Archive: De-Shaming + Embracing The Initiate Archetype

InnerSpark: Living From Your True Nature

Note: This is an archived episode from an earlier season of the podcast. While my voice and work have evolved since recording, the message remains a core pillar of my teachings and a vital part of the InnerSpark philosophy.

This episode remains live because it reflects the heart of what I teach, and this topic may continue making appearances in future episodes with a fresh lens.

It’s early spring and on InnerSpark’s Wheel, it’s a representation of The Initiate archetype. This is the essence of beginnings, newness, studentship, childlike wonder and innocence, birth, air, insight, the mind, inspiration, dawn, hope, youth.

The role of studentship and beginner is a catalyst for growth and expansion – if we allow it. Yet the truth is, it feels scary and shameful to not know, to need help, to be a beginner.

Many responses to being a beginner are to hide out, feel small, feel ashamed, internalize your areas for growth to mean something negative about you, feel like you have to do it all and figure it all out on your own, avoid asking for help, increasingly grow bitter and resentful towards yourself and others, and more… it becomes feedback loop of shame that keeps you stuck and unable to progress along the intended growth process of your life.

Join me as we get into de-shaming and embracing the power of being a beginner, why that can feel scary, how that shows up, and how to overcome it. Let’s dive into it!

Until next time, may you trust your rhythms, tend to what truly matters, soften into what’s natural, and stay close to yourself — Your InnerSpark is always guiding you home.

Discover a living framework to restore your energy, clarity, and wholeness — naturally — and come home to your true nature through the forgotten wisdom of daily and seasonal rhythms.

Start Here:

Download The Forgotten Foundation of Natural Self-Care: Five Daily Essentials for True Energy, Health, and Wholeness, our free guide to reconnect with the care your whole being has always needed: theinnersparkmethod.com/selfcareguide

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Restore Your Foundation:

Explore Everyday Rhythms, a step-by-step journey with private mentorship to transform your foundation for living from the inside out. Learn to align with natural rhythms, simplify life, and create sustainable, holistic well-being that supports you for life: theinnersparkmethod.com/everydayrhythms

Deepen With the Seasons:

Explore The Seasonal Spiral, a living, sacred map to deepen your self-connection and healing through nature’s eight turning points. Refine your rhythms, dissolve hidden patterns, and grow in rhythm with life itself: theinnersparkmethod.com/seasonalspiral

About Devon

Hi, I’m Devon, MS, AHA, ACC.

I’m not here to help you “fix” yourself. (You’re not broken.)

I’m here to help you return to yourself — to what’s real, sustainable, and deeply nourishing.

For most of my life, I was disconnected from myself — though I couldn’t have named it at the time. I felt unwell, insecure, and unsure how to actually feel OK in my own skin.

I thought all the health problems, anxiety, exhaustion, and sense of not-quite-rightness were just “normal.”

What changed everything was rhythm.

A redefinition of self-care.

A remembrance of Nature’s wisdom.

Daily rhythm. Seasonal rhythm. Soul-deep rhythm.

Rooted in Nature. Rooted in truth.

Now, it’s my greatest honor to walk beside others as they reconnect with themselves and rebuild their lives from that same foundation.

Nature is my greatest teacher.

As an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach, I guide folks who are ready to simplify their lives, reclaim their energy, and live in alignment with what truly sustains them — body, mind, emotions, energy, and spirit.

My work weaves over a decade of professional experience and studies in in Integrative Health, Ayurveda and Yoga, meditation, breath practice, coaching, holistic nutrition, somatic trauma work, energy healing, and Nature-based wisdom.

Above all, I believe that rhythm is medicine and that joy, resilience, and wholeness are your natural state.

With rhythm, remembrance, and the right support, we can all come home to ourselves and live from our InnerSpark.

My mission is to guide others on their own unique paths while sharing the resources, tools, and principles that saved my life and continue to bring me deep joy as I embrace the flow of life and the magic of each and every moment.

Learn more at www.TheInnerSparkMethod.com

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