We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anaïs Nin Anxious doom spirals. Toxic comparison. Difficulty distinguishing truth from deception. These are some of the biggest emotional and existential issues we’re facing in the modern age. Our minds lie to us all the time. The question is, how do we […]
Why Repeated Numbers Can Be Negative Synchronicities on Your Soul’s Path
If you’ve been on the inner path for any amount of time, you’ve likely seen repeated numbers like 11:11, 2:22, 3:33, and more. You’re probably aware that they are forms of synchronicity, that is, meaningful coincidences, which lead to a feeling of being spiritually connected and affirmed by the Universe. What’s beautiful about these experiences […]
Feeling Hopelessly Stuck on Your Soul’s Path? Read This …
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. – M. Hale One of the most frustrating experiences in life is feeling like you’re getting somewhere on your Soul’s path, only to feel stuck again for the millionth time. This first year of parenthood has been […]
A Coping Skill For When Everything is “Too Much”
Genocides, wars, public assassinations, climate destruction — we are surrounded by chaos everywhere. If you’re a highly sensitive person like me, life can often feel like it’s screaming in your face relentlessly. We may rally against one injustice, only to find that more and more pop up like a hellish version of the game Whac-A-Mole. […]
Black Moon Spiritual Meaning & Symbolism
Darkness, mystery, magic, introspection, healing. These are just some of the many deep themes associated with the Black Moon, a rare lunar event that happens when there are two new moons in a calendar month instead of one. To give you an overview of its energy, here are some keywords associated with the Black Moon: […]
What is Nigredo? 13 Signs You’re Having an Alchemical Breakdown
Skulls, ravens, black suns, darkness. All these are symbols of the process of crisis, breakdown, and ego death that represent the first stage of spiritual alchemy: Nigredo. Are you suffering from some kind of intense, consuming inner struggle right now? Perhaps there’s no chaotic crisis, but instead a vacuous feeling of emptiness, isolation, or disconnection […]
Your Calling is Calling: How to Find Purpose in Times of Crisis
Perhaps you’ve been feeling it recently. Maybe you’ve felt it for a long time. The darkness around us is deep. We no longer trust the big institutions that were meant to protect us and there is an increase in social unrest at almost every level of society. Our ecosystem is suffering. Wars between volatile countries […]
7 Ways to Reparent Your Wounded Inner Child
Deep beneath the insecurity, chronic pain, anxiety, and emptiness many of us feel hides the wounded inner child who longs to be seen and loved. If you grew up with inconsistent, immature, sick, or abusive parents or caregivers, chances are you have a vulnerable and young inner part known as the inner child who needs […]
“Why Do I Always Feel Like Something Is Missing From My Life?”
It’s a feeling that haunts us in the dead of the night, in the early hours of the morning, in the emptiness of large urban spaces, and even sometimes within groups of people: The feeling that something is missing. The yearning for deep connection. The craving to fill the inner void. I used to experience […]
Strawberry Full Moon Spiritual Meaning & Symbolism
Following the cycles of the moon has a profoundly grounding effect on the mind, heart, and nervous system, especially in this chaotic and disconnected world. If you’re a sensitive person, an inner work practitioner, or a spiritual seeker, and want to anchor your life within the rhythms of the moon’s energy, take this as your […]
Tarot Shadow Work For Beginners: 5 Steps to Unveil Your Dark Side
A journey through the Tarot cards is primarily a journey into our own depths. Whatever we encounter along the way is an aspect of our own deepest, and highest, self. – Sallie Nichols The Fool, The High Priestess, The Hanged Man … Do the symbols, figures, and archetypes within the tarot call to you? If […]
7 Types of False Identity Scripts Hiding in Your Subconscious
You feel trapped, constricted, stuck, disconnected … You want to be your authentic self, but you don’t know how. You want to connect more with others, but you can’t seem to. Maybe it’s just that you don’t feel safe. Maybe you still have a bunch of unresolved childhood trauma to process. Or maybe you don’t […]
Why Do We Lose Friendships on the Awakening Path? (& What to Do)
One of the most painfully common, yet neglected areas of discussion when it comes to the path of awakening to our deeper Self, is losing all our friends. Winding up alone. Perhaps you’ve always struggled to make friends, or once upon a time had friendships but have since lost them. Maybe you’re an introvert by […]
Reading as Ritual: 5 Ways to Get Started if You’re Out of the Habit
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times […]
The Core Wound: Why You Still Feel Broken, Unseen, and Alone
Suffering from the same old destructive mental patterns. Never finding a sense of authentic purpose. Toxic invalidating relationships. Feeling disconnected from your deeper Self. Existential dread, loneliness, depression, and burnout … All of these afflictions can be traced directly back to the primal wound of separation. The separation from being truly loved. The separation from […]
The Moon Phase Calculator (Tonight’s Moon Spiritual Meaning)
The Moon Phase Calculator below is a psychospiritual tool that can help you: You’ll automatically discover tonight’s moon displayed below on the Moon Phase Calculator. (Don’t forget to bookmark this page so that you can return to it!) If your country isn’t displayed, select the closest one to you, as you’ll share a similar time […]
Bibliotherapy: 5 Steps to Creating Your Soul Medicine Library
Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King Our relationship with books spans millennia. Through this compact and humble sacred tool, we can live through the eyes of others, remember forgotten truths, and teleport to different times and distant places. Books are all at once sacred, profane, and mundane. Think of the Upanishads or […]
7 Signs You’re an Autodidact (the Self-Taught Master)
Leonardo da Vinci, Eckhart Tolle, Stanley Kubrick, Frida Kahlo, Benjamin Franklin, Krishnamurti, Jane Austen, Steve Jobs – some of the greatest people in history were (and are) self-learners or autodidacts. As author and autodidact Helen Beatrix Potter once noted: “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of my […]
7 Spiritual Stagnation Signs (The Silent Thief of Inner Growth)
There’s an uncomfortable truth we all need to face sooner rather than later on our inner work journeys of healing and awakening: We’ll not only get stuck at some point, but we’ll start to stagnate and rot. This might sound macabre, but the reality is that if we don’t allow the freshness and vitality of […]
The Wounded Achiever: 3 Ways of Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
You have a secret – a hidden, dark secret: Deep down, you’re a fake, a fraud, and a liar. At least, that’s how you feel. If you can relate to the fear of being “found out” that you’re not as smart, competent, successful, wise, or even as spiritual as others think you are, you’re in […]
Memento Mori: 3 Ways to Use Death As a Life Compass
There is so much clutter and noise out there about ‘living your best life’ and what exactly that looks like. Take a casual stroll through any form of social media or even the humble local library, and you’ll be met with a tsunami of information, opinions, and perspectives. And this abundance of insight is great. […]
How Your Attachment Style Influences Your Spiritual Path
Here’s a quick question for you: Are you the kind of person who tends to run away from relationships with others, get overly invested in them, or a little bit of both? Perhaps you generally feel fine in relationships? Your answer to this simple question reveals what type of attachment style you have. In psychology, […]
No Motivation to Do Anything? 18 Reasons Why
It’s 9 am. You realize that you have no motivation to do anything whatsoever. If your mood were a color, it would be the most boring shade of beige ever created. The truth is that you feel “meh” about life, but you’re not necessarily depressed. You just don’t have the drive to do or achieve […]
Betrayal Trauma as a Sacred Wound: 3 Ways to Heal
At the moment of betrayal a wound is opened in our most vulnerable spot—our original trust—which is that of a totally defenceless infant who cannot survive in the world except in someone’s arms. – Aldo Caratenuto Betrayal trauma is such a raw and confronting topic that I almost didn’t want to write this post at […]
The 5-Minute Hermit: How to Find Solitude in a Busy World
But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. – Alan Watts If there’s any archetype (aka., universal energy) at the core of lonerwolf, it is the hermit. In fact, of all the energies that […]
“I Don’t Know What to Do With My Life” (Ask This One Question)
As a kid, I was convinced that I wanted to be a quirky primary school teacher, just like my dad. Then, as I grew older, I wanted to be a theatrical designer, and finally an “edgy” librarian. In truth, I ended up as none of those things and wound up doing something I never planned […]
What is Soul-Led Creativity? (5 Prompts to Get Started)
Ensoulment means infusing something with a Soul – giving life to something beautiful, meaningful, and precious. And I can see no better way of doing that than through the sacred path of creativity. Yes, creativity is sacred. Creativity itself is a spiritual path or what is known as the via creativa (path of creativity). Creativity […]
When Life Falls Apart: Why Awakening is Destructive
(This post differs from the usual approach I’ve taken to my articles here on lonerwolf. It’s a more simple, contemplative, and reflective piece, with no necessarily “actionable tips.” Let me know if you enjoy this format in the comments, as well as your own reflections.) In my attempt to try and make peace with the […]
5 Signs You’re a Wounded Healer
A wounded healer is a shaman at heart, a spiritual alchemist who is called to transform their pain into a source of power. On the spiritual wanderer’s journey, accepting the call of being a wounded healer is a sacred calling that not only gives our awakening paths a deeper meaning and purpose but also empowers […]
7 Lone Wolf Personality Signs (and Your Unique Gifts)
True story. I was that weird kid who got chosen last in sports teams, sat alone in her room for hours reading Victorian gothic books, collected spider webs and paper bags, and listened to doom metal as a teenager. I was like something out of a Tim Burton film. Jesting aside, yeah, I’ve had periods […]
Spiritual Awakening Stages: 10 Levels of Illumination
So what is spiritual awakening? It is, above all, a process; a process of exploration and unfolding; a process of learning and growth, of healing and purification. It involves the whole of our beings and works on all levels, physical, emotional and psychological, as well as spiritual. – Catherine G. Lucas Just as there are […]
Soul Ties: 5 Types and How to Break Negative Ones
You feel a deep kinship with this person, but you have no idea why. It feels as though you’re resonating on the same wavelength. The energy between the two of you feels harmonic, like two perfectly matched instruments playing in a symphony. You haven’t known them for long, but it feels like you’ve met […]
9 Kundalini Awakening Stages of Mystical Transformation
Kundalini energy – the primal and dormant “prana” or life force within us – is something many of us spiritual wanderers will taste at least once in life. Also known as the serpent power, among many other names, kundalini awakening can be shocking, painful, beautiful, and paradigm-shifting all at once. I have experienced this energy […]
I Don’t Know Who I Am: 5 Ways to Deal With An Ego Crisis
It’s a feeling of inner blankness and disorientation – like being stranded in the middle of a forest you don’t know the name of or which direction to go. You may carry this inner void with you everywhere. Feelings of shame, inadequacy, and lostness creep in from time to time as you look enviously at […]
What Type of Spiritual Wanderer Are You? (Free Quiz)
If you’re a spiritual wanderer, you’re a sensitive and deep-thinking person who yearns to awaken to a greater sense of purpose and freedom in this life. You may have lost your sense of home due to an existential crisis, dark night of the soul, or painful trauma that makes you feel like an outsider who […]
Which Archetype Are You: The Seeker, Apprentice, Shaman, Mystic or Sage?
On our journeys of awakening, it is crucial to find where we’re situated on the path so that we know how to navigate the road ahead. Traveling without knowing how to orient ourselves is kind of like craving to go to your favorite cookie store, but having no map, no direction, and no car. Pretty […]
The Deep Feeler, Media Overwhelm, and Finding Self-Sovereignty
Note: this is a contemplative blog post rather than a traditional article. What I’m doing here is offering my thoughts and reflections in a more spontaneous way, so you won’t get in-depth or seven-step solutions. Enjoy the ride. :) __ A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the deep thinker and their relationship with […]
What is Abandonment Trauma? Causes, Symptoms & How to Heal
Feeling left out, forgotten, ignored, and cast to the side is something most of us have experienced at least once in life. But what happens when the feeling of being abandoned forms the very foundation of our existence? What happens when no matter what we do, where we go, who we befriend or romance, we […]
The Deep Thinker, Belonging, and the Craving For Aloneness
Note: this is a contemplative blog post rather than a traditional article. As such, there’s no necessary ‘clear solution’ or 7-step-process I’m providing here. Instead, I’m just offering my thoughts and reflections in a more raw way. Enjoy. :) — Recently, I’ve realized that at the center of the work I’m called to do in […]
What is a Spiritual Warrior? 3 Ways to Turn Pain into Power
The world feels like it’s collapsing around you. Deep down, you feel scared, confused, lost, alone, and adrift in a black ocean of emptiness. Where are you to go? What can you do now? You feel a sense of being shattered inside – there is a hollowness in your chest, a void where your Soul […]
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