Awakened Hearts: Sacred Stories of Breaking Free and Rising Higher - Hardcover

by David Trotter (Curated by)

Are you ready to break free and rise higher?

Awakened Hearts: Sacred Stories of Breaking Free and Rising Higher is a transformative collection of true stories from 25 conscious leaders, healers, and everyday seekers who have faced the darkness within-and discovered freedom on the other side.

In these deeply personal and soul-stirring narratives, you'll witness the courage it takes to shed old identities, release limiting beliefs, and surrender to the divine unfolding of life. Each author's journey reveals a sacred moment of breaking open where pain became power, fear gave way to faith, and truth led to radiant self-expression.

Inside this anthology, you'll find reflections of your own path in stories of spiritual awakening, emotional healing, ancestral clearing, and renewed purpose. Some contributors walked away from perfectionism, control, or inherited conditioning. Others healed trauma, grief, or burnout. All answered the call to rise higher-to live as their truest selves, guided by love.

Whether you are standing at the edge of change or already stepping into the light of your next chapter, these stories will meet you where you are and remind you of the freedom that's been within you all along.

Your freedom is waiting. Your heart already knows the way.

Contributing authors include Molli Burkett, Manna Dabholkar, Pamela Downes, Michelle Dutro, Chris Eaton, Ellie Epstein-White, Whitney Freya, Toni Ghazi, Robert Hudson, Denea Hugunin, Richard Kepple, Kristen Leigh, Martin Lewis, Brenda Lee Mattausch, Oracle Maureen, Donna McGrath, Ida Ra Nalbandian, Nina Palmieri, Shelley Poovey, Amanda Romania, Debra Stangl, Ragan Thomson, Lindsay Vatterott, Valerie Vidal, and Michelle Wollaston.

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