Are You Ignoring the Whispers of Your Soul?

In this episode, we explore how subtle soul whispers and life’s quiet nudges can become turning points in your spiritual journey - if you know how to recognise and trust them.

Most people imagine spiritual awakenings as lightning bolts: sudden, ecstatic, undeniable. But for most of us, it doesn’t happen that way. It begins quietly. With a whisper.

That subtle tug in your chest. The ache that says this isn’t working anymore. The beauty that cracks you open when you least expect it. These moments are not coincidences, they are the soul’s earliest invitations to awaken.

In this episode, Tatiana shares a deeply personal story about how an unexpected dog became the mirror that revealed a lifetime of self-abandonment, and how listening to the whisper became the first step in transforming her life.

Blending grounded psychology with spiritual insight, she explores:

• Why the “whisper” is often the first language of spiritual growth
• What’s actually happening in your mind and body when these moments arrive (interoception + spiritual pull)
• Why ignoring the whisper often keeps us stuck - and how to listen without needing a clear map
•  How these threshold moments grow your spiritual capacity and reshape your life from the inside out

Whether you’ve been walking a spiritual path for years or just feeling the first flickers of something stirring inside you, this episode is an invitation to stop waiting for clarity and start listening to the quiet.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Integrated Wisdom Podcast. I am your host, Tatiana Da Silva, psychologist, spiritual educator, and founder of a body of work devoted to lead others to remembering what we never truly forgot, that science and spirit were never separate. They are each in their own way, expressions of the same sacred architecture. This podcast is for the quiet revolutionaries, the therapists, the seekers, the spiritually discerning and scientifically curious who know that we are being called into a new paradigm for personal and collective transformation. Together we explore what it means to live a coherent, soul led life drawing from psychology, neuroscience, epigenetics, energy medicine, and spiritual remembrance. These aren't just conversations. They are transmissions for those ready to return to what's true, to what's quietly waiting beneath it. Hello and welcome to the Integrated Wisdom Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Tatiana. There is a moment that happens in almost every person's life, though most people don't really name it. It's quiet, it's unremarkable, even just a small, almost imperceptible pull, somewhere deep inside. It might arrive as a sentence that you can't quite shake or a subtle ache that tells you something in your life no longer fits. Sometimes it comes in the form of beauty, so unexpected, it takes your breath away, and Other times it's that heaviness of pretending that everything's fine when it's not. Now we don't talk enough about those moments, but it's often the moment before everything changes. This episode isn't about peak spiritual experiences or enlightenment necessarily. It's about something much more ordinary and far more powerful. The whisper. That whisper, that subtle pull, that ache in our chest, that sentence that we can't unhear, that is often the first language of spiritual growth. And I want to begin by telling you a story that changed my life, even though at the time I didn't really see just how much things were going to change. Last year, my ex-husband brought home a dog as a surprise gift to me. There was no conversation. There was no preparation. I was away on a work trip, and when I got home there, he was this beautiful little puppy. And in that moment, something very old in me quietly just took over. I did what I have always done. I adapted. I organized my life around someone else's decision. I made myself small to make space for someone else's choice. And I told myself that it was fine, it was hard, but I thought, I can get through this. Um, this is what love looks like. And of course I did fall in love with that beautiful puppy straight away. I walked him, I fed him. I rearranged my routine and days to make sure that he had everything that he needed. But as the weeks went on, I began to notice something that I hadn't seen before. Definitely not this clearly. I was waking up early to make sure that he had his walk every day, but before he came into my life, I hadn't moved my body in weeks, maybe even months, and I planned his meals carefully. I would come home and cook for him sometimes, but again, it had become normal practice for me to come home feeling too depleted to cook for myself and just eating whatever was convenient. I gave to him without question, but I started to see that for myself. I wasn't doing that. I rationed everything, and so as I started to have these recognitions, there was this quiet whisper that I just couldn't ignore. You just keep abandoning yourself. I didn't want to hear it, but it got louder in its own quiet way, until eventually it forced me to look at the truth that I had been avoiding for years. I, that whisper became the first thread that I started to pull on, and as I followed it. Unsurprisingly, from, based on the start of this, this podcast, my marriage unraveled not out of cruelty or anger, but just out of clarity. You know, this was the moment that I saw very clearly I, that I had been sacrificing myself. I, I wasn't being true to myself and, and that couldn't continue. And this is the part of spiritual growth that no one romanticizes, right? It's those quiet, unglamorous moments that rearrange our life, but put us on the right trajectory. We talk a lot about spiritual growth as if it's something that happens in retreats or ceremonies or, you know, beautiful serene mountaintops, meditating. But real spiritual growth, the kind that changes how you live, how you understand yourself, how you show up usually starts with something so much less glamorous, a crack in the ordinary, a moment where life stops being comfortable enough to keep you asleep. And almost always it begins, not with clarity. But with something felt, it's subtle, a nudge, an inner knowing that isn't fully formed yet. That's the whisper that I'm talking about. And psychologically, this makes perfect sense. Long before we can consciously name something, our brains and body register incongruence. Research on interception. So our ability to sense internal states shows that the body often perceives change or the need for it long before the conscious mind catches up. And spiritually, it's your deeper self, your soul, if you will, tugging at the fabric of the life you've outgrown. The whisper isn't just discomfort, it's an invitation. It's life saying there's more of you wanting to be lived. Something old is asking to end, so something new can begin. And for those of you who who believe in or understand the concept of soul contracts, usually Either when we're entering a period or we're exiting a period of a contract, these whispers are the bookends that that signal, that transition. The end of my marriage wasn't just the end of my marriage, it was the end of a contract that I had with this other soul, and my dog was the catalyst for bringing to the forefront. That this chapter needed to conclude for me to be able to move into the next chapter of my life, which is part of the path for why I'm here. You know, in order for me to, to be able to continue to pursue my life's purpose, I needed to transition into this new state and. This experience was the catalyst that started to echo through, through my inner, um, inner landscape to show me, okay, now you've ignored this long enough, you need to acknowledge this if you're going to move on, if you're going to move forward to what you need to get to. And so here's why this matters. Spiritual growth is not about escaping our humanity. It's about becoming more fully awake within it. It's understanding that the purpose of having our human lives is for our spiritual growth. And every major expansion begins with some sort of threshold. A place where what's familiar starts to feel too small. That threshold moment, the whisper that I'm talking about. It grows your spiritual capacity in at least three ways. One, it wakes you up. It breaks the trance of living on autopilot. Two, it grows your self-honesty. You can't grow spiritually while you're lying to yourself about where you are. Self-awareness is an integral piece of spiritual growth. And thirdly, it activates agency. It reminds you that spiritual growth isn't something that happens to you. It's something that you are responsible for. You and your alone are the steward of your own spiritual growth and spiritual journey on this planet. So the whisper isn't the end point of your spiritual journey. It's the beginning. Of a conversation between your soul and your life. And so if this whisper is so important, why do we so often ignore it? And it's usually because these types of whispers are inconvenient. They don't show up on our schedule or when it suits us. They often threaten the comfortable structures that we have built, and they rarely offer a 10 step plan, right? They say, this isn't it, or there is more, but they don't fill in the gaps. That's up to us. And so most people mistake that discomfort for confusion or weakness. And they miss it because they've been taught to silence discomfort. We've been conditioned to trust external authority over in the knowing, so when this whisper arrives, it feels unsafe to follow it. Particularly though for those of us who have, you know, slight control freaks and we need to know in advance before we can take steps, it feels really daunting. Um, but ignoring the whispers doesn't make it go away. It just buries it a little bit deeper until life eventually gets louder and forces you to see it. Right. It feels threatening. It feels like things can be completely unraveled and lead to chaos. But what if the whisper is actually the beginning of alignment? In my own life, that whisper didn't give me an instant roadmap. It just pointed me away from everything that wasn't true anymore. And ignoring it delayed what was inevitable, but listening to it as terrifying as it was, became the biggest act of self-trust that I have ever made. And through listening to myself, through trusting myself, that's how I then strengthened my own intuition, my own sense of agency and sovereignty in navigating my life, in taking charge of my spiritual growth and my purpose while I'm here. And of course, by extension, living authentically. So here's what I want to offer you today. Wherever you are in your life, if there is a whisper somewhere inside you, even when you don't fully understand yet, you don't have to have the answers, just start listening. Spiritual awakenings rarely begin with great visions. They begin in quiet kitchens. On late night walks. In tears that we can't quite explain. That's where the real work starts. And so I would just wanna share with you a few simple, gentle ways that you can start tuning in. Notice the moments that keep tugging at you, the ones that don't go away when you distract yourself. And then pay attention to the body. That tightness, the aches, the flutter. This is all part of the conversation. They are signposts pointing you towards something that you need to see. And lastly, stop demanding certainty from this whisper. It's not here to give you all the answers. It's only here to open the door for you. And maybe if you've been waiting for a sign to begin your spiritual journey, this is probably it. So not because I'm saying so, but because something in you already knows that discomfort, that quiet pull, that sense that there's something more that's not you being lost, that's you being called. You don't have to know where it leads. Spiritual growth rarely comes with a map. And so remember that your spiritual journey doesn't begin at the perfect moment or with the perfect ritual. It begins right here in the quiet, in the ordinary, with that whisper. If you're listening to this and something in your stirred. If you're thinking of that one thing that keeps brushing aside, that might be your whisper, and maybe today's the day that you don't turn away. I'd love to hear your story truly. You can DM me on Instagram at Wisdom with Tatiana, or send me an email to hello@integratedwisdom.com au. I read every message and I would love to hear from you. And if you want to gently explore the science and spirituality behind these quiet turning points, you can access my free mini course, the Science of Spirituality through the link in the show notes. That's all I have for you today. Thank you so much for joining me, and I invite you to share this episode with anyone that you feel will benefit from it. Let's keep these conversations going and normalize them. And don't forget, you were never disconnected. Only waiting to remember. See you next time. Thank you for tuning into this episode of Integrated Wisdom. It is my sincere wish that this episode may have intrigued and inspired you to reclaim your power and step into becoming more fully integrated spiritual beings. New episodes are published every second Wednesday, and I hope that you'll continue to join us as we dive deeper into what it means to live an integrated life. If this space has stirred something in you, I invite you to subscribe, share it with those attuned to this path, and explore the full body of work at integratedwisdom.com au. You can also find me on Instagram at Wisdom with Tatiana, where the conversation continues. Until next time, stay discerning, stay curious, and let this be your reminder. You were never disconnected. Only waiting to remember.