Things I Wish I'd Known Before Becoming A Manifestation Teacher

Lessons from the inside: what it really takes to teach spiritual work.

This one is a real doozy: 11 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Manifestation Teacher

Before I get into this post though, and it’s a raw one, I want to say something clearly... crystal clearly.

I love my work.

I love that I get to write and speak about energy, truth, creative power, and healing for a living. I love that people all over the world read my words. I love that I’ve been doing this since 2007, when I launched SarahProut.com from a very different version of myself: a woman still in survival mode, still hiding her voice behind “spiritual fluff” and a boatload of emotional trauma.

And oh-boy what a wild ride it’s been.

And still: if I had known then what I know now, I would’ve gone in with open eyes, a bigger voice, and better boundaries. So yes, this post might have a little “listicle” energy to it, but it’s not clickbait. It’s code. It’s an almighty release in a time of great upheaval in my life.

It’s for every person who wants to share their light without being consumed by it, or punished for having too much.

In the last five years, there’s been an overwhelming influx of manifestation teachers online. Some are sincere and very much heart-led. Others are recycling scripts, packaging borrowed wisdom, and branding it as personal breakthrough. Social media made it easy to build an aesthetic…but really hard to build depth. What used to be a sacred path of embodied remembrance has, in many spaces, turned into a popularity contest wrapped in pastel quotes and passive income promises. This isn’t a judgment, it’s a reckoning of sorts. Because manifestation is not a “vibe”. It’s a vow. And if you’re going to teach it, you have to live it in the dark, not just sell it in the light.

✨ 11 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Manifestation Teacher

1. To be “qualified” to teach spirituality, you will be forged by fire.

Not once, not thrice. But over and over again until you think that we have to be in some sort of a simulation. You will lose things you thought you’d have forever: partners, friends, identities, income, illusions. This path isn't for the performative or the feint of heart. It's for the ones who can sit inside their own rubble and say:

Even here, I believe in miracles.