Karlene Pass

25/09/2025

25 years ago today, Kathy Freeman won gold for Australia 💫

My husband and I watched her victory lap on TV that evening in hospital with my newborn baby boy in ICU 🥲

I remember during my labour clicking into a new part of my brain that I'd never experienced before. No, it didn't take me into a fierce warrior Mother space or a nurturing earth Mother space - it was a scary, frozen, lonely space of birth trauma, or maybe more correctly labour trauma🥲

While I don't want to define my son's life as this trauma we both experienced, as he has grown into an amazingly beautiful, healthy man, it is still a big impact story in our lives that has affected us for years later, maybe even 25 years later 💚

It is well documented that women who don't have adequate support or agency in labour report more difficult outcomes in birth and postnatal outcomes as far as physical healing and mental health. This leads to more intervention, more injury and less connection with the profound rite of passage you are undertaking to birth yourself into motherhood. It also affects the immediate bonding with your precious newborn. My experience had nothing to do with my husband's support by the way and everything to do with the hospital's care I was in after being induced.😩

I remember going through the motions but being completely disconnected from the deep love I knew was there for him. It felt so shameful to not feel happy when all I'd ever wanted was children to raise. 😓

I struggled alone for months before I was diagnosed and then slowly began to feel life again. Though I stayed in this weird part of my mind - which I know now is a dorsal vagal response, my mind and body had shut down and frozen with the trauma I had experienced in labour- until my second child was 1 years old!😱

Only last year I found out several midwives had been sacked after an investigation into my and Remi's birth story😯

So happy birthday my beautiful first born - you are amazing and my heart is full of love for you 💖

I am a part of the Holistic Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting Expo in Yeppoon on the 25th October. This is an expo to showcase and highlight the services of passionate women in business in our area who support, nurture and care for you as a village through your pregnancy, birth and parenting stories💕

I know I want other women to have better experiences and outcomes than I did and I hold space for women and families to process what they are moving through! 💜

Come down and see us - there are so many amazing services and excellent practitioners to support you and your family - tickets are on sale now 💜

20/09/2025

In a caftan, getting my groove on for day club with my beautiful husband and daughter 💕

18/09/2025

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18/09/2025

I was reminded recently of my fierce, beautiful little 3-year-old warrior self – thank you Tamala Ridge and Lucy Busby for holding space and bringing her to my attention🥰

When I was around 3, I was in hospital with asthma, and I remember standing up in the cot talking to someone (it may have been spirit). The nurse saw me and went to get the Dr. They came back and gave me some medicine and then tied me down to the bed in a type of straight jacket – no I’m not kidding!!😡

I remember the rage and indignation I felt for the injustice of them not believing that I wouldn’t stand up again. I screamed and screamed. I remember the Dr showing me a picture of a butterfly as I was sobbing to ‘let me out”.😭

I don’t remember anything else till I woke up the next day (they must have sedated me). My Mum was there, and I was demanding she get them to untie me and get me out of the hospital. I clearly remember feeling terrified and what I imagine was oppressed, furious and that my will had been repressed.🤯

From this experience:

✨I hate feeling oppressed in any way, it still makes me furious, and I hate witnessing others being oppressed,

✨This has got me into trouble sometimes, especially when I worked in Corporate because I would often stand up for people who didn’t want me to or causes that were contentious to the point where I was labelled a bit of a ‘troublemaker”,

✨I got punished when I stood up for someone when I was studying Naturopathy because again the situation felt unjust -they failed me on one subject, even though I received distinctions and high distinctions in every other subject all year and didn’t allow me to go on to third year at that college,

✨Until recently, I was terrified of moths and butterflies,

✨The feeling of being smothered (which is what it feels like to me when I lie down with asthma) has haunted me in all types of ways over my life,

✨My voice is repressed at times when it is necessary because I go back into the freeze I felt from that medical setting trauma, for example when I was in labour with my first child, which ended up in a traumatic birth and him having to be in ICU for days,

✨I have very little faith in doctors or medicine and can’t even hear what a Dr is saying to me when I’m at an appointment,

✨It has created a level of mistrust for others and a sense of being alone in the world,

✨I hate being in hospitals.

This is an example of why inner child work is so necessary and powerful.💫

Our nervous system clocks the events and experiences that feel traumatic and then even as an adult it responds to a perceived threat from the red flag of the memory file, even if the context is different, ie: the terror of butterflies.🧚

Awareness and support to move through these experiences can slowly allow the nervous system to relax and respond rather than react to life.💓

Has anything like this ever happened to you?

I invite you to DM me if you’d like some support with healing some experiences in your life. I promise it gets better and you can see how powerful and heroic you really are. 🙏💖

16/09/2025

Soul Journey Reading reflections 💗

16/09/2025

I had the honour of doing a Soul Journey Reading today, using my client's Numerology blueprint and cards to map out the next 12 months 💖

I hadn't done one for a couple of months and I'd forgotten how powerful and potent these readings are and how much information comes through 💫✨💞

I love when something really lands in a reading and tears are in both our eyes - an honouring of divine truth coming through ✨💗

It's interesting to me that a pure intuitive message that resonates, vibrates with so much love, creates revelations and feels like transcendence into the unknown wisdom well we all have innate access to, is sometimes vilified and rubbished as 'woo woo' 😆

Usually, when a connection to our soul journey is explored, an invitation opens to experiencing the most magical synchronicities, love, understanding and miracles 💗✨

Connection to our spiritual self makes us feel whole and a part of something greater than we can ever imagine - and I feel that connection needs to be respected, fostered and explored as an individual 💚

Then discernment can be made as to what is really at the core of your own spiritual imprints or beliefs and you have more choice in what aligns with you 💚

At the end of the day, all spirituality / religions are based on the teachings of love and unity, it's just our human egos that judge and repurpose the teachings to benefit the fear the ego has of difference 🤔

What do you think?

11/09/2025

Every single one of us has an addiction.

Yes, that is hard to hear! Even our bodies are wired to be addicted to survive.

Why is it such a taboo subject if it's happening to everyone?

Why are we suffering so much when we are actively in our addiction or try to let go of or detox from our addictions?

Addiction is so much more than the physical feeling of the high, numbness, wanting, yearning, momentary peace, the pain.

It is an outward expression of our deeply enmeshed fear of pain.

Especially emotional pain.

Did you know that SHAME is the worst sensory emotion that we can ever feel?

Underneath the addiction is a quagmire of hurt, unmet needs, neglect, abandonment, betrayal, shame, trauma and abuse.

When you share the sacred story of your inner most wounds, fears and pain in a safe place, without being judged or rescued, then you can start doing the work to liberate yourself from being hijacked by that pain.

I'm not going to lie, the work is hard also.

At the end of it though, you are LIBERATED - truly free to be authentically you.

DM me if you'd love support from a coach that understands addiction, trauma and also liberation 💞

Love,
Karlene Pass
Liberation Coach

ADDICTION

At its core, all addiction carries guilt, shame, and anxiety, even if we are not aware of it.

Addiction is a way of running away, a way of hiding from life. It’s a desperate attempt to solve a problem - the problem of living.

Whether it’s substances, food, work, shopping, scrolling, or even spiritual bypassing, addiction offers a temporary escape from intensity, responsibility, intimacy, and the pain of living. It gives a chemical relief that keeps us chasing the next high, the next distraction, the next dopamine hit, but it numbs us to real life.

And deep down, we know. We know we are running away. We know we are disconnecting from ourselves and from the people we love. We know we are betraying our deepest values, our humanity, and our inner child.

That buried knowing creates shame, even if we cannot name it. It weighs heavily on the nervous system, keeping us restless and trapped in a cycle of seeking, fleeing, disconnection and despair.

Addiction promises relief but leaves us more fragmented, more isolated, and further from real joy than ever.

It does not deliver the connection that it promises.

Healing from addiction is not only about quitting a behaviour. It is about turning toward what we have been running from. It means facing our deepest wounds with honesty and tenderness, rewiring the pathways that keep us stuck in avoidance. It means liberating what has been silenced and repressed within us: the grief, the anger, the fear, and the joy.

It means facing our unlived life, grieving the past, and stepping into our potential.

Healing from addiction is learning to stay present with the mystery of being alive, to feel the full spectrum of our humanity, to connect with our loved ones, and to discover that what we feared would destroy us - our deepest responsibility - is what will finally set us free.

- Jeff Foster

10/09/2025

A client told me that as we were talking, they actually felt new pathways to understanding themselves open up in their mind✨

They said their body felt the change as well, it felt softer, lighter and more relaxed✨

They told me that the 'AHA's' felt really powerful and they could see in their minds eye how it made sense why they were feeling the way they were, describing it as 'the puzzle pieces coming together after 20+ years of confusion' ✨

This is what I would call liberation✨

Liberation occurs when you experience a revelation, the unknown becomes known, the misunderstanding becomes understanding, the bot knowing becomes inner knowing✨

Revelations create transformation and opens your world up to miracles✨

Miracles are the space where deep healing, forgiveness and transmutation occurs✨

This is what LIBERATION feels like - shifting the narrative into new consciousness, new choices, new life, new happiness, new patterns, new family dynamics ✨

The way I hold space as a Liberation Coach is to support and welcome you into that space where those miracles occur - frequently and with Grace✨

I have spaces for 1:1 coaching clients - are you curious? ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

10/09/2025

A client told me that as we were talking, they actually felt new pathways to understanding themselves open up in their mind✨

They said their body felt the change as well, it felt softer, lighter and more relaxed✨

They told me that the 'AHA's' felt really powerful and they could see in their minds eye how it made sense why they were feeling the way they were, describing it as 'the puzzle pieces coming together after 20+ years of confusion' ✨

This is what I would call liberation✨

Liberation occurs when you experience a revelation, the unknown becomes known, the misunderstanding becomes understanding, the not knowing becomes inner knowing✨

Revelations create transformation and opens your world up to miracles✨

Miracles are the space where deep healing, forgiveness and transmutation occurs✨

This is what LIBERATION feels like - shifting the narrative into new consciousness, new choices, new life, new happiness, new patterns, new family dynamics ✨

The way I hold space as a Liberation Coach is to support and welcome you into that space where those miracles occur - frequently and with Grace✨

I have 6 spaces for 1:1 coaching clients - are you curious? ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

09/09/2025

15/06/2025

It was an honour this weekend to present 2 workshops at Synergy Flow at Byfield. We were all in the most beautiful, magical space, Forest Fields💖
On Saturday, I presented a workshop called Finding Grace in Grief and an In Stillness Workshop today with my co-presenter Menke Drenth 💖
It was so beautiful to witness people connect deeply with their emotions and find a sense of stillness 💖
A big thank you to Catherine and Mika for their vision and hard work to bring this together 💖

15/05/2025

So grateful for beautiful moments of nature connection this evening 💖🙏