Still Triggered After Years of Healing? Here’s the Missing Piece of Spiritual Awakening | Melissa Minnich
Release Date: 08/02/2026
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_outlineNervous 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.
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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.
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🎧Podcast: High on Life with Melissa Minnich:
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📚Book: High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss (Hay House): Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold
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