A Spiritual Blog: How to Be True To The Soul

Spirituality is important because it gives us a context for life. It gives us meaning and helps us understand who we are and how we fit into this complicated world.

Because life is challenging at times, joy filled as well… and either way, we need something to hold onto and guide us. I know I do.

My blog started because of my fascination with the soul.  As a soul coach, I’ve guided countless others to their own souls to help them express what must come out.

This article hopes to blend soulful wisdom with insights from soul-centered leaders and writers… for a journey towards self-discovery.

This spiritual blog

The content on ​my blog​ covers spiritual growth and three pillars under that: Your soul, spiritual guidance, and tools for transformation.

In addition, here’s my Guide to Spiritual Growth as a quick reference. These are the subjects I’ve been drawn to on my own spiritual path.

1. The soul

Here’s my detailed definition of the soul… after over 25 years of studying the soul. And, here’s a one sentence definition: Your soul is: eternal, evolving, and the true essence of you.

The soul works with the body and mind it’s been given. The soul holds an outline of your life.

In addition, the soul is designed to heal. It’s one of the purposes of your life is to heal your life.

If you’re interested in connecting with your own soul, my article How To Connect With Your Soul: 7 Loving, Awesome Practices will be helpful.

The soul versus spirit

Your spirit is the part of you that looks up at the clouds and wonders what’s on the other side of that. While, your soul executes the work on the ground.

The spirit is like a five-year-old kid who believes she can do anything, while the soul struggles a bit and is imperfect.

Here’s how the soul experiences life versus your spirit.

A real life example

Seven years ago, I got the idea to switch from life coaching to soul coaching. It was an idea that popped into my head and wouldn’t let go.

This kind of thing is often soul guidance.

So, I wanted to take my business in a new direction. To do that… I needed to express myself honestly.

This was a lesson for my soul.

However, my spirit didn’t get tangled up in all of that.

My spirit said, Yes this is where you belong.  This is what you’re meant to do. 

Actually, my spirit saw everything in a bigger way than I did. For example, my spirit would see me standing in front of thousands of people speaking and would show me that. My spirit would see me writing all these books that would be great… best sellers even!

Your spirit holds up a screen of the biggest scenario for the expression of your soul’s purpose in this life. 

And then, the soul does the work here.

2. Spiritual growth

I write about soul-centered spiritual guidance… because it’s seeing yourself and life from your soul’s perspective and doing what the soul needs.

The soul is connected directly to God/Source/universe and is unlimited. It is both grounded here on planet Earth and bounces around the cosmos. 

Growing spiritually and evolving the soul is one of the most exciting and important parts of life!

The soul has specific things it’s meant to do and it’s also directly connected to God/Source/Universe… whatever your name is for the sacred otherness of life. 

Your spirit is the part of you that says, “Come on you can do it.”  It’s not the part that struggles. It’s not the part of you with things to learn. 

Your spirit feels unlimited. It’s a part of you with a bigger vision for your life. 

For a complete guide to spiritual communication including ear ringing, spirit guides, synchronicities, symbols, repeating numbers, akashic records and all the ways Spirit reaches you, read: Spiritual Communication: A Complete Guide to Connecting with Spirit.

Personal transformation

My 12 principles of metamorphosis, is my proprietary process for personal transformation by following your soul.

To fulfill your soul’s destiny you must follow a series of steps that give you the strength to make changes in your life.

It’s not easy to change… so we need a framework that walks us through it.. It’s a journey of self-knowledge, asking for guidance, facing your doubt and fear, loving yourself, and deciding to fill your silhouette out.

Along your journey to being who you’re meant to be, you’ll have tons of help from your spirit team along the way, but ultimately, it’s a singular journey.

A spiritual life is both personal and connected to a power greater than you, however that may look to YOU!

Murky emotions

Whether it’s healing the body or mind, or spiritual healing that deals more closely with the soul, we must have a way to feel our emotions.

I write about this extensively in 32 Emotional Release Methods: Be free and happy. In a separate post, I talk about how important it is to not hide your emotions and instead lean into them.

For a complete guide to soul healing including how to feel emotions, emotional release methods, soul lessons, soul contracts, ego death, shadow work, self-forgiveness, automatic writing, grounding your energy, soul alignment, read: Soul Healing: A Simple Guide To Joining Heart And Soul.

Keeping your energy up

We live in an energetic universe.

Meaning… everything you see has vibration frequency or VIBE.

Good vibes and bad vibes are around us and we’re constantly seeking the good ones.

We can feel vibes.

Transforming your life means using skills for managing your energy, so that you’ll fulfill your potential.

For a complete guide to Positive Energy including science and meaning of good vibes, attracting positive energy, send healing vibes, positive thinking, optimism, affirmations, read: Positive Energy: A Complete Guide to Creating Good Vibes.

Finding your true self after loss

After my husband passed away 14 years ago, I had to find myself spiritually… and personally.

For a long time afterward I was lost. In hindsight, I realize that I didn’t know who I was in my 30’s and 40’s. 

I was definitely hungry for spirituality, and I was on a big self-help binge, but mostly I was seeking.

I realize now that trying to find yourself again after loss is often a search for self-acceptance and self-love. At least it was for me. 

In addition, it’s discovering where you fit into the world. Where do you want to use your talents and gifts? 

Ultimately, finding yourself involves uncovering who you are at your core, the soul. 

The soul is directly connected to spiritual guidance.

For a complete guide to Being True to Yourself including setting boundaries, speaking your truth, what is the soul, your soul as yourself, finding yourself, authentic living, soulful, the courage to be yourself, destiny, soul level, read: Being True to Yourself: A Complete Guide to Living from Your Soul.

For a complete guide to Self-Love including self-care, how to connect with  your soul, shadow work, affirmations, the self-love journey, self-compassion, self-forgiveness, embracing imperfections read: A Complete Guide to Self-love: Make Your Soul Smile.

Spiritual Websites and Spiritual Reading

When I started my blog years ago, there wasn’t a blog on spirituality that resonated with me.

However, I found many spiritual teachers, followed them, and read their books.

Spiritual reading is essential to finding yourself spiritually.

You can increase your spiritual literacy by reading the books I list below and there are many more I haven’t listed. Spiritual well-being involves putting positive energy into what makes you feel good about yourself.

Daily meditation or quiet of some kind is essential for connecting with the soul and spirit.

Here is my curated list of best spirituality books to help you along your soul’s journey.

Thomas Moore

My spiritual awakening happened, hands down, with Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore. His ideas about the soul started my entire spiritual journey.

I talk more about that here… but the way he talked about the soul made me want to know my own.

Plus, he helped me find a new kind of self-love… by having compassion for myself. Mr. Moore writes about having an imagination about all of the pains of our lives.  

Instead of seeing our anxiety and sadness as conditions to be removed, look at what the soul is asking us in that situation. 

What a life-affirming perspective!  You mean instead of judging myself for being so weak I can ask my soul what it needs?  

Thomas Moore’s book on soulmates can also be added to your reading list so you can get a very beautiful understanding of soulmates.

Eckhart Tolle

And if falling in love with the soul isn’t enough to fill your cup, it’s time to read about the ego and pain body. Yep, you’ve got to!

The Power of Now and A New Earth are for anyone who realizes that the ego is sucking the joy from their life. 

Maybe that’s a new book I could write? Draining joy:(

Mr. Tolle’s work with the ego, the pain body, and experiencing Presence is life-changing, to put it mildly. Certainly, he’s helping us create A New Earth. 

Tony Robbins  

Tony Robbins has been one of my top motivational authors for decades.

My husband and I did a fire walk event with Tony Robbins when we were in our 20s.  Tony is both a personal power guru (even though his documentary, I’m not your Guru says otherwise) and teacher. 

He teaches us about personal development, personal power, and motivation.  Tony connects you to the part of you that can, in a way that’s very spiritual. He speaks to the sacred otherness of life without forcing you to choose a term for it. 

Wayne Dyer

The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer is absolutely incredible. In this groundbreaking book, Mr. Dyer talks about energy. We live in an energetic universe! This basic concept delivers the clear message: Manage your energy!

Pema Chodron

Pema’s book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times was one of the first books I read when I began my personal growth path. Pema is a Buddhist nun who speaks authentically and casually, you feel like you’re talking to an old friend.

As a spiritual seeker, I was drawn to Pema very early on.

Rebecca Rosen

Rebecca Rosen is a Spiritual Medium and her book Spirited . She communicates with people who’ve passed on and works to connect the living to the messages their loved ones want to deliver from the other side.

I was guided to Rebecca soon after my husband passed away. In 2013 I saw her at a group reading of about 200 people in San Francisco.

Rebecca’s blog has a lot of fascinating information for your spiritual journey.

Related article: spiritual meaning of 444

David Hawkins

David Hawkins uses the tagline: Live your life like a prayer.

David Hawkins is “an internationally renowned spiritual teacher, psychiatrist, physician, researcher, lecturer and developer of the widely-known Map of Consciousness®.” 

His best-selling book Power versus Force changed my life. I was drawn to the book in my 30’s when I had no clue what I was reading. But, as spirit has shown me, we will be interested in the things we’re meant to be.  Those things are put on our path to help us become who we’re designed to be. 

For me, Power versus Force addressed some of the inequities of the human experience in a way I hadn’t heard for. He teaches us about energy fields and attractor patterns.  This book planted the seed of an idea that… indeed, the universe is energy. 

James Hillman

Care of the Soul introduced me to James Hillman’s book, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling.

The Soul’s Code says that we’re all born with a daimon.  (Yes, it’s spelled correctly.)

James Hillman writes, “The soul of each of us is given a unique daimon before we are born, and it has selected an image or pattern that we live on earth. This soul-companion, the daimon, guides us here; in the process of arrival, however, we forget all that took place and believe we come empty into this world. The daimon remembers what is in your image and belongs to your pattern, and therefore your daimon is the carrier of your destiny.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has read Rilke must be transformed by this brilliant poet and writer. 

PoetryFoundation.org writes about Rilke that he’s “Widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke was unique in his efforts to expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery and in an aesthetic philosophy that rejected Christian precepts and strove to reconcile beauty and suffering, life and death.”

Additionally, Rilke “rejected Christian precepts and strove to reconcile beauty and suffer life and death”.

Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. And his gut-wrenching poem, Pushing Through, walked me through my grief after my husband’s passing. 

Definition of Spirit

Spirit is the part of you that soars. It’s connected directly to God/Source/universe and is unlimited. 

While the soul is both grounded here on planet Earth and bounces around the cosmos. 

The soul has specific things it’s meant to do and it’s also directly connected to God/Source/Universe… whatever your name is for the sacred otherness of life. 

Your spirit is the part of you that says, “Come on you can do it.”  It’s not the part that struggles. It’s not the part of you with things to learn. 

Your spirit feels unlimited. It’s a part of you with a bigger vision for your life. 

Spiritual guidance, asking for it regularly, listening, and following it is a big part of self-care believe it or not… including spiritual self care.

You have an entire spirit team at your disposal to help you find joy, inner strength, and fulfill your destiny.

Spiritual Journey – Final Thoughts

If you’re interested in blogs on spirituality or a soulful, spiritual blog because you want to lead a more soulful life, good for you.

Spiritual practice is a regular part of spiritual life.

Possibly, you’re at the beginning of your own spiritual growth journey, that’s OK!!

Or, maybe you’re interested in spiritual blogs because you want personal growth, personal development, and a happy, peaceful life.

Regardless of the reason, I’m glad you’re here! Here’s my home page.