Awaken Your Authentic Self

Shadow work and why you can't see your own blind spots may reveal why the same emotional patterns keep repeating, even after years of inner work. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual teacher, Vedic astrologer, Enneagram practitioner, and author Indra Rinzler to explore the hidden aspects of ourselves we struggle to see - and how recognizing them opens the door to deeper self-awareness and spiritual awakening.

What if the very thing you cannot see about yourself is the key to understanding who you truly are?

With more than 50 years on the spiritual path, including decades as a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, Indra has developed a unique approach through Vedic Astrology, the Enneagram, and his Celestial Enneagram system. His work brings together ancient wisdom and personality insights to illuminate the patterns, conditioning, and blind spots shaping our lives. He is the author of Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience.

In this conversation, Jessica and Indra explore interconnectedness through Indra's Net, the role of shadow work in spiritual awakening, and the Wheel of Totality - a framework for examining parts of ourselves that may remain hidden for decades.

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨Why shadow work reveals the blind spots behind recurring emotional and relationship patterns

✨How Vedic Astrology and the Enneagram offer different perspectives on personality and conditioning

✨What the Wheel of Totality reveals about parts of ourselves we may not recognize until later in life

✨Why vulnerability and honest self-examination become doorways to authentic transformation

This conversation is for anyone navigating spiritual awakening, subconscious healing, self-discovery, or the frustration of doing the inner work and still feeling something is missing.

Sometimes the next step isn't learning something new. It's finally seeing what you couldn't see before.

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Connect with Indra Rinzler

Website: http://indrarinzler.com/

Book: Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indra.rinzler/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBt4MS4GTTxP1pckE7P9w

Email: [email protected]

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Where spirituality meets psychology, emotional healing, consciousness, and the journey of remembering who you truly are.

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What if a lifetime on the world's biggest stages still leaves you asking: Who am I?

Childhood trauma healing, inner child healing, and belonging with singer and author Machan Taylor (Pink Floyd, Sting, Pat Benatar) on Awaken Your Authentic Self with Jessica Rooks.

In this deeply personal conversation, Machan Taylor joins host Jessica Rooks to explore identity, belonging, childhood trauma healing, self-worth, relationships, spirituality, meditation, self-awareness, and becoming your authentic self.

Machan Taylor is a renowned singer and author of the memoir Naked Out Loud. Her extraordinary music career has taken her onto the world stage alongside Pink Floyd, Sting, Michael Jackson, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, George Benson and many others. But beneath the accomplishments is a much more personal story: growing up between cultures, moving from Japan to suburban America, losing her sense of belonging, and discovering how music became both refuge and validation.

In Naked Out Loud, Machan writes candidly about identity, relationships, trauma, self-worth, and healing from trauma. Her healing journey has included therapy, group work, Buddhist meditation, intentional living, and psychedelic-assisted experiences, along with the integration and self-reflection that followed.

This conversation goes beyond the career and into the woman underneath it all - what happens when we begin recognizing our patterns, reclaiming our power, and questioning the identities we built to survive, belong, or feel worthy.

In this Episode, You'll Discover:

✨How being uprooted from Japan and growing up between cultures shaped Machan's lifelong journey with identity, belonging, and inner child healing

✨The difference between being recognized by the world and feeling at home within yourself, and how music became a place where Machan felt wanted and valued

✨How loss, music, and a major music opportunity brought patterns around trauma, self-worth, power, and responsibility into awareness

✨Why Machan now sees difficult experiences as "instructional gifts" and what she is still discovering about spirituality, healing and becoming

About Machan Taylor:

Machan Taylor is a world reowned singer and author of Naked Out Loud sharing her lived experience of cultural displacement, trauma healing, and self-discovery through Buddhist meditation, therapy, and integration work.

About Your Host:

Jessica Rooks is the host of both University Earth as well as Awaken Your Authentic Self, a sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truthtellers exploring spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and remembering who you truly are.

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Website: www.machantaylor.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/machantaylorofficial/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/machantaylor/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MachanTaylorOfficial

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/machan-taylor-810196156/

Book: Naked Out Loud

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Why don't I feel like myself anymore? If you're in the in-between space of spiritual awakening, identity transformation, and anxiety - where who you were no longer fits but who you're becoming isn't clear yet - this conversation is for you.

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with Helen Ye Plehn, founder of Helen Creates Beauty, creator of The Aura Color Wheel, and Hay House award-winning author of The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul's Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons.

We unpack spiritual awakening symptoms, the dark night of the soul, and why awakening can feel like anxiety, losing yourself, or not recognizing yourself anymore - plus how soul wounds, intuitive gifts, and identity shifts are connected to healing and purpose. You'll learn how to approach spiritual experiences with discernment, compassion and appropriate support when mental health concerns are also present.

A spiritual awakening is a period of deep identity transformation where old patterns, beliefs, and roles fall away. Common spiritual awakening symptoms include anxiety, emotional sensitivity, feeling disconnected from yourself, questioning your purpose, and heightened intuition.

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In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨Why don't I feel like myself anymore during a spiritual awakening?

✨Is this spiritual awakening symptoms and anxiety or something that needs mental health support?

✨What is the dark night of the soul and why does it trigger identity transformation?

✨What is the Aura Color Wheel and how does it reveal your soul wounds, inner gifts, and life lessons?

About Helen Ye Plehn

Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the creator of The Aura Color Wheel. She is also an intuitive painter, angel channeler, certified crystal healer, third generation Feng Shui master, yoga and meditation teacher, Ayurveda practitioner, Vedic astrologer, and Theta healer.

About Your Host Jessica Rooks

Jessica Rooks is the host of Awaken Your Authentic Self, a sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truthtellers who are ready to remember who they really are. With 80 episodes on spiritual awakening, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, shadow work, and conscious living, Jessica guides soul-led conversations to help you navigate healing, burnout recovery, and emotional growth.

Connect with Helen Ye Plehn

Website: https://helencreatesbeauty.com/

Soul Aura Color Quiz: https://helencreatesbeauty.typeform.com/Soulauracolor

Book: The Aura Color Wheel (Hay House): Available on Amazon Book Order Gifts: https://download.helencreatesbeauty.com/book/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/helencreatesbeauty

Instagram: www.instagram.com/helencreatesbeauty

The Aura Evolution Podcast: www.youtube.com/@auracolorwheel

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If you experienced childhood trauma and are still carrying the wound beneath your story, healing your inner child may be less about fixing what's broken and more about remembering who you really are.

In this episode Jessica Rooks, host of Awaken Your Authentic Self a show for empaths and old souls navigating awakening and trauma healing, sits down with John R. Spender, a 45-time international bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, and founder of A Journey of Riches, a global storytelling movement featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries.

John couldn't read or write until age ten and experienced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse during childhood. Yet a teacher recognized his creativity when he wrote "Sausage Man from Outer Space". That moment became part of a remarkable journey that eventually led him to become a bestselling author, filmmaker, mentor, and advocate for sharing the wisdom found in our stories.

This conversation goes beyond overcoming adversity. Jessica and John explore childhood trauma, identity, healing, belonging, resilience, and authentic self-discovery, and what happens when we begin separating who we are from what happened to us.

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨How childhood trauma can shape identity, beliefs, and the stories we tell ourselves

✨Why rewriting your story isn't the same as healing the wound underneath it

✨What John's travels through more than 75 countries revealed about identity, purpose and belonging

✨What hundreds of personal stories taught him about the blind spots we often cannot see in our own lives

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Perhaps healing isn't about becoming someone new. Perhaps it's about remembering who you've always been.

About John R. Spender

John R. Spender is an internationally bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, speaker, and writing coach. He founded A Journey of Riches, a global book series and storytelling platform featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries. Profits support Jewels Children's Home in Bali.

His documentary, The Gift in Adversity, explores how difficult experiences can become catalysts for self-discovery, purpose, and meaningful change.

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Connect with John R. Spender

Website: https://ajourneyofriches.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ajourneyofriches3672

Book Series: A Journey of Riches

Documentary: The Gift in Adversity

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What if the people you've lost - your mother, your father, the person you never got to say goodbye to - what if they never actually left?

In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chris Lippincott, international evidential psychic medium, trance medium, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and host of Spirits Beside Us, to explore mediumship, afterlife communication, signs from spirit, grief healing, spiritual awakening, intuition, consciousness, and connecting with loved ones beyond physical death.

Before becoming a professional medium, Chris spent 30 years as a senior buy-side equity analyst on Wall Street, holding an MBA and CFA Charterholder designation. His journey from a world built on logic, data and measurable evidence into evidential mediumship creates a fascinating bridge between skepticism, spiritual experience, and the search for proof.

As an evidential psychic medium and trance medium, Chris focus' on specific information and messages that can be verified by the people receiving them. His work explores how loved ones and spirit guides may communicate through signs, synchronicities, dreams intuition, physical sensations, and unexpected moments of knowing.

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨What Chris' out-of-body experience revealed about consciousness - and what happened when his Wall Street-trained mind encountered something it couldn't explain

✨What evidential mediumship actually means, why verification matters, and how specific information from spirit differs from generalized spiritual impressions

✨The single most repeated message Chris says spirit delivers through thousands of readings - and why it may be the message someone listening today most needs to hear

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Connect with Chris Lippincott

Website: https://montclairmedium.com/home

Free Meditation: https://montclairmedium.com/free-meditation

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@montclairmedium

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087212560779

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulbschool/

Podcast: Spirits Beside Us

Book: Spirits Beside Us: Gain Healing & Comfort from Loved Ones in the Afterlife

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Love doesn't end. Sometimes, we simply have to learn how to recognize the ways it continues.

What if the pain you're carrying isn't yours?

What if some of the patterns, emotional wounds, grief, or energetic imprints you've spent years trying to heal began before you ever had a chance to choose them.

In this conversation Cindy Bain joins host Jessica Rooks on Awaken Your Authentic Self to explore ancestral healing, Reiki healing, spiritual awakening, grief, Spiritually Transformative Experiences )STEs), near death experiences, and after-death communication - and what can happen when we begin to look at healing through both a grounded and spiritual lens.

Cindy's has spent more than 24 years practicing Reiki, becoming a Reiki Master in Tibetan/Usui, Karuna, and Holy Fire Reiki. She is also a Professional Member of the International Center for Reiki Training.

Her personal journey includes mystical experiences, near-death experiences, moments of enlightenment, spiritually transformative experiences, and after-death communication - experiences that profoundly shaped the healer she became.

At the heart of this conversation is a question that may change the way you understand your own healing:

What if something you've been trying to heal isn't actully yours to begin with?

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨What ancestral healing means and how inherited patterns, family experiences, and energetic imprints may influence the way we experience our lives

✨How Cindy's journey through grief, spiritual awakening, Reiki, and Spiritually Transformative Experiences changed her understanding of healing and consciousness

✨What after-death communication can feel like, including Cindy's personal experiences of connection with her father after his death

✨How Reiki healing may support people navigating emotional overwhelm, anxiety, grief, trauma, exhaustion, and patterns that seem difficult to shift

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If you're exploring ancestral patterns, unseen influences, energetic imprints, shadow work, and spiritual healing, continue your journey with:

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Connect with Cindy Bain

Website: https://cindybainreiki.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Recharge_with_Reiki

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recharge_with_reiki

Renewal Journey: https://www.cindybainreiki.com/renewal-journey

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Why are you still stuck after loss - even when you know you're ready to move forward? And what if the shift from grief to joy begins with reconnecting to who you truly are?

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chanoa Inez - personal branding advisor, copywriter, messaging strategist , and author of Dream On: How to Create the New Life of Your Dreams After Upheaval or Loss - for a deeply honest conversation about grief recovery, emotional healing, rebuilding your life after loss, personal transformation, authentic identity, and reclaiming joy.

Chanoa helps people reconnect with their true essence and build their lives and personal brands from the inside out through her Magnetize Your Personal Brand program.

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In This Conversation You'll Discover:

✨Why grief after loss doesn't always look like grief, how invisible grief can leave you feeling stuck and disconnected

✨The difference between joy and happiness, and why constantly chasing happiness may leave you unfulfilled

✨What Chanoa means by "you are the secret to your success"

✨The ONE perspective shift Chanoa believes can help move you from grief toward joy, along with an exercise from Dream On and her perspective on manifestation, personal growth, and creating a new life after upheaval

About Chanoa Inez

Chanoa Inez is a personal branding advisor, copywriter, messaging strategist, author, and founder of MAGNETIZE YOUR PERSONAL BRAND. Through her work and her book, Dream On, she helps people reconnect with their true essence and create a new life after upheaval or loss.

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Connect with Chanoa Inez

Website: https://www.chanoainez.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chanoainez

Substack: https://www.substack.com/@chanoainez

Dream On: Available on Amazon, Audible, Kobo, Bol, and Pothi.com

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Shadow work. Planetary magic. And how your deepest wounds may actually be the key to reclaiming your power.

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lucy Baldwin - planetary magic teacher, shadow alchemy guide, priestess, podcaster, and founder of Remolina Coaching - for a powerful conversation about shadow work, planetary magic, healing, personal transformation, and reclaiming your power.

For more than seven years, Lucy has guided hundreds of students around the world in working with the shadow, the planets, identity, desire, and the deeper patterns that shape our lives. Her approach invites us to see the planets not simply as symbols in a birth chart, but as living allies we can consciously work with as part of our personal and spiritual transformation.

Together Jessica and Lucy explore what happens when we stop treating our wounds, patterns, and shadow as problems to elliminate - and begin asking what they might be here to teach us.

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In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨What shadow work really is, why it is often misunderstood, and how shadow alchemy can transform the way we understand our deepest patterns

✨What planetary magic means and how Lucy teaches people to work with planetary energies such as Saturn and Venus as allies in everyday life

✨What Existential Kink reveals about hidden desires, identity, unconscious patterns, and the parts of ourselves we may have been taught to reject

✨How building capacity for high sensation can change the amount of life, expansion, desire, and personal power we are able to hold - plus a simple way to begin working with planetary magic today

About Lucy Baldwin

Lucy Baldwin is a planetary magic teacher, shadow alchemy guide, priestess, and founder of Remolina Coaching. She has taught magic and shadow work to hundreds of students worldwide and hosts The Seven: Living With the Planets. Lucy also brings a background in Cognitive Science, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology to her exploration of consciousness, magic identity, and transformation.

In addition to her spiritual and transformational work, Lucy is the mother of five and a CEO working in environmental technology focused on removing forever chemicals from water.

Continue Your Healing Journey

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▶️Are You Living YOUR Life - Or is Your Life Pre-Programmed?

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37104180

These conversations explore past-life influences, unconscious patterns, identity, conditioning, healing, and the forces that can shape how we experience our lives.

Connect with Lucy Baldwin

Podcast: The Seven: Living With the Planets

Website & Programs: https://www.remolinacoaching.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lucybaldwincoaching/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucybaldwin.author

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lucybaldwin

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Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

Luna & Verse Studio: https://www.lunanadversestudio.com

Email: [email protected]

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This conversation is intended for educational and informational purposes and reflects the perspectives and experiences of the guest.

What if nervous system restoration - not another protocol - is the missing link to healing chronic illness naturally? After 20 years with MS, Christine Ruch discovered that nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and ultimately nervous system restoration changed everything.

In this sacred space, holistic transformation guide Christine Ruch joins Jessica to share her extraordinary 20-year journey with Multiple Sclerosis - and how ultimately healed naturally while raising her children and running a restaurant. With a background in holistic nutrition, Christine reveal why diets, supplements, and protocols alone weren't enough, and how restoring safety in the nervous system became the vital, often-overlooked piece of reclaiming her health from the inside out.

Hosted by Jessica Rooks, Awaken Your Authentic Self is a sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truthtellers who are ready to remember who they really are.

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In this conversation, you'll learn:

✨What nervous system restoration means - and how it differs from nervous system regulation

✨Why people with chronic illness can become exhausted from "trying everything", and what it means to move from controlling the body to cooperating with it

✨How symptoms, trauma, chronic stress, and somatic awareness can become information rather than enemies

About Christine Ruch

Christine Ruch is a Holistic Transformation Guide whose work helps people with unresolved health conditions develop a deeper relationship with their body, nervous system, and inner wisdom. Her approach is informed by her 20-year experience with her MS, her background in holistic nutrition, and her exploration of somatic awareness, trauma release, spiritual practice, and nervous system restoration.

Her story reflects her personal experience with healing chronic illness naturally and is shared for educational and informational purposes, not as a substitute for individual medical care.

Continue Your Healing Journey

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▶️Heal Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation - Dr. Lise Janelle

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40225390

If you're exploring trauma and the deeper patterns that can keep us stuck:

▶️Destroy the Trauma Keeping You Stuck - Devorah Brinckerhoff

https://directory/libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41422475

Connect with Christine Ruch

Instagram: www.instagram.com/christineruch.ms/

Substack: https://christineruch.substack.com/

Website: www.christineruch.com/

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Website: www.universityearth.org

Luna & Verse Studio: www.lunaandversestudio.com

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What if the life you've built isn't broken...but you've simply outgrown it?

Have you ever felt a quiet, undeniable truth stirring in your body: "The life I'm living is too small for who I've become"?

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks, creator of of this sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truth-tellers ready to remember who they really are, sits down with Rite of Passage facilitator Niels Vantzuriel to explore spiritual initiation, midlife awakening, life transitions, identity transformation, nervous system awareness, and embodied healing.

For many high-functioning women, life can look successful or "fine" from the outside while internally, something has shifted. The old identity no longer feels authentic, and the instinct may be to search for another course, retreat, healing modality, or another way to "fix" yourself.

But what if you're not broken?

What of you're standing at a threshold?

Niels has spent more than a decade guiding women through Ireland's wild landscapes and ancient sacred sites. His work brings together Rite of Passage, Celtic wisdom, storytelling, hypnosis, trance, sacred ceremony, and trauma-aware practices to help women navigate profound transitions and step into a new chapter.

Jessica and Niels explore why a retreat that inspires you isn't necessarily the same as a Rite of Passage that changes you, why transformation can collapse when we return to old patterns, and how midlife awakening can signal growth rather than crisis.

And then, rather than simply talking about transformation, Niels guides Jessica and the audience through a live inner threshold exercise - a mini Rite of Passage you can experience wherever you are - inviting you to feel the difference between trying to fix yourself and stepping into the woman your life has been preparing you to become.

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In this conversation, you'll discover:

✨How to recognize when you are standing at a life threshold

✨Why a true Rite of Passage is different from a retreat or temporary cathartic experience

✨How midlife awakening and identity transformation can reflect growth rather than crisis

✨Why preparation, ceremony, integration, and nervous-system-aware practices matter during profound transformation

✨A guided inner threshold exercise to experience the difference between fixing yourself and embodying who you are now

About Niels Vantzuriel

Niels Vantzuriel is a Rite of Passage facilitator and co-architect of The Arrival Method, specializing in transformational identity transitions for successful women. With a background in archaeology and hypnosis, he brings together ancient landscapes, storytelling, trance, embodied experience, and modern transformational practices. For more than a decade, he has guided women through Ireland's sacred landscapes and major life transitions.

Continue Your Healing Journey

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Past Lives and How They Shape Your Healing in the Now

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The 12 Laws of Karma - Understand These and You'll Understand Life

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Connect with Niels

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