Spirits Beside Us
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- Último episódio
- 22 out 2026
Sobre o podcast
How do you know what to do when there is no obvious right answer?
Spirits Beside Us explores how to find clarity when fear, uncertainty, other people's opinions, past experiences, logic, and intuition are all telling you different things.
Hosted by bestselling author Chris Lippincott, Spirits Beside Us explores how to make clearer choices when logic, emotion, uncertainty, and inner knowing are pulling you in different directions. The show draws from psychology, ancient wisdom, and practical decision-making to help you separate the signal from the noise and move forward with greater confidence.
After three decades making high-stakes investment decisions as a professional investor, Chris began exploring consciousness, perception, and the less measurable side of how people know what they know. His perspective bridges analytical thinking and intuition—without pretending every important decision can be solved with more data.
Each week, we explore:
- Decision Clarity: Stop overthinking and second-guessing and make difficult decisions you can trust yourself to act on.
- Fear vs. Intuition: Distinguish genuine inner knowing from anxiety, conditioning, and outside voices.
- Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life: Apply contemplative and spiritual teachings to uncertainty, purpose, identity, and everyday life.
- Spirit & the Unseen: Explore consciousness, signs, the afterlife, and what our connection to something greater can teach us about living now.
Some of life's most important choices have no obvious right answer.
See clearly. Separate the signal from the noise. Make the decision.
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RESOURCES:
- Free Decision Clarity Audit: Take the free audit here. Discover what may be interfering with your ability to make a decision you trust.
- Show Notes: Spiritsbesideus.com
- Visit: www.montclairmedium.com
- Read: Spirits Beside Us—the bestselling book that inspired this podcast.
Episódios 121
How to Make a Big Decision Without Regret
How do you make a big decision without regret? If you're afraid of making the wrong choice, stuck overthinking, or second-guessing yourself, learn how to make hard decisions with confidence—even when you can't …
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How do you make a big decision without regret? If you're afraid of making the wrong choice, stuck overthinking, or second-guessing yourself, learn how to make hard decisions with confidence—even when you can't predict the outcome.
After 30 years making high-stakes investment decisions, I've learned something surprising: You can make a good decision and still get a bad outcome.
In this episode, I'll show you how to stop fearing the wrong decision, manage risk, and make choices you can stand behind. I'll also share how one of my coaching clients used my seven-phase C.L.A.R.I.T.Y. framework to make a life-changing career decision.
What You'll Learn- Why fear of regret keeps you stuck in indecision
- How to tell a good decision from a bad outcome
- How to reduce risk when making big life decisions
- How to stop second-guessing yourself after deciding
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Why Thinking Harder Makes Decisions Worse
Overthinking a big decision because you're afraid of making the wrong choice? The more risks you weigh, the less certain you feel. Learn how to stop overthinking, break analysis paralysis, and separate real …
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Overthinking a big decision because you're afraid of making the wrong choice? The more risks you weigh, the less certain you feel. Learn how to stop overthinking, break analysis paralysis, and separate real risks from fear before you decide.
When you're facing an important decision about your career, relationships, money, or future, thinking harder seems like the responsible thing to do. But what happens when all that thinking makes you more confused, overwhelmed, and afraid of making a mistake?
After 30 years making high-stakes investment decisions on Wall Street, I've learned that more information doesn't always lead to better decisions. Sometimes it just gives us more ways to worry.
In this episode, I'll explain how fear of regret affects your judgment, why overthinking decisions can lead to analysis paralysis, and how to recognize when your thinking has stopped helping. I'll also share real examples from my decision clarity coaching and teach you a simple three-step process to separate facts from fears, quiet the mental noise, and make difficult decisions with greater confidence.
What You'll Learn- Why overthinking makes decisions harder — How fear, stress, and overwhelm can distort your judgment.
- How fear disguises itself as useful information — Learn to separate facts, predictions, assumptions, and mental noise.
- The one question that exposes unproductive thinking — Recognize when you're gathering useful information versus creating more reasons to worry.
- How to stop overthinking with Pause, Label, Listen — A practical three-step method from my C.L.A.R.I.T.Y. framework.
- How to move forward without knowing the future — Understand real risks, explore your options, and take meaningful steps without demanding absolute certainty.
Stuck on an important decision?
Discover what's interfering with your clarity and why you keep second-guessing yourself.
Take my FREE Decision Clarity Challenge: HERE
Timeline00:00 — Why thinking harder can make decisions worse
01:30 — How fear and stress distort your judgment
03:10 — Why more information doesn't always help
04:40 — When fear starts looking like facts
06:15 — Fear of regret: Is your decision really irreversible?
07:45 — The one question that reveals when you're overthinking
09:15 — How to stop overthinking: Pause, Label, Listen
12:00 — Taking the next step without knowing the future
13:15 — What if you make the wrong decision?
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Stuck in Analysis Paralysis? Do This First
Stuck in analysis paralysis? Overthinking can make decision-making harder, not clearer. Discover how fear, uncertainty, and your emotional state can keep you mentally looping—and what to do first to find …
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Stuck in analysis paralysis? Overthinking can make decision-making harder, not clearer. Discover how fear, uncertainty, and your emotional state can keep you mentally looping—and what to do first to find clarity.
Need help getting unstuck on a decision? Take the free Decision Clarity Audit here: DECISION CLARITY AUDIT→
You’ve looked at the options. You’ve thought through the risks. Maybe you’ve even asked other people what they would do. Yet somehow, the more you think about the decision, the harder it becomes to make.
Sometimes the problem isn’t that you need more information. Anxiety, past experiences, fear of regret, and the need for certainty may be quietly changing the way you see the information you already have.
Using a real client story, I’ll show you why analysis paralysis happens, how your emotional state can affect decision-making, and how mindfulness and present-moment awareness can help you step out of the mental loop—without ignoring the facts or pretending uncertainty doesn’t exist.
What You’ll Learn- Why overthinking can create less clarity, not more
- How past failures and fear of regret can influence present decisions
- Why looking for more information can secretly become a search for certainty
- How your emotional state can change your perception of risk and opportunity
- How to tell the difference between missing information and mental looping
- A simple mindfulness practice to return to the present moment and see your decision more clearly
Stuck on a Decision?If you keep going back and forth, second-guessing yourself, or can't seem to figure out what's keeping you stuck, take my free Decision Clarity Audit.
It will help you identify what may be interfering with your clarity—fear, uncertainty, outside voices, past experiences, or something else—and show you where to begin.
Take the Free Decision Clarity Audit Below
Chapters- 00:00 — Why Overthinking Keeps You Stuck
- 03:16 — Fear, Past Failures & the Search for Certainty
- 06:29 — Mindfulness & the Power of the Present Moment
- 10:11 — How to Recognize Analysis Paralysis
- 12:00 — The Hidden Cost of Needing Certainty
- 18:28 — What to Do First When You Can’t Decide
Have a decision you can't seem to make? Take the free Decision Clarity Audit to uncover what's keeping you stuck and get clearer about what to do next. Take the free audit here.
Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
What Keeps Following You Into Every Situation?
Different relationship. Different job. Different decision. So why do you keep ending up with the same feeling? If you keep repeating patterns in relationships, work, or decision-making, the answer may have less …
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Different relationship. Different job. Different decision. So why do you keep ending up with the same feeling? If you keep repeating patterns in relationships, work, or decision-making, the answer may have less to do with your circumstances than you think.
What if the recurring problem isn’t actually the pattern—but evidence that a deeper pattern exists? Overthinking, people-pleasing, self-doubt, and constantly looking to others for reassurance can quietly shape what you do next. Greater self-awareness and self-trust can start with one deceptively simple question: What stayed the same?
You change jobs, relationships, circumstances, even the decisions you make. Yet somehow you can end up thinking, How the hell am I here again?
That doesn’t mean you created everything that happened to you. Bad bosses exist. Relationships fail. Financial problems are real. Life happens.
But between what happens to you and what happens next, there’s something worth examining: how you interpret the situation and how that interpretation influences what you repeatedly do.
Maybe you stop speaking up. Maybe you overgive. Maybe you look outside yourself for reassurance. Maybe you wait for certainty before acting. Or maybe you tolerate something until circumstances finally make the decision for you.
Chris breaks down the cycle of situation → interpretation → response → result and shows how a response that makes perfect sense in the moment can quietly reinforce the very experience you’re trying to escape.
You’ll also hear a powerful mediumship story about a father whose repeated decision to hold back his emotions eventually became one of his deepest regrets—and why the small choices you make repeatedly may matter far more than one enormous decision.
The goal isn’t self-blame. It’s awareness. Because once you can see what you keep bringing into different situations, you may discover that you have far more influence over what happens next than you realized.
What You’ll Learn- Why changing your circumstances doesn’t always change your experience
- The difference between what happened to you and what you repeatedly did next
- How interpretation can influence your response—and reinforce the outcome you expected
- The simple question “What stayed the same?” and how to use it when a problem keeps returning
- Why overthinking, people-pleasing, avoiding conflict, and seeking reassurance can make perfect sense beneath the surface
- How small decisions repeated over time can quietly become a life pattern
Chapters00:00 — How the Hell Am I Here Again?
03:07 — The Mistake We Make When Circumstances Change
06:15 — When Overthinking Becomes the Pattern
09:12 — What Happens Between the Event and the Outcome
13:20 — The Question: What Stayed the Same?
17:33 — When Small Decisions Become a Life Pattern
Struggling with a decision right now? Take the free Decision Clarity Audit:Join our community HERE. Get all the resources and show notes for this episode on my website, spiritsbesideus.com.
Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
What If Your Problems Aren’t Actually Separate?
What if the problems in your life that seem completely unrelated are actually connected by something you haven’t noticed yet?Money. Relationships. Work. Your health. Even the decisions you keep putting off …
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What if the problems in your life that seem completely unrelated are actually connected by something you haven’t noticed yet?
Money. Relationships. Work. Your health. Even the decisions you keep putting off. They may look like separate problems, but sometimes the same hidden belief is quietly influencing how you respond to all of them.
Struggling with a decision? Start with the free Decision Clarity Audit →
The tricky part? That belief probably doesn’t feel like a belief.
It feels reasonable.
“I’ll do it later.”
“It’s not that big a deal.”
“Whatever you want.”
“I can handle it.”
Those small, ordinary thoughts can reveal a much bigger story — especially when the same behavior begins appearing with different people, in different circumstances, and in completely different areas of your life.
Through the story of a woman facing four seemingly unrelated problems, Chris explores what happens when you stop examining each problem separately and start looking for what they have in common.
You’ll discover:
• How one hidden belief can influence multiple areas of your life
• Why repeated behavior can reveal beliefs you don’t consciously recognize
• How old beliefs influence what you tolerate, avoid, pursue, and accept
• Why your first intuitive signal often gets buried beneath rationalization and overthinking
• How to distinguish an isolated problem from a deeper recurring story
• What mediumship has taught Chris about the patterns we carry across different parts of our lives
• A simple three-column exercise for uncovering the belief beneath your own choices
Chapters00:00 The Hidden Pattern Behind Your Problems
02:22 Meet Lisa: Four Different Problems?
05:19 When the Same Story Shows Up Everywhere
10:24 The Hidden Connection Between Her Problems
11:39 The Core Belief: “My Needs Come Last”
16:43 How to Spot the Pattern in Your Own Life
21:17 How to Find the Belief Underneath Your Behavior
You may discover that the most useful question isn’t, “How do I fix all these different problems?”
It may be:
“What do I repeatedly do — even when the circumstances change?”
Because sometimes you don’t have four unrelated problems.
Sometimes it’s the same story wearing four different outfits.
Listen Next: Why You Keep Overthinking What Your Intuition Already Knows
Once you recognize the belief underneath the pattern, the next challenge is learning how to separate what you genuinely sense from fear, conditioning, self-doubt, and mental noise.
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Love and Light,
Chris
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Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
What If Your Circumstances Aren’t the Problem?
What if your circumstances aren’t the real problem? Your beliefs and mindset may be quietly shaping your choices, life patterns, and what happens next.You can change jobs, relationships, habits, or …
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What if your circumstances aren’t the real problem? Your beliefs and mindset may be quietly shaping your choices, life patterns, and what happens next.
You can change jobs, relationships, habits, or circumstances and still find yourself facing strangely familiar problems. That’s because an old belief can follow you into completely different areas of your life without you realizing the same inner story is still operating.
Struggling with a decision? Start with the free Decision Clarity Audit →
Two people can experience remarkably similar circumstances and make completely different choices afterward. Not because their beliefs magically created what happened, but because beliefs influence what we notice, how we interpret events, what we expect, what we tolerate, what we pursue, and what we do next.
That distinction is the difference between control and agency.
You cannot control everything that happens to you. But you can begin recognizing the beliefs and life patterns influencing how you respond.
And once you see the common thread, you may discover that problems you thought were completely unrelated are connected by an old belief you’ve carried for years.
What You’ll Learn:• Why circumstances and beliefs can influence each other
• How two people can experience the same event and respond completely differently
• How beliefs shape choices, expectations, behavior, and outcomes
• Why old limiting beliefs can quietly affect relationships, career, money, and emotional health
• The difference between trying to control life and developing personal agency
• How past experiences can create beliefs that continue influencing your present
• How to recognize the common thread underneath repeating life patterns
• A simple exercise for identifying the core beliefs influencing your choices
• Why changing your inner story can change what you tolerate, pursue, and accept
• How greater self-awareness can create meaningful personal growth and change
Chapters:00:00 Introduction: Why Circumstances Don't Tell the Whole Story
00:27 The Relationship Between Circumstances and Beliefs
00:56 How Two People React Differently to the Same Event
01:22 The Power of Beliefs in Shaping Outcomes
01:52 Beliefs Are Not About Math or Specific Situations
02:20 The Impact of Limiting Beliefs on Multiple Life Areas
02:49 The Difference Between Control and Agency
03:18 Recognizing and Challenging Old Beliefs
03:46 The Exercise to Identify Core Beliefs
04:15 The Importance of Recognizing the Underlying Story
04:43 Conclusion: Changing the Inner Story to Change Your Life
Listen Next:“Why You Keep Overthinking What Your Intuition Already Knows”
Spotting the belief is only the beginning. The next step is learning how to separate your actual inner signal from fear, conditioning, self-doubt, anxiety, and all the mental noise surrounding it.
If this conversation resonated with you, subscribe and share it with someone who may be trying to fix what’s happening around them without recognizing the story operating underneath it.
Love and Light,
Chris
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Gone to the Other Side — Back in the Fall
After 114 episodes, 400,000 downloads, and listeners in 149 countries, the host of Spirits Beside Us has done something he never expected — he's gone quiet.Not permanently. Not dramatically. Just honestly.In …
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After 114 episodes, 400,000 downloads, and listeners in 149 countries, the host of Spirits Beside Us has done something he never expected — he's gone quiet.
Not permanently. Not dramatically. Just honestly.
In this two-minute episode — possibly the most important one ever recorded and definitely the shortest — Chris shares what happened somewhere inside these last two years, why the spark that started this show quietly went out, and why sometimes the most intentional thing you can do is stop.
He'll be back in the fall. Spirit willing.
Until then — he's gone to the other side. The European side, specifically. With his wife. For their 30th anniversary. Which, if you think about it, is exactly where a man who talks to the dead should go to find himself again.
See you in the fall.
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Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
Coincidence or Spirit? Signs You Shouldn’t Ignore
Private Decision Clarity ResetSpirit signs, repeating numbers, intuition, synchronicity, and angel numbers like 11:11 often appear quietly before a spiritual awakening begins. A repeated song. A strange feeling …
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Private Decision Clarity Reset
Spirit signs, repeating numbers, intuition, synchronicity, and angel numbers like 11:11 often appear quietly before a spiritual awakening begins. A repeated song. A strange feeling you can’t explain. A conversation or symbol that keeps resurfacing until you finally stop and wonder: “Why does this keep happening?” At first, it all seems random. Until it keeps happening.
In this extended episode, international psychic medium Chris Lippincott explores the subtle ways spirit guides communicate through repeated signs, synchronicities, emotional nudges, timing, and patterns most people dismiss too quickly. You’ll learn why spirit signs rarely feel dramatic at first, how to tell the difference between coincidence and genuine spiritual guidance, and why many of the messages shaping your life only make sense later in hindsight.
If you’ve been questioning your intuition, overthinking spiritual signs, or wondering whether spirit may already be trying to reach you, this episode will completely change the way you see the quiet patterns unfolding around you.
What You’ll Learn:• Why spirit signs usually feel subtle before they become impossible to ignore
• How repeated songs, numbers, symbols, and synchronicities may carry deeper meaning
• The difference between intuition, imagination, anxiety, and genuine spirit communication
• Why spirit guidance often feels confusing until you look back later and see the pattern
• How to stop dismissing the quiet signs that may already be trying to guide your life
Chapters:00:00 — Why Spirit Signs Usually Start Small
03:02 — The 3 Main Spirit Signs Most People Ignore
07:52 — My Wild 12:12 Spirit Sign Experience
11:18 — The Guns N’ Roses Reading That Changed Everything
19:13 — Intuition vs Imagination — How To Tell The Difference
24:14 — The Biggest Lesson My Spirit Mentor Ever Taught Me
34:14 — Spirit vs Emotion — The Critical Difference
42:11 — Why Spirit Often Makes Sense Much Later
53:22 — My Asheville “Clear Mountain” Story
1:07:28 — 4 Powerful Exercises To Recognize Spirit Guidance
Join our community HERE. Get all the resources and show notes for this episode on my website, spiritsbesideus.com.
Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
Why You Keep Overthinking What Your Intuition Already Knows
Overthinking, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion may not be confusion at all… you may be overriding your intuition.Struggling with a decision? Start with the free Decision Clarity Audit →You replay …
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Overthinking, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion may not be confusion at all… you may be overriding your intuition.
Struggling with a decision? Start with the free Decision Clarity Audit →
You replay conversations, second-guess decisions, and wait for certainty before moving forward. Self-doubt, nervous system stress, emotional heaviness, and overthinking quietly start reshaping your relationships, energy, intuition, and inner knowing long before you consciously recognize the pattern. Over time, you slowly stop trusting yourself without even realizing it.
Over time, repeated self-override creates emotional exhaustion, internal conflict, anxiety, nervous system stress, burnout, and disconnection from your own inner knowing. The strangest part? Most people don’t realize it’s happening until years later.
This conversation explores the hidden connection between intuition, gut feeling, overthinking, decision paralysis, emotional exhaustion, self-trust, and the physical toll of constantly negotiating against yourself.
What You’ll Learn:
• Why overthinking often disconnects you from your intuition
• The subtle moment people begin overriding themselves emotionally
• Why intelligent and analytical people often stay stuck the longest
• How repeated self-doubt creates anxiety, exhaustion, and nervous system stress
• Why your body often recognizes emotional truth before your mind admits it
• The hidden difference between fear, anxiety, and intuition
• How rebuilding trust changes your emotional clarity and decision-making
Chapters:
00:00 Understanding Emotional Exhaustion and Overthinking
02:49 The Impact of Overriding Yourself
05:31 The Disconnect Between Mind and Body
08:25 Recognizing Subtle Signals of Intuition
11:11 The Role of Trust in Decision Making
13:52 The Consequences of Emotional Paralysis
16:58 Rebuilding Trust and Clarity
19:42 Navigating Fear and Intuition
22:18 The Journey Back to Self-Trust
Listen Next:
“The Real Reason You Can’t Decide”
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3 Repeating Signs Your Spirit Guides Want You to Notice
Spirit guides, repeated signs, intuition, and synchronicity often appear quietly… until the same message keeps showing up everywhere.A repeated song. A recurring symbol. A strange emotional feeling you can’t …
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Spirit guides, repeated signs, intuition, and synchronicity often appear quietly… until the same message keeps showing up everywhere.
A repeated song. A recurring symbol. A strange emotional feeling you can’t explain. A thought that won’t leave you alone. What if these aren’t random coincidences at all?
Right while preparing this episode, the same message suddenly appeared three different times within just a few minutes — including the number 12:12, emotional sensations felt during mediumship blending, and an unexpected message about “3 signs.” A powerful reading involving Guns & Roses repeatedly appearing through music reveals how spirit guides often communicate through patterns instead of certainty.
If something in your life has been feeling “off” lately… if the same emotional tension, signs, symbols, dreams, or intuitive nudges keep returning… you may already be experiencing spiritual communication without fully recognizing it yet.
What You’ll Learn:
• How spirit guides communicate subtly through intuition, symbols, and emotional awareness
• Why repeated signs in different forms are often more meaningful than dramatic experiences
• How spiritual communication often arrives through subconscious signals and synchronicity
• Why spirit guides rarely shout — they repeat quietly through patterns and emotional cues
• How emotional heaviness and recurring tension may signal ignored intuition or spiritual misalignment
Chapters:
00:00 Recognizing Spirit Guide Signs
09:35 The Power of Repetition in Signs
13:40 Emotional Signals and Intuition
17:08 Awareness and Connection to Spirit
Listen Next:
How to Clearly Hear Your Spirit Guides (The 3-Part Method)
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Have repeated signs, synchronicities, symbols, dreams, or intuitive feelings been showing up in your life lately? The answer may already be closer than you think.
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Stop the Anxiety Hijack Instantly-3 Vagus Nerve Exercises
Your nervous system gets hijacked by a single text, and suddenly your heart is pounding like a trapped animal in your chest.Most people treat stress with "positive thinking," but your body is stuck in a …
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Your nervous system gets hijacked by a single text, and suddenly your heart is pounding like a trapped animal in your chest.
Most people treat stress with "positive thinking," but your body is stuck in a prehistoric survival loop, flooding your system with cortisol for a 21st-century problem. In this episode, we move past basic mindfulness and dive into the polyvagal theory hacks that act as a physical "off switch" for your fight or flight response. We’re giving you a biological toolkit for self-regulation and anxiety relief to pull you out of stress mode and back into your window of tolerance.
Discover why your current breathing exercises might actually be keeping you in a state of panic and learn the 2-second "double-inhale" (the Physiological Sigh) that forces your heart rate to drop instantly.
💡 What You’ll Learn:- The Biological Hijack: Why your modern nervous system treats a mean text like a saber-toothed tiger, triggering a massive release of cortisol.
- The Vagus Nerve "Highway": How to stimulate the physical handle of your soul to shift from "survival mode" to "spiritual flow".
- The "Voo" Chant: A somatic experiencing technique that uses low-frequency vibrations to "massage" your internal organs and break a freeze response.
- Stealth Orientation Scanning: A relaxation technique that uses stress management secrets to reset your brain’s threat detection without anyone in the room noticing.
- Total Mental Health Recovery: How to "cleanse your altar" by physically removing adrenaline so your vibrations can rise.
Chapters
00:00 Understanding the Biological Hijack
06:54 Navigating the Window of Tolerance
11:27 Practical Exercises for Stress Relief
20:03 Applying Techniques in Real Life Situations
Stop building a temple on a landslide. Learn how to physically force your heart rate down and keep your connection to peace wide open.
Listen to the episode titled “Stop the Overstimulation: 10-Min Forest Grounding” to close your Mental Tabs and reset your Nervous System in this 10-min Somatic Forest Grounding.
Join our community HERE. Get all the resources and show notes for this episode on my website, spiritsbesideus.com.
Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
Stop the Overstimulation: 10-Min Forest Grounding
Stop the Overstimulation of Tech Fatigue. Close your Mental Tabs and reset your Nervous System in this 10-min Somatic Forest Grounding. Are you carrying a pounding heart and digital overwhelm home with you? …
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Stop the Overstimulation of Tech Fatigue. Close your Mental Tabs and reset your Nervous System in this 10-min Somatic Forest Grounding.
Are you carrying a pounding heart and digital overwhelm home with you? Your body is reacting to the "metallic dings" and emotional hijacks of your inbox, leaving you stuck in a state of physical tension. In today’s Monday Mini, we leave the glowing screens behind to enter the "Forest of the Quiet Mind."
Join evidential medium and best selling author Chris Lippincott as he guides you through a calming visualization meditation through a forest of tall green pines. This is wonderful for stress relief and helps you reconnect with your inner peace. Using different calming techniques including deep breathing, this is great for relaxation and mental health. Perfect for starting your week with mindfulness and tranquility.
In this 10-minute grounding ritual, you will:
- Escape the Digital Noise: Cross the threshold of the "Sentinel Pines" to leave the stress of the world behind the white picket fence.
- Activate the Diving Reflex: Use the forest’s cool air to naturally slow your heart rate and exit the Fight or Flight response.
- Cleanse Your Altar: Journey to a sun-drenched clearing to clear the "mental leaves" off your internal altar and find your spiritual home.
- Dump the Cortisol: Visualize prehistoric stress chemicals draining out of your limbs and back into the Earth.
The Wednesday "Counter-Attack"Grounding is only the first step. You are calm now, but the "storm" will return. Tune in this Wednesday for the Physical Counter-Attack: I’m giving you the Polyvagal science and we'll practice three Somatic Exercises that you can use even in a crowded elevator to shatter stress in real-time.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Stress and Relaxation
02:37 Journey into the Forest of Calm
05:04 Cleansing Your Altar
07:16 Reflection and Self-Discovery
09:23 Returning to the Present
10:43 Preview of Upcoming Techniques
Join our community HERE. Get all the resources and show notes for this episode on my website, spiritsbesideus.com.
Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
3 Ways to Boost Your Energy Shield Instantly
Stop bleeding energy to a world of chaos. Master the 3-step protocol to seal your aura, cut energetic cords and reclaim your peace. Learn how to vibrate at a high frequency and stay resilient amidst …
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Stop bleeding energy to a world of chaos. Master the 3-step protocol to seal your aura, cut energetic cords and reclaim your peace. Learn how to vibrate at a high frequency and stay resilient amidst stress.
Right now, the friction of global chaos and digital noise siphons your internal battery, leaving you with nothing but the scraps of your own life. You feel heavy and aimless because your boundaries have collapsed. You have become an accidental sponge for the world's anxiety, but it is time to reclaim your Spiritual Sovereignty.
In this high-stakes Friday Calibration, Chris Lippincott reveals the Sovereignty Protocol—a tactical framework for Energy Protection that stops the drain before the weekend begins. By mastering the Law of Resonance, you will learn the physics of how to become "invisible" to low-vibe drama so you can finally hear your Spirit Guides again.
Inside this episode, we deploy the 3-step protocol for total Mental Wellness:
- The Somatic Reset: Execute a 60-second "Zip-Up" ritual to reinforce your aura and lock your nervous system against external hijacking.
- Aura Healing: Learn how to wrap your field in a reflective "Mirror Shield" that bounces global static back to its source while protecting your internal alignment.
- The Nightly Handoff: Use this specific command to allow your Spirit Team to cut the cords of the week while you sleep, ensuring your Intentional Living isn't sabotaged by psychic clutter.
Stop carrying weight that doesn't belong to you. If you are ready to move from "drained" to "sovereign," this is your roadmap.
Join our community HERE. Get all the resources and show notes for this episode on my website, spiritsbesideus.com.
Learn more about the Private Decision Clarity Reset HERE
Manifestation & Prayer: THIS #1 Energy Mistake Kills Results
Stop Killing Your Prayers: The #1 Energy Mistake (Quantum Manifestation) Most people treat prayer like a letter to a distant office, but in the physics of the Divine, it’s a broadcast. If you are praying for a …
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Stop Killing Your Prayers: The #1 Energy Mistake (Quantum Manifestation) Most people treat prayer like a letter to a distant office, but in the physics of the Divine, it’s a broadcast. If you are praying
for a miracle while preparing for a disaster, you are "hedging"—a financial term that creates destructive interference and cancels your results.
Join former Wall Street analyst turned international medium, Chris Lippincott, as he deconstructs the "physics of prayer" through Quantum Physics and the lens of the Double Slit Experiment and the Copenhagen Interpretation. Learn how to stop "split-testing" your reality and start anchoring your results.
What You’ll Learn:
- The Quantum Shutter: How focused intent acts like a camera shutter, collapsing infinite possibilities into one solid reality.
- Signal over Syntax: Why your words don't matter as much as the vibrational frequency you are broadcasting.
- The Cost of Hedging: How "Plan B" acts as an insurance policy against your miracles, effectively canceling your results.
- The Power of Release: Why disconnecting from the "how" and "when" is the final requirement for manifestation.
- The Physics of 'Amen': How to use the final act of observation to lock in the collapse of the wave into your physical world.
Chapters:
00:00 The #1 Mistake: Why most prayers are accidentally "canceled."
02:52 The Physics of the Divine: Quantum observation vs. Religious requests.
05:53 Fuel for the Signal: The intersection of high-vibration intent and emotion.
08:24 The Observer Effect: How to collapse the "blurry maybe" into a solid fact.
11:19 The Quantum Framework: A 3-step protocol for repeatable results.
19:17 The Disentanglement: How to release your desire without "hedging."
Inside the Episode:
- The Observer Error: Why your focus acts like a blurry lens—and how to sharpen it.
- The Invisible Insurance Policy: Identifying the "backup plans" that are sabotaging your faith.
- The 3-Step Quantum Framework: A repeatable protocol to influence your life immediately.
Stop hoping and start observing. It’s time to move from the frequency of "begging" to the frequency of "alignment."
Topics Discussed: Quantum Physics of Prayer, The Physics of Faith, Neuroscience of Prayer, Heart-Brain Coherence, Why prayers aren't answered, Scientific Prayer, Bio-resonance, Quantum Entanglement, Decision Science, and how to use the Observer Effect for Answered Prayer.
Resources & Links:
- Deep Dive: The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden – A fundamental look at the field that connects all things.
- My Book: Spirits Beside Us by Chris Lippincott – My journey from Wall Street to Mediumship.
- Work With Me: Visit MontClairMedium for sessions, workshops, and more resources on the physics of the divine.
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The One Thing That Instantly Raises Your Vibration
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The #1 Spirit Sign to Look For This Week
Master spirit signs and repeating numbers! Use your reticular activating system to boost intuition, find synchronicity, and hear guidance today.Do you wait for a "lightning strike" moment to feel guided, only …
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Master spirit signs and repeating numbers! Use your reticular activating system to boost intuition, find synchronicity, and hear guidance today.
Do you wait for a "lightning strike" moment to feel guided, only to find the noise of your to-do list drowning out your soul? Spirit doesn’t usually shout; it whispers in patterns.
In this Monday Mini, Chris reveals how to tune your internal frequency to the "silent consultant" by watching for repeating numbers. You’ll learn the neurological "gatekeeper" secret of the Reticular Activating System (RAS) and how to apply the 3-Second Rule to ensure you never miss a breakout signal from Spirit again.
3 Key Things You’ll Learn:- The Ticker Symbol of Spirit: Why seeing repeating numbers like 11:11 is a "breakout signal" that you are exactly where you need to be.
- RAS Training: How to train your brain’s primary filter to act as a gatekeeper, directing your conscious focus toward important spiritual stimuli.
- The Thought-Sign Connection: The crucial importance of recalling exactly what you were thinking the moment a sign appears to understand the specific message being sent.
Key Takeaways:- Repeating numbers like 1111 or 1212 are signals from spirit.
- Your reticular activating system filters important sensory inputs.
- Acknowledge and document signs within three seconds to act on intuition.
Chapters:- 00:00 Listening to the Whispers of Spirit
- 02:42 Recognizing Repeating Numbers as Signs
- 05:57 Engaging with Your Intuition
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The 3-Second Rule for Following Your Intuition
Stop ignoring signs! Learn the 3-Second Rule to master your intuition, stop overthinking, and finally take action on spiritual guidance today.Have you ever received a clear sign or a sudden "gut hit," only to …
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Stop ignoring signs! Learn the 3-Second Rule to master your intuition, stop overthinking, and finally take action on spiritual guidance today.
Have you ever received a clear sign or a sudden "gut hit," only to have your logical mind talk you out of it moments later? Most people don’t have an intuition problem—they have an action problem.
In this high-impact Friday Mini, Chris breaks down a "Wall Street" level strategy to help you bridge the gap between receiving a spiritual signal and actually living it. You’ll learn how to identify the "Window of Alignment" and why logging your intuitive "trades" is the secret to building unshakeable confidence in the signs you receive.
3 Key Things You’ll Learn:- The Window of Alignment: Why you only have a 3-second countdown to acknowledge a soul-led signal before your ego-mind builds a defensive case against it.
- Soul vs. Ego: How to distinguish between the quiet, calm signal of your intuition and the loud, obnoxious, and insecure noise of the ego.
- Logging the Trade: A practical 30-day tracking method to prove the accuracy of your hits and find joy in being guided in real-time.
Key Takeaways:- The three-second window is crucial for acting on intuition.
- Ego creates resistance by making signals seem insignificant or dangerous.
- Document your intuitive hits to build a database of reliable signals.
- Confidence in intuition grows with consistent tracking and analysis.
- Gratitude amplifies joy and awareness of subtle signs.
Resources:- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002361MLA
- Mindfulness Meditation Apps – https://www.headspace.com/
- The Science of Well-Being by Yale University – https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
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3 Signs You’re Ignoring (And What It’s Costing You)
Discover how to recognize signs from spirit and stop dismissing the messages your loved ones are sending you.You’re not missing signs from the afterlife—you’re dismissing them. And when nothing obvious showed …
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Discover how to recognize signs from spirit and stop dismissing the messages your loved ones are sending you.
You’re not missing signs from the afterlife—you’re dismissing them. And when nothing obvious showed up… you started to wonder if anything was there at all.
But what if something did show up… and you just didn’t recognize it?
This episode reveals a powerful pattern seen across real mediumship readings and personal experience—how subtle signs from spirit are often overlooked, dismissed, or explained away… and how that shapes what you believe, feel, and experience next.
This isn’t about learning how to find signs.
It’s about realizing what you’ve already seen—and what it may have quietly cost you not to trust it.
If you’ve ever:
- Asked for a sign from a loved one or spirit guide
- Wondered if you’re “missing something”
- Felt unsure whether what you experienced was real
…this will hit close to home.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Why you’re not actually missing signs—but filtering them out
- The subtle ways your mind dismisses real experiences without you realizing it
- How this pattern builds doubt, distance, and emotional disconnection over time
Through three powerful stories—including a grieving sister, a personal turning point, and a striking mediumship reading—you’ll start to see how:
- Small moments carry meaning before they feel important
- What you tell yourself right after a moment determines what you believe next
- The “cost” of ignoring these moments doesn’t show up immediately… but builds over time
CHAPTERS
00:00 — The Moment You Walked Past It
02:10 — Why That Moment Doesn’t Make Sense Yet
05:40 — Story #1: The Signs She Didn’t See
13:20 — The Question Most People Never Ask Themselves
15:00 — Story #2: “Show Me a Pink Elephant”
22:30 — When Doubt Starts to Take Over
25:00 — Story #3: The Photos That Fell
32:10 — The Realization That Changes Everything
35:00 — What Happens When You Stop Filtering
38:30 — The Cost of Ignoring What You Felt
43:00 — What This Means for You
LISTEN NEXT:
If this made you pause… the next question becomes:
👉 How do you actually recognize a sign when it shows up?
Listen next: “3 Unique Signs Your Spirit Guides Are Reaching Out to You”
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You’re Not As Open As You Think (And It Shows)
You think they know how you feel—but they don’t. A mediumship reading reveals the hidden gap between feeling love and actually expressing it. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.Want to feel more connected to …
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You think they know how you feel—but they don’t. A mediumship reading reveals the hidden gap between feeling love and actually expressing it. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
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Most people believe they’re open in their relationships. They’re honest. They care. They assume the important things are already understood. But there’s a gap most people don’t see: 👉 what you feel vs 👉 what the other person actually experiences.
After thousands of mediumship readings, one pattern shows up again and again: “I thought they knew.” “I didn’t say it enough.” Not because people didn’t love deeply…but because they didn’t express it in real time. In this episode, a powerful reading stands out—because it was different. Nothing was left unsaid. And that contrast reveals exactly where most relationships slowly create distance without realizing it.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why honesty isn’t the same as emotional expression
- The hidden communication gap that makes people feel disconnected
- Why “they already know” quietly weakens relationships over time
- What actually makes someone feel loved (not just assume it)
- The pattern that shows up in real readings—and what it reveals about regret
If you’ve ever thought: “They know how I feel…” This will change how you see your relationships—and what you say (or don’t say) moving forward.
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Your Energy Isn’t What People Feel From You
Your energy affects your relationships more than you think—because people don’t feel your intention, they feel your presence. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.You can say the right things, show up with good …
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Your energy affects your relationships more than you think—because people don’t feel your intention, they feel your presence. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
You can say the right things, show up with good intentions, and still create distance in your relationships.
Because what people actually respond to isn’t what you mean… it’s the energy you give off. And when there’s a gap between the two, it shows up in subtle ways—misunderstanding, disconnection, and a feeling that something is off, even when everything looks fine on the surface.
In this episode, we break down why your energy doesn’t match how people experience you—and how subconscious signals shape connection, communication, and trust more than words ever do.
Once you start to see it, you’ll recognize it everywhere.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why the energy you give off doesn’t match your intention—and how it impacts your relationships
- The subconscious signals people pick up on that shape emotional connection and trust
- How aligning your presence and energy changes the way people respond to you
This Episode Is For You If:
- You feel disconnected in your relationships even when you’re trying to show up fully
- You’ve been misunderstood and don’t know why
- You want to improve your communication, presence, and emotional connection
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You Think You Can Deal With It Later But It Gets Worse
You think you can deal with it later… but that’s how it gets worse—and by the time you realize it, it’s too late. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of …
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You think you can deal with it later… but that’s how it gets worse—and by the time you realize it, it’s too late. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of avoidance—why delaying things that feel manageable in the moment can lead to bigger consequences in your health, relationships, and decision-making.
You’ll learn how the pattern of “I’ll deal with it later” shows up in everyday life, why ignoring early signals creates long-term problems, and how to recognize these moments before they turn into regret.
You’ll recognize this if:
• you’ve ever thought “I’ll handle it later”
• you’ve ignored something that felt off physically or emotionally
• you’ve delayed a conversation you knew you needed to have
• someone close to you has said “I’m worried”… and you brushed it off
What You’ll Learn:
• Why delaying action creates bigger consequences over time
• The hidden pattern behind “I’ve got it” and self-reliance
• What people consistently realize too late after they pass
• How subtle avoidance shows up in everyday moments
• The question that can interrupt this pattern in real time
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Chapters
00:00 The Importance of Listening to Warnings
05:45 The Consequences of Ignoring Health Signals
10:16 The Emotional Escape of 'I'll Deal With It Later'
15:23 Understanding Concern from Loved Ones
21:38 Recognizing Moments Before They Become Regrets
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What Comes Through From The Other Side… They Never Shared
You don’t say how you feel… not because you don’t care—but because you’re afraid of what might happen if you do. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.If you’ve ever felt something deeply… but hesitated to say …
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You don’t say how you feel… not because you don’t care—but because you’re afraid of what might happen if you do. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
If you’ve ever felt something deeply… but hesitated to say it…this might change how you see it. In this episode, I share a real story from a mediumship reading that reveals one of the most common patterns I’ve seen:
People don’t hold back because they don’t care. They hold back because it feels safer not to say it. But over time… that silence creates distance. Not all at once. Not dramatically. Just slowly—through the things left unsaid. This isn’t about becoming more emotional. It’s about understanding:
- what actually stops you from expressing what you feel
- why “they already know” is often wrong
- and what it may cost if nothing changes
- Because across thousands of readings, one thing comes through again and again. It’s not what people did that stays with them. It’s what they never expressed.
If someone came to mind while you were reading this…there may be something here for you.
What You’ll Learn- Why we assume people “already know” how we feel
- The real fear behind emotional silence
- How unspoken words create distance in relationships
- Why expressing something small can change everything
- The pattern that leads to regret—and how to interrupt it
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Why Spiritual Businesses Feel Financially Fragile
Booked out but still underpaid? Many intuitive practitioners have full calendars yet unstable income. The problem isn’t more clients—it’s hidden business leaks. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.If your …
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Booked out but still underpaid? Many intuitive practitioners have full calendars yet unstable income. The problem isn’t more clients—it’s hidden business leaks. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
If your intuitive business looks successful but financial stability still feels fragile, the issue usually isn’t demand. It’s structure.
Many intuitive practitioners—energy healers, mediums, coaches, Reiki practitioners, yoga teachers, and spiritual guides—build businesses that generate revenue but quietly drain profit through poor pricing strategy, emotional labor overload, and structural business leaks.
Chris Lippincott—CFA, MBA, former Wall Street financial analyst, and longtime intuitive practitioner—breaks down why so many spiritual businesses stay busy but financially unstable.
Instead of chasing more clients, you’ll learn how to rethink your entrepreneurial mindset, repair hidden business leaks, and build a business structure that actually supports your life.
You’ll learn:
• Why being booked out doesn’t guarantee financial stability
• The hidden business leaks draining income from intuitive practices
• How emotional labor quietly destroys profitability
• Why most intuitive practitioners struggle with pricing strategy
• The difference between revenue growth and true business stability
• The mindset shifts required to build a sustainable spiritual business
• How better business structure increases income without more clients
If you’re an intuitive practitioner trying to stabilize your income while doing meaningful work, this discussion will help you rethink how your business actually operates.
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Booked Out But Broke? Here’s Why
Booked out but not paid enough? If your intuitive business is busy but your income still feels tight, this is why. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.If you’re a Reiki practitioner, medium, energy healer …
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Booked out but not paid enough? If your intuitive business is busy but your income still feels tight, this is why. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
If you’re a Reiki practitioner, medium, energy healer, spiritual coach, or intuitive entrepreneur generating real revenue but still feeling financially stretched, this episode will hit home.
Most intuitive business owners don’t have a marketing problem. They have a structural problem.
Being fully booked does not automatically mean:
• Strong profit margins
• Predictable income
• Stable take-home pay
• Financial freedom
In this conversation, we break down how to increase your take-home income 20–40% without adding more clients, more marketing, or more working hours.
This isn’t hustle advice. This is business model repair.
What You’ll Learn• Why raising prices is about unit economics — not ego
• How to increase Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) using frequency, retention, and order value
• How memberships and structured offers stabilize revenue
• How digital products and leveraged income reduce time-for-money pressure
• Why recurring revenue and prepaid containers calm income volatility
If your calendar is full but your income feels unstable, this episode will show you exactly where the leak is — and how to fix it.
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Why Intuition Is Never Loud
Is it intuition or anxiety? If you are struggling to tell the difference, you are not alone. In this episode, I explain why true spiritual guidance is never loud and how to finally stop overthinking so you can …
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Is it intuition or anxiety? If you are struggling to tell the difference, you are not alone. In this episode, I explain why true spiritual guidance is never loud and how to finally stop overthinking so you can break the mental loop of doubt. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by a decision, wondering if that "urgent feeling" is a warning sign or just fear pretending to be helpful, this episode is for you. We often mistake the loudness of anxiety for the importance of a message. But as you'll learn, your true inner voice doesn't scream—it whispers.
In this episode, we explore:
- The "Siren" Trap: Why anxiety attacks use urgency to trick you, and how to spot the difference between survival instinct and true intuition.
- Decoding the Texture: How to identify the "jagged," constricted energy of fear versus the "smooth," expanded nature of trusting your intuition.
- The Relief Trap: Why making a fast decision just to end the tension is usually just "solving an emotion" rather than finding mental clarity.
- Practical Discernment Tools: How to use the "Return Test" to filter out mental noise and hear your inner voice clearly.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) The "Loudness" Trap: Why Anxiety Feels Like Truth
- (08:31) The "Texture" of Intuition (Constriction vs. Expansion)
- (17:18) Breaking the Loop: How to Trust the Silence
- (22:49) The "Return Test" for Instant Clarity
- (23:45) Final Encouragement & Next Steps
Listen Next:
Mistaking Anxiety for Intuition? Here’s Why
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Why Clarity Feels Harder as Awareness Grows
Feeling calmer than ever but still stuck in your head? This episode explains why clarity often gets harder afterwards.. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.Many people believe overthinking means they lack …
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Feeling calmer than ever but still stuck in your head? This episode explains why clarity often gets harder afterwards.. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
Many people believe overthinking means they lack awareness, confidence, or intuition. But for highly self-aware people, overthinking often increases after calm, presence, and emotional regulation improve. In this episode, Chris breaks down why clarity feels harder as awareness grows, how mental noise forms when internal signals go unfiltered, and why trying to find meaning in every thought quietly keeps you stuck.
This conversation explores the difference between calm and clarity, awareness and discernment, and explains why mental overload is not a failure of growth but a natural transition stage. If you struggle with overthinking, decision fatigue, lack of clarity, second-guessing decisions, or mental noise despite feeling grounded and emotionally stable, this episode will help you understand what’s actually happening inside your mind — and why nothing has gone wrong.
What You’ll Learn
- Why calm awareness doesn’t automatically produce clarity
- How increased awareness can create mental overload and overthinking
- The difference between noticing thoughts and trusting them
- Why unfiltered internal signals lead to decision fatigue
- How clarity begins by learning what not to respond to
Listen Next
Your Loudest Thought Is Usually the Wrong One
This episode continues the conversation by explaining why the most convincing thought in your mind is often the least reliable — and what to trust instead.
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Your Loudest Thought Is Usually the Wrong One
The loudest thought in your head feels urgent—but it’s usually wrong. Learn how to separate mental noise from real clarity.If you keep looping on decisions, it’s not because you’re indecisive. It’s because …
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The loudest thought in your head feels urgent—but it’s usually wrong. Learn how to separate mental noise from real clarity.
If you keep looping on decisions, it’s not because you’re indecisive. It’s because mental noise is drowning out clarity. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
In this episode, we break down why the thoughts that feel loud, urgent, or repetitive often block good decision-making—especially for smart, self-aware people.
You’ll learn how the ego mind is wired to protect you by keeping you in what feels safe, familiar, and controlled—even when that protection shows up as overthinking, hesitation, and decision fatigue.
This isn’t about motivation, mindset tricks, or calming your thoughts.
It’s about understanding how decisions actually get distorted under pressure—and how to tell the difference between mental noise and useful signal in real time.
When you can separate the two, decisions stop feeling heavy. Confidence returns. And you stop fighting yourself.
What You’ll Learn- Why urgency is often a false signal in decision-making
- How mental noise is created by fear, stress, and ego protection
- The real difference between overthinking and clarity
- Why high performers struggle most with decision fatigue
- A practical way to identify clear signal vs mental noise
Who This Episode Is For- Business owners and leaders making high-stakes decisions
- High performers stuck in analysis paralysis
- Anyone exhausted from second-guessing
- Listeners seeking clarity without hype or spirituality
🎧 Listen Next👉 The Real Reason You Can’t Decide
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The Real Reason You Can't Decide
Stuck in your head, replaying decisions, yet feeling calm? If clarity still won’t come, this episode explains exactly why. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.Many midlife professionals struggling with …
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Stuck in your head, replaying decisions, yet feeling calm? If clarity still won’t come, this episode explains exactly why. Join our Top 10 Spirituality Podcast.
Many midlife professionals struggling with decision fatigue assume something is wrong when they feel prepared—but still can't make the choice. That assumption quietly keeps them stuck. In this conversation, we break down why feeling "ready" doesn’t automatically create clarity, why trying to force decisions often makes the overthinking loop worse, and what actually allows confident decisions to form faster—without the pressure.
If you're mentally exhausted from second-guessing everyday choices, or frustrated that the answer won’t land no matter how much you think about it, tune in. This episode will reframe what’s happening in your brain and show you how to work with it instead of fighting it. You'll discover why your brain might resist the final decision even when you feel calm, why you can't just 'think' your way out of it, and practical steps to end the internal debate and move towards clearer, faster, more confident choices.
Chapters
00:00 Understanding the Experience of Feeling Stuck
05:58 The Role of Calm in Decision Making
11:38 Distinguishing Presence from Instruction
17:19 The Dangers of Forcing Action
If this helped, the next conversation to listen to is Why Your Intuition Feels Like Its Doubt (And How to Trust It) — it explains how mental noise keeps you circling decisions even when you feel calm.
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Why Your Intuition Feels Like Doubt (And How to Trust It)
If spiritual growth is supposed to remove doubt… why are the most aware people often the most unsure? You’ve reflected. You’ve grown. You’ve done the inner work. And yet, the doubt is still there.In this …
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If spiritual growth is supposed to remove doubt… why are the most aware people often the most unsure? You’ve reflected. You’ve grown. You’ve done the inner work. And yet, the doubt is still there.
In this conversation, I explain why that doesn’t mean anything is wrong — and why doubt often shows up because awareness is increasing, not because you’re failing. In fact, encountering doubt is often one of the most misunderstood spiritual awakening stages. This episode quietly dismantles one of the most damaging assumptions in spiritual culture: that awareness should eliminate uncertainty.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
▶️ Why doubt often increases as awareness deepens — and why that’s normal
▶️ How being “open” can amplify mental noise, not just guidance
▶️ Why doubt isn’t a failure — but a signal you’re missing one key piece
▶️ How to develop spiritual discernment so you can stop second-guessing yourself.
If doubt has ever made you second-guess yourself…
If you have been struggling with trusting your intuition,…
If you’ve felt embarrassed that you still feel unsure after doing so much inner work…
This conversation will reframe doubt completely.
Because when doubt is misunderstood, people push harder — and get more stuck. But when doubt is understood, pressure drops, self-judgment loosens, and clarity starts to feel possible again — without forcing it.
That shift is what this episode is about.
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▶️ Listen next: "Not Losing Your Intuition-You're Misreading it"
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You’re Not Losing Your Intuition — You’re Misreading It
You’re not following your intuition — you’re following anxiety and calling it guidance. That mistake quietly blocks real clarity.Many people believe they’ve lost their intuition or that their connection with …
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You’re not following your intuition — you’re following anxiety and calling it guidance. That mistake quietly blocks real clarity.
Many people believe they’ve lost their intuition or that their connection with Spirit has weakened. But in most cases, intuition hasn’t disappeared — it’s being misread or overridden by anxiety, overthinking, and urgency.
Intuition is quiet by design. It doesn’t push, pressure, or demand immediate action. Anxiety does. When anxiety is mistaken for intuition, spiritual guidance starts to feel confusing, inconsistent, or unreliable.
Real intuition and guidance from Spirit often show up subtly — as calm knowing, emotional neutrality, energetic alignment, or a quiet sense of what feels right or off. Learning how to tell the difference between intuition and anxiety restores trust, clarity, and confidence in your spiritual connection.
When you understand how intuition actually communicates, guidance becomes easier to recognize without forcing signs, second-guessing yourself, or searching for answers outside yourself.
🔹 What You’ll Learn:• why intuition doesn’t feel loud or dramatic
• how anxiety is commonly mistaken for intuition
• the difference between fear-based urgency and intuitive clarity
• how Spirit Guides communicate through subtle inner knowing
• why intuition feels quiet even when it’s working
• how to rebuild trust in your intuitive and spiritual guidance
Chapters:
00:00 Understanding Intuition vs. Anxiety
02:51 The Nature of Intuition
05:29 Recognizing Intuition in Everyday Life
08:26 Rebuilding Trust in Intuition
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Feeling Disconnected? You're Guides Are Closer Than You Think
Feeling lost, disconnected, or unsure of your life direction can be unsettling — but what if it’s not a problem at all? Very often, confusion shows up right before guidance and meaningful change.When Spirit …
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Feeling lost, disconnected, or unsure of your life direction can be unsettling — but what if it’s not a problem at all? Very often, confusion shows up right before guidance and meaningful change.
When Spirit feels quiet and nothing in your life seems to line up anymore, it’s easy to turn inward with doubt and self-blame. But feeling lost isn’t a failure. It’s a transition — a moment when an old way of being guided no longer fits, and something deeper is beginning to take shape.
Guidance doesn’t always arrive as answers or obvious signs. More often, it moves quietly — through emotions, timing, resistance, restlessness, and subtle redirection. When you understand how this works, the pressure eases. You stop forcing clarity. You stop questioning your intuition. And you begin to feel supported even before you know what’s next.
This space is for anyone sitting with the bigger questions — about purpose, meaning, connection, loss, or what comes next — and wanting to feel steadier while those answers unfold.
🔹 You’ll explore:
- Why feeling lost is often a signal, not a failure
- How guidance shows up when Spirit feels quiet or subtle
- Why confusion and anxiety frequently appear before change
- How to trust guidance again without forcing clarity
- A grounding practice to help you feel supported during uncertainty
If you’ve been wondering whether something is wrong — or whether something deeper is quietly working — this conversation will meet you right where you are.
🎁 Free Resource:
Download the free Spirit Guide Connection Starter Kit at:
👉 montclairmedium.com/guideconnectionkit
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If this episode resonated with you, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to figure everything out at once. Guidance often meets us in the quiet spaces first.
Love and Light, this is Chris.
Get all the resources and show notes for this episode on my website, spiritsbesideus.com. Join our community on Facebook.
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