The Awakened Healer: 18 Pathways to Healing, Wholeness, and Conscious Living

Every person who picks up this book is healing from something.

Whether you're navigating grief, illness, anxiety, trauma, burnout, spiritual awakening, or simply longing for a deeper sense of peace, The Awakened Healer invites you to explore healing through fresh eyes.

Inside these pages, eighteen conscious leaders, healers, and coaches share the personal stories, transformative practices, and life-changing insights that shaped their own journeys. Drawing from a rich diversity of experiences and healing traditions, they blend personal experience, timeless wisdom, emerging research, and transformative practices that have changed lives including their own. While each chapter offers a unique perspective, they all point toward the same truth…healing is deeply personal, and there is no single path that fits everyone.

Read with curiosity. Reflect with an open heart. Trust the ideas that resonate with you, and allow them to become stepping stones on your own journey toward greater awareness, wholeness, and possibility.

Perhaps the healing you've been searching for begins with the very next page.

Contributing authors include Cheri Maria Arellano, Jan Casebolt, Verlaine Crawford, Papa-yoni Das, Tracee Dunblazier, Ellie Epstein-White, Kerri Husman, Anistara Ma Ka, Jose Mendoza, Laura Ocasio, Judith M. Ramos, Aileen Salmaggi, Sheila Seppi, Sylvie Sterling, Julie Suen, Ragan Thomson, Julie Wasmer, and Brenda Zyburt.

Creator of the Awakened Hearts Series — David Trotter, founder and publisher of Awakened Magazine.

David Trotter is the founder and publisher of Awakened Magazine as well as the creator and curator of the Awakened Hearts book series. He is passionate about amplifying the voices of conscious leaders, healers, and coaches.

He is the author of a dozen books including Empowered to Rise and Superconscious Conversations and the producer / director of four award-winning feature films on important social issues.

Early in his career, he invested a decade of his life as a pastor before transitioning out of full-time ministry and experiencing the freedom of a more inclusive spirituality. David earned a BA in Pastoral Ministries and MA (abt) in Church Leadership from Vanguard University (Costa Mesa, CA) as well as an MA in Cross Cultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA).

David is also Certified Breathwork and Guided Meditation Facilitator and regularly leads classes at Behind the Lids Healing Collective in Costa Mesa, CA.