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Awaken Your Authentic Self

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by Jessica Rooks

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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

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Episode thumbnail for The Spiritual Warfare & Sleep Paralysis Link: Are You Under Spiritual Attack? | Herman Petrick

June 21, 2026

The Spiritual Warfare & Sleep Paralysis Link: Are You Under Spiritual Attack? | Herman Petrick

<p>What if the <strong>exhaustion, brain fog, emotional overwhelm</strong>, or <strong>restless sleep</strong> you're experiencing isn't just stress - but something deeper?</p> <p>In this episode of <strong>Awaken Your Authentic Self</strong><strong>, host Jessica Rooks</strong> sits down with internationally renowned <strong>energy healer Herman Petrick</strong> for a thought-provoking conversation about <strong>spiritual warfare, sleep paralysis, energy clearing</strong>, and the <strong>energetic boundaries, empath protection,</strong> and the tools <strong>spiritually sensitive</strong> people need to reclaim their sovereignty. With more than a decade of experience in <strong>spiritual clearing</strong> and <strong>trauma-related energy work,</strong> Herman shares his perspective on <strong>entity attachment, spiritual hygiene, sleep disruption</strong>, and why so many empaths and highly sensitive people struggle to separate their own emotions from external influences.</p> <p>Together they explore the controversial question many spiritual seekers quietly ask: How do you know if what you're feeling is truly yours - or something you've absorbed?</p> <p> </p> <p>🔔Subscribe to Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations around healing, spirituality, nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, self-discovery, energy healing, and authentic living.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>In This Episode, You'll Discover:</strong></p> <p>✨Why sleep paralysis and disrupted dream states may signal more than just stress</p> <p>✨The critical difference between shadow work and spiritual warfare</p> <p>✨Signs you may be carrying emotions, energy, or attachments that aren't yours</p> <p>✨Protection practices and spiritual hygiene rituals for empaths and sensitive souls</p> <p>Whether you are deeply spiritual, highly skeptical, or simply chronically exhausted, this conversation offers grounded perspectives, actionable tools, and honest questions to help you reconnect with your intuition and reclaim your energy.</p> <p>In this conversation, Herman shares perspectives drawn from his professional experience working with clients in spiritual clearing and energy healing.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Connect with Herman:</strong></p> <p><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/globalenergyclearing/">https://www.instagram.com/globalenergyclearing/</a></p> <p><strong>YouTube:</strong> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@hermanpetrick-energyhealer">https://www.youtube.com/@hermanpetrick-energyhealer</a></p> <p><strong>LinkedIn:</strong> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/herman-petrick-7235b367/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/herman-petrick-7235b367/</a></p> <p><strong>Website:</strong> <a href= "https://hermanpetrick.com/">https://hermanpetrick.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Continue Your Healing Journey</strong></p> <p>If today's conversation resonated with you, here are a few episodes that can support the next step on your healing journey:</p> <p><strong>🎧Looking to heal unresolved emotional pain, grief, or loss?</strong></p> <p>Listen to: <strong>Unresolved Grief: How it Affects Your Life & Why Healing is Essential for Your Healing Process</strong></p> <p>Explore how unprocessed emotions and unresolved grief can impact your emotional well-being, relationships and healing journey.</p> <p><a href= "https://directory.libsyn.com?episode/index/id/37209025">https://directory.libsyn.com?episode/index/id/37209025</a></p> <p><strong>🎧Are you an empath or highly sensitive person who easily absorbs other people's energy?</strong></p> <p>Listen to: <strong>The Art of Grounding - The Importance of Grounding Yourself Daily</strong></p> <p>Learn practical grounding techniques to strengthen your energetic boundaries, regulate your nervous system, and stay centered in your daily life.</p> <p><a href= "https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37016970">https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37016970</a></p> <p><strong>🎧Feeling disconnected from your body, exhausted, or out of alignment?</strong></p> <p>Listen to: <strong>Are You Listening to Your Body: The Importance of Properly Feeding the Mind, Body and Spirit</strong></p> <p>Discover how physical health, emotional wellness, and spiritual practices work together to support healing and authentic living.</p> <p><a href= "https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37295150">https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37295150</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Remember: healing isn't about fixing yourself - it's about remembering who you truly are.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About Awaken Your Authentic Self</strong></p> <p>Awaken Your Authentic Self is a podcast for empaths, highly sensitive people, and truth-seekers ready to heal, grow, and reconnect with their authentic selves. Hosted by Jessica Rooks, the show explores spiritual awakening, trauma healing, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, energy healing, shadow work, and personal transformation through conversations with healers, spiritual teachers, and wellness experts.</p> <p>✨<strong>Connect with Host Jessica Rooks:</strong></p> <p><strong>Facebook: </strong> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/">https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/</a></p> <p><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/">https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/</a></p> <p><strong>Email: </strong> <a href= "mailto:awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com">awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com</a></p> <p><strong>If you would like to be a guest:</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4"> https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4</a></p>

Episode thumbnail for Destroy the Trauma Keeping You Stuck & Finally Heal | Devorah Brinckerhoff

June 14, 2026

Destroy the Trauma Keeping You Stuck & Finally Heal | Devorah Brinckerhoff

<p>What if the key to <strong>emotional healing</strong> and <strong>trauma recovery</strong> isn't holding on tighter - but physically transforming it?</p> <p>In this episode of the <strong>Awaken Your Authentic Self podcast</strong>, <strong>host Jessica Rooks</strong> speaks with professional artist and <strong>transformational guide Devorah Brinkerhoff</strong> to explore "<strong>Sacred Destruction</strong>" - the radical healing practice of destroying personal mementos, photos, and journals, then reconstructing them into mixed-media art that reveals your <strong>Soul Essence</strong>.</p> <p>After 30 years as a successful gallery-represented artist, Devorah walked away from the traditional art world in 2019 when the product no longer fed her soul. What emerged was <strong>Soul Portraits</strong> - a guided methodolgy where trauma materials become the raw ingredients for visual <strong>self-dicovery</strong>. For anyone who has felt stuck in talk therapy, silenced by the inner critic, or trapped in an identity that no longer fits, this conversation offers a completely different entry point to healing: your hands, your eyes, and the visual language of your soul.</p> <p>Together, Jessica and Devorah explore why memories can become energetic cages, how the body processes grief through tactile creation, the terror and liberation of identity death, and why the healing process matters infinitely more than the artistic product. This is the invitation to stop making your healing beautifull and start making it true.</p> <p>This episode explores how stored trauma, unresolved memories, and outdated identities can keep us emotionally stuck - and how creative expression can become a powerful pathway to healing. Through nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and Devorah's Sacred Destruction process, you'll discover why transformation often begins when we stop preserving the past and start transforming our relationship to it.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What You'll Learn In This Episode:</strong></p> <ul> <li>What "Sacred Destruction" is and why physically destroying painful memories can be more cathartic than talking about them</li> <li>What happens emotionally and somatically during the act of physically ripping or altering personal mementos - and why that visceral release unlocks what words alone cannot</li> <li>How somatic experience and nervous system regulation happen naturally through tactile creative expression</li> <li>Why visual expression can unlock truths that verbal language cannot reach</li> <li>Practical first steps for beginning your own sacred destruction process practice - even in 5-minute increments</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>About Our Guest:</strong></p> <p>Devorah Brinckerhoff is a professional artist and transformational guide who spent 3 decades as a successful gallery-represented artist before walking away from the traditional art world in 2019. Devorah sees the world visually rather than verbally and believes that creative expression - not artistic ability - is the bridge between trauma and self-discovery. Her work centers on the principle that the process of creation holds far more healing power than the product produces.</p> <p><strong>Connect with Devorah:</strong></p> <p><strong>Facebook:</strong> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/devorah.brinkerhoff">https://www.facebook.com/devorah.brinkerhoff</a></p> <p><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/devorahbrinkerhoff">https://www.instagram.com/devorahbrinkerhoff</a></p> <p><strong>Website:</strong> <a href= "https://soulportrait.art/">https://soulportrait.art/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Continue Your Healing Journey:</strong></p> <p>If this conversation on sacred destruction and creative trauma healing resonated with you, these episodes will deepen your journey:</p> <p>✨Healing grief or navigating the loss of a loved one?</p> <p>Listen next:</p> <p><strong>Grief, Life Purpose & Nervous System healing with Stephanie Walsh</strong> - Discover how loss can become a catalyst for healing, purpose, and personal transformation</p> <p>✨Feeling stuck in survival mode, burnout, or emotional exhaustion?</p> <p>Listen next:</p> <p><strong>Are You Listening to Your Body? The Importance of Properly Feeding the Mind, Body and Spirit</strong> - Explore the connection between chronic stress, emotional healing, and the wisdom your body has been trying to share with you.</p> <p>✨Absorbing everyone else's emotions and struggling with empath burnout?</p> <p>Listen next:</p> <p><strong>Intuition Saved My Life: Empath Burnout Recovery with Christine Gold</strong></p> <p>✨New to spiritual healing and personal transformation?</p> <p>Start here:</p> <p><strong>Religion vs. Spirituality: Finding YOUR Sacred Purpose</strong> - A foundational episode exploring soul purpose, identity, and awakening to your authentic self.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About Awaken Your Authentic Self:</strong></p> <p>Awaken Your Authentic Self is a podcast dedicated to spiritual healing, spiritual awakening, emotional healing, conscious living, and helping you reconnect with your authentic self.</p> <p>Through transformational conversations with thought leaders, healers, authors, and spiritual teachers, each episode offers practical wisdom, spiritual insight, and compassionate guidance for navigating life's challenges and embracing meaningful transformation.</p> <p>New episodes released weekly.</p> <p>Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform.</p> <p><strong>Connect with Host Jessica Rooks:</strong></p> <p><strong>Facebook:</strong> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/">https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/</a></p> <p><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/">https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/</a></p> <p><strong>Email:</strong> <a href= "mailto:awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com">awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com</a></p> <p><strong>Want to be a guest:</strong> <a href= "https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4"> https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4</a></p> <p> </p> <p>If this episode moved you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it.</p> <p>Your authenticity is not a flaw to fix - it is your greatest power.</p> <p> </p>

Episode thumbnail for Your Soul Blueprint Is Hidden in a Deck of Cards | Fate vs Free Will Explained | Alexander Dunlop & Viki Scudiery

June 7, 2026

Your Soul Blueprint Is Hidden in a Deck of Cards | Fate vs Free Will Explained | Alexander Dunlop & Viki Scudiery

<p>What if the ordinary deck of playing cards is actually an ancient map of your <strong>soul blueprint</strong>?</p> <p>Discover how the Source Cards system reveals your <strong>life purpose, karmic lessons, shadow work patterns</strong>, and <strong>spiritual awawkening path</strong> - hidden in plain sight for centuries.</p> <p>In this powerful episode of <strong>Awaken Your Authentic self</strong>, <strong>host Jessica Rooks</strong> sits down with <strong>Alexander Dunlop and Viki Scudiery</strong> to uncover the hidden spiritual system within the 52-card deck known as the <strong>Source Cards</strong> - a sacred technology believed to reveal your <strong>life purpose, karmic lessons, repeating patterns, relationship dynamics, and soul evolution.</strong></p> <p>If you have ever felt stuck in the same cycles, questioned why certain relationships repeat, or wondered whether your life is guided by <strong>destiny or free will</strong>, this conversation offers a profound new lens for understanding your <strong>healing journey and spiritual awakening.</strong></p> <p>Alexander, a Harvard-trained philosopher and former Wall Street consultant turned spiritual teacher, and Viki, an intuitive healer and graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, explain how the deck of cards mirrors the solar year with astonishing mathematical precision and why this ancient <strong>"Book of Life"</strong> may hold the key to understanding yourself on a deeper level.</p> <p>Together, they explore how Source Cards can help spiritual seekers, empaths, entrepreneurs, and high-achievers move from feeling like victims of circumstance to becoming conscious creators of their lives. From shadow work and soul contracts to energetic patterns and relationship chemistry, this episode bridges ancient wisdom, spiritual psychology, and practical self-awareness in a way that is both grounded and transformative.</p> <p>Whether you are navigating a spiritual awakening, seeking clarity about your purpose, healing unresolved trauma, or trying to understand the deeper patterns shaping your life, this episode will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about fate, identity, and personal transformation.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>🎯What You'll Learn in This Episode</strong></p> <ul> <li>What the ordinary deck of playing cards really represents spiritually - and why it has benn called the "Book of Life"</li> <li>How the Source Cards system reveals your soul blueprint, karmic lessons, and life path</li> <li>The deeper meaning behind the 5 cards, 4 suits, and their connection to the solar year and human consciousness</li> <li>The difference between soul lessons you are meant to experience versus patterns you are meant to break</li> <li>How understanding your cards shifts you from feeling powerless to becoming an active creator of your reality</li> <li>Why spiritual awakenings often feel chaotic during the "messy middle" phase of transformation</li> <li>How Source Cards reveal relationship dynamics, compatibility, energetic chemistry, and recurring toxic patterns</li> <li>The role of free will versus destiny in your healing journey and spiritual evolution</li> <li>What the Joker card symbolizes in the Game of Life system</li> <li>Why many empaths and spiritual entrepreneurs struggle to ground their gifts into reality</li> <li>How masculine structure and feminine intuition work together for true alignment</li> <li>The first step to understanding your own "hand" and beginning your conscious healing journey</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>🔗<strong>Connect With Our Guests</strong></p> <p><strong>Instagram</strong>: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/thesourcecards/">https://www.instagram.com/thesourcecards/</a></p> <p><strong>TikTok:</strong> <a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@thesourcecards">https://www.tiktok.com/@thesourcecards</a></p> <p><strong>YouTube:</strong> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/thesourcecards">https://www.youtube.com/thesourcecards</a></p> <p><strong>Website:</strong> <a href= "https://www.thesourcecards.com/">https://www.thesourcecards.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>🌿<strong>Continue Your Healing Journey</strong></p> <p>If this conversation resonated with you, continue exploring these related episodes from Awaken Your Authentic Self with host Jessica Rooks:</p> <ul> <li>Somatic Healing: Clear Energy Blockages & Release Trauma with Banya Lim</li> <li>Trauma Healing and Soul Alignment: How to Finally Stop Abandoning Yourself with Tara Wiskow</li> <li>The Therapist Bridging Psychology & Spirituality Explains What Traditional Therapy Misses with Harmony Kwiker</li> <li>She Left Corporate Success for This Life Changing Truth with Kara Goodwin</li> <li>Written in the Stars: Unlocking Your Soul Blueprint Through Your Natal Chart - Solo episode with Jessica Rooks</li> </ul> <p>You can search these episodes by the titles or guest names.</p> <p> </p> <p>🎙️<strong>About Your Awaken Your Authentic Self</strong></p> <p>Awaken Your Authentic Self is a spiritual healing and personal tranformation podcast by Jessica Rooks. Through heart-centered conversations, intuitive wisdom, and transformational teachings, the show helps listeners heal emotional wounds, reconnect with their authentic truth, and align with their soul's purpose.</p> <p>This podcast is a sacred space for empaths, healers, old souls, spiritual seekers, and anyone ready to awaken consciously, break generational patterns, and embody their fullest expression.</p> <p> </p> <p>💜<strong>Connect With Jessica Rooks</strong></p> <p><strong>Facebook:</strong> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/">https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/</a></p> <p><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/">https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/</a></p> <p><strong>Email:</strong> <a href= "mailto:awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com">awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com</a></p> <p><strong>If you would like to be a guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self please visit PodMatch:</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4"> https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Please subscribe, follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone navigating their own healing and awakening journey.</p> <p>Your authenticity is not something to fix.</p> <p>It's your greatest power.</p>

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What is 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

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

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This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

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