Energy Healing & Meditation: Learning to Listen with Melissa Seil-Butler

Energy healing and meditation aren't always the mystical, out-of-reach practices they sound like. What happens when the practices that once grounded you get buried underneath work, stress, and everyday life? Melissa Seil-Butler joins Paige and Jenna for a conversation about her personal path into energy healing, Reiki, and meditation, why she returned to those practices after becoming seriously ill, and what all three have experienced as they've learned to get quieter, notice more, and reconnect with themselves. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ Melissa's path from nutrition and yoga into meditation, Reiki, Rapid Eye Technology, hypnotherapy, and Tibetan singing bowls ☀️ The period when Melissa became consumed by work, stopped using the practices that grounded her, and eventually returned to them ☀️ Paige's experience becoming Reiki attuned and noticing a shift in how she perceived other people's energy ☀️ Jenna's daily meditation practice, and the change she has noticed in her baseline Why walking, mala beads, repetitive movement, and even washing dishes have helped make mindfulness more accessible for Paige, Jenna, and Melissa ☀️ Melissa's experience learning the difference between caring deeply for other people and carrying what belongs to them 🩵 CONNECT WITH MELISSA: ZenLife Center for Healing https://zenlifehealing.com/ Instagram:   / zenlifehealing   YouTube: ‪@zenlifehealing‬ ________________________________ 🔗LINKS MENTIONED 📚 The Upanishads (Eknath Easwaran translation): https://amzn.to/4cy03y7 📚 Spinoza: https://amzn.to/4wx6TLD 🎙️ABOUT THE SHOW Wake Up, Sunshine is the friend who shows up, throws open the curtains, and reminds you that you're allowed to want more. Hosted by cousins Paige Major and Jenna Williams, it's real conversations for women in the middle of becoming — through growth, healing, spirituality, identity, and the big life transitions nobody hands you a map for. Every week, we sit down with women who've moved through something and come out more themselves on the other side. Come for the story, stay because you feel a little less alone. ☀️🩵 CONNECT WITH US 🌐 Weekly sunshine mail: https://wakeupsunshine.co 📸 Instagram:   / wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community — share it with a friend who'd connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave a review wherever you listen. DISCLAIMER Wake Up, Sunshine is for inspiration and entertainment. We share our own stories and opinions, and our guests share theirs — none of it is professional advice. Nothing here is legal, medical, financial, or mental health advice, and it's not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. Jenna is an attorney, but she is not your attorney, and nothing shared on this show creates an attorney-client relationship. Please make your own decisions with the right support for your situation. This description may contain affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you — we only share things we actually love.