To heal in a way that is true, not just tidy, you must stop treating the unconscious as personal and start listening to what it carries through lineage, culture, and the body.
Effective communication is your gift. Your expertise is obvious. You clarify deep, complex concepts so effortlessly. I'm a "five year old," and you explain everything so I can understand it. That's what's harder to grasp. How did you learn to write while training to treat clients. It's a little confounding.
Your training required deep thinking, I'm sure. But few disciplines teach good writing, even when writing papers is the primary requirement for proving knowledge or understanding. The quality of your work goes beyond those expectations. You teach without patronizing. You give without condition. You heal without equivocation. You lead with humility.
There is true power in your voice. Power to break the chains of generational, cultural, and personal pains; the seven sons of seven sons worth of "sins of our fathers" so many carry in their flesh and in their blood. In one article your words flap like butterfly wings and the trajectories of a hundred deaths are flung toward life. And those hundred pour purer waters of life to hundreds more, and so on infinitely.
That is what I feel when you communicate truth the way you do. Maybe because it's sunset where I am now, but honestly, reading this piece felt like I was given a special seat at the foot of a wise counselor in a Garden of Gethsemane type setting.
What you're doing is important. Thank you for doing it well.
I love this and I feel I'm starting to have a better understanding of myself and my greater heritage. For a long time, I even blamed myself if I had a week of 'bad' dreams, as if I was failing in some way and this would spiral into trying to feel more relaxed blah blah blah! Yesterday, I felt very sad and flat all day and I observed those feelings without needing to analyse them. I woke this morning feeling something very tight inside me just let go, almost like a melting sensation in my torso. Something feels different...learning to feel in my 60s after decades of living in my head and trying to control everything is challenging, but also fascinating and it somehow feels like coming home 🩷 Karen
to feel in my 60s after decades of living in my head and trying to control everything is challenging, but also fascinating and it somehow feels like coming home .”
Is a comment I resonate with as I’ve stuffed, drank, bought, over cared for and smiled
my feelings away for 65 years.
Choosing to stop all
I’ve mentioned above has brought about a
menagerie of feelings. While I’ve spent 40 years empowering and guiding other women in how to feel their feelings, name their feelings and express their feelings, I’ve kept mine locked away. I thought they were safely locked and stored in the back of my closet. Instead, I’m discovering they are hidden deep within my body. I’ve returned “home” to dig them out.
Wow Kathryn, I hear you! I wonder if it's something women our age were programmed to do. I spent decades in the health and fitness industry empowering women to love their bodies , yet my love for myself has always been conditional. Wishing you gentleness and compassion as you move forward ❤️
Your words stirred something deep in me, a recognition, not just in content but in orientation. I’ve been developing a theory of power where one dimension, Power Within, refers to our capacity for volitional clarity: the ability to act from coherence between inner desire, somatic knowing, and executive agency. What you write here speaks profoundly to that, but from a place of depth I’ve been circling without quite landing.
What especially resonated was your articulation of the body as the convergence point for the personal, cultural, and collective unconscious. I often write about internalization architectures; the layered ways we absorb patterns of permission, adaptation, and survival, but you’ve given voice to how this isn’t just cognitive or historical. It’s cellular. Breath-based. Lived in the tension of our jaws and the clenching of our hands.
Your insight that “silence so practiced, it no longer feels like suppression, but personality” lands as a critical thread in understanding how Power Within gets misrecognized, how what we’ve learned to embody as calm or compliance is often unacknowledged endurance.
I’m not trying to collapse our vocabularies into one. In fact, I want to hold them side by side for a while. But I feel a strong alignment: that reclaiming Power Within is less about generating new force and more about listening to what’s already there, beneath conditioning, beneath language, and staying with it long enough to choose differently.
Thank you for this, it is so beautiful and resonates as deeply true. The line about if you great-grandmother couldn't say no you feel it when you try and set boundaries... oof. I've also felt a deep grief that is beyond me and my lived experiences, it feels ancestral and I feel the collective sorrow of the world as well. All I can do is cry and allow the energy to move through me. I'm so grateful for somatic embodiment work and learning to welcome and feel these things, to express what i've inherited and experienced.
I really appreciate this. It's true: we can't heal by separating ourselves from the collective field. We don't heal in a vacuum...we all heal together. All for one and one for all.
I love the idea that we live in the unconscious… Wayne Dyer suggested similarly when he stated that body exists within the soul. We don’t come into this world, we come out of it!
Effective communication is your gift. Your expertise is obvious. You clarify deep, complex concepts so effortlessly. I'm a "five year old," and you explain everything so I can understand it. That's what's harder to grasp. How did you learn to write while training to treat clients. It's a little confounding.
Your training required deep thinking, I'm sure. But few disciplines teach good writing, even when writing papers is the primary requirement for proving knowledge or understanding. The quality of your work goes beyond those expectations. You teach without patronizing. You give without condition. You heal without equivocation. You lead with humility.
There is true power in your voice. Power to break the chains of generational, cultural, and personal pains; the seven sons of seven sons worth of "sins of our fathers" so many carry in their flesh and in their blood. In one article your words flap like butterfly wings and the trajectories of a hundred deaths are flung toward life. And those hundred pour purer waters of life to hundreds more, and so on infinitely.
That is what I feel when you communicate truth the way you do. Maybe because it's sunset where I am now, but honestly, reading this piece felt like I was given a special seat at the foot of a wise counselor in a Garden of Gethsemane type setting.
What you're doing is important. Thank you for doing it well.
I love this and I feel I'm starting to have a better understanding of myself and my greater heritage. For a long time, I even blamed myself if I had a week of 'bad' dreams, as if I was failing in some way and this would spiral into trying to feel more relaxed blah blah blah! Yesterday, I felt very sad and flat all day and I observed those feelings without needing to analyse them. I woke this morning feeling something very tight inside me just let go, almost like a melting sensation in my torso. Something feels different...learning to feel in my 60s after decades of living in my head and trying to control everything is challenging, but also fascinating and it somehow feels like coming home 🩷 Karen
Grace, your comment..”learning
to feel in my 60s after decades of living in my head and trying to control everything is challenging, but also fascinating and it somehow feels like coming home .”
Is a comment I resonate with as I’ve stuffed, drank, bought, over cared for and smiled
my feelings away for 65 years.
Choosing to stop all
I’ve mentioned above has brought about a
menagerie of feelings. While I’ve spent 40 years empowering and guiding other women in how to feel their feelings, name their feelings and express their feelings, I’ve kept mine locked away. I thought they were safely locked and stored in the back of my closet. Instead, I’m discovering they are hidden deep within my body. I’ve returned “home” to dig them out.
Wow Kathryn, I hear you! I wonder if it's something women our age were programmed to do. I spent decades in the health and fitness industry empowering women to love their bodies , yet my love for myself has always been conditional. Wishing you gentleness and compassion as you move forward ❤️
Your words stirred something deep in me, a recognition, not just in content but in orientation. I’ve been developing a theory of power where one dimension, Power Within, refers to our capacity for volitional clarity: the ability to act from coherence between inner desire, somatic knowing, and executive agency. What you write here speaks profoundly to that, but from a place of depth I’ve been circling without quite landing.
What especially resonated was your articulation of the body as the convergence point for the personal, cultural, and collective unconscious. I often write about internalization architectures; the layered ways we absorb patterns of permission, adaptation, and survival, but you’ve given voice to how this isn’t just cognitive or historical. It’s cellular. Breath-based. Lived in the tension of our jaws and the clenching of our hands.
Your insight that “silence so practiced, it no longer feels like suppression, but personality” lands as a critical thread in understanding how Power Within gets misrecognized, how what we’ve learned to embody as calm or compliance is often unacknowledged endurance.
I’m not trying to collapse our vocabularies into one. In fact, I want to hold them side by side for a while. But I feel a strong alignment: that reclaiming Power Within is less about generating new force and more about listening to what’s already there, beneath conditioning, beneath language, and staying with it long enough to choose differently.
Thank you for this, it is so beautiful and resonates as deeply true. The line about if you great-grandmother couldn't say no you feel it when you try and set boundaries... oof. I've also felt a deep grief that is beyond me and my lived experiences, it feels ancestral and I feel the collective sorrow of the world as well. All I can do is cry and allow the energy to move through me. I'm so grateful for somatic embodiment work and learning to welcome and feel these things, to express what i've inherited and experienced.
I really appreciate this. It's true: we can't heal by separating ourselves from the collective field. We don't heal in a vacuum...we all heal together. All for one and one for all.
I love the idea that we live in the unconscious… Wayne Dyer suggested similarly when he stated that body exists within the soul. We don’t come into this world, we come out of it!
Such powerful and medicinal words that dive really deeply into the healing our world truly needs. Thank you for sharing this.
Wow, your words really simmered through every sense - and echoed in my Wisdom so both could connect. Thank you so much, you truly have a gift 🦋
Incredible!
Beautiful inspiring message!
Fantastic ❤️