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Awakening Through Life's Challenges, Can You Commit to Yourself?
Manage episode 509262826 series 3655362
What happens when your spiritual journey isn't the peaceful, magical experience you expected? When you're navigating dark nights of the soul instead of unicorns and rainbows? Kara Goodwin joins us to share how true awakening often emerges from our darkest moments.
Kara's own spiritual path began through tragedy – a devastating seven-month period where she lost her sister-in-law to suicide, faced multiple family health crises, and felt her entire foundation crumbling. What started as a practical search for coping mechanisms through meditation gradually opened doorways to profound spiritual experiences that transformed her understanding of reality itself.
We dive deep into the deliberate disconnection from our spiritual nature in Western society, where material success is celebrated while our essential spiritual essence remains neglected. Kara shares a perspective-shifting truth: "Our thoughts are not our thoughts. We are tuning into the energy that's around us." This understanding challenges our fundamental sense of identity and helps explain why external achievements never satisfy our deepest longings.
With refreshing vulnerability, Kara reveals her experience with a spiritual organization that displayed cult-like characteristics, demonstrating how even spiritually-aware individuals can be drawn into questionable dynamics when seeking deeper meaning. Her story highlights the critical importance of maintaining discernment while exploring spiritual territories – a balancing act of openness and healthy skepticism.
For those feeling overwhelmed about where to begin their spiritual journey, Kara offers beautifully practical advice: commit to giving yourself just five minutes daily to experience yourself as a spiritual being. This simple practice of "being" rather than constantly "doing" can begin shifting everything.
Ready to reconnect with your authentic spiritual nature without abandoning your everyday life? Listen now and discover how to navigate the intensity of awakening while remaining grounded in what matters most.
Kara Goodwin, Author of the incredible book: "Your Authentic Awakening: A Guide to Every day Spiritual Living"
https://www.karagoodwin.com/
https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kara_goodwin_meditation/
https://www.karagoodwin.com/book
@angelreikijourney
angelreikijourney.com
Sacred Soul Sisters Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@angelreikijourney
Chapters
1. Welcome to Sacred Soul Sisters (00:00:00)
2. Meeting Guest Kara Goodwin (00:03:31)
3. Spiritual Journey Through Life's Challenges (00:06:44)
4. The Cult Experience and Power of Discernment (00:18:08)
5. Reconnecting with Our Spiritual Nature (00:31:34)
6. Practical Steps for Authentic Awakening (00:42:21)
7. Closing Thoughts and Gratitude (00:59:23)
34 episodes
Manage episode 509262826 series 3655362
What happens when your spiritual journey isn't the peaceful, magical experience you expected? When you're navigating dark nights of the soul instead of unicorns and rainbows? Kara Goodwin joins us to share how true awakening often emerges from our darkest moments.
Kara's own spiritual path began through tragedy – a devastating seven-month period where she lost her sister-in-law to suicide, faced multiple family health crises, and felt her entire foundation crumbling. What started as a practical search for coping mechanisms through meditation gradually opened doorways to profound spiritual experiences that transformed her understanding of reality itself.
We dive deep into the deliberate disconnection from our spiritual nature in Western society, where material success is celebrated while our essential spiritual essence remains neglected. Kara shares a perspective-shifting truth: "Our thoughts are not our thoughts. We are tuning into the energy that's around us." This understanding challenges our fundamental sense of identity and helps explain why external achievements never satisfy our deepest longings.
With refreshing vulnerability, Kara reveals her experience with a spiritual organization that displayed cult-like characteristics, demonstrating how even spiritually-aware individuals can be drawn into questionable dynamics when seeking deeper meaning. Her story highlights the critical importance of maintaining discernment while exploring spiritual territories – a balancing act of openness and healthy skepticism.
For those feeling overwhelmed about where to begin their spiritual journey, Kara offers beautifully practical advice: commit to giving yourself just five minutes daily to experience yourself as a spiritual being. This simple practice of "being" rather than constantly "doing" can begin shifting everything.
Ready to reconnect with your authentic spiritual nature without abandoning your everyday life? Listen now and discover how to navigate the intensity of awakening while remaining grounded in what matters most.
Kara Goodwin, Author of the incredible book: "Your Authentic Awakening: A Guide to Every day Spiritual Living"
https://www.karagoodwin.com/
https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kara_goodwin_meditation/
https://www.karagoodwin.com/book
@angelreikijourney
angelreikijourney.com
Sacred Soul Sisters Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@angelreikijourney
Chapters
1. Welcome to Sacred Soul Sisters (00:00:00)
2. Meeting Guest Kara Goodwin (00:03:31)
3. Spiritual Journey Through Life's Challenges (00:06:44)
4. The Cult Experience and Power of Discernment (00:18:08)
5. Reconnecting with Our Spiritual Nature (00:31:34)
6. Practical Steps for Authentic Awakening (00:42:21)
7. Closing Thoughts and Gratitude (00:59:23)
34 episodes
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