Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

Spiritual Awakening, Dark Night of the Soul & Mediumship with Nicole Pope

Episode 103 - Spiritual Awakening Podcast with Shaz

What happens when the spiritual gifts you never knew you had suddenly switch on, and the life you thought you understood begins to unravel?

In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I’m joined by evidential medium Nicole Pope for a deep, honest conversation about spiritual awakening, mediumship, the dark night of the soul and what really happens when Spirit begins calling you towards a completely different life.

Nicole spent much of her life in the corporate world, working in technology, project management and private equity. Mediumship was nowhere on the career plan. Then her young son began seeing what he described as shadow people in their home.

What initially looked like childhood imagination eventually led Nicole to a medium, who gave her an answer she certainly wasn’t expecting.

Her son wasn’t the only one connected to Spirit.

Nicole was a medium too.

Once she began developing that ability, the door opened quickly. Mediumship, the clairs, Akashic Records, Shamanic study and a completely different relationship with Spirit began unfolding, eventually leading Nicole away from her corporate career and towards the work she now feels called to do. 

But this conversation goes far beyond how someone becomes a psychic medium.

In this episode, Spiritual Awakening, Dark Night of the Soul & Mediumship with Nicole Pope, we discuss:

• Nicole’s unexpected journey from corporate executive to evidential medium
• her son seeing Spirit and how his experiences became part of her own awakening
• what happens when mediumship abilities suddenly begin opening
• clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and how different intuitive abilities communicate
• why your strongest intuitive gift may not be the one you expect
• the everyday signs from Spirit people often overlook
• why developing mediumship involves much more than simply “seeing dead people”
• the importance of discernment when connecting spiritually
• vibration, frequency and what you may connect with when you open spiritually from fear, grief or emotional distress
• Nicole’s experience of the dark night of the soul and having Spirit come through intensely
• why spiritual awakening can initially feel more like a breakdown than an awakening
• the difference between being gifted and believing the gift makes you special
• moving beyond the spiritual ego and understanding yourself as the channel rather than the source
• why ethical mediumship requires boundaries, integrity and consent
• respecting sovereignty and free will when receiving information about another person
• why Shaz and Nicole refuse to treat mediumship like a performance
• the danger of practitioners feeling they need to prove their gifts
• recognising when your own intention or ego begins interfering with intuitive information
• personal responsibility as part of spiritual development
• shadow work and learning to become curious about the parts of yourself you would rather avoid
• inherited behaviours, childhood conditioning, lineage and past-life patterns
• Nicole’s journey with her parents and the lesson Spirit brought through about no longer allowing another person’s behaviour to determine who she becomes
• boundaries, forgiveness and the difference between healing something and allowing harmful behaviour back into your life
• releasing survival patterns that once protected you but no longer belong in the life you are creating
• moving from constant doing and productivity into trust, surrender and receiving
• why healing does not mean pretending the past never happened
• the idea that the experiences you survive can become part of the wisdom you eventually offer others
• soul lessons, reincarnation and whether some of our hardest experiences form part of a much bigger journey
• trusting Spirit when the road towards your purpose looks nothing like the route you expected
• why your soul purpose keeps finding ways to get your attention until you finally listen

One of the strongest conversations in this episode centres around ethics in spiritual work.

Nicole and I talk openly about consent, boundaries and the responsibility that comes with being able to access information intuitively. Having the ability to read someone does not automatically give you permission to do it. We explore the difference between receiving information and believing you have the right to deliver it, why practitioners need to examine their intentions, and what can happen when ego becomes involved in spiritual work. 

We also go deeply into the dark night of the soul.

Nicole shares how opening so rapidly to Spirit became overwhelming and contributed to what she describes as a mental breakdown. That experience forced her to understand frequency, discernment and the parts of herself that still needed healing. Rather than treating spiritual awakening as endless love, light and beautiful signs, we talk about why awakening can expose everything within us that is asking to be faced. 

From there, the conversation moves into shadow work, ego and healing.

We discuss why the goal is not to destroy the ego, but to understand it. As we develop spiritually, the focus begins shifting away from look what I can do and towards understanding that we are channels through which the work happens. The deeper work becomes clearing our own patterns so that fear, wounds, ego and expectations interfere less with what we receive. 

Nicole also shares one of the most personal lessons from her own awakening. After distancing herself from difficult family dynamics, Spirit challenged her to recognise that true freedom would come when she stopped allowing another person's behaviour to change who she chose to be. It becomes a powerful conversation about boundaries, family patterns, healing and becoming emotionally sovereign rather than continuing to react to somebody else’s journey. 

And, naturally, Nicole and I wander into past lives, soul contracts, reincarnation and those sliding-door moments that seem insignificant at the time but may completely redirect your life.

The underlying message becomes beautifully simple.

You might resist your calling. You might take the scenic route. You might even convince yourself you have chosen the wrong path.

But if something genuinely belongs to your soul’s journey, it has an incredible way of finding you again.

Nicole’s final message is to trust the process, give yourself grace and find people who can support you through your development. Mediumship kept finding her until she finally said yes, even though saying yes eventually meant leaving a successful corporate career behind. 

Episode Highlights

This episode explores mediumship from both sides of the journey. Nicole discovered her abilities later in life, while I grew up experiencing Spirit from childhood. Those very different beginnings create a fascinating conversation about how spiritual gifts can present differently while still leading us towards the same fundamental lesson: learning to trust ourselves and the connection we have with Spirit.

We also strip some of the glamour away from spiritual awakeni...

What If Your Life Falling Apart Is the Reveal?

Episode 102, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

What if the thing you think is falling apart is actually showing you what can no longer stay the same?

In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I explore the idea that some of the biggest breakdowns, endings, losses and setbacks in our lives are not always punishment or failure. Sometimes they are the reveal. They expose what is no longer aligned, what has run its course, what we have outgrown, and who we are being asked to become next. 

I share parts of my own journey, including losing my business, watching plans fall apart, rebuilding my identity and learning that what looked like failure at the time often became the very thing that redirected me towards the work I now do. This episode is about looking at your life through a different lens and asking what your current challenges may be trying to show you. Podcast 102

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why life falling apart can sometimes be a reveal rather than a failure
• How awakening can involve removal, endings and redirection
• Why relationships, jobs, friendships and business models sometimes stop fitting
• How identity changes as we grow and evolve
• Why grief is not only about death, but also the loss of a future you thought you would have
• The difference between a setback and a deeper misalignment
• Why some cycles have to end before something new can begin
• How losing a job can become an opportunity to ask what you actually want next
• Why comfort and familiarity can keep us stuck in situations that no longer serve us
• How breakdowns can expose the truth about relationships and support systems
• Why the role of “the strong one” can become part of your identity
• The importance of allowing grief, anger and pain instead of spiritually bypassing them
• How unresolved trauma can sit in the body and affect your wellbeing
• Why freedom can feel scarier than staying with what you already know
• How to question the identity you have built around work, relationships, family and responsibility
• Why awakening is not always about more, but sometimes about less
• Letting go of people pleasing, self-abandonment and living for other people’s approval
• Why your life may not be collapsing, but becoming more honest
• How to ask what you are ready to build next

Highlights

One of the strongest messages in this episode is that we often judge a breakdown too quickly. We call it failure, punishment or proof that something has gone wrong, when it may actually be the moment that exposes where our life has become misaligned. 

Sometimes the ending itself is what forces us to stop and ask what we truly want. 

I also share how losing my business years ago became one of the biggest identity shifts of my life. At the time, I could not see what would come next, but that loss eventually led me towards creating my cards, journals, books and this podcast. The version of me that exists today would not have been created without that breakdown. 

Another major theme is identity. We can become so attached to roles like partner, parent, rescuer, business owner or employee that we forget who we are underneath them. This episode asks you to look beyond those labels and reconnect with your values, your truth and the life your soul is actually asking you to create. 

The episode closes with one of the most important questions you can ask yourself when life feels uncertain:

What am I ready to build now?

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Why Self Love Is So Important

 Episode 101, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

The most important relationship you will ever have in this lifetime is not the one you think it is. It is the relationship you have with yourself, with your own soul.

In this episode, I unpack why so much of our pain, our anxiety and the trauma we carry in our bodies comes down to the way we speak to ourselves every single day. I share why the harshest critic most of us ever face lives in our own head, why criticism from other people is really a mirror of how they feel about themselves, and why the way we treat ourselves as adults so often echoes what we absorbed as children.

I also talk about one of the hardest patterns I see in my work as a psychic medium and healer, mothers who gave everything to their children, only to be told later that they weren't loved enough. I walk through why that happens, what it actually means to pour from a full cup rather than an empty one, and why one hundred percent of five percent will always only be five percent.

Alongside the harder truths, I share the practical rituals, affirmations and mindset shifts I use every single day to keep my own cup full, including the exact words I use when someone tries to criticise or put me down.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why the relationship with yourself matters more than any other relationship in your life
• Why your inner critic so often echoes what you absorbed as a child
• Why someone else's judgement or criticism of you is really a reflection of how they feel about themselves
• The "hurt people hurt people" analogy and why people who are in pain end up lashing out
• Why becoming an adult means becoming the caretaker of your own soul
• Why celebrating your own wins is essential to your soul's growth, not egotistical
• Why we celebrate celebrities and sportspeople but discourage ourselves from celebrating our own achievements
• The exhausted, unappreciated mother pattern, and why external validation can never fill an internal void
• The cup metaphor, and why one hundred percent of five percent is still only five percent
• The heartbreaking pattern I see in readings, mothers who gave everything only to be told by their adult children that they weren't loved enough
• Why love given from an empty cup is felt as hollow, even when the words themselves are right
• Why real self-love means accepting your faults and your shadow side without holding them against yourself
• How repetition changes your inner dialogue, the same way repetition teaches you anything else in life
• Morning affirmations and rituals I use to reset my mindset each day
• Why chasing love and appreciation from outside yourself leaves you feeling empty, even when people are pouring into you
• Why boundaries and refusing to accept unkind words are genuine acts of self-love
• My go-to response when someone tries to criticise or put me down
• How grief and self-love can exist together, and how I honour my own loved ones every day
• Why every challenge can be reframed as an opportunity to grow once you stop resisting it
• The three and a half year self-love journey that changed how I show up in the world

Highlights

 One of the strongest themes in this episode is that your relationship with yourself shapes every other relationship in your life. When your own cup is empty, no amount of love, appreciation or reassurance from someone else can fill it, and that hollowness is always felt, even when it isn't spoken.

I also share one of the hardest things I sit with in my work, mothers who poured everything they had into their children, only to be told later that it wasn't enough. The truth underneath that pain is almost never that they didn't try. It is that they were giving from a cup that was already empty.

Most importantly, I want you to walk away from this episode with real, practical ways to start filling your own cup, through the words you use, the affirmations you choose each morning, and the boundaries you're willing to hold, so that what you give to the people you love comes from fullness rather than from empty.

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Journeys with the Archangels: Why This Book Matters

Episode 100, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

Episode 100 felt too important to simply look backwards.

Instead, I wanted to share the journey that brought me here and the deeper story behind my new book, Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide.

This episode is about my personal relationship with the Archangels, the ways they have shown up throughout my life, and why I believe learning to work with them can help you strengthen your intuition, feel supported through difficult times and build a deeper relationship with your own spiritual guidance.

I also share why this book is not designed to sit untouched on a shelf. It is meant to be used, written in, highlighted, opened when you feel lost and returned to whenever you need guidance, healing, courage, protection or clarity.

The biggest message throughout this episode is simple. The Archangels can support you, but you have to ask, remain open to receiving, and still take responsibility for your own life and choices.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why Episode 100 felt like the right moment to talk about Journeys with the Archangels
•  Why Archangel Michael became such an important guide in my life 
•  Why Michael encouraged me to write this book 
•  Why the Archangels cannot override your free will 
•  The importance of asking for spiritual assistance 
•  How Archangels can support grief, healing, courage, relationships, communication, creativity and decision-making 
•  Why you do not always need to know an Archangel’s name before asking for help 
•  The 15 Archangels I chose to include and why personal experience mattered to me 
•  How Archangels can appear through warmth, movement, breeze, dreams, visions, colours and physical sensations 
•  My experiences with Archangel Michael, Ariel, Jeremiel, Haniel and others 
•  How Archangels can work together to support specific situations 
•  Why spiritual support does not remove your personal responsibility 
•  The importance of taking action after receiving guidance 
•  Why discomfort can sometimes be part of growth and transformation 
•  Working with Archangel Azrael during grief and transition 
•  Why Journeys with the Archangels is designed as a practical guide 
•  The invocations, meditations, visualisations and journaling prompts included in the book 
•  Why shadow journaling can help you understand what sits underneath the need for support 
•  How signs and synchronicities can be subtle rather than dramatic 
•  How dreams, repeated messages, songs, bodily sensations and intuitive knowing can become forms of spiritual communication 
•  Why building a relationship with an Archangel is similar to building any other relationship 
•  How the book can help strengthen your own intuition rather than make you dependent on outside guidance 
•  Why your relationship with the Archangels does not need to look like mine 
•  How I want readers to use the book in real life, especially during grief, fear, overwhelm or uncertainty 
•  Why the podcast and the book ultimately come from the same purpose 
•  How to use the book intuitively rather than feeling that you must read it from beginning to end 

Highlights

One of the strongest themes in this episode is that the Archangels are there to support you, but they are not there to take over your life.

You still have free will, choice and personal responsibility.

You can ask for courage, healing, clarity, protection or guidance, but you still have to participate in the change you are asking for.

I also share how differently the Archangels can appear. Their presence is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is warmth, a breeze, a repeated message, a dream, a body sensation, a song or a quiet thought that seems to arrive at exactly the right moment.

The book itself was created to make these relationships practical. Each Archangel has ways to connect, including invocations, meditations, signs, synchronicities and shadow journaling prompts so you can explore what support you need and how that support may already be showing up around you.

Most importantly, I want you to build your own evidence and your own relationship with the Archangels. Your experience does not need to match mine.

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You Don’t Need Another Sign. Make the Decision.

Episode 99, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

There comes a point where asking for another sign stops being guidance and starts becoming avoidance.

In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I talk about what happens when you already know what you want, but fear, doubt and overthinking keep you stuck in analysis paralysis. We look at the difference between guidance and permission seeking, why constantly outsourcing your decisions weakens self-trust, and how to reconnect with your intuition, body and spiritual sovereignty.

This episode is about learning to stop asking everyone else what you should do and beginning to trust yourself enough to choose.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why asking for another sign can become avoidance 
•  The difference between guidance and permission seeking 
•  How language such as “should I?” can hand your power away 
•  Why spiritual tools should support your intuition, not replace it 
•  What spiritual sovereignty actually looks like 
•  How constantly asking other people for advice weakens self-trust 
•  Why intuition is often simple, while the mind creates complexity 
•  How your body can help you understand what feels aligned 
•  Why empaths need to learn their own internal signals 
•  The difference between excitement, anxiety and intuitive warning signs 
•  Why asking the same question repeatedly creates more confusion 
•  How failure gives you information and helps you make better decisions 
•  Why certainty is rarely available before action 
•  How research, experience and testing create greater clarity 
•  Why signs are confirmation rather than a substitute for decision making 
•  How taking action builds confidence, momentum and self-trust 

Highlights

One of the strongest themes in this episode is the idea that you already know more than you think you do.

We can become so focused on cards, pendulums, repeating numbers, spiritual guidance and other people’s opinions that we forget the most important source of information, ourselves.

I also explore how the body communicates with us through expansion, contraction, tension, relief and subtle physical reactions. Learning your own patterns can help you recognise the difference between fear, intuition and old conditioning.

Failure also gets reframed in this episode. Making a decision that does not work out does not automatically mean you made a mistake. Sometimes it gives you the information you needed in order to take the next step with more clarity.

Most importantly, your spiritual tools are there to strengthen your relationship with yourself, not replace it.

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When Awakening Takes the Ground From Under You, with Heather Zimmerman

Episode 98 Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast 

What happens when your spiritual awakening does not feel expansive or peaceful, but instead feels like your whole life is being pulled apart?

In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I sit down with Heather Zimmerman, Multidimensional Soul Facilitator and founder of Divine Ascension Co., for a deep conversation about spiritual awakening, the dark night of the soul, healing trauma, sovereignty, channeling, manifestation and what can happen when the old version of your life no longer fits.

Heather holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, and spent years working in behavioural science before her own awakening took her apart and rebuilt her from underneath.

That experience shaped the way she works today. Rather than focusing only on surface symptoms, Heather looks deeper at what may be happening emotionally, mentally, physically, energetically and spiritually.

She is the author of Becoming Divine and the creator of The Self-Spirit Method™, a fourteen-step framework built in the order she personally needed while moving through her own healing and awakening journey.

Heather works with people who are experiencing something they may not yet have language for, particularly those wondering why they suddenly feel different, disconnected from their old life, energetically sensitive or unsure of what is happening to them.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Heather’s early experiences with spirit, haunted houses and unexplained phenomena
• How questioning religion led her towards her own spiritual path
• The dark night of the soul and what happens when your existing belief system falls apart
• Dreams, astral travel, past-life experiences and multidimensional exploration
• Channeling spirit guides, higher-dimensional beings and other forms of consciousness
• Why curiosity matters during a spiritual awakening
• Spiritual sovereignty and finding what feels true for you
• Why Heather believes authenticity is an important part of spiritual development
• The difference between surface healing and getting underneath the original pattern
• Spiritual bypassing and why healing often happens in layers
• The connection between trauma, emotions, energy and the body
• Breaking ancestral and generational patterns
• Why manifestation requires more than affirmations, visualisation and vision boards
• How focusing your energy on what you actually want can change the way you manifest
• Heather’s fourteen-step Self-Spirit Method™
• Self-love, compassion, chakras, mindfulness and gratitude as foundations for deeper spiritual work
• Learning to communicate with spirit and asking better questions
• Creating boundaries with spirit and developing a relationship with your guides
• Daily energetic practices for reconnecting with yourself and your highest timeline
• Becoming curious about the parts of spirituality that exist beyond the surface

Highlights

One of the strongest themes in this conversation is the importance of sovereignty.

Heather encourages people to question, explore and discover what actually feels true for them instead of automatically adopting someone else’s beliefs.

We also explore why healing is rarely finished after dealing with something once. Old experiences can return at another level because you are ready to meet a deeper layer of the pattern.

Heather shares why manifestation is the final stage of her fourteen-step framework rather than the starting point. Before intentionally creating something different, she believes we need to understand ourselves, our energy and the patterns influencing the way we experience life.

This is a conversation for anyone who has ever thought, What the hell is happening to me?, during a spiritual awakening and wondered whether losing the old version of themselves might actually be the beginning of something much bigger.

About Heather Zimmerman

Heather Zimmerman is a Multidimensional Soul Facilitator and the founder of Divine Ascension Co.

She holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, and spent years working in behavioural science before her own awakening took her apart and rebuilt her from underneath.

That is the reason she works the way she does. She does not treat the surface symptom. She goes looking for what is actually underneath it, which is usually why the surface fixes never held.

She is the author of Becoming Divine and the creator of The Self-Spirit Method™, a fourteen-step framework built in the order she actually needed it.

She works with people who are in the middle of something they have no language for yet, who are afraid there is something wrong with them, and who have not told anyone what is really happening.

Connect with Heather

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Rather than being five unrelated problems, Heather explores how these experiences can be connected and what may be happening underneath them.

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Returning to Yourself with Joy Danielle Cabodi

Episode 97 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast 

What happens when the parts of you that were shaped by trauma, survival and fear begin returning to your authentic self?

Episode overview

In this episode of the Spiritual Awakening Podcast, I’m joined by spiritual healer, shamanic practitioner, psychic medium and Akashic Records reader Joy Danielle Cabodi.

Joy shares her journey from a chaotic childhood, homelessness and addiction into sobriety, spiritual awakening and the deeper work of remembering who she really is. We talk about empathy born through trauma, soul retrieval, intuition, healthy boundaries, generational healing and what it means to reclaim the parts of yourself that were lost along the way.

This conversation also explores grief, self-love, the divine feminine, spiritual authenticity and why some of our hardest experiences become the training ground for the work we are here to do.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  How trauma can heighten empathy and sensitivity 
•  Joy’s journey through homelessness, addiction and sobriety 
•  Developing psychic awareness and understanding spiritual experiences 
•  Working with the Akashic Records 
•  Generational healing and breaking family patterns 
•  Soul retrieval and calling lost parts of yourself back 
•  Intuition as an inner navigation system 
•  Healthy boundaries and reclaiming personal power 
•  The divine feminine and goddess energy 
•  Why grief, joy and transformation can coexist 
•  The importance of authentic self-love 
•  How our greatest hardships can become our greatest training ground 
•  Why finding the right mentor or practitioner matters on the healing journey 

Highlights

Joy shares how sobriety became the beginning of a much deeper return to herself, and how spiritual experiences helped her understand there was something greater guiding her life.

We also talk about the power of soul retrieval, how trauma can fragment our sense of self, and why healing is often about calling those parts back rather than trying to become someone completely new.

The conversation moves through grief, intuition, personal power and the importance of living spirituality authentically, not only when someone is watching.

Joy leaves us with a powerful reminder that the experiences which challenge us the most often become the very thing that prepares us to help someone else.

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Healing Is Not One Session, One Breakthrough or One Big Cry

Episode 96

Healing is not a magic pill, one breakthrough or one weekend retreat. Real change happens layer by layer, with honesty, repetition and responsibility.

Episode overview

In this episode of the Spiritual Awakening Podcast, I talk about one of the biggest problems I see in the healing world, the promise that one session, one release or one powerful breakthrough can magically fix years of trauma, conditioning and emotional patterns.

Yes, one session can create a massive shift. It can open something, release something or help you see yourself differently. But lasting change comes from what happens afterwards.

We talk about why old patterns return, why you need to replace what you release with something healthier, how identity work becomes part of the healing process, and why the right practitioner should guide and empower you rather than make you dependent on them.

In this episode, I discuss:

• Why one healing session rarely changes everything
• The difference between a breakthrough and lasting change
• Why trauma and beliefs are often layered over many years
• How old patterns return when the underlying program is never rewritten
• Why repetition and continued practice matter
• The role of EFT, hypnosis, Reiki, journalling and other healing tools
• Why healing can feel uncomfortable even when staying the same feels worse
• How identity work affects self-sabotage, addiction, relationships and confidence
• Why practitioners should give you tools, not create dependency
• How triggers can reveal the next layer that is ready to heal
• Why quick-fix promises and “instant cure” marketing can be damaging
• The importance of taking responsibility for your own healing journey

Key Takeaways from Healing is not One Session

Healing is not about erasing what happened or pretending the past never existed.

It is about understanding what happened, recognising who you became through it, releasing what no longer serves you and consciously choosing what comes next.

You may still get triggered. You may still revisit an old pattern. The goal is not to never experience a difficult emotion again. The goal is to have the awareness, tools and self-trust to move through it without falling all the way back into the place you once lived.

There is no magic healer.

There is no magic pill.

The real transformation happens when you commit to your own healing, practise what you have learned and become more of who you were underneath the layers in the first place.

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🔗 Follow & Connect with Me:

Instagram: @shazcini

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You can also join me for regular healing tips and sessions in Skool - Shaz Cini Healing Hub

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From Despair to Divine Guidance: The Story Behind My Two New Books

Episode 95 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

These two books may look very different, but they tell two sides of the same story. One is about the life I lived, and the other is about the spiritual support that helped me find my way through it.

In this episode, I share why I am launching My Soul Activated: From Despair to a Life by Design and Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide together, and why separating them never really made sense.

I talk about the loss, trauma, grief and physical symptoms that pushed me to question my life, the relationship with my Nan that changed how I saw myself, and how learning to ask for help from the Archangels became part of rebuilding my life.

This isn't an episode about everything that went wrong. It is about what happened afterwards. How I stopped allowing the past to define me, found my voice, learned what was mine to carry and began creating a life that actually felt like mine.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why My Soul Activated and Journeys with the Archangels belong together
• How grief, trauma and complex PTSD affected my body
• The question that helped me stop carrying emotions and burdens that weren't mine
• Why surviving something does not mean it needs to define the rest of your life
• How losing my Nan became one of the biggest turning points in my awakening
• What reconnecting with my Nan taught me about forgiveness, family and my own worth
• Why I was already spiritually connected long before trauma entered my life
• How tarot helped me recognise and trust my intuitive abilities
• The role the Archangels have played throughout my healing and spiritual development
• Why you do not need to be psychic, religious or experienced in meditation to ask the Archangels for help
• How Journeys with the Archangels became a practical guide rather than simply another book about angels
• Why Archangels can guide and support you, but cannot walk your path for you
• What is included in the book presale packages and why I wanted to create something special for the people supporting the launch
• Why both books officially launch on 11 November 2026
• How supporting an author during a presale or crowdfunding campaign helps bring the work into the world

Highlights from this episode

I share the story of the physical spasms that appeared after my Nan's death and the psychiatrist who helped me understand the effect complex PTSD was having on my body.

I also talk about discovering the truth behind my relationship with my Nan and how knowing that she had wanted me completely changed the childhood belief that I had always been unwanted.

You'll hear how my intuitive abilities became impossible to ignore through tarot readings and predictions, and why learning to understand where that information came from eventually led me into a much deeper relationship with the Archangels.

I also take you behind the scenes of the two-book launch, including the Archangel journal, crystal packs, activation meditation, readings and the presale packages I have created for the people choosing to support these books before they are released.

These books represent a full-circle moment for me.

I grew up hiding what I knew and questioning who I was. Today I can share my story, my spiritual experiences and what I have learned without asking permission to be who I am.

Join the Presale and Help Bring These Books Into the World

These books have taken years of life, healing, spiritual connection and courage to bring together.

If My Soul Activated or Journeys with the Archangels speaks to you, joining the presale is one of the most meaningful ways you can support this next chapter.

Your support helps me bring the books, journals, crystals, packaging and everything surrounding this launch into physical form. More than that, you become part of the beginning of something I believe is meant to help people feel less alone, more connected and more supported in their own journey.

I have created special presale packages for those who want to be part of this with me, including options with the books, Archangel crystals, the companion journal, meditation and other extras depending on the package you choose.

If you feel called to support the launch, you can explore the presale options here:

https://shazcini.com/books-presale/

Thank you to every person who has encouraged me, shared the journey, pre-ordered, spoken about the books or simply believed in what I am creating.

I do not take that support lightly.

These books are deeply personal to me, and knowing they will soon be sitting in the hands of people who need them means more than I can properly put into words.

🎧 Listen now on:

🔹 Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube | ShazCini

Enjoying the Podcast? Leave a review & share it with someone who needs to hear this!

🔗 Follow & Connect with Me:

Instagram: @shazcini

Facebook: @shazcini

YouTube: @shazcini

You can also join me for regular healing tips and sessions in Skool - Shaz Cini Healing Hub

📩 Subscribe for exclusive tips & guidance → www.shazcini.com

Did you know that when you join the mailing list, you get all future guides and downloadables from the podcast sent to you straight away?

🔔 Subscribe & turn on notifications so you never miss an episode!

💖 If this episode resonated with you, please leave a review - it helps us reach more souls on their healing journey!

☕ If this episode resonated with you, you're welcome to buy me a coffee.

Intuition or Anxiety? How to Tell the Difference

Episode 94, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

Is it your intuition speaking, or is anxiety, fear and an activated nervous system running the show?

In this episode, I take you through the difference between intuition and anxiety in a practical, interactive way so you can start recognising what is actually happening in your mind and body.

We talk about why intuition usually feels calm, clear and simple, while anxiety creates urgency, overthinking, worst-case scenarios and the desperate need for certainty. I also explore how survival mode, trauma and hypervigilance can make it harder to trust your own inner guidance.

Throughout the episode, I give you real-life scenarios to help you test the difference for yourself, including relationships, delayed messages, tarot cards, spirit signs and those moments where you suddenly know you need to stop, wait, go somewhere or contact someone.

I also share some of my own intuitive experiences, including the signs that guided me back to Sydney, the purple elephant with pink polka dots, and the warning that may have prevented me from being involved in an accident.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How intuition feels different from anxiety in your body
• Why survival mode can make you scan for danger and confuse fear with guidance
• The difference between a calm intuitive nudge and anxious overthinking
• Why intuition often arrives before your analytical mind starts building the story
• How to recognise your body's personal yes and no
• Why feeling uncomfortable does not always mean something is wrong
• The difference between unsafe and unfamiliar
• How rejection, abandonment and old wounds can distort current situations
• Why repeatedly asking psychics, tarot cards, pendulums or other people for answers can disconnect you from your own knowing
• How spirit signs tend to arrive naturally rather than needing to be hunted for
• Why developing intuition takes practice, evidence and self-trust
• Five simple questions to help you work out whether you are experiencing intuition, anxiety, fear or conditioning

Your intuition does not need to bully you, frighten you or send you searching everywhere for more answers.

Sometimes it is simply the quiet knowing underneath all the noise.

The more you practise listening to that knowing, the easier it becomes to recognise when fear is running the show and when your soul is gently saying, this way.

🎧 Listen now on:

🔹 Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube | ShazCini

Enjoying the Podcast? Leave a review & share it with someone who needs to hear this!

🔗 Follow & Connect with Me:

Instagram: @shazcini

Facebook: @shazcini

YouTube: @shazcini

You can also join me for regular healing tips and sessions in Skool - Shaz Cini Healing Hub

📩 Subscribe for exclusive tips & guidance → www.shazcini.com

Did you know that when you join the mailing list, you get all future guides and downloadables from the podcast sent to you straight away?

🔔 Subscribe & turn on notifications so you never miss an episode!

💖 If this episode resonated with you, please leave a review - it helps us reach more souls on their healing journey!

☕ If this episode resonated with you, you're welcome to buy me a coffee.