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: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpiritSpeaksToMe

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoorweglaura/?hl=en

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurahoorweg/

Website: https://www.spiritspeaks2.me/

🌿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: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf/

Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

#spiritualawakening #highfunctioninganxiety #darknightofthesoul #spiritualjourney #spiritualgrowth #innerhealing #soulpurpose #authenticself #spiritualality #consciousliving

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: https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.stelte/

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

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-stelte/

YouTube: https://www.youtube/@cherylstelte

Website: https://starofdivinelight.com/

Free Meditations: https://cherylstelte.kartra.com/page/powerful-mediatations

Connect with Jessica:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

YouTube: https://www.youtube/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf

Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

#EnergyHealing #SpiritualAwakening #TraumaHealing #GriefHealing #NearDeathExperience #ChakraHealing #ThroatChakra #DepressionHealing #PTSDRecovery #ChronicPainRelief #SoulCalling #AuthenticPurpose #SpiritualJourney #SpiriyualCoach #EnergyHealer #HealingTrauma #SpiritualTransformation #AwakenYourAuthenticSelf #SpiritualPodcast

What if your darkest wounds were actually invitations into your most authentic self? 🌿

In this powerful episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with Zen practioner, spirtiual teacher and Best Selling author Lee Carlson to explore his journey from trauma to triumph-and how Zen, mindfullness, and spiritual awakening helped him transform pain into purpose.

Inside this conversation, you'll hear:

• Lee's personal story of healing from trauma and finding inner peace
• How Zen teachings and meditation supported his spiritual awakening
• Practical mindfulness tools you can use to calm your nervous system
• The link between trauma healing, authenticity, and spiritual growth
• How to hold space for your own pain without getting lost in it

This episode is for soul-led seekers, empaths, and truth-tellers who feel the call to heal, awaken, and live more fully as their authentic self. If you've walked through darkness and are longing for a more grounded, peaceful, spiritually aligned life, Lee's story will remind you: you are not broken, you are becoming.

🔔New here? Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self for more heart-centered conversations on:

• Spiritual awakening
• Trauma healing
• Conscious living
• Inner peace and authentic expression

✨Take a breath, press play, and give yourself this moment of soul nourishment.

Connect with Lee:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LeeCarlsonAuthor

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

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeeCarlsonAuthor

Website: http://leecarlson.life/

Book: A Single Excellent Night available on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles

Connect with Jessica:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf

Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

#TraumaHealing #SpiritualAwakening #HealingJourney #Zen #Mindfulness #InnerPeace #SpiritualTransformation #EmotionalHealing #AuthenticSelf #SpiritualPodcast #Consciousness #Awakening #PodMatch

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessie Herman shares her powerful journey from chronic illness to channeling Vagrein - a raw, real spiritual awakening story for anyone who's ever felt like their body was betraying them.

We explore how a deep health crisis became the portal to Jessie's awakening, what it actually feels like to channel a higher consciousness, and how to walk the path of spiritual healing while still being fully human. If you're moving through pain, burnout, or self-doubt, this conversation will remind you that your body and your soul are not working againist you - they are trying to lead you home. 💜

You'll hear about radical self-acceptance, sovereignty, and practical ways to trust your own inner guidance, even when life doesn't look "spiritual" on the surface.

If this episode spoke to your soul, it would mean so much if you:

• Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self
• Shared it with someone who needs this medicine today

Thank you for walking this path with us. Your presence, your curiosity, and your heart are truly felt here. 💜

Connect with Jessie Herman

Website: https://www.jpherman.com/

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessickaherman/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vagrein

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jpherman

Podcast: Some Kind of Mystic

Connect with Jessica

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf

Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

#SpiritualAwakening #Channeling #SpiritualHealing #AuthenticLiving #Consciousness #SelfAcceptance #Mindfulness #EmpathHealing #Awakening #JessieHerman #AwakenYourAuthenticSelf #Podmatch #Sovereignty

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: https://awakenedtherapist.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyKwiker

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmonykwiker/

Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@awakenedtherapist/featured

Connect with Jessica and Awaken Your Authentic Self :

https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf

#spiritualpsychology #transpersonaltherapy #spiritualawakening #mentalhealth #therapy #holistichealing #shadowwork #somatichealing #consciousness #spirituality #traumahealing #awakentrueself #innatespirituality #mindbodyspirit #sacredhealing #awakenyourauthenticself

Welcome to an extraordinary conversation with Roxanne Chaput, the globally renowned embodied Creatrix Oracle who specializes in helping conscious leaders access "primordial creatrix consciousness wisdom" for revolutionary change.

In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with Roxanne to explore:

✨What it means to be a "disruptive embodied heart leader"

✨How global decision-makers can shift from separation to unity consciousness

✨The revolutionary path of "intentional path-cutting" for conscious creators

✨Practical ways to embody authentic sovereignty while serving collective healing

✨The modalities that are creating transformational change: The Illumination Retreat and Soullular Healing

Roxanne works with high level executives from for-profit and non-profit organizations worldwide, helping them birth through what she calls "primordial creational god sovereign universal liberty". Her approach to conscious leadership offers a powerful alternative to systems rooted in duality and fear.

Whether you're a soul-led seeker, spiritual entrepreneur, or conscious leader eady to step into your authentic power, this conversation will ignite your understanding of what's possible when we lead from our deepest wisdom.

💎Perfect for transformation seekers or anyone ready to be part of the solution our world needs

Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self for more conversations with incredible wisdom keepers helping us remember who we really are.

Roxanne Chaput's links:

roxanne.chaput@icloud.com

Jessica's Links:

https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf

#consciousness #unity #leadership #spiritual #entrepreneur #transformation #awakening #authentic #sovereignty #conscious #business #healing #oracle #embodied #wisdom

Have you been chasing enlightenment for years, following every teacher, meditation practice, and spiritual technique-only to feel more lost than when you started?

You're not alone.

In this transformative episode, meditation teacher and spiritual counselor Dean Graves shatters the conventional myths about enlightenment that keep seekers trapped in spiritual seeking without ever finding true peace. After decades of study across Eastern and Western traditions, Dean reveals the surprising truth: the mainstream understanding of enlightenment might be the very thing preventing you from accessing it.

What You'll Discover:

✨The #1 enlightenment myth that keeps people stuck in spiritual seeking

✨Why conventional meditation practices can actually block awakening

✨The difference between spiritual experience and lasting transformation

✨How to access deeper states of consciousness without years of practice

✨The simple shift that reveals your already enlightened nature

Dean brings a rare blend of psychological insight and spiritual wisdom, having worked with thousands of seekers worldwide. His approach cuts through dogma and offers practical steps for those ready to awaken from the spiritual trance.

If you're a soul-led seeker questioning the traditional path to enlightenment, this conversation will challenge everything you think you know and open doors you didn't know existed.

🔔Ready to question everything? Subscribe and be notified for more transformative conversations for authentic self seekers

💬Share your own spiritual awakening journey in the comments-your story might be exactly what someone else needs to hear

✨Connect with Dean Graves:

https://www.facebook.com/deanhalf

https://www.instagram.com/simpleenlightenment/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-graves-985390239/

https://ddeangraves.org/

Podcast on Spotify- Chatting with the Arcturians

https://www.youtube.com/c/DeanGraves

https://www.tiktok.com/@deanmemphis

✨Connect with Jessica:

https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenYourAuthenticSelf

What if everything you were taught about success was keeping you spiritually trapped? Former hedge fund CEO Aaron Scott spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder until he realized modern systems were fragmenting his soul. Now an Amazon #1 bestselling author of Before We Forget and host of The Evolved Podcast, Aaron reveals how corporate, medical, education, and religious systems create internal schisms while keeping us trapped in identities that aren't ours.

This raw conversation explores breaking free from societal programming, reclaiming mental sovereignty, bridging ancient wisdom with modern awakening, and maintaining your authentic self while navigating institutional systems. Discover how to recognize programmed responses versus authentic truth, why pain is information (Not something to elliminate), and practical tools for conscious awareness as daily practice.

In this episode:

✨The moment Aaron realized his "perfect" life was fragmenting his soul

✨How dominent systems create consciousness traps and internal dissonance

✨Distinguishing authentic truth-seeking from "consciousness shopping"

✨Daily practices to catch programmed responses vs. authentic truth

✨Maintaining mental sovereignty within family, workplace & societal pressures

If you're ready to awaken from the matrix of conditioning and remember who you really are, this episode will transform everything you thought you knew about fulfillment, success, and evolution.

#spiritualawakening #Mindfulness #ShadowWork #Consciousness #personalGrowth #Awakening #Enlightenment #SpiritualJourney #InnerPeace #SelfAwareness

Aaron's Links

Get Aaron's Book: Before We Forget on Amazon today!

🎧Subscribe to: The Evolved Podcast

Website: aaron@theaaronscott.com

https://www.youtube.com/@evolvedpodcast

https://www.instagram.com/theaaronscottofficial/

Jessica's Links

https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com