There is a moment when your life no longer feels like it belongs to you.

Nothing is necessarily “wrong” on the outside. You might have built something meaningful. You might be doing what you once prayed for. And still - something in your body just knows.

There’s a heaviness, a sense of dread, a feeling that continuing forward exactly as you are would require you to abandon yourself.

That moment is often what people call a dark night of the soul.

And in my personal experience it can be just that - dark.

However, it can also be incredibly expansive. Through the undoing is the experience of coming face to face with the truth about your life - and realizing you can’t unknow it.

This solo episode of Unapologetically Yours comes from my own lived experience of spiritual awakening, burnout, misalignment, and ultimately, remembrance. Not a sudden breakthrough, not a lightning bolt where I suddenly became a whole new woman, but a slow, embodied return to myself.

For a long time, I lived a life that made sense on paper.

I had three young kids, a successful business, and a marriage that looked stable and respectable. I was deeply spiritual in many ways - connected to God, curious about meaning - but I wasn’t embodied. I didn’t trust myself. I was living by rules I had inherited, not truths I had chosen.

And when I finally saw that clearly, there was no going back.

This episode isn’t about blowing your life up. It’s about listening when something inside you starts whispering that the way you’ve been living is no longer aligned with who you are becoming.

You can listen to the full episode here:

In this episode, I talk about:

What a dark night of the soul actually feels like in real life
How burnout and misalignment show up in the body before the mind
The role of stillness in spiritual awakening
Boundaries as a form of self-trust and integrity
Taking grounded, embodied action instead of bypassing

… and so much more!

“When you face the truth about your life, you can’t unknow it. You can’t unsee it.”

— Ashley Logan

My Key Takeaways from This Episode

A spiritual awakening rarely starts with clarity.
Discomfort is often the first honest signal that the way you’ve been living is no longer aligned. Confusion doesn’t mean you’re lost; it usually means something deeper is asking to be acknowledged.
The body recognizes misalignment long before the mind can explain it.
Burnout, tension, dread, and exhaustion are not random - they’re feedback. When the body keeps raising the same flag, it’s worth listening instead of pushing through.
Boundaries aren’t about control - they’re about self-definition.
Learning where I ended and the world began changed everything - in my work, my relationships, and my sense of self. Boundaries make it possible to live in alignment without burning yourself out or abandoning your truth.
Clarity comes after movement, not before it.
Waiting until everything makes sense keeps people stuck in the same patterns. Taking a small, honest step is often what reveals what’s actually true for you.
Alignment makes misalignment impossible to ignore.
Once you start telling yourself the truth, situations, roles, and relationships that no longer fit become unmistakably clear, and pretending otherwise takes more energy than change.

If there’s one thing I want to leave you with, it’s this: when something in your life isn’t working anymore, that information matters.

A dark night of the soul will keep knocking until you listen. Not to punish you, not to force you to change everything overnight, but to get your attention.

For me, listening started with stillness - with slowing down enough to notice what felt true and what didn’t.

You don’t need to have the whole path figured out. You don’t need to know where it’s all going. You just need to be willing to listen when something inside you is asking for your attention, and to trust that paying attention is enough to begin.

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Unapologetically Yours,