The Light Becomes Her

Katharine McLean

The Light Becomes Her Podcast goes beyond surface fixes to explore true healing and transformation. Hosted by Katharine McLean - Holistic Counsellor and Energy Healer with 20+ years of experience - this podcast dives into the emotional and subconscious roots shaping how we live, love, and lead. Having overcome childhood trauma and long-term addiction, Katharine blends nervous system science, psychology, and spirituality to help listeners break free from repeating patterns, reclaim their power, and live authentically.

  1. HACE 5 D

    Overthinking and the Illusion of Control

    Overthinking is often misunderstood as a flaw in the mind, but in truth, it is a sign of a nervous system stuck in survival. In this episode, Katharine reframes overthinking as a protective response shaped by early experiences of emotional unsafety, unmet needs, and unprocessed emotion held in the body. We explore how the nervous system state always precedes the story of the mind, why control can feel safer than stillness, and how the body continues to signal danger long after the original threat has passed. This conversation invites compassion for the parts of you that learned to stay vigilant, hyper-aware, and constantly analysing as a way to cope. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 – Why overthinking isn’t the problem 03:25 – The illusion of control 04:55 – When the mind avoids the body 08:35 – Bringing awareness into the body 10:25 – Somatic shaking and discharge 12:15 – Breath and orienting for safety 14:00 – Beliefs stored in the body 17:40 – Trusting uncertainty and surrender Through somatic insight, grounding practices, and nervous system regulation tools, this episode offers a pathway out of mental loops and back into embodied safety. Rather than trying to quiet the mind, you’ll learn how to support the body so the mind can finally rest. ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    19 min
  2. 1 FEB

    Understanding Your Relationship Blueprint

    Our earliest relationships quietly shape how we love, attach, and seek connection as adults. In this episode, we explore attachment styles and the relationship blueprint formed in childhood. Not as labels, but as adaptive survival responses held within the nervous system. This conversation unpacks how anxious, avoidant, and disorganised attachment patterns are created, how they play out in adult relationships, and why we are often drawn to partners who mirror our earliest emotional wounds. Through a lens of compassion, nervous system awareness, and spiritual understanding, this episode invites deeper self-reflection around love, safety, and belonging. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Childhood attachment imprint 05:00 Nervous system attunement 08:30 How attachment forms1 2:00 Core beliefs about love 15:00 Relationships as mirrors 18:40 Secure attachment explained 22:00 Anxious attachment patterns 25:20 Avoidant attachment patterns 28:50 Disorganised attachment 33:20 Becoming the love you seek This is a reminder that relationships are not here to complete us, but to initiate us into deeper self-responsibility, healing, and wholeness. As we grieve what we didn’t receive, meet our own emotional needs, and become the love we seek, our entire relationship blueprint begins to shift. ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    40 min
  3. 25 ENE

    The Belonging Wound

    In this episode, Katharine explores one of the most deeply wired human experiences - the longing to belong, and the subtle ways many women learned to abandon themselves in order to feel safe, connected, and accepted. Through nervous system awareness, inner child understanding, and spiritual insight, this conversation unpacks the difference between fitting in and true belonging. It speaks to those who learned early that love felt conditional, that safety came from being capable, helpful, or emotionally attuned, and who later grew into leaders and high achievers while still carrying a fear of rejection beneath the surface. At its core, this episode is a reminder that belonging is not something earned through performance, approval, or being needed. It is practised by staying with yourself, even when it feels uncomfortable, and choosing authenticity over attachment. When self-abandonment ends, rejection loses its power, and belonging becomes something that is sourced from within. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 – Welcome 01:00 – The Belonging Wound 03:25 – Fitting In vs Belonging 06:27 – Authenticity & Safety 08:09 – Fear of Being Seen 12:25 – Childhood Conditioning 17:12 – Loneliness & Isolation 23:53 – Belonging to Yourself If this episode resonated with you, consider it a quiet invitation from your nervous system to remember that you already belong; without proving, performing, or disappearing. ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    28 min
  4. 18 ENE

    Scripting Your Reality Before It Arrives

    In this episode, we explore self-concept work as a grounded, nervous-system-led practice; Not forcing positivity or chasing outcomes, but gently training your body to feel safe in a new identity. This is about choosing the healthy kind of delusion: relating to yourself as your future self now, before the world reflects it back. Through self-concept scripting, breath, somatic practices and small aligned behaviours, you’re guided to release old identities shaped by fear and protection, and practise becoming someone who trusts themselves, stays present in uncertainty, and allows expansion without self-sabotage.  JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 – Self-concept & identity 02:50 – Scripting the future self 04:45 – Nervous system safety 06:55 – Healthy delusion 09:50 – Rewriting identity 12:00 – Embodiment & breath 17:30 – Behavioural alignment 21:35 – Becoming who you are This episode is a powerful reminder that identity always precedes reality, and that what you are rehearsing internally is what life is responding to. ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    22 min
  5. 11 ENE

    How to Become Your Future Self Now

    As a new year begins, many of us feel called to change. We set intentions, create goals, and imagine a different future. But real transformation doesn’t begin with resolutions; It begins with identity. In this first episode of 2026, Katharine explores what it truly means to become your future self now, rather than waiting for external proof or perfect conditions. This episode unpacks why lasting change can’t be created from the same identity that shaped your past, and why your nervous system must feel safe enough to hold expansion. You’ll be guided to shift your focus away from outcomes and towards the energy, standards, and embodiment of the woman you are becoming. Learning how to live from her frequency before the evidence exists. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 – Stepping into a new year 02:00 – Why resolutions don’t last 06:15 – Identity creates reality 08:50 – Meeting your future self 13:30 – Living from her standards 19:05 – When the body resists change 24:19 – Staying loyal without proof This is an invitation to stop chasing, stop forcing, and begin becoming. Because the future does not arrive first. You do. ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    28 min
  6. 21/12/2025

    Releasing Hustle, Control & Reclaiming Feminine Flow

    In this episode, I step away from structure, performance, and preparation, and allow myself to speak openly from the heart. What unfolds is a deeply personal reflection on releasing the wounded masculine. The urgency, perfectionism, and relentless drive to produce; And softening back into the wisdom of the feminine. I share how rest, ceremony, travel, and surrender initiated a profound recalibration between yin and yang within my body, my work, and my sense of self. This conversation explores the subtle ways we become disconnected from intuition by prioritising doing over being, strategy over trust, and external rhythms over inner truth. I speak candidly about letting go of hustle culture, algorithmic pressure, and the belief that everything will fall apart if we slow down. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 – Speaking without structure 02:40 – Fear, perfectionism, and authenticity 05:34 – Nervous system safety 08:15 – Releasing hustle and control 11:18 – Ceremony, surrender, and energetic purge 17:15 – Balancing masculine and feminine 22:12 – Trusting intuition over strategy 27:07 – Letting go to make space for what’s next This episode is an invitation to rebalance the inner masculine and feminine. Not by rejecting either, but by allowing the feminine to lead once more. From this place, creation becomes organic, aligned, and deeply rooted in the heart. ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    29 min
  7. 14/12/2025

    Triggers Are Spiritual Assignments

    In this episode, we explore the true nature of emotional triggers; Not as personal failures, but as energetic awakenings guiding you back to the parts of yourself longing to be seen. Through the intertwined lenses of nervous system science, inner child healing, and spiritual growth, we soften the shame around being triggered and illuminate the deeper wisdom beneath each emotional wave. You’ll learn why the people closest to you stir your core the most, how your body stores unprocessed emotions, and how triggers can become powerful invitations into expansion rather than collapse. Katharine shares a compassionate process for staying present with your inner child, allowing the body to complete what was never finished, and returning to yourself with tenderness rather than judgment. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 Understanding the Nature of Triggers 02:05 Why Parents, Partners & Children Trigger Us 03:35 What a Trigger Really Is 05:02 Neuroception & the Body’s Threat Detector 07:14 Emotions as Inner Children 09:44 The Biology of Emotional Waves 11:52 Meaning, Story & Emotional Spirals 13:40 Allowing Emotion Without the Story 15:30 What Triggers Are Revealing 20:03 The Spiritual Perspective of Triggers 23:08 A Grounded Process for Navigating Triggers 26:15 Support Inside the Awaken Course ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | https://www.instagram.com/the_light_becomes_her/?hl=en FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thelightbecomesher/ WEB | https://katharinemclean.com.au/ ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    27 min
  8. 07/12/2025

    The Invisible Wounds of Childhood

    In this latest episode, Katharine guides you into a new understanding of childhood trauma; beyond the visible wounds and into the subtle, silent places where disconnection, emotional absence, and unmet needs take root. Through a blend of nervous system wisdom, spiritual insight, and lived experience, this conversation invites you to soften, breathe, and recognise the parts of yourself that learned to survive by becoming someone you were never meant to be. You’ll explore how the body holds stories the mind has forgotten, why so many “personality traits” are actually protective responses, and how your soul may have chosen certain experiences as part of your path back to remembering who you really are. This episode is a gentle awakening. An invitation to see yourself with more compassion, understanding, and truth. JUMP TO A CHAPTER : 00:00 – Opening & Welcome 00:59 – Redefining Trauma 03:38 – Childhood Patterns in Adulthood 08:39 – Complex Trauma Explained 12:17 – Spiritual Perspective on Trauma 15:11 – Generational Trauma Story 20:05 – Emotional Neglect 23:02 – Trauma Responses 25:01 – Personality vs Survival 29:40 – First Layer of Healing 29:56 – Guided Nervous System Practice 31:23 – Closing & Next Episode Preview ✨ Where to Find Katharine IG | @the_light_becomes_her) FACEBOOK | The Light Becomes Her WEB | The Light Becomes Her ✨ Ways to work with Katharine Awaken - The Light Becomes Her - Online course and healing community - Use code “25PERCENTOFF” at checkout.  Elevate - The Light Becomes Her - Private mentorship Retreats - The Light Becomes Her - The Awakened Woman Retreat in Byron Bay This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio. 🎧 http://www.ontrackstudio.com.au ✉️ hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

    33 min

Información

The Light Becomes Her Podcast goes beyond surface fixes to explore true healing and transformation. Hosted by Katharine McLean - Holistic Counsellor and Energy Healer with 20+ years of experience - this podcast dives into the emotional and subconscious roots shaping how we live, love, and lead. Having overcome childhood trauma and long-term addiction, Katharine blends nervous system science, psychology, and spirituality to help listeners break free from repeating patterns, reclaim their power, and live authentically.

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