For the Ones Who Feel Everything: Why Awakening Hits You Harder

KATHLEEN: Hello everyone and welcome to the Journey of an Awakening Spirit. This is Kathleen Flanagan, your host, and we're streaming on the Bold Brave TV Network. This space was created to remind you that you are not alone and no matter what your past looks like or what you're facing today, you hold the power to shift your life.

KATHLEEN: We've all awakened through pain, loss, betrayal, loneliness, frustration, and hopelessness, but your story doesn't end there. This show is about turning those dark nights into dawn. It's about rediscovering the truth of who you are beneath the pressure, performance, and expectations. Maybe you've achieved success, but deep down still feel isolated, angry, and even like giving up.

KATHLEEN: You long to be seen, not for the titles or accolades, but for your truth. You want to be known and celebrated for the real you, not the version of yourself that's been performing just to survive. Perhaps you've sat quietly listening to what sets your soul on fire only to be met with fear, guilt, shame, or frustration. You try to push through, but old stories whisper you're not enough.

KATHLEEN: And just like that, you freeze. You've read the books, gone to the workshops, implemented strategies, but something still feels off. That cycle of hope followed by disappointment keeps repeating. And the voice inside says, maybe this is all there is, but it's not. As a certified transformational coach and the creator of the Soul Journey program, I help you reconnect with your authentic self and align with your soul vision.

KATHLEEN: I give you the books to remember who you really are, powerful, worthy, and whole. Each week on this show, we begin with the sacred sounds of tuning forks to bring in the energies of joy, love, and balance. Setting the tone for the deep healing and soulful conversations. So let's begin.

KATHLEEN: Today I want to talk about for the ones who feel everything and why awakening hits you harder. And I can speak from this because this is how it has been for me. And looking back, I have always felt everything. Now I have seven planets and water, no air and no earth. So I'm a fire and water person.

KATHLEEN: So there's this intense passion and there's intense emotion. And I've always felt everything. And I just remember so many times not really thinking that I was the only one who can do this. And on a whole, I know that there's a lot that only I can do. And I've come to accept that.

KATHLEEN: And I want... To share some of the things, and it's what I say a lot, but I want to share what it means and more powerful. Because when I put this together, I was pretty profound at what was coming out and what I was experiencing.

KATHLEEN: I'm going to talk about some things that are happening that are so raw that it actually is today could be a day. For a major transformation in my life. I want to talk about that a little bit because this is part of this whole process I've been going through.

KATHLEEN: But if you feel deeply, every shift, every pain, every joy, your awakening journey is often more intense, more overwhelming, and yet ultimately more transformational.

KATHLEEN: I mean by a deep feeler or an empath, is that we feel everything. I can get into somebody's vibrational frequency and I can just immediately pick up on them. I could touch them and I can feel them. And that's what empaths do.

KATHLEEN: I don't think when this word came out years ago, I don't think we had a full 100% comprehension of that because we're such feeling people. And there's a lot more that's involved with being an empath. I think a lot of it has to do with the way we use our will, which is our hearts are. On our sleeves. We feel everything and we're not a logical person.

KATHLEEN: We do have logic, but we lead with emotion. I know in my life, anything that sounded right, felt right, I did. I had to learn to bring my brain into it a little bit because sometimes going off the deep end, I went off the deep end. I always came up smelling like a rose.

KATHLEEN: I never said no to myself because I trusted my own ability. And when we're empaths and we feel that, because I remember years and years ago when I was in this drug rehab and people would get sick and they'd be hospitalized. I was never one they asked. I was never asked to go to the hospital because the minute I got into a hospital, I just got depressed.

KATHLEEN: I got depressed because I was feeling everybody in the hospital. Now, I was like 17, 18 years old, so I had no clue that I was this type of person yet. I just knew that this is what I felt. And sorry about that.

KATHLEEN: And since I couldn't understand what was happening then, and I got depressed, and then I realized looking back that I needed to work on that and become more of a positive person in the hospital instead of just being a sponge and taking it in. And that's part of what the traits are of being an empath is that we are highly intuitive.

KATHLEEN: I mean, I could always tell you what's going on in the world. I could feel it. I could tell a lot of times when somebody was, something was off and very seldom was I ever wrong on what I would pick up. I could collect, I could feel what's going on on the planet.

KATHLEEN: Like I'm, because I'm part of the collective, as you are, I could feel what's going on in that auric field of our planet. I'm going to talk a little bit more in depth on that a little bit later down the road. And you're also deeply impacted by the inner and outer energy shifts. And boy, I can tell you that for sure. I always know.

KATHLEEN: And in this past weekend, I've been very quiet. I'm going to go into this a little bit more too. But part of what we do. Is when we're feeling everything, it isn't necessarily a weakness. It's sacred sensitivity. Now, I never really looked at it that way until I put this together for today's show.

KATHLEEN: And one example would be small situations feeling massive during an awakening. Now, I always can tell that if I get agitated all of a sudden and I'm kind of going losing my mind, it's like, okay, stop, sit down and breathe and just feel the energy shift. I can feel shifts.

KATHLEEN: I can be in higher vibrational frequencies and know I'm there, but not be consciously fully aware of it at the time. I know that I'm there. I'm so aware because a lot of people, I mean, if you change something in my house, I know at the minute I walk in a room and And my former partner.

KATHLEEN: Used to say, how do you know how to do that? It's like the minute I walk in the room, I could tell you if something was moved. And he said, you're like a cat because cats are that sensitive. They know when something's moved in their environment and they go and research it. I do the same exact thing.

KATHLEEN: But here's a little quote that I want to share with you so you can understand and feel good about this is that when you feel everything, your soul doesn't whisper, it roars for your attention. And that's how it feels when I'm experiencing shifts that are going on.

KATHLEEN: And in this, over the weekend, and I'm going to talk about this when we come back from break, but over the weekend and in the last month, because in the last month, I went to Kansas and I went to... Texas for a couple of seminars. And then I decided to do that Mediterranean diet.

KATHLEEN: And there were just so many changes that happened in looking at wanting to get back into a deeper alignment with myself because so much had come up and what I was feeling and experiencing. And then I started leveling out. It was feeling good.

KATHLEEN: Spring is here. We've had... Beautiful days. I've been outside just absorbing everything. And then over the weekend, I got hammered again where Saturday it was like this intense feeling that massive changes are coming.

KATHLEEN: And to me, the way I was interpreting it, not that I believed it, was that the world was going to blow up. That's how it felt to me. But I knew that was ridiculous and it wasn't about the world, that this was something about me. I kept going back. To my neighbor who lives behind us who just moved away.

KATHLEEN: And it was like, I kept, it's like, why do I keep going back there? And his girlfriend's mother is in hospice and they started morphine on Saturday for her. And he's moving to the East Coast and she's in Michigan, dealing with the death of her mother. And on Sunday is when word came in about these feelings, which I'm going to talk about in a little bit. But right now.

KATHLEEN: We're going to go ahead and take a quick commercial break.

KATHLEEN: Welcome back, everyone, to the Journey of an Awakening Spirit. This is Kathleen Flanagan, your host, and we're streaming on the Bold Brave TV Network. One of the reasons why we feel as deeply as we do and as hard as it is for us, it's because we feel like we're on an energetic overload because we're being blasted with energy.

KATHLEEN: We're being blasted with things that we don't fully understand, but we feel it. And until we can start isolating and understanding what our feelings are, because so many people don't even understand what a feeling is.

KATHLEEN: They don't necessarily know what it is that they're feeling. They just know they feel something.

KATHLEEN: And when we're feeling this overload, there's this sudden awareness of suppressed emotions, like all of a sudden you want to cry or you're feeling angry or you're agitated and you don't know why, but it's like something that triggered you and you have to go back and look and reflect at what just happened that might've triggered you along the ways.

KATHLEEN: Sometimes the floodgates of the collective and ancestral trauma shows up and oh my God, there's so much on that, that we don't always fully understand. I know that when I do work on people, I've had where I could feel something and I didn't know what it was, but it was ancestral.

KATHLEEN: And, it's interesting because when you're working with different cultures, there's different ancestral traumas that actually are there. Now they may not know what that trauma is, but there is a trauma within a culture.

KATHLEEN: And it's learning to understand that because if you're going to help somebody, you want to help them understand part of that culture. So what did I do? I started researching more about different cultures and what, what.

KATHLEEN: Their heritage is and what they're bringing forward. Because I also had to understand what was happening inside of me because I didn't always understand it. It's like, well, this is so ancient feeling.

KATHLEEN: And you know when something feels ancient because it doesn't make sense where you are today in the moment. There's something old about it and wanting to understand that. And then you also have that tendency where you're feeling the disconnection from old patterns even before fully understanding them.

KATHLEEN: I'm going to talk about a few more things. And then I'm going to bring all of this that I'm talking about together because I go through this all the time. And it's easier, but it doesn't mean I understand it every time.

KATHLEEN: You always have to stop and reflect. So part of the stages of the awakening for sensitive souls is that first of all, they're in shock. Then they can go into confusion. There's emotional purging. And then there's the rebirth.

KATHLEEN: There's also a loneliness factor that we feel and we isolate ourselves during the awakening. And I have been in isolation for the last month. I understand even more so now because I've been getting insights as it goes through this.

KATHLEEN: And the one amplification... I'll talk about this in a minute. So in my isolation, I was looking at wanting to feel like that the places that I had gone, I'm in alignment with the hosts of these organizations, but I'm not really feeling like I'm in alignment with the group of people that I was in the room with.

KATHLEEN: It's not right, wrong, good, or bad. It's just an observation that I observed. I understand why I did what I did, why I went. I knew that when I talked to my coach last week or the week before, he said, were you out of alignment?

KATHLEEN: Are you in your head? I said, no, I wasn't in my head. It was an observation that I was feeling. Okay. So now I finally get on the other side. I'm dealing with my body, making the changes with this new diet, eating a little bit differently, feeling really good on the inside, but still having that.

KATHLEEN: Some of that angst of, I'm changing my body, which is a good thing because I'm bringing a higher energy field because I kept feeling that I wasn't assimilating my food, which when your digestive tract is off, it's because you're not assimilating the knowledge coming in.

KATHLEEN: I felt like there was a lot of that going on. I felt good on the inside, but on the outside, the ego was just being miserable, like.

KATHLEEN: And my stomach would hurt and i would feel like I wanted to throw up half the time there was just things of making adjustments and I know that my biome was being challenged because i was eating things differently but I noticed I didn't have heartburn and I wasn't I wasn't gassy and I wasn't what was the other thing that went on I was sleeping better I went I had no cravings.

KATHLEEN: I mean, so there were a lot of good things that were happening, but it didn't make it easier. So over the weekend, when I was telling you about my neighbor, trying to understand what was going on and just feeling this, I thought, okay, I'm just going to be with whatever this emotion is, I'm going to ask and try to understand what is coming in.

KATHLEEN: I didn't think it was bad. I thought it was a really good thing I could feel, even though it was going to be a life changing event for me. Sunday afternoon, I go in to do something.

KATHLEEN: I open up my computer and there's this text message that runs across the monitor and tells me that my father is in the hospital. He's not eating. He's not drinking. He's been on dialysis. They removed fluid from his lungs and his abdomen. He's fell four times. He's agitated.

KATHLEEN: He's being what my father usually is. And it was kind of shocking. And my sister said that she would, she was going to put him in hospice. So that all. Started to come out and there was this floodgate of emotions that I did not expect to come up, not one bit.

KATHLEEN: I had to process what I was feeling in that moment.

KATHLEEN: I did, because I'm not going to California and I'm not going to go to a funeral, even though I was told this morning, there's not going to be a funeral. I didn't respond to anything. I get a text message through Instagram from my sister because she doesn't know if she had my right phone number for the text because I didn't respond or call.

KATHLEEN: I basically said, thank you for telling me and I won't be in California and I won't go to a funeral because I'm not going to subject myself to what you guys did when my mother passed. I don't need to relive that kind of hate.

KATHLEEN: I thanked him because my siblings had no intentions of telling me that my mother was in hospice and she was dying. They had no intentions of telling me that was my niece who told me. I get the text message this morning that my father may pass today.

KATHLEEN: So that was what I had to process. And the other thing that started coming up with all of this too was the cords that our parents have in us.

KATHLEEN: When my mother died, my whole life changed. Everything changed in my life when my mother died because I didn't realize how tightly she held on to me and how tightly I felt like I couldn't move forward in my life.

KATHLEEN: And two weeks ago, I had a dream with my father, which was the typical dream I always have with this icky thing that he does. I knew that he couldn't harm me. But it didn't matter. I still felt it. And every time that my father shows up in a dream, I always wonder if he was going to die.

KATHLEEN: Now, this one never entered my mind this time around. And yet this is the time that he's probably going to pass because he's comatose at this point. I mean, the morphine is high in the hospice. So anyways, with all of this, I was looking at...

KATHLEEN: Because I've told you about the anthology book, the chapter that I wrote of what changed, that transformed my life. And it was from my father and my mother when I was 11 years old. And when my mother passed, I had realized the role my mother played in that event, or her lack thereof, I should say.

KATHLEEN: And when I asked her about it, she just flailed her hands and said, well, there was so much because she didn't do anything to protect her children ever. And she died not too long after that. I knew that I had to forgive her at that point.

KATHLEEN: And so when I was doing this, writing the chapter and going really deeper, I discovered even more things about that event that I hadn't remembered and emotionally dealt with and understanding the role that this played in my life and why it played and coming back to that person that I was when I was 11 years old and it was a journey and it was the journey that I had to take to get here.

KATHLEEN: And so I just found it really interesting that I have come to peace with this on so many other levels. And then here's my father getting ready to pass. Now he's 91, soon to be 92.

KATHLEEN: He's had a life and it wasn't a good one, but he had a life. He chose not to change. He chose to alienate his family and I think partly there's not going to be a funeral because my father really treated people very, very badly and he did nothing to change any of that.

KATHLEEN: I did two nights ago, wished him well. I sent him love and hope for a safe transition and that I hope he finds peace and finds his way back into his heart and into what life could be.

KATHLEEN: I let it go.

KATHLEEN: I'm okay with that. Now, that doesn't mean the emotions are completely dealt with because this is a death. This is a family member. And the other thing that I noticed that came up with this was we have this really stupid illusion, in my opinion, that my parents will be dead and I'll be alone.

KATHLEEN: Like there's like the people that are supposed to love you. Now, that's not true because I didn't really have that in my life. At least most of it, from my parents.

KATHLEEN: I'm not alone, and I know I'm not alone. But I also realize how much... Their cords are in me still, even though I release mine from them. I know that this is going to be life altering and life changing when he passes because I will be alone. I don't have family. I have a sister that I talk to two or three times a year, but that's it.

KATHLEEN: I really don't have any family. So what I created in my life is what I'm creating on my own because I had to do that when my mother passed. I'm okay with all of this and I'm fine with this. I understand all of this. I understand the whole purpose behind it. And I'm so grateful that I created this life.

KATHLEEN: But this also helped me to understand with this chat today is about this feeling and processing through a feeling that we have that we don't always fully understand. And all you can do is ask. And so when you awaken, the volume of your sensitivity turns all the way up. Before you learn how to tune the station.

KATHLEEN: Now, I've learned how to tune the station, but that doesn't mean when that emotion is coming up, it is still right there in my face, in my heart, in my body. I have to learn to dial it down, get the emotions put aside, and just sit and be with it and process it. Now, it doesn't feel good when you're doing that sometimes, but it's what you need to do.

KATHLEEN: And it makes you feel better because in that process of just being in that icky place on Saturday and then Sunday finding why I was in that icky place, well, it made sense with that death, doom, gloom, almost feeling of the world's going to blow up. Well, in a respect, the world is blowing up because both my parents will be dead.

KATHLEEN: And, that's an experience I don't even know anything about yet, but it's all good. I'm going to keep talking about how to navigate through this, but we're going to go ahead and take a quick commercial break.

KATHLEEN: Welcome back, everyone, to the Journey of an Awakening Spirit. This is Kathleen Flanagan, your host, and we're streaming on the Bold Brave TV Network.

KATHLEEN: One of the things...

KATHLEEN: We need to develop strategies and how to navigate through this. And when I was feeling all of this over the weekend, thank God it was a beautiful day. I went outside and I took in the sun and watched the cats play and watch Gracie almost catch a couple of birds. I was like shocked. It was so cool to see that. I just needed to just ground whatever this was and feeling that.

KATHLEEN: And nature has a way of helping me to just kind of. Calm down because on Saturday i really didn't know what was happening and I'm trying to talk to Sal about it. And I really couldn't say much because I didn't know what it was. It was just this emotion that I was feeling. But I also knew that I needed to protect myself because you want to protect your energy and then do cleansing rituals.

KATHLEEN: I didn't feel like there was anything attached to me or anything. I just knew that I didn't want to go out in the world at that moment because I felt very vulnerable and very open that anything could happen because I was not fully comfortable. Really comprehending the depth of what this emotion was.

KATHLEEN: And you also, when you're doing this, you want to set emotional boundaries, even energetically. And when I was trying to talk to Sal, I'm going to tell you, my crap came up. I mean, there were times like, you don't want to listen to anything I have to say, but I didn't even know how to speak what I was saying. It was almost like I wanted him to just take it away from me.

KATHLEEN: Take it away, put it in a box for right now so I can get back to normal. And when I'm ready, I'll take the box back and deal with it. Now, that's what we want to do. And that's what we would love to do. But that's not how life works, unfortunately. I had to check myself and not push this on him like it's his fault because there was nothing he could do.

KATHLEEN: There was nothing I could do. I just wanted answers and clarity, and I couldn't get it at that moment. So what I ended up doing is I just started like writing because journaling or doing any kind of artistic expression helps you to process this flood of emotion. So I decided I was going to journal because I couldn't find my way.

KATHLEEN: It was like this emotion was so heavy and dense that I wrote it out and it felt good just to process whatever it was. And it was just a vomit. Basically because no answers came, no clarity came. It was just the release and it helped a lot to feel better, to just try to be with it. It was like my way of putting whatever this was in the box for a while.

KATHLEEN: And then it was still there Sunday, but not as intensely as it was on Saturday.

KATHLEEN: And it was when something said, go and you got to go check. This on your computer. And all of a sudden this text message goes right across the monitor, right in front of me. And it has, you know, my sister, you know, a couple of phone numbers, my brother's name.

KATHLEEN: I'm just like, I open it. It's like, okay, who are all these people? I figured a couple of the phone numbers were two of my siblings. I figured the other two was probably my father's brother and sister who are still alive. And that's exactly what it was.

KATHLEEN: But it was even more interesting as maybe when my sister sent me, the one I speak to, said that Nicole had called and said, dad's in the hospital. And because my father cried wolf so many times in the past about he's dying now, she said the only thing that's different is that Nicole was worried about it.

KATHLEEN: I said, well, first of all, I didn't know that he does this game because I didn't. Because I don't know anything. I haven't seen my father in close to 30 years.

KATHLEEN: I think it was the last time I saw him or talked to him. I was talking. I didn't see him. I haven't seen him close to 40 years. And the last time we had a conversation, so to speak, was like 30 years ago. And so When she said that, I didn't think anything out of it again.

KATHLEEN: Again, it went right out of my head. I didn't think anything of it. I think Spirit was in a way of trying to protect me on many levels about what was going on with my father. Like I wasn't, I was supposed to process the emotion, not have any ideas and inclinations to it.

KATHLEEN: And the other thing that came out of this that I, when I was putting this show together, was I needed to have self-compassion over the judgment and that compassion was towards myself. Okay. And this is what came out that your depth is not a burden. It's the blueprint place of your new world. I know that my world is getting ready to change because of all of this.

KATHLEEN: And it's okay to cry and it's okay to rage and it's okay to grieve. It's part of the expansion. And when I was saying that, when I got the word about my father, there was this lot of emotions that came up that I have no idea where they came from. I think it was a release. The day is finally here. I didn't expect to have any emotions when this day arrived because of the relationship that we've had. And yet I do.

KATHLEEN: I also know that I always wanted a father. I never had one.

KATHLEEN: I think more of what's happening is that I'm grieving.

KATHLEEN: Not the loss of my dad, but the fact that I really, truly never had a father. And that opportunity in this lifetime is never going to be. And I'm okay with that. It's just an emotion that I have always wanted was a father because I wonder what it would be like to have a father.

KATHLEEN: Because I know so many women that had such amazing relationships with their dads and I never had that. So there's that. Part of me that was missing. I had to find that wholeness inside of me.

KATHLEEN: That's why I realized that I am here to create a new world. It was never about my family. It was never to have all the things that I ever wanted. It was, I have a big mission to accomplish and that's what I intended to do. I had to find the gift within this storm as well, because after this intensity of motion that comes up.

KATHLEEN: Our greatest powers is our intuition increases. It heightens and it does. It really does to where you just know. And 95% of the time, you're okay. It's when you have something like this that's life altering that is really hard to handle that emotional heightenability.

KATHLEEN: Deeper, you're also going to have deeper emotional intelligence. Well, yeah. Definitely. So as I'm releasing and removing old thought forms, old experiences, the missing of things that I think that I wanted that I didn't have, and it's okay. I have a better understanding of that because what this did was it allowed me to find me.

KATHLEEN: It allowed me to find my value and my worth. It allowed me to know who I am and what do I think and how do I feel. And I don't care what you say. Say, I don't care what you think of me. I don't care anymore. But for so long, all of that mattered because I didn't have the love that I wanted from my family that I don't have. And I learned to become a bigger person because of it.

KATHLEEN: And then I have a stronger connection to my purpose and my soul mission. I do. And right now I am hell bent on this because our world is changing people in ways that we don't always. Want to talk about, but we see it and we feel it, but we don't necessarily know what to do, or we're feeling helpless. Well, I don't feel helpless.

KATHLEEN: I feel like I am ready to skyrocket into a whole new trajectory of my life because of what's happening right now. Yes, I'm releasing the old. I'm surrendering. Something's dying and it's all good because what the awakening does, it teaches us sensitive souls. How to alchemize pain into wisdom. And that's exactly what I have done over my lifetime.

KATHLEEN: I can't tell you how many times I wondered what my purpose was. Why am I here? Why am I in so much pain all the time? I did not have an answer to any of them. And so what I'm going to invite you to do is to reframe your sensitivity as a sacred superpower, because it is. The world needs people like you right here and right now.

KATHLEEN: This world needs to be shown the way and the groups that even though I might not align with their people, but the hosts that I was talking about, I align with them. I align with the mission that they're on, whatever direction it is. And the other thing that I discovered in this quiet time that I was in is I felt like I don't know where I belong.

KATHLEEN: And what I came to realize right before this weekend was I have to create that because there's nothing out there. So that means I have to create the community that I'm looking for. That's why I'm talking about starting a community because there are people like me that are looking for people like me, just like I'm looking for people like you.

KATHLEEN: It's time for us to come together that the sensitive. Empaths of the world start joining forces and helping hold each other up because we're going to need that because if we feel everything, we need to have a support system that can help us guide and manage through some of the changes.

KATHLEEN: Going on. And because I'm as strong as I am, I understand I do a lot of this work alone, and I'm okay with that. I would like to have people to talk to, but it's amazing how Spirit took a lot of people away from me this year so far. It's all okay. It's all good. I miss them. But what did it do?

KATHLEEN: It made me go further inside of me, look further inside of me, find my own answers, get stronger, be more confident. And you have to change the way you think. Instead of going, oh, poor me, I'm a victim. No, you're not. You created this. So take that empowerment and use that wisely because you weren't meant to fit in the old world. You came here to help build the new one.

KATHLEEN: And that's what I came to the realization of in the last week was I'm here. That's why I want to build a community because there's what I'm looking for. It's not out there. So that means if you're looking for something and you can't find it, it's because it's your job to create it. I heard that years ago, and now I understand exactly what that means.

KATHLEEN: I'm going to create that community and start building the new world, the world that I want. I'm going to find my people, and I'm going to bring those people in, and we're going to build it together. Because as a whole unit, we can make massive change. And with that, we're going to go ahead and take a commercial break.

KATHLEEN: Welcome back, everyone, to the Journey of an Awakening Spirit. This is Kathleen Flanagan, your host, and we're streaming on the Bold Brave TV Network.

KATHLEEN: So basically, to recap, empaths feel things more deeply during an awakening process. And we're awakening because we need to awaken right now. So that's why we're feeling it. Because part of what is happening on this planet is we need to bring our hearts back into life.

KATHLEEN: We have to start bringing that. We have shut our hearts down for so long. And that is not how we're making connections with people. That's why we have the wars that we have. That's why we have the prejudices that we have. That is why.

KATHLEEN: There's a division in this world as far as who's right, who's wrong, all the political garbage, all the destruction of the planet, the fracting, all of that. It's all because we are not using our hearts. We are all in our heads about everything.

KATHLEEN: And we think for some reason, technology and AI is going to change the world. Well, AI is changing the world because I've heard it again. From two different sources that over 300 million people are going to lose their jobs to AI. That's a lot of people and what are they going to do?

KATHLEEN: Seriously, what are they going to do if they're living in their hearts or they're living in their heads? The whole point is, is that you got to get back into your feeling because we are here and we have always been here to create whatever it is we wanted to create.

KATHLEEN: Somehow we got lost along the way that we are supposed to be socialized and we're supposed to work for the man and we're supposed to pay our taxes and then we're supposed to die. And that's that's not what life was ever designed to do. I think.

KATHLEEN: The more that you start going into your own personal awakening process. And if you don't do it voluntarily, I promise you life will do it for you. And you will have no choice because that's where we are. We have to make that choice right here, right now, today.

KATHLEEN: Are you going to stay in your head and continue down the path that you're on? Or are you going to come into your head or into your heart? And even though it feels like crap, you're going to do it anyways, because what's on the other side is so much more magnificent than where you are today.

KATHLEEN: Because that's how you're going to survive and thrive through the changes that are coming is through your heart, by making connections, by doing what makes your world sing, what makes your heart sing, what makes you light up. So when they're saying that the economy's starting to tank, businesses are suffering, all of that, okay, I get that.

KATHLEEN: But you know what? That's the world around me. That's not my world. Because my world that I create is up here in my head. I know what I want. I'm seeing what I want. I believe that I can have what I want. I'm working towards that. I'm not going to have some president or some world leader tell me that the world's going to blow up tomorrow and buy into it because I'm not.

KATHLEEN: It may blow up tomorrow, but I don't have to buy into it. And that's the power that each and every single one of us have is our world is our world. It's not.

KATHLEEN: What the president decides or a world leader decides or your parents decide or teacher decides you decide and only you decide so if you want to have a mundane icky crappy life that's your choice enjoy it and if you want something different then that means you're going to have to go through the ick you got to go through the limiting beliefs you got to go through your crap You got to start releasing all the things that have.

KATHLEEN: Kept you small, because I promise you when you get on that other side, you will be blown away by the world that you have created. I am constantly amazed that every time I go up the next rung on a ladder, how much better I feel, how much more positive I feel, how much happier I feel. It's absolutely amazing. And remember, you are never, ever, ever alone on this path.

KATHLEEN: If you think you're alone, you're not because Spirit is always with you. The love vibration is always with you. Look at the earth. If you can't see love in this planet, then you got problems and you might need to get some mental health because there is, I mean, just being in nature and hugging a tree, you know, you're not a light because there's a life force there and you can feel that.

KATHLEEN: And if this message resonates with you, trust that you're exactly where you are meant to be. And that you are deeply and profoundly needed right here, right now. You came onto the planet at the time you did because of what you were bringing forth to help this world transition into the new.

KATHLEEN: I'm going to invite all of you to share your experiences either through social media, email me, or the group that when I get it started, I will definitely let you know. And also I do have my three-minute de-stress meditation on the KathleenMFlanagan.com site.

KATHLEEN: I do have essential oil blends that can help you with the transition we're going through on AwakeningSpirit.com. I have been creating products and meditations to help people for a very long time. I know that this is the time that it's going to be needed the most. And the one thing that I definitely want to leave you all with is the depth of your pain is the measure of your soul's capacity.

KATHLEEN: Capacity for light. I figure as deep as I've gone in my life and as close to death as I have come several times, I have always come out stronger. I remember it was when my mother was dying. It was in 2011 and Burlesque came out. I watched that movie.

KATHLEEN: And when Cher sang the song that you haven't seen the last of me yet. I remember that was my theme song to get back because I was so down and so lost and hopeless feeling. And that song. Gave me the strength to go even deeper, to pull out that last little bit that I needed to pull out, to come back fighting. I haven't been down since.

KATHLEEN: I may have wobbles and wobbles are okay, but to ever go to the depth of that pain and that lost lonely feeling, that's not going to ever happen again because I have faced the demons that I needed to face. And you're not alone. I mean, you can always reach out to me. I have a calendar link on my KathleenMFlanagan.com site.

KATHLEEN: Reach out and let's have a conversation. If you're feeling lost or confused or you need a little help and guidance, you don't need to suffer. I don't want to see that. And the call is free to you. I encourage you to reach out and reach out to people that have your back, who understand you and don't waste your time with people that want to keep you small.

KATHLEEN: So if you enjoyed the show, then I would love it if you would like and subscribe to the show, send the link to somebody who you think might need it. If you subscribe, you'll know when the next shows are coming out, what's going on in the community. You'll get on my email list, that type of thing.

KATHLEEN: So that way, you know what's happening with me and we can share and I'll definitely let you know when the new community starts. And with that, that concludes our show for today. I hope you enjoyed it. I will see all of you next Tuesday at 4 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. And from my heart to yours, I hope you have a fabulous week.