Spiritually Bypassing Growth: How Astrology, Tarot & the Healing Journey Kept Me Stuck | with host Emily Duncan
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This is an episode I've wanted to do for a while. I'm getting really honest about my own experience falling deep into the neo-spiritual world: astrology, human design, tarot, the divine feminine conversation, manifestation, all of it, and how what felt like growth was actually keeping me stuck.
My fitness was regressing, my business was regressing, and I wasn't becoming a better person. I was just consuming information and calling it progress.
In this episode, I walk through the specific ways I see women (myself included) using spiritual tools to bypass personal responsibility, avoid discomfort, outsource their authority, and stay trapped in a healing identity that never transitions into actually living.
Then I share what actually changed for me: stripping everything down, choosing accountability over alignment, building self-trust through reps instead of readings, and finding a spiritual practice rooted in both reality and personal responsibility. This is not anti-spirituality. This is pro-you. If you've ever wondered why all the journaling, card pulls, and ceremonies aren't translating into real change in your life, this one is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | But I just kind of looked around my life one day and I realized nothing was actually getting better |
| 0:05.1 | because of me doing my card pulls or because of me looking at my birth chart or the transit |
| 0:11.1 | chart or because I was following my human design better. Nothing in my life was actually getting |
| 0:15.0 | better. My fitness was regressing. My business was regressing. And I just, I wasn't truly growing as a person. Welcome to Embody Radio, |
| 0:24.5 | the premiere podcast for ambitious women ready to elevate their body, mind, and life to the next level. |
| 0:29.7 | On this show, we've used high performance, wellness and aesthetics, and self-mastery into a real |
| 0:34.4 | world blueprint for personal excellence. Each week, you'll get real, grounded |
| 0:38.3 | strategies and unfiltered conversations with high performers who walk the talk, no fluff, and no fake |
| 0:43.4 | hype. Because excellence isn't an accident. It's embodiment. And this is Mbody Radio. |
| 0:50.2 | Girl, what's up and welcome back to Mbody Radio where excellence isn't an accident. It's something |
| 0:54.1 | you live. I'm your host, Emily Duncan. Welcome back to another show. Today, we are here |
| 0:59.3 | to talk about one of y'all's favorite topics and honestly one of my favorites as well, because |
| 1:05.7 | truthfully, like the span of this topic cannot be covered, I don't think, in one episode. But I know that I have |
| 1:14.2 | talked with you guys a lot about kind of my spiritual journey going through the whole soft |
| 1:21.0 | girl, neo-spiritual thing and just kind of coming out on the other side of it. And I wanted to talk about this again today and go into a little more, what's the goal |
| 1:33.1 | at least is practical detail for all of you. |
| 1:36.7 | Some of you maybe have never been in this space. |
| 1:39.3 | Some of you are maybe like starting to see the kind of spiritual, soft girl, divine, feminine, whatever content |
| 1:48.1 | for maybe the first time. Maybe you're seeing like the healing journey content. Maybe some of you |
| 1:53.1 | are similar to me and you've been through it. Maybe some of you are smack dab in the middle of it. |
| 1:56.6 | And this hopefully finds you at a time and place in your life where you really, really need it. |
| 2:01.5 | But my goal today is to help you better identify where you may be using things like spiritual |
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