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Somatic Awakening A modality that profoundly heals trauma in the body and brings into one's awareness the divinity that lives inside, where the deepest healing arises from.

Somatic Awakening brings healing and awakening to the body, emotions, mind and spirit. The ultimate goal of this modality is to help awaken divinity within each person. On the way to that awakening this practice deeply heals trauma by softening and opening contractions within the somatic body, where the energetic, emotional and physical bodies merge. This brings more relaxation and energy into the body and greatly contributes to one’s physical health. This modality utilizes subtle facilitated tracking of the body with many aspects of the Witness present, which ultimately allows one to open to the peace, love, joy and ecstasy of one’s Inner Divinity. This modality was developed by Dr. Melissa Patterson, who is a naturopathic doctor and specialist in mind-body and energy medicine. Somatic Awakening is a valuable part of her practice and she has seen it make incredible changes in people’s lives on all levels. This incredible and life changing modality will be taught by Dr. Patterson in the upcoming year.

What if the wound didn't have to disappear for you to be free?In Somatic Awakening®, we don't try to fix the frightened ...
10/08/2026

What if the wound didn't have to disappear for you to be free?

In Somatic Awakening®, we don't try to fix the frightened or hurt places within us. We don't override them. We don't exile them.

We meet them, with our Higher Self and the living presence of the Divine.

And when a wound finally opens in trust, Divine Love meets it with exactly what it needs.

The memory remains. The charge dissolves.

The fear, the trigger, the old story no longer leads your life in the same way.

Sometimes this happens quickly. Sometimes it unfolds one layer at a time. But each time it does, another layer within you becomes freer.

This is the heart of The Circle of Remembering.

It's a place, a practice, and a community we can return to again and again to step deeper into our healing, awakening, and embodiment.

We return to what is living within us, and to a living experience of the divine meeting together... until that returning becomes a living remembering of who we truly are.

The Founder's Rate: $37/month (which is locked in for as long as you remain a member) ENDS TODAY (10/8) at Noon PT.

After that, it's $47/month, and then the doors close this round on 10/14.

[Find out more in the link in the comments]

The Circle of Remembering is now open. This is more than a new membership. This is more than a new membership. It's a pl...
10/05/2026

The Circle of Remembering is now open.

This is more than a new membership. This is more than a new membership. It's a place where...
Healing becomes embodied.
Awakening becomes lived.
And Divine Love increasingly shapes the way you meet your life.

It is also the fulfillment of a vision I have carried for many years.

In meditation, I was shown a time when the old world would begin to fall away—and many people would feel overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, and longing for something deeper.

I was shown that Somatic Awakening® would become a bridge between the old and the new: helping us heal the frightened places within, remember who we truly are, and live through our Higher Self, our soul, and a living relationship with the Divine.

I was to create a place not simply to help people learn Somatic Awakening as another technique.

But to support them so they could immerse themselves in these practices long enough for these higher relationships with ourselves to become part of how we actually live.

To create a container that was deeply transformational and also genuinely accessible. A place people could return to, again and again.

That time is now.

For so many, 2026 has stretched us beyond what we thought we could hold. More than ever, we need spaces that help us meet and transform the frightened voices and contractions held within the body—so we can remember our true power, a living relationship with our Higher Self and the Divine, and embody more of who we truly are.

So many of us have walked this path largely alone. We’ve experienced genuine breakthroughs, only to watch them fade as life draws us back into familiar patterns.

Not because we failed.

But because healing, awakening, and embodiment are not experiences we visit once. They are sacred relationships we deepen through returning.

The Circle is a place of return to and a place of remembering.

A place to:

✨Meet fear and old patterns without losing yourself

✨Experience healing that reaches beyond understanding and into the body

✨Cultivate a peace more trustworthy than overwhelm

✨Bring your Higher Self and the Divine into your relationships, choices, and daily life

✨Remember yourself as both beautifully human and Divine

✨Be in a supportive community with other deep souls

This is where healing becomes embodied.

Awakening becomes lived.

And Divine Love increasingly shapes the way you meet your life.

If your heart has been longing for a sacred place to practice, deepen, and walk beside others who understand this path, I would be honored to welcome you.

Through October 8, you can join at the special discount Founding Member rate.

For the very first time, the doors to The Circle of Remembering are open.

Learn more through the link in the comments below.

There is still one more chance to join us. ❤️Yesterday, I taught the first live When Fear No Longer Leads Wisdom Class.A...
10/02/2026

There is still one more chance to join us. ❤️

Yesterday, I taught the first live When Fear No Longer Leads Wisdom Class.

And tomorrow, I’ll be teaching it one final time.

If you’ve been meaning to register—or something in you has been quietly saying I want to be there—this is your invitation.

We’ll explore a very different way of relating to fear.

Not fighting it.

Not overriding it.

Not trying to think our way out of it.

But learning how to meet what is afraid through your Higher Self and the living presence of the Divine—so fear no longer has to be the most powerful presence in the room.

And we won’t only talk about it.

I’ll guide you through The Practice of Somatic Awakening® so you can experience this relationship for yourself.

Because the goal isn’t to become someone who never feels fear.
It’s to become someone whose life is no longer organized by it.

✨ WHEN FEAR NO LONGER LEADS

Free Live Wisdom Class

Tomorrow · Saturday, October 3 · 10 AM–12 PM PT
This is the final live class.

If you’ve been feeling the pull, come join us. ❤️

REGISTER FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS

Most of us were handed some version of the same instruction.Fix yourself. Calm down. Get over it. Let it go.So we go loo...
10/01/2026

Most of us were handed some version of the same instruction.

Fix yourself. Calm down. Get over it. Let it go.

So we go looking for a door. Most of us find one of two.

The first door leads away.

We manage it, breathe through it, try to rise above it, and stay busy. We build whole lives that are very good at not touching the fear.

But it works the way holding your breath works.

The second door leads in.

We go so far inside the fear there's no one left outside of it. We become the anxious one. The broken one. And we start to believe that's simply who we are.

Notice what the two have in common.

In the first, fear is too much to be near. In the second, fear becomes who you are.

Either way, fear is still the most powerful presence in the room.
There is a third door.

You turn toward what is afraid — without becoming it.

Not by watching it from a distance. That creates space, and it can leave the deepest places untouched for years.

You meet it from your Higher Self, with the Divine moving through it. A presence that doesn't only see. It loves. And what has been frozen for years begins to soften.

The frightened parts of us were never meant to heal themselves.

They were meant to be fully met with a power that’s greater than them.

If you're ready to walk through the third door, come join me for my upcoming free Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads.

I’ll share the Somatic Awakening® blueprint, and you’ll get to experience this work for yourself.

I'll be offering it twice…the first one happens TODAY…

Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM PT (This Evening)
and
Saturday, October 3rd at 10 AM PT
Pick which one works for you.

REGISTER FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS

You wake up and the fear is already there.What if you could meet it differently?I woke at 4 AM recently with fear alread...
09/29/2026

You wake up and the fear is already there.
What if you could meet it differently?

I woke at 4 AM recently with fear already coursing through my body.

Nothing had happened. No conversation, no bad news, no problem to solve. I simply opened my eyes, and the fear was already there.

My body felt tight and constricted, as though something inside me believed I was trapped.

Years ago, mornings like this were familiar. I would wake with fear and dread, and then become afraid of what I was feeling. I would try to calm myself down. Figure out what was wrong. Make it stop.

This time was different.

I wasn't afraid of the fear. Part of me was even grateful. I had recently sensed this fear deep inside of me, on the edges of my consciousness, and it was now finally becoming visible. It was showing me where it lived inside me.

Instead of trying to think my way out of it, I turned toward what was afraid. I brought it into relationship with my Higher Self, and through that relationship, the living presence of the Divine.

Not to make the fear immediately disappear. But to give what was afraid the safety, love, and presence it had been missing.

Slowly, it began to settle, soften, and transform. What had felt tangled and overwhelming became something I could meet.

This is one of the most profound things Somatic Awakening® has taught me:

Sometimes fear doesn't need another explanation. It needs a different relationship.

And when what is afraid is finally met by something greater than the fear, it no longer has to lead.

That's what we'll explore in my free upcoming Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads.

We’ll also explore the Somatic Awakening® blueprint, and you’ll have an opportunity to experience this work for yourself.

I'll be offering it twice:
Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM PT
and
Saturday, October 3rd at 10 AM PT
Pick which one works for you.

REGISTER FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS

For nearly three decades, my student Hillary was a seeker.Programs. Practitioners. Meditation. Spiritual teachings. Even...
09/26/2026

For nearly three decades, my student Hillary was a seeker.

Programs. Practitioners. Meditation. Spiritual teachings. Even a journey to Peru.

Much of it helped.

But when life became difficult, she still found herself looking outside herself for the answer.

Who can help me? What do I need to do?

Then another question began to emerge:
What if what I'm looking for is a relationship I need to cultivate within myself?

That became one of Hillary's deepest shifts through Somatic Awakening®.

Through this mystical healing modality and spiritual practice, she learned to recognize what was afraid without becoming consumed by it — and to bring it into relationship with her Higher Self and the Divine.

Eight years later, she says:
"I no longer reach outward looking for those needs to be met. I'm calm and centered."

And when I asked what created that transformation, her answer was simple:
"My relationship with my Higher Self and the Divine."

If you're ready to stop searching for one more answer outside yourself — and discover a deeper place within from which to meet your life — come join me in my free upcoming Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads.

Where I will share the Somatic Awakening® blueprint, and you’ll get to experience this work for yourself.

I'll be offering it twice:
Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM PT
and
Saturday, October 3rd at 10 AM PT
Pick which one works for you.

REGISTER FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS.

Hillary is a longtime Somatic Awakening® student sharing her own experience. Individual experiences vary.

09/24/2026

I spent years judging myself for still being afraid.

That's the part I don't hear people talk about. Not just being stuck. Being stuck after the therapy, the meditation, the trainings, the modalities, the years of sincere work. And then adding shame on top of it, because by now you should know better.

I knew my story completely. I could explain exactly why the fear was there, where it came from, what it was protecting.

And my body was afraid anyway.

What finally changed wasn't more insight. It was learning to bring what was afraid into relationship with something greater than my own frightened mind — my Higher Self, and through that, the living presence of the Divine.

Nothing I'd done before was wasted. It just hadn't yet reached the place that needed to be met.

If you're ready for your inner work to reach the place understanding never could, I'd love for you to join me. This is one of the things we'll explore together in my free upcoming Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads.

I'll be offering it twice:
Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM PT
and
Saturday, October 3rd at 10 AM PT

Pick which one works for you.

REGISTER FOR FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS.

09/22/2026

When Fear Sounds Like Intuition…Have you ever noticed how convincing fear can sound?

It doesn't always announce itself as fear.

Sometimes it sounds like:
I need to figure this out.
I need to make a decision.
I need to do something — now.

For years, I didn't always recognize the difference between fear and deeper knowing.

Both could feel important. But they didn't feel the same in my body.

I've learned not to search for clarity from inside the fear.
I meet the fear first.

I turn toward what is afraid through my Higher Self, allowing that deeper presence to meet what my frightened mind is trying so urgently to solve.

And as the fear begins to settle, something else becomes available:

Clarity. Choice. Freedom.

A deeper knowing underneath it all:

I am whole. I will find a way.

Discernment isn't about silencing every frightened voice within us.

It's about cultivating a relationship with something deeper within us — from which we can listen.

If you're ready to make your choices from deeper knowing instead of urgency, come join me in my free upcoming Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads.

I'll be offering it twice:
Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM PT
and
Saturday, October 3rd at 10 AM PT
Pick which one works for you.

REGISTER FOR FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS

For most of my life, when someone I loved pulled away, I reached.I soothed. I explained. I tried harder. I made myself s...
09/21/2026

For most of my life, when someone I loved pulled away, I reached.
I soothed. I explained. I tried harder. I made myself smaller so the connection wouldn't break.

For years, I thought this was simply how deeply I loved.

But underneath all that reaching was something I couldn't yet see clearly...

Fear.

A part of me believed that losing the relationship meant losing safety itself.

And when that fear took over, I wasn't really free to choose how I wanted to love.

One of the deepest shifts in my own Somatic Awakening® journey came when I learned that I didn't have to become that fear—or ask the frightened part of me to somehow handle the relationship.

I could meet what was afraid through my Higher Self and the living presence of the Divine.

And as the fear began to settle and transform, something unexpected became possible:

I could love without abandoning myself.

I could allow another person to be unhappy with me.

I could set a boundary.

I could even risk losing the relationship rather than losing myself inside of it.

That completely changed my understanding of love.

Love doesn't require us to abandon ourselves in order to preserve connection.

Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is meet the fear within us deeply enough that it no longer gets to decide what love requires.

If you're ready to love without abandoning yourself — and without fear leading the way — I'd love for you to join me. This is one of the things we'll explore in my free Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads.

I'll be offering it twice:

Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM PT
and
Saturday, October 3rd at 10 AM PT

Pick which one works for you.

REGISTER FOR FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS.

Fear Doesn’t Have to LeadYears ago, something difficult would happen with Hillary’s life and fear could take over.Then s...
09/21/2026

Fear Doesn’t Have to Lead

Years ago, something difficult would happen with Hillary’s life and fear could take over.

Then she learned another way.

She would go into her room, sit down, and notice the fear in her body.

But instead of analyzing it, fighting it, or letting it run the show, she brought her Higher Self and the Divine directly into relationship with what was afraid.

“My Higher Self and Divine energy would come right into that fear...hold it, love it, and be there for it.”

And then something began to change. These energies and emotions inside, connected to the fear, would dissolve.

This changed her life deeply.

Her fear was no longer in charge, nor did it have the same authority over her life.

Today Hillary doesn’t claim that nothing ever triggers her.
Quite the opposite.

She told me:
“When the triggers come, bring it on—because that’s my doorway into knowing myself, healing myself, and more embodiment.”

That may be one of my favorite descriptions of freedom.
Not a life in which fear never appears.

A life in which fear is no longer the most powerful presence in the room.

If this sounds like something that you long for…I invite you to join us for my upcoming Wisdom Class, When Fear No Longer Leads, because that’s exactly what we’ll explore.

REGISTER FREE - LINK IN COMMENTS

Hillary is a longtime Somatic Awakening® student sharing her own experience. Individual experiences vary.

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