A spiritual awakening is often described as a blissful opening into love and light. Yet for many women, a spiritual awakening is not a love and light experience at all. What follows can include disillusionment, loss, and a deep questioning of everything that once felt certain.

When people claim that they had “a spiritual awakening” and share some of their mystical experiences of entering other dimensions, and switching on extra sensory abilities for example, others look at them wistfully and sometimes they even put them on a pedestal.

But they’re not “special” – we are ALL capable of these things. It’s part of our multidimensional abilities to be able to do these things. We just haven’t tuned in or activated ourselves to that level yet.

This is not about heirachy though – nobody is better than anyone else – although we’re all at different stages of growth and we all have different skills that are coming on board.

But let’s be serious here for a moment… a true spiritual awakening is not really fun.

Actually it’s a lot of hard work – although people often find ways to bypass the uncomfortable parts because they prefer the wafty floaty feeling and what it brings them in terms of recognition and identity.

Bypassing will only carry you through for a certain amount of time though and as we move more and more into the age of Truth and Authenticity, you can be assured that your unprocessed stuff will catch up with you.

For the rest of us that are doing our inner work though, the truth is that awakening to the truth of most things in this world right now, is bloody hard work.

Not only do we have our own traumas, tragedies and emotional pain to work through… we are living in a soup of negative bombardment from the people around us, to what’s happening on the global stage and beyond.

In fact very often, the global stage is the perfect distraction.

When we focus externally we can ignore our internal thoughts and feelings for a while but everything comes to us in time and “our stuff” that we’ve tried to bypass (consciously or unconsciously) is going to start coming up BIG TIME from this point on.

Not because anyone’s getting at you.

Not because the world is getting worse.

But because it’s a natural process of cleaning up our emotional heaviness so that we can move into the heart and into our emotional centre.

And what better place to create a new world from, but from the heart space?

So there is a purification taking place now.

Anything of a lower frequency is going to be purged out of us and out of the collective and that’s why we’re seeing so much dark stuff being exposed. It’s always been there but you just didn’t see it!

Will it be comfortable? No. But it is what it is and those who have done their inner work will be much better placed than those who have tried to ignore the uncomfortable parts of themselves because as you work through your stuff you learn to be able to hold emotional balance.

All up it’s an exciting time to be here and to be going through this but it is not without its challenges, and those challenges when approached consciously (and not from a place of victimhood) are what allow us to grow, expand and literally shift into a whole new paradigm.

We are at the cutting edge of creating a new world – a new experience – and it’s a privilege to be part of the ground crew that is setting up these new foundations and new emotional standards that we can all live by.

This is the stage of growth that Sanctuary was created to hold — for women who have moved beyond spiritual concepts and are ready for deeper embodiment.