Demons, Patterns and Finding Sovereignty with Author Tina Djuretic
About This Episode
Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of childhood religious abuse, physical and emotional abuse, addiction, exorcism, spiritual trauma, generational patterns, and toxic relationships. Please listen with care.
Some stories defy easy explanation. Tina Djuretic is one of them.
Camisha sits down with Tina, a Canadian author, tour guide, and empath whose memoir Finding My Sovereignty takes readers from a childhood in a fanatical religious cult through decades of toxic relationships and unexplained physical pain to a spiritual awakening in Bali that changed everything.
This is one of the most layered, profound, and captivating conversations The Camisha Blackburn Podcast has ever had.
In this episode, we cover:
Tina's childhood in Vancouver, and what life looked like before her parents joined a fanatical evangelical church overnight when she was 10 years old
How joining the church meant complete isolation from friends, public school, music, dancing, sports, and television, practically overnight
The cult of perfectionism and fear-mongering that replaced love in her household, and how that warped her understanding of what love actually was
The guilt Tina and her sisters carried for decades, believing they were responsible for bringing their parents into the church
Witnessing a full exorcism in her home at 12 years old and the 30 years of fear that followed
How a Reiki healer in Bali told her she had been housing entities in her lower back since that exorcism, and how removing them ended four years of unexplained chronic pain
Why our bodies hold trauma and how physical pain is often the body's way of demanding we finally pay attention
Tina's three major relationships, including a man who withheld love, a seven-year relationship with an addict, and a third partner who finally forced her to see the pattern
The moment she made a list of her third partner's negative qualities in a hotel room and realized he was bipolar, like her mother
How empaths attract narcissists and why wanting to fix others is itself a sign of being broken
The difference between overt and covert patterns in toxic relationships
Generational trauma and how Tina's grandmother's patterns found their way into her own subconscious choices
What sovereignty actually means and the messy, nonlinear path to getting there
Two powerful tools for empaths who absorb other people's emotions, including the switch from feeling to observing
Why healing often means your friend group changes, and why that is actually a sign you are rising
How Tina's memoir became a healing process, not just a book, and what prompted her to write the companion workbook
The Sage connection between Tina's memoir character and Camisha's cat that felt like pure kismet
Two Tools for Empaths
Tool 1 — When you are absorbing someone else's emotions in public or in conversation, say to yourself: I choose to switch from feeling to observing. This immediately creates distance between you and the emotion without shutting down your empathy entirely.
Tool 2 — When you are still carrying someone else's pain after a conversation, say: This does not belong to me. I am handing it back with love and light. I give myself permission to be happy.
Resources Mentioned
Finding My Sovereignty: Memoirs of an Empath by Tina Djuretic, available on Amazon and Google Books
Lost in the Overwhelm by Tina Djuretic, the companion workbook with practical healing tools, is available on Amazon
Tina's author website: sovereignandsage.com
IIN, Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Use code CAMISHABLACKBURNXIIN for 25% off all classes
Key Takeaways
You do not get what you want. You get what you are. Energetically, you can only attract partners who match your current vibration. Healing yourself changes who you attract.
Your need to fix other people is not separate from your own brokenness. They are the same wound expressing itself in two different directions.
Recovery is not linear and it is not pretty. But nobody has ever gone to any depth they cannot come back from. Neither will you.
Sovereignty is standing in your power, your self-worth, and your self-love unapologetically, even when the people around you do not understand the journey.
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