Ep. 10 | Xavier Dagba: You’re Not Lost—You’re Awakening Making Sense of Spiritual Depression
In this solo episode of ENHEARTENED with Xavier Dagba, we dive deep into the misunderstood territory of spiritual depression—a soul-initiated pause that invites deep realignment, not pathology.
You’ll learn:
- What spiritual depression actually is—and how it differs from emotional burnout or clinical depression
- The hidden wisdom of the soul when everything goes quiet
- How to stop resisting the void and begin listening to what’s gestating
- The role of masculine and feminine energetics in navigating the unknown
- Why unfinished business must be cleared before new vision can emerge
- How to recognize when you’re ready to re-engage with life from deeper truth
This episode is for anyone walking through a fog they can’t quite explain, feeling disconnected from old identities but not yet anchored in the new.
You’re not broken. You’re in transition. And there is medicine in the undoing.
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Chapters / Timestamps:
00:00 – The way through spiritual depression isn’t force—it’s surrender
00:58 – What spiritual depression is (and what it’s not)
02:00 – A soul-initiated pause, not clinical pathology
03:00 – The U-turn metaphor: when your soul redirects you
04:45 – Why it’s not laziness—it’s energetic realignment
06:15 – Midlife crisis as a mainstream version of spiritual depression
07:45 – What it feels like when your soul goes quiet
09:10 – The drought of meaning, creativity, and belonging
10:50 – My personal story: the breakdown of 2018
13:20 – Clearing unfinished business to prepare for emergence
15:00 – When your life no longer fits your soul
16:20 – Misunderstandings in both clinical and spiritual spaces
17:50 – The feminine energetics of gestation, mystery, and death
19:10 – The masculine role: courage to walk into the unknown
21:00 – What part of me is rushing this discomfort?
22:00 – 5 powerful prompts for working with spiritual depression
24:40 – Signs you are beginning to emerge
26:20 – Creating from soul, not performance
27:40 – The sculptor metaphor: the life template is already inside you
29:00 – Final message: you’re not broken—you’re becoming
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