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soul care 101
intro to Spiritual hygiene
Learn perspective-shifting frameworks and soul-nurturing practices to tap into the unlimited potential of your spiritual nature.
Good spiritual hygiene supports your overall well-being and can enhance your relationships, sense of purpose, and ability to navigate life's challenges with grace and clarity.
Sometimes you don’t know
you have a spark in you
until it gets dark.
(a personal story)
That was me at my rock bottom in December of 2020. I had lost my job, was heading for bankruptcy, hadn’t felt a loving hug in a very long time (was trapped overseas during the lockdowns), felt disgust living inside my own body (hadn’t exercised in years), I allowed my closes relationships to slowly deteriorate and, to make matters worse, I began having weekly panic attacks that would drain me of the energy to do anything about it. I felt like I was loosing a grip on my Life altogether. Needless to say, it got dark.
But in the depths of that darkness is when I had my Spiritual Awakening.
Generally speaking, a Spiritual Awakening is a subjective experience that comes with a newfound and life-changing awareness of a spiritual reality. It feels like receiving a call to step forward into a higher state of consciousness.
And while this sounds pretty amazing (because it ultimately is!), the genesis of a Spiritual Awakening is anything but pretty.
Feeling the call to step into a higher version of Self means uncomfortable work:
For me, it meant making peace with an emotional baggage of shame that I had been mindlessly carrying for years.
It meant taking responsibility for the role I had been playing in my own suffering.
It meant I had to stop giving someone else or something else credit for where I was not. Read that again.
It meant letting go of sunk costs; staying where I didn't belong simply because I had already invested so much time, energy or money in it. This kept me in an environment/situation that didn't produce a more loving version of Self.
It meant I had not choice but to learn to harmonize radical, personal responsibility with deep compassion for Self as I stood before my lifechanging decisions. For someone with a history of self-hatred and self-doubt, this challenge was paramount to tearing a new reality in the fabric of the Universe in order to live a life I couldn't even imagine.
Like I said, Spiritual Awakenings are rarely pretty. It feels like your life is falling part. What I didn't know then was this:
Sometimes it looks like our life is falling apart when in reality it's falling in place.
What makes this process difficult is the degree of resistance to change that we deploy… before we finally surrender and let go of what we've been desperately trying to holding on to.
As I type this today, it sounds like a lifetime ago—despite it being a little over three years since that lifechanging moment.
Today, I am the most healthy I've ever been (my diet & exercise habits have massively changed & transformed my body & psyche). I have soul enriching relationships with both friends and family. I was able to attract the love of my life to me. And, to top if off, I was able to tap into my sense of purpose and build a career of service that supports others in their own life and personal journeys.
But I first had to commit to make aligned decisions that are connected to my true Self and sense of purpose. Without the spiritual hygiene that I developed during those dark days, I would not have been able to re-discover the spark I had in me all along.
That spark was my soul.
From this place I was able to start believing wholeheartedly that I could be able to live a life beyond my dreams in this lifetime.
How many humans around do you personally know who are SO IN LOVE with Life that they go to bed excited to rest so they can wake up energized and thrilled to live the life they lead? No, this doesn’t mean that they don’t have problems nor does it require bypassing the pain. This only means that they’ve understood, at soul level, that even their problems are part of their purpose and consequently embrace them as necessary components to their spiritual growth and personal actualization.
this is for you if
You wish to create better harmony between your spiritual growth and worldly responsibilities
You are feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of spiritual experiences and seek more grounding & stability
You are looking for practical tools to integrate spiritual insights to your everyday life
You seek more clarity on how to establish and maintain a nourishing devotional practice that feels true to you
You are open to the fun possibility that you are a spiritual being having a human experience (and not the other way around)
You'd like to develop a deeper commitment to your purpose in this lifetime
You're simply curious to explore how nurturing your Spirituality can elevate your health, wealth & the quality of your relationships
it is agonizing to live IN A SPACE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL, WHERE YOU NO LONGER belong.
WHEN THE PAIN OF STAYING WHERE YOU ARE IS STRONGER THAN THE PAIN OF CHANGE, THAT'S the SIGN you've been waiting for.
and it will always be Up to you to answer life's call.
“I feel like there's someone inside me, more enlightened. A bright, very bright soul! That bright soul will be with me until the end! Loved this workshop! Thank you so much Jova.”
anonymous
it's okay if you
are feeling detached from the world you've been living in; you will learn practical strategies to reconnect with a truer sense of Self
are re-evaluating your own beliefs and the reality you've built around them; your priorities will naturally shift every time your consciousness expands
are experiencing shifts in dynamics within your strongest personal relationships; this is an opportunity to heal through deeper authenticity
don't know if you should trust your intuition; consider that moment can be an invitation to develop a more intimate relationship between you and the Unknown
have finally acknowledged your own limiting beliefs; you're in the right place and about to release what no longer serves you
are becoming more sensitive to fakeness and feigned interest; maybe what really you crave is connecting with others who also have a deeper connection with Life itself—and that's okay
are walking a different path than those around you and it feels lonely; you're exploring deeper levels of self-trust, keep going
want to be of service & lead a purpose-filled life but don't know how; inside you'll learn a practical tool that will allow you to uncover your purpose
What can you expect at
Soul care 101
In this lighthearted and interactive workshop, you will explore perspective-shifting frameworks and soul-nurturing practices to tap into the unlimited potential of your spiritual nature.
You will learn how to best recognize your core values and harmonize your spiritual growth with your worldly responsibilities.
The exercises & practices introduced in this workshop are so simple yet effective that you'll know how to integrate them right way into your everyday life!
You'll even be walking away with a new way to experience your “problems.” Spoiler alert: they're not an obstacle; they're the way.
Through compassionately led introspection, guided exercises, collective feedback & reflection, participants will explore new self-encouraging ways to access a deeper sense of trust in Self and the Unknown. Not in just in theory—you will actually get to feel this in the body through one of the exercises at the workshop ❤️
Imagine having new tools to always be able to tap into the feeling that everything will be okay; that you are loved and that the world needs more of that love you have within.
How much time & energy would you save if you no longer spent time overthinking & ruminating on the mistakes of the past and the important decisions before you.
Imagine the new possibilities if your body no longer responder to challenges with fear-based thinking? Imagine being able to wholesomely believe in yourself and God within the same breath.
90 mins of content + 30 mins of q & A
soul care 101
33 USD
To be vulnerably honest, I was never a spiritually inclined person—despite being born and raised in a very religious culture and household. Since I was a teenager, there was something I couldn't fully connect with.
I ultimately came to realize that the all along had been a growing sense of mistrust in organized religion, its institutions and dogmas. The abuse of power committed in the name of Spirituality became somewhat of a recurring theme that I grew up very sensitive to, which put me off anything "spiritual" altogether.
Having no reliable source, model or language that I could trust, I kept myself away from me; “It’s just not my thing,” I told myself for most of my adult life, “I’m just not the Spiritual type.”
It wasn't until my spiritual awakening that I was challenged to get past my own biases of the word “spiritual” and “God (these words alone would make me cringe once upon a time).
So I stuck to what was familiar to me; staying in the comfort zone of only believing in the things that I could see and rationalize, or whatever science was able to explain. Yet the whole time, to be honest, I still held the suspicion that there was more than meets the eye. Life kept showing me signs, both in the blessings and challenges that appeared before me. And the more I ignored or willingly refused to acknowledge the signs, the more that Life continued to raise its ever-loving voice. Until in December of 2020, my Life began to scream.
When Life screams at you, that’s when things around you begin to fall apart.
When Life screams, your relationships begin to fall apart; there's hardly a moment of respite; it's the point when something's got to give; something NEEDS to change.
And, on top of that, you have to deal with the wave of grief that is often felt in the wake following the emergence of your new sense of Self. These growing pains can be gut-wrenching.
Externally, it may look like a rock bottom. Internally, it may be the genesis of you FINALLY having access to your indomitable Spirit that has been dormant. Until now.
Developing good spiritual hygiene will RADICALLY shift the way you approach & communicate with Life for the better;
You become better equipped to hold resilience and personal responsibility;
you have more clarity on what is up to you (what you can control) and what is not your weight to carry;
When you enhance your relationship with Life with spiritual hygiene, you'll find you have less time for fights and arguments and more time for love & growth.
If Life is screaming at you at this moment, I feel you.
I know how hard it is to believe in anything, let alone believe in yourself.
I was there. It was a vicious cycle of not believing in myself enough to even consider attempting my biggest dreams. I wasn't willing to let go of my fear of change and embrace the Unknown. It felt too unsafe in my body. And yet I was aware this was blocking access to my Higher Self.
The irony was: without even attempting to connect with a Higher Self, I could never learn practical ways of nurturing my spirituality. This meant that I was never even allowing myself the opportunity to gather evidence of my spiritual potential.
Do you see the self-defeating pattern? It took me a long while for me to notice this in myself. And even longer to think that my spirituality could exist outside of religious dogma and institutionalized gatekeepers. I literally thought that the only way of being spiritual was by joining a congregation and reading a holy book.
To make matters worse, my mind had to come up with stories to explain to myself why I just wasn't “the spiritual type:”
“I'm too rational; too intelligent for it to work on me; not gullible enough for it to even work as a placebo," etc.
And guess what the brain does with its ever-present need to rationalize everything? It rationalized that I simply knew better than to dabble in faith or anything spiritual.
As you can see, nobody was blocking me from having access to these deeper parts of myself; I was the one getting in my own way 😔
“Thank you for doing what you're doing! :) For someone who was always disconnected from herself and feared everything - it was the BEST 2 days of my life. Continue to be that spark in finding hope for everyone. A very humbling experience plus I get to share it with different people all across the globe. Cheers to that! Stay safe and be gentle with your journey too.”
anonymous
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soul care 101
33 USD
“Looooooved this life transforming workshop. This was better than my 3 years in therapy.”
anonymous
hi,
I’m
jova
I'm a Healing & Empowerment Coach, global speaker, artist, mental health advocate and Golden Hour Connoisseur.
I'm also the founder & curator of The Artidote, the largest art-for-mental-health platform in the world, which has been inspiring and empowering millions of people since 2015 to live healthier and more meaningful lives.
In short, I help people transform their life to match their dreams.
Living a life that feels purposeful & meaningful may be our biggest effort while we breathe; we often forget how much love, courage and trust it takes to stand in integrity with who we are.
That's why I've dedicated the last 9 years of my life to create transformative spaces where people can connect with truer versions of themselves & move beyond surviving & into a thriving life.
in my professional life:
• I've led & coached both live & online personal development seminars & workshops for thousands of people over the last 5 years.
• I've single-handedly built the largest art + mental health platform in the world (5M+ across social channels). Since 2015, The Artidote has pioneered the fusion of art and mental health awareness, providing millions with a grounded language for their innermost emotions.
• I'm a chairperson at the Youth Committee within The World Federation for Mental Health and am responsible for advocating for the mental wellbeing of the Youth.
• I'm a TEDx Speaker and get invited to speak on international stages on topics related to empathy, self-awareness, community healing, compassionate accountability, self love, mental health, art and spiritual wellbeing.
in my personal life:
• Mistrusting myself was my full time job; it had become so ingrained in my identity that I only knew how to relate to myself through my own emotional neglect.
• I've struggled with anxiety and depression from my mid teens to my mid twenties, leaving my self-confidence and self-trust in shambles. It's hard to believe in anything outside of yourself when you don't even believe in yourself.
• My sense of self-worth had become attached to my productivity and external validation. I was playing the “outside-in” game, where my internal state was dictated by my external circumstances. This is before I learned to access the “inside-out” game—where my internal, spiritual state guides my external sense of purpose and direction, co-creating the reality I experience.
• Even though I still encounter painful situations that trigger my doubt & fears, the major difference is that I now know how to respond to those experiences with a more grounded and empowered sense of Self. A sense that comes with the deep and compassionate understanding that Life is not happening to me, but for me. This no longer paralyzes me from taking action thanks to the spiritual hygiene I've been cultivating over the years.
Let’s talk workshop ingredients
HOW LONG is the workshop?
90 mins of interactive content followed by 30mins of Q&A at the end.
what's included after I sign up?
Upon registering, you'll receive a welcoming email that includes the replay of the workshop delivered on March 2nd 2024, as well as a detailed summary of the session + recommended resources to support you in your soul-care journey.
Can this workshop be a substitue for therapy?
No. While nurturing your spirituality can become a major support your life and great complementary aspect to therapy, it cannot be a replacement of it. No matter how many people tell me that my workshops have been more effective than years of therapy, I want to be clear on this so that you receive the support that you need.
If you feel you’re at a point where you may need more individualized mental-health support, please shoot me an email and I can help you find the appropriate support to fit your needs: jova@theartidote.org
“This workshop made me feel like I'm on the right path, I can trust my steps and be more confident. Some emotions rose up, uncomfortable feelings rose. Extremely glad that I can be there for myself this time. The overall journey was amazing. I will be approaching my insecurities in a totally different way, I have been dissociating a lot. I can make myself whole again. This entire workshop has been a confirmation/reassurance for me in a lot of ways.”
anonymous