Aileen Kennedy Inner Source

18/01/2026

This is what I tell my clients 👆🏻

Whether it’s a small t trauma
Or a big T trauma
You don’t need to have all the PTSD criteria on the DSM-V to benefit from EMDR.

❇️Example?
I have seen many women who experienced birth trauma. Let’s call them Anna & Bea

Anna: Who had a part of the birth where she thought: is my baby ok? What if he/ she dies?
Bea: She experienced a sense of loss of control, informed consent was not practiced by health care providers touching her. (This is so NOT ok!).

❇️This leaves an imprint, in the body, mind system.

Anna: can year later still be over anxious, controlling, wants to do everything herself, sees danger everywhere.

Bea: Years later still can’t relax and enjoy intimacy with her partner. She shuts down and either says no, or has has trouble expressing herself and lets things ‘happen’ and feels bad afterwards.

❇️In both scenarios I have seen women
CHANGE after EMDR;

Anna: She becomes a more relaxed and trusting mom, who can relax more, allow for others to help - now she finally has space to care of herself and not burn out. She enjoy the contact with her child more.

Bea: She feels more in touch with her body, more true to herself and in her expression of her boundaries. Slowly she learns how to enjoy intimacy again. This also changes her relationship with her partner.

❇️We usually are not done once the EMDR is finished. More sessions for integration or usually needed.

And Breathwork is a powerful tool to do that.
Allowing for the new cognition:
A: ‘We are safe’
B: ‘I can say no, I’m in charge’

To FULLY land in the system.

⏰When is it TIME?
Whenever YOU are ready.

It will not walk away.
Trauma can sit there for a lifetime
And you can STILL work with it.

💡The question is more:
How long do you WANT to allow it to impact on your life?

With love
❤️
Aileen

14/01/2026

14/01/2026

It’s clear from my previous post
that 2016 was not a walk in the park for me.

It shattered me in many ways

AND I grew stronger than ever
AND I recovered
AND I found joy, purpose and direction in my life again.

That year was the beginning of BIG and DEEP lessons.

It taught me that I may be brought to my knees:
but I bend 🌾I will not break
I can trust my own strength 🔥

After years of being a therapist for others it was humbling to be in deep need of therapy myself.

In the most emotionally fragile time of my life.
It taught me a lot.

(And it also showed me how frustrating it can be to have a therapist who does not understand birth/ motherhood, or who just sticks to protocols. Or have little human warmth & closeness: all things I now bring to the table😉).

Burn out taught me to listen
to my body and boundaries.

To say no instead of trying to please.
Still ongoing teachings in this,
but I’m WAY better at it than back then.

It taught me to care for my children,
love them, but not at the cost of neglecting myself.

My self care improved 100% and without guilt.
Because I learned the hard way:
you can’t pour from an empty cup ☕️

I had already chosen back then to work with birth and mothers. My own birth trauma made me specialize in birth trauma and perinatal mental health. I became certified Doula and Mindful Birthing educator.

3 years later:
I started my own company,
became a single mom
& in this transition- Breathwork found me.

Entry: 2020 ☄️my next Death & Rebirth
I will share one last post on that era 😊

Our hardest years:
are the BIGGEST lessons & growth.

I would not be who I am today without ALL of this!

📷 Pictures:
1. Feature in Book: ‘Spuug op je Blouse’
2. My dear teacher during a weekend training in Brussels in 2016 - I took 3 month old Isabel with me.
3. tribe summer gathering
4. A beautiful birth I assisted as a Birth Doula - mama’s rock ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
5. One of my Mindful Birthing groups 🥰
6. Launch of my company
7. being witness to those precious years in which they are small 🥹

#2016

12/01/2026

I was about to make a post on #2016
& now we have this trend- so let go 😅

2016 was the hardest year ever 🥹
I don’t understand how I made it through.

My heart expanded 💗into loving 2
humans I brought onto this earth

I lost everything that I thought was
what made my life happy & successful.

It took time, but this was the beginning
of the end of my relationship (15 years),
career in the clinical field and
my world as I knew it

This year was SO painful.
And dark.

My youngest almost died after birth and was hospitalized. It’s a miracle she is healthy and alive.

And I suffered from PTSD,
severe depression and major burn out
2 years to recovery

As a therapist I can truly say:
what I do with my clients
I did NOT just learn from a book 📕 😅🫣

I tried to find pictures of just me
from that year and it was hard.
Almost all my pictures are of my children

I was really disappearing that year.
I spent many hours in therapy, coaching & EMDR.

I would think I had hit rock bottom only to find out weeks later, yes, I could sink even lower.
And lower. 🌀

Accepting I could do very little
was hard as a perfectionist,
good girl, always helpful type of person.

I was a pleaser big time. (And with a baby and a toddler- hello sleep deprivation & overstimulation / multitasking non- stop 😳🤯.

And I paid a price.

At the end of 2016 I went into a vipassana
While still severely depressed

Those days kicked my ass.
AND they brought me back into myself.

They were a turning point into recovery.
EMDR also really was a life saver - 🛟

❇️WHY am I sharing this? ❇️

Because most of us have these
chapters in our life.

They shape us.

They teach us.
Humble us.
Break us down.

So we can rebuild.
Release old conditioning

And return to a truer Self.

More Death - Rebirth cycles followed,

Waking up is like a snowball ❄️
Rolling down a hill.

You just keep learning
Keep growing

Untill you can’t stop the process
There IS now way back.

Selflove= the lesson

Drop a ❤️ in comments if this resonates.

PHOENIX RISING- my program is what came from all of this. I made her for YOU.

no

09/01/2026

We all go through seasons in which we feel lost

Disconnected from ourselves

Searching for direction

In this void

This is where new beginnings are made

Sometimes all we know needs to burn 🔥

Before we can build

And Rise

I have been there too- I know it can be scary.

Trust your self ❤️

Comment RISE to receive more on Phoenix Rising
Feminine Empowerment Program

With love,
Aileen

06/01/2026

Last week I had quite a profound experience
and I wanted to share it with you:

Regarding FORGIVENESS
(minus the Spiritual Bypass)

👆🏻 take a look in this video

The last 2 years I have been working a lot on my maternal lineage. And this sharing is the result of a lot of inner work.

As I share - my experience with forgiveness is that there is not an instant quick fix.

You may have already heard from various philosophies that forgiveness is an admirable thing.
The most loving.
High vibe and high frequency.

And also that - that which we do not forgive,
WE hold the burden of.

Whatever you don’t resolve, process and work through, is for YOU to carry and to feel.
To bear your own pain, resentment and grudges.

So yes- moving beyond this is helpful for you.
To make life lighter
And to expand the capacity to joy.

But like with so many things - the destination can’t be the goal.
It’s the journey.
All the muddy steps that take you there.

We can’t skip our pain and hop into enlightenment.

What’s you relationship to forgiveness?

Do you know what you are still holding on to
and in which relationships?

(The person may not even be alive anymore - and you can STILL do the work).

Have you ever had a big insight moment- like me in the video- regarding to forgiveness?

Please share ❤️

Aileen

Ps. Lately several of my clients are working through the theme of forgiveness- it’s such a beautiful and important topic to work with. So multilayered.

If you want support in your own process- feel free to connect with me.

02/01/2026

Welcome into 2026!

I hope you are making a gentle landing 🥰

May you have a beautiful year,
filled with love, joy, abundance,
growth and plenty of space
for Rest and Fun!

May we all become more free
Free in being our true self

In choosing our own path
In speaking our truth
In discovering who we REALLY are

May we live in peace, within ourselves,
Our relationships, our communities and
the world at large.

Whether you celebrate the new year in January,
with the calendar, or in Spring, following nature 🌱:

I hope these weeks of winter
allow for you to use the inward energy
of this season to process and alchemize
all that the past has given you to digest.

Take it slow 🐌

Love,
❤️

Aileen

#2026

30/12/2025

In these past months I feel so much at home
Within myself.

Within my body.
I am VERY grateful for this.

It’s taken a lot of work,
moving through a lot these last years
to get where I am today.

Happy in life
Happy to spend time with myself.
(Being friends with yourself is really underrated and so important!)
Joyful 😀

I can feel it when I dance
A new layer emerged this year- and effortlessness and a new sense of freedom.
A new form of flow.
A softness in the heart.

In the last group programs
I facilitated in 2025
several women came to me to say:

‘What you teach and what you share,
you EMBODY it,
I can see and feel that’.

(Wild Woman Unleashed/ Aphrodite & My Breath & Cacao)

To me that is a HUGE 🤗 compliment.

Our energy- what we send off
The alignment in our body,
How we treat ourselves, how we move.

It speaks way louder than words.

There is no lying here.
You can be certified to mars and back working with people - education will only get you so far…

And the call to create groups again IS there.
When the times comes - I will know.

For now I keep my focus and energy on me,
My girls and finding a new home ( yes I need to move again 😅)
and my 1:1 clients: YOU!

❤️
Aileen

🙏🏻

#2025

📷 Romy

28/12/2025

‘HEALING IS NOT PRETTY

It’s not always incense and positive affirmations.
It’s often snot and shaking.
It’s rage, and deep silence.

It’s starting over again.
And again. And again

It’s saying no
when you’ve spent your whole life
saying yes.

It’s letting your heart break
to save your fu***ng soul.
It’s endless deaths and rebirths.
It’s becoming real again.

Each day.’

- Jeff Foster


Comment: Rise
If you are ready to have support

❤️
Aileen

26/12/2025

I can feel her coming… 🐎

The Year of the Horse 🐴

Hold your horses we are not there quite yet! 😅
(I’m saying this more for me than for you)

Chinese new Year is not until February 17th!

BUT I can feel the momentum.

Who else? Drop a 🔥 if you do!

You know when you are riding outdoors
and your horse starts to smell the sea air?

Their stride quickens, they are pulling the reigns….
They get al frisky.

And they are ready to
R ~ U ~ N

Free
Joyful
Untamed

After quite a long stretch of shedding,
way beyond just the year of the snake.
🐍😅🫣

I’m ready for the NEW
The adventure

And it feels GOOD.

Yalla
Let’s go!

With love,
💗
Aileen

Ps. If you are in full rock bottom shedding mode- and want support in the process - drop a message in my DM and let’s talk 🥰

📷 First pics are with this beautiful horse 🐴
We cuddled for like half an hour- such peaceful energy ✨✨✨ 🙏🏻