Wake Up with Susan

You are the One You've Been Waiting for

• Susan Sutherland

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This episode is more than a conversation ~ it is a transmission and a sacred calling for those who are ready to remember.

We explore the deeper meaning of Easter and the resurrection ~ not through the lens of religion, but through the soul's awakening journey.  What have we thought was going to save us?  What does it truly mean to rise?  What if Christ consciousness is not something to worship, but something to embody?

This message is for the lightworkers, the healers and the ones reclaiming their sovereignty.  It is an invitation to remember your divine nature, to feel the stirrings of sacred remembrance and to rise in alignment with the truth of who you are.  

Themes we explore include resurrection as an inner journey, the return of the divine feminine, spiritual rebirth, and a call to embody Christ light in this time of global awakening.  There are also questions for you to go deeper with.  

I am also excited to announce that very soon, my sacred community The Keepers' Garden will be open.  Be sure to sign-up for my newsletter to stay informed!

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Rise and shine everybody. It's time to wake up with Susan. Spiritual awakening can be a beautiful, messy and sometimes lonely journey, so let's do it together. I'm your host, susan Sutherland. I'm an intuitive healer and spiritual mentor. We are all called to rise up above our conditioning and limiting beliefs and shine our light on ourselves and others. So let's get to it. Hello family, welcome back this week.

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This week I'm taking my gloves off. You know why? Because I have been doing some soul retrieval, some calling back parts of me that I had cast out because it was not safe to speak. Or, you know the old, like playing small and being persecuted for who you are or what you know the old, like playing small and being persecuted for who you are or what you believe like. All of those parts of me have been integrated. I am feeling empowered that when I know something to be true, I feel safe to express it and don't feel like there are consequences. There are consequences to your actions, but there are not consequences to owning and speaking my truth. Now it may result in like less followers if people are not aligned, but if they are not aligned to something that resonates to me as truth, then that's just shifting into a frequency that I wish to hold and if people are in an alignment then that's all right. That's a restructuring of my following to support who I really am and that's okay, but it is allowing me to tap into conversations and things that I really want to share on a deeper level. So I have some exciting things coming.

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I've been in this like spiritual void since I got back from Peru and I say it as a void and that sounds awful, but it was a womb, it was the sacred womb of creation, and a lot of times that feels like nothingness. It feels like lack of direction and lack of motivation, and I'll speak to that. I did a YouTube video about it because it's affecting a lot of people who are in this really cocoon phase right now of not knowing what is going to be birthed. We have a guilt about being in a period of rest or being in a period of unknowing, but it's part of the beautiful mystery is allowing yourself that time to germinate the seed before it sprouts or, you know, for the caterpillar to be in the cocoon before the butterfly comes out. I know that analogy is used all the time, but it's a beautiful one because the caterpillar has to go into the cocoon and then essentially dissolve into nothing, to become the butterfly, and he's probably not like am I sure I want to do this? Is this my purpose? Am I on the right path? I don't guess a caterpillar meets life in that way, but we do, and so we overanalyze everything, and I will say that I did with lean into this period of kind of a sacred void of not knowing what's coming. And now it has started coming and it's really beautiful and I'm feeling really empowered and excited. And so a lot of things are on the horizon that I am excited to share with you on my podcast and in a sacred community that I am creating, where these conversations can go a little deeper, which is something my heart is craving the depth and the connection, and also people to speak back, because on a podcast it's very one-sided. So I do appreciate your calls and your messages. Those are impactful for me, for sure, but I want to have a collaboration, a mirroring each other and growing in this space together. So I'm really excited that that is coming soon.

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But this week we're going to talk about some other real stuff that's going on. This week is a big one for a lot of people. It's Easter week, a time to reflect on resurrection, on sacrifice and what it means to be saved, and if that's part of your spiritual path, I want to say right up front I honor that I am not here to take anything from you, but I am here to open a window Before we dive in. I want to say something else clearly up front this episode isn't just for practicing Christians, and it's not not for them. It's not a sermon, it's not a theological debate, it's not a takedown of anyone's belief system. It's a conversation about remembering who you are, about the part of you that's been buried under your programming, guilt or just plain exhaustion. We'll talk about Christ, but not the version you've been handed. We'll talk about sovereignty, but not as a rejection of faith. And we'll talk about power, but not the kind that dominates, the kind that heals. So, whether Easter is deeply meaningful to you, or you haven't stepped foot in a church in years or you never resonated with religion at all, if you've ever felt like you were waiting for something or someone to save you, this episode is for you.

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All right, let's start with the story that we were handed, the story of needing to be saved. For many of us. It gave us comfort, it gave us structure, it gave us relief that somebody was going to swoop in and save the day. And I'm not here to dismiss that. There's deep beauty in believing in something greater than yourself. But here's the shadow side of that story. Something greater than yourself. But here's the shadow side of that story, something we don't always want to admit.

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When we're taught that we need saving, we start to look at the world around us through the same lens. If I needed saving, then so do you. If I found the right path and you didn't, then you must be lost. And that's how we start weaponizing Christ. Suddenly, this name, this embodiment of love, gets used as a measuring stick, a gatekeeper, a dividing line. It's us versus them, who's in, who's out, who's worthy, who still needs fixing, who's worthy, who still needs fixing, healing, saving. And I just don't buy into that anymore. I don't think that love incarnate came to be used as a weapon. I don't think that Christ came to make us small. I think he came here to show us what we already are.

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Here's the other problem with it that I see. When you have somebody coming to save you, your responsibility is diminished. Now I will tell you this we have a cleaner that comes on Friday and never, ever will you see my kids' rooms messier than on Thursday, forever will you see my kids' rooms messier than on Thursday. To be honest, my kitchen can also get a bit dodgy on Thursday because the cleaners are coming. I'm not going to vacuum the floor. They'll do it tomorrow, whereas on a Monday maybe I would do it. But this is the problem with thinking somebody is coming to do something for you is you lack the ownership and the accountability of doing it yourself.

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But here's the twist the savior programming. It follows us. We just gave it a new language. Now, instead of being saved, we need to be healed. Instead of sin, we say trauma and suddenly we're back in the loop Always fixing, always digging, always looking for what's wrong and listen. Shadow work is powerful, no doubt about it. I can speak to you right now about this, because I've done a lot of mine.

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When it becomes your identity somewhere along the way, many of us started believing that to be spiritual is always to be in process, always to be clearing something, always to be healing something, proving something, fixing something. But what if you're not broken? What if the healing is really just the remembering, the moment you stop seeing yourself as a problem to solve and start seeing yourself as a soul who's been whole the entire time. I remember I did a workshop at my house and one of the ladies here asked are you ever healed? And the person I was doing the workshop with was like no, it's a journey your whole lifetime. You're never healed. And something felt really uncomfortable in my body and the next morning I decided to sit with that question and channel through.

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And what came through is needing to heal, is identifying yourself as broken. When you are healed is when you are fully in the present, knowing you are whole exactly as you are. When we cast parts of ourselves outside of ourselves, then we make it broken, and reintegration is not necessarily fixing it, it's accepting it, it's knowing that God is not outside of you. When you are angry or when you are grieving or when you are suffering with disease, god is within those moments too. And when we think that we have to be healed to be part of the whole, that's where we're out of alignment, because God is in the brokenness just as much as he is in the joy. It is realizing that there's no part of you that was ever outside of God, regardless of what you did. And so when you are able to forgive yourself, it is that acceptance that brings you back to the whole. You were not broken, you had just cast it out, thinking that you were. So it's the acceptance back into the fold that makes you healed. So are you ever healed? Not if you are looking to see yourself as someone who needs healing, but when you can start seeing yourself as whole, just because you are, just because you are, not because you need to fix yourselves, not to need to do anything, but to accept yourself fully, authentically, perfectly, just as you are. Then you're healed, because you're no longer identifying with the aspect that needs healing. You're welcoming it back just as you are.

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To me, that's resurrection, not just something that happened 2000 years ago, something happening right now in you the soul waking up inside your body, the truth rising after years underground, the self no longer waiting for permission or forgiveness or approval. Christ consciousness isn't about being saved from the world. It's about bringing love into it through you, through the dishes, through your work, through that hard conversation you keep avoiding. You're not broken, you're not behind, you are not lost. You are the one you've been waiting for, not some floaty high vibe only way, but in the real gritty, fully alive kind of way, in the kind of way that allows God to breathe through you because you finally made room.

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This is when we bring Christ consciousness fully to us, when we accept Jesus as our example, as our mentor, as our brother to walk alongside us, mentor as our brother to walk alongside us, to pave the road and show us how to live in love, live as embodied love, to stop seeing the flaws in others because we stop seeing them in ourselves. I'm telling you, everybody is a reflection and when you are able to see everyone's imperfection, it is because you still know yourself to be flawed. And I don't blame you because we were taught that we were. We were taught that we needed somebody to come and save us, which makes it hard to love your brother as yourself when you don't love yourself. So we have to start there with seeing ourself as perfect, just as we are. Even in our imperfections we are perfect. Even in the things that we're perhaps are not our strengths, perhaps are not our most favorable traits, they are still part of us, they are still God's way of expressing it through us.

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So when you can realize that God is expressing through you. You're not waiting on somebody else. It is you to reclaim that power without guilt. That's where that sacred authority within lies. And let's be honest, the moment you realize this, that you hold that kind of power, that you hold that kind of light, it can be a little terrifying, because most of us were taught that power is dangerous or that seeing ourself in that way is egotistical or blasphemous, that wanting more power is selfish, that taking up space means that you're too much. But this power I'm talking about is not power over anyone, it's power within your own soul, within the earth, within the divine. It's not dominance, it's alignment. It's not ego, it's essence, and it might shake things up.

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People who liked you better when you stayed small may not understand. Believe me, but you didn't come here to be palatable. But you didn't come here to be palatable. You came here to be free. I've said this before and I'll say it again If not you, then who? Your decisions, your dominion is over self. So choosing to harness power for yourself is your gift, not only to your soul, not only to this world. That is your gift to God, to express in your most powerful, most beautiful, most loving self. That is truly your gift to God, to allow him to express through you in a way that you wouldn't tamp that down. You wouldn't be like, oh God, you're too much. You're too much here. Can you back it down a little bit? No, if you know yourself to be expressing the divine through your actions, you can't be too big, right. So here's the cosmic layer that we're talking about, because it's not just a mindset shift, it's a consciousness shift. You are not your physical body, you have an emotional layered architecture. You have a causal body, the part of you that holds the divine blueprint.

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The lie behind your incarnation and humanity is a massive leap right now, and your system, your whole multi-dimensional system, is waking up. That is why so many people are getting these nudges, so many people are asking questions, so many people are being stirred. It's why things feel weird and perhaps it's why we have these very potent catalysts in our systems that are causing us to question the systems, question how we have done things so far. We are wakening up because our entire energetic blueprint is shifting. It's why you're more sensitive. It's why you're more sensitive, it's why you're more intuitive, it's why you're more exhausted with anything that feels fake. It's not just you healing the past, you are becoming the future. You are living through a resurrection of your old self. A resurrection of your old self not to escape the world, but to fully arrive in it. It is a really beautiful restructuring.

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There have been times where we weren't ready to embody Christ consciousness, our makeup of our energetic blueprint. We were not ready to hold that kind of light. We have needed different paths for different times, but we are in a new process right now where we are ready, and it's why you feel these stirs, it's why you have these questions, it's why you are getting these nudges and having these intuitive hits. So this Easter season, or whenever this finds you, I gently ask you to start with these questions, knowing that your soul wants to move forward in a really beautiful way. And this doesn't matter what you believe. You can still ask the questions and stir this within.

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You Ask where are you still waiting to be saved? What are the areas of your life that you're holding on to, you're clinging to because you think somebody else can fix it and that somebody is not you? Where are you still clinging to brokenness, like it's part of who you are? You're identifying as the victim, you know yourself to be broken or you identify with your trauma more than your potential of just living as your perfect self. Where are you clinging to brokenness like it's part of who you are? Where you've accepted a victim identity or become your trauma? What are those areas? Are you ready to abandon that story and to know yourself healed? Just accepting that part into the fold and not needing to fix it is a way of not healing it. To be associated in the pain, but transmuting that energy into something new.

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Where can you let love in? Not as a rescue, but as a reminder? You don't need to be fixed, you don't need to be rescued. You do need to be remembered. You are the soil, you are the seed, you are the rising and you don't have to do it alone. I am creating that sacred space where we'll go deeper on all of this. It is called the Keeper's Garden and it's coming soon, but today, just let this message land. Let it stir up what it may, let it water something ancient inside of you that is ready to question things. You are the one you've been waiting for. Thanks for being here. I love walking this path with you and I look forward to community with you soon. Have a great week and happy easter. Thank you so much for joining me this week. Be sure to not miss any upcoming episodes by subscribing to the podcast. That way, it's available automatically in your RSS feed. This is a crazy journey. Let's do it together.

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