Creating Light with Kelsey

In this episode, I provide more space to unpack a couple potent points I made last week. Language is incredibly important in how it shapes the way we view ourselves and the world, and whether or not we'd like to admit it, certain sayings do get embedded into our psyche. I wanted to take a moment to shine a light on 2 seemingly innocent phrases adults often say to children that can be detrimental to overall well being if a child does adopt that as truth within their unconscious mind. I also discuss my current experiencing as I make my story public again. How I am remaining curious as familiar feelings of the past continue to visit me.

Key Takeaways:

• Neutrality is different than numbness.
• Recognizing when a feeling is still attached to a story.
• Is telling your story filling a void or fulfilling a purpose?
• Desensitizing children to 'meanness' can program them to be okay with abuse.
• Calling out mean behavior helps children set boundaries and speak their truth.

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I feel so fucking uncomfortable re-releasing these episodes from 2021. The stories are LOUD. Any excuse, any reason, to put this off. To not have this be seen. This is a new layer of unearthing. It doesn't feel like it did when I was first facing my darkness. Hell, it doesn't even feel like it did when I first publicly told my story in 2020 (which was in a room full of around 150 people... ballsy is what that was).

This is different.

Parts of me are still pissed that this is the life my soul chose. That pain so unfathomable is an experience each human signs up for. But I also understand why darkness exists and wouldn't change is. At this point in time, I can say that I do feel free in many ways from this, yet this rage is awakening inside me now that I'm re-releasing my story. A rage that has matured. That has gone through the layers of the soul and does not feel attached to this trauma anymore...

Maybe that's what feels different and why the stories and fear have tried to come in to contain the rage. The rage that is now unearthed. Unhinged. Not attached. A rage that is free from the trauma. Free to be seen in a new light because it has been supported through years of healing. So, here we are, out of hiding. Being seen. And so it begins again...

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In this episode, I am coming out of hiding. I've realized I stepped out of integrity when it came to my original intention of creating this podcast and even the purpose of me being a guide for others. A part of my soul's mission is to share my experiences, to lead by example, and to then teach others what I've learned with healing. Around two years ago though, I took down all my episodes where I shared my story. Eventually, I stopped talking about it all together. Which means, I really stopped sharing my lessons. Shame came back to play and had me in a choke hold. I started to hide away. But as I've worked with this new layer of shame, here I am again, coming out of hiding. Allowing myself to be seen, with a story to tell. Thank you for witnessing me. The healing journey continues. May we all walk each other home.

Key Takeaways:

• Sharing your story doesn't necessarily mean that you're stuck in the story.
• It doesn't matter how long you've been on the healing path, you're still going to get served hard hitting lessons, you're still going to make mistakes, and that is okay.
• When we don't face our shadows/darkness, it will then rule present moment behavior.
• There is nothing shameful about what you have survived.

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This is an incredibly special moment because it is the re-release of my very first podcast episode!! I started this show back in 2021 on a mission to share my story and show the world that "even in the midst of pain, I had found purpose." How I could "create light while feeling the darkness." But in 2022, I decided to take all the episodes down. I could feel a massive internal shift happening that needed the space to evolve. I started the show back up at the end of 2022, but as I was telling my story I decided to take those episodes down again. After all this space, and life being completely different, I am feeling called to re-release some original episodes as I am stepping back into the world of Art Therapy along with continuing to retell my story. 

A big part of how I deliever my purpose work is in being a living testimony. I lead by example. I share my journey, how I've shown up, what I practice, how life has changed, and how it has now become what I teach. This is my medicine. So, enjoy this first episode as I briefly break down what Art Therapy is!

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The art of being lost can be seen as a form of an ego death. I see it as a phase of life that visits us after our ego has already "died" because we are then completely in the unknown. We are lost. Then the journey of this phase is about shifting into a new level of soul embodiment. In this episode, I read a section from the book Soulcraft, which breaks down this lovely art form. I also share how I am just getting out of a phase of being lost that lasted for over a year when I was called to let go of the Art Therapist identity. Then after all the plot twists within that year I have recently landed back into the field of therapy but yet in a completely different, more expansive and whole way, with new identifiers thrown into the mix, which is what my soul was asking of me to discover. And I never would have discovered that if I didn't have the courage to be lost.

"The shift from being lost to being found (in a new, unpredictable way) is a gradual and indirect one. The way to encourage that shift is to first accept that you don't know how to get to the place you want to be and then opening fully to the place you are until the old goals fall away and you discover more soulful goals emerging. Then you are no longer lost, but you have benefited immensely from having been so."

Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche by Bill Plotkin

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What happens when you've arrived at this reality that took years to create for yourself? It may seem like a simple concept. Like, of course after reaching a new state of existing it's going to require a reevaluation of what needs to be done in order to maintain this. But also, you're in a place you've never been in before, so you don't actually know what to do yet. In the spirituality realm, it is often taught how you need to show up to become this future version of self. That the work you need to put in now is to act is if you are already that future self in order to collapse time. The thing is though, that work will always be future based. 

In this episode, I share how everything that I had been doing on this healing journey for years was for future me, and although, I was learning how to accept the present moment, I was still working my ass off to no longer be in the present moment. Because what was in those moments was not the life I wanted to continue living. But now... I want to be in the present moment. Which has never happened before. I want to be in the now, so everything has to shift in the way I show up. At this phase I am no longer striving to embody a future Kelsey. I am wanting to maintain this version of self, this outer reality, that I devoted my life to in creating. Because I no longer need to be in a constant state of showing up to save myself and transmute trauma, that phase has been completed. So, how do I show up to maintain this level of liberation and let change be on its natural course?

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Exciting news!! You know how last episode we dove deep into the importance of feeling anger and accepting what is?? Well... my world has completely shifted after I allowed myself to embody those two aspects again as this chapter of life was trying to come to a close. It's aways so funny to me how quickly things get to change when we remember the simplicity of feeling our feelings and being grateful for the present moment. I obviously still have my phases when I struggle with such things, especially if I'm in a particularly tough lesson that my human self is trying to rush through to just be done with it already, but that will only prolong the lesson. Tune in to hear how feeling anger allowed me to be open to miracles!

Key takeaways:

• Feeling anger creates space for your dreams to land
• Taking accountability and responsibility materializes your dreams in the now
• "You cannot pray for a miracle if you are not open for change" - Victoria Washington
• The sister to change is grief

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On this episode, I share how anger and acceptance go hand in hand with healing. That once we allow ourselves to feel angry, we create space to embody acceptance about a situation; once we accept a situation without trying to control its natural cycle, we create space to allow anger to flow through. We cannot have one without the other. I share how I have been suppressing anger to the point that it has mirrored stagnation in my exterior world with the struggles I’ve been experiencing in finding a place to move. Life is a wild ride, and as we continue to allow ourselves to be with and feel it all, we continue to set ourselves free.

Key takeaways:

• All emotions have a positive intent.
• Importance of NOT bypassing anger.
• Anger is here to show us where a violation has taken place, a boundary is being crossed, where something is not right, and where we need to take a stand or speak up.
• There’s no space for gratitude and acceptance if you have significant amounts of suppressed rage.
• Landing back into acceptance through dance.
• Everything that your soul desires is already here it’s just about have you decided that you’re done with where you’re at right now?

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I experienced a whole ass breakthrough in the midst of recording this episode. I had been feeling lost and confused for a while, but did not quite understand the extent of it. I was doing my best to trust the process. Then a few weeks ago multiple healers that I had crossed paths with were telling me, "Remember who you are." That statement definitely triggered me! My immediate thought was, "Uhhh pretty sure I remember who tf I am..." But obviously, there were some things I needed to remember and it hit me right before I pressed record for this episode! Which I dive into the revelation. 

Key Takeaways:

• Questioning the usage of transmutation
• Coming back into compassion
• Unconditionally loving all parts of self
• We are already whole
• Checking our desire to 'fix' (transmute) shadows

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In this episode, I was interviewed on the Mystic Mamas podcast! They graciously gave me the audio to put on the Creating Light platform. Go subscribe to their podcast, here. And go follow them on instagram @mysticmamas.podcast! For this interview, we dive into getting out of the head and into the body through somatic movement while going into further detail of what Somatic Activated Healing is and how it can be used as a tool to help you embody soul liberation.

This is a great episode to hear me talk about my work with such depth and in a different way. Because when you're interviewed more information gets pulled out! It can be easy to forget to describe certain details when this practice is a way of life. So, for anyone newer to understanding the healing that somatic movement can offer, this is an episode you will want to listen to.

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