Episode 40: Are You Having A Spiritual Awakening?

[@muddyshoes4517]

I can tell you that if you're someone who feels the pull of consciousness, similar to the matrix movie, the jouney never ends. I'm in my mid 40s. I took a yoga program when I was 18 and started to feel what it felt like to be present and truly alive, not just operating off of programming & how the winds of life blew. That glimpse of presence pulled me into learning meditation at 22. My spiritual journey has been a focal point ever since. I'm now a teacher, coach, minister and pastor. I've come so far, yet, I still have so much to learn. There's been so many times that yes, I love the jouney & the work, but also have said "I just want to live a normal life & be fulfilled by the normal things in life. I'm tired of always having to look deeper". (This is always a good time to find some fun things to do & lighten up 😉) Then, when I do that walk of not looking deeper & not doing the work of staying connected to my higherpower & self, I feel that I'm shoving myself into a box half my size. Being spiritually alive human is the most amazing thing ever. It can also push us to the very edge of our abilities & understandings. It can be frustrating & confusing, while moments later revealing the most amazing truths & freedoms. If someone feels an emptiness that can't be filled by accomplishments & day to day life, it's because you're trying to squish yourself into a life that is too small for the whole you. It's because you are so much more than you've been told, and so much more than the world knows how to teach you how to be. (Thank God we're all growing and there are more things like SHSB! ❤️) This is also known as the hero's journey, coined by Carl Jung. Hero because it takes a brave heart to be in this journey. It also takes a big soul! You're on the right path if you're watching these videos. When the student is ready, the teachers will appear. Believe in yourself & know you're not alone! 🙏💛🌠🕊

[@pierre-philipmartin2009]

Woke up last year but now, I'm going through the dark night of the soul. Nothing compares to this. Jenna said Shell shock, I call it Soul shock

[@starspiritual]

Soul shock is a great description

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

LOVE this! Soul shock it is. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

Agreed!

[@evergreendreamer6425]

Clark is def in their authentic Self, very beautiful and decked out in Catitude 😘😘😘

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

He thanks you!! :) Our pets can be our greatest teachers- natural beings.

[@BookdragonCarina]

I must admit the image of the birth really had me sobbing. It really is how I live my life. I came into this world alone. I was born prematurely via c-section and my mother was fully sedated, so not conscious. No other family member was there. Because my mother had chosen a hospital with no ward for premature babies, i straight transfered to another hospital (in the same city, only 15 minutes away from the one my mother was in). No family member was with me the entire first day of my life. My sister (7 years at that time) wanted to see me, but wasn’t allowed in that ward). My father was literally forced by his own father, my beloved late grandfather, to see me the next day. I never realized how much that truly weighed on me until I heard this episode. I’m still crying as I write this. Thank you for your amazing work. It means so much ❤

[@lisapardini3594]

I so appreciate your videos. Thank you. For me, my spiritual awakening has been a lonely journey. I feel disconnected from others because most people in my life aren't walking a similar path. It can feel a bit isolating. I'm proud of the insights I've gained and I'm grateful for seeing that I now have the opportunity to choose people to be in my life who are aligned with my beliefs. Over the past couple of years people closest to me who were hurtful, and who I had unhealthy relationships with, have dropped away. I now get to create new healthy relationships with people I feel are aligned with my soul and the inner work I'm doing. As Jenna said it's like a rebirth. On a side note, where can I get Jenna's tiger sweatshirt? Love it.

[@claregarbett1864]

I find the grief so overwhelming, and I don't know where it's coming from so I shut it off again. Not knowing when or where it will end or who I'll be on the other side of it is scary, but I do feel I am ready to try. Thank you beautiful hearts for your work, this is reflecting the current time for me as I'm sure it is many others and to understand this isn't a spiral into poor mental health but rather an awakening is as deeply comforting as it is powerful. See y'all on the other side of this particular layer for me, (no destination I hear you Jenna), but for sure some leaps of faith along the way. Let's do this 🙌💓

[@laurarubiocoach8786]

Good luck! I can feel you. I am feeling exactly like you, but for me is fear!

[@genericuser2339]

My view which you can please disregard if it doesn’t resonate with you. Grounding. Regularly ground yourself and start meditating daily even if for just 10 minutes. If you maintain regular grounding it will give a path for your negative emotions to flow out of you. Had it happen with me and yes there were some tears but those feelings left me. Hope this helps you both. ❤

[@claregarbett698]

@@laurarubiocoach8786 Right back to you!

[@claregarbett698]

@@genericuser2339 Thank you, really appreciate your experience and so many thanks for taking the time to share it. Excellent advice xx

[@genericuser2339]

@@claregarbett698 you are most welcome. What’s the worst that can happen, it won’t work. However it just might so keep it up for a few weeks. Changed my life and has opened up so much to me. Ground, meditate. Hard at first, but stick with it and research widely to find what resonates with you and follow that practise. And remember, ❤️. 🤗

[@thehealingplace3215]

What happens when you feel like you’ve been going through it for 20 years! 😅 trauma definitely plays a part in how your nervous system deals with the awakening. I feel there is a crossover with spiritual awakening ans dysregulated nervous system, the intense emotions if not getting better over a period of time, the underlying dsyregulation has to be addressed. For along time I thought I was just a sensitive a empath that was born that way, and feeling very aware of energy etc, the awakened ness without the peace part! I realise now I’ve been dealing with cptsd since a child and that relates to the same feelings people get with spiritual awakenings.

[@RKTGX95]

If anyone has seen the show Avatar the last Airbender, my awakening journey feels a lot like Zuko's illness that came on him when he decided to make a choice that isn't aligned with his old (fake) self but the true self. Since it was such a big and new and raw thing for him spiritually and emotionally, he was feverishly bedridden for a few days. But for me this is going on for almost a year, both physically and emotionally with great ups and downs. So much pain, mixed with grief, anger and misery and yet sprinklings of beauty and pureness with a general attitude that the overall journey is correct. Also this hike for a higher mountain is filled with retreads, fear with attempts of comforting denials and dissociation. They come from the historical guardian self that knows how to survive in the olden days and his stature and might are challenging.

[@brianjett4898]

Yes I keep reminding myself that it’s a process

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

one step at a time, over and over again. thank you for being here on that journey with us, Brian!

[@michaelrogue4513]

When I was in Philadelphia, I had an awakening in waves, much like how I was born in childhood ( choking on embryo fluid). I felt like most of my life I was drowning, wanting someone to save me. Knowing I can stay afloat, or swim back to myself and enjoy my life on the “sure” has taken a lot of work, building conscious moments to accept and embrace the impact of my life, now with compassion, and experience the world for the first time yet again. This episode is powerful, clear. Always grateful to share in this experience, even when it is at times painful.

[@MegaNellik]

Thank you for sharing this and being so vurnarable💜 You describe it so well💜🙏

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

Thank you so much Line! So glad this resonates and you're here in the conversation.

[@nehalrathod9]

still listening to the podcast, halfway. but I have to pause and write that Jenna and Nicole, what you have shared here is tremendous and it is incredibly moving me. Thanks for crossing my path and sharing knowledge with me. Grateful😇

[@wisdomheals526]

I think and feel part of a Spiritual Awakening for me has been an Emotional and Mental Awakening. Becoming aware of my emotions and feeling them and witnessing the thought forms has lead me to searching for meaning from a more deeper Spiritual place. Having the faith and acceptance of my emotions and mental thought thoughts has been a bridge to spirtual awakening , what supports the awakening is spiritual practices , walks in nature, reading about other humans faith and wisdom.

[@brianjett4898]

Unless you become as children again (who don’t compare, compete or condemn). This is excellent

[@justiceforthechildren2229]

To me an awakening is a heightened awareness within that can create profound changes within me and around me. It also helps me break unhealthy habits within and in relationships around me. Sometimes when an awakening is accruing, I find it helpful not to make any drastic changes right away. Many times, its best to allow myself to experience the full awakening alone without sharing it with others to get the full experience of it. This seems to help me experience its highest potential and benefit for my wellbeing.

[@brianjett4898]

Yes self-compassionate isn’t taught and thank you for mentioning that

[@gabrielauniverse9322]

i resonate a lot with jenna’s stories and it helps me have compassion for myself hearing it from someone else. thank you for sharing ❤️

[@brianjett4898]

Yes I’m learning that there aren’t any false endpoints and so the hurry to get this one thing over with is like mowing the yard rather than weeding it and so less mowings.

[@jade5161]

Love the spiritual cat vibes 🐱

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

Clark says thank you! :)

[@sharonmorrison7810]

I really enjoyed listening how both of you complement each other and amplify the awakening through the discussion. It has been a lonely journey and to find others that want a deeper meaning helps validate my curiosity. I used to think that curiosity was disconnectedness and now I find that it is my connection! Thank you for giving me company on my journey.

[@lisaclick4908]

This really resonates. So similar to my story. Thank you for sharing!

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

So glad you're resonating and grateful you're here, Lisa! Powerful for us as well to see the resonance in others.

[@nataliagarcia5342]

I love your podcast and all 3 of you💓💓💓 Thank you for helping the world heal🙏❤️🙏

[@sharonr5605]

For me, there is no separation between dark night of the soul and a spiritual awakening...they go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other.

[@bebaaskaful]

Girls, thank you for all the work youre doing. As someone who has early developmental trauma, I caught PTSD around 38 years due to neuropsichiatrist who always gave me SSRI before than one retraumatization that took me on a very dark place for almost two years. I was having symptoms of every mental disease from DSM. I couldnt explain it at that time, I just wanted it to stop. Only one thought came to my mind, as the Voice we hear. It was " I cant live this way anymore. I want to know what is driving my whole life". And it was trauma, the disconection from true self. It is the biggest pain in our lives, we somehow lost our true self. And while it is still here it is not easy to come to it. Loosing identity, people from my life. And in my soroundings noone could help me. I really belived that I am crazy. But after working with therapist trained in SE and EMDR, it all comes down to getting out of mind, loosing the grip of it, nad reconecting to emotions and intuition. Thank you for openly sharing youre expirience, because we all need support in this process of lifetime.

[@rooted_sage]

Thank you for for the beautiful insight. I had my first spiritual awakening in February of this year, very scary stuff. Yet three months later I’m on my wonderful life-path. With experience comes wisdom.

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

Thank you for sharing with us, Danielle! Yes, with experience comes wisdom when we are willing to look and be curious. Excited for you and the path you have put yourself on!

[@danase6771]

Thank you so so much! SO many things resonate that it brings such an instant relief to my mind, to feelings. Want to point out how AMAZINGLY CLEARLY and beautifully you both put your thoughts into words (in each episode. It shocks me every time). And it's not even scripted! Maybe that's how sound people who talk sincerely and truthfully Cheers from Ukraine❤

[@keystolife12]

Life has no particular purpose, it is purpose unto itself..

[@tjjohnson1151]

Thank you for this episode again. I’ve been feeling many feelings and emotions as it comes to my spiritual awakening. I don’t think I have experience a “dark soul” yet, or maybe I have. I just feel heavy, emotionally exhausted at times. I guess I am still finding my spiritual awakening, I can say that my senses are heightened as each day I become more conscious of things.

[@emmairvall1789]

I just realized today that what I thought was exhaustion, what I could not put into words or had a language for is exactly this. A spiritual awakening that I do not want to be without, but which at the same time is the most frightening I have experienced. Thank you so very, very much

[@Womenwineandyoga]

Thanks for this episode. Would have benefited from more insight about the “awakening to the matrix, etc.” I also wish we heard from Nicole more in your videos. I find that Jenna can talk for too long as if it’s almost a therapy session for her and it would be nice to get some more of a clinical perspective from Nicole. Thanks again - all love.

[@DrJoannaCharlton]

This arrived in my inbox this morning just as I needed it, thank you, I have also been going thu layers of awakening, last year finally really allowing the space for ALL my emotions without judgment and learning how to self regulate and soothe the inner child in me (reparenting) that really was so sad and was longing to be heard, felt, seen and accepted just as it is. The next part, more recently, is that I am seeing more clearly than ever that we are spirits having a human experience,. The divine, Loving universe can truly experience the beautiful flower or the sunset or the wind on its face since it hasn't got the senses of the body to truly experience them and be in awe, so, therefore, We CHOOSE to come down to our beautiful planet earth again, to feel these experiences and, reconnect to the oneness of life and the reconnection to self, again and again,, after the illusion of separation,. and help others awaken. This was huge for me to understand, and experience it, and it all started by committing to feeling, embracing, and integrating ALL my emotions. Thank you for this discussion.

[@jamiewilliams8107]

People who have been hiding their true colours in my life are finally proving how they really are.

[@starspiritual]

I find hearts ♥️ everywhere too. Similarly I was in a job which wasn’t good for me and after being sacked due to my health I really started to embrace my spiritual self. I listened to my calling and started my spiritual business

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

This is so powerful to read your shared experience and resonance, Star. Thank you for sharing and for listening to your calling!! We're creating a whole new world as we each tap into our own hearts intuition. Inspired by and proud of you.

[@brianjett4898]

Excellent video. Haven’t made choices from my source and the darkness I can relate to to lesser or other degrees. Bandaid and 17 year old Brian I have run from. Willingness and I’m sorry to hear about your brother. My dad passed away last August and I haven’t perhaps given deeper core thought or consciousness to these. Divorce a year ago. Curiousness and I was always making decisions for someone else. Genuine I’m putting on smiles and pretending isn’t fun at all. Home in my heart Trying to rearrange the desk chairs on the Titanic. Home self conscious awareness! Like that. And going from intellectual consent to application can seem scary. Authentic Self always present regardless of unawareness of mere patterns

[@lorigonzalez1200]

You ladies are amazing I just think it’s brilliant how you explain shit

[@mardelmarxo]

Woo woo! Love this subject. Thank you for helping me realize I have had a (rude) awakening. It’s time to make changes and listen to my authentic Self instead of making somebody happy for their own insecurities. Thanks for being vulnerable and sharing ur experience/wisdom.

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

Celebrating you Margie!! And your willingness to listen to your true Self and allow your hearts voice to take lead. You deserve that. Thank you for being here in this conversation with us. We're so glad you are!

[@theahcingheartloves]

I absolutely loved this episode! What a beautiful thought of reflecting on how you were your most essential self when you came into the world.

[@travellearn9547]

Hi jenna and nicole, thank you for your vulnerability and openness. What comes up as i hear / watch this video are memories of how I felt that time when i finally mustered the courage to come out of Denial that there was this huge gap or hole in my heart / life and i needed to do something about it. It was around three years ago when I expressed it for the first time to someone verbally. I had so much anger in me towards people i love but I didn’t know how to give words to the whole phenomena of codependency and all its impacts. But since i got hold of the vocabulary it helped me express and get on the path of healing with more clarity. It was very scary and brought up so much sadness that i would have to let go off so much about the “me” i was so familiar with and knew i could “control” and would have to be so brave which was terrifying for me. Glad that your work is out here to help people feel so much more supported and seen.

[@esztertolnai4315]

Love your content first of all. I'm at a point of realising I am not myself, disconnected which makes me extremely anxious. I have been searching but my patterns seem so deep that somehow I can't change them. Like I know what I need to do but simply can't, which is even more frustrating. This has been going on for years now and I'm just getting more frustrated and not awakened. Any suggestions?

[@pulsarlescoeurselectromagn2474]

i fuckin AM going through a spiritual awakening and to listen to this just confirmed me this thruth. thank you for the connexion. thank you for the open free vulnerable generous sharing. your work has help me so much, so deeply loads of love in the air Marie from Québec.

[@nomadicloner1986]

Ehhh, when I started to explore spirtuality and stuff like that I started to experience depersonalization and had a lot of intrusive thoughts that went on for almost a year. It was horrible and it was hell. I’m finally pulling myself out of it thanks to finding a really good qualified therapist, going on the correct medication and practicing evidenced based therapies such as CBT. When I was trying to “do the work” and heal on my own it messed me up a lot. I just wanted to share this so that you can know your work can be really dangerous for certain people

[@find.your.zen_]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@brianjett4898]

Squeegee the sponge Infinite friend Heal me Amen

[@davidwhitcher1708]

woo woo means magical thinking. Non logical thinking.

[@SelfHealersSoundboard]

LOVE THIS! Thank you for sharing that!

[@azuresounds937]

I'm sorry but this doesn't really tell me anything and I'm not getting what you are saying.

[@keystolife12]

Life has no particular purpose, it is purpose unto itself..