Melissa Devine is a sacred paths spiritual teacher and creator, energy practitioner, author, international psychic and creator of the Devine Alchemy Activation Method. Drawing from her own journey through trauma, healing, activation and alignment. Melissa teaches others how to move beyond old patterns, consciously create their lives, and deepen their connection with the unseen.
Her work blends manifestation, shadow work, energy healing, ritual, and esoteric wisdom. She also guides students through her High Priestess training, beginning with Sacred Alchemy Rituals, where students learn to work intentionally with ritual, energy, and their own spiritual power. Followed by learning to let in help from the unseen, cultivating deep relationships with plant allies, deities and the elements.
Melissa works with women who are ready to rise beyond their story into their next timeline with a balance of faith and carefully crafted creation. Learn more about Melissa and her work at Melissa-Devine.com.
P.S. Ed is all good- just getting older and realizing that.
Rachel Corpus welcomes longtime friend and psychic Melissa Devine to answer a listener's question about whether shadow work sabotages manifestation, tracing Devine's path from trauma and addiction to founding her own Devine Alchemy Activation Method and High Priestess training.
Ed's Health Scare and Gemma's Question
Rachel Corpus opens the show explaining last week's episode was a replay because her husband Ed was not feeling well and made an unplanned trip to the emergency room for a CT scan that came back fine. She reflects that doctors increasingly attribute new aches to simply getting older, and reframes the moment as an invitation to keep tending the body and to navigate life differently rather than accept decline as inevitable. Turning to tonight's topic, she reads a listener question from Gemma in Duvall, Washington, who says she has been doing intense shadow work and wonders whether the heavy energy she is uncovering affects what she manifests, or whether she is overthinking it. Corpus explains shadow work as looking at whatever has been tucked away in the subconscious, like items stored in a closet, and promises that tonight's guest, someone who has manifested dramatic results throughout her own life, will help answer Gemma directly.
Introducing Melissa Devine
Rachel Corpus introduces her guest, Melissa Devine, a Sacred's Path spiritual teacher, energy practitioner, international psychic, and creator of the Devine Alchemy Activation Method, who blends manifestation, shadow work, energy healing, ritual, and esoteric wisdom and guides students through High Priestess training. Corpus recalls that the two met about eight years ago when Devine came to her for a past-life reading and was later told she would appear on the radio show, a prediction that came true multiple times at pivotal moments, including when Devine first told her untold story and again after she published a book about it. Devine greets Corpus warmly, calling this their "eight-year journey," and Corpus explains that a viewer's question about manifesting arrived just as she felt spirit nudging her to reach out to Devine again, setting up tonight's conversation about how manifestation actually works.
Manifesting Through Self-Worth and Limiting Beliefs
The conversation turns to Devine's own manifesting history, including quickly attracting a sixty-thousand-dollar laser for her aesthetician business and later choosing to move that business into her home, a shift she frames as expansion rather than failure. Devine describes learning to let wealthy clients into her modest household without embarrassment, calling it a lesson in claiming authenticity. Corpus connects this to her own experience hosting high-profile clients despite a modest rented home, and Devine explains that any negative vibration, like embarrassment or a sense of not deserving, immediately lowers what a person can manifest. She argues that shadow work is not optional: manifestation happens only to the level a person believes, and the most common limiting beliefs she encounters are "I don't deserve this" and "I'm not worth this," often hidden behind an outsized ego that masks low self-confidence.
Affirmations, Candles, and Childhood Patterns
Devine explains that affirmations rarely work well on their own because the subconscious recognizes an untrue statement and rejects it, though she says small, believable stair-step affirmations can help. Corpus agrees, admitting her own affirmations often trigger internal pushback. Devine instead favors elemental ritual work, describing her longtime practice of writing manifestation goals on paper, turning it face down, and lighting a candle over it nightly until, months later, she discovers how much has come true. She traces most limiting beliefs back to childhood, roughly ages one through seven, shaped by family and environment, and says people are often afraid of shadow work even though she proudly calls herself a "shadow walker." When something a person manifests triggers old pain, she says, that discomfort is simply the shadow work still needing to be done.
Trauma, Recovery, and Building a Modality
Devine shares that years ago she survived an abduction and eight hours of captivity, escaped, and says the justice system failed to pursue the crime properly; she then spiraled for seven years through bankruptcy, addiction, and suicidal despair before getting sober, a story she later wrote into a book. Sobriety led her directly into manifestation and energy healing work, though she says she initially absorbed clients' pain so intensely that her body reacted physically until a mentor warned the path was unsustainable without boundaries. Devine describes her High Priestess training, rooted in rituals from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn dating to 1888, and a six-month Sacred Alchemy program working with plant allies and deities like Isis and Athena, where students confront core emotions, in her case rage tied to her abduction, with spiritual support rather than alone.
Mirror Work and Barbara's Call for Guidance
Devine and Corpus compare self-talk practices for combating the belief "I do not deserve to receive," including writing out its origins on paper before releasing it, and mirror work, holding eye contact and speaking kindness to oneself. Devine calls a mirror a kind of portal and describes covering mirrors at night or spacing them from outside walls to limit unwanted energy. Caller Barbara describes a mirror she used for that work shattering as she replaced it, leaving her uncertain how to reclaim her sense of power afterward. Devine suggests Barbara pair strong, declarative invocations with the new mirror, cover it when she needs a break, and use sage in a clockwise sweep over reflective surfaces to clear old energy. Corpus closes the show reminding listeners they are loved and to keep their "halo straight."
