12/16/2025
When I speak about “the power paradigm you inherited,”
I’m pointing to the way power has been lived and felt in your body.
It’s the subtle training that taught you when to tense,
when to push past your own signals,
when to stay productive instead of present,
and when it wasn’t safe to soften or slow.
For many of us, this wasn’t an idea or a belief system.
It was the environment our nervous systems learned to survive in.
This paradigm taught us that:
• Our value lives in output
• Control equals safety
• Hustle equals worth
• Rest must be earned
• The body should comply
Over time, this way of living creates a particular emotional climate:
a low-grade despair that hums beneath daily life,
the constant pressure to keep up,
the grind that never quite delivers the relief it promises.
Many people call this “ambition.”
But in the body, it often feels like strain.
Like effort without arrival.
Like working hard but never quite landing anywhere.
This paradigm was shaped through human intent and reinforced over time —
by individuals, institutions, and leaders who benefited from consolidation, hierarchy, and control.
The result is a system that rewards acceleration and extraction,
often at the cost of embodiment, integration, and relational intelligence.
This way of organizing power doesn’t know how to recognize ripeness.
It doesn’t pause for timing.
It doesn’t listen for when enough is enough.
And eventually, the body begins to speak.
Through exhaustion.
Through anxiety.
Through a deep sense that something essential is missing.
If this resonates, it’s not because something is wrong with you.
It’s because your system is ready to anchor power within —
from performance to presence,
from endurance to embodiment,
from inherited conditioning to inner authority.
This is the work I do through Radiant Presence.
And it begins with The Offering —
a private, grounded space where we listen to the body,
restore coherence to the nervous system,
and reconnect you with a power that doesn’t require self-abandonment.
If you feel the pull,
you can book The Offering with Larissa Thera through the link in my bio.
Your body already knows what kind of power it’s ready for.