This is a Wellness Force podcast episode (YouTube) featuring host Josh Trent and guest Alyson Charles. The conversation covers Alyson's identity as a 'rock star shaman,' her spiritual awakening/divine intervention, and practical spiritual themes such as animal allies, Dreamtime experiences, and the importance of noticing recurring animals as teachers and guides. The tone mixes personal storytelling, practical guidance (e.g., speak to the animal, do the practice), and reflective interview banter.
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If animals present all the time, trying to get our attention, you'll, you know, just hear of one or see one over and over again. And it's like, take note of that. It's trying to work with you. Go into the book, do the practice, speak to it, and ask it why. And then also in Dreamtime, animals come in a lot of times through that. I love that there are spiritual allies that also live everywhere in Earth. So they're such great teachers of not taking for granted the information and healing, you know, capabilities and medicines that are always around us. But we have to return back to that presence and that honoring reverence and take note of the animal.
Allison, welcome to Wellness Force.
Thank you. It's such an honor to be in your home. And on the way here, I was reflecting how I thought, huh, the last time I was in this setting with Josh, our lives were very different.
Very different.
You were living in a different place, I was living in a different place. And now we both are somewhat neighbors here in Texas. And you have a child. So good to be where we are now.
I know. It's like we're pages in a book and the book is called Life. And all these words we write, do they mean anything except for the meaning we give them? We're gonna go deep today.
Great.
Like, I love. I have so enjoyed researching you and just understanding this book a little bit, which maybe we can actually do something where you reflected to me about the elk that you felt in me at Carrie's birthday party. But this is the book. This is what we're talking about today. We're not going to talk about just the book. We're going to talk about you.
Okay.
You got a deep story. There's a lot going on with you. You know what was fascinating is it's the rock star shaman. And at first glance, I was like, rock star? What do you mean? Like. Like on a stage, like playing an instrument. And I bet you people get that wrong about you a lot because it's not about you jamming out with a guitar on a stage. This is the rock and the star. So two totally different elements.
Yes.
Let's start there. Like, if people don't know you, it's your first time on Wellness Force. The rock and the star and the shaman. Connect those three for us so that people get your vibe.
Yeah, I'm happy to. So, okay, let me just tune in for a moment because with all of these themes, there's a lot of threads that go in. So let me just find the threads that want to be spoken to today. So that name actually downloaded in pretty quickly after I had my divine intervention spiritual awakening moment. And those two things were simultaneous for me. So my life got turned upside down. Everything changed, and I was still really in the fires and throes of that upside down reconfiguration period in my life. And I was sitting with some sisters and really being vulnerable. I feel it even right now, in this moment, actually, and just sharing very openly about what these initiations and rites of passages and fires were feeling like. And yeah, it was while I was sharing that that that name downloaded in, I had my eyes closed, and I was just kind of, I don't want to say channeling, but just stream of consciousness, letting it out how I was feeling and what was taking place in my life. And that name, it.
