Dr. Dorothy

Awakening is raw, anybody who tells you awakening is filtered has not experienced awakening. 

Awakening is raw, unfiltered, and often violent in its disruption. It doesn’t cater to comfort, nor does it soften itself to fit neatly into a curated, aesthetically pleasing journey. Anyone who presents it as smooth, gentle, and perfectly edited hasn’t gone through the real thing.

Awakening is confrontation. It forces you to face the ugliest parts of yourself, the ones you’ve buried, denied, or dressed up in spiritual platitudes. It’s not just about love and light; it’s about rage, grief, disillusionment, and breaking apart before you can put yourself back together. It strips away the illusions you built your identity around, leaving you exposed to the raw truth of who you really are. And that truth isn’t always beautiful, kind, or gentle, it’s real.

People romanticize awakening because they want the transformation without the destruction. But there’s no way to awaken without losing something: your former self, your beliefs, your relationships, your attachments. It’s a process of shedding, unlearning, and standing in the naked chaos of your existence without guarantees or safety nets.

It’s not pretty. It’s not packaged. And it doesn’t wait for you to be ready. It just is. And if you can survive the fire, you come out untamed, free, and more alive than ever before.