I'm Awake! Now What?

This week I am joined by Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath, she is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, teacher, author, Buddhist, and podcaster. Dr. Young-Eisendrath shares an early childhood experience of being an elective mute and learning the meaning of "war," which had a significant impact on her life journey. She shares leaving her religion of origin and why it was important to her to not give her intellect away when it came to cultivating a religious and spiritual life. We highlight her book "Love Between Equals: Relationships as a Spiritual Path" which offers her version of personal love as a spiritual path. To find out more about Dr. Young-Eisendrath, head over to her website Follow her on Instagram @pollyyoungeisendrath and to listen to her podcast "Enemies: From War to Wisdom" by clicking here.

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Podcast Production:

• Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara
• Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast

This week I am joined by intuitive luminary, author, alchemist and artist Christian Bradley West. Christian describes his spiritual journey that began in his early twenties and the teachers who had significant influence on his awakening. He shares the importance of continuous spiritual maintenance where one comes back to the tools they've acquired on their path towards healing, creativity and enlightenment. To find out more about Christian or work with him, head over to his website and follow him on Instagram @thecountryclairvoyant

Podcast Sponsor:

• Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices. Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp

Podcast Production:

• Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara
• Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie

This week I am joined by Amy White International Best-Selling Author, speaker, Intuitive Coach and Medium. We talk about how she transitioned out of her corporate job listening to a pull from her soul, guiding her in a new direction. Amy discusses accepting her gifts and using her them to help her clients. Amy shares the story behind her book Closer to Paradise: A Mother's Journey through Crisis and Healing that centers around her journey navigating through her sons mental health crisis, fighting stigmas, and becoming a support and light for others in similar circumstances. To find out more about Amy, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @mzamywhite

Podcast Sponsor:

• Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices. Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp

Podcast Production:

• Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara
• Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 8 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara who has created a free 8 week course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." This week, we review everything we have covered in the past 7 weeks and we discuss how to come home to yourself, over and over again in this process. Outlined in Week 8 is:

• Loving yourself unconditionally
• Trusting yourself
• Having faith in yourself
• Having confidence and clarity in your decisions
• Never turning away from yourself or disappointing yourself
• Empowered thoughts and actions
• Integration of Self

Please head over to the Podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your messages to the podcast at [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 7 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara who has created a free 8 Week course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself."

The focal point for Week 7 is building support systems that are in alignment with your departure from your religion of origin and help you grow into your new life vision. Topics covered this week:

• Cultivating a strong internal support system through self reliance, self-security, self-trust, unconditional positive regard and self-love.
• Discerning the types of external support systems you need and creating healthy boundaries, relationships and connections.
• Finding creative support systems that supplement internal and external support.

Please head over to the Podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your messages to the podcast at [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 6 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara, who has created a free 8-Week learning course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 6 is about Finding Your Truth. When we are birthed into our religion of origin we are not given the opportunity or space to connect with ourselves and decipher what is true about us and the world around us. Often times, we are told that we are born inherently flawed through original sin. We are taught from an early age what to think, what to feel, what to believe, how to act, what to fear, and what to love. Finding your Truth, is an unbecoming and unraveling of yourself to uncover the truth about yourself so that you can connect more deeply with yourself and your connection to all that there is.

This week my focus is to help you:

• Determine for yourself what your truth is
• Determine what your belief systems and core values are outside of religious or societal influence
• Nurture you in gaining the confidence and grace to speak your truth to your ecosystem and most importantly to yourself

Please head over to the podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your messages to [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 5 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara, who has created a free 8-Week learning course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 5 is about the process of Awakening. As you shed old beliefs and practices from your past; new ideas, new knowledge and wisdom starts to emerge from within. This is an exhilarating time on the path of spirituality, personal development and long term healing.

This week my focus is to help explain to you the many modalities of awakening, how it changes us, how we experience it as a continuous process and how to support others in their awakening.

• Quick review on "Questioning" & "Becoming"
• Softening as you Awaken
• Creating Inner and Outer Tolerance & Acceptance
• Finding Oneness with all
• Discovering deep knowing within

Please head over to the podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your message to the podcast at [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 4 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara, who has created a free 8-Week learning course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 4 centers around the process of Inner Healing, by way of facilitating self-healing and finding healing from external sources if available to you. We require healing both from the trauma and wounding of our religious experiences and the trauma and wounding we incur by leaving. This week my focus is to help you experience inner healing and to ask for what you need from those who have wounded you. Healing sometimes is a singular process and cannot be a shared experience. I also help you address how to find healing, when you are doing it alone.

• Self-Healing
• Familial Healing
• Religious Healing
• Forgiveness & Inner Healing
• Transmuting & Transforming Healing

Please head over to the podcast YouTube Channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your message to the podcast at [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.

Welcome back sweet souls to Week 3 of the Summer Series: "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 3 is centered around Embracing Uncertainty. Growing up in a strict Catholic home and community; my religious experience indoctrinated within me a strong sense of certainty, about everything. In religious experiences you are given a lot of absolutes and a lot of certainty. You know what your life is supposed to be, who you are supposed to love, what you are supposed to believe (and not believe), who you are supposed to marry, you know "right and wrong" and you know (usually without a shadow of doubt) what will happen to you when you die if you lived a "good" life. This week my focus is to help you embrace the uncertainty of:

• Not knowing
• Figuring out what you believe in
• Trusting yourself
• Being unafraid to face fear
• Unlearning
• Creating practices and space for you to find happiness and stability in your new life.

Please head over to the podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and reflection prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your feedback to the podcast at [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.

Hello Sweet Souls!! This week marks the 100th episode of I'm Awake! Now What? Podcast in which case where ever this episode finds you join us in celebrating this important milestone in the history of the podcast!!!

Welcome back to Week 2 of the Summer Series: "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself" with your host Krista Xiomara Week 2 is all about Doubt and Walking Away from your religion of origin. Krista Xiomara discusses the process of beginning to doubt what you are taught and how questioning is a healthy step in the process of walking away. She navigates the listeners through examples of how doubt began to arise in her religious experience. She shares a wounding story that took her away from herself and how this particular moment in her church community taught her to be dishonest in the face of a community that was preaching honesty in parallel. This is one of many contradictions she would confront in her life with Catholicism. She provides practical steps to walk away, ideas for what kind of support you may need and reminds the listener to trust themselves along the whole process. Please head over to YouTube for a video production of this episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation

Podcast Listeners and YouTube Followers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and reflection prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send messages the podcast at [email protected] or DM your host @ianwpodcast on Instagram.