Open Your Intuition: Healing Trauma, Trusting Spirit, and Reclaiming Your Gifts
Open your intuition and you begin to remember what has always been inside you.
I recently joined Daniel John Hanneman on the Spiritual Rockstar Podcast to talk about intuition, spiritual awakening, trauma healing, psychic development, grounding, and the way Spirit communicates through the body, signs, emotions, and everyday life.
This interview was a beautiful conversation about my own journey with Spirit, how I experienced psychic connection from childhood, and why I now help others reconnect with their own gifts.
Watch the full Spiritual Rockstar Podcast Interview – You’re Not Broken … You’ve Just Forgotten Who You Are
This blog shares some of the key themes from my interview on the Spiritual Rockstar Podcast with Daniel John Hanneman.
We spoke about spiritual awakening, psychic gifts, trauma healing, intuition, grounding, energy protection, emotional release, Shine with Shaz, psychic development, and what it means to live aligned with your soul.
Watch the full interview here:
My early connection with Spirit
My connection with Spirit began when I was very young.
As a child, I could see and sense things that other people could not. I spoke with beings, relatives in Spirit, angels, fairies, elementals, and people who had already passed. To me, it felt completely normal.
I thought everyone could see what I saw.
Apparently not.
One of the things I shared in the interview was that I used to see dead people walking down the street as if they were alive. When I was little, I could not always tell the difference between a living person and someone in Spirit.
That gift never fully went away.
However, like many spiritually open children, I learned that not everyone understood it. Some people called it imagination. Others told me not to talk about it.
Thankfully, my mum never fully shut it down at home. Although our relationship was very traumatic and complex, I am grateful that I was still allowed to explore my connection privately.
That mattered.
Why many people shut down their intuition
Every person is born with intuition.
You may call it gut instinct, inner knowing, connection to God, Spirit, Source, your higher self, or universal consciousness. The words do not matter as much as the connection itself.
Most children are open when they arrive.
Then life begins programming them.
They may hear things like:
“You’re imagining it.”
“Don’t be silly.”
“That’s not real.”
“Stop making things up.”
Over time, many people shut that connection down. Not because they lose it, but because they stop trusting it.
That access is still there.
Your intuition does not disappear. It waits for you to become present enough to hear it again.
Healing trauma can lead you to open your intuition and reconnect with your unique spiritual gifts
During the interview, I spoke about how trauma affected my life and my spiritual connection.
I had a traumatic childhood, and I was told openly that I was not wanted. Like many people, I learned to survive by shutting things down.
Pain was pushed away.
Feelings were buried.
The body carried what the mind could not process.
Eventually, that emotional weight began to show up physically.
In my early twenties, I lost the use of my left arm. Doctors explored different explanations, including autoimmune disease and possible surgery. Yet something inside me refused to accept that as my final answer.
That moment became a turning point.
I began asking my body what it was trying to tell me. I asked God, Spirit, and my guides for help. Then I started reconnecting with my spiritual work, readings, tarot, healing, and intuitive guidance.
Every time I followed my spiritual connection, I improved.
Whenever I shut it down again, illness and dysfunction returned.
That pattern taught me something important.
Your body speaks.
Your emotions matter.
Unprocessed trauma does not vanish just because you ignore it.
The body keeps the score
In the interview, I shared one of my deepest beliefs:
The body keeps the score.
When emotions are not processed, they can show up as pain, symptoms, illness, exhaustion, anxiety, burnout, or overwhelm.
That does not mean you blame yourself for being unwell.
It means your body may be trying to communicate with you.
Many people come to me because they feel symptoms but do not have clear answers. They may feel anxious, heavy, disconnected, exhausted, or physically uncomfortable.
Often, the body is holding emotion.
The soul carries memory, and not all of it comes from this lifetime. Some patterns can feel connected to childhood, past experiences, ancestral energy, soul lessons, or deep emotional imprints.
The goal is not to fear the body.
Instead, listen to it.
Ask:
- “What are you trying to show me?”
- “What emotion is sitting here?”
- “What am I ready to release?”
- “What truth have I not wanted to see?”
Those questions can open powerful doors.
Triggers can become your greatest teachers
Triggers often feel uncomfortable, but they can also be gifts.
In the interview, I explained that the person who triggers you is often not the real problem. They may simply reveal what is already sitting inside you.
A trigger can show you an old wound, belief, identity, or story that is ready to be processed.
Now, when I am triggered, my first thought is often:
“Thank you. You’ve shown me a layer of myself I could not see.”
That does not mean I let people disrespect me.
It means I use the trigger wisely.
I ask:
“What belief is behind this?”
“What story have I been carrying?”
“Is this actually my truth?”
“What do I want to believe instead?”
Once I realise something is not my truth, I can change it.
This is where tools like EFT, Ho’oponopono, hypnosis, affirmations, emotional release work, and intuitive healing can help create new pathways.
How intuition communicates
Open your intuition and you will begin to notice signs everywhere.
Your spiritual guidance can come through your natural senses.
You may see repeating numbers, animals, feathers, colours, signs, or symbols.
Next, you may hear guidance through songs, conversations, words, phrases, or messages that seem to repeat around you.
Then you may feel energy more clearly. You may walk into a room and sense the mood. You may feel hot, cold, heavy, light, emotional, or physically aware of someone else’s energy.
Some of you may also experience clear knowing.
That is when you simply know something without being told.
Someone may speak, and you know whether it is true. A situation may look fine on the outside, but your body knows something is off.
These gifts are not reserved for a chosen few.
They are part of your natural intuitive system.
Imagination is connected to intuition
One of the ideas we explored in the interview was imagination.
Many people dismiss imagination as childish or fake.
I see it differently.
Imagination is deeply connected to intuition.
It allows us to sense possibilities, create new worlds, receive inspiration, and bring ideas into form. Artists, writers, musicians, inventors, directors, healers, and spiritual teachers all use intuitive imagination.
The world often teaches people to become robotic.
Go to school. Get the job. Buy the house. Pay the debt. Repeat the cycle.
But your soul came here for more than survival.
You are here to create, connect, experience, grow, and bring something meaningful through you.
Your imagination is not something to shut down.
It may be one of the first doorways back to your intuition.
Presence opens the doorway
Most people live on autopilot.
They wake up, go through the motions, drive to work, do the job, come home, and barely notice what happened.
That disconnection is common.
Yet intuition needs presence.
If you are rushing, distracted, anxious, overwhelmed, or always thinking about the next thing, your intuitive guidance may feel harder to hear.
Presence brings you back.
You do not need to meditate for hours.
Even three to five minutes can help.
Focus on your breath.
Feel your body.
Notice where you are.
Let yourself arrive.
That simple practice can begin awakening your senses again.
Grounding matters when you open your intuition and expand spiritually
Spiritual awakening can feel overwhelming if you are not grounded.
Many people open their intuition but forget to come back into the body. Then they feel anxious, floaty, disconnected, drained, or overstimulated.
Grounding helps you stay centred.
When you wake up, call your energy back into your body.
Feel your feet.
Breathe into your belly.
Connect to the earth.
Fill yourself with white light or Source energy.
Create a protective bubble around yourself.
Then, at the end of the day, cut cords and call your energy back.
Every interaction creates energetic connection.
If you do not clear and reclaim your energy, you can feel drained by other people’s emotions, crowds, conversations, and environments.
This is why energy maintenance matters.
Why I created grounding resources
On the podcast, I shared that I have a grounding and connection guide to help people start this process.
It teaches simple ways to ground your energy, reconnect to your body, open your intuition, protect your field, and call your energy back.
These tools are especially helpful if you are empathic, intuitive, spiritually open, or easily drained by others.
Simple practices can make a big difference.
They do not need to take hours.
Often, three to five minutes of conscious energy work can help you feel clearer, stronger, and more present.
My work as a psychic medium and life coach
In the interview, I also spoke about the different ways I support people.
Many clients first come to me for a psychic reading, healing session, or intuitive guidance. They want to understand what is happening around them, why they feel stuck, or what their soul is trying to show them.
From there, some choose deeper healing work.
My work blends psychic mediumship, life coaching, NLP, Reiki, hypnosis, emotional healing, trauma support, intuitive guidance, and spiritual development.
The aim is not just to give answers.
The deeper purpose is to help you reconnect with yourself.
You are not here to be dependent on someone else’s guidance.
You are here to remember how powerful your own guidance already is.
Shine with Shaz
I also shared my group coaching program, Shine with Shaz.
Shine is a 13-week healing and empowerment container for women who are ready to release old patterns, heal emotional pain, reconnect with self-worth, and step into the life they truly want.
Inside Shine, we look at the emotional weight stored in the body. We work through inner child wounds, shadow work, emotional release, self-trust, boundaries, and soul alignment. All with the purpose to open your intuition to the voice of your soul.
The process supports you to let go of what has been holding you back, rise into your power, and reconnect with the person you came here to be.
Every soul has a purpose.
The more you align with that purpose, the more your life begins to flow.
One-to-one coaching and deeper healing
One-to-one coaching allows us to go deeper.
This work supports women who need more personal guidance around trauma, emotional healing, identity, purpose, spiritual connection, and life direction.
Some wounds sit deep.
They may not be easily remembered, yet they can still show up through anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, autoimmune symptoms, pain, or feeling lost.
In one-to-one work, we can explore timelines, emotional patterns, beliefs, soul lessons, and the deeper truth of who you are becoming.
The focus is not on staying stuck in the past.
Instead, we look at what you gained, what you survived, what you are ready to release, and how those lessons can become part of your strength.
Psychic development and spiritual training
Psychic development is another part of my work.
I currently teach psychic development classes in person in Penrith, New South Wales, and I also offer online options when there is a group ready to learn together.
For those who are ready to open their intuition and learn how to connect with their guides, understand the different clairs, practise reading energy, and build confidence in their spiritual connection.
Some people learn psychic development for personal use.
Others feel called to become healers, readers, spiritual teachers, or intuitive business owners.
Wherever you are on that path, spiritual development begins with trust, grounding, practice, and presence.
Intuition is a muscle
One of my biggest messages from the interview is this:
Every single person has intuition.
However, intuition is a muscle.
You have to learn how to open your intuition and master your connection.
If you do not activate it and exercise it, it cannot grow with you.
Start small.
Pay attention to signs.
Ask for guidance.
Notice repeating symbols, animals, songs, words, colours, dreams, and body sensations.
If you want a sign, be specific.
Ask Spirit to show you something clear.
Then stay open enough to receive it.
Your guides, soul, and intuition are already communicating with you.
The question is whether you are present enough to notice.
You are not broken
My final message in the interview was simple.
No matter what you are going through, you are not broken.
You are remembering who you are.
There is greatness inside you.
Sometimes it gets buried under trauma, programming, fear, grief, rejection, or other people’s expectations. Still, it is there.
Your work is not to become someone else.
Your work is to uncover what has always been within you.
You deserve a life that feels aligned, connected, joyful, purposeful, and free.
Details from the You-Tube Episode Listing
In this episode, Shaz Cini receives an intuitive Double Your Income Energy Scan from Daniel.
Shaz Cini is a Psychic Medium and Life Coach based in Western Sydney, helping women heal emotional wounds, rebuild self-worth, and step into a life that actually feels good to live.
With over 35 years of experience and more than 10,000 readings, she blends intuitive guidance with practical tools like NLP, hypnosis, and energy work. She’s also the host of the Spiritual Awakening with Shaz podcast, where she shares real, grounded conversations about healing, intuition, and personal growth.
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Show Notes
★ 2:51 – I’ve had this connection to spirit since I was 2 years old.
★ 7:33 – It was something that never fully went away – no matter how much I was told not to say that, not to do that.
★ 12:43 – I truly believe the body keeps score. If you do not process your emotions you will have symptoms in your body via pain, disease, illness.
★ 22:04 – Every single person is born with a guardian angel, it travels with them from birth all through their life.
★ 29:58 – We live in fast forward, we’re so much thinking of the future.
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★ 41:22 – If you’re waking up everyday going to a job that you hate, and your first thought is ‘Oh my god I hate going to work, why do I have to do that?’ You WILL create disease and disfunction in your body.
★ 56:55 – Daniel’s tunes into Shaz’s energy.
★ 1:01:17 – Do you want to Meditate and Make Money? Grab your Free meditation today: https://www.YourSacredPurpose.com
★ 1:01:48 – Take advantage of your own Rock Your Sacred Purpose Consultation here: https://yoursacredpurpose.com/rock-your-sacred-purpose-consultation/
★ 1:02:44 – No matter what you are going through, sweetheart you are not broken. You are just needing to remember who you are.
