Today we’d like to introduce you to Carolyn Roberts.
Hi Carolyn, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I have always been Driven to Serve because I am Extremely Sensitive and an Emotional Empath which combined pointed me towards counseling even as an adolescent. I was born with the ability to see every soul in their Highest light which invites others when they interact with me, if they allow, to see the possibilities available for them in their life and their blockages to these. I call it holding up a clear mirror.
Even as a early teenager I expressed a desire to help others. I remember my mom, who was a Psychology professor asking her colleagues to encourage me towards counseling . I recall sitting with each one, so Mom could watch from the house and that we would sit in the front seats and just talk for awhile. I recall speaking with least 5 different people. It would start as a supportive conversation about counseling from each of them, but eventually each conversation would end up becoming like a counseling session because I would naturally hold space for them and as a result of ability to FULLY EXCLUDE OUT Everything, except the conversation they would share what was on their heart. The conversations were so Intense that it felt like time had stopped. I remember ending up giving them advice which I now know was channeled. It was my natural ability to Hold space these few sessions were very Powerful and effective which in turn helped me Really See and practice my innate skills, and for them to become aware of the areas of their life that definitely needed more work. My natural counseling aptitude was clearly conveyed to my mom. Further confirming for her and me that I needed to pursue it.
To serve in more exploration of this focus. My mom next suggested I volunteer with a local teenage runaway shelter for At Risk youth in order to helping continuing building my experience. This Deeply called me, so I volunteered for approximately 1 month at this shelter called “The Relatives”. Despite being age of many of youth there, I Greatly identified with the Counselors. After this experience I was ready to commit to this path.
I got a AA (Associate of Arts) in Human Services which is a Counseling degree. Then I got a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) because I wanted to work with the people to help the in addition to offering some counseling. While in college, I interned with Cities in Schools an organization that works with At Risk Youth. This work really called my heart so when I got my degree I pursued a position with them. I naively assumed that would automatically qualify to be hired, despite this particular Cities in Schools being in another state from where I had interned because I had the degree and the internship experience. After all, It was still the same organization. So I applied and interviewed and to my Shock…got turned down. I continued to pursue efforts in this field off and on for year. Finally, I had to sadly admit that God had other plans for me.
I started looking for work outside my field in Group homes. I had Really wanted to work with the Disabled population like I had when I was getting my Human Services degree, so this was my chance to reconnect with this amazing population. I worked off and on in different group homes for several years and I loved most of the clients. It really became apparent to me that my passion to assist people really exceeded what society offered them.
Fast forward to working in multiple different jobs that had nothing to do with the service field or so I thought. These taught me that I could serve others in many ways. I carried this awareness into my marriage when I became a mother of 2 children. I got married and in the beginning it was Beautiful and it was definitively what I understood as Love at that point in my life. About 1 year in I became pregnant with my first child. I left on maternity leave expecting to be back in 6 months. Once I had my “Babygirl” all I wanted to do was be her mother in every way. Nothing else mattered anymore for me. It fulfilled me to serve as a mother and wife. I did what I could to help support My husband by doing odd jobs because my focus was my children. Being a Mom, homemaker and sometimes being able to do side work at home became my unexpected life. This was my life and I immersed in it SO COMPLETELY that I TOTALLY Forgot about any of My other Passions.
I essentially lost my identity aside from Wife and Mother except two times in my marriage. The first one, was when my husband was DETERMINED for me to call one of his new customers’, as he was an excellent Full Time water softener salesman. He hounded me everyday for about 2 weeks unrelenting about calling her. I am a very intuitive person, so somewhere after the 4th or 5th consistent day of him hounding me, I began to realize it wasn’t him pushing me, it was his Soul. I was supposed to meet her. So about 2 weeks later, I called her. The call with Amanda was WOW and it felt SO Comfortable like I had known her before! This was really the first time I had met Soul family.
I was already open to expanding and questioning the beliefs I grew up with around Spirituality and the World. Amanda blew this Exploration Wide Open! She was a locally established Angelic channel who was only about 10 years older than me, but was so wise, she could have easily been an old lady. When I went to visit her the first time, she confirmed Everything I had always observed about myself and my path. She became my Mentor and Really helped me open up to the gifts that I always had, but just assumed that everyone had them: Being a pure channel, Emotional Empath, Here to Serve Humanity, Very intuitive and Extremely Sensitive, along with other Gifts. Sometime later maybe 6 months, Her life had to shift to her health and I got pulled away by my family more and More, but the seed was started. At this point, my exploration mostly got pushed into reading Spiritual books and sometimes going to conferences or talking to Readers, but even that dissipated.
The second insight happened when I decided to look for a Psychic Group on Yahoo. This was in the mid 2000’s when FB was first created, so it was still Very Small. You mostly had AOL and Yahoo Groups to connect with people online. Well, I found a Psychic Yahoo Group, but what I began to realized is that being Psychic didn’t have Anything to do with the person being Loving, or Kind, or Caring at All. So my few times being in that group daring to speak my truth were crushed by the sheer amount of rude, selfish and self serving Souls that were present there. That turned me off and as I look at it now, Shut me down for a time on top of quiet inner shifting about how I was being to feel about my marriage.
In 2008, when the entire country was going through a recession, we hit very difficult financial times. My hands were full with a 4 year old and a newborn, so I still wasn’t ready to go back into the work world. It became so challenging that we had to move and my husband decided to go into the Army Reserves. Everything changed overnight. I Truly could Not see beyond this though now I can completely understand his urgency, so he decided to join the Army Reserves since he had already served for 4 years before we met in the Army and had always felt that he wanted to serve longer and if he was asked, definitively would deploy. This changed EVERYTHING.
Fast forward about 3 years, he was deployed to Afghanistan with only 9 days notice. Overnight, I became an acting single mom of our 2 year and 6 year old daughters’ with no physical partner (help)anymore in a new city, new neighborhood and new house because we had just moved to about 1 month prior. With all of this I felt Completely unsupported on top of that the FRG (Family Readiness Group) for the unit that was connected to the volunteer position he chose because offered a much higher mortality rate than the one he was lined up for. Unfortunately for me, the FRG for this unit because it was based in small town in another state ONLY offered support to me via a Very Cliquish Facebook Group and So essentially I got No Support in this Overwhelming situation. The outcome of this unbearable situation was that I and my daughters experienced several traumatic events that shook my foundation to CORE to the point where my nervous system became Seriously OVERWHELMED. The repercussions of these events destroyed my relationship to My husband and our daughters, to the point where when he finally kicked me out after threatening me off and on randomly for 6 months, I felt I deserved it.
That beyond traumatic event which essentially Totally pulled the rug out from underneath me with my life plans, lifestyle, financial grounding and sense of Self Fully catalyzed me into years of Deeper and Still Deeper Shifts Spiritually and into My Spiritual searching which moved me through many, Many layers of Self Illusion and Self Denial to Stand in My Truth now in order to Serve just as myself.
I have been Divinely stripped down Many, Many times which has forced me to adopt habits of observation, assessment, acceptance and surrender in navigating my life that far exceed what most people face or would even choose to face. I also Significantly tapped into my Massive creative side and allowed myself to explore and eventually sell my photography, art and I am currently working on book combining my photography, art and my writing – channeling.
Now, I know I am here to Serve all souls called to me to stand outside their turmoil and offer them compassionate, direct, honest and useful guidance for their lives as a Soul Guide who connects with far more and deeper than just their day to day existence with the goal of being and example and inviting them to truly explore What Calls them, Lights them Up and Pulls them into and towards possibilities and a life that Can Be if they choose it for themselves and do the Inner Work to Clear the Path towards a very fulfilling life.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
When I naively assumed that would automatically qualify to be hired, despite the particular Cities in Schools I was applying to work for being located in another state from where I had interned. I had assumed that because of my brand new degree and recent internship experience directly in that organization that I would automatically get hired. So I applied and interviewed and to my Shock…got turned down.
Being a Mom, homemaker and sometimes being able to do side work at home became my unexpected life when I was married. I immersed in it SO COMPLETELY that I TOTALLY Forgot about any of My other Passions including Counseling. I essentially lost my identity aside from Wife and Mother except two times in my marriage:
The first one, was when my husband was DETERMINED for me to call one of his new customers’, as he was an excellent Full Time water softener salesman. He hounded me everyday for about 2 weeks unrelenting about calling her. I am a very intuitive person, so somewhere after the 4th or 5th consistent day of him hounding me, I began to realize it wasn’t him pushing me, it was his Soul. I was supposed to meet her. So about 2 weeks later, I called her. The call with Amanda was WOW and it felt SO Comfortable like I had known her before! This was really the first time I had met Soul family.
I was already open to expanding and questioning the beliefs I grew up with around Spirituality and the World. Amanda blew this Exploration Wide Open!
I went to visit her the first time, she confirmed Everything I had always observed about myself and my path. She became my Mentor and Really helped me open up to the gifts that I always had, but just assumed that everyone had them: Being a pure channel, Emotional Empath, Here to Serve Humanity, Very intuitive and Extremely Sensitive, along with other Gifts.
The second insight happened when I decided to look for a Psychic Group on Yahoo. This was in the mid 2000’s when FB was first created, so it was still Very Small. You mostly had AOL and Yahoo Groups to connect with people online. Well, I found a Psychic Yahoo Group, but what I began to realized is that being Psychic didn’t have Anything to do with the person being Loving, or Kind, or Caring at All. So my few times being in that group daring to speak my truth were crushed by the sheer amount of rude, selfish and self serving Souls that were present there. That turned me off and as I look at it now, Shut me down for a time on top of quiet inner shifting about how I was being to feel about my marriage.
In 2008, when the entire country was going through a recession, my marriage hit very difficult financial times. My hands were full with a 4 year old and a newborn, so I still wasn’t ready to go back into the work world. It became so challenging that we had to move and my husband decided to go into the Army Reserves. Everything changed overnight. I Truly could Not see beyond this though now I can completely understand his urgency, so he decided to join the Army Reserves since he had already served for 4 years before we met in the Army and had always felt that he wanted to serve longer and if he was asked, definitively would deploy. This changed EVERYTHING.
Fast forward about 3 years, he was deployed to Afghanistan with only 9 days notice. Overnight, I became an acting single mom of our 2 year and 6 year old daughters’ with no physical partner (help)anymore in a new city, new neighborhood and new house because we had just moved to about 1 month prior. With all of this I felt Completely unsupported on top of that the FRG (Family Readiness Group) for the unit that was connected to the volunteer position he chose because offered a much higher mortality rate than the one he was lined up for. Unfortunately for me, the FRG for this unit because it was based in small town in another state ONLY offered support to me via a Very Cliquish Facebook Group and So essentially I got No Support in this Overwhelming situation. The outcome of this unbearable situation was that I and my daughters experienced several traumatic events that shook my foundation to CORE to the point where my nervous system became Seriously OVERWHELMED. The repercussions of these events destroyed my relationship to My husband and our daughters, to the point where when he finally kicked me out after threatening me off and on randomly for 6 months, I felt I deserved it.
That beyond traumatic event which essentially Totally pulled the rug out from underneath me with my life plans, lifestyle, financial grounding and sense of Self Fully catalyzed me into years of Deeper and Still Deeper Shifts Spiritually and into My Spiritual searching which moved me through many, Many layers of Self Illusion and Self Denial to Stand in My Truth now in order to Serve just as myself.
I have been Divinely stripped down Many, Many times which has forced me to adopt habits of observation, assessment, acceptance and surrender in navigating my life that far exceed what most people face or would even choose to face
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am here to assist souls called to me in transitioning from a stale life unfulfilling life to a life that reflects where their heart calls them. I support the seeking individual in addressing the individual blockages caused by: belief systems, ancestorial patterns, thought patterns and fixed ways of being, so that they can embark on the cycles of transformation that are part of growth and expansion into their unique truth, beauty and grace and souls’ calling.
I create art and photography that is infused with Light Codes of New Creations here to Assist in Birthing a New Earth which actually happens through each individual via their Sacred Hearts.
I create and channel My Blessing pics which are the channels that pour through me on many spiritual and especially interpersonal subjects paired with a Guided and self created Inspired image. Together these two creations are intended as teachings for existence in the and for the Highest version of Our Earth and of Our Day to Day Existence grounded in first focuses of compassion, community, empowerment and respect for the truth and beauty of every soul with no exceptions.
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
Likes – all depends on how I am feeling on a particular day, but the common themes will always be grounded in softness, joy, fun, spontaneity/flexibility, creativity, service and community whether internal or/and external, animals and the Earth and Humanity. I Love hanging out with Soul family and trying new Experiences,
Loving and Authentic people whether I agree with them or not which is secondary, their loving realness is a aspect of healing and I definitively can feel this.
Dislikes – Assumptions others make about me, but that’s probably true for everyone.
Being rushed. I prefer to do things at my pace however I can refocus myself for a faster pace if necessary, it’s just not my preference.
When others try to take advantage of me, although even with this I know that this stems from their need for inner work because it’s a need for control which is an illusion. More often now, I feel compassion for them because if they treat me this way, then it means they already are doing this to themselves. Not a happy place at all.
Having to do something I don’t want to do, probably true for everyone. It bugs me for a second sometimes I have to take several deep breaths or refocus myself and sometimes I put it off for a little while, but not long because I’ve learned then it won’t get done. I give myself a loving, direct and supportive talk, then I’m good.
Pricing:
- 30 mins – $60
- 1 hour – $120
- Art – prices vary depending on size and availability
Contact Info:
- Instagram: allowing_the_light
- Facebook: Carolyn Lanier Roberts/Allowing The Light
- Youtube: AllowingTheLight/CarolynLanierRoberts
- Other: https://thecareandfeedingof.wordpress.com
