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The Heart Grove, Petrie (2025)

28/10/2025

Being a therapist doesn’t mean I don’t feel and experience life deeply and often unhinged, overly emotional, and wanting to rage.

What it does mean is that I know how to feel into these places and put myself in my clients’ position. To ask myself the same questions I would ask them. To support my system outside of my mind and really get into the guts of what is happening in my body.

It’s a projection to think that therapists, with all their training, still have their s**t together. Honestly, we don’t. We’re human. We’re still experiencing life and trying to navigate it as best we can with the tools we have in our toolkits. What we do have is experience, and often a bunch of other therapists around us who understand the process and can hold us too. 💓

Today was one of those days where I found myself in a loop.
I knew the pattern. I felt the rage. But I wasn’t able to really express it.
And as a Reflector and a fifth line in Human Design, I often feel people don’t really see the real me, so I battle on, on my own, far further than I should.

I’m learning from this.
I reached out to a friend who also works in somatics because I knew I could just let it all out without censoring or feeling like it was too much for them.

What came from that was relief. It felt good to be seen, to be held, even if only for a moment.
To take my therapist hat off and trust that someone has me too.
To get wild and unbridled and allow the emotions to rage through my body in the most primal of ways.

So here's a truth. I know, deeply, how hard it is to reach out to people.
To ask for help. To not just try to fix it with this, that, or the other.

People say that talk therapy is outdated, yet sometimes being able to truly express and be heard is the therapy. Especially when you already understand what is happening but just want to be witnessed.

All types of therapy are needed, and none are better than another. They all serve a purpose.

So if you’re feeling like you need someone to rage to, to express the deepest and darkest parts of yourself and have that be OK, this space is for you. I AM for you, because...I don’t shrink from the uncomfortable.

I welcome it.

Xx Annie

22/10/2025

Nature allows us to understand ourselves better.

When we use kinder language, we become more gentle with ourselves and others. It helps us unlearn shame cycles and feel more connected and understood.

Like nature, it gives us permission to be ever changing.

This reminds me of how I often think of myself and others modeling the seasons in different stages of life.

For example:
❄️Someone may be in a “winter” stage and be more introspective and still.
💐Someone may be in a “spring” stage and be more creative, curious, and ready to grow.
☀️Someone may be in a “summer” stage and be more outgoing, radiant and expressive.
🍂Someone may be in a “fall” stage and are in a season of grounding, letting go and preparing for renewal.

Just as nature moves through cycles of growth, bloom, release and rest, we experience our own inner seasons. These may mirror the natural world but are also influenced by life transitions, hormonal changes and emotional rhythms. It’s a gentle reminder we’re not meant to feel the same in every season of our lives. 💛
Thank you chelsea.theenergeticblueprint for this beautiful audio. It made me stop in my tracks and smile. What a beautiful light you are to this world 🌻

16/10/2025

Yesterday I spent the day with my Mums in Business City group, sharing my love of Human Design through my lens as a therapist.

There’s something special about being in aura with people. Feeling the resonance. Watching faces soften as understanding lands. It’s one of my favourite things. I also love those moments when insights flow through me and I realise, again, how much I live this system every single day.

Exactly two years ago - to the day, I was speaking at another Mums in Business event. Life has changed in so many ways since then, yet this system, this tool that’s been part of my life for nearly seven years, continues to be a constant source of awe, healing, and connection.

Besides myself and Leoni, who is a Manifestor, these gorgeous women were all Generators. And as I said to them; You are the heartbeat of this world. The energy that keeps everything moving.

Back in February, I wrote this love letter to Generators, and it still feels so true:

So often I hear Generator types say, “Oh, I’m just a Generator…” as if it’s something ordinary, something lesser.
But I see you differently.

You are the fire that fuels movement, the energy that turns dreams into reality.
Without you, things simply don’t get done. Energy doesn’t move. The world feels stagnant.

When you follow your joy, you create magic, and not just in your own life, but in the lives of everyone around you.

You hum with a frequency that’s magnetic and encompassing.
When you’re in your bliss, you give the rest of us permission to be in ours.

From this completely open-centred being to you…I love you when you’re fully alive in your design, because it’s magnificent. 💛

xx Annie

14/10/2025

What if the reason your business feels heavy isn’t because you’re doing it wrong, but it’s because your energy wants to move differently?

You’re not meant to run your business, parent, relationship or live JUST like anyone else. Your energy has its own rhythm, its own timing, its own way of creating. And when you start to understand that, everything changes.

No more pushing s**t uphill. No more forcing yourself to keep up. You start to flow with your energy instead of fighting it.

That’s what I'll be sharing with some amazing humans this Thursday at the Mums in Business Brisbane City event - how your Human Design actually wants to work for you!

We’ll look at how to align your energy, your nervous system, and your business, so you can show up in ways that feel natural, powerful, and sustainable.

If you’re tired of trying to make things fit and ready to understand how you are designed to work, come join us.

It’s a real, practical conversation, and not a “how-to,” but a remembering of what’s true for you.

🗓 Thursday, 11:30am
📍 Victoria Park Golf Club
🎟 Tickets are still available - message for details.

If you’d like me to bring your chart along, grab your free Human Design chart and send it my way. I’ll print it out and speak directly to you on the day.

Can’t wait to share this space with you.

xx Annie

P.S - Annie is a 5/1 Reflector with the Left Angle Cross of Distraction. She's been experimenting, studying and implementing Human Design for nearly 7 years. She's formally trained as a Live Your Design Guide and is internationally recognised in her qualifications.

09/10/2025

When I entered this professional space after the birth of my third daughter, it began in the body with Mama Movement Method, which was about physical healing, breath, movement. Then it cracked open the emotional. Eventually, it became spiritual. Always evolving!

Nine years later, I’ve built a practice that holds it all, with the body, mind, spirit, psychology, and TRUTH. And honestly, that’s why I can’t scroll past the noise anymore without saying something.

When I see post after post about “nervous system regulation,” I cringe, and not because regulation isn’t real, but because what’s being taught isn’t accurate. It’s buzzword spirituality dressed as science. It flattens complexity into quick fixes and it's just NOISE and content for the sake of content.

When I set out to study postgrad, I thought the academic world would talk at me, not with me. How wrong I was. Real nervous system work, that is research-backed, trauma informed and aware, as well as psychotherapeutic, is so layered, relational, and deeply contextual.

So, in my frustrations today, these slides are my response. My way of creating clarity instead of adding to the noise, but maybe I'm still adding to the noise..

Regardless, if we’re going to talk about the nervous system, we need to do it with integrity.

xo Annie

05/10/2025

We talk so much about dysregulation, but what about the feeling of regulation?

Each Human Design type has a different nervous system rhythm. When we’re aligned with our natural energy, the body softens. The breath deepens. There’s coherence.

Regulation isn’t stillness...it’s flow that feels true.

Here’s what a regulated nervous system looks may look and feel like through the lens of Human Design.

xx Annie
[ human design, human design reflector, human design deconditioning, human design system, counselling, somatic work, shadow work ]

03/10/2025

There’s a trend where people are creating images of themselves hugging their younger self. It looks wholesome, but when you see it through the lens of therapy and embodiment, it’s so much more.

From a psychotherapy perspective, it speaks to inner child work; meeting those younger parts of us with love, safety, and presence.

From a somatic perspective, it becomes a full body experience. The nervous system doesn’t just imagine the hug, it feels it. That can be profoundly healing, but it can also stir grief, longing, and emotions that haven’t yet been touched.

And through Human Design, it reminds us that our younger selves were never broken. They were always whole, perfectly designed for the path they’re here to walk.

This is why the trend is so powerful. It’s not just nostalgia. It’s therapy. It’s embodiment. It’s recognition of who we’ve always been.

Be gentle with yourself if you explore this...sometimes what surfaces is exactly what’s ready to be felt.

xx Annie Richardson • Counsellor, Somatic EMDR & Human Design Mentor

29/09/2025

Lately I’ve been sitting with something big. As a Reflector in Human Design, I often notice that what’s moving through me is moving through the collective too. And right now it feels like connection is shifting.

Relationships, friendships, business partnerships... they’re never perfectly balanced. Brene Brown said it years ago: sometimes one of us is at 80% and the other is at 20%. That’s okay. True connection has an ebb and flow.

But what happens when it stays one-sided for too long? When you’re always the giver? Or always the taker?

I’ve been there. I’m there now. Working more deeply in the therapist space, I find friends often come to me when they need something, but rarely ask how I am. Instead of being angry, I’m noticing it and creating structure. Boundaries. Saying: if you want me in your life, be curious about me too. Ask. Listen.

A friend recently called me out on this from the other side. She said, “You haven’t been there for me.... do you still want me in your life?” And I thought, thank you. Because yes, I do. And I had my head up my own arse. Sometimes that’s all it takes: HONESTY.

Connection doesn’t have to be 50-50 all the time, but it does have to be reciprocal. That’s what makes us feel safe. Seen. Heard. It’s what tells us we matter. And mattering matters.

What are you noticing in your own friendships and relationships right now? Are you feeling the same shift?

Monday Mindfulness with MATTER!

xx Annie

25/09/2025

HELLO!

For the past few years, I’ve been on an unexpected trajectory of healing and exploration. After my car accident in 2023, something inside me knew I couldn’t keep living the same way. I turned toward the places most people avoid: the raw, uncomfortable landscapes of trauma, grief, loss, and deep change.

Alongside my own healing, I committed to postgraduate studies. I wanted to not just sit with people in these spaces, but to do so with skill, integrity, and the ability to shift the energy of a room so others could meet their edges safely. Compassion and empathy are essential, but without grounded training, they’re not enough.

As my body healed, my studies became a parallel path of emotional and spiritual healing. Like so many of us in this field, I arrived here not because life was picture perfect, but because it wasn’t. I know what it feels like to be shattered, to dig deep holes, to find a way back.

Just in June, I finally graduated and am finalising my EMDR accredited standards.
My focus and passion is in prenatal and preverbal patterning - the earliest imprints that shape how we show up in the world. Our “earth school” training began long before we took our first breath, and these patterns ripple through everything we do.

So here I am today... Annie. A Psychotherapist, EMDR practitioner, Reflector in Human Design, Mum, Wife, Introvert, Dreamer, Deathworker and Birthworker... I don’t shrink from the depths. I sit with them. And I hold space for you to do the same.

23/09/2025

Why Human Design in community and immersion?

So many of us meet Human Design alone — through a chart, a report, an article. That knowledge is powerful, but it only takes us part of the way.

When we gather in person, the system comes alive.
⚡ You feel a Generator’s sacral response buzz through the space.
🌿 You notice a Projector’s attention land and guide.
🌙 You experience a Reflector’s openness and spaciousness.
🔥 You witness a Manifestor’s impact ripple through the room.

This is the shift from head to body, from information to lived wisdom.

Will you be joining us on the 4th October to explore your Human Design through embodiment, movement, and shared experience?

A space to learn, to feel, and to remember..

xx Annie

22/09/2025

Got a 40-page Human Design report sitting on your desk collecting dust? You’re not alone. Most reports and basic readings don’t land. They give you words, but not the experience.

On 4 October, here in Moreton Bay at the wonderful LoveLight Temple, I’m creating a space where you don’t just read about your design… you embody it. You’ll sit with others, try it on, feel it in your body, and finally make sense of what your chart is asking of you.

Led by myself and Kat Smith who are both very embodied in this system, we will have fun guiding and supporting you through more of YOU as you learn about your Human Design.

This isn’t theory. This is lived. Together

🎟️ Spots are limited, so snap up your spot now and gift yourself the chance to truly experience your design.

Very much looking forward to sharing space and Aura with you.

Xx Annie

19/06/2025

Solstice is my favourite time of the year... especially winter solstice. There is something about it that's quieter, gentler, allowing, but it's also the return of the sun and the end of a sort of hibernation; a welcoming back.

And coming back, we are. As of next term, my beloved circles will be returning not just to North Brisbane, but also online. These weekly circles have been near and dear to my heart for so long, but time, study and my business pressures haven't allowed much more space than what was required.

During my time away, I was shown many things, and one of those was that it was needed for these to return, in all facets. Connection, Therapy, Ceremony.

So stay tuned, my beautiful friends, because we start GATHERING again in Term 3. I will send out more information over the next week.

May the sun shine deep into your heartspace.

xx Annie

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