Thinking, Naturally with somatic depth coach & artist Antonia Dolhaine | we seek flow, but resist change

"A secure attachment to ourselves is the foundation of a secure attachment to the inherent insecurity of material reality, as well as its twin—the void.”

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Antonia Dolhaine is a somatic depth coach based in Vancouver, Canada (and writes the Substack

SpaceUnknown

). She specializes in supporting high-performing creatives and entrepreneurs to cultivate profound personal, professional, and relational fulfillment by harmonizing their relationships to their inner and outer worlds. Her work draws on her creative background as a performing artist with the likes of Cirque du Soleil, extensive clinical supervision and training in the fields of somatics, depth psychology, and Internal Family Systems, as well as the organic intelligence of the natural world. Insatiably curious and a life-long learner, Antonia’s commitment is to walk, if not dance, her talk.

“Nature is the ultimate designer: eliminating personal, professional, and relational friction and supporting evolution by aligning with the foundational organizing principles of the universe (fractals, spirals, symmetries, and waves) instead of working against them (aligning with decay).”

Continued from our previous conversation …

Rachelle: To answer your question about my new patterns since Costa Rica, what’s changed most of all is my perspective on what matters. A year ago, we were on a content bender, which tbh I’ve been on for over 10 years now. YouTube, podcast, Instagram, Substack, all the things. People love it (who doesn’t love free educational content? I get it.), the world wants it from me, and the path to growth (platform size, revenue, future opportunities (in content)) is clear. But, after taking a step back, I was able to see perfectly clearly that that is not how I want to spend my life. Time is life, and life is short, and while it may be a rewarding journey, at the end of my life, would I look back and be glad I spent years producing a great podcast/show/social media account? No. The one thing I’ve always wanted to do more than anything in this life is write. So, that’s what I’m doing. And when I’m not doing that, I’m going to live, not work. Costa Rica showed me how simply pleasurable simply living can be. We need very, very little to be happy when we’re healthy and …