Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast

As you heal and continue awakening on your spiritual path, you'll often start doing things like: showing up as authentically yourself in the world, setting healthier boundaries, and saying NO instead of compulsively saying YES to things you don't really want to do. You'll also start outgrowing certain people, places, relationships, and situations. As you do all of this, some people will... freak o...

The Akashic Records are often misunderstood — seen as a static archive of information, reduced to past-life healing, gatekept by claims of special psychic ability, or treated as something you only access through one "correct" method. In this episode, I'm setting the record *about* the Records straight. We're breaking down the top misconceptions that keep people from connecting to the Records consi...

Do you sometimes feel invisible (or like an alien) around other people, maybe even your own family? Like everyone else is speaking English, or Spanish, or Japanese, or some other "native" language... and you're speaking alien gibberish that no one can understand?? If so, you're not alone! In this bonus episode of "Navigating the Spiritual Crisis", we'll explore: why spiritual awakening can create...

In this Akashic Records meditation, we'll carve out sacred time to slow down, retreat from the external world, and return home to your natural inner rhythm. In our modern, fast-moving, often chaotic world, we've gotten lost in the weeds of external noise & chatter & endless stimuli... which also means we've disconnected from the pace of nature and from our own natural, healthy, aligned, inner rhyt...

What's really happening during a spiritual crisis, and what is "ego death"? In this second installment of my "Navigating the Spiritual Crisis" series, we'll explore: what is the spiritual crisis or spiritual awakening? how the spiritual crisis tends to dissolve or break apart the ego, and how this can feel as you're going through it the problem of ego identification: when you feel & believe you AR...

Welcome to your Akashic Records Guidance & Forecast for June 2026! We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month. The Akashic Records are a flexible, transformative, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot. I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools o...

In this ongoing podcast series, I interview Akashic Records Practitioners who completed my Akashic Records Certification Program to explore how working with the Records has transformed their lives. We discuss topics such as: what it means to "hear the call of the Records" (and answer that call) the vast healing, personal evolution, and growth that happens when we activate the energy of the Akashic...

What is the spiritual crisis or "dark night of the Soul" - and are you in one right now? (If you are, you're not alone.) Some aspects of the spiritual crisis can include: connecting to dimensions, experiences, realities beyond the 3D, linear, human dimension - can include connecting to "invisible" beings such as Spirit Guides, angels, archangels, ascended masters, mythological figures, etc feeling...

Is Archangel Metatron the "overseer" or "master keeper" of the Akashic Records? What's his relationship to the Records, if any? You may have heard or read something about this at some point, so let's clarify this idea and trace it back to where it really comes from. As always, my highest intention is to provide you with grounded, ethical, clear, and transformative ways to understand and USE the Ak...

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for May 2026! We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month. The Akashic Records are a flexible, transformative, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot. I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of do...

This is a follow-up to bonus episode "Can we keep the Akashic Records open ALL of the time?" In that previous video, we explored whether it's possible to keep the Akashic Records open all of the time, 24/7... and some of my suggestions for doing so. In this follow-up, I address a few subscribers' questions to explore: what's the value and use of a portal (opening) prayer or method to intentionally...

💫 Get the FREE AKASHIC RECORDS MINI COURSE: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/ "Can I keep my Akashic Records open all of the time?" and "What happens if I forget to close the Records?" are two of the TOP questions I get as an Akashic Records teacher. The Akashic Records, also known as the "Book of Life", are a vast storehouse of information and Universal guidance. As their name...

In this Akashic Records meditation, I'll guide you through 4 different settings within the Records to harness the energy and healing power of the 4 elements: Water, Air, Earth, and Fire. We'll also do some healing, releasing, and clearing of what no longer serves you while we spend this time together in the Akashic Field. Join me for this profound journey where you'll receive healing and light dir...

The Akashic Records are a direct line to Divine Source and a powerful field of healing, light, and unconditional Love. Unlike our human relationships, the Records are unlimited, free of ego, free of personal agendas or attachments... and they love each of us unconditionally. In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore the key differences between human relationships (which tend to be conditional,...

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for April 2026! We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month. The Akashic Records are a flexible, transformative, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot. I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of...

In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll cover 4 tell-tale signs that you're here to embody the healer or lightworker archetype as one of your Divine missions in this lifetime. Self-doubt is one of the greatest blocks (and inner threats) we face as healers and lightworkers, because it holds us back from fully trusting ourselves and stepping into our gifts NOW. If you've been doubting your intuitive or...

Someone offered to clone me; or, create an "AI avatar" of me so I could put it everywhere online. Is this where the world is going?? In this bonus episode of INNER WORK, I share the story of what happened, my thoughts on this kind of use of AI in spiritual work (and running an online-based spiritual business), and how I responded to this offer. Join me for this RANT on the state of the world and t...

The Akashic Records are a powerful Divine tool for healing, spiritual evolution, and psychospiritual growth. The Records are here to assist in humanity's evolution, and they contain the FULL trajectory of your Soul's evolution across time and space. In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore an essential truth about the Akashic Records that most people get wrong - and which limits their capacity...

In this Akashic Records guided meditation, we'll tap into the Akashic frequency together and do a body scan for complete healing on ALL levels of your being. Join me for this profound experience where you'll receive quantum healing and light directly from the Records (and from Divine Source). Suggested guidance to get the MOST from this meditation: make sure you can carve out sacred time for yours...

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for March 2026! We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month. The Akashic Records are a flexible, inclusive, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot. I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of doing...

Often unknowingly, many Akashic Record readers and practitioners are breaking ethical guidelines and perpetuating harmful power dynamics in the reader-client relationship. This is not only harmful to the people we're here to serve, but also prevents readers and healers from doing the highest-level, transformative, impactful work they're really here to do. Let's change this! I believe strongly in R...

Your intuition is already speaking to you in daily life. Are you listening? In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll break down 5 ways your intuition can communicate with you and send you helpful messages as you navigate reality and align with your Highest Purpose. Join me for a discussion of: Psychosynthesis framework of "six psychological functions" and how these relate to your intuition 5 ways you...

The Akashic Records are a vast field of consciousness, information, light, and healing energy. By exploring what the Records are NOT, in this bonus episode of Inner Work we'll further define what they actually ARE. Join me for a discussion of how the Akashic Records are NOT: a vending machine (lol) a fortune teller or predictive tool a party trick an escape from reality a way to spiritually bypass...

Do you struggle with imposter syndrome?     This syndrome has been defined as a "persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately earned as a result of one's own efforts, talents, skills, or gifts." I would also describe imposter syndrome as an ongoing feeling or belief that you're inadequate, not worthy, not good enough, and/or a "fraud" who's about to be fi...

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for February 2026. In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore: guidance & key themes from the Akashic Records for February 2026 where the Records suggest we focus our intention, energy, and inner work in February 2026 a major emphasis on re-calibrating and re-evaluating your intentions and goals for 2026, with specific questions to ask from the Record Kee...