This episode is a response to a listener email asking: "am I still healing and growing spiritually even during periods of stasis, where nothing much seems to be happening?"

We'll explore what stasis could mean in the context of spiritual healing and growth, and how you can make the most of any periods of relative calm or quiet in your life.

Some of the main takeaways from this episode include:

• why it's impossible to go back to sleep once you have awakened - even though we often try to
• although stasis can mean stagnation, it can also mean equilibrium - so a period of stasis could be a period of arriving into greater balance within yourself
• why things are still shifting even when you can't perceive the changes yet
• letting go of the attachment to growing through pain or suffering

A huge thank you goes out to Terral for listening to this podcast and writing in with this thoughtful question.

To support this podcast and make sure it stays on the air, you can purchase any of my self-healing resources here:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

To connect with me, please head over to https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

Thank you for being here, and for doing your inner work! May you honor and find value in all the different periods, stages, and cycles of your life.

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Taking honest inventory of where you are today, how much are you loving yourself? How much self-love and self-nourishment do you give yourself?

In this episode, I answer a listener email about how to cultivate a deeper capacity for self-love. We'll cover how self-love - and a lack of self-love - looks like in our inner dialogue, in relationships and friendships, and even in interactions with strangers.

I suggest a couple of books to grow your self-love and self-acceptance:

Embracing Your Inner Critic

The Self-Acceptance Project

In the episode, I also mention the possibility that you might be carrying an ancestral pattern or contract of not loving yourself. To work through that and release it, you can use my guided healing journey to clear ancestral patterns and burdens - scroll to find this resource below:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

My gratitude goes out to Katie for writing in with this vulnerable and important question.

To connect with me, head over to https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

Thank you for tuning in, and please keep doing your inner work!

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My guest for this episode is Brandon Beachum, thought leader, philosopher, author, truth-seeker, and host of the Positive Head Podcast. Since childhood, Brandon has been a serial entrepreneur.

In 2015, amidst his business success and 15-year exploration of the "ultimate nature of reality", Brandon answered the call to share and speak publicly about his spiritual insights and philosophies. Today, he helps others shift their perspectives to "innerstand" the ultimate nature of reality and create more of what they want to see and experience in their lives.

Brandon is gifting us his book, The Golden Key: Modern Alchemy to Unlock Infinite Abundance. You can download your copy by going to https://goldenkey.gift and using the code POSITIVEHEAD.

To ensure this podcast stays on the air, you can donate any amount that works for you here:

https://square.link/u/I4Zt8YSE

To connect with me (Josephine), please visit https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

Thank you for tuning in, and please keep doing your inner work! It benefits us all.

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In this special episode, I introduce you to the Akashic Records - what they are, how they work, and how we can use them to heal ourselves and transcend ego patterns.

I was first introduced to the Akashic Records as a teenager by my mom (a therapist and healer), and have been working with them on a daily basis for most of my adult life. I became certified as an Akashic Records Practitioner and started giving readings to others in 2012, and have since developed a unique curriculum for my own Akashic Records Certification Program.

In my time using the Records - both for my personal healing and to assist others with their evolution - I've been delighted, awed, deeply moved, transformed, and continually fascinated by their power, benevolence, and wisdom.

In this episode, I invite you to learn more about the Akashic field and how tapping into this field we call "the Records" can help you awaken and become who you REALLY are.

As a companion resource for this episode, I've created a guided healing journey into the Akashic Records. I'll guide you into a meditative, receptive state and we will open your Records together. You'll have a chance to ask a specific question (or focus on an issue you want to shift) and receive healing on all levels - mental, spiritual, emotional, physical. To access this resource, please go to:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

You can also visit https://josephinehardman.com for other ways of working together. Please send feedback or suggestions/questions for future episodes to me@josephinehardman.com

Thank you for being here! May you be well, may you find peace, may you treat yourself and others with the utmost kindness and love. You deserve it.

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My guest for this episode is MaryCatherine McDonald, a research professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology and philosophy of trauma. She has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on the neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience of trauma since completing her PhD in 2016. 

While engaging with trauma academically, MaryCatherine experienced the loss of her parents - a significant event that required her to apply her knowledge and insights regarding trauma to herself.

In this interview, we talk about the important ways in which MaryCatherine believes we must re-define trauma and our approach for healing it. I (Josephine) share a bit of my immigration trauma story, and MaryCatherine helps me better understand my own healing process.

MaryCatherine's new book, Unbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong has just been published by Sounds True.

Please explore her work by going to https://alchemycoaching.life

To connect with me (Josephine), visit https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

To support this content and ensure Inner Work stays on the air, you can contribute any amount that works for you here:

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Thank you for spending this time with me, and please keep doing your inner work!

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Working with a healer or teacher on your path of awakening can be an empowering, helpful, very supportive experience. Healers and teachers can help us grow beyond our limits and address blindspots or work through things we might not be able to heal on our own.

At the same time, it's important to be discerning when you seek out a new healer, teacher, or spiritual modality. Just because someone or something is labeled "spiritual" doesn't mean it is necessarily aligned with you, or free of ego.

In this episode, I share some ideas about potential issues or red flags you might look for when seeking out a new healer, teacher, or healing modality. Please follow your intuition and gut feelings, and never allow anyone to pressure you into working with them!

To explore my Resources for Self-Healing, you can go here:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

You can also support this podcast and keep it on the air by donating any amount that works for you, starting at $1, here:

https://square.link/u/I4Zt8YSE

Thank you for being here and for doing your inner work. To connect with me, head over to https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

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You have likely manifested many things while you were asleep - both wonderful, joyful things and sometimes things that were not so pleasant, or that you didn't actually want.

This episode focuses on how to manifest your desires - for particular experiences, relationships, money, health, aligned work - once you're spiritually awake.

I answer a listener's email on this topic, and cover these discussion points:

• how you can get tripped up once you believe in your own power of manifestation
• how your ego self might derail your manifestations through over-thinking, analysis paralysis, or self-doubt
• what to do if you're questioning/over-analyzing whether your desires are coming from your ego or Soul

Thank you to Katherine for writing in and bringing up these important issues!

To deepen your healing and inner work - while supporting this podcast - you can purchase any of my Resources for Self-Healing here:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

You can visit https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com to connect with me or explore working together.

Thank you for showing up, spending this time with me, and for doing your inner work to release ANY blocks to abundance and growth! We all benefit when you do this.

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This episode is going out, with love, to all my fellow recovering people-pleasers. This is also an important episode if you have any tendencies of seeking approval from others, or feeling like you have to ask others for permission to be your authentic self.

Join me for an in-depth discussion of:

• what people-pleasing actually is
• how we might use people-pleasing as a "shield of niceness" to protect or defend ourselves
• the core fears that drive people-pleasing
• the consequences of people-pleasing on your whole being (emotions, body, mind, Soul)

I've created a guided healing journey as a companion to this episode, to help you release people-pleasing and approval-seeking behaviors. To access this resource, you can go to my Resources for Self-Healing page (scroll down a bit if you're on mobile):

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

To connect with me, head over to https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

Thank you for your presence, for doing your inner work, and for spending this time with me!

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Are you carrying a mindset of scarcity, lack, or unworthiness when it comes to money? Fear of not having enough or losing what you do have? If yes, it's possible these patterns, emotions, and beliefs regarding money were passed down to you through your family line.

Join me for another episode of INNER WORK where we explore the influence and repercussions of ancestral contracts, patterns, and burdens in our lives. Focusing on inherited beliefs and emotions around money and abundance, I share a case study in ancestral contracts from my own family.

To access my Guided Healing Journey to Clear Ancestral Contracts, Patterns, and Burdens, go here:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

If you've been getting some value out of these episodes, you can contribute any amount that works for you below. This keeps the podcast alive and free of ads:

https://square.link/u/I4Zt8YSE

You can also visit https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com to explore my services, share how this episode landed with you, or suggest a topic for a future episode.

Thank you for being here, and for doing your inner work!

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Although you are primarily an Infinite Being of Light, you're also incarnated into a physical, human body. On the 3D human plane, money is a necessary currency - to keep yourself alive, to feed yourself, to shelter yourself, to make things happen in the world.

In this episode of AWAKENING, I answer a listener email about how to shift into a mindset of abundance, create a healthy relationship with money, and forgive ourselves for any past financial mistakes or missteps.

I also address why it's best not to demonize money or see it as evil. Ultimately, it's not money that corrupts us. What can corrupt us is an unchecked ego, which seeks to accumulate more and more and constantly fears lack or tries to assert its power over others.

Thank you to Cass for writing in and asking these thoughtful questions!

To keep this podcast alive and free of ads, you can purchase any of my resources for self-healing here:

https://josephinehardman.com/resources/

Or donate any amount that works for you here:

https://square.link/u/I4Zt8YSE

To connect with me, please visit https://josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com

Thank you for your presence, for spending this time with me, and for doing your inner work.

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