LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine Talking Stick Podcast
Reclaim Your Energy: Letting Go of the Past and Reclaiming Your Power
How much of yourself are you still giving to a past you've already left behind?
We invest enormous time, energy, emotion, and attention in our relationships, careers, dreams, and personal goals. But what happens when those chapters end? Do we truly let them go, or do we continue carrying their weight without even realizing it?
In this episode of LightSong Talking Stick, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the fascinating relationship between personal energy, intention, awareness, and the attachments we accumulate throughout our lives.
Drawing on decades of shamanic practice and personal experience, Jan and Micah discuss how our expectations, beliefs, and unconscious patterns can keep us connected to things that no longer serve us. They explore the shamanic concept of reclaiming our energy from past experiences and how doing so can create space for renewed clarity, creativity, and personal empowerment.
The conversation also examines one of the great challenges of personal and spiritual growth: learning the difference between taking purposeful action and trying to control the outcome.
How often do we become so focused on what we think should happen that we miss what is actually unfolding? How might our lives change if we approached our experiences with greater awareness, curiosity, and a willingness to surrender?
Jan and Micah explore several interconnected themes:
- Reclaiming your energy: Understanding the shamanic perspective on how we invest ourselves in experiences and how we can consciously reconnect with that personal power.
- Letting go of outdated attachments: Recognizing when old dreams, relationships, expectations, and commitments are still influencing our present lives.
- The power of awareness: Discovering how unconscious beliefs and recurring patterns shape our reactions, decisions, and experiences.
- Intention versus expectation: Learning to create meaningful change without becoming attached to a particular outcome.
- Aligning actions with intentions: Understanding why what we do matters just as much as what we say we want.
- Choosing where your energy goes: Exploring simple practices such as journaling, meditation, and conscious reflection to support greater clarity and personal choice.
At the heart of this conversation is a powerful invitation to examine where your attention and energy are going—and whether those investments reflect the life you want to live today.
You don't have to keep carrying every expectation you've ever held, every dream you've pursued, or every story you've told yourself about who you are.
Sometimes moving forward isn't about finding more energy, working harder, or doing something new.
Sometimes it's about reclaiming what you've already given away.
Join Jan and Micah for an engaging exploration of energy, surrender, and the freedom that comes from consciously choosing what you carry forward—and what you're finally ready to release.
About Jan Engels-Smith
Jan Engels-Smith is a shamanic practitioner, teacher, author, and founder of LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine. For more than four decades, Jan has explored consciousness, healing, personal transformation, and humanity's relationship with the unseen realms. She has performed thousands of soul retrievals and trained students around the world in shamanic practices designed to help people reconnect with their innate wisdom and spiritual nature.
Jan is the author of Becoming Yourself: The Journey from Head to Heart and Through the Rabbit Hole: Explore and Experience the Shamanic Journey and Energy Medicine.
Learn more about Jan, LightSong, classes, and shamanic training at LightSong.net.
About Micah Schwader
Micah Schwader is a transformational writing coach, editor, publisher, author, and shamanic practitioner who has spent more than 30 years helping people discover and express the stories that matter most. His work explores the intersection of writing, creativity, discernment, inner guidance, and personal transformation, helping writers move beyond formulas and external expectations to uncover what is authentically their own.
Micah is the author of Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman and works with writers, authors, leaders, and creators to use writing as a means of exploration, discovery, and authentic expression.
Learn more about Micah at ShamanSezz.com. For information about writing and publishing, visit InspiredLifePublications.com.
