Kathrina Peterson was trained in Buddhist monasteries in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka and Nepal. She is a holistic healer and teacher helping others realize their authentic selves. She offers integral body-mind approaches based on the integration of western psychology, eastern philosophy, somatic and energy medicine to assist transformation. I wrote a multimodal approach to individuation through the challenges of a spiritual emergency, chronic illness and grief. As the decades passed and my life’s journey spiraled through dark nights of the soul, I began to see that I may actually have something to offer others based on the ways I have found light through places of hopelessness and despair. My journey to the underworld many times over required a maturation over time. It necessitated a cultivation of qualities that could withstand the seasons of life with its ever changing circumstances. It is from these places that these writings come to you with an intention that it will shed light on a fuller and more meaningful life for you. At the age of 21, I let go of a doctoral appointment in medical anthropology at UCLA after working in Calcutta, India with Mother Teresa. Facing death opened an existential angst and propelled me to look at life not from a 21 year old perspective, but from a fast-forward 80 year old woman looking back at her life, and choosing to live a life that made more sense. I spent the decade of my twenties living as a contemplative in the Buddhist monasteries in Asia. I graduated with a Masters degree in East-west Psychology from CIIS. My focus was consciousness transformation and spiritual emergence. Having drenched myself in the study of the psyche from both psychological and spiritual dimensions, I felt a somatic approach was needed to complement my investigations. I continued my explorations with even more experiential modalities that were more meaningful making for myself. My professional training became more meaningful with my own personal experiences with loss, spiritual emergence and chronic pain.  When life unfolds unexpectedly, we learn to swim with grace, or otherwise we sink. These “dark nights of the soul” (yes, there is more than one in a lifetime!) have guided me into cyclical individuation and a deeper clarity and acceptance of the dynamic stability inherent in life.