140: Elizabeth J. Sabet on Spiritual Emergence, Grounding & Returning to Wholeness
What happens when your inner world begins to expand faster than you know how to integrate?
In this episode of Soulfull Sound, I’m joined by Elizabeth Sabet, a psycho-spiritual coach, educator and practitioner who has spent more than two decades working with people navigating non-ordinary and spiritually transformative experiences.
Elizabeth shares her own journey of experiencing energy and non-linear phenomena from childhood, growing up in a religious environment where these experiences weren't easily understood, and eventually finding herself asking deeper questions about consciousness, identity, meaning and reality.
We explore the important distinction between spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency, and why grounding, psychological integration and appropriate professional support matter when someone is navigating profound experiences.
Elizabeth also takes us inside her Spirit Path coaching model, which begins not by telling someone what their experience means, but by helping them reconnect with the truth and wholeness that already exists within them.
We talk about:
✨ Spiritual emergence vs spiritual emergency
✨ What happens when your reality begins to expand
✨ Why grounding is essential during spiritual awakening
✨ The importance of psychological and physical wellbeing
✨ Connecting with your “inner teacher”
✨ The Spirit Path coaching model
✨ Learning to be with discomfort rather than immediately trying to fix it
✨ How our values can be shaped by survival adaptations
✨ Supporting children who may be experiencing things adults don't understand
✨ Relationships and what happens when one person's worldview changes
✨ Spiritual communities, discernment and the risk of exploitation
✨ The importance of attunement for practitioners
✨ What it really means to return to wholeness
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:15 – Elizabeth’s Journey Into Non-Ordinary Experiences
04:00 – Finding Your Voice & Creating Space for Others
08:20 – Sensing Energy & Learning to Trust What You Know
14:35 – What Is Psycho-Spiritual Emergence?
18:22 – Spiritual Emergence vs Emotional Crisis
22:16 – Grounding, the Higher Self & the Inner Teacher
26:17 – Guiding People Back to Their Own Truth
33:16 – The Spirit Path & Returning to Wholeness
40:00 – Spiritual Emergence vs Spiritual Emergency
48:03 – Relationships, Acceptance & Staying True to Yourself
55:34 – Discernment, Spiritual Communities & Practitioner Attunement
01:03:07 – What Still Humbles Us About Being Human?
ABOUT ELIZABETH J. SABET
Elizabeth J. Sabet is a psychospiritual integration coach, Honorary Intertribal Medicine Woman, trainer, and founder of the Institute for Transformational and Transpersonal Coaching. With 19 years of experience supporting individuals through spiritual integration, she also guides therapists, healers, and coaches into the deeper dimensions of their practice.
Connect With ELIZABETH J. SABET:
Websites:
https://elizabethjsabet.com/
https://psychospiritualsafety.com/
https://thehopewholensscenter.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethjsabet/
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