Awaken Your Authentic Self

What if your soul chose this lifetime for a reason? What if your hardest experiences were preparation, not punishment? An Akashic Records reading revealed a past life of bondage, survival and a sacred assignment that changed how Jessica Rooks understands her life, her healing journey and the work she is here to do. In this deeply personal flip-the-script episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self , hos...

Why can you understand your patterns and still feel stuck in them? In this episode, somatic psychotherapist Melanie Smithson explains how somatic healing and nervous system regulation help your body release what your mind already knows - and why talk therapy alone isn't enough. This week host Jessica Rooks sits down with Melanie   Smithson a Licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, Dance Movement Therapi...

Why do women feel stuck in life , even when they're ready for a change? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lynda Leonce , authenticity coach, mentor, and author of Inside Out Creation: Your Path to Inner Alignment , to explore limiting beliefs, subconscious conditioning, people pleasing , and the untruths that keep women disconnected from their authen...

Shadow work and why you can't see your own blind spots may reveal why the same emotional patterns keep repeating, even after years of inner work . In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with spiritual teacher , Vedic astrologer, Enneagram practitioner, and author Indra Rinzler to explore the hidden aspects of ourselves we struggle to see - and how recognizing t...

What if a lifetime on the world's biggest stages still leaves you asking: Who am I? Childhood trauma healing, inner child healing, and belonging with singer and author Machan Taylor (Pink Floyd, Sting, Pat Benatar) on Awaken Your Authentic Self with Jessica Rooks. In this deeply personal conversation, Machan Taylor joins host Jessica Rooks to explore identity, belonging, childhood trauma healing,...

Why don't I feel like myself anymore? If you're in the in-between space of spiritual awakening, identity transformation, and anxiety - where who you were no longer fits but who you're becoming isn't clear yet - this conversation is for you. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, Jessica Rooks sits down with Helen Ye Plehn, founder of Helen Creates Beauty, creator of The Aura Color Wheel, a...

If you experienced  childhood trauma and are still carrying the wound beneath your story, healing your inner child may be less about fixing what's broken and more about remembering who you really are. In this episode Jessica Rooks, host of Awaken Your Authentic Self a show for empaths and old souls navigating awakening and trauma healing , sits down with John R. Spender, a 45-time international be...

What if the people you've lost - your mother, your father, the person you never got to say goodbye to - what if they never actually left? In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chris Lippincott, international evidential psychic medium, trance medium, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and host of Spirits Beside Us, to explore mediumship, afterlife...

What if the pain you're carrying isn't yours? What if some of the patterns , emotional wounds, grief, or energetic imprints you've spent years trying to heal began before you ever had a chance to choose them. In this conversation Cindy Bain joins host Jessica Rooks on  Awaken Your Authentic Self  to explore ancestral healing, Reiki healing, spiritual awakening, grief, Spiritually Transformative Ex...

Why are you still stuck after loss - even when you know you're ready to move forward? And what if the shift from grief to joy begins with reconnecting to who you truly are? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chanoa Inez - personal branding advisor, copywriter, messaging strategist , and author of Dream On: How to Create the New Life of Your Dreams Afte...

Shadow work. Planetary magic. And how your deepest wounds may actually be the key to reclaiming your power. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Lucy Baldwin - planetary magic teacher, shadow alchemy guide, priestess, podcaster, and founder of Remolina Coaching - for a powerful conversation about shadow work, planetary magic, healing, personal transforma...

What if nervous system restoration - not another protocol - is the missing link to healing chronic illness naturally? After 20 years with MS , Christine Ruch discovered that nervous system regulation, somatic healing , and ultimately nervous system restoration changed everything. In this sacred space, holistic transformation guide Christine Ruch joins Jessica to share her extraordinary 20-year jou...

What if the life you've built isn't broken...but you've simply outgrown it? Have you ever felt a quiet, undeniable truth stirring in your body: "The life I'm living is too small for who I've become"? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks, creator of of this sacred space for empaths, old souls, and truth-tellers ready to remember who they really are, sits down with Rite...

If you're doing everything right but still feel empty, you may be experiencing high functioning burnout , a profound spiritual awakening , or an identity shift - especially if you're navigating a midlife transition where the life you built no longer fits who you're becoming. This episode explores the connection between high functioning burnout, spiritual awakening, identity crisis, personal transf...

Nervous system healing and spiritual awakening share a missing piece most people never find - and it lives in the body, beneath every pattern the mind cannot reach. In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with Melissa Minnich - M.S in Consciousness & Human Potential, #1 international best selling Hay House author of High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss , Foun...

What if healing your trauma isn't about thinking differently - but feeling differently? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with Shamanic Medicine Woman, Keening Grief Tender, Executive Coach, and Art Historian Martha Wright for a conversation about nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and why lasting trauma recovery begins in the body - not the mind...

Do you walk into a room and immediately feel everyone's emotional state - their anxiety , their grief , their unspoken tension - as if it were your own? What if one of the most powerful tools for navigating uncertainty wasn't about controlling the world around you...but learning to work with a higher frequency of love, compassion, and consciousness ? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self,...

Are you constantly pushing through exhaustion , wondering why your usual spiritual practices aren't enough to prevent burnout? What if your energy isn't failing you - but your timing is? In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with Master Astrologer, Hermetic Philosophy teacher, martial artist, and author Aleksandra Ceho for a conversation that challenges th...

I saw my own death in a past life regression - and it became the moment that helped me understand my life in an entirely new way. It is a moment that may sound terrifying, but for me, it became a key to unlocking a deeper layer of emotional healing, spiritual healing, and self-discovery. In this deeply personal episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self , the tables are turned. I step into the guest se...

Have you ever felt emotionally exhausted, energetically drained, or unable to find peace no matter how much inner work you've done? In this powerful live sound healing episode, host Jessica Rooks welcomes Greg Palma - founder of Singing Spheres and a former classical opera singer - whose extraordinary spiritual awakening transformed him into a vessel for channeling healing frequencies through the...

What if the exhaustion, brain fog, emotional overwhelm , or restless sleep you're experiencing isn't just stress - but something deeper? In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with internationally renowned energy healer Herman Petrick for a thought-provoking conversation about spiritual warfare, sleep paralysis, energy clearing , and the energetic boundaries,...

What if the key to emotional healing and trauma recovery isn't holding on tighter - but physically transforming it? In this episode of the Awaken Your Authentic Self podcast , host Jessica Rooks speaks with professional artist and transformational guide Devorah Brinkerhoff to explore " Sacred Destruction " - the radical healing practice of destroying personal mementos, photos, and journals, then r...

What if the ordinary deck of playing cards is actually an ancient map of your soul blueprint ? Discover how the Source Cards system reveals your life purpose, karmic lessons, shadow work patterns , and spiritual awawkening path - hidden in plain sight for centuries. In this powerful episode of Awaken Your Authentic self , host Jessica Rooks sits down with Alexander Dunlop and Viki Scudiery to unco...

The conflict you avoid isn't the one that heals you - it's the one you transform from within. Conflict resolution, subconscious healing, and emotional regulation are deeply connected - and in this powerful episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with mother-daughter duo Paige Farrington and Ashlyn Prendergast, co-founders of Love Ignites Peace , to explore how unresolve...

What if the reason you're still exhausted isn't because you're not doing enough - but because your nervous system was trained for survival instead of safety? In this deeply transformative episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Camilla Calberg - former Fortune 500 transformative leader, founder of She Leads , and mentor to high-performing women - for a powerful con...