Soul Essence

Xandra Hawes

Do you crave a deeper connection with your soul's essence? Are you seeking guidance on how to navigate the intensity of your sensitivity and empathy? Then you've come to the right place. I'm Xandra, a Buddhist-psychology therapist and psychic-medium. "Soul Essence" is where psychology and spirituality intersect to navigate life's complexities. This podcast caters to those who are sensitive and empathic, and who are eager to deepen their self-trust and intuition. Through a blend of personal stories, spiritual insights, and actionable practices, we delve into themes such as emotional resilience, self-trust, healing from trauma, cultivating inner peace, and discovering joy. Listeners gain unique perspectives and practical tools not commonly found elsewhere, empowering them to access and stay connected to their inner wisdom. Join me bi-weekly on Thursdays, and for more insights into therapy and courses, visit www.soulessencepsychotherapy.com.

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Self-Love Mini Series: Your Unique Soul Essence

Soul Essence

07/15/20 • 29 min

Oftentimes, what separates us from our soul essence, self-love, are memories of feeling hurt and abandoned. When we’re disconnected from self-love, we begin defining ourselves as unlovable, unworthy, or not enough. Do you resonate?
Over the past 4 episodes of our Self-Love Mini Series, you’ve been given the tools to feel worthy of love, joy, and healing. Today, you’ll be given the tool to connect to your unique soul essence frequency.
In this final episode of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, Xandra guides you in connecting even deeper to your core truth of self-love so you can discover your unique soul essence frequency.
Topics Discussed:
· What Xandra learned about herself and her emotions after healing from a breakup
· How radical self-love affects the body and mind
· The powerful role of self-trust in any self-love practice
· A healing guided meditation for connecting with your soul essence frequency
“The hardest part about aligning with self-love is that all the pieces that get in the way of seeing it clearly start to come up when we begin doing this work.” – Xandra Hawes
We sincerely hope you enjoyed the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series. If you did, we invite you to share it with a friend who would enjoy it, then share your experience with Xandra on Instagram or Facebook! Stay tuned for more episodes of Soul Essence to explore more topics rooted in psychology, spirituality, and energy healing.

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About the Host:
Xandra Hawes, MA, LPC is a Contemplative Psychotherapist & Psychic-Medium in private practice, as well as the creator of Soul Essence Wellness Center. Using her background in Buddhist psychology as the foundation for teaching, Xandra helps sensitive and empathic people discover their spiritual gifts, learn transformative energy healing practices, and live with more confidence, self-trust and joy.

Self-Love Mini Series: Healing our Invalidation & Perfectionism

Soul Essence

06/24/20 • 28 min

Now that you know that coming back to self-love requires you to peel away old stories and ideas, let’s focus in on healing our invalidation stories and perfection pictures.
Self-love is your essence, and when you learn to come back to it repeatedly, you’re able to let go of the layers of invalidation and perfectionism that have separated you from your essence. When you let go of these invalidation stories and perfection pictures, you can live a life full of joy, self-trust, and freedom.
In episode 2 of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, Xandra invites you to check in with your self-love gauge, free yourself from your invalidation stories and perfection pictures, and start cultivating intrinsic love and acceptance.
Topics Discussed:
· What happens when we believe we’re not enough?
· The root of perfectionism: How does perfectionism develop?
· How your perfection pictures and invalidation stories influence your daily life
· How to boost your unconditional self-love and heal perfectionism
· 5-minute daily meditation for cultivating intrinsic self-love and acceptance
“Let go of all the stories that are not your truth and that are no longer serving you.” – Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:

Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/blog

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Empaths & Highly Sensitive People

Soul Essence

06/02/21 • 38 min

Do you identify as an empath or highly sensitive person (HSP)? More people than ever identify as empaths or HSPs, yet our society still doesn’t fully accept and embrace our sensitivity. So, what do we do about that? How can we embrace our sensitivity, turn it into a superpower, and make magic with it?
Life becomes overwhelming when you feel so much of what goes around you. There aren’t many frameworks or road maps for living life as an empath or HSP. Xandra says the trick is to learn how to let energy move through you, experience it, and let it go.
In this episode of Soul Essence, you’ll learn how to find empowerment in your sensitivity, let go of the negative energy you’re soaking up from others, and turn your empathy into your superpower.
As a teenager, Xandra experienced a powerful catalyst when a spirit invaded her space, which sent her on a deep and windy healing path to understanding how her empathic nature could be channeled into deeper intuition and self-trust. Listen in to hear more of her incredible story!
Topics Discussed:
· What makes empaths and HSPs different?
· How to tell if you’re an empath or highly sensitive person.
· Why Xandra believes empaths are “accidental healers”.
· How to turn your sensitivity and empathy into your greatest strength.
· Xandra’s personal experience as an empath and HSP.
· Letting go of shame, mistakes, and negative energy that’s not yours.

"You want to be able to have that freedom. You want to be able to live with a sense of not processing other people’s energy or taking it on. And you don’t want to be accidentally diagnosing yourself with things that don’t actually have to do with you.”
- Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:
Read more about Empaths & Highly Sensitive People on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/post/are-you-highly-sensitive-or-an-empath
Book a FREE 45-minute discovery call with Xandra: www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/book-online
Do you have psychic abilities? Take our quiz to find out: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/quiz

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Giving Yourself Permission to Heal

Soul Essence

03/24/21 • 30 min

As a spiritual being, you’ve probably heard the phrases “manifesting” and “allowing” and “holding space for” quite frequently... but have you heard of “permission energy”? Permission energy is something that, when embraced fully, gives you the ability to forgive and heal yourself.
Xandra describes permission energy as the way we can bring more openness, creativity, and relaxation to our lives, while also manifesting what we want without rigidity.
In this episode of Soul Essence, Xandra teaches you how to bring more permission energy into your life so you can manifest what you want with less stress and more trust.
Topics Discussed:
· What does it mean to give yourself permission?
· Why the frequency of permission energy is different than manifestation.
· Overcoming the fear of opening up.
· What happens when you don’t give yourself permission in life.
· How permission energy boosts creativity, decreases stress, and releases self-judgment.
· Why doubt is one of the biggest killers of self-trust and intuition.
“When people give themselves permission to feel their own essence, to feel that deep well of trust and to love in themselves, we actually start acting on that frequency, and it’s less about doing and more about sensing and feeling into a frequency.”
– Xandra Hawes

Recommended Resources:
Read more about Giving Yourself Permission to Heal on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/post/giving-yourself-permission-to-heal

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You Are Your Own Spirit Guide

Soul Essence

02/10/21 • 33 min

Did you know you can be your own spirit guide? It’s true! You have the power to connect with your past and future selves to receive guidance, clarity, and healing... and it’s not as difficult has you might think.
Being your own spirit guide is being your own best friend. It’s immensely healing when you can ask for help from your future self and give love to yourself by sending messages to your past self. When you become your own spirit guide, you can shift your frequency and bring more abundance and assuredness to your life. Isn’t that what we’re all looking for?
In this episode of Soul Essence, Xandra challenges the idea that time is linear, offering you insight into how you can heal your past self and receive insight from your future self right now, in the present.
Ready to take charge of your healing and become your own spirit guide?
Topics Discussed:
· Xandra’s story of discovering how to heal her past
· Healing your childhood self and guiding your future self
· How to become your own spirit guide
· 3 steps to increasing your psychic abilities
“Just imagine. Imagine if you sent hope and love to all the experiences you had in the past right now where things were difficult. It would be like giving yourself a hug, the hug you probably needed to remind yourself how strong you are and that you absolutely positively have everything you need.” – Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:
Are You Highly Sensitive or an Empath? Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/post/are-you-highly-sensitive-or-an-empath

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Self-Love Mini Series: Coming Back to Your True Essence

Soul Essence

06/14/20 • 22 min

Can you imagine a world where you know you’re enough every day, where you radically love yourself despite your mistakes? Can you imagine a world where you radiate compassion and love others despite their mistakes? This world is closer than you think.
Loving kindness is the core of who we are. We come into this world aligned in love and aligned with our true essence. It’s innate within us, so we can always come back to it.
But overtime, we separate from that love and true essence. So, we must learn how to come back to it.
In this debut episode of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, Xandra invites you to dive into a practice of radical self-love to help you come back to your true essence and tap into the energetic web we live in. She takes you on an immersive, visual journey to show you your soul essence and help you align with it.
Topics Discussed:
· What is radical self-love?
· What is the root of self-love?
· How old stories and pictures get in the way of aligning with your soul essence
· Shifts that happen when you get to the root of self-love
· How to come back to your true essence anytime, anywhere
In future episodes of this 5-part series, we’ll explore internal and external invalidation, perfectionism, healing your family trauma and rejection, integrating your shadow, creating new thought patterns, and learning self-love practices to better manifest living in your truth. Stay tuned!
“If we can learn how to align with our true nature, break down our own invalidation, and align in self-love and learn how to honor ourselves, we will naturally treat others with a higher level of love and respect and the entire web of our society will shift.”
-Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:
Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/blog

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Self-Love Mini Series: How to Love & Integrate Your Shadow

Soul Essence

07/08/20 • 29 min

Is there a story or narrative about yourself that keeps coming up despite you knowing it’s not helpful or true? We’ve spent the last few episodes tuning into the invalidation stories that have formed throughout our lives. Today, we’re going to look at how this has informed the way we view and love ourselves and how we can start shifting that.
Hint: It all starts with awareness.
In episode 4 of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, you’ll learn how to explore your shadow and your internal invalidation stories. You’ll learn how to shift your internal invalidation stories so you can peel away untrue narratives, reconnect to your inner wisdom, and cultivate self-love.
Remember, if you can see it, you can heal it.
Topics Discussed:
•What is my “shadow”?
•How do I love my shadow?
•How to release harmful narratives by shifting your internal stories
•A 10-minute guided meditation for connecting to your inner wisdom and giving yourself love, care, and validation
“Awareness and seeing is only the first step, not the end-all.” – Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:
Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/blog

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Self-Love Mini Series: Healing our Family Trauma

Soul Essence

07/01/20 • 36 min

Many of us are afraid to look at our family systems and the different traumas we’ve experienced throughout our lives. When we investigate our family trauma, we may see where we were missed, ignored, rejected, or abused as a child. While that can feel scary, let’s choose love instead of fear.
“If we are unable to give love to ourselves consistently or we struggle often to feel enough, these difficulties are often linked to old invalidation stories that have been told to us or modeled to us by our family members.” – Xandra Hawes
By courageously looking at how your family has shaped you, you can lovingly acknowledge and heal your family trauma. You can find ways to let those stories go so you can create a new path that is built upon joy, peace, and radical self-love.
In episode 3 of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, Xandra helps you uncover where your first invalidation stories came from by exploring your family systems. She takes you through a beautiful, guided energy healing practice to release family trauma and return to self-love.
Topics Discussed:
· Ignorance isn’t bliss when it comes to trauma...
· How self-criticism is rooted in childhood and family trauma
· How family trauma shapes your reality and your ability to allow self-love to be your truth
· Preventing and stopping the cycle of intergenerational trauma
· A simple, effective meditation for releasing family trauma and boosting self-love

Recommended Resources:

Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/blog

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How to Connect with Your Soul

Soul Essence

04/03/23 • 21 min

Everyone who has reached out for Xandra’s help seems to be longing for a home in the self - longing for the soul to guide them through life. They want to feel like they’re on the right path, like they’re doing the right thing. Does that resonate with you?
The soul gives us a very particular feeling, one that brings us a deep sense of nourishment, validation, and connection. When we spend so much time and energy searching for that feeling, we forget that what we’re searching for is right here inside of us – it’s within your soul.
So, how do we connect to our soul?
In this episode of Soul Essence, you’ll gain the insight you need to reconnect with your soul so you can be your own medicine. If you want to dive deeper into the love and validation you can create for yourself, listen in because you deserve it!
Topics Discussed:
· What it means to come home to yourself
· The difference between the heart self and the soul self
· How to use your heart to connect with your soul
· One way you might be invalidating your worthiness for self-love without realizing it
· The power of giving yourself breaks for self-love (without involving the ego)

“When you’re doing the work of spiritual path and coming home... guidance, connection, roots, all of that longing for greater fulfillment and ease and joy, you have to go right to the heart.” – Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:

Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/blog

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Being an Empowered Empath (Mini Series 3 of 4)

Soul Essence

09/09/21 • 28 min

Being an empath can be overwhelming and exhausting, but it doesn’t always have to be that way! There are techniques you can use to protect yourself from absorbing energy that’s not yours, so you don’t get so drained or overwhelmed.
So, as an empath, how do you protect yourself from other peoples’ energy? How can we regulate the energy we absorb and release so we can find balance and harmony? That’s what you’ll be learning in this episode.
In part 3 of Soul Essence’s Being an Empowered Empath mini series, Xandra explains how to release, regulate, and protect your energy as an empowered empath. She emphasizes the importance of not resisting the energy you feel, as that causes fear and control to come up and create unnecessary complications.
Topics Discussed:
· Why it’s important for empaths to regulate and protect their energy.
· Identifying and releasing energy that’s not yours.
· How empaths experience resistance towards energy & Why it’s important to overcome that resistance.
· The benefits of getting support around your empathic abilities.
Remember, the world needs empaths.

"If you feel energy at a higher level and you need to take time to kind of reset, or be in your own energy to know that it’s yours, that’s a really beautiful form of self-care. However, if you feel like you have to block energy, or be by yourself in order to be okay, we want you to be able to be around other people and also regulate your energy simultaneously.” – Xandra Hawes
Recommended Resources:
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ74giYE-nw
Start from the beginning (part 1): https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/podcast/episode/4a82cad1/being-an-empowered-empath-mini-series-1-of-4
Read more about Undercover Codependency on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/post/undercover-codependency
Enroll in Xandra’s Root Energy Medicine Course: https://soul-essence.samcart.com/products/root-energy-medicine-
Book a FREE 45-minute discovery call with Xandra: www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/book-online

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How many episodes does Soul Essence have?

Soul Essence currently has 40 episodes available.

What topics does Soul Essence cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Healing, Spirituality, Soul, Psychology, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Transformation, Spirit, Podcasts and Coaching.

What is the most popular episode on Soul Essence?

The episode title 'Exploring Past Lives - Part 1' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Soul Essence?

The average episode length on Soul Essence is 29 minutes.

How often are episodes of Soul Essence released?

Episodes of Soul Essence are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Soul Essence?

The first episode of Soul Essence was released on Jun 14, 2020.

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