Without knowing your purpose, it’s easy to fill your life with things that don’t serve you, things you don’t want—things that make you unhappy. One of the greatest keys to unlocking happiness in your life is finding and living your purpose.

Uncover your true self and find happiness by connecting with your spiritual core. Learn how to boost self-worth, live authentically, and embrace your unique identity.

The pull to spirituality often comes when you’re unprepared for it: You’re on your commute to work and you feel a sudden rush of gratitude for no reason at all. You hold a newborn baby and find yourself moved to tears. You wake up one day with an intense feeling that you need to make a change, like applying for a new job or breaking up with your partner

Faith encompasses your core values and beliefs that have shaped your life and who you are. This is why a faith crisis can feel so threatening—it’s also an identity crisis. A crisis of faith might cause you to question whether you want to remain affiliated with your religion.

Have you ever felt lost? That feeling where you are simply floating about your day, detached from reality and all that surrounds you, in a cycle of depression, unable to break out of your mind, as if you are frozen in time. That feeling where your heart seems numb, when nothing ever satisfies you anymore, where you are searching for a will to carry on, for a higher purpose and cannot find it anywhere.

“Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history. Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill.”

Working on your spiritual health will guide you through all of life’s confusing moments.

Change requires slow and steady progression. Our souls take time to mold and mend and mature. Check out these three steps to recognize your spiritual progression.