13/09/2025
1000 Days of Spiritual Awakening
What does that even mean?
It’s actually been 968 days, to be precise. 968 days since my soul said “It’s time! So hold on for the ride.” 😃
I get asked all the time - “what happened, what was it like?”
There is no real way of describing a spiritual awakening in words - language falls far short - but I’ll try.
Here is the journey as it unfolded for me.
1. The Despair – Forced awakening often starts with pain 😔 and boy is that the truth. For me it was a relationship coming abruptly to an end, breaking my heart - or did it actually crack it open?
2. The Confusion – OMG the confusion. Was I going mad? Having a breakdown? What was happening to me? The existential crisis so deep; the grief inconsolable; the emotion overwhelming me. My nervous system went into extreme survival mode.
3. The Searching – Spiritual books, teachers, podcasts, YouTube: I couldn’t get enough of them. I spent months searching for answers. Surely this was a spiritual awakening wasn’t? Was it???
4. The Dark Night of the Soul – Endless purging. Physical ailments. Bodily changes. Energy realigning. Old paradigms and beliefs falling away. Slow transformation that went on for nearly 2 years. 😱 It forces me to start living day by day. I began Meditating, learning to witness my thoughts regulate my emotions: to breathe, to ground. The chrysalis.
5. Ego death – starting to question “Who am I?”
Who am I if I’m not “Katharine”, not my thoughts, my identity, my personality, my fears and doubts? Everything I believed about myself started dissolving. Both terrifying and liberating.
6. The in-between – No more pain, but not fully soul-led yet. But no longer ego-identified either. Somewhere in-between. Finally, some hope and peace. I feel settled but neutral. Suspended. A strange feeling.
7. Soul mission – My calling starts to become clear: bring this wisdom into the corporate world. Executive Wisdom and Conscious Leadership were born.
8. Co-creation – Synchronicities start multiplying. Life begins to unfold effortlessly. No more hustle. Awe and gratitude fills my days. But I’m still human. Emotions fluctuate. Triggers still happen.
9. Balance – On the surface, not much has changed in 1000 days. And yet everything is different. My nervous system is calmer. I feel peaceful. I feel whole as I am. Desire comes from the heart not from neediness. Fear comes, but I see it for what it is, an illusion — and alchemise it. Triggers are simply opportunities to know myself more deeply.
🌱 This was my story and it was pretty intense but you don’t have to wait for life to wake you up.
You can choose now to live from soul, consciously, every single day.
💫 If you feel that call, I’d love to guide you.
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