What Happens After a Spiritual Awakening? A Story of Grief, Growth, and Becoming
People talk about spiritual awakenings like they’re this radiant, soul-shaking epiphany. A light switch moment. Blissful. Instant clarity. An awakening.
But here’s the truth no one tells you: most awakenings don’t feel like light. They feel like loss.
Mine began slowly. Not with divine downloads or messages from the universe, but with exhaustion. With crying on my way to work. Crying on my lunch breaks. Crying in the bathroom because I felt stuck in a life that looked “fine” on paper, but left me empty and suffocating inside.
Over-Explaining Is a Trauma Response (And You Deserve to Feel Safe Without It)
Have you ever found yourself explaining... and then re-explaining... and then over-explaining something simple?
Maybe it was your boundary.
Maybe it was why you couldn’t make it to an event.
Maybe it was how you felt about something that hurt you.
And even after you said it clearly the first time, you kept going — trying to make the other person understand, to avoid conflict, to make sure they didn’t get mad, or to prove you weren’t being “difficult.”
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and you're not doing anything wrong.
You're just trying to stay safe.
Because over-explaining is a trauma response.
Understanding the Gut-Brain Connection: How Diet Affects Mental Health
You’ve likely heard the phrase “trust your gut,” but what if we told you your gut is actually speaking directly to your brain?
In recent years, science has uncovered what holistic practitioners have known for centuries: your gut and brain are deeply connected, and the health of one directly impacts the other. This is known as the gut-brain axis—a two-way communication system between your digestive system and your central nervous system. And at the heart of that connection is your gut microbiome: a community of trillions of bacteria, fungi, and microbes living in your digestive tract.