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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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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