When You Don't Recognize Your Life Anymore: 17 Practices for Navigating a Dark Night of the Soul

When You Don’t Recognize Your Life Anymore

17 Practices to Help You Navigate a Dark Night of the Soul

When everything around us begins to fall away, our sense of stability and certainty is uprooted. This workbook offers you a way to stay with what’s happening without abandoning yourself. This 60-page guide helps you give yourself inner resources you need when navigating a spiritual initiation.

Even though things feel awful right now (and I have been there!), this is a starting point on your path to reclaiming wholeness. Uncomfortable as this is, you're being invited to release old illusions and patterns that no longer serve you. This guide offers 17 simple, powerful practices to help you ground and center. Most of these contain links to articles where I write about the specific practice in more detail.

These aren't just random exercises copied from other teachers. I have used each of these to support myeslf through my own Dark Nights; I continue to practice them regularly because they improve my mental well-being. I've gone from breakdown to breakthrough, from grief to grace—and you can, too.

This workbook doesn't give you pat answers, because each person's Dark Night is different. These practices won't fix you; they're designed to help you remember that you've never been broken.

Each exercise contains an introduction, gentle prompts, and a Notes page for your reflections and insights. You contain more wisdom than you know.

When You Don’t Recognize Your Life Anymore is written in trauma-aware and neuroaffirming language and based on my personal experience. If you're a deeply sensitive human and your world seems to be falling apart, this workbook can help you find inner stability amidst the chaos.