Rachel Harveland - Somatic Breathwork Practitioner

Rachel Harveland - Somatic Breathwork Practitioner 𓆃 Somatic Breathwork + Herbal Alchemy
𓆸 Emotional Healing + Spirit-Led Empowerment
𓃭 Guiding you home to your body + truth
Virtual 1:1 + Group Sessions

01/20/2026

Reset After Resistance Tips

01/18/2026

Herbal First Aid Field Notes:

This week and weekend we've been receiving messages from our friends and students about how to handle eye injuries by pepper spray or other chemicals and other injuries that have occurred in the Twin Cities.

Here is simply a brief message that went out today...

Here is some immediate support when impacted by pepper spray (OC), tear gas (CS/CN), or other chems impacting the eyes:
First, prevention with eye gear, masks, if at all possible. Train people to get in fresh air ASAP, to not rub eyes, to flush with clean room temp water or saline solution. Eyes must be flushed for 15-20 minutes continuously, even longer if burning persists. Irrigate from the inside of eye outward direction so chems do not run in toward the other eye again. Blinking helps, rather than rubbing eyes. If a person has contact lenses, they should remove right away as they trap chems. Offer the person clean sterile gloves not impacted by chems to do that process.

In herbal street medic or home kits it is a good idea to always have eye irrigation kits, Strong eyebright tea in squeeze bottles, Euphrasia (Eyebright) homeopathic pellets and eye drops. Some people will think that soap, diluted essential oils, or other ingredients will help. Not so. Irrigate. Rest eyes. Cool compresses.

I do suggest people go to receive medical care right after, too. Contrary to what people think there can be long term damage. I have posted a video about the hazards of rubber bullets and sprays in protests on my personal website recently. I can sure do that again...

~gigi, Herbal Street Medic Field Notes

Green Wisdom School of Natural and Botanical Medicine
www.greenwisdom.weebly.com

Free whistles at Essence Edge, grab one & pray we don’t need it. 🙏🏻♥️
01/15/2026

Free whistles at Essence Edge, grab one & pray we don’t need it. 🙏🏻♥️

01/14/2026

As a psychologist in private practice, I also ran groups at a substance abuse center for men. Most of the men had been in and out of prison. It was there that I learned the dark stories and deep childhood trauma that caused them to spiral into crime and drug use.

Those stories shared that will stay with me for a long time.

Crime, addiction, assault, and the other harsh things we deal with as a collective society are not random. They are reflections of what people have witnessed, who their role models were, and the support and autonomy they were (or were not given.)

As a culture we are so focused on success and accomplishment. We focus on how things appear and ignore how they feel. We don’t speak about generational trauma cycles and the epigenetic weight our ancestors carried. We keep so many things in the dark, not realizing those dark secrets eventually become dark actions.

If we want a safe and secure society, we have to have the courage to face our unresolved trauma. We have to speak openly about toxic family systems. We have to have boundaries around things and difficult conversations that set the foundation for people to do the inner work.

The evil that we see in our world comes from wounds. Deep wounds. Wounds of inadequacy or envy. Woulds of shame or rejection. The problem is these wounds don’t show up in a blood test. They’re invisible to most people. No one can rescue you from them. They heal only when you commit to no longer living on the pain of autopilot. They heal when you recognize you were gifted with conscious choice and commit to new (small) choices, every day.

The CCD has called adverse childhood events (ACES) a major health risk. From heart disease, to chronic conditions, to substance use the science is clear. But there are also emotional risks that effect and infect our entire culture.

Once you see it, you can unsee it.

Break the cycles, end the “evil”

01/13/2026

A Grief I Can’t Ignore

I’ve been sitting with a deep sadness the past few days. Not just about what’s happening in our state, or even in our own town but about the way people are speaking about it. About the ease with which human lives are reduced to talking points. About how quickly compassion disappears when fear, politics, or ideology take the wheel.

Reading the comments from people in our own communities has been heartbreaking.

Celebrating death.
Mocking grief.
Justifying dehumanization.
Shrugging at children being traumatized.

And what unsettles me most is how often it’s wrapped in the language of righteousness even Christianity. I grew up Christian. I know the teachings many claim to stand on: love your neighbor, care for the vulnerable, welcome the stranger, protect children, act with humility. So when I see people who identify as “Christian” openly mocking suffering, dismissing fear, or reducing entire groups of people to “deserving” or “undeserving,” something inside me breaks a little.

This isn’t about politics.
This isn’t about left vs. right.
This is about humanity.

It’s about the dangerous normalization of cruelty. It’s about how easy it has become to speak about real people mothers, children, elders, Native communities, immigrants, citizens as if they are abstractions instead of lives. And I think we need to be honest about something uncomfortable: When we say things like “If they did nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear,” or “Just let them do their jobs,” we ignore the countless documented stories of people who did nothing wrong and were still harmed, detained, separated, or traumatized. We ignore how power operates. We ignore history. We ignore lived experience.

Awareness matters.
Nuance matters.
Listening matters.

We are living in a time where fear is being fed, and fear makes people forget their values. It makes people choose obedience over empathy, certainty over curiosity, punishment over care. But we are not powerless. We can choose to pause before commenting. We can choose to ask harder questions. We can choose to see the humanity in people we don’t understand. We can choose to remember that laws and systems are not sacred, human life is.

If your faith teaches love, let it show up in how you speak. If your values include dignity, let them apply to everyone. If you believe in justice, let it be rooted in compassion, not cruelty.

This post isn’t meant to shame. It’s an invitation to wake up. To look beyond slogans. To look beyond comment sections. To look at what’s really happening and how we are becoming in response. Because the loss of empathy doesn’t happen all at once. It happens comment by comment. Laugh by laugh. Justification by justification.

And that’s something we should all be deeply concerned about.

01/12/2026

Friends…

“If they didn’t do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.”

This is something I see often and to me it almost feels like an internal battle within the person saying it. Like that’s what they want to be true. Seeing the situation otherwise would bring up undesirable guilt.

I have a lot of compassion for this statement when said with decent intentions. 🙏🏻

However, many are having experiences that show otherwise. Many people are wrongfully detained for months without information and in horrific/unsanitary conditions & then they’re “free to go.” Many are detained and disappear forever. Many have children waiting for them.

When I have to worry about my Native husband keeping an ID on him at all times ‘just in case’ because they could detain him just for being brown if he were to forget, it’s deeper than that. It’s deeper than actually deporting illegal criminals.

What we’re seeing is inhumane, even if the individual being detained is illegal. There is still a lack of humanity in the process.

So, if you’ve found yourself making this statement, I encourage you to compassionately & silently try to understand the stories & experiences of other people who have lived it, who aren’t white, and who have opposing views to yours. Just as I am and hopefully we all can. 🙏🏻

My heart has been heavy watching events unfold in our state while awaiting the same likely fate here at home. I’m tired,...
01/12/2026

My heart has been heavy watching events unfold in our state while awaiting the same likely fate here at home.

I’m tired, I’m worried, I’m angry, I want to protect my family, and I want the beautiful future I envision for my children to be reality.

A past version of me would have let the anger and fear calcify in my bones and spin me into an internal whirlwind paired with inaction.

But the last thing I’m going to do now is abandon myself. Not this time.

In the midst of fear, I’m coming back to my heart, to my humanity, to my spirit. 💫

I’m embracing my sensitive spirit as a gift and using my tools to come back into my body rather than escape from it.

As someone who naturally can detach from her body very easily, I’ve been doing this through breathwork, through a hand on my heart, through intuitive movement, through prayer. 🕯️

Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I don’t notice I’m out of my body. And then I do, and I come back.

✨I love myself enough to keep coming back.
✨I love my community and the people I help enough to keep coming back.

If you’re feeling that “floaty,” ungrounded feeling, if you’re feeling defeated, checked out, overwhelmed... don’t abandon yourself. Come back to your heart. ❤️‍🩹

Because the world really needs your heart. 💞

Love you all 🙏🏻♥️

01/12/2026

Community, who’s down to have a conversation about how we can be prepared and help each other?

01/10/2026

That’s the quiet miracle of healing — not that you never circle back, but that every time you do, you arrive as a truer, stronger version of yourself. The pain is familiar, but you are not. And that shift is the evidence that you’re moving forward, even when the path feels circular. 🖤

2025, you were good to me ♥️✨
12/31/2025

2025, you were good to me ♥️✨

Ending 2025 with 31 Breathwork Healing Groups and 54 private 1:1 Breathwork Healing Sessions completed 🙌🏻✨Each session, ...
12/30/2025

Ending 2025 with 31 Breathwork Healing Groups and 54 private 1:1 Breathwork Healing Sessions completed 🙌🏻✨

Each session, each group, allows me to hone in on my gifts more and more… so I can become a better facilitator and help you on an even deeper level.

I’m going for mastery in this work and nothing less ♥️ not for my own ego but for my community, virtual & in-person. Because when I get better at what I do, you benefit the most.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported me in this work, it brings me to tears so often thinking about how powerful Breathwork is and hearing how it’s transformed things within each of you. Thank you 🙏🏻

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