In this episode, I step away from structure, performance, and preparation, and allow myself to speak openly from the heart.
What unfolds is a deeply personal reflection on releasing the wounded masculine. The urgency, perfectionism, and relentless drive to produce; And softening back into the wisdom of the feminine. I share how rest, ceremony, travel, and surrender initiated a profound recalibration between yin and yang within my body, my work, and my sense of self.
This conversation explores the subtle ways we become disconnected from intuition by prioritising doing over being, strategy over trust, and external rhythms over inner truth. I speak candidly about letting go of hustle culture, algorithmic pressure, and the belief that everything will fall apart if we slow down.
JUMP TO A CHAPTER :
00:00 – Speaking without structure
02:40 – Fear, perfectionism, and authenticity
05:34 – Nervous system safety
08:15 – Releasing hustle and control
11:18 – Ceremony, surrender, and energetic purge
17:15 – Balancing masculine and feminine
22:12 – Trusting intuition over strategy
27:07 – Letting go to make space for what’s next
This episode is an invitation to rebalance the inner masculine and feminine. Not by rejecting either, but by allowing the feminine to lead once more. From this place, creation becomes organic, aligned, and deeply rooted in the heart.
✨ Where to Find Katharine
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WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/
✨ Ways to work with Katharine
Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.
Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship
Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay
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In this episode, we explore the true nature of emotional triggers; Not as personal failures, but as energetic awakenings guiding you back to the parts of yourself longing to be seen. Through the intertwined lenses of nervous system science, inner child healing, and spiritual growth, we soften the shame around being triggered and illuminate the deeper wisdom beneath each emotional wave.
You’ll learn why the people closest to you stir your core the most, how your body stores unprocessed emotions, and how triggers can become powerful invitations into expansion rather than collapse.
Katharine shares a compassionate process for staying present with your inner child, allowing the body to complete what was never finished, and returning to yourself with tenderness rather than judgment.
JUMP TO A CHAPTER :
00:00 Understanding the Nature of Triggers
02:05 Why Parents, Partners & Children Trigger Us
03:35 What a Trigger Really Is
05:02 Neuroception & the Body’s Threat Detector
07:14 Emotions as Inner Children
09:44 The Biology of Emotional Waves
11:52 Meaning, Story & Emotional Spirals
13:40 Allowing Emotion Without the Story
15:30 What Triggers Are Revealing
20:03 The Spiritual Perspective of Triggers
23:08 A Grounded Process for Navigating Triggers
26:15 Support Inside the Awaken Course
✨ Where to Find Katharine
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FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/
WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/
✨ Ways to work with Katharine
Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.
Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship
Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay
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In this latest episode, Katharine guides you into a new understanding of childhood trauma; beyond the visible wounds and into the subtle, silent places where disconnection, emotional absence, and unmet needs take root. Through a blend of nervous system wisdom, spiritual insight, and lived experience, this conversation invites you to soften, breathe, and recognise the parts of yourself that learned to survive by becoming someone you were never meant to be.
You’ll explore how the body holds stories the mind has forgotten, why so many “personality traits” are actually protective responses, and how your soul may have chosen certain experiences as part of your path back to remembering who you really are.
This episode is a gentle awakening. An invitation to see yourself with more compassion, understanding, and truth.
JUMP TO A CHAPTER :
00:00 – Opening & Welcome
00:59 – Redefining Trauma
03:38 – Childhood Patterns in Adulthood
08:39 – Complex Trauma Explained
12:17 – Spiritual Perspective on Trauma
15:11 – Generational Trauma Story
20:05 – Emotional Neglect
23:02 – Trauma Responses
25:01 – Personality vs Survival
29:40 – First Layer of Healing
29:56 – Guided Nervous System Practice
31:23 – Closing & Next Episode Preview
✨ Where to Find Katharine
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✨ Ways to work with Katharine
Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.
Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship
Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay
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Your words are not just sounds; They’re spells and vibrations that ripple through your energy field and shape your experience of reality. In this episode, Katharine explores how the language you use (especially about yourself) becomes a mirror for your subconscious mind and the life you create.
Through science, spirituality and the wisdom of the nervous system, you’ll learn how to shift your words from self-criticism to self-compassion, from fear to freedom. Discover how to consciously speak life into your intentions, rewrite your inner story, and embody the vibration of your future self.
JUMP TO A CHAPTER :
00:00 The power of language and vibration
02:00 Words as spells: how sound creates form
04:00 The subconscious mind and emotional frequency
07:00 The brain’s filtering system and attracting patterns
10:00 Emotional addiction and repeating old cycles
12:00 Complaining, judgement, and leaking energy
14:30 The “I am” declarations and conscious speaking
17:00 Reprogramming with emotion and visualisation
19:00 Gabby Bernstein’s “Choose Again” method
21:15 Becoming the conscious creator of your reality
✨ Where to Find Katharine
FACEBOOK | The Light Becomes Her
WEB | The Light Becomes Her
✨ Ways to work with Katharine
Online Course & Healing Community | Awaken - The Light Becomes Her | Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.
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In this deeply reflective episode, Katharine explores how the beliefs we carry (often formed in childhood) quietly shape our perception, vibration, and the reality we experience. Through stories of healing, nervous system awareness, and energetic insight, she guides you to see how subconscious patterns influence love, money, and self-worth.
Learn how to dissolve old conditioning, meet your inner wounds with compassion, and shift into a new frequency of trust and abundance. This is not about positive thinking, it’s about deep energetic transformation, grounded in nervous system safety and soul awareness.
As you soften into awareness and regulate your nervous system, your vibration rises, and life begins to mirror that change.
JUMP TO A CHAPTER :
00:00 The path of healing and truth
01:01 How beliefs create our reality
03:11 The law of vibration and resonance
06:01 A story of how low self esteem created rejection that wasn’t there
10:03 How subconscious wounds create disconnection in relationships
13:17 Money, safety, and abundance blocks
16:18 Rewiring the subconscious
18:00 A guided reflection to shift limiting beliefs
21:17 Creating safety and compassion within
22:53 You are the cause, reality is the effect
✨ Where to Find Katharine
IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en
FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/
WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/
✨ Ways to work with Katharine
Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.
Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship
Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay
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Ever felt like you’re the one standing in your own way? In this episode of The Light Becomes Her, Katharine gently unpacks the deeper truth behind self-sabotage. Why we pull back just as things start to work, and how it’s really our system’s way of trying to protect us.
From understanding your nervous system’s safety signals to rewriting old subconscious stories, Katharine shares real experiences and powerful tools to help you stop looping in old patterns and start creating lasting change.
Jump to a Chapter:
00:00 Understanding self-sabotage as protection
05:00 How it hides in everyday habits and thoughts
10:00 Katharine’s personal story of facing fear and growth
17:00 The subconscious mind and your nervous system
27:00 Why we repeat painful patterns in relationships
37:00 How to break free and build inner safety
When we see that self-sabotage isn’t failure but a part of us longing to feel safe, everything starts to shift. This episode will help you release shame, reconnect with your body, and move forward with compassion and courage.
✨ Where to Find Katharine
IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en
FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/
WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/
✨ Ways to work with Katharine
Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.
Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship
Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay
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What if the fear that holds you back isn’t who you are, but a survival pattern your body learned long ago? In this episode of The Light Becomes Her, Katharine invites you deeper into her personal healing journey to uncover the truth beneath imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and the fear of being seen.
She shares how embodiment practices, shadow work, and inner child healing helped her move beyond self-doubt and anxiety to live freely and fully expressed. This is a powerful episode for any woman ready to reconnect with her body, soften her self-protection, and remember her worth.
Jump to a Chapter:
00:00 What it really means to “do the inner work”
03:00 How the body stores fear and shame
05:00 Shadow work and facing the truth within
08:00 The hidden link between perfectionism and imposter syndrome
13:00 Healing through the nervous system and embodiment
20:00 Katharine’s Healing Origin Wounds method
23:00 Soul-level healing and the Akashic Records
25:00 Returning to safety and the light within
✨Where to Find Katharine
IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en
FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/
WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/
✨ Ways to work with Katharine
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Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community
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Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay
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In this first episode of The Light Becomes Her, I take you behind the curtain of my life. Sharing how years of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and numbing through alcohol and relationships eventually led me to rock bottom. And more importantly, how that rock bottom became the starting point for my healing.
This episode is part story, part invitation. You’ll hear how I found my way into sobriety, how I began facing the fears and wounds I’d been running from, and how choosing healing over hiding completely transformed my life.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in cycles you can’t seem to break, or you’ve wondered if it’s really possible to step into the woman you were meant to be, I hope my story helps you feel seen, hopeful, and not so alone.
Jump to a Chapter:
00:00 – Welcome to The Light Becomes Here
00:45 – Overcoming resistance and embracing visibility
01:15 – Meet Katharine McLean: Counsellor, Energy Healer, and Guide
02:00 – On paper, life looked perfect.. But something was missing
03:00 – Redefining addiction and the need to escape
04:40 – The science behind blackouts and emotional triggers
06:05 – Childhood trauma and its lasting effects
07:15 – The shame cycle and addiction loop
09:00 – Hitting rock bottom and surrendering
13:30 – The moment of awakening and seeking help
15:25 – Sobriety, 12-step recovery, and spiritual healing
18:00 – Facing fears through embodiment and service
20:00 – Finding purpose, growth, and new beginnings
22:00 – Healing, self-reflection, and transformation
24:55 – Closing reflections and the HOW Method
✨Where to Find Katharine
IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en
FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/
WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/
The Light Becomes Her Podcast cuts through surface-level self-help to explore true healing and transformation. Hosted by Holistic Counsellor and Energy Healer Katharine McLean, who has spent over two decades helping others move beyond childhood trauma and addiction. Through raw, insightful conversations blending psychology, spirituality, and nervous system science, Katharine guides you to release old patterns, reclaim your truth, and live freely—unmasked and unapologetic.