PrayerSmith

12/21/2025

✨Blessings on winter solstice!✨
In the darkest times, may we all come to realize the transcendent truth of our miraculous light.🙏🏼🤍🙏🏾

11/10/2025

The 40 days between the and the 12.21 are a opportunity. 🤍💫🕊️

🤍 Honor the 11.11 Portal with a ritual, such as a salt bath to purify, candlelighting, & a meditative practice with heartmath breathing to align your resonance with your divine self. Crystallize your heartfelt intention for your next gorgeous evolution & expansion. Find the beautiful words and feelings that capture the manifested essence of your soul’s desire. Engage in a manifestation practice such as writing your affirmation 11 times; visualize & imagine your intention realized; celebrate and feel the gratitude of your success and the universe celebrating with you!

💫For 40 days, purify & detox: remove habits which distract, numb or aren’t healthy for your well-being/soulful evolution. You may give up alcohol, take a social media break, stop emotional eating.

Create and maintain a spiritual practice, such as daily meditation, and picking an oracle card with a message for each day.

Engage daily in activities that embody the change you want to see in your world:
spend time connecting and talking with a loved one;
exercise and eat healthy foods to nourish the temple of your body;
gift random acts of kindness to strangers;
be the version of yourself you’ve always wanted to be!

Most importantly, be the self that has actualized the manifestation intention you set on 11.11!

🤍 For Winter Solstice, plan a nurturing day – imagining it as a magical day of rebirth… the emerging from the chrysalis, the returning of light, feeling aligned with the energy of peace and infinite possibility for yourself and the collective.

Spend that day in prayer and celebration, by yourself or with others. Light a candle in the darkness and witness the brilliance of your invincible light, gifts & presence. Stand under or imagine the starry sky, and realize that there is an infinity of light in every one of us & all around us, and feel how together we are birthing an incredible new year and world!

🕊️ Purified and ready for the winter holidays, may you experience your sacred heart ready to give and be love.
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namaste and blessings, Lisa

11/07/2025

07/22/2025

Mary Magdalene

You are the miracle of an awakened heart.
You are the miracle of ascending remembrance.
You are the miracle of repeated resurrection.

You are the presence that awakens me from my self-inflicted disconnect.

You are the friend who lovingly awaits my remembrance of the truth of who I AM.

You are the sister who stays present when my reality crumbles and pain blinds me. You fearlessly witness my decompensation, holding space for my triumphant resurrection. You hold vigil as I surrender and disappear into the dark mystery. You steadfastly await and receive my return. Your light, as my homing beacon, guides my transformative journey into a greater remembrance of who I AM. With you as my midwife, I become the sunrise.

With you as my guide, I remember that resurrection is an earth school initiation. I am born into the illusion of separation and pain, suffering and fear. When I lose myself in this experience, you await my remembrance of the truth of who I AM. You and Jesus together embody the divine feminine and the divine masculine of the resurrection flame, reminding us of the promise of transmuting pain, separation and death into greater light.

As You are,
I AM
the resurrection flame!

-Lisa Catania, PrayerSmith

04/02/2025

🤍Today is autism awareness day. It’s a day to celebrate our perfect crystal angel children. 🤍

May we allow ourselves
to see once again through our hearts.
May we let go of eons of conditioning
and remember that
God never makes mistakes.

Our children
who perceive and respond
to the world differently
than us old souls
are
pure souls
leading an evolution
of a different Way.

Our beautiful children
do not have problems to be solved,
and should not be taught to behave
nor to tolerate whatever
is bringing pain and discord.
They cannot help but respond
to the discordance around them
and sound the alarm
in their own self-preservation.

Their refusal, their tears, their “hyperactivity”
is their inherent leadership
to challenge the world
to vibrate and resonate
at a different frequency.

May we not seek to “teach” them,
because this may break them.
Instead,
may we seek to understand
their sensitivities
and how,
if we
shift into a gentler, kinder mode,
we will find
a simpler, centered, more loving Way
to navigate living
in responsiveness and concert with each other.

May we grow ever more sensitive
and remember our own sensitivities.
May we remember to
listen and respond
to ourselves and each other
long before we need to cry out in
pain and refusal and breaking down.

May we individually and collectively
wake up
and reject the norms
that imprison us
in compliance and complicity.

May we become
rebels and leaders
by our own accord
as we pave The Way
to protect and align ourselves with
the purity and beauty
of our most sensitive.

For our perfect crystal angel children.

~ Lisa Catania, PrayerSmith

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Sacred Phoenix: Prayers to Awaken Your Divine Transformation
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02/21/2025

When I look back, I can see things that I didn’t know how to label when I was going through them…

As a child I was very perceptive and sensitive to the needs of others. I was emotionally picking up on things that no one else was tending to…the pain and dysfunctional patterns of others and society were screaming at me. Not only did I become a good girl, anticipating others needs and delivering, but I also started trying to heal and help the emotional wounds around me. I now realize that I am an empath, and that a big part of my life’s purpose is to help change patterns, ease suffering and create new patterns based in love. But, these lessons were hard learned.

I also was pensive and introspective, experiencing existential crises starting at an early age. Why was there such suffering in the world? Was death the end of everything? This put me on a path of spiritually and psychologically wanting to understand the meaning of life.

I often felt alone and disconnected from the experiences that seemed to fulfill many of my peers. Nature became my solace and my religion. I felt a comfort and belonging and experienced so many healing metaphors in my connection to the earth and sky and plants and beings great and small as well as the unseen world.

I also felt the weight of all the emotional baggage that I carried and internalized. Was I doomed to a life of anxiety and depression? How could I change carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders? I learned the power of healing myself in so many different ways and transforming and transmuting dysfunctional and fear-based patterns into ones centered in health and love. Not only did I become a therapist, but I kept turning towards spiritual meaning because that’s where my heart always led me.

I leaned into my own spiritual experiences, even though I initially felt like I was doing it alone since others would often perceive me as being too “new-agey” or “woo woo”….

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01/23/2025

In-person Group starting next week!

Moon Circle: Sacred Intention and Manifestation

Join us for an ongoing biweekly circle through 2025, focused on sacred manifestation and uplifting our collective dreams. This will be a particularly powerful and transformative year (more info in comments!). Gathering in an intentional group will strengthen our growth!

Individually, many of us are called to become less ego driven, and to become more heart-centered as we seek deeper peace and reach for greater unity.

Each month, we will gather close to the new moon. We will each bring a reflection from a common prompt. We will share our reflections, as well as a sacred intention born from our processes. Together, we will hold our intentions in manifestation practices. Two weeks later, we will gather close to the full moon. We will share our journey with our intention: what has come up to be released and transmuted, and what has taken root and is manifesting. We will join in rituals of release, expansion and celebration, including amplifying the positive energies we are birthing as we drum, dance, and sing together.

This group will begin with the first new moon of the year on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

Meets biweekly on Wednesdays from 6:30 PM to 8 PM.

We will meet on the second floor of Beverly Therapists at 10725 S Western.

Group will be limited to 8 participants. Participants may join at a later date if there are group openings.

Cost: $25 per group session.

Contact Lisa Catania, LCSW via phone or text at 773–719–1751.

Testimonial:
“I had the profound privilege of taking a spiritual awakening class led by Lisa Catania and it has truly been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. The class was a beautiful journey of self-discovery, connection, and inner peace, leaving me with a renewed sense of clarity and even a greater appreciation for life.” -C.G. 12/2024

01/10/2025

From a 2016 journal❤️. Writing prayers has always helped me with grounding, centering and transforming. Connecting with myself by my altar, in the here and now, connecting with Divine Love and writing my prayers anew always helps me shift to a more heart centered and spiritual place. 🙏🏼

What is your practice?

peace and love, Lisa

09/13/2024

In the earthly realm, lessons come in the form of pain and struggle.

We experience smoothness and peace in the areas where we have achieved karmic completion. Or, we can also experience smoothness as the calm before the storm.

A storm surfaces in our life because our soul knows it’s time and that we are ready to transcend more areas of karmic learning and debt.

Through a blessed struggle, we are shaken by circumstances that rock us to our soul. We are invited to grow in a way that previously we have not been able.

The bigger the challenge, the more profound the soul’s initiation for potential upgrading.

Through blessed chaos, we will be humbled as previous forms of coping will not provide our solution. Entirely new ways, unfathomable to our old selves, must emerge for us to progress.

Not only will we need to navigate trauma and find new ways to heal, but we will also need to transcend the fear inherent in trauma.

As in the hero’s journey, we will only complete our learning when we are able to go back and face the dragon that threatened us from the start. However, we must apply our new skills to disarm and befriend the dragon, gratefully incorporating her lessons into the very fabric of our soul.

🤍May you be blessed and know that you are eternally supported as you navigate your sacred hero’s journey.🤍
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~ Lisa Catania, PrayerSmith

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’sJourney

09/03/2024

After every mountain crest,
the descent follows.

The return to our common life
holds both comforts and
familiar sorrows and worries.

Expansion must be balanced by retraction.
The ying balances the yang.

Simultaneously,
resurfacing follows every submersion,
just as resurrection is destined to follow
the gravest of losses.

There is an inner harmonizing:
a soulful, energetic conversation
constantly ongoing.

The Light and the dark,
the elation and the depression,
the joy and the tears,
the flow of love and the gripping of frustration.

May I surrender and release,
and be a conduit
of shifting grace.

May I be gentle with myself
so that this harmonizing
may complete its purpose,
and deliver its gifts.

and so it is

~ Lisa Catania, PrayerSmith

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08/02/2024

Beloved, please help me release the surfacing remains of my soul wounds of aloneness and unworthiness. I am never alone, I am never forgotten, I am worthy of Love’s constant embrace.

I remind myself daily that I am surrounded by heavenly love. All the splendor that God has created is for me, as it is for all of us! I exist as the truth of God’s splendor in form!

I feel loving ancestors, my guardian angels, light beings from angelic realms, nature elementals, and the aura of my own I Am Presence proceeding me, beside me, following me, within me, all around me! In my car, on my walks, at my workplace, while I’m cooking, while I’m sleeping: I Am in heaven‘s company.

My footsteps are guided.
I am protected.
Divine Love surrounds me.
I am safe.
I am loved.
I Am Love!

~ Lisa Catania, PrayerSmith

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04/16/2024

I AM
pure and holy
loved and worthy
as I believe
I AM

~ Lisa Catania, PrayerSmith

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From: Sacred Phoenix: Prayers to Awaken Your Divine Transformation
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(Image created from the recent solar eclipse 💫)