A SOULS JOURNEY The Path To Back To You
- Katrina Steel
- May 30
- 5 min read

Isn’t it curious how disconnected we’ve become?
So many of us are lost. At a loss. With no anchor to our true voice, our deeper knowing, our needs, our desires, our inner truth.
In a world that moves so fast, many of us are quietly falling out of sync with ourselves.
We wake up tired, move through our days disconnected, and fall asleep wondering where the meaning has gone.
Despite all our efforts to keep up, to meet expectations, support others, stay productive, we’re often left feeling unsatisfied, emotionally distant, and unsure of what we truly need.
It’s not just that we’re busy. It’s that we’ve lost our anchor.
We’ve become disconnected from our inner world, our truth, our desires, our intuition.
Over time, the voice of the outer world becomes so loud that it drowns out the sound of our own. We forget how to check in with ourselves. We stop asking what we want, how we feel, or what we actually need to thrive. Sllowly, we drift away from the parts of us that know how to lead us home. This isn’t just a modern inconvenience, it’s a profound loss of connection...and somewhere along the way, we have forgotten. We forgotten what we want.
We have disconnected from how we feel. We have lost the rhythm of living from trust, clarity, or self-guidance.
There’s simply just no space. No quiet. No stillness. No room to reconnect.
We’ve been conditioned to orient outward. To meet the needs of others, to perform, to keep up.
Over time, we stop checking in. We stop trusting ourselves. We lose connection to our inner wisdom, our innate self. Eventually over time, we have forgotten what it even means to be guided from within.
Subtle Symptoms of Disconnection
This kind of inner disconnection doesn’t always arrive with drama or crisis. More often, it shows up in quiet, persistent ways.
This disconnection is showing up in subtle but significant ways: discontent with ourselves, loss of joy in simple pleasures, a constant chance for more, an inability to feel self love, a restlessness that can't be medicated, an inability to find you purpose and path, a sense that we’re simply going through the motions.
Perhaps you feel like you’re simply going through the motions, day after day. Even when life looks “fine” on the outside, there’s an underlying sense of dissatisfaction that won’t go away.
These experiences aren’t flaws or personal failures. They are signals. They’re your system’s way of letting you know that something vital is missing, your relationship to yourself.
This way of experiencing ourselves in the world is hard.... And guess what, beautiful human....it's not supposed to be hard.

What If You Could Find Your Way Back?
Here’s the question I want to ask: What if you remembered how to listen?
What if we interrupted this incessant cycling and began to slow, learn to connect again, turn inward again, listen again.
What if we slowed down long enough to hear our own voice again. The deeper one. The wiser one. The voice of our true self.Imagine what life might be like if it was guided from that place.
There is something incredibly profound that happens when we begin to listen within. When we feel into ourselves, honour what’s there, and allow that connection to guide our decisions, our relationships, and how we show up in the world.
It shifts everything..
What if your life was guided from that place?
A life connected to your inner wisdom is more than just peaceful,
it’s purposeful.
It’s a life where your choices reflect your truth. Where your relationships are more authentic. Where your sense of direction feels clear, and your actions feel aligned with who you truly are.
While getting there may require courage, the path is not impossible. In fact, it starts with something simple: turning inward.
The Courage to Look Within
Turning inward is not always easy. In fact, it’s one of the bravest things we can do.
When we get quiet, we’re often met with the parts of ourselves we’ve been avoiding: pain, trauma, fear, ego, and limiting beliefs. These layers can feel thick, like walls built to protect us, but that now keep us from ourselves.
When we finally slow down enough to meet ourselves, we may find discomfort. Old wounds, emotional residue, fear, and limiting beliefs often surface when we make space for stillness. It’s tempting to push them away, to distract, to keep moving.
But those reactions are just protection.
These walls are not permanent. They are not the truth of who you are. They are what you move through to remember yourself.
A life connected to your inner wisdom is calmer and more grounded, it’s more aligned. When we return to ourselves, we begin to hear our inner truth, feeling support by our knowing and the path not only becomes clearer, it becomes lighter. We experience more clarity, more ease, and more meaning. We are no longer moved only by external demands, but by an internal compass that points us toward what is real.
When we learn to live from this place, life begins to open. It begins to breathe again joy becomes your natural state. Fulfilment becomes your path and life becomes something you live with yourself, not against yourself.
This is the essence of soul connection.
With compassion and presence, those walls can begin to soften. You don’t have to tear them down, you just have to meet what’s behind them. That’s where you’ll find the self you’ve been seeking: wise, whole, and quietly waiting for you to return.
What Becomes Possible When You Reconnect
When you start to live from your inner wisdom, something shifts. Life doesn’t just feel lighter, it becomes more meaningful. You stop outsourcing your worth to the outside world. You stop abandoning yourself for the sake of being liked or accepted. You begin making choices that reflect who you really are.
From this place, clarity arises more naturally. Self-trust begins to strengthen. Joy becomes more accessible, not because life is perfect, but because you are present in it.
This is not just self-care. This is soul connection.

A Gentle Practice to Begin
If you feel ready to reconnect, here is a simple place to start:
Find ten minutes of quiet each day.
No distractions. No goals. Just you and your breath.
Ask yourself: “How am I, really?” and “What feels true for me right now?”
Let the answers rise without judgment—from the body, not the mind.
You may be surprised by what surfaces when you make space for your truth to be heard.
A Space to Come Home
This kind of work, coming home to yourself, is sacred. And while it begins with a quiet moment, it often deepens through community and guidance.
For those who call for more, I’ve created The Souls Retreat, a deeply immersive experience designed to support this very process. It’s a space to reconnect, reset, and begin living from the frequency of your own truth again.
The journey back to you begins one breath, one honest check-in, one quiet moment at a time. Be gentle with yourself.
In Gratitude,
Kat
Psychotherapist & Retreat Facilitator
@the.intentional.therapist
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