Today’s guest, Lauren Dionysius, shares with us her incredible life's journey and awakening. A former NICU nurse working with babies born into the world with the toughest challenges, Lauren had a near-death experience in the Zambezi River while on a much needed career break in Africa.

On her return home, Lauren felt the deep inner call to return to work in the NICU, but found herself bargaining with the universe for things to be different. Little did she know what she’d just asked for.

When Lauren returned to work she began having profound spiritual experiences with the babies she was caring for. Initially thinking she was going mad, she realised that the wisdom these babies were sharing with her completely changed how she cared for babies clinically and also her own beliefs around birth, life and death.

Lauren discusses the shared death experiences she had with several babies in the NICU, where she witnessed the transition of their souls from the physical world to the spiritual realm. She describes feeling the energy of the babies leaving their physical bodies and the sense of freedom and peace they experienced.

Lauren shares in detail what she learned from these babies about why they choose to come to Earth and how they leave for their own reasons, which are often unknown or not considered by society.

Lauren shares with us the profound insights she’s gleaned from these experiences about the true nature of reality, life and death and emphasizes the importance of holding space for both the beauty and the grief of these experiences.

• Shared death experiences provide a front-row seat to the transition of a soul from the physical to the spiritual realm.
• These experiences have changed how Lauren cares for babies clinically and have deepened her understanding of the bigger picture of life.
• Babies choose to come to Earth and leave for their own reasons, which are often unknown or not considered by society.
• Witnessing the transition of babies can be a powerful and transformative experience, challenging societal beliefs about death.
• Holding space for both the beauty and the grief of these experiences can help change our perspective and reduce suffering.
• There is a much bigger picture to life, and we are more vast and expansive than our human bodies.
• The awakening process can be uncomfortable and confrontational, but it opens us up to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the soul's journey.

Shadi Sadeghi is a certified life coach in Jungian psychology and an Emotion Code practitioner. Her method combines depth psychology, Eastern philosophy, social neuroscience, and emotional energy work to guide her clients through the transformative process of awakening to their true selves. Shadi's journey to becoming a Jungian coach started with her own personal development journey and a spiritual quest from a young age. She discovered the power of Jungian coaching and the shifts it brought in her life, leading her to become a coach herself. She now helps others integrate their shadow, release past conditioning, and manifest their true desires. In this conversation, Kate, Amanda, and Shadi discuss practical ways to broaden our awareness and tap into our potential for manifestation. They emphasize the importance of shadow work, which involves examining our triggers and judgments to uncover hidden aspects of ourselves. They also explore the role of relationships in our personal development journey, highlighting how our projections onto others can reveal our own unconscious patterns. The conversation touches on the concepts of divine masculine and feminine, the conditioning of society and family, and the power of curiosity and self-inquiry. Shadi offers shadow work sessions and incorporates energy work into her coaching practice.

• Shadi's method combines depth psychology, Eastern philosophy, social neuroscience, and emotional energy work to guide clients through the transformative process of awakening to their true selves.
• The journey to becoming whole and awakening to our true selves is called individuation in Jungian psychology.
• The personal unconscious, or shadow, is formed through childhood experiences and conditioning, and it contains repressed emotions and traits that we deny or reject.
• By integrating the shadow and expanding awareness, we can tap into the collective unconscious and access intuition, inspiration, and synchronicities.
• Setting intentions and expanding awareness can activate the reticular activating system (RAS) in the brain, allowing us to notice opportunities and experiences aligned with our desires. Broadening our awareness and tapping into our potential requires doing shadow work, which involves examining our triggers and judgments.
• Our relationships can serve as mirrors, reflecting our unconscious patterns and providing opportunities for growth.
• Integrating the divine masculine and feminine within ourselves leads to wholeness and empowers us as creators.
• Curiosity and self-inquiry are key to uncovering our true selves and breaking free from conditioning.
• Having compassion for ourselves and investing in our personal development journey are important for growth and evolution.

In this episode, we discuss new earth relationships and how they serve as catalysts for personal growth. We explore the shift from the old paradigm of relationships to the new paradigm, where partnerships are based on resonance, shared values, and purpose.

We share our experience of creating this podcast, even though we’d never met in person before and had only ever had two face to face interactions online. Through this example we highlight the power of doing the inner work and following your intuition as it pertains to people and relationships in our lives.

We discuss how each relationship we enter is a mirror for our strengths and our shadow, and an opportunity for us to heal and grow. And that new earth relationships based on respect, appreciation and mutual growth are powerful catalysts for stepping into being our authentic selves.

Finally we discuss the power of community and finding soul connections, even if they are not physically present.

• Relationships are a catalyst for personal growth and can help us see our shadow and strengths.
• The old paradigm of relationships was based on power dynamics, while the new paradigm is about resonance and shared purpose.
• Finding the right partnerships and valuing each other's strengths is key to personal and collective growth.
• Collaboration allows us to express ourselves authentically and create a platform for others to do the same.
• Knowing our own designs and honoring them can help us find the right partnerships and navigate collaborations.Doing the inner work and following your intuition can attract aligned relationships.
• Relationships can be easy and transformative when both parties are committed to mutual growth and respect.
• Community and soul connections can be found even if they are not physically present