Is money good or bad? In this episode, I explore what we attach to money and what we make it into.

I have an interesting background because on my dad's side they came from money whereas on my mum's side they were working class. This has given me a rich tapestry to observe people's beliefs and attitudes towards money. Perhaps this has led to me seeing that money in itself is neutral. How people see and use money, however, isn't.

We need to observe every belief we have around money and question it to we can free ourselves from the bond we have with it.

Money likes to flow, like water. In and out. When we try to stop it from moving, we are going against its nature.

What I have realised when I lost my career as a lawyer is that certain professions have a relationship with money that differs broadly from other professions. When I was a lawyer, I felt secure in my relationship with money and didn't think I had money mindset issues. And yet I did. I deflected money by giving it away as if I didn't deserve it. I invite you to listen to EP 28 that explores the question of whether it is a spiritual thing to help others.

The moment I became an artist and a healer, my relationship with money changed entirely. It felt like with the job came a poverty consciousness that I never realised was there, which derives from the myth of the starving artist. That poverty consciousness found a part in me that I didn't even knew existed, that doubted my own self worth. It took me years to shift that part of me.

My invitation in this episode is to challenge your beliefs around money and change your relationship to money. When you come across a belief around money, use the four questions of the work, by Byron Katie, to challenge that belief. Go back to EP 97 to see how the process works. And conclude the exercise by writing a letter to money.

The energy of your home can affect you in profound ways. There are two reasons. First your home has an energy of its own. But second, you leave an energetic footprint to your home through your emotions and your thoughts, which, if not cleaned regularly, can build up thought forms and energetic clouds.

Once the energy become strong enough, it then becomes harder to get rid of it. In the episode, I share with you a simple practice that can help you break up that energy and start to get rid of it.

I would also like to invite you to listen to previous episodes about this topic:

EP 30 The Ancient Chinese Art of Feng Shui

EP 70 A Fresh Start for You and Your Home

I talk about decluttering and give you my best tips on how to get started. I give you my definition of what clutter is and how clutter creates energy drains.

If you need help, why not book a house clearing session (if works for flats too).

Due to the release of the Epstein Files, I have been asked to do an episode on how to protect ourselves from what I would like to refer to as Energetic Black Holes, which represent the darkest side of humanity. Up until now, I have been talking about several different energy vortices:

EP 115 The energy of the news and politics

EP 122 The energy of flags (UK)

EP 123 The energy of war and peace

EP 124 The energy of songs

But none of these episodes looked into the darkest side of humanity. We are being exposed to this right now, not because it has never existed before, but because it has to be exposed and to come into the light for healing. However, I am urging you not to dive into that energy unless you are a very experienced lightworker - a term I use very seldom. Not every reiki master is an experienced lightworker. I have had reiki masters tell me that if you are "of the light" then that sort of darkness cannot touch you. They are misguided. That sort of naivety is dangerous and could lead you to put yourself in danger.

I also want to warn against using words such a sociopath, psychopath and narcissist lightly. This is very harmful to the community of people who suffer from mental illnesses.

Nasty people are usually powerful energy vampires but this is another level entirely that has a purposeful device added to the dark energy that is designed to syphon your energy if you come into contact with it. Just like you shouldn't run into a house on fire to save people in it unless you were a fully trained firefighter, the same goes here about these dark energies.

I was shown by my spirit team that Epstein was so dark that his soul was terminated. To give perspective, Hitler soul hasn't been terminated, although he is in a very dark place right now.

In the episode, I share an intention you can set which I have borrowed from Amanda Ellis, to whom I want to give credit. I have however, attached a caveat to it, which you will find out if you listen to the episode. These energies are like black holes and just like black holes, when you engage with them there is what is called a "boundary of no escape" - which, if you cross it, will require professional help to recover from. And the sad thing is, you can cross that line so easily from just going down a rabbit hole after seeing a post on social media, which you weren't even necessarily looking for.

Our guest this month is Hay house published author, artist and spiritual teacher, Helen Plehn, who has trained in an impressive number of spiritual modalities. Her book called Aura Colour Wheel presents a radical system of looking at the aura and the chakra system in the light of our soul path, lessons and wounds.

We started the discussion by talking about Feng Shui as I wanted to honour Helen's Chinese heritage and knowledge of Feng Shui, and the image for these show notes was taken whilst we recorded the episode in zoom when Helen excitedly reached out for the compass that was used by her grand mother and handed down to her dad, then to herself as a third generation Feng Shui master.

Helen also shared about her kundalini energy experience and how this suddenly allowed her to see spirit through the opening of her third eye but also how it took her a couple of weeks to integrate the energy with the support of her spiritual teachers, particularly to learn to close her third eye to be able to function in the 3D world.

We talked about her mother's recent cancer diagnosis and healing that she calls a miracle as it happened on the back of her mother releasing the anger she held against her own parents, which was stored in her solar plexus, and that had created liver cancer. Helen explained that her mother does not believe in any of the angelic and spiritual teachings of her daughter but that this helped her nevertheless.

Even though the Aura Colour Wheel is complex, this does not deprive us of our free will.

You can find out more about Helen and take her quiz on her website www.helencreatesbeauty.com. If you purchase her book, which is available on all the platforms where books are sold, you will receive three bonuses that you can claim here. So make sure you keep your receipt so you can enter the details on her website. One is a personal reading that will allow you to start the year with a bang by knowing a very important personal number that will help you find out about your prosperous direction. The second is access to Helen's facebook community. And the third derives from the second as Helen does monthly live Q+As in that community.

If you buy Helen's book and you enjoy it, you can vote for it in the Conscious Life Expo Book Award with this link. No purchase required though.

Helen has also started a podcast on her YouTube Channel at the start of January 2026 which you can watch live every Monday at 10 am Pacific Time called the Aura Evolution Podcast.

Songs can carry a mix of energies and because we listen to them in a state of semi-hypnosis the lyrics and that mixed energy can unduly influence us in our beliefs. In order to demonstrate this, I went through what are considered to be the top 10 most popular songs in the UK and I deconstructed them to prove my point.

1. All of Me - John Legend
2. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Huston
3. The Power of Love - Jennifer Rush
4. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
5. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
6. I don't want to miss a thing - Aerosmith
7. Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
8. Angels - Robbie Williams
9. Everything I do, I do for you - Bryan Adams
10. My heart will go on - Celine Dion

The problem that I have with most of those songs, except perhaps Bruno Mars' song (although it's problematic in a different way), is that they have less than ideal messages wrapped up in a pretty box with a bow. That pretty box is a fine tune or a lovely melody and often it comes with a beautiful voice, but the message is still problematic.

There are of course wonderful songs and I have a playlist called High Vibe. Some of the songs you can find in there are:

1. Mr Blue SKy - ELO
2. Thank you - Bliss
3. Here comes the sun - the Beatles
4. Intuition - John Lennon
5. Happy - Pharrell Williams
6. W.i.t.c.h. - Devon Cole

If you have a favourite high vibe song you would like to share with us, why not share it in the comments on the podcast show notes on my website. www.spirituallawyer.co.uk/podcast-2

On the 3rd of January, Trump launched military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Maduro and his wife in violation of the UN charter and Venezuela's sovereignty. I believe this vastly increased the chances of WW3. For the first time, I went to bed wondering in what state I would find the world when I woke up the next day?

Why? Because up to now, for all its faults, the USA was considered a European ally and a force to fight Putin's nefarious ambitions. And for the first time, the USA has stopped being an ally. It has joined the ranks of Russia and Israel in the belligerent and lawless states.

In truth the energy of WW3 has been building steadily since February 2022 since Russia invaded Ukraine. And the energy of war has actually dominated the world for a very long time, over the energy of Peace. There have been 285 armed conflicts since 1946.

The energy of war is one of the energy drains that can affect us at the moment and one that we will be clearing during my five day challenge starting on the 26th of January 2026. So sign up for the challenge to be part of the movement for Peace.

This episode, however is here to show you that there is something we can do. Not only that, we have reached a tipping point where the energy of Peace is actually stronger than the energy of war and I want to invite you to do what you can to be part of this incredible movement full of hope.

To hear Barbara answer my question of whether we have reached a tipping point that will take us from destruction to salvation, click here.

I have decided to dedicate the whole month of January to energy, mostly because, self-centeredly, the Norther Hemisphere is in a season where we all feel our energies at low levels but also due to running my brand new free five-day challenge on the 26th of January.

For those of you who don't live in the UK, and specifically in England, a movement called Operation Raise the Colours was created in August 2025 that encouraged its members to attach the England flag to poles across neighbourhoods but also paint red crosses across roundabouts and zebra crossings. This naturally led to anti-immigration protests in particular in front of refugee hotels as well as harassment of communities, businesses and minorities. Sadly, the main political parties of the UK are supporting this movement, including our Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The reason I am talking about this on the podcast, other than to highlight the issues around this movement, is that these flags are actually energy vortices purposefully meant to hit people from minority backgrounds or people of colours in the solar plexus and create fear. It's basically like an injection of fear and hatred energy. I explain how this is possible but also the three steps I have taken to reclaim my power around it in the hope that it can help you reclaim your own power from the flags, if this has affected you, but also to help people reclaim their power from similar situations.

I have talked about energy vortices before, in particular about the energy of the news and politics, in EP 115. I think in this episode I go more in depth on these are created through our own thoughts (or as it stands the hateful thoughts of the people who use the flags for project their hatred).

I take this opportunity to mention my new weekly energy readings which I post on a Sunday night at 6 pm UK time and that you can find on all my social media platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, but also on YouTube.

In my free five-day challenge mentioned above, I will teach you how to remove the hooks or energetic cords in your own energy field, so don't forget to find out more about it and sign up with this link.

In the Northern Hemisphere, Winter can be a trying period in the year where our energy levels are low. They are low due to the lack of sunshine and subsequent drop in vitamin D, but also because there is a tendency to stay indoor. Nature shows us we need to slow down.

In that context, Christmas arrives and uses up a ton of our energy, not just from the Planet's point of view, but our personal reserves of energy. It is not surprising that we can finish the year completely drained. However, the biggest drain of all is the energy vampires in our lives that hide in plain sight, often times in our families or bigger circle of relatives.

The reason I am so excited to dedicate an episode to helping you getting your energy back is that Energy is the first pillar of my EPIC framework. And I am running a free five day challenge by the same name starting on the 26th of January that I am inviting you to sign up for with this link.

I have done episodes about energy vampires previously on the podcast so I am going to list them if you want to go back to them:

• EP 08: Ghosts, Energy Vampires and Graveyards
• EP 104: How to deal with Energy Vampires

I grew up surrounded by energy vampires, starting with my Mum and my Grandmother. I am a bit of an expert on the topic because of that. I wish I wasn't, but I am.

In this episode I explain why people turn into energy vampires and describe the main four types of vampires you can come across so you can spot them. And during my five day challenge I will teach you how to spot them but also how to remove what they use to drain you.

Please share this episode with anyone you know who might benefit from listening to it.