From a Line of Witches: Where the Gift Began

Monique comes to us from New Zealand by way of Melbourne — a Kiwi, which around here is always a good start. She's a spiritual mentor, teacher and healer who works across a number of modalities, and like so many of our guests, she didn't choose this so much as recognise it.

Her nana was a psychic medium who could see those who'd passed. An aunt on the other side of the family was deeply spiritual too. As a little girl, Monique did the maths the way only a child can: if I come from a line of witches, then I must be one. "I'm going to be magic," she decided. Listening to her now, you get the sense little Monique would be thrilled with how that turned out.

But the gift was forged in harder fire too. She speaks openly about childhood sexual trauma, and about how the work found its shape there — she now often sits with people carrying the same wound, sometimes before they've even named it. That's what drove her toward becoming genuinely trauma-informed: studying the nervous system, regulation, the science underneath the spirit. As she puts it, as healers we always want someone to leave better than they came in. Sometimes that means changing the whole plan the moment they sit down.

Kundalini is everywhere online right now, and Monique cuts through the confusion with a distinction most people miss. The two are not the same thing.

A Kundalini awakening is the full rising of the Kundalini shakti — the divine feminine energy — up the spine to meet her counterpart, Shiva. That's the poetic version. The honest version, in Monique's words, is that it's "a sh*t show." Everything not meant for you burns to the ground. Your nervous system goes sideways. It's a dark night of the soul that stretches into years. She received hers as shaktipat — a divine blessing — from a guru in India in 2015, during a 200-hour hatha yoga training, without any idea at the time what she'd been handed or how completely it would rearrange her life.

A Kundalini activation is something else, and it's the work she's most passionate about now. It pinpoints the darkness ready to surface and moves it through the body. You'll often see people make involuntary movements — trauma completing a cycle it couldn't finish at the time. She points to Peter Levine's somatic work, and to the way animals in the wild shake off a threat so they never store it. If you froze in a frightening moment as a child — too small to fight, run or even yell — that frozen action can finally release. She described a woman in a group session who suddenly threw her fists out, swore, thrashed her arms, and afterward had no memory and no idea what it was about. The body knew. The mind had stepped aside to let it happen.In This Episode

• 00:00
• 02:39 — Welcome to #creativetalk

• 11:31 — 400 YouTube subscribers — thank you
• 12:09 — Introducing Monique Eloise
• 13:30 — From a line of witches: Monique's nana and her origin story
• 16:07 — How childhood trauma shaped her path
• 19:12 — Burnout, anxiety and living in survival mode
• 22:36 — Why we can't regulate: disconnection from the body
• 25:02 — Monique's nervous-system regulation tools
• 30:56 — Kundalini activation: what drew her in
• 31:22 — Kundalini awakening vs activation, explained
• 34:44 — What a Kundalini activation actually feels like
• 38:05 — Integration: the longest part of the journey
• 45:52 — Trauma-informed principles in healing
• 48:48 — What the healing industry gets wrong (the nervous system)
• 52:54 — Ascension Reiki & not giving your power away
• 56:12 — Collaboration over competition
• 57:20 — The crossover between psychic work and energy healing
• 1:04:07 — Renaming her business & coming out of the "spiritual closet"
• 1:06:34 — Trusting the quiet voice of intuition
• 1:13:19 — Navigating uncertainty as a spiritual entrepreneur
• 1:18:25 — The one lesson: don't wait until it's perfect
• 1:22:21 — LIVE tarot reading for Monique's business
• 1:35:17 — Where to find Monique

Most people trying to lose weight are doing it in the wrong order. Cardio is not the answer — a 20-year personal trainer explains why 70% of your results come from somewhere else entirely.

Robin Carlse is the self-described "entertainer trainer" — the man who moonwalks between sets, drops dad jokes while you are in agony in a wall sit, and has been training clients from 4am since he had zero clients in Australia.

He is also the personal trainer responsible for Kebrasca and Amber now training for Hyrox.

In this episode:

The weight loss formula: 70% diet, then strength training, then cardio — in that order-

Creatine: is it actually safe, should everyone take it, and how much per day

Protein: how much you actually need and why most people are not getting enough

The most common mistakes people make when starting a fitness journey

Why social media fitness trends do not work and what a structured program looks like

Hyrox: what it is, how to train for it and Robin's honest assessment of Kebrasca and Amber

Quickfire questions: who is Robin's better client — Kebrasca or Amber?

Find Robin:rcfitness.com.au

Instagram and TikTok: RC Fitness

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome and audio check

2:50 Welcome to Creative Talk Podcast

3:44 Introducing Robin Carlse — the entertainer trainer

4:16 Mind Body Spirit Festival recap — four days, 13 readings a day

6:42 Energy clearing between readings — sprays, Palo Santo and ritual

8:03 The most interesting readings over the weekend9:26 Kebrasca's mediumship reading for two sisters — and what happened

11:20 The bromances of Mind Body Spirit Festival

14:00 A woman tried to book Kebrasca without Amber. He said no.

31:21 Kebrasca's own journey — heavier before Robin, the food revelation

33:24 Creatine — is it safe and should everyone take it?

34:11 Creatine for brain health and muscle performance

34:51 How much creatine — three to five grams for everyone

35:21 Protein — how much do you actually need?

36:00 Six eggs a day — Kebrasca's protein routine

36:54 Why most people do not get enough protein and what to do

38:40 Why meal plans fail and what works instead

39:27 Fitness advice for people in their 20s

40:36 Strength training for every age group — always

40:43 Fitness advice for corporate workers — 10 minutes at a time

41:31 Get to the gym before work — why morning training wins

43:28 Fitness advice for busy moms and new parents

44:57 Fitness does not have to be an hour to count

46:06 Robin's RC Fitness app — home workouts, park workouts, strength

46:43 Fitness for people over 50 — weight training is more important now

47:00 Osteoporosis, bone density and why weights matter

49:05 The most common fitness mistakes people make

49:28 Going too hard too fast — why it always backfires

49:47 Extreme diets only last so long

51:22 Social media fitness fads — those people are already ripped anyway

51:43 Follow something structured — 20 years of proof

52:05 What people do not see about building a fitness business

53:50 Listening to clients — what sets a great trainer apart

54:19 From zero clients to 3am starts — how Robin built RC Fitness

56:20 When you love your job it does not feel like work

57:50 The trainer is always right — do not argue with the count

59:14 Training bodybuilding champion Maz

1:00:07 Fitness for mental health — it does not fix problems but it helps

1:00:35 Hyrox — Kebrasca and Amber are doing it

1:01:54 Race day tips for Hyrox1:03:05 Robin still needs a Hyrox partner

1:04:07 Kebrasca sliding down the wall sit — the famous move

1:07:11 One piece of advice: stay active, lift weights, sort nutrition

1:08:01 The dancing trainer — entertainment meets fitness

1:10:08 Quickfire questions — Amber or Kebrasca?

1:12:34 Marketing tips for Robin and RC Fitness

1:15:38 Behind the scenes content and going live

1:18:04 Going live during training sessions

1:20:15 Thank you Robin and closing

1:22:55 Find Robin — rcfitness.com.au

Find Robin at rcfitness.com.au, on the RC Fitness app, and on Instagram & TikTok

The Body Keeps the Receipts: Angela Graham on Kinesiology, Forgotten Trauma and the Wound That Becomes Medicine

She couldn't drive a car for almost twenty years.

Not for lack of wanting to. Something in her body simply wouldn't allow it, and no amount of talking it through had ever shifted it. Then she sat with a kinesiologist who took her back to a car crash she had completely forgotten — a memory her mind had quietly filed away years before — and within six months she was holding her licence. How the Body Holds Forgotten Trauma

That's Angela Graham of Akaora Therapies. And the evening she joined us on #creativetalk — a fellow Kiwi we've shared a few classes with over the years — I knew within minutes we were sitting with someone who understands the thing Kebrasca and I watch happen at our own table every week: the body keeps the receipts. It holds what the mind decides is too much to look at. You can talk for years and never reach it, because it was never stored in words in the first place.

Kinesiology works at exactly that level. As Angela puts it, it bypasses the brain — the brain has so much to say, but the body knows what's underneath all of it. Through gentle muscle testing she has a kind of conversation with the body, navigating past the story the conscious mind is comfortable with and toward the emotion sitting under the thing you actually came in for. It's the same truth we keep meeting from every direction on this show, the same one Monique Elouise calls "the body keeps score." Different door, same room.

Twenty Years, One Forgotten Car Crash

What I loved about Angela is that she doesn't romanticise any of it. She'd tried talk therapy and a few other things to get past a fear of cars that made no sense to her — until a kinesiologist held the space for a meditation and a memory surfaced that she'd completely buried: a childhood crash, no seatbelts, her siblings screaming, her dad climbing out to confront the other driver rather than check on his kids. She'd been told, over and over, "you'll never drive." And for almost twenty years, she didn't. The moment she understood why, the whole thing loosened. Licence within six months.

In This Episode

• 02:19 — Welcome to #creativetalk
• 03:06 — Last week recap: Phil & Kerry and Evidence of the Afterlife
• 06:24 — Everyone is psychic: Phil & Kerry's key teaching
• 09:22 — Mind Body Spirit Festival, Melbourne this weekend
• 12:59 — Meet Angela Graham of Akaora Therapies
• 14:11 — What kinesiology actually is
• 16:12 — How muscle testing works in a session
• 17:25 — Asking the body for consent before you begin
• 19:19 — Angela's story: couldn't drive for 20 years
• 20:09 — The forgotten car crash that held everything back
• 21:24 — Her licence within six months of one session
• 25:31 — Growing up around alcohol addiction
• 26:14 — Living in fight-or-flight as a child
• 28:13 — Kebrasca: "I thought everyone's mum got beaten up"
• 30:06 — Does your trauma make you a better healer?
• 33:25 — What used to hurt you becomes your medicine
• 34:29 — Māori & Cook Island heritage and disconnection
• 35:05 — Finding her tribe through ancestral healing
• 41:45 — Kebrasca & his father: healing a relationship after death
• 43:14 — Moon and medicine circles explained
• 48:40 — Spiritual entrepreneurship & the patience lesson
• 52:09 — Why great healers aren't all going viral
• 55:10 — The pressure to appear "healed"
• 58:15 — What's next: stepping into mediumship
• 1:01:49 — LIVE tarot reading for Angela's business
• 1:07:17 — The Star card: collaboration & expansion ahead
• 1:11:14 — Where to find Angela

Find Angela Graham at akaoratherapies.com.au and across her socials, where she shares her offerings and moon circle dates. Book a reading with Amber at glowbyamber.com, or explore Kebrasca's healing work at kebrascaking.com. #creativetalk is live every Thursday at 5PM AEST — where consciousness meets commerce.