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Inner Alchemy for a Fractured World

Season #4

Awaken Your Power — Episode: From Block to Powerful (with Cheryl Stelte)

Episode Overview

In this deeply insightful conversation, Cheryl Stelte

  joins Keri to explore what it means to move from block to powerful. A spiritual coach, master healer, and author of From Block to Powerful: The Spiritual Guide to Unlocking Inner Clarity and Authentic Power, Cheryl helps women uncover how trauma, conditioning, and subconscious beliefs shape our lives—and how true transformation requires healing beneath the surface.

Together, Keri and Cheryl dive into the energetic connection between personal healing and collective evolution, why midlife “success but misalignment” is a spiritual initiation, and how shadow work helps us reclaim authentic power. This conversation is for anyone ready to stop fixing themselves and start listening to what their “blocks” are trying to reveal.

Guest

Cheryl Stelte — Spiritual coach, master healer, and author of From Block to Powerful: The Spiritual Guide to Unlocking Inner Clarity and Authentic Power. For over 30 years, she has guided women through trauma, reinvention, and spiritual awakening with a unique approach that views blocks as sacred signals rather than flaws.

🌐 Website: starofdivinelight.com 
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steltecheryl/
💼 LinkedIn: Cheryl Stelte 

Key Takeaways

  • Blocks are sacred signals. Every emotional or energetic “stuck point” is an invitation to deeper awareness, not a flaw to fix.

  • Healing ripples outward. Personal transformation (microcosm) influences collective evolution (macrocosm); when one person heals, the field shifts for everyone.

  • We are all connected. Separation is an illusion—each act of compassion, forgiveness, or courage uplifts the collective vibration.

  • Shadow work is essential. Real transformation means feeling repressed emotions, not bypassing them with mindset tricks or quick fixes.

  • Success without fulfillment = misalignment. When achievements stop bringing joy, it’s a call to realign with your soul’s deeper truth.

  • Discernment over judgment. Spiritual maturity means holding compassion for others’ paths while clearly choosing what aligns with your own.

  • You are far more powerful than you realize. Everything you need to awaken authentic power is already within your subconscious and your soul’s design.

Memorable Lines

  • “Blaming will never get you to who you truly are.”

  • “Our wounds are not problems to solve; they are portals to higher truth.”

  • “The extreme codependent will always attract the extreme narcissist—until healing occurs.”

  • “Separation is an illusion. When you judge another, you are judging yourself.”

  • “You can’t mindset your way out of trauma. You must feel your way through it.”

Episode Highlights

  • The origin of feeling “unwanted” and how early wounding shapes adult patterns

  • The cultural programming that keeps us small—and how spirituality reclaims power

  • Understanding the microcosm and macrocosm of healing: how personal work heals the world

  • The illusion of separation and why compassion is revolutionary

  • Shadow work explained: what it is, why it matters, and how it transforms at the energetic level

  • Moving beyond “mindset” into the subconscious and emotional body

  • The meaning of “midlife success but misalignment” and why it’s a sacred initiation

  • Why discernment—not judgment—is the foundation of authentic power

  • Practical steps for uncovering subconscious beliefs and repressed emotion

Mentioned in This Episode

  • From Block to Powerful — Cheryl’s latest book

  • The Prayer of St. Francis (referenced as a model of spiritual action)

  • Quotes from Thích Nhất Hạnh, Sufi mysticism, and Buddhist teachings on compassion and attachment

  • Discussion of trauma imprinting in the subconscious and nervous system

Connect with Cheryl

🌐 Website: starofdivinelight.com 
🎧 Free Resources: Three Meditations for Subconscious Healing  — learn how to access the subconscious and create safety in the root chakra
💫 Offerings:

  • Personal Chakra Readings

  • Business Chakra Readings (for women in leadership and healing professions)

  • 9-Month Deep Healing Program

Connect with Keri

🌐 Website: kerimangis.com 
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