Racheal Astarte, LMFT

Rachel Astarte, LMFT | Holistic Psychotherapist, Author, Educator, and Host of Self Talk with Rachel Astarte

✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦

What if your purpose is not something you chase, but something you remember?

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In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Sharon Clark sits down with Rachel Astarte, holistic psychotherapist, transformational coach, author of Celebrating Solitude: How to Discover and Honor Your Highest Self, and host of Self Talk with Rachel Astarte.

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Rachel shares how her purpose began as a childhood knowing that she was here for a reason, then grew into a lifelong devotion to helping others understand what it means to be fully human and infinite at the same time. From staring into the endless sky as a child to learning how to make big spiritual ideas accessible, Rachel brings language to the strange, sacred terrain where personal healing meets collective evolution.

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This conversation explores purpose, intuition, ego, non-duality, grief, community, and the body’s inner knowing. Rachel speaks about the underdeveloped ego, the developed ego as a container for spirit, and why purpose is not always a career, achievement, or grand public mission. Sometimes it is rescuing dogs. Sometimes it is tending a garden. Sometimes it is being kind to a shopkeeper. Purpose may be less about becoming someone new and more about putting down the heavy bags and remembering who you already are.

✦ Enter the Lab ✦

📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose

🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/awakenyourpurposepodcast

🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz

📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map

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✦ Guest Bio ✦

Rachel Astarte is a holistic psychotherapist, transformational coach, author, and educator. Her work bridges ancient wisdom and modern science to illuminate the sacred thread connecting personal healing with collective evolution.

Rachel is the author of Celebrating Solitude: How to Discover and Honor Your Highest Self and the host of the podcast Self Talk with Rachel Astarte.

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✦ Guest Links ✦

Rachel Astarte: https://bit.ly/m/rachelastartetherapy

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✦ Interviewed by Sharon Clark ✦

Sharon Clark is a cancer life coach, bookkeeper, radio host, podcaster, and core member of the LightNet team. As a cancer life coach, Sharon helps people navigate diagnosis, treatment, and life after cancer with clarity, strength, and a belief in their power to shape their future.

Sharon also co-hosts Holy Shiftballs with Bethany Shelton, a podcast built on expansion and learning through laughter. Together, they interview people about the “Holy Shiftball” moments that changed their lives and led them to living their purpose.

Sharon Clark: https://yourtransformationcoach.ca

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✦ Time Codes ✦

00:00 The underdeveloped ego and imposter syndrome

02:16 Welcome to Awaken Your Purpose

03:46 Rachel shares what she discovered her purpose to be

05:48 Fully human and infinite at the same time

06:57 Childhood wonder and making big ideas accessible

09:31 Relationships, skepticism, and walking your own path

12:02 How awakening changes friendships

14:03 Following the inner wind of purpose

14:43 When the safe path is not your calling

16:27 There is no failure, only evolution

17:18 Finding community through the Holomovement

18:12 The underdeveloped ego versus the developed ego

19:31 The ego as a container for spirit

20:01 Your life as an ambassador of source

20:42 What happens when we return to the field?

21:52 Turning up the volume on this life

22:18 Rachel’s advice: stop looking for your purpose

23:38 Purpose is already there

24:33 Rescuing dogs, gardening, and hidden purpose

27:13 Ambition, tunnel vision, and the eternal self

28:26 Putting down the heavy bags

30:03 What if everyone lived their purpose?

32:35 Pure consciousness experiencing itself

33:28 Enjoying the dance of being human

34:03 Rachel’s final message

✦ Our Mission ✦

Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all.

The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose.

✦ 🎙️ Listen to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast ✦

🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4