Dawn of Discernment

Episode 32: Navigating the Dark Night of the Soul

Dawn of Discernment

Show Notes

Despite its name and the fact that it requires us to face our ‘shadows’, the Dark Night is ‘a sacred Rite of Passage’, as Anné Klint, my guest on this episode explains.

Join us as we dive into this seemingly scary topic to discuss why the dark night is not the same as depression and how to discern the difference.

We also discuss: How to find meaning in our dark night(s) The collective ‘dark night’ we’re experiencing How to employ compassion for ‘others’ Anné’s work And more… Extract from Anné's bio: The Dark Night is not a dead end. It's a sacred Rite of Passage. Your descent is a profound initiation — whether it arrives as diagnosis, divorce, a mid-life unraveling (aka menopause!), or just a quiet erosion of everything that used to mean something. Every time I went under, I came back more luminous. More real. More me. Not despite the darkness. Because of it. This is what I've been guiding people through for over a decade. Meet this journey with consciousness, curiosity and compassion — and you don't just survive it. You birth your soul work. You came here to love and create unapologetically. To come home to the divine within you. I can help you remember that.

RESOURCES: Website: https://www.annemklint.com/ Substack https://annemklint.substack.com/ YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8HLJCa5MgrTcYxFg8Ni10w Compassion challenge https://annemklint.com/compassion-challenge/

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