Radiant Voices interview with Karen Wyatt, Akashic Records Keeper
Karen is a tax accountant—and alongside that, her lifelong spiritual practice is now focusing on the Akashic Records. She lost her husband to a car accident at 32 and raised three children alone. More recently, she survived a life-threatening illness.Now she’s a blended family grandmother to ten. Life and death have shaped her path in powerful, unmistakable ways.
This was another rich conversation. Here are three highlights that stayed with me—and a few reflections circling around them.
- The Luxury of Spiritual Practice. The Luxury of Grief.
I was struck by Karen naming both grief and spiritual practice as luxuries.
At first, it feels odd—aren’t grief and spiritual connection freely available to all?
But she’s pointing to something deeper: in the harsh reality of life’s demands, time for reflection, for ritual, for simply falling apart, does feel like a luxury.
Collapsing into tears when there are mouths to feed, bills to pay? That can feel irresponsible. Spiritual reflection? Indulgent.
Especially when life has dealt you the kind of blows Karen has faced, keeping on going becomes a kind of spiritual discipline in itself. “When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Maybe that is the practice. Secure the basics. Hold steady. Then, only when there’s enough safety—then soften.
In that sense, caring for children, housing them securely, carrying on with work: that’s practical spirituality.
And later, when there’s finally room to breathe, the more esoteric practices can emerge.
The grief too—raw, messy, unprocessed—comes through when there’s space. So maybe the real luxury is not grief itself, but the chance to experience it in full, not as fuel for survival, but as a truth that can be held without rushing to convert it into action.
- Finding Heart Through Grieving From the Heart
Once survival isn’t the only task, grief can shift.
Karen spoke of grieving from the heart—of letting that tenderness come through. I wonder if her breathing changed too.
Grief, when there’s space for it, becomes less about collapse and more about allowing. Feeling the ache of absence can actually reconnect us to love—not in a rational or linear way, but as part of the heart’s rhythm.
There’s something here about fulfillment—not as in completion, but in the sense of starting to feel enoughness.
“I’m worthy of love, so I can grieve its absence.”
That’s a powerful shift. And perhaps grief, paradoxically, is what allows the heart to soften enough to receive love again.
- Soul Connection – Road Rage Vanished in Days
Karen shared a beautiful moment of change: her vocal road rage disappeared within days of a heart-opening experience that connected her with a deeper sense of purpose.
I love these kinds of stories—where a change that seems sudden is actually the visible tip of years of inner work.
Still, the shift was real. And it says something about the deep work we do when we reconnect with soul.
Maybe when we begin to trust that we belong, that we’re here for a reason—we’re no longer so reactive to others just… being themselves.
Grace for self creates grace for others.
- What Was Missing: Tenderness and the Legacy of Kindness
Throughout our conversation, Karen spoke of something missing. Something spiritual.
It struck me that, with her training in accounting, her mind might naturally seek balance—not just in numbers, but in life.
Her story reflects that journey—from pure practicality to emotional and spiritual wholeness.
What she’s cultivating now is tenderness, kindness, and non-judgment.
And what she hopes to leave behind is a legacy of that.
Every conversation is giving me such rich food for thought and reflection.
I’d love to know what lands for you when you listen.
For a Curious Mind: Notice what thoughts and judgments arise as you listen to this interview. What else would you like to know?
For a Connected Heart: Notice what feelings follow each other as Karen shares her story.
For a Creative Body: Dance it? A beautiful noise – Alicia Keys, Charli Carlile
The luxury of grief
What happens when survival no longer consumes you?
I’m gonna say it again, luxury. I had the luxury then ’cause my life was actually pretty good materially that I could have the luxury of indulging in my spiritual practices.
For Karen, grief wasn’t a burden—it was a doorway. In this deeply tender episode, she shares how losing her husband and navigating single motherhood led her to an unexpected awakening: the realization that she had a heart, a soul, and a deeper connection to all things. From road rage to radiant kindness, Karen reveals how energy work and the Akashic Records helped her reclaim the luxury of a spiritual life—and the legacy of nonjudgment she’s now choosing to leave behind.
Glimmers*
Reflection resources to support your embodied transformation story:
- One step towards the universe: Doing what you need to do is a spiritual practice. Weekly online co-working/parallel play.
- LOVE MOVES US: Can you listen and dance with this? Guided reflection and dance practice to reconnect you with open hearted tenderness, in the safety of your own space and time.
- Recalibrate your life for joy: Discover what unexpected luxuries you have access to now. Free audio guide.
Invitation to wonder: As you listen to Karen’s story, I invite you to become aware of the intriguing parallels between her story and yours.
Is there a subtle invitation here for you?
✨ Encouragement for Sensitive Souls:
If Karen’s story feels a little overwhelming—
take a breath.
You don’t have to have lived through great loss to connect with what she shared.
This is about honoring your own timing, your own rhythm.
Grief, growth, softness—
they arrive differently for each of us.
There’s no race, no requirement to be as brave or as clear as someone else.
Just the quiet courage to meet yourself where you are.
That’s more than enough.
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Affirmation for Tender Women
Many women love to care deeply, hold things together, and make space for others’ needs.
They are conditioned to keep moving, stay practical, and silence their own grief or longing.
Which undermines our ability to soften, receive support, and trust that our inner world matters too.
Remember you can pause without failing, feel without breaking, and grieve without justification.
I trust you to recognize the quiet strength in tenderness and to honour your own timing.
In this episode of Radiant Voices, you’ll find a conversation about survival, softness, and the slow unfolding of spiritual trust after profound loss.
Draft Notes on Luxury and Loss
Luxury of spiritual practice
Finding her heart through grieving from her heart
Soul connection – vocal road rage disappeared within days
Tenderness was missing > Legacy of kindness and non judgement
I’m gonna say it again, luxury. I had the luxury then ’cause my life was actually pretty good materially that I could actually have the luxury of indulging In my spiritual practices,
I had to spend so much time just. Or so much energy, not even time, but energy, just, I had kids I didn’t have the luxury of really grieving.
as the years went on, things got easier and the kids got bigger and didn’t need me so much
So it wasn’t until I actually started to grieve the death of my husband in my heart. I realized I had a heart.
the shift in my awareness that I did have a heart and that I did have a soul. And that we were all connected because of the energy working with the energy fields.
“For over 30 years, I’ve been trusted to handle one of the most intimate parts of people’s lives—their business finances.
As a bookkeeper, I’ve seen it all: the messy piles of receipts, the late-night worries about cash flow. Money is personal. It’s the vulnerable underbelly of any business, and when someone hands me their books, they’re not just asking for organization—they’re asking for clarity, security, and peace of mind.
I never took that trust lightly. I became a locked vault of information, holding space for my clients without judgment. I helped them untangle what felt overwhelming and turn chaos into something clear and manageable. But over time, I realized that numbers weren’t the only thing people were struggling with.
There were bigger questions weighing on them—decisions that couldn’t be solved with financial statements. Should I keep this business? Am I on the right path? Why do I keep hitting the same roadblocks? What’s my real purpose?”
No amount of money makes you ready to feel your feelings.
I need to riff.
Karen is still a tax accountant, and now her lifelong parallel spiritual practice is focusing on Akashic Records. She lost her husband to a car accident at 32 and raised three chlidren alone. She survived a life threatening illness herself more recently. Life and death writ large.
Luxury of spiritual practice
Finding her heart through grieving from her heart
Soul connection – vocal road rage disappeared within days
Tenderness was missing > Legacy of kindness and non judgement
What’s missing > account brain seeking balance…..
This was another rich conversation, here’s three highlights for me
The luxury of spiritual practice. And also the luxury of grief.
Karen emphasised the word luxury here, which really brought it home for me too.
And what i love most is that these are luxuries that are potentially available to anybody who dares to take a moment and breathe before responding.
I think there is a perception that spirituality, outside religion, is airy fairy and crytals.
And it can be that.
And inside religion it’s hollow performance.
Also can be true.
And what if simply trusting that some tiny thing will be taken care of is enough. Urgh.
I’ve got no words here. Forcing it. And still have to post the freaking content.
Urgh
Urgh
Urgh
Urgh
Urgh
Urgh
No amount of money or power can buy trust or feel feelings.
That is a choice available to each of us.
I did’t have the luxury of grief.
Urgh, i want chat to write this for me, let’s see what happens.
It will be annoying.
1 The luxury of spiritual practice. The luxury of grief.
I was thinking that spiritual practice and grief are freely available to all
So these statements linking grief and spiritual practice to luxury caught my attention.
What is grief? Waht is spiritual practice? That they could feel like luxuries?
They are irrational, unproductive use of time and energy.
Collapsing into helpless tears when there is clearly work to be done seems indulgent.
TAking time for ritual reflection also seems irresponsible.
Because there is work to be done, bills to be paid, mouths to feed, children to care for.
Time and attention to softness and stillness definitely appears culpable.
And in fact it is important and healthy to keep moving through routine in the face of catastrophic loss like the sudden death of a partner.
Perhaps this habit is the spiritual practice required. The discipline to not collapse.
When you’re going through hell, keep going.
Establish enough security. Then pause and reflect.
I think that spiritual discipline sometimes looks different to what we expect.
Caring for and housing children in a secure environment is practical spirituality, imho.
So that practice was already there.
The later luxury is to soften into more esoteric practices.
The luxury of grief feels more complicated.
And again there is something there about discovering the self belief to trust that it is safe now to soften.
In that moment when the world changes because of a sudden devastating loss,
Dealing with energy of grief by harnessing it into productive work.
Again, until the material space feels secure enough to allow grief to some through raw and unprocessed.
I think there is energy of grief and spirit showing up looking different to what might be expected.
So the luxury is in having the space for these experiences to show up in typical, prescribed forms.
Rather than using the powerful energies released by both to build confidence and security for self and family.
Ok, that’s rad.
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2 Finding heart through grieving in heart.
When there is time, and security and self belief, it’s possible to allow the expression of grief to shift.
I wonder if your breathing changed too.
The feeling of grief shifted to a heart based experience.
We tend to associate the heart with love, and the warmth and connection that comes with that,
Grieving in heart points to the awareness of absence or loss of those positive feelings
And that grief, which seems indulgent, is actually what allows the heart to soften and receive love again.
I feel there is a fulfillment process occurring here. In the sense of accumulating experience and evidence of enoughness.
I’m worthy of love, so i can grieve the loss/absence of it.
Not that grief is in any way rational or predictable.
And then begin to wonder what it might take to feel it again.
- Soul connection – vocal road rage disappeared within days
I’m always delighted by a behavioural change that happens in days, so Karen’s story of her vocal road rage disappearing within days of an experience of her heart opening upward to purpose caught my attention.
I am pretty confident that these overnight successes are most often years in the making, and it certainly sounded that way from the rest of this story.
And yet that perceptible change is clear evidence of inner transformation.
Oddly enough, perhaps recognising my own right to exist, and that i am on purpose no matter what, enables greater acceptance of the inconvenient existence and behaviours of others. Grace for self creates that.
- Tenderness was missing > Legacy of kindness and non judgement
Karen spoke several times about noticing something was missing. Spirituality.
I couldnt help but feel that her long training and practice in financial accounting has her brain seeking balance, the zero point, in other parts of her life as well –
And her story certainly reflects a journey from the very pragmatic matter of survival, to a more rounded experience of self including emotional and spiritual self.
Tenderness, kindness and non judgement are what allows that expansion from the practical necessities into a fuller acceptance of self and the unpredicabilti of life.
And remaining stable, focusing on leaving a legacy of that.
Evey conversation is providing me such rich food for thought and reflection.
I’d love to know what lands for you when you listen.
