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In this episode of The Journey of an Awakening Spirit, Kathleen Flanagan sits down with psychologist, author, and spiritual educator Dr. Scott Guerin for an honest conversation about what awakening really looks like when it’s lived, not idealized.

Together, they explore why spiritual awakening often feels like life is falling apart, especially for strong, capable people who have spent years holding everything together. Dr. Guerin shares his personal journey from organized religion and academic psychology through a dark night of the soul that led him into meditation, shadow work, and a deeper relationship with inner guidance.

The conversation dives into misalignment, the collapse of old identities, and the courage it takes to face buried wounds rather than bypass them. Kathleen and Scott discuss shadow integration, self-trust, boundaries, and why true awakening isn’t about escaping the human experience, but fully inhabiting it.

They also touch on the larger collective shift happening on the planet, the breakdown of outdated systems, and the role awakened individuals play in guiding others through change. At its heart, this episode is a reminder that feeling lost doesn’t mean you’re broken, it means something deeper is calling you home.

If you’ve been questioning everything, feeling disconnected despite external success, or sensing that your old life no longer fits, this conversation offers clarity, validation, and hope.

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In this conversation, Kathleen Flanagan discusses the challenges high-achieving women face regarding rest and the guilt associated with it. She explores the impact of trauma on the nervous system, the importance of healing the inner child, and the need to decouple self-worth from productivity. Flanagan emphasizes that rest is essential for regulation and offers protocols for achieving guilt-free rest, encouraging listeners to embrace support and navigate the changes in their lives.

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Many high-achieving women struggle with guilt around rest.

Rest triggers anxiety and the urge to be productive.

Survival mode can stem from past trauma and PTSD.

The inner child needs love and protection to heal.

Self-worth should not be tied to productivity.

Rest is essential for emotional and physical regulation.

Healing requires support and community.

Mindset alone is not enough for true healing.

Feeling safe is crucial for relaxation and rest.

Embracing change is necessary for personal growth.

"Rest triggers anxiety and guilt."

"The mindset alone doesn't work."

"You can't think your way into rest."

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This episode explores the deeper truth about forgiveness, not as excusing the past, but as a powerful act of self-liberation. Through a raw and honest conversation, we uncover how unresolved anger and trauma quietly keep high-achieving women stuck in survival mode, disconnected from their intuition and inner peace. The discussion reframes forgiveness as a practical, step-by-step process that restores emotional safety, clears energetic blocks, and brings the body, mind, and spirit back into alignment. Ultimately, this conversation offers hope, clarity, and a compassionate path forward for anyone ready to release what no longer serves them and finally feel lighter, freer, and whole.

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This episode explores why burnout isn’t always caused by doing too much and why rest alone often doesn’t fix the exhaustion so many high-achieving women feel. Kathleen shares a deeply personal reflection on how long-term survival mode keeps the nervous system on high alert, even when life appears stable or successful.

Through lived experience, she explains how unresolved trauma, chronic stress, and emotional hypervigilance can create mental fatigue, overwhelm, and shutdown, especially during moments of growth or success. What feels like burnout may actually be the body responding to unfamiliar safety, expansion, or change.

Rather than pushing harder, this conversation invites listeners to slow down, listen to their nervous system, and allow regulation to come before productivity. Healing begins when safety is restored, patterns are understood, and the body is no longer forced to perform from fear.

This episode offers insight, validation, and a compassionate reminder: you are not broken, behind, or failing, your system has been protecting you. And with awareness, support, and gentle practices, it can learn to rest again.

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This episode explores the Infinity Wave, a living frequency of love and compassion that supports humanity through accelerated change. Through a deeply personal and reflective conversation, Kathleen Flanagan and Hope Fitzgerald discuss what happens when life begins to shift faster than our ability to control it, and why resistance to change often creates more suffering than the change itself.

Hope shares how the Infinity Wave appeared during a profound moment of loss and transformation, offering a way to stop fighting the current of life and instead learn how to float, trust, and be carried. The discussion reveals how love and compassion are not qualities we must earn or cultivate through effor, they are inherent frequencies available to us when we let go.

Kathleen reflects on her own journey of grief, invisibility, and surrender, and the realization that letting go does not mean drowning, it means allowing ourselves to rise. Together, they explore the idea that we are not meant to force evolution, but to move with it, becoming stable points of light for others during uncertain times.

This episode is an invitation to release resistance, soften into trust, and remember that as we align with love and compassion, we naturally become the lighthouse, anchored, present, and able to guide without force.

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This episode shares a raw, compassionate story of a strong woman who lived in survival mode inside a toxic relationship and the quiet moment that changed everything. It explores why leaving isn’t about weakness, how trauma silences intuition, and what it really takes to choose yourself. Through honesty and deep reflection, the message offers validation, hope, and a path back to emotional safety, self-trust, and true alignment for anyone who feels strong on the outside but broken within.

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This episode explores the kind of spiritual awakening that doesn’t come through peace or perfection, but through collapse, grief, and deep inner reckoning. Kathleen Flanagan and Birgitta Visser share raw, lived experiences of healing after abuse, loss, and trauma, revealing what happens when survival mode can no longer hold.

Through honest conversation, they discuss nervous system healing, forgiveness, sacred plant medicine, energetic alignment, and the return to inner safety and self-trust. This is a grounded, human look at awakening as an embodied process, one that asks us to feel, release, and integrate rather than bypass our pain.

This episode is for anyone who has done everything “right” yet still feels disconnected inside, and for those who sense their breakdown was actually the beginning of coming home to themselves.

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The holidays can trigger old wounds, emotional overwhelm, and people-pleasing patterns, especially for women who appear strong on the outside but feel depleted on the inside. In this episode, we explore how to reclaim inner safety, interrupt emotional triggers, protect your energy without guilt, and choose alignment over obligation. Through grounding practices, conscious boundaries, and reconnecting with your inner guidance, you’ll learn how to stop surviving the holidays and start experiencing them with peace, clarity, and self-trust. This is an invitation to choose yourself, honor your needs, and come back home to your truth during the most emotionally charged time of the year.

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