Hello and welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm Josephine Hartman, your podcast host, and a certified intuitive healer and Akashik Records practitioner and teacher.

So I've been working personally with the records for 21 years now and about a decade

using the Akashic records professionally with clients and students. So in all of that time,

some of the most common questions I have gotten and continue to get

that I help people explore through the records are questions like, what is my soul's purpose?

What am I truly here to do? What am I here to heal and learn? How am I here to

evolve? What are my soul level gifts? What am I here to contribute? I have used the records many,

many times to answer these kinds of questions for myself,

to stay in alignment with my highest purpose in this lifetime.

And I use the records to answer these questions, especially as I was leaving my 10-year

career in the academic world to switch over and do

spiritual work full-time. So the records were an invaluable tool and resource for me during

that transition. And I've also used the records countless times to help other people answer these questions for

themselves. So here's what I'm seeing in the world today. Many people are experiencing what I call

a crisis of purpose. Many people are realizing that they've been conditioned to live

according to others' ideas, expectations, and demands, which has resulted in them

disconnecting from their intuition, their truth, their inner knowing, and their authentic

purpose. So many people are waking up to this reality and also waking up to who they really are.

People are discovering that living out of alignment with their true purpose is not

sustainable. It's draining and it creates a sense of dissatisfaction with life. It creates a sense of

restlessness and it's just not, again, it's not

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