Psychotherapist & Psychospiritual Teacher

Ruchika

Spiritual Awakening Journey — When we go through a spiritual awakening or are on a spiritual growth journey, we cultivate or awaken essences or qualities of our Being. Qualities of Being or our soul are really aspects of our real nature, who we really are. Some experience it as Oneness or enlightenment, others may awaken to spiritual […]

3 Foundational Ingredients for our Spiritual Awakening Journey

August 25, 2025 in Blog / Psychospiritual Work tagged psychology / psychospiritual / spiritual / spiritual awakening / spiritual growth / Spiritual Journey / therapy / transformation by Ruchika

Last night, I awoke after days of struggling and feeling broken. Something in me in that instant recognized my soul quest (or purpose) and brought along with it the nature of my soul. It was so simple. In that moment, I recognized myself, decades of my life flashed before me as I recognized […]

Our Biggest Trauma and Healing

July 14, 2025 in Blog / Psychospiritual Work tagged Healing / pain / psychology / psychospiritual / soul / soul quest / spiritual / spiritual healing / therapy / trauma by Ruchika

We live in a profound homelessness, deep loneliness, whether consciously or not. We do our best to fill it. But somehow the feeling doesn’t get filled. Covered over – yes. We don’t understand why. We try and try and try to understand, to fill. And a part of us goes […]

Holy City – Support for our Souls or Un-Holy City

February 12, 2025 in Blog / Psychospiritual Work tagged diamond logos / Healing / holy city / psychospiritual / soul / spiritual / spirituality / transformation by Ruchika

I recently had a conversation with someone who is a seeker and went to Gurus such as Amma (Mata Amritanandmayi), Mother Meera, and others. I heard her disappointment with some of the ways that she engaged with them as someone who would magically take away her pain. She moved away […]

From Seeker to Guide: Insights on Spiritual Growth and Healing

January 16, 2025 in Blog / Psychospiritual Work tagged diamond logos / diamondlogos / guru / psychospiritual / spiritual growth / Spiritual Journey / spirituality by Ruchika

Today I was reflecting about why do we engage in meditation or spiritual practices. Not everyone, but many come to spirituality from a place of pain or struggle. In fact, often struggle or pain presents an opportunity and hope to change the direction of our lives. We become motivated to […]

Are you failing or is it a gift?

October 16, 2024 in Blog tagged Meditation / pain / psychospiritual / soul / soul journey / spirituality / struggle / transformation by Ruchika

Unconditional Beauty — These days we are faced even more with our fear of dying. It could be we are feeling it consciously. Or it could be that we just aren’t feeling like ourselves. We may be feeling more anxious, overwhelmed, unable to settle, scared, depressed. How do we remember to lean in […]

Using Fear of Dying as an opportunity to Lean into ...

December 26, 2021 in Blog tagged fear of dying / leaning in / opportunity / self love by Ruchika

As an empath, I sometimes struggle to speak my truth in relationships. I’m aware that speaking up means conflict. Though my adjustment seems outwardly seamless, I noticed in recent relationship dynamics that I was trying to numb myself with unhealthy foods. Subsequent to a period of days of avoiding speaking […]

Purpose of Pain

May 10, 2018 in Blog tagged Empath / Meditation / pain / presence by Ruchika

Recent events have me thinking about the fires and hurricanes, calamities of nature. Also, thinking of the masculine and feminine, power and pain that also is coming up to be healed. I’m feeling my heart that seems solid and in some ways being a witness as my own process is […]

Outer Calamities and Inner Quandaries

October 10, 2017 in Blog tagged evolution / human design / soul journey by Ruchika

Dating as a conscious woman comes with its own perks and challenges. So many women on the spiritual path struggle with the feeling of divide between their spiritual path and dating. This sense of divide is real in many aspects. Often, we aren’t exposed to dating and relationships models that […]

Conscious Woman Dating

September 29, 2017 in Blog tagged Conscious Woman / Dating / relationships / self-love by Ruchika

Shine — There is a myth in our culture that we need to effort to become better people. Or better workers. Or have better relationships. Essentially, many of us don’t feel worthy or good enough, giving rise to numerous self help programs for low self-esteem. We can also become attached to our […]

The Self Improvement Myth

August 16, 2017 in Blog / Uncategorized tagged acceptance / love / self improvement / self-love by Ruchika