Roar of Love Podcast

Beyond Spiritual Bypassing: How to Stay Rooted in Real Growth and Discernment

In this revelatory episode of The Roar of Love, Heléna Kate peels back the layers of spiritual bypassing—the subtle ways we use spiritual practices to avoid the deeper, messier work of growth. This conversation isn’t about shame or blame. It’s about honesty, compassion, and the courage to tell ourselves the truth.
So often, we walk the spiritual path with sincerity—only to discover that our devotion has quietly become a hiding place. Dr. Kate  shares her own experience of losing touch with life in the name of “being spiritual,” and what it took to return to a more integrated, embodied path.
Inside this episode, we explore:
The hidden ways spiritual practices become shields instead of gateways
How to recognize resistance that masquerades as discernment
Why real teachers lovingly challenge us—and what that reveals
The difference between being “on a path” and truly walking it
How to feel into your inner compass to know if you’re growing—or just performing
What beginner’s mind really means in a mature spiritual practice
Why initiation, lineage, and mentorship are vital for staying on track
Reflection Invitation: ✨ Have you ever used spirituality to avoid life rather than deepen into it? ✨ Are your current practices connecting you to the world—or keeping you safe from it? ✨ Where are you resisting change that might actually be calling you forward?
Mentioned in this episode: 🌿 Spiritual bypassing as a form of self-protection 🌿 Sensory cues to track inner truth 🌿 The value of initiation, lineage-based paths, and qualified spiritual teachers 🌿 How to distinguish surface-level progress from embodied evolution
Continue the Journey: 🌀 Ways to work with Heléna Kate: https://helenakate.com/mentoring/ 🌙 Free classes and teachings at Sacred Lights: https://sacredlights.com/ 🔥 Explore healing and ritual services: https://www.healingandritual.com/

Passion, Inspiration, and the Inner Compass: Wayfinding as a Spiritual Practice

In this soul-stirring episode of The Roar of Love, Heléna Kate opens the sacred conversation on wayfinding—not as a map we follow, but as a living relationship with our own inner truth. Through the dance of passion and inspiration, we learn to navigate the unknown with courage, presence, and trust.
With vulnerability and wisdom, Heléna shares her personal journey: how following what simply felt interesting led her out of darkness and into deeper alignment. Passion, she reveals, is not just a feeling—it is the soul’s fire. Inspiration is not just a spark—it is the breath of the Divine. Together, they become our compass, guiding us home.
Inside this episode, we explore:
Passion as a soul directive—not a fleeting thrill
Inspiration as Divine breath—a whisper of what could be
The internal compass that guides us when external maps fall away
How cultural conditioning buries our deepest longings
Learning to trust the subtle vibrational language of the soul
Practices to discern inspiration from impulse
What to do when fear blocks your next step
Why following what lights us up is a revolutionary spiritual act
How to walk the path when you don’t know what’s next
Reflection Invitation:What are you being quietly pulled toward right now?Where does passion live in your body—and how often do you listen to it?What inspiration has arrived recently like a whisper, a nudge, or a breeze?
Mentioned in this episode:✨ The relationship between passion and inspiration as sacred elements of the soul✨ How to take aligned action even when you feel fear✨ The practice of learning from every choice—especially the ones that didn’t “turn out well”✨ Passion and responsibility as sacred partners, not opposites
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The Spiritual Power of Beauty: A Pathway to Presence, Devotion, and Truth

In this evocative episode of The Roar of Love, Heléna Kate guides us into a reclamation of beauty, not as something to chase or perfect, but as a sacred expression of truth.
In a world that often distorts, commodifies, or fears beauty, we are invited to remember it as a spiritual language—a way the Divine reveals itself through form. Beauty is not vanity. It is a devotional act. It is essence made visible.
Through personal storytelling and poetic reflection, Heléna shares her own journey with beauty: the longing, the resistance, the conditioning—and ultimately, the profound realization that true beauty lives in the courageous expression of our sacred self.
Inside this episode, we explore:
The spiritual essence of beauty beyond the commercial lens
Beauty as a pathway to devotion, presence, and energetic truth
How cultural conditioning distorts our ability to see and honor beauty
The difference between adornment and performative perfection
Beauty as a healing force when approached as sacred expression
Why beauty can feel threatening—and how to work with that resistance
Spiritual practices to reclaim beauty as a source of truth and power
What it means to be a facilitator of beauty in everyday life
Reflection Invitation:When was the last time beauty stopped you in your tracks? What did it awaken in you?What small act of devotion—whether putting on mascara, placing flowers on your altar, or tidying a sacred space—could become an offering to the Divine?
Mentioned in this episode: ✨ Heléna’s personal essay On Beauty ✨ Beauty as energy and essence made visible ✨ How reclaiming beauty heals shame, restores feminine power, and brings the sacred back into the everyday
 
Continue the Journey:
Ways to work with Heléna Kate https://helenakate.com/mentoring/
Free spiritual classes on energy healing, meditation, and spiritual awakening. https://sacredlights.com/ 
Explore the healing and ritual services of Heléna Kate: https://www.healingandritual.com/

The Sacred Mirror of Relationship: Love, Devotion, and the Path of Spiritual Growth

In this soul-expanding episode of The Roar of Love, Heléna Kate invites us into a deeper contemplation of relationship, not as something to fix or figure out, but as a sacred mirror and spiritual technology.
Rather than offering surface-level tools, we journey into the energetic and devotional dimensions of connection. From divine union to human attachment, Heléna explores how every relationship romantic, spiritual, familial, or with self is a portal into greater intimacy with the Divine.
Through her own path of relational wounding and devotional practice, Heléna shares how ritual, self-inquiry, and presence can transmute pain into wisdom, and separateness into communion regardless of where you are in your development.
This episode is a call to reclaim vulnerability as sacred, to witness the divine in each encounter, and to walk the path of relationship as a living practice.
Inside this episode, we explore:
Relationship as a sacred curriculum for our evolution
How ritual and devotion expose our relational dynamics
The spiritual dimension of attachment styles: anxious, avoidant, secure
The danger of spiritual bypassing and the invitation into deeper honesty
Using connection as a path to spiritual maturity
Ending relationships from clarity rather than confusion or judgment
Outgrowing someone with love, not abandonment
Reflection Invitation: What relationship in your life—past or present—has revealed the most about your spiritual path? Where do you feel resistance, and where are you being invited to open?
Mentioned in this episode: ✨ How spiritual “independence” can mask fear of intimacy ✨ Ritual devotion as a diagnostic and devotional tool ✨ Developing your intuitive language to distinguish fear from truth
Continue the Journey:
Ways to work with Heléna Kate. https://helenakate.com/mentoring/
Free spiritual classes on energy healing, meditation, and spiritual awakening. https://sacredlights.com/ 
Explore the healing and ritual services of Heléna Kate: https://www.healingandritual.com/

Healing the Divide Between the Masculine & Feminine

Welcome to The Roar of Love, a sacred space where spiritual truth meets the wild human experience. In this premiere episode, Heléna Kate invites us into a foundational conversation around the divine masculine and feminine—two primary energies that shape our world and live within each of us.
Through gentle wisdom and personal story, we explore the origins of imbalance between these polarities and how misunderstanding, marginalization, and cultural distortion have impacted the way we relate to one another and to ourselves. This episode offers a spiritual framework—not rooted in ideology, but in energetic truth—for reclaiming right relationship.
This is a return to reverence. A reclaiming of complexity. A call to reimagine empowerment not through separation, but through respect, context, and conscious co-creation.
Inside this episode, we explore:
The foundational truth of polarity: masculine and feminine as universal energies
Why removing or demonizing either energy leads to dysfunction and disempowerment
Heléna’s personal journey of navigating feminine suppression and masculine over-identification
The role of archetypes in expanding our understanding of feminine complexity
Why spiritual study is key to healing the masculine-feminine dynamic
How devotion, listening, and respect create environments where both energies thrive
Moving beyond blame and into empowered, relational wholeness
Reflection Invitation: Take time this week to notice how the masculine and feminine show up in your life. Where are you honoring both? Where might there be space to restore reverence, soften judgment, and deepen listening?
Mentioned in this episode: ✨ Heléna’s teachings on Umbanda and energy mapping ✨ The call to spiritual study as a path to healing relationship wounds ✨ The vision for the Roar of Love as a space of collective remembering and sacred inquiry
 
Continue the journey:
Ways to work with Heléna Kate https://helenakate.com/mentoring/
Free spiritual classes on energy healing, meditation, and spiritual awakening. https://sacredlights.com/ 
Explore the healing and ritual services of Heléna Kate: https://www.healingandritual.com/