jack and James Malinchak. This trip was priceless, and Jack assisted me with naming the teaching portion of Finding You IS Finding God – The Stairway to Joy. Find the people who believe in your dream, listen to them, and do the advised action items they recommend. You need these individuals because it will be inevitable that your egocentric mind will want to run your show. Don’t allow it. Don’t allow doubt, fear or imposter syndrome to sneak in and tromp all over your dream. Find the people who will support you and welcome them into your world.
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