Finding Wholeness, Healing, and Purpose Through Authentic Self-Connection

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In this deeply moving and expansive episode of Soulful Self-Care Conversations, Pearl welcomes Sylvia Resnick, a life purpose coach whose journey spans continents, cultures, grief, healing, and awakening.

This conversation explores what happens when success on the outside no longer matches how we feel on the inside — and what it truly means to reconnect with yourself when you’ve spent a lifetime wearing roles, expectations, and emotional armor.

Sylvia shares her personal story of growing up as a lone-born twin, navigating lifelong melancholy, depression, and identity questions — and how her experiences in Tanzania with the Maasai people sparked a profound reconnection to joy, belonging, and purpose.

This episode is raw, honest, and expansive — touching on grief, family reconciliation, spirituality, healing modalities, and the courage it takes to live an authentic life.

Meet Sylvia Resnick

Sylvia Resnick is:

• Life Purpose Coach & Psychedelic Integration Coach
• Founder of Simple Life Journey
• Co-founder of Empower Her, supporting Maasai women and girls
• A global guide helping women reconnect with authenticity, self-love, and inner freedom

Inspired by her time living between Austria and Tanzania, Sylvia blends modern coaching with indigenous wisdom, embodiment, and deep inner work.

Meeting Little Sylvia: Creativity, Melancholy, and the Feeling of “Something Missing”

Sylvia takes us back to her childhood — a time marked by:

• Deep creativity and imagination
• A rich inner fantasy world
• A sense of not fully belonging
• Early experiences of sadness and melancholy

As a lone-born twin, Sylvia carried an unconscious grief — a feeling of incompleteness she couldn’t name at the time. Combined with her parents’ divorce at a young age, these experiences shaped her emotional world and later struggles with depression.

Despite this, Sylvia felt a deep connection to:

• Children
• Africa (long before she ever traveled there)
• A calling toward nurturing, teaching, and helping others

Though she became a kindergarten teacher like her mother, she knew something was still missing.

From Achievement to Emptiness

Sylvia followed the expected path:

• Studied business and economics
• Earned a master’s degree
• Built a successful career in corporate leadership and consulting

On paper, everything looked perfect — yet inside, Sylvia felt disconnected, exhausted, and unfulfilled.

She shares a powerful truth:

“I had everything — but I wasn’t happy.”

Multiple cycles of depression became signals, not failures — invitations to look deeper and ask:

• Who am I beyond my roles?
• What is my purpose?
• Why do I feel so empty despite success?

Awakening Through Tanzania and the Maasai People

Everything shifted when Sylvia traveled to Tanzania and lived among the Maasai people.

There, she witnessed:

• Deep community connection
• Shared responsibility and collective care
• Joy without material wealth
• Children raised with constant presence, grounding, and belonging

Despite having far less than the Western world, the Maasai radiated happiness, confidence, and self-acceptance.

This experience sparked Sylvia’s

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