Annie Richardson • Counsellor, Somatic EMDR & Human Design Mentor

22/04/2026

You don’t need to understand someone to support them.

Some of us move in ways that don’t make sense at first.

We follow things we can feel before we can explain.

We change. We shift. We respond in real time.

This isn't confusion.. it's openness.

And the moment we’re questioned too quickly… something in us pulls back.

Not because we’re unsure.
Because we’re still in it.

The greatest gift you can give someone like this is space.

Let them try. Let them change. Let them not know yet.

And if this is you…
you’re not doing it wrong... you’re just moving in a different way

This is the work I do.
Helping you trust the way you move, even when it doesn’t make sense.

If this landed, you’ll know.

xx Annie

22/04/2026

Update and taking about acceptance as a human

20/04/2026

A softer place to land this morning with the Australia Magpies as a teacher on my walk.

If you’re sensitive, you’re not meant to force clarity… you’re meant to notice what repeats.

The same feelings.
The same pulls.
The same patterns showing up in different forms.

This is how you start to know yourself.

I’m creating something to support this…
a way to gently track, recognise, and understand your own rhythm.

For now, just listen.

08/04/2026

The Human Design term "not-self".

Within HD when we talk about the "not-self", it's mainly referring to the Mind as a false inner Authority. So to say, the Mind isn't the place of correct decisions. Inner Authority is the correct place.

Type dose have a signature/"in self" and "not-self"/theme:

Generator : satisfaction - frustration
Manifestor : peace - anger
Projector : success - bitterness
Reflectore : surprise - disappointment

Open Center's do have "not-self" strategies.

The term "not-self" or "non-self" is based in biology and refers to any molecule, cell, or organism-such as pathogens, toxins, or foreign tissues-that does not originate from an individual's own body.

The term "not-self" is a definition, not a judgment-condemn.

"Not-self" isn't "not good" and "in-self" isn't "good".

If not aware of the "not-self" it can lead to many different traps, depending on the context.

If not aware of the "not-self", we tend to identify with it and distortion takes place.

In my experience:
The "not-self" or "conditioning"
isn't just possible within our "openness".
It can take place within our "definitions" as well.

And so the mentioned "not-self" strategies of open center's do apply to the defined center's as well.

Further for the Type Generator, frustration isn't a clear indicator of the "not-self".
Frustration is a natural sacral mechanism, it's caused by getting stucked. Frustration can be transcended with S&A. You still will expirence it, but you are able to transcend it because you entered with S&A.
And so you need to see the cause of the frustration to be able to distinct whether the frustration is "not-self" or not.

So please let's stopp, to use or percieve the term - the definition "not-self" as a judgment-condemn!

Because we all are "not-self" - conditioned, even Ra was.
The "not-self" is part of the Binary. Polarity.

And just as Ra said : Wisdom
"It's not about eliminating conditioning, it's about eliminated the ignorance of the conditioning. You see, any center that is open in you is your opportunity for wisdom. This is your opportunity through that filtering process that once you stop identifying with what's moving through you, you can take advantage of what's moving through you."

Or as Alokanand Diaz says :
"In passenger consciousness self and not-self coexist at all times in the eternal flow of changes."

30/03/2026

I would love your support for my little YouTube channel which I've been running for 5+ years.

I do love my long form content and deeper stories which people struggle with, but I'm also moving into shorter pieces where I, as an open centred being, can just RIFF and get ragey or whatever comes up.

As I say often - ALL IS ALLOWED HERE.

In this episode I explore the mechanics of Gate 37 and Gate 40 in Human Design, often called The Channel of Community, through both a Human Design lens and w...

30/03/2026

Meeting your chart through the head/heart/body - a TOGETHERNESS.

Seven years in this world has shown me this… Human Design doesn’t just land through information; it lands through experience, but experience needs information too.

Most people come to HD wanting answers and I get it, but the shifts happen when you start asking better questions.

What do you feel when you look at your chart?
What pulls you in… what do you avoid?

This workshop is about evolution, creation... Seeing your chart and having FUN with it.

We’re working with it in motion.
Creative. Embodied. Real.

No pressure to understand everything.
Just space to explore what’s actually there for you.

If you’ve been stuck trying to “get” Human Design… this will change how you experience it.

Free link in bio or comment MOTION and we'll send you the direct link to join us .

Let's have some fun!
Annie

22/03/2026

The threshold is here.

Something in me is closing...not lost. Complete.

Autumn always asks this of me…
What am I still carrying that no longer belongs to this chapter?

And this year, I'm listening more and more.

I’ve let things fall away.
People. Expectations. Versions of myself that stayed too long.

Not in force. Not in anger.
Just a quiet knowing… this doesn’t come with me.

There is an underworld to this season.
A soft descent. A turning inward. A shedding without performance.

And I trust it.

Because life isn’t one long stretch of sameness.
It moves in chapters. In thresholds. In seasons that ask different things of us.

For some of you, this is your spring.
A rising. A blooming. A return to the light after time spent in the quiet.

For me… I’m walking into the dark with intention.
With space. With less.

As a Reflector, I’ve learnt I am not here to hold everything all the time.
I am here to move with the rhythm.
To honour when something is complete… and let it go.

No dragging it forward.
No over-explaining.
No holding on out of habit.

Just… release.

Happy equinox 🍂






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15/03/2026

Something has been happening in my therapy room lately.

Not once or twice - Over and over again.

Different people. Different lives. Different stories.

Yet the same emotional current keeps appearing in the conversation.

Relationships shifting.
Families renegotiating themselves.
Friendships quietly dissolving.
People suddenly seeing very clearly who is correct in their lives… and who simply isn’t anymore.

When I step back and look at it through the mechanics of Human Design, one channel keeps standing behind these moments.

The Channel of Community.
Gate 37 and Gate 40.

You can read my blog on it here, or watch my vlog.

https://www.annierichardson.au/blog/the-tribal-bargain-breaking-open

https://youtu.be/-gaWu871T-w?si=N3CFi7fxihyZFlLl

In this episode I explore the mechanics of Gate 37 and Gate 40 in Human Design, often called The Channel of Community, through both a Human Design lens and w...

11/03/2026

There is only one mechanical similarity between Reflectors.

The aura.

Everything else is wildly different.

Different circuitry.
Different conditioning.
Different lives.

You might find a Reflector studying transits like a cosmologist.
Or one quietly observing the room.
Or teaching.
Or raising children.
Or building something with their hands.

There is no stereotype.

And there never will be.

The type describes the field.

The life expresses the individuality.

I've been unconsciously teaching this for years and it's finally time for mama bear to step up and do what I do best... Show you how through my own experience.

Let's f**k around and find out...

Xx Annie

08/03/2026

Grace... gate 22 - What does grace mean for you?

64 faces of awakening