Today we’d like to introduce you to Joseph Clarke.
Hi Joseph, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I wasn’t always a spiritual person. Into my 30s, I was an atheist who didn’t believe in spirituality.
My spiritual awakening began in 2010, when I had a guardian angel visitation while hospitalized for leukemia. I came out of the hospital with a budding passion for mindfulness and self-discovery.
My spiritual awakening intensified in 2018, when I began receiving streams and downloads of spiritual wisdom. This wisdom revealed empowering insights about our divinity, our suffering, and our path to healing through the heart. I began writing down this wisdom and incorporating it into my daily life.
The awakening process was very difficult at times. Sometimes I found myself overwhelmed with pain and confusion. To help myself, I began working with spiritual healers, sacred medicines, Buddhist philosophy, and other healing resources. These resources helped me find comfort, poise, and confidence during the difficulties of the awakening process.
As I continued on my spiritual path, I felt a deep calling to live more from my heart. I had always been cerebral by nature. My spiritual awakening showed me how living from my heart could bring more presence, peace, and purpose into my life. I devoted myself to cultivating this sacred heart connection.
In 2021, I left my career in the law to pursue my spiritual calling. I wanted to help people connect more richly to their hearts. And I wanted to share the insights and resources that had served me so well on my healing and awakening path. My family and I moved from San Jose to Oceanside, California in July of 2021. During this time, I completed my Reiki certifications, achieving the level of Reiki Master.
In early 2022, I established my business: Joseph Clarke spiritual flourishing – supportive spiritual guidance. I began working with clients locally in the San Diego area. Through Zoom, I started serving clients around the country.
I continued to hone my skills as a Reiki practitioner. I completed my Reiki Master Teacher certification, which allows me to initiate new students into the Reiki healing lineage. I also began volunteering at Sharp Hospital, offering my Reiki services to the hospital’s patients and staff. By September 2024, I’d logged over 140 hours of Reiki volunteering. Having been a hospital patient myself while battling leukemia, my work at Sharp Hospital is especially gratifying.
I love watching my clients heal, grow, and flourish! When my clients tell me about their successes, and when I see their newfound gladness and confidence, my heart glows. I feel so much joy and gratitude knowing I’ve found my calling in life.
In 2024, I published my book, SOL: supportive guidance for healing & awakening. SOL is a book from my heart to yours. Combining spiritual wisdom, practical guidance, and inspiring poetry, SOL will awaken your mind to deep spiritual truths and open your heart to the beauty, mystery, and goodness of life.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No!!! So far from smooth.
At first, the main struggles were intense physical pain in my chest, ribs, throat, and head, coupled with an overwhelming onslaught of repressed memories and emotions. It honestly felt like I was losing my mind and my grip on reality.
Over the years, the physical symptoms of the awakening process have grown less intense. Now the struggles are more emotional and mental. I continue to feel an onslaught of intrusive thoughts and painful emotions. I see them as the death throes of my old mental programming. I trust the process will end, and that all these struggles will, in hindsight, be seen as growing pains toward something greater. In the meantime, it continues to be hard. Fortunately, I have good self-care practices, helpful healers, and loved ones who support me. That makes all the difference.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My speciality is strengthening your connection to your beautiful, powerful heart.
I do this through a combination of Reiki healing, mindfulness coaching, and heart-to-heart dialogue.
With a stronger heart connection, my clients overcome their addictions, pursue their heartfelt passions, and enrich the relationships that matter most to them.
I also wrote a book, called SOL: supportive guidance for healing and awakening. Through a combination of spiritual wisdom, practical guidance, and inspirational poetry, SOL helps readers connect with the higher power in their hearts, so they can live less from fear and more from love.
I’m most proud of my book and the results I deliver my clients. When I see my clients making tremendous breakthroughs, and when I hear how my book has touched people’s lives, I feel a deep and warm glow in my heart.
What sets me apart is my unique background and skill set. I hold degrees in philosophy, creative writing, and law. I’m also a husband, father, and leukemia survivor. Combined with my spiritual gifts, my diverse educational background and my rich life experience allow me to provide my clients an empowering, heart-based service they can’t get anywhere else.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
Luck’s played a big role.
I had the good fortune of being born into a happy and stable family. From a young age, I felt nurtured, supported, and loved. This set a foundation of confidence, self-respect, and self-esteem that’s served me well in business and life.
Strange as it may sound, I also have the good fortune of getting cancer. When I was a 29 year old law student, I was diagnosed with leukemia out of the blue. It was a terrifying experience, especially at first. And, it turned out to be the beginnings of my spiritual awakening.
Good luck found me in many other ways, too. My wife, Danielle, has been a blessing beyond compare. She loves me, she gets me, and she’s been my rock and my comfort during the grueling difficulties of the spiritual awakening process. I’ve also been blessed to have a variety of talented healers come into my life, and their help and guidance has empowered me to not just survive the awakening process but to flourish in it.
Pricing:
- $180 per individual one-hour session
- $2,080 for a 13-pack of sessions ($160/hour)
- $24.99 for a softcover of my book
- $47.99 for a hardcover of my book
- $3.99 for an e-book of my book
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.josephclarke-spiritualflourishing.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritflourish
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritFlourish/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-clarke-5180566/
- Twitter: https://x.com/SpiritFlourish
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@josephclarke-spiritualflou713
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/joseph-clarke-spiritual-flourishing-oceanside
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Rebecca Kuritz
