Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

Why Self Love Is So Important

 Episode 101, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
The most important relationship you will ever have in this lifetime is not the one you think it is. It is the relationship you have with yourself, with your own soul.
In this episode, I unpack why so much of our pain, our anxiety and the trauma we carry in our bodies comes down to the way we speak to ourselves every single day. I share why the harshest critic most of us ever face lives in our own head, why criticism from other people is really a mirror of how they feel about themselves, and why the way we treat ourselves as adults so often echoes what we absorbed as children.
I also talk about one of the hardest patterns I see in my work as a psychic medium and healer, mothers who gave everything to their children, only to be told later that they weren't loved enough. I walk through why that happens, what it actually means to pour from a full cup rather than an empty one, and why one hundred percent of five percent will always only be five percent.
Alongside the harder truths, I share the practical rituals, affirmations and mindset shifts I use every single day to keep my own cup full, including the exact words I use when someone tries to criticise or put me down.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why the relationship with yourself matters more than any other relationship in your life
Why your inner critic so often echoes what you absorbed as a child
Why someone else's judgement or criticism of you is really a reflection of how they feel about themselves
The "hurt people hurt people" analogy and why people who are in pain end up lashing out
Why becoming an adult means becoming the caretaker of your own soul
Why celebrating your own wins is essential to your soul's growth, not egotistical
Why we celebrate celebrities and sportspeople but discourage ourselves from celebrating our own achievements
The exhausted, unappreciated mother pattern, and why external validation can never fill an internal void
The cup metaphor, and why one hundred percent of five percent is still only five percent
The heartbreaking pattern I see in readings, mothers who gave everything only to be told by their adult children that they weren't loved enough
Why love given from an empty cup is felt as hollow, even when the words themselves are right
Why real self-love means accepting your faults and your shadow side without holding them against yourself
How repetition changes your inner dialogue, the same way repetition teaches you anything else in life
Morning affirmations and rituals I use to reset my mindset each day
Why chasing love and appreciation from outside yourself leaves you feeling empty, even when people are pouring into you
Why boundaries and refusing to accept unkind words are genuine acts of self-love
My go-to response when someone tries to criticise or put me down
How grief and self-love can exist together, and how I honour my own loved ones every day
Why every challenge can be reframed as an opportunity to grow once you stop resisting it
The three and a half year self-love journey that changed how I show up in the world
Highlights

 One of the strongest themes in this episode is that your relationship with yourself shapes every other relationship in your life. When your own cup is empty, no amount of love, appreciation or reassurance from someone else can fill it, and that hollowness is always felt, even when it isn't spoken.
I also share one of the hardest things I sit with in my work, mothers who poured everything they had into their children, only to be told later that it wasn't enough. The truth underneath that pain is almost never that they didn't try. It is that they were giving from a cup that was already empty.
Most importantly, I want you to walk away from this episode with real, practical ways to start filling your own cup, through the words you use, the affirmations you choose each morning, and the boundaries you're willing to hold, so that what you give to the people you love comes from fullness rather than from empty.
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Journeys with the Archangels: Why This Book Matters
Episode 100, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

Episode 100 felt too important to simply look backwards.
Instead, I wanted to share the journey that brought me here and the deeper story behind my new book, Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide.
This episode is about my personal relationship with the Archangels, the ways they have shown up throughout my life, and why I believe learning to work with them can help you strengthen your intuition, feel supported through difficult times and build a deeper relationship with your own spiritual guidance.
I also share why this book is not designed to sit untouched on a shelf. It is meant to be used, written in, highlighted, opened when you feel lost and returned to whenever you need guidance, healing, courage, protection or clarity.
The biggest message throughout this episode is simple. The Archangels can support you, but you have to ask, remain open to receiving, and still take responsibility for your own life and choices.
In this episode, we discuss:
 Why Episode 100 felt like the right moment to talk about Journeys with the Archangels
 Why Archangel Michael became such an important guide in my life 
 Why Michael encouraged me to write this book 
 Why the Archangels cannot override your free will 
 The importance of asking for spiritual assistance 
 How Archangels can support grief, healing, courage, relationships, communication, creativity and decision-making 
 Why you do not always need to know an Archangel’s name before asking for help 
 The 15 Archangels I chose to include and why personal experience mattered to me 
 How Archangels can appear through warmth, movement, breeze, dreams, visions, colours and physical sensations 
 My experiences with Archangel Michael, Ariel, Jeremiel, Haniel and others 
 How Archangels can work together to support specific situations 
 Why spiritual support does not remove your personal responsibility 
 The importance of taking action after receiving guidance 
 Why discomfort can sometimes be part of growth and transformation 
 Working with Archangel Azrael during grief and transition 
 Why Journeys with the Archangels is designed as a practical guide 
 The invocations, meditations, visualisations and journaling prompts included in the book 
 Why shadow journaling can help you understand what sits underneath the need for support 
 How signs and synchronicities can be subtle rather than dramatic 
 How dreams, repeated messages, songs, bodily sensations and intuitive knowing can become forms of spiritual communication 
 Why building a relationship with an Archangel is similar to building any other relationship 
 How the book can help strengthen your own intuition rather than make you dependent on outside guidance 
 Why your relationship with the Archangels does not need to look like mine 
 How I want readers to use the book in real life, especially during grief, fear, overwhelm or uncertainty 
 Why the podcast and the book ultimately come from the same purpose 
 How to use the book intuitively rather than feeling that you must read it from beginning to end 
Highlights

One of the strongest themes in this episode is that the Archangels are there to support you, but they are not there to take over your life.
You still have free will, choice and personal responsibility.
You can ask for courage, healing, clarity, protection or guidance, but you still have to participate in the change you are asking for.
I also share how differently the Archangels can appear. Their presence is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is warmth, a breeze, a repeated message, a dream, a body sensation, a song or a quiet thought that seems to arrive at exactly the right moment.
The book itself was created to make these relationships practical. Each Archangel has ways to connect, including invocations, meditations, signs, synchronicities and shadow journaling prompts so you can explore what support you need and how that support may already be showing up around you.
Most importantly, I want you to build your own evidence and your own relationship with the Archangels. Your experience does not need to match mine.
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You Don’t Need Another Sign. Make the Decision.
Episode 99, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
There comes a point where asking for another sign stops being guidance and starts becoming avoidance.
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I talk about what happens when you already know what you want, but fear, doubt and overthinking keep you stuck in analysis paralysis. We look at the difference between guidance and permission seeking, why constantly outsourcing your decisions weakens self-trust, and how to reconnect with your intuition, body and spiritual sovereignty.
This episode is about learning to stop asking everyone else what you should do and beginning to trust yourself enough to choose.
In this episode, we discuss:
 Why asking for another sign can become avoidance 
 The difference between guidance and permission seeking 
 How language such as “should I?” can hand your power away 
 Why spiritual tools should support your intuition, not replace it 
 What spiritual sovereignty actually looks like 
 How constantly asking other people for advice weakens self-trust 
 Why intuition is often simple, while the mind creates complexity 
 How your body can help you understand what feels aligned 
 Why empaths need to learn their own internal signals 
 The difference between excitement, anxiety and intuitive warning signs 
 Why asking the same question repeatedly creates more confusion 
 How failure gives you information and helps you make better decisions 
 Why certainty is rarely available before action 
 How research, experience and testing create greater clarity 
 Why signs are confirmation rather than a substitute for decision making 
 How taking action builds confidence, momentum and self-trust 
Highlights
One of the strongest themes in this episode is the idea that you already know more than you think you do.
We can become so focused on cards, pendulums, repeating numbers, spiritual guidance and other people’s opinions that we forget the most important source of information, ourselves.
I also explore how the body communicates with us through expansion, contraction, tension, relief and subtle physical reactions. Learning your own patterns can help you recognise the difference between fear, intuition and old conditioning.
Failure also gets reframed in this episode. Making a decision that does not work out does not automatically mean you made a mistake. Sometimes it gives you the information you needed in order to take the next step with more clarity.
Most importantly, your spiritual tools are there to strengthen your relationship with yourself, not replace it.
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My new book, Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide, is now live on Kickstarter, and if this podcast has supported you, inspired you or helped you trust your own spiritual path, I’d love you to support the book and help bring it into the world.

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When Awakening Takes the Ground From Under You, with Heather Zimmerman
Episode 98 Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast 

What happens when your spiritual awakening does not feel expansive or peaceful, but instead feels like your whole life is being pulled apart?
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I sit down with Heather Zimmerman, Multidimensional Soul Facilitator and founder of Divine Ascension Co., for a deep conversation about spiritual awakening, the dark night of the soul, healing trauma, sovereignty, channeling, manifestation and what can happen when the old version of your life no longer fits.
Heather holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, and spent years working in behavioural science before her own awakening took her apart and rebuilt her from underneath.
That experience shaped the way she works today. Rather than focusing only on surface symptoms, Heather looks deeper at what may be happening emotionally, mentally, physically, energetically and spiritually.
She is the author of Becoming Divine and the creator of The Self-Spirit Method™, a fourteen-step framework built in the order she personally needed while moving through her own healing and awakening journey.
Heather works with people who are experiencing something they may not yet have language for, particularly those wondering why they suddenly feel different, disconnected from their old life, energetically sensitive or unsure of what is happening to them.
In this episode, we discuss:
Heather’s early experiences with spirit, haunted houses and unexplained phenomena
How questioning religion led her towards her own spiritual path
The dark night of the soul and what happens when your existing belief system falls apart
Dreams, astral travel, past-life experiences and multidimensional exploration
Channeling spirit guides, higher-dimensional beings and other forms of consciousness
Why curiosity matters during a spiritual awakening
Spiritual sovereignty and finding what feels true for you
Why Heather believes authenticity is an important part of spiritual development
The difference between surface healing and getting underneath the original pattern
Spiritual bypassing and why healing often happens in layers
The connection between trauma, emotions, energy and the body
Breaking ancestral and generational patterns
Why manifestation requires more than affirmations, visualisation and vision boards
How focusing your energy on what you actually want can change the way you manifest
Heather’s fourteen-step Self-Spirit Method™
Self-love, compassion, chakras, mindfulness and gratitude as foundations for deeper spiritual work
Learning to communicate with spirit and asking better questions
Creating boundaries with spirit and developing a relationship with your guides
Daily energetic practices for reconnecting with yourself and your highest timeline
Becoming curious about the parts of spirituality that exist beyond the surface
Highlights
One of the strongest themes in this conversation is the importance of sovereignty.
Heather encourages people to question, explore and discover what actually feels true for them instead of automatically adopting someone else’s beliefs.
We also explore why healing is rarely finished after dealing with something once. Old experiences can return at another level because you are ready to meet a deeper layer of the pattern.
Heather shares why manifestation is the final stage of her fourteen-step framework rather than the starting point. Before intentionally creating something different, she believes we need to understand ourselves, our energy and the patterns influencing the way we experience life.
This is a conversation for anyone who has ever thought, What the hell is happening to me?, during a spiritual awakening and wondered whether losing the old version of themselves might actually be the beginning of something much bigger.
About Heather Zimmerman

Heather Zimmerman is a Multidimensional Soul Facilitator and the founder of Divine Ascension Co.

She holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, and spent years working in behavioural science before her own awakening took her apart and rebuilt her from underneath.
That is the reason she works the way she does. She does not treat the surface symptom. She goes looking for what is actually underneath it, which is usually why the surface fixes never held.
She is the author of Becoming Divine and the creator of The Self-Spirit Method™, a fourteen-step framework built in the order she actually needed it.
She works with people who are in the middle of something they have no language for yet, who are afraid there is something wrong with them, and who have not told anyone what is really happening.
Connect with Heather

Website:
https://www.divineascensionco.com
Facebook:
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YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DivineAscensionCo

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Sometimes awakening does not begin with bliss, clarity or feeling deeply connected.
Your sleep changes. Money becomes stressful. Your nervous system starts bracing. Relationships stop fitting. You may no longer feel at home in your own life.
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Returning to Yourself with Joy Danielle Cabodi
Episode 97 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast 

What happens when the parts of you that were shaped by trauma, survival and fear begin returning to your authentic self?

Episode overview

In this episode of the Spiritual Awakening Podcast, I’m joined by spiritual healer, shamanic practitioner, psychic medium and Akashic Records reader Joy Danielle Cabodi.
Joy shares her journey from a chaotic childhood, homelessness and addiction into sobriety, spiritual awakening and the deeper work of remembering who she really is. We talk about empathy born through trauma, soul retrieval, intuition, healthy boundaries, generational healing and what it means to reclaim the parts of yourself that were lost along the way.
This conversation also explores grief, self-love, the divine feminine, spiritual authenticity and why some of our hardest experiences become the training ground for the work we are here to do.
In this episode, we discuss:
 How trauma can heighten empathy and sensitivity 
 Joy’s journey through homelessness, addiction and sobriety 
 Developing psychic awareness and understanding spiritual experiences 
 Working with the Akashic Records 
 Generational healing and breaking family patterns 
 Soul retrieval and calling lost parts of yourself back 
 Intuition as an inner navigation system 
 Healthy boundaries and reclaiming personal power 
 The divine feminine and goddess energy 
 Why grief, joy and transformation can coexist 
 The importance of authentic self-love 
 How our greatest hardships can become our greatest training ground 
 Why finding the right mentor or practitioner matters on the healing journey 
Highlights

Joy shares how sobriety became the beginning of a much deeper return to herself, and how spiritual experiences helped her understand there was something greater guiding her life.
We also talk about the power of soul retrieval, how trauma can fragment our sense of self, and why healing is often about calling those parts back rather than trying to become someone completely new.
The conversation moves through grief, intuition, personal power and the importance of living spirituality authentically, not only when someone is watching.
Joy leaves us with a powerful reminder that the experiences which challenge us the most often become the very thing that prepares us to help someone else.
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