The Hiroshima Moment: How Life’s Crises Trigger Spiritual Awakening

Beneath all the outward markers of success, I was completely unaware that I was trapped on the hamster wheel—simmering with unconscious anger and frustration, impacting my mood, my work, my relationships. If I’m honest, I was deeply unhappy and lost.

The Hiroshima Moment Arrives

Then came my Hiroshima Moment in June 2018. And true to the theme of my life, it wasn’t one neat little event. It was everything, all at once, within a single month:

• My relationship of 10 years ended.

• I ended a 16-year corporate career.

• I moved out of the three-storey house overlooking the city.

• Our home was burgled.

• I literally lost my voice—symbolic, because my voice is my essence.

And as if that wasn’t enough, within six months I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

Living With Pain

For those who don’t know, rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease—your body turns on itself. There’s no cure, no identified cause. For me it meant swollen joints, relentless fatigue, pain that never switched off, and losing 10 kilos in six months. I couldn’t walk, couldn’t get out of bed without help, lived on painkillers around the clock. And I was doing it alone.

It was brutal. But it was also my forced stillness. My invitation to stop.

Cracking Open

Up until then, I’d lived entirely in my head. I believed I could think my way through anything. That achievement came down to effort, planning, control, discipline. That it was all on me, and up to me, to pull myself out.

But when your body literally attacks itself—when you can’t even move without pain—something cracks. You start to see differently.

I came to understand that life is not just the sum of what I do. There’s an ecosystem at play. An invisible network of energy, synchronicity, and higher intelligence weaving through our lives. And the moment I expanded from “it’s all me” to “it’s all connected,” my perspective shifted. My life shifted. That process took me years.

I share this so you don’t have to take years. Recognise the signs sooner. Shift faster.

Transformation: Never your timing

My Hiroshima Moment was the beginning of my spiritual awakening. Not a gentle nudge. A bomb blast.

Here’s what I’ve learned about transformation: we don’t get to schedule it. It lands exactly when it’s meant to. If we ignore the whispers, the nudges, the subtle signs—it will come louder, bigger, harder, until we can’t avoid it. I ignored the earlier signs. So I got the hard lesson.

Gratitude in Hindsight

Looking back, I am truly grateful for that moment. Not at the time—but now. It forced me into humility, into surrender, into really listening. Starting with my own body.

I wish someone had highlighted this to me earlier, weaving it gently into my awareness, so it didn’t have to be so hard.

When I started on my journey into spirituality and energy, it wasn’t because I went looking for it. It came crashing into my life uninvited. It took a crisis to get my undivided attention.

Has that happened to you? These milestone moments force us to change: our course, our patterns, our relationships, our environment—or ignore it all and soldier on until you break. I call these Hiroshima moments, when it feels like a bomb has just blown up your life.

Life Before the Bomb

Mine was in 2018. On paper, my life looked perfect. I had a big corporate job, a ten-year relationship, healthy, happy kids, the dream house, the comfortable car, financial stability. The whole “success” package.

We’ve all heard this story. And yes—mine was just as textbook, just as familiar.

Are you in a Hiroshima Moment?