You’re Not Changing—You’re Remembering

What happens when your life looks perfect… and then everything opens?

In this episode of Awakening Adventures, Venus Castleberg sits down with Melissa Seaman, a Stanford-educated former business lawyer whose life took an unexpected turn after a powerful spiritual awakening. Melissa shares her journey from law to intuition, what it was like to suddenly perceive energy, spirit, and guidance, and how she learned to stay grounded while everything familiar fell away.

This conversation explores awakening as an unveiling rather than a detour—how discovering your soul gifts doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you’ve always been. Together, Venus and Melissa talk about discernment, devotion to the highest good, honoring natural cycles in business and life, and why having a map and mentorship can bring peace, clarity, and ease to the awakening process. If you’ve ever wondered whether what you’re experiencing is “normal,” or how to integrate spiritual awareness into real life and work, this episode is for you.

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Creators and Guests

Guest

Melissa Seaman

Mellissa Seaman is a Stanford-educated former business lawyer turned intuitive leadership mentor. She helps grounded spiritually-awakening leaders to identify their soul gifts, open their intuitive powers, and to grow their business with full alignment and ease, combining spiritual alignment and best-practices marketing for the intuitively gifted professional.

What is Awakening Adventures?

What if awakening is less about a single moment and more about the adventure you choose to follow? Awakening Adventures with Rev. Venus Castleberg invites listeners into real, grounded conversations about spiritual awakening and the unexpected places it can lead. Each episode features Venus—the Home Whisperer—sitting down with guests who have walked their own unique awakening paths.
Through stories, insights, and warm curiosity, Venus explores how each guest’s inner shift has shaped their purpose, creations, and the work they now bring to the world. The show offers an open, welcoming space for anyone wondering what’s possible when they listen to their inner guidance… and trust the adventure that follows.

Venus Castleberg: Hello, and welcome to Awakening Adventures, where we will hear real stories from real people who have had their own spiritual awakening, and what they chose to do with their newfound awareness.

Venus Castleberg: My name is Venus Castleberg, also known as the Home Whisperer, and I use my gifts to help real estate agents clear the energy from stuck homes so that they can sell with greater ease.

Venus Castleberg: I am really thrilled and excited to introduce our guest today, Melissa Seeman. Melissa is a Stanford-educated former business lawyer turned intuitive leadership mentor, turned psychic as well. We’ll talk more about that. She helps grounded spiritual awakening leaders identify their soul gifts, open their intuitive powers, and grow their business with full alignment and ease, combining spiritual alignment and best practices marketing for the intuitively gifted professional.

Venus Castleberg: And I will say, I actually work with Melissa. I have signed up for her programs, and I highly, highly recommend them. They have changed everything in my business. Even my mindset of how I do business and how I think about my business has completely changed. So, without further ado, hello Melissa, welcome.

Mellissa Seaman: Hi, Venus, I’m so happy to be here with you, as always.

Venus Castleberg: Yeah, you too. Well, let’s start, because it’s Awakening Adventures, let’s start with… lawyer turned psychic.

Mellissa Seaman: Sometimes I call it my accidental awakening, because I wasn’t looking for that. I wasn’t looking to become psychic or a healer. I was quite pleased to be a business lawyer. At the time, I had gone from litigation to contracts and supporting women business owners of brick-and-mortar businesses.

Mellissa Seaman: One of my favorite clients had a large physical therapy business, and I was doing work on partnerships and contracts and all the things you hire a business lawyer to do. I loved it because I had a little baby, Colin, still breastfeeding. When clients called my home office, they’d hear the baby cooing or nursing, and I’d think, this is the best of both worlds.

Mellissa Seaman: I had a big house in San Diego, lived close to my parents, and it was my golden moment. Then I was pregnant with my second child, excited because it was a girl. Everything felt picture perfect.

Mellissa Seaman: The birth was fast and intense but not painful, which shocked me. It was trippy. I felt altered. After giving birth to Clarice, I felt wide open. I could see and hear energies, speak to the dead, sense angels or angelic presences. These were metaphors for experiences I didn’t yet understand, but the feeling of God I’d known as a Catholic was intensified and accessible.

Mellissa Seaman: I could also sense spirits and entities all at once, and I didn’t have a framework. I hadn’t studied metaphysics. But being trained as a lawyer, I started creating internal systems. I’d tell spirits without purpose to move along. I invited angels as part of my team. In the outer world, though, I had completely changed.

Venus Castleberg: And I had the excuse of having a newborn, so I stayed home and was private about what was happening.

Mellissa Seaman: I thought it would calm down after the birth, but once the door opened, it didn’t shut. I had messages, visitations, and healing abilities. I only allowed energies in the highest good. I felt clear about boundaries.

Mellissa Seaman: Eventually I shared with my closest people. My husband was freaked out. My parents were concerned. My mom even wondered if I needed an exorcism. The priest said, well, she’s healing people, so probably not.

Mellissa Seaman: It was odd. I hadn’t believed in astrology or any of that until it became undeniably real. After 25 years as an intuitive, it makes sense now. Back then, it felt like my life was blowing up.

Venus Castleberg: Hmm.

Mellissa Seaman: Inside myself it was stabilizing. Outside, in my church-based world where I was a leader, it was destabilizing. Awakening adventures indeed.

Venus Castleberg: How did you adjust your day-to-day life? How did you go from being a lawyer to psychic in everyday life?

Mellissa Seaman: It happened fast. My brain was different. I couldn’t responsibly work with detailed contracts anymore. I identified with the book A Stroke of Insight, where the logical brain shuts down and the expansive part opens.

Mellissa Seaman: I leaned on my guides like business partners and asked what we were doing next. They guided me to healing work, drum journeys, clearings, and sessions. That paid the bills.

Mellissa Seaman: I learned to channel information, teach classes, and share wisdom. I wasn’t a guru, but a channel learning alongside others. Over time, hundreds of women learned and remembered their spiritual leadership through this work.

Mellissa Seaman: For 26 years, I’ve supported grounded people awakening to their gifts. It’s been initiation after initiation, upgrading integrity, humility, and responsibility.

Venus Castleberg: What helped you stay grounded?

Mellissa Seaman: Mentors. At first I was alone and sometimes arrogant. Mentors normalized it. Meeting my Apache teacher changed everything. She showed me this was intrinsic and useful, not dangerous.

Venus Castleberg: How do you help others through awakening?

Mellissa Seaman: I mapped the process. A loose but helpful map. Not dogma. A system aligned with natural cycles and archetypes. It gives focus, community, and ease.

Venus Castleberg: That map gave me peace during quiet seasons. Thank you.

Mellissa Seaman: Without a map, people think quiet seasons mean failure. With one, you see alignment.

Venus Castleberg: Is there something you wish someone had told you at the beginning?

Mellissa Seaman: That I wasn’t changing away from who I was, but revealing who I always was. Awakening is an unveiling, a maturation.

Venus Castleberg: What advice would you give someone just awakening?

Mellissa Seaman: Devote yourself to the highest good. Be discerning. Call in what is holy to you. Stay grounded and devoted.

Venus Castleberg: Anything else you’d like listeners to know?

Mellissa Seaman: Take the Soul Gift Quiz. It’s a doorway to understanding your deepest gifts. I’d love to hear from you.

Venus Castleberg: Thank you, Melissa. Thank you all for listening. Please subscribe, like, and share. You’re not alone. Have a wonderful day.