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Navigating Dark Night of the Soul
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Navigating Dark Night of the Soul

A Guided Passage Through Breakdown and Awakening; All Lessons Video Slides "Audio only"
Last updated 8/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Recognize the real signs of a Dark Night of the Soul and how it differs from depression, burnout, or anxiety when life stops making sense.
  • Understand why your life may be unraveling and how it can signal a deeper transformation trying to emerge through the breakdown.
  • Reframe emotional collapse as part of a soul awakening so you can stop fearing the unknown and begin working with your inner shift.
  • Gain grounded insight and tools to navigate the Dark Night so you feel less alone, more empowered, and better equipped for what’s next.

Course content

8 sections8 lectures1h 5m total length
  • Introduction3:48

    Hello and welcome to this course all about navigating that confusing, painful and transformational experience that the Ancients referred to as "Dark Night of the Soul". My name is Dr. Kay, and I want to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey.  I've gone through it; watched my entire world and worldview collapse...taking with it the "self" that I thought was me. In this short introductory video, I share my story.....and the way that I emerged on the other side. You can, too....and you will. Just know that you are not alone.

Requirements

  • No prerequisites, only the feeling like the world that you thought you knew suddenly makes no sense

Description

Are you feeling lost, numb, or like your life is falling apart... and nothing seems to make sense anymore?

You may be going through something much deeper than burnout or depression.

You may be experiencing what mystics have long called the Dark Night of the Soul.

This course is a grounded, compassionate guide through the inner collapse that often marks the beginning of real transformation. Whether or not you consider yourself spiritual, this journey will help you make sense of the emotional unraveling, identity confusion, and deep disorientation that so many people are facing right now.

In this course, you’ll learn:

  1. How to identify the 9 stages of the Dark Night of the Soul and where you are in the process

  2. Why modern society mislabels spiritual breakdown as dysfunction

  3. The archetypal meaning behind this experience (Inanna, Persephone, the Hero’s Journey)

  4. The role of suffering and how to work with it instead of resisting it

  5. Tools for emotional processing, nervous system support, and energetic clearing

  6. Why Emergence is not a destination but the beginning of your authentic path

  7. How synchronicities and soul signs can guide and affirm your process

  8. Most importantly: how to stop thinking you're broken, and start seeing that you’re being remade

Who is this for?

  • People who feel like they’re coming undone, but know something real is happening

  • Those in identity collapse, spiritual confusion, or emotional freefall

  • Anyone going through a life crisis: job loss, relationship endings, or questioning everything

  • Therapists, coaches, or healers who want to understand and support others through awakening

  • Anyone who longs for deeper meaning in the middle of profound inner change

This course won’t offer platitudes or quick fixes.

It offers understanding, depth, and a path forward through the unknown.

You don’t need to be spiritual to be here.

You just need to be honest enough to admit that your old life no longer fits... and you're ready to find out why.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for people who are quietly falling apart and they don't know why. You don’t have to be spiritual to be here. You just need to be honest enough to admit that what used to work... no longer does. This course will help you make sense of what’s happening, why you're feeling this way, and what to do next.