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Awaken Your Authentic Self

Awaken Your Authentic Self

By: Jessica Rooks
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Awaken Your Authentic Self is a healing and personal transformation podcast for conscious seekers ready to break free from conditioning, heal deeply, and align with their most authentic life. Hosted by Jessica Rooks - spiritual teacher, conscious guide, and transformational interviewer - this show explores emotional healing, nervous system regulation, shadow work, astrology, energy healing, burnout recovery, ancestral patterns, past lives, universal laws, and conscious manifestation. If you feel like you're outgrowing old identities… If burnout, grief, or life transitions have cracked you open… If you're seeking deeper healing beyond surface-level self-help… You're in the right place. Through powerful solo teachings and expansive interviews with thought leaders in healing, astrology, consciousness, and personal growth, Jessica bridges grounded integration with spiritual insight - helping you release ego identities, dismantle societal programming, and create lasting inner transformation. This is not quick-fix self-improvement. This is conscious healing. Welcome home. Want to be a guest on Awaken Your Authentic Self? Send Jessica Rooks a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4@ 2025 Personal Development Personal Success Spirituality
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  • Shadow Work: Why You Can't See Your Own Blind Spots | Indra Rinzler

    Shadow Work: Why You Can't See Your Own Blind Spots | Indra Rinzler
    18 Oct 2026
    Shadow work and why you can't see your own blind spots may reveal why the same emotional patterns keep repeating, even after years of inner work. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual teacher, Vedic astrologer, Enneagram practitioner, and author Indra Rinzler to explore the hidden aspects of ourselves we struggle to see - and how recognizing them opens the door to deeper self-awareness and spiritual awakening. What if the very thing you cannot see about yourself is the key to understanding who you truly are? With more than 50 years on the spiritual path, including decades as a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, Indra has developed a unique approach through Vedic Astrology, the Enneagram, and his Celestial Enneagram system. His work brings together ancient wisdom and personality insights to illuminate the patterns, conditioning, and blind spots shaping our lives. He is the author of Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience. In this conversation, Jessica and Indra explore interconnectedness through Indra's Net, the role of shadow work in spiritual awakening, and the Wheel of Totality - a framework for examining parts of ourselves that may remain hidden for decades. In This Conversation, You'll Discover: ✨Why shadow work reveals the blind spots behind recurring emotional and relationship patterns ✨How Vedic Astrology and the Enneagram offer different perspectives on personality and conditioning ✨What the Wheel of Totality reveals about parts of ourselves we may not recognize until later in life ✨Why vulnerability and honest self-examination become doorways to authentic transformation This conversation is for anyone navigating spiritual awakening, subconscious healing, self-discovery, or the frustration of doing the inner work and still feeling something is missing. Sometimes the next step isn't learning something new. It's finally seeing what you couldn't see before. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for weekly conversations on spiritual awakening, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, inner child healing, and conscious living. If this episode supported you, please follow the show, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs it. Continue Your Healing Journey If you're exploring subconscious patterns, continue with these conversations from our 80+ episode archive: ▶️Heal Your Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation | Dr. Lise Janelle https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40225390 ▶️Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42192115 Connect with Indra Rinzler Website: http://indrarinzler.com/ Book: Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indra.rinzler/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBt4MS4GTTxP1pckE7P9w Email: indrarinzler@gmail.com Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self Where spirituality meets psychology, emotional healing, consciousness, and the journey of remembering who you truly are. Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Interested in being a guest? https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4
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    58 min
  • She Sang on the World's Biggest Stages—But Her Real Journey Was Learning to Belong | Machan Taylor

    She Sang on the World's Biggest Stages—But Her Real Journey Was Learning to Belong | Machan Taylor
    11 Oct 2026
    What if a lifetime on the world's biggest stages still leaves you asking: Who am I? Childhood trauma healing, inner child healing, and belonging with singer and author Machan Taylor (Pink Floyd, Sting, Pat Benatar) on Awaken Your Authentic Self with Jessica Rooks. In this deeply personal conversation, Machan Taylor joins host Jessica Rooks to explore identity, belonging, childhood trauma healing, self-worth, relationships, spirituality, meditation, self-awareness, and becoming your authentic self. Machan Taylor is a renowned singer and author of the memoir Naked Out Loud. Her extraordinary music career has taken her onto the world stage alongside Pink Floyd, Sting, Michael Jackson, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, George Benson and many others. But beneath the accomplishments is a much more personal story: growing up between cultures, moving from Japan to suburban America, losing her sense of belonging, and discovering how music became both refuge and validation. In Naked Out Loud, Machan writes candidly about identity, relationships, trauma, self-worth, and healing from trauma. Her healing journey has included therapy, group work, Buddhist meditation, intentional living, and psychedelic-assisted experiences, along with the integration and self-reflection that followed. This conversation goes beyond the career and into the woman underneath it all - what happens when we begin recognizing our patterns, reclaiming our power, and questioning the identities we built to survive, belong, or feel worthy. In this Episode, You'll Discover: ✨How being uprooted from Japan and growing up between cultures shaped Machan's lifelong journey with identity, belonging, and inner child healing ✨The difference between being recognized by the world and feeling at home within yourself, and how music became a place where Machan felt wanted and valued ✨How loss, music, and a major music opportunity brought patterns around trauma, self-worth, power, and responsibility into awareness ✨Why Machan now sees difficult experiences as "instructional gifts" and what she is still discovering about spirituality, healing and becoming About Machan Taylor: Machan Taylor is a world reowned singer and author of Naked Out Loud sharing her lived experience of cultural displacement, trauma healing, and self-discovery through Buddhist meditation, therapy, and integration work. About Your Host: Jessica Rooks is the host of both University Earth as well as Awaken Your Authentic Self, a sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truthtellers exploring spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and remembering who you truly are. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations on spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, intuition, energy healing, consciousness, and soul purpose. If this resonates, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone walking their own path back to belonging. 🎧Continue Your Healing Journey ▶️Your Anxiety is Lying to You: How to Stop Overthinking & Trust Your Intuition | Jennie Lee https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41071855 Connect With Machan Taylor Website: www.machantaylor.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/machantaylorofficial/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/machantaylor/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MachanTaylorOfficial LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/machan-taylor-810196156/ Book: Naked Out Loud Connect With Awaken Your Authentic Self Website: www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: www.instaram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Guest Inquiries: www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4
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    57 min
  • Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore? The Hidden Side of Spiritual Awakening | Helen Ye Plehn

    Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore? The Hidden Side of Spiritual Awakening | Helen Ye Plehn
    4 Oct 2026
    Why don't I feel like myself anymore? If you're in the in-between space of spiritual awakening, identity transformation, and anxiety - where who you were no longer fits but who you're becoming isn't clear yet - this conversation is for you. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with Helen Ye Plehn, founder of Helen Creates Beauty, creator of The Aura Color Wheel, and Hay House award-winning author of The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul's Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons. We unpack spiritual awakening symptoms, the dark night of the soul, and why awakening can feel like anxiety, losing yourself, or not recognizing yourself anymore - plus how soul wounds, intuitive gifts, and identity shifts are connected to healing and purpose. You'll learn how to approach spiritual experiences with discernment, compassion and appropriate support when mental health concerns are also present. A spiritual awakening is a period of deep identity transformation where old patterns, beliefs, and roles fall away. Common spiritual awakening symptoms include anxiety, emotional sensitivity, feeling disconnected from yourself, questioning your purpose, and heightened intuition. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations about spiritual awakening, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, inner child healing, identity transformation, and conscious living. In This Conversation, You'll Discover: ✨Why don't I feel like myself anymore during a spiritual awakening? ✨Is this spiritual awakening symptoms and anxiety or something that needs mental health support? ✨What is the dark night of the soul and why does it trigger identity transformation? ✨What is the Aura Color Wheel and how does it reveal your soul wounds, inner gifts, and life lessons? About Helen Ye Plehn Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the creator of The Aura Color Wheel. She is also an intuitive painter, angel channeler, certified crystal healer, third generation Feng Shui master, yoga and meditation teacher, Ayurveda practitioner, Vedic astrologer, and Theta healer. About Your Host Jessica Rooks Jessica Rooks is the host of Awaken Your Authentic Self, a sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truthtellers who are ready to remember who they really are. With 80 episodes on spiritual awakening, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, shadow work, and conscious living, Jessica guides soul-led conversations to help you navigate healing, burnout recovery, and emotional growth. Connect with Helen Ye Plehn Website: https://helencreatesbeauty.com/ Soul Aura Color Quiz: https://helencreatesbeauty.typeform.com/Soulauracolor Book: The Aura Color Wheel (Hay House): Available on Amazon Book Order Gifts: https://download.helencreatesbeauty.com/book/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/helencreatesbeauty Instagram: www.instagram.com/helencreatesbeauty The Aura Evolution Podcast: www.youtube.com/@auracolorwheel Continue Your Healing Journey: If you're ready to bring healing into your body, not just your mind... ▶️Nervous System Regulation | The 60-Second Reset That Ends Survival Mode | Camilla Calberg https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41374965 Connect wuth Awaken Your Authentic Self Website: www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Interested in being a guest? www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4
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    52 min
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