Courtney Hanson believed healing would set her free.
After surviving trauma and rebuilding her life through somatic work, yoga, and nervous system healing, she created a sanctuary devoted to awakening—a place where women came to reclaim their bodies, their voices, and their truth.
From the outside, it looked like success.
Community. Purpose. Expansion.
But behind the incense and empowerment lived something no one talked about. Whispers disguised as concern. Competition dressed as sisterhood. Spiritual language used to control, silence, and elevate power while calling it love.
As Courtney’s influence grew, so did the unease she couldn’t explain. Alliances shifted. Trust fractured. And the very world built on “consciousness” began to feel strangely familiar—echoing the same dynamics of hierarchy, projection, and betrayal she thought healing was meant to transcend.
The deeper she looked, the more terrifying the realization became:
The spiritual industry wasn’t broken.
It was human.
And she was not immune to it.
In Smoke & Mirrors, Hanson pulls readers behind the curtain of modern spirituality with unflinching honesty, exposing toxic positivity, guru culture, trauma bonding, and the seductive danger of confusing enlightenment with belonging.
But this memoir isn’t about exposing others.
It’s about confronting the moments we abandon our own intuition to stay loved, accepted, and seen.
Told with raw vulnerability, piercing insight, and unforgettable storytelling, Smoke & Mirrors is a journey through illusion, identity, betrayal, and reclamation—a story for anyone who has ever trusted the wrong room, ignored the quiet warning of their body, or awakened only to realize the truth was never outside them.
Because sometimes awakening doesn’t feel peaceful.
Sometimes it feels like everything burning down— so something real can finally begin.
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