Hi Beloved, thanks for being here — This is the story of how I dropped my ambitious international music career of over 20 years, rediscovered who I really was (who we all are), and began to live a more meaningful, peaceful and spiritually devoted life.

May my journey show you that with a bit of willingness and a true desire of the heart to seek for Truth, all of us can come to deeply know and experience God (Pure Love/ Source) and who we really are, which is the pure, abundant and eternal nature of Love. And thus begin to discern the Voice for God —our Internal Teacher and Divine inner Wisdom —the Holy Spirit, who guides us on a journey of no distance, back Home into the spiritual Heart.

The following excerpt from lesson 189 in A Course In Miracles describes exactly what I did, before ever reading the book.

See full story below.

‘Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. ²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. ³Hold onto nothing. ⁴Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. ⁵Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God.’ ACIM, W-189.7:1-5

MY tRANSFORMATION STORY

Hi, my name is Stefania Dominguez, previously known by my stage name Nia Ocean. I currently live in Miami, FL, but have traveled and lived abroad for a good portion of my life. I am the mother of a fierce little soul name Arielle. I love languages (see my latest spirit-led teaching endeavor called English for the Soul). Motherhood has changed my life entirely, and yet little did I know it was just the seed of what was yet to come for me.

For over 20 years now, my identity had been strongly tied to being a well-known musical artist. But that all changed in 2020. Just not for the reason you think —you see the world had stopped for many people, but for us music artists and songwriters it was an ideal time to get heard. So I began to release a bunch of songs and within 6 months I’d released a handful of songs and music videos back to back. It was a lot of work and very ‘successful’ for an indie artist in terms of numbers and fan reach but the truth is, getting ready for the next release, I felt unsatisfied.

After all those back to back releases and wanting to keep up and keep growing, I felt like a hamster in a wheel—looking to release the next big song, to make the next top music video, to get the next feature, press recognition, or award, and yet feeling completely unfulfilled. I was like ‘hold on a sec, can this really be what I’ve been working my whole life for?’

Also, I was a mom now and I could sense I wanted to be truly present with my daughter. But would I actually be there for her if I kept ascending the musical success ladder? Is that really what I wanted for myself and my family?’ I could literally see my life flash before my eyes, that even if I’d continue on this path and grow in popularity and recognition, I would still end up feeling the same. It would never end. I would be continuously striving to achieve the next best thing. It became so clear to me, that all these ‘goals and achievements’ were like mirages in the desert — places I believed had the water to quench my thirst for “success” aka worthiness and wholeness, but they never do, as soon as you get close enough, you realize the ‘water’ is never there. I could see that even the most famous artists in the world continued to reach for more “success”, more releases, more awards, all the while trying to stay relevant as they age. In that moment I knew I didn’t want that for myself. It wasn’t freedom, it was a trap. In no time, I halted my music, my socials and anything that had to do with my career and took a sabbatical of sorts from the world. That naturally lead me to dive deeper + seek answers to the bigger questions that laid before me like:

If I’m not a music artist and everything I thought I was, then who am I? what do I really want? and the biggest question I had avoided for so long - who is God and why do I have such an aversion to the word? (Universe and Source were perfectly acceptable, but not ‘God’.) It was time to find out why.

I knew if I wanted to answer these questions, I would have to empty my mind and do things I’d never done before. So I did something I would’ve never done in the past — I bought a bible. I began to read it with an open mind and heart, letting go of all past judgments and associations, as if it was just another book to see if it had anything to teach me. I realize today, that my openness and nonjudgemental willingness was vital to me having the spiritual transformation and mystical experiences that occurred on my path. After months of waking up early to read the gospels and re-learning Jesus —his story and teachings, I felt I was understanding and seeing his messages like never before, seeing God like never before and I became fascinated with who he was and what he came to teach. Christmas time came around, and I built up the courage to inform my semi atheist family that I was feeling called to a more spiritual path, that I wasn’t sure what that looked like exactly, but I wanted them to be aware I was exploring, especially since they witnessed my full-stop of music. One night after that reveal, I had a luminous vision with a large beautiful angel and Jesus. When I realized what I’d experienced, it deeply reaffirmed the path I was embarking on. I’d never had such a mystical experience in my life, nor was I ever interested in Jesus before this full stop and deep dive. It was so beautiful and reassuring. I was unlearning so much and yet remembering mySelf. God, Jesus, and the Divine.

As I continued my morning readings, I felt myself guided to discover more and continue expanding this new overflowing sense of love I was experiencing. It was as if my heart had awakened. It wasn’t long before I realized that Jesus was the most misunderstood man in history and ironically one of the most loving and loved men in history as well. This lead me to seek further and question everything I once thought I ‘knew’ about him and religion. In my seeking I was guided towards a book that had sat on a pile of spiritual books my mom passed down to me since I’d moved back to Miami in 2018. It moved from apartment to apartment with me, but I never had reason to open it. That book was called A Course In Miracles. I’d now felt pulled towards it, as I’d remembered my mother mentioning it was a book that channeled and explained many in depth teachings of Jesus. I began to read the main text and it was as if I was recognizing all the words and truths in the text. I felt like I’d found a book that was expressing everything I was feeling and going through. I felt as if I was being held in an ocean of pure love and divine guidance. ACIM not only reflected my awakening experience but took me deeper into the mystical and metaphysical realms of this path. I devoured it for hours each day, letting it fill my heart with love and joy and my eyes with tears. As I read both holy texts more and more, I began receiving intuitive insights in my day to day life, many in connection to parenting and motherhood, family and deep spiritual truths of this world—so I began to write them all down..some days it was 1 or 2, some days 3 or 4 channelled messages. I couldn’t stop. This intensity went on for over the course of about 14 months . After keeping all those messages stored away like my spiritual diary, I felt it was time to share them with others who may find inspiration and guidance in them.

So here it is—I’ve finally passed the hump of doubt and fear of what others would think of my new path of devotion to Spirit/God/Light/Truth/Love and all the writings and services that have come from it. They can call me crazy, I’m ok with that today. So while I’m in this dream experience of unlearning and forgiving, I will share these Translations of Spirit with you as I feel the inspiration lead me day to day. This site is me ‘following my joy’ and seeing where it leads me as well as it unites me in a very direct way to you, my beloved brothers and sisters—as One. Whether we know it or not, when we walk, we walk together, when we heal we heal together, when we remember, we remember together.

So happy to have you join me in this shared space where we travel in dreams together on a path of true forgiveness (as defined in ACIM), unlearning, and healing to ultimately rediscover who we already are <3

So much love and blessings here for you! x