Episode 065

Why Your Body Is the Missing Link in Your Spiritual Awakening

In this episode of Awakening Conversations, Kate and Amanda are joined by Vanessa Smith to explore a foundational truth: awakening is not just a mental or spiritual experience,  it’s a physical one.

The body holds a deep intelligence. It tells us when something feels true, when we’re out of alignment, and when we’re being asked to pay attention. But for many of us, our relationship with the body has been shaped by fear, disconnection, or trauma and now, as the world speeds up and narratives grow louder, the need to return to our body as an anchor of truth is more important than ever.

Together, they explore:

  • Why the body is the missing link in so many awakening journeys

  • How to begin trusting physical sensations as signals of truth

  • The role of dissociation, trauma, and programming in disconnecting us from the body

  • Why real healing requires presence not just with ourselves, but in community

  • How reclaiming touch, movement, and voice become acts of resistance and empowerment

This episode is an invitation to remember: your body is not in the way, it is the way. It’s time to come home to the place where your intuition lives, your truth speaks, and your power begins.

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Takeaways:

  • The body is your compass. It holds intuitive wisdom and acts as a barometer for truth, often alerting you before the mind can rationalize what’s happening.
  • True spiritual awakening isn’t just mental or energetic, it’s physical. You must come back into the body to fully awaken.
  • Cultural conditioning, trauma, and programming have encouraged disconnection from the body, disconnecting us from our power.
  • When something feels “off,” your body will respond even if your mind is being told a different narrative. Learning to trust those sensations is essential.
  • While individual work is powerful, the nervous system co-regulates in relationship. Physical presence and human connection are essential to deep healing.
  • In a post-isolation world, simply being in proximity to others—through touch, eye contact, presence—is a form of activism and resistance to disconnection.
  • The voice bridges the mind and body. Speaking your truth, even imperfectly, helps move energy, reclaim narrative, and reconnect body, heart, and consciousness.
  • Using your voice is part of your awakening. Many people remain mentally overwhelmed or emotionally stuck because they are suppressing what wants to be expressed.
  • As external narratives grow louder, your body remains the most trustworthy guide for what’s real, aligned, and true for you.
  • A deeper relationship with the body helps us confront mortality and in doing so, helps us truly live, love, and engage with presence.

The guest

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Vanessa Smith

Vanessa Smith is an energy guide, teacher, and messenger with a contagious enthusiasm for new paradigm perspectives, a passion for holistic health and vitality, and a love for gathering visionary entrepreneurs together to build the new. 

Known for her down to earth and relatable approach, lightness, deep listening presence, and sense of humor, Vanessa brings a fresh energy to wisdom conversations. Forever grateful for the commitment she’s had to her own healing journey, when Vanessa says she “gets it” to you, she really means it! 

To participate in her latest visionary projects, head here.

Connect with Vanessa on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, or her website.

 If you’d like her to speak on your podcast, conference, workshop, or summit, please contact her here.

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