It is often said that the longest journey is from the head to the heart. There's different reasons for this, based on upbringing and feeling safe to express ourselves authentically. Trauma and adverse life events can derail us from living aligned to our spirit selves, until we make our way back home. Awakening is remembering who you truly are - this has been my heart led path of discovery and influences how I work with people.
What I've found on my path is there's an incredible power to "letting in" healing, and often this is where people get stuck. It has to do with letting the good into the heart space, to feel what comes and goes, to lean into where it feels tight so fresh energy can start to move and transform our lives. It raises up our spiritual vibrational energy, so we are more likely to attract like energy, rather than repeat patterns including attracting lower vibrational situations and people. This is only based on us feeling energetically depleted, but we can change this patterning in small and significant ways. To begin with - just being aware and strengthening our own heart awareness starts the shift.
What I've found on my path is there's an incredible power to "letting in" healing, and often this is where people get stuck. It has to do with letting the good into the heart space, to feel what comes and goes, to lean into where it feels tight so fresh energy can start to move and transform our lives. It raises up our spiritual vibrational energy, so we are more likely to attract like energy, rather than repeat patterns including attracting lower vibrational situations and people. This is only based on us feeling energetically depleted, but we can change this patterning in small and significant ways. To begin with - just being aware and strengthening our own heart awareness starts the shift.
Over the years, I've made several Youtube videos, here's one that focuses on overcoming resistance and letting in during a psychedelic journey. However, whether someone is taking psychedelics or just feeling into their day-to-day experiences, it is still relevant. 🦋
Cathy Jonas, MSW, LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
My main focus is teaching and brainstorming long-term, easy to learn strategies that clients can utilize during stressful times. This is what keeps the personal growth path moving forward. Allowing oneself to start over, to give self some grace. With the next breath, it's possible to start again. Truly it's that simple... but getting traction on one's personal growth path during discouraging times and when life joys feel stalled out, is often the biggest obstacle. We're here to help. It starts with the breath and a choice to start again, to let in some hope, to find your light again and let it shine.
Cathy became a licensed therapist in 2004, starting her private counseling practice in 2014, after 13 years of working as a medical social worker. She's worked in the human services field for four decades (various agencies, schools, hospitals, as a ketamine therapist, energy healer and personal growth coach, and as a licensed psilocybin facilitator since 2023). She is also the author of two books (Bringing Home the Mountain: Finding the Teacher Within. 2021; and Metamorphosis of an Awakened Heart: With Teachings from Mother Ayahuasca, 2010, 2012).
Cathy combines what she's learned professionally and personally about the long-term impact of childhood trauma, and how various self-help strategies can be helpful. She is especially inspired by the field of neuroscience, what she's learned from being a neurofeedback practitioner since 2016 (as a business owner of Eugene Neurofeedback), and in working with psilocybin professionally as the founder of EPIC Healing Eugene and lead facilitator at Radiant Heart Consulting (Oregon and the Nations first psilocybin service center, May 2023). She is especially inspired by our ability to heal ourselves, if we allow ourselves to heal, if we can be open to it. Cathy loves to share what she's learned about neuroplasticity and trauma healing, and how these are influenced by our ability to engage in physiological regulation strategies (breathing), and how we can rewire our brains (by taking in the good - letting in). Cathy brings to her experience years of working with people from all walks of life, along with what she's learned on her own personal growth path, her solo trips to India, her years of mindfulness and spiritual seeking, which evolved to working with plant medicines (including psilocybin and ayahuasca for healing). She combines both traditional counseling strategies and alternative modalities, in a down-to-earth style. Her book Metamorphosis of an Awakened Heart: With Teachings from Mother Ayahuasca (2021), includes self-help strategies and her stories of working with the jungle medicine - Ayahuasca in 2015, 2017, and 2019. (Certainly another book will come, as so much has happened since 2021, including opening up Oregon and the Nation's First Psilocybin Service Center in 2023.
Cathy is a trauma specialist - trained in many Western and Holistic modalities (neurofeedback, EMDR, Heart-Center hypnotherapy strategies, cognitive-behavioral strategies for neuroplastic change (mindfulness, positive self-talk, taking in the good, bilateral resource tapping - DIY EMDR), Internal Family Systems, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (Psilocybin -Oregon Licensed Facilitator), Somatic awareness strategies, Energetic Systems - including energy healing and shamanic release strategies, etc.
Cathy became a licensed therapist in 2004, starting her private counseling practice in 2014, after 13 years of working as a medical social worker. She's worked in the human services field for four decades (various agencies, schools, hospitals, as a ketamine therapist, energy healer and personal growth coach, and as a licensed psilocybin facilitator since 2023). She is also the author of two books (Bringing Home the Mountain: Finding the Teacher Within. 2021; and Metamorphosis of an Awakened Heart: With Teachings from Mother Ayahuasca, 2010, 2012).
Cathy combines what she's learned professionally and personally about the long-term impact of childhood trauma, and how various self-help strategies can be helpful. She is especially inspired by the field of neuroscience, what she's learned from being a neurofeedback practitioner since 2016 (as a business owner of Eugene Neurofeedback), and in working with psilocybin professionally as the founder of EPIC Healing Eugene and lead facilitator at Radiant Heart Consulting (Oregon and the Nations first psilocybin service center, May 2023). She is especially inspired by our ability to heal ourselves, if we allow ourselves to heal, if we can be open to it. Cathy loves to share what she's learned about neuroplasticity and trauma healing, and how these are influenced by our ability to engage in physiological regulation strategies (breathing), and how we can rewire our brains (by taking in the good - letting in). Cathy brings to her experience years of working with people from all walks of life, along with what she's learned on her own personal growth path, her solo trips to India, her years of mindfulness and spiritual seeking, which evolved to working with plant medicines (including psilocybin and ayahuasca for healing). She combines both traditional counseling strategies and alternative modalities, in a down-to-earth style. Her book Metamorphosis of an Awakened Heart: With Teachings from Mother Ayahuasca (2021), includes self-help strategies and her stories of working with the jungle medicine - Ayahuasca in 2015, 2017, and 2019. (Certainly another book will come, as so much has happened since 2021, including opening up Oregon and the Nation's First Psilocybin Service Center in 2023.
Cathy is a trauma specialist - trained in many Western and Holistic modalities (neurofeedback, EMDR, Heart-Center hypnotherapy strategies, cognitive-behavioral strategies for neuroplastic change (mindfulness, positive self-talk, taking in the good, bilateral resource tapping - DIY EMDR), Internal Family Systems, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (Psilocybin -Oregon Licensed Facilitator), Somatic awareness strategies, Energetic Systems - including energy healing and shamanic release strategies, etc.