For others, it’s gravitating toward healthier foods, feeling unexplainable chills, heaviness or lightness, wanting to sweat more, or declutter your home and social life. You start having “purge” symptoms.įor some people, this is an actual gagging motion. Once it does, you can begin actually doing things that make you whole. The part of you that is still chasing outside things to make you happy is dying. Your illusions about what really matters are breaking down. What’s happening is you’re seeing how the external things didn’t heal you. That’s the thing about the dark night of the soul – it usually comes up right at the moment in which you have every reason to be content. You’re confused because you feel like you “should” be happy right now. It references the sort of spiritual depression or detox that someone has to go through to “wake up.” But if you’re experiencing it and don’t know what’s happening, it can be really scary.
The “dark night of the soul” is a concept that has been discussed for millennia, typically associated with a poem written by St.
