The Drop the Needle Podcast

Episode 38: Debra Taitel | 35 Years of Clairvoyance and Teaching - Part 2

Host: Jim Alstott
Guest: Debra Taitel
Date: July 3, 2025

Episode Overview

This engaging and wide-ranging episode continues Jim Alstott’s conversation with Debra Taitel, a clairvoyant, healer, and teacher with over 35 years of experience. Building on part one, this conversation delves deeply into understanding auras, the mechanisms and philosophy behind energy healing, how we can access our own intuitive knowledge, and the pivotal role music plays across our lives. Debra offers warmth, humor, and candor throughout, demystifying psychic phenomena and sharing meaningful moments from her practice, as well as personal reflections on music's influence on her journey.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Auras: Fluidity, Perception, and Meaning

• Can Auras Change Color?
  • Debra explains that auras are created by our chakras, projecting in bands of color that are ever-changing depending on our soul’s work and energy at any given time.
  • “Our chakras actually create our aura... as a clairvoyant, every chakra can be a different color at any time.” (02:16)
  • Debunks the idea of "fixed" chakra colors:
    “Yes, the person who was reading that at the time kept seeing those colors. So therefore they thought those maybe were the only colors.” (03:04)
• Perception and Subjectivity in Readings
  • “Clairvoyance can’t be analyzed... it's what you see when you look. Everybody’s got a different perspective.” (04:52–05:11)
  • Debra draws a comparison to the arts: being technically skilled isn’t the same as being an artist, and clairvoyance is a creative, intuitive process.
• Memorable Analogy
  • “We are light. We’re not even solid. The energy is the essence of what we are... as creative beings.” (06:22)

2. Energy Healing: Restoring Wholeness

• What Is Energy Healing?
  • Healing is “restoring to wholeness... that I’m restoring something to its whole original state, to its original form.” (08:42)
  • Early training: literal combing through the aura, moving out energetic "junk," and running fresh energy to facilitate healing.
    “I learned how to use my hands with the work of a healing guide to literally comb through somebody’s aura and move out the junk...” (09:14)
• The Burden of Unprocessed Energies
  • Many people “take on responsibility for other people’s energy” and pain—especially problematic for empaths.
    “So dangerous for empaths. Yep.” (11:49)
• Disease as Dis-ease
  • “All disease, by the way, is dis-ease... it has its own consciousness, its own vibration, which is not in resonance with our body.” (10:31)

3. Curiosity, Growth, and the Constant Expansion of Perspective

• Evolution of Awareness
  • Debra relates how both her readings and her life views shift frequently:
    “My view is different sometimes, every couple days, because I get some new perspective.” (13:12)
  • “I went down the rabbit hole of curious clairvoyant. I feel like I am. I’m a clairvoyant... but I am absolutely a curious clairvoyant.” (13:58–14:24)

4. Wellness Alchemy: Medical Intuitive Practice

• Definition & Description
  • Debra describes her new Medical Intuitive work as “Wellness Alchemy,” blending energy work with body insight.
    “Wellness Alchemy’s mission is to help people wake up to what they already know... innate abilities of self-healing... just waiting to be uncovered.” (18:02)
• Personal Experience (Jim’s Testimonial)
  • In his own session, Debra and a colleague identified unspoken physical issues (hip & sciatica pain), showing how the process can uncover hidden root causes. (16:28–16:43)
• Important Disclaimer & Empowerment
  • Emphasizes not to avoid doctors or medication but rather complement conventional treatment.
    “I am not a medical doctor... medication is miracles. But if we can clear these in a healing, it’s just going to go along with whatever your doctor is telling you.” (19:57)
• The Creed
  • “We believe that each one of us had a part in the creation of our body... Disease and physical challenges are a pathway to learn and grow as spirit... fear and ignorance need not keep us from the blessings we find as we heal ourselves as immortal souls.” (22:13)

5. Soul Contracts & Remembering Our Purpose

• Why Don’t We Remember Our Soul Agreements?
  • Debra explains how birth and early life overwhelm with energy (“You spend nine months in Mama's belly... then after you're born, it's a lot of energy.” 24:46)
  • “Clairvoyance is nothing more than being able to see and retrieve that information... it’s in your Akashic records.” (24:46)
  • Touches on the "amnesia" we experience post-birth and the mystery of consciousness.

6. Teaching Clairvoyance: Tools, Not Rules

• On Teaching
  • “The tools aren’t about... teaching you how to be clairvoyant. I'm giving you tools so you can clear enough of your space to be able to see from your own space.” (28:32)
• Scientific Validation
  • The conversation references scientific studies of brain activity during intuitive states (especially work by Joe Dispenza).
  • “While I don’t seek validation for reading... Most people after the reading say, ‘I can’t believe how much lighter I feel.’” (29:33)

7. Powerful Healing Stories

• Impactful Anecdote
  • “I once had a 70 year old woman start to just cry her eyes out... she said to me, ‘I’ve never told anybody. I was abused as a little kid.’ ...For the record, she never had a migraine again.” (29:34–30:43)
• The release of lifelong secrets and trauma through energy work demonstrates the transformative power of Debra’s practice.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “We are light. We’re not even solid. The energy is the essence of what we are.” – Debra Taitel (06:22)
• “All disease, by the way, is dis-ease... it has its own consciousness.” – Debra Taitel (10:31)
• “So dangerous for empaths.” – Jim Alstott echoing Debra, on the challenge of absorbing others’ pain (11:49)
• “Clairvoyance can’t be analyzed. It's what you see when you look.” – Debra Taitel (04:52)
• “We believe that each one of us had a part in the creation of our body... Disease and physical challenges are a pathway to learn and grow as spirit.” – Debra Taitel, reading the Wellness Alchemy creed (22:13)
• Healing anecdote:
  “I once had a 70 year old woman start to just cry her eyes out... For the record, she never had a migraine again.” (29:34–30:43)

Music: The Soundtrack of Debra’s Life

Introduction to the Segment

• “The music is the tie that binds. And I believe everyone has a soundtrack that accompanies their life if they just take a moment to think about it.” – Jim Alstott (32:15)

First Song Debra Loved on the Radio

• “Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” with Leslie Ann Warren.
  • “I just resonated so much with Cinderella... and I sang that song ‘Ten Minutes Ago I Met You’ probably from the time I was, who knows, five.” (34:02–35:48)

Family (or Road Trip) Anthem

• Eclectic Mix: anything from Journey, Queen (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), to Meatloaf’s “Paradise By the Dashboard Light”—plus personal compositions and songs from her time in Israel. (36:48–38:14)

Guilty Pleasure Song

• “Diggy Diggy Hole” by Wind Song
  • “This is a workout song that my coach played and I could play it on loop and sing it... I am a dwarf and I diggy diggy hole.” (40:00–40:38)

Song That Felt Written For Her

• “Hymn of Axiom” by Vienna Teng
  • “It will take you to a place when you listen to it... Wouldn’t it be amazing if somebody could know us like those deepest parts?” (41:26–42:32)

All-Time Favorite

• U2 – “Beautiful Day”
  • “The thing Spotify sends me all the time... 10 million times.” (45:38–45:55)

Other Musical Mentions

• Classic rock love: Beatles, Stones, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin
• Musical theater: Hamilton, Oliver, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof

Closing & Contact Information

• Jim thanks Debra for her openness and invites her back for further stories about impactful psychic readings.
• Debra’s Contact Info:
  • Website: spiritlightinsight.com
  • Substack: Insight Illuminated
  • Instagram: @spiritlightinsight
  • Facebook: Debbie Taitel

Key Timestamps

• Auras & Chakras: 02:08–06:28
• Energy Healing: 08:33–13:23
• Wellness Alchemy: 15:23–23:35
• Soul Contracts: 24:02–26:50
• Memorable Healing Story: 29:34–30:43
• Musical Questions Begin: 32:15
• Debra Sings from Cinderella: 35:49
• Guilty Pleasure (“Diggy Diggy Hole”): 40:00
• Closing/Farewell: 47:22

Tone & Atmosphere

The episode is warm, candid, and gently irreverent—personal stories, laughter, and practical wisdom flow readily between Jim and Debra. Both elevate difficult subjects (trauma, healing, skepticism) with humor and approachability, making mystical subjects accessible and deeply human. The rhythm of the episode—moving from energy healing to personal narrative to the celebratory power of music—mirrors the podcast’s mission: to inspire, challenge, and transform through honest conversation and the joy of a great soundtrack.