This podcast episode is a compilation of "Ask Abdi" questions submitted via the website.

What to do when met with boredom while on the spiritual path? My gut tells me to steep in it, but my mind is trying to tell me otherwise.

There certainly is no room in my spiritual community for all my rage.

I am coming to the realization that certain caretaking patterns that are affecting me today came from my early development.

How can I be okay with stress and transition? Why am I in resistance so much of the time, like I’m fighting with life?

I am having some serious issues in making a decision about this guy I am dating.

I’m wanting to let spirit move through me. For guidance, to feel closer to those that have passed over, and partly just for curiosity.

I was wondering if I should do past life regression or do you know any other methods that would help me with this?

I want to depend on my connection to this soft place, where I am okay with myself no matter what’s happening around me.

In shamanism, I learned that powerful forms of healing, such as soul retrieval and compassionate depossession, truly do change things at a deep level, and permanently.

I often do feel like a brat through this process, but also embrace that it is just that… my process.

I know what I’m learning is the practice of becoming comfortable with discomfort (to put it mildly), feeling my feelings, not abandoning myself to behavioral addictions or intoxicating substances, not losing myself in dissociation, more consciously setting boundaries, and authentically connecting with myself and others...

For me, not having regrets is understanding that every situation, mistake, bad habit, experience, etc., are the opportunities that promote growth.

The opportunity to offer up the shackle of our false self is always here.

I’m having trouble masking my anger and lack of empathy. At the same time, I see spikes in my own patterns of insecurity that she fuels when I am with her.

I am having a hard time transitioning between living as the victim of the abandoned and scared little girl inside me (the resisting part) to being the victor of my circumstance and a present parent that takes care and hears both the little girl inside me as well as my two little boys (the accepting part).

What is your take on moving through it in a conscious and clearing way?

How, besides therapy, can I strengthen myself and my energies on my own?

I am talking about the kind of anger where you want to kill everything - our thoughts, our repression... How long does this anger last?

I’ve recently gone through a series of experiences and losses that have brought forth an inherent anxiety, related to a deep sense of unworthiness.