You might not be able to explain it clearly — not yet. But something is moving inside you. Something is shifting. You’re not the same as you were a few months ago. You may not even be the same as you were yesterday. 

And it’s subtle.

It’s not loud like thunder or dramatic like a movie scene. It’s more like the first green shoot breaking through soil.

Quiet, tender, but undeniable. You’re not imagining it, you are changing. This isn’t a breakdown, this is becoming.

Some people call it a spiritual awakening. Others call it a life shift, an emotional opening, a consciousness expansion. It doesn’t really matter what name you give it.

What matters is that you feel it and you’re not alone.

Quiet Changes You May Have Noticed

The early stages of awakening are rarely flashy. There’s no booming voice telling you what to do. You may not even realize it is happening until.. one day, you just do. There’s no step-by-step guide dropped from the stars. You might start to feel like you’re lost at sea with no sail to guide you home. I have been there, trust me. It can be pretty disorienting at first.  

What is actually happening is much softer. Almost like a whisper.

You might notice that you feel more sensitive than usual to sound, energy, people. You may start to feel like you’re tired of pretending, tired of roles, tired of the noise. Maybe you feel like crying more often and you’re not sure why. Things that used to entertain you now feel hollow. You’re drawn to nature, poetry, silence, ritual. You feel like you’re slowly remembering something you once knew, almost as if you’re experiencing Deja Vu. Or perhaps, you feel just the opposite, like you’re slowly forgetting something that was never true.

You might even start seeing small synchronicities. A word that repeats, a song at the right moment, a memory returning.

None of it makes full sense yet.
But your soul knows.
It’s waking up.

A Story From My Path

I didn’t always have words for what I was feeling. For years, I thought I was just tired of working, tired of showing up, for being everything for everyone. Maybe I was just too sensitive. Or felt like I was too much. But there were moments, little ones. When the world tilted just slightly, and something in me stirred.

One night, I saved a ladybug. I didn’t think much of it at the time. But then I saw leaves fall, one by one, as if responding. Then branches started to fall like someone was cutting them from the tree. But there was no one there, I looked. The wind rose up and the trees swayed like they were listening. And I knew.. something had answered me. There were no flashing lights. No grand visions. Just a quiet sense of being seen.

That’s when I began to understand:

I wasn’t losing my mind. I was finding my way back to the deeper mind — the one that remembers.

There were other moments too. Dreams that felt older than this life. Poems that wrote themselves as if someone else whispered them. Physical sensations I couldn’t explain, like a warmth and a vibrational hum in my belly when the veil was thin. Whispers while sleeping. Dizziness in certain places.

At first, I thought I was making it up. Like I was really going crazy. But then I realized that this was not fantasy. If this wasn’t real, how can I feel it physically in my body. How can the Earth respond to me in ways that aren’t just random, they’re undeniable.  

And I’ve come to believe this, when you feel something changing in you — you are not broken. You are being invited back inward. To the truth and to who you were always meant to be, beneath the noise and the illusion. 

What Awakening Often Looks Like

There’s a myth that awakening is glamorous. That it feels like enlightenment or euphoria or cosmic bliss. But the truth is much simpler and often, messier. It usually starts as a crack. Not a break. Just a subtle cracking of what once held you. The stories. The roles. The versions of yourself you thought were required.

And through that crack comes… stillness. Then grief. Then light.

You might find yourself walking slower. Speaking softer. Or suddenly crying in the kitchen because the old way no longer feels bearable. That’s awakening too.

You might feel a strong desire to clean, declutter, and strip things down. Or the opposite — to nest, ground, surround yourself with beauty and comfort. Emotional waves may come without explanation. You may feel a longing to be alone, even as you crave deep connection. Sudden insights that feel like memories from a life you never lived may start to pour in one by one. You might sense a feeling of liminality, as though you’re between worlds.

And you are between worlds. Because the world is shifting and so are you.

Naming the Shift

When people feel change but don’t have language for it, they often think something is wrong.

But sometimes what you’re feeling is not a problem to fix. It’s an energy to name.

What you’re sensing might be something deeper. It could arrive as emotional realignment — old wounds resurfacing not to harm you, but to be held. Spiritual awakening — a call from the deeper parts of yourself. Energetic sensitivity — the veil thinning, your body learning to feel again.

These shifts can manifest physically too:

• Dizziness in sacred spaces
• A fluttering in the chest or womb
• A sensation of falling or floating, especially before sleep
• Vivid dreams or symbolic visions
• Tingling in your hands, spine, or forehead

You might feel a magnetic pull toward natural materials, ancient words, symbols, stones.

You might begin to understand animals, plants, and whispers of wind in ways you never have before. You’re not crazy, you’re clearing. You’re not broken, you’re becoming.

Why It’s Happening Now

You might wonder why now? Why me? Why this moment in time?

There isn’t a single answer, but I believe there is a rhythm beneath everything. A spiral of return. And when your soul is ready, it stirs. Sometimes the shift is triggered by a life event like birth, loss, love, burnout, trauma, illness. Sometimes it just rises, quietly, like water beneath dry ground.

In my case, it came after stopping hormonal birth control. It deepened slowly over time. After a health scare. After giving birth. After re-entering a home that once held trauma.

After writing stories I didn’t understand were messages from myself. This is when I really started to realize what was happening.

There are often clues that your deeper self has been trying to reach you for years. The pull you feel now is not new, it’s just louder. Because the veil is thinner now than it used to be. Because your roots have grown strong enough to hold your light.

You were always going to awaken. You just didn’t know when the spiral would turn.

The Spiral Path

It’s easy to feel like you’re unraveling. Like you’re back at the beginning or worse, losing ground.

Awakening doesn’t move in straight lines. It moves in spirals and it isn’t a linear path. You move forward and backwards like the chambers of a nautilus shell. You may revisit old memories, emotions, patterns. This doesn’t mean that you’ve failed. The back and forth happens because you’re revisiting, seeing things from the past with new eyes. The spiral brings you back but each time, you’re on a higher turn. You’re not the same as you were the last time you stood in that place. You’re wiser. Softer. More awake.

This is how healing works. It’s not a destination, it’s a rhythm. You are not regressing, you are remembering. In a spiral, every return is a reclamation. You are weaving yourself back together,  piece by sacred piece.

So if you feel like you’re looping, moving in circles, forgetting what you once knew, take heart.

This is the shape of becoming who you were truly meant to be all along.

How to Stay Present Through the Change

When your inner world starts shifting, your outer world might feel disorienting. What once made sense now feels hollow. What once brought comfort may now feel too heavy.

So what do you do? You come home to your presence. That doesn’t mean staying calm all the time. It means staying with yourself even when you tremble.

A few ways to stay grounded during this unfolding are naming what you feel. Even if it’s confusing. Language brings light. Find anchors. Stones, scents, songs, or sacred objects that return you to center. Spend time in nature. The Earth holds you better than any explanation. Limit the noise. Social media, advice, outside voices, they can cloud your own. Let silence speak. Not every answer comes in words. Some arrive in stillness. Hold a rhythm. A morning tea, a daily walk, a candle lit at dusk, the body remembers safety through repetition.

Above all, know this, you don’t need to understand everything right now. Presence is more powerful than understanding. Just stay close to yourself.

Gentle Practices That Supported Me

When I was in the early waves of change, I didn’t need a program. I needed permission to slow down, to feel, to listen.

Here are a few soft practices that held me:

1. The Return Stone
I carried a small spiral stone in my pocket. When I felt overwhelmed, I held it and whispered: “I return to myself.” You can choose any object; a stone, a shell, a leaf and let it become your anchor.

2. Moon Water + Touch Ritual
Each full moon, I placed water under the night sky. The next morning, I anointed my wrists or forehead with it, saying: “I am held. I am clear. I am becoming.” This helped me mark time in a soul-aligned way, not by the calendar, but by presence.

3. Daily Breath Presence
Just one minute. A hand on the heart. A hand on the womb. Breathe. Say nothing. Just be with yourself.

4. Remembrance Journal
I began writing down small veil moments. A whisper, a flicker, a symbol, a memory returned. These became my Remembrance Map, a way to honor what was once hidden rising back into the light.

These practices weren’t about fixing. They were about feeling. They were about remembering that I am not alone. And now, I offer them freely to you because presence is not something I keep. It’s something I share.

A Whisper Forward

If you’ve read this far, I want to say this clearly.. You are not behind. You are not too late. You are not broken. You are becoming.

You are at the edge of something sacred and though you may not have a map yet, you have something deeper, a pull, a thread, a spark.

This is how it begins. Not with certainty, but with feeling. Not with perfection, but with presence. You do not need to rush. You do not need to prove. You are enough, right now, exactly as you are — sensitive, shifting, soft, and stirred.

Let the spiral hold you. Let the questions breathe. Let your soul come home in its own time. You are not alone in this. And you were never meant to walk it in silence.

Final Reflection and Optional Next Step

If you’re feeling something shifting in you… trust it. If you’d like to begin anchoring into this change gently, here are a few soft offerings.

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Journal Prompt

Let this question open something for you: What part of me is quietly awakening and what would it like me to know?

You might not have an answer right away. That’s okay. The listening is the practice.

And remember, you are not here to be fixed. You are here to remember. And I am honored to walk beside you, even for a moment, as you spiral home to yourself. Feel free to reach out gently if you feel called. This is a space of deep respect, no pressure, no performance, only presence.