Embracing the Underworld: A Journey of Shadow Work and Renewal

 

Collectively we are dealing with radically uncertain times. All around us, we are feeling the charged energy vibrating throughout the cosmos. You may even be feeling triggered and unstable in many areas of your own personal life.

I believe the world is experiencing a spiritual descent into the Underworld.

When I speak of the Underworld, I’m not referring to a physical place, but a metaphoric place within ourselves. The Underworld is the deepest, most hidden part of ourselves where we suppress, repress, and bury all that we don’t want to look at, see, deal with or heal.

Carl Jung refers to this as “shadow work.”

Many of us are experiencing a descent into our shadow material, to our own darkness, shedding what no longer serves us.

As we approach these deep parts of ourselves, we have the opportunity to let go; to clear the old, stagnant and oppressive energy so that we may be born again into a more expanded version of ourselves. This requires acceptance.

 

The Universe is in constant expansion and so are we. Just as we are not separate from each other, we are not separate from Nature or the Cosmos.

 

When we look around, we see everything in nature going into a deep sleep or dying away. The trees are losing their leaves, but they are not dead- they are in a time of transition where they will come back to life again in the Spring. This transition is occurring within you, too.

We are planting the potent golden seeds for a new beginning.

We’re called to have patience and enter a state of deep rest, repair, regeneration, and acceptance. To let a part of our lives, or even who we once were, metaphorically die in order to seed, sprout, bud, and bloom again.

This is called resilience.

It is a reminder to all of us –

We must trust and stay open to what is dissolving away to make room for more light, expansiveness, growth and healing.

We must be willing to let go and grieve the death of what once was and no longer needed.

It’s easy to mistake this phase of growth as one where everything that once felt safe and secure seems to be falling apart. But beneath the surface of the dormant soil, things have never been more active.

We are experiencing a phase of initiation, renewal, and rebirth. Collectively and personally.  You ought to give yourself time and space to recover and rest.

This is perhaps the most important part of our growth. And it takes faith and surrender to do it.

This is a very tender, powerful time.  Trust the sureness of the fertile soil.

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How to Heal the Feminine Within

 

I hope that you are enjoying the summer wherever you are. If you’re like me, summer is a time I allow indulgence in deep witnessing of my pleasure and gratitude- from sweet simple pleasures to big juicy unconditional love.

Perhaps being born under a summer sun organically aligns me with seasonal rhythms to embody pleasure, flow, creative essence and the feminine frequencies within.

This feels supported with the effervescence, softness, safety and levity of the summer months- the warm sun rays, the yummy nectar of flowers in bloom, the longer brighter days, the orgasmic sunsets, and the tantalizing collective joy whispering in a social breeze.

As I feel into the bliss this season evokes, I am attuned to the feminine energy codes being delivered through the quantum.

A massive upgrade is downloading into our womb spaces, or the symbolic hologram of the wombs from which we descended.

What do womb medicine codes feel like in the body?

Take a moment to ask yourself what is happening in your life that feels different right now?

Does it feel light or heavy in your body?

What connection to the feminine womb space is awake for you?

You may notice it is being activated now.

Regardless of gender each of us has a relationship to the feminine – and the womb space.

Perhaps it’s the mother within, the feminine within, fertility or pregnancy, healing the loss of fertility or pregnancy, sexual trauma, or the loss of a child, a mother, or grandmother. This ancestral legacy lives on in our dna- the physical and the spiritual.

It’s the relationship with our mothers, the matriarchal line and any womb trauma.

The womb space is our center of gravity, the holy fire medicine, which gives us the unmatched ability for creation.

It is the women we have made mothers, and it’s the relationship with how we mother ourselves from the Divine feminine.

It’s the initiation from maiden to mother, literally or symbolically.

How and what and whom do we mother? What relationship do we have with the mother? What relationship do we have with our pleasure, sensuality, creativity and feminine nature?

Slow down and turn inward to truly witness the feminine within.

This reflection will mirror the relationship with life and relationships, and especially ourselves.

Is this connection one of health, high vibration and happiness for you? Uninhibited, passionate, confident, fiercely loving, the holy fire and white flame for creation and every form of intimacy. Fully alive and present even with the dark matter. Co-creating life, beauty, pleasure, joy.

A mantra that has come up for me in my own channeling as of late, hums of a divine lullaby and desire to feel ‘soft and safe’. 

A request for the felt sense of milk and honey experience in every waking moment. A yearning perhaps from the eternal center of my own womb space for something more sacred, exalted, desired and profoundly intimate.

An up-leveling of my body and nervous system, my feminine nature. 

A higher calling where I am more healed in this holy center of feminine power, and as a result, I’m available to show up more deeply for others to cultivate the softness and safety in them.

How is womb medicine quaking inside you?

Are you allowing the healing to take root? Are you dancing with wild abandon around the holy fire within?

The opportunity is ripe for the womb to be healed during this opening. Unconditional love and desire are center stage. 

I’ve been diving in deeply. Doing womb work. Exploring what I give life to, and the parts of me eager to be discharged, to let die and transform through re-birth, so that I may create in the world through my Divine feminine essence. I feel inspired, luminous, satiated and alive.  

It’s a time for me to reflect on my own growth and evolution as a human continuing my own inner work, healing and deepening the essence of my truest Self, so the container I create as a space-holder is fertile and abundant with divine feminine codes.

As you bask under the summer moons, do you find there are parts of your relationship with the feminine you continue to struggle to make peace with internally or externally?

Remember, when healing we must learn to love and accept all the parts of our being, even those parts we want to hate or reject. 

Our bodies are vessels and temples to our Spirit- yet so many of us often feel unsafe and uncomfortable within.

True safety lives inside the body. We can create felt safety through devotion and ceremony with our physical bodies.

Our bodies are a sacred doorway to the Soul and the womb of creation. The womb space is the holy center. The drishti within.

I invite you to see your body as a sacred temple. Treat it as such.

Clean out the debris from layers upon layers of inherited beliefs, prejudice, and wounds which obscure your ability to create life clearly, consciously.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Memories, behaviors, beliefs continue to manifest in our lives in countless ways… because our bodies never forget.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

As such, the body becomes a source of tremendous wisdom and insight: a doorway to the present moment, and fulfillment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

An embodied approach to healing anchors you into the now. I urge you to choose this holy path.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Your body has so much to teach you and so much to release.

If you desire to cultivate a deeper intimacy within sacred womb space, and the feminine so you may lead an awakened, meaningful life, I encourage you to reach out for guidance and support.

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Stories of Truth and Magic from Ireland

 

This October I traveled to Ireland with my Beloved, for rest, repair, regeneration and acceptance. We accomplished exactly that.

My Celtic ancestry called me to this sacred, mystical land. The nature is so verdant here. The land, trees, air and water are simply alive, even in their transition and descent.

We flew into Dublin without any plans except to find shared joy, seek presence and flow, follow our whimsical hearts, and to experience the mystical.

Our vision was a success. Although I was uncertain how this would unfold.

We started by following the music. The merry, the jolly, the folly. Irish music is so rich and tender. It activates the heart. I found myself shedding my defenses, releasing my guards. I found my higher rhythm. My laughter. My joy. My freedom. 

Next we rented a car. Directionless, we simply drove through the winding rural hills pointed toward the Western Irish Coast, toward the Northern Atlantic Ocean. I believed medicine lived there. 

It was true. The land spirits and elementals beckoned us. The winds were raw and crisp, and the water was salty and chaotic. The earth was mystical and ancient. The land was inhabited by the spirit of enchanting grace.

I was in the right place. 

We stopped every chance we were called to commune: A living, waking meditation. To breathe the air of changing tides.

This wild wind was peeling off layers. Something ancient in me was dying. I could feel it preparing to leave, even if I couldn’t yet sense what was to perish.

Almost like an auric ring, or a holographic imprint, the field of energy leaving me was like a soft whisper or faint ghost. 

Indistinguishable at first, I wasn’t fully conscious what a steady companion it had been for me and yet, how it had faded and wilted in my presence without my awareness.

Total atrophy.

In fact it had been a slow death, one which had been long in the making. I nurtured this friendship so long, I was reluctant to let her go. But she was now feeble. Her life-force, low.

She was leaving.

I hadn’t fully noticed because it was almost a non-event – this departure. Only distinguishable by the hindsight awareness that was perhaps more the absence of energy rather than the presence of anything additional. 

The veil was lifting. The light coming in.

I could have almost missed this quiet neglect, the separation, but she is, in fact, simply gone. There is no mistaking the void now that light has filled the space. 

Looking back, I can recall experiencing the awareness it was no longer there – a mystical story, of course. 

We were chasing rainbows and stones. That is, my Beloved and I were chasing stone circles and standing stones which are foretold to be ancient cosmic portals. 

Casey Stevens in Ireland wearing a purple down jacket, sunglasses and a wide brimmed grey hat
I had no idea what magic was about to unfold.

We were transfixed. Our hearts were determined and drawn to this hunt for treasure. 

Indeed, we found our treasures and stones. I can only be sure of this now, but this is the discernible moment I knew my independence had left me. 

As if a spirit, slipping out of a body and drifting to a liminal space semi-consciously, my independence departed. It was simply not clinging to me anymore. 

It detached, disappeared, descended.

Let me tell you what I know.

We had driven hours to find a sacred patch of elusive standing stones. So many wrong turns, dead ends, invisible roads and physical barriers. How would we find them?

Finally, after persistence and patient teamwork, we arrived. 

More accurately, we were generally close. We found a spot to park on the one lane winding dirt road pushed up against a wire fence on a hill of wild earth.  We had yet to discover the mysterious path to this pot of stoney gold. Sunset was nearing. There were no signs of human life. We were in hills of grass, deep in nature.

We exited the car and simply aimed back down the hill, still lost, when all at once the faintest rainbow appeared at exactly that moment. 

Ireland scenery with clouds and a rainbow in the distance.
The faint rainbow that appeared as if to say, “You’ve arrived.”

It was a ways off, dropping into a field in the distance. As if an arrow plunging vertically into the earth saying, ‘right here…the magic you’re seeking is this-a-way!’  

I knew the place we were looking for was divinely guiding us like a compass. Testing our faith and trust. ‘Do you dare not trust this beckoning light?’

Gratefully, we passed the test. Following this rainbow was the lighted path. But you already knew that. 😉 

My heart, a magnet for the truth about magic. 

It was not an easy road (through obstacles and dangers and mud and grass, through manure and bridges and livestock and standing water). 

Our hearts were intent. We laughed and felt exuberant anticipation as we waddled toward our stones through this treacherous earth-scape. 

Our stones were magical. I could feel it. 

It’s only now I’m clear looking back, that when I left that field, my independence did not come out of there with me.  She was gone.

What a beautiful resting place and crown of headstones for my companion, confidant and protector. 

She had grown weak and frail. Her spirit, fading. And yet, I can’t help but admire this place to retire.

Although I don’t remember precisely when or how she slipped away, I just became aware that she no longer possessed me. 

I was free. She was free. Our bond, broken. And our contract dissolved. 

By now I had accumulated so many fractals and worthy experiences in connection, in peace, in intuition, in love, and in flow, I had truly become more of the sacred whole and less of an independent part. 

I was now more of this, and less of that. 

Still I loved her, the fierce independent woman. She was bold and courageous, she was strong and she was sharp. She was brave and she was untamed. She was willful and determined, and she was BIG. 

She was also tired, and her heart was longing. She desired to be cherished and to be known. Her force-field existence wasn’t sustainable. 

She needed even more trust – her capacity was bigger than this. Her heart desired a devotional path. 

I don’t know where she went, I can only imagine if I were her I would have dissolved into the center of that stone circle, at the bottom of a rainbow spark, on a quiet hill in misty, mystical Ireland. 

Evaporating into stardust. 

Image of ancient stone in Ireland
A sacred departure in a mystical land.

I pray that wherever she had gone, she would rest easy, learn to dance, and laugh with wild abandon. I pray she lets her hair down. I pray her life is filled with love and deep meaning. I pray her days are peaceful, but interesting and the seeker within charges on. 

I hope she softens into her feminine archetype and swings the doors wide open to her sweet generous heart. I hope she has a ceremony for her grief, and she allows the smoke to clear it all away.

I hope she quintessentially knows unconditional love, and I hope she dishes it out unapologetically. 

I hope the oracle within her illuminates with golden knowing. And her connection to divine source is conjunct.

I hope she knows peace, flow, relaxation and restoration. I hope she finds ancient ritual and ceremonial medicine. And most of all- her free bird spirit. 

I can’t say, and perhaps I’ll never know, but I will keep imagining her that way. Finding all these things.

Filled up with all she lost, had stolen, left behind or given away. Whole again. 

All of her reconciled, conscious parts could finally show her that independence was not what made her safe. That was an illusion. 

Rather, the way she would feel truly safe was to learn to trust herself in the container of this complex and multidimensional life. To know and share her sacred Self. 

With this power and faith in herself, she could never not feel protected and empowered. 

What I do know is that I hiked out of that field, of rainbows and stones, up the hill, hand in hand with my sweetheart, less burdened, less heavy, less restricted, less inhibited. 

An accumulation of healing and effort, intention and investment. 

I will mourn her, yes, but more than that, I will celebrate her release – And mine. This liberation is gold. Like diving off a cliff into a pile of fluffy mystical clouds. 

My heart is my net. And if I’m honest with myself, it’s never truly let me down.

I don’t think I could have seen so clearly the resilience and the radiance of my tender mended heart’s oracle had she remained by my side.

I left feeling light and spacious. Not empty or lost, but full, in fact, perhaps even overflowing. 

I will think of her, and remember her to be sure, but mostly I will be in the present with myself, the divine, my lover, my loved ones, my clients, and my wild heart. 

I am invested in being here. I will keep my soul open to the infinite unknown. And I will follow that divine guidance, no-matter-what. 

And so onward and godspeed. 

Let the old disappear like fairy dust. 

Trust the opening. 

It’s ok to grieve, to experience the death of self or what once was.

Can you feel it happening in your life? The rhythm of letting go. Are you resisting? Try, dear one, to relax into it. 

The fertile void asks that we honor endings to begin again. It’s a crucial part of growth. Transformation isn’t possible without it.

It’s easy to mistake this phase of growth as one where everything that once felt safe and secure seems to be falling apart. But beneath the surface of the dormant soil, things have never been more active.

We are experiencing a phase of initiation, renewal, and rebirth. Collectively and personally.  You ought to give yourself time and space to recover and rest.

This is perhaps the most important part of our growth. And it takes faith and surrender to do it.

This is a very tender, powerful time.  Trust the sureness of the fertile soil.

If you are feeling particularly activated during this time, please do not hesitate to reach out.  I am here to create a sacred container for you, to guide and assist in your healing and transformation. And I’d love to learn what skin you’re shedding. 

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Energy Medicine Explained

Have you noticed that when we witness or experience shame, abandonment or neglect, particularly at a young age, the shock from that experience remains with us as an unconscious somatic traumatic imprint in our system?

The reverberations echo through us today.

These disappointments and traumas left un-mended become our core wounds, or the deepest fundamental beliefs that we have about ourselves on the subconscious level. Therefore, our habitual thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

How would you experience life if you could nourish and reorganize these imprinted subconscious patterns, heal your fragmentation, and re-imagine your ideal virtues?
Can we become resilient and devotional to these un-met parts? Sovereign. Integrated. And Whole again?

 

Casey Stevens holding large crystal

There are infinite psychologies, ancient medicine practices and quantum healing techniques that can be used to help you to overcome discontent, dis-ease, dis-regulation, defense mechanisms, and maladaptive patterns organically. You can grow and awaken to live from a place of individuation, autonomy, agency, flow, joy, and love.

Energy healing modalities honor the inter-connection between the physical body, and the emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. A psychological-spiritual lens is systemic and multi-dimensional, and holds that dis-order can appear in any of these layers when impacted by imbalances, and fragmented parts from any other layer of our being, or timeline.

Therefore, healing occurs when we descend into these fragmented aspects and retrieve our healthy un-met needs by delivering softness, kindness, presence, and attunement to our younger self who was injured. In this reckoning, an awakened, empowered, embodied Self emerges with clarity and peace, eager to create presence with themselves and others, build a luminous future.

Blending traditional psychologies with quantum energy healing techniques may be used for the clearing and activation of cellular memory and neural pathways, light codes and subliminal trauma responses of the human energy field. Multidimensional psychotherapy promotes health, balance and wellbeing throughout the body, the psyche, and the spirit within the space and time continuum.

This modern medicine is potent.

A hand holding a crystal pendulum

Energy Medicines Explained

This form of therapy is intuitive, ethereal and ineffable. It derives from Eastern Ancient Medicine practices and training and the quantum consciousness of all frequencies, focusing on expansive energy expression and coherent organization. Patterns, memory fields, psychic traumas and limiting beliefs are re-organized to amplify conscious awareness and an invitation to initiate embodiment of that which we do not readily know, see or understand, illuminated as our innate truth.

Integrating quantum energy medicine into clinical psychotherapy sessions invokes radical shifts and changes in dense, old and stuck patterns you have come to identify with, suffer endlessly from, and yet maintain as part of your daily reality. Quantum mechanics, when used in aligned resonance, delivers you to your truest, highest soul expression.

During quantum sessions we isolate, organize and restructure non-productive, maladaptive patterns and create clarity and transformation to propel you forward with inspired purpose. 

You may benefit from this approach if…

  • You feel stuck and unmotivated
  • You feel lost, disempowered, and don’t know yourself
  • You experience a lot of self doubt and worry
  • You find yourself repeating unhealthy patterns personally and interpersonally
  • You find yourself reliving the past
  • You experience a pattern over and over again that seems to block you from moving beyond your current circumstances
  • You are living the “life of your dreams” and yet you aren’t as happy as you expected to be
  • You are successful, yet acutely suffering in your inner world
  • You are seeking clarity for life purpose and guidance on your pathway
  • You seek to understand the symptoms of your life
  • You would like to awaken your greater potential
  • You are experiencing a spiritual awakening, or transiting a dark night of the soul and need a container and guide
  • You are struggling to overcome your challenges alone
  • You have tried everything else; traditional, linear therapies, or ungrounded healings and you know something comprehensive is needed

Integration of these techniques can help you…

  • Break the grip of past pains
  • Heal painful family dynamics
  • Transcend archaic relational frameworks
  • Release yourself from fear
  • Surrender the victim consciousness you wear as a badge
  • Believe in yourself again, and learn to trust your inner guidance
  • Achieve clear knowing and remove the filters of your trauma responses to move forward
  • Leave behind chaos, drama, and toxicity
  • Discover how to set boundaries with yourself
  • Reconnect to your heart’s deepest knowing and anchor your visions into your body
  • Learn to listen to your internal compass to guide your highest calling and the messengers in your body
  • Trust yourself and others
  • Identify triggers and trauma responses for what they are
  • Follow your innate intuitive guidance
  • Uncover unique keys to creating a life you love living
  • Overcome anxiety, shame, grief, self hate & self doubt
  • Become Conscious of your highest virtue and values
  • Find meaning in your past failures and strength in your traumas
  • Stop sabotaging your desires, dreams and future
  • Unravel the stories and release the limitations around difficult life transitions
  • Reprogram your energy field and neural pathways to magnify high frequencies aligned with your energy signature
  • View all life and circumstances as an opportunity

Feel into the Alignment for Healing

I would be honored to guide you on a journey towards cultivating a deep connection with your sacred inner wisdom so you may lead an awakened, meaningful life.  Please click here to book a free clarity call.