Marla Miller: 0:35

Welcome back to Open-Minded Healing. Today we'll be speaking with my guest, Kilkenny Tremblay, about specific ways you can enhance your own intuitive abilities and get guidance from the universe. Kilkenny has over 20 years of experience offering one-of-a-kind psychic medium readings that combine different modalities like chakra, balancing, astrology, tantric yoga and Akashic records, while delivering messages of healing and clarity and providing actionable steps to integrate that newfound wisdom into your life. So welcome to the show, Kilkenny.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 1:13

Thank you so much. It's great to be here with you and your audience.

Marla Miller: 1:18

Well, I'm excited to get into the topic of intuition because I rely on it myself so heavily. So anything that people can do to enhance that is awesome. But first I want to get into how you first became aware that you had the ability to connect to another realm or a higher frequency and receive messages. When did that start for you?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 1:45

Well, I was really blessed to be introduced to this arena when I was quite young. When I was five years old, I started to meditate. My mom brought me to my first meditation class and instantly I loved it. There was a soul kind of recognition class and instantly I loved it. There was a soul kind of recognition. There was a nervous system kind of recognition of how powerful it was as a tool. And it was just me and a bunch of adults, a bunch of women, frankly in their middle age years, and yet I felt such peace and power and centeredness after and, yeah, I just loved it.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 2:19

So that was my foray into meditation and really to me that's the source and the force, that's my foundation of everything with my psychic medium work and really my whole arsenal of tools that I have, which are many, because I've really been trained and supported in so many different lineages and studied with some of the greatest teachers in the world, but really the touchstone for all of them is meditation. The bottom line is meditation, which is simply connecting to the deepest part of yourself. And that can look like so many different things and so many different activities, but yeah, when I unlocked that relationship with meditation, that was beginning of my journey with unlocking the relationship with my intuition.

Marla Miller: 3:04

So that was when you were quite young that you went to that meditation class and you got involved in that. Did you continue that from that point on, or was that just like a little experience and then you know, throughout the years you forgot about meditation. How did that go for you?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 3:24

Great question. For me, it was consistent. Now, when I say consistent, I was five, so it's not like I was meditating every day or every week or something like that. I don't even remember exactly, but my memory is what I know to be true is that I had exposure from then on, so there was a consistency that like every year, several times a year. You know, I don't remember exactly what it was. I do know there were periods. It was like a course my mom's friend was offering, so it was like 30 weeks in a row, but it wasn't something I was doing in a formal, by myself, at five kind of way.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 3:59

When I turned 10, however, then I started to explore it even more deeply in a more traditional and consistent way, because I spent summers at a meditation retreat site and when I was 13, I would go there myself and, you know, have chaperones, but I would meditate, even hanging out with people, and my parents weren't there because I was with other adults studying and meditating with swamis and all sorts of people. So really, I'd say at 10, it became very formal, and that's really when my training began. There were scholars that I was hanging out with and studying with, and philosophy experts and Sanskrit speakers and all sorts of amazing mystics and healers and people, and that really was the formalization when I started taking it to my day-to-day life and my practice, like I remember at 10, making an altar, having a place in my home where I would go to connect with source, connect with my intuition. So from 10 on, that's where it began in a very formal way.

Marla Miller: 5:01

That's impressive at age 10. I always look back and wish I had been really into meditation myself when I was younger, in that when my children were young, I had brought them up with meditation, but it was before I really had delved into it, so I didn't do that.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 5:19

But I think most people, like you know excuse me, it's just like something that I think I get that feedback so much from people like they wish I had younger, and I think that's you know, to normalize it that's really most people's experience and I think I have a unique karma, so to speak, in that way, because of what I meant to do on this earth and the things that I offer, what I meant to do on this earth and the things that I offer.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 5:43

However, it's such a blessing to come to it later as well, because then there's such a remembrance of what life was before and after. So when you've come to it, not as a child or a young person, I feel like you really have a sense of the gift of it, because you remember what life was before it and then what life is like now, and that's a gift in itself. So anyone listening is like, oh man, I wish I had had it younger, like true, but now you have even more of a desire for change and desire for meditation, perhaps, and your intuition, because you did have it earlier in your life.

Marla Miller: 6:17

Yeah, that's a good point. You do realize the power of it so much when you have a before and after to compare what meditation does for your life. So were you always planning for a career to be giving medium readings to people, or were you doing something else before that?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 6:37

I did not plan to do medium readings at all and honestly, I resisted it for a really long time. What happened for me was I was on this journey of a tantric yoga path and in my early adult years I professionally went into the theater industry so I wasn't even connected to it at all and pretty quickly in that industry I gained like a certain level of financial stability, professional success, which was a gift, because what I realized in my early 20s is I was already living what I thought I wanted and yet I felt a little void. I felt like, oh wait, I thought this was the career for me and I thought this was what I wanted and I was in the theater and I had health insurance. That's such a blessing. It's such a rare thing. Again. I was doing exactly what I thought I wanted to be doing and what I was trained for in undergraduate school and up till that moment, and then I just had it and that was my intuition. After a couple years of that, I had a very, very strong pull calling towards something else and I didn't know what it was and I left the theater industry and it seemed on the outside crazy, like I had people say to me are you pregnant? Is something wrong? Are you ill Like? Because it was like I was having all this outer success and outer stability in a genre and career where most people don't. And I didn't have a plan, I didn't have a jumping off plan to where I was leaping towards. But that's my intuition, I just I couldn't explain it, I couldn't articulate it and I didn't even know where I was leaping towards and to. But the landing pad was calling me and so I did that leap and, I'd say within a year or so, ended up doing a yoga teacher training.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 8:26

And this whole time I've been meditating, consistently, been doing my practices, but it never was something that seemed like I would be doing a professional sector, because they were so intimate to me, it was so personal, so it's just something that was so obviously a tool and a support system that allowed me to do other things. But when I took a yoga teacher training and I saw how people could essentially share these teachings in a way that really affected a lot of lives, then it really clicked oh, this makes sense. And so then I was a yoga teacher trainer for a long time and shared teachings in that way and as I consistently meditated, all those inner worlds and landscapes continued to open up for me. That's what happens with meditation, you know. All sorts of amazing experiences were happening to me and for me, and my inner world was so alive and vibrant and the psychic in the yoga tradition they call them cities started to get louder and louder, more and more. And I wasn't meditating for that purpose at all, but those things started to come online so strongly and then, very naturally, not only would like synchronicities happen, but people would always be coming to me because they felt that energetically or maybe I'd be giving advice. But the advice or things people were asking of me in the way of opinions, in the way of support, ended up being like how did you know that? You said this? And then I walked here and that exactly thing you said happened. So those psychic synapses, so to speak, what happened so often that then people started asking me like, well, do you do readings? Can you just sit with me? And so it very organically evolved to the point where then I was offering readings, almost like undercover, to people who are in my circles, and then eventually I was guided like, hey, you need to do this. And I really still didn't want to do it because to me, to be a psychic medium in the intellectual world like I was a professor at the time and it seemed very antithetical and not in harmony with being taken seriously.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 10:38

I have my own podcast. It's called the Modern Mystic Podcast. I have a lot of high-level intellectual type New York Times bestselling authors and people who are in realms of the intellect, and so to come out, so to speak, as a psychic medium really challenged my ego in a certain kind of way. But then I had a reading really specifically with one person and I was giving this reading and she actually was a coaching client of mine and she said and this would happen because I do coaching work. And she said to me can you please do a reading for me? And this would happen with my coaching clients because they could see I was psychic and that was the benefit of me being a coach I get downloaded things, so it's not just my opinion, it's like literally people's teams talk to me.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 11:22

And so I said, sure, because she had a situation where someone in her family had passed recently and so she was really suffering. So I did a reading for her and in that reading her nephew came through, who had passed a few years prior only, and some very specific information came through about things that had happened in the hospital when she was with him, things with his mother. They had, like, created a park, an area for him in his honor, and I saw that and I was able to share, like all these details, and she wrote me later how the reading was so unbelievably healing for everyone in the family and how, particularly his mother, it changed her life Like it took her suffering, which is so immense. I cannot imagine anything worse than losing a child. I think that's the absolute worst thing anyone could probably experience, and I'm a mother of three and when I heard that I really realized how it was my ego resisting, talking about being a psychic to people, and how I was actually allowing my ego to get in the way of how I'm here to serve in that moment and how I'm here to uplevel.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 12:37

And we can think like, oh, I want to be doing you know X, y and Z and I'm here to up-level.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 12:41

And we can think like, oh, I want to be doing X, y and Z, and I'm a huge fan, even with my clients, of follow your passion and I have always followed my passions.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 12:48

However, the exact presentation of what I was offering had shifted and I was allowing my ego you know, ego can often be thought of as edging out God when it's not in alignment and I realized like my ego was in the mix too much and it was trying to hijack the show. And this is a gift and I really need to step into that gift and get out of the way of how I was perceived by the world, offering that gift to people, because it was so profoundly healing for this one person and, as this person, who is a mother, you know, having it like change her life in such a significant way and me being such an empath, being able to think, oh my God, if I had lost a child and had this kind of experience, what that would mean for me. And that's what really allowed me to get my ego out of the way and share this gift and this iteration of my work right now.

Marla Miller: 13:42

That's amazing. It's amazing that, well, first of all, I will say, those medium readings, like you said, can be so healing for so many people, like so many people within the family or just the person you're giving the reading to. I've had that happen where I've had some medium readings and I had someone come through that wasn't even on a list of who I thought would come through with an apology that really struck me. It was an apology I didn't even know I needed and it was so healing. So, yeah, there are so many ways that those readings and tuning into that can benefit people. So healing. So, yeah, there's so many ways that those readings and tuning into that can benefit people.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 14:23

So many. I had a reading yesterday and someone came through. It was a stepfather. It was a huge amount of people actually came through, meaning this person had like three people on one side of the family and then two people on the other. So I was joking to her. It felt like a deli, like when you have to take a number.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 14:38

There were so many of those energies coming through and so, as these energies were coming through and I was sort of organizing and letting each one come forward, one came through and it was her stepfather and, as I shared what he said, she said to me oh, I was excited about these energies that came through and I do experiential, evidential reading. So my deal with my team is look, you have to show people and prove it to people with very specific information, because that's one of the things that I really establish with my team. It's like, look, if I'm going to pull myself out there and do this kind of work, and you are, without pushing me so hard to do this, I will serve, but you have to show me a lot of evidence for people, because I'm not going to be convincing people, I don't want them to be vague.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 15:25

I have Venus in Virgo, I'm going to show Lizzo as well and so, as out there as I can be and seem and have been called to do in my work, I'm really practical and I was like my readings. You have to show me lots of concrete evidence for people and you have to give me really practical advice and tools for them so when they leave my reading they're not like dependent on me all the time, because I'm a teacher and my passion is sharing practices with people. So you can use me as a technology for spirit, for your purposes, but you have to show me literally empower tools and things that these people need to do, coming to me to help heal themselves, to help empower themselves and to help really move their life forward. And so that's what happens in my readings.

Marla Miller: 16:08

You mean, you're saying that, you're saying that to the spirits, you're saying you have to.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 16:13

I was like I accept this work under these conditions and people don't realize you could do that. Sometimes people get freaked out or they're afraid to open up and develop their psychic gifts. You know, part of what I do when I coach people is I help people develop their psychic abilities and turn on their intuition. I have a whole system and lots of practical ways to do that from my own experience, having developed them myself. And you can really be very clear with spirit. Spirit actually likes that. You knowers create safety and containers create flow like the banks of a river. And so with my guides I was like I'll do readings if they're like this and they've just opened up so much and flow so well, because I've created a lot of intention behind them and boundaries and so everyone listening you can do the same thing. I love that become identified in your life.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 17:03

So with this specific reader I was doing, at one point several people came through, actually her great-grandfather, her grandfather and her father which is more unusual, three generations.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 17:27

And then afterwards her stepfather came through on her mom's side and we were talking and she was saying I wasn't excited when you started talking about him because I started saying things evidentially and she was like oh, oh, my stepfather here, and apparently she didn't like him that much and he was really challenging for her and her mother in different ways. And then when I was sharing the messages, she at the end was like I can't like you, just so sweetly and poignantly expressed I can't believe how healing that was for me, she said, because I felt like I had walked away and she had some trauma, but it was more secondhand trauma. It was her mother who had a lot of trauma. There were messages from him to her mother that she was very excited to deliver, but she couldn't believe how incredibly healing the things that he said were for her. Like you said, even healing. She didn't even realize that she needed her inner child, her inner teen.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 18:23

She felt like she had moved on and she's very successful and didn't really realize until after the reading how deeply he impacted her on some subconscious, unconscious levels and how that reading she felt like just cleared it all. It was like amazing. And how that reading she felt like just cleared it all, it was like amazing.

Marla Miller: 18:40

That's such a great story to hear about that secondhand impact, how that can still affect you even when it's not directed at you specifically, and how that healing can be so powerful. Well, that's amazing. So, as far as your readings because they are different, like I said, I've had several medium readings and they're all done in a similar fashion, but I've never had someone that's combined modalities like you do, so can you explain what you do in a reading that combines things like the chakra, balancing and astrology and things like that?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 19:17

that combines things like the chakra balancing and astrology and things like that, absolutely. So what my specialty is, I have all this background, as I mentioned, in various different lineages that are ancient, ancient wisdom lineages, and I blend those with modern spiritual practices and that's what creates these evidence-based psychic medium readings. So I use modalities like chakra balancing. I'm an Irish ordained priestess. I'm a Celtic priestess. I have Irish background and I have that lineage as well. I have this background of meditation. I have this background of mindfulness. I'm an official astrologer and I've been trained and certified but have been doing astrology forever, my whole life Akashic readings, nervous system regulation practices so in my readings I really connect with people's guides, connect with people's angels, connect with people's departed loved ones to deliver messages of healing, of clarity, of transformation. And, like I said, in addition to that, how do I leave this reading and have tools that support my ongoing accelerated healing and evolution for myself? And so that's what makes them, I think, different and, as I mentioned, how I have established with spirit, look, I just don't want people to come to my reading and like, oh okay, I need to come back next week and the following, and then there's like a dependency that can happen or even just like okay, I have this reading, it was really cool, great, like I've had a reading, frankly, like that. I've had a couple of readings like that with psychics in the past, where it was sweet or kind of interesting or powerful-ish, and then I'm not thinking about it a week later, two weeks later, and my readings. My intention is to offer readings so that when people have a reading and this is the feedback I get all the time, like they remember it a year later reading and this is the feedback I get all the time like they remember it a year later, five years later, 10 years later like that reading changed their life, that reading allowed them to be powerful, that reading allowed them to turn a corner, to actually turn the corner of their life and that they leave with tangible, practical things that they can do that have to do with messages that I've delivered due to the knowledge, information I have, and I'm open, and I open to whatever spirit wants to show me for my reader, for their highest good. And so in every reading I can't guarantee what's going to happen, because for me it's like spirit and angels come through and they'll tell me exactly what is in my reader's highest good in that moment to do. To align with the messages.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 22:07

I had a one reading yesterday where someone had a chakra imbalance and it was their third chakra, that's an energy center. They showed me like I can see someone's energy field and so she and I worked on and I made suggestions how to enhance that one chakra and that was associated with all these issues that she completely were like, yeah, totally, like this is my weak area, right, I'm not sovereign, I'm not, I don't feel empowered, like all these things that have to do with that chakra. So there were messages for her very specifically how to enhance that chakra because she had a deficiency, and what things to do, actionable steps. For example, I said to her they're showing me horseback riding that can enhance your third chakra. Have you ever considered that? And she said, oh, my God, it's so funny because I did that when I young and I haven't done that. And I thought of doing that, but I know I live in the city, I don't ever get around doing that. I was like, well, I'm here and go do that, right? So I could have told, like Kilkenny in my intellectual mind, I know about the third chakra. I could tell her 10 things to do to enhance her third chakra.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 23:14

I have a podcast episode about every chakra and people can learn. However, the spirit told me exactly which things to say to her and then, of course, she had like wild connections and couldn't believe the ones that I said, and that's an example of what makes them unique. I could read somebody else and five relatives come through and the reading is a little more focused on those messages and those people and those relationships, but there's always a smattering with my readings, meaning it's always just like one thing, like, for example, the aforementioned readings I had yesterday. This chakra focus was a very central theme. Someone else had a lot of spirits who came through, who had passed. Neither of those readings had anything to do with past lives, but sometimes I'll start to sit with someone and right away I'll see their past life, and so that's a component of someone's reading. Sometimes I'll have a reading where all three of those topics came up in one reading, you know. So this is the way, this is the thing.

Marla Miller: 24:16

Well, that explains it, how you combine them all. It's not like you combine all these modalities every single reading. It's kind of what needs to come through for that person and the best way to get the message out there. And actionable steps they can take.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 24:31

Exactly.

Marla Miller: 24:32

I really love that about the horseback riding, that, like you said, you could have a list of ways to balance out different chakras, like in general. But each person is so unique, you know. It reminds me of health too. Like each person is so unique, you don't just all take the same multivitamin and that fixes a problem. Like some people might be deficient in copper or whatever it is.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 24:58

Exactly.

Marla Miller: 24:59

So in your readings it sounds, yeah, so individualized and I love that they gave a specific action to do, because that is the other thing If you have a reading and people come through and you recognize them and it's nice to connect in that way, recognize them and it's nice to connect in that way. But if you're looking for answers and you're hoping to get a little more direction, I love that you offer that, because not all of those are weighed as specific. I mean, they get you in touch with people in the past but they're not saying you know, go horseback riding.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 25:37

And that's my Venus in Virgo, those friends who are listening, who love astrology. I have so much air and water and I have a fiery mood and all that stuff right. I have one or a sign and that's it, which isn't a lot, but it is in how I express love and how I share things in my work and yeah, you have to show me the money and I want to offer that to people. It's like we can be as spiritual as we want, but if we're not embodied, then we're not really going to evolve. We're not going to up-level the earth, we're not going to create a new earth If we just dabble in spiritual things, run around getting advice but don't actually do the practices and don't actually integrate them in our moment-to-moment life. So my passion is so much this is my podcast is about making your spirituality an actuality, like, how do I actually do it? And that's, to me, the heart and the whole point of being alive.

Marla Miller: 26:25

I like that. I like that quote there. T-shirt right there.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 26:30

Thank you, I love that. Let's make one.

Marla Miller: 26:43

Yeah. So as far as the well, I love the Akasha record idea, can you give an example of what that is? Or when a past life comes through, Like, what is the point of it? What are they trying to share with someone by showing you those things?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 26:51

That's a great question. So when I've had a past life image for someone and like, sometimes someone will write me and say I just want a past life reading, can you do that? And I totally can, and so we can go in that way for sure. And what it is, though, when it spontaneously is shown to me, or if someone comes to me and says, look, I just want to focus on past lives, that's cool too. We'll get a bunch. I had a few of those in this past month and they were life-changing. And what the past lives can give us are signposts for what karma we're still working out right now that we haven't finished, right. So when I get a past life shown to me, well, this soul has lived so many lives, we've all lived so many lives. You can't imagine a myriad. Okay, so in our limited time, even if I do it for an hour, an entire session focused on a past life and I get a bunch that come through they will all have some kind of connective theme with them. So there's some kind of through line that becomes very apparent pretty quickly.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 27:59

For example, I had a client and, without sharing TMI, I was shown a series of past lives and what became apparent, even though they were in different parts of the world in different time frames, that in this situation, she was always quote unquote. The message I kept getting was like holding up the sky for a community. So she was always the healer and slash wisdom holder, but really like healer, so like people would come to her for healing in different situations. Well, it turns out she's a doctor in this lifetime and a surgeon, right. So it's these themes, and so she was finding her way with her next step in retirement, okay, and in her high power, doctoring as a surgeon, she had to hold up the sky, like in all these other lifetimes, right, like.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 28:51

I saw her at one point in a situation that was like a crisis situation, a refugee crisis situation, where she was like on a mountaintop trying to help people in medically acute situations. She was by herself anchoring the medical support, meaning by herself, and people were helping her, and she had very limited resources, okay, so that was like one of the several lifetimes we saw. And so right now, she's in a process of being retired and is indeed a healer and did reveal that, and it's amazing. And so now, okay, what does she wanna do? She's held up the sky as a high power professional in the medical Western world.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 29:32

Now, how does she continue to move forward in her life but maybe not feel like she's holding up the sky? And that lesson hasn't been afforded to her yet. Until this lifetime she hasn't been able to relax because she had to learn how to hold up the sky in various circumstances, medically, as a community leader, in all these different lifetimes. So now to me she's done that, she's mastered that and now in this lifetime she gets this icing lifetime where now she gets to figure out okay, how do I offer and continue to serve with my medical gifts, but I no longer have to hold up the sky?

Marla Miller: 30:14

So was she able to get some answers during that reading as far as what direction to go or inviting me to explore now, in this lifetime, because that's what it's about.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 30:37

So they act like mirrors to help us move forward in this lifetime. So it's not going back to go back, it's going back to move forward. And the lifetimes that I'm shown are exactly that they're mirrors, they're signposts to help people then get clear on how to actually move forward and often, too, what their blocks are. I had another client who had a past lifetime reading recently and there was a block with someone in her family and I was shown and I didn't know any of this and I was shown a dynamic which was like in a religious context and this person was like part of their order, so to speak, and they had left on a horse in the night and it was like a whole situation and I had no idea and they had red hair and I'm just describing what I see. And currently in her life she then shared a very challenging dynamic in a relationship that she could recognize was completely the same dynamic in the past lifetime I had shown her with the relationship in this lifetime because of the themes and what she was shown in the last lifetime and also like the weight of it, you know it really can be so affirming so often with our karma, with our baggage, whether it's with ourselves or other people. You know we're like why can't I just shake this? Why is this so heavy? Why do I date the same person? Why do I fill in the blank? Why is this dynamic, with this one being so difficult? Or why is this pattern so seemingly impossible to break this habit that I do, this addiction that I have so often in my readings?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 32:11

What I'm shown is it's not just this lifetime, it's actually. You've been trying to shake this pattern, shake this habit, work out this dynamic with yourself or another in these other lifetimes. So it's okay, it can afford more compassion, like you're not just dealing with the trauma or challenge from this lifetime. This is an accumulation, there's a long-term residue. An accumulation, there's a long-term residue, and so it can really allow people to realize that when they have those specifics and be more compassionate with themselves, be more compassionate with others, help them understand pathways forward and help them soften and heal. Again back to that word healing healing more because they're not so caught up in why it's so hard. It's like oh, this is why. And then they get some clues.

Marla Miller: 33:07

It does help to see a bigger picture when you get so caught up in a daily, very specific issue, but then when you can see it from a much broader perspective and know there's so much more to things, so much more to this life and the meanings and the lessons and it does help deal with it sometimes better and then when you can give them actionable steps, that's even better to shift things and change things.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 33:34

Exactly Because so often someone will come to me and they'll have gone to a psychologist and they're working something through with their therapist for many, many years which I'm a huge fan of.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 33:43

I come from a family of psychologists, so I'm all for psychology and it has its wonderful, helpful place.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 33:50

But people will come to me often when they're really stuck or something will come up in their reading because their team knows, oh, they're stuck, they haven't quite been able to shake this or they haven't quite been able to heal this, and so they'll show me, okay, how to go at it from a different angle, from a spiritual perspective. I'll be shown rituals for someone to do to help clear something, and this happens so often. And then all the time, like, I'll get a DM, I'll get an email, I get the wonderful voice text that says, oh, my God, thank you. Whatever. I've been up against the wall, against the thing I haven't been able to resolve to figure out, you're reading what you told me to do, the practices you share, because the practices I'm sharing are energetic, they're psycho-spiritual, they're going at it from a different angle than what most people have been shown, which are great but not able to pull things up by the roots, and so my readings, I'm able to offer things so people can really pull them up by the roots once and for all.

Marla Miller: 34:49

Well, that brings me to two other questions regarding the person who does struggle, say, with an addiction, or say with a chronic illness. Some people have so much going on health-wise. Have you been able to turn any of those situations around, just by them gaining clarity or connection or action they can take?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 35:14

A thousand percent. And to be clear, I'm not turning anything around. I'm giving them tools and then they turn it around, right, it's their participation.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 35:22

So that is a really important subtle, I know, but a distinction I want to point out. So for sure I should say in a reading I might be told someone should do like whatever kind of breath. This is unusual, but like a certain kind of breath technique, this has happened. I can think of one specific breathing within the past year and so I taught them how to do it in like three minutes and they felt shifted in their stomach. So that actually was like me working with them for a hot minute and with my coaching clients, I lead and guide them through practices where I'm like the steward of the ritual container and they actually have alchemical, physical healing and shifts in their body or their heart or their psyche for sure. So that is when that happens In the psychic medium readings.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 36:16

More often it's I'm telling them what to do on their own and then DIY, go do it. So I'm telling them how to do it, what to do with the ritual and pain for like 17 years and you know, through, I think, our conversation about the trauma, through looking at a past life and then through offering her what I was guided to offer in the way of healing, clearing that she was able to clear that she was mind blown that just doctors and red to surgery and this and this and that, and then you know getting some other rituals because it was psychological and energetic at that point what she was dealing with. And it just cleared after 17 years.

Marla Miller: 37:11

That's fantastic. Yeah, I always wonder, you know, because some people struggle with healing so much and there seems to be a lot more at play than just a physical health issue.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 37:25

You know, there's like so much deeper that's keeping them stuck, and I've been through it and we've all been through it, right, if we're alive, is to have experienced that, I think, and there's always a psychological and spiritual component to it, always, you know, always, a thousand percent.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 37:48

And so whenever we face something physical and I've had tons of this personally it is always so wise and so prudent to get support and help to figure out the spiritual, energetic, psychological aspects too. Because, one, it could take it up by the roots, which, frankly, a lot of times it can. Two, it will absolutely impact the physical. So, even if it's like coming from a physical place, if you go at it through the psychological, energetic, etc. Standpoint, if you're going at it from that stratosphere, it will trickle up and affect your physical. And often too, we're going only from the physical and the allopathic and not going at it in any other realm, and they're always connected because everything's connected. You know, we have these five layers of self.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 38:40

The ancient tantric yoga, all yoga trisions, really subscribe to this architecture. As to Buddhas, where, like an onion, we've got the outer layer and there are five layers, they're called the koshas and the outer layer is the physical body, but then there are four more layers the outer body, the fifth is the physical body, physical body, but then there are four more layers the outer body, the fifth is the physical body, but then the fourth layer is our energetic body and the third layer is the mind, emotional body and the inner layer. The second layer is our wisdom body and our muse, like when we get that aha moment and we're in flow and we're in source right, and we just feel very in the flow and synchronicities happen and that's that layer of self that we're able to be in. And then the center is our bliss body, which is supreme feeling of freedom, of contentment, of peace. You know that Buddha mind, that Buddha experience of bliss. They call it Nanda in the yoga tradition and that's the point of life to go there as much as possible. But like we're this being and we can only see the outer layer, but there are all these other layers of self and when we have an injury, when we have an illness, when we have a dis-ease, all those five layers are being affected.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 39:54

I have a Modern, mystic Podcast episode on that. It's called the Koshas. I forget which episode, but you can look it up. I think it's in the 50s but it's called a map of the Koshas and you can learn more about how to travel and traverse those and heal yourself. But it's a fascinating architecture and it's really important to think about that whenever speaking to you're really astute and interesting question, whenever in my mind, in my experience, you're facing a physical challenge. It's never just physical.

Marla Miller: 40:23

Yeah, I would totally agree with that. Well, so this one last question before we get into how can people build up that intuition or really tune into it or fine tune it? I have one last question about the past life thing. If someone has a great fear of something so I've had friends like great fear of the water or spiders or whatever it might be have you found that, that it relates back to a past life or it's just random?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 40:56

a thousand percent, a million percent, like people come to me. I had a reading, probably a year ago now, and a gentleman came and I saw a past life and it was the first thing I saw in the reading. I have no idea again what's going to show up, and it was the first thing I see. So I'm like, okay, we're starting here. It's the theme. And he was on a ship and he was like the captain of a ship and it was dark and there's all this water, water, water splashing around and I see him in charge of everything and then the ship goes down and everybody drowns and so I share this with him and he says how he has this fear of the water and he's had this like water phobia his whole life and he never knew why. Right, just that. So every kind of fear and phobia, a thousand percent. And knowing that then was so helpful. And then we talked about responsibility and that showed up in his life like feeling responsible for people and not knowing why.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 41:46

So again, these past lives, this past life uncovering, can be so supportive of understanding who you are and why you act certain ways in this lifetime, and then you're able to let them go, like now he can think oh, I'm not a freak, because every time I get in water and I'm a 50-year-old freaking man I still feel scared, even though I have swim lessons and my parents took me forever and no one can figure out why. There's nothing wrong with me, I'm actually perfect, right, because I have that from a past life. Okay, no big deal. And then he feels less afraid because he can know now oh, it's because I didn't save those men in the ship and we all died. Okay, cool, and now he feels less afraid of the water. There's less trepidation.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 42:24

So I have two podcast episodes about past life that people really love. One is episode 73. It's called how to Access your Past Life, so it's an episode about how you can try to learn a little more yourself and guide yourself. And then there's one, episode 45, which touches on Akashic records and past life experiences and patterns and stuff that that people oh good, Well, that, yeah, that should be interesting to delve into that further listening to that?

Marla Miller: 42:52

Well, so do you want to get in now to how people can improve their own intuitive abilities?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 43:01

Totally. I mean, you know a thousand percent. I mentioned meditation, which is really hard for a lot of people to do, but even one to three minute practice a day, one to three minutes start, and just the consistency over quantity, even just committing one to three minutes a day, closing your eyes and checking into your highest, deepest, widest self, I call it, you know, you can call it whatever you want, god void, like the Buddhist, humanity, yourself, capital S, you're just checking in and that's your intuition. And just like a friend, if you text the friend every day, you become closer. If you just check in with yourself every day, right, that intuition, the capital I, you become closer to that.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 43:42

Another thing is creating ritual. So we have habits in our life, you know, like brushing teeth. I can go brush my teeth every day, right, hopefully we all do, right, but that's not a ritual because it doesn't have meaning. There's no meaning behind the teeth other than I'm cleaning my teeth. Right, but there's no spiritual profound experience. I could make that a ritual. I could go to my sink and then think, okay, I'm pouring my toothpaste or squeezing in my toothpaste on my toothbrush and this toothpaste represents the healing energy of the universe. I mean, it sounds very silly, I'm just making this up on the spot, right. And then, oh, as I brush my teeth, I'm so grateful to be able to process and digest all the karma and challenges of my life. And as you're brushing, you're saying and as I brush my teeth, I'm really digesting all the pain, all the challenges in my day, or whatever. And then all of a sudden you feel kind of moved, even hearing about it, and some people listening will go what I'm saying something pretty out there, because it's a real stretch. But the listeners might be able to start to feel, oh right, but then it would become something else and then it becomes a ritual. So when we and I'm not saying anyone should do their toothbrushing, I don't, I have a million rituals I do a day and I don't do that with my toothbrushing, maybe I should make it that powerful, because we do do it every day and that's why I say it Like we're also committed to that, because it is that consistency with the ritual that you do that makes the magic and that allows your intuition to come loudly online.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 45:16

It's that consistency over anything like with a meditation. So if you meditate one to three minutes a day, even if it's in your car and you have kids and you're picking them up at a soccer game, or if you're an executive and you're on your train, close your eyes when it's safe to do so and one to three minutes, listen to your breath. That's that second layer of self that connects you deeper and deeper to your inner intuition. And then create one other ritual to do every day that has meaning. So you set an intention. You know whatever that is and it almost I don't want to say it doesn't matter what you do, because if you do certain things they're a higher dividend. So if I go out in nature, nature has such a high vibration, a pure vibration.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 46:01

So spending more time in nature is another thing you can do to check in with your intuition and to hear your intuition more, because nature automatically acts like a chaser and clears away interference. So so much of what the deal is is that most people can't hear their intuition because there's so much interference. Everyone is so busy. People think they don't know how. So those voices of I don't know how to hear my intuition. They're cut off from their bodies because our modern society, you know, has us in our minds in so many ways and our input is just constantly bombarded by all of the million messages we get right and million frames a minute all the sensory input that is at an unprecedented rate. So, more than ever, our intuition is blocked. 150, 200 years ago, when we went to bed more with the sun and woke up with the sun rising and really were able to sync up with the rhythms of nature because life required us to do so, humanity was much more in touch with their intuition, for sure, and so you can use nature.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 47:11

Following the cycles of the moon is one of my favorite ways to do that. So just paying attention. You don't even have to know astrology and all the signs if that's not interesting to you. I'm a big fan because I'm an astrologer and it's such a powerful map to live life by. But you don't have to. You could literally just be like oh, the moon is new. I have a little moon bowl next to my bed that I made and it's like this little plate and I teach my coaching clients how to do this. But it's a bowl and it has 29 little beautiful rocks that I have, and every day I take one out or I put one in my circle and it reminds me what the moon is doing. And so every morning, like I just get, that's a ritual, I just do a series of things every morning, but that's an example, and I just literally move one stone into the bowl or out of the bowl, depending upon if the moon is waxing or waning, so small it takes like five seconds.

Marla Miller: 48:00

And what is that showing you regarding the moon?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 48:09

It lands my psyche in oh, the moon is waxing or waning, and so right away I'm synced up with what's happening in nature. Now you could go more deeply In a Celtic tradition. When the moon is waxing, it's a time to wax your energy. When the moon is waning, it's an alignment to chill out more. When the moon is full, it's a time to release. We just had a full moon the other day, right? So I was doing my ritual and I was helping my clients. Okay, it's a full moon, why are you ready to let go of what patterns?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 48:39

On the new moon, it's an auspicious time to create. This is the Celtic tradition and this is the case even in the yoga traditions that are very much in alignment with the moon practices. So it's very auspicious to set an intention, to plant a seed, to start a new ritual on a new moon, to be. It's quiet, it's dark, right. On a dark moon there's not light out, so how can I be a little more quiet today? So that's up-leveling that ritual. You could just literally pay attention to the moon and get an app and be like oh, okay, there's a new moon, cool, maybe I'll set intention. Oh, there's a full moon, maybe I'll let something go. Oh, the moon is waning, maybe I'll try to have a little more sleep. Maybe the moon's waxing? Oh, what I want to put out to the world? More Things like that. So that's like another concrete example.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 49:29

But anytime you create even the smallest ritual, what it means is you have intention behind something you're doing on a consistent basis, and that intention is in alignment for your highest and greatest good, and it involves your psyche, it involves your soul, it's an intention for your soul and for your growth and it's often a dramatization of that. You have a ritual. I'll say okay, I'm in my office, like I'm looking right outside, right now I'm in an urban environment, and so a little bit later I'll go out for lunch and I have a ritual where there's a square and I literally walk around the square three times and I go clockwise, because that's about creation, and in the yogic tradition it's called pradakshina and you moved with the same patterning as the planets move, in a clockwise position. And it reminds me, like when I go to temples and I meditate, that my life is a prayer and that this world seems mundane, but it's not. It's actually a portal into the divine, into the mystery, and, as mundane as it seems.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 50:39

I know it's much more than it seems and I do this psychic medium work as my work and I'm talking to people all day about magic and energy and all these things and I still forget I walked out the door and I'm human, I have a life and I've got demands and I've got children and I've got older people in my life and people complaining to me about things like whatever. And so that ritual it does not take me long at all reminds me, and I commit to doing that in my busy life to take time to pause, to slow down, to connect and remember. My intention is to remember that I want my life to be as mindful and as mystical and as meaningful as possible, and that's my intention, and so that's a ritual.

Marla Miller: 51:28

So as far as advancing the intuition and tapping into the higher realm or getting guidance, so meditation was one thing and, like you're saying, it doesn't even have to be a long meditation, but one to three minutes a day just to do it consistently and the other is to immerse yourself in nature, because that cuts out all the distractions around you and you tune in and it purifies your vibration, it cuts out all the static and then you can create ritual Three, and all of those things will help you connect more deeply to your intuition, so you'll then be able to pay attention, after you do those things, what comes up.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 52:16

Because that's part of what happens. Like people say to me like, oh, I do these things, but then nothing happens, and I'm like, well, are you paying attention after? Are you asking questions, like during your ritual or during your meditation? It doesn't stop there. It's then, after the meditation, after the ritual, are you looking for signs and synchronicity? Are you?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 52:37

You know, when I walk back from that ritual around my city square, I don't jump on my phone, I don't create more static, I literally mindfully walk back and look at whatever comes into my field. So if all of a sudden, when I'm walking back to my office, if I hear a conversation, I know that's probably for me, because I've purified my energy and I've elevated my energy and I've opened up my wifi, so to speak. And so if I'm looking around, all of a sudden I might see a truck with a certain license plate and that message is for me. Or all of a sudden I might hear a conversation and if I'm actually paying attention to these things, oh, I hear someone say a sentence, oh, and I realized that sentence could be like really apply to what I'm going through right now.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 53:23

So it's a matter of raising your vibration, expanding your vibration, deepening your vibration. You hear a lot about like, oh, raising your vibration, and it's like well, how do I even do that? Well, you could do it in these ways Meditate, get yourself in nature, create a ritual. Those are the three things. Then it becomes I'm not just raising it, but I'm opening it wide that's why I think of it like a satellite and then expanding it low, like I'm grounding myself. So it's in all directions. Right, You're opening up grounding, and then you have to pay attention to, once you've gotten yourself to that space of opening, okay, now, what am I receiving? Don't forget to pay attention to what I'm receiving, and that's when you'll receive your intuition. You might hear your thoughts in your mind say something, but it's a download. It's not just your egoic mind chattering away. It's like oh, you here, go to Paris. I don't know why. I just said that, meaning as your guest Did I go.

Marla Miller: 54:18

Are you looking at me? I don't know.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 54:19

Maybe someone or someone listening right Is going to say oh my God, I was wondering if I should go to Paris, right Like I just heard that in the screen of my mind. You just become receptive and you realize that all of your senses and everything you're seeing and hearing and perceiving with your senses become a gateway if your vibration is in enough alignment. So if you take the time to clear the static, connect and expand your vibration, what you're picking up on through your senses and through the world around you are actually your messages from your intuition.

Marla Miller: 54:58

Yeah, I agree with everything you're saying. I have done that and I think that's why, when I travel in my van around the country, why I find so much peace, in that the distractions are considerably cut down. It's just me. It's just. I meditate all the time and, like you said, I'm looking for those synchronicities and finding them constantly. But when you're caught up in and especially, I feel like there is a lot of chaos right now in the world and it's easy to get distracted and pulled into everything around us and the immediacy you know this feeling of immediacy and you've got to be tuned into everything going on it all the time that that can hinder the intuitive side of ourselves. Yeah, just remembering to keep our channel as clear as possible and, like you said, do a ritual, meditate and immerse yourself in nature. Those are great, great steps that we can all do. Well, I appreciate this conversation so much. I feel like we could go on for hours delving into even more things here, but where can people find you?

Kilkenny Tremblay: 56:15

People can get my free intuition toolkit. Speaking of Intuition, if you go to modernmysticlove forward slash intuition and in that kit I give three very concrete things you can do to help develop your inner GPS I like to call it, so you can check that out at modernmysticlove forward slash intuition.

Marla Miller: 56:37

Okay, and then to find anything you're doing, it would be at that same website modern mysticcom. That's perfect.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 56:46

And I've got my modern mystic podcast so you could just look that up as well, and there's about 86 episodes and I have episode 26. It's called ritualize your life so creating meaning and magic each day. I've got an episode 71 about syncing up with nature, like how to sync up with nature, why to sync up with nature, yeah. And I've got an episode I think it's 59 about psychic powers and psychic mediumship.

Marla Miller: 57:16

A lot out there. Yeah, well, that's great. So we have more ways to hear your voice and your wisdom amazing.

Kilkenny Tremblay: 57:24

Well, thank you for such a wonderful conversation. It was so lovely to be with you thank you so much.

Marla Miller: 57:31

It was a great conversation. I appreciate your time and all the wisdom, like I said, that you have to share it's been you're most welcome most welcome, my pleasure.