About a decade ago, at a yoga festival in the Michigan woods, a young psychic walked up to Nikki Kountouriotis and started saying things she couldn’t shake. Nikki booked a session. And in that first reading, her guides came through with an assignment she had no interest in taking: it was time to start healing her childhood trauma.
Her reaction was a flat no. “I’ve got goals. I’ve got visions. I’ve got dreams. I’m not looking to the past.” She was full speed ahead, committed to the hustle, and, by her own account, extremely disconnected from her body and her emotions.
But she left that session knowing the truth. And one thing led to another.
The psychic became her mentor. Every session felt like magic, and Nikki started calling her an earth angel. Then she noticed something that redirected her whole path: she was handing her power to those readings, the same way she’d once handed it to the books, the courses, and the podcasts of her self-help years. Around that time she heard the words Akashic Records for the first time, and the truth of it landed in her body.
From there, her guides walked her forward one breadcrumb at a time. Go into your records every day. Now start doing this for others. Do a hundred practice readings. Now start charging. “Every step it was like, wait, what?” She started at $50 a reading.
A decade later, Nikki is a Certified Intuitive Guide, Shamanic Healer, and Akashic Record Channeler, and she just opened Soul & Mind Alchemy, a private mentorship where she teaches women to access their own records, rewrite subconscious patterns, and receive shamanic healing, including soul and destiny retrievals.
And here’s the part that makes her rare in her field. A reading practice usually grows on return visits. Nikki watched her clients come back and come back, and she loves providing that service. And still she followed the nudge to teach women to do it for themselves. A psychic whose mission is that you stop outsourcing your knowing, including to her. “I’m not special,” she told us. “I may be special in the way that I teach and I empower, but I’m not special that I have this special golden key to the records. Everybody can do that.”
Her definition is the simplest we’ve heard: the Akashic Records are “your soul’s energetic library.” And the line she posted just days before we recorded says the rest. The Akashic Records aren’t mystical. They’re yours.
Then she told us a story that had all three of us covered in goosebumps. Working on her own relationship with being visible, she went into her records to heal what she called a witch wound. In a past life she saw herself as a town healer, an elderly woman who gave medicine to the women and children, and was taken from her home and hanged in the town square for it. She saw where the energy sat. And she went back in and rewrote the story. She connects that work directly to this lifetime, where using her voice is the thing she’s still practicing: she lost her voice last year, tried everything from speech therapy to past life regression, and is actively rewriting the story around the safety of being heard. Which makes the hour she spent with us its own kind of demonstration.
If you’ve spent years collecting the books, the courses, and the podcasts, and the answers still seem to live somewhere out there, this conversation was recorded with you in mind. Nikki would tell you the library you’ve been searching for has been open the whole time. And it’s yours.
A few other threads from the full episode:
What her father said when she asked him what she was like as a child, and the survival strategy hiding inside being “the easy kid”
Why she treats the inner child and the higher self as one relationship, never two separate practices
Her favorite mindfulness practice, which happens at the kitchen sink
The Carl Jung line she keeps coming back to, and what her guides told her about fate
How she thinks about her “matrix work,” and why she’s grateful it carries the bills while her soul work grows
The one thing she’d say to someone who has tried every healing modality and still sits with the thing unhealed
The Wayne Dyer quote she closed the hour with
If you want to see how your own intuition speaks, Nikki’s Soul Signal Assessment is a short quiz that names your main intuitive strength, with a spirit animal twist. You’ll find it at NikkiHeals.com
One more thing before you go.
Every guest on In Full Light is someone in our community. Carolina and I do private work all year with a small number of clients. She holds the body and the nervous system. I hold the strategy, the structure, and the path to getting clear, getting seen, and getting paid.
If you have a message of your own that hasn’t made it into the world yet, and something in Nikki’s conversation stirred it, we’d love to explore what working together privately could look like. We’ll tell you the truth. If we don’t think we can help, we’ll say so.
Book a conversation with us here.
This essay was originally published on sacredbusiness.com on July 2nd, 2026. You can find the canonical version, along with related essays on sacred business and nervous system work, there.
