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What if the crystal you hold could help you deepen your connection with the Archangels, strengthen your intuition and bring spiritual guidance into your everyday life?
In this special episode, Shaz Cini takes you behind the scenes of her upcoming book, Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide, and shares the extraordinary journey of creating her exclusive Archangel Crystal Collection.
With 15 Archangels and 30 carefully selected crystals, Shaz discovered something remarkable. By choosing one of two crystals for each Archangel, she can create 32,768 different combinations, allowing every one of her 200 crystal collections to be completely unique.
Each crystal is personally selected and energetically activated by Shaz through her connection with the Archangels, creating a spiritual tool designed to support your own journey.
But this episode goes much deeper than crystals. Shaz explores the individual energies of all 15 Archangels, the healing and spiritual properties traditionally associated with their crystals, and how you can use them for protection, confidence, emotional healing, manifestation, spiritual development and everyday guidance.
In this episode, Archangel Crystals: 15 Angels, 30 Crystals & 32,768 Possibilities, we discuss:
Archangel Michael: Black Tourmaline and Pyrite for protection, courage, confidence and personal power.
Archangel Raphael: Bloodstone and Green Aventurine for healing intentions, vitality and emotional balance.
Archangel Gabriel: Citrine and Blue Apatite for communication, creativity, confidence and self-expression.
Archangel Uriel: Amethyst and Smoky Quartz for spiritual wisdom, intuition and grounding.
Archangel Chamuel: Rhodochrosite and Green Fluorite for self-love, compassion and healthier relationships.
Archangel Ariel: Rose Quartz and Rhodonite for unconditional love, forgiveness and emotional healing.
Archangel Jophiel: Pink Agate and Ametrine for beauty, joy, perspective and spiritual awareness.
Archangel Azrael: Apache Tears and Black Obsidian for grief, transition and releasing attachments.
Archangel Haniel: Selenite and Opalite for energetic cleansing, emotional cycles and intuition.
Archangel Jeremiel: Rainbow Moonstone and Blue Calcite for dreams, visions and inner wisdom.
Archangel Metatron: Howlite and Rainbow Fluorite for mental clarity, focus and bringing order to chaos.
Archangel Raziel: Labradorite and Clear Quartz for spiritual mysteries, psychic development and amplifying intentions.
Archangel Raguel: Amazonite and Moss Agate for fairness, truth, boundaries and harmonious relationships.
Archangel Sandalphon: Angelite and Unakite for angelic communication, prayer, pregnancy loss and spiritual connection.
Archangel Zadkiel: Dumortierite and Sodalite for learning, memory, concentration and spiritual understanding.
Episode Highlights
32,768 possibilities, 200 unique collections
Discover how Shaz transformed 30 crystal choices into thousands of possible combinations and why she is personally creating 200 different collections, each containing one crystal representing every Archangel.
How Shaz activates the Archangel crystals
Go behind the scenes as Shaz explains her personal process of creating altars, calling upon the Archangels and setting energetic intentions for each crystal before it reaches its new owner.
Working with crystals in everyday life
Learn how Shaz uses crystals as physical connection points during meditation, distant energy healing, manifestation, job interviews, public speaking, studying and spiritual development.
Grief, love and connecting with Spirit
Shaz shares her personal experiences of grief and pregnancy loss, exploring how her spiritual practices and connection with Archangel Sandalphon have supported her healing journey.
The deeper meaning behind the books
Discover how My Soul Activated: From Despair to a Life by Design and Journeys with the Archangels complement one another, sharing Shaz's personal transformation alongside practical spiritual tools to help you create your own life by design.
Discover the Shaz Cini Collection
To celebrate the release of her two books on 11 November 2026, Shaz has created a special author-direct presale collection.
For A$111 plus postage, the collection brings together her books, a specially prepared Archangel Crystal Collection and additional gifts.
Each 15-crystal set is individually assembled, with Shaz selecting one crystal for every Archangel and preparing them with her spiritual intentions.
This special presale collection is available for a limited time before the official book launch.
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Spiritual Awakening, Dark Night of the Soul & Mediumship with Nicole Pope
Season 2 · Episode 103
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 • Duration 01:26:46
Spiritual Awakening, Dark Night of the Soul & Mediumship with Nicole Pope
Episode 103 - Spiritual Awakening Podcast with Shaz
What happens when the spiritual gifts you never knew you had suddenly switch on, and the life you thought you understood begins to unravel?
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I’m joined by evidential medium Nicole Pope for a deep, honest conversation about spiritual awakening, mediumship, the dark night of the soul and what really happens when Spirit begins calling you towards a completely different life.
Nicole spent much of her life in the corporate world, working in technology, project management and private equity. Mediumship was nowhere on the career plan. Then her young son began seeing what he described as shadow people in their home.
What initially looked like childhood imagination eventually led Nicole to a medium, who gave her an answer she certainly wasn’t expecting.
Her son wasn’t the only one connected to Spirit.
Nicole was a medium too.
Once she began developing that ability, the door opened quickly. Mediumship, the clairs, Akashic Records, Shamanic study and a completely different relationship with Spirit began unfolding, eventually leading Nicole away from her corporate career and towards the work she now feels called to do.
But this conversation goes far beyond how someone becomes a psychic medium.
In this episode, Spiritual Awakening, Dark Night of the Soul & Mediumship with Nicole Pope, we discuss:
Nicole’s unexpected journey from corporate executive to evidential medium
her son seeing Spirit and how his experiences became part of her own awakening
what happens when mediumship abilities suddenly begin opening
clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and how different intuitive abilities communicate
What If Your Life Falling Apart Is the Reveal
Season 2 · Episode 102
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • Duration 45:58
What If Your Life Falling Apart Is the Reveal?
Episode 102, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
What if the thing you think is falling apart is actually showing you what can no longer stay the same?
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I explore the idea that some of the biggest breakdowns, endings, losses and setbacks in our lives are not always punishment or failure. Sometimes they are the reveal. They expose what is no longer aligned, what has run its course, what we have outgrown, and who we are being asked to become next.
I share parts of my own journey, including losing my business, watching plans fall apart, rebuilding my identity and learning that what looked like failure at the time often became the very thing that redirected me towards the work I now do. This episode is about looking at your life through a different lens and asking what your current challenges may be trying to show you. Podcast 102
In this episode, we discuss:
Why life falling apart can sometimes be a reveal rather than a failure
How awakening can involve removal, endings and redirection
Why relationships, jobs, friendships and business models sometimes stop fitting
How identity changes as we grow and evolve
Why grief is not only about death, but also the loss of a future you thought you would have
The difference between a setback and a deeper misalignment
Why some cycles have to end before something new can begin
How losing a job can become an opportunity to ask what you actually want next
Why comfort and familiarity can keep us stuck in situations that no longer serve us
How breakdowns can expose the truth about relationships and support systems
Why the role of “the strong one” can become part of your identity
The importance of allowing grief, anger and pain instead of spiritually bypassing them
How unresolved trauma can sit in the body and affect your wellbeing
Why Self Love Is So Important
Season 2 · Episode 101
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 • Duration 34:53
Why Self Love Is So Important Episode 101, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
The most important relationship you will ever have in this lifetime is not the one you think it is. It is the relationship you have with yourself, with your own soul.
In this episode, I unpack why so much of our pain, our anxiety and the trauma we carry in our bodies comes down to the way we speak to ourselves every single day. I share why the harshest critic most of us ever face lives in our own head, why criticism from other people is really a mirror of how they feel about themselves, and why the way we treat ourselves as adults so often echoes what we absorbed as children.
I also talk about one of the hardest patterns I see in my work as a psychic medium and healer, mothers who gave everything to their children, only to be told later that they weren't loved enough. I walk through why that happens, what it actually means to pour from a full cup rather than an empty one, and why one hundred percent of five percent will always only be five percent.
Alongside the harder truths, I share the practical rituals, affirmations and mindset shifts I use every single day to keep my own cup full, including the exact words I use when someone tries to criticise or put me down.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why the relationship with yourself matters more than any other relationship in your life
Why your inner critic so often echoes what you absorbed as a child
Why someone else's judgement or criticism of you is really a reflection of how they feel about themselves
The "hurt people hurt people" analogy and why people who are in pain end up lashing out
Why becoming an adult means becoming the caretaker of your own soul
Why celebrating your own wins is essential to your soul's growth, not egotistical
Why we celebrate celebrities and sportspeople but discourage ourselves from celebrating our own achievements
The exhausted, unappreciated mother pattern, and why external validation can never fill an internal void
The cup metaphor, and why one hundred percent of five percent is still only five percent
Journeys with the Archangels: Why This Book Matters
Season 2 · Episode 100
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 • Duration 43:26
Journeys with the Archangels: Why This Book Matters
Episode 100, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
Episode 100 felt too important to simply look backwards.
Instead, I wanted to share the journey that brought me here and the deeper story behind my new book, Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide.
This episode is about my personal relationship with the Archangels, the ways they have shown up throughout my life, and why I believe learning to work with them can help you strengthen your intuition, feel supported through difficult times and build a deeper relationship with your own spiritual guidance.
I also share why this book is not designed to sit untouched on a shelf. It is meant to be used, written in, highlighted, opened when you feel lost and returned to whenever you need guidance, healing, courage, protection or clarity.
The biggest message throughout this episode is simple. The Archangels can support you, but you have to ask, remain open to receiving, and still take responsibility for your own life and choices.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why Episode 100 felt like the right moment to talk about Journeys with the Archangels
Why Archangel Michael became such an important guide in my life
Why Michael encouraged me to write this book
Why the Archangels cannot override your free will
The importance of asking for spiritual assistance
How Archangels can support grief, healing, courage, relationships, communication, creativity and decision-making
Why you do not always need to know an Archangel’s name before asking for help
The 15 Archangels I chose to include and why personal experience mattered to me
How Archangels can appear through warmth, movement, breeze, dreams, visions, colours and physical sensations
My experiences with Archangel Michael, Ariel, Jeremiel, Haniel and others
You Don’t Need Another Sign. Make the Decision.
Season 2 · Episode 99
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 • Duration 17:25
You Don’t Need Another Sign. Make the Decision.
Episode 99, Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
There comes a point where asking for another sign stops being guidance and starts becoming avoidance.
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I talk about what happens when you already know what you want, but fear, doubt and overthinking keep you stuck in analysis paralysis. We look at the difference between guidance and permission seeking, why constantly outsourcing your decisions weakens self-trust, and how to reconnect with your intuition, body and spiritual sovereignty.
This episode is about learning to stop asking everyone else what you should do and beginning to trust yourself enough to choose.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why asking for another sign can become avoidance
The difference between guidance and permission seeking
How language such as “should I?” can hand your power away
Why spiritual tools should support your intuition, not replace it
What spiritual sovereignty actually looks like
How constantly asking other people for advice weakens self-trust
Why intuition is often simple, while the mind creates complexity
How your body can help you understand what feels aligned
Why empaths need to learn their own internal signals
The difference between excitement, anxiety and intuitive warning signs
Why asking the same question repeatedly creates more confusion
How failure gives you information and helps you make better decisions
Why certainty is rarely available before action
How research, experience and testing create greater clarity
Why signs are confirmation rather than a substitute for decision making
How taking action builds confidence, momentum and self-trust
Highlights
One of the strongest themes in this episode is the idea that you already know more than you think you do.
When Awakening Takes the Ground From Under You, with Heather Zimmerman
Season 2 · Episode 98
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 • Duration 01:10:44
When Awakening Takes the Ground From Under You, with Heather Zimmerman
Episode 98 Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast
What happens when your spiritual awakening does not feel expansive or peaceful, but instead feels like your whole life is being pulled apart?
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, I sit down with Heather Zimmerman, Multidimensional Soul Facilitator and founder of Divine Ascension Co., for a deep conversation about spiritual awakening, the dark night of the soul, healing trauma, sovereignty, channeling, manifestation and what can happen when the old version of your life no longer fits.
Heather holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, and spent years working in behavioural science before her own awakening took her apart and rebuilt her from underneath.
That experience shaped the way she works today. Rather than focusing only on surface symptoms, Heather looks deeper at what may be happening emotionally, mentally, physically, energetically and spiritually.
She is the author of Becoming Divine and the creator of The Self-Spirit Method™, a fourteen-step framework built in the order she personally needed while moving through her own healing and awakening journey.
Heather works with people who are experiencing something they may not yet have language for, particularly those wondering why they suddenly feel different, disconnected from their old life, energetically sensitive or unsure of what is happening to them.
In this episode, we discuss:
Heather’s early experiences with spirit, haunted houses and unexplained phenomena
How questioning religion led her towards her own spiritual path
The dark night of the soul and what happens when your existing belief system falls apart
Dreams, astral travel, past-life experiences and multidimensional exploration
Returning to Yourself with Joy Danielle Cabodi
Season 2 · Episode 97
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 59:41
Returning to Yourself with Joy Danielle Cabodi
Episode 97 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast
What happens when the parts of you that were shaped by trauma, survival and fear begin returning to your authentic self?
Episode overview
In this episode of the Spiritual Awakening Podcast, I’m joined by spiritual healer, shamanic practitioner, psychic medium and Akashic Records reader Joy Danielle Cabodi.
Joy shares her journey from a chaotic childhood, homelessness and addiction into sobriety, spiritual awakening and the deeper work of remembering who she really is. We talk about empathy born through trauma, soul retrieval, intuition, healthy boundaries, generational healing and what it means to reclaim the parts of yourself that were lost along the way.
This conversation also explores grief, self-love, the divine feminine, spiritual authenticity and why some of our hardest experiences become the training ground for the work we are here to do.
In this episode, we discuss:
How trauma can heighten empathy and sensitivity
Joy’s journey through homelessness, addiction and sobriety
Developing psychic awareness and understanding spiritual experiences
Working with the Akashic Records
Generational healing and breaking family patterns
Soul retrieval and calling lost parts of yourself back
Intuition as an inner navigation system
Healthy boundaries and reclaiming personal power
The divine feminine and goddess energy
Why grief, joy and transformation can coexist
The importance of authentic self-love
How our greatest hardships can become our greatest training ground
Why finding the right mentor or practitioner matters on the healing journey
Healing Is Not One Session, One Breakthrough or One Big Cry
Season 2 · Episode 96
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 37:29
Healing Is Not One Session, One Breakthrough or One Big Cry
Episode 96
Healing is not a magic pill, one breakthrough or one weekend retreat. Real change happens layer by layer, with honesty, repetition and responsibility.
Episode overview
In this episode of the Spiritual Awakening Podcast, I talk about one of the biggest problems I see in the healing world, the promise that one session, one release or one powerful breakthrough can magically fix years of trauma, conditioning and emotional patterns.
Yes, one session can create a massive shift. It can open something, release something or help you see yourself differently. But lasting change comes from what happens afterwards.
We talk about why old patterns return, why you need to replace what you release with something healthier, how identity work becomes part of the healing process, and why the right practitioner should guide and empower you rather than make you dependent on them.
In this episode, I discuss:
Why one healing session rarely changes everything
The difference between a breakthrough and lasting change
Why trauma and beliefs are often layered over many years
How old patterns return when the underlying program is never rewritten
Why repetition and continued practice matter
The role of EFT, hypnosis, Reiki, journalling and other healing tools
Why healing can feel uncomfortable even when staying the same feels worse
How identity work affects self-sabotage, addiction, relationships and confidence
Why practitioners should give you tools, not create dependency
How triggers can reveal the next layer that is ready to heal
Why quick-fix promises and “instant cure” marketing can be damaging
The importance of taking responsibility for your own healing journey
From Despair to Divine Guidance: The Story Behind My Two New Books
Season 2 · Episode 95
Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 50:56
From Despair to Divine Guidance: The Story Behind My Two New Books
Episode 95 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz
These two books may look very different, but they tell two sides of the same story. One is about the life I lived, and the other is about the spiritual support that helped me find my way through it.
In this episode, I share why I am launching My Soul Activated: From Despair to a Life by Design and Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide together, and why separating them never really made sense.
I talk about the loss, trauma, grief and physical symptoms that pushed me to question my life, the relationship with my Nan that changed how I saw myself, and how learning to ask for help from the Archangels became part of rebuilding my life.
This isn't an episode about everything that went wrong. It is about what happened afterwards. How I stopped allowing the past to define me, found my voice, learned what was mine to carry and began creating a life that actually felt like mine.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why My Soul Activated and Journeys with the Archangels belong together
How grief, trauma and complex PTSD affected my body
The question that helped me stop carrying emotions and burdens that weren't mine
Why surviving something does not mean it needs to define the rest of your life
How losing my Nan became one of the biggest turning points in my awakening
What reconnecting with my Nan taught me about forgiveness, family and my own worth
Why I was already spiritually connected long before trauma entered my life
How tarot helped me recognise and trust my intuitive abilities
The role the Archangels have played throughout my healing and spiritual development
Why you do not need to be psychic, religious or experienced in meditation to ask the Archangels for help
why your strongest intuitive gift may not be the one you expect
the everyday signs from Spirit people often overlook
why developing mediumship involves much more than simply “seeing dead people”
the importance of discernment when connecting spiritually
vibration, frequency and what you may connect with when you open spiritually from fear, grief or emotional distress
Nicole’s experience of the dark night of the soul and having Spirit come through intensely
why spiritual awakening can initially feel more like a breakdown than an awakening
the difference between being gifted and believing the gift makes you special
moving beyond the spiritual ego and understanding yourself as the channel rather than the source
why ethical mediumship requires boundaries, integrity and consent
respecting sovereignty and free will when receiving information about another person
why Shaz and Nicole refuse to treat mediumship like a performance
the danger of practitioners feeling they need to prove their gifts
recognising when your own intention or ego begins interfering with intuitive information
personal responsibility as part of spiritual development
shadow work and learning to become curious about the parts of yourself you would rather avoid
inherited behaviours, childhood conditioning, lineage and past-life patterns
Nicole’s journey with her parents and the lesson Spirit brought through about no longer allowing another person’s behaviour to determine who she becomes
boundaries, forgiveness and the difference between healing something and allowing harmful behaviour back into your life
releasing survival patterns that once protected you but no longer belong in the life you are creating
moving from constant doing and productivity into trust, surrender and receiving
why healing does not mean pretending the past never happened
the idea that the experiences you survive can become part of the wisdom you eventually offer others
soul lessons, reincarnation and whether some of our hardest experiences form part of a much bigger journey
trusting Spirit when the road towards your purpose looks nothing like the route you expected
why your soul purpose keeps finding ways to get your attention until you finally listen
One of the strongest conversations in this episode centres around ethics in spiritual work.
Nicole and I talk openly about consent, boundaries and the responsibility that comes with being able to access information intuitively. Having the ability to read someone does not automatically give you permission to do it. We explore the difference between receiving information and believing you have the right to deliver it, why practitioners need to examine their intentions, and what can happen when ego becomes involved in spiritual work.
We also go deeply into the dark night of the soul.
Nicole shares how opening so rapidly to Spirit became overwhelming and contributed to what she describes as a mental breakdown. That experience forced her to understand frequency, discernment and the parts of herself that still needed healing. Rather than treating spiritual awakening as endless love, light and beautiful signs, we talk about why awakening can expose everything within us that is asking to be faced.
From there, the conversation moves into shadow work, ego and healing.
We discuss why the goal is not to destroy the ego, but to understand it. As we develop spiritually, the focus begins shifting away from look what I can do and towards understanding that we are channels through which the work happens. The deeper work becomes clearing our own patterns so that fear, wounds, ego and expectations interfere less with what we receive.
Nicole also shares one of the most personal lessons from her own awakening. After distancing herself from difficult family dynamics, Spirit challenged her to recognise that true freedom would come when she stopped allowing another person's behaviour to change who she chose to be. It becomes a powerful conversation about boundaries, family patterns, healing and becoming emotionally sovereign rather than continuing to react to somebody else’s journey.
And, naturally, Nicole and I wander into past lives, soul contracts, reincarnation and those sliding-door moments that seem insignificant at the time but may completely redirect your life.
The underlying message becomes beautifully simple.
You might resist your calling. You might take the scenic route. You might even convince yourself you have chosen the wrong path.
But if something genuinely belongs to your soul’s journey, it has an incredible way of finding you again.
Nicole’s final message is to trust the process, give yourself grace and find people who can support you through your development. Mediumship kept finding her until she finally said yes, even though saying yes eventually meant leaving a successful corporate career behind.
Episode Highlights
This episode explores mediumship from both sides of the journey. Nicole discovered her abilities later in life, while I grew up experiencing Spirit from childhood. Those very different beginnings create a fascinating conversation about how spiritual gifts can present differently while still leading us towards the same fundamental lesson: learning to trust ourselves and the connection we have with Spirit.
We also strip some of the glamour away from spiritual awakeni...
Why freedom can feel scarier than staying with what you already know
How to question the identity you have built around work, relationships, family and responsibility
Why awakening is not always about more, but sometimes about less
Letting go of people pleasing, self-abandonment and living for other people’s approval
Why your life may not be collapsing, but becoming more honest
How to ask what you are ready to build next
Highlights
One of the strongest messages in this episode is that we often judge a breakdown too quickly. We call it failure, punishment or proof that something has gone wrong, when it may actually be the moment that exposes where our life has become misaligned.
Sometimes the ending itself is what forces us to stop and ask what we truly want.
I also share how losing my business years ago became one of the biggest identity shifts of my life. At the time, I could not see what would come next, but that loss eventually led me towards creating my cards, journals, books and this podcast. The version of me that exists today would not have been created without that breakdown.
Another major theme is identity. We can become so attached to roles like partner, parent, rescuer, business owner or employee that we forget who we are underneath them. This episode asks you to look beyond those labels and reconnect with your values, your truth and the life your soul is actually asking you to create.
The episode closes with one of the most important questions you can ask yourself when life feels uncertain:
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The heartbreaking pattern I see in readings, mothers who gave everything only to be told by their adult children that they weren't loved enough
Why love given from an empty cup is felt as hollow, even when the words themselves are right
Why real self-love means accepting your faults and your shadow side without holding them against yourself
How repetition changes your inner dialogue, the same way repetition teaches you anything else in life
Morning affirmations and rituals I use to reset my mindset each day
Why chasing love and appreciation from outside yourself leaves you feeling empty, even when people are pouring into you
Why boundaries and refusing to accept unkind words are genuine acts of self-love
My go-to response when someone tries to criticise or put me down
How grief and self-love can exist together, and how I honour my own loved ones every day
Why every challenge can be reframed as an opportunity to grow once you stop resisting it
The three and a half year self-love journey that changed how I show up in the world
Highlights
One of the strongest themes in this episode is that your relationship with yourself shapes every other relationship in your life. When your own cup is empty, no amount of love, appreciation or reassurance from someone else can fill it, and that hollowness is always felt, even when it isn't spoken.
I also share one of the hardest things I sit with in my work, mothers who poured everything they had into their children, only to be told later that it wasn't enough. The truth underneath that pain is almost never that they didn't try. It is that they were giving from a cup that was already empty.
Most importantly, I want you to walk away from this episode with real, practical ways to start filling your own cup, through the words you use, the affirmations you choose each morning, and the boundaries you're willing to hold, so that what you give to the people you love comes from fullness rather than from empty.
You can also join me for regular healing tips and sessions in Skool - Shaz Cini Healing Hub 📩 Subscribe for exclusive tips & guidance → www.shazcini.com
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How Archangels can work together to support specific situations
Why spiritual support does not remove your personal responsibility
The importance of taking action after receiving guidance
Why discomfort can sometimes be part of growth and transformation
Working with Archangel Azrael during grief and transition
Why Journeys with the Archangels is designed as a practical guide
The invocations, meditations, visualisations and journaling prompts included in the book
Why shadow journaling can help you understand what sits underneath the need for support
How signs and synchronicities can be subtle rather than dramatic
How dreams, repeated messages, songs, bodily sensations and intuitive knowing can become forms of spiritual communication
Why building a relationship with an Archangel is similar to building any other relationship
How the book can help strengthen your own intuition rather than make you dependent on outside guidance
Why your relationship with the Archangels does not need to look like mine
How I want readers to use the book in real life, especially during grief, fear, overwhelm or uncertainty
Why the podcast and the book ultimately come from the same purpose
How to use the book intuitively rather than feeling that you must read it from beginning to end
Highlights
One of the strongest themes in this episode is that the Archangels are there to support you, but they are not there to take over your life.
You still have free will, choice and personal responsibility.
You can ask for courage, healing, clarity, protection or guidance, but you still have to participate in the change you are asking for.
I also share how differently the Archangels can appear. Their presence is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is warmth, a breeze, a repeated message, a dream, a body sensation, a song or a quiet thought that seems to arrive at exactly the right moment.
The book itself was created to make these relationships practical. Each Archangel has ways to connect, including invocations, meditations, signs, synchronicities and shadow journaling prompts so you can explore what support you need and how that support may already be showing up around you.
Most importantly, I want you to build your own evidence and your own relationship with the Archangels. Your experience does not need to match mine.
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We can become so focused on cards, pendulums, repeating numbers, spiritual guidance and other people’s opinions that we forget the most important source of information, ourselves.
I also explore how the body communicates with us through expansion, contraction, tension, relief and subtle physical reactions. Learning your own patterns can help you recognise the difference between fear, intuition and old conditioning.
Failure also gets reframed in this episode. Making a decision that does not work out does not automatically mean you made a mistake. Sometimes it gives you the information you needed in order to take the next step with more clarity.
Most importantly, your spiritual tools are there to strengthen your relationship with yourself, not replace it.
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Channeling spirit guides, higher-dimensional beings and other forms of consciousness
Why curiosity matters during a spiritual awakening
Spiritual sovereignty and finding what feels true for you
Why Heather believes authenticity is an important part of spiritual development
The difference between surface healing and getting underneath the original pattern
Spiritual bypassing and why healing often happens in layers
The connection between trauma, emotions, energy and the body
Breaking ancestral and generational patterns
Why manifestation requires more than affirmations, visualisation and vision boards
How focusing your energy on what you actually want can change the way you manifest
Heather’s fourteen-step Self-Spirit Method™
Self-love, compassion, chakras, mindfulness and gratitude as foundations for deeper spiritual work
Learning to communicate with spirit and asking better questions
Creating boundaries with spirit and developing a relationship with your guides
Daily energetic practices for reconnecting with yourself and your highest timeline
Becoming curious about the parts of spirituality that exist beyond the surface
Highlights
One of the strongest themes in this conversation is the importance of sovereignty.
Heather encourages people to question, explore and discover what actually feels true for them instead of automatically adopting someone else’s beliefs.
We also explore why healing is rarely finished after dealing with something once. Old experiences can return at another level because you are ready to meet a deeper layer of the pattern.
Heather shares why manifestation is the final stage of her fourteen-step framework rather than the starting point. Before intentionally creating something different, she believes we need to understand ourselves, our energy and the patterns influencing the way we experience life.
This is a conversation for anyone who has ever thought, What the hell is happening to me?, during a spiritual awakening and wondered whether losing the old version of themselves might actually be the beginning of something much bigger.
About Heather Zimmerman
Heather Zimmerman is a Multidimensional Soul Facilitator and the founder of Divine Ascension Co.
She holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, and spent years working in behavioural science before her own awakening took her apart and rebuilt her from underneath.
That is the reason she works the way she does. She does not treat the surface symptom. She goes looking for what is actually underneath it, which is usually why the surface fixes never held.
She is the author of Becoming Divine and the creator of The Self-Spirit Method™, a fourteen-step framework built in the order she actually needed it.
She works with people who are in the middle of something they have no language for yet, who are afraid there is something wrong with them, and who have not told anyone what is really happening.
Heather has created a free guide called The Ground Went First, exploring the part of awakening that people rarely warn you about.
Sometimes awakening does not begin with bliss, clarity or feeling deeply connected.
Your sleep changes. Money becomes stressful. Your nervous system starts bracing. Relationships stop fitting. You may no longer feel at home in your own life.
Rather than being five unrelated problems, Heather explores how these experiences can be connected and what may be happening underneath them.
Joy shares how sobriety became the beginning of a much deeper return to herself, and how spiritual experiences helped her understand there was something greater guiding her life.
We also talk about the power of soul retrieval, how trauma can fragment our sense of self, and why healing is often about calling those parts back rather than trying to become someone completely new.
The conversation moves through grief, intuition, personal power and the importance of living spirituality authentically, not only when someone is watching.
Joy leaves us with a powerful reminder that the experiences which challenge us the most often become the very thing that prepares us to help someone else.
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Healing is not about erasing what happened or pretending the past never existed.
It is about understanding what happened, recognising who you became through it, releasing what no longer serves you and consciously choosing what comes next.
You may still get triggered. You may still revisit an old pattern. The goal is not to never experience a difficult emotion again. The goal is to have the awareness, tools and self-trust to move through it without falling all the way back into the place you once lived.
There is no magic healer.
There is no magic pill.
The real transformation happens when you commit to your own healing, practise what you have learned and become more of who you were underneath the layers in the first place.
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My new book, Journeys with the Archangels: A Practical Guide, is now live on Kickstarter, and if this podcast has supported you, inspired you or helped you trust your own spiritual path, I’d love you to support the book and help bring it into the world.
How Journeys with the Archangels became a practical guide rather than simply another book about angels
Why Archangels can guide and support you, but cannot walk your path for you
What is included in the book presale packages and why I wanted to create something special for the people supporting the launch
Why both books officially launch on 11 November 2026
How supporting an author during a presale or crowdfunding campaign helps bring the work into the world
Highlights from this episode
I share the story of the physical spasms that appeared after my Nan's death and the psychiatrist who helped me understand the effect complex PTSD was having on my body.
I also talk about discovering the truth behind my relationship with my Nan and how knowing that she had wanted me completely changed the childhood belief that I had always been unwanted.
You'll hear how my intuitive abilities became impossible to ignore through tarot readings and predictions, and why learning to understand where that information came from eventually led me into a much deeper relationship with the Archangels.
I also take you behind the scenes of the two-book launch, including the Archangel journal, crystal packs, activation meditation, readings and the presale packages I have created for the people choosing to support these books before they are released.
These books represent a full-circle moment for me.
I grew up hiding what I knew and questioning who I was. Today I can share my story, my spiritual experiences and what I have learned without asking permission to be who I am.
Join the Presale and Help Bring These Books Into the World
These books have taken years of life, healing, spiritual connection and courage to bring together.
If My Soul Activated or Journeys with the Archangels speaks to you, joining the presale is one of the most meaningful ways you can support this next chapter.
Your support helps me bring the books, journals, crystals, packaging and everything surrounding this launch into physical form. More than that, you become part of the beginning of something I believe is meant to help people feel less alone, more connected and more supported in their own journey.
I have created special presale packages for those who want to be part of this with me, including options with the books, Archangel crystals, the companion journal, meditation and other extras depending on the package you choose.
If you feel called to support the launch, you can explore the presale options here:
Thank you to every person who has encouraged me, shared the journey, pre-ordered, spoken about the books or simply believed in what I am creating.
I do not take that support lightly.
These books are deeply personal to me, and knowing they will soon be sitting in the hands of people who need them means more than I can properly put into words.
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