Inner Work 257: Being spiritual does NOT mean being a doormat

Being spiritual doesn't mean we have to be ZEN all the time. (Thank God!) You don't have to be a doormat - or an emotionless robot - to be a deeply spiritual, evolved, awakened human. At the end of the day, spirituality can look a LOT of different ways, and you have to find your own unique expression of spirituality that feels aligned and true to YOU. In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore:  genuine spirituality as being connected to your authentic Self (which might be zen but might also be boisterous, playful, emotional, sarcastic, witty, loud, or many other things at times!) being spiritual doesn't mean you have to be a doormat or have NO reactions to anything ever how your Higher Self will sometimes guide you to be LOUDER, to speak up, to be firm, to tell someone to back off, to set stronger boundaries, etc. not putting undue pressure on yourself to meet some impossible "ideal" of spirituality that's disconnected from the day-to-day realities and emotions we experience as humans giving yourself grace to be human AND spiritual at the same time Watch this as a video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Rd71GNTt83U ******* Join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Explore my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@healer.josephine Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/healer.josephine Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

The Akashic Records are not "just" a storehouse of universal information - where our every deed, word, action, choice, etc across all dimensions of time and space are recorded - but also a living field of energy, light, and quantum healing. When you tap into this powerful field, the Records can support you in SO many ways as you navigate your spiritual awakening and ascension process. In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore topics such as: what is "ascension"? what does this concept mean in spiritual terms? why learning HOW to work with the Akashic Records is a healing and transformative process in & of itself the Akashic Records as a tool of ascension for these modern, chaotic times the Records as a source of unconditional Divine guidance, clarity, Truth, and Love - the frequencies we MOST need to be sustaining as humans today Watch this episode as a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w3v6bp9sf7o ******* Join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Explore my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@healer.josephine Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/healer.josephine Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Learning how to read the Akashic Records is like mastering a new language or instrument - it can take time, practice, patience, and dedication. (Which is SO worth it!!) The Akashic Records, also known as the "Book of Life", are a vast storehouse of information and Universal guidance. As a Divine tool, the Records give you access to higher consciousness, quantum healing, and powerful life-changing insights. In this INNER WORK episode, we'll explore: the language of the Akashic Records how the Akashic Records might communicate with you (with specific examples) different levels of meaning in the information, messages, and images you receive from the Records tips on how to interpret the messages you get, as clearly and meaningfully as possible   ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Watch my videos on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@healer.josephine Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/healer.josephine Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Learning to fully honor and grieve our hurts, wounds, and unhelpful patterns is SO important for genuine healing and growth. At the same time, we want to walk a fine line of not OVERLY identifying with those wounds, or feeling like our wounds are ALL that we are. (Or like we're broken, damaged, or in need of being fixed.) Let's explore this idea - and how to strike that healing, healthy balance - here on the Inner Work podcast. This is episode 20 of INNER REVOLUTION - a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together. The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission. Join me for this exploration of: honoring and facing our FULL truth - including our wounds, past hurts, unhelpful patterns, survival mechanisms, etc. - without running away, numbing ourselves, intellectualizing, or putting on a happy face to avoid feeling our feelings walking a fine line of truly grieving what has hurt us without overly attaching to it, overdramatizing it, or making it our whole identity creating a healthy, loving, non-judgmental space between who you really are and your wounds, triggers, and hurts (and specific language you can use to begin creating this space) being able to hold and BE with a full range of experiences and emotions, without drowning in any of it OR suppressing it Thank you for being part of this Inner Revolution series. We've done a lot together! Here's ep. 18 of this series on "activating your Witness Consciousness": https://josephinehardman.com/non-reactivity-and-activating-your-witness-consciousness/ ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Watch my videos on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@healer.josephine Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/healer.josephine Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

In the spiritual community, we often hear that joy and happiness are our natural state of being... and that we should be joyful most, if not ALL, of the time. So... is this really true? Or are we putting too much pressure on ourselves to only feel "positive" emotions? Let's explore this question in a bonus episode of INNER REVOLUTION - a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together. The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission. Join me for this exploration of: how the spiritual community sometimes reinforces an unhelpful POLARITY by labeling (and judging) some emotions as "positive" and others as "negative" the pressure we might put on ourselves to experience ONLY "positive" emotions how toxic positivity & spiritual bypassing can lead to self-suppression should we strive to feel happy and joyful ALL of the time... or can we reach a middle ground of DIVINE NEUTRALITY? becoming a peaceful observer of ALL of your human experiences, emotions, and reactions - instead of feeling like you must suppress some of them ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Watch my videos on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@healer.josephine Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/healer.josephine Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference!   Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Does it sometimes feel dense, heavy, or uncomfortable to be in a human body while you walk the spiritual path? This is episode 19 of INNER REVOLUTION - a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together. The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission. In this 19th installment, we'll discuss the experience of being in a human body as we walk the spiritual path, and both the challenges and joys that INCARNATION can bring. Join me for this exploration of: honoring that sometimes it DOES feel heavy, clunky, or limiting to be in a physical body, especially as you walk the path of awakening and remember the Higher Truth of who you really are exploring your current relationship to your body (and healing any self-judgment, self-criticism, lack of acceptance, frustration, etc as related to your body) making space to acknowledge and, if necessary, grieve your body's changes through the years - while also embracing your body where it is now a powerful exercise to re-connect to your body from a place of self-compassion, unconditional love, and possibility seeing your body as an ALLY on your spiritual path ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Watch my videos on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@healer.josephine Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/healer.josephine Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

How would you live your life if you KNEW and TRUSTED that your Soul is always moving you towards your truest, most authentic Self? INNER REVOLUTION is a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together. The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission. Join me for this bonus episode, where we'll talk about: exploring the idea that your Soul is ALWAYS moving you to discover and express the truest, most authentic, most aligned version of yourself your Soul as the Divine orchestrator of your experiences in this lifetime using challenging situations and relationships as a way to discover who you really are (and who you are NOT) shedding layers of conditioning including other people's ideas of who you should be embodying the clearest, wisest, most purposeful version of your Self - instead of reacting based on fears, wounds, or beliefs from the past  ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Explore the next round of my Akashic Records Certification Program: https://josephinehardman.com/work-with-me/akashic-records-certification-program/ Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

This is episode 18 of INNER REVOLUTION - a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together. The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission. In this 18th installment, we'll explore how to become less reactive by activating your Witness Consciousness - your capacity to observe, notice, and be with whatever's going on in your life without judging, criticizing, making yourself bad or wrong, or frantically trying to fix yourself. Join me for this exploration of: reactivity and non-reactivity as we walk the spiritual path the detrimental effects of operating from a place of high reactivity and unconscious patterns a specific practice to develop your "Witness Consciousness" and be able to observe yourself, your life, and your inner reactions without judgment or blame or urgency to fix everything ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Explore the next round of my Akashic Records Certification Program: https://josephinehardman.com/work-with-me/akashic-records-certification-program/ Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.

If you're here to raise the level of consciousness on this planet, you know there's NO time to waste.   When we look out into the world, we see so much fear, conflict, noise, confusion.   People seeking to find their way back to themselves, to their higher purpose, to WHY they're really here.   People waking up and really needing support to navigate their awakening.   As Lightworkers, we're here to assist with this process of evolutionary unfolding and spiritual awakening, each of us in our own way.   We can't contribute powerfully to this collective raising of consciousness if WE ourselves are getting confused, distracted by the noise, stuck in our own heads or fear or self-doubt, or triggered by the same old patterns, people, and situations.   As a direct line to Divine Source, the Akashic Records can support us in staying connected to the LIGHT, to Higher Truth, to Higher Wisdom… at all times.   Regardless of what's going on around us, or on the news, or in the outside world.   More than ever before, we need a helping hand (and all the support we can get!) to stay connected to what's real and what's true, beyond the collective noise & fear out there.   The Akashic Records can serve as an unwavering companion, ally, and Divine support for you – as they have for me for the past 21 years.   The Records can serve as a source of Higher Wisdom and healing in your life, and in the lives of anyone you touch.   I'd be honored to guide you in developing this kind of connection to the Akashic Records and learning how to use them effectively for personal healing, guidance, and alignment.   This is exactly what we'll be doing in my Akashic Records Intensive 3-week workshop, coming up in December 2025.   If the Akashic Records have been calling you, and you're ready to step into your next level of purpose, clarity, and expansion...   ... please send a note to [email protected] to indicate your interest. I'll send you all the details!   Visit my website: https://josephinehardman.com   Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.      

This is episode 17 of INNER REVOLUTION - a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together. The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission. In this 17th installment, we'll explore the Akashic Records as a portal into content-less awareness; a state of being where you can return to your true, Highest Self - beyond thought, beyond language, beyond linear mind, beyond ego. Join me for this exploration of: multiple levels of healing and expansion in the Akashic Records, including but also BEYOND the level of cognitive insights & information (which are only ONE level of healing) how the Akashic Records not only provide us with relevant guidance and information about our paths, but also give us access to a transcendental state of "contentless awareness" beyond thought and beyond intellect accessing & embodying your "unstoried Self" - your true, essential, eternal Self without the baggage of old stories, wounds, or conditioning - through the Akashic Records a guided practice where we'll open the Akashic Records together to release what doesn't serve you and experience tapping into this transcendental state of being ******* You're lovingly invited to join my email community and get access to my free Akashic Records Mini Course + weekly newsletter: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ Explore the next round of my Akashic Records Certification Program: https://josephinehardman.com/work-with-me/akashic-records-certification-program/ Connect through my website: https://josephinehardman.com Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way for others with your light. It makes a difference! Music & editing by G. Demers Inner Work 2025 All Rights Reserved.