<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos]]></title><description><![CDATA[A space for intuitive insight, holistic wisdom, and conscious living ]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kf4u!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7994bbe0-0482-4fb1-a244-102cc235049d_1270x1270.png</url><title>Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos</title><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:07:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link 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isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/why-are-we-still-learning-the-same</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:31:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9yr1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293d6078-0a4c-42de-a35c-72dee01e36a5_1290x846.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9yr1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293d6078-0a4c-42de-a35c-72dee01e36a5_1290x846.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a56f2b27-15dd-4764-86da-685542868d62&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:284.78693,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Hi Friends,</p><p>Lately I&#8217;ve been reflecting on something that keeps coming up again and again. </p><p>Why are we still learning the same lessons? </p><p>Why do so many spiritual teachers have to repeat the same truths- over and over again? </p><p>It&#8217;s disheartening to realize that they still have to explain something as fundamental as this: that harmony, cooperation, and respect for one another are the way forward&#8212;not war, excess, and toxic patterns that only create more destruction.</p><p>And yet&#8230; here we are.</p><p>Why do we, as a species, continue to choose suffering?</p><p>Why do we resist sharing, helping, and lifting one another up?</p><p>Why do we fight and divide, again and again?</p><p>Does any of that actually solve the problem&#8230;</p><p>or does it deepen it?</p><p>Some things feel like they should be obvious.</p><p>But clearly, they are not.</p><p>So I wonder&#8212;are we collectively choosing collapse again?</p><p>Another version of the same story&#8230;</p><p>And another cycle of destruction?</p><p>We watch corporations pollute our air, our water, and our Earth without any meaningful consequences.</p><p>We consume, we ignore, and we disconnect.</p><p>And then we ask why the world feels the way it does.</p><p>Is this really the level of consciousness we&#8217;re choosing?</p><p>Have we accepted a reality where the only way for one group to win&#8230; is for another to lose?</p><p>Is that strength&#8212;or is it a failure of imagination?</p><p>Because surely, there is another way.</p><p>There has to be.</p><p>And for those who choose destruction, I have to ask&#8212; what do you believe in?</p><p>God? The Divine?</p><p>How do you reconcile that?</p><p>Do we really believe we can harm millions of lives, destroy ecosystems, fracture humanity&#8212;and then simply be absolved without reflection, and without change?</p><p>Spiritual teachings were never meant to excuse harm. They were meant to illuminate what&#8217;s possible.</p><p>Because this is what it comes down to:</p><p>We can choose peace&#8230;</p><p>or we can choose destruction.</p><p>But we cannot choose both.</p><p>And each of us, individually, is making that choice&#8212;every day.</p><p>If we continue down a path of division, we will live in the consequences of that choice.</p><p>But if we shift&#8212;even slightly&#8212;toward cooperation, awareness, and care for one another everything changes.</p><p>Sometimes I imagine how an outside intelligence might view us.</p><p>Watching a species capable of beauty, love, and creation&#8212;yet still repeating cycles of harm. Wondering why compassion, the very thing that could transform everything, remains so underutilized.</p><p>We are not separate from what we create.</p><p>We are shaping the future&#8212;moment by moment.</p><p>So the question isn&#8217;t out there somewhere&#8230;</p><p>It&#8217;s here.</p><p>In each moment.</p><p>In each choice.</p><p>What do you choose to contribute to this world&#8212;division or connection, harm or care, fear or compassion?</p><p>Because the future isn&#8217;t something we arrive at.</p><p>It&#8217;s something we create.</p><p>There&#8217;s always a moment where everything could shift&#8212; if we choose it.</p><p>&#8212;Kelly</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/why-are-we-still-learning-the-same/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/why-are-we-still-learning-the-same/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Telepathy Real?]]></title><description><![CDATA[On intuition, trauma, and the subtle ways we learn to HEAR what isn&#8217;t said outloud]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/is-telepathy-real</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/is-telepathy-real</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:35:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GWHK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bdbf70e-7aa0-41cb-b022-adaaa282a364_1232x818.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GWHK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bdbf70e-7aa0-41cb-b022-adaaa282a364_1232x818.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GWHK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bdbf70e-7aa0-41cb-b022-adaaa282a364_1232x818.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Hi Friends, </strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by telepathy&#8212;and by people whose abilities seem to stretch beyond what we currently accept as &#8220;normal&#8221; human experience.</p><p>My own subtle, light-scale experiences began when I was a child. Looking back, they likely developed out of necessity. I grew up around unsafe adults and learned very early how to anticipate behavior before it happened&#8212;simply as a way to stay safe and avoid harm.</p><p>Anyone who has experienced domestic instability or abuse will understand this. When safety is uncertain, you become highly attuned. You learn to read energy, moods, and micro-shifts&#8212;sometimes before a single word is spoken. At its core, that kind of awareness is self-preservation.</p><p>That said, not everyone who develops this level of sensitivity arrives there through trauma. Some cultivate it through years of meditation or study. Some may simply be born with it. However it comes online, many people experience it as a kind of gift.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>One thing I want to clarify is that telepathy doesn&#8217;t usually work the way people imagine it does. It&#8217;s not as if someone can walk up to me and I instantly know their thoughts. It doesn&#8217;t operate on command.</p><p>I have had one experience where, for a brief moment, I could hear an associate&#8217;s stream of consciousness&#8212;as if I had tuned into his mind like a radio station. But that only happened once.</p><p>I&#8217;ve never had any formal training (if there even is such a thing for this), and I can&#8217;t control when or where it occurs. For me, it tends to arise with people I&#8217;m intimately connected to, those who are energetically similar to myself, or have a soul familiarity to them.</p><p>Over the past couple of years, there have been moments where people tried to &#8220;test&#8221; me&#8212;expecting some kind of immediate demonstration, like thinking if they stand near me I&#8217;ll know what they&#8217;re thinking. Of course that did not work because that&#8217;s simply not how this works for me.</p><p>And honestly, the idea of constantly hearing others&#8217; thoughts doesn&#8217;t feel appealing&#8212;it feels overwhelming. </p><p>Still, we don&#8217;t always get to choose what gifts we carry.</p><p>Whether it&#8217;s intuition, mediumship, prophetic dreams, telepathy, energy healing, or something more subtle&#8230; if something is there, it may be here to be understood, respected, and used with care.</p><p>Like any ability, it can be refined, deepened, and better understood over time.</p><p>I saw someone whose capacity in this area seemed far more pronounced than mine. And because it sits outside of mainstream understanding, I know there will always be a range of responses&#8212;curiosity, skepticism, intrigue, even concern.</p><p>For me, what matters most is how I relate to it.</p><p>I choose to approach anything I experience through a lens of integrity and self-awareness. I have no desire to intrude, manipulate, or use anything in a way that causes harm. If anything, it has made me more mindful&#8212;not less&#8212;of boundaries, consent, and responsibility.</p><p>So whether you see telepathy as intuition, trauma-based attunement, spiritual sensitivity, or something else entirely&#8230; maybe the deeper question isn&#8217;t <em>&#8220;Is Telepathy real?&#8221; </em></p><p>It&#8217;s this&#8212;What if more is happening here than we&#8217;ve been taught to believe?</p><p>And what if the parts of you that feel &#8220;too sensitive,&#8221; &#8220;too aware,&#8221; or &#8220;hard to explain&#8221;&#8230; aren&#8217;t something to dismiss&#8212;but something to understand?</p><p>Not blindly. Not naively.</p><p>But with discernment. With grounding. With self-responsibility.</p><p>Because not everything subtle is fantasy.</p><p>And not everything unseen is unreal.</p><p>Some things simply ask to be met with awareness.</p><p>And maybe that&#8217;s where it begins.</p><p>With love,</p><p>&#8212; Kelly</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/is-telepathy-real/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/is-telepathy-real/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. 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Do I want to be powerful&#8230; or loving?</p><p>When trust has been broken or kindness exploited, it can feel like you have to choose between being powerful so no one can hurt you again, or staying loving and risking it happening again.</p><p>But the deeper truth is that these two qualities were never meant to be enemies.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4>Powerful or Loving?</h4><p>After a painful life experience, many people feel pulled in two directions.</p><p>One voice inside says:</p><p><em>&#8220;Be strong. Protect yourself. Never let anyone take advantage of you again.&#8221;</em></p><p>Another voice says:</p><p><em>&#8220;Stay open. Stay kind. Don&#8217;t let the world harden your heart.&#8221;</em></p><p>For a while, it may seem like you have to choose one or the other.</p><p>If you are powerful, you might fear becoming guarded, distant, or hardened. If you remain loving, you might fear being vulnerable to harm again.</p><p>But real power and real love are not opposites.</p><p>True power is the ability to keep your heart open while also protecting your boundaries.</p><p>True love is not weakness&#8212;it&#8217;s clarity, compassion, and self-respect.</p><p>Being loving does not mean tolerating mistreatment. Being powerful does not mean closing your heart.</p><p>The path forward is not choosing between them. It&#8217;s learning to hold both at the same time.</p><p>Power says: <em>&#8220;I deserve respect.&#8221;</em></p><p>Love says: <em>&#8220;I choose compassion.&#8221;</em></p><p>Power sets boundaries.</p><p>Love keeps bitterness from taking root.</p><p>Power protects your life.</p><p>Love keeps your soul alive.</p><p>What many people discover after hardship is that the strongest form of power is actually conscious love&#8212;a love that is wise, discerning, and no longer naive.</p><p>You can still be warm.</p><p>You can still care deeply.</p><p>But you also know your worth now.</p><p>That combination is not weakness.</p><p>It&#8217;s evolution. It&#8217;s integration.</p><p>Sat Nam &#128591;</p><h3><strong>A Closing Prayer / Reflection</strong></h3><p>Universe,</p><p>Help me remember that strength and love can live in the same heart.</p><p>Guide me toward a power that protects my spirit,</p><p>and a love that never abandons who I truly am.</p><p>Let my past teach me wisdom, not bitterness.</p><p>And help me move forward with courage, clarity, and grace.</p><p>With love,<br>Kelly</p><h3><strong>Work With Me:</strong></h3><p>Wellness ~ Coaching ~ Intuitive Readings </p><p>I offer Holistic Wellness Sessions, Intuitive Tarot Readings, and Life Coaching that provides powerful insight and intuitive guidance into your life. </p><p>I can offer YOU Holistic Wellness/Coaching or a Personal Intuitive Reading for yourself on&#8212;love, career, or spiritual path for deeper insight into your life! &#127769;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Shadow of Other People’s Wounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the 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I tried to, but eventually I realized&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t.</p><p>My entire life fell apart five years ago when my daughter was taken from me, and I haven&#8217;t been able to get it back. The lack of compassion, the cruelty, the choices that were made&#8212;it&#8217;s all still too much to process. </p><p>Life isn&#8217;t fair, and it rarely offers an explanation. An explanation, at the very least, would&#8217;ve been the compassionate thing. But none was given. And everything was taken.</p><p>And isn&#8217;t it such an ignorant question to ask, <em>&#8220;Why did so-and-so treat me so badly?&#8221;</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>People treat others based on their wounds, their patterns, and their unhealed places&#8212;never because the person they hurt deserved it.</p><p>That question assumes the problem was you, when in reality people act from their own pain, limitations, and emotional immaturity. Their behavior reflects their inner world, not your worth.</p><p>People project, react, and lash out from their shadows. Their treatment of you reveals their level of consciousness&#8212;not your value.</p><p>It frames the harm as something you caused, instead of something they chose. </p><p>Accountability belongs to the one who acted, not the one who endured.</p><p>Lastly, it puts blame in the wrong place. Their choices were about them, not you.</p><p>Adults manipulate to get what they want. That&#8217;s what many do. Some days, it feels like there just isn&#8217;t much love to go around anymore.</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;For when we seek to win at the expense of others, we subconsciously seek to deny ourselves.&#8221;</em> &#8212; Marianne Williamson</p></blockquote><p>There are people who won at my expense. They stole the one thing in this entire world that meant everything to me. A mother can&#8217;t remain the same after something like that.</p><p>The people responsible were cold, shallow, uncompassionate, and lacking any moral character or compass. And I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll ever fully recover from what they did.</p><p>Why do people who lack empathy so often seem to win, while good people keep getting crushed? </p><p>One day, I imagine they&#8217;ll understand the excruciating emotional pain this brings&#8212;to a parent, to a child, and to anyone who actually has an open heart.</p><p>I am powerless over the cruel intentioned people who consciously or unconsciously hurt me. </p><p>All I can do is keep my own heart pure, and pray that one day the universe will show mercy&#8212;healing this situation once and for all.</p><p>I can&#8217;t rewrite what happened, and I can&#8217;t force justice where none was given. </p><p>But I can keep walking, one steady step at a time, trusting that my heart knows the way.</p><p>The rest, I give to the universe&#8212;to hold, to transform, and to heal in ways I can&#8217;t yet see. </p><p>With love,</p><p>- Kelly </p><h3>Work With Me </h3><p>Wellness, Coaching, Tarot (Spiritual Intuitive)</p><p>I offer Intuitive Readings, and Wellness/Soul Coaching that provides powerful insight and intuitive guidance into your life. My readings are down to Earth with a psycho-spiritual perspective lent to them, and my coaching will give you the lift that you need in health/relationships/or spirituality.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book A Call&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide"><span>Book A Call</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perception ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The truth? OR is it?]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/perception</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/perception</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:37:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1516373829531-29d21ac7f9d6?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxwZXJjZXB0aW9ufGVufDB8fHx8MTc3NDc5NTc1MXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1516373829531-29d21ac7f9d6?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxwZXJjZXB0aW9ufGVufDB8fHx8MTc3NDc5NTc1MXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Hi Friends,</p><p>Perception is essentially the architect of your entire reality.</p><p>It&#8217;s not just what you SEE &#8212; it&#8217;s how your history, beliefs, emotions, nervous system, and attention filter what&#8217;s happening before it ever reaches conscious thought. Two people can be in the same room, experiencing the same moment, at the same event, and walk away with two completely different versions of the situation.</p><p>None of us can truly see beyond the veil of our own minds.</p><p>And We all live in our own worlds to some degree.</p><h4>A few grounding truths about perception:</h4><p>&#8226; <strong>Perception is interpretive, not objective.</strong> Your brain is constantly predicting what&#8217;s happening and filling in the gaps. You don&#8217;t experience raw reality &#8212; you experience a story your mind assembles in real time.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Your body perceives before your mind does.</strong> Sensation &#8594; emotion &#8594; thought. This is why healing work, trauma work, and spiritual practice often begin in the body.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Perception is shaped by safety.</strong> When you feel safe, perception widens. When you don&#8217;t, it narrows. Threat perception literally collapses curiosity and nuance.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Attention is a spell.</strong> What you consistently focus on becomes &#8220;more real,&#8221; not because it&#8217;s bigger &#8212; but because your brain amplifies it.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Perception can be trained.</strong> Meditation, somatic practices, nature time, creative flow, and humor all soften rigid perception and invite new angles of reality to open. </p><p>On a more subtle level, perception is where intuition lives &#8212; the space between stimulus and meaning.</p><p>When that space is clean, quiet, and embodied, perception becomes wise instead of reactive.</p><p>A reframe I love:</p><p>You&#8217;re not trying to change reality &#8212;</p><p>you&#8217;re changing the lens through which you view reality.</p><p>And once the lens changes&#8230; the world responds differently.</p><p>My main tool for shifting perception when things feel heavy or dark is humor. A little humor acts like a pressure valve &#8212; it lets truth land without bruising egos or overwhelming nervous systems.</p><p>Some of the deepest perception shifts actually <em>require</em> lightness.</p><p>Laughter loosens the grip of certainty, and once certainty relaxes, new insights can emerge.</p><p>That blend of depth and play keeps perception fluid instead of dense or dark.</p><p>Some days my perception feels spacious and clear. Other days it tightens, gets fearful or negative. </p><p>When that happens, I come back to my body. To breath. To movement. To laughter.</p><p><strong>To the quiet reminder that perception is not truth &#8212; it&#8217;s a momentary lens.</strong></p><p>I don&#8217;t need to see perfectly.</p><p>I just need to stay available to seeing differently.</p><p>I&#8217;m learning that perception shifts not through effort, but through kindness &#8212; to the body, the moment, and the mind doing its best.</p><p>From here, the world feels a little more workable.</p><p>Presence over certainty.</p><p>With love,</p><p>&#8212; Kelly Santos </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Work With Me</h3><p>Wellness, Coaching, Tarot (Spiritual Intuitive)</p><p>I offer Intuitive Readings, and Wellness/Soul Coaching that provides powerful insight and intuitive guidance into your life. My readings are down to Earth with a psycho-spiritual perspective lent to them, and my coaching will give you the lift that you need in health/relationships/or spirituality. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Inquire/Book a Session&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide"><span>Inquire/Book a Session</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Really Don’t Need To Be Going To Extremes]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Division Becomes a Distraction]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/we-really-dont-need-to-be-going-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/we-really-dont-need-to-be-going-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly 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I do. </p><p>Our culture doesn&#8217;t need louder opinions; it needs more balance. We&#8217;ve mistaken intensity for wisdom, and it&#8217;s showing.</p><p>We don&#8217;t need to pit people against each other over skin color, religion, nationality, or any other divisive label of the day. That kind of fragmentation doesn&#8217;t serve anyone&#8212;it only distracts us from what actually needs attention.</p><p>It feels like we&#8217;ve lost our collective center. Not everything needs to be an all-or-nothing stance. We don&#8217;t need more extremes&#8212;we need more balance. </p><p>What we need&#8212;collectively&#8212;is more equanimity, more balance, and a little more common sense woven back into our culture. </p><p>This moment calls for steadiness, not escalation.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/we-really-dont-need-to-be-going-to?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/we-really-dont-need-to-be-going-to?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>The middle class, in particular, needs support. Alongside the poor and the unhoused, they are feeling the squeeze the most. These are the people actually holding things together&#8212;working, paying taxes, raising families, caring for elders, and still trying to stay afloat in a system that keeps moving the goalposts.</p><p>So when I hear rhetoric like &#8220;impoverish the middle class,&#8221; I genuinely have to pause.</p><p>Really? Seriously?</p><p>The middle class <em>is</em> the stabilizing force of society. They are the bridge between survival and sustainability. Undermine them, and the entire structure weakens.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t about ideology. It&#8217;s about balance.</p><p>It&#8217;s about remembering that thriving societies are built on inclusion, stability, and a shared sense of humanity&#8212;not extremes, not scapegoating, and not economic erosion disguised as leadership.</p><p>We can do better. And honestly, we must.</p><p>Choosing steadiness</p><p>Kelly Santos </p><h3><strong>Work With Me:</strong></h3><p>Wellness, Coaching, Tarot (Spiritual Intuitive)</p><p>I offer Intuitive Tarot Readings, and Soul Coaching that provides powerful insight and intuitive guidance into your life. 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auspicious time for energetic openings of all kinds with ease and allowance. Expansiveness carries the sense of <em>spreading out into fuller expression</em> of oneself.</p><blockquote></blockquote><p>In lived experience, the word often points to:</p><blockquote><p>&#8226;&#9;A <strong>felt sense of openness</strong>&#8212;in the body, breath, or emotions</p><p>&#8226;&#9;<strong>Mental spaciousness</strong>, where ideas flow more freely and curiosity replaces constriction</p><p>&#8226;&#9;<strong>Emotional generosity</strong>, the ability to hold more&#8212;joy, complexity, compassion&#8212;without collapse</p><p>&#8226;&#9;<strong>Spiritual growth</strong>, where identity or awareness stretches beyond old boundaries</p></blockquote><p>You&#8217;ll often hear expansiveness described as the opposite of contraction. Where contraction is tight, protective, and inward, expansiveness is <strong>receptive, trusting, and outward-reaching</strong>.</p><p>In somatic or mind&#8211;body language expansiveness can show up as:</p><blockquote><p>&#8226;&#9;A relaxed chest or widened breath</p><p>&#8226;&#9;A sense of presence that fills the room without effort</p><p>&#8226;&#9;The feeling of being <em>more yourself</em>, not less contained</p></blockquote><p>Poetically, expansiveness carries an invitation:</p><p>There is room for more&#8212;more truth, more life, and more of you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/expansiveness-ending-2025-with-a?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/expansiveness-ending-2025-with-a?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>In spirituality, expansiveness is less about <em>adding</em> something and more about remembering how vast you already are.</p><p>Spiritually, expansiveness refers to the <strong>widening of awareness</strong>&#8212;the moment when identity loosens its grip on the small, defended self and opens into something more inclusive, more connected, and more true.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how it often shows up on the spiritual path:</p><p><strong>1. Expansion of awareness</strong></p><p>You begin to sense life beyond the edges of the mind. Thoughts still arise, but they no longer define you. Awareness feels panoramic rather than pinpointed&#8212;like stepping back from a single tree and suddenly seeing the whole forest.</p><p><strong>2. Dissolving boundaries without losing grounding</strong></p><p>Expansiveness isn&#8217;t about disappearing or bypassing the human experience. It&#8217;s about holding <em>both</em>:</p><p>&#8211; individuality and unity</p><p>&#8211; embodiment and transcendence</p><p>&#8211; self and source</p><p>The borders soften, but presence deepens.</p><p><strong>3. A felt sense of connection</strong></p><p>Expansiveness often arrives as a quiet recognition: <em>nothing is truly separate</em>. Nature, people, breath, and spirit feel woven together. This is why time in nature, ritual, or deep stillness can evoke it so reliably.</p><p><strong>4. Trust replacing control</strong></p><p>As consciousness expands, the need to grip, force, or over-manage life relaxes. There&#8217;s a growing faith in timing, intelligence, and flow&#8212;an inner &#8220;yes&#8221; to what is unfolding.</p><p><strong>5. Love as a spacious field</strong></p><p>Spiritually, expansiveness expresses itself as love that isn&#8217;t transactional or guarded. Compassion becomes less effortful because the heart has more room. You don&#8217;t have to protect it as tightly.</p><p>Importantly, expansiveness isn&#8217;t constant&#8212;and it isn&#8217;t the goal. It <strong>comes in waves</strong>, often following contraction, challenge, or deep inner work. Each expansion leaves you a little more aligned, a little more free.</p><p>In this way, expansiveness is not an escape from the world&#8212;it&#8217;s a <strong>fuller inhabiting of it</strong>, infused with awareness.</p><h3>The Ten of Wands -</h3><p>The <strong>Ten of Wands</strong> is a powerful, honest card&#8212;one that speaks to effort, devotion, and the moment right <em>before</em> release.</p><p><strong>Core theme:</strong></p><p>&#128073; <strong>Carrying too much for too long</strong></p><p>In the Tarot, this card often appears when responsibility, purpose, or obligation has become <strong>heavy</strong>, even if it was once meaningful.</p><p><strong>Traditional imagery &amp; symbolism</strong></p><p>You&#8217;ll usually see a figure bent forward, arms full of wands, walking toward a destination.</p><p>They&#8217;re close to completion&#8212;but they can barely see where they&#8217;re going.</p><p>This tells us something important:</p><p><strong>Nothing here is being forced on them.</strong></p><p>They picked up these wands one by one.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p><strong>Spiritual &amp; energetic meaning</strong></p><p>Spiritually, the Ten of Wands speaks to <strong>over-identification with duty</strong>.</p><p>It asks:</p><blockquote><p>&#8226;&#9;Where has devotion turned into depletion?</p><p>&#8226;&#9;What are you still carrying that once had purpose&#8212;but now limits your expansiveness?</p><p>&#8226;&#9;Are you mistaking endurance for alignment?</p><p>This card often arises at the <strong>threshold between contraction and expansion</strong>. The burden isn&#8217;t punishment&#8212;it&#8217;s a signal that the soul is ready for a lighter way of being.</p></blockquote><p>&#11835;</p><p><strong>Upright meanings</strong></p><blockquote><p>&#8226;&#9;Overextension, burnout, exhaustion</p><p>&#8226;&#9;Carrying others&#8217; expectations or emotional weight</p><p>&#8226;&#9;Completion that comes with a cost</p><p>&#8226;&#9;Responsibility without support</p><p>Yet&#8212;this is key&#8212;<strong>the end is in sight</strong>. Something is concluding.</p></blockquote><p><strong>In healing &amp; spiritual work</strong></p><p>The Ten of Wands can show up when someone:</p><blockquote><p>&#8226;&#9;Feels responsible for others&#8217; healing or emotions</p><p>&#8226;&#9;Has taken on ancestral, familial, or collective weight</p><p>&#8226;&#9;Believes rest must be <em>earned</em></p></blockquote><p>Spiritually, it invites a question of trust:</p><p><strong>What happens if you set the burden down and allow support?</strong></p><p><strong>Shadow &amp; gift</strong></p><p><strong>Shadow:</strong> martyrdom, self-neglect, spiritual &#8220;shoulds&#8221;</p><p><strong>Gift:</strong> discernment&#8212;knowing what is <em>yours</em> to carry, and what is not</p><p>The wisdom of the Ten of Wands is not &#8220;try harder.&#8221; It&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;choose differently.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>A Gentle reframe.</strong></p><p>This card often appears just before a breakthrough.</p><p>Release creates space. Space allows <strong>expansiveness</strong>.</p><p>Thank You for Reading my post, and may you have a blessed holiday season and Winter Solstice &#10052;&#65039;.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Kelly</p><p></p><h3><strong>Work With Me:</strong></h3><p>Wellness, Coaching, Tarot (Spiritual Intuitive)</p><p>I offer Intuitive Tarot Readings, and Soul Coaching that provides powerful insight and intuitive guidance into your life. My readings are down to Earth with a psycho-spiritual perspective lent to them.</p><p>If you&#8217;d like, I can offer YOU a Personal Intuitive Reading for yourself on&#8212;love, career, or spiritual path for deeper insight &#127769; into your life. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book An Intuitive Session&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide"><span>Book An Intuitive Session</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 3 Biggest Sins - Cruelty, Envy and Greed ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do Good People Ever Win?]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/the-3-biggest-sins-cruelty-envy-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/the-3-biggest-sins-cruelty-envy-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:24:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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back and not ever thinking twice? </p><p>Moreover, why do we REWARD these people and actions!</p><p>Why as a SOCIETY do we allow this?</p><p>Why don&#8217;t we as a society support the good or The holy with our pocket books?</p><p>It&#8217;s sad that we live in a society that condemns good people and puts bad ones on a pedestal.</p><p>Humble people who would never do certain things people with no moral code do and yet in this world they succeed on that premise.</p><p>Why can&#8217;t we be GOOD And make money?</p><p>Why can&#8217;t we do Good Things and make money?</p><p>Why are the people who do public service for communities and provide Real Help or inspiration in this world get paid so little, and those willing to just STEAL from others and their life work seem to benefit from doing nothing at all?</p><p>Does it pay to be a good person now a days? Certainly not in this WORLD.</p><p>Should we all just start stealing, and suing others to get our material needs met?</p><p>I mean that&#8217;s the example we&#8217;re seeing from the top. That&#8217;s how sooo many people are where they are. Right?</p><p>It&#8217;s easy to make up lies about someone else especially if you know you&#8217;re going to benefit from it. And especially especially if that&#8217;s a financial benefit.</p><p>People take advantage, that&#8217;s what they seem to do. Those same people will say, &#8216;<em>Stop being a Victim.&#8217; </em></p><p>The very people who hurt you, AFTER doing so will say that to you. WOW!</p><p>I wonder if those same people knew what energy vampires they are and how they deflate the energy of every room they enter. Deep down the people around them are frightened of them, or don&#8217;t really like them, but they can&#8217;t put their finger on why?</p><p>Most people may not even realize when they come across someone like this. They may not be aware or feel the drain, but it doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not present doing its thing.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned and experienced in my life experience thus far in 50 years of living.</p><p>Everyone will take what they can.</p><p>Most will have no moral compass in their taking and use any excuse they can conjure up to get what they want even if that means taking from you. They don&#8217;t care.</p><p>Then, those in the latter category will eventually pray to a God they only conveniently believe in when it&#8217;s convenient for them and their needs, even though they had NO MORAL CODE to begin with and would have and did do anything to get what they wanted and take what they needed with zero afterthought.</p><h3>On a Lighter Note&#8230;I wanted to share why <em>Journeys</em> (My TV Show) was my Passion?</h3><p>Because in a dark, dark world, I choose to put my attention on the Healers.</p><p>The ones who make this world a brighter place. Who care about others and have this human emotion called EMPATHY and COMPASSION. Who understands that as a collective we are truly ONE BEING, and that what we do to one part of the world without thinking twice, we simultaneously do to ourselves on this plane and others.</p><p>For it is not without a heavy burden on the soul of humankind to take away the lives of many innocent people for what on the surface is only greed and corruption.</p><p>I choose to put my focus on the things and people who HEAL and INSPIRE others. </p><p>And since as a young woman I was in Hollywood I wanted to combine these two elements together.</p><p>Anyway, we&#8217;ll see what happens.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Kelly </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Be… ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Art of Being and Non-Doing]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/just-be</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/just-be</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:51:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2e151183-25de-4d40-b419-343e0126a8c4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:309.57715,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Hi Everyone,</p><p>I hope you are all doing and feeling okay in what can only be called &#8216;crazy times&#8217;, and walking on eggshells. </p><p>Have we become a society who&#8217;s just looking for a fight and One <em>little</em> spark is all it takes?</p><p>What happened to self-control and grace in our lives and interactions with others?</p><p>It&#8217;s so easy in our current society to look at a situation and immediately judge it, like we know what is happening. Nine times out of ten, we don&#8217;t. The truth is none of us are able to look at one, heck even two or three scenes of ANYTHING and come in with OUR interpretation of it because we don&#8217;t actually know what happened. We&#8217;re just filtering.</p><p>We all have Filters, most of which are dirty. We all have our scathed histories, mistakes, programming, fears, etc. You and I are projecting at best, that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s happening here in this 3D world of time, space and matter.</p><p>Making 3 second assessments of situations or gross over generalizations will never bring you the truth of a situation.</p><p>So what are we all missing, The Pause. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/just-be?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/just-be?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h3><strong>Practice the Pause</strong></h3><p>Practice taking a pause before reacting to anything or anyone.</p><p>Take a breath and Ask a question.</p><p>Kinda like, <em>stop, drop, and roll</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;d hate to think we&#8217;ve become a society of angry people who take their emotions out on others, and moreover that we&#8217;ve become a society that is tolerant of killing or hurting others simply because we disagree with them.</p><p>That is not acceptable behavior my fellow peps.</p><h3><strong>We must Rise Above &#129496;&#8205;&#9792;&#65039; </strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png" width="1080" height="1350" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1350,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:186741,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/i/175029574?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeU2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e6b74b7-d1cb-49cd-9ac2-383aa01ac4be_1080x1350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Because Who<em> </em>are you gonna be when the ship hits the fan? When you&#8217;re stressed beyond your max, and pushed past your comfort zone?</p><p>We need to come to terms with the pivot, and the pivot, and the pivot. </p><p>We need to decide now who we are going to be under the extraordinary pressures and challenges we are facing, and how we are going to handle it.</p><p>There is no end to the evolution that is unfolding.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8216;The question before us is not only &#8220;<em>What do we have to do in order to endure and transform this moment?&#8221;</em></p><p>Every bit as importantly is &#8220;<em>What do we have to think, and who do we have to be?&#8221;&#8217;</em></p><p>- Marianne Williamson</p></div><p>I think those are all amazing questions. Don&#8217;t you?</p><p>I wrote a killer blog years ago on my first health coaching and intuitive reading website titled; <em><strong>WHO are you Being?</strong></em></p><p>The main question being; Who are you <em>Being</em> while you&#8217;re <em>Doing</em> whatever it is you&#8217;re doing?</p><p>Mainly because I was so sick of living in Los Angeles, CA at the time and all anyone ever asked was, &#8216;<em>So, what do you Do?&#8217;</em> </p><p>I gather <em>as</em> work, but that question just got old! A much better question I thought at the time was,</p><p><em>&#8216;My friend WHO are you Being while you&#8217;re Doing whatever it is that you are Doing?&#8217;</em></p><p>A question that continues to be a good one.</p><p>Reflecting on and future considering one&#8217;s potential and who you want to be are great questions to ask at ANY age. </p><p><strong>Reminding ourselves that more love, more compassion and more understanding are needed in this world.</strong></p><p>Here&#8217;s another, Do you ever practice just being in a peaceful state?</p><p>If so, how do YOU practice peace in your daily life? </p><p>With Love &amp; Peace,</p><p>Kelly</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Super abilities Or Spiritual gifts?]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/mind-games</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/mind-games</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:28:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Hi Y&#8217;all,</p><p>I hope everyone is riding these eclipse energetic waves okay.</p><p>In reflection on my last article, I had a moment where I had to remind myself to be compassionate in my words&#8212;even when triggered.</p><p>How do you find your compassion when you feel triggered in a situation or with an individual?</p><p>If you&#8217;ve read one of my earlier articles, you may remember my mention of mind games. In this piece, I go into more detail on that.</p><p>So&#8212;do you believe that people with extraordinary abilities beyond the normal limits exist? Or that we, as humans, can be trained to develop certain meta-skills or abilities?</p><p>Or do you think that those who have certain gifts carry them as a kind of spiritual inheritance&#8212;perhaps cultivated in a previous lifetime?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/mind-games?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/mind-games?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>A long time ago, I started developing a show I named <em>Journeys</em>, where the intention was to explore ideas like these.</p><p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by people with specific abilities&#8212;it&#8217;s literally one of my favorite topics in the world. And a decade ago, it was my dream to bring this kind of exploration into the mainstream.</p><p>Here are three abilities I&#8217;ve explored:</p><p>&#8226; <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/kellysantos/p/is-telepathy-real?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Telepathy</a></p><p>&#8226; Prophetic dreams &amp; visions</p><p>&#8226; Energy clearing or healing</p><p>Two out of the three are unpredictable for me. One is not&#8212;I can do energy clearing/releasing at the drop of a dime. However, I haven&#8217;t yet learned how to extend it to others, though I could teach the process.</p><p>Prophetic dreams are few and far these days. The last time I had one was before COVID&#8212;it was a warning dream about what was to come.</p><p>Typically, in a prophetic dream, you may encounter an angel or a random person you don&#8217;t know, delivering a message through a visual scene&#8212;your dream itself. I also occasionally receive visions in my waking life. These tend to appear as quick visual flashes&#8212;either from my life or someone else&#8217;s.</p><p>Why do I receive these occasional visions and dreams? Most often, for protection&#8212;to tell me something or warn me about a particular situation or event, either for myself or for someone else.</p><p>Then there&#8217;s <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/kellysantos/p/is-telepathy-real?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">telepathy</a>. For me, it&#8217;s a skill that developed in my youth&#8212;initially out of need, and again, for protection&#8212;especially with my closest brother in age.</p><p>That said, this ability doesn&#8217;t work on command or at the snap of a finger (at least not for me). Though I&#8217;ve heard of an incredible telepath who can access it more readily, I&#8217;m not sure they can always identify the exact source of the thoughts. They can tap into what feels like a &#8220;thought field&#8221; and perceive them&#8212;localization seems to be the next step in that evolution.</p><p>I did have a one-time experience during my Burning Man years where I could <em>see</em> thoughts floating in the air around my partner and I. Almost like clothing&#8212;like wearing a T-shirt with different thoughts written across it.</p><p>When I say <em>see</em>, I don&#8217;t mean physically&#8212;but through my third eye &#128065;&#65039;&#8212;on a very subtle layer of reality that most people don&#8217;t access. Though with practice, I believe anything is possible. The closest visual comparison I can offer is the aesthetic of Rihanna&#8217;s <em>Unapologetic</em> album cover.</p><p>You would think that with so many abilities, it would be easy to build a career around one&#8212;or all&#8212;of them. But not quite. I&#8217;ve struggled with marketing and putting myself out there&#8230; though I&#8217;m slowly moving back toward creating videos again.</p><p>I will say this: there are no super-humans&#8212;just humans with heightened abilities, whether God-given, spiritual, or otherwise.</p><p>I believe that through meditation, any of us can begin to open our minds, hearts, and third-eye awareness to the invisible, intangible layers of this world. And if there&#8217;s a &#8220;supernatural&#8221; ability you feel drawn to explore&#8212;you probably should.</p><p>That feels far more meaningful than how most of us spend our days.</p><p>Indulge the woo, I say.</p><p>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re meant to have all the answers here.</p><p>I think we&#8217;re meant to feel our way through&#8230;</p><p>to notice what calls us,</p><p>what opens us,</p><p>what quietly expands us from the inside out.</p><p>There is so much more happening beneath the surface of this life&#8212;</p><p>and every now and then, we get a glimpse.</p><p>A dream.</p><p>A knowing.</p><p>A moment that doesn&#8217;t quite make logical sense&#8230;</p><p>but lands somewhere deeper.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve ever touched something like that&#8212;</p><p>even briefly&#8212;</p><p>you know.</p><p>I&#8217;d love to hear what you&#8217;ve experienced&#8230; &#128173;</p><p>Kelly</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/mind-games/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/mind-games/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[That’s a Poor interpretation of the expression]]></title><description><![CDATA[The meek shall inherit the Earth!]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/thats-a-poor-interpretation-of-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/thats-a-poor-interpretation-of-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:39:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@thanti_riess">Thanti Riess</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Hi Y&#8217;All,</p><p>It&#8217;s truly astonishing to me how many people incorrectly interpret the phrase &#8216;The meek shall inherit the Earth&#8217; with such bravado too, as if they were actually there and saw it. But they weren&#8217;t, they don&#8217;t actually know, and their poor interpretation of said expression in reality couldn&#8217;t be more off. </p><p>First, there is <em>no poor </em>and <em>no failure</em> in the word <em>meek</em> or how it&#8217;s used in that phrase, not that I&#8217;m a super big bible person. </p><p>I was raised Catholic in this life, but I don&#8217;t subscribe to any particular religion currently. I embrace and accept them all! As long as they&#8217;re NOT using their religion to hurt any other living thing, though sadly many do, and justify their actions with their Religion. </p><p>Another thing to consider is the common sense approach that we in current society are doing our best to interpret what was said Centuries ago. </p><h4>Though I can&#8217;t see how anyone would equate poor or failure with meek. </h4><p></p><p>The actual definition of MEEK is a person who is humble, patient, and gentle because those are the people who hold the highest vibration and the ones Christ wanted to be surrounded by. I&#8217;m sure he too as a human being had &#8216;preferences&#8217;. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a2p1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff97371e7-148d-4030-addd-b5fc20be883b_1290x1542.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a2p1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff97371e7-148d-4030-addd-b5fc20be883b_1290x1542.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a2p1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff97371e7-148d-4030-addd-b5fc20be883b_1290x1542.jpeg 848w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It also didn&#8217;t mean after-death inheritance, another term for abundance, but current life inheritance of the living people he was speaking to on that mountain. </p><p>He was basically preaching about the principles of abundance, creating it, and showing others how to do so also with their beliefs and his knowing.</p><p>It could also be interpreted as the law of karma, that one who does good deeds &amp; actions will be rewarded by God, Source, or Universal Life Force Energy. </p><p>Whatever name you wanna give it. It exists whether you believe it does or not.</p><p>And that&#8217;s what that statement really means.</p><h4>Also, have you ever considered that maybe Jesus wasn&#8217;t actually POOR and a well paid carpenter at the time? </h4><p></p><p>Why everyone portrays him as poor or unsuccessful is beyond me since he&#8217;s mark still affects us all a Millennial later! Riddle me that.</p><p>Sure the story sounds great painting him as a poor, victim. I bet that&#8217;s what the leaders of that time wanted you to believe.</p><p>But let&#8217;s remember that Jesus Christ was NO VICTIM!</p><p>He was the only one it seems at that time who had <em><strong>the balls</strong></em> to speak truth to power and he was crucified for it. </p><p>So don&#8217;t you dare ever call Jesus a victim, for that is not even close to what he was, and if that were the truth I wouldn&#8217;t be sitting here defending him to ignorant men who think they know everything.</p><p>I mean do you think anyone will be talking about you centuries later?  </p><p>Doubt it!</p><p>There&#8217;s people who take action in this world and make stuff happen and then there are those who watch and talk shit about those that DO.</p><p>There&#8217;s your truth. </p><p>The last thing I&#8217;ll say about it, is if you do believe, a lot more respect is due for those who gave up their life for their conviction and to stand up for you. </p><div 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She is also a living organism that hateful men are destroying with their hateful, warlike behaviors of conquer and destroy if I don&#8217;t get what I want. </p><p>Mother Earth and Father Source are in Ultimate control here, not silly humans with their ridiculous behaviors to get their needs met that just hurts everyone and the planet. </p><p>The planet MARS is proof that planets DIE! </p><p>And IF we were really intelligent beings we would see and understand this fact, and learn HOW to live in HARMONY with the Earth instead of just stealing from her, and taking without giving anything back. </p><p>Do you have any thoughts on the topic? If so, I&#8217;d love to hear them below &#128071; </p><p>love &amp; light Y&#8217;all,</p><p>Kelly </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Wicked Curse!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Energy, Belief, and the Stories We Carry]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/a-wicked-curse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/a-wicked-curse</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:54:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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I&#8217;ve been moving through the loss of a family member, along with a wave of changes that at times has felt like endless chaos.</p><p>The Eclipse energy has been intense. The kind of intensity that doesn&#8217;t just shift things&#8212;it rearranges them.</p><p>I hope you&#8217;re moving through it gently, as I am.</p><p>Lately, I&#8217;ve found myself reflecting on old experiences&#8212;things I hadn&#8217;t thought about in years, suddenly rising back to the surface.</p><p>One moment in particular came back to me&#8230;</p><p>Back in 2013, I had an experience that I&#8217;ll never forget.</p><p>A psychic on Venice Blvd in Los Angeles, CA once told me I had a <em>curse</em> on me&#8212;and that in order to remove it, I would need to pay her a very large fee.</p><p>I looked her straight in the eye, stood up, walked out, and laughed.</p><p><em>A curse? How ridiculous.</em></p><p>A true psychic&#8212;or any ethical practitioner&#8212;would never say something like that. And they certainly wouldn&#8217;t attach fear to a price tag.</p><p>At most, someone grounded and genuine might say:</p><p>&#8220;Go get checked out.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Talk to a professional.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s someone who may be able to support you.&#8221;</p><p>But curses? Paid removals?</p><p>That, to me, has always felt like manipulation&#8212;not truth.</p><p><strong>Fast forward 20 years&#8230;</strong></p><p>Year&#8217;s pass, maybe 20, and I&#8217;m speaking with a friend who brings up a rumor about a speculation that a <em>curse</em> could be the reason behind a certain nervous system condition I may have, or could potentially develop. And it immediately brought me back to that moment in Venice with the psychic from 20 years past.</p><p>It also reminded me of something I had heard in holistic health school &#8212; that I might be prone to certain neurological conditions like Parkinson&#8217;s or MS if preventative care wasn&#8217;t taken. My youngest brother recently died in 2022 of ALS &#8212; also a nervous system condition, but those are certainly not curses, they&#8217;re nervous system alignments.</p><p>The absurdity of that I thought, that a curse would cause a nervous system condition in a person.</p><p>After all these are real conditions. Physical, complex, and deeply human. Not curses.</p><p>And yet, the question lingered:</p><p>Could it be possible that a curse on a person or a family could manifest a health condition?</p><p>Could something we <em>believe</em>&#8212;deeply enough&#8212;begin to influence our physical experience?</p><p>I suppose that IF you believed it could it could. </p><p>Anything is possible when you believe it is <em>right</em>?</p><p>While I don&#8217;t believe in curses, I <em>do</em> believe in the power of the mind, the nervous system, and the energetic patterns we carry.</p><p>Belief is powerful.</p><p>But I choose not to give my power to fear-based narratives.</p><p>And I honor that others may see it differently&#8212;we all hold our own truths, and that in itself is something to respect.</p><p><strong>We All have our individual beliefs that we each believe in with such conviction of heart, and that in and of itself is such a gift.</strong></p><p>Over time, I&#8217;ve come to understand this:</p><p>Energy is real.</p><p>It can become chaotic, scattered, or stuck. And when it remains that way long enough, it can begin to influence the body and crystallize.</p><p>Patterns&#8212;emotional, physical, behavioral&#8212;can imprint over time.</p><p>They can shape posture, responses, even the way someone carries themselves through the world.</p><p>You can see it everywhere.</p><p>Someone holding tension in their shoulders constantly.</p><p>A body braced, guarded, contracted.</p><p>These patterns don&#8217;t come from curses.</p><p>They come from lived experience. 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This is an amazing discovery. </p><p>Energy is a REAL thing and it can get chaotic, scattered and uncentered. One just needs to learn how to tap into it to change and alter it as energy is malleable. </p><p>When we have unorganized energy field&#8217;s long-term our bodies end up getting molded and shaped by them. </p><p>This is why you can see if you look around you, many people walking around with trauma and trauma responses imprinted in their bodies. </p><p><strong>A real psychic?</strong></p><p>In my opinion, a real or ethical intuitive would never tell you that you are cursed.</p><p>And they would never ask you to pay to remove something designed to make you feel powerless.</p><p>Please be mindful of anyone who uses fear as a doorway - especially if it comes with a price tag.</p><p><strong>What I </strong><em><strong>do</strong></em><strong> believe is this:</strong></p><p>Your beliefs matter.</p><p>Your nervous system matters.</p><p>Your energy&#8212;and how you care for it&#8212;matters.</p><p>But your power is yours.</p><p>My brother passed from ALS.</p><p>Was it a curse?</p><p>No. I don&#8217;t believe in curses.</p><p>But I do believe in the power of what we carry&#8212;our experiences, our patterns, our nervous system, and the energy we move through life with.</p><p>And maybe that&#8217;s what this moment is really asking of us&#8230;</p><p>Not to fear what&#8217;s happening, but to meet it with awareness, care, and a willingness to gently unwind what no longer serves.</p><p>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts.</p><p>Nothing about you is cursed&#8212;only waiting to be understood.</p><p>With love and radiant energy,</p><p>&#128149; Kelly</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Enlighten Up with Kelly Santos is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent gets you absolutely nowhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rage Against The Machine!]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/talent-gets-you-absolutely-nowhere</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/talent-gets-you-absolutely-nowhere</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:16:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541580104-f9bf2396a59e?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMHx8dGFsZW50fGVufDB8fHx8MTc1Njk0MDYzNXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541580104-f9bf2396a59e?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMHx8dGFsZW50fGVufDB8fHx8MTc1Njk0MDYzNXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541580104-f9bf2396a59e?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMHx8dGFsZW50fGVufDB8fHx8MTc1Njk0MDYzNXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080 424w, 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You&#8217;ll just get thrown away like a piece of garbage. </p><p>Is this a loving world I ask you?</p><p>Help People during the transition. Don&#8217;t make it harder.</p><p>Ever notice that all the media tends to do is turn people against people?</p><p>That&#8217;s why I limit my tv watching, and have gone to mainly using apps to watch my selected shows. I don&#8217;t need any more fear mongering going on in my life as I imagine you don&#8217;t in yours.</p><p>I hate to predict this, but soon there will be <em>rage against the machine</em> in this country if things don&#8217;t start changing for the better for <strong>the people</strong>. The machine being government and systems of control. </p><p>I truly hope that things don&#8217;t come to that point, but if they do I hold the intention that we all get through it with as much harmony and grace as possible. &#128591;</p><p>There is always a PEACEFUL solution to every problem if you look close enough and care deep enough. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4tDv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90c660ee-1458-4e25-9d9d-36a2c6b92db9_3540x4282.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4tDv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90c660ee-1458-4e25-9d9d-36a2c6b92db9_3540x4282.jpeg 424w, 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After what I&#8217;ve lived through, I&#8217;ve felt&#8212;deep in my bones&#8212;that there must be something gentler on the other side.</p><p>That belief is what carried me through the two years I lived in a cockroach-infested warehouse&#8212;my friend&#8217;s storage space.</p><p>As hard as it was, it was still better than being out on the street. And in its own way, it gave me a small refuge from the constant mental strain I was experiencing within my family.</p><p>Why is being human so hard?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>In my next life, I&#8217;m coming back as a fairy and tending to the grass.</p><p>Because what are we really doing here?</p><p><strong>We have these brilliant minds, yet so often we use them to harm, divide, and withhold. So much of the world feels transactional&#8212;like help only comes when there&#8217;s something to gain.</strong></p><p>And sometimes I look around and feel like the world has drifted far from something simple&#8230; something true.</p><p>I find myself asking:</p><p>When do we come back to the basics?</p><p>When does life become a little more human again?</p><p>When does care outweigh profit?</p><p>When does kindness become the norm instead of the exception?</p><p>Because from where I stand, a lot of this world feels cold. Not always&#8212;but often enough to leave a mark.</p><p>And maybe if I had grown up in a more loving environment, my lens would be different. I&#8217;m open to that possibility.</p><p>But even still&#8212;when you look at the world, at how we treat each other, at what&#8217;s happening around us&#8212;it&#8217;s hard not to feel the weight of it all.</p><p>There&#8217;s so much pressure to strive, to achieve, to climb&#8230;only to realize that at the top, many people are just as unfulfilled as when they started.</p><p>So what are we really chasing?</p><p>And at what cost?</p><p>I&#8217;ve seen how easy it is for people to lose themselves in the pursuit of success&#8212;sacrificing health, love, integrity, and peace along the way.</p><p>So I find myself wondering:</p><p>Are we building a life&#8230;or just surviving one?</p><p>Because if I&#8217;m honest&#8212;there have been moments where simply getting through the day felt like enough. And I know I&#8217;m not the only one.</p><p>Have you ever felt that way too?</p><p>Like you&#8217;re just holding your breath, hoping something shifts?</p><p>The only answer I keep coming back to is this: <strong>simplicity.</strong></p><p>Less noise.</p><p>Less pressure.</p><p>Less comparison.</p><p>More presence.</p><p>More ease.</p><p>More truth.</p><p>Because somewhere along the way, we created a world that celebrates the &#8220;best&#8221; and the &#8220;biggest&#8221;&#8230; but often leaves people feeling smaller, more disconnected, and more lost than ever.</p><p>And that doesn&#8217;t serve anyone.</p><p>Not even those who seem to be winning.</p><p>But here&#8217;s the thing&#8212;</p><p>I made it out of that warehouse.</p><p>I found my way forward, piece by piece, and eventually made it to Asheville, North Carolina&#8230; where life brought a whole new set of challenges, including surviving a natural disaster.</p><p>More on that soon.</p><p>For now, I&#8217;m still here.</p><p>Still breathing.</p><p>Still finding my way.</p><p>And maybe that, in itself, is something.</p><p><strong>Peace &amp; Love,</strong></p><p>Kelly Santos</p><h4><strong>Work With Me:</strong></h4><p>Bodywork &#8226; Wellness Coaching &#8226; Intuitive Readings</p><p>I offer holistic wellness sessions, intuitive tarot readings, and life coaching designed to bring clarity, grounding, and deeper self-connection.</p><p>I hold space in a way that is supportive, intuitive, and deeply attuned&#8212;guiding you gently through your own transformation.</p><p>Sessions available for insight around love, career, and your spiritual path. &#127769;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book A Call&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" 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Lush, green, and alive in a way that almost feels sacred. And yet, if I&#8217;m being honest, I&#8217;ve been feeling deeply low. There are moments when the live music scattered throughout town lifts me for a while, but underneath it, there&#8217;s a heaviness I can&#8217;t quite shake.</p><p>The lack of clarity in nearly every area of my life feels overwhelming. At times, I feel emotionally frozen&#8212;unsure of what to do next, or even where to begin.</p><p><em><strong>&#8216;God&#8230; where do I start?&#8217;</strong></em></p><p>That&#8217;s the question that keeps circling in my mind as I return to writing.</p><p>At what point do I begin telling my story in a way that feels right?</p><p>So much has happened over the past four years&#8212;since the upheaval of my life in 2021&#8212;that it&#8217;s hard to know where to enter the story. There isn&#8217;t just one moment. There are many. And each one carries its own weight.</p><p>Part of me wants to tell everything. Another part of me wants to be thoughtful about what I share, and how I share it.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to write from a place of blame, or fall into the patterns of victim, persecutor, or savior. I want to write from awareness. From reflection. From a place that offers something meaningful&#8212;not just for me, but for you, too.</p><p>Because if I&#8217;m going to open this door again, I want it to matter.</p><p>Still&#8230; I find myself unsure.</p><p>What do I share first?</p><p>What do you need to hear?</p><p>What feels true, without being overwhelming?</p><p>Maybe the answer is simpler than I&#8217;m making it.</p><p>Maybe I just begin&#8212;right here, in the not knowing.</p><p>Because if I&#8217;m honest, that&#8217;s where I am.</p><p>In a season that feels tense, unclear, and uncertain.</p><p>And maybe that&#8217;s not something to fix right away&#8230;</p><p>maybe it&#8217;s something to move through, slowly, honestly, one piece at a time.</p><p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do.</p><p>I&#8217;ll share what feels ready.</p><p>I&#8217;ll speak what feels true.</p><p>And I&#8217;ll trust that the right pieces will land where they&#8217;re meant to.</p><p>If you&#8217;re here with me in your own season of uncertainty&#8230; you&#8217;re not alone.</p><p>We can find our way forward&#8212;together, and in time.</p><p>Wishing everyone a peaceful, expansive rest of the summer &#9728;&#65039;&#10024;</p><p><strong>&#8212; Kelly</strong></p><h3><strong>Work With Me:</strong></h3><p>I offer holistic wellness sessions, intuitive tarot readings, and life coaching designed to bring clarity, grounding, and deeper self-connection.</p><p>I hold space in a way that is supportive, intuitive, and deeply attuned&#8212;guiding you gently through your own transformation.</p><p>Sessions available for insight around love, career, and your spiritual path. &#127769;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book A Call&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" 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spirituality) spiritual flavor and asks us HOW we apply and use this element in our lives.]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/the-world-is-on-spirtual-fire</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/the-world-is-on-spirtual-fire</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:25:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1496483353456-90997957cf99?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw5fHxmaXJlfGVufDB8fHx8MTc2NjMzMTA5OXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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In Googling this card, I found this on &#8216;The Seven of Wands&#8217;, the traditional name of the 7 of Fire. </p><p><strong>Seven Fires Prophecy (Ojibwe / Anishinaabe)</strong></p><p>Overview</p><p>The Seven Fires Prophecy is a traditional Anishinaabe teaching that speaks to the future of the people and the challenges they will encounter across generations. Each &#8220;Fire&#8221; represents a distinct era, offering guidance, warnings, and opportunities for growth and renewal.</p><p>The Seventh Fire</p><p>The Seventh Fire marks a time when new people emerge&#8212;those who retrace the steps of their ancestors to recover what was lost. This era emphasizes returning to original teachings, honoring tradition, and seeking guidance from the Elders. It is a period of remembrance, responsibility, and conscious choice.</p><p>Core Focus</p><p>This Fire highlights the importance of learning from the past, listening to those who carry wisdom, and navigating the complexities of a rapidly changing world with integrity and awareness.</p><p><strong>Parallel Symbolism: Seven of Wands (Tarot)</strong></p><p>Meaning</p><p>The Seven of Wands represents standing your ground, defending your beliefs, and maintaining your position despite pressure, opposition, or challenge. It speaks to perseverance and inner strength.</p><p>Symbolism</p><p>The imagery often shows an individual holding a wand while defending themselves against multiple forces, symbolizing the need to confront obstacles, assert boundaries, and remain aligned with one&#8217;s truth.</p><p>Key Themes</p><ul><li><p>Standing your ground</p></li><li><p>Defense and resilience</p></li><li><p>Perseverance through challenge</p></li><li><p>Embrace self-confidence, assertiveness and courage</p></li><li><p>Choose your battles wisely</p></li><li><p>Practice Courage &amp; Boundaries</p></li><li><p>A coming together of spiritual light leaders</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!85_c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50a393c8-d447-4e87-96ac-122ea5629bb0_651x1024.jpeg" 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Of Gaia Oracle</strong> deck by Ravynne Phelan) is to learn to operate from your Higher Self as best as you can.</p><p>Your Higher Self realizes there is a higher reason for all of it, though WE as humans may never really know what those purposes are. We can speculate, but we will never know 100% about many of topics in life which is something we should just accept with grace. There are certain topics that will just be unknowable to us in full scope.</p><p>This card brings the energy element of Fire into our lives with a 7 (representing spirituality) spiritual flavor and asks us HOW we apply and use this element in our lives. Hopefully we use it in constructive ways as currently most are not.</p><p>In some circumstances it does serve to get passionate, though hopefully not taken to the state of hateful anger which can really damage not only the sender but the receiver also. </p><p>Realize that your anger which I&#8217;m certain is well-earned is a sacred tool <em>not</em> to be used carelessly or as a default position in life. Anger is a low frequency vibration, higher on the scale if you&#8217;re in Victim frequency, but that is it.</p><p>So pick your battles (or arguments) wisely, do the research, get the facts, and most importantly use your intuition before you make any decision. </p><p>In these TIMES where many people/groups are so polarizing and accusatory it creates a never-ending cycle of anger, confusion, and a general feeling of walking on egg shells 24/7 for everyone. </p><p>It behooves all of us to bring the temperature DOWN a few degrees for the SAFETY of all of us. Emotional sobriety is something desperately needed in this country and world.</p><p>Hence, choose your battles WISELY at this sensitive moment in humanity, our country, and the world.</p><p>At the same time, don&#8217;t allow others to push you around. Stand your ground. Have boundaries that work for you and don&#8217;t allow others who don&#8217;t have boundaries into your life. Because people who don&#8217;t have boundaries won&#8217;t respect yours.</p><p>Face challenges and opposition with COURAGE and a CALM steady mind. </p><p>Do this by meditating and engaging in whatever nervous system practice you have daily. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://kellysantos.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h3><strong>Make ART with your PAIN </strong></h3><p>A useful way to use anger energy is to make it into some form of ART. </p><p>Get it out on paper, act it out in a theater, voice it out on a stage, use your voice to make a change in society, but just don&#8217;t hurt others or yourself because of it. </p><p>To the best of your ability don&#8217;t hurt others because of the pain you feel in your own life because that is the most destructive thing you can do with it.</p><p>Instead find a way to FEEL your pain and process it in whatever way works for you. </p><p>For some it&#8217;s therapy, for others it&#8217;s nature, it&#8217;s different for everyone. </p><p>No one way works for everyone. </p><p>Identifying and naming your feelings helps too, anything that can give you some space and perspective about what you&#8217;re feeling helps. </p><p>Another Amazing Interpretation of the &#8216;7 of Wands&#8217; is from <a href="https://moonly.app/">@moonlyappknown</a> below &#128071;. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg" width="1290" height="2356" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:2356,&quot;width&quot;:1290,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:0,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHIH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b081f25-dec8-49fd-8d71-8e6d6a9d0375_1290x2356.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So there&#8217;s my one card reading for the world at this precise time. </p><p>Thank you reading and I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts. </p><p>&#10084;&#65039; Kelly Santos</p><p></p><h3><strong>Work With Me:</strong></h3><p>Wellness, Coaching, Tarot (Spiritual Intuitive)</p><p>I offer Intuitive Tarot Readings, and Soul Coaching that provides powerful insight and intuitive guidance into your life. My readings are down to Earth with a psycho-spiritual perspective lent to them. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book an Intuitive Session&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.holisticanywhere.com/profile/HolisticGuide"><span>Book an Intuitive Session</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Have You Been?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been about 4 years since I&#8217;ve written a long-form post publicly on any website or social media platform.]]></description><link>https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/where-have-you-been</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kellysantos.substack.com/p/where-have-you-been</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Santos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:11:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IcOe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4637b54-effe-4270-a9d2-084b350f9b0c_608x608.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Hello and welcome,</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s been about four years since I&#8217;ve shared a long-form piece publicly. That&#8217;s a long time to be quiet&#8212;and there are reasons for that.</p><p>It began in the summer of 2021, when my father sold our family home in Long Island, New York&#8212;the home I grew up in, the place that had anchored my life for over four decades. Around that time, under the weight of everything unfolding, I found myself slipping into fantasy more than usual. I&#8217;ve always had an imaginative, introspective nature, but this felt different. I held onto the idea that someone I cared about might show up and carry me out of it all&#8212;like something out of a story. Looking back, I can see how much I needed rescue, even if it came in a form that wasn&#8217;t real.</p><p>At the same time, my family made the decision to take my 8-year-old daughter to summer camp&#8212;something that unexpectedly turned into four years of separation between us. That loss alone is difficult to put into words. It was deeply painful, and in my view, unnecessary.</p><p>That summer, I found myself heartbroken, crying in the same streets I had once grown up on&#8212;feeling completely unseen. Not one person stopped to ask if I was okay. Not one. After 45 years in a place, I thought someone might notice&#8230; but no one did.</p><p>Instead, what followed was judgment, misunderstanding, and a lack of compassion. The locks were changed on me at my own family home, and I was sent to live with my brother without my belongings or any financial support. Shortly after, my website went down because I could no longer afford to maintain it. (Hence I&#8217;m in the process of rebuilding it now)</p><p>What was supposed to be a &#8220;fresh start&#8221; felt more like a collapse.</p><p>For months, I cried every day. And still, no one asked what was really happening with me&#8212;only spoke about me, never to me.</p><p>After six difficult months in Las Vegas, I moved again&#8212;this time to Los Angeles&#8212;to help care for my brother, who had been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease). I had no formal training for something like that, but I showed up anyway.</p><p>That chapter of my life was one of the most intense I&#8217;ve ever experienced. Four of us living in a small apartment, navigating illness, stress, grief, and survival all at once. It was chaotic, painful, and deeply human. It changed all of us in ways that are hard to fully explain.</p><p>My brother was incredibly special to me, and losing him&#8212;and everything surrounding that time&#8212;left a permanent mark on my heart.</p><p>After everything I had given during that period, I eventually found myself without a place to stay&#8212;left with only my car and a pillow. I won&#8217;t go into every detail here, but it was another breaking point in an already overwhelming series of events.</p><p>For nearly two years, I lived in extremely difficult conditions, including a warehouse environment that was unsafe and unhealthy. During that time, I fractured my ankle and, at moments, had to crawl just to get around. It was one of the lowest points of my life.</p><p>And perhaps one of the hardest parts to accept was how alone I felt. Many people distanced themselves. Some misunderstood. Some judged. And some simply didn&#8217;t want to see.</p><p>I did what I could to reach out, even sharing pieces of my experience publicly&#8212;but it often felt like my voice wasn&#8217;t being heard or believed.</p><p>Somehow through everything, I made it to the other side of that chapter.</p><p>This is the beginning of me finding my voice again.</p><p>Not from a place of perfection&#8212;but from a place of truth, resilience, and a deep desire to reconnect&#8212;with myself, with others, and with the path ahead.</p><p>There is more to share. And I will, in time.</p><p>For now, this is where I begin again.</p><p><strong>Peace &amp; Love,</strong></p><p>Kelly</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>