Ruchika

The Mother Hole

December 18, 2025 in Psychospiritual Work tagged Conscious Awareness / Ego and Soul / Emotional Healing / Healing the Mother–Child Connection / Inner Work / Maternal Trauma / Mother Hole / Mother Wound / Psychospiritual Healing / Soul Work by Ruchika

Spiritual Awakening — Why We Come to Spiritual Practice: A Journey Back to Love I’ve been reflecting lately on how we arrive at spiritual practice and healing. Many—though not all—say it begins with need or pain. We face challenges, and these experiences guide us toward healing and inner work. That was my story, […]

Guided by Love: How Spiritual Practice Begins and Why It ...

December 11, 2025 in Psychospiritual Work tagged aligning with love / ego and self-protection / emotional resilience / healing trauma / inner healing / psychospiritual work / soul path / spiritual awakening journey / spiritual healing / spiritual practice by Ruchika

Psychospiritual session integrating body awareness and spiritual inquiry — I’ve been reflecting about this lately, especially in my work with clients. So many times, we are identified with our egos instead of our higher self – am I doing this wrong? I’m going down a rabbit hole of behaviors that aren’t serving me. I don’t know how to make decisions. […]

Aligning to our Higher Self

October 12, 2025 in Psychospiritual Work tagged ego / Healing / higher selves / mental health / psychology / psychospiritual / spiritual / spirituality by Ruchika

Whispers of the Soul

October 5, 2025 in Blog / Psychospiritual Work tagged embodiment / Healing / psychology / psychospiritual / soul / spiritual / spirituality by Ruchika

I wanted to talk about something I’ve been noticing in my work with people on a spiritual path. Whether they have consciously engaged for decades or had a spontaneous awakening to their purpose or love or new abilities. People either pursue spirituality on purpose or spiritual openings bring them to this juncture […]

Spirituality and Mental Health

September 28, 2025 in Psychospiritual Work tagged mental health / psychology / psychospiritual / psychotherapy / spiritual / spiritual awakening / spirituality / therapy by Ruchika

Single candle flame symbolizing soul awakening and inner spiritual light. — Hope for when we get lost in the world to find meaning, purpose, love again and Reclaim our True Selves and our lives Often people come to work with me when they are in a place of blaming themselves for how they are struggling. Some people have been on a spiritual growth […]

What is Psychospiritual Work?

September 22, 2025 in Psychospiritual Work tagged mental health / psychology / psychospiritual / psychotherapy / spiritual / spiritual growth / spirituality by Ruchika

Spiritual Healing — We are not the waves in the ocean. We are the ocean itself. When we stop identifying with our egos, we can dip into who we really are – our Beings. We are not our thoughts or feelings or sensations. Spiritual practices involve taming our egos and building inner resources. When […]

Connecting with our Being to untangle our ego and pains

September 22, 2025 in Psychospiritual Work tagged Being / ego / Healing / resilience / spiritual by Ruchika

Candles glowing on a chandelier, symbolizing the light, structure, and inner clarity that form the foundation of spiritual growth. — 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

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

Water lily symbolizing spiritual healing, self-awareness, and inner transformation through therapy — 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

Geometric dome with diamond facets, a symbol of soul illumination and grounded presence — 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 […]

Is Struggle a Spiritual Gift? Rethinking Failure, Pain, and the ...

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

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

Spiritual teachings often speak about the importance of sangha or soul family. There seem to be more and more young people negotiating being in this world with their gifts and a connection with the divine that is more organic, rather than seeking the divine through pain and experiencing contrast. Others […]

Significance of Our Soul Family

June 12, 2017 in Blog tagged Community / Sangha / Soul Family / Spiritual Journey by Ruchika

We live in a culture where we are all in ‘pursuit of happiness’. The subtle and powerful beliefs we hold is that if we’re not happy, then something is wrong. It is acceptable in our culture to have moments of grief or sadness, however these feelings are expected to […]

The Value of Grief

May 22, 2017 in Blog tagged acceptance / grief / preciousness / unconditional love / value by Ruchika

As I stay awake in bed in the morning, I “see” a prickly surrounding to my entire body. I know that this prickly surrounding is a constant in my experience. It is an inner dialogue that is relentlessly judging and attempting to control my inner experience through disapproval. I spend […]

Balancing the Wings of Love

April 17, 2017 in Blog tagged love / nourishment / self-love by Ruchika

Universe — Sometimes spiritual circles exalt themes of journeying alone. It is said that our journey ultimately take us to places where it is just us and the Divine. For me, this brings up images of awakening while meditating in a cave up on top of a mountain. There are underlying themes […]

The Gift of Loneliness

March 12, 2017 in Blog tagged expansion / Loneliness / longing / soul connection / soul relationships by Ruchika

Softening — Many of us are instinctively afraid of our deepest inner longings. How do we transform this hunger into food for our souls? I’ve been feeling really hungry lately. It feels like a mixed blessing, as I open up to my dreams and fantasies, my desire to play, and increased […]

Insatiable Hunger and Fullness

March 1, 2017 in Blog tagged acceptance / fullness / Hunger / law of attraction / longing / love by Ruchika

Happy New Year — Happy 2017! On the last day of 2016, I attended a delicious meditation that was about what I wanted 2017 to be about. I got to sink into and connect into what essence or quality I wanted to experience or have more of in 2017. It was easy, as the […]

Focusing on What You Want in the New Year

January 9, 2017 in Blog tagged clarity / contrast / essence / law of attraction by Ruchika

Longing for Community

December 19, 2016 in Blog tagged Community / Home / Soul Contact by Ruchika

Nature Love — Last summer I toured with Amma, the incarnate Divine Mother, through most of the United States. Steeped in that incredible energy and connection, my prayer during that time with her was to be guided in my life. During that time I felt like I only needed to know the […]

Separation and Connection with the Divine

December 7, 2016 in Blog / Uncategorized tagged Connection / Divine / love and acceptance / Separation by Ruchika

Full Moon Energies — I sit in a daze. My mind is racing and it is challenging to stay present in my body. My sacrum is tense, and I feel better leaving my body. Instead of the usual uplifting and inspiring messages I see on Facebook feed, it is filled with election responses from […]

Navigating Energetically Challenging Times

November 13, 2016 in Blog tagged love / Meditation / Sacred Journey by Ruchika

Dawn after the Darkness — “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” – Hafiz As I grapple lately with increased feelings of uncertainty, I notice a quiet terror building internally. In response, I find myself grasping to hold on to […]

Uncertainty and Allowing

November 7, 2016 in Blog / Uncategorized tagged connecting with future self / Healing / law of allowing / law of attraction / love and acceptance / transformation by Ruchika

I’ve been having a lot of juicy conversations lately about relationships. It’s magical for two people to choose to be in relationship together and to continue to choose it over the long term in a way that feels authentic and truly satisfying. After all, we experience our deepest vulnerabilities […]

Moving from Struggle to Finding the One with Joy

October 27, 2016 in Blog / Human Design tagged Finding the One / human design / joy / law of attraction / Meditation / play / soul love / Soul Mate by Ruchika

On collective and individual levels lately, there are many tumultuous feelings. We may be feeling like we’re up against strong internal programs and patterns. Because they’re so well practiced and strong, it can be challenging in those moments to connect with the greater truth. At the same time, just a moment […]

Tumultuous Times and Having a Vision

October 19, 2016 in Blog tagged communities of love / Healing / law of attraction / transformation / vibration by Ruchika

I’ve been thinking about vulnerability a lot lately. Recently, I had a really fun experience. I felt connected to community, feeling expansive beyond my norm with both known and unknown people. I also felt pain about the parts of me that shrink, that don’t quite open up. I woke up […]

Vulnerability and Love

October 12, 2016 in Blog tagged kindness / love / pain / soul love / unconditional love / Vulnerability by Ruchika

At a training today, I was so surprised to hear that safety is not a need. When our needs are met, feelings of safety arise. Are you as surprised to hear this as I was? In our day to day lives, we encounter places where we don’t feel safe. Something […]

Feeling Empowered in Our Lives

September 7, 2016 in Blog tagged Allowing Feelings / Amma / Empowered / Meditation by Ruchika

Transformation is a messy path. You will be raw. You will feel vulnerable. You will feel discomfort. There will be times when you feel immense rage. Moreover, there will be times when you feel as though there is no ground to support you as old ways leave and new ones […]

The Path of Transformation

August 23, 2016 in Blog tagged law of attraction / Meditation / transformation by Ruchika

The group meditation this week was Soul Linking. I felt deeply honored and my heart felt full with everyone’s presence, sharing, openness, and bringing themselves so fully to the experience. Soul Linking meditation supports connecting with others on the soul level, whether we want to increase love in our relationships, allow the […]

Connecting with Departed Souls and Healing

August 10, 2016 in Blog tagged departed souls / Meditation / soul linking by Ruchika

Fear is a big driver and is taking control these days. My Facebook feed is full of fear about elections and managing fear or making the best choices we can. Plenty of people are feeling powerless and enraged. Quoting Abraham-Hicks “Isn’t it an interesting thing, a whole bunch of you […]

Expanding from Fear to Desire

August 3, 2016 in Blog tagged abraham hicks / Desire / expansion / fear / law of attraction / transformation / vibration by Ruchika

I remember living in a magical universe. No one taught me that it was magical; some part of me just knew that there is a real, living relationship between this universe and me. In this relationship, I show up with my open, innocent heart, asking repeatedly for what I want. […]

Reconnecting to a Magical Universe

July 25, 2016 in Blog tagged abundance / law of attraction / Magical Universe / Reclaiming Yourself / transformation by Ruchika

I’m feeling infuriated. No matter how much I try to communicate with another person that she is not hearing me and responding to me, she is struggling to get it. For the most part, this is a person who has actually been quite closely in tune with my communication, both […]

Understanding Projections and Surviving Them

July 16, 2016 in Blog tagged human design / Projections / Survival Guide by Ruchika

In a recent sharing, I discussed an inner process where I connected utilizing my ego defenses in one area of my life and how it was affecting my life globally. The saying goes “how do you something is how you do everything”. I find it to be often true, though […]

Shifting to Essential Structures

July 14, 2016 in Blog tagged ego defenses / essential structures / transformation by Ruchika

Sometimes I go through an experience, and simultaneously the witness internally is wondering if I’m experimenting. It is so interesting to watch. There are times when I consciously choose to experiment, or in my language “play”, with something. There are other times, however, when there is some kind of experience […]

Are you a Martyr?

February 20, 2016 in Blog tagged experience / human design / law of attraction / nurture by Ruchika

I’m embarrassed to admit that all these years of inner journey, meditation, therapy, and various forms of inner work, most of the time I’m opening to the basics, simple stuff that it seems like everyone already knows. Forgiveness in one example. I pretty much breeze right past any topics on […]

Forgiveness, blah or something else?

January 27, 2016 in Blog tagged abundance / forgiveness / law of attraction / self-love / toxic relationships by Ruchika

This is the crucial time to pay attention to our mindset to attract what we want and create the life we want! I’m there. I’m really there. I’ve decided I want life to mirror myself as I am, effortlessly. In fact, I’ve been refusing to step into something that just […]

Going into the Darkness

January 5, 2016 in Blog tagged Creation / Darkness / law of attraction / love / Mindset / Separation by Ruchika

When I was in my early 20s, someone came into my life for a short period of time, a person I felt connected with instantaneously and we could talk for hours and all night. He tried really hard to convince me that I was lovable and that my happiness and […]

How I Moved From Feeling Unlovable To Basking In Love

December 3, 2015 in Blog tagged Healing / human design / love by Ruchika

Earlier this year, my job as a psychotherapist had gotten very stressful, with mounting paperwork and tight deadlines. I felt like I needed to continue working at my job, fearing what would happen if I quit — losing my income, would I go homeless? Going homeless had been my recurring […]

Choosing Love

August 18, 2015 in Blog tagged burn out / fear / Healing / love by Ruchika