THE EMPOWERED HEART
The Empowered Heart is a methodology, language and toolset designed to assist people through the process of healing emotional pain and living in a more present, conscious and empowered state.
Through years of research, exploration and personal study, the concept and methodology of The Empowered Heart was revealed to founder, Katie Gray:
“When you’re trapped in a state of addiction, unconsciousness and suffering like I was for so many years, being completely healed feels like a far-off dream. Freedom feels out of reach and unrealistic. I would hear of books and mentors who could help, but had become so distrusting of humans and identified with my pain that I wasn’t able to access the support I needed.
Then, in 2008, I was introduced to the healing forces of sacred plant medicine. As if my entire trajectory had shifted, I began immersing myself in a space of inner-exploration. With the intention to heal and recover, I stopped avoiding the pain and instead, began leaning in and observing it. Rather than numbing myself each day, I began courageously and intentionally feeling the truth of what was going on within me and understanding why I was suffering: unresolved trauma. Deeper within––beneath the suffering, beneath the addiction, beneath the anger, beneath the distrust–– I was hurting. And, I had been for a very long time. Sure, I was depressed, addicted, ashamed and insecure, but before that and beneath that, I was a precious, loving and tender being who had been wounded.
This profound realization––my problems were not the cause of my pain and suffering, but instead, my suffering was the result of unresolved trauma and pain––led me to begin seeing a clear and concise pattern in the suffering I witnessed around me. So clearly, I began to see where we, as humans, are hurting; where our struggles and suffering are the cause of so much suffering in the World. More importantly, where our suffering is the result of the accumulated pain and unresolved wounds within us.
Through years devoted to this work of dismantling unconsciousness and understanding the pathway towards healing, correlating imagery ensued. Like archetypal forces that were symbolic indicators of where someone was at on their journey of suffering and/or healing, I began seeing a distinct pattern and visual map to the suffering. Like a circular journey from the sacred innocence of our true and conscious selves, to the depths of pain and suffering, back to the light of our true selves.
Through this unique pathway and distinct patterning, the process of suffering and healing could be visually displayed, mentally comprehended and actively approached.
The result? The Empowered Heart–– a book, language & community that are now available to anyone and everyone who needs support on their healing journey.
The truth is, you may feel intimidated by your pain and feel that the healing process will be hard; that it will require a lot of work. As if to try and train a bad, wrong and weak person to be strong, you may feel like healing means learning to be different; to be better. The reality is, true healing from suffering does not include more suffering––each of us has suffered long enough.
What we really need is Love.
We need to be comforted and know we’re not alone.
We need to know we’re safe.
We need to be held and forgiven.
We need to know that we are powerful and have everything it takes to make it through the suffering and back to the golden light of the consciousness within us; back into the loving arms of our true selves.”
- Katie Gray
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