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Rite of Passage for Women: Is Your Life Too Small for Who You’ve Become? | Niels Vantzuriel

Release Date: 08/16/2026

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...

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...

Shadow Work & Planetary Magic: Heal Your Deepest Wounds & Reclaim Your Power Using the Planets | Lucy Baldwin

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Shadow work. Planetary magic. And how your deepest wounds may actually be the key to reclaiming your power. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lucy Baldwin - planetary magic teacher, shadow alchemy guide, priestess, podcaster, and founder of Remolina Coaching - for a powerful conversation about shadow work, planetary magic, healing, personal transformation, and reclaiming your power. For more than seven years, Lucy has guided hundreds of students around the world in working with the shadow, the planets, identity, desire, and the deeper patterns...

After 20 Years with MS, She Healed Naturally: The Missing Link Was Nervous System Restoration | Christine Ruch

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What if nervous system restoration - not another protocol - is the missing link to healing chronic illness naturally? After 20 years with MS, Christine Ruch discovered that nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and ultimately nervous system restoration changed everything. In this sacred space, holistic transformation guide Christine Ruch joins Jessica to share her extraordinary 20-year journey with Multiple Sclerosis - and how ultimately healed naturally while raising her children and running a restaurant. With a background in holistic nutrition, Christine reveal why diets, supplements,...

Rite of Passage for Women: Is Your Life Too Small for Who You’ve Become? | Niels Vantzuriel

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What if the life you've built isn't broken...but you've simply outgrown it? Have you ever felt a quiet, undeniable truth stirring in your body: "The life I'm living is too small for who I've become"? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks, creator of of this sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truth-tellers ready to remember who they really are, sits down with Rite of Passage facilitator Niels Vantzuriel to explore spiritual initiation, midlife awakening, life transitions, identity transformation, nervous system awareness, and embodied healing. For many...

If You're Doing Everything Right and Still Feel Empty: This Is Your Spiritual Awakening | Dr. Jessie & Omar Ferreira

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If you're doing everything right but still feel empty, you may be experiencing high functioning burnout, a profound spiritual awakening, or an identity shift - especially if you're navigating a midlife transition where the life you built no longer fits who you're becoming. This episode explores the connection between high functioning burnout, spiritual awakening, identity crisis, personal transformation, conscious leadership, authentic living, and burnout recovery for people whose outward success no longer fits who you're becoming. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica...

Still Triggered After Years of Healing? Here’s the Missing Piece of Spiritual Awakening | Melissa Minnich

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Nervous 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...

Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright

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What 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...

Can't Stop Absorbing Everyone's Emotions? Energy Healing for Empaths That Changes Everything | Hope Fitzgerald

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Do you walk into a room and immediately feel everyone's emotional state - their anxiety, their grief, their unspoken tension - as if it were your own? What if one of the most powerful tools for navigating uncertainty wasn't about controlling the world around you...but learning to work with a higher frequency of love, compassion, and consciousness? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with intuitive dowser, spiritual teacher, and author Hope Fitzgerald to explore why empaths and highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions-and how energy...

The Real Reason You're Burning Out: Astrology Reveals What You're Missing | Aleksandra Ceho

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Are you constantly pushing through exhaustion, wondering why your usual spiritual practices aren't enough to prevent burnout? What if your energy isn't failing you - but your timing is? In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Master Astrologer, Hermetic Philosophy teacher, martial artist, and author Aleksandra Ceho for a conversation that challenges the dominant spiritual narrative around burnout. Rather than treating astrology for reassurance or prediction, Aleksandra reveals how it can become a practical strategic tool for navigating life's most...

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What if the life you've built isn't broken...but you've simply outgrown it?

Have you ever felt a quiet, undeniable truth stirring in your body: "The life I'm living is too small for who I've become"?

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks, creator of of this sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truth-tellers ready to remember who they really are, sits down with Rite of Passage facilitator Niels Vantzuriel to explore spiritual initiation, midlife awakening, life transitions, identity transformation, nervous system awareness, and embodied healing.

For many high-functioning women, life can look successful or "fine" from the outside while internally, something has shifted. The old identity no longer feels authentic, and the instinct may be to search for another course, retreat, healing modality, or another way to "fix" yourself.

But what if you're not broken?

What of you're standing at a threshold?

Niels has spent more than a decade guiding women through Ireland's wild landscapes and ancient sacred sites. His work brings together Rite of Passage, Celtic wisdom, storytelling, hypnosis, trance, sacred ceremony, and trauma-aware practices to help women navigate profound transitions and step into a new chapter.

Jessica and Niels explore why a retreat that inspires you isn't necessarily the same as a Rite of Passage that changes you, why transformation can collapse when we return to old patterns, and how midlife awakening can signal growth rather than crisis.

And then, rather than simply talking about transformation, Niels guides Jessica and the audience through a live inner threshold exercise - a mini Rite of Passage you can experience wherever you are - inviting you to feel the difference between trying to fix yourself and stepping into the woman your life has been preparing you to become.

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In this conversation, you'll discover:

✨How to recognize when you are standing at a life threshold

✨Why a true Rite of Passage is different from a retreat or temporary cathartic experience

✨How midlife awakening and identity transformation can reflect growth rather than crisis

✨Why preparation, ceremony, integration, and nervous-system-aware practices matter during profound transformation

✨A guided inner threshold exercise to experience the difference between fixing yourself and embodying who you are now

About Niels Vantzuriel

Niels Vantzuriel is a Rite of Passage facilitator and co-architect of The Arrival Method, specializing in transformational identity transitions for successful women. With a background in archaeology and hypnosis, he brings together ancient landscapes, storytelling, trance, embodied experience, and modern transformational practices. For more than a decade, he has guided women through Ireland's sacred landscapes and major life transitions.

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Connect with Niels

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventure_in_quiet_places/

Substack: https://sacredritesofpassage.substack.com/

Website: https://adventuresinquietplaces.info/

Podcast: Sacred Rites of Passage