To Dare, Together: Truth Seeking in the Depths for Healing, Transformation, & Collective Liberation
Hello friend! I’m so grateful you’re here. I created this space for you and I to spend some time together. To Dare, Together. To seek the truth in the depths. To Dare to tune into the wisdom and pleasure of our bodies. To honor the places that hold pain and renewal. To Dare to descend and arise, transformed in the never ending cycle of death and regeneration. To reenchant the world around us from a more embodied and integrated place. To Dare to join in honest connection where liberation, love, equity, beauty, joy, gratitude, sensuality, dignity, and reverence for all life on earth is at the heart of our sacred space.
I am your host, Erin O'Brien, licensed psychotherapist in practice for over 20 years, intuitive healer, relationship counselor, and dare I say, witch, and if you are willing, your friend. Together we will descend into the mystery, into the exquisite darkness because true liberation starts with healing from the inside out. And it happens when we dare to go there, together.
Where are we going, you may ask? Well, we are delving into all the realms of our experience. We will move through our body, heart, mind, soul, spirit, original and chosen family, relationships, communities, cultures, dominant systems in society, intergenerational patterning, ancestral wounds and wisdom, and the great expanse of our collective. Because when we are together, we will seek to know what’s true. We will alchemize and transform, knowing that our fates are inevitably intertwined with one another. So let’s will it together.
My offering here will be a combination of solo explorations together, and deep dives with other like-hearted therapists, healers, intuitives, activists, magickal practitioners, artists, abolitionists, astrologers, visionaries, witches, and more. I want to support our journey of transformation by sharing practices that we can facilitate because ultimately we are our own wisest guide, healer, and teacher. Our body holds so much intelligence if we just slow down enough to listen. When we know how to keep silent and just be, just breathe, just listen, we know how to summon our greatest powers of transformation.
We will explore practices that focus on increasing our somatic awareness, trauma integration, and nervous system regulation. We will work with our shadow to illuminate what needs to be alchemized or released. We will dismantle our internalized systems of dominance and extraction so we resonate with the reciprocity and abundance of life. We will deepen our understanding of intersectionality and how our social location in the world shifts our experiences of power and disembodiment. We will strive to relate with others in ways that are embodied and promote connection, celebrate differentiation, and respectfully move through rupture or conflict so that all beings preserve their dignity. We will conjure the wisdom of our ancestors to strengthen our communal spaces. We will create rituals to attune with the cycles of nature, lunar rhythms, astrology, and the wheel of the year. We will do pathworkings and divination to deepen our relationship to our Higher Self, Spirit Team, Intuition, Magick, Soul’s purpose, and so much more.
We are all here on Earth right now. It’s time To Dare to take a stand for healing, transformation, and collective liberation. And the first step starts from within. Let’s take it together.
“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” – unknown
To Dare, Together: Truth Seeking in the Depths for Healing, Transformation, & Collective Liberation
Bloopers: Laughing at Yourself is Medicine
I hope you find this blooper collection silly and fun! It's short, so enjoy a break from my long-winded self.
Hello and welcome to the bloopers reel. Get ready to dare together Truth-seeking in the depths for healing, transformation and collective liberation. It's a mouthful. I might need to reconsider this title. I'm your host, aaron O'Brien, licensed psychotherapist, intuitive healer, relationship counselor and, dare I say, witch relationship counselor and, dare I say, witch.
Speaker 1:It's fitting that this is going so well, because this is my attempt at a blooper reel to kind of collect all the little moments where you know things did not totally go well but I still think are pretty funny and you know we need to be able to laugh at ourselves. So, yeah, I hope you enjoy. It's not too long, but you'll uh. Yeah, clearly I can be really redundant and so I will just name that Uh, and I, you know, apologize for my long winded tendencies here. I don't know if it's my Gemini, if it's my Scorpio, who knows, but I just ate a bug. Oh, poor buddy, I have a lot of plants in my God.
Speaker 1:There are a lot of living beings that are in my therapy office as a result, and one just decided to literally enter my body. So, thank you, I don't think I can lost where I was, where was I? Oh, yeah, okay, I'm also thinking about the town I grew up in, this very small town, very heterogeneous, Sorry, very homogenous, and I always get those two confused. Everybody was the same. Let me just say it plainly. Anyway, to support your awakening, your re-experiencing, your understanding, can I say any more words here? Thank you,
