The Spiritual Warrior

So You’ve Found Yourself on a Spiritual Path… Now What?

It could be said that it's best not to start a spiritual journey at all. Those deep in the trenches usually nod in agreement. And yet, here we are.

Sometimes we don’t choose the path—the path chooses us. Maybe you ‘harmlessly’ dropped acid at a party and accidentally merged with the cosmos. Maybe you smoked a bit of weed and found yourself swallowed by the void. One person told me they were just vibing with some friends, blinked, and boom—floating in the infinity of the universe. Life was never quite the same.

Often, though, people come to the spiritual path through pain: trauma, depression, anxiety—the sheer plea for the suffering to stop. However it begins, a whole new dimension of being cracks open. It’s rich, strange, beautiful, terrifying, and almost always confusing.

What we experience depends on so many factors: our personal trauma history, how disciplined we are (or aren’t), the practices we use, and the support we have—or don’t have.

One reason I care so much about supporting people through Spiritual Emergence is because I didn’t have the support I needed when I was going through it. And frankly, mainstream psychology does a shameful job of handling this stuff. Instead of helping someone through a potentially life-affirming awakening, it often gets pathologised, medicated, and locked up.

Let’s be honest: weird shit happens.And it’s not okay that so many people feel they have to hide it for fear of being labelled crazy.

The Weird-Shit List (a non-exhaustive sampler):

• Spontaneous kundalini awakening

• Altered states of consciousness that arrive uninvited

• Bliss so intense it’s inconvenient

• Ecstasy that hurts (?! Yes.)

• Brain fog, exhaustion, or total lethargy

• Existential confusion

• Deep emotional spirals (also known as “Tuesday”)

• Loss of identity or sense of self

• Seeing, sensing or knowing things others don’t

• Strange body symptoms, sudden food cravings or aversions

• Dissociation or feeling like a floating ghost in a meat suit

• Big Realisations™ about yourself or life (that you didn’t exactly ask for)

• Spiritual ego (“I am awakened, and therefore superior... oops”)

• Becoming a bit too into spirituality (hello, obsessive YouTubing)

• Unexpected rivers of love and tears

• Stillness so vast you lose your train of thought mid-sentence

• And yes—clarity, peace, and the occasional moment of transcendent calm.

  
  

Enter the Spiritual Warrior

If you’ve committed to a practice—whether it’s meditation, plant medicine, breathwork, yoga, religious devotion, somatic healing or just deep curiosity—you’re stepping onto a powerful and unpredictable path.

This doesn’t mean you’re going to war. It means you cultivate the strength, clarity and courage of a warrior—for love, for truth, and for sanity when things get wobbly.

Need Some Spiritual Warrior Support?

You don’t have to go it alone. I offer confidential, grounded, non-judgemental support for people navigating spiritual emergence (or emergencies).

Things I can help with:

• “WTF is happening to me?”

• Meditating more deeply without floating away

• Grounding and integrating psychedelic or peak experiences

• Being your cheer squad when motivation vanishes

• Holding space when you just need to cry/vent/question existence

• Energy check-ins and co-meditation

• Untangling the stories causing suffering

• Helping you bridge the gap between your new awareness and your relationships

• Breathwork sessions

• Realising you’re not who you thought you were and wondering: “Now what?”

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What I can’t help with:

• Diagnosing or treating medical conditions (unless it's a sore shoulder)

• Serious psychological disorders requiring clinical attention

• Untreated psychosis or an inability to function in consensual reality

  
  

If you're on the edge, the verge, the void—or somewhere in between—I’m here to walk beside you. No robes, no dogma, no judgment. Just honesty, support, and hopefully a few laughs along the way.

Let’s make weird feel a little more wonderful.

Tamra Jaye