Katharina Leonie Korb

M.Sc. Psychologist, Alternative Practioner & Astrologer - Thoughts on psyche, spirit, and stars. A journey to abundance.

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Du sagst, „ich bin da“,

Doch gehst sofort.

Meine Tränen noch nicht verebbt.

Du sagst, „du bist mir wichtig“,

Doch schenkst meinen Gefühlen keinen Raum.

Meine Gefühle bin ich.

Meine Zweifel sind laut.

Die Zweifel an meinen Zweifeln lauter.

Du glaubst ich habe Angst von dir verlassen zu werden.

Doch ich habe Angst, dass ich mich selbst verlasse.

Ich habe Angst, dass mir eines Tages klar wird, dass ich meine emotionalen Bedürfnisse all die Jahre übergangen habe.

Mein Glaube an uns kann Berge versetzen.

Mein Glaube an das Schwere hält mich eisern.

Meine Loyalität ist mein Kern.

Meine Sehnsucht mein Schmerz.

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You are not too much.

One of the deepest wounds of the feminine is carrying more wisdom, more awareness than her partner. And with it, the weight of responsibility for deeper connection, intimacy and emotional closeness.

The feeling of always having to fight: For more us. For growth together. For dragging both your own shadows and your partner’s into the light.

The feeling of always being too much, wanting too much, being the warrior of love.

You are not too much. You are not wrong or demanding for craving more depth. It is the ancient wound of the feminine to want more. Because we are literally connected to the source of life and love. To that which wants to move through us. Our bodies are portals. We receive. We create. We give birth. We are creators of more life, more love, more depth on this Earth.

And yet it’s often a fine line. Between the longing for connection and the danger of losing ourselves in the fight for it. Between speaking our truth and refusing to shrinkwhile still leaving space. Not trying to force awareness onto the other, even if we can see more. Like most things in life: It’s a balancing act. If this resonates with you - I feel you.

So to all the women out there: I wish you the strength to walk this fine line. To never lose your fire, to keep fighting for intimacy and at the same time, to know when the battle is no longer worth it and to not burn yourself out trying.

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The way you hold your hips shapes the way you hold life.

Your pelvic space has been silenced for centuries.

That’s why hip-opening often feels wrong for you and intimidating to others.

Our womb space holds an ocean of emotions. Especially shame.

Shame for not being allowed to move the way our body longs to.

Shame for being too much, too open, too powerful.

Many of us were taught (directly or subtly) to keep our legs crossed and our power tucked away.

Anything else was too much. Too vulgar. Too confident. Too alive.

So we learned:

Shrink yourself. Close your body. Don’t take up too much space.

A generational posture, inherited and internalized.

But standing with your legs wide, pelvis open, facing the world?

That’s a declaration.

Of courage. Confidence. Boldness. Strength. Sensuality. Fertility. Life force.

Practices like Goddess Pose (Utkata Konasana) or intuitive hip circles aren’t just exercises.

They’re invitations.

To reclaim our body.

To awaken the ancient feminine within.

To rise and meet life, fully open, wild-hearted and unshaken.

These movements don’t just stretch muscles.

They stretch open emotional space:

Joy. Grief. Shame. Ecstasy. Anger. Power.

And yes, many find that intimidating.

Because most people are disconnected from their own feelings.

And because we’ve all been conditioned to believe that open hips are somehow inappropriate.

Too much. Too exposed.

But here’s the truth:

That discomfort you feel in hip-openers?

It’s not just physical.

It’s because your body remembers how powerful you are.

Every inch of openness in your hips is a soft unraveling of control, fear, and performance.

You’re not too much.

And you don’t need to hold yourself together to be loved.

You’re allowed to expand.

To take up space.

To trust your body’s impulses.

To feel safe in your fullness.

Your pelvis is not a place of shame.

It’s the portal of your life force.

Own it.

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What am I meant to do

with this flood of feeling

too deep to name

too wide to hold?

The Moon says: nothing.

She just opens her arms

and I fall in.

No fixing.

No meaning.

Just the raw ache of being alive.

The Sun will come

he always does

asking for sense

for story

for shape.

But for now

I let it be wild.

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Ache to return

A whole galaxy dances on my ceiling.

It’s not real, I know.

And yet my soul remembers.

Of course I’m a Pisces.

Tethered to the infinite.

This longing

toward everything I can’t touch,

but deeply feel.

I ache to return

to the place where time dissolves

and love has no boundary.

But for now I‘m here.

Grateful to experience tangible life every day.

How can life be so meaningless

And yet soaked in meaning?

So big and so small

at the same time.

How can existence feel like a simulation

glitching between vast and trivial?

I guess that’s the art of living:

the eternal dance between zooming out

and recognizing the insignificance of it all

and at the same time

feeling the wonder of existence

and giving life meaning.

Day by day.

Because this blink,

this fragile human moment,

is a damn miracle.

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Propaganda I am NOT falling for (as a holistic psychologist & therapist):

Diagnoses are the truth.

One 50-minute session per week in a sterile office with talk-only therapy is enough.

Symptoms are mistakes of your nervous system.

“Healing” or “health” means the absence of symptoms.

Psychotherapy doesn’t need the body.

Antidepressants as the first, not the absolute last, option.

Rest and time in nature are a waste of time.

Science is objective, all-knowing and only what can be measured is real.

Humanity today is wiser than ever.

Only those who are “healed” are allowed to support others.

The therapist knows better than you.

What I believe instead:

Symptoms are not malfunctions. They are deeply intelligent adaptation strategies of your system to environments and circumstances that are not right for you.

Having symptoms doesn’t mean you are broken or abnormal – it means you still feel when something is out of balance. Your body is speaking. We just have to re-learn how to listen.

Diagnoses are human-made constructs, not your identity.

Traditional psychology often works within a lens of “disorder”, “deficit” and “treatment”.

But what we actually need isn’t a more precise ICD classification.

We need connection. Nature. Embodiment. Co-regulation.

Healing isn’t about removing symptoms.

Healing is about being seen. Understood. Held.

It’s about unconditional allowance and reconnection with your inner truth.

Suppressed emotions are stored in the body & they want to be felt and released.

We heal in connection, not alone.

Nature is medicine.

And it’s the key to remembering.

Information is not the same as knowledge.

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom.

We live in an age of too much information, and yet we’ve lost access to embodied wisdom.

Science is powerful, but it has limits.

Everything is connected.

Everything is frequency.

And your body knows the way. A wisdom the rational mind will never reach.

The human mind can offer deep insights into the world – but it will always be a product of its time and its limited perspective.

There is no one-size-fits-all.

We are all unique.

Our souls came here to experience different things.

No one else can define what is healthy, fulfilling, or right for YOU.

Humanity has evolved technologically –

But we’re in the middle of an epidemic of disconnection – from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies.

Who holds space for you matters more than how.

Because therapy is not just technique.

It’s relationship. It’s regulation. It’s nervous system to nervous system.

It’s bodywork.

It’s being with – not fixing.

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Zoom out objectively.

Feel subjectively.

I came here to be human.

And remember that I am more.

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The only way to truly feel the abundance of joy and ease your soul longs for is to allow yourself to feel the depth of pain your soul chose to experience.

But your thoughts and words alone will never be enough to fully express or process that pain — or your joy.

It’s your body. Your energy. Your energy in motion.

Since I’ve experienced the freedom of pure joy and the ecstatic deep gratitude for being a sensual, living being — a soul, that is allowed to feel — I will never again wish to miss out on my pain.

I am not afraid of death.

I am afraid of not truly living.

So… I am afraid of not truly FEELING.

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Eating disorders are not a sign of weakness – they are the expression of a deep longing.

A longing for abundance. For safety. For connection.

I wish every person affected could understand that eating disorders and disordered eating have far more to do with caring for the soul than they ever had to do with food. With emotional fullness and emotional emptiness. With emotional satisfaction. With emotional permission. With the need to be allowed to feel.

At first, it's important to find and practice healthier ways of coping. But true healing begins when we learn to make space – for the emptiness and for the fullness. When we allow ourselves to hold and explore our emotions. When we start to recognize emotional blockages, and gently begin to dissolve or transform them.

It’s about learning how to feel ourselves again – beneath the noise of thoughts, beneath the fear, beneath the need to stay in control. It’s about slowly, tenderly, and maybe for the very first time, nourishing ourselves – not just through eating, overeating or not eating, but through closeness, self-compassion, authentic expression, and real connection: to ourselves, to others, to nature, to life itself, to the universe.

Who am I when I choose to nourish myself – not just physically, but emotionally? And am I ready to give myself what I’ve been longing for all along? Can I allow it?

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What Freedom Really Means

Freedom is not, as many believe, the absence of obligations or responsibilities. Quite the opposite—freedom means taking responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is this responsibility that gives us the power to shape our lives instead of merely reacting to them.

You have the freedom, in every single moment, to step out of victimhood.

Freedom also means surrendering to change—the ability to believe that anything is possible at any time. By remaining adaptable and open, we experience the vastness of true freedom. And I’m not just talking about major life events like breakups, losses, or moving to a new place. I mean the small shifts—new ideas, everyday realizations, changes in your mood or the moods of others, the release of expectations.

You have the freedom, every second, to shift your focus.

You have the freedom, every second, to adopt a new perspective.

Freedom is the ability to let go of resistance. When we learn to recognize and release resistance—whether toward thoughts, emotions, or external circumstances—we reach a state of acceptance, and within it, true freedom.

But be careful: Letting go of resistance does not mean suppressing or ignoring emotions. It means giving them space, allowing them to be felt, and then letting them pass. You are allowed to be sad, angry, or frustrated. You are allowed to have expectations.

But how quickly can you let it all go?

That is directly connected to how quickly you can release resistance.

Resistance toward a thought makes it persist.

Resistance toward an emotion makes it intensify.

Resistance toward external circumstances won’t change them—instead, it will create thoughts and feelings you perceive as negative, and, worst of all, you may meet those with even more resistance, keeping yourself trapped in the cycle.

So, the key is awareness.

First, become aware of your resistance. Then, of the automatic cognitive patterns creating it. Freedom requires a certain level of consciousness—once we see our automatic responses clearly, we can begin to question them. We can shift our perspective—and that is what truly sets us free.

Acceptance of what is, without resistance, is the key to freedom.

True freedom exists only in the here and now. It is deeply tied to our ability to live in the present and detach from the illusion that we will somehow be more free in the future.

Because every single second gives us the chance to change our perception and make a new choice.

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Stop being realistic. Your reality is an illusion.

Reality is nothing more than the meaning you assign to each moment — only for it to slip into the past within the blink of an eye. And the past? It doesn’t truly exist.

Your reality is yours to create. What feels right, what you choose to make real, is entirely up to you. In my view, personal truth is found in the connection to yourself — by listening, deeply, to your intuition and gut feeling in every situation. You already know what resonates within you and what doesn’t. Deep down, you know exactly what’s good for you, what brings you joy, and where your energy belongs.

Be bold enough to question the reality you’ve been given. Play with it. Every day, do something small that feels unusual, something you once thought you couldn’t do.

Step beyond the world you think you live in. Break free from the patterns that keep your mind confined.

You are here to experience yourself in your full individuality.

Truth reveals itself most clearly through feeling. You feel when something resonates, when it aligns with your essence. But for that, you must allow yourself to feel — fully, without resistance. Only then can you truly connect with yourself.

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If someone were to ask me to wrap up the art of living…

✹ Letting go of resistance and surrendering to transformation — so freedom may unfold and new perspectives emerge.

✹ Remaining soft and gentle — to keep the heart wide open.

✹ Being humble enough — to forget oneself at times and trust in life may grow.

✹ Feeling deeply, drawing shadows into the light — so they lose their hold, their weight, their, their power.

✹ Seeking stillness and carving space for feeling—so peace may settle in.

✹ Truly empathizing — not just in thought, but in soul — so one may become a light for others.

✹ Laughing and dancing — to meet life’s gravity with humor, ease and grace.

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Meeting the weight of being human with the simplicity of trust.

Soften, sense, trust.

I know nothing. Only that I know nothing. But I believe in something—

that it’s all about feeling.

I am allowed to stop fighting and surrender to the feeling with trust.

Zoom out objectively. Feel subjectively. After all, I am here as a human.

— That is what eclipses within seek to awaken.