Picture yourself in a place of utter despair, reaching for help, and finding the pathway to self-love. That's the transformative journey of our guest, Kat Harmon. Kat, a celebrated event producer and community builder, shares the struggles she faced with self-care and how she climbed her way up to create Sol Harmony Fest, an immersive holistic healing arts festival. Hear about Kat's inspiring journey of self-discovery, how she learned to love herself unconditionally and how this metamorphosis has enriched her relationships with family, friends, and the community at large.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by emotions and didn't know how to manage them? Let me share with you how I navigated my way through feelings of shame, using somatic practices like EFT tapping, bilateral stimulation, and alternate nostril breathing. The critical part is learning to distinguish between reacting and responding, and my personal story unveils how I managed to make this switch. Discover how music and dance can be your secret weapons for emotional regulation and how the power of self-questioning can lead to responsible apologies.
The spiritual path is a unique journey for each one of us, and in our conversation, we emphasize the importance of this individuality. You'll learn how to create a healing and supportive community, foster an environment that encourages exploration and acceptance, and use social media to amplify your work, reaching a wider audience.
Join us to listen to our heartwarming and empowering conversation, and walk away with practical tools for nurturing self-love and fostering healing.
Check out!
Sol Harmony Fest
3 Day Immersive Holistic Healing Arts Festival
9/22-9/24 2023
Huntersville, NC 28078
solharmonyfest.com
Reach Her At:
www.lovetheshitoutofyourself.com
www.facebook.com/KatHarmonSolHarmony
www.instagram.com/kat_ltsooy
https://www.tiktok.com/@lovetheshitoutofyourself
#SolHarmonyFest, #JourneyToSelfLove, #HolisticHealingArts, #EmotionalRegulation, #SomaticPractices, #EFTTapping, #BilateralStimulation, #AlternateNostrilBreathing, #ReactVsRespond, #MusicAndDanceTherapy, #HealingCommunity, #EmpowerYourSpirit
Picture yourself in a place of utter despair, reaching for help, and finding the pathway to self-love. That's the transformative journey of our guest, Kat Harmon. Kat, a celebrated event producer and community builder, shares the struggles she faced with self-care and how she climbed her way up to create Sol Harmony Fest, an immersive holistic healing arts festival. Hear about Kat's inspiring journey of self-discovery, how she learned to love herself unconditionally and how this metamorphosis has enriched her relationships with family, friends, and the community at large.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by emotions and didn't know how to manage them? Let me share with you how I navigated my way through feelings of shame, using somatic practices like EFT tapping, bilateral stimulation, and alternate nostril breathing. The critical part is learning to distinguish between reacting and responding, and my personal story unveils how I managed to make this switch. Discover how music and dance can be your secret weapons for emotional regulation and how the power of self-questioning can lead to responsible apologies.
The spiritual path is a unique journey for each one of us, and in our conversation, we emphasize the importance of this individuality. You'll learn how to create a healing and supportive community, foster an environment that encourages exploration and acceptance, and use social media to amplify your work, reaching a wider audience.
Join us to listen to our heartwarming and empowering conversation, and walk away with practical tools for nurturing self-love and fostering healing.
Check out!
Sol Harmony Fest
3 Day Immersive Holistic Healing Arts Festival
9/22-9/24 2023
Huntersville, NC 28078
solharmonyfest.com
Reach Her At:
www.lovetheshitoutofyourself.com
www.facebook.com/KatHarmonSolHarmony
www.instagram.com/kat_ltsooy
https://www.tiktok.com/@lovetheshitoutofyourself
#SolHarmonyFest, #JourneyToSelfLove, #HolisticHealingArts, #EmotionalRegulation, #SomaticPractices, #EFTTapping, #BilateralStimulation, #AlternateNostrilBreathing, #ReactVsRespond, #MusicAndDanceTherapy, #HealingCommunity, #EmpowerYourSpirit
Kat welcome. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:Three wise men still figuring it out. We are so honored that you joined us here.
Speaker 1:I am grateful for the invite and excited to see what happens.
Speaker 2:Should be fun. Let's give a little background to our listeners. Kat Harmon is an event producer, workshop instructor and community builder. You can catch her hosting weekly Wednesday and Sunday yoga classes at Krabbs Brewery.
Speaker 1:Khabaras Brewery.
Speaker 2:Kat is a mastermind behind the love the shit out of yourself brand that promotes self-care by being in charge of your reality. It's time to take back the reins of your life by loving the shit out of yourself. Kat also spends her entire year planning for her Soul Harmony Fest, a three-day immersive holistic healing arts festival hosted in Huntersville, north Carolina, and the next one is in September of 2023.
Speaker 1:It is 22nd through the 24th.
Speaker 2:The 24th excellent, what are your websites? Love the shit out of yourself and.
Speaker 1:SoulHarmonyFestcom. It's S-O-L HarmonyFestcom Awesome.
Speaker 2:Awesome. This is awesome. Welcome this is great. So give us a little bit of your story, of how did you get into this journey. How did this journey start for you?
Speaker 1:The love, the shit out of yourself, ok. So, just like probably all of us, I didn't really have a very good self-care routine and when I had my daughter in 2017, I fell down into a deep dark hole Because a lot of my love, the way that I received love, was through validation Outside validation. So after I had her which she's adorable- yeah, she is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean good mis-precious, she's adorable.
Speaker 1:So nobody really saw me anymore, it felt like, and they only saw her, which is what a crazy thing to feel selfish of. And it wasn't necessarily selfish, but I felt invisible. So that started to snowball and really pull up a lot of deep, deep, heavy stuff, and then I proceeded to kind of spew it out into all my relationships and try to sabotage them, one at a time, very meticulously. And then so there was one day that I was standing in the bathroom and I was looking in the mirror and I had actually just started to learn a little bit about Dr Joda Spenz's work about reprogramming your brain and I thought, if I don't do something, I'm going to die, like I wanted to die all the time.
Speaker 1:It came up all the time and looking back, that feels like something that is implanted there, that thought pattern, but that's a whole other story. So I thought, well, what do I have to do? Because I didn't really want to leave my child or leave my partner, but there was this complete destruction of any self-worth that I had for myself. So I couldn't see why I needed to live. But I decided to very sarcastically start telling myself that I loved myself, like I would look in the mirror and I would roll my eyes, I'm like I love you, I love you, and just say it over and over until my body would relax. And I started practicing that for a little while, without really knowing if any of it was actually working and just blindly moving forward, because even though my mind was telling me I wanted to die, like I knew that I was here to do something. I've always felt like that since I was very young and I thought it was to be on stage and it turns out it's to be of service.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So you were on stage. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It is working out that way, but it's a different type of stage.
Speaker 1:So I started to really dive in and do that work and I began to notice my complete lack of self-care. So I started to introduce a couple of things in Definitely started daily practices that have ebbed and flowed over the past couple of years, but what really started to unfold through this journey of loving the shit out of myself is I started to notice where these big phases were. So in the beginning, there's this awareness OK, I'm not doing, something is out of alignment, ok. So there's my awareness, I see it. But now I'm like this raw nerve and anything that touches it I'm like, ah, boundary, boundary, say, you know, don't touch that. So that was a rocky phase through awareness and then I decided to move into OK, well, what do I need to do with this energy? I need to move it. I need to move this energy.
Speaker 1:So, being a dancer, my entire life I loved to do dance. So Bodhi and I had created Shakti Rising, which was this dance class that helped us move through each chakra per song. The pandemic helped me shorten it down to chakra dance, so we do two per song and I just started to just YouTube stream that through the pandemic and I noticed I was coming at you and feeling a lot better, but I kept having these big outbursts, these big raw nerves getting hit and I'm just like I'm telling you this is what. So if you can't tell, my fight or flight reaction is fight, I'm working on it, I'm working on softening it. I know I need it, but I'm softening it. So I felt like there was a peace missing.
Speaker 1:So I went back and started to look at things again and I realized the big, huge piece that was missing was forgiveness. Like forgiveness, I mean huge forgiveness of how I decided to survive, because I was shaming this shit out of myself, judging this shit out of how I had moved in the past, how I'd put myself in this situation, and then forgiving others for treating me how I taught them to treat me Right, and then, and then moving the energy and that's what really started to transform everything. It really started to make huge differences in my personal relationship with my husband and my daughter, which I noticed like immediately big, huge shifts happening there, and then it has spilled out into my friendships and into the community. I'm able to like show up as the person that I am, exactly as I am, and be honest in that, and even when it's messy, it's still is so much easier than than being what I thought I had to be. So that leads me to the final phase of our, our love.
Speaker 1:The shit out of yourself is communication. So, after we've become aware, we've forgiven, we've moved the energy, so it's no longer stuck or stagnant. Now we're at a place of clarity so we can speak to each other and I can tell you this is what happened. This is how I felt. I realized that it's my stuff, but I do want you to know that that's where it comes from the real human being.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and then knowing that their reaction has nothing to do with me, and then, and moving forward from there, and it, you know it's messy. I mean, it's still human. So there's, there's, there are raw nerves that get touched, but even if and I've said this so much Even if because I did a lot of this like just kind of tripping and stumbling forward, even if what I am doing is not right, I would never go backwards, I would never go back to the other way.
Speaker 1:So, even if this is not like the right way to live love, like truly loving yourself authentically, which is pretty cool, but I just I could never go back to that version of me and actually revisited it, because I was under the weather this past week and I had some things that had spiral back into my view of like not being worthy because I'm not being productive and not being seen because I'm not on the social medias and out in public like promoting myself and my businesses. And I had to sit with that version of me. It was like wait, wait, wait, wait. That's not, that's not how we validate ourselves anymore. And I was like, oh yeah, we're okay, we're doing big things and we're healing and that is validating, like sitting with ourself and healing is validating.
Speaker 3:So yeah, getting caught out of the cycle, of that cycle of I have to do this, I have to do that. I always, constantly, constantly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's fed to us.
Speaker 1:It's so many different realms. That that's how we make it, and I'm noticing that the more that I surrender, the easier things come to me. And it just, you know, we logically, as spiritual people, can know that, we can know that, but because it's not like physically integrated into our DNA. Yet you know, there's this, this liminal space between knowing it and actually being a part of your reality, which is where I feel like those steps like really come into play. Like if you, if you just aha, know it, then it's like Harry Potter.
Speaker 1:You're like cool, that's cool. I would love a wand and I would love to do magic, but that doesn't feel real. But manifestation you writing something down and like embodying it through your body, and then it's showing up. A week later you're like whoa, that's, that's magic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So I was gonna ask about that kind of stuff Because you're right. I mean, the knowing thing is I've had that before. I'm like I know better, but my, you know behaviors like locked into these, patterned, kind of automated things that. I've that are just like an operating system from all kinds of experiences in the past and everything. So I was curious, when you're talking about you know, when you especially the forgiveness thing, like what, how do you do that?
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, well, I mean, you know, each situation is very different. So one of my favorite things to do we teach this in our workshop is it's called a shame dump.
Speaker 1:Like you're literally dumping it out of your body, because after the age of eight, like shame is is no longer necessary for our human experience, but we've adopted it and put it into our society for productivity and manipulation, you know, and for whatever reason. And so knowing that like that isn't a knowing that I am certain of, so knowing that when I catch myself in a shame cycle, I'm like this is not real or necessary, it's not gonna help whoever is in the situation that I'm feeling ashamed about, and it's definitely not gonna help me. And if it's not gonna help me, I'm not gonna be able to help others. So why am I doing it at all? And I think we've adopted.
Speaker 1:Shame to think well, if I feel like bad about this, and that helps Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So then you have to, you have to believe that, you know? I mean like if somebody believes a big part. Yeah, somebody thinks that shame is useful, then they wouldn't be able to convince yeah you can talk, I don't need this Like in build remove that or you move. Yeah, move through in a different way. You know, release it.
Speaker 1:And there's, there's techniques to like integrate and I super believe in embodiment Like when you have these a-ha things and they're up here in these upper chakras in your mind, like getting that into your body. Like when we do the ecstatic dances, like I'll be saying the same thing over and over in my head while I'm like stomping down to the earth I'm safe in my body. I'm safe in my body, even if I don't fully believe it, because my body is hearing it and it's also shifting the frequency and it's bringing that feeling to me, like downloading it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So and I like that you talked about it being like a computer program running, because that's exactly how I see it in my mind is it's an outdated computer program. This is just. It just needs an update, like that is the old, and it's okay that I believed that. Right, because it kept me alive, but it's not helping me thrive through this personal situation. Whatever, that is Okay. If I made a mistake, I like to learn from it and then move forward.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just like a bird that flies into the window. Right, they don't shame themselves.
Speaker 3:Exactly, and then what you just said, you know, if I made a mistake, it's okay. Like that, that forgiveness right there feels like such an important piece of it you know, because somebody could be like you know, could shame themselves and finding where, like I was off, you know I do, or whatever, you know I made mistakes or whatever, and just like get caught in the shame, the shame thing can be sneaky, I guess you know.
Speaker 3:It's very trying to weed things out or whatever, because you can start having a negative approach towards it kind of, rather than a loving, forgiving approach towards, and are realizing in certain situations that you're feeling the shame too, because sometimes it's kind of blind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you can be sitting in it, not even realize that you know, because we, because this is part of our again ingrained yeah, ingrained programming from the multitude of external sources Right.
Speaker 2:Right, it's you know, it's funny because, as you were sharing that, I had this concept that I'd shared, where I feel like something resonates first, then I'm in my knowing, but to your, and you can sit there for a long time, but to your point, and this is really, really important. Then you embody. And when you embody, you literally feel the shift of everything you're doing and the importance behind why you're doing it, especially from to your. Everything that you talk about from a self-care standpoint. I mean, it's absolutely. It's crazy how effective it can be.
Speaker 1:It is and how fast it is, especially with how highly charged the energy is in this current time that we're in, if you can get it into your body, which is it can literally be. Anyway, my way is through dance. I do a lot of EFT tapping, I do a lot of bilateral stimulation, that one really like I'll just, I'm safe, it's okay that I messed up like, and then just let everything in my entire being soften.
Speaker 1:Until that I just keep tapping right and left, bouncing the right and left side of my body, my brain, and you'll probably, now that you know that, you'll probably see me like notice it.
Speaker 3:Do you have a quick practice you'd like to show us?
Speaker 1:I mean that's, that's I feel like giving people the most. I don't know. You know I would have to have a like a situation. So a really great one is being overstimulated, right, if you have children, or if you're like super crazy busy at work, or if you're crazy busy work from home and you have children, that's me is number one. So, okay, I'm gonna work you through a whole situation. So here we are, it's we're overstimulated, you feel it. It's starting to bubble up to the surface.
Speaker 1:So, if we're not aware, the first thing that we do is we have a reaction. Right, I'm trying to work, can you please be quiet? You know, you have that, oh, that, that, that you know epic crisis moment where it's just like explodes. And then the kid, you know, you see the initial reaction from them and you're like, oh my God, that's a stored trauma. So then the first thing that you can start to do is is make yourself feel bad about that. You know, really, were they, were they bothering me? I could have used some techniques, I could have used some breath work. So then the next thing that I'm going to do there is you have to.
Speaker 1:So, in this whole realm of this idea, is you have to continue to question yourself. That's where the awareness comes in. You have to keep asking yourself why? Why did I have that outburst? Well, I got overstimulated. I didn't, you know, use whatever techniques to have a response instead of a reaction. Okay, well, I'll do that next time, like that's, and then you lock that in. I'll do that next time. Not, I'll do that next time. I fucked up. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:So that's the shame.
Speaker 1:That's the shame, right, exactly which is a slippery slope.
Speaker 3:I feel like it's like constantly, like baiting it really is. You know what's cool about it.
Speaker 1:Like when you start practicing it, shame just starts to be this like little whisper. It's no longer this, this like sneaky snake that can, like, take you over. It's just like you. Sure you don't feel bad about that? No way, no, Right. So so then I would. I would regulate my nervous system, However, however that looks. I can do alternate nostril breathing, Just slow inhales, longer exhales to regulate, and then, you know, next time I'm going to have a better reaction. You know, I. I know that maybe in this, here's a really good one. Why was I being over simulated and distracted? Maybe I need a break. Maybe I need a break and then and allow myself to see things from multiple different perspectives. That don't put me into being an asshole. So can I say asshole?
Speaker 2:Yes, I forgot you. Do you Okay All?
Speaker 1:right. So this is my, what I would consider my movement. So I had the awareness, I forgave myself for the reaction and then this is my movement. Now I can also do like some somatic release, shaking it out Like, oh my God, I can't believe I did that, or you know anything, put on my favorite song and just like go ham in the backyard.
Speaker 1:So the next part is important, because there was somebody else involved in this and it's the child is to go and apologize without the shame, because they, they are sensitive and they feel like a staticky response when you're in shame. So it's not making sense to them, whether, whether it, you know, maybe they're like, okay, you know, okay, mom, you know, but it's really not going to land and they're not going to feel it in the heart if you're coming from shame. So you got to get in your heart. So then you go to the child or partner and and you tell them you're like this is, this is what happened, as the truth, as you feel it, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you know, and then, and then move from there. You know, what do you want to do? Do you want to have a dance party? Let's have a dance party and let's help you move emotions or let's help you. You know, there's so many ways to go, go through these and I just you know.
Speaker 1:I think that the most important thing is really to question why am I doing this? And then allow yourself to soften into that. Instead of you can, like, feel your my personally. I know it's not for everybody, but my body gives stuff away, so I clench my, my glutes. That lets me know I don't feel safe, okay. Well, why don't I feel safe? Okay, is it because I think that I'm going to say something embarrassing on this podcast and I'm like, oh well, that's not real and I get to let it go? And I'm like constantly reprogramming my body that way, which is helping me move through my life easier. I mean, I know none of y'all know me from before this realm in my life, but I used to have like debilitating social anxiety. I couldn't go anywhere without being very intoxicated or just not go. And then now it's like complete opposite I go everywhere, I do all the things and living proof.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I've had that same same stuff going on with the social anxiety and stuff too, so I could feel it.
Speaker 2:I think it's a common, it's a common trait that most people yeah, Because we're told that we're not okay as we are. It's just crazy. Well, the amount so did, the amount of self doubt that exists versus what you're talking about, self love. Yeah, because it's the, and what's funny is it rings true immediately, like the minute you start any of this work and you go to great lengths or great depths to work you, I mean, the one of the first things you start feeling is that that real self love that exists, and then you want to, you want to share that with just so when I see you at events, okay, and I see you doing what you do like it.
Speaker 2:Just, it's so clear to me that you know you've found that. Not only have you found it, but the more you love yourself, the more you want to help others or, you know, just share that love with the world Like it's, and you literally vibe that and it's so.
Speaker 2:It's so amazing to be in your your space, which, speaking of spaces, because one of and I can't remember if I knew you before so Harmony, but we'll which I think I did, but we're just going to go with. So Harmony, like, how did that? Like, how did you start that? Like, how did that just come into being? And what's the what's the, what's the premise? And now, now, do you feel? Do you feel support, do you feel support from others in that regard?
Speaker 1:Like, should yeah, okay, oh, my gosh, okay. This is a wild story. So I'm going through this like self love, like rehaul, and I really think. I really think I was given this dream to like make sure that I stayed in self care and stuff like because it was tested a lot. So I kept having these and I don't get a lot of visions my stuff is more like physical that I'll feel but I kept getting these visions of these like lights and they were pulsing and it was like like a map, it was pulsing and and then there was like this big boom and then it shot out like lightning and they were all connected. So it and I was thinking, you know, and I sat with it for probably a couple of months because this is in 2019.
Speaker 1:Okay, and, and I was like what is this about? You know, and this was before I really dove deep into I mean, it was right around when I really started to go into the healing stuff. Um, so how I interpreted it, how it started to unfold and make sense is it was was through the pandemic. So here's the pandemic, and then I'm hearing all of these healers that are struggling and I'm like how do you not know each other? Like why do we not know each other? Why are we not supporting each other? And I'm, you know, I'm seeing an older generation and a younger generation and they just, they just don't even interact.
Speaker 1:Like they just don't want anything to do with each other and I'm like okay, we're never going to get there this way. Guys, it's okay, everybody does something different, because we need that, because everybody comes to healing differently. I mean, I teach yoga to brewery on purpose so that I can be a bride, absolutely, I mean, so I can be a bridge for people.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, because they're you know, I can make them feel comfortable in the realm. And then, and then they come to Soul Harmony Fest and then they meet all the healers anyways. So it was like throw a festival. And I've been to Floyd Yoga Jam, so I had like a framework of like what, what would make sense. And then I was like okay, so I started to just I just hit the ground. I mean, we're in a pandemic, it's 2020. And I'm like hitting the ground, running, meeting people, and I ended up throwing like a holiday magic market at this small brewery I was working on that at the time in downtown Concord and it was great and people, you know, there was like some hippy people there and it turned. It was really, you know, it felt good.
Speaker 1:And then 2021 came around and this CBD farm like reached out to me to want to be a vendor at that at that specific. No, my next holiday market, which was around February. So it was like a share the love market and I was like farm to the field. Yeah, we got a feeling. I was like can I throw a Vespa on it? And they were like, yeah, so, you know, going into this in this pandemic where everybody is still like this 2021, people were pretty maskey still.
Speaker 1:It was a whole lot of like rules and stuff and I was like we're not going to do that, we're just going to be in a field. So there's no, I didn't even put it on the website like no regulations, and then I just I took it all on and I tried to do it all. I think I had a website person help me Lisa was amazing and then my team that would come to that came together like right before the event to help paint and decorate and stuff like that. But a lot of it was just me like frantically doing you know post on Instagram and like just please come up, people, please come.
Speaker 1:and I just gave it away. I think it was like $20 for a whole weekend of camping and I remember yeah. It was yeah which is why we didn't make any money. But it's okay, it was. It was such a journey, and then I just collapsed into myself like a dying star after the first year. And so then I found pieces of me and I was like, okay, what did it? What happened here? Should I even do this again? And then, you know, the community really rallied.
Speaker 1:And then they did like a beautiful solstice ceremony came around and like supported us and they had donated a whole bunch of money through a GoFundMe to help us get through the winter and I was like, all right, let's do it again. And then I started the same pattern. I didn't let people help until right before the event and I even built the website myself. I'm like I can do everything. So I definitely learned, you know, in the self-love journey that there is this such important part of trust and allowing others to support you. And I think, because I had, like, went so far into not being codependent, that I was like I can do everything. And then the universe was like she needed this, she needed this part, and then it's like calibrating right now.
Speaker 1:So here we are, year three. We're officially a nonprofit, we have a board, we have an amazing team, and then there and then underneath that is an amazing team of volunteers and we're like way over in teacher applications, we're way over in vendor applications. We're like our entertainer applications, like, and to go from like bagging people you know only two years ago to being like the time, which I hate. I hate whoever's listening to this, I hate turning people away, but we are definitely we're on like wait list for vendors, like at least beautiful. It's amazing, it's a great place to be it is.
Speaker 1:It is a good place to be, but uh.
Speaker 2:Solharmoniecom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, s-o-l Harmony Harmonyfestcom. Yeah, check it out, that's it.
Speaker 2:That was the dream.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, and then delights they were all connected. So that's where it came in and that's the journey. It's been wild. It's been so wild. I can't believe my husband and I are still together and we're doing it, and that's in. September. What's the date? September 22nd to the 24th? It'll always be near the fall equinox and this time it's on Saturday, so we're going to have y'all Saturday. It's going to be so amazing.
Speaker 2:The whole event is going to be amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh it's it's three.
Speaker 3:It's starting on Thursday or starting on Friday?
Speaker 1:It's Friday this year, but we'll be there on Thursday.
Speaker 2:Right? Well, because you work with and again this is important stuff to talk about you're working with the land before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're actually doing a land blessing on A-8.
Speaker 2:And that's a where's this one at?
Speaker 1:This is in Huntersville. The address for the property is 9940 Hambright Road and it's actually a combined property. So Green Manor Farm is an Airbnb event space and they have a huge field in the back. And then the neighboring farm is Bright Haven, which is owned by our friends Wendy and Valerie, and they're developing their land out to be a community space. So we're I mean, it's how perfect. So we have woods and we have a field and it's going to be magical.
Speaker 3:You have these sneak previews that are going to show up there.
Speaker 1:I know that DJ Taz will be back. I know Holy River will be there. Oh wow, really. We also have Up Good Nature, who is a local Charlotte man, and they're amazing. Live, oh my gosh, they're so good. So that's, that's the sneak preview.
Speaker 2:Thank you for just that, but I mean, that's been fantastic.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm releasing it next week. So I know this is going to be edited. It's going to take time.
Speaker 3:For sure yeah this won't be released till.
Speaker 2:Oh, josh will be there. Yeah, I'll be there. It'll be there, I'll be there.
Speaker 1:Coming.
Speaker 3:I think, I'll be there.
Speaker 1:All right, there we go.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You'll see me there on a floor wheeler, probably Rolling around yeah, wow. Less stressed than I've ever been. My goal this year, my intention for Soul Harmony Fest is to be fully present in my body the entire time. That has not happened yet. I'm very, very, very disassociated the last couple years.
Speaker 2:So and for those can you tell, like if somebody wanted to volunteer? So I know, so I know Josh is involved, I'm a volunteer this year and I think anyone who wants to get involved should. So if this resonates with you, and step into that, and the best way to do that would be yeah right through the website.
Speaker 1:There's a tab on the website says get involved and just hit the volunteer tab and you'll hear from us and the team is really cool and you can do stuff before the festival with us. We have a paint party, we'll do some land prep, some organizations, some setup or you could volunteer at the event, which is anything from like making sure teachers get to their tents to checking people into the front gate. I feel like there's way more things than that at the volunteers. They do so many things Helping people get popcorn at the silent disco that type of stuff.
Speaker 2:Well and helping set up at different areas as well.
Speaker 1:And breakdown we love our breakdown team. That's when David and I are just like, oh, the most exhausting part for us.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh yeah, after all that energy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's still actually pretty fun because everybody's like riding so high. But hopefully that will be me this year.
Speaker 2:Oh, nice, nice, yeah, is there. So, aside from soul harmony, the love your shit out of yourself. Essentially, you go from. I mean, you have what you do, but you also go to different venues in order to Like. If somebody wanted to get involved directly with that, what would that look like?
Speaker 1:Like to have a workshop at their space.
Speaker 2:Either a workshop at their space or work with you.
Speaker 1:To connect with me either through my Instagram, which is cat underscore, ltsooy love the shit out of yourself, or head to the love the shit out of yourselfcom website. You can contact me from there.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love to collaborate and do fun things.
Speaker 2:Well, that's yeah. You're seeing at least I feel we're seeing a lot more of that in community as a whole more so than ever before, which says everything that we're doing is working.
Speaker 1:I know that's so cool.
Speaker 2:Thank you for all that you were doing in the community, for yourself and in the community Like thank you. Thank you for opening your heart, for leaning into your self-care, which helps you. In regards to, you know, leaning on the others in their self-care. It's made a difference. You're making a difference in a big way. It's felt For sure.
Speaker 1:I'm like sitting here trying to deflect that. I will receive that. Take that and take it with you, yeah.
Speaker 2:Actually, I remember a conversation that we had at Sol Expo and I came up to you and told you like I saw you. I saw you out Once I knew you were there. I saw you out and I came over and I told you the impact that you were having after the first Sol Army and you looked at me, like you're doing now, and you're like will you, will you state that? Like, will you talk? Absolutely. So it's important for you to know. That's why I shared this with you now is because you're making a difference.
Speaker 2:You're little and which is allowing others and you know we're doing what we should be doing. We're growing this energetically and we're setting that tone so others feel more and more comfortable. Right, because there's a lot of people out there who've been feeling a lot of what we're talking about for a long time but have no idea what to do with that. Yeah, so again, thank you for Because you leaned into this, like you the fact that you said and I don't want to, I'm paraphrasing you said you felt this way for a long time and because you felt this way for a long time, you knew others needed to feel, you had a sense that others felt this way, and that's a big reason that you kind of stepped into solarmony and that aspect of like okay, I'm just, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I just didn't want people to feel alone and I didn't want them to feel alone in their, in their magic, I didn't want them to feel crazy that, you know this, this spiritual awakening was actually happening to them. Like, yeah, and and and. So, not just to bring the healers together, but to allow there to be this platform for them, for the guests to figure out, like, well, maybe yoga isn't the way that they get there, maybe they get there through sound healing, maybe they get there through quantum spirituality, maybe they get there through reflexology, maybe they do you know plant medicine. Like, however you get there, you don't have to follow anybody else's path. So here's, here's a buffet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and I talked about that aspect in other, in other podcasts the importance, the realization because and I know you experienced this being in part with the community you have to be aware at all times, even as a spiritual practitioner, way show or like whatever however you want to call it. You know sometimes we can get focused on, hey, you have to do it this way.
Speaker 2:You know even so you mentioned actually someone that a couple of us, dr Jodes, you know, he's a specialist in the spenza. Yeah, I mean, he is fantastic in what he's doing in and of itself, but I would I always look at anyone and I say you do what you're called to do and that's the importance, because there's and I think there's many modalities for a reason now, because, again, feel what resonates with you and then lean into that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like you open one door and there's a million other doors to go through. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And keep playing. Yeah, and it makes it go faster.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you know it's like a two-series thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which can happen?
Speaker 3:in this, in this realm, yeah, yeah, there's one thing that's actually your same before too, about the different groups, the older people and the younger and everything like that.
Speaker 3:And then one of the things I was thinking about you know, you have Jodes- but you have all these different voices speaking like slightly maybe totally different languages about the same thing, basically, you know, but it's like, but it's going to resonate with different people and it is so important that there's as many people as possible speaking their version of sharing their modality, their specific, their unique medicine. You know, whatever it is, you know, yeah, and I think there can't be enough. Like it doesn't, I think, because I used to sometimes think like, oh, other people have already done that.
Speaker 3:It's like, yeah, but they weren't me or they weren't you. You know they're not. So it's like I think that's a really beautiful thing because, like you're saying, it's like we all are going to gravitate towards different things, Right, and then there isn't one path, by any means infinite, which makes it great, yeah, yeah, because that bring.
Speaker 2:I mean yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:That's why you don't have to feel bad about it. You're like, oh, that didn't work. Okay, there's a million other things I can try and like you're saying to them.
Speaker 3:It's like every, even the things that didn't work, they did on some.
Speaker 1:they taught you something yeah.
Speaker 3:They were a necessary step. You know to be like, oh okay, yeah, that some little thing resonated, but then not the rest of it. Okay, Let me go this way. And you know, you start, so you learn and then you break it down and it's it's uh to rubbing the shit out of yourself, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which it's. It's so funny because, like I love the fact that you, that you chose that Like the first, the first time I walked up to your tent.
Speaker 2:It's like all over the tent, All over all love the shit out of yourself, like all over, and you know you get some people that kind of you know you want to laugh it off and I like I looked at that and I was like, yeah, that is. I mean it's, it's so simple and obvious, but not until you know that most people don't, they're not even aware.
Speaker 1:So they need something bold and triggering. Yeah, they're like is this a laxative company? I'm like it's not. It's not, but we might make a detox tea, so you never know.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right.
Speaker 1:Go along with it because I think well, and I've always been, and I know it is one of my defense mechanisms, but I've always leaned into humor, Like I've always, like it's been very, it's been very, it's been very, it's been very, it's been a part of my, definitely a defense mechanism. What is this you talk of?
Speaker 2:Yeah right, Like what.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know now, that. I know that that's it like I use it as a you know, as a weapon for good yeah.
Speaker 3:Instead of hiding Tricks to her.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, have you heard of laughing yoga?
Speaker 1:I have heard of laughing yoga. I think I would be an excellent laughing yoga teacher Absolutely Thank you.
Speaker 3:Do they? Okay, I'm going to connect with somebody and see if I can See how to get that.
Speaker 1:Laughing meditation workshops.
Speaker 2:It's like because most people I'll never forget the first, which is easy, because I'm like I, that is, I love laughter Like it's. It's one of my go-tos, without a doubt, and the first time I was part of a laughter meditation workshop is you're literally in a group of people and you start off with fake laughter, but what you're quickly taught exactly what happens is that soon it builds and builds, and builds and then everyone, like people, just start laughing and it's such an amazing release.
Speaker 2:Well, and they all that. It's a huge experience. It's a lot of ways to meditate. Yeah, huge, that connects.
Speaker 3:Well, it's like a super high vibration. Yeah, after your whole nervous system. Everything is totally like everything's safe. If you're laughing like that deeply, like you are completely safe and relaxed, you know, and like it's so deeply healing. It's a lot of. It's actually interesting, as you were talking about how the laughing and like fake laughing, same kind of thing when you're saying like I love you, I love you to yourself.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, and then I think that fake it till you make a type thing with someone who's like I don't like that, sometimes that idea, and that's like the resistance of saying I love you to yourself too. But I've had that same kind of thing where I've you know tool I use sometimes when I'm feeling something that is really not something I want to be feeling. I'll start saying thank you for it and it's like I don't believe it, you know, at first. But then after a while it starts to work and it's like this ingredient in, like the crucible, like it creates it alchemizes what I'm feeling and all of a sudden, the horrible situation that I think is the worst thing that could happen.
Speaker 3:suddenly I'm starting, I start to see the gift reveal itself and I see like holy crap.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like I wasn't able to see this until I started having gratitude for the discomfort, for the pain that I was feeling and everything but the same same tool, you know kind of thing. I'm just like knowing this will work and, even though you don't, every part of you is like this is bullshit.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, it's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah sure.
Speaker 2:We're here.
Speaker 1:We're here, mm.
Speaker 3:I think we're.
Speaker 1:That was fun. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Thank you so much, yeah.
Speaker 3:Cool, let's say it again. So your website, how to reach you? Okay, let's do it all, all right. Cat Harmon on Facebook. Cat underscore LTSOWI on Instagram.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's cool we're here, we're here, mm, that was fun. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Thank you so much, you're welcome. Websites are and soulharmonifestcom. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, thank you, thank you.