EP #03: Shani Nicole | Spiritual Advocacy with The Empath Realist

In this episode, we explore the intersection of spirituality and advocacy with Shani Nicole, The Empath Realist. Through her own inner work, integrating shadows, generational and cultural trauma, Shani has built a platform to help others deepen into their spiritual practice in order to come to advocacy work from a healed, centered, and grounded place. Through healing, we embody the change that we seek to create in the world.  

Shani is an Artist, Educator, a Creative Consultant, Public Speaker, Spiritual Coach, and Writer and creator of "The Empathic Realist,” a platform to find avenues and access to collective healing and re-education for all oppressed communities around the globe, where she challenges & critiques systems and ideologies through critical thinking, scholarly research, intuitive guidance and by interacting with communities across the globe. These practices allow her to hold space for downloading unbiased opinions by looking through an empathic, compassionate, & humanist lens, in order to uncover the root issues and failures across societies; on a local, national and international basis. As issues / causes are discovered, she uses a variety of creative methods to express them: music, education, poetry / spoken word, ancient healing modalities / practices,  and engaging in soulful conversations with others; paving the way for a collective space that approaches solutions in a more spiritual, harmonious, and decolonized way. 

Episode Wisdom: 

• Inner healing is necessary to call our injustices forward, create cross racial and cultural solidarity, and to create from a  place of possibilities. 
• Being able to see things from an unbias lens requires us to dig deep and heal ancestral, cultural, and personal trauma in ourselves first 
• Coming to advocacy from a place of wholeness - we need to heal the injustices, the identities in ourselves first
• Love and light or enlightenment when you can see the shadows of society
• Colonialism / capitalism = cultural shadows
• We have been forced to be compartmentalized and through that, we lost the true essence of the human self - because we are all so stuck in the constructs of our identities
• Connecting the spiritual with the material - Fusing these two together gives a d

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Welcome to the Raising Wholeness podcast. I’m Jenn Reilly, your host and guide on a journey of deepening into the full complexity and simplicity of our human experience. As a coach, mentor, and advocate for women’s rights, I’m passionate about supporting women—especially those navigating the shifts of motherhood and leadership—on their path to embodied wholeness.

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