Are You an Awakening Soul?

Before I awakened to higher consciousness, this world made little sense to me. The endless pursuit of shiny objects that’s supposed to make us happy. The numbing of our dissatisfaction through alcohol, entertainment and busyness. The meaningless small talk and yet lack of deep connection. What was the point? It was disheartening. I felt lost.

Everything shifted once I connected to the Divine within me. I could suddenly sense and feel my interconnectedness with all living things. The pieces all came together into a beautiful bigger picture, of which I fit into inextricably. As an Awakening Soul, I discovered purpose and a passion for being alive. Since then, this spiritual connection has been an essential tool for navigating my life. It’s the foundation that supports me and the compass that guides me during the rough waters and sea of conflicting information we’re currently immersed in.

Are you an Awakening Soul? Do you sense and trust your connection to your Higher Self? Do you easily go within for love, clarity and higher wisdom? I hope you do, for this is how to gain stability in these uncertain times. The only real security comes from this place within. This is the wise part of you that knows you’re always ok and will always be ok.

Maybe you’re new on the spiritual journey. Or maybe you’ve been on it for awhile and just need some extra support. It can be a lonely path. I’ve created a new offering, The Awakening Soul program, to assist you in:

• deepening your connection to your Soul

• clearing blocks in your spiritual channel

• uncovering your Soul’s purpose

• doing the mental/emotional healing that’s necessary as building blocks of spiritual awakening

• finding meaningful direction moving forward

• accelerating your spiritual transformation

Sessions can either be done in person or remotely over Zoom. This program consists of a Soul Plan reading, a chakra balancing session, a past life regression and two spiritual mentoring sessions, which could be a hypnosis or coaching session. We start with the Soul Plan reading, which gives us your blueprint for this life: the challenges, talents and goals you came in to address, as well as your Soul Destiny. Next is a chakra balancing session, to assess your energy in the present moment as well as to clear and balance your energy before further inner work.

From there, the other sessions can be done in any order. The past life regression helps clear karma and provide insight from another life into this one. The spiritual mentoring sessions can help with whatever challenges you’re facing. Possible focuses for the session include Inner Child Healing, Shadow Work, Sacred Union of the Divine Masculine & Feminine, Connecting to Your Spirit Guide or Prosperity Mindset.

Take as long as you’d like to go through the program. Some sessions require more integration time. I give you follow up suggestions, aka homework, to support your process. If this program resonates with you, or to learn more click here.

If you are looking for a spiritual community of like-minded souls, I host a monthly meetup called Austin Spiritual Awakening, which also has an Austin Spiritual Awakening Facebook community. The people in the groups are very friendly and you’re welcome to join.

The spiritual path doesn’t have to be isolating. There are so many souls awakening now. We can support each other on our journeys. Happy travels!

What Is a Soul Plan Reading?

Perhaps like me, you’re on a path of self development. You want to deeply understand who you are and why you chose to come here onto this crazy planet in this crazy time. On this journey of self awareness, you’ve discovered there are many systems that give you a piece of that knowledge and help take you to the next step. The Soul Plan Reading is one of those systems.

“Why are you here? What’s your life purpose? How can you overcome your life’s challenges? What gifts do you possess to help you to fulfill your soul destiny?”

I’m not even sure how I first came across the Soul Plan system. Somehow I was led to the book “Soul Plan” by Blue Marsden. It really resonated with me, although I didn’t fully understand how it worked. I went to his website and Bam, next thing I know, I’ve signed up for the training. But that’s how I work, I’ve learned to listen to that still small voice within that guides me. It’s guided me well and I trust it.

HOW WAS THE SOUL PLAN READING SYSTEM DEVELOPED?

Here is the description from the Holistic Healing College, where I was trained:

“The Soul Plan Reading has its roots in the ancient text, the Sefer Yetzirah. In the second half of the last century, the Star of Creation Gematria Method was channeled by the visionary Frank Alper (author of "Discovering Atlantis") and forms the foundation of this work. In this present format, Blue Marsden, founder of the Holistic Healing College, has expanded on the original, adding new interpretations, affirmations, elements of numerology and additional channeled material.

Although up to this point, this work is little known, it's believed that the core information and system has returned to the planet at this time to help in the energetic transmission many are experiencing. It is hoped that many more people will now have their Soul Plan activated, become aligned with their Soul Purpose and gain a greater sense of beingness and life satisfaction.

A Soul Plan Reading can clear many redundant issues, trauma patterning and limiting beliefs. Through the universal law of grace, there are many old patterns we can let go of at this time. “

HOW IS THE SOUL PLAN DERIVED?

The Soul Plan Reading is derived from the Sound Vibration of your original name. This produces a set of frequencies, which are placed around the Star of Creation (image above) in various positions. Each point has a special significance, representing challenges, talents and goals in two areas, Worldly and Spiritual.

The downward triangle relates to the physical/worldly existence, usually predominant in approximately the first 35 years of life. The upward triangle relates to the spiritual aspect of life, which we tend to access around or after 35 years old.

The solution to facing your challenges and obtaining your goals is inherent in your plan: Apply your talents to overcome your challenges and reach your goals.

WHAT HAPPENS IN A SOUL PLAN READING?

The Soul Plan Reading is a 75 minute session together, (done via Zoom) but I also spend 60 minutes on my own beforehand preparing your chart.

You’ll receive a copy of your Soul Plan Chart. We’ll go over each section together, beginning with the Worldly sections of challenges, talents and goals and then the Spiritual sections. You’ll learn how to utilize these pieces together to overcome blocks and attain fulfillment.

Finally, you will learn your Soul Destiny. All of this information will fit together to help you understand what you’ve been struggling with, recognize your natural talents and provide a map for achieving your life purpose. You’ll have the clarity to move forward to fulfill your highest potential in this life. Afterward, you’ll receive a video recording of our session so that you can watch it whenever you’d like.

Go here to learn more about a Soul Plan Reading or to schedule a session: https://www.awakeningtransformation.com/soul-plan-reading

“My soul plan reading was truly one of the most therapeutic and eye-opening experiences of my life. Everything was so accurate, it was almost comical, in a good way. It opened so many learning doors and it expanded my growth tenfold.”

— Bethany

“If you feel like you need a little nudge to put you on the path to expand your personal growth, this is the book for you!! The author shares her own path of spiritual awakening with a lot of basic steps anyone can take in order to work on their own spiritual journey. You will read it and feel inspired to make little changes that could lead to big changes within.” - K. Thompson

“Tianna is a phenomenal soul sister to guide you on your soul-awakening path. In this book, she highlights tools that are key in supporting your spiritual development. I recommend this book to anyone starting their journey but also to those of us who have been walking for a long time; it is a lovely reminder that we are all connected on this path.” - Nikki

Your Inner Child Is the Missing Piece for Emotional Freedom

As a child I learned to stuff my feelings, despite being naturally emotionally sensitive. It felt safer not to expose that vulnerable part of me to others. Like many, I thought that vulnerability equates with weakness.

What I didn’t realize was that vulnerable part was also one of the most beautiful pieces of me. The piece that has depth, richness, complexity. The piece that is colorful, free and passionate. The piece that allows me to express my uniqueness. I’d hid it so well from others, I lost touch with it myself. I didn’t even know that I’d imprisoned a piece of myself. Without this piece I felt flat, cold, rehearsed and inauthentic.

That missing piece was my inner child.

Without her, I kept looking for that right person, that perfect relationship, to fill what was missing inside. I thought I’d find it in my “other half.” While there’s nothing wrong with being in a loving partnership, it will never complete you. Nor will your job. Nor will expensive things. Nothing outside of you will ever make you feel whole. The truth is that I was always whole, not half. I just needed to reclaim my missing pieces. I had unwittingly abandoned my inner child.

The inner child is our emotional self.

That doesn’t mean that having emotions is childish. Emotional expression is not immature. Quite the contrary. Healthy emotional expression is necessary to grow into our highest potential as a human being. Without our inner child, we are stifled and imbalanced. It is more mature to learn how to nurture and support our emotional self than to run away from our emotions through constantly keeping busy or hiding out in the intellect.

Like me, most people have unintentionally abandoned their inner child. This is why emotions can feel so overwhelming. Just think of a scared child that has to scream or act out to get your attention. The inner child has to resort to theatrics, otherwise we easily ignore him or her. However, it’s not sustainable to keep suppressing our emotions. Suppressing them is like creating an internal pressure cooker. Eventually that pressure will be released either in an emotional blowup, negative behaviors or through physical symptoms in the body.

Instead, why not start now to develop a new relationship with the inner child? When we think of our emotions as our inner child, we naturally know how to respond to our feelings.  We don’t demonize or shame a child for being afraid. Nor do we avoid a scared child. Nor do we let the child run the household.  

Having a healthy relationship with the inner child helps us to be open to life and unafraid of our emotions. Our emotions enable us to empathize with others and connect genuinely on an intimate level. Emotions can give us a deep sense of aliveness and the greatest fulfillment imaginable. Your inner child has so much to offer you.

What I learned was that nurturing my inner child didn’t weaken me, it stabilized me. Through showing up for her and creating inner support, I discovered true contentment. I could be vulnerable and strong because I no longer looked outside of myself for fulfillment or needed approval from others. Being comfortable in my own skin is true freedom.

You can learn more about how to nurture the inner child by watching my video “Emotional First Aid: Practices for Inner Wellbeing.” . I also do Inner Child work with clients in hypnosis sessions. To get started on your own, I recommend reading “Recovery of Your Inner Child” by Lucia Capacchione. There’s also a section on Inner Child healing in my book, “Awakening Transformation: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming Your Higher Self.”

“If you feel like you need a little nudge to put you on the path to expand your personal growth, this is the book for you!! The author shares her own path of spiritual awakening with a lot of basic steps anyone can take in order to work on their own spiritual journey. You will read it and feel inspired to make little changes that could lead to big changes within.” - K. Thompson

“Tianna is a phenomenal soul sister to guide you on your soul-awakening path. In this book, she highlights tools that are key in supporting your spiritual development. I recommend this book to anyone starting their journey but also to those of us who have been walking for a long time; it is a lovely reminder that we are all connected on this path.” - Nikki

Experience Calm and Stability Through Grounding

Grounding is incredibly helpful during this time of global instability. What is grounding? My simple definition is: keeping your mind and awareness in your body. It’s being in the present moment.

All of our fears and anxieties are not rooted in the here and now; they are  future oriented. Our body is like the root system of a tree. It keeps us connected to and supported by the Earth, grounded in this moment. Our body can only be in the Now, while our mind travels out in all directions, draining us of our life force.

As we stay centered in our body, we feel calm and stable.  Practicing even 5 or 10 minutes of grounding can be highly beneficial. It’s a great way to start your day and minimizes our reactivity to outside forces like the news and social media.

Here’s some suggested practices to help you ground:

1. Take care of your body. Get enough sleep, exercise, eat healthy food and hydrate. This is the first crucial step. If you are sleep deprived or going through sugar highs and lows, you will feel unstable and be more susceptible to worry and fear.

2. Spend time in nature. Nature is incredibly calming and grounding. Your body and mind slow down and align to the rhythm of Mother Earth.

3. Mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness is perhaps easier than other types of meditation because it doesn’t have a complicated technique. You can simply scan your body and notice what you’re sensing and feeling. This brings your energy back to your body and helps center you. Headspace is a good free app that can guide you through this.

4. Mind/body practices such as yoga or meditative martial arts keep your awareness in your body and naturally ground you. There are a lot of great free videos on Youtube.

How to Remain Centered in a Chaotic World

Happy New Year! 2020 is kicking off intensely on the world stage. How can we focus on our New Year’s intentions when we’re stressed and worried about what’s happening around us? It’s important that we have the tools to keep ourselves balanced so that we’re not shaken by all the chaos in the outer world.

Last year I stopped writing blog posts when I got busy starting up a new podcast with my friend Tim Howe. It’s called “Beyond the Illusion” and you can check it out here: https://www.beyondtheillusionpodcast.com One of my intentions for this year (the word “goal” feels heavy to me) is to get back on track with this blog, writing at least one article each month.

In the meantime, check out these previous posts. Even if you read them back when I first published them, the messages are timeless and can help you find your own inner resources to support you this year.

• Emotions Are Keys for Healing Yourself Healing your relationship to your emotions and learning how to honor them is one of the most powerful tools for transformation.

• Uncovering the Power of Your Shadow Empower yourself through reclaiming your disowned parts.

• Integration, Not Separation, Is the Path to Transformation Self criticism doesn’t make you better; it weakens you. Acceptance and encouragement are the keys to alchemizing your lower self.

• Facing Darkness and Allowing Light In Denial and distraction are draining your life force. Learn how to face darkness and find the light of inner peace.

We can’t change everything that’s happening, but we can change how we respond to life’s challenges. Wishing you an empowered & fulfilling 2020!

Let Go of Old Patterns by Uncovering the Gift of the Experience

The end of the year is a natural time for reflection.  Although time is an arbitrary invention we use to organize ourselves, it can serve as a helpful tool for evaluating our life direction.   

What would you like to leave behind in 2018, as we move into a fresh new year? 

Important note: what you resist, persists.  So I’m not asking what you want to avoid or run away from.  That never works.  Everything is energy.  Your fear or strong dislike of something actually binds you to it energetically.  You can run away from the person or situation, but you will simply attract the same energy in a different person or situation until you transform that dynamic within yourself.

So the real question is, what inner change are you willing to make in order to let go of that worn out pattern and make space for something new?  Fed up with people not honoring you?  Become more clear with expressing your boundaries.  Had it with a mundane, monotonous daily existence? Begin listening to your heart and discovering your passions.  Sick and tired of superficial relationships?  Choose to become more open and authentic. 

When you embrace the gift of the unwanted pattern or experience, you release your resistance (aka attachment) to it.  The gift is whatever it is meant to teach you.  For example, if you don’t feel respected by your boss, the gift is learning to respect yourself.  If you start respecting yourself, you will either speak up or obtain different work that is in alignment with your newfound self respect.  However, if you leave your job just to avoid the situation, without making the inner shift of self respect, you will find yourself in the same scenario at a new workplace. 

Whatever you’re ready to let go of, be sure to uncover the gift, the lesson, of the situation first.  When you can truly appreciate the experience for what it taught you, you become free of it inwardly and the transformation then happens outwardly. 

Just remember, you can’t cheat energy.  If you’re telling yourself you appreciate the lesson but you don’t honestly feel that way, the energy won’t shift and you will remain stuck. 

Every day is an opportunity to reinvent ourselves, yet it’s easy to tell ourselves, “I’ll get to it tomorrow.”  It’s easy to take time for granted, assuming there will be another day.  There’s no guarantee. 

When I first moved back to Hawaii, it felt like every day was a vacation.  I could walk to the beach any day and enjoy wading in the refreshing cool turquoise water.  Every day was sunny with temperatures in the 80s.  It didn’t take long for me to start telling myself, “I’ll go tomorrow.”  Then, “I’ll go next week.”  One day I realized a whole year had gone by without even one visit to the beach.

We take time for granted like this.  We get caught up in the small details of everyday living and miss out on the bigger picture.  365 days is ample time to see what direction we’re heading and to evaluate if it’s where we want to go. 

Do you feel more joy, peace, growth or awareness today versus January 1st this year?  Yes?  Congratulations - honor the transformation you created this year.  No?  It’s ok.  Perhaps you needed to fully experience what you didn’t want in order to finally be ready to make a change.  You can use your frustration or discomfort in any situation as motivation to change. 

Take a honest look at this year before letting it go.  Your life is a reflection of your energy and of the choices you make in each moment.  Becoming aware of how you’ve invested your time and energy in 2018 empowers you to keep going that way or to change direction and explore fresh possibilities in the upcoming year.  There’s still time left this year to shift within and create an opening for new, wonderful experiences in 2019.