Rising Stars: Meet Caroline Van Horn of Colorado Springs

Today we’d like to introduce you to Caroline Van Horn

Hi Caroline, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Where I am today has more to do with unlearning, unraveling and expanding than it does gaining anything. It turns out, who I am in my most authentic BEing state was the key to my biggest purpose and endeavor.

I went through the typical avenues of education, being very interested in neuroscience and consciousness. I started my career in pediatric speech and language pathology. I enjoyed how communication and behaviors developed. I then moved into holistic and functional nutrition because I saw a lot of importance in the connections between nutrition and gut/brain health in the children and families I worked with. After a series of major life changes, I fell into the abrupt and surprising awakening and unfolding of the awareness that there was much deeper and higher aspects at work interplaying into our lives. I found the most clarity came after the darkest nights. I became acutely aware that I was experiencing higher states of consciousness which eventually blended with an ability to gain insights from the superconscious field or the access point of any and all information fields. The only term that can really match that description has been ‘channeling’. So, I began to channel higher intelligences, asking complex questions, and receiving incredibly profound, wise, and poetic responses. And so I began living an ordinary life through an extraordinary lens. Through a series of pure and natural unraveling experiences that initiated an understanding of this quality, I learned that I could see, hear, and feel into systems of people, animals, nature and discover through my senses what is unseen and unknown in others. Essentially, I was expanding and fine tuning gifts through a healing process. So, much of the time, I feel more acquainted with the unseen and unknown than I do the seen and known. Now, if I am invited in to see, hear and feel an individual, I can help that person gain a greater sensory or felt experience and therefore produce a freeing effect of major limitations in their life. When we collaborate in feeling the experience of what was once unaware or unknown, new potentials and possibilities unfold. The wheel turns and a new angle is seen.
Feel the hidden experience, release the pattern, and expand into an improved way of feeling and being. This has been my journey and now I am able to take it to others.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It was wildly disorienting growing up with an undeveloped way of experiencing the world through the lens of what no one else was aware of yet. For a long time, I tried to fit or match my experience to those around me in order to belong better. This was painful, inauthentic and took a massive toll on my health. I discovered nature rewards you for being you. Ultimately, this struggle became the gift that fueled me to take a quantum leap of faith in just about every area of life you can think of! Intimacy, career, business, health, relationships; no stone was left unturned!
Although, it was difficult to experience those around me either unaware or in denial of what was so apparent to me, I ultimately knew this wisdom is meant for others to become aware of. Why keep to myself, what I know can help others? So, I now feel I have a place to fit in, and it’s in the same place I stand out.
It is not easy having someone else’s unknown information become known through my system. It feels overwhelming and can be exhausting, though I really hold it all loosely and without judgment. We are all having such similar experiences. Everything is energy and information and so unless I take the time to digest or allow, then I feel fried in a sense.
When we think we really know something, we’ve locked ourselves into predictable outcomes. When we know we don’t know, then it all begins and anything is possible. This holds a massive paradox and demands a perspective that is beyond duality! What you come to be aware of changes, and also, allowing uncertainty means unlimited potential. Mix the two and you have human evolution with great curiosity. This is the surrender process of turning fear and doubt into infinite possibility and appreciation. Although I wouldn’t call this smooth, it is incredibly fulfilling and freeing.
The challenges along the way prepared me to help make this process of unraveling more smooth and elegant for others. This is my greatest gift and purpose.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Many times, our physical body or emotional experiences have gone unprocessed because we are not taught how to feel. We are taught how to think. Rarely is it even healthy thinking. We are taught how to mentalize and analyze, and fit in, but not how to actually listen to self, digest and integrate feelings through signals, sensations or felt expressions. What is observed, changes. What is ignored, gets louder. This amplification we are experiencing in all system levels, is asking to be seen, felt and heard. We have a responsibility to improve the quality of life for self, for others, and for future generations in a way that is healing, sustainable, and integrous. By unlearning, shedding or dissolving belief patterns that perpetuate more of the same, I believe in the possibility of more people living with less fear and pain through more conscious awareness and self-empowerment. To become self-aware, is to become more conscious. To raise the consciousness we hold in ourselves and as a collective, has the power to transact and heal the world.

My specialty is an art or craft expressed in the form of a heightened ability to see, feel and hear into systems. Some people call this channeling. I say I am very connected to higher dimensions and realms that carry profound wisdom and truth. I am most proud of the ability to receive that wisdom and knowledge from information fields responsible for the organizing intelligences of systems. At the individual system level, this channeling ability helps me access the unseen and the unknown in order to help people and organizations discover blindspots to assist in the dissolution of major fear patterns and blockages. Who could you be without your fear or the fear of your fear? I pair channeling with something I call, Somatic Integration. I offer one on one sessions that offer this side by side collaboration. I also facilitate group settings to explore group dynamics of patterns and their impact on the parts and the whole of the organization. By collaborating with souls and tuning into their subconscious, or the body, my own system facilitates bringing the unaware, into more awareness through a mirroring capability and capacity. What is seen, can be known, which can then be changed, altered or transformed for a radical improvement.

My credentials are as a Board Certified Addictionologist and Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. These credentials allow me an opening to serve people at one level and my gift of channeling and connection beyond the ordinary is how a depth of insight, exploration and healing can occur at an extraordinary level. So, as I expand, I am moving into more and more somatic integration work because I have seen enough spontaneous recovery when people are more connected to their authentic self instead of their fear patterns. Because of this cultural addiction to outer or inauthentic expressions we end up being someone we are not, playing a game of how to blend in or merge into a type of success that ultimately still feels unfulfilling. What holds us back in life and in happiness, is to be in denial of what truly nourishes us on a soul level. So, to break through this loop or stuck-ness, we need to feel and embody who we really are, and be ourselves. This is why seeing the unseen, knowing the unknown, and feeling the unfelt, create a doorway to walk through our fears to become just that, or really to remember that. Through this doorway, we can come into more felt awareness, embodied truth and authentic prosperity. This is where Somatic Integration can make the shift of a lifetime.
In a sense, exchange fear, for life.

Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
Firstly, I wouldn’t call what I do an industry yet at all. It’s being built through all kinds of explorations and expressions based off of our current understanding of reality, consciousness, and the body together. In the next 5-10 years I would like to see this industry boom and become more common place especially for children. Can you imagine growing up, being supported in understanding your unique felt sense, integrating experiences in an authentic manner where self-love and appreciation is first and foremost as well as normal? How much less fear and pain would the adults of the world carry with them into their lives, if the experience of wounding wasn’t even there to begin with? It is my hope for the world to become more aquatinted with the experience of a mass removal of fear by each individual being so “with themselves” that harmony resounds. I feel this is humanity’s gateway into the next step in evolution.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.forloveandepiphany.com
• Instagram: for_love_and_epiphany

Image Credits
LaRell Herbert