Greetings friends of heart-centered living,

I’ve wanted to be back in touch with you for so long.

But my mind kept telling me I had to be farther along before I could reach back out.

Recently I took an opportunity to break free of my fear and had a really important conversation I’d avoided for a full year-and-a-half.

I had been what I judged as ‘irrationally scared’ to share my real feelings. I tended to isolate myself and even push away support and reassurance available to me.

Early on in life I learned that my feelings weren’t valid or were too much. To get my needs met, I tuned into and said what others wanted to hear. 

When my true feelings didn’t match up with what I knew the other person wanted to hear, I clammed up and kept it all inside. 

Then the feelings would build and explode all over me, making me and those around me more miserable than if I had just had the courage to say what I really felt and needed in the first place. 

I was the consummate pleaser. Now I’m a recovering pleaser. 😉

I have compassion for myself through the entire process. But wow does it truly feel like a new day and new dawn now that I’ve opened my heart to the people I’d been avoiding who have a huge impact on my daily well being.

It is so painful to live a double life. It takes so much energy to hide so much of who I am because it isn’t what my mind judges as acceptable or appropriate. 

Can you relate? 

I have been on the journey of awakening my wild soul to live from my heart for many years now. This is why I’ve chosen to guide others in doing the same.

Imagine my surprise when after receiving a crystal healing last week, the practitioner shared that my heart and throat were shut tight. 

I thought I was so adept at living and speaking from the heart. Ha ha! My mind is still so good at convincing me I’ve got it all figured out. 

A huge part of sourcing life from our deepest truth and connecting with others authentically comes through having practices to ground us in our bodies and recognize what feelings are ours and what we may be picking up from the world around us. 

Have you noticed how you feel around humans who openly share vulnerable feelings rather than pretend they have it all together? 

Yet, there can still be so much pressure to perform and fear in us to trust that our tender truth will be honored and treated with compassion rather than judgement. 

I’ve made huge strides in digging into and understanding my inner most hurts and attending to them through plant medicine ceremonies. Talk about vulnerable! And beautiful! I now live life as a sacred ritual every day. 

The key for me and simple practice I’m sharing with you today is taking time to slow down and connect with my breath and belly’s wise guttural uh huh (yes) and uh uh (no). Then to ask my heart for the courage to act and speak according to my wise body’s counsel. Not everyone has their authority in their belly.

To find the authority in your own body, sit quietly, and breathe long & deep feeling your connection with earth through your sit bones and feet. Ask your highest guidance to direct you to where your authority lives in your soma/body. Ask your Somatic Self-Authority a simple yes/no question to start. Build trust that it will guide you to what is best for you so that you are not swayed by other people’s agendas and will feel safe opening your heart for connection and support. Ask for the courage to follow your somatic guidance in every area of your life. 

If you have trouble doing this for yourself, or feel you’d benefit from some personal attention as you practice, let’s schedule a discovery session to talk about working together. Click here and pick a time that works for you for a 20-minute Discovery Session to discern if we might get up to some powerful work together with me as your guide.

With my utmost joy to support you in unleashing your wild soul and have practices to grow through all of life’s challenges to be the leaders and lovers you long to be,

Karyn