Welcome to Vital Soul

✨ Vital Soul is a space for authenticity, spirituality, and manifestation. Here, I share guidance and tools to shed the false self, reveal your true essence, and create a life aligned with your soul’s purpose.

🌱 I’m Jonathan Francis Thompson, a teacher, writer, and creator of The Authentic Soul framework — a step-by-step journey of inner transformation and manifestation from the true self.

Through weekly posts, reflections, meditations, and practices, you’ll discover how to:

• Rewrite the stories that shape your reality

• Align with your deepest values and purpose

• Reclaim your self-worth and inner power

• Manifest abundance and flow authentically

Hello You,

This is a place to explore the journey from false self to true self — to dismantle the masks, identities and stories that keep us small, and to reveal the authentic self within. Through essays, reflections, and courses, I share the tools and practices that have helped me heal, and which continue to guide me through the ever-changing sea of life.

My own story has been marked by struggle as well as transformation. Due to trauma in my early years, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety as a teenager, and these challenges followed me into adulthood. I’ve lived through several breakdowns — what I now call breakdowns of the false self — when the old identities and structures collapsed, forcing me to rebuild from a truer place. At my lowest, I felt suicidal and hopeless.

I am also deeply empathetic and sensitive, which means I feel things intensely — both my own emotions and the emotions of others. At times this has taken a toll on my physical health. I’ve lived with decades of acne, chronic fatigue, and cycles of deep anxiety. Yet throughout it all, my lifelong study of spiritual traditions and philosophies — from Buddhism to Kabbalah to Yoga to New Thought Philosophy — kept me going. My beliefs gave me hope. In truth, they kept me alive.

Everything began to change when in my early 30s, I followed my instincts and went to live at an Ashram to study yoga in depth and become a teacher. Yoga became a profound turning point.

For over a decade I taught all over the world, I trained and mentored more than 1,000 people to become teachers themselves, and guided many more through journeys of transformation. Along the way I also qualified as a Law of Attraction Coach, Reiki Healer, and Hypnotherapist.

Even with decades of spiritual study and professional experience, I still carried trauma, false identities, and limiting stories that shaped my relationships and kept me stuck. During COVID, I lost everything — my home, my work, my health — and hit rock bottom. Yet this breakdown became a breakthrough.

I returned to the countryside after nearly 25 years in London, and I now live in a small village on the Nottinghamshire borders, surrounded by nature. Piece by piece, I've faced my pain, let go of my masks, and worked through the slow process of becoming whole.

I have found a deeper, more peaceful, and authentic rhythm of life.

In time, I discovered that my healing wasn’t about trying to manipulate reality into giving me what I thought I needed to be happy. It was about learning to show up authentically as myself — and allowing life to flow from that place.

That shift changed everything. My decades-long battle with acne finally healed, my energy began to return, and most importantly, I began to truly love myself.

From that process, my Authentic Soul framework was born — the same path I now share here, step by step.

I am still on this journey — it is a lifelong unfolding.

But now I walk it with joy, trust, an open heart and a much deeper sense of who I truly am.

It is my deepest wish that you come to know and love yourself too.

I’m so glad you’re here. Let’s walk this journey together.

— Jonathan

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