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Higher Self with Carina Devi
Higher Self is a nurturing podcast dedicated to guiding awakening souls on their journey toward embodying their higher selves.
Each episode provides practical tools, transformative stories, and intuitive wisdom designed to support listeners in navigating the complexities of being both human beings and spiritual beings. Topics range from navigating an uncertain world and growing through challenges, to conscious mothering and holistic wellbeing.
Hosted by Carina Devi—a teacher of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and somatic healing; a childbirth educator, doula, and intuitive Reflector—this show offers a refreshing blend of joy, humor, authentic human experience and peaceful serenity.
Whether you’re a lightworker, highly sensitive person, or someone seeking deeper self-connection, Higher Self with Carina Devi offers insights to inspire and empower your personal growth journey.
Episodes
140 episodes
The Mythical Journey of Mothers: Making Meaning on the Spiritual Path
In this final episode of the season, we explore motherhood as a profound spiritual and mythic journey - one that cracks us open, reshapes our identity, and calls us into deeper presence - not unlike the Hero’s Journey and ancient rites of...
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Overstimulated, Touched Out, On Edge: Tools for the Breaking Point and Beyond
In this episode of The Inner Work of Motherhood, we explore what happens when a mother’s nervous system becomes overloaded: the overstimulation, anger, irritability, and wanting to disappear.You’ll learn how sensory overwhelm shows up in...
Reclaim the Magic of Motherhood with Presence and Mindfulness
Motherhood holds some of the brightest, most magical moments of our lives - ecstatic joy, oceanic love, and the kind of wonder that makes time stand still. But in the busyness of our day to day lives, it’s all too easy to lose sight of these mo...
Overwhelm in Motherhood Part 2: How to Break Free from the Freeze Response
In Part 2 of Overwhelm In Motherhood, we explore the freeze response - the nervous system state where overwhelm lives - and that can leave mothers feeling shut down, numb, or paralyzed. While freeze can feel like a place of shame or failure, it...
Overwhelm in Motherhood Part 1: The Invisible Weight We Carry
In this episode, we explore the hidden factors that contribute to overwhelm: chronic fatigue and sleep deprivation, the mental load of remembering and managing countless details, the role that estrogen plays, sensitivity to the world around us,...
Creativity in Motherhood: Returning to the Root of Who You Are
In this episode, we explore what it means to stay connected to your creativity in the midst of motherhood. Whether you feel creatively blocked, disconnected from your sense of self, or you’re simply longing to feel inspired again, this conversa...
Why Modern Motherhood Feels So Hard: Raising Children Without A Village and the Need for Cultural Midwifery
Why does motherhood so often feel overwhelming, lonely, and heavier than we ever imagined? In this opening episode of The Inner Work of Motherhood, we explore the roots of the modern maternal struggle: the loss of the village, the unre...
Introducing Season 1: The Inner Work of Motherhood
This first season is a deep dive into the emotional, spiritual, and somatic terrain of mothering. The identity shifts, nervous system regulation (and all that disrupts it), the healing, grief, joy, rage, and bliss of this beautiful, wild journe...
When The Earth Sings Again: Remembering The Ancient Feminine Origins of Easter
In this soul-stirring episode, we journey beyond the Easter we know today and into the ancient, feminine roots. Long before chocolate eggs and Sunday services, cultures around the world honored the Earth's reawakening in alignment with Goddess ...
Meditation: Closing The Winter Door
Welcome the Spring season and true New Year with this short guided meditation (pulled from our most recent Spring Equinox episode).We’ll take a few minutes to ground and settle, connect without breath and sense of proprioception.T...
Spring Equinox: Stepping Through The Portal
As the wheel of the year turns, the Spring Equinox arrives as a powerful portal—inviting us to step out of winter’s reflection, dreaming, and fortification, and into early Spring’s integration, release, and ultimately, inspired action. In this ...
How to Hear Your Guides, Trust Your Inner Voice, & Tell The Difference Between Intuition and Anxiety
In this episode, we answer the question “Do I even have spirit guides? How do I hear them?” We explore different ways to connect with the chorus of unseen support behind us, including intuitive walks, oracle cards, QHHT, and simple energetic cl...
The Magic of December, Creativity in Motherhood, Pluto in Aquarius, + 12 Magical Nights
After a 20-month hiatus to focus on pregnancy, birth, and mothering a new baby, I’m so excited to share this space with you once again.I share some of my inner process as it relates to channeling creativity within the limitations of mot...
My Birth Story Part 2: A Painless, Pleasurable Home Birth
In this episode, I tell the story of my son's wonderful home birth. I go into detail of every stage of the journey: what I found easy, the challenges I faced and how I got through them, what surprised me, what I loved, it's spiritual nature, an...
My Birth Story Part 1: An Awakening Pregnancy of Joy & Loneliness
In this 2-Part episode, I begin telling the story of my son's painless, pleasurable, joyful, transcendent home birth. I believe that every good birth story starts with the conception and pregnancy story. In this episode, I share the details sur...
The First Trimester: Stories from Four Mothers, The Need for Community, and Rites of Passage
The first trimester of pregnancy is often a time of profound emotions, consuming symptoms, and big life changes, all hidden from the world by a veil of secrecy.In this episode, four women share their stories of their first trimester: th...
The Opening of the Heart
Weepiness and unrestrained emotional sensitivity are hallmarks of pregnancy and early postpartum.In this episode, we explore what's behind this vulnerability, the purpose it serves at different stages of mothering, and how we can embrac...
We're Back... and We're Having A Baby!
After hibernating for the Winter, Higher Self is back with regular episodes... and a twist!Listen to hear about all that we've been up to since last year.In this episode you'll hear how the podcast is changing, all about the new...
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How to Work With The Sagittarius Archetype
Sagittarius season is upon us, so let's dive into this misunderstood sign. You'll learn the mythology behind the sign, it's shadows and strengths, along with how you can use this energy in your own life.
What Is Anxiety Trying To Tell You?
Anxiety is important communication from our body. Healing chronic anxiety starts with learning how to listen. In this episode, I share my journey of learning to listen to my body and how that process was instrumental in healing the debilitating...
To the Neurodivergent Ones
If you are any flavor of neurodivergent, you know the struggle of trying to assimilate to a society that doesn't understand you. You likely dream of a world where your unique brains, skills, and gifts are embraced and celebrated, rather than mi...
Duality, Non-Duality, & Opting Out of Spiritual Hierarchy
In this episode, a listener asks about the nature of duality.Carina breaks down the ideas of duality and non-duality, shares how trauma impacts our perspective of these concepts, and why spiritual hierarchy related to these concepts (and ot...
Why You Don't Need to Fear Your Saturn Return
We all experience our Saturn Return between ages 27-30 and it gets a bad rap for being a time when our life falls apart and everything goes awry.But if we truly understand the purpose of the Saturn Return, how it works and how we can em...
The World Is Not Ending, It's Being Reborn
Apocalyptic movies have likely played a part in condition us to believe that natural disasters, political divides, and an increasingly unstable-world are all signs of end times.But what if it's just the end of the old way, and the begin...