Aileen Kennedy Inner Source

19/02/2026

Ok… true story.

Some years ago I went on the only online dating app date I ever went on.

It wasn’t a match on many levels 🙈
The biggest instant turn off?

The guy was out of breath within 2 minutes of playing badminton. Panting, had to stop.

Now: WHY is this such a turn off for me?

When you can control your breath
you don’t get out of breath so easily.

This takes ✨PRACTICE & FOCUS ✨

When you train your breath you have more endurance 🔥and energy….😉

But more importantly than the physical stamina aspects….

When you are UNAWARE of your breath🌬️……

Chances are big that:
- body awareness is low
- emotional awareness is low

When these are low the capacity to self regulate and take care of your inner state is really a challenge.

With this you become more emotionally reactive
- with out the feedback loop from body,
taking a breath to reflect when triggered….
You get where this is going.

If the level of self awareness is low,
body awareness is low,
self regulation low: how safe I feel emotionally with this person? Low ⬇️😅.

How do you learn these things?

So ladies & gents for your own
presence & enjoyment in life:

How to learn these things?

🔹Start with meditating and focusing on the breath
(Awareness of breathing mindfulness meditation)

🔹Practice focusing on your breath
when you work out.

Slow down your breath- stabilize
In through the nose- out through the mouth 👄 much healthier than inhaling through the mouth.

🔹Practice noticing how your breath responds to your emotional inner state.
How does your breath feel when stressed?
When feeling sad?
When you are relaxed?

🔹When you can notice that:
You can move to slow deep breathing when emotions are intense, this gives you space to feel and self regulate.

This is simple stuff.
That takes practice and time.

And changes your life for good!

With love,
❤️

Aileen

14/02/2026

Are you awake?

Are you really going to put that there?
In your BIO? 🙈😳

What are people going to think?
That you are arrogant!
That you have a ‘gift’ (hello expectations - that can only create trouble )

Before this creates confusion let me explain.
What I mean with awakening
And how I see my role in supporting you

First of all, I do not ‘give’ you this OR offer this. Absolutely not. Not selling awakening. Period.

In the past years I have seen many of my clients who work with me go thought various kinds of awakening processes while working with me.

That may have already started BEFORE we even met. Sometimes is gets accelerated.
Or deepens during our work together.
Sometimes it starts during a Breathwork session.

Waking up: what do I mean?

I mean becoming more aware
For some that is waking up to realizing: ‘I am not my thoughts’. A simple first wake up.

Or: heck I’m free I dont have to do all this stuff I thought everyone expected me to do in life!

To a deeper awakening to life and your place in it.
To things within the unseen that you have felt but always ignored
To a kundalini 🐍 awakening.

I don’t DO this.
You do. Or life shows you.
It’s common when going through Transformation.
Part of the falling apart.
The shedding.

Why I put it here?
Because when I went through various stages of my own waking up (no way do I think I’m done. The process keeps on expanding- work in progress! & waking up is NOT the same as enlightenment).

I would have LOVED 💓to have had someone
I can to talk to who:

-Understands

-Doesn’t think I’m crazy

-Can validate a lot of the awkwardness and fear I’m going through

-Takes me seriously as not everyone’s entourage knows how relate what you are experiencing.

- Understand the impact this may have on your relationships - as you changed and the did not - hello accepting yourself and maybe also letting go of some people - ouch.

So there, I put it there,
I hope I’m understood 😅

And if this resonates,
You are most welcome,
Send me a message to connect.

With love,
❤️
Aileen

08/02/2026

Many people are frustrated with how far they can go
in conventional therapy.

And we get that 😉

Rational insight can get you only so far.

& I really believe in a more holistic approach. Since September last year we have been working together.

Which means not only are our techniques more holistic, but even more importantly the lens we have on what it means to be human, and how we relate to going through challenging times, growth and transformation is quite different from the symptom reducing mechanistisch and protocolled view in mainstream psychology clinics.

We will share what exactly means in an Instagram Live and from where we are approaching our role as therapists: including our view on spirituality, plant medicine and intergenerational patterns and trauma,

Join us depth on Monday February 9th
Instagram Live here at 1PM.

Join us then or watch the replay here soon!

06/02/2026

Like many of you, I’ve felt it all this week. 🥺

Shock, horror, disgust,
hopelessness, rage.

The world we’re living in right now
is really not a pretty place.

And I really feel that the system we’re living in, patriarchy, is really, really, really showing its ugly face right now. In so many ways.

It even has me wondering,
am I doing the right work?
Am I being useful enough?

Should I be working with men, doing men’s work?

I feel that there’s a huge amount of
work with men that needs to happen.

Because women can’t shift this system,
this power play, this hierarchy, on their own.

We need you!
Everyone needs to wake up.

And I realize also that women
need to be empowered to rise,
to speak up, to no longer be silenced.

And I feel that that is my work,
that is my path.

But I could feel real frustration this week,
realizing I feel like I’m just cleaning up the mess, picking up the pieces of the damage done in a huge part by the patriarchy with the women that work with me.

And whether it’s actual sexual abuse,
physical abuse, neglect, being ignored emotionally, being oppressed,

and honestly also women who don’t dare to speak up, who don’t dare to say what they want and what they don’t want, who are still stuck in this old way of living.

Women need to learn how to use their voices.
We ALL need to make this change.

It’s time to wake up, to say no.
Enough is enough!

We as a collective have a lot of inner work to do,
Voices to use
And many choices- on where we put our money 💵
for example.

If you are angry, so am I,
Use it constructively

I would love to hear your thoughts on how we can create positive change - please share in the comments 👇🏻

❤️‍🔥
Aileen

Ps.
I of course do not mean that women are by definition innocent, or men are to blame for everything… however the numbers on abuse do show the perpetrator is almost always a man. This needs to stop.
Part of the change I want to see is a return to matriarchy - a system in which both feminine and masculine are honored, and life at large is cared for for good of all including our planet 🌍

03/02/2026

02/02/2026

After a year of pausing - this is my first event again.

It’s going to be very intimate,
Warm, connecting and uplifting.

These sacred spaces to feel
To remember
Are so important!

We chose the Full Moon and Beltane as a
moment to celebrate spring and life together.

May 2nd
12:30-18:30
Comment: FLAME to receive the 🔗 link
with all details.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out!

With love,
❤️

Aileen &

Ps. The cacao and microdose of course are fully optional. I know from experience that all ingredients in this program create a profound experience.
And both of us are skilled in creating a safe and supported space.

24/01/2026

THIS. ❤️‍🔥

This is the work we do.

This is what I LOVE doing.

Exploring and excavating with women.

The lost parts.

The forgotten parts

Bringing them back

Into wholeness

❤️
Aileen

Ps. If this resonates and you
want to know more about working
with me either comment:
RECLAIM

Or send me a DM if you prefer.

18/01/2026

This is what I tell my clients 👆🏻

Whether it’s a small t trauma
Or a big T trauma
You don’t need to have all the PTSD criteria on the DSM-V to benefit from EMDR.

❇️Example?
I have seen many women who experienced birth trauma. Let’s call them Anna & Bea

Anna: Who had a part of the birth where she thought: is my baby ok? What if he/ she dies?
Bea: She experienced a sense of loss of control, informed consent was not practiced by health care providers touching her. (This is so NOT ok!).

❇️This leaves an imprint, in the body, mind system.

Anna: can year later still be over anxious, controlling, wants to do everything herself, sees danger everywhere.

Bea: Years later still can’t relax and enjoy intimacy with her partner. She shuts down and either says no, or has has trouble expressing herself and lets things ‘happen’ and feels bad afterwards.

❇️In both scenarios I have seen women
CHANGE after EMDR;

Anna: She becomes a more relaxed and trusting mom, who can relax more, allow for others to help - now she finally has space to care of herself and not burn out. She enjoy the contact with her child more.

Bea: She feels more in touch with her body, more true to herself and in her expression of her boundaries. Slowly she learns how to enjoy intimacy again. This also changes her relationship with her partner.

❇️We usually are not done once the EMDR is finished. More sessions for integration or usually needed.

And Breathwork is a powerful tool to do that.
Allowing for the new cognition:
A: ‘We are safe’
B: ‘I can say no, I’m in charge’

To FULLY land in the system.

⏰When is it TIME?
Whenever YOU are ready.

It will not walk away.
Trauma can sit there for a lifetime
And you can STILL work with it.

💡The question is more:
How long do you WANT to allow it to impact on your life?

With love
❤️
Aileen

14/01/2026

14/01/2026

It’s clear from my previous post
that 2016 was not a walk in the park for me.

It shattered me in many ways

AND I grew stronger than ever
AND I recovered
AND I found joy, purpose and direction in my life again.

That year was the beginning of BIG and DEEP lessons.

It taught me that I may be brought to my knees:
but I bend 🌾I will not break
I can trust my own strength 🔥

After years of being a therapist for others it was humbling to be in deep need of therapy myself.

In the most emotionally fragile time of my life.
It taught me a lot.

(And it also showed me how frustrating it can be to have a therapist who does not understand birth/ motherhood, or who just sticks to protocols. Or have little human warmth & closeness: all things I now bring to the table😉).

Burn out taught me to listen
to my body and boundaries.

To say no instead of trying to please.
Still ongoing teachings in this,
but I’m WAY better at it than back then.

It taught me to care for my children,
love them, but not at the cost of neglecting myself.

My self care improved 100% and without guilt.
Because I learned the hard way:
you can’t pour from an empty cup ☕️

I had already chosen back then to work with birth and mothers. My own birth trauma made me specialize in birth trauma and perinatal mental health. I became certified Doula and Mindful Birthing educator.

3 years later:
I started my own company,
became a single mom
& in this transition- Breathwork found me.

Entry: 2020 ☄️my next Death & Rebirth
I will share one last post on that era 😊

Our hardest years:
are the BIGGEST lessons & growth.

I would not be who I am today without ALL of this!

📷 Pictures:
1. Feature in Book: ‘Spuug op je Blouse’
2. My dear teacher during a weekend training in Brussels in 2016 - I took 3 month old Isabel with me.
3. tribe summer gathering
4. A beautiful birth I assisted as a Birth Doula - mama’s rock ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
5. One of my Mindful Birthing groups 🥰
6. Launch of my company
7. being witness to those precious years in which they are small 🥹

#2016