Integrated Awakening: A Micro-Podcast with Joy & Matt Kahn

Joy and Matt Kahn

Awakening is accelerating. Integration is lagging behind. Integrated Awakening is a weekly audio letter from Joy and Matt Kahn for sensitives, healers, coaches, and leaders who are waking up faster than life around them can make sense of. Each short episode is an intimate reading of our latest written teaching: real-time insights on energetic awakening, embodiment, and the invisible architectures shaping this moment in human evolution. We explore the three layers of awakening (energetic, psychological, and relational), why so many feel ungrounded or “out of phase” with the world, and how to turn sensitivity into discernment, sovereignty, and lived clarity. If you’ve felt more aware but less at home in your body, relationships, or calling, these weekly micro-teachings are here to walk with you. Listen on your commute, in your practice, or on a quiet walk as you integrate the deepest shifts of your life. New episodes every week. Subscribe to receive each audio letter as it’s released.

Episodes

  1. Acceptance is not Approval

    4D AGO

    Acceptance is not Approval

    Episode 3: Acceptance Is Not Approval There is something undeniable happening right now: global corruption, trafficking, and institutional manipulation are no longer theoretical. They’re documented. As these truths surface, many sensitive beings are cycling through shock, freeze, and spiritual bypass, wondering how to stay awake without collapsing. In this audio letter, Joy and Matt explore why acceptance is not endorsement, and why it is the essential second stage of any real transformation, personal or collective. In this episode, we explore: The difference between “sending love” as presence and “holding the light” as avoidance The seven stages of transformation and why acceptance is often the hardest one Why refusal to accept reality keeps us in shock, and bypass keeps us passive How “everything is here to help you” includes the painful and destabilizing, not just the things we prefer The trap of using “holding a frequency” to stay comfortable and avoid courageous action The twin accelerations of this moment: exposure of distortion and awakening of consciousness A simple practice to move from shock into acceptance, and from acceptance into self-responsibility If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by what you’re seeing in the world, or afraid that accepting reality means approving of it, this episode offers a clear, grounded reframe: acceptance sharpens perception, self-responsibility sharpens power, and activation is how realities change. Resources & links: Receive our weekly written letters & audio teachings:https://www.mattandjoy.org/newsletters/your-weekly-energy-update-with-matt-and-joy-kahn/subscribe  Receive your free Healer’s Code and discover what was written for you before you were born: https://www.mattandjoy.org/healerscode  Explore our courses and programs for coaches, healers, and leaders:https://www.mattandjoy.org/  New episodes of Integrated Awakening: Weekly Audio Letters with Joy & Matt Kahn release every week.Subscribe to receive each audio letter as it’s released.

    5 min
  2. When You’re Seeking Alignment… and Life Still Feels Hard

    FEB 8

    When You’re Seeking Alignment… and Life Still Feels Hard

    Episode 2: When You’re Seeking Alignment and Life Still Feels Hard There’s a quiet pain many conscious beings carry: the ache of wanting to live in alignment and still feeling like life is pushing back. In this audio letter, Joy and Matt explore why things can feel uphill even after years of healing, self-awareness, and spiritual practice. They reframe friction not as a sign you’re off-path, but as a signal that something in you or your life wants deeper orientation and clarity. In this episode, we explore: Why “I’m doing the work, so why is this still so hard?” is such a common question The difference between misalignment and missing orientation The five orienting questions that quietly organize an entire life How partial clarity creates unnecessary friction and invisible drag Why many people you serve aren’t broken, just disoriented How to listen to friction as information instead of proof you’re doing it wrong If you’ve been interpreting discomfort as failure, or treating slowness as a sign you’re behind, this episode offers a gentler, truer frame: you’re not broken, and you’re not off-track. Alignment is something that emerges as your whole system begins to make sense. Resources & links: Receive our weekly written letters & audio teachings: https://www.mattandjoy.org/newsletters/your-weekly-energy-update-with-matt-and-joy-kahn/subscribe  Receive your free Healer's Code and discover what was written for you before you were born: https://www.mattandjoy.org/healerscode Explore our courses and programs for coaches, healers, and leaders: https://www.mattandjoy.org/ New episodes of Integrated Awakening: Weekly Audio Letters with Joy & Matt Kahn release every week.Subscribe to receive each audio letter as it’s released.

    4 min
  3. When Awakening Outpaces Integration (and Why So Many Feel Ungrounded Right Now)

    FEB 1

    When Awakening Outpaces Integration (and Why So Many Feel Ungrounded Right Now)

    Episode 1: When Awakening Outpaces Integration Right now, many sensitive beings are waking up faster than they’re able to integrate, which is why so much feels ungrounded, incoherent, or “off.” In this first audio letter, Joy and Matt explore one of the most misunderstood dimensions of this moment: energetic awakening. They reveal the hidden energetic architecture beneath our thoughts and systems, why so many are suddenly feeling more sensitive and intuitive, and how to begin turning overwhelm into discernment, sovereignty, and embodied clarity. In this episode, we explore: What it means for awakening to outpace integration The energetic architecture underneath beliefs, systems, and narratives Why so many people feel confused, ungrounded, or “out of phase” with the world How increasing sensitivity and intuition are signs of awakening, not failure The difference between destabilizing energetic overwhelm and embodied energetic clarity First steps to support your own energetic awakening with more grace and grounding If you’ve been feeling more awake but less at home in your body, relationships, or calling, this episode offers language, context, and support for what you’re moving through. Resources & links: Watch the video where we go deeper into the “hidden energetic layer”: https://youtu.be/BwCVt7x31ro Receive your free Healer's Code and discover what was written for you before you were born: https://www.mattandjoy.org/healerscode Explore our courses and programs for coaches, healers, and leaders: https://www.mattandjoy.org/   New episodes of Integrated Awakening: Weekly Audio Letters with Joy & Matt Kahn release every week.Subscribe to receive each audio letter as it’s released.

    6 min

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Awakening is accelerating. Integration is lagging behind. Integrated Awakening is a weekly audio letter from Joy and Matt Kahn for sensitives, healers, coaches, and leaders who are waking up faster than life around them can make sense of. Each short episode is an intimate reading of our latest written teaching: real-time insights on energetic awakening, embodiment, and the invisible architectures shaping this moment in human evolution. We explore the three layers of awakening (energetic, psychological, and relational), why so many feel ungrounded or “out of phase” with the world, and how to turn sensitivity into discernment, sovereignty, and lived clarity. If you’ve felt more aware but less at home in your body, relationships, or calling, these weekly micro-teachings are here to walk with you. Listen on your commute, in your practice, or on a quiet walk as you integrate the deepest shifts of your life. New episodes every week. Subscribe to receive each audio letter as it’s released.