Awaken Your Authentic Self

About 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

Publisher

Jessica Rooks

Category

education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Mar 2025

Latest episode

1 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

84 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Nov 2026

   Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of It: Somatic Healing & Nervous System Regulation | Melanie Smithson

   Why can you understand your patterns and still feel stuck in them? In this episode, somatic psychotherapist Melanie Smithson explains how somatic healing and nervous system regulation help your body release what your mind already knows - and why talk therapy alone isn't enough. This week host Jessica Rooks sits down with Melanie Smithson a Licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, Dance Movement Therapist, and author of the award-winning Stress Free in 30 Seconds and Shake Yourself Free: 81 Somatic Practices to Let Go of Limitation. Trained in somatic psychology, dance movement therapy, EDMR, and the Sedona Method, she has spent decades helping people heal through the body rather than around it. What is somatic healing? Somatic Healing is a body-based approach to emotional healing that works with the nervous system - sensation, breath, movement and felt safety - instead of relying on analysis alone. Where talk therapy works through understanding, somatic therapy works through the body's own signals. In this conversation, you'll discover: ✨Nervous system regulation - what somatic therapy is, how it differs from traditional talk therapy, and how to regulate your nervous system when stress has become your baseline ✨The mind-body connection - how emotional overwhwelm shows up as physical symptoms, and the early signals that tell you it's time to slow down. ✨Somatic exercises and emotional release - why movement and play offer another route to emotional healing, self-awareness, and personal growth ✨Learning to listen to your body - the first question to ask your body when you feel stuck, and how to recognize when your body finally answers This conversation is for empaths, highly sensitive people, and anyone navigating spiritual awakening, anxiety, burnout, or a sense of disconnection from their body. If you've spent years trying to understand yourself and still feel that something hasn't shifted, this episode is your next step. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for weekly conversations on spiritual awakening, emotional healing, subconscious patterns, nervous system regulation, consciousness, and authentic living. If this episode resonates, follow the show, leave a review, and share it with someone who may need to hear this message. Continue Your Healing Journey ▶️Empath Burnout Recovery: Spiritual Awakening, Anxiety & Intuitive Healing for Highly Sensitive People | Christine Gold https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40707945 ▶️Still Triggered After years of Healing? Here's the Missing Piece of Spiritual Awakening | Melissa Minnich https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42266390 Connect with Melanie Smithson Website: https://www.smithsonclinic.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelanieBethSmithson/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniesmithson/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniesmithson/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MelanieSmithson-g8l Email: melanie@smithsonclinic.com Shake Yourself Free: 81 Somatic Practices to Let Go of Limitation & Stress Free in 30 Seconds - available wherever books are sold. Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self Where spirituality meets psychology, emotional healing, consciousness, and the journey of remembering who you truly are. Hosted by Jessica Rooks, Awaken Your Authentic Self was named one of the 61 Best Authenticity Podcasts (2026) by PodSEO - alongside The Mel Robbins Podcast, We Can Do hard Things, and The School of Greatness. See the full list: https://curated.podseo.com/list/2632/authenticity.html Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Interested in being a guest? https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

2. 

   25 Oct 2026

   Stuck in Life as a Woman? Why It's Not Your Past, It's Your Untruths | Lynda Leonce

   Why do women feel stuck in life, even when they're ready for a change? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lynda Leonce, authenticity coach, mentor, and author of Inside Out Creation: Your Path to Inner Alignment, to explore limiting beliefs, subconscious conditioning, people pleasing, and the untruths that keep women disconnected from their authentic selves. Lynda explores the untruths we carry about worth, safety, love and identity - and how these internalized stories can contribute to misalignment and keep us from living from the outside in. The freedom we seek, she teaches, begins within. Lynda's work centers on Inside Out Creation, her practical framework for returning to inner alignment across 8 areas of life: body, mind, relationships, finances, work, personal space, inner connection, and daily habits. In this conversation, Jessica and Lynda explore what it really means to stop blaming people and circumstances, question what you've accepted as true about yourself, and begin reclaiming the truth of who you are. In this conversation, you'll discover: ✨Limiting beliefs vs. untruths - the difference and why it matters for women who feel stuck in life ✨Why the people in our lives may not be the real obstacle to personal growth and authentic living ✨How to recognize misalignment, people pleasing, and subconscious patterns that disconnect you from you authentic self ✨Practical ways to cultivate inner alignment and live in greater harmony with your truth from the inside out This conversation is for anyone navigating spiritual awakening, emotional healing, self-discovery, burnout recovery, or feeling stuck despite years of personal growth. If you're ready to question old stories and come home to yourself, this episode offers a grounded path forward. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for weekly conversations on spiritual awakening, emotional healing, subconscious reprogramming, nervous system regulation, consciousness, and authentic living. If this episode resonates, follow the show, leave a review, and share it with someone who may need to hear this message. Continue Your Healing Journey ▶️Heal Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation | Dr. Lise Janelle https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40225390 ▶️Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck| Martha Wright https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42192115 Connect With Lynda Leonce Website: https://www.livefromyourtruth.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LiveFromYourTruth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/livefromyourtruth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livefromyourtruth/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynda-leonce/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefromyourtruth Connect With Awaken Your Authentic Self Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Interested in being a guest: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

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   18 Oct 2026

   Shadow Work: Why You Can't See Your Own Blind Spots | Indra Rinzler

   Shadow work and why you can't see your own blind spots may reveal why the same emotional patterns keep repeating, even after years of inner work. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual teacher, Vedic astrologer, Enneagram practitioner, and author Indra Rinzler to explore the hidden aspects of ourselves we struggle to see - and how recognizing them opens the door to deeper self-awareness and spiritual awakening. What if the very thing you cannot see about yourself is the key to understanding who you truly are? With more than 50 years on the spiritual path, including decades as a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, Indra has developed a unique approach through Vedic Astrology, the Enneagram, and his Celestial Enneagram system. His work brings together ancient wisdom and personality insights to illuminate the patterns, conditioning, and blind spots shaping our lives. He is the author of Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience. In this conversation, Jessica and Indra explore interconnectedness through Indra's Net, the role of shadow work in spiritual awakening, and the Wheel of Totality - a framework for examining parts of ourselves that may remain hidden for decades. In This Conversation, You'll Discover: ✨Why shadow work reveals the blind spots behind recurring emotional and relationship patterns ✨How Vedic Astrology and the Enneagram offer different perspectives on personality and conditioning ✨What the Wheel of Totality reveals about parts of ourselves we may not recognize until later in life ✨Why vulnerability and honest self-examination become doorways to authentic transformation This conversation is for anyone navigating spiritual awakening, subconscious healing, self-discovery, or the frustration of doing the inner work and still feeling something is missing. Sometimes the next step isn't learning something new. It's finally seeing what you couldn't see before. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for weekly conversations on spiritual awakening, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, inner child healing, and conscious living. If this episode supported you, please follow the show, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs it. Continue Your Healing Journey If you're exploring subconscious patterns, continue with these conversations from our 80+ episode archive: ▶️Heal Your Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation | Dr. Lise Janelle https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40225390 ▶️Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42192115 Connect with Indra Rinzler Website: http://indrarinzler.com/ Book: Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indra.rinzler/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBt4MS4GTTxP1pckE7P9w Email: indrarinzler@gmail.com Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self Where spirituality meets psychology, emotional healing, consciousness, and the journey of remembering who you truly are. Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Interested in being a guest? https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

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• Hope Fitzgerald
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• Craig Meriweather
• Greg Palma
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