Body Wisdom Rising

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A rare planetary alignment is peaking, timelines feel like they’re shifting, and a lot of people are wondering whether we’re heading for another 2020-style crisis or something entirely different. I slow the noise down and walk through what’s actually being discussed, including the work of French astrologer André Barbault and why long-term planetary cycles often line up with major collective turning points. For me, the headline isn’t fear. It’s a collective choice point, a moment where conditions may be getting more supportive for growth, innovation, and conscious evolution, depending on how we respond.

From there, I bring it back to the part we can actually influence: the conditions inside our own lives. Awakening is a natural unfolding, but we can create an environment that supports it. I share the practices that helped me integrate healing in a grounded way, especially somatic healing and nervous system regulation, plus the role of ceremony as a container for grief, endings, and rites of passage. When we stop overriding the body, we get clearer about what’s true, what’s conditioning, and what needs to change.

We also explore evolutionary astrology as a practical tool for separating your soul blueprint from the endless “shoulds” pushed by culture. I share an example from my own chart, and then reframe manifestation as conscious co-creation with God or the divine: not forcing outcomes from ego, but becoming so aligned that your life starts reflecting your integrity. If you’ve been feeling the pull to step into your next chapter, I also share why I created my nine-month container, The Calling, and what it looks like to be supported through deep transformation.

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Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment
In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship
The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse
Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation
Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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Alyssa shares the three frameworks that gave her language for  her spiritual awakening and helped her stay grounded through uncertainty, intensity, and real-life responsibilities. She keeps returning to one test of the path: does our spirituality make us more embodied, humble, and accountable. 
• why language and frameworks reduce fear and isolation during awakening 
• awakening as an ongoing relationship shaped by daily choices and integration 
• Stan Grof’s spiritual emergency lens and the role of discernment 
• somatic work and nervous system support as the bridge from insight to change 
• common forms of spiritual emergency, from kundalini symptoms to peak experiences 
• psychic opening and intuition, including how urgency can signal fear or trauma 
• past life material and the question of healing over certainty 
• channeling and guidance measured by responsibility, not spectacle 
• near-death experiences and the challenge of returning to ordinary life 
• Carl Jung on persona, shadow work, projection, and individuation 
• Rudolf Steiner on the middle path between fantasy and reductionism 
• spiritual inflation and why humility is non-negotiable on this path 

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Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment
In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship
The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse
Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation
Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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We explore Wetiko as a collective mind virus and how it hides in projection, separation, and the parts of us we refuse to see. We connect Jungian shadow work, addiction as spiritual hunger, and the way awareness and embodiment help us reclaim life force and choose a different path. 
• defining wetiko through Paul Levy’s lens as a collective psycho-spiritual blindness 
• noticing transmission through projection, othering, scapegoating, and moral certainty 
• linking addiction and compulsive behaviour to disconnection and spiritual hunger 
• reclaiming creative energy by bringing shadow material into awareness 
• distinguishing judgement from discernment and staying protected through being 
• naming spiritual superiority, victim-perpetrator dynamics, and groupthink traps 
• understanding awakening as descent, not bypassing, with will and somatic healing 
• using triggers as information, including envy, resentment, fear, and reactivity 
• unpacking polarization, ideological possession, and consumer culture as wetiko fuel 
• practising the antidote through humility, curiosity, community, and conscious choice 

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Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment
In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship
The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse
Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation
Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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Certainty is intoxicating, especially after a big awakening. Then the rug pulls out: a trusted teacher gets exposed, a “destined” relationship reveals its shadow, or a movement you thought was truth starts acting like the very system it resisted. I’m Alyssa, and I’m naming the force behind that pattern: the trickster archetype, the boundary crosser known as Hermes, Loki, and Ichtomi, who shows up wherever we’ve become unconscious, inflated, or rigid.

I walk through Carl Jung’s framing of the trickster as the psyche’s self-correcting mechanism and why it’s rising so loudly right now in spiritual communities, wellness and ascension spaces, conspiracy frameworks, and even UFO disclosure narratives. We talk about how counterculture can quietly become groupthink, how pedestals get built and then pulled apart, and why that collapse can feel like betrayal even when it’s also a call back to humility and truth.

From there, we get practical: what to do when your nervous system wants to grab a new ideology, why “switching sides” doesn’t solve the deeper pattern, and how holding paradox becomes the doorway to the second awakening. We explore shadow work, projection, attachment, and somatic healing as essential tools for real discernment, not paranoia. If you’re ready to stop outsourcing authority and start living from embodied clarity, press play, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review.
Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment
In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship
The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse
Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation
Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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Right before things finally open, life can feel like it is doing the exact opposite of what you asked for. That is not “bad luck” or the universe punishing you, it can be your psyche applying pressure to expose what still needs to be integrated so you can actually hold the upgrade you say you want.

We explore three major tests that often arrive before a breakthrough on the spiritual awakening and individuation path, inspired by Jungian psychology and grounded in embodiment. We start with shadow confrontation and the golden shadow, how triggers, projections, envy, and even the inability to receive compliments can reveal the parts of you that were exiled for safety. From there we move into the tension of opposites, where you cannot stay identified with only one pole like strong or good or spiritual, and you learn to sustain the tension long enough for something new and more whole to emerge.

Then we get honest about synchronicity. Real meaningful coincidence tends to be weighted and humbling, and it asks something of you. False synchronicity inflates the ego and feeds specialness, confirmation bias, and spiritual narcissism. I share practical tools that bring it all into daily life: a shadow inventory practice, somatic integration in the body, active imagination, and simple dreamwork that builds a real relationship with the unconscious over time.

If you are ready for depth, not fluff, press play, share this with a friend on the path, and leave a review so more people can find Body Wisdom Rising.
Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment
In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship
The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse
Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation
Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart