The Grace of Preparation: Entering Your Spiritual Work with Conscious Care

I’ve been asked a few times how to prepare for a spiritual course, event, or ceremony. I love questions like this, because the answer always reaches further than we think. It’s not just about one experience; it’s about how we live, how we enter, how we meet what’s about to unfold.

In the healing realm, I’ve seen people rush into experiences unprepared - wide open, hearts racing, spirits on fire. They call it excitement or following the heart, and maybe it is. But sometimes, it’s also adrenaline, a little drama, the thrill of pushing at the edges of what’s safe or known.

And that’s where things can get messy.

In spiritual circles, we talk about spiritual emergencies, moments when someone feels cracked open, undone. Physically, emotionally, mentally… they feel as though they're falling apart. There’s often some fallout, withdrawal from daily life, tension in relationships, schedules derailed. These moments bring to the surface what’s shaky, what’s ready to change. And that’s not wrong. But here’s the thing: those breakdowns can become breakthroughs if we meet them consciously.

You can choose to enter these experiences with clarity, with reverence, with care.
Or you can crash into them and deal with the rubble later.

Now, I know I’m painting one of the more dramatic pictures, it doesn’t have to go that way. When things unfold with grace, it’s usually because there’s been preparation. Conscious care. The groundwork of presence before the experience even begins.

A “spiritual emergency” can happen any time life shakes our foundations - a breakup, a job ending, a move across the world. When identity falls away, it can feel like something essential has been stolen from us. But the deeper truth? Liberation is happening. The old self is being re-formed, refined.

It’s not danger. It’s initiation.

So the question becomes:
Will you change through grace, clarity, and conscious choice?
Or do you need to fall apart, get lost in the drama, and rebuild from the ashes?

Neither path is wrong. But one is gentler.

If you’re used to running on adrenaline, if drama has been your wake-up call, you’ll recognize the pull toward chaos. But now, right now, you have enough awareness to do it differently. You can choose the slow burn over the crash and burn.

Here’s what I know about preparation, and how it changes everything:

• Preparation becomes ritual. What you do in the lead-up becomes a way of life. Meditate. Eat cleaner. Drink less. Be kinder to your body. You’re not “getting ready”, you’re embodying what’s coming.

• Your mind is malleable. What you think shapes what you feel. Redirect spiralling thoughts. Step out of the mental noise and into presence. Feel how old beliefs begin to soften.

• Your body is your guide. Stretch, rest, walk, breathe. Move energy through your system. Turn down the noise around you and your nervous system will thank you.

• Set intentions, not expectations. Be clear about how you want to feel. Invite in the highest outcome - love, compassion, joy, ease. But let go of how it has to look. The Universe doesn’t do rigidity, it does flow.

Many people avoid experiences that would grow them because growth asks for change, in relationships, in habits, in how we tell the truth to ourselves. But when we say yes to the stretch, when we lean into the discomfort consciously, that’s when the light gets in.

If you’re joining our Practical Intuition event this weekend (or preparing for another experience), I hope you meet yourself there fully. Take care of your body. Tend to your nervous system. Honour your process. Give yourself the grace of space, before to prepare, and after to integrate. (More on integration next week.)

Whatever your spiritual plans, I’m sending blessings for grace, deep love, and radical self-care.

- Jennifer