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.

One of the highest, most important goals you're probably trying to achieve on your path of spiritual

awakening is to become less reactive, to respond to situations from

a place of wisdom, higher truth, and confidence, instead of responding out of fear, worry,

anger, or any kind of knee-jerk reaction. This goal of becoming less reactive and therefore

becoming more centered and grounded in each present moment

is what inspired this new experimental series of mini episodes, which I'm calling triggered with an exclamation point,

because when you get triggered, it can be pretty intense, and also to bring some levity and lightness

to the process of awakening and spiritual development, which can sometimes really challenge you.

In these mini episodes, I will bring you a specific scenario.

So in this first mini episode, we'll be working with what happens and what to do

when you put yourself out there and someone criticizes you. In future episodes, we will dive

into other triggering situations like when your family or your in-laws don't understand your

spiritual journey, when you feel't understand your spiritual journey,

when you feel lonely on your spiritual path,

when you feel wracked by guilt after saying no to someone or something,

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