Annie Richardson • Counsellor, Somatic EMDR & Human Design Mentor

07/09/2026

I haven't recorded one of these for a little while.

This isn't really a teaching. It's more of a musing on where I find myself after seven years in my Human Design experiment, turning 50, deepening into my work as a therapist, and becoming increasingly interested in the space between knowing something about ourselves and actually experiencing it.

Because you can know your type.

You can know your profile, your centres, gates, channels, Gene Keys, astrology and all the beautiful language we use to understand ourselves.

But how do you actually experience yourself?

In this episode I talk about my own journey with Human Design, including the ways I once used the mechanics to explain my experience rather than actually meeting it. I explore what happens when we loosen our grip on the labels, get curious about what is really happening in our bodies and lives, and allow our lived experience to challenge what we've been told we are supposed to be.

There's some Reflector stuff in here. Some therapy stuff. Some third line f**k around and find out. Some thoughts about ageing, experimentation, friction, embodiment and the direction my work is moving in.

And perhaps the question underneath all of it is simply:

How are you meeting yourself?

I'm heading to Santa Fe shortly to be in space and share at High Desert Human Design, where I'll be exploring more of this space between knowing your design and actually living it.

For now, this is where I am.

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25/08/2026

Not long now.

In just a few weeks I'll be boarding a plane and heading to Santa Fe for the High Desert Human Design Conference. ✈️🌵 Human Design, Lived led by the beautiful and amazing WisdomKeeper Spiral | Steward of High Desert Human Design .

My visa is sorted. Accommodation is booked. Insurance is done. Now comes the exciting part.

I'm finally going to meet people I've known online for years. Some of them... well over a Human Design de conditioning cycle. It's funny how Human Design creates these friendships across the world before you've ever shared the same room.

I'm also VERY much looking forward to being a participant.

After running my own conferences here in Australia over the past few years, it'll be lovely to simply show up, learn, connect, have conversations over coffee and soak it all in.

I'll be presenting The Space Between, a conversation that's been quietly growing inside me for years. It's about that place between knowing your Human Design... and actually living it. The experiments. The uncertainty. The body. The moments that no chart can explain until you've experienced them yourself.

I'll also be joining the parenting panel, which feels incredibly special. Between raising four children across more than thirty years, working as a counsellor, and living this work every day, I have a few stories to share about parenting by design from my Reflector experience. ❤️

If you're coming, I'd love to know so we can say hello.

And if you can't make it in person, the online option means you can still be part of the experience.

Santa Fe... I'm ready.

24/08/2026

Sometimes parenting isn't about making something happen faster.

It's about creating the conditions for it to happen at all.

Standing over this pot, stirring... waiting... wanting to rush the process... I caught myself thinking how much this mirrors Human Design.

The water has a role. The heat has a role. The dye has a role. The pot has a role.

None of them can skip their part.

My son is a 4/6 Emotional Manifesting Generator with a fully defined Will centre. When he commits to something, he commits with his whole heart. My job isn't to stop that fire. It's to help him learn that even the strongest will still has to work with timing.

You can't force the dye to set before it's ready.

You keep showing up. You keep stirring. You let every part do what it's designed to do.

That's parenting by design and trusting the process.

Xx Annie

18/08/2026

Just popping in for a little catch up. 💙

Life has been feeling beautifully full lately.

In a few weeks I'll be jumping on a plane and heading to Santa Fe for High Desert Human Design, where I've been invited to present. Every time someone asks me what I'm speaking about, my answer seems to keep coming back to the same thing.

The space between.

The space between knowing your design... and actually living it.

I've realised that's the conversation I've been having with myself for a long time now. It's one thing to know your type, your profile, your gates and your circuitry. It's another thing entirely to notice how all of that shows up in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

That's the real experiment.

I'd love to know how you're going too. Whether you're new to Human Design or you've been experimenting for years...

How is your experiment actually going?

And if you're coming to Santa Fe, or tuning in online, let me know. I'd love to know you're there. 

xo - Annie

💫Hi, I'm Annie. I help people explore Human Design and Gene Keys through lived experience, not just information. Counsellor. Somatic EMDR therapist. Reflector.

26/07/2026

I'm off to High Desert Human Design in September to be on a parenting panel and facilitate a session, but more importantly, be present and in Aura with some amazing humans. Brandy and I had a catchup last week. You can check it out here.

Meet Annie Richardson, a psychotherapist from Brisbane, Australia, ...

07/07/2026

After seven years of experimenting with Human Design, I have decided that sometimes you have to get a little weird with it.

Print your chart. Put it on the floor. Trace the channels. Notice what you feel when you look at a gate you have spent years being told means one very specific thing. Hold it. Move with it. Let your senses have a say.

Your chart is not meant to become another external authority.

Type, strategy and authority can be useful reference points, but they are not the whole terrain of you. There are undercurrents in a chart. Stories. Tensions. Patterns. Places your body knows before your mind has found language for them.

And no, I am not claiming sainthood because I put a giant mandala behind my head like a halo. Although the visual is compelling.

Later this week inside The Club, The Club 》Co-Creation, Networking, Business Incubator we are exploring the undercurrents of your chart beyond the usual type, strategy and authority conversation. A little workshop. A little curiosity. Possibly a little chaos.

Enjoy the ride, my friends. Have some fun with your experiment.

Dm me for the access pass to our workshop inside the club

xx Annie

21/06/2026

This morning's Community Call (solstice gathering) felt beautifully aligned with the energy of the day.

As we randomly started exploring the current transits, I couldn't help but notice how much second line energy is moving through the field right now. Not only the Sun and Earth, but also the Nodes and several other placements.

The second line is often associated with naturalness.

Not forcing.

Not striving.

Not chasing.

Allowing.

Trusting.

Letting things emerge in their own time.

It feels especially relevant on a day when light and shadow stand as equals.

Much of my recent work has been exploring sensitivity, friendship, loneliness, belonging and intimacy. Different conversations on the surface, yet they all seem to point toward the same question.

What if the thing you're looking for isn't hiding in the light at all?

What if it's waiting for you in the stillness?

What if the answer isn't found through more effort, more analysis or more searching?

What if it arrives when you stop forcing it?

Thank you to everyone who joined me this morning. These gatherings continue to remind me of the value of simply sharing space together, without needing to fix, solve or become anything.

Sometimes BEING is enough.

✨

What is trying to emerge naturally in your life right now?

20/06/2026

A chart can tell you a lot.

Your type.
Your profile.
Your centres.
Your gates.

But it can't tell you what happened.

It can't tell you why certain experiences shaped you the way they did.

It can't tell you what you've survived, adapted to, carried or learned along the way.

That's where I think a lot gets missed.

Human Design isn't there to replace your life experience.

It's there to help illuminate it.

To help you recognise patterns.

To help you understand yourself.

To help you ask better questions.

Because sometimes the most important thing isn't what's in the chart.

It's the question beneath it.

These are the conversations I've found myself increasingly drawn to these past few years. The human experience beneath the chart. The stories beneath the patterns. The ways awareness becomes recognition, and recognition becomes change.

It's also what we'll be exploring in the upcoming community gathering and throughout the workshops I'll be facilitating over the coming months inside The Club. The Club 》Co-Creation, Networking, Business Incubator

Curious? ✨ What is your life trying to show you?

xo Annie