Spiritual Spotlight Series
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Bridging Science & Spirit: Amy Stark on Healing Trauma from the Inside Out
What if your chronic health issues aren't just physical, but energy leaks you never knew existed? In this illuminating conversation, master healer Amy Stark reveals how she transformed from a chronically ill science teacher facing daily threats in one of New York's most dangerous schools to reversing her biological age by 11 years—without expensive biohacking equipment.
Amy shares the pivotal moment when her car was rear-ended while accepting another teaching position—the universe's dramatic way of redirecting her path.
This catalyzing event led her to develop the powerful framework detailed in her forthcoming book, "Bridging the Divide: A Powerful Path to Personal Transformation by Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit," which launches May 4th.
The conversation explores the science behind energy healing, explaining how our 57 trillion cells communicate through energy and form a sophisticated network connecting us to the quantum field.
Amy demystifies how trauma creates holes in our energetic system and why techniques like Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) work so effectively by engaging mind, body, and spirit simultaneously—something traditional therapy often misses.
Particularly fascinating is Amy's explanation of how our thoughts literally create our reality through the brain's reticular activating system, which filters information based on our beliefs. "Your brain is a goal-achieving machine," she explains, demonstrating how making a firm decision initiates a cascade of physiological changes that support healing.
She also reveals surprising connections between meditation, glucose management, and energy healing that even experienced practitioners may not know.
Whether you're battling chronic illness, feeling energetically drained, or simply curious about the intersection of science and spirituality, Amy's practical approach offers actionable steps anyone can take to reclaim scattered energy and become "unstoppable."
Start your transformation today by visiting StarkTransformation.com or connecting with Amy on social media @starktransformation to learn more about her book and healing philosophy.
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Hello everyone, welcome to the Spiritual Spotlight Series. Today I am joined by Amy Stark. She's a master healer, author and host of the Stark Transformation Show, known for bridging science and spirit to create lasting transformation. She is on today to talk about her amazing book that's coming out on May 4th. It's called Bridging the Divide a Powerful Path to Personal Transformation by Healing the Mind, body and spirit. It's a blueprint for deep healing and awakening, offering readers a powerful integration of scientific insight and spiritual truth. Amy, thank you so much for coming on the Spiritual Spotlight Series. I'm so happy you're here. I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1:I was honored to be one of her readers of her amazing book. Just because I asked. I was like, please, yes, yes, sign me up. The cover of it is amazing and I honestly this handbook. It needs to be like. Anyone going through an awakening 101 needs to read this book. It is definitely has so much information. I really thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm so happy to talk about it today. This is so exciting. I really thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm so happy we're going to talk about it today.
Speaker 2:This is so exciting. I love that you read the book and got through the whole thing, because it is a lot and it is a manual.
Speaker 1:It's meaty, everyone. It's like an encyclopedia for all things spirituality. And what I appreciate so much about the book, amy, is that you back it up with scientific evidence. It's like, well, this works because of this, amy, is that you back it up with scientific evidence, like it's like, well, this works because of this? And this is because of that and it's and also what I do appreciate about the book and I'll get into asking questions in one second was you open up about your childhood and how you had a chronic illness and how you overcame and, you know, went through kind of this journey to get to where you are now? It was, it's quite transformational, which is kind of interesting because that's your podcast name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I am in my name of my company. Yes, Hello, transformation is my word.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. So your journey from a science teacher to a certified energy healer and a psychic medium is remarkable. What kind of catalyzed this transformation? And obviously, because we're both energy healers, is gonna be a lot of energy is coming in. I'm gonna stumble on a lot of my words, so everyone just bear with me. So what catalyzed this transformation and how did it feel to step in such a different calling in your life?
Speaker 2:And how did it feel to step in such a different calling in your life? Great question it was bananas, bananas. So I was a New York City science teacher and I was really stressed out. I was working in one of the most dangerous schools in New York City and I had my life threatened often and my immune system was failing. My mind was failing, like I wanted to just quit living here, basically on earth. It was just too much.
Speaker 2:And instead I realized like I had an epiphany and I talk about it in the book like where I stepped back from you know the worst thing that could possibly happen and I was like maybe I don't know enough, maybe things aren't exactly what I think they are, and that was just enough to like literally catapult me into a whole new timeline where I started to ask a lot more questions. Like, like you had said, I was chronically ill, and so that was definitely a huge component of it, because it was a lot of the time I was miserable, I was suffering on the inside, but then this was a new thing for me to be suffering mentally. And so one of my you know somebody who I now mentioned that I should try meditation and I I was actually scared to say that I didn't want to meditate Because I was like Amy come on, who says that, like you can do it. So I sat down, I started meditating and I actually felt want to meditate Because I was like Amy, come on, who says that, like you can do it. So I sat down, I started meditating and I actually felt a lot better. And I was surprised to feel better by doing nothing, and so that also got me questioning like okay, why did that work and how do I do more of that?
Speaker 2:So I started doing more and more and as eventually I just realized, okay, weird stuff's out there, because I started knowing the future, I started feeling what was in other people's bodies, all accidentally, and I'm like this is crazy, how is this happening to me? Like, clearly there is, there's gotta be some something working behind all this. So that's when I started connecting to science and spirit and I realized, you know, while I was teaching science to the students, they didn't mention that our cells are full of energy and that they're all communicating through energy and that we're all connected to this quantum field and all this other stuff. And I was like wow, and being chronically ill. Nobody ever said that there was somebody who could heal with their hands to help me, or I mean back then. I mean personal development was looked down upon. If you said you went to a therapist, people were like oh, I still think they do that now, kind of it's definitely a lot better than it was when I was growing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and chiropractors were known as quacks, like.
Speaker 2:I mean that was where I came from, and so it was really hard to like come out of the spiritual closet. Like I was really Western medicine, like I said, I was in a science teacher, so I definitely had that left brain going on and then suddenly I'm activating this right side of my brain, getting this, these downloads, this information connecting science and spirit, and I wanted to tell everybody about it, but then I also didn't want to lose all my friends. So it was like coming out of the spiritual closet. Um, and it was. It was rough for a while but it was too good and too amazing for me not to share and I also knew that that was my calling for the rest of my life was to share this with the world. So which is amazing.
Speaker 1:I have the book, I know and I love, I love the cover of it, everything. So the title of your book, bridging the Divide, speaks to unifying aspects of self. What divides were you healing in your own life and how did this integration become your?
Speaker 2:mission. Yeah, so I was healing my mind to my body. I was healing my body to my spirit. I was connecting so many dots, but essentially I was going. I wanted to go from where I was to where I thought I could be, which ideally it was somebody who was really healthy. You know, I that was. That was why I started. Really it was. It was quite selfish Actually.
Speaker 2:I was just like I first of all need to be able to handle my day to day life and I had worked four years trying to get all the certifications and the paperwork filed and things like that. I had like a 401k. I like was thought I was going to be set and then I couldn't do it any longer. So that was really hard to handle. And then, thankfully, I just started to follow my spirit and my heart more instead of what I thought I was supposed to do. And that's when I stepped into this role of working with a family, helping them with their science and math in New York City, and the schedule shift allowed me for this like extra meditation time, working on my body, working on my mind, doing more research, and that is how everything kind of came together and allowed me. So I was sort of like in a container for the next four years where I was like really growing and learning, and then I realized, okay, it's time for me to move on and share this with people in a direct one-on-one basis.
Speaker 1:Right, right, Absolutely yeah. So you describe transformation as facing challenges head on like a buffalo running into the storm. Why is this metaphor so important for personal growth?
Speaker 2:Well, honestly, a lot of times we don't want to face these things right, because it's uncomfortable, like it was really hard for me to leave my job, but you know, in the end it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I I think in the book I talk about when I was sitting in the car. It was a parked car and I was about to accept the next job to the next school and it was going to be the third school that I was going to try out and I got rear-ended while I'm sitting there in the car on the phone with the principal trying to like, basically accept the job and it was enough. The universe was like Amy, you are not doing this again. And rear-ended me, like, snapped me out of what I was, the reality I was in, and I was like, okay, all right, and I even said right then. And there I said I am so sorry, I can't do this again. You know, sorry. What was your question about that?
Speaker 1:Why is the metaphor facing challenges head on? So why is it so important?
Speaker 2:Well, because, metaphorically speaking, we have like one hand tied behind her back when, we are not facing something in, maybe even both, because the reality is you're always aware of the challenge that you're facing or that it's happening. There's a certain amount of energy that is going towards that which could be used to go in a different direction, which is probably the direction you're supposed to be going in anyway. So I'm a fan of ripping the bandaid off. It's sort of like a lot of people prefer to leave the bandaid on. It gets moldy, it gets gross like, and then they're like if maybe it falls off eventually and it's like worst case scenario, you know, or they, they peel it off slowly and then they go through the pain. Anyway, it's like run towards that thing, rip that bandaid off and have the energy to be able to handle and be like, oh, that hurt, and then you have more energy to handle the rest of the things that come.
Speaker 1:There's like a section in the book it's about like for me it felt like reclaiming power and you talk about like radical responsibility. And then there's like you have this piece about diet, you know, and about our water and about all of that stuff and, honestly, like for someone as myself and I'm I'm a spiritual practitioner, registered nurse Like I know the things I'm supposed to know, but it's it's almost like it was a gentle reminder to me, like no, this actually matters, like this stuff that you're talking about, and I guess can you please speak on why does radical responsibility matter so much in somebody that's going through like a transformational process?
Speaker 2:It's a mindset that changes everything when we reclaim our power. So when we say that I'm in charge of this situation, everything starts to change, and it has to do with the way that our brain is wired. So we have something that's called the reticular activating system, which will find the things that match in our reality. So if we believe that we're not good enough, we'll find the things that show us that we're not good enough, but if we believe that we are good enough, we will. We will recognize when somebody says wow, that was really amazing, amy, like I couldn't do this without you, or whatever you take in that information. So, more simply speaking, if you're like I want to buy a white car, you will see white cars everywhere and you'll be like does, is everybody into white cars now?
Speaker 2:But it's just your brain tagging what's important. So if you believe that you are the creator of your life, you will start to create your life. And so, um, if you start to focus on the things that you want, like better health, your brain will naturally like notice when there's salads available or where you have a friend that's like, hey, let's go for a walk. Your body will be more attracted to that situation and thus probably likely to follow that path of the things that are good for you and eventually bring you down further, which is maybe to better health, because your brain tagged that as important and and went on so, um, that's why I created the power section in the first chapter of the power section is the power of a decision. Decide now.
Speaker 1:Yes, I, when I, when I read that sorry, I was like I know there's something in there she's going to say. I was like, hey, men, cause I. It's just like it's you know, when we go through stressful days and whatnot, and it's like this can't, this can't just be. It's like there's more to life than just this. And I was like, yes, decide, please, keep please keep talking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the first part of the book is really laying down sort of like the foundations of transformation and then the foundations of the mind, body and spirit. But then I'm like, okay, I've given you the information you need to know in terms of the mind, body and spirit. But then I'm like, okay, I've given you the information you need to know in terms of the spiritual aspects and then how it relates to, maybe, quantum physics and things like that. But now I'm looking at you like a coach in that third section where I'm like I kind of felt it.
Speaker 1:Guys. I will say I was like and it was so interesting and Amy, I apologize for key, I keep putting you off because I'm excited was that I was reading it. And Amy, I apologize for I keep putting you off because I'm excited was that I was reading it and I honestly was like I was texting people what you had written in the book. I was like, yes, this is what we need right now, because it applied to what I was going through in that day, like it was just so perfect.
Speaker 2:Please keep talking. Well, and that's the whole thing is like nothing will start unless you make that decision. So not only is your brain become a goal achieving machine and we'll start to focus on whatever you decide you want, but it is where we begin. Like I give the analogy in my book about how you, when you're trying to go somewhere with directions, you have to say where you are. So by saying where you are, you're. I mean it's a little dramatic to say I accept that I'm right here and this is where I want to go, but that is how we begin our journey. We have to accept where we're at. We have to make that decision. This is where I am, this is where I want to go, and that's how we get there. Our brain is a goal-achieving machine. We'll populate those directions. We don't know exactly what it's going to look like and it will be a journey, but if we keep trusting, our heart and our mind will guide us in the direction that we want to go.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. You do describe your path as home for the soul. So what does home mean to you, and how can someone recognize when they found it?
Speaker 2:So I would say that your heart is your ultimate GPS. You know your brain is going to help you get there, obviously, but I am somebody who it's so interesting in today's day and age, we don't tap into our feelings enough, and I'm over here being like the feelings are the thing. Um, but it's so true. Like you're, it is true, it is true, they're tempered.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your 57 trillion cells in your body are communicating together through energy, so you are a walking and talking antenna and you are constantly in a feedback loop with the universe and those around you and the situations and things that are coming up and you can decide based on how you feel about something. Now here's where it gets tricky. If we have trauma that we are, you know, suppressing our trauma will confuse the cells, like, so that's why we want to do our work and we want to heal that so that we become coherent and make better choices for ourselves. But, like, for instance, if we have trauma about worrying about people seeing us, let's say, then that would keep us from maybe getting that job that we want right. So that's why we heal inside so that we can change the outside to what we want. And those 57 trillion cells are your GPS, all communicating. And your heart, having the highest level of electromagnetic field you know, really creates who you are.
Speaker 1:So I do like in the book. So for every chapter she has kind of like a. You know, this is what the chapter was about. But you also have exercises and I will say that I really appreciated a lot of your exercises that you had in the book. And I believe in the book and I'm sorry if I'm incorrect there was this like brain, heart coherence and talking about like breathing in from the heart and exhaling out that to me I run a doctor's office in my day life, so it's not a peaceful environment. So I will say that I've been talking to my providers about okay, guys, let's just take, let's breathe in from our heart. So can you just tell us a little bit about that? And why is breathing from our heart so much different than maybe breathing from our nose?
Speaker 2:Well they're. They're both very effective in turning on the parasympathetic nervous system. And did you enjoy the exercises about turning on your parasympathetic nervous system? And did you enjoy the exercises about turning on your parasympathetic?
Speaker 1:I did I will say that I've been practicing turning my head to the left. I haven't, so I was. I was sitting in bed when I was reading. I was like yep, and then I've been doing it at work. I'm like okay, I'm good.
Speaker 2:So, yes, I do Awesome ways to reset in the moment and, like I said, your heart is such a stronger electromagnetic field and when we are expanding that field, we are expanding our entire field, because it's all related. It's in a feedback loop, and I was recently listening to somebody speak about that as well and they were talking about going interdimensionally by doing it and I was like, wow, I maybe should focus on that a little bit more and do it more often. I mean all the exercises I have specifically chosen because they're effective and they're great at helping us to be more mindful and get to the root of what might be holding us back, and mostly it's a lot about metacognition.
Speaker 2:So it's like recognizing our thoughts and our limiting beliefs, because that is really hard. We have blocked ourselves in a lot of ways. So anyway, that's interesting you brought up about that exercise. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did.
Speaker 1:I really did and and I like the fact that, honestly, and I do feel like this is a book that I'm going to go to a lot when maybe I'm having like I need to kind of a pick me up or I need to have a gentle reminder, or let me just try this exercise Like cause, there are a lot of very profound exercises and within this, book, and every time somebody reads the book, they'll pick up something new, absolutely. It's like I need to just have it. Do you have an audio book coming out?
Speaker 2:I everybody's asking for it and I have tried to work on some things to get that done. It's going to take a while.
Speaker 1:This was a lot Sorry, that was really off topic, I'm like, but I was thinking yeah, I'm looking at the fall for um having possibly a podcast coming out about that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, like a chapter, a episode?
Speaker 1:Oh, that'd be so cool. So you've mentioned this a couple of times, that everything is energy. How can people begin to feel and work with energy in practical, daily ways?
Speaker 2:Well, so here's the thing that most people say energy, and let's say they're in the woo-woo category. What they're really talking about is the energy that obviously between the cells, because I just mentioned that, but also what, like we were talking about, it's the nervous system and how it is functioning, and whether or not we are in the parasympathetic or the sympathetic nervous system is really important. Parasympathetic or the sympathetic nervous system is really important. So ways that we can work with our energy in just the moment is by like in that chapter I talked about turning your head to the left. You know that will balance your nervous system and you will find that you will yawn, which will help you reset.
Speaker 2:In the moment, when we are in our parasympathetic nervous system, we are in our highest self, essentially I system. We are in our highest self, essentially, I mean we have access to our intuition, we have access to our creativity. We can make better choices for ourselves. Our body has a chance to heal and rest and digest. So that is primarily where we want to be, though there are times that we will need to be in the sympathetic, but that one and then I really do love the covering one eye and looking up that one just resets. So that's a more scientific way of handling your energy. But you can also just play with energy between your hands, which is really fun to do, and, like you can test that out. Another one which I can share with your people, which I don't know if I shared in my book. I mean my gosh, it's 550 pages essentially.
Speaker 1:It's long everyone.
Speaker 2:And I had to stop like putting in stuff because I just had to come out to the world.
Speaker 1:It's like an encyclopedia.
Speaker 2:But you know what I do put in my personal stories to help with the integration of the information.
Speaker 1:And it makes it make sense, like then you can say, oh, okay, well, she's, and also you've gone through it, so go ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can see I know what I'm talking about. I guess, yes, you do, but there. So there's a. There's a fun exercise that you can try with a friend, so, as somebody who's sensitive to energy, if they want to try it out with you. But basically you can also test your energy by imagining a rose in between you and your partner. If you're like 15 to 20 feet away in between you guys throw an energetic rose from your mind and then the other person walks towards where they feel the energy.
Speaker 2:It is unbelievable, especially if you are sensitive to energy. For myself, when I walk towards that, I can tell, probably like two feet away, that it's coming up and I will start to feel really uncomfortable as I approach that rose because it's really high vibrational and they have put it essentially as a boundary. So if you are in a conversation with somebody and you want them to step back or stay away, you can put a rose between you and them and they will block that energy from you. Another thing you can do is put it on the front of your car when you're driving in the back of your car to keep people away. Put on the side of your car and it acts as this energetic boundary that people sense but they don't really. They wouldn't know what it was unless they have had this conversation or some sort of training. But that's a way to test your sensitivity to energy or one of the ways. But you can also just play with a ball of energy in your hand and just see how that feels.
Speaker 1:I like that idea. I really like that idea. I'm thinking about when I'm on the phone with a difficult person. I'm going to throw. I'm going to throw that up and be like, hey, I'm good, also, we.
Speaker 2:As a clinician, you should be cleaning your energy out every single day. Did you like that exercise? Um, did you try it? Okay, how did it make you feel? Because when you finally learn how to clear out your energy, it's profound.
Speaker 1:I will say that when I clear out my energy and I apply the practices that I know to do and also in your book, I'm I'm like. I don't feel like I'm a walking how do I want to say this? I don't feel like I'm a wounded person by other people's energies, like I feel like the field that I'm in. I there's, there's constant jabs and it's like I have to make sure that I shield myself, but then clean myself when I leave work and then I also throw up.
Speaker 1:I also have energetic protections up at work, so it's like I feel like, but it's also a sense of peacefulness. Does that make sense? Like, almost like I can be, I'm good, I'm a sovereign being. I'm really going off topic here.
Speaker 2:No, it's true. So an interesting thing is I ran into this guy who is a billionaire and he was all into energy and traveling, visiting monks and all kinds of stuff trained by the highest people essentially is from what he said. And he said I can read anybody's energy, but I can't read yours, and I knew it was because of that technique that I put in the book. I I'm.
Speaker 2:I will be doing that every day. Yeah, it's very, very powerful and it's very easy to do Um it. What it does is it what you were trying to say, I think is that you become a funnel to other people's energy and information.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I was like I don't know how I want to get these words out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you aren't clearing your energy and reclaiming it and filling it in. You are like Swiss cheese walking around, sort of, or like you have these whole. You're permeable and people's intentions can come in and be felt and you're like, oh my God, I got to do that thing for that person. And you're like, wait, if you were in your parasympathetic you'd be like, no, that's not the case. So basically, what it does is not only does it clear everybody else's energy so you can figure out what your agenda is, but it actually you can learn to strengthen your field and protect it so that their energy doesn't ever even get in.
Speaker 2:So try having a moment no.
Speaker 1:I think that's, that's it's. I don't think we realize, like, how important it is to do these kinds of practices. And because you do say that you know, when we don't clear ourselves or if we don't, like you know, work on our traumas, we, we, we become exhausted and drained, even yourself, like you. You know work on our traumas. We become exhausted and drained. Even yourself. Like you, you went through chronic illnesses and you know, because of these practices that you have shared in the book and that you've done yourself, you now have, like, your immune system super strong. Your chronological age is reverse 11 years, like it's just, I guess. How do you, what do you say to anyone that's listening and say why is it so important to implement the practices that are, or choose to implement the practices that are, in your book?
Speaker 2:Here's the thing that people need to understand. Like you had asked me, why do we want to face things head on? Well, because part of our energy is taken when we aren't facing it. So part of our energy is always attending to that thing and holding it off. So it's busy when we're sick and we're not taking care of ourselves or feeding ourselves. Part of our energy is going when we have unresolved trauma. Part of our energy is in the past.
Speaker 2:So when we start to heal ourselves or do the energy clearing so that we are just our energy, we become so freaking powerful. And when we claim our thoughts, like when we are sure of how we are talking to ourselves I mean that was I started out my journey and it was horrible. I mean, the self-talk was nasty. You wouldn't talk to your best friend that way and yet I was doing it all the time and it was probably one of the things that I was doing the most in my life, because it's more than anything we think, more than we breathe, more than we eat, more than we walk, whatever. So making sure that our thoughts are very pure and clean towards ourselves and having that forgiveness which I talk a lot about forgiveness there's a whole chapter on it, as well as EFT, which is the ultimate technique.
Speaker 1:Yes, you do. I like that. You do talk about that a lot in the book.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, Go ahead. Yeah, it's a wonderful technique, but what I'm what I'm trying to say is, when we gather all that energy back, we become unstoppable. And I was like I told you, I was chronically ill for the first 30 years of my life and now I have the immune system that is 14 years younger, Like when I was nine years old. My doctor wanted to take out my immune system. He said this to me I want to take out your immune system, replace it with a new one. And I was like well, what is that going?
Speaker 1:to do for me. What does it mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what does it mean? I can't do that. So, like what? I'm taking my allergy medicine, I'm taking my asthma medicine, I'm getting the two shots in my arm. Like why am I still miserable? Like what is going on? Fix this, you know. And that was his answer. And here I am now, at almost 45 years old, and I am healthier than I was when I was nine. Like how is that freaking possible? Exactly, how is that possible? I know.
Speaker 2:And it's when you reclaim that energy, not only does it come back to you and you become more strong and more powerful and you're this like very strong energetic signal but you know who you are and you know where you're going, which is also one of the ways we often lose ourselves. Like we aren't dialed in as much as we could be. And I just had my biological age tested and I'm 11 years younger. Do you understand that the biggest biohackers in the world have the same reversal 11 years? Harvard scientists who study longevity have the same reversal of their biological age. And I haven't done it through millions of dollars. What I've done is I've reclaimed my energy. Right, right, that's how I did it. I faced my traumas head on. It sucked and it was hard, but it was worth it, because here I am and I'm younger, feeling younger. A spiritual podcast.
Speaker 1:I feel like you really you brought up a good point of that you, you, you're, you lose where you're going. I do feel like when our energy gets gunked up and then you do feel like you're losing your purpose on your spiritual mission, and I think, by reclaiming this energy, it's almost like you become the lighthouse and you know where you're going. And I just think that just you just saying that was like wow, like it's just wow, and I think for spiritual practitioners one of the things I know for myself I'm like why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? Like, do you ever encounter that with any of your clients, or does that resonate with you at all?
Speaker 1:Of course, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But here's the thing A lot of people come to me and they want to be, to have better skills, like, whether it's through energy healing or a psychic, a medium, and the truth is, again, it's the same principle. If you're all gunked up, how are you supposed to get a clear signal from spirit? No-transcript, boom, it's done with that. And I know that I will be reset in a different way If I have a really nutritious meal. I know that that is fueling my body in a different way.
Speaker 2:So it's like we don't always acknowledge the power that these things have which is why I have them in the power section is because, like, even taking a walk is transformative, you know, and we tend to think, oh well, that's not worth our time, but guess what the science says otherwise, like it will help us live longer, we will be more creative, we will have better glucose levels, which underlies most of our health, which is something that I recently learned, you know, in the last few years. Which is why I talked about the power of glucose management, because especially right, Isn't it? And now they're over the counter, which is even more amazing.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, and I feel like you know I'm, I'm, how old am I? I'm 47, I think I always forget how old I am, but I mean that's something I've looked into, like getting a continuous glucose monitor and and and it's like I. What I also like about the book is it reinforces other things that you know educational. You know doctors, philosophers, are saying like, hey, try this, see how it works. Like you shouldn't, like with your insulin, you shouldn't be spiking and falling. Like you should be steady. You know it is important, so like yeah, this is this.
Speaker 2:So a couple of things I learned as well. So one is uh, when you're stressed out, your glucose can go up, just like as if you ate a candy bar, which is if you're sick, or if you're sick right, or if you have a chronic infection, so like that's kind of unfair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm stressed, I need that cookie.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so we didn't even eat the candy bar, but we got the spike in our glucose. So this is why we want to not only address underlying chronic issues, but also to address underlying chronic stress. And also the other thing that I learned, which I found very interesting, is that through meditation, it drops my glucose a lot. So, yeah, so that's why sometimes, when I would do energy like I used to do five energy healing sessions in a day, like I don't even know how I was able to do that, but after each one I felt like I was on a roller coaster and I would tell people that, like I would, I would literally drop so low because of the glucose and then come back up. You know, because I would start to go back into daily life and then my body was like eat something sweet every single time, eat some chips, eat a cookie, eat something with honey in it or whatever. And that was because I had been so low. My brain really needed more glucose.
Speaker 2:So finding out how your body is responding to things is really important. Like I'm, actually, I don't have less of a glucose spike from ice cream than I do raspberries, which is never supposed to happen. I can't explain it. I don't know why, but I'm pretty happy about that. That's interesting. And sweet potatoes supposedly everybody's like. Oh, sweet potato is so amazing for you, it spikes me higher than even if I had a candy bar or a cookie. Yeah, so everybody's body's different. I think it should be part of standard medicine for us to monitor our glucose, but not only that understand that it could be affecting our anxiety and depression. It is not talked about enough. I was absolutely shocked to see that this is a part of the whole story with our health, so I included in it because, as much as people don't want to really talk about it, it's not sexy to talk about glucose management.
Speaker 1:It is extremely important to our overall health Very important and it's also, like you know, for women. Right now, I feel like I'm bombarded with perimenopause, menopause things what's truth, what's myth, what's this, what's that? And then I'm like, okay, all of this is noise and I need to discern what is true for my cellular body, and so I feel, like glucose management and the things that you talk about. I think you even talked about, like, having intentions on your food and, like you know, blessing it and you know, and also like the, the, the nutritional factors in our soil, going off on a tangent here, but it's it's using non-toxic products and, you know, using a non-toxic household and all of it's layers in so much to how our health, mind, body and soul, like you speak to why it's so important to focus in on, like start, maybe ticking away on one of these things that you can focus on and reclaiming that energy to be the best version of yourself.
Speaker 2:Yep, and above all else, like you're saying, I want to see how my body reacts to things. Right, like follow your own intuition, because it may not be true for you what is true for somebody else, and that is why we reclaim this energy, so we can know what is good for us. Our intuition becomes available to us because we're out of that sympathetic nervous system into the parasympathetic. And then the other thing that I really stressed throughout the book, which I hope that you really enjoyed, was how powerful our mindset is. So in the book I bring up many research articles about how powerful our mind is. I mean, you guys, it is ridiculous, like I was even my. I know how powerful our minds are. I mean, I was able to change the structure of water with my mind and energy in a laboratory. So, like I get it. I understand how powerful our mind is.
Speaker 2:But reading study after study, and it was like I wanted to keep going with putting in the studies and like my editor was like, aim, that's enough, you're going to bore people, and I'm like, how could this be boring? Like this is incredible. So, um, that that is one of my favorite chapters. Uh, the mindset effect is what it's called and overall, the message that I wanted to send to people one is to empower them. That's why I wrote the book I and give everybody tools, I give them exercises, I give them the information that they need to know and that if you believe something is good for you, it is If you can heartedly mind, body and spirit. If you believe that something is good for you, I would argue that there's a very, very good chance that it is no matter what.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, absolutely. And I appreciate that you brought up mindset because I have seen people's mindset and action and healing their bodies. For example, my stepmother has stage four breast cancer and she has had. Her mindset was I'm going to beat this faith. It was faith in her mindset and she's on, obviously, treatment plans and things like that. She has had no evidence of active disease for almost two years. So you are 100% correct.
Speaker 2:that mindset is again, it comes down to that your brain is a goal achieving machine, so I love this goal achieving machine.
Speaker 1:I want to be a goal achieving machine you are one you are one.
Speaker 2:We just need to harness the power of that yes, and that's that's the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Is she made a decision, she did she decided she was like I've got this. She collapsed once, wallowed in self-pity or anything.
Speaker 2:Sorry, but she collapsed other timelines into the one that she wanted to be in. Yeah, that's what she did from a quantum physics level. Yes, but she made a decision and that's what we say here Normally. Normal people say she made a decision and then she stuck with it. And then her brain said oh, you want to do this?
Speaker 2:Great, we will help guide you in that direction and then her brain and body started to align with that reality and it became her reality very quickly. Yeah, it is unbelievable how powerful our minds are and that's really why a lot of the book I discussed that, but I also give EFT, you know I explained.
Speaker 1:EFT Tell us a little bit about EFT, yeah sure Really quickly.
Speaker 2:I know we're already running out of time, but emotional freedom technique is what EFT is. It's also known as tapping and what I just heard from Smear it helps us tap into another reality, which I've never actually heard them say that, which was that was cool, but it does. It helps us to tap into another reality. It helps us to create a different reality with our body so that we respond to the world differently. Every single time that you tap, you are doing something good for your body. You're releasing past trauma, you're releasing blocked energy.
Speaker 2:Anytime that your body has a chance to communicate better through the cellular communication, the stronger you become, the more aligned you become, the more ability you have to show up as your true self and choose the things that are good for you that resonate. I mean, I could talk an entire hour or more on EFT, but it is the technique that I found that is easily understood, right? You know you have to practice it a little bit, not too much, but it will hit mind, body and spirit, and that is what is missing in traditional therapy at this point and I talk about that. I actually talked about the progression of therapy throughout the years and where we're going essentially, which is the practitioners that you that are listening. You know they understand that we are energetic beings and that we have this trauma and that we need a way to release it. And the combination of speaking about it right, tapping on the body, releasing the energy, rewiring the brain, which then rewires the body and energy it does create a new reality.
Speaker 1:How often would you suggest that someone taps or does a tapping exercise?
Speaker 2:I mean it depends on the person and what they want to accomplish. I mean I use, for instance, I use it all the time. But one time I was going through a very stressful event. My son didn't get off the bus and he was five and I was like I gotta find him. But I, yeah. So I got him and I knew he was safe because he was in my car. But my body is now hijacked, like all that's going through my mind and body is I almost lost my son, right? So I had to reprogram because I had to go to the vet with my dog and then explain to the vet what was wrong with my dog, cause my dog can't say it. So I was like I need to get into my highest level of thinking so I can explain this. So as I'm driving, I am tapping and my son is in the back laughing. He's like I'm fine, I'm here, I'm like I know, but my brain and my body are not on the same page.
Speaker 1:Now that you're saying this, it's nose and it connects our mind and our body.
Speaker 2:So that's why I chose that point, because I knew my mind understood the details of the events. Like he just didn't get off the bus. He's now in the car, everything is fine. He went to cooking class and, but my body was saying otherwise, so we have to get that on the same page. But anyway, it's a wonderful technique to do in the shower. You know, first thing in the morning when you, after you have coffee, it could be an emergency situation. It's called emotional first aid, okay, so like, if somebody experiences like a really traumatic event in front of them, they often use this as a technique that they bring in to those people that have experienced that horrible event. Wow, because it can reprogram the brain and body.
Speaker 1:What's that? I need to start tapping. It's something that I've done, but then I lose it. Let me be honest with you. I'm always afraid I'm going to say the wrong things. Don't ever be afraid of that.
Speaker 2:Okay, first of all, you don't have to do it perfectly.
Speaker 1:Okay, you don't have to hit the spots in the right order or anything like that.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, I definitely recommend hitting the spots if you can, because there's points and they line up with meridians which hold energy and information and emotions that are stuck.
Speaker 2:So try to get to the point. But ultimately, any amount of tapping is worthwhile tapping because you're basically unclogging a drain. Every single time that you tap, like you're allowing the energy to flow a little bit more freely. And if you stick with it and you and this is the difference between the tapping that I teach in, the tapping that others may teach is I really want you tuning into where you feel the energy, acknowledging it and then speaking about what the images are that are coming up to you. They may not even make sense, but I can guarantee, because the body keeps the score, that energy and information is there and it is all related and it needs to come out.
Speaker 2:One of my clients called me the onion layer slayer because as we were talking and tapping, that's what happens the layers of the onion come off and you can see the next thing that's related to the incident. So I'll give you an example. Like oh, this is actually insane. So it's time for me to like release the book about two months ago. Whatever, I'm like call up my friend. I'm like Jen, I really need work on anything that's holding me back. I'm like I don't think there is anything. I love my book. Help me out, though, in case there's something blocking me, because that's what happens we will block ourselves sometimes. We do need assistance, right, so we can work on ourselves, but also, god had made us want to connect with others, right, we all need each other. That's in Tuesdays with Morrie, so she does something that's called NET, which is basically similar to. It's called neuroemotional technique. It's accessing the brain and the memories and the body and the trauma, right?
Speaker 2:She's like what happened when you were seven years old and I'm like I don't know. And then all of a sudden image pops up and I'm like, oh, oh, my gosh, why am I standing in front of the class right now and I feel really embarrassed? And then I'm like, oh, what's in my hand? I had a book and I'm like, jen, you are not going to believe this, but the last time I wrote a book was in second grade.
Speaker 2:I was seven, and I was standing in front of the class and I was afraid to present, or I was, but first of all I was afraid to present. But then I presented and the storyline that I had written about was about my book and the parallels there were, yeah, that it was a very intimate story about me and what I found very beautiful and wonderful and my class did not receive it the same way that I expected that they would, so I was uncomfortable. So then we released that trauma and another 40 pages came out of me more on my personal story into the book. So it's incredible, what will hold us back that we don't know? That's there, that from the trauma from the past. So basically, again, I also talk about this in my book. If you think about back to the future, marty's dad goes, or in Marty goes back in time time and talks to his dad right, and changes the trajectory of his dad's life. Like we meet his dad in the very beginning.
Speaker 2:He's very, uh, insecure and he's um he's very meek and mild yeah, yeah, yeah, and like a pushover and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, marty goes back, heals his dad, tell him he stands up to Biff and he suddenly switches timelines Right and then now embodies a whole new personality when we see him. He's written a book, he's healthy, he's wealthy, his wife is into him, like even his wife is doing better. So this is how, when we go back to the past and we heal it, we put ourselves in a whole new timeline and a trajectory for our lives Like it was laid out, and back to the future, right, hello, hello. That's why I mean I love the seven and it's just amazing how everything works out in life, because I love that movie when I was five and and and I really am actually a time traveler, you know to understand the power of going to the past to heal the future.
Speaker 1:essentially, Wow, I love that. Now, before we ask you the last question, if anyone's interested in learning more about you, where is the best place for our listeners to go to.
Speaker 2:So Stark Transformation is my website, but Bridging the Divide is the name of the book, if you're looking for that. And then I'm on all socials as stark transformation, so tiktok, instagram, facebook, um. And then obviously my name is amy stark, so you can't find anything, but you can find it there and also you have a podcast.
Speaker 1:Can you tell me about your?
Speaker 2:transformation show. Yeah, so I have 216 episodes, so I talk about more about my personal uh, and I interviewed top doctors from around the world who are friends of mine and why we need to pay attention to health. I mean, this book is the culmination of 18 years of, first of all, an obsession with, like mastering the mind and the body and the spirit, but it came from those interviews and knowing these friends and doing this research and figuring out because it can be very confusing there is a lot of information out there that is incorrect, overwhelming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and, like I said, I reversed my biological age by 11 years, not spending millions of dollars. So like there are people that feel like they need the hyperbaric chambers, they do. Like I have an infrared sauna over here. I use it probably a couple times a year. I have other biohacking tools. I use them as needed. I would never say that my health is due to that. Like they are convenient for when I need to get well quickly.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you in saying that, because I do find that there are a lot of influencers that you know.
Speaker 2:They're saying get this, you know 500,000, and you're like I can't, that's, that's not reality, right listen, if you can heal your gut because most of us have a screwed up gut balance your glucose levels which I talk about in the book if, if you eat nourishing food so it has as many vitamins as you can get in. Some of us do need a supplement, like our B vitamins, and having a good one of those is super valuable. I really like Quicksilver, quicksilver Scientific, and there are small supplements used as needed kind of situation. Magnesium is one of them that I definitely, especially for anybody who is an energy healer very sensitive A lot of the times our energy what kind of?
Speaker 2:magnesium, would you recommend? I use a spray.
Speaker 1:I use a spray too.
Speaker 2:It's way easier to absorb. But most of the time when we eat our supplements we aren't absorbing a lot of it, so a spray actually goes just straight into the skin. But if you are energetically sensitive, this will really help you. That's why Epsom salt baths are really helpful. But if you hear like, if noises are a problem for you, like sound sensitivity, magnesium usually helps that, because the nervous system is already so fried and like if you have a picky eater, like there's a deficiency in zinc, so you can use them supplements like as needed. But I don't recommend that people are on a whole stack of 200, you know supplements every day to get the life and health that I have now. It's energy-based. Energy-based it's your thoughts, but more than anything, it is your thoughts Absolutely. It will harm you. Reclaim that energy.
Speaker 1:Do not self-harm with your thoughts. That's all I was going to say. So true, cancel, cancel. It's like, yeah, your thoughts create your reality. So, finally, what is one small actual step for our listeners can take today to begin to bridge their own internal divide and align with their healing journey? Make a decision, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2:Make the decision that you are going to do, the thing that you want to do. You know, I recently heard somebody talking about imagine if you're 80 years old and suddenly get to be you in the moment, right now aspects and you'd probably want to more be like play outside, run a little bit, maybe even, you know, go out in nature and experience what life is like as a younger person. We get too far into our head and stress too much and miss the present moment, which is where everything happens.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. That was a really amazing piece of advice. Amy, I want to thank you so much for coming on the Spiritual Spotlight Series today. It's truly it's been amazing to talk with you and to hear about your amazing book that's coming out on May 4th. So thank you so much. May the 4th be with you.
Speaker 2:It's been wonderful to be here and I had so much fun. Thank you for reading my book and also sharing your insights.
