Your Anxiety and Depression might be Intuition in Chains…
Stay with me, and let me break this down for you. I know this can be triggering…
If you deal with anxiety in any form the WORST thing someone could say to you is “but what if it’s your intuition??”. That is LITERALLY what the voice of anxiety says, and that is definitely not what I am saying.
But think about it this way: if a wild mustang were put in a pen, they would become anxious. When an orca is kept in captivity, they become depressed.
Primal, wild energy is meant to MOVE. To run, to swim, to be free to flow with the currents of life, and to move in response to the subtle perceptions that they are picking up on all the time.
Your intuition is like this. You have a primal and wild layer of perception that wants… no, needs… to be able to feel into the world and gather up information and insight that it can respond to. When this part of us has been repressed, shamed, or distorted (as has become standard in our culture over the past 500 years) we will begin to feel anxious, and then eventually depressed, because we KNOW we are meant to stretch our field of perception beyond the tiny lines and boxes that have been socially permitted.
You are anxious because there is a mighty muscle in you that is desperate to stretch. You are depressed because your soul knows there is more available than the tiny spectrum you’ve felt safe to experience.
Energy Work and Magical Practice is a tool of survival that we need now more than ever, because there is a wildness in us that is bursting at the seams… it cannot be kept in captivity much longer.
For some folks, you’ve had intuitive or prophetic experiences that happened without context or guidance, and it scared you so much that you shut down your perceiving all together. This was me: I used to have dreams of family members dying 1-2 days before they would die. Pretty fucked up and confusing for a 5 year old who doesn’t have anyone around to explain how or why this is happening.
For some folks, you came into the world SO perceptive that you found yourselves instantly overwhelmed by the volume and quality of invisible information you were perceiving… you just wanted to shut it down, turn it all off, make it go away. I had versions of this too, which was why I drank for 10 years to try to keep the volume at minimum.
In a well culture, you would have been taught from a young age how to work with your systems of subtle perception so that they could be a superpower rather than a curse. In a well culture, you would have been taught to work with Energy just as your were taught to speak and read.
In The Gateway track inside the Radical Healers 2025 Immersion program we do the work that the culture should have done all along. We start with Reiki and Shamanism to re-awaken these systems of subtle perception in you and to entrain the capacity to navigate invisible information with ease and power rather than fear and overwhelm. We work to help you uncover your unique, embodied way of working your primal, intuitive self.
And most importantly, we allow the anxiety and depression to gently drift away because we KNOW now that it is safe to feel and perceive.
Coming up you’ll learn more about the other two tracks inside our 9 month immersion program. In the meantime, don’t forget to use our FREE Tasting Room resources.
Big love, don’t be a stranger
Julia