Tender Revolution Ep. 2: A Love Letter To Our Generation

In this episode, Catherine shares a love letter to the souls - yes, including you - who have come here to change the world through feeling. You, who knows in your bones that your sensitivity is a gift and that you are an alchemist transforming fear into love through your wild open heart. She then guides a healing journey to integrate the aspect of you that had to close your heart and dim your light to survive.

Transcript

Welcome to the Tender Revolution.

I'm Katherine Liggett.

This is a love letter to our generation.

Dear tender soul,

You know who you are.

You've been called too sensitive,

Too intense,

Too delicate.

But what they don't understand is that you feel everything with exquisite and often heartbreaking aliveness.

It's like you're an instrument that's been tuned differently and the volume of your heart is way up.

It's never been easy for you to be here.

Here in a world that's always seemed too much,

Too fast,

And too harsh.

A world that didn't give you words to describe the depth,

The richness,

The beauty,

And the pain of what you experience here,

Leaving you to feel sometimes like a broken outsider.

No matter what you've been through in your life,

Your heart can never fully close.

For you came here to feel.

This sometimes seems like a curse,

I know.

It would be easier to shut down,

Numb out,

And just get by.

But this isn't what you came here to do,

Dear one.

You came here to show up with a wildly open heart,

No matter what.

To feel everything and then more.

To lean into the pain when the world tells you to run from it.

Your soul knows that you are an alchemist and to heal,

You must feel.

I created this podcast for you,

Dear soul.

For I am one of you.

You may be around my age or not,

But we are a generation of souls who came here on a mission together.

And deep down,

You know that.

You know in your bones that you came from elsewhere,

That you're a spiritual being having a human experience,

And that you are a healer of yourself and of others.

We hold this power to heal precisely because our hearts are wide open.

We were built that way.

Through our capacity to feel,

We sense,

Move,

And transform energy.

For emotion is just that.

Energy in motion.

Now is the time for us to come together,

Amplify the power of our magnificent tenderness,

And thus change the world.

We will do so one internal revolution at a time.

We will do so by committing to show up as our whole selves,

Accepting all of who we are,

And refusing to shut down our brilliantly open hearts.

The future of humanity depends on our willingness to be seen as who we are.

We are the leaders of the future,

For the future is soft.

The future is compassionate.

The future is oneness.

Deep down,

You know this,

That you are a new kind of human,

That you are meant to heal yourself and the generations before you.

Ignited by the courage you built by living wholeheartedly,

You will gently guide those who are afraid to feel.

If we are to survive,

Humanity must feel.

We must open our tender hearts,

And you are here to do just that,

Dear soul.

You've been doing it your whole life,

Layer by layer.

I am in love with our mission,

And I'm profoundly honored and grateful that you're here with me as we go forth,

Led by our tender open hearts.

I love each and every one of you.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for committing your soft fire to the tender revolution.

In today's practice,

I want to empower you to keep showing up no matter what.

I'll guide you back to a moment in your recent experience in which you felt yourself get small or your light dim,

And then I'll guide you to heal that part of yourself that needed to close in fear.

Let's get started.

Find a place now,

In which you feel safe and comfortable,

Either sitting or lying down.

Make any small adjustments with your body you might need to get even more comfortable.

And when you arrive in that comfortable place,

Close your eyes and begin to notice your breath,

Allowing the day to melt down with every exhale.

Slow and lengthen your breath little by little.

With every exhale becoming heavier,

Sinking into the surface that supports you,

Receiving this support.

And as your breath grows softer and deeper in your body,

Open your internal eyes to scan your body for any sensations that you might notice right away.

What is here in your body right now?

Is there attention,

Contraction anywhere?

If so,

Send softening breath to those places.

What else do you notice in the sensational field of the body?

Simply making note and sending breath there,

Allowing,

Accepting.

Really arriving in this moment.

Now I invite you to open your imagination to a place and time where you felt yourself get small,

Where you felt that your sensitivity wasn't safe or wasn't welcome,

Where you had to close part of yourself.

Really bring yourself into your body at that time now.

And now you are there breathing with your body in that memory.

Look around here and notice,

Is there another person or people here?

What surrounds you?

And now notice with this body in this place and time,

What sensations are present.

Really feel yourself if there are other people here across from these people or with them.

Notice what your body is doing in the presence of these people.

Simply make note and feel.

What does it feel like to close yourself?

Is it a contraction around the heart,

The belly,

Somewhere else perhaps?

What is the subtlest part of this sensation that you can experience?

Breathe into it.

What are the emotions present here?

Make note and breathe into what's here,

Allowing whatever these emotions are to be as big as they need to be.

Now bring your mind to the whole constellation of sensation and feeling that you notice from this experience,

From all the sensations and all the feelings that are here.

And I'd like you now to allow this constellation of sensation and feeling to become a figure.

This can be an amorphous figure of a certain color,

Shape,

An animal,

A person,

Or something else.

Simply allow your imagination to amplify and create a figure with which you can dialogue now.

So shifting your mental images,

See yourself as the strongest,

Highest version of you.

Standing across now from this figure that is the constellation of feelings and sensations around closing yourself,

Being small,

Being dim.

What do they look like?

Feel yourself looking at them as the strongest,

Highest version of you with deep compassion,

Knowing that they can't harm you or anyone else.

So simply look at them,

Feeling your heart soften and open toward them,

No matter how frightening they might appear.

And they see this,

They see your openness and your compassion toward them.

Notice how they react to it.

Now bring a deep listening presence to them.

You are here to listen,

To see all that they are,

All that they need to share.

So ask them,

Tell me,

What do I need to know?

Listen to what they say.

Thank them for whatever they've shared and ask them now,

What else?

What else do you want to share with me?

Listening.

When you've received your answer,

Ask them,

What do you need?

Listening.

It could be that they don't know what they need and that's okay.

Simply mirror back to them.

It's okay not to know what you need.

If you've received an answer for what they need,

See,

Sense,

And feel yourself meeting that need for them.

And if it feels aligned,

Ask one more time,

Is there anything else that you need?

And listen and see,

Sense,

And feel yourself meeting that need.

Feel what they must be feeling having this need or these needs met now.

Notice if this figure has changed in the time that you've been present to it.

How does it look and feel now?

If this process feels complete enough for now,

Feel your heart's wall and gratitude for this representation of a very tender part of you that has shown up to be healed today,

To be integrated,

This shadow part of you,

The part that needed to close to be safe.

Thank you for being here with us today,

Dear part of us.

And so in the spirit of love,

Slowly feel yourself starting to let that go and come back to the room that you're in,

Breathing into your body,

Imagining the walls around you,

The things that surround you here in this place in time.

And finally,

Opening your eyes and returning.

I thank each and every one of you in this lovely generation.

And if you're listening to this show,

You are part of this generation,

No matter how chronologically old you might be.

Thank you so much for receiving this love letter and this healing experience.

And I hope that you can gain some courage in showing up even more with your wild open heart to all who have the privilege to receive it.

Reviews

As an HSP, Catherine really “gets it” for those of us who are also HSPs. Beautiful meditation. Thank you.

Feeling grateful for finding this practice at this time in my life. Thank you🙏

Powerful for me , deep sadness and tears, thank you for your work❤️

Absolutely lovely!

Thankyou with my whole heart Catherine.

This brought tears to my eyes and much comfort. Thank you! 💕🙏

This is an incredibly powerful track allowing me to connect with my fears & insecurities while understanding & growing in my own power & strength

Based on how I’ve shown up in the world I don’t believe anyone would call me a “sensitive.” And yet I have such an admiration for and attraction to empaths that I can’t help but start to wonder if I am one. Due to past wounds I have firmly closed my heart, but as I’ve started to open it again slowly I find such a torrent of emotion and such an overwhelming desire for connection that it makes me wonder who I really am…Thank you for challenging me to find that answer 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you for sharing this topic in a way which gives hope and optimism when it is needed. It is so encouraging to be seen in this light and not be considered wrong for being too sensitive or tender hearted. Much gratitude for you gentle and kind manner. Blessings

Catherine, thank you so much. Your gentle, loving approach to guiding us back to being complete is exquisite.

Thank you Catherine, such a lovely offering! ✨🙏🏼

BEAUTIFUL❣️ Such a UNIQUE offering for EMPATHS who FEEL DEEPLY and suffer the hurts and pains of those with whom they connect. 🙏🏻💕

Healing,supportive and helpful! Dearly needed today! Thanks for sharing the love!

I cant wait for the next episode! blessed new moon!

Beautiful once again 🌹. Your podcasts get better when revisiting them, as I gain insight and awareness. 🙏🏻