GRAVITAS–HARVEST THE WISDOM
IN YOUR SHADOW

Fall is here. Our shadows are getting longer, as we head into the season of greater darkness.

Holidays can be stressful, especially when we imagine everyone else has a storybook happy life, while we may be feeling grief. When our loved ones have passed, or we’re estranged, or live too far away to get together, we can sink into emotional pain and anxiety. The more we push it away, the stronger it gets. It builds silently, until we feel depressed or we burst out with anger or tears around people who don’t have time for us to feel the feels. 

Feeling the feels is the road to harvesting the gifts. Loss and painful emotions have wisdom within them.

Gravitas means “wisdom from darkness.” We carry emotions that we’ve banished in the shadow, and without support to process them, we carry unhealed wounds. Our wounds get triggered under pressure. Many times, we hide our pain and try to carry it alone.

To do shadow work, we need a support. Our shadow can wreak havoc in our lives when unhealed wounds scream to be heard. Unhealed emotional pain can highjack us in ways that keep us stuck. This can look like an overreaction, as if the hurt child in you is trying to handle an adult situation. 

We need support to bring love and acceptance to fear, anger and grief. Our shadow can also include our gifts, our joy and playfulness–any parts our ourselves that have been suppressed.

When I first heard of The Shadow, it sounded ominous. I thought it was something that ‘other people’ had. Even though as a young adult, I lived with constant fear and anxiety, and was frequently depressed, I thought my emotions were caused by people and events outside of me.

Later, I studied the shadow with James Hollis at the Jung Center of Houston. When I began the 12-week course, it seemed to be all about the shadow in an abusive caregiver from my childhood—it was outside of me. I applied what I heard in class to this person, not imagining that I had my own shadow. I was thinking like the innocent child that also lives within me.

Halfway through the course, I sat in contemplation one night in my garden, reflecting on what I’d heard in class that night. My belly felt queasy and tight as I thought about this abusive adult, who should have protected me. 

Then I felt something burst in my belly. An emotional earthquake shook me to the root, as waves of darkness flooded me. I sat stunned, as it slowly dawned on me that this was my shadow rising up. In the moment, I felt terror, the terror of the child. It was only later that I could see the beauty.

When I began to own my shadow, I took a big leap forward in my personal healing. I worked hard to grapple with my inner darkness. 

I gained wisdom as I met my own pain. I went on to study emotional connection, sensate focusing, energy healing and the latest research in neuroscience, to learn the most effective, somatic or body-based techniques to heal trauma. As a survivor myself, I innately have empathy and compassion for others who”re healing from trauma.  Through years of study, practice and intrepid dedication to my own healing from C-PTSD, I’ve become a master healing guide for people carrying unhealed emotional pain.

I’m here to tell you: YOU CAN HEAL.

Only by making my own shadow conscious, being transparent about it, and doing the work that’s mine to do, can I truly help others. I continue to do my inner work, even as I guide my clients through their challenges, transitions and opportunities with grace, empathy and compassion–and quite a bit of humor. I am a playful person by nature. And healing can be very funny at times, especially when we have a perspective shift that moves us 180 degrees from where we started. New beliefs bring relief. Not just in the mental—by accessing the subconscious and making change at the somatic level, new beliefs are anchored into the body, where they operate effortlessly to support a happier, more fulfilling life.

I support you to:

• step into your power, so you can live from your authentic self
• drop facades that drain you and don’t satisfy
• look around you, assess your needs and your unique gifts
• formulate new choices and take action

Healing is not an overnight thing. It takes time to grow into your power, embody your soul’s wisdom and learn to live resourced in steady ground, even in the face of uncertainty.

New to my work?

Contact me to schedule a free discovery session to see how my work can support you living Guided by Soul. 

EXPLORE YOUR SOUL’S PERCEPTION OF COLOR
 SOUL FLOW VEIL PAINTING WORKSHOP

Your Soul is highly attuned to flows of light and color. Process is key, so you don’t need prior experience with painting.

You don’t need a preconceived idea or image, because in this technique, you learn to trust the paint as it flows, to reveal light, depth and shadow.

In essence, we’re using paint as liquid light. This calls for specific, highest quality artist-grade watercolor paint and paper, included in your payment below. 

Lisa will introduce you to the nature of color according to Goethe–how it effects your psyche and interacts with space. You’ll be guided to explore color as energy and felt sensation, and trust your intuitive guidance to lead you through the process.

Nancy will “read the room,” creating a unique guided meditation to tune in to your intuition, so you can sense the flow and notice emerging patterns. We’ll allow the process to guide us, rather than aiming for a specific image. 

At the end of the workshop, we’ll send you home with additional supplies of paint and paper, to continue to explore Soul Flow Veil Painting. Then, join us again, as we continue to offer ongoing Soul Flow Veil Painting workshops, open to newcomers and repeaters alike.

WORKSHOP PRICE: $147 (Includes $27 for luscious, high quality materials–enough for class and for you to take home, to continue painting)

• Highest quality German made artist-grade watercolor paint
• 140# Cold Press watercolor paper.

NOTE: Bring your own brushes and supplies below.

SUPPLIES TO BRING WITH YOU:    

• 2 watercolor brushes, 3/4″, one flat, one round. (Feel free to bring additional brushes as desired.)
• rags or roll of paper towels
• 3 jars, 4 oz or smaller, with lids, to take paint home with you
• 2 jars (don’t need lids) to hold paint water 
• jar lids or mixing trays

For more information, email one or both of us:

• Lisa Rosato lisatelevista@yahoo.com
• NancyKern nancy@nancykern.com   

NANCY KERN is a Rice graduate with an MFA in painting from the University of Houston. She makes art to heal herself and accepts commissions to paint healing art for homes and offices. She has a private practice as a Spiritual Coach called Guided by Soul.

With more than 40 years’ experience in painting, poetry, midwifery,  reading the Akashic Records, craniosacral therapy, emotional healing, energy work and being on a spiritual-but-not religious path, Nancy is well known in Houston’s holistic healing world. www.nancykern.com.

LISA ROSATO is an artist with a BFA in painting from the University of Houston. Through her years of painting practice, Lisa has developed an in-depth understanding of color as defined by Goethe.

A professional Lazure artist, Lisa paints unique wall treatments that create soul-nourishing interior environments. As a longtime student of Anthroposophy, she received certification in early childhood education from Sofia’s Hearth, taught art in grades 4 – 12, and served on the Board of Trustees for Waldorf Education for Houston.

Lisa currently works as a painter, private tutor, and teaches life drawing and painting from her home studio and on location.

REGISTER ONLINE:  Nancy@nancykern.com
You can pay through PayPal, cash or check.

LOCATION: Art studio in the Heights, Houston
exact address provided upon registration

Join us for this soul-guided workshop

Akashic Healing to help you
Find your Center
in the Crazy Chaos of the World

If you are new to my work, contact me to schedule a
FREE 30-minute discovery session.

Do you feel overwhelmed by current events? The divisiveness, erosion of protections for the environment and mistreatment of vulnerable people. Do you fall into grief, anger disaster-sizing? Do you want to be able to stay centered, grounded and clear in the crazy and the chaos?

It’s all too easy to get sucked in to the vortex of crazy. 

“It’s like watching a train wreck!”

“I can’t do anything to stop it.”

Thoughts like these weigh heavy on our hearts.

We don’t function well  when we’re in overwhelm.

I can teach you self-care for you and your family during crazy, chaotic times. 

When you find yourself slipping into this state, tune in to your body. Notice what sensations your body is creating. With kindness and spaciousness, witness what you are feeling without trying to change it.

Does your belly feel heavy? Does your neck feel tight?

Whatever you are sensing, be with it and stay present. Don’t make your feelings wrong or suppress them.

As you drop more deeply into your heart, a question may pop up:

How do I take care of myself and be sourced in Love
when I feel so much pain — in humanity and in the world?
How can I be of service instead of feeling disabled?

I work this process myself as needed. Recently, when I did this, I felt the space in the room change. I knew from experience that my guides in the Akashic were reaching out to me.

After a period of meditation and deep, cleansing breaths, I opened my Akashic Records, using the invocation I’ve refined over the past 2 decades.

As the records opened, a brilliant yellow-gold light bathed the room. I wrote down the message I received. I share them with you here.

Words I channeled from Akasha are in italics.

“You do not judge a sketch in progress, a poem in its rudiment of a few words.
Do not judge the unfinished work of art that is your life and the life of the world.

All is not as it seems.

Souls are continuously coming and going, as are species. Until now, no one has been able to quantify this on a global level.

Humanity is an experience.

This teaching because it blew my mind! It reminded me what
my teacher Beautiful Painted Arrow taught me:
Human beings are not nouns. We are verbs.
The transmission continues…..

“Within all life, there are common denominators, as well as unique configurations of waves and particles, chemistry, magnetism and electromagnetism.

When you see the All in its wholeness, you see that pain and suffering are facets of the mandala of creation.

We are giving you permission to focus on Love, gratitude, play, prayer, song, dance, art—that which moves the energy and uplifts you, amidst the multiplicity.

Become more aware, get clearer about what is yours to do. If it is yours to do, you will feel relief and a sense of being supported when you take action.”

Even though this last part is personal to me, I’m guided to share it, as it applies to many old souls.

From the Akashic: “You have a habit in your soul of carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Not only is this unnecessary. It cannot be done!

The Atlas archetype: When you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders — you invoke the task of Sisyphus. Carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, and you will always be rolling that ball up the hill, world without end.”

If you are an activist, I am here to support you. I am here to support anyone who feels compelled to clear and heal the past, and to be more conscious and conscientious in the world. What is yours to do?

If you are hungry for healing and guidance from your Akashic Records, I’ve been reading them for 40 years. It is a responsibility I agree to, on a limited basis.

The first 20 years, I studied directly with my guides in the Records themselves. 20 years in, I felt called to work with a teacher, Mary Parker. I took all the training she offered over a 3-year period.  Click here to read my blog about the spontaneous transmission from the Akashic Records that I received when I was 27, during my first Saturn return.

For the past 20 years, I’ve done readings for close to 2000 people.

I do no more than 4 Akashic Sessions per week, so I can be fully present with the intense, energy that comes through me–and to you and your direct connection to Source. My intention is to help you remove obstacles to knowing your innate nature, the Seed of Light within you.

If you are new to my work, contact me to schedule a free 30-minute discovery session. If the Akashic is new to you, no worry. We will do some preliminary work to prepare you for the amazing energy.

All sessions are confidential. You can record them for re-listening at your convenience.

Email me to schedule your Akashic healing session. 

I am honored to be interviewed
by Kathleen Hanagan
for her series:
Conversations with Co-Creators of a New World

Kathleen contacted me to invite me to participate in this uplifting series of interviews after she found my blog. She was attracted to what I wrote.

In our getting-to-know-you call, she said, “We’ve never even met and we use the same words to talk about what we are doing in the world!”

I felt the same way when I read about her new book LOVESEED, the Template for Birthing a New World. My heart said YES! 

I opened my heart in this interview like I haven’t done before in public context. I am honored to share it with you now and would love to hear back from you after you’ve listened.

We are riding waves of change that we feel in our core. Humanity is being challenged to evolve. We have a great opportunity to shift out of separation into the deep, unshakable knowing that WE ARE ALL CONNECTED.

In this interview, I open up like  never before and share my journey through Kundalini rising, triggered by shock and trauma to celebrating the gifts:

• Direct spontaneous initiation into the Akashic Records
• Intimate knowledge of birth and death
• Helping souls enter this world and the next assisted by Beings of Light
• Gifts of remote viewing
• Ability to do distance healing sessions
• Ability to transmit Akashic energy to others
• Multi-dimensional awareness of your many facets

Listen to my interview here.

Many Blessings,

Nancy

Emotional upheavals are exhausting. Living on adrenaline is a survival mechanism, biologically designed to be short-term.

Come down from the intense energy swirls. Refresh your heart. Find a place to rest. Take your finger out of the dike.

Come Into the Eye of the StormWomen’s Self-Care Circle

• Bio-energetic release movements
• Sound Healing
• Emotional freedom through active tapping
• Release what you don’t need
• Receive what you do need
• Healing Energy transmission
• Experience the joy of transformation through movement & sound play
• Contraction to Expansion: open to receive Love
• Have fun!

We are riding and generating waves of massive change. No matter what immediate results we see, we need to refresh ourselves.

When women gather to share and transform emotions that have been stirred, we clarify and bolster our power together.

Women are designed to

Create Life and Fight for it!

Many women have put blood, sweat and tears into canvassing for Beto, registering people to vote, encouraging people to vote and keeping up with news events—many of which are tragic and shocking. We’ve gone from one intense catharsis to another; the Kavanaugh hearings, hate crimes, government leaders saying and doing harm.

We are in times of massive change. For some of us who are olders, our awareness was ignited in 1987 with the Harmonic Convergence. We’ve had the shifts of 2012.

We are co-creating with the Cosmos a New Age.  Even so, destructive events are shocking. Emotions are high. Anger, rage, grief are swirling around us.

To ride the waves of change and BE the change—we must align ourselves and our actions with Source Energy, Higher Power, the Universe, or God—whatever spiritual but not religious name you give it. The zero-point field, the Akashic space of formless and infinite potential.

We co-create with Source energy because doing so aligns us with Universal Love. The Divine Spark of Light within us is designed to Create from Love.

Join me on Wednesday, 11-7 at 11 am for a Women’s Healing Circle.

Experience the joy of movement, sounding and self-expression. Release contraction in your body with emotional freedom technique. Meet shadow emotions with Love and acceptance so you can benefit from the wisdom to be gained.

This circle will:

• bring you clarity
• connect you to what nourishes you
• reestablish your center
• ground yourself in nourishing Earth Energy
• connect with Source, whatever that means to you
• receive a direct transmission of energy to benefit you

Wednesday, 11/7 at 11 am to 2 pm
Lightflower Studio in the Heights

Pre-registration required
Register now for exact address: nancy@nancykern.com
Cost: sliding scale $20-$35 cash or check.
To pay by PayPal, please add $3.50 and send payment to nancy@nancykern.com

Bring:
Water to drink, preferably in reusable container
Your journal and a pen
Wear comfortable clothing for movement