Awaken Your Authentic Self

Awaken Your Authentic Self is a healing and personal transformation podcast for conscious seekers ready to break free from conditioning, heal deeply, and align with their most authentic life. Hosted by Jessica Rooks - spiritual teacher, conscious guide, and transformational interviewer - this show explores emotional healing, nervous system regulation, shadow work, astrology, energy healing, burnout recovery, ancestral patterns, past lives, universal laws, and conscious manifestation. If you feel like you’re outgrowing old identities… If burnout, grief, or life transitions have cracked you open… If you’re seeking deeper healing beyond surface-level self-help… You’re in the right place. Through powerful solo teachings and expansive interviews with thought leaders in healing, astrology, consciousness, and personal growth, Jessica bridges grounded integration with spiritual insight - helping you release ego identities, dismantle societal programming, and create lasting inner transformation. This is not quick-fix self-improvement. This is conscious healing. Welcome home. Want to be a guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self? Send Jessica Rooks a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

Reiki Healing & Money Blocks: The Real Reason You're Still Stuck Financially | Astral Reiki & Human Design | Scarlett Seebach 05/17/2026

Reiki Healing & Money Blocks: The Real Reason You're Still Stuck Financially | Astral Reiki & Human Design | Scarlett Seebach What if the reason you feel stuck isn't because you haven't healed enough - but because the real energetic blockage exists beyond the physical body? In this powerful spiritual podcast interview on Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits with Scarlett Seebach - Human Design Reader, Crystal Healer, and creator of Astral Reiki - to reveal how unresolved energetic patterns trapped in the astral body may be silently sabotaging your money mindset, spiritual alignment, and financial abundance. Scarlett shares her journey as a 5/1 Emotional Manifestor and explains how Human Design money gates within your human design chart encode your energetic blueprint for wealth, self-worth, and purpose. You'll discover why your G-Center governs not just identity but your pricing, financial self-perception, and the hidden worthiness patterns that keep spiritual entrepreneurs and healers undercharging and over-giving. This conversation goes far beyond traditional Reiki and energy healing. Scarlett introduces Astral Reiki, a revolutionary remote and astral healing modality that addresses blockages conventional approaches can't reach - the patterns your body has already processed but your astral body still holds. If you've done "all the work" and still feel chronic energetic exhaustion, invisible ceilings on your income, or a painful gap between your spiritual knowledge and your lived reality, this episode may be the missing piece. In This Episode: What Astral Reiki is and how it differs from traditional Reiki and energy medicine Why unresolved energetic patterns may exist in the astral body rather than the physical body How Human Design money gates (Jupiter & Mars) reveal your energetic blueprint for financial abundance Why your G-Center controls self-worth, pricing, and your relationship with money The critical difference between defined vs. undefined energetic centers in Human Design Why spiritual knowledge alone is not enough without embodiment and integration Practical crystal communication and energetic hygiene practices for empaths and healers How remote and astral healing modalities may become the future of holistic wellness About Scarlett Seebach: Scarlett Seebach is a Human Design Reader, Crystal Healer and the creator of Astral Reiki - a pioneering remote and astral healing modality. As a 5/1 Emotional Manifestor, she transformed her own relationship with business, leadership, and authentic expression through Human Design, and now guides spiritual entrepreneurs and healers in unlocking their energetic blueprint for abundance, sovereignty, and embodied purpose. Connect With Scarlett: 🌐Website: Astral Reiki Sessions & Human Design Readings: 🌿Continue Your Healing Journey: If this conversation stirred something in you - that resonance is your soul speaking. These episodes will deepen the work: 🌌The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment, & Resistance - Understand the spiritual laws governing abundance and energetic flow 💫The 12 Laws of Karma: Understand These and You'll Understand Life - Discover how karmic patterns shape your financial and spiritual reality 🕯️Past Lives and How They Shape Your Healing in the Now - Explore how unresolved past-life energy may be creating your current blocks 🪷With Christine Gold: Empath Burnout Recovery: Spiritual Awakening, Anxiety & Intuitive Healing for Highly Sensitive People - Learn why empaths absorb financial stress and how to reclaim energetic sovereignty 🎵With Dr. Gretta Chamberlain: Did You Choose This Life Before Birth? Sound Healing, Manifestation & Soul Contracts - Experience vibrational healing at the deepest level ✨If This Episode Spoke To You: Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self for more conversations on spiritual awakening, healing, and personal transformation Share this episode with someone standing at their own threshold Leave a review - it helps this message reach more people globally Beautiful listener, remember - your authenticity is not a flaw to fix. It is your greatest power. You are not alone on this journey. 🎙️About Awaken Your Authentic Self Hosted by Jessica Rooks, Awaken Your Authentic Self is a spiritual, self-help, transformational podcast for empaths, healers, seekers, and truth-tellers ready to deepen their healing journey, reclaim their authentic voice, and align with their highest self through transformational conversations, spiritual wisdom, and conscious living. Want to be a Guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self? Send Jessica Rooks a message on PodMatch, here: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/41276555

Did You Choose Your Life Before Birth? Sound Healing, Manifestation & Soul Contracts | Dr. Gretta Chamberlain 05/10/2026

Did You Choose Your Life Before Birth? Sound Healing, Manifestation & Soul Contracts | Dr. Gretta Chamberlain Did your soul choose your life before birth - your challenges, gifts, relationships, and entire path? What if manifestation, spiritual awakening, and sound healing are all connected to soul-level choices made before conception? And what if the energetic blocks standing between you and unconditional love can actually be cleared through frequency and sound? In this deeply transformative episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Dr. Gretta Chamberlain - mystic channeler, transformational specialist, remote energy healer, best selling author, Doctor of Naprapathic Medicine, and host of the podcast Shifting Impressions - to explore one of the most profound questions of the spiritual awakening journey. Drawing on her lifelong channeled connection to "The Realm of Beings" - a collective of non-physical guides - Dr. Gretta unveils her ground breaking concept of Creation Before Conception: the revelation that our souls actively design our life experiences, soul contracts, and karmic agreements before we are ever born. This conversation dismantles the most persistent misconceptions about healing and manifestation, and reveals why all true transformation must begin from the inside out - the self as the only true point of initiation through both spiritual wisdom and emerging scientific research. Together Jessica and Dr. Gretta explore the science and the spirituality of sound healing, frequency medicine, and nervous system regulation through Dr. Gretta's Grammy-considered New Age album In Silence, co-created with sound healer Danielle Heise. Built from crystal bowl frequencies and channeled wisdom, In Silence is engineered to soothe the nervous system, dissolve energetic blocks, and support deep inner healing - and Dr. Gretta shares exactly how to use it for both passive listening and active energetic clearing. Whether you are navigating a spiritual awakening, healing from trauma, raising psychic or highly sensitive children, working through manifestation blocks, or simply searching for deeper meaning in your life path - this episode delivers grounded wisdom, compassionate insight, and practical spiritual tools to help you reconnect with your authentic self and remember who you truly are. ✨In This Episode, We Explore: Creation Before Conception: How your soul may have designed your life before birth Soul contracts, karma, and pre-birth planning - and where free will fits in The #1 energetic block preventing humanity from stepping into unconditional love (as revealed by The Realm of Beings) Why true healing requires internal transformation - not external change Manifestation explained: thought + feeling = creation, and why the feeling piece is the hardest part How to bridge the gap between mental intention and embodied manifestation Sound healing, crystal bowl frequencies, and vibrational medicine for nervous system regulation How to use the In Silence album for passive and active energetic clearing Energy healing for empaths: your first step toward reconnecting to your authentic self - before any course or tool Parenting highly sensitive and psychic children - how to protect and honor their gifts Remote energy healing across distance - and whether belief is required for it to work The critical difference between mental forgiveness and energetic clearing of trauma Channeling non-physical guides: what The Realm of Beings teaches about consciousness, healing, and the illusion of separation 🌟 About Dr. Gretta Chamberlain: Dr. Gretta Chamberlain is a mystic channeler, transformational specialist, remote energy healer, Doctor of Naprapathic Medicine, best-selling author, and recording artist. She is the host of Shifting Impressions podcast and the creator of In Silence - a Grammy-considered New Age album built from crystal bowl frequencies and channeled wisdom, co-created with sound healer Danielle Heise and designed to soothe the nervous system and support deep inner healing. Connect With Dr. Gretta Chamberlain: 🎙️ Podcast: Shifting Impressions - 🎵 Album: In Silence - ➡️ YouTube: 🌐 Website & Remote Healing: 📷 Instagram: ✨ Continue Your Healing Journey If this episode resonated with you, continue exploring your awakening and healing with these conversations from the Awaken Your Authentic Self library: Past lives and How They Shape Your Healing in the Now - The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment & Resistance - The 12 Laws of Karma - Understand These and You'll Understand Life - Angels Are Real - The Different Types and the Parts They Play in Our Healing Journey - 💜 Connect With Jessica & Awaken Your Authentic Self Facebook: Instagram: Email: 🎧 Subscribe and Review If this episode touched your soul, please follow Awaken Your Authentic Self on your favorite podcast platform, leave a review, and share this conversation with someone on their healing or spiritual awakening journey. Your support helps these conversations reach the souls who need them most. Want to be a Guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self? Send Jessica Rooks a message on PodMatch, here: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/41173530

Your Anxiety Is Lying to You: How to Stop Overthinking & Trust Your Intuition | Jennie Lee 05/03/2026

Your Anxiety Is Lying to You: How to Stop Overthinking & Trust Your Intuition | Jennie Lee How do you tell the difference between intuition and anxiety - especially when overthinking and nervous system overwhelm take over? For spiritual seekers, empaths, and highly sensitive individuals navigating a spiritual awakening, overthinking and self-doubt can drown out the quiet voice of your authentic self. Learning to trust your intuition over fear is one of the most powerful shifts you can make on your healing journey. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Nautilus Book Award-winning author, certified yoga therapist, and conscious creativity coach Jennie Lee to explore how to stop overthinking, reconnect with your inner voice, and move through conscious change with clarity and self-trust. Jennie Lee - whose work aligns with thought leaders like Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle - brings over 26 years of experience bridging Eastern wisdom and Western living, offering grounded, practical tools you can use today. Plus, stay until the end - Jennie shares one powerful question you can ask daily to shift your entire reality. 🌿 In This Episode We Explore: 🌿 The key differences between intuition and anxiety - and how to recognize them in real time 🌿 Why you are not your story - and how to reconnect with your authentic self 🌿 How asking better questions (not seeking quick answers) can shift your entire reality 🌿 What to do when you are in the "void" between your old life and your next evolution 🌿 How to navigate fear without spiritually bypassing your emotions 🌿 Why love and self-compassion are daily disciplines - not just feelings 🌿 The subtle signs of burnout for high performers, empaths, and spiritual seekers 🌿 How to break cycles of unworthiness and open yourself to abundance 🌿 A powerful daily question practice to rewire your mindset, build self-trust, and align your life If this episode spoke to something in you - share it with someone who needs to hear it. 🙏🏽 Continue Your Healing Journey - Related Episodes Written in the Stars: Unlocking Your Soul Blueprint Through Your Natal Chart What Grief Taught Me About Life Purpose, Intuition & the Nervous System The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing & Alignment 🌐 Connect + Resources Connect With Jennie Facebook: X: Instagram: LinkedIn: Website: Connect With Jessica Facebook: Instagram: Email: 💫 Final Reflection You don't need to have all the answers right now. You just need the courage to ask the right question. 🔔 Subscribe & Share If this episode supported you, be sure to follow, subscribe, and share with someone who needs this message. ✨ Awaken Your Authentic Self is a top spiritual podcast for seekers, empaths, and conscious leaders ready to align with their highest truth. Want to be a guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self? Send Jessica Rooks a message on PodMatch, here: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/41071855

What Grief Taught Me About Life Purpose: Subconscious Healing, Nervous System & Intuition | Stephanie Walsh 04/26/2026

What Grief Taught Me About Life Purpose: Subconscious Healing, Nervous System & Intuition | Stephanie Walsh Grief, life purpose, subconscious healing, and intuition - what if the pain you've experienced isn't here to break you, but to awaken you? In this deeply transformative episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with subconscious coach, Jungian practitioner, and energy healer Stephanie Walsh to explore how grief can become a powerful portal into purpose, healing, and self-discovery. Stephanie shares her personal journey of loss - from the tragic death of her brother in childhood to the passing of her father in 2020 - and how these experiences reawakened her intuition, reconnected her to her Highest Self, and ultimately led her to her soul's work. Together Jessica and Stephanie explore the deeper connection between grief, the subconscious mind, nervous system healing, and spiritual awakening, offering both grounded tools and soul-led insight for anyone feeling stuck, disconnected, or called to something more. If you've ever felt like your life looks "fine" on the outside but something inside is missing... If you've experienced loss and don't know how to move forward... If your intuition has been whispering, but fear has been louder... This episode is your invitation back to yourself. ✨In This Episode, We Explore: How grief can unlock your life purpose and spiritual path The connection between the subconscious mind and emotional healing Why people shut down intuition after trauma - and how to safely reopen it Signs you are out of alignment with your purpose (even if it looks successful) The difference between fear, ego, and true intuitive guidance How subconscious blocks impact purpose, abundance, and self-trust What "quantum growth" really means - and how to access it Practical tools to reconnect with your Highest Self daily 🌿About Stephanie Walsh Stephanie Walsh is a subconscious coach, certified Jungian practitioner, breathwork teacher, and energy healer who helps clients unlock hidden blocks, reconnect with their intuition, and experience deep, soul-led transformation. Her work blends psychology, nervous system healing, and energetic alignment to support powerful, lasting change. 💫 Connect With Stephanie Website: Instagram: 🔗Continue Your Journey If this episode resonated with you, continue exploring your healing and awakening with these powerful conversations Unresolved Grief: How it affects Your Life & Why Healing from Grief is Essential for Your Spiritual Growth Written in the Stars: Unlocking Your Soul Blueprint Through Your Natal Chart The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment & Resistance 💫 Final Reflection Take a moment after listening to place your hand on your heart and ask: "What is one small, loving step my Highest Self is inviting me to take today?" If this episode supported your journey, be sure to follow, share, and leave a review - it helps this message reach more souls who are ready to awaken. Beautiful listener, remember: Your authenticity is not a flaw to fix - it is your greatest power. 💜 Connect with Jessica Facebook: Instagram: Email: Want to be a guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self? Send Jessica Rooks a message on PodMatch, here: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40952355

Money Mindset & Spiritual Awakening: Can You Be Rich AND Aligned? | Meir Ezra on Building $100M 04/19/2026

Money Mindset & Spiritual Awakening: Can You Be Rich AND Aligned? | Meir Ezra on Building $100M Money Mindset, Spiritual Awakening & Financial Abundance: How Meir Ezra Built a $100M Life Can a true money mindset shift come from a spiritual awakening? Meir Ezra says yes - and he built $100 million to prove it. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual entrepreneur, human behavior expert, and philanthropist Meir Ezra to explore what most people get dangerously wrong about money, purpose, relationships, and what true success actually requires. If you've ever struggled with beliefs like: "Money is unspiritual." "Real success requires sacrifice of self." "I can't have both inner peace and financial abundance." ...this conversation will challenge, expand, and liberate you. Meir Ezra's story is extraordinary: born with a severe physical deformity, enduring years of pain, serving in elite military units, traveling the Far East on almost nothing - and ultimately building a $100M empire rooted in truth, discipline, and conscious creation. His life is living proof that mindset shift is not just motivational language - it is the mechanism behind real transformation and financial abundance. But this episode goes far beyond money. It's a deep, honest conversation about human behavior, limiting beliefs, relationship repair, spiritual alignment, and the daily practices that bring your inner world into full alignment with your outer results. 🔑What You'll Learn in This Episode: Can you be spiritual and rich? The real unapologetic answer Why money mindset and spiritual awakening are not opposites - and never were The #1 pattern that silently destroys relationships, businesses, and inner peace How to shift from survival mode into conscious creation The state of mind required for lasting financial abundance, wealth, and success A step-by-step daily practice to live closer to truth - in business and in life ✨Continue Your Healing & Awakening Journey Empath Burnout Recovery: Spiritual Awakening, Anxiety & Intuitive Healing for Highly Sensitive People | Christine Gold The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment & Resistance Unresolved Grief: How It Affects Your Life & Why Healing from Grief is Essential for Your Spiritual Growth Are You Listening to Your Body? The Importance of Properly Feeding the Mind, Body & Spirit 💫Connect with Meir Ezra: Facebook: Instagram: X: Pinterest: YouTube: Website: 💜Connect with Jessica Rooks & Awaken Your Authentic Self: Facebook: Instagram: Email: 🌟Support the Show: ✔️Subscribe so you never miss an episode ✔️Leave a rating and written review - it helps more seekers find this message ✔️Share this episode with someone who's been told they have to choose between faith and finances Your support helps this message reach more souls who are ready to awaken. 🌿Your Next Step: Don't let this be just another inspiring conversation. Choose one insight from today's episode - and take one action within the next 24 hours. That's how real transformation begins. /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40867540

Trauma Healing & Soul Alignment: How to Finally Stop Abandoning Yourself | Tara Wiskow 04/12/2026

Trauma Healing & Soul Alignment: How to Finally Stop Abandoning Yourself | Tara Wiskow You can lose 220 pounds and still feel invisible to yourself. That's where true healing begins - not in the body, but in the patterns of self-abandonment, unresolved grief, and identities we've outgrown but still live inside. In this deeply activating episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Tara Wiskow - intuitive healer, energy coach, NLP practitioner, and founder of Be The Change You Need - to explore self-abandonment healing, identity transformation, and what it truly takes to return to your authentic self. After surviving multiple suicide attempts, losing 220 pounds naturally, navigating devastating grief after losing her sister to cancer, and walking away from a marriage that slowly erased her identity, Tara didn't just rebuid her life - she reclaimed her power and created a global movement. Today, she helps women release emotional weight, heal trauma at the subconscious level, and step into the version of themselves their soul has always known. This is not surface-level mindset work. This is deep healing work - where trauma meets truth, identity meets embodiment, and healing becomes liberation. 🌿What You'll Discover in This Episode: What self-abandonment actually looks like - and how it silently shapes your life How emotional weight and physical weight are deeply connected The hidden impact of expired identities and how to release them Tara's Unravel, Upgrade, Uplevel framework for identity transformation How to heal trauma, grief, and subconscious patterns at the root The connection between nervous system safety and lasting change How modalities like NLP, Integrated Energy Therapy, and Theta Healing support deep healing The first step you can take within 24 hours to begin reclaiming your power 🌿About Tara Wiskow Tara Wiskow is an intuitive healer, energy coach, NLP practitioner, and founder of Be The Change You Need. Through her She Rises program and her Be The Change You Need podcast, she supports women in healing emotional wounds, releasing energetic blocks, and stepping into aligned, empowered living. Her work integrates Integrated Energy Therapy, Theta Healing, and subconscious reprogramming, creating transformation at the identity and soul level. 🔗Connect with Tara: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: Website: 📲Explore the She Rises Program: Podcast: 💫Continue Your Healing Journey If this episode resonated with you, continue your journey here: The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment & Resistance Are You Listening to Your Body? The Importance of Properly Feeding the Mind, Body & Spirit Unresolved Grief: How it Affects Your Life & Why Healing from Grief is Essential for Your Spiritual Growth 🌙 Connect & Share If this conversation touched you, share it with a woman who is ready to remember who she is. 📲 Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for more soul-led conversations ⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps this message reach the women who need it most Facebook: Instagram: Email: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40770020

Empath Burnout Recovery: Spiritual Awakening, Anxiety & Intuitive Healing for Highly Sensitive People | Christine Gold 04/05/2026

Empath Burnout Recovery: Spiritual Awakening, Anxiety & Intuitive Healing for Highly Sensitive People | Christine Gold Are you an empath experiencing burnout, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion - and wondering if something is wrong with you? What if the answer isn't that you're broken, but that you've simply never been taught from your intuition? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Christine Gold - Psychic Medium, Reiki Master, Intuitive Energy Coach, and author of Intuition Saved My Life - to explore how highly sensitive people, empaths, and neurodivergent women can recover from burnout, heal anxiety and depression, and reclaim their spiritual gifts - especially during periods of spiritual awakening symptoms. After 20 years in the corporate world, Christine experienced extreme burnout, depression, addiction, homelessness, and two suicide attempts. In her darkest moment, everything shifted. What she discovered changed her life forever: there was never anything wrong with her - she simply wasn't living in alignment with her intuition. Now she helps thousands of empaths do the same. In This Episode, You'll Learn (Empath Burnout, Anxiety & Spiritual Awakening): The early warning signs of empath burnout - and how to catch them before the crisis hits How to tell the difference between anxiety and intuitive misalignment (this changes everything) Why hypervigilance is often a trauma response that becomes your greatest intuitive gift Practical daily practices for highly sensitive and neurodivergent women navigating perimenopause and ADHD How Christine's Intuition Saved My Life moment transformed her pain into her life's purpose What the Akashic Records, spirit animals, and energy fields reveal to empaths living out of alignment How to honor your intuition - even inside corporate or high-stress environments About Christine Gold: Christine Gold is a Psychic Medium, Reiki Master, Intuitive Energy Coach, Soul Purpose Mentor, and author of Intuition Saved My Life. She is the creator of The Empaths Journey oracle deck and host of the Heart Led - Soul Fed podcast (300+ episodes). Christine guides highly sensitive people, empaths, and neurodivergent women in transforming emotional exhaustion into embodied spiritual purpose. 🎁Free gift from Christine: Harness Your Energy Through the 7 Chakras - understand your energetic imbalances, unblock your chakras, and begin living in alignment with your true self. 👉🏽 Receive it here: Connect with Christine Gold: 🌐 Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIn: Substack: YouTube: 🎧 Heart led - Soul Fed Podcast 📖 Intuition Saved My Life - available on Amazon and wherever books are sold Connect with Jessica: Facebook: Instagram: Email: 🌿Continue Your Healing Journey: If this episode resonated, these episodes were made to go deeper with you: 🎙️ Unresolved Grief: How it Affects Your Life - Many empaths carry unprocessed emotional weight. This episode helps you understand and begin releasing it. 🎙️ Are You Listening To Your Body? - Bridge everything you learned about energy regulation into nervous system and physical awareness. 🎙️The 7 Universal Laws: A Spiritual Deep Dive into Healing, Alignment & Resistance - Discover the energetic principles shaping your reality and how to work with them to support your healing and alignment. Enjoyed this episode? ✨ Subscribe & follow Awaken Your Authentic Self on your favorite platform ⭐ Leave a review - it helps other empaths and old souls find their way here 💌 Share this episode with a highly sensitive person in your life who needs to hear: there is nothing wrong with you. There never was. /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40707945

Empath Energy Drain: The Engineer-Backed Method to Finally Protect Your Energy | Gail Behrend 03/29/2026

Empath Energy Drain: The Engineer-Backed Method to Finally Protect Your Energy | Gail Behrend Empath energy drain is real - and if you've ever felt exhausted after conversations, overwhelmed for no clear reason, or like your energy isn't fully your own, this episode will change everything. If you've been doing all the "inner work" but still feel drained, this may be the missing piece nobody ever explained to you. In this powerful conversation, host Jessica Rooks sits down with engineer-turned-energy healer Gail Behrend to break down exactly why empath energy drain happens - and how to stop it and protect your energy using practical, engineer-backed tools you can start using immediately. Gail brings a rare combination of analytical precision and deep healing wisdom: trained at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, with over 25 years of experience, and co-author of Energy is Real! A Practical Guide for Managing Personal Energy in Daily Life. This isn't spiritual fluff - it's practical, engineer-backed energy science. Whether you idenify as an empath, highly sensitive person, healer, or simply someone navigating burnout, emotional overwhelm, or draining relationships... this episode gives you real answers. ✨WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: What empath energy drain actually is - and why it keeps happening The truth about empath energy absorption (and how to stop it) How to set energetic boundaries without conflict or confrontation What burnout really is from an energy perspective How to recognize your personal energy rhythm (your energy wave) A simple 3-5 minute daily practice to reset and protect your energy How energy awareness deepens emotional intelligence Real-life examples of how shifting your energy transforms relationships and outcomes 🌿ABOUT OUR GUEST: GAIL BEHREND Gail Christel Behrend is an engineer-turned-energy healer, speaker, and co-author of Energy is Real! A Practical Guide for Managing Personal Energy in Daily Life. After a life-altering breakup led her through deep grief and spiritual awakening, Gail transitioned from a logical, engineering mindset into the study of human energy. She trained at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and has spent over 25 years helping individuals understand and manage their personal energy in practical, grounded ways. Her mission is to make energy awareness accessible - so you can stop feeling overwhelmed and start living with clarity, balance, and power. 🔗CONNECT WITH GAIL - Explore Gail's work, book and energy tools Website: Tools: Book: Energy is Real! A Practical Guide for Managing Personal Energy in Daily Life 🎧 CONTINUE YOUR HEALING JOURNEY If this episode opened your eyes to how empath energy drain affects your body and well-being, continue here: Are You Listening to Your Body: The Importance of Properly Feeding the Mind, Body and Spirit This episode explores how your body communicates imbalance, how burnout manifests beyond the surface, and how to nourish your mind, body, and spirit in alignment. Together these conversations help you understand not just your energy - but how it moves through your body, your choices, and your daily life. 💜 NEXT STEPS ON YOUR HEALING JOURNEY If this episode resonated with you: ✔️ Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for more soul-led conversations ✔️ Share this episode with someone whose energy you care about ✔️ Choose ONE practice from this episode and implement it today Because your energy is your responsibility... and your power 🔗 CONNECT WITH JESSICA Facebook: Instagram: Email: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40615855

Spiritual Awakening Made Her Leave Teaching, Move to Mexico & Reclaim Her Ancestral Power | Queen D. Michele 03/22/2026

Spiritual Awakening Made Her Leave Teaching, Move to Mexico & Reclaim Her Ancestral Power | Queen D. Michele What if the life were taught to chase...is the very thing blocking your soul's purpose? In this deeply transformational episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, we explore spiritual awakening, ancestral healing, conscious education, and New Earth living with author, former educator, and visionary Queen D. Michele. After years in the traditional education system, Queen Michele made a radical, soul-led decision: she left her career, moved to Mexico, and began a journey that would reconnect her with her Fula ancestry in West Africa, reshape her understanding of purpose, and inspire her to create a revolutionary AI-driven conscious curriculum for Generation Alpha. This conversation is for you if you've been feeling: Called to leave the "old path" behind Disconnected from your deeper purpose Curious about your ancestral healing and lineage work Concerned about the future of our children and education Drawn to the concept of New Earth consciousness 🌍In This Episode, We Explore: The spiritual breaking point that led to leaving a 27-year career What it really means to move abroad vs. moving inward The truth abouth Generation Alpha's mental, emotional, and spiritual needs How reconnecting to your ancestral lineage can accelerate healing Queen Michele's journey to Guinea-Bissau and discovering her Fula roots The creation of a conscious, AI powered curriculum for children What "New Earth" actually looks like in everyday life (not just spiritually, but practically) How to begin living in alignment with your soul- right now We are living in a time where: Traditional systems (education, career paths, identity structures) are collapsing AI is rapidly reshaping how we learn and live A new generation-Generation Alpha-requires a completely different level of awareness, support and consciousness This episode bridges ancient wisdom (ancestral remembrance) with future-forward tools (AI, conscious education)-offering a grounded yet expansive perspective on what it means to live, parent, and lead in this new era. 💫About Queen D. Michele Queen D. Michele is an author, spiritual thinker, and former educator who has dedicated her life to wellbeing, ancestral connection, and conscious evolution. She is the founder of the Fula Histroy & Genealogy Society in America and the creator of a one-of-a-kind AI-driven SEL (Social Emotional Learning) program designed specifically for Generation Alpha. Her work integrates: Spiritual development Emotional intelligence Ancestral healing Holistic wellbeing Conscious education systems 🔗Connect with Queen Michele Facebook: X: Instagram: LinkedIn: YouTube: Substack: Website: Books: Considerations: A Guide for Moving Abroad The Road to Wellbeing 🔗Connect with Jessica Facebook: Instagram: Email: 💜If This Episode Resonates... Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for more conversations on: Spiritual Awakening Healing and transformation Conscious living Soul purpose and alignment ✨ Share this episode with someone who feels the call for "something more" ✨ Leave a review to support the expansion of this message ✨ And reflect: What is your soul asking you to release...so you can rise? /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40570380

Heal Past Life & Ancestral Trauma: Clear Soul-Level Blocks Sabotaging This Lifetime | Craig Meriwether 03/15/2026

Heal Past Life & Ancestral Trauma: Clear Soul-Level Blocks Sabotaging This Lifetime | Craig Meriwether What if past life regression, ancestral trauma healing, and soul-level hypnotherapy could explain the anxiety you feel today, the relationship patterns you keep repeating, or the sense that you're blocked from your purpose? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Host Jessica Rooks sits down with Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist Craig Meriwether to explore how past lives, ancestral patterns, and the soul's journey across incarnations may shape the challenges we experience in this lifetime. Craig shares insights from over a decade of guiding people through past life regression, life-between-lives sessions, ancestral healing, and spirit guide connections. Together we explore how unresolved experiences from other lifetimes - or inherited generational patterns - can create emotional, mental, and energetic blocks in the present. In this conversation we explore: What past life regression is and how it works How ancestral healing can shift generational trauma and family patterns Life-between-lives regression and the soul's journey between incarnations Connecting with spirit guides and higher wisdom through hypnosis The soul's perspective on trauma, anxiety, depression, and life purpose How regression hypnotherapy can support deep spiritual awakening and healing Craig Meriwether is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy. Through his work, he helps clients access deep subconscious healing through past life regression, trauma healing, ancestral clearing, and spiritual guidance so they can release soul-level blocks and live more aligned with their true purpose. If this episodes resonates with you, share it with someone on their own healing journey and subscribe so you never miss an episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self. Connect with Craig Meriwether: Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy: Depression 180 Program: Mind Mastery Blueprint: Facebook: Instagram: YouTube: Connect with Jessica Rooks: Facebook: Instagram: YouTube: LinkedIn: Email: 📖Resources Mentioned: Past Lives Guidebook by Craig Meriwether Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now (featuring Craig Meriwether, Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Janet Attwood) 💫Subscribe for weekly episodes on spiritual awakening, consciousness expansion and authentic living. 👉🏽SHARE this episode with someone who's been feeling stuck or searching for deeper answers /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40409225

Angel Communication: 4-Step Method to Receive Angel Guidance & Manifest Miracles | Seph Dietlin 03/08/2026

Angel Communication: 4-Step Method to Receive Angel Guidance & Manifest Miracles | Seph Dietlin Spiritual awakening, angel communication, and quantum manifestation are not abstract spiritual ideas - they are skills you can develop. In this powerfull episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, angel communicator, and quantum activation guide Seph Dietlin shares the 4-step angel communication method he has used for over 20 years to receive angel guidance, decode divine messages, and manifest real-world miracles. After a life-changing moment in 2002 when he demanded the angels prove themselves, Seph began a daily dialogue with angelic intelligence that reshaped his understanding of consciousness, manifestaton, and the quantum nature of reality. In this conversation, we explore how angel communicaton actually works, how to recognize the difference between intuition and imagination, and how divine guidance can help you collapse old timelines, shift your quantum identity, and manifest a new reality aligned with your soul's purpose. Seph breaks down his powerful 4-Phase Miracle Method for manifestation and angel guidance: Tuning into angelic intelligence Receiving angelic messages clearly Acting on divine guidance in the physical world Staying aligned with higher consciousness and your true self You'll also discover how empaths and spiritually sensitive people are being called to play a powerful role in the collective spiritual awakening happening right now. If you've ever wondered: How to communicate with angels in a practical, grounded way How angel guidance and divine messages really work How to manifest miracles through spiritual alignment and quantum manifestation Whether your intuition is real divine guidance or just your imagination ...this conversation will open an entirely new way of relating to the unseen realms supporting your life. This episode explores the intersection of angel communication, spiritual awakening, manifestation, multidimensional consciousness, and quantum identity - and how to apply these insights to create tangible change in your everyday reality. ✨Connect with Seph Facebook: Website: ✨Connect with Jessica Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIN: Email: ✨Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self for more conversations on spiritual awakening, healing trauma recovery, nervous sytem regulation, consciousness expnsion, energy healing, and soul-aligned living. /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40322835

Heal Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation (Dr. Lise Janelle) 03/01/2026

Heal Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation (Dr. Lise Janelle) This episode is for you if you're ready to heal subconscious blocks, step into subconscious reprogramming, and create true abundance and authentic love. Are subconscious blocks preventing you from manifesting abundance and real love? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, we explore subconscious reprogramming, emotional healing, and the missing link in manifestation so you can finally create lasting abundance, healthy relationships, and inner freedom. Our guest, transformational coach and creator of the Heart Freedom Method, Dr. Lise Janelle, reveals how hidden beliefs and unresolved emotional pain block your abundance mindset, conscious manifestation, and spiritual growth - even if you've been doing "all the right" manifestation practices. Endorsed by Jack Canfield as "the missing lonk" in transformational work, Dr. Lise has facilitated over 126,000 sessions helping entrepreneurs, empaths, parents, and purpose-driven leaders dissolve subconscious patterns and break free from the Insanity Loop. In this episode, we explore: ✨How subconscious blocks sabotage manifestation ✨Why conscious effort alone doesn't create lasting abundance ✨The difference between ego-driven spiritual seeking and heart-centered living ✨How empaths absorb emotional burdens that limit love and success ✨The subconscious shift from victim to conscious creator ✨Healing generational patterns and parenting from the heart ✨A powerful practice to begin dissolving subconscious resistance today This conversation is for spiritual seekers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and conscious creators who are ready to move beyond surface-level manifestation and step into true subconscious healing. If you're ready to heal the root cause of what's blocking abundance, love, and success - this episoe is your invitation. Connect with Dr. Lise: Facebook: LinkedIn: YouTube: Website: Connect with Jessica: Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIn: Email: /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40225390

Somatic Healing: Clear Energy Blockages & Release Trauma | Banya Lim 02/22/2026

Somatic Healing: Clear Energy Blockages & Release Trauma | Banya Lim Are you trying to think your way out of a feeling? In this powerful episode on Somatic Healing, we explore how to clear energy blockages, release stored trauma, and regulate your nervous system with Chi Master Banya Lim. If you've been feeling stuck despite doing the mindset work, the answer may not be in your thoughts- it may be in your body. Somatic healing teaches us that trauma, stress, and generational patterns are stored physically in the nervous system. Until they are released, true alignment remains out of reach. Banya Lim, a multi-generational healer and creator of the Chi Mastery System, joins Jessica Rooks to bridge ancient energy medicine with modern emotional health. Together they explore how clearing energetic blockages can shift your business, relationships, and personal well-being faster than strategy alone. In this episode, we discuss: What Somatic Healing really is and how it works How trauma gets stored in the body and impacts your nervous system The difference between intuition and anxiety Why midset coaching fails when the body is dysregulated How to release generational trauma through body-based healing Practical somatic tools to clear negative energy and restore Chi Banya's personal story of collapse, spiritual awakening, and rebuilding If you are ready to stop forcing life and start aligning with your body's wisdom, this episode will show you how. Guest Bio Banya Lim is a Chi Master, spiritual Acupuncturist, and creator of the Chi Mastery System. For over 30 years, she has helped conscious leaders and seekers clear energetic blockages, regulate their nervous systems, and unlock the body's innate intelligence. Connect with Banya: Facebook: YouTube: LinkedIn: X: Website: Connect wiith Jessica and AwakenYour Authentic Self: Facebook: Instagram: YouTube: LinkedIn: Email: #SomaticHealing #TraumaRelease #NervousSystemRegulation #EnergyHealing #SpiritualAwakening #Intuition /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/40173835

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The High-Functioning Trap: Why Successful People Feel Empty Inside with Laura Hoorweg 02/01/2026

The High-Functioning Trap: Why Successful People Feel Empty Inside with Laura Hoorweg Are you "high-functioning" and successful on the outside, but secretly exhausted, numb, or empty on the inside? You are not broken. You might be waking up. 💜 In this powerful episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Host Jessica Rooks sits down with psychic medium and spiritual counselor Laura Hooweg to unpack the high-functioning trap so many successful women fall into - especially in midlife. Together, we explore why achievement, productivity, and doing "all the right things" can still leave you feeling spiritually empty, disconnected, or off-path and what your soul is actually trying to tell you. In this episode, you'll discover: Why career success can quietly mask deep spiritual emptiness The hidden signs of high-functioning anxiety most people ignore How to recognize when you're out of alignment with your authentic self What it truly means to go through a dark night of the soul Practical spiritual tools to reconnect with your soul purpose How to hold onto your professional success and honor your inner truth This conversation is especially for you if: You're a high achieving woman (often 45-65+) who has "checked all the boxes" You feel like you should be happy, but something is missing You sense a spiritual awakening or inner shift you can't ignore anymore You're ready to live from your authentic, soul-led self instead of just your resume 🔮About Our Guest - Laura Hoorweg Laura is a gifted psychic medium and spiritual counselor who supports high-functioning professionals in breaking free from emptiness, perfectionism, and burnout so they can reconnect with their intuition, soul purpose, and spiritual path. ✨Connect with Laura Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIN: Website: 🌿About Your Host - Jessica Rooks Jessica is the host of Awakem Your Authentic Self, a sacred space for soul-led seekers, spiritual empaths, and truth tellers ready to rise into theor fullest expression. Through intuitive wisdom, spiritual tools, and heart-centered conversations, she helps you remember who you truly are. ✨Connect with Jessica Facebook: Instagram: YouTube: Email: #spiritualawakening #highfunctioninganxiety #darknightofthesoul #spiritualjourney #spiritualgrowth #innerhealing #soulpurpose #authenticself #spiritualality #consciousliving /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/39943695

Trauma to Purpose: The Truth About Spiritual Healing with Cheryl Stelte 01/25/2026

Trauma to Purpose: The Truth About Spiritual Healing with Cheryl Stelte Meant for more but feeling blocked, burdened by grief, or weighed down by chronic pain? What if everything that broke you open is actually the doorway to your spiritual power? In this soul-stirring episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual coach, master healer and best selling author Cheryl Stelte - founder of the Star of Divine Light Institute and the Azarias Energy Healing Certification Program. Over 30+ years, Cheryl has: transformed depression, PTSD, and chronic neck and shoulder pain Healed deep emotional trauma and grief after her brother's suicide Survived a near-death experience in Uganda Lived with indigenous tribes like the Maasai (Kenya) and the Shuar (Equador) Stepped fully into her purpose as a powerful healer and spiritual teacher All of it began on a beach on Vancouver Island with a radiant ball of light, filled with uncondiontional love and the undeniable presence of her brother on the other side. In this episode, we explore: How trauma, grief, and near death experiences can awaken your spiritual gifts Practical ways meditation and energy healing support depression and chronic pain The deeper spiritual meaning of neck issues and throat chakra blocks Why so many mature women feel "meant for more" but stay stuck in subconscious patterns The most common energetic blocks Cheryl sees and how Azarias Energy healing shifts them How to discern a true soul calling vs. simple frustration with your current life Simple daily tool to become your own energy healer and reclaim your authentic voice If you're a soul led woman who knows you're meant for more but feeld blocked, this conversation is a powerful invitation into your healing, purpose, and spiritual awakening. Connect with Cheryl: Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIN: YouTube: Website: Free Meditations: Connect with Jessica: Facebook: Instagram: YouTube: Email: #EnergyHealing #SpiritualAwakening #TraumaHealing #GriefHealing #NearDeathExperience #ChakraHealing #ThroatChakra #DepressionHealing #PTSDRecovery #ChronicPainRelief #SoulCalling #AuthenticPurpose #SpiritualJourney #SpiriyualCoach #EnergyHealer #HealingTrauma #SpiritualTransformation #AwakenYourAuthenticSelf #SpiritualPodcast /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/39865665

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The Therapist Bridging Psychology & Spirituality Explains What Traditional Therapy Misses 01/04/2026

The Therapist Bridging Psychology & Spirituality Explains What Traditional Therapy Misses What happens when ancient wisdom meets modern psychology? In this sacred conversation on Awaken Your Authentic Self, psychotherapist, author, and spiritual teacher Harmony Kwiker joins Jessica to explore how true transformation unfolds when we honor both our psychological depth and our innate spirituality. With over two decades of experience bridging traditional psychotherapy and spiritual awakening, Harmony has devoted her life to training "awakened therapists" who can hold truly sacred space for healing. As lead Gestalt faculty at Naropa University and founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, she guides therapists, healers, and seekers into a radically compassionate way of seeing symptoms as adaptive wisdom-not pathology. In this episode you'll hear: How Harmony first realized that intergrating psychology and spirituality wasn't optional-but essential for real healing The 8 dimensions of her Awakened Therapist model (including awake awareness, shadow work, and somatic intelligence) Why all symptoms are adaptive and how our innate spirituality catalyzes deep transformation How therapists can work with their own shadow before safely guiding clients through theirs What it really means to hold sacred therapeutic space in transpersonal and spiritual psychology How clients' spiritual wisdom can completely shift the therapeutic field We also explore Harmony's three powerful books: "The Awakened Therapist"-for therapists and healers ready to integrate clinical skill with awakened presence "Reveal: Embody the True Self Beyond Trauma and Conditioning"- for those healing trauma and reclaiming their authentic self "Align: Living and Loving from the True Self"- for bridging this awakening into relationships and everyday life If you're a therapist, coach, healer, or soul-led seeker who has always felt there had to be more than traditional talk therapy, this episode will feel like a homecoming. Hit like, subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self, and share this with someone who's ready to bridge psychology and spirituality in their own healing journey. Connect with Harmony: Website/Books: Facebook: LinkedIn: Podcast: Connect with Jessica and Awaken Your Authentic Self : #spiritualpsychology #transpersonaltherapy #spiritualawakening #mentalhealth #therapy #holistichealing #shadowwork #somatichealing #consciousness #spirituality #traumahealing #awakentrueself #innatespirituality #mindbodyspirit #sacredhealing #awakenyourauthenticself /episode/index/show/1b8da20c-cea7-4464-8d71-3130e0ed6ecc/id/39494970