Today we’d like to introduce you to Rachel D. Greenwell.
Hi Rachel D. , thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I started in my work as an author and life coach after having a spiritual awakening on Oct. 13, 2014.
This spiritual awakening was much like the NDE experiences you might hear of on documentaries about proof of the afterlife. It came with a sudden and intense realization of a lot of information that makes no logical sense as to where it came from. It also came with a past life review of everything I had done good and bad and the deep knowing of my actions had impacted myself, others, and the world at large.
There was a future preview as well that showed me glimpses into limitless multiple pathways that were possible for my future and I was able to see how my next steps could change the trajectory of my life forever. One of the paths was one where I could have the greatest possible positive impact on the world. It was also the pathway that came with the toughest personal healing and spiritual journey to shape me into the person who could and would follow through with the actionable steps necessary to make that pathway a reality.
Needless to say, I chose that path of greatest possible positive impact and then began my healing and spiritual journey in preparation of one day being able to carry out God’s will for my life. I entered recovery rooms for addiction, committed to therapy for my mental health issues, and engaged in counseling support groups. I read countless self help books and basically just through my entire self into healing for about 2 years. I began volunteering my time to help others like me in any way that I could which landed me an entry level job as a peer support counselor in a local mental health organization. It was great because it was week long certification process only and I was beyond excited to go to work everyday, It was also way better than working at the gas station I had been working at. I became a Master of Consciousness from Louisville School of Metaphysics and Got a Bachelors in Psychology from Colorado University online.
Eventually, I got tired of the rules and regulations of the mental health field that made me feel like I couldn’t serve clients in the way I wanted to and knew in my heart would aide them in healing. As a child who was homeschooled for the foundational early years of education, I also had a heart for freedom and doing things my way, so organizational structure just wasn’t my thing. I felt like an animal in a zoo being in a traditional 9-5 situation. All signs pointed to that I need to “do my own thing”. I didn’t know what that was exactly or how it was going to look but I tuned into hearing God and understanding when I was given divine instruction and trained myself to act upon it.
The Still Small Voice prompted me to perform actions I wasn’t quite sure of and didn’t understand the purpose for. Such as “create a website” even though I didn’t know what I was going to use it for. It also told me to “start doing YouTube videos” even though I was deathly afraid of public speaking. I would get intuitive nudges to reach out to certain people at bizarre times and ask them if they were ok. The general consensus was “Thats crazy you called this is divine timing” and “wow, how did you know…I was just balling crying feeling like I didn’t know who to call”.
I made deep and personal commitment to allow God to work through me as a humble vessel for good in the world and to use any knowledge or skills that I acquired in my own healing journey to give back and help others. It sounds really deep, serious, and spiritual- but I like to joke when asked “how did you get to where you are today?: and say “because I was really f***d up and had a lot of problems so I had to learn a lot of solutions to a lot of problems”. (he he) Now, I have a lot of knowledge about solutions to a plethora of issues that come with what I like to call “the human condition” and also have that lived experience of using it myself that makes me trustworthy. People who work with know that I’m not telling them something I learned in a textbook. I have textbook education as well, but I never tell anyone to do anything that I haven’t done myself because I’ve walked through the same issue.
At the end of the day, I’m here because I was called for a purpose and I answered that call. I’m here because God chose me (for whatever crazy reason lol) to do a really cool thing in the world and I’m extremely humbled and grateful to be who I am and to get to do what I get to do. I’m proud to be a conduit for God’s love in the world. God loved me and saved me and I will forever do my due diligence to be in that image and provide that for others to the best of my human ability.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has been both a rocky road and a smooth road just depending on which season of my journey we’re talking about. I can think back to moments where I was completely broken down and at a “rock bottom” so to speak not having any clue if I was <mshighlightspan class=”mshighlight” style=”background-color: rgb(178, 214, 243);”>ever</mshighlightspan> going to stop crying or if I could ever pick my weak depressed body up off of the kitchen floor. I can also recall moments where it felt like I quantum leaped into a new dimension of reality seemingly overnight and that the entire universe conspired in my favor and just rearranged all of my problems for me.
The thing is, our paths have a lot to do with our choices or lessons we might need to have. Some things in our paths are just the fact that suffering exists in the 3 dimensional reality and it’s a part of life. Other suffering is from our own doing or originates in our thinking and we choose to continue to suffer rather than just feel the original pain and then let it go. Myself, being a human…I am susceptible to all of the above just like everyone else. I have had some ego and pride issues that made me take a rocky road that could have been avoided. I’ve had some rocky roads such as navigating the pandemic <span style=”background-color: rgb(178, 214, 243);”>which </span>came from something bigger than me and I had absolutely no control over. I have had God reach down and pull me up out of some things that I would still be stuck in today if it weren’t for surrendering it over to my higher power. I’ve also made some decisions from places of divine wisdom and out of love for myself that set me on a path to relief, increased money, happier relationships, better health etc.
I do feel that the biggest struggles and pain I’ve experienced were from my own doing. I like to take responsibility for my actions and my energy. I think there’s been a lot of times where I just stayed focused on the wrong things or let go of the practices that keep me sane and happy. The number one thing that creates struggle though, I feel is just not listening to our intuition and divine guidance when it’s given. It creates the deepest feelings of guilt in me. I think a lot of people would agree that the moments where you have to say “Ugh, I KNEW it and I didn’t listen and now I have to deal with this negative consequence because of that” is the worst kind of guilty feeling you can have. I would say that guilt is my least favorite type of struggle I’ve had along the way. Also, trying to stay in a high vibration of love & light in a world so full of hate & darkness. It’s easy to get sucked into the low vibrations if you’re not staying consciously aware of it on your spiritual journey.
I feel like I’ve lived a thousands lives in one sometimes. I’ve walked so many different roads along my journey, and some were very very very rocky and some were very very very smooth and everything in between. But the important lesson is to remember is that some suffering we get no say so over and that pain is something we must simply accept. Other pain we do have a say so over and when given the opportunity to choose the energy of EASE rather than suffering or struggling…we should.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My work is a mixuture of things I have found that I love to do. But also a mixuture of things that God knew I had the capablility of that I would have never even thought to do.
I’m an Author of an amazing book called How to Wear a Crown: a practical guide to knowing your worth. I always loved writing but never knew it was in Gods plan for me to write a book until I was given that instruction. I’m a certified life coach. I chose that path so that I could be a credible service provider outside of the mental health organizations after I left those constructs. But again, had no clue that helping people in that way using psychological tools and coaching techniques was something I would do. If I wouldn’t have needed to seek help for myself I wouldn’t have found that I was good at helping others. Other people in support groups would discuss issues that I had already worked through and I would try to help them out of the kindness of my heart simply because I knew the answer. I had so many people tell me “you’re amazing at this, you should become a therapist” or “wow, you were born for this….why aren’t you a counselor?”. You can only hear that so many times before you think to yourself “there must be something to this, maybe I am supposed to be doing this for a living”.
That being said, I’m now an Author, a lifecoach, I specialize helping women in using my signiture methadology How to Wear a Crown which is a program built from the teachings in my book. I have a core mission to help people know thier worth, awaken their power, and unlock their full potential because I think with those 3 things instilled in each individual we will create planet that is comprised of people who are working to create the greatest possible positive change in the world and therefore together we will create a kinder more compassionate planet and raise the vibration of earth to a higher frequency.
I have many online courses, a journal and workbook to accompany my coaching work, a couple podcasts, I design merchandise such as clothing for my brand, I created a lipstick line once, it was flop lol But I’m definately going to try that again in a new vibe soon. I’ve got ideas about how to do it better. (he he) And then my newest thing is creating music using ai tools.
I am a musician my nature. I have wrote songs since I could sing words, I played flute in middle school band, I was in the choir in high school, I also played guitar and sang in talent shows during my high school career as well. I even auditioned for American Idol when they came to Louisville Ky….I think I was 19 or 20. They didn’t pick me lol. But, I love writing lyrics and always dreamt of being a career musican but I don’t have the music production skills. The use of AI music producer tools have allowed me to create music for my own personal healing journey because I heal so deeply through the act of writing songs.
I didn’t intend for it to really become anything I presented the world but I recently published some singles and will realease my first full album soon. That project is under the name “The Starburst System”. My prayer is that I could align with a producer one day and I could sign a deal and live out that aspect of my childhood dream.
On top of that, I am an artist <span style=”background-color: rgb(178, 214, 243);”>by</span> nature as well. I paint and draw and make jewelry and all kinds of things. Anything creative love. I just enjoy being in the flow of creation however God wants me to do that at the time.
I’m one of those multi interest/multi talented kind of people. I had a therapist once say “it’s like you have a 22 burner stove and all the pots are bubbling over” (he he) She was so right about that. I have my hand in a little bit of everything. I just like honoring all the parts of me and all things that I love. I believe in the idea that “we don’t have to choose”. If it’s true about you and it’s part of who you are, you’re allowed to be that and do it. You don’t have to pick just one thing. You’re allowed to be all of yourself.
I think we all have a purpose and certain energies that we are called to express in the world but that we are allowed creative freedom from the Universe on how exactly we express those energies. We can be called to do things that are outside of our comfort zone or our skill level, but it’s still so important to not doubt yourself. God doesn’t alway call the qualified but he always qualifies the called. Remember that as you’re walking your path and remembering the truth of your soul.
What quality or characteristic do you feel is most important to your success?
The quality and characteristic that is most important to my success is the ability to surrender everything in my life over to God and align with his will for me. It’s the part of my character that is humble enough to be obedient to God’s instruction when it comes even if my human self isn’t happy about it at the time. It’s my heart to love people and desire to create the biggest possible positive impact in the world. It’s my ability to see a higher vision that seems impossible and then have enough faith that it will manifest if I just commit to it and follow through with the actionable and aligned steps necessary to carry it out. I think it’s my “never will quit” “no matter what” “there isn’t a plan B” type of attitude.
When you want something you have to KNOW with everything in you that it was come to pass. You have to commit fully and never ever ever give up on it. Which is much easier to do when you know you’re in alignment with God’s will. When you’ve been given a divine instruction it’s easier to not listen to haters. It’s like once you have God’s permission for the go ahead….you don’t need anyone else’s permission. You barely even need your own permission. It’s just a drive and a fire that wont let you do anything else but succeed at that thing.
Know that there will be moments of stillness and downtime. A path of purpose has exciting moments, but not every moment is exciting. You must know what to do with yourself during the times of inaction which is typically just be a normal person like practice self care and love your family, and have fun.
I also think being humble and authentic play a big role. You can’t ever think you’re better than anyone else. You have to remember that you’re a human and that you need a higher power to aide you in becoming who you’re meant to be. Never forget to thank God. Be yourself because everyone else is already taken and people can smell a false vibration a mile away….so just show up as you. You’re enough and if you don’t put your real self out there then you’re robbing the world of one of God’s creations.
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Image Credits
Larry Green & Jill Ranae Smith