Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com.

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I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while.

Now, on to the episode.

This is the first episode in my brand new series of the podcast,

which I am calling Awakening. If you've been a regular listener of my

triggered series, I invite you to join me on this next phase of our journey. This is the natural

progression of our work together, because intuitively, I've been getting guidance very strongly to shift from the

triggered series into our next logical step in evolution, spiritual evolution, which means

shifting into a more awakened and conscious state. This doesn't mean I won't ever do an episode of Triggered again,

and in many ways we're going to continue to deal with our triggers and challenges in this new series.

But I do feel the point of our triggers really is to use them as opportunities to wake up and release unconsciousness

in ourselves to move into a state of conscious awareness. So we are shifting from a state of being

constantly triggered and identified with the ego into an awakened state. But if you notice, I'm not calling

the series awake or awakened, but rather awakening in the continuous sense, because awakening is an

ongoing process while we are here in these human bodies. And I actually recently

got an email about this from someone asking me, well, how long does the awakening process last?

Particularly because this process can be uncomfortable at times and it it can feel destabilizing, and we can feel

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