Brandy Cox: The Journey to Inner Wisdom

Ross Tayler: Hello, I'm Ross Tayler, your host and guide for Sacred Sundays, a space to slow down, tune in, and return to what's sacred within and around you. I'm also a life coach for empaths and sensitive souls, walking alongside those who are ready to come home to who they actually are. These conversations are part of fulfilling that purpose, a collective exploration of what it means to live in connection with the sacred. Some weeks you'll hear a sound-based offering to open the space. Other times we'll simply begin in conversation. However it unfolds, this is an invitation into presence, connection, and the beauty of the unseen. If these conversations find you, please subscribe, rate, and share so others can find their way here. Pour a cup of tea, settle in, and let's begin.

Ross Tayler: Today on Sacred Sundays, our guest is Brandy Cox. Brandy is an integrative counselor and spiritual medium whose work bridges emotional connection, somatic awareness, and intuitive trust. Based on Vancouver Island, she supports individuals in reconnecting with their inner wisdom, reclaiming their voice, and moving through life with greater alignment and self-trust. Brandy's approach blends trauma-informed counseling and embodied awareness, creating a grounded and expansive space for healing and transformation. She is passionate about helping people understand their purpose, honor their lived experience, and follow the deeper guidance of their inner compass. Welcome, Brandy, so great to have you on Sacred Sundays.

Brandy Cox: Thank you so much, Ross. It's a pleasure to meet you and to be here today.

Ross Tayler: Brandy is going to start by sharing an arriving meditation with us. So I'll hand it over to you, Brandy.

Brandy Cox: Thank you so much. I wanted to share this moment of arrival as an invitation and an offering to others, and a little bit of an invitation to myself as well. It's my first time being on a podcast, and I feel like I need this too. So I'm just going to invite everybody to arrive with a breath.

Whatever quality of breath you have right now is absolutely perfect for this moment. Wherever you are, whether you're sitting or standing, hopefully you're curled up in a cozy spot, I invite you to soften into this moment. If it feels comfortable, let your eyes close. Or you can gently gaze at what you're noticing in the room, letting your eyes relax and your vision soften.

Just inviting a slow breath in, and a slower breath out.

This is your invitation to arrive: to arrive in your body, to arrive in your breath, and to arrive in this sacred space that we're creating together.

I invite you to notice the spots of your body that feel supported beneath you. Maybe you're noticing the chair beneath you, the ground beneath your feet, or the way your spine naturally lengthens when it's given permission. There's nothing to change here. You're free to just notice.

You may notice the temperature of the air on your skin and how it feels to be in this room in this moment. With your next breath, maybe your shoulders drop a little and you notice your belly soften.

If it feels right to you, place a hand on your heart or your low belly. I like to do both.

Ask yourself: what part of me is arriving here today? And what do I need? Just notice what arises, whether it's a sensation, an image, or a word. You may simply feel this moment. However you arrive, right here, right now, it's okay.

Now imagine a soft, warm light expanding from your body. Mine comes from my solar plexus, right below the rib cage. It's a soft, gentle glow expanding from your body, touching the walls of the room and pushing beyond the building you're in. Watch as it gently reaches and touches the hearts of everyone who's listening with us today, as we come together in a shared field of warmth. Feel that subtle thread that connects us in this moment.

This is community. We're arriving together and we are breathing together. Maybe we open a little more together.

Take one last calming breath, and let it fall. When you're ready, feel the connection and the energy that we share, and welcome yourself back to the present in this room.

Welcome back, Ross.

Ross Tayler: Thank you, Brandy. That was a nice way to connect inwards and a great way to start this conversation.

Brandy Cox: Yeah, I needed that.

Ross Tayler: I thought we could begin by talking about your journey towards the sacred, and whatever comes to mind in terms of how you came to this work. It feels like there was a journey you went on as you arrived on this path, and I would love to hear what you want to share about that.

Brandy Cox: Definitely a journey. I feel like with many mediums and psychics and intuitives, my journey started with Reiki and energy work. What a beautiful way to open up to your gifts, and to have that real felt sense of being able to connect with something that is beyond what we normally know. Through energy work, I noticed I was able to feel a little more, more and more each time. I started to receive messages, like words or thoughts, or the name of a song would just drop in. I think that's when I realized this was something more than just working with someone's energy field.

Ross Tayler: When you talk about the words dropping in, are you primarily claircognizant, or are you clairvoyant as well?

Brandy Cox: I'm a big feeler, so my main sense is my felt sense. There's also a sense of knowing that drops in from time to time. I think one of the more mysterious parts of my spiritual journey is that it's never really been clear. Every time I do spiritual work or readings, there's something new that comes in that challenges me in the way that I receive information. Of all the clairs, probably the one I struggle with the most is, what is the one with smell?

Ross Tayler: Clairolfactance [?], I think.

Brandy Cox: Okay. That doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it's very true. So I feel like I'm kind of a mixed bag.

Ross Tayler: Right. I feel like our mutual friend Lee, who was on the podcast as well, I think she doesn't like the smells, if I remember correctly.

Brandy Cox: That makes sense. Some of these senses can feel pretty powerful, and when I get a sense, it is really strong and true. So maybe that's something to be grateful for, that it doesn't happen so often if it's not a pleasant smell.

Ross Tayler: Totally. So you entered in through energy work and having these messages. What's your why? I imagine that over time you got clear on what motivated you in this work, and then you went on to become a counselor. What gets you up in the morning to do this work?

Brandy Cox: I'm a real sucker for connection. I've always really wanted to be a part of something. I was invited into this realm through my friends, being invited into their circle, and it felt really good to be connected to other people in such a deep and meaningful way. I almost couldn't get enough of that, so this connection really drove me. Then when I realized I could expand on my gifts and work on them, I started signing up for classes and growing my gifts, and the connection became deeper. It felt really rewarding to sit with someone in such a sacred space and hold their stories with them. I'm not much of a surface connector. I want that deep feeling, and it became something I wanted more of the more I did it.

Ross Tayler: I relate very much to that. I like to go deep as well, and it's hard to be in environments where all that's happening is surface level.

Brandy Cox: Yeah, for sure. I kind of feel like I'm bad at surface. I might be the person that says the thing that takes it to the next level, and I'm like, sorry about that, but we're getting into the feels, everyone.

Ross Tayler: How did your own personal journey play into this journey into the sacred?

Brandy Cox: Like so many of us, I come from a pretty difficult beginning. I found this sense of connection and purpose in spirit work and energy work. Even when I wasn't around people, I found a comfort in being with spirit and knowing there was something more that I felt connected to. That was really healing for me.

Ross Tayler: Why was that so important to you? I work with a lot of people who are so disconnected from that, and the whole concept of connecting to spirit is a block for so many reasons, so it's nice to hear you talk about it as such a comfortable place.

Brandy Cox: I would credit this to my teachers and mentors and the influences I've had around me, who showed me a light and soft side of spirit. It felt comforting and nourishing. It didn't feel like something I wanted to protect myself from or move away from.

Ross Tayler: Often when we talk about spirituality, and I worked for years in addiction, there's a lot of focus on reconnecting to spirit through some of the programs that are offered. There's also a lot of resistance to that very topic because of our histories with religion. Religion and spirituality, to me, are two very different things, so it's often a block for people because of their past experiences. It sounds like that wasn't the case for you?

Brandy Cox: I think it absolutely was a block for me until I was ready. In my younger years, I definitely flailed about and claimed to be atheist and not have any real connection. When we meet people who have a resistance there, I think it's an indication that more safety is needed. If we don't feel that safety, it's really hard to open and trust. What I notice is that when I'm able to feel secure and safe, I feel freer to experiment and practice.

Ross Tayler: What kinds of things have you done for yourself to build that connection with your inner world?

Brandy Cox: Community has been a really big one. Being in circle. We mentioned Lee, and I was in circle with Lee and some other friends. We have another mutual friend, Nicole Powell, who was my first real teacher, and she helped me feel comfortable and safe connecting to spirit and to others. I found a really safe space in circles with these other like-minded people. That was crucial to being able to trust and lean in to learn.

Ross Tayler: It's interesting. I facilitate circles and groups as well, and so many people have fear around being in a group. And yet from the other side of it, there's so much, I can only call it magic, that happens because we're witnessing each other. We're realizing that we're not alone, and that other people have the experiences we have. There's a bond that happens in these kinds of groups that's hard to communicate. I imagine a lot of people out there are thinking, not for me, which is kind of sad, because there is so much that can happen in those groups.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely. This takes me into the counselor mind, where I roll into my education and go, yes, because co-regulation is what we're doing. We heal in community with others, we heal in connection with others, and we heal in the present moment. That's why circle and groups and community are so important if someone is experiencing fear, because if it's the right space, it brings in exactly what's needed to move beyond that fear. There's also the other part of me that knows safety is needed to be able to lean in and let yourself connect with others. It's like the first stage in counseling: if you're going to do any kind of trauma work, your first stage is safety and stabilization. I see a parallel with circle. Without safety, you can't lean in and you can't reap the benefits. Sometimes that's an internal safety one needs to come to first, and sometimes the next step is, okay, now I feel internally safe and I'm ready to take a chance to connect and be safe with others.

Ross Tayler: That's such a big topic in and of itself. I'm curious, how do you show up to create that safety? What are the unique ways you show up that help create safety for others?

Brandy Cox: All we can do is all we can do, right? Ultimately we can't say that something is safe. That's up to the individual to decide if it feels safe to them. As a supporter and helper, what I can do is show up in my safety, in my full sense of self and my regulated energy, and hold space for what can feel uncomfortable. There's something almost tangible about being next to somebody who you know can just hold it, who can handle whatever is going to happen in the room. So creating safety for others is really about getting connected fully to yourself. I think that's how my spirit practice rolls into my counseling sessions. I can't do mediumship in counseling, but I can use my spirit practice to bring my supports in for myself. Then I can hold myself, and I feel that makes a really big difference when we enter the counseling space.

Ross Tayler: I love that answer, and I think it's so powerful, because the truth is we don't know what someone else's experience is in any moment until they reveal it. So we have to hold a space that allows for that to unfold. Not everybody is going to feel safe with you, or with me, and there are reasons for that that we can't perceive or understand until they get revealed. And of course you're bringing in your spirit work to support yourself, which is the core of what we're helping people with as well. How can we access that inner strength, that interconnection, because so many of us become disconnected from ourselves in order to feel safe, which is part of the struggle.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely. And there's another layer, which is that there can be a bit of judgment and stigma around spirituality or religion or all different types of practices. My clients know that you can't weird me out. You can't say anything that will make me think you're a weirdo. I'm pretty casual and open about that kind of stuff. It's also not a place for my beliefs. It's a place to hold space for the other person's experience. I know a lot of people want to be able to talk about their rituals, practices, the things they feel connected to, or their dreams. They want to speak freely, and they want to know the person in front of them isn't going to judge that.

Ross Tayler: How many clients over the years have, in the last five minutes of a session, said, and by the way, I think I'm a medium? It's a throw-it-out-at-the-last-minute kind of thing, because it is something people doubt about themselves, these gifts that are showing up, and how to use them and connect with them and how they will be perceived. In the work that we do, we provide a safe place for that to get revealed.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely, and I have to laugh. I feel like that's how people create safety for themselves too. It's right at the end, so if I feel uncomfortable, I can leave in a minute.

Ross Tayler: That's right.

Brandy Cox: Depending on how this is received, I'm just going to leave and then I don't have to deal with it. But yes, there is stigma, and I think it's starting to change. One of the positive things I've seen on social media is people having a platform to share and create community, to share their practices, whether it's witchcraft or meditation or mediumship, whatever it is. There's a platform to share freely, and I feel like that is taking some of the stigma away.

Ross Tayler: We're definitely in the midst of a shift that is allowing those things to come forward in a way they haven't before. I've witnessed, especially here on the island, so many people offering these gifts and their spiritual practices. You can't really go anywhere without running into it, which is amazing given the need that's out there for this work.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely. I live in the Cowichan Valley, and we have such a concentration of mediums and psychics and intuitives and healers. It's such a powerful place. And like you mentioned, not everyone is meant for everybody, so it's important to have all of these options. You can go see one medium, and then you can see a Reiki practitioner, and you have all of the support available to you. If one person doesn't work for you, there's more to choose from. I feel like that's a big shift too, with things getting more normal: more people putting themselves out there and offering.

Ross Tayler: I wanted to jump back to something you said earlier, because I'm really passionate about it and I feel like you probably are as well. You mentioned co-regulation, which is about the nervous system and polyvagal theory. When I encountered that information, I think I came across it through a podcast, I was mind blown. I thought, here it is, the thing we all have in common that unifies us and explains our experience, and on some level feels like the solution to many things. It's hard to articulate, because it's kind of radical. This work is still fairly new in the self-help realm and in counseling. I think it was 1987 [?] that Stephen Porges first shared polyvagal theory, and it was later that someone realized it really applies to counseling and to helping people work with themselves. I'm curious what you want to say about nervous system work and your beliefs around it.

Brandy Cox: This is one of my favorite topics. Somatic therapy and this education have helped me so much in my readings as a medium and in my work as a counselor. To know that our nervous systems are speaking to each other before we can even have a thought, that these messages come from our body to our brain to create thoughts, is pretty much the opposite of what we were originally told. All my life I learned that your brain tells your body what to do. The reality is that only 20 percent of the messages to yourself come from your brain, and 80 percent come from your body and your nervous system. If we're only working with our thoughts and only talking about story, and we're not getting into the body, not acknowledging how the body feels, what your nervous system feels, what your gut feeling is telling you, we're only doing 20 percent of the work. Bringing it all together brings a whole new level of healing.

Ross Tayler: That's so true, and it flips the script. We've been taught to be more in the mental realm, and this is all about the body. I'm aware of that 20/80 rule, and once you realize it, it's a game changer.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely. If your thoughts aren't doing so well today, check in with your body. Did I eat? Did I drink water? Did I move? How was my sleep? You start to understand yourself a little more. Understanding the nervous system and using somatic therapy to bring body awareness really helps shape your mental awareness and your mental health. Of course we retrain our brain and create new pathways and new ways of thinking, but like we talked about, that's part of it. The other part is tuning in to what my body says right now. When I'm with this person, I'm feeling a certain way, and what's that about? Getting curious and going a little deeper. Is this a story that's familiar, and how old is it? Or is this something new that I need to pay attention to today? Sometimes we get stuck in an automatic response to an old story. So getting in tune with the body helps me say, this feeling is coming up again, and I know it's connected to something different from what's happening right now. That's information.

Ross Tayler: The body has so much wisdom and information that we can't access from up here. It makes me think of a couple of things. One, Deb Dana is a teacher I love to follow on the nervous system, and she says story creates state. If we have a story playing out in our mind, it influences how we feel in our body. The other piece I love about polyvagal theory is neuroception, this idea that we're constantly scanning, as part of our autonomic nervous system. We're like a radar system scanning for cues of safety and cues of danger, always. That part of us can pick up on things we're not aware of and create a state in our body that we can't connect the dots about. We're reacting to something we saw that relates back to something that happened 20 years ago, and we don't know that, but we're feeling anxious and we don't know why. It's that neuroception that can create that experience. It's wild to imagine that's happening, but it makes sense, because of course we needed that kind of programming to survive the way we used to survive. But we're now in a modern-day situation that doesn't require that level of perception, so we're reacting as if the threat is a bear chasing us when we're not actually being chased by a bear.

Brandy Cox: Right. There's definitely an ancient part of ourselves that is still very present and giving us old responses to new events, and it doesn't quite line up. The information your nervous system is bringing up is so powerful to explore. A lot of times you'll think, my goodness, I'm feeling this wave of anxiety around this person and I don't know why, and then you don't trust that person. That could be very on point. But maybe your body has detected something about this person that's similar to someone who hurt you in the past, and it actually has nothing to do with the person in front of you. It has to do with an old experience. Getting to know your body, its rhythms and tendencies, is why trauma therapy is so important for working with the body and somatics and going beyond the story. We can have a trauma at one point in our life, and then our nervous system can detect that threat in other places and we can get confused and think it's a threat right now. We want to get into the habit of asking ourselves: is this an old protection? Is it still needed right now? Or does this just feel familiar? What do I need right now?

Ross Tayler: Earlier you mentioned working with clients and supporting them to trust their gut. I thought that was interesting because it feels like a place where the two worlds you walk in cross over. When we talk about this inner knowing, it's something we all have access to, though whether we can access it is different. In a world that is so mentalized and so in our heads, we can become disconnected from our bodies. When you say gut, I think you're talking about intuition. How do you support people with this way of working with intuition that might cross over those two worlds? What does that look like for you?

Brandy Cox: This is really interesting, because when I first started learning about somatics and the nervous system, I started to question, am I psychic? Or can I just feel what's happening outside of me? Am I just really connected to my nervous system? Am I hypervigilant? I don't know if I've completely answered that for myself yet. I go back and forth. Is this just me being really connected to my nervous system and receiving these messages really clearly? Or is this spirit intuition? I think it's okay to not always know the answer, but to have this idea that if my body is speaking to me, it's for a reason. If I'm getting a thought or a feeling or an image, it's for a reason. It could be a magical reason or a mundane reason, but there's usually a reason why we feel the way we feel. Trusting your gut, your intuition, your inner wisdom, that inner knowing, can be as simple as walking out the door and thinking, I need my coat. And then you say, no, it's sunny out, I don't need my coat. You leave the house, and then you think, I should have brought my coat. That part of you was giving you a message, and you dismissed it and carried on. How many times have we had that, I knew it, I had a feeling this was going to happen? The way I like to invite people to build their intuition is to start by listening to those little voices. If you bring your coat and it doesn't rain and it doesn't get cold, that's okay. What you're telling yourself in your body is, I trust you when you speak to me. Every time you trust yourself, that muscle of intuition grows a little bigger. It's okay to be wrong. It's more important to trust what your voice is telling you, to lean into it and listen, sending all the signals to yourself that I know what I need. I know what's right for me.

Ross Tayler: It's interesting, because I work with Human Design, and one aspect of Human Design is decision-making. I think around 50 percent of the population makes decisions from their sacral center, which is what you would refer to as the gut. The sacral center is about creativity and life force, and the decision is about, do I want to give my energy to this thing I'm making the decision about? I had a client once say to me, wow, I've got a lot of unexpressed nos in my sacral center. I thought that was so powerfully stated, but also somewhat tragic. All these nos that I didn't express. That's what we become disconnected from. We do it for safety, because of the situations we find ourselves in. And yet it is a part of us that is asking us to listen.

Brandy Cox: It is a part of us that's asking us to listen. I'm a firm believer that if it was safe to do so, you would. If it's not safe to do so, you'll do what you need to do instead, and there's no wrong way to do that. To hold a place in your body of unexpressed nos, I agree, that's very tragic. What would be more tragic is to go the rest of your life without realizing that and holding it. This is where the compassion piece comes in. It's okay if you had a feeling about something and you didn't act on it. It doesn't mean you didn't know, and it doesn't mean you didn't look after yourself. It just means your options were limited at that time. I fully believe that if we can lean into the answers that are good for us, we do. Sometimes it means we can't express what we would really like to.

Ross Tayler: You're speaking to that 80 percent of us that does know. I think that's one of the things that is so powerful. When you give a client enough space to tap into that well of wisdom, they do, always, in a safe space. It's always there, available to us, if we can be supported to find that place within us.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely. We all have it. We were all born with this ability to send and receive messages. We were not all conditioned and raised in a way that allowed us full access to that. But it is there, and when and if the time is ever right, we can start to explore it. I think what keeps people disconnected and a bit out of tune with their intuition and wisdom is the shame involved. Our society wants us to make the right decisions, say the right things, and especially to do something. If we've had messages in our bodies before and we weren't able to act on how we were feeling, sometimes there's shame involved in that, and it keeps us disconnected because we don't want to go back and face it.

Ross Tayler: It truly does. And it relates to the chakras. Root, sacral, solar plexus: fear, guilt and shame are the emotions attached to them. Those are the things we're working through on such a deep level as we emerge, or blossom, into what it is we're here to do.

Brandy Cox: Yes, and a way this shows up in my readings that I find really interesting is that fear, guilt and shame will often come up. I'll get clients who are really afraid to be there. They're coming for a reading, but they're terrified about what's going to happen in that space. Maybe they've had a poor experience at some point, or there's an idea that it's scary, or a deeper-rooted fear resting within them. So I make room for that. Instead of saying, it's okay, you don't need to be afraid, I say, yeah, you're afraid. That experience was hard. It must have been really scary for someone to give you that message. What did you do when you felt that way, and how were you supported? Sometimes even a reading can go into a bit of a therapeutic space, because the safety has to be there first. If fear, guilt and shame are sitting between us, it makes our reading really limited too. So I feel like the worlds meld together in unique ways.

Ross Tayler: That feels like a good segue into a question about how you hold both of those roles, which are so functionally different, in terms of being regulated and the other maybe not. What do you want to say about that?

Brandy Cox: I'm not going to pretend that I'm regulated all the time, and I don't think that's the point. The point isn't to be regulated all the time. The point is to be connected to what's happening, so that we can notice, okay, this is coming up for me right now, I'm feeling dysregulated in this session and I need to use my tools to get grounded. But yes, there is a line. In our human existence, we work within systems and levels and all kinds of things that box us into rules we have to follow, but our person and our spirit don't have these limits. So the answer I'm coming to is really about boundaries: holding boundaries with myself and with spirit, and being very intentional about what type of session I'm moving into and preparing myself for it. I'm not a drop-into-my-seat-and-start-my-session kind of girl. I really need time to get going, and part of that is setting my intention for what I'm about to do.

Ross Tayler: That makes a lot of sense. And yet there is going to be a crossover in some ways, like you've already mentioned, in ways that are very organic.

Brandy Cox: Yes. In counseling, say my intuition speaks to me about something. I can take a risk and say, something's coming to me right now. Are you open to hearing what's coming up for me around this topic? Then you get permission. I feel like that's really important, to get permission to share. I might say, there was something inside me that thought of this, and I'm wondering, does that resonate with you right now? So it's not that because we're in a counseling session, spirit and intuition are out of the room.

Ross Tayler: Right.

Brandy Cox: The point is that I want it to be my client's intuition that we're working with and growing, if that's what they want. This isn't the space for me to be giving information. It's, okay, how can I support you in finding your wisdom and your answers in this?

Ross Tayler: I think the motivation behind my question was more that I imagine there are people out there who are already in a professional role, like counseling, and have intuition, and maybe don't know what to do with it. Because of how you came to this work, you offer a unique perspective, so I imagine you might be speaking to people listening who struggle with it, who haven't been able to figure that out, or who completely close off that side of themselves.

Brandy Cox: I would say the answer is always more time with yourself. Just like anything, anything unresolved within me is going to leak out into the areas around me. If spirit is being really persistent and showing up in places you'd rather not, I feel like that's an opportunity to have a discussion with your guides and with spirit and say, you know what, not right now. It's also an indication to make time for spirit. I find spirit knocks really loudly at my door if I'm not making time. But if I make intentional time to sit with spirit and my guides and do my private practice, it doesn't overwhelm me in areas where I don't want to be overwhelmed, if that makes sense.

Ross Tayler: That makes sense. Who are the clients you love working with the most? Do you tend to attract a certain type of person or topic?

Brandy Cox: Right now it's a real mix of people. I come from a background of supporting survivors of sexualized violence, and I thought for sure I was going to go down that route. My goal going into school was, I'm a feminist counselor and I'm going to support women and people who are struggling with systems and patriarchy and that sort of thing. Then I was pleasantly surprised to see how much I love working with men. There's a whole wave of men coming around to wanting to learn the language of emotions. There's been a real disservice to some of the male population, where maybe they weren't raised in a way that gave them the language to express themselves. Working with them is so rewarding and exciting, to see people get more connected, any person, but particularly a person who's been told this isn't okay for you. To break down some of that stigma, get past the shame, and see the excitement that comes from someone getting more connected with themselves and feeling safer in their presence and in their relationships.

Ross Tayler: We share that, because I've been running men's groups for the last twelve or thirteen years, and it's amazing to see men showing up and doing this work. It is happening, and we could have a whole conversation just about that. I love that it's showing up for you, and it's definitely support that is needed out there for men, so I'm glad to hear you're doing that.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely, I'm loving it. There's a whole wave of single parents, like single dads, who want to support their children in a way they maybe haven't been supported. They see that tiny version of themselves sitting in front of them and think, this is really important work that I need to do on myself because I care so much about my child and I want them to feel supported in every way. Working with men has been a really exciting avenue for me in counseling. I can also help people feel their personal power, get in touch with their intuition, and step into the space that's theirs. I feel really passionate about that.

Ross Tayler: I love that. It feels like a good place to pause and close the conversation. I always like to close with a question: what's one simple way someone could connect with the sacred today?

Brandy Cox: I think any time we slow down, we connect with something sacred, whether it's the sacred beat and rhythm of ourselves, or the wind and the trees and what's happening around us on the planet in a peaceful moment, or a moment to slow down and listen to what spirit might be dropping in for you. I think the answer is usually slowing down, any time you get a chance, especially in this busy world. Take a moment to yourself in whatever you do that feels calming. I always feel like the answer is inside. It's within, and it's in this moment.

Ross Tayler: I love that, and it's so true. As much as I've slowed down a lot, there's still room to slow down more, and I'm constantly reminded of that in different ways. When I do, it's so fulfilling, the things that come up and the things you notice when you slow down. I appreciate that reflection. You modeled it for us today by beginning that way. We slowed down at the beginning, and I think that energy carried through our conversation.

Brandy Cox: Absolutely. As you mentioned, it changes the tone for what you're about to do. Even if you only have five minutes, it makes a big difference.

Ross Tayler: Well, thank you, Brandy. It was so great to meet you today, connect with you, and witness your gifts and your perspectives. I so appreciate you taking the time to have this conversation.

Brandy Cox: Likewise, it's been a pleasure to meet you, and I hope our paths cross again. Thank you for inviting me to be here today. It's been so much fun and such a pleasure.

Ross Tayler: You're very welcome.

Ross Tayler: Thank you for joining us on Sacred Sundays. I hope something in today's offering spoke to your spirit, stirred something true, or simply gave you a moment to breathe. If this conversation resonated, please subscribe, rate, or share. It truly helps this work reach the people who are meant to find it. If you'd like to step inside my world a little further, I host a free live practice three mornings a week called Start With You. Just 20 minutes on Zoom to return to your own energy. Everything you need can be found at the link in the show notes. Until next time, may your day be slow and sacred.