Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Wendy Hutchinson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, Wendy thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you recount a time when the advice you provided to a client was really spot on? (Please note this response is for education/entertainment purposes only and shouldn’t be construed as advice for the reader)
The best client advice I offer is to always remain aligned in your choices and decisions and follow your heart. Often people get caught up in doing what other’s expect of them at their own expense. This can look at pursuing careers because of pressure from their parents, perhaps staying in relationships or situations they have long outgrown, or holding onto limiting beliefs that no longer serve them. There are patterns and programs that are generational and cultural and often religious that form core beliefs that don’t align with our personal truths, but we adopt them as our own even if they don’t resonate.
The focus of my work is to get people to shed and release everything that is not supporting their personal soul growth. I work with people to shift their perspective, trust themselves as they navigate forward and become the highest and best version of themselves energetically, physically and emotionally. As my clients embrace their truth and find the courage to take aligned action with that truth, they shed and release everything that is not supporting them. I have supported people through divorce, upleveling their business, following their passion and dreams when they felt impossible.
What we are unmasking are unconscious programs and patterns that need to be processed and released so for instance, one person realized she was always doing things for everyone at her own expense and finally left her marriage 7 years after realizing it was time! She has since taken back her power and has opened an alternative school which was a lifelong dream. Aligning with her purpose attracted the location, funding, and a full roster and wait list within a week of making her decision! Another client who is a world renowned relationship coach and expert realized she had to heal an aspect of herself that associated being loved with emotional suffering. Her history of seeking love from a narcissist father created this unconscious pattern of always trying to please people or “fix” her partners to get them to love her. That breakthrough has allowed her to not only serve her clients in a more potent way, but also shifted ALL her professional and personal relationships. She has since upleveled her business relationships and how she interacts with the coaches who work for her. She is thriving with her sights on a new reality tv program, relationship app development and clarity of her direction and purpose moving forward.
My work encourages people to find themselves and the book I wrote “Finding the Path of Me” is also a guide to help people unpack their history and find their purpose with journal prompts at the end of each chapter. It is a guide book I wish I had as I navigated my own awakening to remembering who I am and the role I am here to play to support humanity at this time.
Wendy, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I am an intuitive life coach and energy healer. In 2016 I felt a nudge to get certified in Life Coaching which I did through an intensive program at the Life Purpose Institute in San Diego. That summer I also began my journey as an energy healer. My work energetically supports the release of karma, energetic imprints, and removal of ancestral and past life trauma. I support the health and wellness of my clients energetically, emotionally and physically by helping them let go of things (both conscious and unconscious) by unmasking the truth around who they are and why they are here.
I am an Author of the book “Finding the Path of Me” which is a guide to help people reconnect with themselves on a soul level and find themselves and their true purpose. It is based on my own story and journey which required me to deep dive into unconscious programs and beliefs I held that were not my own but programs passed down generationally and culturally. Our parents repeat what they learn without discernment. Our parents’ generation didn’t have the awareness that how they raised their kids promoted emotional trauma by focusing on achievement rather than holding space for our children to become the fullest expression of themselves. Rather than supporting an individual following his/her own path, everyone has been programmed to meet the expectations and markers of other people. My book helps people at all levels of awakening to reflect on their own patterns and how they can shift consciously back to their authentic self.
Much of my coaching and healing work supports the return to the authentic self. I help people release things that no longer support their highest and best life. We peel back the many layers of false beliefs and emotional wounds until we get to the Soul Self. I am able to reflect back to them their worthiness, the fact that they deserve abundance and happiness, that there is another way of “being” as we are the master creators of our lives. I show people how to heal emotional wounds and expand their consciousness and become the divine beings they were born to be. From this state, everything becomes possible, there are no limits to who you can become and what you can create in life.
I have a podcast called “The Path of Me” and a Youtube channel “Wendy Hutchinson” where I interview guests from all walks of life who are living and creating from their heart space. We share their journey back to their authentic selves, the obstacles they have faced and overcome to step into their light and life purpose. All are in service in one way or another to others, but not at their own expense. They are pouring from the overflow and supporting the people around them in powerful and inspiring ways.
What I am most proud of is watching my clients transform before my eyes into the most empowered version of themselves. To see them creating their dreams and attracting abundance without chasing, hustling and trying. Simply BEING themselves in pure alignment with their authentic self has been absolutely amazing! I don’t have a brand or a hustle, I’m showing up as the fullest expression of myself in service to humanity. Those who align with me find me.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
The main lesson I had to unlearn was that my fate is controlled by the agendas of the people around me. My entire life I was taught that it was in my best interest to do what was expected of me, never to question authority (the church, the family, the boss), and to perform at the highest levels even at my own expense. This lifelong programming meant I was constantly working to make sure everyone around me was happy but that unfortunately often came at my own expense. I was not good at setting solid boundaries. The people pleasing meant volunteering a lot, showing up when I wanted to stay home and rest, and doing what was expected of me instead of what supported my mental and emotional health. I was burned out. I was also becoming resentful because the expectations of me were unreasonable and never ending.
Finally one day it occurred to me that I was the one pushing myself to do these things and I had a choice. I could say no and mean it. Slowly I took back my power. I started doing things to support my mental and physical health like working out, walking with friends, doing things that brought me joy instead of things I felt obligated to do. Slowly I retrieved all the pieces of me I gave to others and started nurturing my own well being. As I began to feel more whole and complete it was easier to set energetic boundaries which looked like not volunteering for everything at the kids’ school, saying no if I didn’t feel like doing something (even if it was expected) like going to a family reunion or event. The boundaries sent a message that my time and energy were going to be respected and honored not taken for granted.
For the first time in my life I started choosing me because after all it is my life. People were upset and disappointed and I allowed them to be. I didn’t justify my aligned choices, I started saying “that won’t work for me” and left it at that. Aligned choices require no explanation. The people pleasing ground to a complete halt and I was never happier. I had more energy for my family and poured myself into work that was fulfilling instead of sucking the life out of me.
Something happened as I shifted and started choosing things that supported my best life. I realized my value and worth did not come from the opinion of anyone else. It came from the knowing that my time and energy mattered and I had full control over how I spend it. We always have a choice, but we have to be willing to disappoint people in choosing ourselves. I had more energy to give to my family and to activities that brought me joy. I set myself free from the manipulation through guilt. It was like watering my garden and I began to flourish and grow.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
There was a point in my life where I couldn’t pretend to be who people wanted me to be. I had to be honest about who I was as an Energy Healer, Alchemist, and guide for those seeking higher ascension. This went against the traditional narrative and while I had this “gifts” my entire life, I had not once shared them with anyone because I knew they would ostracize me and think I was crazy. In 2016 I could no longer hide my true nature from people and as I started sharing myself and my gifts with my family, everyone thought I had lost my mind. My parents called my husband and were ready to fly out to Houston and have me evaluated and put in a psych ward! I had never been happier offering energy healing and coaching to my clients and so fulfilled in my life. I was truly living my best life and my family turned against me because they couldn’t accept what they didn’t understand.
Everyone I loved rejected who my authentic self and it was pretty crushing. They could only love the version of me they wanted me to be. I was completely alone on my path. I liken it to someone who breaks the mold and tells their ultra conservative family they are gay or someone who decides that a particular religion is not part of their core beliefs. Those who are walking that very regimented path cannot relate to you and because you are different and they sometimes turn their backs on you. It’s heartbreaking, but once you know who you are and what your soul purpose is, you can’t go back to pretending to be who others expect you to be to make them happy.
I knew deeply what my purpose was, that I am here to be in service and I couldn’t allow a handful of the closest people in my life who didn’t accept me to keep me from my work. I had to allow them to reject me, misunderstand me, emotionally abandon me and continue to follow my path. I was that aligned with my purpose. I have felt like I was different my entire life. Even though on the outside I looked like I belonged, I knew I was different, I was psychic. I knew things about people, I felt things on deeper levels. I was reading the energy of the people around me all the time. Just because people didn’t understand my gifts and abilities didn’t mean there was something wrong with me, they were just accessing me from their own level of consciousness. It was like they were in their own energetic bandwidth of am radio and I was in satellite radio. Of course they couldn’t understand me because their level of perception was limited to the frequency they held. Although it hurt me to know people around me couldn’t understand or accept me, I continued with my work.
Soon people were flying here from all over the country to work with me. One woman came from Spain. I was invited to be a guest on various podcasts, I was featured in magazines. I helped many people. If I had given up because a handful of people couldn’t accept me, the people I have helped would be in a much different place. I have spent a lifetime working on connecting with myself at the highest soul level and learned to trust my inner knowing completely. To do anything other than what I’m doing to be in service would be the deepest betrayal of my soul. I refuse to allow the opinion of anyone to determine my worth because I determine that. No one has the right to tell me who I am supposed to be, I am here at this time to support humanity as we create a better world and I will continue to be in service. I’m not here to fit in or belong, I am here to be a guide and spiritual teacher.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.alinealifecoaching.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamahutch47/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alinealifecoaching
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-hutchinson-03996667/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCDX-BxYVubb2iHaxYUU9aQ
- Other: Podcast on Anchor FM: https://anchor.fm/wendy-hutchinson
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