How to Strengthen Your Intuition & Increase Your Spiritual Gifts

You don’t need things to become more spiritual.

Tarot cards, crystals, sage—OH MY!

Since the dawn of humanity, mystical tools have been used to enhance spiritual journeys. Moon rituals, yoni eggs, oils, and more are often seen as essentials for spiritual growth. However, relying too heavily on them can actually pull you into illusions rather than bringing you closer to the truth—especially when it comes to strengthening your intuition.

But wait, Danielle, I love my crystal-oil-blue-room-meditation-while-sitting-on-my-sacred-pillow ritual! How can you expect me to believe that it’s not helping me be more spiritual?!?

It’s okay, Betty. You can have your amethyst cave full of tools if they bring you joy and feel aligned with your path. But here’s the truth: You don’t need any of it to deepen your spirituality.

You Are Already a Spiritual Being

The key to strengthening your intuition and increasing your spiritual gifts is not found in material tools but in returning to your natural state. You are, and always have been, a spiritual being. The idea that we need something external to make us more spiritual often leads to frustration and disillusionment.

Your soul chose to experience life in human form to grow through perspective and experience. While tools can inspire and help your human side connect with spiritual truths, they aren’t what make you more spiritual.

If you’re looking to align more deeply with your intuition, remember that you already possess infinite potential. Trust and believe in your connection to Spirit. No crystal, card, or ritual will take you closer to Spirit than the connection you cultivate within.

Want to dive deeper into how to connect spiritually? Check out our guide titled “How to Use Meditation for Spiritual Growth.”

Why Tools Might Hold You Back

It’s human nature to seek out external aids, and yes, tools can be fun and make you feel connected. But if you rely on spiritual accessories to bring you a sense of fulfillment, you’re likely to experience highs and lows in your journey. The real work lies in your inner connection, not in acquiring more things.

Sound familiar?

• “If I meditated an hour a day, I’d be WAY more spiritual!” (But secretly, you hate meditating.)
• “She’s so good at reading tarot cards. I’ll never be that gifted.” (But you’re not even sure if you believe in tarot.)
• “She manifested $100 holding a crystal! That never happens for me, and I own a thousand dollars’ worth of crystals!”

These thought patterns come from comparing yourself to others and believing that spiritual growth is something external. In reality, spiritual growth comes from aligning with your own soul’s journey. To help you let go of the comparison trap, check out our blog titled “Reclaiming Personal Power in Your Spiritual Journey.”

Strengthen Your Intuition Without All the “Things”

Strengthening your intuition doesn’t require elaborate tools or rituals. It’s about trusting yourself and recognizing the divine within you. Your intuition is your soul’s guidance system, offering you everything you need to live a more connected and spiritually rich life.

The more you trust yourself, the clearer your inner guidance becomes. This practice of listening to your intuition will help you differentiate between the messages of your higher self and the fear-based reactions of the ego.

Ask and Listen to Strengthen Your Intuition

A simple way to enhance your intuition is by asking yourself meaningful questions, listening to the answers, and trusting the insights you receive. Here are some powerful questions to consider:

• What parts of myself have I not fully accepted?
• Where do I still hold back my truth?
• Where am I afraid of standing out or being different?

These questions guide you back to your higher self and help you break free from societal norms or external pressures. Your intuition will lead you on a path of light and ease if you trust it. To explore this further, take a look at our post titled “Practicing Authenticity in Everyday Life.”

The Ego vs. Intuition Struggle

Free will allows us to either listen to our intuition or ignore it. It’s our human ego that muddies the waters and creates doubt. Fear, comparison, and societal pressures often push us to seek validation outside of ourselves, which leads us further from trusting our inner guidance.

By learning to trust your intuition, you’ll open yourself to receiving

the spiritual guidance that has always been there. Over time, you’ll become more attuned to the difference between ego-driven thoughts and the wisdom of your higher self.

For a deeper look into aligning with your spiritual self, check out the post titled “5 Signs You’re Out of Alignment With Your Higher Self.”

Final Thoughts on Spiritual Growth

True spirituality is about oneness with the Creator and recognizing the divine power within you. There are no set beliefs or rules to follow to awaken this connection. Tools can be helpful, but they’re not required. What truly matters is your relationship with yourself and Spirit.

Start embracing your intuition today, and see how it transforms your spiritual journey.

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Why is mom guilt even a thing?

We live in a society that is grossly obsessed with perfection. Perfect body, perfect hair, perfect career path, perfect kids – and most of all – perfect women. Women face extraordinary pressure to maintain all of the above and more….well….perfectly. This obsession with perfection isn’t conducive to trying to banish mom guilt, but rather, it perpetuates it. 

The delightful kicker here is that despite society’s generalized idea of perfection, there are also endless double-standards and conflicting ideals that make it even harder for moms to live-up to everyone’s expectations of how they raise their children. 

Expectations cause pressure. Pressure creates misalignment. Misalignment results in guilt. 

Calling out the bullshit.

I’m calling out these impossible standards right here and now, and I invite you to kick their ass to the curb with me. Unrealistic and decidedly boring expectations of ‘perfection’ are just one more way society is set up to keep you feeling small. 

First things first: You are not just a mom, or a wife, or an employee or a business owner. You are an extraordinary Being with purpose. Those other things are labels to describe your physical circumstances. They do not represent the essence of your soul. They aren’t YOU.

By being connected to your inner-self, you truly know yourself and the expectations of others begin to slide off you, reducing the feeling of pressure. As a mother, you can then start to make decisions for your kids and go through your day based on your true Being. This puts you closer to or in the space of alignment. Guilt does not exist within the alignment.

How common is mom guilt?

There’s a hella lotta guilty moms out there. 

And guess what?? There are loads of ways that regular mom guilt can be supersized. Yayyyy…

For example, single moms have extremely high rates of guilt. MAD props to you women – I don’t know how the eff you guys do it. I sometimes experience huge “I’m gonna lose it” stress when my husband leaves for over 24 hours at the firehouse. If that can get rough for me, I can’t imagine it day-in, day-out.

Let’s not forget that shaming is still a real thing that exists for stay at home moms, which substantially increases feelings of guilt. Guilt over not contributing to household income and buying into the judgments of others that they somehow “have it easier” than working moms adds to feeling ‘not enough’.

On the other hand, working moms are plagued with guilt, too. See, there’s extra guilt for everybody! No mom left behind! Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It seems no matter what you do, it’s not good enough for anyone. 

The prognosis for relieving mom guilt is bad here, I know. But I promise you, Linda, there is a way out of the shitty guilt spiral that society thrusts in your face at every turn.

How To Banish Mom Guilt.

As I’ve talked about before, self-love and honoring yourself comes from choosing yourself first. If you want to get off the mom guilt-train, you need to learn to love yourself from the inside and put that into practice especially as a mom.

When you get deep into self-love, you connect with your truest, highest version of yourself and you become confident in the knowledge that you are enough. 

“FFS, Danielle. I’m a mom. How the hell am I supposed to get all deep and self-lovey while dealing with a screaming toddler and baby barf all day long?”

I’m glad you asked, Linda – I’ve got you covered. 

• Practice self-compassion like your life depends on it (it kinda does). 

This literally takes no extra time – it takes discipline. Self-compassion is described as the capacity to be kind and accepting toward yourself, and willing to forgive your fumbles and imperfections. You can achieve this by changing your internal dialogue as you go about your day. 

From: “I am a total shit for yelling at him so much today.”

To: “I know that’s not my normal. I did the best I could on a monumentally hard day.”

From: “I’m failing. I can’t keep up with all this. I SUCK at momming.”

To: “Today was tough. No wonder, I am running on 3 hours of sleep.”

• Doing something just for YOU.

As moms, there is a lot of pressure and guilt associated with whether we should do things for ourselves or not – because ya know Aunt Barbra has a big-ass mouth and will say you’re selfish if you take a weekend away for yourself. 

Aunt Barbara be damned, be an amazing role model to your kids anyway by choosing yourself first sometimes and not being your own afterthought. Teach your daughter that society has created some major stigmas on mommas and show her how you’re rewriting those stories for yourself – and for her. 

• Don’t be shy to ask for help.

Need a hand? Cue the pride factor!! 

Asking for help: It’s. So. Hard.

Look, I get it. We have 4367 things to do in a day as mothers, but we must remember how important it is to have help bringing that number down. Now, don’t going asking for support from Aunt Barbara – or even your own mother – if you know it’s going to come with a side order of shame-bolstering judgments on your parenting style. 

Seek support from friends and family who you know will help you without the side-eye. If you aren’t blessed with that currently in your life, find ways to connect to other mothers in community groups, join mom meet-ups or hire out help. 

Even 2 hours of help a week can really make a difference. It’s not easy to build a village if you don’t already have one in place, but it’s worth it and necessary. 

Be the best version of yourself so you can be the best version of mom to them.

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Embracing the Flow: A Guide to Soul Alignment

Hello beautiful people! Ready to dive deep into self-discovery and soul alignment?

Today, we are going to explore an often overlooked aspect of personal development: embracing the flow. For many of us, the hustle and push of everyday life can feel somewhat constant. There’s always something to do, some goal to reach, some problem to solve. While there’s certainly room for ambition and striving in life, it’s crucial to balance this energy with softer, more yielding moments of flow.

Who is ‘You’?

The first step to embracing your natural flow is understanding yourself on a deep and profound level. Often, we race after goals, dreams, and societal expectations that don’t necessarily align with our true desires and identities. But who are ‘you’ at your core?

You are more than just your body and your mind. Many believe in the concept of the soul, the eternal essence within us that experiences and learns from the world around us. This soul is who we truly are, and it resides within our physical form, observing, learning, and growing from life’s experiences.

The more in touch we are with our soul, the more we can live in harmony and alignment with our true selves.

Understanding the Soul

Truly knowing oneself requires not just recognizing your desires, but understanding your relationship with the world and with your self. This is where the concept of the ‘false self’ comes in. The false self is made up of unhealthily internalized beliefs, traumas, and societal expectations. Breaking these down and moving past them is a significant part of spiritual growth.

Depending on where you are in your journey, traditional therapy could be a great starting point for this work. However, if you find that traditional methods aren’t giving you the progress you desire, don’t hesitate to explore other avenues.

In the spirit of introspection, consider these open-ended questions:

• Why am I hesitant to make this decision?

• Why does the path I’m on feel wrong to me?

• Is this desire really mine, or am I trying to fulfill someone else’s expectations?

If these questions feel daunting, don’t fret. I’ve designed a workbook specifically for this sort of introspection. It’s available for only $7 and provides a solid foundation for your self-discovery journey.

Flow Over Force

When we learn to understand ourselves—our true self, not just our surface level being—we can begin to move with more grace and less strain. We don’t need to force things, hustle unnecessarily, or run ourselves ragged. Sometimes, the most powerful course of action is letting go and allowing the natural order of things to unfold.

As counterintuitive as it may seem, surrender can be the key to success. There’s profound wisdom and strength in letting go of control; we make room for new possibilities and experiences to flow into our lives.

Creating Your Path

Everyone has their own unique path in life and it’s important to remember there’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach to success. For me, maintaining a balanced, fluid lifestyle brings me satisfaction. Whether my business is soaring or times are tough, staying connected with people and living in alignment with my authentic self are my main priorities.

Indeed, the pitfalls of losing alignment can be severe. In 2019, I was lured by the glitz and glamour of automation, quick sales, and flashy success metrics. I had everything I had dreamed of—lead generations, automatic income, etcetera—yet I started feeling hollow inside.

Why? Because I was trying to fit into a success mold that didn’t align with my true self. I was feeding a false identity, losing touch with what truly represented me, which is connecting with people on a deeper level.

The Power of the Now

Here’s the kicker: Understanding the power of ‘now’ is the key to true fulfillment and abundance. When we’re present in the moment, we can attune to the flow of life, align with the natural rhythm of the universe, and create space for abundance to flow into our lives.

The next time you’re faced with a tough decision or you’re questioning your next move, ask yourself: Is this really what I want? Or, is this something my ‘false self’ thinks I need?

There’s immense power in discerning between these two questions.

As always, thank you for joining me on this journey of understanding and personal growth. I’m Danielle Amy and I’d love to have you join us for more discussions on real, raw spirituality and self-development. Be sure to subscribe to keep up with fresh content released every Tuesday and Thursday. See you in the next post!

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