Welcome back to The Awakening Woman: Ready to Thrive. In this episode, I return to what lies at the heart of this series: what it means to be awakening and how that ties into being an awakening woman.
This episode is a culmination of thoughts and feelings that have been moving through me for months, if not years. It feels deeply personal and vulnerable, and as such, lives out what it means to be an awakening woman, speaking, living and creating from truth over fear.
I hope this episode meets you where you most desire. If you enjoyed it, leave a comment or share.
Florence U.
(Sacred Success Mentor)
Show Notes
What if awakening isn’t about rising above… but about returning?
What if it’s not about mastering your vibration, but meeting your truth?
In this powerful second episode, Florence unpacks how dominant spiritual and personal development narratives — from ascension and detachment to hustle-coded manifestation culture — often distract us from what’s real.
Instead, she offers a radically grounded definition of awakening:
🌿 A willingness to look, feel, and choose.
🌿 A return to our own inner truth, power, and presence.
🌿 An embodied relationship with soul, system, lineage, and life.
This episode weaves reflections on spiritual bypassing, wellness performance, deconstruction, nervous system healing, dharma, and sacred feminine-masculine integration — all through Florence’s lived lens as a Black mother, truth-teller, and liberatory guide.
Highlights include:
Why the “performance of awakening” keeps women stuck
What it means to awaken as both a spiritual and embodied act
The trap of endless self-fixing vs. the power of deep truth-telling
How awakening connects to lineage healing, systemic resistance, and sacred creation
The feminine’s role in awakening — and why the higher masculine must return
Whether your path includes illness, deconstruction, motherhood, or mystery — this is a deep remembering.
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✨ Shareable Quotes for this Episode
1. On the truth behind performance awakening
“There’s still hustle. There’s still perfectionism. There’s still performance. But this time there’s glitter thrown in. It’s striving in another form, and underneath it all is fear — fear of the world, fear of our own power, fear that it’s all too big.”
2. On awakening as participation, not detachment
“True awakening doesn’t numb — it remembers. It remembers who we are and why we’re here. It doesn’t detach from the world; it participates in it.”
3. On why she doesn’t watch the news
“My choice to not watch the news isn’t because I want to disconnect. It’s because I want to remember my power to choose and make a difference. When I’m absorbed by fear, I forget that I still have agency.”
4. On healing and wholeness
“I do believe we carry wholeness. But I also believe we carry real pain, real patterns, real wounding. If I deny the things that have shaped me, I gaslight myself. That’s not healing — that’s erasure.”
5. On the cost of bypassing
“Spiritual bypassing doesn’t just live in churches. It shows up in wellness spaces too — just with different language. ‘Kill your ego,’ ‘just raise your vibe,’ ‘pain is an illusion.’ But all it does is shut down the human experience.”
6. On the reunion of feminine and masculine
“The feminine within me held and opened the way — it nurtured what wanted to emerge. But I also needed the sacred masculine: the part that protects, directs, and creates structure for my truth to move through the world.”
7. On the awakening woman
“The awakening woman is the creatrix rising. She sees the system, she feels the fire, and she begins to create. Not from perfection — but from truth.”
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