Collective Themes and Predictions for 2023 in the Wellness Space
I’m a professional intuitive working with clients all over the world. I started receiving these predictions during my meditations and client sessions in June 2022. These were originally posted on my Instagram in February 2023.
These are not intended to be all-encompassing of the human experience but rather to bring language and awareness to some trends you may experience within yourself or your social sphere.
2023 Themes
(Listed in no particular order)
1. Ancestral work 👨👩👦
Invitation into lineage healing. Harder to distract self. Boundaries softening & firming. Care & work cycle-breaking. Felt emotional shifts in family/home. Increased frequency of communication with ancestors & mediumship.
2. Desire, Pleasure & Embodiment 🌊
Fiery short cycles of burnout or long stretches of anhedonia—unable to "feel" physical pleasure. Anxiety in anticipating pleasure. Former physical coping mechanisms/ distractions now ineffective. Courage rewarded.
3. Intellectualizing somatics & nervous system work 🧠
Terms as "buzzwords." Lots of thinking & talking about it before we feel & physically take on these lessons. It gets sciencey before it ties into the energetic & spiritual. Learning to trust physical experience of intuition.
4. Water therapy 🏊♀️
Swimming as stress relief. Cold plunges. Water therapy. Speciality water & filters.
5. Redefining & simplifying language 🗣
Opting for more plain, simple language. Expanding on labels to honor individual lived experiences. Labels as permission & liberation vs. labels as distraction from healing vs. labels as replacements for good questions.
6. Waves of messy collective grief processing & healing 🎢
Physically felt waves of emotion, irritation, panic—can be inexplicable to individual circumstances. Tastes of calm feel like "improvement" but it gets worse before it gets better.
7. Practical life skills as spiritual lessons 🛠
Building & laying bricks of a new foundation while the collective continues to feel unstable. Lots of re-doing & repetition. Testing ego, insecurity & frustration as an invitation to deeper self inquiry, intentionality, & surrender.
8. Appropriation of Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts 🍵
More interest in TCM. Wearables, medical devices & gadgets that use principles TCM has used for generations (often without credit).
9. New & evolved definitions of work 💼
A clearer collective delineation between calling, vocation, purpose, passion, identity & work. A difference of how each feels. Greater freedom, sense of peace & spiritual acceptance of what our work really is.
10. Esoteric employment benefits 💆♀️
Spirituality, well-being & mental health huge personal value of employees. Leading companies will lean in & expand wellness benefits as recruiting & retention tool, going well beyond a free gym membership or small monthly stipend.
11. Both "sides" get weirder 🧲️
Stronger polarites & binaries. More spiritual rejecting & spiritual bypassing to avoid collective pain. Pulling away in both directions. Both sides get weirder. Voices in middle can offer havens for other seeking nuance & healing.
12. Spiritual teachers reclaiming their humanity 🙊
Admitting to changing their minds. Radical transparency & humanity from leaders, spiritual teachers, etc. Leaders communicating that they take back what they used to say. Radical truth-telling, learning together as we go.
13. Rapid spiritual activations & extended periods of "quiet" 📈
Spiritual activations of gifts that weren’t there before. Nonlocal intuition & inexplicable knowing. Body sensations & increased energetic sensitivity. Clairvoyance & clairsentience, especially after interactive with other spiritually connected people. Quiet integration periods to learn trust & fine-tune.
14. Authentic & experimental rituals 🧘♀️
Rituals that get really weird. Insatiable need for solitude without outside influence. Discovering which tools, practices, rituals feel authentic & which are props, distractions & disconnecting from physical & emotional healing.
15. Layers of shadow work 🕳
Lots of feeling like healing & growth is happening but pushing past trauma responses, further harming, disassociating & disembodying. Discernment, shadow work & trauma-informed care to safely re-engage. New layers of authenticity & soul contract renegotiations.
16. Emphasis on practicality of physical resources 🌱
Doing more with less time, money, energy & people, especially at work & at home. Simplifying our financial, energetic & relational "expenses."
17. Rigid boundaries as self care 🙅♀️
Isolation & self-deprivation rebranded as self care. The nervous system receives it as isolation & disconnection. Loop of overwhelm, trauma response & anti-social behaviors. Re-assessing & re-prioritizing relationships where reciprocity is present.
18. Killing & reviving the super-ego 🧩️
Loss of the structures & foundations that keep us safe or help us build momentum. Realizing we need both emotion & will—after swinging too far into emotion. Finding harmony & overlap of aligned action & creative flow that honors the soul's work.
19. Unconventional "earthbound" healers 👩🎨
Healers in corporate, customer service, retail, consulting, etc. Spiritual gifts activate to spark return to industry with service from essence & alignment rather than shadow & necessity. Theme of "having a job to do" in a focused, peaceful, justice-oriented way.
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