I would say spiritual awakenings.

They are meant to help you to become who you're supposed to become.

It's almost like shedding old skin.

You have to outgrow it. You just have to. You've got no choice.

You're going forward or you're staying still.

And when you're stagnant, I really believe that kind of elicits the depression. It's like you are resisting

who you're supposed to be or you're not letting go of something in the past. It could be who you were,

a strong sense of self, your identity, or it could be something that you're attached to, even a trauma that you're attached to and you're not unraveling it, understanding it and letting it go. You know, you're not letting yourself kind of

breathe and just go through life. I always say like the best philosophy to go through with,

which is very similar to what, you know, Islam teaches us is to stride the path of the least

resistance. It just means that the world is constantly moving and free flowing.

And if you're not free flowing with it, you're going to get stuck and tangled in there.

And being tangled is painful, especially when you're going against the current.

You have to let go and go with the movement of what's happening in your life.

What exactly is a spiritual awakening and why is it so painful?

You're listening to Unsween and Unfiltered the podcast, episode 23 of season three.

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conversations? I tend to believe that our mental breakdowns are truly spiritual

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you're storing it, and that can get pretty heavy. In today's episode, I sit down with

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