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The Sacred Shadow: Finding Light in Our Darkest Places

Posted by Catherine Abbott on 1/5/26 8:00 AM

For much of my life, spirituality seemed synonymous with staying positive—keeping my vibration high, speaking love and light, and pushing away anything that felt heavy. The belief lingered that focusing hard enough on peace could somehow outshine pain. What I’ve learned, especially through my journey at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA), is that true healing doesn’t come from avoiding the dark—it comes from walking straight into it with compassion and curiosity.

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Topics: Great Graduate, integrative healing arts practitioner, Shadow Work, End of Life Doula, Death Doula Training

My Day with Michael

Posted by Kristy McCarty on 9/9/21 4:00 PM

A spiritual awakening is the process of learning who we truly are through a vibratory connection that permeates us all. This awakening can feel different for each individual and come in stages as the person experiencing the shedding of their ego-self can slowly lose their identity of who they believe themselves to be and reconnect to the whole that is. When we do this, we have the unique ability to understand ourselves as well as others and raise what some believe to be the collective consciousness. A spiritual awakening is a personal experience that allows full connection with Prana, God, Source, Gaia, Yahweh, Allah, as well as many other names that have developed from the human language to describe what is utterly indescribable. What about the opposite side of that universal coin and the loss of that oneness that we crave? A spiritual death is something entirely different as it consumes and eats away at the wholeness we once had as a young innocent child. Spiritual death can occur when the spirit has undergone traumatic experiences, abuse, addiction, loss, or anything that slowly depletes our soul.

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Topics: aromatherapy, holistic entrepreneur, SWIHA, Archangels, Spiritual Coaching, energy healing, integrative healing arts practitioner, IHAP, Self-Healing, continuing education, EFT Tapping, Holistic Modalities, transpersonal Hypnotherapy, Archangel Michael, Emotional Freedom, Intuitive Channeling, Divine Tarot Reading, Shadow Work

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