Returning to Yourself: Spirituality Without Escaping Life
You’re reading Towards Embodied Living — a Substack exploring what becomes possible when we stop abandoning ourselves in order to live, lead and create.What does spirituality look like when your life is actually happening — when there are children, noise, cities, and real stakes?In this episode, I speak with Jennifer Cerero, creator of The Spiritual Lounge, about practical, embodied spirituality for women who refuse to choose between depth and full aliveness.Jen has lived across nine countries, practised Buddhism for over a decade, and spent years in the manifestation world before finding her way back to something more honest.Together, we explore the aesthetics of subversion, the God Jen actually believes in, why New Age spirituality can become another way of outsourcing responsibility, and what silence makes possible that nothing else can.A conversation about inner authority, self-contact, surrender, and what it means to be both spiritual and fully, unapologetically human.We hope you enjoy it.Florence U. xReflection Questions* What does your spirituality look like when your real life is happening?* Where in your life are you currently looking outside yourself for permission, direction or validation — and what might change if you trusted your own knowing instead?I’d love to hear from you in the comments.About Jennifer CereroJennifer Cerero is an actress, writer, filmmaker and creator of The Spiritual Lounge — a Substack publication and community for people who are serious about their spiritual path and equally serious about their real, full, complicated lives. Born in Colombia and shaped by nearly a decade of living across nine countries, Jen writes and creates from her own journey: peeling back layers, questioning inherited beliefs, and finding what it actually means to trust yourself. She is working on her first book.Hi, I’m Florence — mother, writer and creatrix exploring what it means to live, create and lead from increasing coherence rather than self-abandonment.Through my writing, podcast, 1:1 threshold work, Human-Centred Experience Design and the Embodied Living Circle, I create spaces that invite honesty, embodiment and deeper self-trust.My work supports women returning to themselves through lived experience — learning to trust what they notice, remain in relationship with themselves while becoming, and create from a place that feels inhabitable from the inside.Alongside threshold support for women navigating visibility, transition and identity shifts, I also support women in creating containers, learning spaces and experiences that feel like an extension of who they actually are.If something in this work resonates deeply, you’re welcome to explore my Work With Me page or reach out directly. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit florenceukpabiokwusogu.substack.com/subscribe
