Hello beautiful people!
I want to share with you this recent interview with Maryanne Sea.
As some of you may know, Maryanne and I have known each other for 20 years and she played a crucial role in my own healing journey towards becoming a more embodied and happy human.
I find her humbleness, integrity, and deep wisdom such a rare combination and gift that I just needed to introduce her to you in person, not just through the written word.
So go ahead and watch it, or if you feel you need more inspiration, read below some reflections and intentions about the interview first.
In the interview, we start with Maryanne's own story and how she became incredibly sick due to chemical sensitivity she didn't know about. Her sickness forced her to enter the 'bubble’ ( a room with almost nothing in it) for nine months as she had become allergic to nearly everything in her surroundings (think even the ink in a pen could kill her).
It ties in with my previous article about the connection to our soil, and how many of us suffer from chronic illnesses that are due to toxicity that we are utterly unaware of. And that may also apply to those of us who eat organic and try our best to live a ‘clean’ life. Maryanne's story also illustrates how hard it is for us to even fathom that our sensitivity may be making us sick. Surely what works for many (what we consider normal) must also work for us, why shouldn't it?
In this world we have created, the emphasis is certainly on being tough/strong and on ‘soldiering’ on. No one wants to be the sensitive one. That's seen as weak.
So why do some suffer more than others?
Here we go deeply into the Mind-Body-Connection and how it's never just one thing that makes us sick. It's very contrary to our Western modern world view, where our thinking has become quite reductionistic. A causes B, a virus causes sickness, and negative thinking causes disease, without taking into account the person’s inner world at all.
As Maryanne's life illustrates so beautifully, that's just not how it works. We are WHOLE beings, not made of separate parts that somehow manage to work together. Everything affects everything.
Maryanne's healing journey required her to go deeply into her shadows and face her demons, ‘the parts of us that are not flattering', as she says: terror, rage, grief, and insanity.
How do we end up with those energies (emotions) so deeply stored inside of us?
The answer is quite simple: we don't teach our children how to let go of pain.
Our bodies are designed to release and regulate, but when we live in a world that denies that (feeling) part of our experience and we try to understand it all through the mind, we end up suppressing our real feelings, which then start festering as 'residue’ inside of us, giving rise to all sorts of disorders, or outbursts of violence (my heart goes out to America's schools).
But make no mistake, we are all in the same boat. And all of us have shadows that sooner or later will need to be dealt with.
Thankfully, there are now countless modalities and ways in which we can regulate and release. We don't all need to spend hours with a therapist anymore. Even though that may still be very helpful, because, as Maryanne points out, it's intimacy that heals:
The experience of being felt by another and of not being alone in our experience.
And that's truly what I have found is Maryanne's biggest gift: her ability to deeply feel into the parts of another and STAY there with them, which allows the tissue to open and expand.
In the second half of the interview, we talk about Pre-Birth Communication, which I know some might find hard to believe possible. But when you start listening to Maryanne's countless stories of working with babies inside the womb, it's hard not to think that maybe there is so much more possible than what we are conditioned to believe!
Did you know that not that long ago, boys were still circumcised without anesthesia? The thought paradigm was: the brain is not fully developed, therefore the baby doesn't feel. Now there is ample scientific evidence, that that's simply not true. (I shudder just thinking about how many boys have experienced trauma on account of our ignorance, insensitivity and arrogance)
I personally love the stories she mentions and find them utterly fascinating.
What else is possible in terms of developing our empathy and our intuition?
Becoming more kind and loving human beings?
What if we are not too sensitive but too numb? What if babies didn't have to shut down when being born?
How can we create a safe environment in which it's ok to feel everything and stay open in the heart?
I am looking forward to her next book where she will share more of her work with babies. And for those of you who are either pregnant (and want to know if the baby is happy) or struggling to become pregnant, I know many friends who have benefited from Maryanne's work. So get in touch with her!
Last but not least, I wanted to share with you another reason why I am so passionate about sharing Maryanne's work. Yes, I want her to help as many babies and mothers to have a trauma-free birth. And yes, I am very grateful to her for all that she helped me with in my life. But there is another reason….
To me, Maryanne is an Elder. Someone with so much more wisdom and experience than many of us. And we need Elders to guide us. Especially now as we are moving so fast into virtual realities and parallel universes, that we forget the very basics of being human: we are here to love.
We need to slow down and listen to those who have come before us and who know more.
I want to honor that by giving her access to a wider audience, who is you! So thank you for reading this far. Comment below and I hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did. Please don't forget to subscribe and share!
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Kasia Patzelt is an Artist, Laughter Yogi, and Embodiment Coach. She helps people to release trauma and learn the art of self-compassion through embodiment practices and creativity.