Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright
Release Date: 07/26/2026
Past Lives & Soul Purpose: Why I Chose My Hardest Lifetime | Martha Wright
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What if your soul chose this lifetime for a reason? What if your hardest experiences were preparation, not punishment? An Akashic Records reading revealed a past life of bondage, survival and a sacred assignment that changed how Jessica Rooks understands her life, her healing journey and the work she is here to do. In this deeply personal flip-the-script episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks takes the interviewee seat as returning guest Martha Wright leads her through her own personal Akashic Records reading and what it revealed about past lives, soul contracts and soul...
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Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of It: Somatic Healing & Nervous System Regulation | Melanie Smithson
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Why can you understand your patterns and still feel stuck in them? In this episode, somatic psychotherapist Melanie Smithson explains how somatic healing and nervous system regulation help your body release what your mind already knows - and why talk therapy alone isn't enough. This week host Jessica Rooks sits down with Melanie Smithson a Licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, Dance Movement Therapist, and author of the award-winning Stress Free in 30 Seconds and Shake Yourself Free: 81 Somatic Practices to Let Go of Limitation. Trained in somatic psychology, dance movement therapy, EDMR, and...
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Stuck in Life as a Woman? Why It's Not Your Past, It's Your Untruths | Lynda Leonce
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Why do women feel stuck in life, even when they're ready for a change? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lynda Leonce, authenticity coach, mentor, and author of Inside Out Creation: Your Path to Inner Alignment, to explore limiting beliefs, subconscious conditioning, people pleasing, and the untruths that keep women disconnected from their authentic selves. Lynda explores the untruths we carry about worth, safety, love and identity - and how these internalized stories can contribute to misalignment and keep us from living from the outside in. The...
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Shadow Work: Why You Can't See Your Own Blind Spots | Indra Rinzler
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Shadow work and why you can't see your own blind spots may reveal why the same emotional patterns keep repeating, even after years of inner work. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual teacher, Vedic astrologer, Enneagram practitioner, and author Indra Rinzler to explore the hidden aspects of ourselves we struggle to see - and how recognizing them opens the door to deeper self-awareness and spiritual awakening. What if the very thing you cannot see about yourself is the key to understanding who you truly are? With more than 50 years on the...
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She Sang on the World's Biggest Stages—But Her Real Journey Was Learning to Belong | Machan Taylor
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What if a lifetime on the world's biggest stages still leaves you asking: Who am I? Childhood trauma healing, inner child healing, and belonging with singer and author Machan Taylor (Pink Floyd, Sting, Pat Benatar) on Awaken Your Authentic Self with Jessica Rooks. In this deeply personal conversation, Machan Taylor joins host Jessica Rooks to explore identity, belonging, childhood trauma healing, self-worth, relationships, spirituality, meditation, self-awareness, and becoming your authentic self. Machan Taylor is a renowned singer and author of the memoir Naked Out Loud. Her extraordinary...
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Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore? The Hidden Side of Spiritual Awakening | Helen Ye Plehn
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Why don't I feel like myself anymore? If you're in the in-between space of spiritual awakening, identity transformation, and anxiety - where who you were no longer fits but who you're becoming isn't clear yet - this conversation is for you. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with Helen Ye Plehn, founder of Helen Creates Beauty, creator of The Aura Color Wheel, and Hay House award-winning author of The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul's Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons. We unpack spiritual awakening symptoms, the dark night of the...
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Healing Your Inner Child: How the Boy Who Couldn't Read Became a Bestselling Author | John R. Spender
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If you experienced childhood trauma and are still carrying the wound beneath your story, healing your inner child may be less about fixing what's broken and more about remembering who you really are. In this episode Jessica Rooks, host of Awaken Your Authentic Self a show for empaths and old souls navigating awakening and trauma healing, sits down with John R. Spender, a 45-time international bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, and founder of A Journey of Riches, a global storytelling movement featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries. John couldn't read...
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The Signs You're Missing From Your Loved Ones in Spirit - And What Spirit Keeps Trying to Tell You | Chris Lippincott
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What if the people you've lost - your mother, your father, the person you never got to say goodbye to - what if they never actually left? In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chris Lippincott, international evidential psychic medium, trance medium, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and host of Spirits Beside Us, to explore mediumship, afterlife communication, signs from spirit, grief healing, spiritual awakening, intuition, consciousness, and connecting with loved ones beyond physical death. Before becoming a professional medium, Chris spent...
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What If Your Wounds Aren’t Yours? Ancestral Healing, Reiki & After-Death Communication |Cindy Bain
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What if the pain you're carrying isn't yours? What if some of the patterns, emotional wounds, grief, or energetic imprints you've spent years trying to heal began before you ever had a chance to choose them. In this conversation Cindy Bain joins host Jessica Rooks on Awaken Your Authentic Self to explore ancestral healing, Reiki healing, spiritual awakening, grief, Spiritually Transformative Experiences )STEs), near death experiences, and after-death communication - and what can happen when we begin to look at healing through both a grounded and spiritual lens. Cindy's has spent more...
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Why You’re Still Stuck After Loss - And the One Shift That Can Turn Grief Into Joy | Chanoa Inez
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Why are you still stuck after loss - even when you know you're ready to move forward? And what if the shift from grief to joy begins with reconnecting to who you truly are? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chanoa Inez - personal branding advisor, copywriter, messaging strategist , and author of Dream On: How to Create the New Life of Your Dreams After Upheaval or Loss - for a deeply honest conversation about grief recovery, emotional healing, rebuilding your life after loss, personal transformation, authentic identity, and reclaiming joy. Chanoa...
info_outlineWhat 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
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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
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✨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
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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.
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