The Higher Self Hotline

(Episode #367) At what point did being liked start requiring so much acting?

This week, Zoey sits down with social psychologist and author Dr. Devon Price to talk about autism, neurodivergence and the exhausting work of masking to make everyone else comfortable. Devon offers a beautiful exercise for remembering who we are underneath all that performance and gets honest about what happens when the people we love push back. Zoey shares her own experience of hiding behind a pseudonym for nearly a decade, and together they explore the freedom of finding people who love our muchness.

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(Episode #366) Being a sensitive person in this world is not for the weak! This week inside The Bitching Hour, Zoey coaches a community member who’s trying so hard to take care of herself yet still feels exhausted. They talk about setting energetic boundaries, letting other people’s feelings stay theirs and choosing just two daily practices instead of trying to do everything. Zoey also shares how tracking her cycle helps her recognize when she needs more rest and fewer demands. Remember darling, being able to feel everything doesn’t mean you have to take it all on.

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Wanting something badly can make it surprisingly hard to trust the feeling that it’s meant for you. Suddenly every intuitive nudge gets cross-examined. Is this real? Am I making it up? Do I just want it too much?

This week the Hotline is ringing and Zoey and Amelia are talking about trusting intuition when it sounds like wishful thinking and changing direction when your family would love for you to pick a lane already. They also get into hearing “I miss the old you” when you finally like who you’ve become and staying...

(Episode #364) Have you ever known what felt right for you, then started second-guessing it because you weren’t sure anyone else would understand? In our live coaching series inside The Bitching Hour!, we’re digging into real questions from real people who are doing the work.

Today’s conversation is all about trusting yourself when life starts looking different than you planned. One community member is navigating a layoff while craving the creativity she’s had to put aside. Another is opening up to a relationship that feels deeply supportive after leaving her marriage, but worrying...

(Episode #363) How much of yourself are you editing to stay likable?

This week, Zoey is joined by spiritual teacher and wise woman Amanda Baudier. After two decades helping build businesses like Sakara Life and Melissa Wood Health, Amanda knows what it feels like to keep proving yourself. She also knows the freedom of finally letting people have their opinions while you get on with being who you came here to be.

Zoey shares the beliefs about aging that came knocking at 35, opening up a conversation about why we put expiration dates on our dreams in...

Collective Numerology Forecast for October: You’re Not Meant to Build It Alone

You know what you want to build. Who do you want building it with you?

This week Zoey and Amelia are back with your October numerology forecast. October is a collective 2 month, and Zoey wants us to pay attention to our people. Who believes in what we’re making? Who can we ask for help? And where are we still trying to do everything ourselves? After a month that pushed us to get moving, there’s some relief in hearing that we can gi...

Hello, divine darlings, and welcome to our first-ever Hotline Round Table! This week, Zoey is joined by Kitty Knorr and Cat Lantigua to talk about creative callings, the angst of ignoring the ideas that won’t leave you alone and why you don’t need to feel completely confident before you start.

You know that idea that keeps coming back no matter how many times you try to ignore it? What would happen if you kept pulling on that thread? What happens when you stop waiting for proof and let yourself follow the “what if?” instead? From building...

(Episode #360) What happens when the part of you that's dying refuses to go quietly? In this episode of The Bitching Hour's live coaching series, we're sitting with surrender, self-trust, and the strange courage it takes to choose yourself.

Today's conversation moves through the space between old identities and new ones — from a decision that feels too big to make, to the fear of betting on your own talent, to giving yourself permission to heal even while someone you love is still struggling.

In this episode:

(00:00) Introducing The Bitching Hour!

(01:03) Surrender as an...

What if the feelings you’ve been judging yourself for are actually trying to tell you something?

This week, Zoey and Amelia are back with more of your Hotline questions! This round is all about the things we’re sometimes afraid to admit. Is it okay to outgrow a friendship when no one did anything wrong? Does wanting money, success, or a partner who spoils you make you shallow? And what do you do when someone else’s life makes you wildly jealous?

What would a catch-up be without Crybaby Club!? They share what’s been mak...

(Episode #13) Ever felt like you had to shrink yourself down to be understood by the people who love you? In this week's Bitching Hour, we're talking about the tender, confusing work of staying open-hearted while living a life your loved ones can't quite compute — and why detaching from being understood might be the most freeing thing you ever do.

This week's call opens in death-and-rebirth territory and becomes a launchpad for a bigger conversation about cyclical endings and why "the program will run until it's complete." Zoey and Brittany read the collective energy of what's actually going on...

What if the closure you’ve been waiting for was never theirs to give you?

This week Zoey sits down with author, activist and educator Najwa Zebian for a conversation about what happens when we stop handing our healing back to the people who hurt us. Najwa talks about the stories we tell ourselves about why someone hurt us – and why that's what tends to consume us.

Together they explore a vital truth: needing people doesn’t make you needy. Period, end of sentence. Upholding standards for how people can treat you in relationships will allow...

(Episode #11) What if the only thing standing between you and receiving is your own permission? This week's live coaching covers a lot of ground: a freelancer weighing a stable corporate job against the terrifying, exciting possibility that her dreams are actually coming true; a business owner who's been hemorrhaging energy and money while convinced the answer is always to give more; a handywoman stuck in an invoicing spiral that's really about permission, not productivity; and a listener untangling anxious-avoidant patterns in a new dating connection. Threaded through all of it is the same question Brittany and Zoey keep circling...

September is here and the energy is loud. We’ve officially reached the peak of the year, which means everything you’ve been moving through since January is getting turned all the way up.

This week Zoey sits down with Amelia for the September numerology forecast and gets into why this month is such a powerful turning point in both your personal year and our collective Year 1. They talk about the difference between urgency and knowing when it’s actually time to move, what your shadows might be trying to show you and why the seeds you plant...

What happens to our intuition when the world never gives us a moment to be still?

This week, Zoey is joined by author and spiritual teacher Tracee Stanley for a conversation about ritual, self-remembrance, and the power of reclaiming our attention. Tracee shares how ritual became part of her everyday life, why she believes “truth does not thrive in distraction,” and how technology and optimization culture can slowly pull us away from our own inner knowing. And yes, Zoey gets personally read by Tracee over her Oura Ring.

Tracee also shares the heart behind her newe...

(Episode #10) What if the thing you're most afraid people will think of you is actually the doorway to your next evolution? In this eclipse episode of our live coaching series inside The Bitching Hour!, we're digging into the fear of being seen — in money, in visibility, and in not knowing what comes next. If you've ever felt guilty for wanting support, or terrified of being watched, this is the episode for you.

Recorded on the day of the eclipse and deep inside a collective month nine, this episode is soaked in purge energy — endings, closure, and hard-won wisd...

The intuitive hit was real. So why does it keep feeling like something to defend? This week Zoey and Amelia dig into what happens after you make the call, when the payoff hasn't shown up yet and your ego won't stop arguing with a decision your gut already made.

They open with Crybaby Club, where Amelia gets honest about the complex grief of finally landing her dream life abroad and immediately feeling a new ambition pulling at her. Zoey shares the full story behind turning down a TV development deal last month, the regret spiral that followed...

(Episode #9) Have you ever felt the universe rearrange itself the second you decided to level up? In this two-part live coaching series inside The Bitching Hour!, we're digging into the beliefs, signals, and body signs that show up right before a timeline shift.

Today’s conversation is a dive into capacity, belief, and receptivity. Brittany and Zoey coach one client through a chaotic week of broken appliances and impossible-to-ignore signs, reframing "why is this happening to me" into "this is happening for me" — before turning to a second client's fear that her business, and her worth, can't be s...

Have you ever been told to keep your gifts to yourself? What if the very thing you were taught to hide is actually the thing the world needs from you most?

On this episode of The Higher Self Hotline, Zoey talks with Dr. Judith Orloff, UCLA psychiatric faculty member and author of The Empath's Survival Guide and Second Sight, about what it actually means to be an empath and how to protect your energy day to day.

Dr. Orloff opens up about a family that told her to hide her intuitive gifts and the deathbed...

(Episode #8) What happens when you're the one everyone else leans on — and you're quietly running on empty? Today's conversation moves through the layered experience of holding space for others while running out of gas — from community leaders juggling motherhood and mission, to the ache of watching your inner growth outpace your outer reality. Zoey and Brittany get into the difference between burnout and self-abandonment, why delegation actually requires trust (not just asking for help), and why this whole collective season can feel like one long waiting room.

Along the way, we sit with two community members in very...

(#351) Fashion isn't superficial. It's spell work.

This week, Zoey sits down with celebrity stylist Lo VonRumpf. Lo walks us through his own journey with style and self expression: a love letter to the five-year-old with the Hello Kitty bag. That kid is now the man dressing some of the most recognizable people on the planet.

Style, it turns out, was never just fabric for Lo. It was protection. It was survival. He walks us through fashion as manifestation – a way of becoming who you're meant to be one outfit at a time. Zoey pulls Lo's nu...

(Episode #6) Have you ever felt like your body was keeping score of everything you never let yourself feel? This episode opens with one of the most tender conversations we've had in this container — a listener carrying kidney stones, chronic pain, and a grief she's never spoken aloud, and the gorgeous reframe that helps her stop fighting her own body.

From there, a second listener brings a question so many of us are quietly circling: how do you actually practice acceptance when life hasn't been fair, and the people who hurt you are still smirking at you in th...

Are you ready to feel the weight of everything you've been carrying finally lift? August is pulling all of us into a nine month, and that means the collective is being asked to release what's no longer ours to hold. If you've been sensing an ending on the horizon, you're not imagining it.

This week, Zoey and Amelia are unpacking how July's personal numerology actually played out for each of them before turning their attention to the big one: August's collective month nine energy. Zoey shares a strong channeled download about what's coming to a close on...

Have you ever felt like your body was falling apart right when your life finally started working? In our live coaching series inside of The Bitching Hour!, we're digging into real questions, from real people who are doing the work.

Today's conversation is all about the growing pains of expansion — from the physical toll of sudden visibility, to knowing when healing work has turned into a loop, to relationships where you're doing all the choosing and none of the being chosen.

In this episode:

(00:00) Introducing The Bitching Hour!

(03:59) Timeline sickness: the ph...

Hello, Divine Darlings! I’m sure if you’re here, you’ve probably been told you're too sensitive, too much, too loud before in your life. This week, Zoey sits down with author, life coach, and non-binary activist Jeffrey Marsh (they/them) to talk about the inner critic we all carry and what happens when you finally stop listening to it.

This episode traces Jeffrey's journey from a childhood of being told they were "too much" to a 3am moment at a Buddhist monastery that changed their entire relationship with their inner critic. Zoey and Jeffrey dig into t...

Have you ever wanted to reclaim your power from everyone else’s expectations? In our new live coaching series inside of The Bitching Hour!, we’re digging into real questions, from real people who are doing the work.

Today's conversation is all about breaking free from other people's expectations — from families who call your gifts "demonic," to exes who question your next move, to society's rules about how you're supposed to show up in the world.

In this episode:

(00:00) Introducing The Bitching Hour!

(02:48) How to navigate the "murky, in-between" feeling of buildi...

Episode #348

Have you ever received what you’ve been dreaming of and immediately want to run the other way? It’s not that you can’t hold it, you're just new to this. This week Zoey and Amelia introduce a new segment – Crybaby Club – where Zoey shares her download after surviving the California Adventure ferris wheel of death. She uncovers what’s at the heart of her next level of gaining more attention: building the capacity to hold it all.

And of couuuuurse we get into your Let Me Ask My Psychic questions! You asked why journali...

Episode 347

Some of us were told we were too much before we even knew what we were feeling. Too angry, too sensitive, too intense. What if that rage was never the problem, but the messenger?

This week I'm sitting down with one of my best friends and practitioners I admire most – sacred rage and boundaries coach Brittany Loeser.

Brittany is a sacred rage and boundaries coach, a ceremonialist, and someone who helps women stop abandoning themselves and claim their power back. She takes us through her whole origin story: the years of...

Episode #346

The world just minted its first trillionaire while the rest of us are examining our money stories like they owe us an apology. July is a collective month eight in a collective year one, which means power, money, and visibility are all on the table. This is your invitation to find where your power is being outsourced, and take it the fuck back.

Episode Synopsis:

Welcome to season 13, divine darlings!. We're kicking it off with the July collective numerology forecast: a month eight (money, power, visibility) inside a year one (new seeds...

You can love someone with your whole heart and still know they're not coming with you.

If you've been grieving a friendship, a frequency, or a version of yourself that's falling away, you're exactly where you're meant to be. Pull up a seat, divine darling. The hotline is open!

It's the season 12 finale and it's feeling bittersweet. Zoey shares a real download about what she’s stepping into. We chat about what it feels like to pour yourself into your work purely because you love it, with nothing to prove and nobody to please. Then Am...

If you've ever felt too depleted to even begin taking care of yourself; if you've given and given until there was nothing left and somehow kept giving anyway, this episode was made for you.

It just so happens to be the last client session. Twelve seasons. Seven and a half years. Hundreds of souls who trusted me with their most vulnerable pieces. This is the final client session ever shared on The Higher Self Hotline, and I want you to know I am feeling every single bit of this as much as you are.

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(Episode 343) June didn't come to play it safe. This month's collective numerology is pulling you inward whether you're ready or not and the question is whether you'll meet yourself there with curiosity or chaos. If you've been overthinking everything lately, there's a reason, and we hope this episode will gently guide you deeper.

Zoey and co-host Amelia Buxton break down the collective numerology for June, a month 7 inside a year 1 that's equal parts mystical and mentally exhausting if you don't know how to work with it. From the difference between your intuition and your ego, to how...

(Episode 342) Cat Lantigua is an award-winning Dominican American author, community architect, and free knowledge advocate who walked into my orbit through our team and immediately made me feel like I'd found someone whose brain was connected to mine by a rainbow thread. We talked about community, loneliness, capitalism, decolonized history, literacy as a weapon, and why the world needs whatever is living inside of you right now. She also said Donald Trump is not God and we are, and honestly I want that on a t-shirt. This one cracked something open in me and I think it will for...

(Episode 341) She’s been teaching mindfulness in Texas for years. After enrolling in a masters program in social emotional learning, and about three weeks in, she realized should have written the curriculum herself. Sitting in the uncomfortable in-between, after you know the end of an era is near but, you don’t know what the next chapter is. Spirit had a hyper specific timeline and this session cracked something wide open. This one is for anyone who knows it's time but keeps finding ways to not quite admit it yet. Your future is not in that bottle, babe. It's in y...

(Episode 340) Healing happens in the discomfort, in the conversations where you laugh so hard you cry, and then cry so hard you laugh.

In this episode I sit down with Hector Marcel, the president of Tree Jewels (only New York’s leading modern enlightenment studio). He also brought me to tears twice, made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe, and rewrote everything I thought I knew about joy. This conversation is one I didn’t want to leave, from the concept of emptiness, to the philosophy of no-self, and why the most spiritual thing you can do...

(Episode 339) She's a freshly licensed massage therapist with a cleaning business she's built from nothing, a partnership offer that feels all kinds of wrong, and a spirit that is quite literally too big to be contained. I knew the moment we started talking. The channel opened so wide I had to just keep going. What came through was a vision, ancient, sacred, expansive and a very clear message from Spirit that some of us are wild horses and the sooner we stop apologizing for it the better. This one hit me in the chest. I think it might hit...

(Episode 338) Zoey and Amelia are back for the monthly numerology deep dive, and before we get into what May has in store, we're catching up on April first, because April had things to say. Amelia got her Mexican residency approved and realized her entire routine was built for a life she's already living, not the one she's building next. Zoey spent a week in New York watching her husband's best friend come out the other side of open heart surgery, spent much needed time with family, and came home still feeling the density of all of it in the...

(Episode 337) The old world is crumbling. The new one is being born. And the women building it are doing it without a playbook, without a map, and in some cases, without sleep. Seven years into building one of the most beloved human design platforms in the space, they're both pregnant or freshly postpartum, running a global retreat business, and navigating the kind of life transitions that crack you open whether you're ready or not.

We talk about the rage of motherhood, the real kind, not the highlight reel kind. And we talk about 2027: what human design says...

(Episode 336) She came back to the session six months later, a completely different person, new job, new clarity, a teddy bear she bought for a child she doesn't have yet, and three lofty dreams she couldn't stop thinking about. In this client session, I sit with someone who took the messages from our last reading and ran with them. What Spirit brings through is a picture of a life that is already in motion, babies, poetry, children's books, a fairy garden wedding venue, and a mission to change the framework of education from the inside out. This one is...

(Episode 335) You asked, we answered, AND we also told you about the time I walked into my birthday party venue and came face to face with my arch nemesis, a woman I had genuinely forgotten existed until she looked at me and said, "you look familiar."

My newly appointed co-yapper Amelia and I are back for another round of Let Me Ask My Psychic. A decade-old Yelp beef, a nemesis reveal, lunar cycle solidarity, and three listener questions that could have been written by half the people listening right now (including YOU…in fact, maybe it IS yo...

(Episode 334) Your healing is not happening on the cushion. It's happening in the conversation that triggers you, the phone call that crosses a boundary, the grocery store aisle that floods you with a memory you thought you'd moved past. Sah D'Simone is here to show us what it looks like to bring the work all the way home.

Sah D'Simone is a globally recognized spiritual teacher, somatic movement leader, author, and humanitarian whose work weaves Buddhist contemplative practice, trauma-informed movement, and embodied liberation into something I have never quite seen before. In this episode, Sah takes us...