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  • If You're Doing Everything Right and Still Feel Empty: This Is Your Spiritual Awakening | Dr. Jessie & Omar Ferreira

    If you're doing everything right but still feel empty, you may be experiencing high functioning burnout, a profound spiritual awakening, or an identity shift - especially if you're navigating a midlife transition where the life you built no longer fits who you're becoming.

    This episode explores the connection between high functioning burnout, spiritual awakening, identity crisis, personal transformation, conscious leadership, authentic living, and burnout recovery for people whose outward success no longer fits who you're becoming.

    In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with psychospiritual leadership guides Dr. Jessie Ferreira and Omar Ferreira, co-founders of ASQ Empowerment Services and co-authors of the upcoming book, A Soul's Quest: A Transformational Approach to Life, for an inspiring conversation about why so many high-achieving professionals, entrepreneurs, purpose-driven women, and mid-life leaders reach a point where success no longer feels fulfilling.

    Together Jessie and Omar help people recognize that what often feels like burnout, quiet desperation, or an identity crisis may actually be the beginning of a profound spiritual awakening. But long before they became guides for others, they each walked through their own seasons of collapse, uncertainty, and transformation.

    In this deeply honest conversation, Jessica, Jessie and Omar explore why doing everything right according to society, family expectations, or lifelong conditioning can still leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves - and how those moments often become the doorway back to our authentic lives.

    This isn't simply a conversation about burnout.

    It's an invitation to see your exhaustion not as failure...but as the beginning of your spiritual awakening.

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    If today's conversation resonates with you, follow Awaken Your Authentic Self and join a growing global community exploring spiritual awakening, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, burnout recovery, identity transformation, conscious leadership, and authentic living.

    If this episode speaks to you, leaving a rating or review is one of the most meaningful ways you can help others discover these conversations and know they are not alone on their journey. 💜

    In this conversation, you'll discover:

    ✨Why high functioning burnout is often the first sign of a deeper spiritual awakening

    ✨How identity collapse can become the catalyst for profound personal transformation

    ✨Why doing everything right can still leave you feeling empty, disconnected, or unfulfilled

    ✨The hidden internal operating systems that quietly shape your choices, leadership, relationships, and sense of self

    ✨How purpose-driven women and men in midlife can move from performance, perfectionism, and people-pleasing into authentic, soul-aligned living

    If you've been feeling exhausted despite your success...questioning your purpose...wondering whether you're experiencing burnout, a midlife transition, or a spiritual awakening...or quietly asking yourself why the life you've worked so hard to build no longer feels like yours...this conversation offers a compassionate new perspective.

    That's the heart of what Jessie and Omar explore in this episode - and as they remind us, perhaps burnout isn't the end of your story.

    Perhaps it's the beginning of your soul's quest.

    About Dr. Jessie Ferreira

    Dr. Jessie Ferreira is a transformational leadership guide, psychospiritual coach, speaker, and co-founder of ASQ Empowerment Services. With more than two decades of experience in higher education, non-profit leadership, and organizational consulting, she helps purpose-driven women and organizations navigate change by cultivating authentic, soul-aligned leadership from the inside out. Her frameworks have guided hundreds of purpose-driven women from burnout into aligned, conscious leadership.

    About Omar Ferreira

    Omar Ferreira is a psychospiritual leadership guide, speaker, educator, and co-founder of ASQ Empowerment Services. He specializes in helping men, leaders, and professionals navigate identity shifts, midlife transitions, and conscious leadership by integrating emotional intelligence, spirituality, and authentic self-leadership. His work has supported countless high-achieving professionals through the identity transitions that traditional leadership development overlooks.

    🌿Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're learning to regulate your nervous system...

    ▶️Nervous System Regulation | The 60-Second Reset That Ends Survival Mode | Camilla Calberg

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41374965

    If you're discovering why healing isn't just emotional - but spiritual...

    ▶️Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42192115

    If you're navigating burnout and searching for deeper purpose...

    ▶️The Real Reason You're Burning Out: Astrology Reveals What You're Missing | Aleksandra Ceho

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42023020

    If you're discovering who you really are beneath old identities...

    ▶️Who Were You Before This Life? My Past Life Regression Changed Everything | Craig Meriwether

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41803315

    Connect with Dr. Jessie and Omar

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

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asq-empowerment-services

    Website: https://www.asqempowerment.com/

    Podcast: ASQ Podcast - Apple Podcasts

    Connect with Jessica Rooks

    Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org

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

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

    Interested in being a guest?

    https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is where thoughtful conversations about spirituality, psychology, emotional healing, personal transformation, conscious living, and authentic leadership inspire people around the world to reconnect with who they truly are.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Still Triggered After Years of Healing? Here's the Missing Piece of Spiritual Awakening | Melissa Minnich

    Nervous system healing and spiritual awakening share a missing piece most people never find - and it lives in the body, beneath every pattern the mind cannot reach.

    In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Melissa Minnich - M.S in Consciousness & Human Potential, #1 international best selling Hay House author of High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss, Founder of the Alchemy Mystery School, creator of the Bliss RX Method, Top 50 Female speaker in the USA, and MSN Top 10 Inspiring Woman 2026 - to reveal why the very process of becoming who you think you "should" be may the trauma itself, and why remembering who you truly are is the healing.

    Melissa's journey from homelessness to becoming one of today's most sought-after consciousness guides is not a story of overcoming - it's a story of embodiment. She shares how spiritual awakening, when bypassed through the mind, keeps the nervous sytem locked in survival patterns; how somatic healing and nervous system regulation unlock what years of affirmation work never could; and how the ancient initiatory path of the mystery school tradition offers a technology for transformation that modern neuroscience is only beginning to validate.

    💜Join Our Community

    If today's conversation resonates with you, follow Awaken Your Authentic Self and join a growing community of listeners around the world exploring Spirituality, emotional healing, conscious relationships, nervous system regulation, and the journey of remembering who they truly are.

    And if you enjoy this podcast, leaving a review is one of the most meaningful ways you can help more beautiful souls discover this sacred space.

    In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

    • Why spiritual awakening can re-traumatize you if your nervous system isn't regulated - and why lasting healing requires working with the body, not just the mind.
    • "Becoming is the trauma. Remembering is the healing." Melissa shares how the identities we create to survive become our wounds, and how reclaiming our true selves becomes the path to freedom.
    • The missing link between knowing and being - why intellectual insight alone doesn't create transformation, and how somatic healing rewires deeply rooted survival patterns.
    • Melissa's remarkable journey from homelessness to Hay House, revealing the pivotable moment that transformed her life and purpose.
    • Ancient wisdom meets modern science through practices like the Sekhmet Activation, the Bliss Rx Method, and the connection between sacred geometry, consciousness, and nervous system healing.

    This conversation is for you if you've done the inner work, read the books, sat in ceremony, repeated the affirmations - and something in you is still waiting. That something isn't a flaw. It's the missing piece and it lives in a place your mind cannot reach.

    🌱Continue Your Healing Journey

    If this episode resonated with you, these conversations will meet you where you are right now:

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

    Dr. Lise Janelle breaks down why you can understand your patterns intellectually and still repeat them and the specific subconscious technology that bridges the gap.

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

    What Grief Taught Me About Life Purpose: Subconscious Healing, Nervous System & Intuition | Stephanie Walsh

    If grief has broken you open and you're searching for the purpose on the other side, Stephanie Walsh shares how the nervous system holds the key to both healing and meaning.

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40952355

    The Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment & Resistance -

    A solo deep dive in to the 7 Universal Laws that underlie every spiritual awakening - and why understanding them changes how you navigate the entire process.

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37390560

    🔗Connect with Melissa Minnich

    🌐Website: https://melissaminnich.com

    🎧Podcast: High on Life with Melissa Minnich:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-on-life-with-melissa-minnich/id1887683605

    📚Book: High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss (Hay House): Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold

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

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissa.s.minnich/

    🔗Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

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

    🌐Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org

    👚Luna & Verse Studio: https://www.lunandversestudio.com

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

    Interested in being a guest?

    https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is where thoughtful conversations about spirituality, psychology, relationships, emotional healing, and human transformation happen.

    📌Disclaimer

    This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis or need suppot, please reach out to a licensed healthcare provider or call the 988 Suicide & Crisi Lifeline (US) or your local emergency services.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright

    What if healing your trauma isn't about thinking differently - but feeling differently?

    In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Shamanic Medicine Woman, Keening Grief Tender, Executive Coach, and Art Historian Martha Wright for a conversation about nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and why lasting trauma recovery begins in the body - not the mind.

    Together, Jessica and Martha explore why so many people remain stuck in cycles of anxiety, burnout, and emotional overwhelm despite years of therapy, personal development, and spiritual practice. The answer, Martha explains, isn't found by thinking harder. It's found by learning to listen to the wisdom held within the body.

    Drawing from Celtic wisdom traditions, somatic awareness, grief tending, and decades of guiding clients through profound transformation, Martha shares why real healing isn't about avoiding pain or chasing "love and light". It's about developing the courage to meet the parts of ourselves that have been waiting to be witnessed all along.

    "Why is that fierce, bad-ass energy actually necessary for real trauma healing, and where do most people get stuck trying to be polite with their pain?" - Jessica Rooks

    💜Join Our Community

    If today's conversation resonates with you, follow Awaken Your Authentic Self and join a growing global community exploring spirituality, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, conscious living, and the lifelong journey of remembering who they truly are.

    If you enjoy this podcast, leaving a review is one of the most meaningful ways you can help more beautiful souls discover these conversations.

    In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

    ✨Why lasting trauma healing begins in the body - not the mind - and how somatic healing and nervous system regulation create lasting transformation

    ✨How spiritual bypass, unresolved grief, and old survival patterns can quietly keep you stuck despite years of therapy or personal growth

    ✨The difference between controlling your life and reclaiming true personal agency through embodied healing

    ✨How Celtic wisdom, grief tending, and shamanic healing support emotional resilience and authentic transformation

    ✨A simple two-minute somatic practice to calm anxiety, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with grounded, sovereign presence

    Who This Episode is For:

    If you've done years of talk therapy, personal development, or spiritual practice - yet still find yourself hijacked by anxiety, emotional triggers, or familiar survival patterns - this conversation offers a compassionate framework.

    Healing doesn't begin by becoming someone new. It begins by safely returning to the parts of yourself that never stopped waiting for you.

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're learning how to regulate your nervous system...

    ▶️Nervous System Regulation | The 60-Second Reset That Ends Survival Mode | Camilla Calberg

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41374965

    If you're healing trauma held within the body...

    ▶️Destroy the Trauma Keeping You Stuck & Finally Heal | Devorah Brinkerhoff

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

    If you're exploring grief, loss, and emotional healing...

    ▶️What Grief Taught Me About Life Purpose: Subconscious Healing, Nervous System & Intuition | Stephanie Walsh

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40952355

    If you're discovering your authentic self through spiritual awakening...

    ▶️Who Were You Before This Life? My Past Life Regression Changed Everything | Craig Meriwether

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41803315

    Connect With Martha Wright

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

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-wright-93bb5624/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marthawright-od3pi

    Website: https://www.marthamw.com/

    Connect With Awaken Your Authentic Self

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

    Website: https://www.universityearth.org

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

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

    Interested in being a guest?

    https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    58 min
  • Can't Stop Absorbing Everyone's Emotions? Energy Healing for Empaths That Changes Everything | Hope Fitzgerald

    Do you walk into a room and immediately feel everyone's emotional state - their anxiety, their grief, their unspoken tension - as if it were your own?

    What if one of the most powerful tools for navigating uncertainty wasn't about controlling the world around you...but learning to work with a higher frequency of love, compassion, and consciousness?

    In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with intuitive dowser, spiritual teacher, and author Hope Fitzgerald to explore why empaths and highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions-and how energy healing, intuition, and The Infinity Wave may offer a different way forward.

    For more than twenty-five years, Hope has devoted her life to intuitive development, personal transformation, and spiritual growth. Then in 2010, a series of profound visions introduced her to what she calls The Infinity Wave - a frequency of love, compassion, and flow that she beleives can help people shift their energy, deepen their intuition, and respond to life's greatest challenges from an entirely different level of awareness.

    Together Jessica and Hope explore how energy healing, intuition, and higher consciousness can support everyday life - from protecting your energy as an empath to cultivating greater resilience during uncertain times.

    As collective uncertainty accelerates and more people describe feeling emotionally exhausted. energetically depleted, and overwhelmed, Hope's framework offers a timely, practice-based approach to navigating chaos without shutting down - one rooted in love, compassion, and conscious awareness rather than fear or control.

    This isn't simply a conversation about mystical experiences. It's an invitation to explore the relationship between energy, consciousness, intuition, compassion, and the way we experience reality.

    💜 Join Our Community

    If today's conversation resonates with you, follow Awaken Your Authentic Self and join a growing community of listeners around the world exploring spirituality, consciousness, emotional healing, intuition, and authentic living.

    If you enjoy this podcast, leaving a rating and written review is one of the most meaningful ways you can help more beautiful souls discover this sacred space.

    In this conversation, you'll discover:

    ✨How energy healing and manifestation intersect through The Infinity Wave - and why Hope believes this 10th-dimensional practice can help you navigate uncertainty with greater peace, compassion, and intention.

    ✨Practical tools for empaths and highly sensitive people to protect their energy, strengthen their intuition through intuitive dowsing, and remain grounded without becoming emotionally overwhelmed.

    ✨The connection between water, vibration, and consciousness - and how Hope believes frequency influences personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

    ✨The remarkable story behind Hope's claim of a 180-degree shift in reality, and how that experience transformed her understanding of what's possible through conscious intention and energetic awareness.

    ✨Why authentic spiritual growth requires more than positive thinking and how to integrate higher consciousness into everyday life without spiritually bypassing life's challenges.

    About Hope Fitzgerald

    Hope Fitzgerald is an intuitive dowser, spitiual teacher, speaker, and the author of The Infinity Wave: Mastering the Art of Love, Compassion & Flow. Through her books, workshops, podcasts, and speaking engagements, she teaches practical approaches to intuition, consciousness, and compassionate living.

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    Wherever you are on your path, here are a few conversations that may meet you exactly where you are.

    If your nervous system has been keeping you stuck...

    ▶️Nervous System Regulation | The 60-Second Reset That Ends Survival Mode | Camilla Calberg

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41374965

    If you're feeling emotionally, mentally, or spiritually drained...

    ▶️Feeling Drained? This Live Sound Healing Will Awaken Your Soul | Greg Palma

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41661190

    If you're curious about your soul's purpose...

    ▶️Your Soul Blueprint Is Hidden in a Deck of Cards | Fate vs Free Will Explained |Alexander Dunlop & Viki Scudiery

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id41422130

    Connect with Hope Fitzgerald

    ✨Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spreadinfinitehope

    ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spreadinfinitehope/

    ✨YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/spreadinfinitehope

    ✨LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hope-fitzgerald-05664619/

    ✨Website: https://www.spreadinfinitehope.com/

    ✨Book: The Infinity Wave: Mastering the Art of Love, Compassion & Flow

    Connect with Jessica Rooks

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

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

    Interested in being a guest?

    https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is where thoughtful conversations about spirituality, psychology, consciousness, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, intuition, and human transformation inspire you to reconnect with your authentic self.

    1 hr 1 min
  • The Real Reason You're Burning Out: Astrology Reveals What You're Missing | Aleksandra Ceho

    Are you constantly pushing through exhaustion, wondering why your usual spiritual practices aren't enough to prevent burnout? What if your energy isn't failing you - but your timing is?

    In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Master Astrologer, Hermetic Philosophy teacher, martial artist, and author Aleksandra Ceho for a conversation that challenges the dominant spiritual narrative around burnout. Rather than treating astrology for reassurance or prediction, Aleksandra reveals how it can become a practical strategic tool for navigating life's most demanding seasons with greater awareness, resilience, and intention.

    Together Jessica and Aleksandra explore spiritual burnout, Strategic Astrology, personal timing, and resilience for empaths, entrepreneurs, and highly sensitive people. They discuss why so many soul-led leaders burnout despite doing everything "right", and how understanding your natural cycles can help protect your energy, make wiser decisions, and create sustainable success.

    💜Join Our Community

    If today's conversation resonates with you, follow Awaken Your Authentic Self and join a growing global community exploring spirituality, consciousness, emotional healing, personal growth, and authentic living.

    If you enjoy this podcast, leaving a review is one of the most meaningful ways you can help more beautiful souls discover these conversations.

    Now, here's what you'll discover in today's episode...

    In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

    ✨Why burnout isn't always a sign you're doing something wrong - it can be a signal you're working against your natural cycles

    ✨How to recognize "Constraint Periods" in your personal timing and navigate them without self-blame

    ✨Why empaths, highly sensitive people, and entrepreneurs are especially vulnerable to burnout caused by working against your natural timing

    ✨The crucial difference between surrendering to natural rhythms and giving up on your goals

    ✨How Hermetic Philosophy build self-awareness and resilience - without numbing your sensitivity

    About Aleksandra Ceho

    Aleksandra Ceho is a Master Astrologer, teacher of Hermetic Philosophy, Warriors of Light instructor, Savate Boxe Francaise martial artist and the author of Star-Powered Resilience. Through her work, she helps entrepreneurs, executives, and purpose-driven leaders use Strategic Astrology to better understand life's natural cycles, navigate periods of challenge, strengthen resilience, and make decisions with greater clarity and confidence.

    Connect with Aleksandra Ceho

    🌐Website: https://astrologeroyale.com/

    📘Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alex.ceho

    📷Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pallas.aleks/

    📖Star-Powered Resilience: https://masterthestars.ac-page.com/starpowered-resilience

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    Wherever you are on your path, here are a few conversations that may meet you exactly where you are.

    If your nervous system has been keeping you stuck...

    ▶️Nervous System Regulation | The 60-Second Reset That Ends Survival Mode | Camilla Calberg

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41374965

    If you're feeling emotionally, mentally, or spiritually drained...

    ▶️Feeling Drained? This Live Sound Healing Will Awaken Your Soul | Greg Palma

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41661190

    If you're exploring how your soul's journey shapes your life...

    ▶️Who Were You Before This Life? My Past Life Regression Changed Everything | Craig Meriwether

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41803315

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is where thoughtful conversations about spirtuality, psychology, consciousness, emotional healing, and authentic transformation come together to help you reconnect with your truest self.

    Connect with Jessica Rooks

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

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

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

    📧Email: [email protected]

    🎙️Interested in being a guest?

    https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    59 min
  • Who Were You Before This Life? My Past Life Regression Changed Everything | Craig Meriweather
    I saw my own death in a past life regression - and it became the moment that helped me understand my life in an entirely new way.

    It is a moment that may sound terrifying, but for me, it became a key to unlocking a deeper layer of emotional healing, spiritual healing, and self-discovery.

    In this deeply personal episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, the tables are turned. I step into the guest seat to share the raw, unscripted details of my recent past life regression experience with Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist Craig Meriwether, founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy. With extensive experience guiding clients through subconscious exploration and spiritual healing, Craig gently leads us through one of the most profound experiences of my life.

    Together, we explore the vivid emotional journey of revisiting a past life, the moment of death, and the "in-between" space where soul contracts are explored. Most importantly, we connect the dots between themes that emerged in that regression and the anxiety, unexplained fears, and recurring patterns I had been carrying in my current life.

    If you have ever felt a fear that did not seem to belong to you, found yourself repeating a pattern you cannot seem to break, or wondered whether there may be a deeper layer to your healing journey, this episode is for you.

    ✨If this episode speaks to you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who may be navigating enexplained fears and recurring patterns. Your support helps Awaken Your Authentic Self reach more beautiful souls on their healing journey.

    What We Explore:

    • The Past Life Regression Experience: What it can feel like to undergo hypnotherapy and explore deep subconscious memories
    • The Death Moment: My personal experience of dying in a past life and the surprising peace that followed
    • Unexplained Fears and Recurring Patterns: How spiritual exploration can offer a new lens for understanding emotional triggers, anxiety, and repeating life themes
    • Life Between Lives and Soul Contracts: Reflecting on the "in-between" space, soul lessons, and the meaning we may make from our life experience.
    • Subconscious Healing and Karmic Patterns: How self-awareness, compassion, and spiritual healing practices may support us as we work with patterns that keep us feeling stuck

    Connect with Craig Meriwether:

    ✨Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy: https://sacredmysteryhypnotherapy.com

    ✨Depression 180 Program: https://depression180.com

    ✨Mind Mastery Blueprint: https://mindmasteryblueprint.com

    ✨YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Sacred_Mystery_Hypnotherapy

    ✨LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-meriwether-44286718b/

    💜Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're curious about past lives, soul lessons, and karmic patterns:

    Explore how the spiritual laws of karma may help you understand repeating themes, soul growth, cause and effect, and the deeper lessons that may be shaping your healing journey.

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

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37567935

    If you're carrying grief, trauma, or emotions that feel bigger than this moment:

    Discover how unresolved grief can shape the way we move through life, influence our emotional patterns, and create wounds that deserve to be witnessed, processed, and gently released.

    • Unresolved Grief: How It Affects Your Life & Why Healing from Grief is Essential for Your Spiritual Growth

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37209025

    If you're feeling stuck in repeating patterns:

    Explore the identities, fear loops, ancestral imprints, and societal conditioning that can keep you repeating cycles long after you are ready to move beyond them.

    • Are You Living YOUR Life - Or Is Your Life Pre-Programmed

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

    Connect with Jessica

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

    If you want to be a guest, please visit:

    https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    Disclaimer: This episode shares personal experiences and spiritual perspectives related to past life regression and hypnotherapy. It is intended for educational and reflective purposes only and is not a substitue for medical, mental health, or professional therapeutic advice.

    1 hr 11 min
  • Feeling Drained? This Live Sound Healing Will Awaken Your Soul | Greg Palma

    Have you ever felt emotionally exhausted, energetically drained, or unable to find peace no matter how much inner work you've done?

    In this powerful live sound healing episode, host Jessica Rooks welcomes Greg Palma - founder of Singing Spheres and a former classical opera singer - whose extraordinary spiritual awakening transformed him into a vessel for channeling healing frequencies through the human voice.

    What makes this live sound healing, Greg doesn't simply discuss healing frequencies - he demonstrates them live through a powerful vocal transmission. Jessica and Greg explore how healing frequencies interact with consciousness, why trauma healing and vibrational frequencies are deeply connected, and how a single live sound healing experience can unlock shifts that many people spend years searching for.

    What You'll Discover in This Episode:

    ✨How sound healing and healing frequencies may influence consciousness, emotional well-being, and cellular memory

    ✨Why trauma healing, energy healing, and vibrational frequencies are more connected than most people realize

    ✨How empaths and sensitive souls can use sound healing to restore balance, release energetic heaviness, and reconnect with their authentic self

    ✨The connection between pineal gland activation, spiritual awakening, and higher states of awareness

    ✨A powerful LIVE vocal transmission from Greg Palma, featuring healing frequencies channeled exclusively for this episode

    This conversation isn't just about understanding sound healing intellectually. It's an invitation to experience, in real time, what happens when healing frequencies meet a willing heart. Whether you're navigating a spiritual awakening, seeking deeper emotional healing, or simply longing to awaken your soul to its fullest expression - this episode was made for you.

    🎧Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self so you never miss an episode of healing conversations like this one.

    Continue Your Journey

    If sound healing calls to you discover how live sound healing, vibrational frequencies, and resonance work can support emotional well-being, energetic balance, and deep relaxation.

    • What is Reiki? The Importance of Healing Your Chakras

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/36906815

    If you're healing trauma explore conversations on trauma healing, nervous system regulation, emotional release, and how healing frequencies can reach stored wounds that talk therapy cannot.

    • Unresolved Grief: How it Affects Your Life & Why Healing From Grief is Essential for Your Spiritual Growth

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37209025

    If you're an empath or a sensitive soul learn how energy healing, grounding, and self-awareness can help you navigate the world without absorbing everything around you - and why live sound healing resonates so deeply with highly sensitive people.

    • The Art of Grounding- The Importance of a Daily Grounding Ritual

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    If you're experiencing a spiritual awakening dive deeper into consciousness, pineal gland activation, soul rememberance, and the practices that awaken your soul to it's true purpose.

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

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    If you're searching for your authentic self explore episodes on healing, purpose, self-discovery, and spiritual growth - every conversation is designed to help you remember who you really are.

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

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    Connect with Greg Palma

    • Website: https://singingspheres.net/
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SingingSpheres
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    38 min
  • The Spiritual Warfare & Sleep Paralysis Link: Are You Under Spiritual Attack? | Herman Petrick

    What if the exhaustion, brain fog, emotional overwhelm, or restless sleep you're experiencing isn't just stress - but something deeper?

    In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with internationally renowned energy healer Herman Petrick for a thought-provoking conversation about spiritual warfare, sleep paralysis, energy clearing, and the energetic boundaries, empath protection, and the tools spiritually sensitive people need to reclaim their sovereignty. With more than a decade of experience in spiritual clearing and trauma-related energy work, Herman shares his perspective on entity attachment, spiritual hygiene, sleep disruption, and why so many empaths and highly sensitive people struggle to separate their own emotions from external influences.

    Together they explore the controversial question many spiritual seekers quietly ask: How do you know if what you're feeling is truly yours - or something you've absorbed?

    🔔Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations around healing, spirituality, nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, self-discovery, energy healing, and authentic living.

    In This Episode, You'll Discover:

    ✨Why sleep paralysis and disrupted dream states may signal more than just stress

    ✨The critical difference between shadow work and spiritual warfare

    ✨Signs you may be carrying emotions, energy, or attachments that aren't yours

    ✨Protection practices and spiritual hygiene rituals for empaths and sensitive souls

    Whether you are deeply spiritual, highly skeptical, or simply chronically exhausted, this conversation offers grounded perspectives, actionable tools, and honest questions to help you reconnect with your intuition and reclaim your energy.

    In this conversation, Herman shares perspectives drawn from his professional experience working with clients in spiritual clearing and energy healing.

    Connect with Herman:

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

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hermanpetrick-energyhealer

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herman-petrick-7235b367/

    Website: https://hermanpetrick.com/

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    If today's conversation resonated with you, here are a few episodes that can support the next step on your healing journey:

    🎧Looking to heal unresolved emotional pain, grief, or loss?

    Listen to: Unresolved Grief: How it Affects Your Life & Why Healing is Essential for Your Healing Process

    Explore how unprocessed emotions and unresolved grief can impact your emotional well-being, relationships and healing journey.

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    🎧Are you an empath or highly sensitive person who easily absorbs other people's energy?

    Listen to: The Art of Grounding - The Importance of Grounding Yourself Daily

    Learn practical grounding techniques to strengthen your energetic boundaries, regulate your nervous system, and stay centered in your daily life.

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37016970

    🎧Feeling disconnected from your body, exhausted, or out of alignment?

    Listen to: Are You Listening to Your Body: The Importance of Properly Feeding the Mind, Body and Spirit

    Discover how physical health, emotional wellness, and spiritual practices work together to support healing and authentic living.

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37295150

    Remember: healing isn't about fixing yourself - it's about remembering who you truly are.

    About Awaken Your Authentic Self

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is a podcast for empaths, highly sensitive people, and truth-seekers ready to heal, grow, and reconnect with their authentic selves. Hosted by Jessica Rooks, the show explores spiritual awakening, trauma healing, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, energy healing, shadow work, and personal transformation through conversations with healers, spiritual teachers, and wellness experts.

    ✨Connect with Host Jessica Rooks:

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

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    51 min
  • Destroy the Trauma Keeping You Stuck & Finally Heal | Devorah Brinckerhoff

    What if the key to emotional healing and trauma recovery isn't holding on tighter - but physically transforming it?

    In this episode of the Awaken Your Authentic Self podcast, host Jessica Rooks speaks with professional artist and transformational guide Devorah Brinkerhoff to explore "Sacred Destruction" - the radical healing practice of destroying personal mementos, photos, and journals, then reconstructing them into mixed-media art that reveals your Soul Essence.

    After 30 years as a successful gallery-represented artist, Devorah walked away from the traditional art world in 2019 when the product no longer fed her soul. What emerged was Soul Portraits - a guided methodolgy where trauma materials become the raw ingredients for visual self-dicovery. For anyone who has felt stuck in talk therapy, silenced by the inner critic, or trapped in an identity that no longer fits, this conversation offers a completely different entry point to healing: your hands, your eyes, and the visual language of your soul.

    Together, Jessica and Devorah explore why memories can become energetic cages, how the body processes grief through tactile creation, the terror and liberation of identity death, and why the healing process matters infinitely more than the artistic product. This is the invitation to stop making your healing beautifull and start making it true.

    This episode explores how stored trauma, unresolved memories, and outdated identities can keep us emotionally stuck - and how creative expression can become a powerful pathway to healing. Through nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and Devorah's Sacred Destruction process, you'll discover why transformation often begins when we stop preserving the past and start transforming our relationship to it.

    What You'll Learn In This Episode:

    • What "Sacred Destruction" is and why physically destroying painful memories can be more cathartic than talking about them
    • What happens emotionally and somatically during the act of physically ripping or altering personal mementos - and why that visceral release unlocks what words alone cannot
    • How somatic experience and nervous system regulation happen naturally through tactile creative expression
    • Why visual expression can unlock truths that verbal language cannot reach
    • Practical first steps for beginning your own sacred destruction process practice - even in 5-minute increments

    About Our Guest:

    Devorah Brinckerhoff is a professional artist and transformational guide who spent 3 decades as a successful gallery-represented artist before walking away from the traditional art world in 2019. Devorah sees the world visually rather than verbally and believes that creative expression - not artistic ability - is the bridge between trauma and self-discovery. Her work centers on the principle that the process of creation holds far more healing power than the product produces.

    Connect with Devorah:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/devorah.brinkerhoff

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

    Website: https://soulportrait.art/

    Continue Your Healing Journey:

    If this conversation on sacred destruction and creative trauma healing resonated with you, these episodes will deepen your journey:

    ✨Healing grief or navigating the loss of a loved one?

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    ✨Feeling stuck in survival mode, burnout, or emotional exhaustion?

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    ✨Absorbing everyone else's emotions and struggling with empath burnout?

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    About Awaken Your Authentic Self:

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is a podcast dedicated to spiritual healing, spiritual awakening, emotional healing, conscious living, and helping you reconnect with your authentic self.

    Through transformational conversations with thought leaders, healers, authors, and spiritual teachers, each episode offers practical wisdom, spiritual insight, and compassionate guidance for navigating life's challenges and embracing meaningful transformation.

    New episodes released weekly.

    Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform.

    Connect with Host Jessica Rooks:

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

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

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    If this episode moved you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it.

    Your authenticity is not a flaw to fix - it is your greatest power.

    47 min
  • Your Soul Blueprint Is Hidden in a Deck of Cards | Fate vs Free Will Explained | Alexander Dunlop & Viki Scudiery

    What if the ordinary deck of playing cards is actually an ancient map of your soul blueprint?

    Discover how the Source Cards system reveals your life purpose, karmic lessons, shadow work patterns, and spiritual awawkening path - hidden in plain sight for centuries.

    In this powerful episode of Awaken Your Authentic self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Alexander Dunlop and Viki Scudiery to uncover the hidden spiritual system within the 52-card deck known as the Source Cards - a sacred technology believed to reveal your life purpose, karmic lessons, repeating patterns, relationship dynamics, and soul evolution.

    If you have ever felt stuck in the same cycles, questioned why certain relationships repeat, or wondered whether your life is guided by destiny or free will, this conversation offers a profound new lens for understanding your healing journey and spiritual awakening.

    Alexander, a Harvard-trained philosopher and former Wall Street consultant turned spiritual teacher, and Viki, an intuitive healer and graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, explain how the deck of cards mirrors the solar year with astonishing mathematical precision and why this ancient "Book of Life" may hold the key to understanding yourself on a deeper level.

    Together, they explore how Source Cards can help spiritual seekers, empaths, entrepreneurs, and high-achievers move from feeling like victims of circumstance to becoming conscious creators of their lives. From shadow work and soul contracts to energetic patterns and relationship chemistry, this episode bridges ancient wisdom, spiritual psychology, and practical self-awareness in a way that is both grounded and transformative.

    Whether you are navigating a spiritual awakening, seeking clarity about your purpose, healing unresolved trauma, or trying to understand the deeper patterns shaping your life, this episode will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about fate, identity, and personal transformation.

    🎯What You'll Learn in This Episode

    • What the ordinary deck of playing cards really represents spiritually - and why it has benn called the "Book of Life"
    • How the Source Cards system reveals your soul blueprint, karmic lessons, and life path
    • The deeper meaning behind the 5 cards, 4 suits, and their connection to the solar year and human consciousness
    • The difference between soul lessons you are meant to experience versus patterns you are meant to break
    • How understanding your cards shifts you from feeling powerless to becoming an active creator of your reality
    • Why spiritual awakenings often feel chaotic during the "messy middle" phase of transformation
    • How Source Cards reveal relationship dynamics, compatibility, energetic chemistry, and recurring toxic patterns
    • The role of free will versus destiny in your healing journey and spiritual evolution
    • What the Joker card symbolizes in the Game of Life system
    • Why many empaths and spiritual entrepreneurs struggle to ground their gifts into reality
    • How masculine structure and feminine intuition work together for true alignment
    • The first step to understanding your own "hand" and beginning your conscious healing journey

    🔗Connect With Our Guests

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

    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesourcecards

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thesourcecards

    Website: https://www.thesourcecards.com/

    🌿Continue Your Healing Journey

    If this conversation resonated with you, continue exploring these related episodes from Awaken Your Authentic Self with host Jessica Rooks:

    • Somatic Healing: Clear Energy Blockages & Release Trauma with Banya Lim
    • Trauma Healing and Soul Alignment: How to Finally Stop Abandoning Yourself with Tara Wiskow
    • The Therapist Bridging Psychology & Spirituality Explains What Traditional Therapy Misses with Harmony Kwiker
    • She Left Corporate Success for This Life Changing Truth with Kara Goodwin
    • Written in the Stars: Unlocking Your Soul Blueprint Through Your Natal Chart - Solo episode with Jessica Rooks

    You can search these episodes by the titles or guest names.

    🎙️About Your Awaken Your Authentic Self

    Awaken Your Authentic Self is a spiritual healing and personal tranformation podcast by Jessica Rooks. Through heart-centered conversations, intuitive wisdom, and transformational teachings, the show helps listeners heal emotional wounds, reconnect with their authentic truth, and align with their soul's purpose.

    This podcast is a sacred space for empaths, healers, old souls, spiritual seekers, and anyone ready to awaken consciously, break generational patterns, and embody their fullest expression.

    💜Connect With Jessica Rooks

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

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

    Email: [email protected]

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    Please subscribe, follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone navigating their own healing and awakening journey.

    Your authenticity is not something to fix.

    It's your greatest power.

    42 min

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