Awakening Conversations with Natalie Namaste
Sep 26, 2026 · 57 min · 15 segments
Send us Fan Mail What remains when everything you know is taken away? In this deeply moving episode of Awakening with Natalie Namaste, Natalie is…
Kristin DwanGuestNatalie NamasteHost
So, you know, the first, I'd say week after the initial skin grafts, the skin grafts weren't taking.

So I had to keep getting skin graft, you know, surgeries and they hurt, you know.

And I was like to my doctor, like, what's happening? Like, why won't this heal? And he's like, well, you know, first they had to, they tried using cadaver skin on me.

So skin from another, you know, person put on my wounds and And that didn't work.

So then they had to take autografting, which is where they took good skin from my legs and put it on my feet and on my arms and everywhere that I was burned.

That was even more pain, right? Because it's not just the burns you're dealing with.

It's where they peel your skin off, basically, right? So there's a lot of physical pain happening.

And I had a dark night of the soul within the dark night of the soul, right? I was like, why did I choose to come back if it's just this like torture? You know, it just felt like torture with all these graphs.

And so I asked what I believe to be the universe, you know, Like, I know I'm strong.

I know that I came back for a reason, but you got to help me here because this this sucks, you know.

And at that point, I felt this energy come come into my room and and lift me up out of my body again.

And then it started and I don't know how long it could have been five seconds.

And I do remember at one point, you know, starting to come back to the body and there was a little bit of fear because I was like, I know what's down there.

So, you know, the first, I'd say week after the initial skin grafts, the skin grafts weren't taking.

So I had to keep getting skin graft, you know, surgeries and they hurt, you know.

And I was like to my doctor, like, what's happening? Like, why won't this heal? And he's like, well, you know, first they had to, they tried using cadaver skin on me.

So skin from another, you know, person put on my wounds and And that didn't work.

So then they had to take autografting, which is where they took good skin from my legs and put it on my feet and on my arms and everywhere that I was burned.

That was even more pain, right? Because it's not just the burns you're dealing with.

It's where they peel your skin off, basically, right? So there's a lot of physical pain happening.

And I had a dark night of the soul within the dark night of the soul, right? I was like, why did I choose to come back if it's just this like torture? You know, it just felt like torture with all these graphs.

And so I asked what I believe to be the universe, you know, Like, I know I'm strong.

I know that I came back for a reason, but you got to help me here because this this sucks, you know.

And at that point, I felt this energy come come into my room and and lift me up out of my body again.

And then it started and I don't know how long it could have been five seconds.

And I do remember at one point, you know, starting to come back to the body and there was a little bit of fear because I was like, I know what's down there.
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