Live the Change

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.

22/02/2026

IF YOU ONLY TALK IN THERAPY WITH ONE OTHER HUMAN – YOU WILL GET VERY LIMITED INPUT

Ecotherapy is “talk therapy”
with more than another
human. It is inviting deep
conversations with both
your inner and outer context.

When you engage in ecotherapy you will get so many other opportunities to input, exchange and interaction that you can ever get from one human in a traditional talk therapy set up.

In ecotherapy you engage also with your surroundings, and often an ecotherapist will meet you outdoors, in a more natural setting, like out in “nature” or in a park. I always put “nature” in quotation marks, because to me “nature” is not a place, it is all that we are – all of us. You, as a human, are “nature” too.

Ecotherapy is not only about “nature” as a place or as an experience, but also equally much about context. We are all part of an ecological context, an eco-system. And while we might feel disconnected from it, which often happens when we feel disconnected from ourselves, we are still a part of it.

Ecotherapy helps you find your way back to those connections. It helps you dare to open up, both to what is around you and what is inside of you.

The human animal is getting increasingly more fearful. We fear each other, we fear ourselves, we fear the future, we fear the past, we fear staying in the now, we fear all “what ifs”, we fear our emotions and the constant message coming from all kinds of directions that we are not enough, and not okay.

Ecotherapy does not only engage with your emotions, or your mind, but also your body, and how you extend into the world, and equally much, how the world extends into you.

You are a system, an eco-system that is part of a larger eco-system, that itself is part of a larger eco-system – and so it goes on, until you know you are connected to earth. We are all part of the same kind of life web and in different phases of our life it feels right to either expand or contract, to make our world larger, or smaller, to focus inwards or to focus outwards.

Ecotherapy is great because it allows for all of this. For expansion and retraction, for relaxation and activity, for observing and taking part, for thinking and feeling, for depth and breadth, for integrating and for letting go…

Ecotherapy is life therapy. It is an (w)holistic therapy. It is even a therapy and a non-therapy.

And it is a therapy where the therapist is not particularly important, at least not more important than anyone being or entity that you meet engaging with it.

Ecotherapy is not the therapist’s therapy – it is equally much everyone’s therapy.

If you want to try it out, learn more about it, get supervision, contact me.

You can read more on www.livethechange.se

–The Shameless Unmasker of “Mental Health Care” Myths and the Enthusiastic Proponent of Alternative Ways to Support and Care.

11/02/2026

WHAT DO I OFFER INSTEAD OF “TRADITIONAL THERAPY?

Ecotherapy, rewilding & peer therapy
centers you. You as an equal individual,
but also, you, as a
contextual being.

Most traditional therapies put too much of what is not working for an individual inside of them, making it about how they are lacking, how they are defected, disordered, not competent, not mature, resistant and problematic.

Ecotherapy sees an individual as part of a larger ecosystem. Where the individual’s internal ecosystem overlaps with the external. There is no definite boundary between the outer world and the inner world of anyone. The outer world impacts and exists within an individual as much as an individual’s inner world exists in the outer world (if we don’t silence or gag them with e.g. psychotropic drugs, or through other acts of violence and coercion).

In Ecotherapy we explore both worlds and how they are connected.
In most traditional therapies there is also a huge power imbalance between the therapist and the person seeking support. I work actively to equalize the relationship. That does not mean there are no boundaries. It means I don’t pretend to be a medical expert on someone else’s “conditions”. This is what I mean with peer therapy.

Peer therapy also means I use my own lived experience as a source of knowledge and skills and that I share more of me, at the level the support seeking person is interested in and is comfortable with. True and supportive relationships cannot be built on unequal grounds. And it is not enough that we as therapists acknowledge that, we must work against this power imbalance, especially since it often mimics other prior unequal relationships in the support seeking person’s life.

The rewilding part is about moving away from following directions and assumptions about what is “normal” and “right” according to “other people”, society and its institutions and instead listen to what is right for the support seeking person.

The rewilding part is also about moving away from only talking. I work with experiential learning, which is a form of “learning by doing”, in combination with reflecting and conceptualizing. I often work with expressive arts, movement based invitations, and with mindfulness (not traditional mindfulness, but an adapted version that works with severe trauma and dissociation but works also for those who seek support because they feel stressed and feel they have not experienced severe trauma, but trauma nevertheless).

And I prefer to work in nature and with "the more than human" – but there is always some kind of nature around. To rewild oneself is a stepwise process.

I sometimes say I am “another kind of therapist, in another kind of room”. I know many think I am arrogant for trying to update and change how therapy should be done. I have decided to do it anyways. For those like me, who did/do not benefit from “traditional therapy”.

All that I offer I have tried out on myself, but also now for many years, invited other people to try out, and the feedback I get is overwhelmingly good.

I offer my services in individual sessions, group/pair sessions, workshops and courses, on and offline, in Swedish and English.
I also offer supervision and mentoring.

Welcome to contact me – you find more info on
www.livethechange.se

26/01/2026

WALK THE LAND - REWILD YOUR HEART!

Join me for an online intro course to “Rewild your Heart! Meet with me and the group 4 Tuesdays and get loads of information and reflection practice on what it is to rewild oneself, other beings, other humans, the world…

We start tomorrow!

https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/rewild-your-heart-winter-2026

From the article:

Every living being has a mind of its own

Matthews suggested that the western concept of panpsychism perhaps is the closest we come to the aboriginal concept of Liyan.

“Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like quality”.

Meaning it ascribes a mind to all living beings, but also to the world itself, as if the world is a being too. And if every living being has a mind of its own, we can have relationships with them and there will be an exchange between that being and ourselves, in a more embodied and worldless way, at least in a less traditional way of understanding the concept of words and language.

Liyan is partly described as a cognitive way of feeling — that is a visceral, body-based, intuitive way of knowing. That you learn from Land and “the more than human” world. And one way of learning it is to “walk the land,” seek a relationship with Land, as an entity of its own.

https://open.substack.com/pub/livethechange/p/walk-the-land?r=2onhr8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

25/01/2026

REWILDING YOUR HEART IS ABOUT CARING

Online intro course starts on Tuesday, January 27. Cost – 145 euro – and for that you get a lot!

Caring for yourself, your “animals”, your human family and friends, colleagues and strangers, your surroundings, environment, “nature” and the earth.

I am putting “animals” in brackets, because we humans are an animal too. And I am also putting “nature” in brackets – because we are nature too.

Disconnection, dissociation, numbness, withdrawal, egocentrism, anthropocentrism – is the opposite to connection, association, alertness/awareness/being awake to, presence, altruism and ecocentrism.

We Think progress is only about doing better science. I don’t believe that. While I think science is important, the western kind, I think there is so much else we need to pay attention to and learn from. That includes indigenous sciences, but also practices, knowledge, experience, that comes from living, thinking and doing outside of an academy or school at all.

When I decided on a name on what I both am about, work with and try to pass on in different ways, I read a book by Marc Bekoff called “Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence and it inspired me

“We do not need more science. We need a new mind-set and social movement that is transformational and centers on empathy, compassion, and being proactive. By rewilding our hearts, we focus on building strong and intimate connections with nature, and these experiences are essential for effective social change. This is deep work."
— Marc Bekoff

I am running our online intro course to “Rewild your Heart” in its current form for the last time now, starting on Tuesday, January 27 with our first zoom meeting.

You can still join us!

https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/rewild-your-heart-winter-2026

Pictures: Out in the Polish woods, observing and "meeting" feral-living Konik horses.

12/01/2026

JANUARY NEWSLETTER!

I just sent out my own first newsletter since 2018 I think... Have been sending them in the name of other organizations in the meantime - but it feels good to be back to deciding for myself what to send out!

As usual I am about mixing passions and interests - my newsletter will contain all that I work with - which spans from ecotherapy - rewilding - trauma & dissociation - writing, photography and art, advocacy and activism - and some more :-)

I hope you find something interesting to read about, or to sign up for.

https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1986465/emails/176199050317530397

Warm regards,

Felicia Katarina

12/01/2026

MONGOLIA'S WILD HORSES

This is a 20 page long PDF with an article on how the Przewalski horse was reintroduced in Mongolia after having been extinct in the wild, or the Takhi, which is the Mongolian name on this horse.

To learn about wild living horses helps us understand the welfare as well as the behaviors of our domestic horses.

I have had the privilege to travel to Mongolia twice and been traveling the country both with Mongolian friends and visited with Mongolian wildlife researchers in Hustai National Park.

I have added pictures and an extensive bibliography to the story. In this article you get a good introduction to many topics as rewilding, the horse culture of Mongolia, equine life lived without human management, equine welfare, equine cognition, equine welfare and so on.

Enjoy! I will add more articles to the library on both rewilded/wild living horses, equine welfare, equine assisted interventions - and the usual mix that is my hallmark (since I see the world as connected...).

Przewalski horses (or Takhis), picture taken by me on my study visit in Hustai National Park.

Warmly,

Felicia Katarina

23/11/2025

WHAT IS "REWILDING YOUR HEART"?

Two years ago I lived in Italy for a year. I explored the possibility of setting up my non-profit/NGO there to work with rewilding, ecotherapy, equine assisted interventions, nature assisted mindfulness etc.

It did not happen. But I explored. And learned, and rewilded myself some more.

In this short film clip I am taking about what rewild your heart means to me, what it is to rewild oneself, on the inside, and the outside.

It was a pretty wild thing to do - to go to Italy to try to find a place and people to set up a rewilding/ecotherapy place. And I loved it there! And maybe I will come back, who knows?

Check the courses I offer online out: https://livethechange-learning.teachable.com/p/home - I am updating them, they have been somewhat in sleeping mode for 2 years, but 4 of them are up and running.

You can also check my webpage out, it is a bit more updated and have some more info about me and who I am, if you are curious: https://livethechange.se/index.php

https://youtu.be/EKnqRgNYkTM

I am being interviewed about what rewilding is to me. And I reflect a bit on it. Sitting on the wall, looking out over the hills at the place in Italy I live...

12/11/2025

Lucy Johnstone: 'The aim is to move, in simple terms, away from the “What is wrong with you?” towards the “What has happened to you?” question. To put it at its briefest, we’re evidencing, we hope, the idea that peoples’ distress is understandable in context, but we wanted to think about context in its broadest form.'

"In 2018, Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle, and their colleagues in the UK launched the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF). This framework shifts the notion of 'What is wrong with you?' in the DSM to 'What has happened to you?' and by doing so rejects medical process of diagnosing 'disorders' in favour of a narrative response that tells of contexts, power dynamics, and systems.

At a time when the Global Mental Health Movement is exporting the Western biomedical model around the world, Johnstone, Boyle and the PTMF project team, which includes those who identify as service users/survivors, are seeking to promote a radically different way of understanding distress.

Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist who has experience working in adult mental health settings for many years, believes that the current mental health system has failed, and we are now in the process of witnessing the crumbling of the medical paradigm of emotional distress.

She believes we need an approach based on fundamentally different principles. The PTMF, which draws on a wide range of evidence and examples of existing alternatives, is an attempt to outline what that might look like. The PTMF project team hopes that it can be a contribution to the much needed revolution.

Lucy Johnstone: 'The aim is to move, in simple terms, away from the “What is wrong with you?” towards the “What has happened to you?” question. To put it at its briefest, we’re evidencing, we hope, the idea that peoples’ distress is understandable in context, but we wanted to think about context in its broadest form.

One of the things we wanted to do was to really make very clear the link between personal distress and social context, social inequality, and social injustices. In other words, to put power on the map. Power is not only missing from psychiatric thinking, but it’s also missing from a lot of psychological thinking, and it’s missing from much psychotherapeutic thinking.

In the Power Threat Meaning Framework terms, one of our core arguments is that instead of understanding distress through biological patterns, patterns that are borrowed from the kinds of patterns that we see when things go wrong in our bodies, we need to understand distress through patterns that are organized by meaning. They’re organized by meaning, not by biology, which is a big conceptual leap, one of the fundamental conceptual leaps I think we made. We need to be thinking about how those patterns are based on or organized by social and cultural meanings, not by biology and something that’s gone wrong with our bodies'."

More info on the book here: https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-the-power-threat-meaning-framework-an-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis