Some students arrive in Crystal Wisdom Codes knowing exactly what they want. Others arrive with a quiet, persistent feeling they can't quite name. Colleen was one of the second.
"I knew there was more," she told me, "and I didn't know what that was."
Her story is one of the most beautiful examples I've seen of how the stones find us, and how they keep leading us, one nudge at a time, until we arrive where we're meant to be.
A Long Season Without a Spiritual Home
Colleen came to faith as a teenager through friends at church. Over time, her beliefs grew wider than any one tradition could hold, and she gently stepped away. But she never stopped being spiritual. She went for tarot readings and astrology readings, and she received a few crystal healings. But for many years, she didn't have a spiritual practice of her own.
She is careful to say this was never a rejection of what came before. "Some things work for me, some don't," she shared. Even now, when she calls on the ascended masters, it is Jesus, Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene she calls first.
I think so many of us know this place: feeling deeply connected to something greater, and not yet finding the practice that lets us live that connection every day.
The Awakening
Around 2020, things began to move quickly. Colleen taught herself yoga through videos created for people who are blind, with every pose described aloud. That opened the door to reading, and reading opened the door to everything else.
"From then on it was a real acceleration," she said. "I was being intuitively nudged every time."
She found herself drawn, for reasons she couldn't explain, to shungite. She bought it from one particular shop in the UK, which led her to a small spiritual development group. That group became her turning point: the first time she had done deep emotional healing.
From there came a cascade of trainings over about two years: emotional healing work, three levels of Reiki, Akashic records and a crystal healing certification.
She also wanted to learn tarot. Her first thought was, what a pity, I can't do that. Then she wondered whether tarot cards existed in Braille. She found one company that embosses standard decks, taught herself to read, and eventually earned a tarot certification.
"So many times I thought to myself, am I seriously doing this?" she said. "I can't see the cards. Why do I think I could ever read for someone?" And yet, through the cards, she discovered her clairvoyance.
Something Was Still Missing
By the time she found me, Colleen had a home filled with crystals. "Lots and lots," she laughed. But after her crystal healing training, she felt a gap.
"I enjoyed it," she said, "but I felt at the end of that, there's something missing."
She had tried reading books about crystal properties and could never remember them. "I felt separate from them," she said, "and I just wanted to feel more joined to them."
A year before we met, an Akashic reader told her she would use her Akashic training, but not yet. First, she would take another course, and it would involve crystals. I don't think so, she thought. I've done enough courses.
Then she heard me speak about communicating directly with the stones, letting each crystal show you what it wants to do and how, rather than relying on what a book says. "Something just lit up in me," she said. "It's like, I found it. That's it."
Inside the Work
When I asked Colleen what first comes to mind when she looks back on the program, she said, "Ease and flow. It meets you where you're at."
She had no background in shamanic work, and at first, she wondered if she'd skip that part. Then came our first healing temple. "If I had any worries about shamanic journeying, they were totally gone after the first healing temple," she said. "It made me feel safe."
A few moments stood out as real breakthroughs for her:
• Permission to imagine. Learning that intuition often speaks through the imagination "was so freeing," she said. "That opened my channel and it helped me to trust."
• Commanding instead of pleading. Coming from a background of hopeful prayer, she learned to call in support, ask that it be done, and give thanks as though it already is. "It's much more of an empowering experience."
• The development calls. "I could not have done readings without them," she said. "I would have been doubting myself."
In her practice readings, the information kept coming. When she told one of her practice clients that her stones carried a feeling of calm and peace, the client shared that she had been focusing on ease and grace. "I couldn't have known that," Colleen said.
The Stones as Family
Colleen knows every one of her crystals by its size and shape. "They're like family," she said. "I just know them."
When she walks past the glass-topped drawers where she keeps them, she rests her hand on top and says hello. "Thank you for being here," she tells them. "Thank you for working with me."
"I feel like they're not just a lifeless stone," she said. "I feel like they are a being."
She now has an altar, a daily mala practice, and a morning ritual of sitting in the sun to receive its light. She calls in guides with ease, connects with the plants she passes, and feels the presence of the divine mother around her. "It doesn't feel weird," she said. "It just feels natural."
Safe in the Light
When I asked what the program had truly given her, she paused.
"A spiritual practice. A connection to spirit," she said. "A feeling of being safe in light, so I'm not knocked off balance by all that's going on in the world."
That is what I hear again and again from students. They come for crystals and intuition, and they leave with something deeper: a direct, personal relationship with the Divine.
Colleen put it beautifully. "Yes, I was looking to be more in tune with the stones. But I think it was a deeper spiritual connection that I was looking for."
Today she is building her website and preparing to offer tarot and crystal wisdom readings. And she keeps practicing with the friends she made in the program.
If You Know There is More
If you have crystals on your shelf and a quiet knowing that there is more available, Colleen's story may be your sign.
The next cohort of Crystal Wisdom Codes begins December 3.
