Reclaiming Inner Wisdom — Tapping into Your Truth, Body & Energy for Real Healing
Podcast Recap: Do You Feel Heard? – Episode 22
Guest: Gillian Nathan, LCSW, Depth Hypnosis Practitioner, Imago Relationship Counselor
Theme: Inner truth, somatic healing, trance work, energetic patterns, and the transformative power of remembering who you really are
What would happen if, when you felt stuck, you asked:
“What do I know to be true about me?”
This deceptively simple question is at the heart of a powerful and wide-ranging conversation in Episode 22 of Do You Feel Heard?. Gillian Nathan joins Derrick and Ian for a rich, soulful exploration of healing, wholeness, and the many paths back to self.
From shamanic trance to trauma-informed somatic grounding, this episode is a living reminder that we already hold the medicine we seek—we just need to remember how to listen.
Remembering Who You Are Beneath the Conditioning
Gillian’s work centers on helping people remember who they are beneath the patterns, trauma responses, and external identities that were never truly them to begin with.
“We’re all beings of light. My job isn’t to tell you the answer—it’s to reflect back what you already know.” – Gillian Nathan
Through modalities like Depth Hypnosis, trance journeys, energy work, and deep presence, Gillian invites her clients (and herself) to gently peel back the layers and come home to truth.
Mind-Body-Spirit: You Can’t Separate the Healing
In the Western model, we split therapy (mind), medicine (body), and spirituality (soul). But Gillian lives at the intersection—refusing to silo what is inherently whole.
She shares how trauma, grief, and energetic blocks are often stored in the body—not just as memories, but as felt realities that need somatic processing.
“The body remembers what the mind forgets. You can’t think your way into healing—you have to feel your way in.”
The Ego's Trick: Thinking the Pattern Is You
Gillian explains how early survival strategies—people-pleasing, shutting down, hyper-vigilance—were once brilliant adaptations to unsafe environments. But over time, we confuse those strategies for our identity.
“It’s just a costume you’ve worn so long, you think it’s your skin.”
Her approach includes honoring the survival strategy (“thank you for keeping me safe”), then lovingly releasing it to step into a more authentic self.
Patterns, Parts, and Energetic Interference
Blending IFS (Internal Family Systems) with shamanic and energetic work, Gillian speaks to “parts” not just as psychological concepts—but as energetic presences in the body that can be felt, spoken to, and healed.
She describes energetic interference as non-native energies lodged in the system—ones that can manifest as addiction, anxiety, or stuck behaviors.
“We don’t need to understand it all intellectually. You don’t need to ‘figure it out.’ Just drop in, trust what you feel, and allow it to move.”
Trance, Past Lives & Imagination as Wisdom Portals
Some of the most fascinating parts of the episode explore what happens when you drop out of the mind and into deeper states of consciousness.
Through guided trance, clients often recover powerful emotional truths—sometimes in symbolic stories, other times as past life memories, or archetypal visions.
“Did they make it up? Maybe. But if it brings healing, does it matter?”
The trio explores how letting go of needing to understand—and simply being present to what arises—can unlock transformation far deeper than logic.
Favorite Quotes from Episode 22
“Don’t therapize people. Just be loving and aware.”
“When we don’t feel heard, it’s often because we haven’t fully heard ourselves.”
“Healing is remembering. It’s remembering who we were before the world told us who to be.”
“Your defense mechanisms were brilliant—until they weren’t. Now it’s time to graduate them.”
“The breath is the bridge between the mind and the body.”
“Start with the body. Always start with the body.”
Final Reflection
You don’t need fixing.
You need to remember.
The version of you that’s clear, wise, grounded, and whole—it’s still there.
Beneath the noise.
Beneath the shame.
Beneath the stories.
Your body knows.
Your spirit remembers.
And the truth is waiting to be heard.