For many, spirituality is a path of enlightenment. For Nadia Shafika, it was a lifeline.
Long before she became a respected multidisciplinary entrepreneur, spiritual systems thinker, and award-winning researcher, Nadia was a young woman navigating life with emptiness in her heart and weight on her shoulders. Despite growing up in a religious household and being taught belief from the moment she could remember, she often felt more disconnected than anchored. Her faith in life, in people, and even in herself — was missing.
“I tried to end my life three times,” she says, not for impact but with a calm honesty. “The internal feeling was hopelessness. I lost hope in people. I lost hope in myself. I lost hope in the world.”
She was bullied. She was abandoned. She was made responsible far too early. And even when she tried to meet expectations, it seemed like she was wrong either way. “When I checked the expectations, they got mad. When I didn’t, they humiliated me. There was no win.”
While others seemed to achieve more without being questioned, Nadia constantly felt like the world was competing with her for things she wasn’t even trying to win. “Everybody was just mad at me for existing. It was so confusing.”
Home was cold. Her heart was empty. Her mind was burdened. The weight of responsibility and judgment piled up. There was no outlet, no understanding. And there was certainly no softness to land in.
But when the pandemic came, everything paused. And with that pause came a pivotal question: What more could go wrong?
“I’ve always wanted to explore spiritual knowledge,” she says. “But people scared me out of it. They shamed me. It was like I was told this is the one thing I shouldn’t want to understand.”
But something inside her — tired of fear, tired of silence, tired of being told who she could and couldn’t be — said, try. “So I did. I studied it deeply. I embodied it. I was scared as f***. But I did it anyway.”
And that’s when everything began to change.
The moment that marked the true turning point wasn’t loud or visible to others — it was subtle but unforgettable. “I felt someone grab my hand when I was about to end my life. But no one was there.” She doesn’t explain further — “the lore goes deep, maybe that’s for another day.” But it was enough. Enough to shift everything.
From that moment forward, Nadia committed to her path. A path of truth, of knowledge, of integration — one that eventually led her to develop the Crown Chakra Model and Throat Transmission Model — spiritual systems that now help others find clarity when the world feels like a maze of noise, doubt, and loss.
“As I said in a previous interview, these models are a confirmation. They exist to let people know: if you’ve been seeking an answer — I have that answer. The knowledge has it. And I can bring it to you through a system.”
Her motivation is clear. She doesn’t want anyone to go through what she went through. “I tried to end my life. And I want no one to ever experience that. I don’t want anyone to feel like a failure just because they failed at something, or even failed themselves — when in reality, they’re just progressing. They’re just processing into who they’re meant to become.”
To Nadia, her life now is a full-circle moment. “It feels like I’ve done the deed. I’ve kept moving forward just a few steps ahead of the version of me who needed this knowledge so badly. And I’m here now to give it back. That version of me — she didn’t fail. She survived. She made all the right choices.”
And the impact? It’s being felt. From publishing award-winning research on the 231 heart chakra number combination to preparing to launch her noetic study journal this month, her spiritual mission has become a professional legacy.
“People may see my wins now. The awards, the models, the articles, the systems. But underneath all of this is something very real. Spirituality saved my life.”
And now, Nadia lives knowing that her existence is not only her own — it’s a message.
“It gets serious now,” she says, quietly. “Because I realize on every level — personal, professional, and spiritual — I have to mold myself to embody the knowledge I carry.”