The Universe Called. It Wants You to Stop Pretending You’re Fine

Based on a podcast with Christa Rose and Host Philipp Kobald

There’s a moment — somewhere between the second diagnosis and the third spiritual awakening — when you realize the universe isn’t subtle. It doesn’t whisper. It crashes. It collides. It rips the floorboards out from under your life and waits to see what you’ll do with the rubble.

Christa Rose knows this moment intimately. She’s had more than one. A head-on collision. The death of her husband. A rare neurological disease that left her unable to walk or speak. And yet, here she is — alive, articulate, and somehow still funny. Not in spite of the pain, but because of it.

This isn’t a story about triumph. It’s a story about truth. And the truth is: healing isn’t pretty. It’s not a sunrise yoga class or a perfectly curated altar. It’s a woman in a hospital bed, whispering to herself, “I can be in pain alone, or I can be in pain with my family.” And then dragging herself to the dinner table with a walker and a ponytail like it’s the Met Gala.

Resilience Isn’t a Hashtag

We love the word “resilience.” It’s on mugs, tote bags, and LinkedIn bios. But Christa redefines it with the kind of clarity that only comes from living it.

“Resilience isn’t getting back up. It’s getting back up when you don’t want to,” she says, without flinching.

This isn’t the kind of resilience that gets you a promotion. It’s the kind that keeps you alive when you’d rather not be. The kind that whispers, “Try,” even when your body screams, “Don’t bother.” It’s not glamorous. It’s not Instagrammable. But it’s real. And it’s enough.

The Myth of the Mistake

Christa’s story begins, as many do, with a childhood wound. A moment overheard: her mother calling her a “mistake.” It wasn’t meant cruelly. It was just a slip. But it landed like a prophecy. Christa spent years trying to fix herself, to earn her place, to perfect her way into worthiness.

Sound familiar?

We’re a generation raised on conditional love and performance-based value. We were told to be exceptional, but not too much. To be spiritual, but not weird. To be healed, but not messy. Christa’s life is a rebellion against all of that. Not because she chose to rebel — but because life gave her no other option.

The Body Keeps the Score — and Then Some

At one point, Christa was told she had four years to live. She was bedridden, wired up, and barely functioning. Doctors shrugged. Meds piled up. And then — because the universe has a sense of humor — someone suggested Reiki.

She laughed. Then she tried it. And something shifted.

This isn’t a pitch for energy healing. It’s a reminder that sometimes, the thing that saves you is the thing you were taught to dismiss. Christa’s healing didn’t come from one modality. It came from listening. To her body. To her intuition. To the quiet voice that said, “There’s more than this.”

And there was.

The Angel in the Room

Christa doesn’t call herself a psychic. She doesn’t need to. Her stories speak for themselves. Like the time she received names from what she describes as “beings of light” during a dreamlike state. She wrote them down. Later, she shared them with a friend battling cancer. They were the names of the three most important people in his life — people who had passed.

Coincidence? Maybe. But if you’ve ever felt the presence of someone who’s gone, you know better.

Christa doesn’t preach. She doesn’t sell certainty. She offers something rarer: permission. Permission to believe in what you feel. To trust your own knowing. To stop outsourcing your truth to gurus, algorithms, or the approval of strangers.

Purpose Isn’t a Job Title

One of the most quietly radical things Christa says is this: your job is not your identity. Your purpose isn’t your productivity. It’s not your brand. It’s not even your family — though love, she admits, was her first anchor.

“I used to think my purpose was my husband, my son. But what about the people who don’t have that?” she asks. “Does that mean they don’t have a purpose?”

Of course not.

Purpose, in Christa’s world, is presence. It’s showing up. It’s sitting on a park bench and listening to a woman with cancer say she’s ready to live again. It’s writing a book for people who don’t read. It’s saying the thing that needs to be said, even if your voice shakes — or skips every fourth word.

The Spirituality of Ice Cream

There’s a moment in the conversation where Philipp Kobald, the host of Spiritual Conversation, says something that lands like a wink from the divine: “There’s a reality here that a lot of people in spirituality seem to be less focused on than they should be.”

He’s talking about the simple joys. The ice cream on a hot day. The laughter at the dinner table. The messy, mundane, miraculous now.

Christa agrees. “That feeling right there is a miracle,” she says. “Because there’s somebody out there who would do anything to be out of that hospital bed.”

This is the kind of spirituality that doesn’t float above life — it dives into it. It doesn’t bypass pain. It blesses it. It doesn’t chase enlightenment. It chooses love.

You’re Not Here to Be Perfect. You’re Here to Be Real.

If there’s one thing Christa Rose wants you to know, it’s this: you don’t have to be fixed. You don’t have to be fearless. You just have to be honest.

You’re allowed to grieve. To doubt. To rage. You’re allowed to believe in angels and still curse at traffic. You’re allowed to be a walking contradiction. That’s not a flaw. That’s the point.

Because maybe the real awakening isn’t about becoming someone new. Maybe it’s about remembering who you were before the world told you to be someone else.

And maybe — just maybe — that’s enough.

Christa Rose is an intuitive guide, bestselling author, and resilience mentor who helps others transform pain into purpose through mindset work and holistic healing.

Watch the full conversation on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel.

#HolisticCircle #PhilippKobald #ChristaRose #SpiritualAwakening #HealingJourney #ResilienceMatters #AuthenticLiving #MindsetShift #PurposeDrivenLife #IntuitionDevelopment

By Philipp Kobald in cooperation with AI
www.HolisticCircle.org
@2025 HolisticCircle by Philipp Kobald