Live the Change

03/06/2026

FÖR DIG SOM VILL PROVA PÅ EKOTERAPI OCH/ELLER MER JÄMLIK TERAPI

Många har fått det värre i livet, i stället för bättre, efter den ”vård” de mottagit inom psykiatrin eller genom psykoterapi. Eller så har det bara inte gett någon hjälp alls.

Det är så klart helt fel. Vård ska inte skada. Men dessutom, man ska inte vårda de som inte är sjuka. Och bara för att du ”mår dåligt” ibland, eller ofta, betyder det inte att du är sjuk.

Det betyder att du allt som oftast är en kännande, tänkande människa om varit med om saker som du inte fått hjälp att titta på och bearbeta. Det kan vara allt från att känna att man inte passar in, livsstress, livsval, till små och stora trauman, våld, försummelse, förlust osv. Det händer att det finns biologiska/genetiska orsaker till dåligt mående, och det är viktigt att utesluta, men jag gissar på att i mer än 90% av fallen är det inte en biologisk/genetisk orsak. Det är en livsorsak. Och är det en biologisk/genetisk orsak så hör du inte hemma i psykiatrin i alla fall, utan får väldigt troligt bättre hjälp inom ett annat medicinskt fält.

Psykiatrin och den slags psykoterapi som ser sig som en del av en medicinsk behandling, utnämner sig själva till experter på människor och ger sig själva tolkningsföreträde över vad personen själv säger att något handlar om.

Psykiatrin, psykoterapin och annan slags psyk vård delar ut diagnoser, fastställer symptom och sätter in ”behandling”.

Det här blir ett sätt som både den som ”vårdar” och den som tar emot ”vård” måste förhålla sig till. De flesta bestämmer att det är rätt sätt, både av de som ”vårdar” och de som tar emot ”vård”. Och det är svårt att lära om. Att börja se sig själv som icke-sjuk och normal, när man i årtal, från många olika håll, fått höra att man är sjuk och skadad.

Det går att lära om! Jag finns här för dig som vill undersöka vem du är bortom psykiatrins projektioner. Som vill lära känna dig själv, och själv bestämma vem du är, vart du är på väg, vad som är bra för dig, och inte.

Just nu jobbar jag på plats i Skåne, men är flyttbar, speciellt om ni har en grupp som vill träffa mig. Jag finns online också.

Jag erbjuder ekoterapi (med terapi inom något slags imaginärt citationstecken, för jag har mycket kritiskt att säga om traditionell terapi), rewildingtearpi och det jag kallar peer terapi – som just vill försöka rätta till den maktobalans som finns i alla terapier.

Låter det här intressant? Du hittar mer info om mig och det jag erbjuder på www.livethechange.

Jag erbjuder terapi på svenska och engelska.

Mina specialområden är våld, övergrep, försummelse och dissociation, divergens (all sorts divergens), och vårdskador och trauman från psykiatrin och från terapi.

Välkommen!

06/05/2026

MONGOLIA’S WILD HORSES

And what we can learn from studying them and the context they and the semi-feral living Mongolian domestic horse live in.
We need to learn about horses from non-western cultures, especially from old horse cultures and indigenous peoples, and their “other ways of knowing”. We also need to study wild-living horses to understand "the horse", beyond human projections. Read about my experiences in Mongolia studying wild-living Takhis (Przewalski horses), reintroduction, rewilding, Mongolian nomadic horse culture, and horse-human interaction.

Wild horses. Listen to the sound of the word. Wild, as in free. Every human has a relationship with horses. If you never met one in real life, you have seen them on TV, read about them in books, met them in commercials. Beautiful, proud, free horses.

06/05/2026

JOIN US FOR MY PRESENTATION ON REWILDING AND HORSES!

And let’s have a nice chat about it all!

Felicia Katarina Lundgren is an ecotherapist and a seasoned equine and nature assisted intervention facilitator. To not ever let the horse become objectified in her work, she has devoted many years to understanding the “horse beyond human projections”. She has also taken a deep dive into understanding horse-human interaction and has promoted equine welfare to be about the horses’ biological needs, as well as emotional, social and cognitive needs. She decided she needed to study wild-living horses to see if “horses” in fact were behaving, communicating, needing, responding, being… like western science concluded from studies of western domestic horses. And what she learned from studying these wild-living, or semi-wild living horses in different settings, also outside of western culture, has confirmed her own re-evaluating of a lot of the paradigms in equine welfare, in horse-human interaction, horse management etc, but also how equine assisted interventions are taught, and ultimately, what rewilding really is about.
Sign up info in the picture.

And if you want to read anything in the meantime, this one might be interesting to you?

https://www.academia.edu/166684374/Mongolias_Wild_Horses_Part_of_the_Rewild_your_Heart_series

or this one?

https://www.academia.edu/42328837/Freedom_From_and_Freedom_To_Equine_Welfare_and_the_Role_of_the_Equine_Professional_in_Equine_Assisted_Interventions

or this one? https://www.academia.edu/129892634/Rewilding_Equine_Assisted_Interventions_Integrating_Ecodynamics_and_Ecosocial_Thinking_into_EAI

See you, I hope, on May 20th!

11/04/2026

CONTROLLING EATING TO CONTROL PEOPLE

And to control the situations you find (found) yourself in

Restricting, controlling, and manipulating your eating works splendidly as a coping strategy to keep your anxiety about people and their doings in check. It very fast makes you not care about what they do or do not do. And you are in a place, a world — a mental space, where you are feeling like you are in control of something. Something is in your power to decide over, and there is finally some predictability in your life, and something to hold on to.

Food — and how you control your food intake — becomes both your best friend and your worst enemy. You do not need anyone else. Or at least, that is what you tell yourself. If you can only stay with and keep yourself to your own restrictive eating rules, then it will all be fine. Then nobody, or what they do, can really touch you, not psychically, not mentally, especially not mentally.

All of a sudden, you have super-powers, secret super-powers. They, other people, ask you if you want something to eat — and you smile (outwardly a small smile— inwardly a big smile) — and they do not know that you are in control, secretly. Even if they demand you to eat, they can’t make you. They can’t make you chew and swallow. Unless they put a gun to your head. Most of the time, they don’t do that.

Read my piece on Medium on why we cannot support people with eating/not-eating as a coping strategy without addressing their stress and trauma.

And to control the situations you find (found) yourself in

08/04/2026

JOIN ME FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO REWILDING!

I believe the path to a lot of healing (or wholing as I prefer to call it) goes through rewilding - of ourselves, our fellow human and non-human animals, of the earth...

We need to let ourselves and others grow into becoming who we are - not who we wish to be, or wish others to be.

Growth needs to be free. Not controlled. Not turned into profit. Not directed by greed, recognition, a need to fit in...

Does it sound strange and complicated? It really is not - it is learning respect for ourselves and others, as they/we are. No matter if it is a human, a dog, a horse, a bird, a river, a desert, the earth...

Welcome to both down to earth discussions about human, equine, dog, earth welfare as well as to philosphicsl and ethical ponderings!

A Science-Based AND Open Minded Online Course on Rewild(ing) of Humans, Horses and their Environments

08/04/2026

TRAUMA INDUCED DISSOCIATION AND THE WHEEL OF WHOLENESS (TOLERANCE) - A NEW DESCRIPTION

In 2019 I developed an alternative model to the Window of Tolerance and the Polyvagal Ladder. Because neither of them really helped someone like me, with "parts" and lots of dissociation (I write that even if I think everyone have parts and use dissociation), What I address here I call Trauma Induced Dissociation (TID) and I have reworked my original writing in how I describe the model now called the wheel of Wholeness, what it is, how you use it, but also my thinking around some aspects of dissociation, and as usual, I ask some critical questions...

Dowland it and give me some feedback? It costs 7 USD, at least. If you want to pay more and in that way support my work, you are very welcome!

And to learn more - join me on my webinar May 12! You find it on my Buy Me a Coffee page as well!

Dissociation is by nature elusive. It is like a mist you have to reach out from, or reach into. Depending on perspective. I developed the model "The Wheel of Tolerance" in 2019. Now I have renamed it

23/03/2026

REWILDING YOUR HEART IS ABOUT FINDING WAY BACK TO YOURSELF AND YOUR CONNECTION WITH WHAT IS AROUND YOU

We get conditioned, trained, formed, shaped, in different ways through the contexts we are in and the people we meet in our life (and we do this to others as well).

Some ways are brutal, other ways are more subtle, even insidious.
We grow up and are taught not to question this. But what if you actually have more choices you can make in your life?

Are you ready to explore that?

Rewilding your heart - is about letting yourself grow into the person you are. But it is also about letting others to the same.

The interesting part is that this leads you to connect or re-connect with parts of yourself you have pushed away or just locked up inside, because they don't fit well into society (or that is our fear).

When you stop judging yourself and become more curious abut yourself - that opens up for curiosity towards others as well, other people, beings, entities, ecosystems...

But it goes two way, when you start being curious at others - you can find a way to be curious about yourself.

Join me for an intro course into "Rewilding your Heart"
You sign up and you can read more about it here:

A Science-Based AND Open Minded Online Course on Rewild(ing) of Humans, Horses and their Environments

23/03/2026

Hi everyone!

The webinar is to tomorrow! I would love to see more people there - we have a good group already - so come and join us for some great discussions!

And, if you cannot make it, sign up and I will send you the recording afterwards

Much love! ❤
Felicia

In June 2025 I delivered a presentation with this title at the 7th EAOF Conference in Copenhagen. EAOF number 7 was a “conference on community mental health care and assertive outreach”. And its theme

16/03/2026

TO SET YOURSELF FREE FROM PATHOLOGIZING & MEDICALIZING OF YOUR STRESS AND TRAUMA – USE ME AS YOUR REWILDING GUIDE, THERAPIST, OR MENTOR

There is nothing wrong with you. You do not have any “mental” or “neurodevelopmental” “disorders”. Your suffering and pain, or your struggles are not strange or abnormal. Most often they come from too much stress and/or trauma.

We have been taught by all societal systems throughout our lives that when we struggle there is something wrong with us. There is not, but there is something wrong with a society that lets us believe that.

For me, the way out of believing what these systems taught me about myself was to rewild myself. To let myself grow as I needed to. To set myself free from conditioning, people pleasing, fears of different sorts (like fear of not being enough but also fear of being too much). And then to develop my self-compassion. To learn to love my own wild heart.

I believe we all need to un-tame and un-domesticate ourselves. We need to stop saying yes when we mean no, and no when we mean yes.

The way out of the cage we often feel trapped in is not through more diagnoses, medications, traditional therapies, or wellness advice.

When you rewild yourself, your own inner compass gets a chance to recalibrate itself. And you get a chance to find your bearings. Then when you start to walk your own path, you will find your courage to take one step at a time. And for each step you will become wilder, more authentic, less constricted – it is a way to liberate yourself.

It won’t perhaps make your life easier, but it will make it your life. And that is worth a lot.

Does this sound interesting to you? Read more about me and book me on: https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/rewilding-your-heart-guidance-mentoring

Or on my Buy me a Coffee page: https://buymeacoffee.com/katarinat/e/501683

Welcome!

27/02/2026

REWILD YOUR HEART WORKSHOP IN FINLAND!

This is a wonderful opportunity to meet me and Sonja Lairila, my friend and colleague in Finland, at her place, for a long weekend workshop on everything rewilding related.

This is a weekend where you can think about more traditional rewilding ideas, how do we take care of our remaining wilderness? And all “the more than human” beings and entities that call it their home? But there is also ample time for relaxing, for being mindful out in the woods, with the horses that live at Sonja’s place. And – we will facilitate experiential learning and reflections – good for practicing your own observational skills, your own awareness of yourself and what is around you, and in general – very good for your own personal development.

We talk about horses as much as you want to, or we end up focusing on your own growth journey. We never know with these workshops, they take us where we all need to go. Usually, it becomes a mix.

Sonja is a fantastic human being (doing, thinking) who have for a few years now worked on rewilding her own small horse farm in Finland. Both I and Sonja have a lot of experience with running farms, taking care of horses, minding their environment, horse welfare, EAP/L, rewilding, educating, and facilitating groups.

Last summer we co-presented on the “Equine Cultures in Transition” conference in Manchester, UK on the topic “Rewilding Equine Assisted Interventions - Integrating Ecodynamics and Ecosocial Thinking into EAI”. And we have for many years been working side by side and educated on equines in therapy and learning programs and well as developing those educations.

This was our presentation: https://www.academia.edu/129892634/Rewilding_Equine_Assisted_Interventions_Integrating_Ecodynamics_and_Ecosocial_Thinking_into_EAI

It will be great fun, thought provoking, and growth promoting – for all of us! Join us!

https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/rewilding-your-heart-finland-2026

A 2,5-day experiential workshop to the Rewilding of your own Heart, in Kouvola, Finland. We encourage you to take our online intro course "Rewild your Heart" before you come here, but it is not a prerequisite.