By Heather Eck | Your Radiant Spirit Podcast
Have you ever had that feeling that your spirit guides are trying to reach you — but no matter how hard you try, you just can’t quite make out what they’re saying?
You’re not alone. And according to this week’s guest on Your Radiant Spirit, there’s a very specific reason it happens — and a beautifully simple way through it.
Dr. Kelly Edmonds is an energy healer, channel, spiritual guide, and soon-to-be published author based in Calgary, Alberta. She’s been doing this work for 35 years — beginning with Reiki in the late 1980s New Age movement and deepening through ancient wisdom traditions including Egyptian, Druidic, Indigenous North American, and Chinese medicine practices. Today her work helps spiritually curious people — especially those who feel like they’ve plateaued — go deeper, get clearer, and embody the full truth of who they are.
Our conversation was one of the richest I’ve had on this show, and I’m still sitting with parts of it days later.
You Are a Spiritual Being First
One of the most foundational shifts Kelly invites her clients into is a simple but profound reframe: you are not a human being with some spiritual tendencies. You are a spiritual being who chose to incarnate into a human body.
“Coming into a physical body is like stepping into a four-sided container,” she explained. “It’s a place where you can process more — through experience, through resilience, through the difficult stuff. That’s how we grow our energetic structure.”
When you orient your life from this perspective, everything shifts. Your struggles start to look like curriculum. Your relationships start to look like contracts. And the work of healing — the emotional body, the mental body, the physical body — starts to make sense in a new way.
The Enlightenment Trinity
Over decades of practice and study, Kelly has distilled what she believes every genuine spiritual journey requires into three pillars — what she calls the Enlightenment Trinity. These form the foundation of her upcoming book, The Embodied Mystic.
- Divine Awareness and Connection — recognizing and trusting that you are a spiritual being, and cultivating a real relationship with your soul and guides
- Energy Mastery — understanding how to work with, clear, and maintain your own energetic body so you can stay lighter, freer, and more aligned
- Physical Embodiment — honoring the gift of being human, including your body, your ancestry, your earthly rhythms, and even your genetic inheritance
“A lot of spiritual practices have one or two of these pieces,” Kelly told me. “But I think you need all three. Otherwise you end up either floating too far into the spiritual and losing your grounding, or you stay so stuck in the physical that you never really open up.”
As someone who works deeply with color — and understands that color itself is a bridge between the seen and the unseen — I found this framework deeply resonant. It’s not either/or. It’s integration.
The Listening for Rain Technique
This is the moment in our conversation I keep returning to. I asked Kelly how she actually receives messages from her guides — what it feels like, what she does to access that information.
Her answer was so simple and so perfect that I immediately understood it in my whole body.
“You have to go to the space between your thoughts,” she said. “It’s like lying in bed at night trying to hear if it’s raining outside. There’s nothing going on in your mind. There’s no agenda. You’re just listening.”
That’s the space. The space of pure receptivity — no striving, no searching, no trying to make something happen. Just a soft, open, expectant stillness.
From that space, Kelly says, a word or two will come. Then a sense of knowing. Then, sometimes, a full paragraph of understanding arrives all at once. She asks more questions. She listens again. It’s a genuine, unhurried conversation.
For me, my guides most often reach me through music — a song will appear in my mind in the morning, and when I look up the lyrics, there’s always a message in there. (I also found out during this episode that one of my guides is apparently a bit of a rock star. His “staff” turned out to be a microphone. I cannot make this up.)
The beautiful truth is: everyone receives differently. Visual images, body sensations, a sense of knowing, music, words — the Clairs are many. Learning which ones are yours is part of the journey.
What to Do When You’ve Plateaued
Kelly works primarily with people who have already awakened to their spiritual nature but feel like they’ve stalled. They’re going in circles. They’re confused. They’ve taken every course, read every book — and they’re no closer to feeling clear.
Her advice? Unplug. Completely.
She shared a story about a woman who wrote to her in frustration — she’d taken course after course and still couldn’t connect with divine beings or receive any messages. Kelly’s prescription was radical in its simplicity: stop all of it for one week. No podcasts, no courses, no content. Go outside. Hug a tree. Be with yourself.
“Yourself misses you,” Kelly said simply. And something about that hit me right in the chest.
We are so conditioned to look outside ourselves for answers — to another teacher, another modality, another framework. But the soul isn’t somewhere out there. It’s been with you the whole time. And sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is stop the noise long enough to feel that.
The Collective Awakening Happening Right Now
Kelly believes — and I deeply share this view — that we are in a significant period of collective energetic expansion. She describes this as the Age of Archangel Michael, an era oriented around awakening consciousness, where human beings are becoming more capable of reaching upward into spiritual reality rather than waiting for it to come down to them.
“Before, it was shamans and medicine people and priests who could access the divine,” she explained. “Now that access is opening to everyone. We’re all becoming more sensitive. More receptive. More aware.”
COVID, she muses, may have played a role in this. Being forced into stillness, stripped of distraction, compelled to face ourselves — perhaps that was part of a larger design. A cosmic pause that opened more people than we know.
Her Morning Energy Practice
One of my favorite parts of our conversation was hearing how Kelly starts her day — because it’s a genuine practice, not a performance.
Before she even gets out of bed, she does the following: drains any foreign energy she’s picked up (from shopping, from conversations, from simply being in the world) down into Mother Earth. Wakes up each of her chakras and runs energy through them. Activates what she calls her Starlight grid — a subtle energetic field around the body — and then connects with her guides to ask what messages they have for her that day.
Then, while her morning cacao is heating up, she works with her Torus field — pulling energy down from above and up from below in a continuous, activating loop.
She lights a candle. She honors the goddess. She spends her first two hours creating, writing, and recording before the world has a chance to interrupt.
It’s a practice built from the inside out — rooted in clearing, connection, and reverence. And it shows in the quality of her work and the calm, luminous energy she carries.
Ready to Go Deeper?
If this conversation has lit something up in you — if you felt that quiet recognition of yes, this is real, this is what I’ve been looking for — I encourage you to explore Kelly’s work. She offers private healing sessions, online courses including her “How to Heal Yourself” energy healing program, and an upcoming Inner Healing Circle membership. Her 8-week Energy Magic immersive group program runs twice a year.
And her book, The Embodied Mystic, will be available soon at kellyedmonds.com.
🎧 Listen to the full episode at heathereck.com/yourradiantspirit
And if you’ve been feeling a pull toward understanding the colors of your own soul — what they mean, what they’re telling you about your energy and your path — I’d love to explore that with you. Visit heathereck.com/yourradiantspirit to learn more about Spirit Portraits and all the ways we can go deeper together.
Until next time — keep noticing the colors, the nudges, the songs. They’re all leading you home.
With love,
Heather 💛
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