Waking Up Spiritually in a World That Rewards Disconnection
- Brainz Magazine
- 13 hours ago
- 6 min read
Written by Lisa Andrews, Psychic and Holistic Therapist
Lisa Andrews is a holistic therapist, psychic, and spiritual mentor who empowers individuals to heal, grow, and embrace their limitless potential. Drawing from her own transformative journey, she shares insights on spirituality, personal growth, and healing to inspire others to live with purpose and authenticity.
In a world that thrives on disconnection, waking up spiritually is often misunderstood as something mystical or otherworldly. However, true spiritual awakening often comes not from moments of transcendence, but through the body’s messages, illness, burnout, grief, or the slow realization that the life you built no longer feels authentic. It’s not about becoming someone new, but about becoming more honest with who you truly are. This journey may feel disorienting, but it holds the power to reconnect you with your truest self.
1. The moment you thought you’d lost yourself
There are moments in life when you look at yourself and quietly think, I don’t know who I am anymore.
Not in a dramatic, identity-crisis way, but in a subtler, more unsettling one. The version of you that once moved through the world with ease no longer fits. The things that used to motivate you don’t land. The roles you once performed effortlessly now feel heavy, even false.
We’re taught to call this “losing yourself.” But what if that’s not what’s happening at all? What if you haven’t lost anything, only outgrown the version of you that knew how to survive a life you were never meant to stay in?
For many of us, waking up spiritually doesn’t arrive through meditation retreats or moments of transcendence. It arrives through the body. Through illness. Through burnout. Through biological changes, grief, or the slow realization that the life you built no longer feels inhabitable. Awakening, in this sense, isn’t about becoming more mystical. It’s about becoming more honest.
2. What if nothing was lost?
“Losing yourself” can feel painful, but outgrowing yourself doesn’t have to be. The version of you that coped, performed, or endured did exactly what it needed to do. It kept you safe. It kept you moving. It kept you alive. Honor that version. Thank it. But know this, it wasn’t designed to carry you forever. Outgrowing isn’t rejection. It’s evolution. It’s a quiet invitation to step into alignment with who you are now.
3. Waking up in a world that rewards disconnection
We live in a world that quietly benefits from our staying disconnected. Disconnected from our bodies. Disconnected from our intuition. Disconnected from the subtle inner signals that say, this isn’t working anymore.
We are rewarded for pushing through, powering on, and coping silently. Productivity is praised. Emotional intelligence is tolerated, as long as it doesn’t slow anything down. Sensitivity is reframed as weakness. Intuition is dismissed unless it can be measured, monetized, or neatly explained.
So when people talk about “waking up spiritually,” it’s often misunderstood as something esoteric or otherworldly. In reality, it’s much more ordinary and much more disruptive. Waking up is the moment you can no longer override what your body knows.
For many, it doesn’t arrive as a revelation. It arrives as exhaustion. As illness. As burnout. As transitions that strip away the ability to tolerate what once felt manageable. As grief that cracks you open and refuses to let you close back up again.
The body becomes the messenger when the mind has been trained not to listen. This kind of awakening isn’t glamorous. It doesn’t make you feel special or elevated. It often leaves you feeling disoriented, tender, and unsure how to participate in a life that now feels misaligned. But it does something quietly powerful, it brings you back into a relationship with yourself. Not the version of you that performs well. The version that tells the truth.
4. When healing becomes an identity
There is a phase many people enter after an awakening where healing becomes the focus, and understandably so. You begin therapy. You read the books. You learn the language of trauma, nervous systems, and inner work. You become deeply self-aware. Insightful. Reflective. And for a while, this is necessary.
But at some point, healing can quietly become another identity, another way of relating to yourself as a problem that needs fixing. You’re always processing. Always unpacking. Always “doing the work.” There’s always another layer, another challenge, another reason you’re not quite ready yet. What started as compassion can slowly turn into self-surveillance.
This is not because healing is wrong, but because healing was never meant to be a permanent state. It is a bridge, not a destination. There comes a moment when the most healing thing you can do is stop centering your life around what hurt you and start centering it around what wants to live through you now. Integration is the quiet shift from what’s wrong with me? to what do I know? to what am I here to offer?
This is where many people hesitate, not because they aren’t healed enough, but because stepping into wholeness requires letting go of familiar stories about who they’ve been. And that can feel more frightening than staying at work.
5. Integration, the quiet power phase
Integration is rarely spoken about, yet it is where real authority is formed. It doesn’t look dramatic. It doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t require constant processing or explanation.
Integration is what happens when insight settles into the body. You are no longer trying to return to who you were, and you are no longer defined by what hurt you. You stop oscillating between growth and collapse, clarity and doubt. You begin to trust your internal signals, not because they’re loud, but because they’re consistent. This is where intuition matures.
Not as flashes or downloads or heightened sensitivity, but as grounded knowing. You stop outsourcing your truth. You stop over-justifying your decisions. You feel less need to convince because you are no longer unconvinced of yourself. From the outside, it may look like you’ve slowed down. From the inside, it feels like you’ve arrived.
This phase often goes unnoticed because it doesn’t feed the ego. But it feeds something far more important, self-trust. And self-trust changes everything.
It alters how you work, how you relate, how you speak, and how you rest. You stop explaining your worth through productivity or pain. You start living from coherence instead of survival. This is not becoming someone new. This is becoming someone true.
6. You were never meant to go back
So if you find yourself grieving who you used to be, let that grief be honest but not mistaken. The version of you that carried you through past challenges didn’t disappear because you failed. It completed its role. It knew how to cope. It knew how to endure. It knew how to get you through. But it was never meant to carry you forever.
What you’re experiencing now isn’t loss, it’s transition. And transitions are disorienting precisely because they happen between identities. You are no longer who you were, but not yet fully articulated as who you’re becoming. That doesn’t mean you’re lost. It means you’re listening.
In a world that rewards speed, certainty, and disconnection, choosing to live from inner truth can feel like rebellion. But it is also the most grounded, sustainable form of leadership there is. You don’t need to find yourself again. You don’t need to heal endlessly. You don’t need to go back.
You only need to let the version of you that survived step aside so the version of you that is integrated can finally live. And if you’re standing at that edge now, unsure who you are becoming, let this be the reframe you carry with you. You didn’t lose yourself. You outgrew who you had to be.
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Lisa Andrews, Psychic and Holistic Therapist
Lisa Andrews is a holistic therapist, psychic, and spiritual mentor with a passion for empowering others through healing and self-discovery. Having overcome significant challenges, including breast cancer and parental alienation, she uses her experiences to inspire and uplift. A passionate writer and speaker, she shares insights on spirituality, transformation, and personal growth. Now a contributor to Brainz magazine, she provides thought-provoking content to guide readers on their journey to a fulfilled life.
