"Dark Night of the Soul" Is Actually Your Hidden Superpower.

Everyone experiences a "Dark Night of the Soul" at some point, where your entire world crashes down, and you don't know what to do, or how to continue life as you know it. It's the absolute lowest time in your journey that literally breaks you, brings you to your knees, and can make you feel hopeless, scared, traumatized, panicky, defeated, depressed, angry, lost, alone, paralyzed, or even suicidal. It changes you and your trajectory forever.

Often times people turn to God or other Higher Powers (even if they never believed in one before), looking for answers, help, guidance or a miracle. If you don't hit rock-bottom in this lifetime, you will in another one.

Some "Dark Night of the Soul" examples include:

• Health Issues (diseases, illnesses, physical pain, paralysis, or other chronic conditions)

• Bad Relationships or Break Ups (personal or professional/career-related)

• Deaths

• Physical Abuse, Violence, Murder, Attack, Assault

• Rape/Molestation/Sex Trafficking

• Verbal, Mental & Emotional Abuse

• Poverty

• Loss

• Abandonment

• Neglect

• Bullying

• Being Kidnapped, Held Hostage/Captive

• Accidents

• Arson

• Near Death Experiences

• War/Serving our Country

• Grief

• Depression

No matter what it is, the Dark Night of the Soul is traumatizing, and everyone experiences some type of PTSD.

The "old you" dies, birthing a whole "new you".

The Dark Night of the Soul marks the biggest turning point in your life - like your own death, but you're still alive. Often times people are required to endure and change so much that they are forced to become a whole new person, in order to survive and keep going. The change can be so drastic - like doing a complete 180 and becoming the exact opposite of who you were before. It's almost as if you are two different people in one lifetime.

Initially, this transformation is extremely painful - emotionally, mentally and/or physically - it can be depressing, frustrating, grueling, incomprehensible, and seemingly impossible to overcome. You don't want to accept the situation and your new "normal", or know how you'll ever get through it, or how to move forward, but you need to know that it's happening FOR you, not TO you, as insane as that might sound.

Take time to feel all of your emotions and express yourself. Get it out. Repressing negative emotions will only cause (more) physical issues down the road because when too much accumulates and you hit your threshold, it results in physical pain, illnesses, diseases and infinite other problems. So, release your emotions, try to understand them, talk to others, get a therapist - a good one - NOT someone who stays in the shallow end and talks about surface-level stuff every week. Negative emotions all tie back to childhood and need to be excavated.

Also remember: You choose how long you wallow/drown in your emotions. It's better to dig yourself out of the abyss sooner rather than later and do something about it to turn things around. Don't stay a "victim" for too long. Make the changes that your situation is forcing you to make, and take action one step at a time. Try to do things that bring you joy. Figure out who you are and what makes you happy. Put on your own oxygen mask, start filling up your cup, love yourself, receive, and keep taking baby steps forward.

The Dark Night of the Soul forces us to change for the better, even if it doesn't seem like it initially. We have to be course-corrected because most people don't change voluntarily - they like predictability and find comfort in knowing what to expect, even if it's not healthy or good for you. It's common to fear the unknown and avoid it. However, when we're going down the wrong path, the universe will force us to go down a different path, make changes in our lives, learn lessons, see things from different perspectives, gain knowledge/wisdom through experience, and become a better person and soul.

Clients always ask me how I got into Energy Healing. Initially, it was to help animals. But I knew it was my calling after I went through my own Dark Night of the Soul and healed both of my knees. I went through a traumatic experience at work - verbal, mental and emotional abuse from a VP who was the biggest a-hole I've ever met in my entire life. He harassed me, bullied me, derailed my deals (selling software), annihilated my self-confidence, self-esteem, and made me doubt myself, even though I was doing well at the company. He made me question my abilities and success. It doesn't sound that bad as I type this out, but the emotions he invoked were inexplicably traumatizing, and they got stored in my knees. Shortly after I resigned, I couldn't walk because of sharp shooting pain in my knees. Turns out, I had no cartilage (bone-on-bone) and needed double-knee-replacement surgery. This happened all of a sudden, randomly, out of nowhere one day, after sitting at my desk for a couple hours. I'd heard horror stories about surgeries making things worse. So I decided to heal my knees myself, and doctors still don't know how I'm walking.

Even though it all magically worked out, I had to "die" in the process. I felt like I died because I couldn't do anything that I loved anymore - running, biking, hiking, climbing, traveling, walking, yoga, anything active outdoors... I couldn't even lift weights standing up. Dating became my last priority because I couldn't do physical activities or anything "fun" - it was like having the knees of an 80 year old, and I thought "I might as well be paralyzed or dead". Depression set in. I became introverted, didn't want to hang out with anyone, adopted my son (bunny), and was forced to turn within and find new hobbies, interests and things that brought me joy.

As my own antithesis now, I've never been happier, more fulfilled, or had more peace of mind. I even helped my family break a karmic generational cycle - luckily my mom was open-minded, willing to be vulnerable with me, and went with the flow - for which I'll be forever grateful. AND I'm actually grateful for the VP who basically caused my knee issues, otherwise I wouldn't have figured out how to heal them or discovered my life purpose, which is to help other people and animals heal.

There's a reason for everything - a divine gift in disguise. Lessons are always revealed later when we look back in retrospect.

Once we overcome the Dark Night of the Soul, it's like growing wings and becoming limitless, free, reborn and magical because we can do/conquer anything and everything! The darkest time in our life eventually becomes a gift and superpower because you learn how to rise above the challenges (death) and can help others in the same or similar situations. And who doesn't want to feel supernatural, discover their superpower and life purpose, and be 2 people in 1 lifetime?!