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  • 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
    Oct 11 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
    Oct 4 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.
  • Healing Your Inner Child: How the Boy Who Couldn't Read Became a Bestselling Author | John R. Spender

    Healing Your Inner Child: How the Boy Who Couldn't Read Became a Bestselling Author | John R. Spender
    Sep 27 2026

    If you experienced childhood trauma and are still carrying the wound beneath your story, healing your inner child may be less about fixing what's broken and more about remembering who you really are.

    In this episode Jessica Rooks, host of Awaken Your Authentic Self a show for empaths and old souls navigating awakening and trauma healing, sits down with John R. Spender, a 45-time international bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, and founder of A Journey of Riches, a global storytelling movement featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries.

    John couldn't read or write until age ten and experienced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse during childhood. Yet a teacher recognized his creativity when he wrote "Sausage Man from Outer Space". That moment became part of a remarkable journey that eventually led him to become a bestselling author, filmmaker, mentor, and advocate for sharing the wisdom found in our stories.

    This conversation goes beyond overcoming adversity. Jessica and John explore childhood trauma, identity, healing, belonging, resilience, and authentic self-discovery, and what happens when we begin separating who we are from what happened to us.

    In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

    ✨How childhood trauma can shape identity, beliefs, and the stories we tell ourselves

    ✨Why rewriting your story isn't the same as healing the wound underneath it

    ✨What John's travels through more than 75 countries revealed about identity, purpose and belonging

    ✨What hundreds of personal stories taught him about the blind spots we often cannot see in our own lives

    💜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.

    Perhaps healing isn't about becoming someone new. Perhaps it's about remembering who you've always been.

    About John R. Spender

    John R. Spender is an internationally bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, speaker, and writing coach. He founded A Journey of Riches, a global book series and storytelling platform featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries. Profits support Jewels Children's Home in Bali.

    His documentary, The Gift in Adversity, explores how difficult experiences can become catalysts for self-discovery, purpose, and meaningful change.

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're learning to understand how your past shapes your present...

    ▶️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

    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 with John R. Spender

    Website: https://ajourneyofriches.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ajourneyofriches3672

    Book Series: A Journey of Riches

    Documentary: The Gift in Adversity

    Connect with 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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    42 Min.
  • The Signs You're Missing From Your Loved Ones in Spirit - And What Spirit Keeps Trying to Tell You | Chris Lippincott

    The Signs You're Missing From Your Loved Ones in Spirit - And What Spirit Keeps Trying to Tell You | Chris Lippincott
    Sep 20 2026

    What if the people you've lost - your mother, your father, the person you never got to say goodbye to - what if they never actually left?

    In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chris Lippincott, international evidential psychic medium, trance medium, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and host of Spirits Beside Us, to explore mediumship, afterlife communication, signs from spirit, grief healing, spiritual awakening, intuition, consciousness, and connecting with loved ones beyond physical death.

    Before becoming a professional medium, Chris spent 30 years as a senior buy-side equity analyst on Wall Street, holding an MBA and CFA Charterholder designation. His journey from a world built on logic, data and measurable evidence into evidential mediumship creates a fascinating bridge between skepticism, spiritual experience, and the search for proof.

    As an evidential psychic medium and trance medium, Chris focus' on specific information and messages that can be verified by the people receiving them. His work explores how loved ones and spirit guides may communicate through signs, synchronicities, dreams intuition, physical sensations, and unexpected moments of knowing.

    In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

    ✨What Chris' out-of-body experience revealed about consciousness - and what happened when his Wall Street-trained mind encountered something it couldn't explain

    ✨What evidential mediumship actually means, why verification matters, and how specific information from spirit differs from generalized spiritual impressions

    ✨The single most repeated message Chris says spirit delivers through thousands of readings - and why it may be the message someone listening today most needs to hear

    Join Our Community

    Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for transformational conversations exploring spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, intuition, energy healing, consciousness, grief, soul purpose, shadow work, personal transformation, and conscious living.

    If this conversation resonates with you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who may need to hear this message.

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're exploring afterlife communication, grief healing, intuition, and signs from spirit, continue your journey with:

    What if Your Wounds Aren't Yours? Ancestral Healing, Reiki & After Death Communication | Cindy Bain

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode.index/id/42856380

    Connect with Chris Lippincott

    Website: https://montclairmedium.com/home

    Free Meditation: https://montclairmedium.com/free-meditation

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@montclairmedium

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087212560779

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulbschool/

    Podcast: Spirits Beside Us

    Book: Spirits Beside Us: Gain Healing & Comfort from Loved Ones in the Afterlife

    Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

    Website: www.UniversityEarth.org

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

    Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

    Guest Inquiries: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4

    Love doesn't end. Sometimes, we simply have to learn how to recognize the ways it continues.
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    1 Std. und 4 Min.
  • What If Your Wounds Aren't Yours? Ancestral Healing, Reiki & After-Death Communication |Cindy Bain

    What If Your Wounds Aren't Yours? Ancestral Healing, Reiki & After-Death Communication |Cindy Bain
    Sep 13 2026

    What if the pain you're carrying isn't yours?

    What if some of the patterns, emotional wounds, grief, or energetic imprints you've spent years trying to heal began before you ever had a chance to choose them.

    In this conversation Cindy Bain joins host Jessica Rooks on Awaken Your Authentic Self to explore ancestral healing, Reiki healing, spiritual awakening, grief, Spiritually Transformative Experiences )STEs), near death experiences, and after-death communication - and what can happen when we begin to look at healing through both a grounded and spiritual lens.

    Cindy's has spent more than 24 years practicing Reiki, becoming a Reiki Master in Tibetan/Usui, Karuna, and Holy Fire Reiki. She is also a Professional Member of the International Center for Reiki Training.

    Her personal journey includes mystical experiences, near-death experiences, moments of enlightenment, spiritually transformative experiences, and after-death communication - experiences that profoundly shaped the healer she became.

    At the heart of this conversation is a question that may change the way you understand your own healing:

    What if something you've been trying to heal isn't actully yours to begin with?

    In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

    ✨What ancestral healing means and how inherited patterns, family experiences, and energetic imprints may influence the way we experience our lives

    ✨How Cindy's journey through grief, spiritual awakening, Reiki, and Spiritually Transformative Experiences changed her understanding of healing and consciousness

    ✨What after-death communication can feel like, including Cindy's personal experiences of connection with her father after his death

    ✨How Reiki healing may support people navigating emotional overwhelm, anxiety, grief, trauma, exhaustion, and patterns that seem difficult to shift

    💜Join Our Community

    Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations exploring spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, intuition, energy healing, consciousness, ancestral patterns, personal transformation, and soul purpose.

    If this conversation resonates with you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who may need to hear it.

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're exploring ancestral patterns, unseen influences, energetic imprints, shadow work, and spiritual healing, continue your journey with:

    ▶️Shadow Work & Planetary Magic: Heal Your Deepest Wounds & Reclaim Your Power | Lucy Baldwin

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/42574195

    Connect with Cindy Bain

    Website: https://cindybainreiki.com

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Recharge_with_Reiki

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recharge_with_reiki

    Renewal Journey: https://www.cindybainreiki.com/renewal-journey

    Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

    Website: www.universityearth.org

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

    Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

    Guest Inquiries: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4
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    1 Std. und 1 Min.
  • Shadow Work & Planetary Magic: Heal Your Deepest Wounds & Reclaim Your Power Using the Planets | Lucy Baldwin

    Shadow Work & Planetary Magic: Heal Your Deepest Wounds & Reclaim Your Power Using the Planets | Lucy Baldwin
    Aug 30 2026
    Shadow work. Planetary magic. And how your deepest wounds may actually be the key to reclaiming your power. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lucy Baldwin - planetary magic teacher, shadow alchemy guide, priestess, podcaster, and founder of Remolina Coaching - for a powerful conversation about shadow work, planetary magic, healing, personal transformation, and reclaiming your power. For more than seven years, Lucy has guided hundreds of students around the world in working with the shadow, the planets, identity, desire, and the deeper patterns that shape our lives. Her approach invites us to see the planets not simply as symbols in a birth chart, but as living allies we can consciously work with as part of our personal and spiritual transformation. Together Jessica and Lucy explore what happens when we stop treating our wounds, patterns, and shadow as problems to elliminate - and begin asking what they might be here to teach us. 💜Join Our Community Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations exploring spirituality, emotional healing, nervous system healing, trauma transformation, consciousness, and the journey of remembering who you truly are. If you enjoy the podcast, a review helps more beautiful souls discover this sacred space. In This Conversation, You'll Discover: ✨What shadow work really is, why it is often misunderstood, and how shadow alchemy can transform the way we understand our deepest patterns ✨What planetary magic means and how Lucy teaches people to work with planetary energies such as Saturn and Venus as allies in everyday life ✨What Existential Kink reveals about hidden desires, identity, unconscious patterns, and the parts of ourselves we may have been taught to reject ✨How building capacity for high sensation can change the amount of life, expansion, desire, and personal power we are able to hold - plus a simple way to begin working with planetary magic today About Lucy Baldwin Lucy Baldwin is a planetary magic teacher, shadow alchemy guide, priestess, and founder of Remolina Coaching. She has taught magic and shadow work to hundreds of students worldwide and hosts The Seven: Living With the Planets. Lucy also brings a background in Cognitive Science, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology to her exploration of consciousness, magic identity, and transformation. In addition to her spiritual and transformational work, Lucy is the mother of five and a CEO working in environmental technology focused on removing forever chemicals from water. Continue Your Healing Journey If this conversation resonates, continue exploring the deeper patterns behind healing and transformation: ▶️Past Lives and How They Shape Your Healing in the Now https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37748755 ▶️Are You Living YOUR Life - Or is Your Life Pre-Programmed? https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37104180 These conversations explore past-life influences, unconscious patterns, identity, conditioning, healing, and the forces that can shape how we experience our lives. Connect with Lucy Baldwin Podcast: The Seven: Living With the Planets Website & Programs: https://www.remolinacoaching.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lucybaldwincoaching/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucybaldwin.author YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lucybaldwin Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self Website: https://www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ Luna & Verse Studio: https://www.lunanadversestudio.com Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com Interested in being a guest? https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4 This conversation is intended for educational and informational purposes and reflects the perspectives and experiences of the guest.
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    50 Min.
  • After 20 Years with MS, She Healed Naturally: The Missing Link Was Nervous System Restoration | Christine Ruch

    After 20 Years with MS, She Healed Naturally: The Missing Link Was Nervous System Restoration | Christine Ruch
    Aug 23 2026

    What if nervous system restoration - not another protocol - is the missing link to healing chronic illness naturally? After 20 years with MS, Christine Ruch discovered that nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and ultimately nervous system restoration changed everything.

    In this sacred space, holistic transformation guide Christine Ruch joins Jessica to share her extraordinary 20-year journey with Multiple Sclerosis - and how ultimately healed naturally while raising her children and running a restaurant. With a background in holistic nutrition, Christine reveal why diets, supplements, and protocols alone weren't enough, and how restoring safety in the nervous system became the vital, often-overlooked piece of reclaiming her health from the inside out.

    Hosted by Jessica Rooks, Awaken Your Authentic Self is a sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truthtellers who are ready to remember who they really are.

    💜Join Our Community

    Follow Awaken Your Authentic Self for conversations exploring spirituality, emotional healing, nervous system healing, trauma transformation, consciousness, and the journey of remembering who you truly are. If you enjoy the podcast, a review helps more beautiful souls discover this sacred space.

    In this conversation, you'll learn:

    ✨What nervous system restoration means - and how it differs from nervous system regulation

    ✨Why people with chronic illness can become exhausted from "trying everything", and what it means to move from controlling the body to cooperating with it

    ✨How symptoms, trauma, chronic stress, and somatic awareness can become information rather than enemies

    About Christine Ruch

    Christine Ruch is a Holistic Transformation Guide whose work helps people with unresolved health conditions develop a deeper relationship with their body, nervous system, and inner wisdom. Her approach is informed by her 20-year experience with her MS, her background in holistic nutrition, and her exploration of somatic awareness, trauma release, spiritual practice, and nervous system restoration.

    Her story reflects her personal experience with healing chronic illness naturally and is shared for educational and informational purposes, not as a substitute for individual medical care.

    Continue Your Healing Journey

    If you're exploring subconscious patterns and their connection to healing and transformation:

    ▶️Heal Subconscious Blocks for Abundance & Love | The Missing Link in Manifestation - Dr. Lise Janelle

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40225390

    If you're exploring trauma and the deeper patterns that can keep us stuck:

    ▶️Destroy the Trauma Keeping You Stuck - Devorah Brinckerhoff

    https://directory/libsyn.com/episode/index/id/41422475

    Connect with Christine Ruch

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/christineruch.ms/

    Substack: https://christineruch.substack.com/

    Website: www.christineruch.com/

    Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

    Website: www.universityearth.org

    Luna & Verse Studio: www.lunaandversestudio.com

    Interested in being a guest: www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/176184925777844125f8026e4
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    56 Min.