Live Like Eden: Spiritual Awakening Unraveled

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Do you ever wish spirituality felt as easy as breathing, but life’s chaos makes it seem impossible? You’re not alone! Live Like Eden is your grounded, no-nonsense space for navigating the messy truth of waking up. Host Lindsay Vatterott, whose profound 20-year transformation emerged from the dark side of awakening, delivers real talk, humor, and actionable insights on everyday spirituality, consciousness shifts, awakening stages, A Course in Miracles teachings, health and wellness, energetics, ego traps, and undoing the ego mind. Gain practical tools, clarity, and lasting inner peace to quiet your mind and live lighter with spirit as your guide.

  1. 1d ago

    When Trauma Steals Your Identity: Returning to Your True Self with Melanie Taylor

    What happens when childhood trauma leaves you feeling like a “nobody,” lost in survival mode and repeating painful patterns? How do you repair your sense of self and finally return to the worthy, whole person you were always created to be? In this heartfelt conversation, Lindsay sits down with licensed counselor, certified hypnotherapist, trauma specialist, and founder of True Work, Melanie Taylor. Melanie shares her powerful personal journey through complex childhood trauma and the insights from her tender book You Are for True. Melanie Taylor is a licensed counselor, certified hypnotherapist, trauma specialist, and founder of True Work. She specializes in therapy intensives, EMDR, hypnotherapy, and sand tray work, guiding clients through deep healing from complex trauma. Her book You Are for True offers a compassionate, memoir-style path to reparenting, self-trust, and remembering your inherent worth. Today’s Topics Include: Healing complex childhood trauma and reparenting wounded inner parts through story, reflection, and embodied insight. Nervous system regulation, breaking trauma patterns (people-pleasing, perfectionism, hypervigilance), and building safety in the body. Discovering and embodying your “True Self” — the bridge between spirit and soul — using practical frameworks like True Work (Tend, Reflect, Uncover, Embody), sand tray therapy, and identity repair. Melanie’s honest, grounded wisdom reminds us that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about remembering what was always worthy of love. If you’re on an awakening journey, navigating trauma, or seeking real tools for transformation, this episode will meet you right where you are. Listen now for compassionate insight, laughter and real talk that make healing feel possible. Show Notes: You Are For True Melanie Taylor’s Website Therapy Intensives Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    57 min
  2. Jun 3

    The Gripping Mind: Why We Stay Trapped in the Subconscious Loop

    Have you ever felt like you are endlessly walking through a maze of your own thoughts, looping through the same old patterns, memories, and habits without ever finding the exit? Inspired by a surreal trip to a movie called The Backrooms with my daughters, today’s episode cracks open the terrifying reality of the human ego. What if the chaotic, never-ending rooms of the mind aren't a safe space to hide, but a self-made nightmare keeping us trapped? It’s time to stop fighting the individual thoughts and look directly at the container holding the illusion together. Today’s Main Topics: The Material Plane: Surface-Level Clutter & The Attachment to Stuff: Lindsay breaks down how the ego mind uses form and external objects as a masterful distraction tool. From closets bursting with items we never use to identifying our personal success with financial accumulation, we give heavy meaning to temporary things. Explore how tightly your mind is grasping the material world. The Intangible Layer: Our Cabinet of Beliefs, Opinions, and Traumas: Going a layer deeper, let’s discuss the invisible rooms in our head where our reactions, preferences, judgments, and past conditioning are stored. Strong attachments to being "right" or clinging to victim narratives constructs a rigid identity that fiercely resists the natural flow of life. Learn how the ego mind uses past experiences as a subconscious prison loop. The Spiritual Level: The Ultimate Reality Check and the Original Separation: Drawing profound insights from A Course in Miracles, Lindsay reveals that the real root of all mental suffering isn't daily drama—it's the shared, collective belief that we are separate from God. Discover the practice of "spiritual multitasking," where you learn to live a completely normal life while simultaneously knowing that the attachments and triggers in your head have nothing to do with your true home. True liberation doesn't come from spending lifetimes over-analyzing every single crevice of your psychological baggage. It comes from pulling back the curtain on the ego recognizing we have a choice, and shifting our perception to see through the eyes of Spirit. Click play now to stop looping, dissolve the sticky web of your mind, and step back into your true reality. Show Notes: Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    39 min
  3. May 27

    The Ageless Spirit: Overcoming Medical Obstacles to Reclaim Inner Peace with Dr. Susanne Eden

    What happens when your physical body suffers an absolute collapse and the life you spent decades building shatters into pieces? When a medical crisis strips away your future and identity, do you view it as a tragedy, or as a radical, divine invitation to wake up to your true, eternal spirit? Today’s guest, Dr. Susanne Eden joins the show to share her personal story of healing and personal transformation in her book, Healing From the Inside: Living Fully as You Age. Now, at 87, she is inspiring others to approach the gift of aging with optimism and purpose. Dr. Eden spent her career providing leadership to educators across Canada as a teacher, author, consultant and staff developer. Among her achievements, she is a past President of the Canadian Association for Young Children and past Chair of the Board of Governors at Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario. The main show topics include: Dr. Eden’s Transformation: Dr. Eden opens up about the devastating physical collapse in her fifties that altered the course of her life. At 87 years young, she shares how this midlife crisis forced her to completely surrender her rigid identity, rewrite her relationship with her body, and inspire her profound book, Healing From the Inside: Living Fully as You Age. The Vital Difference Between a Cure and Healing: In a powerful segment, Lindsay and Dr. Eden break down why a medical cure and true healing are completely different paths. While a cure focuses merely on fixing the body, true healing requires dropping your rigid beliefs into the incinerator, entering a state of total unknowing, and aligning with an inner peace that transcends physical limitations. Society's Missing Link and the Anti-Aging Obsession: The conversation addresses how modern society has completely lost its connection to spirituality. Lindsay and Dr. Eden critique a culture that is utterly "nutso" over perfecting the physical body, running to pharmaceutical fixes , and aggressively throwing anti-aging solutions in our faces to hide the richness of growing older. They explain how this superficial noise causes us to lose touch with our essential True Self and the ancient wisdom of our elders This episode is a beautiful reminder that while our physical forms will never last, our underlying spirit is eternal, unbroken, and always connected to a graceful divine presence. By letting go of what we think we know, we can step out of mental illusions and fully experience aging with grace. Press play and start listening to the conversation now! Show Notes: Dr. Susanne Eden’s Website Dr. Eden’s Book–Healing From the Inside: Living Fully As You Age Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    57 min
  4. May 20

    Beyond Thought: Do Thoughts Really Create Our Reality?

    We’ve all heard the human potential movement, from metaphysicians to neuroscientists and mainstream spiritual gurus, telling us that our thoughts and feelings create our reality. But what if that narrative is actually a beautifully masked trap designed to keep you bound to your own mind? True spiritual awakening isn't about endlessly swapping a negative thought for a positive one—it's about realizing you are the one existing entirely beyond the thinker. Today’s show covers: The Cultural Programming: Let’s take a look at the deep-seated conditioning of our collective reality, pulling back the curtain on how the powers that be, use the mind's immense power to program behavior. Few teach you how to actually free yourself from it. The Sticky Web of the Mind: Visualize your energy field as a three-dimensional spider web. Discover how everyday worries, opinions, and passing beliefs get caught in the silk, clogging up your energy field forcing you into a constant reactionary state. The Ego’s Validation Trap: Explore how we use hurt feelings and the righteous need to be right as a badge of honor. See how seeking validation only anchors you deeper into your ego identity and builds more baggage in your energy field. The 3-Step Process for the Decision Maker: Walk away with three remarkably simple, actionable tools to invoke your inner Decision Maker, step into the role of the impartial Observer, catch your energy shifts, and choose to see your world through Spirit's non-judgmental eyes. You do not have to remain a prisoner to a running loop of mental conditioning. Listen now to clear away that stubborn web, let go of nagging thoughts, and let Spirit lead the way! Show Notes: Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    41 min
  5. May 13

    Spiritual Awakening: Integrating Transformation into Everyday Life with Pamela Downes

    Have you ever felt like you were poking holes in your reality only to have the entire facade eventually collapse? For many, spiritual awakening isn't a serene moment on a meditation cushion. It's a disruptive, high-frequency power that rocks your identity, your career, and your closest relationships. Join Lindsay and guest Pamela Downes, a multidimensional soul-body healer, trance channeler, spiritual guide, and founder of Spirit Calling, as they discuss the gritty reality of surviving and integrating a radical spiritual hijacking. Pamela supports clients through Soul Path Coaching and her global spiritual community, helping them release outdated identities, awaken intuitive intelligence, and step fully into their highest expression. Main Topics Covered The Demise of the Ego Identity: Pamela shares her personal journey through the 2008 recession and the subsequent breakdown of all the external markers that previously defined her. Physical and Intuitive Manifestations: Learn about the visceral side of awakening, from knowing when a karmic contract is over to the intense physical releases and throat chakra openings that can accompany a frequency shift. Awakening Disrupts Relationships: A deep dive into why frequency shifts often creates a lack of resonance with partners and how to move through these transitions with love rather than judgment. From Channeling to Everyday Action: Discover how Pamela integrated her connection with the Great Council of Light into her business life and why saying yes to every divine nudge is the key to co-creating your new reality. Awakening isn't about becoming someone else; it's about remembering what has been there all along. If you feel like a stranger in your own life, this episode is your safe place to land. Listen now to discover how to navigate your own spiritual metamorphosis. Show Notes: Pamela’s Website—Spirit Calling Follow Pamela on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Listen to Live the Call Podcast Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the Awakening Quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 6m
  6. May 6

    You're Not Going Crazy, You're Just Losing Your Mind

    What if the terrifying feeling, that you’re “losing your mind” during awakening, isn’t a sign that you are crazy, rather it’s waking you up to true sanity? In this solo episode of Live Like Eden, Lindsay shares the reality about the ego’s biggest freak-outs as the conditioned mind begins to dissolve. Let’s walk through ten common panic moments—real fears the ego mind will toss your way. The point of no return, fear of a clinical label, loss of control, spiritual failure and more! You’ll discover why they’re not signs you’re going crazy, but normal signals that you’re losing the false self and remembering who you really are. With honesty, humor, and zero fluff, Lindsay suggests that this discomfort is part of the process, and the observer within you is always safe. Tune in now and discover why you’re not losing your mind—you’re finally coming home to Spirit! Show Notes: Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    42 min
  7. Apr 29

    Reframing Nightmares: From Pain to Personal Power with Jamie Lerner

    What if the worst moments in your life—the nightmares you thought would break you—could actually become the bridge to your greatest transformation? In this episode of Live Like Eden, host Lindsay Vatterott sits down with wellbeing therapist and author Jamie Lerner to explore how difficult times, old stories, and mental resistance can be reframed into catalysts for profound change and deeper self-connection. Today’s topics include: Jamie’s Journey & Integrative Approach: From traditional psychotherapy to creating her own empowering method focused on personal responsibility and inner knowing. Reframing Nightmares into Bridges: How to shift from victim stories and past pain into a new, empowering storyline that serves your present and future. The Art of Allowing & Practical Tools: Simple ways to quiet mind chatter, practice loving curiosity, and use tools like pre-paving and quickie texting to move forward with ease. Jamie’s warm, insightful wisdom and real-world strategies make this episode a must-listen for anyone ready to turn life’s challenges into growth. Tune in now and discover how to rewrite your own story with compassion and clarity. Show Notes: Jamie Lerner Book: The Ever-Loving Essence of You Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    53 min
  8. Apr 22

    The 4 Pillars of Eden: Returning Home to Spirit

    What if the reason your body, mind, and life still feel chaotic is because you’ve been building without the one foundation that actually holds everything together? In this solo episode of Live Like Eden, Lindsay explains exactly what “Live Like Eden” means and breaks down the four foundational pillars to live an awakened life. Body – The Vessel: How to stop fighting your physical form and start listening to it as the sacred vehicle Spirit chose to live through. Mind – The Choice: Why the ego mind keeps us looping in old patterns and how choosing Spirit instead of the ego changes every decision. Environment – Creating in the World: How your home, relationships, and daily surroundings reflect what’s happening inside—and how to intentionally shape your outer world. Spirit – The Real Eden: The one pillar that influences all the others—remembering your true home in God so the rest of life starts to flow with far less effort. Ready to stop forcing and start remembering? Tune in now and discover the simple framework that turns the awakening process into peaceful, grounded living. Show Notes: Visit⁠ Live Like Eden!⁠ I'd love to hear from you! Download the ⁠MindBodySpirit.fm App⁠! Scroll to the bottom, hit Open Mic, and leave me a question, comment, or share insights on the show! ⁠Take the awakening quiz!⁠ Where are you on the path? Just 10 questions: Get your results with a personal podcast playlist to guide your unique spiritual path! Grab your FREE GUIDE to ⁠Busting the Bliss Myth: 5 Simple Shifts to Free Your Mind.⁠ ⁠Spiritual Guidance & Support Sessions⁠: Struggling through your awakening and need real guidance from someone who has lived it? Book a Free Consult for 1:1 sessions—I’d love to support you with honest, judgment-free tools to navigate the chaos. ⁠Subscribe⁠ for Podcast email reminders. ⁠About Me: My Personal Story⁠ ⁠Follow LIVE LIKE EDEN on Instagram!⁠ RATE AND REVIEW Love the show? Share your insights! Rate, review, and help others find clarity in their awakening journey. Your words shine a light on a tough topic—thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    33 min

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Do you ever wish spirituality felt as easy as breathing, but life’s chaos makes it seem impossible? You’re not alone! Live Like Eden is your grounded, no-nonsense space for navigating the messy truth of waking up. Host Lindsay Vatterott, whose profound 20-year transformation emerged from the dark side of awakening, delivers real talk, humor, and actionable insights on everyday spirituality, consciousness shifts, awakening stages, A Course in Miracles teachings, health and wellness, energetics, ego traps, and undoing the ego mind. Gain practical tools, clarity, and lasting inner peace to quiet your mind and live lighter with spirit as your guide.

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