Could You Be Going Through The Dark Night Of The Soul?

It was in April 2019, and I was 41 years young.

My entire “picture perfect” life as I knew it was collapsing around me.

I was helpless.

I was hopeless.

I had been struggling on and off with poor mental health since my late teenage years.

Hardly anyone in my life knew the reality of the battle I was having with that dark, destructive voice in my head - the same voice of the enemy we have all battled with in our lives.

I had been seeing a psychologist since I was 35 years young, followed by having 5 deep, emotional sessions of hypnotherapy from late 2018 through to early 2019.

In this place of feeling absolutely helpless and hopeless, I wrote out a very long explanation of everything I was carrying, everything I was battling with, everything I hadn’t been healed of.

The following day I got my phone and I Googled:

“what to do when you feel completely lost”

I started to read different stories and articles that came up in the search results. On one of the articles that I started reading, I saw the words “dark night of the soul” - I recall the words were something like “Many people reach a point in their life where they begin to experience the dark night of the soul.”

These words dark night of the soul were underlined, and not knowing anything about this, I clicked the link and started to read a very long page describing all about the dark night of the soul.

I couldn’t believe what I was reading.

Almost everything was making sense and speaking to me personally.

As I continued reading I got to a section titled:

Here are 7 “omens” that you might be going through a Dark Night of the Soul:

1. You feel a deep sense of sadness, which often verges on despair (this sadness is often triggered by the state of your life, humanity, and/or the world as a whole)

2. You feel an acute sense of unworthiness

3. You have the constant feeling of being lost or “condemned” to a life of suffering or emptiness

4. You possess a painful feeling of powerlessness and hopelessness

5. Your will and self-control is weakened, making it difficult for you to act

6. You lack interest and find no joy in things that once excited you

7. You crave for the loss of something intangible; a longing for a distant place or to “return home” again

I will never forget reading these 7 “omens”, knowing what I had written out the day before, as there was almost complete correlation with both the 7 omens and my long explanation of where I was in my life.

Before receiving the revelation I was doing whilst reading about the dark night of the soul…

I didn’t know I had a soul

I didn’t know I had a spirit

Did you know you had a soul & spirit?

Here are 28 more questions that I encourage you to consider…