Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

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:
https://www.facebook.com/heatherzim815
Podcast:
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YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DivineAscensionCo

Free Guide: The Ground Went First

Heather has created a free guide called The Ground Went First, exploring the part of awakening that people rarely warn you about.
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.
Rather than being five unrelated problems, Heather explores how these experiences can be connected and what may be happening underneath them.
Get the free guide here:
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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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Healing Is Not One Session, One Breakthrough or One Big Cry
Episode 96

Healing is not a magic pill, one breakthrough or one weekend retreat. Real change happens layer by layer, with honesty, repetition and responsibility.

Episode overview
In this episode of the Spiritual Awakening Podcast, I talk about one of the biggest problems I see in the healing world, the promise that one session, one release or one powerful breakthrough can magically fix years of trauma, conditioning and emotional patterns.

Yes, one session can create a massive shift. It can open something, release something or help you see yourself differently. But lasting change comes from what happens afterwards.

We talk about why old patterns return, why you need to replace what you release with something healthier, how identity work becomes part of the healing process, and why the right practitioner should guide and empower you rather than make you dependent on them.
In this episode, I discuss:
Why one healing session rarely changes everything
The difference between a breakthrough and lasting change
Why trauma and beliefs are often layered over many years
How old patterns return when the underlying program is never rewritten
Why repetition and continued practice matter
The role of EFT, hypnosis, Reiki, journalling and other healing tools
Why healing can feel uncomfortable even when staying the same feels worse
How identity work affects self-sabotage, addiction, relationships and confidence
Why practitioners should give you tools, not create dependency
How triggers can reveal the next layer that is ready to heal
Why quick-fix promises and “instant cure” marketing can be damaging
The importance of taking responsibility for your own healing journey
Key Takeaways from Healing is not One Session
Healing is not about erasing what happened or pretending the past never existed.

It is about understanding what happened, recognising who you became through it, releasing what no longer serves you and consciously choosing what comes next.

You may still get triggered. You may still revisit an old pattern. The goal is not to never experience a difficult emotion again. The goal is to have the awareness, tools and self-trust to move through it without falling all the way back into the place you once lived.

There is no magic healer.

There is no magic pill.

The real transformation happens when you commit to your own healing, practise what you have learned and become more of who you were underneath the layers in the first place.

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From Despair to Divine Guidance: The Story Behind My Two New Books
Episode 95 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

These two books may look very different, but they tell two sides of the same story. One is about the life I lived, and the other is about the spiritual support that helped me find my way through it.
In this episode, I share why I am launching My Soul Activated: From Despair to a Life by Design and Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide together, and why separating them never really made sense.
I talk about the loss, trauma, grief and physical symptoms that pushed me to question my life, the relationship with my Nan that changed how I saw myself, and how learning to ask for help from the Archangels became part of rebuilding my life.

This isn't an episode about everything that went wrong. It is about what happened afterwards. How I stopped allowing the past to define me, found my voice, learned what was mine to carry and began creating a life that actually felt like mine.

In this episode, we discuss:
Why My Soul Activated and Journeys with the Archangels belong together
How grief, trauma and complex PTSD affected my body
The question that helped me stop carrying emotions and burdens that weren't mine
Why surviving something does not mean it needs to define the rest of your life
How losing my Nan became one of the biggest turning points in my awakening
What reconnecting with my Nan taught me about forgiveness, family and my own worth
Why I was already spiritually connected long before trauma entered my life
How tarot helped me recognise and trust my intuitive abilities
The role the Archangels have played throughout my healing and spiritual development
Why you do not need to be psychic, religious or experienced in meditation to ask the Archangels for help
How Journeys with the Archangels became a practical guide rather than simply another book about angels
Why Archangels can guide and support you, but cannot walk your path for you
What is included in the book presale packages and why I wanted to create something special for the people supporting the launch
Why both books officially launch on 11 November 2026
How supporting an author during a presale or crowdfunding campaign helps bring the work into the world
Highlights from this episode

I share the story of the physical spasms that appeared after my Nan's death and the psychiatrist who helped me understand the effect complex PTSD was having on my body.

I also talk about discovering the truth behind my relationship with my Nan and how knowing that she had wanted me completely changed the childhood belief that I had always been unwanted.

You'll hear how my intuitive abilities became impossible to ignore through tarot readings and predictions, and why learning to understand where that information came from eventually led me into a much deeper relationship with the Archangels.

I also take you behind the scenes of the two-book launch, including the Archangel journal, crystal packs, activation meditation, readings and the presale packages I have created for the people choosing to support these books before they are released.

These books represent a full-circle moment for me.

I grew up hiding what I knew and questioning who I was. Today I can share my story, my spiritual experiences and what I have learned without asking permission to be who I am.
Join the Presale and Help Bring These Books Into the World
These books have taken years of life, healing, spiritual connection and courage to bring together.
If My Soul Activated or Journeys with the Archangels speaks to you, joining the presale is one of the most meaningful ways you can support this next chapter.
Your support helps me bring the books, journals, crystals, packaging and everything surrounding this launch into physical form. More than that, you become part of the beginning of something I believe is meant to help people feel less alone, more connected and more supported in their own journey.
I have created special presale packages for those who want to be part of this with me, including options with the books, Archangel crystals, the companion journal, meditation and other extras depending on the package you choose.

If you feel called to support the launch, you can explore the presale options here:
https://shazcini.com/books-presale/

Thank you to every person who has encouraged me, shared the journey, pre-ordered, spoken about the books or simply believed in what I am creating.

I do not take that support lightly.

These books are deeply personal to me, and knowing they will soon be sitting in the hands of people who need them means more than I can properly put into words.

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Intuition or Anxiety? How to Tell the Difference
Episode 94, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz

Is it your intuition speaking, or is anxiety, fear and an activated nervous system running the show?
In this episode, I take you through the difference between intuition and anxiety in a practical, interactive way so you can start recognising what is actually happening in your mind and body.
We talk about why intuition usually feels calm, clear and simple, while anxiety creates urgency, overthinking, worst-case scenarios and the desperate need for certainty. I also explore how survival mode, trauma and hypervigilance can make it harder to trust your own inner guidance.
Throughout the episode, I give you real-life scenarios to help you test the difference for yourself, including relationships, delayed messages, tarot cards, spirit signs and those moments where you suddenly know you need to stop, wait, go somewhere or contact someone.
I also share some of my own intuitive experiences, including the signs that guided me back to Sydney, the purple elephant with pink polka dots, and the warning that may have prevented me from being involved in an accident.
In this episode, we discuss:
How intuition feels different from anxiety in your body
Why survival mode can make you scan for danger and confuse fear with guidance
The difference between a calm intuitive nudge and anxious overthinking
Why intuition often arrives before your analytical mind starts building the story
How to recognise your body's personal yes and no
Why feeling uncomfortable does not always mean something is wrong
The difference between unsafe and unfamiliar
How rejection, abandonment and old wounds can distort current situations
Why repeatedly asking psychics, tarot cards, pendulums or other people for answers can disconnect you from your own knowing
How spirit signs tend to arrive naturally rather than needing to be hunted for
Why developing intuition takes practice, evidence and self-trust
Five simple questions to help you work out whether you are experiencing intuition, anxiety, fear or conditioning
Your intuition does not need to bully you, frighten you or send you searching everywhere for more answers.
Sometimes it is simply the quiet knowing underneath all the noise.
The more you practise listening to that knowing, the easier it becomes to recognise when fear is running the show and when your soul is gently saying, this way.

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