How to Cut Energetic Cords & Release Resentment For Good with Spiritual Intuitive Colette Baron-Reid

September 21, 2026

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Colette Baron-Reid, a spiritual intuitive, joined Gabby Bernstein on Dear Gabby to explain what energetic cords are, how they form, and how to cut them. The core insight is that a cord is not a mystical tether to another person but an energetic attachment made of unresolved stories, expectations, and resentments that live in your solar plexus. The conversation focused on practical, grounded methods for releasing these attachments, with an important caveat: this work is for everyday grievances and rumination, not a substitute for professional therapy when dealing with major trauma.

What an Energetic Cord Actually Is

Baron-Reid described an energetic cord as a multi-threaded connection that forms when you give your power over to a story that hooks you into another person's energy. It originates in the solar plexus, the seat of personal power, and is composed of many strands: your expectations, disappointments, projections, and repressed rage. "It's not just one thing," she said. "It's a number of things that go in there."

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What you'll learn

1 (00:03) **What This Episode Will Teach You** - Gabby opens with a masterclass promise: how to cut energetic cords so you can truly forgive and release resentment.
2 (01:41) **What Is an Energetic Cord Attachment?** - Colette defines a cord as an energetic hook from your solar plexus to another person, created by unresolved frequency and a rigid story.
3 (04:57) **Why We Unconsciously Hold Onto Cords** - People are often afraid of the void after a cut because they get almost high on the resentment and use it as a false form of protection.
4 (07:07) **Important Caveat: Big T Trauma vs. Smaller Cords** - The hosts distinguish between deep therapeutic work needed for serious trauma and the spiritual cord-cutting practice for everyday resentments.
5 (09:51) **How Rumination Creates the Cord** - Colette delivers a key insight: rumination after an event is what weaves the cord, not the event itself.
6 (15:30) **Pattern Interrupt Tools for Rumination** - Colette shares a new visualization: seeing the rumination on a chalkboard and wiping it clean with a sponge, then letting Spirit write a new story.
7 (17:25) **The Blame Game and Global Polarization** - The judgment of self and others is a sign of a cord, and the current polarized world is set up to create more cords through hate and othering.

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Gabby Bernstein

Show Notes

Ever think you've moved on from someone, only to be reminded of them somehow and get pulled right back into resentment? In this episode of Dear Guides, Gabrielle Bernstein sits down with spiritual intuitive Colette Baron-Reid to explore energetic cords: what they are, how to recognize when you have one, and why rumination is what actually creates and feeds them. Together, they break down the difference between everyday grievances and deeper trauma, why holding onto resentment can block your ability to manifest, and how to release a cord without spiritually bypassing what really happened to you. The episode closes with a guided cord-cutting meditation to help you release resentment, reclaim your energy, and finally let go. Whoever's still living rent-free in your head… let this be the moment you set them free.

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Find out more about Colette’s work here https://www.colettebaronreid.com/

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