WHO WE ARE
Humanness • Love • Empowerment • Awakening
HOW WE STARTED
Our ability to help with and reach millions of people all around the world did not start big, in fact, it started in 2018 when the founder of Awaken into Love felt hopeless, lost and scared in her own journey with Relationship OCD/Anxiety.
Having worked as a social worker and working in the mental health field, she witnessed things that made her question the western system that tends to focus overly on believing an individual is “broken” and to only address the “symptom” and only with medication.
This forced her to seek deeper information and research as she started to branch into working in mental health through a holistic lens. She started seeing her own transformation as she was able to combine the western approach which is geared toward working with an individual on OCD with CBT and ERP and adding in her own findings that were also transformative.
Throughout the years, after research and working with herself, she started to see intense and transformative change that she felt she couldn’t hold back from the world. Not only was ROCD a path toward awakening, but if used in a holistic sense, it could be used to deeply transform the individual, their partnership, their children and even the world.
Believing and knowing that others were also feeling alone and hopeless, realizing there wasn’t much information on ROCD/RA online at the time, she decided to launch her first YouTube video on 2015 which immediately gained attention.
what we stand for
While our foundation is rooted in the traditional path of ocd work, such as CBT, ERP we believe that rocd, unlike other forms of ocd are more nuanced because this work is rooted in partnership and deals with our most intimate, interpersonal relationships - with ourself, our partner and for many, the world.
This means that relational wounding/trauma and attachment styles are likely to impact the journey of an individual with rocd/ra. In this way, we have found that working in a holistic approach has best served our team and also our clients.
Because we involve education on relationship work, we are also heightened and aware that education can be compulsive, which is why starting and always coming back to the foundation of rocd/ocd work is imperative and why we have many disclaimers and recommend you working with us or a professional personally.
Yet, if we are not educating people on relational work, we feel we are doing a disservice because relationship work is something to be learned and educated upon. Our goal is to take an individual who experiences rocd/ra and distressing doubts about their partnership and self into a transformative awakening journey that transforms not only their life, but many times their partners life as well.
This is why most of our members will express that their lives have been more meaningful, purposeful, profound and better by doing the work through awaken into love. Most of our previous clients will testify, their journey and love with their partner has been transformed in a greater way from rocd through awaken into love.
We hear it many times “I’m actually so grateful for rocd/ra and the work i’ve done with you at awaken into love, it has changed my life and although its been hard, im grateful for it.”
We are not here to just help you find freedom from rocd/ra, we are here to make your relationship to yourself, your life and your partnership deeper, more loving, peaceful and empowering.
the awaken into love pillars
1. COMPASSION & SELF-KINDNESS: (unconditional love and parenting to self) compassion is the encompassing of mindfulness, self-kindness, self-parenting, deep friendship and care to oneself. We believe that compassion is the medicine to our suffering. We also understand that compassion is a practice and muscle to be cultivated but also believe compassion is our awakened true self.
2. LOVE: We ultimately believe that we are seeking and yearning for love – the greatest source. Love is our essence, but it is also something that must be cultivated and learned, worked for and is also an art/choice. In relationships we are wounded, but in relationships we heal back to love. (love can be incorporated elsewhere)
3. DARKNESS / USING THE SUFFERING AS THE PATH: We recognize suffering and darkness not as failure or weakness, but as a part of life and part of being human, but in many cases, it can be a gift. At Awaken into love, we lean into the messages of the darkness – the shadow parts within our psyche, the darkness and suffering in life, and we strive to lean into it with curiosity and openness. We recognize suffering is not a mistake, in fact, it is part of life and part of who we are, but can in fact can be a guide post in our evolutionary process as humans. We do not see darkness as wrong and believe it is part of this human experience. Darkness can be our teacher, an initiator, a guide, message and invitation to our deepest desires, dreams and greatest potential.
4. AWAKENING: We recognize that through wounding, trauma, societal programming and conditioning that we become unconscious, unawakened and cut off from the true aliveness and presence of our body, relationships and the world. We recognize that society reinforces this detachment, and we learn to come back to our awakened state: present, conscious, creative, alive, whole and connected through this work. Our challenges and desires, again, can be our guidepost, as it can push us to open our eyes (even if it may be painful) to become more conscious, present, awake and alive to life, ourselves and our relationships. Awakening means to evolve, expand and grow. But awakening also means leaning into being human: imperfect, messy, raw.
5. HUMANNESS: We believe that all experiences are part of the human experience. We believe in changing the mental health title of being “broken” to “human” seeking wholeness. Our tagline “here’s to be human” is a reminder of our humanness when we feel shameful, guilty and alone in what we experience. We do not believe we are broken, moreso, misunderstood, unaware of our own power (highly sensitive, empathetic, neurodivergent) in a world that tries to fit everything in a box. The mental health struggles we go through are not wrong, only misguided, “ill” and confused. We believe you are not a project to fix, as this is human that you are experiencing this, but if you are suffering and want out, then you have the capacity to do so. Everything you go through is not “unique”, but a human experience.
6. COMMUNITY: “YANA” (You are not alone). We understand that as humans, we are never alone, even when it feels as though we are. Every thought, feeling, experience is shared and recycled. We recognize that separation (add different wording here) and in community we heal. We change the false narrative that we are meant to do this alone, the belief we are separate and strive as a company to erradicate hyperindependence – a false idea that separates our need for community and the belief that we heal alone and need no one and that it’s weak to need others. We believe community and people are a need, not a luxury.
7. YOU ARE YOUR OWN COMPASS: We are not your gurus or your Gods, only teachers, reminders and guides pointing you back to what you’ve forgotten and what you are learning – your own brilliance, power, beauty and divinity. You have your own intuition, your body is smart, you are your own healer, even if it feels like you are not. We believe you are learning, unlearning, relearning and that it takes time to heal, come back to wholeness and to trust in the expert and guru – yourself. We will never tell you that we know more than you, nor do we believe that our opinions and thoughts are superior and right over your own intuition. We will only mirror and gently, and/or lovingly firmly guide you back to yourself – to become your own healer and guide. (spiritual bypassy – work on intuition piece – can’t really trust self/gut – not necessarily our healer – intuition is not as simple)
8. YOU ARE POWERFUL & CAPABLE: We will treat you and believe that you are inherently powerful and capable. You are most likely here and stumbled upon us not because there is something wrong with you, but because you are gifted and unique (HSP/Empath). We believe that you can re-wire and create the life you want and believe in the power of your beliefs and thoughts – meaning, you can alter your beliefs and habits to live the life of abundance that you desire. You are not stuck, you are powerful. You are not a victim, you have the ability. You get to create. (add creativity)
9. WHOLENESS: We believe everyone is born and dies whole. Through life, we have picked up co-dependent tendencies and behaviors because we have forgotten our wholeness – our connection to our inner power, love and divinity. Over time, through wounding, society and societal conditional, you have forgotten your wholeness, but it has and will always be there, it is waiting for you. We believe we are constantly being called to return back to our wholeness - to return to the inner essence and power we all have.
10. GOD: We believe in the beauty, mystical, mysterious and grander, non-identified, beyond ego, source. We trust and surrender into this mystery, learning to trust in ourselves and something that supports us, recognizing purpose and path in all. We trust that what is happening is part of God’s will and ultimately our greatest trust and surrender is in God.
11. YOU ARE NOT PERFECT / NOT MEANT TO BE: We understand that perfectionism and trying to do things “perfectly” and without making “mistakes” is something that many of our members believe and hold in their unconscious. Although we have all these abilities to change, heal and recognize our greatness, we also believe that we are human, which means we are called to constantly humble ourselves through recognizing we will make mistakes, we will stumble, we will fall, as much as we want it, things will not be perfect. We are always learning and our stumbling and making mistakes is exactly part of the process.
It all started when…
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