What is a Spiritual Awakening?

What Is a Spiritual Awakening? (A down-to-earth way of looking at it)

A spiritual awakening is simply the moment you realise the life you’ve been living no longer matches who you’re becoming.

It isn't always dramatic, and it doesn’t have to be all mystical either. It often doesn’t feel anything near what you might think of as “spiritual” at all.

Most people describe it like this:

• “Something feels off and I can’t pretend anymore.”

• “I don’t recognise my old self, but I don’t know who I am now.”

• “Everything that used to make sense suddenly feels too small or pointless.”

A spiritual awakening is a shift in awareness. You start seeing yourself, your patterns, your relationships, and your choices with new clarity — and it changes what you can tolerate.

For many people, awakening begins quietly:

• A friendship suddenly feels weird.

• A job becomes unbearable.

• A trauma resurfaces out of nowhere.

• A question pops up: Is this really it?

You begin to shed the old self long before the new self appears. And it’s this in-between — the “betwixt” — where people often feel lost, overwhelmed, or “not quite here, not quite there”. That liminal space is the awakening.

Why It Happens

Awakening is usually triggered by one of three things:

1. Crisis — divorce, burnout, loss, illness

2. Expansion — therapy, healing, spiritual practice, moving

3. Accumulation — a slow build-up of “I can’t do this anymore”

It’s not a sign that something is wrong with you. It’s a sign that something old is ending so something true can begin.

Signs You’re Awakening

• You feel disconnected from old friendships or roles

• You’re questioning everything you used to accept

• You can’t ignore the voice inside anymore

• You’re more sensitive, emotional, or intuitive

• You feel “in between versions” of yourself

• You crave meaning, depth, truth

• You feel overwhelmed by life, even if nothing is “wrong”

What Awakening Is Not

• A personality makeover

• Becoming instantly enlightened

• A constant state of bliss

• Burning your whole life down in a weekend

Awakening is slow. Messy. Human. It's not Instagram-perfect, and it definitely won't fit the 'aesthetic'! It doesn’t ask you to become someone new — just to stop abandoning who you already are.

If You’re In It Right Now

You’re not losing yourself. You’re actually returning to yourself. And you don’t have to figure it out alone. This is the heart of We Are Betwixt — the space between the old life and the new, where clarity comes slowly, but it does come.

If you’re in this in-between place and nothing seems to make sense right now, you’re welcome to sit with me in an Integration Session. It's a calm, grounded space to untangle what’s shifting, understand the patterns underneath, and find your next step without pressure or urgency.

You can book a session or join the mailing list here: www.wearebetwixt.co.uk