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To Dare Together, with Erin O'Brien

To Dare Together, with Erin O'Brien

Written by: Erin O'Brien LPC LLC
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Hello friend! Welcome, my name is Erin O'Brien, and I'm daring to create and hold space for decolonized healing, transformation, and collective liberation. I'm a licensed psychotherapist for over 20+ years, a relationship counselor, a spiritual intuitive, a shadow worker, and witch, and I believe that true therapuetic practice, calls for right-action and remembers all the ways of wellbeing. This is a place that will remember the old truths and reconnect them to their land and to their people. Together, we will unite the relational, social, spiritual, psychological, energetic, ancestral, scientific, environmental, political, and magickal, because they are most powerful when working as a sacred whole ~ AS ARE WE! 2026 is a time To Dare to create the world that we've been dreaming of. To Dare to be the dream we have been waiting for... Let’s do it.


Together, we will restore right-relationship to ourselves, to each other, to the land, and to the Divine. We will seek to know the truth in the depths, and dare to tune into the wisdom and pleasure of our bodies. To honor the places that hold pain and renewal. To descend and arise, transformed in the cycle of death and regeneration. To reenchant the world around us from a truly embodied and integrated place. To be in honest connection where liberation, love, equity, accountability, repair, beauty, joy, gratitude, sensuality, generosity, prosperity, dignity, and reverence for all life on earth is at the heart of our community.


We will dare to align our body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit. Ready to couragousely examine our original and chosen families, relationships, communities, cultures, systems in society, intergenerational patterns, ancestral wounds and wisdom, and the great expanse of our collective. Because when we are together, we will seek to know what is true. We will alchemize and transform, knowing that our fates are inevitably intertwined with one another. So let’s will it together. Our bodies hold 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.


My offering each episode will be a combination of solo explorations and deep dives with other like-hearted therapists, space-holders, embodied healers, spiritual intuitives, magickal practitioners, artists, abolitionists, astrologers, visionaries, witches, and more.


We will focus on embodiment, trauma integration, and nervous system regulation. We will work with our unconscious/shadow to illuminate what needs to be transmuted or released. We will dismantle our internalized systems of dominance and extraction so we resonate with the reciprocity and abundance of life. We will understand how colonization wounds are at the core of our dis-ease and disembodiment. We will create ways of relating that promote connection, celebrate differentiation, respectfully move through conflict, and preserve each other's 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, and so much more. Are you ready To Go?


Once again, THIS IS THE TIME To Dare to create the world that we've been dreaming of. To Dare to be the dream we have been waiting for... Let’s be it together.


“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” – unknown

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  • Embodiment Series Week 6: Flo, Water Spells, and Body Blessings
    Apr 27 2026

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    Welcome back to Week 6 of my Spring-Summer series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change! Today’s episode was recorded on the First Quarter Moon in Leo, as Venus moved into Gemini, holding a loving hand out for Uranus to follow. We explore the transformative power of Uranus as the great cosmic disruptor, and we use this influence to examine how harmful thoughts patterns perpetuate disembodiment. We connect this to the “water experiment” by Dr. Emoto in the book, “What The Bleep Do We Know,” by William Arntz and how words are powerful spells that create change at the molecular level!

    We shift into our embodiment practice, which is a guided body blessing of love and gratitude that moves from head to feet, pairing touch with clear language. Hands on the head becomes gratitude for focus and vision; eyes become a doorway to connection and inner sight; throat becomes a commitment to speak for justice, equity, and decolonization; heart and lungs become gratitude for breath and blood, ancestry and land, belly becomes nourishment and creative center, and so on. We complete the process by offering blessings outward to the earth, the collective, and the divine through movement and dance, honoring the reciprocal relationship that connects us all.

    Thank you for tuning in. If you’re ready for more then join me each week, and get ready To Dare, Together! If this resonates, subscribe so you don’t miss out, share it with someone who needs body-based, spirit-centered support right now.

    Check out the links below to connect with the brilliant people and their work mentioned in today's episode:

    https://florenceandthemachine.net/

    https://www.morrigan.academy/intensive

    https://www.embodiedastrology.com

    https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/dtft


















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    31 mins
  • Embodiment Series Week 5: Sensory Attunement and Ritual Touch
    Apr 27 2026

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    Welcome back to Week 5 of my Spring-Summer series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change! Today’s episode was recorded amidst the afterglow of the powerful New Moon in Aries conjunct Chiron, the wounded healer, invoking courage to release pain and embrace regeneration. The core message is that your deepest wound can become your greatest gift when you meet it in right-relationship with its roots. With the arrival of Taurus season, we shift our focus to the beauty and intelligence of our bodies and how the sensorial experience of being alive becomes a real resource for power and nourishment.

    We get practical with sensory attunement and nervous system support, including a clear breakdown of more than the “five senses” through vestibular awareness, proprioception, and interoception. I guide you through orientation using sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, then offer an ear self-massage that can support vagus nerve tone and help your body soften into parasympathetic ease.

    From there, we move into a self-touch ritual that asks a different kind of question: where does your body want love, what wounds want tending, and what hidden gifts are ready to awaken? The practice includes feeling into ancestral wounding and familial patterns held in the tissues, while also seeking hidden gifts, pleasure, and remembering.

    Bodywork, movement, and sensory attunement become rituals of release and reclamation, acknowledging that disembodiment is a survival response shaped by colonial violence, systemic oppression, and intergenerational trauma. Re-inhabiting the body becomes a daily act of resistance and a return to belonging. The way we care for our body shapes how we show up for each other, our communites, and the world we want to build. Surrounding ourselves with beloveds who are also seeking embodiment brings a profound energy for this work.

    Thank you for tuning in. If you’re ready for more then join me each week, and get ready To Dare, Together! If this resonates, subscribe so you don’t miss out, share it with someone who needs body-based, spirit-centered support right now.

    Check out the links below to connect with the brilliant people and their work mentioned in today's episode:

    https://bloodlineastrology.com/about/

    https://www.morrigan.academy/intensive

    https://www.embodiedastrology.com

    https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/dtft

    https://www.stephenporges.com



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    44 mins
  • Embodiment Series Week 4: Attachment Spectrum and Ancestral Song
    Apr 19 2026

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    Welcome back to Week 4 of my Spring-Summer series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change! Today’s episode was recorded under the Last Quarter Moon in Capricorn amidst Aries season, and we use the energy of balance ~ holding release and rebirth as vital forces for growth to ask a direct question: what structures, habits, and colonial mindsets are ready to be released so they can be composted into what we’re here to build next?

    We acknowledge how the universe and the Divine is always providing what we need, and who we need, in aligned timing. I share the exciting training opportunity in 2026 with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Psy.D, author of the national bestseller "Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice," which is the first Fellowship training, and is a "Four-Part Professional Evolution for Psychologists, Therapists, Social Workers, Healers, Teachers & Space Holders." This is for the dream builders and space holders who want to name what so many mental health spaces avoid: intergenerational and historical trauma, structural oppression, soul dehydration, rage, disenfranchised grief, collective care, boundaries, and repair. Next training is on June 18, 2026! We look at the colonial soul wound and why decolonizing therapy is a necessary return to truth, people, land, and integrity. We also talk about the learning community, Embodied Astrology, and their powerful 12 week cohort, At the Heart of Conflict, which provides aligned containment for building capacity and awareness of conflict patterns and how to change them for more authentic intimacy with self, others, and the collective.

    Then we ground into a brief review of the autonomic nervous system; including polyvagal theory, neuroception and interoception, and I describe the Modern Attachment Regulation Spectrum from queer partners, Sue Marriott and Dr. Ann Kelley: the green zone of secure relating, the red zone of preoccupied dysregulation, and the blue zone of dismissing shutdown. The goal isn’t perfect safety. It’s building enough safety cues through your body, your environment, and your relationships so you can come back to connection. We layer in the essential context that is always informing our bodies and relationships, which live in the deeper patterns of our ancestral, historical, and intergenerational lineages and how colonization has impacted HOW our experiences get shaped over time.

    In our embodiment practice this week, we explore Draíocht Ceoil, an Irish magical tradition of Sound and Music, pulling from native File (Poet), Geraldine Moorkens Byrne’s class at the Irish Pagan School and her new book out May 1, 2026, Draíocht Ceoil: The Sound of Magic in Irish Traditions. Together, we use sound to attune/amplify our environment, or to change it!

    Thank you for tuning in. If you’re ready for more then join me each week, and get ready To Dare, Together! If this resonates, subscribe so you don’t miss out, share it with someone who needs body-based, spirit-centered support right now, and leave a review to help more people find this resource.

    Check out the links below to connect with the brilliant people and their work mentioned in today's episode:

    https://irishpaganschool.com/p/draoicht-ceoil

    https://www.celebratingwords.com/

    https://www.embodiedastrology.com/

    https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/

    https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/dtft/

    https://www.stephenporges.com./

    https://therapistuncensored.com/secure-relating/



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    1 hr and 4 mins
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