Grieving Awake with Joya

Joya Sosnowski
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Grieving Awake is a podcast about identity, consciousness, and what it means to become fully alive after life breaks your heart. Grief is not just something we experience after death. Grief is the human response to every ending that asks us to become someone new. A death.A divorce.A diagnosis.A dream that didn't happen.A spiritual awakening.A career ending.An empty nest.A reinvention. Every threshold asks the same question: Who are you now? After my 18-year-old son died in a car accident, my life shattered in ways I never imagined. In the midst of profound grief, something unexpected happened. I woke up. What followed was a journey of learning to trust my own inner wisdom, intuition, and direct knowing. It changed not only how I understood grief, but how I understood life, death, consciousness, and the soul itself. On this podcast we'll explore grief as a doorway to awakening, identity transformation, after-death communication, near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, and the deeper questions that emerge when life refuses to let us go back to who we were. Because my son taught me something I could never have imagined: Death is not an ending. It opens the door to another beginning. He also left me with a simple invitation: Wake up in the game of life. Let your soul lead. If you've ever wondered who you're becoming after everything you've lived through... If you've sensed there is more to this human experience than we've been taught... Or if you're ready to stop merely surviving your life and begin consciously creating it... I'm so glad you're here. Let's change the conversation around grief, death, awakening, and what it truly means to be fully human.

Episodes

  1. Jul 3

    Grieving Awake: Remaking this podcast and following the whispers of the soul

    Send us Fan Mail Grief can feel like the floor drops out, but what if it’s also the moment your real life starts asking for your attention? I’m rebranding the podcast as Grieving Awake because grief is no longer a side topic for me, it’s the doorway I’ve been walking through. I talk about why I missed last week while finishing my book, and why this next season needs to match the truth of what I’m here to share. Grief isn’t only about death. It shows up after divorce, betrayal, career disillusionment, spiritual awakening, and any experience that shatters your identity and the world you thought you lived in. The heart of my message is simple and loud: grief dismantles your identity. It rewires you. And the way you move through that initiation shapes who you become. We also name the trap of spiritual bypassing and “high vibe” pressure, and make space for a more grounded kind of joy that can coexist with pain. I share the tools that help me stay conscious inside grief: daily meditation, mindful self-compassion, non-attachment, radical acceptance, somatic practices, and expressive arts. We explore how building nervous system safety creates a container for your feelings and naturally realigns your external world. I’m also opening the door to future conversations on after-death communication, near-death experiences, and the science of consciousness, because I don’t believe science and mysticism are separate, they’re both reaching toward the same mystery. If you’re navigating trauma, addiction patterns, or the sense that your old self no longer fits, press play and walk with me. Subscribe, share this with someone who’s grieving in any form, and leave a review so more people can find Grieving Awake. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

  2. Jun 17

    Identity Rebirth After Loss: How Grief Rewires Who You Become

    Send us Fan Mail Your identity can feel solid until life interrupts the script. When reality changes fast, through death, heartbreak, illness, or even the quiet realization that you don’t want what you used to want, your brain’s predictions get scrambled and your sense of self goes with it. I talk about what “identity rebirth” actually means, why so many people are feeling an identity crisis right now, and how disruption can become a doorway instead of a dead end. We dig into the neuroscience idea of the predictive brain and how repeated thoughts shape your wiring, your nervous system, and the life you build next. I share why grief is more than death, it’s the loss of anything meaningful, and how the mind can accidentally get stuck rehearsing the worst day. From there, I offer a grounded path for grieving awake: staying in the present moment, practicing radical acceptance, and treating yourself with real kindness when the ego is panicking and everything feels messy. You’ll also hear the core practice I lean on to rebuild from the inside out: choosing a truth that lights you up, holding faith in your heart, and building trust through action in your gut and nervous system. We zoom out to purpose and collective consciousness too, including the reminder that purpose doesn’t have to be big or public. Sometimes it’s as simple as dancing in your garden and meeting each moment without masks, steady in who you are and flexible in how you respond. If this resonates, subscribe, share it with someone walking through change, and leave a review with the one truth that lights you up right now. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    Identity Rebirth After Loss: How Grief Rewires Who You Become

  3. Jun 11

    Grieving Awake - Soul-Centered Aliveness After Loss And Identity Shifts

    Send us Fan Mail Grief can feel like everything is breaking, but what if it’s also your identity being rewired and your real self trying to come back online? I’m sharing a personal milestone I’ve been holding close: finishing my book, Grieving Awake, and the heart of what it’s really about. This is not an “escape the world” spirituality. It’s a grounded, embodied path I call soul-centered aliveness, where you learn to live in your skin as a soul wrapped in skin, even when loss dismantles who you thought you were. We talk about grief as more than bereavement: it’s the emotional process that follows any meaningful loss, including relationships, roles, and the old version of you. I unpack how qualities of aliveness differ from personality labels and why your deepest qualities aren’t something you earn or invent. They’ve been there the whole time. We also go into how wounds and ego masks hijack those gifts, why plant medicine without integration can leave your nervous system mid-rewire, and what it means to ask, “What is happening inside of me?” before you chase another breakthrough. Then we map the transformation through four movements you can practice: truth that lights you up, faith as your active imagination, trust as your nervous system’s default, and surrender as the moment repetition finally becomes embodied change. I close with a simple grounding practice you can do anywhere when everything feels like it’s going haywire. If this resonates, subscribe, share this with someone going through an identity shift, and leave a review so more people can find this work. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    Grieving Awake - Soul-Centered Aliveness After Loss And Identity Shifts

  4. Jun 3

    Let This Full Moon Sound Journey Hold You

    Send us Fan Mail I'm under a tight book deadline this week, so I'm gifting you this sound journey. Your nervous system knows when it’s time to stop pushing. This week, we’re sharing a full moon sound journey that’s meant to be felt, not analyzed a deep guided meditation you can put on with headphones, exhale into, and let your mind sink into a calmer brainwave state. Quick safety note from us up front: don’t listen while driving. Choose a quiet space where you can truly let go.  As the journey unfolds, we invite you to “run into yourself” with tenderness and honesty. We lean into gratitude for what’s already aligning for your soul’s next expansion, and we make a clear request for growth that comes with ease and grace. This is mindfulness as restoration, a full moon ritual that helps with stress relief, emotional processing, and coming back to center when life feels loud.  Toward the end, we move into intention setting in a way that’s embodied and simple. You’ll bring forward your intentions, prayers, and what you’re most deeply desiring, then imagine it blooming like a rose inside your heart until it becomes your North Star. We also make room for the whole truth of being human your grief, your pain, your joy, your pleasure and remind you that all of it is welcome here.  If you’ve been craving a deep meditation, a sound bath style reset, or a gentle way to reconnect with yourself under the full moon, press play and come back to it whenever you need. Subscribe to Turn Up Your Light, share this with a friend who needs a soft landing, and leave a review so more listeners can find these practices. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    Let This Full Moon Sound Journey Hold You

  5. May 28

    The Future of Channeling is Direct Knowing - It's All ONE Thing.

    Send us Fan Mail Channeling. Grief. Light upgrades. The Divine Mother. If those words pull something open in your chest, you’re in the right place. We’re sharing a deeply personal thread that starts with a simple question: what if “channeling” isn’t a separate being speaking at all, but direct knowing from wholeness landing in the body as truth? I talk about clear cognizance, felt experience, and the way guidance can arrive so plainly that the mind immediately tries to doubt it.  From there, we move into loss and love. I share how much I miss Weston’s physical presence, and the message that came through with unmistakable tenderness: “I haven’t gone anywhere. I’m right here.” That moment becomes a bridge into a bigger spiritual teaching: “it’s all one thing.” We explore the Divine Mother frequency and the Magdalene frequency as energies within a unified field, and I offer a bubble-wand metaphor for Source, creation, and why separation can feel real while still being an illusion. If you’ve been seeking spiritual awakening that stays embodied and honest, this will meet you there.  We also get practical about what happens after spiritual expansion. I describe the “pullback” that can follow a mystical opening, how the conditioned self can fight to survive through fear, habits, or sudden waves of grief, and why repeatedly asking “why is this happening” can lock the nervous system into the same painful loop. Then we do something you can feel immediately: the Mother’s Breath, a simple breathwork meditation that brings golden-white light into the high heart and releases pain into the arms of the Divine Mother.  If this supports you, subscribe for more practices, share this with someone who’s grieving or waking up, and leave a review so more people can find the work. What part of your life is asking to be held in love right now? joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    The Future of Channeling is Direct Knowing - It's All ONE Thing.
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Grieving Awake is a podcast about identity, consciousness, and what it means to become fully alive after life breaks your heart. Grief is not just something we experience after death. Grief is the human response to every ending that asks us to become someone new. A death.A divorce.A diagnosis.A dream that didn't happen.A spiritual awakening.A career ending.An empty nest.A reinvention. Every threshold asks the same question: Who are you now? After my 18-year-old son died in a car accident, my life shattered in ways I never imagined. In the midst of profound grief, something unexpected happened. I woke up. What followed was a journey of learning to trust my own inner wisdom, intuition, and direct knowing. It changed not only how I understood grief, but how I understood life, death, consciousness, and the soul itself. On this podcast we'll explore grief as a doorway to awakening, identity transformation, after-death communication, near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, and the deeper questions that emerge when life refuses to let us go back to who we were. Because my son taught me something I could never have imagined: Death is not an ending. It opens the door to another beginning. He also left me with a simple invitation: Wake up in the game of life. Let your soul lead. If you've ever wondered who you're becoming after everything you've lived through... If you've sensed there is more to this human experience than we've been taught... Or if you're ready to stop merely surviving your life and begin consciously creating it... I'm so glad you're here. Let's change the conversation around grief, death, awakening, and what it truly means to be fully human.

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  • Creator
    Joya Sosnowski
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Turn Up Your Light Podcast | Rev. Dr. Joya Sosnowski
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