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Rise From The Ashes
Your grandmother's dying words are still controlling your life
Your grandmother's dying words are still controlling your life. In this explosive Part 2, Michelle Ward reveals how childhood promises and deathbed commitments create invisible emotional prisons that have been sabotaging your happiness for decades.
Discover the shocking connection between trapped emotions stored in your body and chronic pain, anxiety, and relationship struggles that traditional medicine can't heal. Michelle's revolutionary emotional code healing approach uses muscle testing therapy and vital force energy techniques to release emotional energy blocks that manifest as physical ailments.
Through her vulnerable story about her grandmother's instruction to "keep the family together" and her father's deathbed promise, Michelle exposes how inherited emotional patterns create cycles of self-sacrifice that destroy personal fulfillment. Learn how these subconscious emotional blocks control your adult decisions without your awareness.
Michelle's coaching practice demonstrates how holistic healing methods rooted in quantum physics can eliminate decades of suffering in minutes. From chronic back pain disappearing instantly to anxiety and energy healing that transforms both humans and animals, the results prove that emotional energy release addresses the root cause of most physical and emotional struggles.
Especially powerful for women over 45 experiencing identity loss after motherhood and navigating major life transitions, Michelle's approach helps you distinguish between who you are versus the roles you play. Discover how releasing trapped emotions can unlock your vital force energy and transform both your internal and external worlds.
Ready to identify what emotional energies are holding you back and break free from unconscious commitments that have been controlling your life? This conversation reveals the exact muscle testing therapy techniques and emotional code healing methods that can finally set you free from inherited emotional programming.
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ladies and gentlemen, back to part two of royce miniaturist. I am joined again with michelle ward. In the first episode we went through her challenges with her husband, the realization that the world isn't in her little frame, and she came out of it rather different. That journey took her to elevated places, not just with herself and her life, but also where she's going next, in her vision and in her own values. Michelle, welcome back. And this is all about you, where you're going and your message to millions. What is your driving force or your driving value when you're serving other people?
Speaker 2:I think that people keep themselves so small and they don't realize how great they are and what potential they have. The thing that drives me is I want to unearth that, ignite that potential in people. I want them to see their beauty and their worth and see that they're capable of anything. I should circle back around with my husband when I changed myself, when I was like I'm going to see what I can do on my end. I told him I don't need you for my happiness, but I want you in my life. We've been married at that point for 23 years. I started to change and I was praying for a resurrection, a restoration, because I didn't restore what was bad. I wanted to die. We have a wonderful marriage now. It is a resurrection. It is what a marriage should be, in my opinion. I had to change first and my internal world changed, so my external world changed.
Speaker 2:The name of coaching business is Elan Vittal, and Elan Vittal means vital force. It's a phrase coined by a French philosopher in 1907 about innate power we are born with at a cellular level. The book was called Creative Evolution. Over time, because of conditioning and the programming, we that vital force, people look for empowerment from outside sources instead of you know, looking internally and digging deep passions. What do I love? What do I care about? Who am I? I'm Michelle. I'm Bo's wife, I'm Tessa and Ella's mom, but that's not who I am. That's just descriptors of what I do. Who am I really? I'm a child of God. I'm a powerful being, and I sit here for a reason I want to show other people that they aren't who they think they are.
Speaker 1:I love that distinction because when I've interviewed a large amount of people over the time of being coaching and doing other things and in the podcast, it's interesting on conversations even outside of this, when we say so who are you? They go into what they do and how other people see them. They don't actually say I am and then go into who they are. They identify with the things and the external components around them that make up what they do to justify their existence. It's an interesting concept very few people bring up, so I'm glad you did, which brings me back to the emotional source code, sorry, the emotional code, the body massage and the body messaging. How is it released? You got tapping emotions that heal just more than the pain. The emotional energy gets trapped in the body the manifesting and the chronic stress and self-doubt, physical symptoms. How are these released and how does it create space in a deep self-trust that is sustainable, not just now but in the future, for ongoing transformation?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a very simple but profound thing. Everything is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can take different forms. So are emotions. Emotions are energy.
Speaker 2:Through times in our life we may perceive or feel something in a situation. A lot of times we process it, but sometimes we cannot process those emotions. They get trapped in little balls of energy in the body and in vulnerable places. If you're genetically predisposed to a certain thing, whether it be anxiety or migraines or back pain, it might manifest that way. This can happen in an instant. You can have several of the same emotions from different experiences. They all have different energetic signatures get trapped.
Speaker 2:What I do is connect to the subconscious mind. I'm not a psychic. I can't know what you're thinking. I use muscle testing on myself and ask yes or no questions to the person I'm working on, based on what their issue is. For example, if they present with a migraine headache, then I'll say is there a trapped emotion that is contributing to this migraine headache? In the holistic health space there's a saying that anything can cause anything. A migraine headache can be linked to breakup with a boyfriend whenever you were 16 years old, because there are emotions tied to that, and so we can find those emotions, release them by running my hand over the governing meridian and dissolves, and people feel relief instantly most of the time.
Speaker 1:So what you're doing is using quantum physics and meridians to reset or remove or transmit energy. Is that correct?
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:So what you're speaking to now I love, because your psychic can pick up on energy. That's not just you. Everybody has this gift. We have different ways of explaining it, Channeling, mediumship, whatever you call it. It's the same thing at its root source the dimensions that people have, the energy centers, the torus which is all around us and the energy force around you. Every compartment has an access code to tap into energy. No-transcript.
Speaker 1:What you're speaking about now, I love, because most people are trying to understand this, can't they think, still in that mindset of it's worthless? The only thing that will ever change you, as you've experienced, michelle, is yourself Driving forward to not be that person causing all of the stuff in your life. Causing all the stuff in your life. Tony Robbins once said you're 80% responsible for everything that happens in your life and business. I disagree with him. It's a hundred percent of everything. You can track it back to a single moment. You do this very well, michelle, by going back into the root causes of emotions and understanding them, and then remove or reset them in a structured way that is proven to work. What are some of the results you've experienced with some of your clients?
Speaker 2:Okay. So just recently I was working on somebody who had chronic back pain. She said it comes in waves. At the time of our meeting I asked everybody to rate their pain from zero to like zero is nothing to 10 unbearable. She rated it an eight. I connected with her. I'd started with the emotions and after about five emotions I identified and released, I said can you get up and walk around and see if there's any shift? She got up and sat back down with a big smile on her face. I said did you feel any shift? And she said I felt it as soon as I got out of the chair. She said I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to get up because my pain is so bad, but right now it's at two and I was like okay, that's good, let's see if we can get it down to a zero. So we worked on three more emotions and released three more emotions and the pain was gone and it hasn't come back. That's one example. I can tell you for myself.
Speaker 2:There's this thing called a heart wall and most people I think 92% of people have a heart wall and this is emotions that guard our heart. Think of an onion. It's just layer upon layer. Some people have 25 emotions in their heart, maybe some people have four. I started breaking down my heart wall. Just doing the emotion code on myself, seeing what heart wall emotions there were, I would identify the age this happened. I was like, oh yeah, I know what that was. Anyway, I released the heart wall. It wasn't until two or three months after that I realized some of the things. I'd gotten no contact with my mom about almost a year ago because of some things that had been going on for about 20 years, and that's a whole other podcast or story. But what I realized now looking back, is that I had set a boundary for myself and I set a boundary expecting her to change and my heart on that completely changed. And I do believe it's because I released that hard wall. I'm like no, you have to see what I'm talking about, you have to understand where I'm coming from. And she said I don't see myself that way, I don't see myself doing that, and it was so frustrating. But at some point I was like you know what, mom, I love you and I can't change you.
Speaker 2:I was working on a dog who had great anxiety around thunderstorms and there was a thunderstorm in the area. Her owner was like can you see what you can do about that, because she'll keep me up all night. I did some work on her and found abandonment and fear and all this anxiety Released that. That night her owner told me she slept through the night, did not wake me up. There were tornadoes in the area. Normally she would have been panting up and down, freaking out all night. So she slept like a baby. So it works for animals too.
Speaker 1:Win-win. And what's the? I'm intrigued now because you do animals. What's the biggest animal? Have you worked on any, a horse or anything else?
Speaker 2:No, I haven't worked on a horse. Yeah, I did my own cat too. She was biting all the time. You get a pet. Whenever I did it on the biting and she doesn't bite anymore. What should I? Cleo?
Speaker 1:I've got two cats, Max and Moila.
Speaker 2:I love those names.
Speaker 1:They're rescues.
Speaker 2:She showed up on our driveway one day and I was like I guess we're keeping her.
Speaker 1:I one day and I was like I guess we're keeping her. I want to go back into what is the emotional promise. What emotional promise did you unknowingly make as a child that still influences your life today? It's quite a powerful question actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's really interesting. Three weeks ago I was like, oh, this totally makes sense. Growing up, it was really important that our family spent all this time with our cousins and grandparents, and it was the maternal side. It was always important that we do these family vacations together and no one could miss. If you miss, you got in trouble. So no one missed. My grandmother, when she was passing away, was living here in Dallas where I live. I'd go pick her up the home that she was living in and bring her home for dinner and she'd always say, Michelle, it's your job to keep the family together. You've got to keep the family together. I was like, okay, joyce, I understand family is really important. I was the only one she said that. To Fast forward, a few years ago there was a family dispute that happened in my home and I did not like how it was handled.
Speaker 2:I was like y'all aren't coming back to my house again until I get an apology. I didn't get an apology. About nine months went by and I was like I can't not have everybody here for Thanksgiving, because that's what I've always done. I've been doing it for 20 years. So I'm going to have the family back, regardless of what happened last year, it was the most uncomfortable Thanksgiving for me. I felt like a stranger in my own home. I was like I'm not doing that again because the elephant was still in the room.
Speaker 2:The second thing is when my dad was on his deathbed my mom has an alcohol use disorder. She was drinking the entire time I was taking care of him. They called in hospice to his home and on three different occasions he turned to me, said Michelle, I'm really worried about your mom and her drinking. I was like Dad, it's okay, I'm going to take care of mom.
Speaker 2:I did not realize that I had consciously but subconsciously made this promise to my dad and to my grandmother that I was responsible for everybody else in the family, regardless of how I was treated or whatever was going on. I was just supposed to brush it under the rug and I just recognized that's where that was coming from. And that's also why it was easy for me to talk to my mom after nine months of not speaking to her and just say you know what? It's your responsibility to change yourself. No amount of boundaries that I set for you is going to change anything. So I had to accept her for who she is, accept her for how she shows up and not expect anything from her. Tell my dad I love you and I know you love mom and that's why you were concerned about her. But I've got to release this and I have, and it's an amazing thing thank you for being vulnerable and sharing that.
Speaker 1:No matter what happens, you still love them and you don't like somebody, what they do right, you still love them and they brought you into this world. There's Many challenges we go through in life. It's an honor to have these conversations with you, because you're not only identifying what you're overcoming in your personal life, but also helping other people In the ideal world. Someone's looking for you. Who's your ideal client?
Speaker 2:So my ideal client women 45 and over. Maybe they're empty nesters or becoming empty nesters, they're going into menopause and have lost their identity. For me it was the girl's mom, bo's wife, the volunteer at the church school. Who am I and how do I tap back into that? Potential Women going back into the field of work or looking to make a career change? But they don't see the value they can bring to the world. And when you're standing in, see the value they can bring to the world and when you're standing in the frame, you can't see the picture. I'm standing outside the frame so I can see the big picture and I can see the beauty, love and wisdom in all the people I meet. So I just want them to tap into that themselves.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing. Where can people find you? I know on LinkedIn is one of them. Then where else do you want to send people?
Speaker 2:yeah, so my website is elonvitall-coachingcom. You can set up a discovery call. I offer a 30-minute free consultation. You can take a self-sabotage quiz and see what I offer, what I do, who I am. That's probably the best way, or LinkedIn is another great way to find me.
Speaker 1:Words. Okay, I've got a question for you. If you could have a conversation with your eight-year-old self, what would you tell that child?
Speaker 2:That's a great question and I do actually talk to my eight-year-old self. I talk to my three-year-old self and my teenage self and I say, michelle, thank you so much for being so strong and for doing what you had to do to get us here. I get a little teary about it, because that eight-year-old girl that was just trying to be accepted, or trying to be loved, or trying to be noticed didn't realize the things that she was going to have to go through in order to become us now. Thank you, thank you, thank you for surviving.
Speaker 1:This is why I like asking some of these questions because they're random but they matter. I really want to share your message and who you truly are with people who don't necessarily know this exists. People have this facade. I have this challenge where I'm on LinkedIn. My clientele is women 44 and above, but they're corporate. They have all this branding around them and they've built up these castles. They never want to come online and say, yes, I have a problem. No, so all of this jargon that they've built up is this wall, and conversations like this allow that wall to be lowered enough to see your human, and that's who they gravitate towards. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing. Michelle. Thank you very much for your time, your love, your energy and your presence in the world. You're awesome.
Speaker 2:Thanks for doing what you do. Thank you for just being who you are, putting yourself out there and having the courage to do this.
Speaker 1:It's a craziness, not courage.
Speaker 2:We can package it.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much for listening. Please download, share and change someone's life. This is the Rise From the Energy podcast. I'm Baz Porter, and my guest today in episode two is Michelle Ward. Any questions reach out to.