When Love Requires Spiritual Growth: The Loneliness of Becoming Your Higher Self
2/26/20261 hr 16 min
In this episode, Joe Mittiga dives deep into the often misunderstood reality of spiritual growth. This isn’t about floating on clouds or feeling blissful every day — it’s about change, surrender, and the painful space between who you were and who you’re becoming.
Joe explores the shift from a “me” mindset driven by fear and ego to a “we” consciousness rooted in divinity and higher self-awareness. He shares raw personal stories of sobriety, isolation, divorce, psychic death, and rebuilding identity — revealing how growth often brings loneliness, relationship changes, and the grief of shedding your old self.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[gentle serene music] If you felt lonely, isolated, disconnected, with an empty feeling inside and just yearning for more, knowing something is missing, then this podcast is for you. So here's your host, Joe Mittiga.
Joe Mittiga· Host0:20
[gentle serene music] Hello, and welcome to We. My name is Joe Mittiga, and I'm the host of the We podcast. So I wanna welcome everybody here today, and I wanna wish everybody a wonderful day. And if you're up in the northeast and get pummeled by snow, I hope you're staying warm. Here in the States, we've had a really intense winter, and down here in the South, I'm in Atlanta, we've had a colder winter than we've had in a lot of years. But [clears throat] it's a sunny, bright day today. It's a great day to do a podcast, and I've got an amazing topic. And the topic today is about spiritual growth. And I've done other episodes on the concept that we're gonna talk about the whole idea of what truly is spiritual growth. Like, what does it mean? How do you live it? How do you know you're doing it? And what's it supposed to feel like while you're doing it? And I think there's a lot of misconceptions out there that spiritual growth