Holistic Essentials Therapy and Consulting

Holistic Essentials Therapy and Consulting Guiding women home to themselves, into deeper trust of their inner wisdom and greater freedom to live as who they are. 🤍
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Kerryn Slater is a Self Discovery Coach and Spiritual Alchemist devoted to guiding women back to themselves — to self-love, self-acceptance, and the deep inner knowing of who they truly are. With over 30 years on her own path of self-discovery, personal and spiritual growth, and more than a decade supporting others, Kerryn holds space for women to gently release limiting beliefs, reconnect with th

eir inner wisdom, and embody their truth with clarity and confidence. Her work integrates ThetaHealing® and the Thrive Factor Archetype Framework®, creating powerful transformation at the level of the subconscious and identity. Through this approach, women are supported not just to change their lives — but to understand who they are at their core and how they are uniquely designed to think, feel, and thrive. Kerryn offers Self Discovery Coaching, energy healing, soul readings, meditation, and transformational retreats for women ready to deepen their connection to themselves and step into their next chapter with confidence and alignment. She is the founder of Holistic Essentials Therapy & Consulting, co-leads international retreats through Thriving Women Retreats, is a co-author of The Souls Rising, and a regular contributor to OracleMe Magazine.

Someone not approving of or agreeing with your choice doesn't automatically mean the choice you've made is wrong.There w...
08/09/2026

Someone not approving of or agreeing with your choice doesn't automatically mean the choice you've made is wrong.

There will be times in our lives when the choices that feel right for us don't make sense to someone else.

They may not agree.
They may not approve.
They may question our reasoning or believe they would choose differently.

And when the person matters to us, their opinion can matter too.

I don't believe belonging to ourselves means becoming so fiercely independent that we stop listening to anyone else's perspective.

Sometimes another person sees something we don't.
They may offer insight we hadn't considered.
Their questions may invite us to look more closely at our own motivations.

And if our choices affect other people, their experience deserves consideration too.

Inner authority isn't about refusing outside influence.
It's about being able to listen, consider and discern without automatically assuming someone else must know what is right for us better than we do.

Because two people can look at the same situation through completely different lenses.
Different experiences.
Different values.
Different needs.
Different fears.
Different hopes.
Different understandings of what a meaningful life looks like.

Someone else can disagree with your choice without either of you needing to be wrong.

Perhaps the work isn't learning how to stop caring what other people think.
Perhaps it's learning how to hear what they think without losing the ability to hear yourself.

To listen without immediately complying.
To consider without automatically conceding.
To remain open enough to change your mind when something genuinely resonates...
and rooted enough to trust yourself when it doesn't.

🪷 Something to Consider

When someone you respect disagrees with you, what happens within you?
Do you become curious about their perspective?
Or do you immediately begin questioning your own?

There is wisdom in being open to what others can see.
But openness doesn't require surrendering your authority.

You can listen.
You can consider.
You can discern.
And ultimately, you can still choose.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

🌑 Your Energy Guidance for 7–13 September has landed.This week, as we move toward the Virgo New Moon, we're being invite...
06/09/2026

🌑 Your Energy Guidance for 7–13 September has landed.

This week, as we move toward the Virgo New Moon, we're being invited to explore refinement rather than reinvention.

Not everything that changes needs to have been wrong before.

Sometimes we've simply grown, learnt, experienced more of life — and the way we're living hasn't quite caught up with who we've become.

This week's guidance explores conscious choice, discernment, deeper truth and the movement from awareness into embodiment.

And White Buffalo Calf Woman steps forward with the most beautiful reminder from nature:

Nature moves through its seasons without doubting whether it is allowed to change.**

Perhaps we can too.

Without rejecting who we've been.
Without making the previous season wrong.
Without needing to know exactly what the next one will become.

Simply recognising when something within us — or within our lives — is ready to shift.

So perhaps the question for this week is:

Knowing what I know about myself now, what would I choose differently?

đź’Ś The full Energy Guidance is waiting in your inbox if you're subscribed.

🎥 Prefer to watch or listen?
This week's guidance is also available now on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/7iIcw1wThz4?si=Uvc400ITB1yFHjOa

Big Love,
Kerryn xx

Exploring what it means to belong to yourself.

Coherence doesn't require sameness.You can change your mind, your direction, your expression and even what you believe —...
30/08/2026

Coherence doesn't require sameness.

You can change your mind, your direction, your expression and even what you believe — and still be deeply grounded in who you are.

I think we sometimes misunderstand authenticity as consistency.

As though once we've discovered who we are, we're supposed to remain recognisable as that person forever.

To want the same things.
Believe the same things. Follow the same path.

But perhaps authenticity isn't about remaining the same.

Perhaps it's about remaining in relationship with ourselves as we change.

Because life will change us.

Some experiences we choose. Others arrive without our invitation.

We learn. We encounter people and perspectives that expand our understanding.
We experience love, loss, joy, grief, endings, beginnings and possibility.

We discover parts of ourselves we hadn't met yet.

And sometimes what once felt completely true... no longer does.

That doesn't make the person we were before inauthentic.

Both can be true.

Who you were then can have been completely real.

And who you are now can be completely real too.

Perhaps coherence isn't found in making every version of ourselves match.
Perhaps it's found in continuing to listen closely enough to recognise what is true now.

To honour what still belongs.

To release what doesn't.

To remain curious about what is emerging.

🪷 Something to Consider

Where are you asking yourself to remain consistent simply because changing might make you difficult to explain?
What if changing your mind didn't mean you'd been wrong?
What if a new direction didn't invalidate the road that brought you here?
What if you could honour who you've been without needing to decide who you're allowed to become?

You don't need every version of yourself to look the same for them all to belong to you.

Perhaps that's one of the deeper freedoms of belonging to yourself:
You can remain grounded in who you are while allowing yourself to keep becoming.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

Weekly Energy Guidance has landed.As we prepare to cross the threshold into spring here in Australia, this week's energy...
30/08/2026

Weekly Energy Guidance has landed.

As we prepare to cross the threshold into spring here in Australia, this week's energy feels less like a call to rush into something new — and more like an invitation to prepare the ground for what wants to grow.

After the illumination of last week's Pisces Lunar Eclipse, the question begins to shift:

Now that I can see more clearly, what am I going to do with what I know?

This week we're exploring awareness becoming embodiment, what resistance may actually be showing us, and what we're consciously — and unconsciously — cultivating through the choices we make and where we place our energy.

And then Saraswati, Goddess of knowledge and wisdom, stepped forward with another beautiful invitation:

Don't become so focused on what you're waiting to grow that you overlook what has already grown within you.

The wisdom you've gained.

The experiences that have shaped you.

The things life has taught you about relationships, change, courage — and yourself.

Perhaps this week isn't asking you to become more.

Perhaps it's asking you to recognise what is already here, while creating space for what is still becoming. 🌱

đź’Ś If you're subscribed, the full Weekly Energy Guidance is waiting for you in your inbox.

🎧 If you're not on the email list, you can watch or listen to this week's guidance over on YouTube:

Making Space for What Wants to Grow | Weekly Energy Guidance 31 Aug–6 Sept
https://youtu.be/xcaOImgy5Po?si=78BmP-oVrGfDiVrg

Big Love,
Kerryn xx

Sometimes the in-between isn't a place to solve.It's a place to discover.I think uncertainty can make us very uncomforta...
28/08/2026

Sometimes the in-between isn't a place to solve.
It's a place to discover.

I think uncertainty can make us very uncomfortable.

We like to know where we're going.
What something means.
What we're supposed to do next.
Who we're becoming.

And when something that once felt right no longer does, there can be an enormous temptation to quickly replace it with something else.

A new plan.
A new identity.
A new direction.
A new answer.
Anything that makes the uncertainty feel more manageable.

But becoming doesn't always happen that neatly.

Sometimes we recognise what no longer fits long before we understand what will.

We might know a way of living isn't working anymore without knowing what needs to change.

We might feel ourselves questioning beliefs we've held for years without having new answers ready.

We might know we're ready for something different in our work, relationships, creativity or spiritual life without being able to clearly name what different looks like.

And sometimes...
we're simply changing.

Not lost.
Not failing.
Not behind.

Just somewhere between what we've known and what we're beginning to discover.

That space can feel exciting.
It can also feel confusing, lonely, uncomfortable and uncertain.
And perhaps we don't always need to rush through it.

Because when we immediately demand an answer, we can accidentally choose what feels familiar simply to escape the discomfort of not knowing.

🪷 Something to Consider

Is there somewhere in your life where you're demanding clarity from yourself before clarity has actually arrived?
What if you didn't need to immediately define what's next?
What if curiosity could sit beside uncertainty for a while?

What if instead of asking:
Who am I supposed to become?
you asked:
What am I beginning to discover about myself?

Perhaps becoming isn't always a destination we consciously choose and then move toward.
Sometimes we discover who we're becoming by paying attention to what begins to feel true along the way.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

Sometimes the people who love us are still relating to who we've been.Becoming asks us to let them discover who we are n...
27/08/2026

Sometimes the people who love us are still relating to who we've been.
Becoming asks us to let them discover who we are now — without abandoning ourselves to remain familiar.

When we've known someone for a long time, we naturally develop an understanding of who they are.

She's the responsible one.
She'll always say yes.
She doesn't like that.
She's never wanted this.
She would never do that.
That's just who she is.

Until one day...
perhaps it isn't.

Because while we've been living, learning and experiencing life, something within us may have changed.

And sometimes we've been aware of that evolution long before anyone around us has had the opportunity to understand it.

That can be uncomfortable.
Not only for us.
For them too.

Our changing can alter familiar dynamics.
It can raise questions.
It may require conversations.
It can ask people who love us to update their understanding of who we are.

And I don't believe inner authority means dismissing their feelings or deciding their perspective no longer matters.
Sometimes someone who knows us deeply can reflect something we genuinely need to consider.

Sometimes our choices affect people we love, and becoming more ourselves doesn't remove our responsibility to navigate those relationships with care.

But neither does loving someone require us to remain who we've always been so they can remain comfortable.

There is a difference between listening to another person's perspective...
and handing them authority over who we're allowed to become.

🪷 Something to Consider

Is there somewhere in your life where you're still performing a familiar version of yourself?
Not because she still feels true...
but because changing her might surprise, disappoint or unsettle someone else?

And perhaps an equally important question:
Have you allowed the people you love the opportunity to actually know who you are becoming?

Sometimes we assume they won't understand before we've ever allowed ourselves to be seen.

Becoming doesn't necessarily require leaving people behind.
Sometimes it asks us to meet each other again.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse | 28 August 2026This week’s eclipse invites us into the space between awareness and choic...
27/08/2026

Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse | 28 August 2026

This week’s eclipse invites us into the space between awareness and choice.

Because becoming aware of something doesn’t automatically make it true.

A fear can surface without being intuition.

An old story can return without asking to be lived again.

A belief can become visible precisely because we are finally ready to recognise that it no longer belongs to us.

And perhaps the question isn’t only:

Is this true?

Perhaps it is:

Is this still true for who I am now?

The Pisces–Virgo axis brings intuition and discernment into conversation with one another.

Pisces invites us to feel, sense and listen.

Virgo asks us to observe, discern and recognise what is actually here.

We need both.

Intuition shows us where to look.
Discernment helps us recognise what we’re seeing.
Inner authority decides what we do with it.

A little astronomical clarification too, because you may have seen this eclipse described on social media as a “Blood Moon.”

While the eclipsed portion of the Moon may take on a beautiful copper-red hue, the 28 August event is actually a deep partial lunar eclipse, rather than the total lunar eclipse most commonly associated with the popular term “Blood Moon.”

And perhaps there is something rather beautiful in that imagery anyway.

Not everything disappears into shadow.

Not everything is completely illuminated.

Sometimes we find ourselves somewhere between the two — seeing enough to understand something differently, without yet being able to see the whole picture.

Clarity has its own timing.

You don’t need to force an answer simply because something has come into your awareness.

Stay curious.

Listen deeply.

And trust yourself enough to choose consciously what you carry forward.

Big Love,
Kerryn xx

You do not need to become a healer to learn Reiki.Perhaps you are simply being called to remember how to become a place ...
26/08/2026

You do not need to become a healer to learn Reiki.

Perhaps you are simply being called to remember how to become a place of healing for yourself.

One of the philosophies woven through Reiki is:

Healer, heal thyself.

Not because we need to be completely healed before we can support another - I don't believe there is such a destination.

But because there is something profoundly powerful about learning how to tend to our own energy, reconnect with ourselves and become an active participant in our own wellbeing.

For me, Reiki has always been about far more than a healing modality.

It is a relationship.

A relationship with yourself.
With your intuition.
With the energy moving within and around you.
With nature and the world you inhabit.
And with something greater than yourself — whether you understand that as Universal Consciousness, Source, God, the Divine, Infinite Intelligence, or simply something you cannot quite put into words.

As that relationship deepens, something begins to shift.

You notice more.

You become more aware of what your body is communicating.
Of your energy.
Of what nourishes you and what depletes you.
Of the quiet nudges of your intuition.
Of when you are centred — and when you have moved away from yourself.

This is part of what I think of as "expanding awareness".

And perhaps that is where healing begins.

Not with becoming someone different.

But with becoming present enough to hear yourself again.

This November, I have been invited by my beautiful friend Shannon Dunn to return to Perth to teach Ascension Reiki Levels 1 & 2 — a two-day immersion in self-healing, expanded awareness, connection and the practice of Reiki.

You don't need to arrive wanting to become a professional practitioner.

You may simply feel the call to begin with yourself.

And sometimes, that is where everything else begins. đź’š

Ascension Reiki Levels 1 & 2 | Perth | November 2026

More details coming soon.

Kerryn x

You are allowed to outgrow versions of yourself that were once completely authentic.Changing doesn't mean you got it wro...
25/08/2026

You are allowed to outgrow versions of yourself that were once completely authentic.
Changing doesn't mean you got it wrong.
Sometimes what you've experienced changes what you now know to be true.

I think sometimes we make changing our minds mean something about who we are.

But I used to love this.
I thought this was what I wanted.
I've always done it this way.
Everyone knows me as this person.

And so we can find ourselves continuing to inhabit choices, dreams, beliefs, identities or ways of living that once genuinely belonged to us...
but no longer do.

Not because they were wrong.
And not because we were pretending.
They may have been completely authentic expressions of who we were at the time.

As we navigate life, experiences arise that can profoundly shape and change us.
Love. Loss. Relationships. Grief. Joy. Trauma. Learning. Failure. Success. Spiritual experiences. New perspectives.

Some experiences we consciously choose.
Others arrive in our lives without our invitation.

And what we live through can change us.
We gain knowledge we didn't have before.
We discover things about ourselves.
Our values can deepen or change.
Our priorities shift.
Our understanding of ourselves, other people and life itself can expand.

Sometimes an experience creates a very clear before and after.
And sometimes change happens so gradually that we don't recognise we've become different until something that once fitted us... simply doesn't anymore.

Changing doesn't necessarily mean the previous version of you was false.

They were living from what they knew then.
You are living from what you know now.

🪷 Something to Consider

Is there something in your life you're continuing to carry because it still feels true...
or because it once did?
A dream.
A belief.
A role.
A way of expressing yourself.
An expectation.
A version of who you thought you would be.

You don't have to immediately change anything.

Perhaps simply become curious about what still feels alive within you...
and what you may already have outgrown.

Because becoming isn't always about adding something new.
Sometimes it's having the courage to recognise what no longer belongs.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

Sometimes we think growth means leaving our past behind or proving we've changed. But what if becoming isn't a rejection...
24/08/2026

Sometimes we think growth means leaving our past behind or proving we've changed.

But what if becoming isn't a rejection at all?
What if it's more of a continuation?

Every version of you has been doing what she knew, with what she had, in the circumstances she was in at the time.

Some versions of us were surviving.
Some were learning.
Some were protecting something tender that mattered.

You don't need to shame those versions in order to grow.
You don't need to prove how different you are now.

Becoming isn't a betrayal of who you were.
It's often an integration.
Carrying forward what still holds truth.

🪷 Something to consider.

What might it feel like to let your past selves belong without needing to drag them into your future?
Not to relive them.
Not to return.
Just to allow them be part of your story.

Perhaps becoming doesn't require a dramatic departure.
Just a quiet willingness to keep living.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

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